Orogun01

Bump for politeness' sake

Steven Spielberg is Michael Bay with better storytelling and now it seems that he's going the way of George Lucas. Make something new already!!

Ya'll ar' a bunch of degenerates.

It took me awhile, but I found it streaming on Hulu. I'm watching it now. Best movie I've seen where nothing happens and people just sit and talk. Yep, although I get the feeling it would work better as a theater piece.

Doesn't the bible say we're made in His image, though? We didn't anthro him. He deified us. It#s probbaly why He gets so riled when we act like ****. If we're starting to get all theological then I'd like to point out that there are different speculations about the nature of God. It could be that the Universe is more like the panentheistic(I wrote that right) religions and God is a representation of what makes the Universe work or as encapsulating the whole Universe. So it could be that God is us and how we behave in turn affects God(who is us). On a related note omniscience might be constrained to all that there is within the Universe meaning that God knowledge is limited to all the information contained in the Universe.

I always though she was a Buddhist.

Not only that, you can just cruise around while listening to Manowar, Anvil, and Budgie. It's like GTA 4. There's a lot I can't stand about that game, but cruising around and listening to Radio Vladivostok is the best. Keyrock, cousin. Wanna go bowling?

There is a lot of wasted effort when working with multiple studios, simply because of reworking that has to be done to fit work someone else has done. Which might not had been a problem had the work been handled in the same studio. Anyways, predictions for the future; Will the big companies try to do more consoles or will they come begging to PC?

hmmm. hate to do this, but seems necessary. your reasoning were used quite frequently as an excuse to prolong the disparate treatment o' blacks and asians and other minority groups in this country. You are supposing that my idea is prescriptive, when in fact I think it is descriptive. I'm not making a value judgement. I'm making an observation. so was aristotle and shockley. they would say that they weren't making value judgments. they were wrong, of course. additionally, Gromnir is also simply making an observation. am thinking it would be silly to claim that there is no differences 'tween men and women. ursula believes there is significant innate differences. our observation is that the folks using observation o' society to then make conclusions 'bout innate qualities o' sexes or races or whatever, has frequent been wrong. we is observing the failure of reasoning when applied by folks who were the most brilliant minds o' their time... but perhaps decado knows something they didn't? HA! Good Fun! I'm going to go on Gromnir side here and agree that social science tend to lean towards the subjective. Unless I've misunderstood Decado or that he can back up his statments with facts(Considering his field study I believe him capable of doing it). I would say that the difference in female and male behavior is a social one and not a biological one, although i'm not discrediting that biology might be a factor. But society more than jails the animal, it tames it so I believe it takes precedence.

Maybe the cheaper labor, but if scheduling theory taught me anything is that every project has a minimum completion time after which no matter how many people/resources you throw at it, it won't go lower.

No Monte despite what you think and how you see yourself when I raise issues of social justice its not about me at all. I am a white, heterosexual male. My life is great and I generally don't get discriminated against Well, we don't take kindly to your types around here.

A lot of Slavic people have Asian features. While the Slavic peoples originated in Eastern Europe, they spread pretty deep into Asia and there's obviously been a lot of interbreeding. At what percentage does one stop being Slavic and starts being Asian, I'm not certain. Flat, broad faces are usually a hallmark of Mongoloid races and yes Slavics sometimes tend to look Asian(as they are). Maybe the character is the bastard child of a Russian soldier? @Drowsy: Prove it! I want to see your best squatting.

Dear god, I hope we don't get Marty MacWhite as a protagonist again.

Not really, I can voice facts with an impersonal tone which focuses on the issue rather than on the ethnic group. However someone may interpret that is up to them, I know myself. The problem is the refusal to even admit to an issue sometimes because of race; unless the race committing the crime is white people who have become synonymous with the establishment. A relevant example to the thread would be saying that feminism's failure to quell its fringe elements has resulted in it being perceived as a movement of hysterical women. In itself not really an accusatory statement but when presented to some people they tend to get defensive.

Gromnir I'll tell you something interesting and true. In life you don't need to know any minority group or person being discriminated against in order to feel empathy. All you need to do is ask yourself " how would I like to be treated like that" If the answer is " no I wouldn't like that" then I can guarantee you the minority group also wouldn't like it For example, how would you feel if a group of people refused to allow you into a restaurant with your family or partner because of the color of your skin? They gave no other reason except for " no your type aren't welcome here". How would you feel...hurt ...embarrassed...humiliated....? This are the types of emotionas that people who are discriminated against feel and I'm sure you agree this wouldn't be a nice experience yet I doubt you have ever been stopped going into a restaurant because of the color of your skin? Institutional segregation tends to look like that, individual has more of a personal touch. There is often a few specific reason that are called upon when people try to justify their hate or rationalize it. The sad part is when it becomes hard to argue against it. My point is that people have different experiences regarding races and stereotypes and in homogeneous cultures they usually tend to be limited to a small sample. So while you might think of a normal person of African or Indian descent others might first recall the gangbanger who wore his pants below his underwear, spat when he spoke and was generally just a ****ty human being. I agree that promoting diversity helps avert this problem by increasing the sample size, but I dislike the notion that mentioning certain facts are dismissed as racist, homophobic, or misogynist simply because they are of an antagonistic nature.

Is it just me or does that "white man" has distinct Mongolian features?

I don't really see any inherent contradiction in "men and women are equal and should be treated as such, but they're not". Also, I really don't appreciate the insinuation that women made up the concept of privilege in order to have something to blame their own failures on, but if you could provide concrete examples where you feel that this is the case, I'm more than willing to reevaluate my stance. You may have read more into my comment that was intended, not really your fault since the medium does leave a lot unexplained and is often the cause of misunderstandings. In particular I'm talking about what is clearly preferential treatment to try to give women a handicap in certain fields; some due to customs predating the feminist movement and others for the benefit of the field. So they are clearly being treated different in some areas, though that may not be a bad thing but it does cause some inequality along gender lines. Same as affirmative action when the more competent is wayside in favor of the most ethnically diverse. I can't really say that there is proof other than a feeling I get from having seen a lot of people makeup excuses as if it were an art. There is a common thread among western culture to avoid responsibility; I've seen morbidly obese people blaming their bad eating habits on genetics, or parents excusing their children lack of structure as ADD. So often times I see feminists who use the term privilege to rant that the grapes are sour and they didn't really want to eat them. Which is why I believe competent women are not part of the feminist rhetoric, otherwise the whole concept of privilege disappears.

And I think Bruce is attracted to being a Social Justice Warrior (god, how I hate this term) because of his idealistic outlook, not out of any kind of man-hating. Yeah I definitley don't hate my own sex. I just feel we, men, need to do much more to address the scourage of abuse both physical and verbal that women are subjected to in many aspects of society I thought the whole point of women emancipating themselves was so that they would do all the stuff that we do. Either women and men are equal or do men have a privilege? Cause it always seem that the privilege conveniently presents itself to make up for some woman's shortcomings.

I wish it were but the real thing has 20+ tools. I dabbled a bit into lockpicking for fun but everything but the old design tumbler lock, handcuffs and cheap padlocks is very very difficult to pick. Basically there are 10 ways of getting around a lock and every one of them is better than lockpicking. There are 10 ways to hammer a lock?

Actually I think we need a community census, I'm finding that a lot of people I thought were girls turn out to be dudes. Lady Crimson is a girl right?

Sometimes is difficult to keep up with the train of thought in these threads and apparently only romance threads are immune to derailing.

Why do I like that, Why I'm I smiling?

PipBoy first the vault and finally nuclear rockets.

Those "fringe" elements that managed to get "Evolution is just a theory" into textbooks? Evolution is fact and theory. Are you talking about Intelligent Design? I agree it has no place in a Science classroom. But as a Social Science teacher, it makes for a fascinating philosophical debate. IDK, I find Secular Intelligent Design to be an interesting theory . Granted its not much of a theory but maybe when they stop trying to prove themselves in front of their peers and start trying to find proof, it can become a solid alternative. Quite frankly what Intelligent Design needs is better speakers that don't quote scripture and refer to the bible every 5 minutes.

Yay! we got our own resident bot (note to self: change avatar, I can't imagine Mr. Smith emoting. Maybe if he was in his Priscilla costume...no, that would be creepier)