Orogun01

I disagree. The emphasis of South Park has maybe shifted from random toilet humor and elementary schoolers' weird adventures to parodying and present events and (pop) culture. The toilet humor and sometimes Earthbound'ish adventuring is still there, but it's kind of become a method through which Trey Parker expresses his cynicism. I'd call The Last of the Meheecans one of my favorite episodes, and that's season 15 Sometimes the new formula fails to yield anything funny, its because social commentary restricts you to the subject which is why I prefer the old formula as it felt more fluid. Plus, a lot of times they focus on a single linear story with no subplots (something that they used to do) so I guess that they deliberately constrain themselves to their formula? IDK, I still like the show though.

Before you start your program try doing some research on it, look for anecdotal of students that have been through the program, and college reviews online. Game Design programs have been popping around colleges and most of them are a scam. Unless you're willing to go the extra mile and be basically a self taught student or you're just doing it for the degree, then it's not worth it. Have you decided on a specialization yet? It is something that you want to do early so you put the most work towards it and develop your portfolio around it. Other than that; good luck, this is a tough field and you're going to need it.

There's actually a link in the video description to the study. Apparently the University of Pennsylvania is a hive of pseudoscience that somehow worms its way into reputable scientific journals. http://www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu/articleseligman.pdf That said, one study alone cannot be considered concrete confirmation of a hypothesis. Correlation is not causation, as so many laymen fail to understand. I feel like i'm understood, that makes me happy I was actually a little taken aback when I saw their channel I thought they were more activist of happiness than actual scientist, but that's just my opinion.

Maybe he has PR training?

I thought that was Canada.

I'm really grateful for all that pseudosience, now I know that all those times I felt so happy that I needed to thank someone for what they did to make it so were cause by expressing gratitude.

Not really, I realized a long time ago that my body hates me.

My thoughts: **** that! Thanks to globalization I'm now competing against a bunch of art farms in China that because they are run under slave labor can afford lower costs, outsourcing eliminates low level and mid management jobs which in turn ruins the local economy. Unless you develop a global standards for working environments it is an awful idea.

One of my fav shows which now bears relevance to the discussion. Pro tip: Morgan Freeman is in it. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x122gfm_through-the-wormhole-s04e08-is-reality-real-hdtv-xvid-afg_school

You are comparing a physical disability with mental trauma, I don't think that you can quantify pain but at the very least apples to apples and whatnot. After all, you can't see rape in your profile pictures.

Get Hulu or Netflix and get rid of your tv package maybe?

Whatever you do please don't tell her your view on the feminist movement and women's representation in gaming. That definitely won't win you any points Considering that she is Jewish and I have made Holocausts jokes in front of her just to piss her off, I doubt anything I say will shock her anymore.

On an unrelated note one of my mother's childhood nicknames for me was Scarface...cause I had a lot of scars on my face not cause I was a gangster.

I hope you're not talking about the crappy American remake with Tom Cruise. There are some issues with VR, particularly how it gets depicted on fiction. Namely from having such an extensive knowledge of the brain's working that allows to create software that interacts with machines, and the fact that the processors need to exceed the speed of thought processes. We are still very far away from true VR. The Occulus Rift will change the industry in that a lot of the tricks that developers use for games will be rendered obsolete due to depth perception. You may want to read about the Singularity and transhumanism, the Singularity is a term that was coined by Isaac Asimov for the moment when human consciousness is uploaded into a machine.

Skyped with a girl for 3 hours today trying to get her started on learning Zbrush, apparently since I'm married to my work the only thing I can hope for are threeways.

Japanese Brazilians have an interesting history, there was a big immigration wave around 1900. A lot of Japanese in Peru as well. Yep, as well as the Chinese migrations of the 1920's. Basically the big depression caused a lot Asians to pack up for greener pastures. I know they have Little Japan in Brazil which is the district where they settled and it closely resembles the actual Japan styles. Anyways, carry on.

Funny how you think being a solider is about aiming. Men and women are not equal, if you find that offensive complain to nature. See the russian sniper corps during WWII.

*still playing DA* Oddly enough, all of those individuals seem to turn out into normal, productive members of society. With sex being a natural part of life, one has to wonder just how much damaging it really is, and how much our own society and teaching/stances are a factor in it. All I can say is that you've obviously not known anyone dear to you who's been raped. There is a difference here, I recall a study that concluded that victims of child abuse that were just isolated incidents had grown to be normal. Children brains have more neuroplasticity than adults, which is why they can bounce back from events such as those better than adults.

I think SR lends itself to those themes because of its zany tone but GTA is more serious even though it sometimes becomes a satire of crime fiction. Although I would actually be more interested in the idea of a male character that had been transformed into a woman against his will, its a trope that I haven't seen much in gaming. It has the potential to deal with the themes of gender identity better than what a post op trans character would, IMO. Although a game with that main character would probably never get the greenlight from the publishers.

One thing has bothered me since the thread started debating GTA, there is a major lack of women's posts (i'm actually being serious) What's the ladies of the forums take on this? Have we offended in any way? If so, sorry.

Monte I'm not sure why you seem to be getting so upset? The reviewer still gave the game 9/10 and its the Editors Choice for September. She is not saying "don't play the game". All she is saying GTA V presents women in one dimensional light and she is probably right I do think the word misogyny is a bit harsh, I would say the game is sexist on certain levels. But not enough where I won't play it. Can we call she an it? I feel that it is somewhere between a man and a woman, which is probably why it felt the need to give its biased opinion (all opinions are biased, btw) instead of just reporting. I get that we need archaeologists to recover the lost manual on how to be a good journalist, but gaming journalism feels more like blogs that comment on games. Also, feminist are approaching the issue of women in gaming entirely wrong. If their stance was that they want more games geared towards a female audience instead of wanting to turn boy's games into women's, they'd probably face less animosity. I'm sorry but I don't agree with what you are saying. Only the last 2 and half paragraphs discuss the perceived misogyny, the rest of the review is glowing. It seems like you guys are very defensive and want to raise an issue where one doesn't exist around this review. This is her opinion, we can take good and bad things from it. And to be honest why can't we have a female protagonist in GTA V? She could be a hardcore gangster in the GTA V world? That its just the problem, it is its opinion and shouldn't bear any relevance on whether the game is good because it is not a game targeted towards women. It is a relevant as complaining that the Expendables should be more woman friendly. If people are defensive is because they perceive a female presence in gaming to be a sign of change in the genres they enjoy, which is proving to be true as there are less games for women and more games for men that try to be woman friendly. The funny thing its that most of the talk seems to be supportive of this instead of creating games that are exclusively for women, its like they are asking for scraps from the table instead of their own seat at it. I cannot bring myself to respect that.

Monte I'm not sure why you seem to be getting so upset? The reviewer still gave the game 9/10 and its the Editors Choice for September. She is not saying "don't play the game". All she is saying GTA V presents women in one dimensional light and she is probably right I do think the word misogyny is a bit harsh, I would say the game is sexist on certain levels. But not enough where I won't play it. Can we call she an it? I feel that it is somewhere between a man and a woman, which is probably why it felt the need to give its biased opinion (all opinions are biased, btw) instead of just reporting. I get that we need archaeologists to recover the lost manual on how to be a good journalist, but gaming journalism feels more like blogs that comment on games. Also, feminist are approaching the issue of women in gaming entirely wrong. If their stance was that they want more games geared towards a female audience instead of wanting to turn boy's games into women's, they'd probably face less animosity.

It may be part of the game.

Can't find any word on the number of attackers.

Looking aside from the fact that it would take an enormous amount of coding to have such an accurate virtual reality, it all depends on what you define as reality. It is the argument of both metaphysics and epistemology, for all we know we actually are in a virtual simulation.