Cycloneman
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Nice ad hom, Monte Carlo. Really boring how you seem to do nothing but follow LoF around and complain about how you've got him on ignore SO HARD. Secret crush, maybe?In all the time he's posted here I've not seen anything that wasn't provocative and / or disputatious. At first I thought he was a clever troll using a .alt then I realised he was just an old-skool troll. Get him onto Stalin. He'll defend purges, famines and genocide. The guy is, literally, vile.
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Sengoku Rance.Unlike romances fighting/killing can be properly implemented in a game. Without some kind of advanced technology that we don't yet have sex cannot be. And romance cannot really be done properly either. Romance is something that people actually like to do in the real world. Most people have no interest in going out into the real world and actually killing people. Joining the army doesn't necessarily lead to actually killing anyone. I can list plenty examples of fun games where the mechanic is solely about killing people. Can you list a single example of a fun game that is solely about romancing and having sex with game characters?
No, but seriously though, there are loads of games in this genre. True Love 95, for instance.
Uh, I didn't say that at all? I said that romance sans sex is just romance sans sex. Pretty simple. I don't see where the confusion comes from. Plenty of people have successful romantic relationships IRL without sex, too. If you approach romantic relationships IRL from the perspective of them being all about sex, that's pretty ****ed up. If you just want sex and don't care about romance, that's why man invented casual relationships and one night stands.So sex is an essential part of what you are asking for when you ask for romances. The point about sticking imaginary appendages into imaginary holes is valid then. Although that could be seen as sexist. Since romances are probably way more popular among female gamers it is probably more about getting holes filled by various imaginary implements. I don't have a problem with porn. I just don't want it in a computer game. If the game did have porn I'd prefer it to be at least something you can't do in real life. Like maybe tasteful gang rape.
No, ME2 is pretty bad. The combat's stupid and horrendously repetitive, the main plot is godawful (THANKS FOR NOT LETTING ME CHOOSE NOT TO ALLY WITH THE INSANE RACIST TERRORISTS, GAME), all difficulties are made trivial by the cover system, etc.So your example of a properly implemented romance is one from ME2. Exactly what I was expecting. So I take it that you are a fan of post Dragon Age Bioware then. My perhaps unfair generalization is that most of the people clamoring for romance are Biowarians who want to make Project Eternity into yet another Dragon Age or Mass Effect spiritual successor. All I can say is I hope that doesn't happen.Dragon Age is also really bad and talking about "post-Dragon Age" Bioware is stupid as a consequence.
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I am curious about what it is about videogame shooting that is so appealing to some of you. If you want to kill people with a gun, you can just go do it in real life? It's called the US Army, numbnuts. OORAH.I am curious what it is about videogame romance and sex that is so appealing to some of you. I just don't get it. If you want that sort of thing can you not just play some MMOG and chat up every opposite sex character you see? If you do that you might even get some romance/sex in the real world. Some of you are saying that the virtual sex aspect of it isn't important.
Yes, the only difference between romance and flirtation is the presence/absence of sex. For ****'s sake. The difference between romance with sex and romance without sex is this: in the latter there is no sex. YOU'RE WELCOME.If we are just talking about romance without sex what does that mean specifically? Are we just talking about some of the dialogue between opposite sexes being mildly flirtatious? I don't have a major problem with that as long as it isn't shoehorned on just for the sake of the EABioware2 fans who are fixated on this stuff.Also, the request for 'romance' is kind of vague. Do you have any examples of games in which you believe the romances were done properly? The only cRPG I've ever played that had any significant romances was BG2. Would that be an example of romances done right?Garrus from ME2 is a good romance. Simple, to the point, doesn't do much more than transfer a relationship from platonic to romantic/sexual in a reasonable way rather than some overwrought melodrama (the romantic part basically goes, "hey Garrus, I like you, wanna have sex?" "well... *scratches head* **** it, sure").
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No. "rope kid" is J.E. Sawyer.Does the difficulty scale with the number of people in your party?
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Looks like disappearing Trotsky... disappeared.
Too soon?
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You're all missing the real appeal of Joffrey being such a sadistic ****: it means he can still die a virgin.
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No way, Shepard ain't no chump. An asari baby is a fool's choice. Okay, guys, let's compare two options: adopting a human child, or having an asari baby with Liara.*grumbles something about a liara-shepard baby having been entirely possible and having an effect on the game where you pick between your kid and lover, and members of your crew*
Human Child:
Pros:
- won't take a century to reach adulthood, and in fact will probably be capable of supporting you before they've lived half a century.
- might be a boy
- allows you to avoid the "whine and crap" phase of a baby's life if you adopt later.
- will probably not ever be a one hundred year old virgin
- when they become an adult, they will probably not run out and start stripping their way across the galaxy, shaming the Shepard family name
Cons:
- won't be your biological child
Asari Baby:
Pros:
- if you don't think about it at all, you can pretend like it's your biological child.
Cons:
- it isn't.
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Whoa, a dude whose work was criticized gets mad about it? Too bad his point basically amounts to "she had an agenda!"I cite 3 peer academic papers for peer review, you respond with a book designed for consumption by the audience.
At least it has works cited.
Stealing from the books wiki page
Simon Baron-Cohen, whose work is heavily criticized by Fine in Delusions of Gender, reviewed the book in The Psychologist. In it, he responded to Fine's criticisms of the studies in which he had been involved and criticized the book as "fusing science with politics," writing, "Her barely veiled agenda, in this long, scholarly book, is to show that any sex difference found in humans can be made to vanish!" [5] Fine responded in a published letter to The Psychologist arguing that there were still flaws in Cohen's study that he did not adequately address, and defended her positions in the book as scientific and not political. [6] Diane Halpern, whose paper "The Science of Sex Differences in Mathematics and Science" is also criticized by Fine in Delusions of Gender, reported mixed feelings about the book, arguing that it was "strongest in exposing research conclusions that are closer to fiction than science...and weakest in failing to also point out differences that are supported by a body of carefully conducted and well-replicated research.edit for content:
For example, in our newborn study (Connellan et al., 2001), which showed that girls look longer at a human face and boys look longer at a mechanical mobile, Fine attempts to dismantle this evidence by saying we should have presented both stimuli at the same time, since one at a time may have led to fatigue-effects. However, she overlooks that it was for this very reason we included counter-balancing into the experimental design, to avoid any risk of such order-effects.Secondly, she argues that the experimenter may not have been totally blind to the baby's sex because there might have been 'congratulations' cards around the bed ('Congratulations! It's a boy!'). However, she overlooks that it was precisely for this reason that we included a panel of independent judges coding the videotapes of just the eye-region of the baby's face, from which it is virtually impossible to judge the sex of the baby.
Actually, dude, the point is that the experimenter may present the stimulus of the human face in a different way depending on the sex of the baby, not that the experimenter is interpreting the evidence differently. Further, she actually gave another study with a similar methodology that did divorce the experimenter from possible knowledge of the baby's sex and they found that... you guessed it, there was no sex-based effect. Christ, I read this book like a year ago and I remember that.
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Oh, okay, right, it's my responsibility to establish that men and women are actually the same. How exactly am I supposed to do that? Spoilers: not possible.Oh come on, try a bit harder will ya? I saw no argument based on reason or anything that was linked. For example, men and women are not only biologically different externally speaking, but also on hormonal level as well, which in turn have an impact on behaviour, thought process and emotional states. That doesn't exactly go hand in hand with a genderless society. Well, unless ofcourse you happen to be a transhumanist.
Nice articles, and by nice, I mean lol. Women find men who are nice to children more attractive?? That is crazy. I know I get a huge boner when a woman beats a little kid up. The other two are some weak mushy guesswork evopsych crap.
Here's a link to a good book on the subject: Delusions of Gender. Really brief summary: the sexes have no difference in social skills; some societies have statistically identical std devs (and means, naturally) for female and male ability at mathematics; newborns have no difference in preference for systemizing versus empathizing stimulus based on sex; and there is a major negative psychological effect from gender stereotyping on relevant skills, which likely accounts for the known variations.
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*busts into thread w/ a pile of books*
Alas, the mental illness has metastasized, establishing colonies of the mentally deranged in North America, including the California Teachers' Association, which, as reported by the Christian Examiner, held a conference during which the association's conference presenters and program received materials advocating "gender liberation."According to the materials, male-female distinctions must be eliminated in order to "liberate" children from unnecessary stereotypes about what it means to be male or female. To be absolutely clear, the anti-genderists are not seeking "equal rights," but obliteration of the distinctions between male and female.
For example, the conference literature included this instruction on "gender etiquette":
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UGH, this took FOREVER to find (it's from nearly 2 years ago!), but here it is:I believe Krezack came out as LoF's alt quite some time ago.Well, we only have LoF's (and yours now) word for that... I would take it with a grain of salt
DEAL WITH IT, KREZACK IS LOF, NOT ME.I'm sick of hiding this, so I'll confirm it with this account: Yes, LoF is my account. -
Interesting theory. Allow me to point out some major flaws. First of all, LoF is not Freedom Fighter is not Obyknven (Oby is a Russian nationalist, LoF is an American communist, and this Freedom Fighter guy is way too wordy for LoF as of late). Secondly, I believe Krezack came out as LoF's alt quite some time ago. Thirdly, just because we share the same username, does not mean that I and the SA Poster are the same person. Fourthly, even if he were, that still doesn't prove that I am LoF in any way.Anyone else notice:http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthrea...mp;pagenumber=7
http://forums.obsidian.net/lofiversion/ind...t54899-200.html
http://216.86.148.111/showthread.php?threadid=3339473
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthrea...hreadid=3200905
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthrea...mp;pagenumber=4
http://lfeffortposts.wordpress.com/2010/09...der-lukashenko/
LoF/Freedom Fighter/Obyknven is Cycloneman.
Oh how we laughed. You pointless ****.
In conclusion, I'd appreciate it if you didn't drag my name through the mud in your desperate attempts to dismiss anyone who disagrees with you as yet another head of some sort of bizarre hydra of other people's opinions that exists solely to argue against you. Perhaps you should go all the way, just declare everyone else on the forum to be one guy's alt.
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His sword has a lead core (you can kind of see it in the video, and it's apparently explicit in the books), since it's a training sword and thus needs weight. People use blunt weapons against plate armor all the time - a nice cool helmet doesn't do much good if you're smacked with a mace, after all.It really annoyed me when the fencing instructor fellow defeated four guardsmen by banging them on their helmets. I mean, they wouldn't feel a thing from that.It's like when a fragmentation grenade explodes in a giant ball of fire.
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Yes, exactly, it's not even good as pornography. It's just embarrassing.Clearly the show meant to be racy and full of sexual innuendo, so it can't come as any surprise. I also don't think it counts as pornography, I mean breasts and strategic cropping for the rest, pretty tame compared to say, Rome.
Then perhaps you could... not make the scene take place in a brothel with two hookers getting it on?? It's a stupid scene.Also the scene took place in a brothel with two hookers getting it on. I don't think it's humanly possible to craft it in such a way as to not be lewd and entirely 'male perspective'. I suppose a certain level of that stuff is expected from HBO. Probably doesn't hurt the subscription sales either. -
Personally, I'm outraged on being treated like a child. When I want to watch pornography (and occasionally I do), I'll watch pornography, not HBO. Every time that I see some obviously male-gazed up image in fiction (and Good Lord was that scene ever one), I feel like I'm being treated as some sort of dimwitted cave man who has to be lead around from scene to scene with **** and ass.What exactly is the problem, are we feeling outraged on behalf of womanhood or cheated on behalf of male gaydom. Help me out here. -
Oh, yes, I forgot that your culture's particular views on sex just so happen to be correct and accurate.It's not a cultural thing, it's just a fact that one man putting his **** in another mans arse is not something the majority of people, female or male, wants to see. -
Oh yes, the two minute scene establishing romantic liaisons between two male characters with about three seconds of mildly amusing slurping noises is totally equivalent to a ten minute scene with two random women engaging in sex.Good episode. But was that lesbian scene really necessary?I think it was. There was that gay scene between kings brother whats-his-name and shiny knight whats-his-name. Now everything is good in the kingdom once again.
The way these two scenes are treated is a huge example of the distance between the way our culture treats male and female homosexuality. Female homosexuality: totally hawt, let's draw this **** out, throw in pointless characters doin' it, because lesbians only exist for our (straight male) amusement. Male homosexuality: whoa, supergross, lol that sound effect, why are they making these two character's homosexual relationship explicit?
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Ah, I see what the problem is. You didn't actually read LoF's link.Studies without raw numbers = WorthlessEven with the numbers people can draw conclusions that aren't the truth/only a part of it. Because they only analyze the numbers to prove some point. Thereby overlooking context or maybe they interpret things wrong/make assumptions or they just didn't cover every important information in their study. Try something: Give 5 people the same amount of information and then let them isolated draw conclusions from it.
Random internet study that is full with pretentious talk that was written by some random dude:
Buahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahahahaha
It goes into depth on variations between races, including a discussion of the large variation between races of non-covarying elements of facial shape, with tables and everything. Its sources are almost all peer-reviewed journals. Its conclusion is obvious: the fact that you can splatter lines with ratios of 1.6 over the faces of American fashion models means exactly jack ****. I'm sure you could make a similar beauty mask if you used sqrt(2) as well.
If you think it's wrong, why don't you try putting together a counterargument instead of just going "lol, internet!" and acting hysterical? It's not that difficult, is it?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_significanceAn internet study's about five times better than any argument you've ever offered. Studies are the most reliable data gathering method......
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This is the best forum ever.
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Uh, no, LoF is Krezack. I thought we had established this?I just realised that it's a bit weird that LoF is also obyknven and obyknven's avatar is Anna Chapman. With her norks on display like a shelf of veg.
An internet study's about five times better than any argument you've ever offered. Studies are the most reliable data gathering method.Fixed for accuracy.Also the last bit pretty much fits the last 2-3 pages where LOFs answers consists of just that. Dismiss the others opinion, twist them and post some article to prove "some" unspecified point.
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I don't know why you'd confess to putting the best poster (LoF) on ignore. He's so dreamy~~I don't know because I have LoF and Vol on ignore, I only checked in to see some hot elf chicks. -
Deathdealer, I'm beginning to think you're trolling this thread.I said aesthetically pleasing. I don't think that character's face is even symnetrical.Oh, many apologies, my mistake entirely. Is this better?
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Guatemalan right-wing lawyer assassinates himself, tries to get it blamed on the center-left government.tl;drSummary?
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What a surprise, an Austrian talking about running a country into the ground by electing a far rightist politician.I want Sarah Palin to become the next presi so that she can finally run the US into the ground.Schadenfreude Schadenfreude...
Murder Too Easy, Profitable
in Backer Beta Bugs and Support
Posted · Edited by Cycloneman
Issue: No one reacts to you murdering people outside. Also, inside of the Dracogen Inn, Sid and (sometimes) the House Harond Guard located in the north, do not react at all to any violence, instead just standing there (although they do go hostile).
To reproduce the issue:
1) go into town
2) find a villager in near a guard
3) attack said villager
4) notice how guard just stands there, doing nothing.
For Dracogen Inn:
1) go into Dracogen Inn
2) attack Dengler
3) notice how Sid just stands there, warming her hands by the fire
Expected Behavior: Guards trying to stop you from systematically cleansing the population of the town.
Other Remarks: I'm uncertain why sometimes the House Harond Guard in the Dracogen Inn sometimes does and doesn't react. It is not an LoS issue, though, I've had him stand there while my dwarf offed him with an arbalest, or while my characters surrounded and wailed on him.