BruceVC

Sorry I meant to ask you this yesterday, what do you mean by " like, South Africa conditions " I should have been more direct, parts of South Africa are in bad condition, people suffer there. There's almost nothing ( nil ) there to support these people. I, for one, would not enjoy it beyond the artistry. You mean people live and die in poverty and survive on social grants. Yeah that's true, one of the indictments of most countries on the African continent But we do what we can to help

Freudian slip? Anyway, it wasn't saying something about SJ that got him made fun of. It was his gleeful statement that he didn't know anything about things that someone who claims to be a video game journalist should know about. I think that he could have gotten away with not knowing about these thing but it was the dismissive tone with which he said it. For a lot of people games are a passion and a labor of love, it kind of ****s on them when people undermine them. Look lets be honest here, Moosa in this case is simply a causality of the " GG vs SJW war " that rages seemingly interminably on several forums and websites I see intransigence on both sides and strange and irrational reactions from people. For example why do you guys get irate about articles on sites like Polygon? You don't even like them and generally treat what they say with contempt..yet what they say bothers you ? I don't get it? And people like Moosa seem tasked to just find any SJ inconsistency and lambaste the game, it can be frustrating ....of course this is going to annoy people and as I mentioned he must be prepared to face criticism

Sorry I meant to ask you this yesterday, what do you mean by " like, South Africa conditions "

A civilized man, a professional acting man. Meshugger I'm going to give you my understanding of what s13ep is trying to say because I have been through all of this with my gay friends and its hard to understand if you don't spend time breaking down the big issues Oh and this doesn't necessarily apply s13ep..this is what I realized about my gay friends and long discussions with them Its only been the last 10-12 years or so (?) that gay rights have really been respected in many Western countries. Previously members of the LGBT community were and are still discriminated against on different levels in society. This has lead to many gay people from different generations who don't like to draw attention to themselves and paradoxically are overly critical of other gay peoples behavior...particularly the more flamboyant personalities So for them Pride is an embarrassment because they see it as drawing too much attention and generally too much criticism. I understand this can be based on a jaded view around the fact they don't think society will ever truly accept them and also its a defensive mechanism I respect that decision but I think its misplaced as there are many places in the world that are really becoming more progressive and I firmly believe in supporting the LGBT cause

Freudian slip? Anyway, it wasn't saying something about SJ that got him made fun of. It was his gleeful statement that he didn't know anything about things that someone who claims to be a video game journalist should know about. Fair enough...he annoyed loads of people,I get it

If you work in customer service dealing with angry customers comes with the job, its not just helping people but putting up with their ****. If you're a journalist, reviewer on the internet then you have to deal with people making angry comments. It comes with the job, what I don't get is this fascist liberal notion that people should be good. Yet despite that they believe in freedom of choice, just not every choice apparently. There is a very ivory tower disconnect with every that demands that people; other people, change rather than learning oneself to deal with bad people. I have been thinking about this whole Moosa incident and I have changed my mind. He is someone that must be aware of the controversial nature and reaction to his comments and reviews . He really needs to understand that criticism is the price you pay when it comes to making certain SJ points...its part of the job He needs to man up or not take things so personally. I just feel he could use Twitter to his advantage

Good lord is there a giant [citation needed] hanging over that one. The people who can't deal with it are the problem, not the people who do it. Really? But we have to walk into social circles that judge us by our immediate image ( as in interviews ), our immediate image is stupidity... All this multicolored tint stuff going about right now is going to annoy me, if it wasn't for the good speech from someone smart, it wouldn't have turned out so great for homosexuals. I'd have to walk among jokes, the pressures have been explained before by me ( it was a house at the time, now it's ruins ), it's not so easy to tackle pressures and there are arguments saying most psychological problems are social born. Do you think the people who dress up at events like Pride would act the same way in an interview for example ? What do you mean by "it wouldn't have turned out so great for homosexual "

If you think that argument bit more you find that it really don't hold any closer scrutiny. And even if we leave all sense, logic and decently behind us, how do you even begin to plan actual isolation of population group which members can born to any family in any social, economical, ethnic, religious, cultural, etc. group that there are and they don't have any visible marks or clear test that would reveal their sexual orientation. And in this your isolation system do bisexual had to decide between living with other people or living isolation or is it based on some random system? I don't think it's possible, but if they stopped advertising this rainbow low caliber clothing 'style of gay', and forcing down our throats with sad stories and aggressive feminine ( but from a male ) attitudes, making us all look like an abomination. I'd have no problem, not even patronizing homosexuality, if the majority of them stopped being this stupid. They can live happily without a lisp, they can live happily without feminine acting. It's not a thing that comes with gay, feminine acting and general sexual stupidity ( promoting it like porn in daylight - "I'm here in daylight because I have sex with men, and there's hundreds of us, you should join in" ). To be honest, all emotions aside for a second, it's unnecessary and making us look weak and abnormal, begging for combat. It's also provocative for a lot of people are homophobic and it's even broadcast now. They get so much attention, they've reached the peak now surely. I would HATE to see it carry on from this point, gay-pride, but sure be gay. Out of curiosity, how many gay people have you actually met in person? Because I've met a couple handfuls and none of them acted like the popular TV / pride parade stereotype. In fact, most of them hated the stereotype much more vehemently than you do. My uncle is homosexual and I'm bisexual, and I've met straight acting gays. I don't mean to be insulting, as bad as it sounds... Gay pride causes problems for people who want to be civil and normal, unique, acting, who perhaps have, what I find peace calling, "abnormal sexuality". Okay fair enough...but I still don't get your objection to Pride? Are you saying people don't like Gay Pride because of the all the theatrics and people acting silly ? Yes. My second reason is that gay is educated ( which I can't confirm, but take over "there is no answer", with all the other answers ). Interesting enough I use to have this exact same debate with a good gay friend of mine who refused to go to Pride..he said he felt the gay people made a mockery of themselves and all it did was great homophobia because people would look at the TV and see all these weird people in wedding dresses acting stupid I felt he was wrong and said to him that anyone who sees Pride on TV and judges the gay people are homophobic anyway so there is no need to worry about those people ...Pride is about the symbolism that it is okay to be gay..and we should celebrate it due to all the homophobia in the world

If you think that argument bit more you find that it really don't hold any closer scrutiny. And even if we leave all sense, logic and decently behind us, how do you even begin to plan actual isolation of population group which members can born to any family in any social, economical, ethnic, religious, cultural, etc. group that there are and they don't have any visible marks or clear test that would reveal their sexual orientation. And in this your isolation system do bisexual had to decide between living with other people or living isolation or is it based on some random system? I don't think it's possible, but if they stopped advertising this rainbow low caliber clothing 'style of gay', and forcing down our throats with sad stories and aggressive feminine ( but from a male ) attitudes, making us all look like an abomination. I'd have no problem, not even patronizing homosexuality, if the majority of them stopped being this stupid. They can live happily without a lisp, they can live happily without feminine acting. It's not a thing that comes with gay, feminine acting and general sexual stupidity ( promoting it like porn in daylight - "I'm here in daylight because I have sex with men, and there's hundreds of us, you should join in" ). To be honest, all emotions aside for a second, it's unnecessary and making us look weak and abnormal, begging for combat. It's also provocative for a lot of people are homophobic and it's even broadcast now. They get so much attention, they've reached the peak now surely. I would HATE to see it carry on from this point, gay-pride, but sure be gay. Out of curiosity, how many gay people have you actually met in person? Because I've met a couple handfuls and none of them acted like the popular TV / pride parade stereotype. In fact, most of them hated the stereotype much more vehemently than you do. My uncle is homosexual and I'm bisexual, and I've met straight acting gays. I don't mean to be insulting, as bad as it sounds... Gay pride causes problems for people who want to be civil and normal, unique, acting, who perhaps have, what I find peace calling, "abnormal sexuality". Okay fair enough...but I still don't get your objection to Pride? Are you saying people don't like Gay Pride because of the all the theatrics and people acting silly ?

If you think that argument bit more you find that it really don't hold any closer scrutiny. And even if we leave all sense, logic and decently behind us, how do you even begin to plan actual isolation of population group which members can born to any family in any social, economical, ethnic, religious, cultural, etc. group that there are and they don't have any visible marks or clear test that would reveal their sexual orientation. And in this your isolation system do bisexual had to decide between living with other people or living isolation or is it based on some random system? I don't think it's possible, but if they stopped advertising this rainbow low caliber clothing 'style of gay', and forcing down our throats with sad stories and aggressive feminine ( but from a male ) attitudes, making us all look like an abomination. I'd have no problem, not even patronizing homosexuality, if the majority of them stopped being this stupid. They can live happily without a lisp, they can live happily without feminine acting. It's not a thing that comes with gay, feminine acting and general sexual stupidity ( promoting it like porn in daylight - "I'm here in daylight because I have sex with men, and there's hundreds of us, you should join in" ). To be honest, all emotions aside for a second, it's unnecessary and making us look weak and abnormal, begging for combat. It's also provocative for a lot of people are homophobic and it's even broadcast now. They get so much attention, they've reached the peak now surely. I would HATE to see it carry on from this point, gay-pride, but sure be gay. So you say people should stop publicly liking, practicing or exercising anything they like because some other people don't necessary like how they behave, like for example people should not wear fan shirts, symbols, flags, bandanas, religious symbols etc., go concerts, conventions, exhibitions, religious events, sporting events, etc.. Gay prides are only events where people celebrate something in their lives and make public demonstration that they have people like them exist and they have right to exists. I also would point out that your premise that they promote one style of gay is absolute wrong, and that feminine acting don't have anything to do being gay and association of such trait to gays is actually product of media (movies and tv-series) that more often than not give such behavior for their gay characters when there is one in the movie/tv-series. So feminine acting is trait that our society demands from the gays so that they can be gays. If you think that argument bit more you find that it really don't hold any closer scrutiny. And even if we leave all sense, logic and decently behind us, how do you even begin to plan actual isolation of population group which members can born to any family in any social, economical, ethnic, religious, cultural, etc. group that there are and they don't have any visible marks or clear test that would reveal their sexual orientation. And in this your isolation system do bisexual had to decide between living with other people or living isolation or is it based on some random system? I don't think it's possible, but if they stopped advertising this rainbow low caliber clothing 'style of gay', and forcing down our throats with sad stories and aggressive feminine ( but from a male ) attitudes, making us all look like an abomination. I'd have no problem, not even patronizing homosexuality, if the majority of them stopped being this stupid. They can live happily without a lisp, they can live happily without feminine acting. It's not a thing that comes with gay, feminine acting and general sexual stupidity ( promoting it like porn in daylight - "I'm here in daylight because I have sex with men, and there's hundreds of us, you should join in" ). To be honest, all emotions aside for a second, it's unnecessary and making us look weak and abnormal, begging for combat. It's also provocative for a lot of people are homophobic and it's even broadcast now. They get so much attention, they've reached the peak now surely. I would HATE to see it carry on from this point, gay-pride, but sure be gay. Wow, I don't think you very informed about Gay Pride I go every year to the one in Johannesburg..... have you ever been to Gay Pride? Do you spend hours watching the event if you don't go ? What do you mean by "forcing down our throats with sad stories and aggressive feminine" ....are we forced to watch Gay Pride ?

Nah, I'm sure I've said more disingenuous things in the past...I must have ? Please don't get mad with me, you are the one who has to live in this new Internet where people get bullied into silence by people more belligerent and vociferous than them That's politics and the world in general and that's how we got to this point already, by letting noisy crusaders make others believe that they were a chorus. When both sides are mirroring each other it feels kind of pointless to just say that one is the guilty party. I agree but lets not deny this situation with Moosa is not something we should condemn?

Nah, I'm sure I've said more disingenuous things in the past...I must have ? Please don't get mad with me, you are the one who has to live in this new Internet where people get bullied into silence by people more belligerent and vociferous than them

The Federal government needs to find an efficient and resounding way to put this to rest....we really need consistency and reasonableness on this issue

You don't seem concerned that GG has effectively stifled debate and a dissenting voice in the great GG narrative? What happened to the belief in free speech....I suppose its more selective and shouldn't be protected all the time ?

Yeah we simple people unlike you Russians One hot looking weather girl will keep our attention for weeks But I find it hard to believe there are many hot weather girls in Russia, I was under the impression all the hot Russian ladies get exported as strippers? I am not even Russian, but w/e... In b4 Oby will come pop in with some odd videos of mother Russia... Oh...my bad, sorry to accuse you of being Russian, I realize what an insult that is Where do you live ?

Yeah we simple people unlike you Russians One hot looking weather girl will keep our attention for weeks But I find it hard to believe there are many hot weather girls in Russia, I was under the impression all the hot Russian ladies get exported as strippers?

Yeah....we seem to have similar hiring policies over here

From Beamdog? Yeah, I don't see who else will realistically do it? They seem to have the IP around the Forgotten Realms from a development perspective so it should be feasible?

With the horrible and damaging lifting techniques and odd disciplines used in Crossfit I refuse to recognize it as a valid form of sport. And it does not have enough endurance in it anyway, thats more like circuit training and thats not what I mean. I was more thinking along the lines of -as example- log lifts and atlas stone lift sessions followed by 60km bike sprints, followed by dead lifts and bench presses with running 20km as finisher. Most of the lifts are not against the clock but instead the total amount of weight lifted counts. Endurance disciplines are of course against the clock. I'd give the athletes a mandatory rest phase between the strength and endurance disciplines. Just thinking out loud.... Crossfit is very popular in South Africa, I know people who are Crossfit trainers and swear it is the best overall cardio and weight training a person can do Yet I also have friends who are physiotherapists and tell me that business has never been better because of the large numbers of people who have injured there backs and or muscles due to Crossfit or not understanding the correct Crossfit techniques

Nah his posts are perfectly acceptable for this thread, it wouldn't be necessary for him to create his own thread to discuss these types of topics

Dude, I enjoy your posts. I may not understand most of what you say but thats not the point ...they fit perfectly into the weird and interesting thread

Nah, you just think you miss it because civil society expects you to say that. If you take a more analytical look at the fact that the Hot Women thread was removed and you leave out the emotion you will realize you can't really miss it

Volo, Baro is 100 % correct, please stop trying to justify fascism and abuse..you are suppose to be an intelligent and rationale adult. You need to learn to control your urges and conduct yourself with a semblance of decorum..and it doesn't matter if you are Canadian, that's no excuse

First time I have seen this, it made me laugh

Passes the time at work, mainly. Oh and