Orogun01

I don't get this whole wikipedia dismissal as a reliable source, it seems to me that they go through the same level of revision as what you might find on a published book. I agree that it is not in depth knowledge but is a good starting point and it definitely can help aid a discussion. I guess it's easier to dismiss the source than the argument.

A game that does teach you self restrain as cussing might get you a dislike from your teammates.

You need to understand, gas prices are never coming down! They are going to stick with it until hydrogen cells replace gas.

We live in an age where technology allows us to spy on anyone anytime, I don't see why it would be difficult to have one organization directed at major corporations. Technically there should be one but they thread as if stepping on a glass floor. I thought you didn't support big brother watching as its an erosion of our privacy? The privacy of citizens as is in the constitution not of private corporate entities. Of course there is also the problem of said agency becoming corrupt and using information to influence the market.

Then what was the reason for getting kicked out?

You're eating at a restaurant, the staff gets a few order mixed up making so a few expensive meals go to wrong people and they have begun to eat them. Then they take the food from away from everyone and start the meals again. Bet that will go over well with the customers, the management and their pockets. The players; even those that exploited the bug, might not feel that they are at fault. After all they weren't using a cheat engine, they were exploiting a failure in the product, so the onus lies with the maker.

We live in an age where technology allows us to spy on anyone anytime, I don't see why it would be difficult to have one organization directed at major corporations. Technically there should be one but they thread as if stepping on a glass floor.

Most of them made by Bethesda.

I don't know that anybody expected TESO to be bug free and now we have evidence why: Bethesda are hacks.

For me its about the technical side, what game did something really well and innovative from all the other games. MineCraft is a perfect example of how the same appeal of Legos can be brought to games. Its about those mysterious things of the human brain that keep us playing Tetris after we put the game down or that get a kick from a little man jumping on the screen. If you want get a good solid idea for a game it needs to have that sense of biofeedback where you feel something when you perform that action.

AKA drinking. Plus the whole egg and Jesus thing makes more sense when drunk.

Come on, don't you like walking among sleeping bloodsuckers in a deserted school?

This is why it's best to RP in person, that way you can punch your GM when they go into a power drunk tirade about how its their game and their rules.

Its the BioWare effect, once you start playing it doesn't suspends your disbelief it suspends your IQ.

It's an oligarchy : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10769041/The-US-is-an-oligarchy-study-concludes.html Good to know, now we can declare the constitution to be just a historical document and finally embrace our new overlords.

After recently finishing CoP and then trying out the Misery 2.1 mod, I cannot stress this enough: don't play Misery. I think that a lot of the issues from CoP stem from the fact that it was open world, I still enjoyed it though but I kept wanting a defining moment like the construction site or the army warehouses in previous games.

What will happen though is that every bit of freedom that erodes in the name of something isn't going to be given back. Terrorism may become a thing of the past but I doubt the NSA is going to stop spying on Americans. Eventually it will reach a point where no one in the world could argue that America isn't a plutocracy.

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Actually, I just want the world to shut up about misogyny and boobs in games and to stop giving award to someone who just made a bunch of low budget YouTube videos (even after she raised a lot of money)

If what the video Valsuem posted checks out this isn't so much the government as corrupt officials utilizing the government to make their fortunes (although to be honest this isn't something new in the US) It seems that the levels of corruption and their blatant disregard for public opinion are beginning to anger people. Whether their fears jump to the irrational; and fear always does, its undeniable that the US government has been growing corrupt for a long time now and the public seem to be beginning to understand what this means.

I've been playing Warlock 2 and boy do I have trouble putting it down. It has gotten to the point that I won't even start to play without clearing a few hours for free time. IMO, they should had switched from CRPG mechanics and more into SRPG or Grand Strategy type of mechanics. Also combat is broken, I get it that they want me to feel as if i'm in an expedition but when the enemies seem to have unlimited members that are always fresh and relaxed it creates a pretty disparate double standard. Plus, they expect me to believe that a guy clad in armor has trouble running through a savage in a loincloth?

True, but it's making the ****ty ones disappear, which is kind of a win.

Orog, there are people in the feminist movement who are extremists IMO and I can understand your concern, but they don't represent what the feminist movement is suppose to stand for. It does much more good than bad Yet I would daresay that most of the knowledge people have comes from those extremists, who due to sensationalizing by the media, trivialization by opponents, or extreme opinions have cemented the public's view about feminism.

Welcome back, we were beginning to miss you. Because human beings do a better job of displaying that they don't let violent media make them violent, while they don't seem to do as well with not taking ideas and imagery and disassociating them. I also feel that violence is better socialized against in other ways. Because you don't understand the terms. Rape culture is NOT "all men are rapists." Rape culture is a term to describe a culture in which prevalent attitudes and practices normalize, excuse, tolerate, and even condone rape. This is from the very first line in the wikipedia article. The second sentence is this: "Examples of behaviors commonly associated with rape culture include victim blaming, sexual objectification, and trivializing rape." For instance, someone suggesting "rape victims should just not make a big deal out of it because it gives power to the rapist" is an example of victim blaming, as well as rape trivialization. IIRC, this is what you actually said to me. It's not up to you, or me, or anyone else to tell someone how they should or should not deal with an assault like that. So yes, I consider a statement like that to be one that contributes to rape culture. No, I do not consider you a rapist. Some extra reading from a place like here. One thing they point out is how rape culture is a culture that feels rape is inevitable. Think about some people getting upset because what a woman was wearing and where she was walking was focused on during a rape, and how she shouldn't be there and certainly not wearing that? How many people go "well yeah, of course she's taking a risk." Soon it becomes her fault that she was raped. As for other examples of rape culture: Look up Stubenville. Some high school boys raped a girl. Adults obstruct justice to protect the boys and the school's football program, and there's a healthy degree of focus on how this is tragic for the boys because they had promising football careers and how they may not even get into college now if a conviction is made. There's another case of Raeteah Parsons from Nova Scotia. Very similar to Stubenville in that boys raped a girl and took videos/photos, and the girl was the one ostracized for it by her peers (she tried NOT coming out with an accusation to start too). She was bullied out of school and harassed by other boys that wanted to have sex with her. The family tried moving, but the bullying eventually caught up with them again thanks to social media... and the girl was driven to suicide. Saratoga High School had a similar thing, which some consider worse than Stubenville, where again guys took advantage of a drunk woman, took dozens of pictures of her being abused, and would share it with the student body. There's an article here in Rolling Stone. Harvard's Crimson posted an editorial from a Havard Student (kudos to the Crimson doing this... I consider that a positive thing). Until 1983, in Canada it wasn't possible for a husband to rape his wife. That doesn't mean that all husbands raped their wife. It did mean that society's codified laws meant that it was not something seen as possible (which is absurd as far as I'm concerned. If a spouse isn't interested in having sex, forcing that spouse, man or woman, same sex or otherwise, it's absolutely rape). That's rape culture. (rectifying this by altering the laws is an example of eroding that culture, which is something that I support) But there's still issues: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/how-canadas-sex-assault-laws-violate-rape-victims/article14705289/?page=all * Most judges now attend courses to become more sensitive, but still hand out sentences, Prof. Boyle of UBC says, that suggest victims invited trouble by how they acted or dressed while out on a date, or with those closest to them. * For example, in October, 2009, the Ontario Court of Appeal imposed a 10-year sentence on a man convicted of assaulting a woman who was working a night shift at a convenience store. The same month, it ruled on a man who had tied his wife to a bed, covered her mouth with duct tape, punched her in the face, cut off her underwear with a knife and threatening to slash her vagina before trying to rape her. Only on appeal was his sentencing increased to 21 months – and even then the sentence was conditional, so the man, by this time out of jail, didn’t have to go back. The man fitting the "typical" image of a rapist: 10 years. The atypical rapist... 21 month conditional sentence. I don't believe this is endemic to only Canada, however. Here's a cartoonist's take on the discussions regarding sexual harassment I was going to go into your misunderstanding of the term patriarchy too, but I've been writing this for a while and have to go soon. I did point out a study in a different thread of the male and female researchers BOTH critiquing an equivalently qualified woman candidate in a study (only the name was changed) more aggressively than a man. There's *some* reason for this type of assessment, and the idea that society (somehow) has us believe that women are less capable at the physical sciences is one possible assessment. This is the idea of "the patriarchy," which is more of a nebulous, abstract concept of institutionalized ways to reinforce a specific set of gender roles. It's important to note that men can be affected by the patriarchy too, in that they are ostracized if not displaying a suitably masculine image. Men are biased against in custody battles. They are biased against in adoption. I don't know this for certain, but I certainly perceive that they are more likely to be ostracized for being homosexual. (despite Volo's declarations, feminism has nothing to do with acting feminine - although feminism is more of an umbrella that has a variety of perspectives now). I find it troubling that you call out someone for "having a different idea of what feminism is than what is actuallly happening" because it doesn't seem like you actually understand the terms being used. But I'm not sure if it's the other people that suffer from cognitive dissonance on this topic. How many people on this forum point out that the extreme people are just that, extreme? How many people on this forum actually espouse those extreme views? Yet in a thread that I was taking part in, not long after I let it be known that I was a feminist, you post some hateful diatribe of what feminism is. I think you're mistaken about what feminism is. I think there may be some bias in your sampling if you think that feminism is as extreme that you think it is. This is probably one of the best post I've seen from an opposing argument. There is however the matter of how the hell does real life rape translate into Ms. Saarkessian and her ilk making their bones by claiming that sexualization in media causes rape. It really seems to me that feminism has become like Catholicism in a regard were the actions of a few have soiled the image for the rest. Still, I don't understand how more "inclusive" games will help prevent rape.

I thought it was a teasing friendly remark; I must work on my PR.