#data dimensions

[soup-future]

some of my fave sketchbook pages so far

[thefantastickatinator]

Dropout should hire more trans women.

That said, a couple things about the data set floating around showing disproportionality in casting:

1. 7 of the top 9 (those cast members who appear in over 100 episodes, everyone else has under 70 appearances) are members of the core dimension 20 cast, aka “the intrepid heroes”. This cast has been in 7 of the 22 seasons, with those seasons usually being 20-ish episodes long (the other seasons are between 4-10 episodes long typically). That’s approximately 140 episodes for each of the main intrepid heroes cast members just for these seasons (not including bonus content like live shows). Brian Murphy has appeared 154 times, which means almost all of his appearances were on D20 intrepid heroes campaigns.

2. The other 2 in the top 9 are Sam Reich and Mike Trapp, who are both hosts of long running shows (Game Changer and Um, Actually)

3. 198 of the 317 episodes that noncis “TME” people have appeared in can be attributed to ally Beardsley alone (there is some crossover where for example alex and ally have both appeared in the same episodes). Erika ishii has been in 67 of the 317 noncis “TME” episode appearances i don’t know how much crossover there is between them but i don’t think they’ve been on d20 together so i doubt it’s more than 20. It could be as many as 250 of the 317 episodes that have either erica or ally. Both Erika and ally are majorly skewing the results for the data

4. Over 3/4 of people have no listed gender identity in the spreadsheet - most of them have 1-2 appearances, but a few have 3-4 appearances. I’m pretty sure these people aren’t included in the data at all (some of them i’m p sure are not cis like jiavani and bob the drag queen)

5. The data collector has assigned “tme” and “tma” to various cast members.

TME: transmisogyny exempt

TMA: transmisogyny affected

Now, tranmisogyny can affect trans women, trans femmes, and nonbinary people, and occasionally masculine appearing cis women.

I personally do not believe that an outside person can assign you a label deciding whether or not you experience certain types of oppression- and yet that is what the data collector has done.

I think a more accurate label would be amab/afab, or more honestly- “people i think are amab or have said they are amab and then everyone else”

6. The data does not include many of their newer shows such as Very Important People, Gastronauts, Play it By Ear, and Monet’s Slumber Party, all of which feature trans people (MSP, Gastronauts, and VIP are all hosted by noncis people)

What I think the data more accurately shows:

- Dimension 20 has a “main cast” who have appeared in the majority of episodes

- Dropout has some “regulars” who appear on the majority of their content/shows (sam has referenced multiple times that brennan is one of the first people he calls whenever someone can’t show up for something since he’s nearly always down for anything) - none of these people are trans women

Final thoughts:

I think eliminating “hosts” and the “intrepid heroes” from THIS TYPE of data set would be more appropriate because they massively skew the data when crunching the numbers for dropout shows. Especially since I can tell from the excel sheet that there are shows missing. Examining d20 sidequests and the guests on the other shows will give a more accurate representation of casting. Hosts should be analyzed separately as that’s a different casting process.

Also imagine if we referred to men and women as “misogyny exempt” and “misogyny affected” when doing demographics. Or if someone did a data collection of the number of POC appearances in dropout episodes and sorted it by “racism affected” and “racism exempt” - so weiiiiird

TLDR: the data set has massive issues with its methodology and that should be considered. That doesn’t make what trans women are saying less valid.

In other words: spiders brennan is an outlier and should not have been counted

[brokenrefraction]

water dispenser roboe

[yupekosi]

being a daforge fan is so funny from an outside perspective actually bc with data's flat affect a lot of their moments just read as normal conversations and i sound insane when i tell people how extremely romantically charged they are

[acourtoffeyandfables]

these nsbu goons are giving me unsleeping city npc vibes

[rhapsoddity]

What is VSAU!Martyns 'power's? I didn't even know you had a desgin for him :○

He can hop into a pocket dimension with whatever he has on him at the time! He reappear ls exactly where he disappeared, as long as it's unobstructed. If it is, he's stuck in his pocket dimension until he can

It's useful to dodge punches by wholeass disappearing for the impact. Once he got caught in a building collapse and was trapped in there for three days, though he had his groceries so he didn't starve,, he was just super bored tho

[tearlessrain]

this is why I occasionally get horny about hermaeus mora on main. rent lowering actual monsterfucker posts.

[copper-ice-cube]

Main D20 Seasons Ultimate Ranking: part 7

(Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VIII, Part IX, Part X, Part XI)

[thefantastickatinator]

I'm confused, why is counting main cast members skewing the data? It shows that trans women aren't a part of the main cast of the shows that data was collected on. This isn't only a problem with guest appearances, this is a problem with those shows overall.

Dimension 20 has a static “main cast” that hasn’t changed since its inception and is unlikely to change in the future.

It’s side quests have different cast members each time unless they have a second season (which is why they wouldn’t add a trans woman to the misfits and magic cast in season 2, it wouldn’t make sense to add a whole new character to an already established dynamic)

Dropout’s other shows have a rotating cast of regulars and guest stars who have repeating appearances

It doesn’t make sense to combine a static casting with casting that changes, those are separate issues that still support the underlying conclusion and honestly putting them together makes the whole argument weaker.

Because by combining all of the data you get

“Look at this data where you see that trans women are underrepresented and the disparity is insane!”

Which someone could say “well you’ve got one guy who’s in 100 more episodes than anyone else and a trans person who’s in 100 more episodes than any other trans person so that’s gotta be affecting the data.”

However you can split up the data and make multiple arguments of the different WAYS trans women are underrepresented in ALL areas of dropout, including d20 main cast, d20 side quests, dropout regulars, and hosts. So ultimately it makes your argument stronger.

[bookshelfpassageway]

I am once again asking people to consider the Ace Attorney playthrough by Save Data Team

Featuring: an actual lawyer, a group of 3 friends who genuinely like the game/story and at least one is playing blind, so many running jokes, my new headcanon Miles Edgeworth voice, unhinged questions from Ohio's bar exams, genuine interest in the context of the original Japanese version, increasingly absurd stream funding goals, canon Narumitsu, and much more

it starts off like a standard "that's not how law works!" series but do not be fooled. It's very good

Here's a fun highlight reel comp, or, this one from Case 5/Rise From the Ashes to see the gang in full swing of things

[the-daily-male]

SIDE 4B

Commander Lieutenant Data Soong

Pete (the plug) Conlan

[dimalink]

Conversation +3 and -3 about to jump in green hole

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[birdmenmanga]

brother I am so cooked... SIX packages. I am going to fucking kill myself