Jump to content

Meshugger

Members
  • Posts

    5042
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    10

Everything posted by Meshugger

  1. At FanExpo Vancouver, someone asked John Barrowman what little known project he's done that he would like more people to see. I don't remember what it was called but he talked about how he thinks its stupid that its taboo to study homosexuality and that he actually wanted to find out why he is the way he is and did a program regarding that. Supposedly its looking like its mostly early fetal development conditions that causes it. Estrogen levels, the mothers stress, etc. So they are born that way, but its not genetic. I think he did do something like that, the making of me or something. That might be interesting. Thanks for the tip! ...and Cassandra looks really off for me for some reason. The face simply do not look feminine enough. But each to each own i guess.
  2. What shellfish characteristics do they have? Pincers? Antennae? I just gonna have to take it on this one. You're welcome.
  3. http://thehill.com/policy/finance/241748-rand-paul-to-oppose-fast-track http://www.conservativehq.com/article/20282-chq-and-rand-paul-come-out-swinging-against-tpa-and-tpp http://www.infowars.com/rand-paul-visits-secret-room-to-read-obamatrade-calls-for-public-release-of-deal-text/ http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/paul-and-cruz-disagree-over-tpp-heres-why/ I dug this up on his thoughts about tpp. He's for it, and voted Yes to pass it. Uh? Is he a flip-fliper or is he just against the fast track procedure? I am bit confused of the nuances here...if there are any.
  4. Despite having done (basically) no research on it I'd be pretty confident in saying it doesn't work that way- it's actually extremely hard to breed traits out even with an organised effort. There's been thousands of years of work on shorter lived species like pigs and sheep yet they'll revert to wild types quite quickly- especially pigs which will go from fat pink hairless porkers to smaller black hairy wild boar in only a couple of generations. The stuff on 'gay genes' on wikipedia (heh/ meh/ L0L) is extremely unconvincing about there being any strong genetic link of the type people usually think of from stuff like eye colour. Or in other words, homosexuality won't strictly obey the archetype Mendelian genetics, ie there won't be Z = 'straight' z = 'gay' --> ZZ = straight Zz/zZ = bisexual zz = gay and you wouldn't be able to get bisexuals by breeding 'pure gay' with 'pure straight' and breed out teh gay by only breeding 'pure straight' with each other. If there were it would have been found already, albeit analysing a behaviour type by genetics is inherently difficult since it is a behaviour which may be suppressed/ enhanced by social pressures or conditioned in/ out at various times and there are people who don't realise they're gay until late in life etc. Something like eye colour is an objective trait, homosexuality is far more subjective and complex. Like with many other (sets) of genes, some are not triggered until the right conditions or within certain levels of hormones. There is no secret that for example sociopaths are left unnoticed because they 1) The mother didn't drink/smoke during pregancy 2) had a great childhood 3) do not have the "warrior"-gene as well. These people do have selfish characteristic and sometimes lack certain empathy, but still fully functional to have happy lives without harming their families and society. Maybe it is the same here.
  5. What's Paul Rand's position about about TPP/TIPP? Bernie Sanders is already against it, but more the merrier.
  6. No ****, that's because the circumstances of Muslims is in no way comparable to that of gamers. Muslim's exist in a culture of islamophobia where they can be subject to state sanctioned harassment, detainment and murder. Articles demanding an "end to muslims" in such a culture would not be tongue-in-cheek or mere hyperbole but instead contribute to the actually existing violent status quo. You cannot simply replace one group with another and treat it as if the implications are exactly the same. That said, who the **** cares that some random websites wrote some melodramatic articles on 'gamers'. I've been playing games all my life and quite frankly couldn't give a ****. Until we live in a world where employers are not hiring gamers, people are running around murdering gamers or the state itself has "declared war on gamers" you are just another tumblr generation kiddie desperate to be "oppressed". If we cannot change games journalism, then we might as well give up on everything. Explain. Compared to all other injustices that exists in the world, ethics in games journalism is quite a small thing in the grander schemes of things. But if this fails, how can people possibly be able to overcome anything bigger? But GamerGate has already won, so i am optimistic about the future.
  7. No ****, that's because the circumstances of Muslims is in no way comparable to that of gamers. Muslim's exist in a culture of islamophobia where they can be subject to state sanctioned harassment, detainment and murder. Articles demanding an "end to muslims" in such a culture would not be tongue-in-cheek or mere hyperbole but instead contribute to the actually existing violent status quo. You cannot simply replace one group with another and treat it as if the implications are exactly the same. That said, who the **** cares that some random websites wrote some melodramatic articles on 'gamers'. I've been playing games all my life and quite frankly couldn't give a ****. Until we live in a world where employers are not hiring gamers, people are running around murdering gamers or the state itself has "declared war on gamers" you are just another tumblr generation kiddie desperate to be "oppressed". If we cannot change games journalism, then we might as well give up on everything.
  8. Only if you assume it really is something that can be bred out. I honestly doubt it works that way. Even if it did work that way, there are people who are bi-sexual. Or do you think that somehow bisexuality is linked to a completely different set of genes than homosexuality? I don't know. That's why i was asking.
  9. No matter really. In the future we can genetically change our children to become our favourite anime character with tsundere traits, purple eyes and white hair anyway.
  10. Lets make this thread more interesting. I think we can all agree on that homosexuality is mostly based on biological factors, thus it is a set of genes and the respective hormones which are triggered during early development, right? As we also know, in times before, homosexuality was either completely shunned or acceptable as long as it was kept under wraps; as in it wasn't a big deal if both or one of the parents had same-sex lovers (in secret to most of course) as long as they were officially married and had children. While it denied lifelong happiness of the individual, it ironically made sure that homosexual trait was passed on to the next generation. But now, they can be married and adopt children as they wish; thus breaking the passing of the necessary genes that make up for homosexuality. Sure one can get a surrogate mother if one wishes to, but that is even more rare. So aren't we now basically breeding homosexuality out of the gene pool? Aren't we actually making society less diverse for our children?
  11. Well I would think you would be concerned in legitimate questions around GG, its about the credibility of the movement which in turn would lead to it being more effective and influential. "muh PR!", lol
  12. What exactly was Volo right about ? That Anita wants to separate the genders? He has repeated for 9 months that SJWs are really racists in disguise. Okay he has indeed repeated this I agree but how does this Twitter link support this? All Anita is saying is studies have revealed that same race classes have improved studies, I'm not sure I agree but is it racist ? Most people would consider segregation racist. Bruce is from South Africa, i do not think that he understands those nuancesheywaitaminute
  13. I am the only one finding it funny that for every new story in GG, the discussion reverts back to: - "Nu-uh, there weren't 12 articles, there were another number, and they weren't that important to begin with, why do you guys even care?!" - "Why do you guys care about some SJWs/feminists in games? they have no influence or power!" - "GG has roots in misogyny. They hate Zoe Quinn because she is woman in game development!" - "Why doesn't GG have a unified platform?" - "Why are all GamerGaters like this?" - "Please change the hashtag" I would suspect that people are reading from the COINTELPRO-handbook if this wasn't a random gaming forum.
  14. What exactly was Volo right about ? That Anita wants to separate the genders? He has repeated for 9 months that SJWs are really racists in disguise.
  15. https://archive.is/hegey Volourn was right all along.
  16. Those that will not win. There of course those who claim that they oppose it, but will eventually cave in when entering office. Boy, do i hope that i am wrong about this. Oerwinde: cliff notes about the major parties and what they wish to accomplish?
  17. The SJWs, with the emphasis on "Warriors", are a symptom of a greater problem: Post-modern thinking, where no higher principle exist, but rather the compartmentalizing of the human experience into structures, which can be changed and reshaped through power. Morality is relative and reason is denied by emotion, which are the tools used to shape these structures. Those with the insight know this and indirectly embellish and promote these useful idiots through funding in academia, arrangment of workshops and financing of various think tanks.
  18. ronpaulitshappening.jpg Such things are most likely requiring a change in respective countries constitutions, right? Which in some cases subsequently requires national referendums, right? Things like these should never pass into fruition.
  19. I'm gonna get a Ph.D in blogophony. Then i can blog about bloggers that blog. That's so meta. Haters better donate to my patreon ASAP.
  20. https://archive.is/WvKG0 lol, what a dumbass.
  21. ...and just when i thought that things were cooling down.
  22. Oh hey, another worthless soul making easy money off of stupid internet drama. Why do people keep giving money for this stuff? Give ME some money instead if you've got that much left over for nonsense. Huh?
  23. Dude that happened a day ago, with the shadowban being lifted and him raising 5k more. Well, i've been drunk. So there's that!
  24. lel. From the sounds of it, it looks like 300 million is a good estimate in order to get a sound ROI. I can imagine some investors are having some trouble sleeping at the moment.
  25. It cost over 150 million, so it hasn't reached yet point where it has become profitable and for some that means it does badly. Uh? What did they do? Reshoot the whole thing three times?
×
×
  • Create New...