alanschu

What are your respective tech levels, and leaders (and who are you, precisely, as well).

Here's the exact phrase Al[sic] it takes for Islam to be threatened is a teenage girl with an opinion. Note, however, that his reply didn't quote the video. He simply clicked reply to a series of replies to which one 3 levels deep made reference to the video. Commonsense (as opposed to "common sense," if we're wishing to be pedantic) is overrated. Proper usage of words goes a long way, however. Islam is a religion. If he's referring to the governments and societies, it's best to be clear when stating that. Especially given that equating Islam with the countries is precisely how stereotypes perpetuate. Well, at least you're willing to acknowledge your own misuse of stereotypes and assumption. So I'll give you a bit of credit for that. It should be noted that I made no qualification for where I was referring to people. That's something you (and arguably he) did. I'm referring to ALL Islamic people, and as stated made no such distinction (at any time) to the geography that I was referring to. Unless you're purporting that the Islamic people that send their Islamic little girls to schools in the Islamic countries (only to be attacked by Al-Qaeda) or not Mulsim.... Or does Malala not have Muslim parents? ----------- Or are you just arguing for the sake of arguing, --------- Let's just be honest here... both of us are. And he probably is too. Or are you genuinely attempting to educate me on something? (I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you are not trying to educate me to equate "Islam" with "All the countries with a large Muslim population" because that's an awful thing to try to educate me upon). ---------- because your quote here comes across as a bit childish. eg. I'm not going to answer your question until you change your stance. na na. Why not just answer likety-split's question? ---------- It totally is childish. As is his response to me about how I didn't answer the question when I was pointing out that my response had nothing to do with the [new] question he was now posing (by which he continues to evade responsibility for his usage of the term Islam). I didn't just answer the question because it deflects away from the actual issue I am addressing. "Al[sic] it takes for Islam to be threatened is a teenage girl with an opinion." All it takes for Al-Qaeda to be threatened is a teenage girl with an opinion. All it takes for alanschu to be threatened is a licketysplit with an opinion on the Islamic religion. All it takes for licketysplit to be threatened is an alanschu with an opinion that his comment is silly. All it takes for Hiro Protagonist to be threatened is an alanschu with an opinion that Hiro feels is childish and unnecssarily unconfrontational. All it takes for America to be threatened is a black woman with an opinion (that she should be allowed to sit in the front of the bus). All it takes for ALMOST ANYTHING to be threatened is SOMEONE with an opinion [that challenges the status quo]. Feel free to fill in the blanks (that is, the capital letters) and it's a silly statement of the obvious that has the unfortunate implications of stereotyping an entire religion and all the followers of it. And you're living proof that it's a problem since you knew specifically what he was referring to. And yes, I stand by my statement that callously using the term "Islam" when referring to a specific subset of the religion is irresponsible, and helps reinforce negative stereotypes and is frankly part of the damn problem. As for the question, as hopefully my point and reasoning for engaging with him is NOW PAINFULLY clear, here it is: Women in counties that have large Muslim populations are generally mistreated in that they do not have (what I consider) many of the rights, privileges, and (most importantly) protections that I feel they should have. I think that the countries have a long ways to go, and in some cases (such as Pakistan) have regressed for a variety of reasons. Now, disassociate the religion from the culture. Are women treated the way they are in the Muslim world because of the the Quran? Or are there other cultural aspects that may be contributing (even more so). The actions of many of the countries in those regions come across as very different than the descriptions of the Quran that I am familiar with. While the Quran does have some problematic elements in it, with regards to wives (distinction: not all women) being placed under the care of husbands (distinction: not all men), it's actually pretty explicit on how men and women are seen as equals before God, and has a pretty strong history (especially at the time) of enabling women as well as advocacy for equality between the sexes. Some confounding variables, however, are that many of the countries with large Muslim populations suffer from cultural challenges with respect to their traditions as well as their government types. No country in the Muslim World is considered a Full Democracy, with most being considered Authoritarian or Mixed Regimes. Though I'm speculating at this point, I'd wager there continues to be cultural influences that continue to undermine women, as even North America and Europe still find themselves suffering from a lot of problematic issues in terms of gender/sex discrimination.

I'll answer the question when you acknowledge that not only have you ducked your original assertion, but that you're now moving the goalposts to a completely different discussion. Deal?

Hmmmm. I loved XCOMs Ironman mode and played through until completion twice (once failing, and another winning). I did have one issue where targeting was causing problems, but I was able to circumvent it by being super patient and making sure that I was moving where I thought I was moving.

Lets just pull things back a bit here. You simply said "Islam" before. You appear to be moving the goalposts somewhat.... If it's an Islam thing, then it doesn't matter where the Islaming is happening. And the comment was silly because teenage women stating opinions (or really anyone stating opinions) throws all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds on the defensive. Plenty of Islamic (and non-Islamic) people championing Malala, so your blanket statement about the Muslim religion is incorrect. Or, as I put it, silly.

Hmmmm.... I bought it for myself and a friend on a whim. Hopefully we get a decent amount of co-op out of it XD

Is the co-op not just split screen? (i.e. remote) <.<

Is revelations similar to say, RE5?

Because you made a blanket statement against an entire religion. I could claim that all it takes to send male gamers into a froth is a young woman claiming that women are poorly represented in games. Just see the ****storm that gets pulled up there. A teenage girl with an opinion can freak out a lot of people regardless of whether or not they are a follower of Islam.

Then when it hits 90% off you'll be REALLY upset!

Are you seriously comparing the situation for teenage in girls in north america to afghanistan? No, I was responding to this [silly] statement: "Al it takes for Islam to be threatened is a teenage girl with an opinion."

Those averages likely included cheaters, unfortunately. I remember seeing the money and it was absurdly high.

Teenage girls with opinions threaten plenty of people here in North America, regardless of religion.

Bwahahhaahahahhahahahaha

It'd depend on whether or not Rockstar would want to. There's a good reason why we haven't seen Skyrim reach any of those absurd sales.

Maybe he meant Winter 2014 (Late 2014) sale?

I had a huge falling out with one of my best friends because his wife consistently passed along chain letters that often included critiques of Islam which basically showed that their "march of peace" demonstrations involved grabbing guns and killing people, and how passing **** like that on only makes things worse.

This made me laugh:

I'll take the W but have no farking clue how we got it :S

I found steals hard to get in 2k13 (especially compared to 2k12). Interesting that assists are harder to come by. Teams playing more stay at home defense?

Yeah I enjoyed that series!

To be honest, I can't remember a stealth game where you failed the mission as soon as you got spotted. There might be some short content part exception here or there, but a full game... Can't think of any right now. Earlier Splinter Cell games had "Reach X alarms and mission is over" including triggers for "are there any bodies still in the open?" They make fun of it in Chaos Theory.

On the plus side, we're getting a new Thief! (@) Sidenote: (@) is the trollface a few friends and I use because in Communicator it's a cat >.>

Veterinary care also includes the option of: "This is too expensive, please put my pet down instead." Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, I do not consider the subjects that they cover to be equivalent. A lot of things that we do to our pets (maybe we shouldn't?) are things that I do not know if I'd be comfortable doing since we are allowed infinitely more determinism over the life of our pet than we are over another human being.

A lot of people have used QA as an entry point at BioWare as well. I think if you're honest with yourself and with Obsidian during any sort of interviews, it won't hurt. Just remember (and you acknowledge this) that your responsibility will be the Lead QA responsibility, and you could be an amazing 3D artist and even help out the 3D art team on the project, but if people associate you with being the "Lead QA guy that really wasn't that good" it'll make transitioning more difficult. Also expect to be patient, and have an open mind. I took a QA position mostly to network and to hopefully get a programming job, but I actually ended up enjoying it. I have been in QA here for 4.5 years now. There's still some impetus to transition into programming, but in that respect I just have to be patient and have realistic expectations that it won't happen quickly. This helps prevent me from being frustrated, as frustration would ultimately spill over into my job in general. If you think you'd be good at the job and are willing to commit to it and are open to the idea that you might be in it for a bit longer than you may ideally want, I'd definitely encourage you to apply. (I actually had a small inkling to apply myself ) Cheers. Allan