Malcador

I've seen that plenty of times, easiest to pluck, here in TO, would crime in the black community. While not saying that they are right or wrong, people get testy when someone approaches it in a way of the culture present there or something else. Perhaps it is a poor term chosen by whomever came up with this, on the first encounter with it one could be forgiven for thinking it means the culture is one permissive of rape and when someone says you are part of that it comes across as "You like rape!" which then leads to hackles up.

Yes, I've seen all of that before, but thanks for the sermon. When I think of rape I recall my Calc B exam, myself, not necessarily savage monsters jumping people in the dark. I did laugh at the last example though, it's rape culture to see women and not think about them being raped, but I still got the underlying point. Hm, have to imagine most people think of violent crimes in dramatic ways barring any experience indirectly with it in their lives and more unpleasant than the average offense. Wil have to ask around but in the past people's idea of murder has been a violent attack or robbery rather than getting hit by missed shots or your husband, or something.

Indeed, my home country is competing with Jamaica for most violent place in the Caribeean (excl. Haiti) so I am not throwing stones seriously. Some of them said they didn't want to speak up as he was famous and they'd be a backlash, etc. against them due to suspicion of blackmail (though, without proof it's a bit BS to label him a rapist), also wealth usually helps a lot with any court case that does come up (better lawyers for one).

Talking about Dark Heresy games while waiting for an elevator with strangers in earshot is perhaps not the best idea. Though I guess telling a tale of us torturing some elderly couple and then shooting their mutant baby with a shotgun was not the best idea (we were talking about cases when you make the DM give a "WTF" expression)

I did read the article and the concept of "rape culture" isn't all that new to me, though I suppose mainly interpretations varying in zealotry of the speaker/writer, heh. Will have to find a widely accepted version of what it is, beyond people having improper (the frame of reference is the varying part, naturally) attitudes towards the crime and victims.

You need to have wasted your time with a gender studies course, TrashMan. Get with it. Hey, could be a rape capital like SA

Probably because you're **** as always ? My comment was more on the discussion that followed the article, as I didn't quote Bruce's post, shirty. Large part of the reason these women, at least the ones I've read, waited so long was more due to Cosby's fame and wealth than some concept. Also, shouldn't there be a trigger warning on this article ?

As usual, I have the worst luck in loot. Slowly grinding my way up to the uber castle, think it's about 2-3 days away. The 10th anniversary is starting, along with the revamped MC. Got a laugh out of the fact they made the window behind Golemagg take you to Rag

Don't mind the follower minigame from what I've seen so far, though the RNG element is frustrating, especially in what type of followers you get initially. On one character I lucked out and got three epic followers and three rare ones out of eight. The same eight followers on the next character has one epic follower and two rares. Eh, I hope it evens out by the time I get 25 of them. The garrison-based profession stuff seems utterly tedious though, I get to ...walk down a mine and click some free nodes every day? Geez, why not just put all of the ore in a box, why do I even employ these people? And then build a building for the sole purpose of converting gathered items into usable form - it's all very overengineered and ends up being just clutter. I mean it's functionally something that could just be in the normal profession menu, don't need a building and two NPCs to do that. As for the core gameplay, I'm okay but not loving my current choices. I took my old warlock, which I'd never used seriously, from 85 to 93 so far, toggling between Affliction and Destruction every level or two for variety. I used my free 90 boost to make a new druid - I'd played with a druid main for most of BC and LK but elected to leave my old druid on my original server - and taken it to 92 as Feral. I'd played three years solid raiding with a Balance/Resto druid, but have never even touched Feral. Yeah, shame they can't mine for you, however it is a good way to get skillup points if you were sub 600 or just to assist with hitting max level mining. You do get carts with archeology goods and other stuff as well. They could have done more, I suppose. My 100 got NO rare followers, which sucked, but my alts have a couple already, heh.

So any actual proof that Russians have tank units in Ukraine, yet ?

This seems more like a potential issue with rich/famous people getting away with stuff than "rape culture", to me.

Nah the ones with the arguments are more entertaining

Social media sure has made the court of public opinion special

I fell for this CBC article, minus the audio for that reason - http://www.cbc.ca/thisisthat/blog/2014/09/23/new-york-artist-creates-art-that-is-invisible/

Have to wonder and wait with glee to see what issues Star Citizen will yield

Bored at work, so sabotaged the Keurig cups by placing flavours in the wrong boxes. Surprisingly, no one actually looks at the cups they took out so am hearing bitching about the flavours being 'off'. Found some work to do though.

Well, failing and the product changing are slightly different.

Well, nothing wrong with wanting more from things and not everyone is as dismissive of them. It is pointless from the get go as they are all ultimately whores in the end, though, saw a video from a guy that used to run a paintball review site on the line he had to walk to not being cut off and I assume the situation is similar. Didn't you get the memo, games are 'art' now, though, about 'experiences' and what not, so real journalism is possible! I'm holding out for Third World Poverty simulators.

Plenty of people must consider them worth something, while IGN and their like is usually mocked you find people have respect for RPS or Polygon (with that weirdo prick Kuchera) or other sites that aspire to..uh..analysis of games and what not. That and these people are fun to abuse as they always bite.

The article at the Guardian was good, read it yesterday. Makes a good point about falling into the trap of hunting the symptoms rather than the cause.

Yes, I am aware you are an immense fan of his, but making points reasonably isn't all that special, even shirty here does so, well his addiction to sarcasm aside.

Big AAA games like it get cracked anyways, more so if there's ever some nifty DRM scheme announced.

Do you have sick days? We don't have those so people come into work sick often to avoid burning the vacation days.