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I would say you are mostly right, for me ToB was the best fantasy RPG I have ever played. Plus I got to Romance the lovely Viconia

Sounds intense, good luck and keep us updated around your progress

How is Yoga? I am very interested in doing that, do you think its a good cardio workout? I wouldn't think so but I never seem to see overweight Yoga people What would you say are the benefits?

Okay I'm going to drop the discussion about Volo's niece, sex workers and GTA removing hookers I don't think I "lost " the discussion as TN alluded to but I also don't think the discussion is relevant to this thread. But Volo is the one who keeps on asking me "why I don't want his niece to play GTAV" which was something I never, ever said. So I'll just ignore this type of question from him in the future

So its NY and many of us are embarking on new and exciting fitness programs. I am interested in what training programs people are doing and what is the objective, is it because of goals like weight loss or just a desire to improve your cardio fitness? I use to do an hour of cardio 4-5 week but 6 weeks ago I injured my ankle and that impacted my running on the treadmill. But my ankle is 100 % now so I'm back to my regular training which is cycling, rowing and running at the gym My goals are to improve my fitness and keep my weight at the level its on Lets hear about your training

A hooker is a perfectly acceptable job (where legally permitted) for someone of age. I do not know the age of Volo's daughter, but if she's underage then suggesting she's a hooker is pretty ****ed up. I will give you the benefit of the doubt of it being a joke, although one with a certain lack of tact (talking about someone's potentially underage child). Really, so you think if Volo's niece was 18 he would have no problem with her working as a hooker? Most people who have a reasonable outlook on sex workers know that there jobs in almost cases are both demeaning and degrading This is the original article that I support that discusses removing hookers from GTA http://www.polygon.com/2014/12/10/7364823/gta-5s-vicious-misogyny-ought-to-be-addressed-not-ignored As I have said several times I play the GTA games and enjoy them, but that doesn't mean we can't ask for some changes around gameplay And finally the suggestion that I should apologize to Volo is ludicrous. Volo has been calling me a Nazi for several months now, thats right..a Nazi. Now the Nazi's had an objective of achieving white Aryan supremacy and were responsible for the genocide of millions of people. A Nazi is the antithesis of what people like me who believe in SJ causes stand for and believe in. But you don't notice me expressing "outrage" and expecting an apology. Even though it is an offensive term So I'll tell you what, lets see Volo apologie to me for calling me a women-hater and a Nazi and I'll consider apologizing to him

That is quite despicable with what Bruce wrote. The least Bruce could do is apologise. You know Bruce, you can admit you are wrong. I think the best solution is for Bruce to admit he is wrong and apologise to Volourn. I'm confused by the inconsistency in these posts and the basic contradictions around some views When we first spoke about hookers and removing them from GTA I was accused of censorship and told " a hooker is a normal job, just like a hotdog salesman" Are we now saying that in fact being a hooker is in fact a demeaning and abusive job like I mentioned in the beginning? Are we now acknowledging that in fact by nature hookers are actually victims of their own jobs in many cases?

It bothered me having skulked about stealthily for the first hour or so of gameplay and seeing lots of guns lying around dropped by dead looters that I was unable to pick up because apparently that was not something the engine knew how to do. Had to wait for a cutscene. Later it became apparent that you can only really play the game by being stealthy all the time and it gets tiresome. You start dying because you get bored and start running around nosily to cover ground faster. The game never takes it to the next level and lets you fight an alien. The most you can do is to scare it off briefly. It's like a horror movie in the buildup waiting for the big scare moment, only it's like that the whole game. After the first few near heart attacks you get immunised pretty fast. That doesn't sound like a good endorsement and has put me right off buying this game But I prefer honesty to someone sugarcoating what is bad about a game

Volo I really thought we had resolved this and you were happy with my response? I am sorry your niece works in the sex industry but there is no judgement from my side. And I have no issue with her playing GTAV You don't seem sorry at all, and given the vulture like timing of your post, you might want to check if Polygon is hiring. Might be right up your alley. "vulture like timing" My, my ....how dramatic, what theatre I responded to a question that Volo keeps saying I haven't responded to. How is that " vulture like "...please explain ?

Volo I really thought we had resolved this and you were happy with my response? I am sorry your niece works in the sex industry but there is no judgement from my side. And I have no issue with her playing GTAV

Nothing of it matters. Only shards are worth something and to open the doors you must collect ALL OF THEM. Mosaics and bottles are useless. Hi Cultist "waves " Where have you been?

What's wrong with black Annie? There are lots of potential lore issues with female Thor so I get that, but I thought the new Annie was a new version of her altogether. I think the new Annie is adorable. Nothing wrong with the old version, but I don't see anything wrong with the new version either. Funny enough I can understand why people would object to certain changes like a female Thor. Thor is an iconic character that many of us grew up on so its quite reasonable for someone to feel uncomfortable about something we identify with Why not create a new female character similar to Thor instead of changing the original? And before someone points it out .." no this isn't the same as a suggestion that people who want more inclusivity in games should create there own games"

So tomorrow is NY and I mentioned I'm going to a psy-trance dance festival We are only going for tomorrow night as its a 3 day festival but I'm going with a smoking hot lawyer friend of mine who is recently single so it should be a real blast

The problem is with the totalitarian nature of SJWs which see everyone outside of their belief system as the enemy, if you're not a feminist then you're a misogynist, if you doubt or question the story of a victim because the story doesn't make sense to you then you're victim blaming, so on and so forth. They are as bad as the troll, racists and misogynist they claim hound them, except that they believe that is all for the greater cause of equality. Also, no one cares about gays in games they've been there for years now. Games had a transsexual woman since the SNES era and that has been fine with everyone because games are not real. The only ones that got offended where the damn SJWs; some of which don't even play the games, they are being led by the nose by liars and con artists and they buy into the whole thing because of their problematic ideology. Really, what the **** do people care if we have prostitutes one GTA or if DA has gay dudes? But no one asked Target to remove DA because it might lead children to commit acts of sodomy. Really, when your people are so pro censorship how can you in good conscience say that it's about equality? Or are you pro censorship as well? Like exampled before with Sweden, it generally isn't the Internet SJW that make problems but the ones that have real influence. Which result in some pretty darned things like Thor being a woman and black Annie. Whereas if someone decided to remake Black Dynamite starring a white dude they would be decried as racist. Its the double standard which reveals that leftist equality disguises sentiments of anti-masculinity and anti-white and you cannot defend yourself because resistance means that you're a misogynist racist. I don't support censorship unless its really warranted, like a group of people on a forum just verbally abusing someone because they are a minority I want to ask you something before I respond, do you feel that there is a covert and orchestrated campaign from some circles to attack and discriminate against white males in modern society Before you answer what would be reason for this, for example Neo-Nazis aren't suppose to like blacks and jews because they are inferior to white males but "control " certain sectors of society So if we as white males are the victims of bigotry from certain groups like rad fems what would be the reason? I just think certain people dislike males..not just white males ?

You see I wasn't focusing on the words " venatorsexual flytrapkin" I didnt know what it meant initially and thought it was some Dutch term so I was expecting TN to then explain how he felt marginilized by the media

I can never tell with Bruce. Oh I get it .... I didnt get it initially

From your perspective how do you feel misrepresented ? Can you give examples

I can genuinely explain it to you in more detail if you are interested?

Come to South Africa, where I live we never ever get snow Is it because of the Apartheid snow is segregated so it only snows on white people? It may be that, or it may be that where I live its to warm to ever snow

This is a good time for me to debunk your standard conspiracy theory logic , I dont often do this but I am finding this article interesting Also I know you are an intelligent person so it always surprises me the most when intelligent people believe these types of stories and then believe the rest of us are missing "obvious truths ". For me its not obvious as I'll explain below And thats the interesting part of disproving most conspiracy theories, they are illogical at there core So the premise of the article is that the hack was done by an ex-employer and Sony and the USA goverment are covering up this crime and shifting blame...okay lets break that down a bit There are numerous examples of hackers penetrating various large corporations security measures fairly regularly. Yes this is embarrassing but it happens so why would Sony not feel the need to be honest about the real hacker? Why would the USA government be complicent in a lie like this, SONY was hacked not the USA so you can't really think that the FBI would get involved publically unless there was a real risk of corporate espionage. In this case they are concerned because the crime was committed by another country and not the likes of LULZ. The FBI wouldn't make such an accusation against another country unless there was evidence...and they have ways through programs like Prism to confirm this. So the real question is why do you think the FBI would lie and protect SONY? One should ask themselves who is funding these stories? Face it, traditional news are actually less trustworthy than online media since you can't follow it to the source and because people scrutinize online more due to anonymity of sources. Nowadays news carry one merely on the perception of what they used to be, but they don't bother to fact check and neither do the people. It seems everyone believes that someone would call them out on it. But will you ever hear of it if its not on the news? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/10/leading-german-journalist-admits-cia-bribed-leaders-western-press.html Interesting links but I still don't see how this supports the notion the USA is involved in collusion with Sony around the real hackers Or rather let me pose the question differently, what is the point of manipulating the public to get the world to think NK did this? Is the objective to get the American people to dislike NK, most people already dislike the current NK regime Is the objective to get the American people ready for an invasion of NK....this is so unlikely and makes no sense So why try to manipulate the US public?

And I want a big **** picture with the word trigger written across it to be the banner of global feminism and to be present in every discussion with SJWs, every congregation of SJWs and all around SJWs in general. Or how about you keep your ideology out of games that it isn't clearly meant to be in and make your own feminist friendly games? Is like beating a dead horse at this point, they haven't made anything, they are not productive, they are bohemian leeches that live off Patreon support and deliver squat. Its a cult of white male guilt where you give donation to get into SJW heaven. Its like the Catholics in the middle ages...except with more sodomy. You have raised some interesting debating points. Are SJ ideas really that prevalent in society or do they annoy you so much that when you encounter them you think they are over the place For example take these forums, I know from experience that before GG most suggestions around more inclusivity in games was ignored by most people or they openly expressed to me how irritating this constant view from SJW was Some people like you would engage in debate but the general view was " oh no ....not this BS again " . And I am fine with that, I only want people to debate with me if they find it interesting. I don't need or want charity But now GG has given people who historically wouldn't engage in SJ discussions there own platform which is obviously supported by some of our members and that is great. (I just think the foundation of the platform is problematic) And unfortunately I can't really accept that the concept of certain SJ ideas needs to kept out of games because games are a mechanism of cultural entertainment and thats a good place to make a point. For example.... " yes in RL gay people also like to engage in Romance" Throughout history when it comes to getting society to transform various avenues like music or sports have been used. You didn't hear people tell the civil rights activists in the USA that they needed to only use there own buses when making a point, they went onto white only buses. So we can't exclude gaming....but it shouldn't dominate the discussion And as far as guilt is concerned, I suppose I feel a little and that is partly my motivation but its not the main reason I support SJ ideas. And I'm sure that applies to most other SJW, we do it because we believe its the right thing to do and if all societies were more equal the world would be a better place?

You guys shouldn't be supporting this game because the developers are sexist and don't believe in reasonable gender representation in this game so we need to .....oh wait ....this was explained to me before, I was wrong about this studio, they aren't sexist . Okay..." SJ outrage mode off " Back to your conversation

Come to South Africa, where I live we never ever get snow

This is amazingly shallow. A real partner (and friend) is someone who genuinely cares about you and you can rely onto even in dire times, sex is just one of many important aspects in a relationship. If you think a hooker can provide you with all the wonderful things you get from a true relationship then I can only ask you if you've ever been in a proper relationship. OMG, dude this is probably the most gay thing anyone ever wrote on this forum. Get back to your Twilight fantasies and leave the serious topics to adults. Way to ramp up the shallowness there. It's also telling that you use the word gay to describe Woldan's words, and yet you seem unable to connect with a woman in anything more than a physical exchange of services rendered. And yeah, maturity. We all know that Sharp_One sometimes makes comments that make us cringe with embarrassment but I think he has a point here but hes not explaining it properly I think we all agree that obviously a hooker can never give you the same emotional satisfaction or connection as a family member but to be fair we aren't really talking about that here. We are talking about someone saying he will be alone on Xmas and some of us suggesting he can hire someone to keep him occupied for the night, he doesn't have to be alone. Its really a personal choice, personally I would rather pay someone to keep me company on Xmas than to be alone...but thats just me Also many escorts will tell you sometimes there clients don't even want sex, they literally just want someone to talk to. You guys will be surprised how many people are financially successful but single and use the services of hooker for companionship only. So based on the Ops original dilemma I still think its not a bad idea considering the circumstances

This is a good time for me to debunk your standard conspiracy theory logic , I dont often do this but I am finding this article interesting Also I know you are an intelligent person so it always surprises me the most when intelligent people believe these types of stories and then believe the rest of us are missing "obvious truths ". For me its not obvious as I'll explain below And thats the interesting part of disproving most conspiracy theories, they are illogical at there core So the premise of the article is that the hack was done by an ex-employer and Sony and the USA goverment are covering up this crime and shifting blame...okay lets break that down a bit There are numerous examples of hackers penetrating various large corporations security measures fairly regularly. Yes this is embarrassing but it happens so why would Sony not feel the need to be honest about the real hacker? Why would the USA government be complicent in a lie like this, SONY was hacked not the USA so you can't really think that the FBI would get involved publically unless there was a real risk of corporate espionage. In this case they are concerned because the crime was committed by another country and not the likes of LULZ. The FBI wouldn't make such an accusation against another country unless there was evidence...and they have ways through programs like Prism to confirm this. So the real question is why do you think the FBI would lie and protect SONY?