(04-13-2014, 07:39 PM)Luinbariel link Wrote: Question for everyone:

Where on earth do I buy comics online for a reasonable price?

Recently I found my old shoebox of comics, and am starting to get back into my Rogue Squadron series. While chilling out with our friend RobG today, he told me the comic place was having a 50% off sale, so we went...

$42 later, I have about doubled my collection. But I'm still missing quite a few issues. I've tapped out my local source so far as I know, and I'm looking to get the rest online piece by piece, but I have no idea where to start. A brief e-bay search was disheartening... $0.99, plus $20 shipping PER COMIC is unacceptable.

Thoughts?

Quote:www.Midtowncomics.com

They have the best prices and the best stock.

(04-13-2014, 05:12 PM)at0m link Wrote: \o/ for calm discussion, and I'd have more to add were I not on mobile.
Also, Kira, we need to hang out again sometime so I can get some more of that wicked good bbq, I still dream about those homemade ribs from time to time.

Two things that should also help: http://occupywallstreet.net/story/explaining-white-privilege-broke-white-person  and (will replace with a link to something I read that explains the 'I hate men/whitey/cis' thing that I read once but cannot now find)

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(04-13-2014, 03:30 PM)Surf314 link Wrote: [quote author=kirapmc link=topic=5854.msg277650#msg277650 date=1397347732]
Yes, I found this.

To all of those talking about priveledge and people being whiny...

You have not walked in another persons shoes. You may not understand their journey. Just as people turn to these forums to whine and bitch and moan about a game, or other people, some of us use tumbler(not myself) as a platform.

Yes, I am the trans person these guys speak about. Even with my former gaming community, I feel pretty awkward. I remember lots of things from my years spent with them that made me feel horrible.

I am over that, I have reached out to those I care about. I was a very dedicated gamer. Even that is distant now. Not because I am truthful in being a woman, but because of the hostility. I live with it everyday, at work, with my ex, etc.

I do not game anymore because of those hostilities surfacing in the gaming world. I want an escape. And maybe a little respect. I dont have that anymore.

Just because you think you know something, and something seems whiny, or bitchy.... step back. Imagine life for that person.

If i sound bitchy, well here is a few truths.... i have been raped  twice in the last year, physically assualted twice, almost lost my iob, loosing my house, lost my partner of 14 years, constantly humiliated and intimidated by coworkers, and former coworkers. And despite the fact i said last january was my last suicide attempt. It was not. I have been close twice more. And once again tonight, I sit on that fence.

So stop judging, maybe just say nothing, or just throw out a kind word. You never know how that can change a persons day, or maybe life.

(04-14-2014, 01:44 AM)Höböspärtän link Wrote: [quote author=Surf314 link=topic=5854.msg277674#msg277674 date=1397421036]
[quote author=kirapmc link=topic=5854.msg277650#msg277650 date=1397347732]
Yes, I found this.

To all of those talking about priveledge and people being whiny...

You have not walked in another persons shoes. You may not understand their journey. Just as people turn to these forums to whine and bitch and moan about a game, or other people, some of us use tumbler(not myself) as a platform.

Yes, I am the trans person these guys speak about. Even with my former gaming community, I feel pretty awkward. I remember lots of things from my years spent with them that made me feel horrible.

I am over that, I have reached out to those I care about. I was a very dedicated gamer. Even that is distant now. Not because I am truthful in being a woman, but because of the hostility. I live with it everyday, at work, with my ex, etc.

I do not game anymore because of those hostilities surfacing in the gaming world. I want an escape. And maybe a little respect. I dont have that anymore.

Just because you think you know something, and something seems whiny, or bitchy.... step back. Imagine life for that person.

If i sound bitchy, well here is a few truths.... i have been raped  twice in the last year, physically assualted twice, almost lost my iob, loosing my house, lost my partner of 14 years, constantly humiliated and intimidated by coworkers, and former coworkers. And despite the fact i said last january was my last suicide attempt. It was not. I have been close twice more. And once again tonight, I sit on that fence.

So stop judging, maybe just say nothing, or just throw out a kind word. You never know how that can change a persons day, or maybe life.

(04-14-2014, 08:18 PM)rumbot link Wrote: Jesus christ it's like I can't take a fucking international business trip to a place with terribad internet without worrying about which of you children are going to start licking lead paint.

Kira, please, don't mind Karth. He's from Arizona. The state that just tried to institute Jim Crow laws for LGBTQ. The last state to recognize MLK as a federal holiday.

Public Enemy - By The Time I Get To Arizona

Privilege means never having to worry that the government is trying to take away your rights. And when you call people "delusional" for "whining" when government is giving them less rights than you, then you need to "check your fucking privilege."

(04-14-2014, 11:31 PM)Didzo link Wrote: Privileges must be checked in at the gate. Butthurt and refreshments may be purchased past the gate.

(04-14-2014, 04:33 PM)Surf314 link Wrote: If KiraPMC suffers from something like gender dysphoria then its a lot different than what you guys might be thinking about. Gender dysphoria, from what I remember, is when your whole mental identity and self-view is different than your birth sex. People suffering from this can always feel wrong because they basically have the wrong body than what their mind tells them they should have.

Let's just pretend that you wake up one day and your sex is flipped. I know most people's first reaction to that is to think they would just have fun with it and masturbate, have sex, find out how the other sex feels, whatever. But let's say a year goes by and you aren't back to normal. Everyday you wake up and your voice is not right and your sex organs aren't right. You're muscles are different. Your face doesn't look how it should. Your hair growth is wrong. From what I understand it's a pretty horrible experience and often leads in depression, body image issues, and disconnection from society. That being said, now that it has been medically recognized there are treatments that have developed. I think it's still early stages of dealing with this condition but therapy sometimes combined with hormone therapy and sex reassignment has helped many people that suffer from this. Some still struggle with it even after surgery. It's also really important to start treatment, at least counseling/therapy, as early as possible.

(04-15-2014, 02:07 AM)kirapmc link Wrote: [quote author=Surf314 link=topic=5854.msg277719#msg277719 date=1397511193]
If KiraPMC suffers from something like gender dysphoria then its a lot different than what you guys might be thinking about. Gender dysphoria, from what I remember, is when your whole mental identity and self-view is different than your birth sex. People suffering from this can always feel wrong because they basically have the wrong body than what their mind tells them they should have.

Let's just pretend that you wake up one day and your sex is flipped. I know most people's first reaction to that is to think they would just have fun with it and masturbate, have sex, find out how the other sex feels, whatever. But let's say a year goes by and you aren't back to normal. Everyday you wake up and your voice is not right and your sex organs aren't right. You're muscles are different. Your face doesn't look how it should. Your hair growth is wrong. From what I understand it's a pretty horrible experience and often leads in depression, body image issues, and disconnection from society. That being said, now that it has been medically recognized there are treatments that have developed. I think it's still early stages of dealing with this condition but therapy sometimes combined with hormone therapy and sex reassignment has helped many people that suffer from this. Some still struggle with it even after surgery. It's also really important to start treatment, at least counseling/therapy, as early as possible.

(04-15-2014, 12:13 PM)rumbot link Wrote: Nah, I'm not fully convinced you're an inbred retard. There's equal probability that you are just a bigot.  ;D

You're concerned that "check your privilege" is used as a trump card - and my explicit point is that many governments, especially your state, uses governmental power as a "trump card."

If someone tells you on tumblr to "check your privilege," you get to come over here and tell us what a bunch of whiners they are.

But when the government pulls a trump card in law, then all sorts of non-majority people suffer. Go to jail. Get shot. That's a real trump card, not some college dorm debate.

Here's some examples: Doug Glanville, ex-MLB star, profiled for shoveling snow in his own driveway. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/04/i-was-racially-profiled-in-my-own-driveway/360615/

Here's a great piece on how the city of Philadelphia treat groups of drunken whites different from drunken others: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jn-salters/being-white-in-philly-st-_b_4982045.html

Having "privilege" means, for the most part, never having to worry that you will be subjected to such restrictions on how you move about the world. See here: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Privilege

Quote:EXPLAINING WHITE PRIVILEGE TO A BROKE WHITE PERSON...

Quote:®ecognizing Privilege doesn't mean suffering guilt or shame for your lot in life. Nobody's saying that Straight White Middle Class Able-Bodied Males are all a bunch of assholes who don't work hard for what they have. Recognizing Privilege simply means being aware that some people have to work much harder just to experience the things you take for granted (if they ever can experience them at all).