Everything posted by Malcador
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Margaret Thatcher is dead
Well, at least they're not canonizing her quite yet. Did at least learn about Britain and the Khmer Rouge from it, didn't know SAS allegedly trained some of them.
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Margaret Thatcher is dead
Yes, it is. Also, she stood up to the trade unions and generally advocated free markets and competition as opposed to socialist ossification. She was more concerned about enabling the creation of wealth than promoting its kleptocratic confiscation and distribution by the government. God speed, Iron Lady. Pretty low bar you have for something as lofty as 'champion of liberty' then.
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Margaret Thatcher is dead
How was she a champion of liberty ? Opposing USSR isn't really enough for that.
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Margaret Thatcher is dead
Slashdot had a good joke about installing a pay toilet above her grace as a way to pay for it.
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Margaret Thatcher is dead
I get the sense she was disliked
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Demographics of these forums.
So, I'm guessing what they're prepared to do about it based on the past year or so of all the outrage is just write righteous articles, creating hashtags and videos ?
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Demographics of these forums.
Okay, done that. Now what ?
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Anita Sarkeesian/Tropes and Women in Gaming
Streisand effect skews things, I think.
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Political correctness gone wild
Probably better to express it as H ∝ PC
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Demographics of these forums.
Yep. But I suppose in a way it is nice to see people in a natural state, although up to a point. You must be disturbed pretty easily As for inviting wrath over Sarkeesian, come on.
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Demographics of these forums.
I think most female cRPG fans would end up on the Bioware or Bethesda forums and linger there as they may be fans of the new Fallout or TES or DA, etc. rather than a fan of New Vegas. So while they may create an account here, it'll be just for NV and then when that fades they take off.
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Anita Sarkeesian/Tropes and Women in Gaming
Yeah, he's having a nice time on the cross with that explanation, heh. Seems he blocked the comments for nothing with 95% of respondents praising him for his brave stand.
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Demographics of these forums.
Was more of a joke at what I suspect you're getting at, especially with the RPS article. Not really seeing this as a question we must ask, but eh. Just looking at a simple answer to it rather than anything more grandiose. I guess you'd need to get some numbers on how many active posters we actually have out of the ~ 40,000 registered ones.
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Demographics of these forums.
Why don't we see more women here? Probably because they don't come to post here. A bunch came in with you and all the PE people, I think, I guess they stay in that subforum or just lurk. Wait, it's supposed to be the misogynist culture that permeates this place, right ?
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What you did today
Cazorla is such a cheerful guy as well.
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Anita Sarkeesian/Tropes and Women in Gaming
Odd why that is special - pretty much everything is unserious and unrealistic and immature in games. As for closing the comments who knows, Walker could just be a giant puff like Kuchera is. I guess trolling or disagreeing comments that can be painted as such constitute silencing or something. Meh, it's just the usual "justice!" jawing online, in any case.
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SW: The Old Republic Part 5
More fun to reject them. I always get these huffy "Seriously? This is a multiplayer game!" type of responses when I do that. Of course they are right in that wanting to solo a MMORPG is kind of odd.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
Suspect this will be buggy POS but.. http://www.lordsoffootball.com/en/index.html Seems like an interesting premise.
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Political correctness gone wild
Probably just a caase of people needing ammunition to sling at him, so.
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Anita Sarkeesian/Tropes and Women in Gaming
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/04/06/misogyny-sexism-and-why-rps-isnt-shutting-up/ Apparently someone's trying to silence RPS...or something. I dunno.
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What you did today
Glad I'm staying single, people are too much work to deal with. Today woke up ealy and did nothing. And it was everything I dreamed it could be. At least Arsenal won so that was something good, gave probably one of the best post-goal photos I've seen in a while
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Disney shuts down Lucas Arts
But do you still have a VHS VCR ? Also, the hell, Dark Forces 2 effeminate ? How is that possible with Katarn's manly beard.
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What you did today
Yep, the very same. Coworkers are going out for KFC for lunch so I was subjected to their emails.
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What you did today
For some reason a discussion about KFC led to me looking at bombing run footage from Vietnam to find what music goes best with it. Maiden works pretty well.
- The funny things thread