Everything posted by Blarghagh
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What's on the idiot box... Part 3
Sounds familiar. Is it related to the made-for-TV movies?
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
You're on a forum run by Fionavar.
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What you having for dinner tonight?
I'm getting whatever it is that passes for Chinese food in my country. If there's one thing I learned, Chinese food is different everywhere.
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....Well crap
Now that I know why, it does seem logical. Strange that logic can seem to go against previously held logic.
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....Well crap
I know it's a hypothetical, but what would cause something like that? It's kinda bothering me now, like a riddle I don't know the answer to.
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What's on the idiot box... Part 3
There's a scene in Jurassic Park where they are sitting around a table discussing the ethical implications of the park, and that happens a lot. What happens even more in that scene is the actors completely shifting position from shot to shot. Who was in charge of continuity for that one?
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
Regarding TB's tweet, it's completely out of context. If you see it with the other tweets in that series, he was ridiculing otherkin specifically because they co-opt and trivialize transgender issues. Calling that transphobic is a blatant and malicious lie and completely illustrates the problem with the social media call out culture that exists today. It's such a malicious, slanderous act that I considered it harassment and for the first time ever gave enough of a **** about that woman to go out of my way to report her on Twitter.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
I'm not really jealous as much as I am concerned this will damage patreon itself. A lot of my favourite artists use it to get by.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
It's just... I'm so proud.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
True. In other news, TechRaptor has two editorials up that changed my mind on Crash Override. Probably not a good idea to support it.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
I wouldn't call that conspiring. More like basic stupidity.
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Another incident with black men getting shot by police
Oh I don't doubt that white people get the receiving end of it too - although your anecdotal evidence doesn't translate to any defined facts so if you have better sources, I'd love to see 'em. It just seems to me (and keep in mind once again, I don't actually live in America so all I have is what the media and people on the internet tell me, so I may be wrong) that it happens to black people more. Part of it could be media bias and the divide may be smaller than it appears to me but I highly doubt there isn't one since racial profiling is a very real thing and often feeds the paranoia of cops such as this.
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Another incident with black men getting shot by police
I saw that he was black. It's possible for blacks to be unintentionally racist against other blacks.
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Another incident with black men getting shot by police
A taser could have been fine. Can't fire a gun if your muscles can't move. On the one hand, this guy had a history of shooting at cops and "appeared" to have a handgun (the article was unclear to me, did the officers imagine it or was it actually in the car?) so I understand why the cops would be threatened. On the other hand, even if he had a handgun, thousands of americans have handguns and this guy's history was over a decade ago, so I can't understand that they would be that threatened. Can't read this as anything else but an extreme overreaction by cops whose paranoia and fear (whether racially motivated or not, though pretending race wasn't a factor is just denial) caused the death of a man for running a stop sign. At worst a horrific sign for equality in the US, at best a warning sign for US cops' obviously declining mental health. Either way, looks to me that the right to bear arms only makes life more dangerous for you if you're black.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
That's one of the dumbest articles I've ever read. I'm sure even the most vehement opponent of #GamerGate will realize that it's entirely nonsense.
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What you did today
That's awful. Between that story, Guard Dog facing similar, and 500 animators to be laid off from PDI Dreamworks by corporate in favor of outsourcing (link), I'm more than a little bit disappointed with the human race right now.
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....Well crap
That wall of text was surprisingly informative and well put together. I'm almost sad you wasted it on Woldan who will just brush it off. EDIT: Ninja'd by what I was talking about. What a coincidink.
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Any news to share from Obsidian?
Hm, I haven't found anything either. Keep in mind though that initial projections in the game industry don't often reflect reality. I'm sure we'll find out more soon.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
Oh hey, that's pretty neat.
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Why ban our pretty lady thread?
I didn't even remember there was a men thread. I remember there was a rodent and an insect thread.
- The Completely Covered From Head To Toe Women Thread
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What you did today
I stayed up longer than my girlfriend last night and didn't want to wake her up with the light, so I went into the bedroom and tried to climb into bed in pitch blackness. Long story short, I hit my leg on something pretty hard and now my leg hurts like hell. It's not swollen though so I don't think anything is seriously wrong.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
Ah good, because my only source was a horribly anti-GG article that claimed GG was given the right to simply roll over and make any changes they wanted, which seemed very unlike Wikipedia to do.
- The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread..
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Movies you've seen recently
Wish I Was Here, Zach Braff's crowd-funded spiritual successor to his succesful arthouse film The Garden State. A lot of it was a retread of that movie, but not bad. If you liked The Garden State, you will probably like this. If you thought it was a pretentious piece of garbage, then you'll feel the same way about this one.