BruceVC

You also live in a place where "ethnic" violent crime is unusual. Where you live most crime has an economic motive. It's a little bit of a different story when a insular ethnic group begins comitting violent crimes and the police are ordered to back off and let it happen. The order is not in those many words but the outcome is the same. The problem here is that when criminal behavior is not punished and steps are not taken to prevent it from law enforcement which is supposed to be dispassionate it will be done by the "people" who cannot be dispassionate. Then the ugly things like blaming all immigrants for the crimes of a few start to happen. I haven't looked into it much, but are these Sons of Odin types really even forming in communities that have a lot of immigrants or Muslims? I mean, neo-nazi groups tend to form in places that are predominantly white and poor. Are they a neo-nazi group? They claim they aren't. The only proof I saw in that article that they are is that some of it's members are KKK and Neo-nazis. And so, that makes it somewhat better? They are a hate group. Period. Trump's words are xenophobic and sexist. He is a narcissist pig who cares more about building his brand than responsible governance or debate. He is the least qualified presumptive major party nominee for the office of the President and his very candidacy is bringing out the worst in America to come out of the woodwork --inspiring hate groups that explicitly target minorities with real and tangible threats. I agree with this and as I keep mentioning he isn't great for how the US is perceived by people overseas ( and yes I know most of you guys in the US say you dont care what foreigners think but its a global world and these things do matter on some levels and around certain geopolitical realities )

Inclusiveness... iirc Bioware also offered a Goat in 'The Peal' Yeah, I remember those collectible cards. I haven't completed a Witcher game since the first one. Wonder why? I must still get into Gwent in W3

So...we do realize that game developers aren't exactly buying into the whole political correctness movement, right? The Witcher 3 didn't exactly sacrifice all the boob action from the first game, and it sold extremely well. You still get to kill all sorts of different types of people in shooters, etc. 2) devs are from east Europe, we here don't bait into that SJW concept here much, its just catering to US marked where it exploded lately You funny I still think you view this whole " SJW influence " in an unnecessarily negative way

Sorry to hear that TN I hope everything works out

Thats a long video but I think I will watch it, thanks for the link But just to be clear can you explain what you mean by "anarcho-capitalist "..what exactly does this ? He believes that the state should be replaced with voluntary private corporations serving the free market, Which just sounds like nonsense to me. You would essentially have competing private police forces all enforcing their own laws, competing private judiciaries. It would be like if large population centres operated like the old American West. Oh wait a minute...who are referring to when you say anarcho-capitalist " Do you mean me or Stefan Molyneux?

I love the DOJ comment that they believe she didn't "willfully" violate the law. I have two thoughts on that: So it wasn't malice or trying to hide something, it was just incompetence. Yeah, that's much better for a potential President. If a cop pulled me over for speeding and I told him I wasn't willfully speeding, do you think I'd still get a ticket? GD why do you always try annihilate and discredit the dreams and aspirations of millions of Hilary Clinton supporters ...dont be a hater But on a serious note you do raise some good points as usual but you dont have to be the cleverest or most astute person in the world to be President of any Democracy. But you do have to have in your cabinet informed, erudite and perceptive advisers who help you make the right choices. I am confident if Hilary becomes president, which is a given for me, she will be surrounded by those types of people who will advise her constructively and positively . So these types of mistakes, which are lets say caused by incompetence or misplaced focus, will be much less So I wouldnt worry if I was US citizen?

I'm not sure I can sit through this video...did you read the you tube summary..he says the video discusses topics like " catastrophic economic decisions, the devaluation of the S.A. Rand, rampant price inflation, affirmative action, family structure, one of the worst education systems in the world, unemployment, Eskom’s rolling power outages, white flight, rising criminality, an astronomical murder rate, horrific rape statistics, the rampant sexual abuse of children, prevalence of HIV/AIDS, white farmer genocide, police corruption, President Jacob Zuma, the “kill the Boer” song, life expectancy, road fatalities and the untold history of Apartheid." Thats only focusing on the negative....it doesn't seem very objective ?

Thats a long video but I think I will watch it, thanks for the link But just to be clear can you explain what you mean by "anarcho-capitalist "..what exactly does this ?

Uh...what? Does your distaste for seeing depictions of romance only apply to gay romances, or does it apply to all romances? Cause I don't remember this level of outrage over the gross sex cards in everyone's favourite game, The Witcher 3. I mean, the game literally reduces women to collectible cards where the women pose in absurd sexually provocative poses. Is there some reason I'm missing why those are normal and fine, but a little gay sex scene is so unbearably obscene that anyone who thinks it's a good idea must have "mental issues"? If so, I hope you have a better reason than "the continued existence of gay people makes me feel uncomfortable"...but then again, that's all I've seen from you so far. Yes you know what he meant KP...lets not get pedantic The card collection process in W1 was strange...incongruous. And as I mentioned previously its important that games offer gay and straight options for things like Romance...inclusivity is the future for many games Than its good that I lived in era where fun was main pillar of games. I should stop play anyway, getting old for it I think (but I played dwarf fortress yesterday till 3am at morning ) Of course fun and entertainment must be the reason a game is developed in the first place but there is no reason we cant discuss factors like Romance as being part of the overall design of the game ...but it cant be the most important thing, Romance I feel is only part of party interaction. And what is party interaction in the overall game maybe 8 %? ...things like the narrative, exploration, questing, monster design, spells and character leveling and abilities are all more important to me than Romance

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/05/05/email-scandal-crushed-fbi-finds-evidence-clinton-broke-law-private-email.html I'm very glad it appears we can finally put the matter of " Hilary Clinton is a criminal and is going to jail " at rest The investigation is still ongoing but its about to wrap-up and in summary "Hillary Clinton has said from the beginning of this Republican created scandal that she did nothing wrong, and the FBI is on their way to finding that she was telling the truth " Lets now focus on the substantive issues that will determine who will be the next US president ....go Hilary

This seems really unnecessary..sorry guys I just think this type of initiative is more divisive than helpful Shouldn't I be scared of these guys? I would be. But then I tend to look like whatever (light brown) race that people want to project onto me and I've had a run in with some minutemen militia types once upon a time. Shady I'm also very interested in these types of stories, if you dont mind sharing what happened in your encounter with minutemen militia? Where was it, who are these people from an outsiders perspective ( I have read about them but I have never actually met someone in RL who represents them ) And if you can share as much details as possible that would be great

This seems really unnecessary..sorry guys I just think this type of initiative is more divisive than helpfulShouldn't I be scared of these guys? I would be. But then I tend to look like whatever (light brown) race that people want to project onto me and I've had a run in with some minutemen militia types once upon a time. Yep. My self preservation instincts and situational awareness tend to spike up a bit whenever groups openly talk about the threat of inflicting violence on my person based on their myopic perception of what I could hypothetically be doing to their people or property. Leferd sorry I thought you were joking when you asked " should I be scared " ...my bad I may be missing something but what would you be worried about, is it literally this type of group using racial profiling to harass you on the streets or openly attack you ?

Uh...what? Does your distaste for seeing depictions of romance only apply to gay romances, or does it apply to all romances? Cause I don't remember this level of outrage over the gross sex cards in everyone's favourite game, The Witcher 3. I mean, the game literally reduces women to collectible cards where the women pose in absurd sexually provocative poses. Is there some reason I'm missing why those are normal and fine, but a little gay sex scene is so unbearably obscene that anyone who thinks it's a good idea must have "mental issues"? If so, I hope you have a better reason than "the continued existence of gay people makes me feel uncomfortable"...but then again, that's all I've seen from you so far. Yes you know what he meant KP...lets not get pedantic The card collection process in W1 was strange...incongruous. And as I mentioned previously its important that games offer gay and straight options for things like Romance...inclusivity is the future for many games

Trump is such an unashamed hypocrite...part of me wants to cry and part of me wants to laugh...but most of all I want Hilary to beat him

This seems really unnecessary..sorry guys I just think this type of initiative is more divisive than helpful Shouldn't I be scared of these guys? No you shouldn't

This seems really unnecessary..sorry guys I just think this type of initiative is more divisive than helpful

Yes you right, let me clarify There is no effective Internet campaign against white male gamers, yes it is real but it doesn't have the real impact many people believe

Its an interesting read but its primarily all about "Obama-bashing " ...he seems to focus on all the perceived failures of Obama

I have a hard time imagining circumstances where it would be necessary to exclude it. I agree with this sentiment, there is no reason to not make games more inclusive where applicable

S http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/opinion/anita-sarkeesian-on-video-games-great-future.html No this link is outdated and the general message is misleading and spurious There is no Internet campaign against white male gamers, yes there was some negativity through the likes of Anita but end of the day its not widespread and you must not believe everything people like Anita say But that has nothing to do with valid changes in some games to cater for inclusivity, for example in games that offer Romance they should offer options for members of the LGBT community around there Romance choices

http://www.alipac.us/f9/artist-who-painted-trump-nude-attacked-332045/ Guys ...I feel uncomfortable with artists getting attacked for painting unflattering pictures of Trump. What about freedom of expression? This event was on CNN so its on the international stage now

That's ass-backwards logic. "The right of a person to ruin a discussion is more valuable than the desire of others to see the discussion un-ruined" is putting the cart before the horse. The principle is what it always is- there's a right (or 'right' since the forums are private property) to freedom of expression within certain rules. If the rules aren't infringed then if you don't like what the other person is saying you need to build a bridge and get over it or buy a pack of cards and deal with it. However, there is neither a right to be listened to nor a right to be replied to. Don't do either and problem solved, one way or the other. [redacted] either replies to himself all the time until he gets bored, creates alts to talk to himself, stops doing immense quantities of the lowest effort posts possible to try and get people to reply or just leaves. Having said that it's not like [redacted] hasn't admitted outright to trolling- posting solely to get a response, especially from those who are ignoring him. Guess I could have reported him then, but snitches get stitches and that would damage my valuable self image of battling The Man in all his forms. Really though, all the tools for dealing with problems exist, it just needs people agreeing there is a problem and actually using- and sticking to using- the tools available instead of complaining to mods/ admins about the unfairness of it all in an abstract form. Most of this post is NOTHING but a lame attempt at trolling me Zora makes many false and defamatory points, for example he says I "either replies to himself all the time until he gets bored, creates alts to talk to himself " I have never ever created another Alt on this forum..I have only ever used one account : BruceVC. And I have no issue if the Mods want to use some sort of IP tracking to prove this and report the results around who I say I am...I am more than prepared to do this because I will try anything to end Zora's endless whining and " proof " that I a troll and use Alts . He has even accused me of being Oby

Almost every time I make any post with anything of actual discussion value, I get a reply from Bruce. Sometimes I bother to click the little button that says "view this person's post", sometimes I don't - I try to never reply, regardless. What does happen, though - regardless of whether I view or reply to his posts - is that posts from him, and from a very, very few select others, are constantly changing the direction of the thread, changing what people are replying to. This might not be so terrible on an individual thread basis, but...I would like to go into a "serious discussion" thread once, just once, and not have Bruce's asinine thoughts bloating the thread and changing what everyone's talking about to be refuting the same terrible lines of thinking that he always uses and that they're always refuting. Oh my goodness, it gets so old seeing people rehash the same stupid discussions with him over and over across dozens of threads. That's what I hate: that these threads are basically shaped entirely around these people, over the same fundamental issues that have been fought over so many times before, with the same people even - even though they're about different subjects, subjects that might have been interesting...but no, not here at the Obsidian forums. And it's over literally years... Barti you can't seriously be blaming me for the perceived state of the forums ? That's a complete exaggeration

Yeah, so basically, I can't participate in the political or otherwise serious discussions because these people are always in them and always domineering discussion and people are always replying to and shaping the discussion around their posts. Fun. I'm not really following. What exactly prevents you from participating? When the poo-flinging festival starts, bystanders will usually not get involved. What you get is a few mini-conversations going on in parallel inside a given thread, simultaneously, against a background of playground scuffle sounds. Their posts won't get more attention than yours unless they are, well, more interesting. Quality something something Taylor Swift popularity something something. But that's a discussion for another thread. It what bothers you is the bad snr and threads getting bloated with back-and-forths that go nowhere quick (both legit complaints), you can always add the usual suspects to the ignore list -- looks like you already have them (us?) identified anyway. It's not good for much but it will at least help with post clutter. You can also PM some mod and ask them to prune if there is yet hope of salvaging the thread; I've found they'll usually be happy to oblige. If you take the bait, you have nobody to blame but yourself. And if you honestly believe someone is harassing you, the report function actually works. This I know for a fact. When all's said and done I much prefer users exercising their discretion than moderators exercising their power. This is a very good post, I support the last line emphatically

Just ignore them, either big I or little i. It's not that hard. If nobody responds, there won't be a problem. After all, as someone has quoted in their sig: if people stop talking to [redacted], he'll leave. That's true, if no one talks to me I will leave ....but people keep talking to me so I stay