Like, I could completely understand being like "I'm not comfortable with you using my name for something like this. Even though you say it's not about me there are enough similarities to the character that it could easily mislead people - myself included, as you can see - into thinking otherwise." There is a reasonable version of this, but insisting that "lol someone wrote a play about me" and using it for clout years later is peak sneerable behavior.

Also I want to sneer at Yud not understanding the concept of Off-Off-Broadway vs Off-Broadway but TBH I don't understand the way that different tiers of theatrical prestige connect and can only assume that it's like the circles of hell in Dante's Inferno.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

FWIW my understanding is the "Off"-ness is just decreasing theatre size, but gets (mis)construed as less prestige/fame/quality etc. Fame is probably fine for construing, but prestige/quality is orthogonal. Like you could conceivably have absolute theatre mega stars do an epoch-defining production in an intimate 50-seat theatre or something, and that would still be "Off-off-broadway".

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So would me in the morning doing impressions for my cat be Homeopathic Broadway?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well unfortunately it’s not diluted enough to be homeopathic, so it’s just off^3^ broadway

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago

Would me lying about doing impressions for YourNetworkIsHaunted's cat be enough? I both dont know the cat and didnt actually do impressions? (Brb gotta update my dating profile).

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