Oerwinde

Doom is a blogger. Thats enough for me to skip it.

I would be happy with fox selling FF back to disney, just so they can do Dr Doom properly.

A hundred times this. Tibetan men are much more underrepresented in media than white women are. This isn't diversity, this is whitewashing. Yup. Supposedly there was something about avoiding the magical asian trope or some such nonsense. The SJ crowd seem to be ok with this because the ancient one was "A Racist Stereotype". Same as they had no problem with the IM3 twist making the Mandarin a white guy, because the Mandarin was a racist character in the comics. Despite through most of the movie Ben Kingsley pulled off a goddamned fantastic take on the Mandarin.(Though this is somewhat mediated by Trevor Slattery having plastic surgery to look like the real Mandarin who took offense to the misuse of his name, so they can still use Ben Kingsley if they bring him back)

Yeah, I read somewhere that not making the female characters attractive was a stylistic choice by the creators, not some sort of caving to outside pressure. So while its a questionable choice, there isn't anything really wrong with it.

Those that will not win. There of course those who claim that they oppose it, but will eventually cave in when entering office. Boy, do i hope that i am wrong about this. Oerwinde: cliff notes about the major parties and what they wish to accomplish? Full disclosure, I'm a left leaning centrist, that tends to vote Liberal or NDP, depending on the platform of the parties, and how capable the leaders seem. This may paint my portrayal of the parties. Conservative Party: Current government. Anti-science, authoritarian, pro-corporate. During their years in power they have reduced corporate taxes to the lowest in the western world, pulled out of any international climate agreements, spent more on advertising than any other government in the history of canada, tabled omnibus bills of up to 800 pages then limited debate on them in order to force them through, was found in contempt of parliament when they wouldn't release spending data to the commons, the first government to ever be found so. Was connected to widespread electoral fraud in the last election. I would need to find a supporter to actually name anything good they have done. Basically they want to lower taxes and sign on to any and all free trade agreements they can, no matter the consequences. Supports TPP. Lead by Stephen Harper. http://www.conservative.ca/ Liberal Party: The party that governed canada for pretty much the century previous to the Conservatives taking power. Was understandibly corrupt due to the sense that they were the natural rulers of Canada. Despite the corruption they actually did a pretty damned good job of running the country, losing power with a balanced budget, 13 billion dollar surplus, and a ton of accomplishments pretty much a hair away from implementation when their minority government was taken down in a no confidence vote. Were reduced to the lowest seat count in their history in the last election. They are in reality a centrist party despite the name. They support legalization of marijuana, free trade, etc. A mix of left and right policies. Have taken a blow to their support after coming out in support of C-51, a Conservative bill that increases the spying powers of government agencies, and allows for "preventative detention" and the arrest of people speaking out against the sitting government. Lead by Justin Trudeau, son of the late Pierre Trudeau, who was named in pretty much every poll ever done as the best Prime Minister in Canadian history. Supports TPP https://www.liberal.ca/ NDP(New Democratic Party): Social Democratic party, though have moved slightly away from the far left since Mulcair took power after the death of previous leader Jack Layton. In the last election following the leadership debate Michael Ignatieff of the Liberals basically collapsed, while Jack Layton kicked all sorts of arse giving the NDP a huge boost. Quebec voters abandoned the Quebec nationalist party the Bloc Quebecois in favor of the NDP, which gave them the biggest seat total they had ever had, becoming the official opposition. They support a federal minimum wage of $15, a national childcare program, increased taxes on the wealthy, and measures to increase refining and manufacturing in canada rather than exporting all our natural resources. Lead by Thomas Mulcair. Have not come out in support or opposition to TPP, but supports more transparency in negotiations and opposes Investor/State Dispute Resolution clauses that allows corporations to sue the governments of signatories if the state's laws hurt the corporations profits. These clauses are in every Conservative free trade agreement, and has caused Canada hundreds of millions in damages. http://www.ndp.ca/ Green: Currently only 2 seats in the commons, 1 of which was a defection. Lead by Elizabeth May, pretty much the hardest working parliamentarian, if a little bit whacko. The greens got their first seat in the last election by only running one candidate, May herself, in the one riding in Canada considered to be the easiest for her to win, and devoting all of the party resources to getting her elected. It worked, and got the greens a lot more exposure, and until recently, May had shown herself to be an extremely capable MP who works her arse off for her party and her constituents. Lately she's had to make a lot of apologies for going off the rails on twitter, interviews, or speeches. Greens are pretty standard pro-environment party, but other than supporting heavy environmental restrictions and subsidies of green industry, are pretty centrist in their policies. Opposes TPP. http://www.greenparty.ca/en Bloc Quebecois: Quebec nationalist party. During years of separatist support they are the nationalist party, during years without separatist support they are the Quebec First party. In their policies they are essentially the NDP, except Quebec only and with the eventual goal of Quebec sovereignty. Were annihilated inthe last election with the mass migration to the NDP, and are currently the 4th place party in Quebec according to recent polls. http://www.blocquebecois.org/ (in french) Thats my biased primer. If there are any Conservative supporters on the board they might be able to give a better view of what the Conservatives have actually accomplished, but there have been a lot of articles in news lately that talk about how Stephen Harper may go down as the worst Prime Minister in Canadian history due to his lousy economic record, disdain for science and evidence based policy, his anti-democratic methods, and authoritarianism. edit: added official party websites Ok this was very informative. But it wasn't funny. When Wals did the UK version of this post it was both informative AND funny. So, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you for a re-write.

Tilda Swinton in talks to play the Ancient One in Doctor Strange. Social Justice crowd applauds Marvel embracing diversity by casting white actor as tibetan character.

Thats how I felt about a lot of the Walking Dead.

Its not a mutation, its more like fetal alcohol syndrome or twins. Conditions in the womb cause atypical development. Its not genetic, its developmental.

The Liberals really try to stay civil until the last minute, focusing on policy and such, then they pull out the attack ads because they work. The Conservatives don't really have a positive record to build on or appealing policies so they usually just go with attack ads from the start. Usually using out of context quotes or outright lies to try to get people to fear voting for their opponents. The NDP usually use humour while focusing on policy, but they haven't released one yet.

Nonek you do realize that just because a particular women hasn't experienced sexism in the gaming industry that doesn't mean that sexism doesn't exist in that industry, you know that right? Its not just her though. Jade Raymond said she didn't have much experience with it either, and they are the only established female game devs to have really commented on it. The ones complaining about rampant sexism in the games industry are people who have never held a real game dev job nor produced anything worth a damn. Yes, that doesn't mean there isn't sexism, but if women who have been in the industry for decades haven't had any experiences of note regarding sexism throughout their career, it can't be as rampant as the LW's claim.

First round of ads from the Conservatives and Liberals.

Its a shame he didn't look the part at all and when they tried to make him look the part it was just silly, because yeah, he pretty much nailed the character.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer?ref=hero $9 computer. That beats Raspberry Pi...

They completely overhauled her design from DA2 because they wanted the females to be non-typical, or some BS. Then they made it so you can't mod it to make her look like DA2 Cassandra.

At FanExpo Vancouver, someone asked John Barrowman what little known project he's done that he would like more people to see. I don't remember what it was called but he talked about how he thinks its stupid that its taboo to study homosexuality and that he actually wanted to find out why he is the way he is and did a program regarding that. Supposedly its looking like its mostly early fetal development conditions that causes it. Estrogen levels, the mothers stress, etc. So they are born that way, but its not genetic.

No ****, that's because the circumstances of Muslims is in no way comparable to that of gamers. Muslim's exist in a culture of islamophobia where they can be subject to state sanctioned harassment, detainment and murder. Articles demanding an "end to muslims" in such a culture would not be tongue-in-cheek or mere hyperbole but instead contribute to the actually existing violent status quo. You cannot simply replace one group with another and treat it as if the implications are exactly the same. That said, who the **** cares that some random websites wrote some melodramatic articles on 'gamers'. I've been playing games all my life and quite frankly couldn't give a ****. Until we live in a world where employers are not hiring gamers, people are running around murdering gamers or the state itself has "declared war on gamers" you are just another tumblr generation kiddie desperate to be "oppressed". If we cannot change games journalism, then we might as well give up on everything. Explain. Compared to all other injustices that exists in the world, ethics in games journalism is quite a small thing in the grander schemes of things. But if this fails, how can people possibly be able to overcome anything bigger? But GamerGate has already won, so i am optimistic about the future. Just remind me again, what has GG achieved in the last 9 months? And I'm not being condescending, I want to see how you guys see the success of the movement BasedGamer got funded. Several sites either adopted an ethics policy or ammended theirs. The FTC adopted rules regarding undeclared affiliate links and admitted GG was the reason. Some female devs got greenlit or funded as a result of GG efforts. The Escapist cleaned house of their SJW staff to focus less on social justice issues and more on games and such. TechRaptor and NicheGamer got huge support boosts establishing them as alternatives to the point that they were able to get press passes to events they were previously unable to. Thats off the top of my head.

That episode of Orphan Black was pretty damned spectacular. I like when they pull off a major character death and you don't feel cheated.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fixed-election-date-eroding-campaign-rules-ex-elections-chief-says-1.3084146 Basically, the fixed election dates are making campaign spending limits pointless. The way it worked before, the government called elections and the campaign lasted 32 days from the date the Governor General dissolves parliament. So an election could be held pretty much any time. With fixed election dates the election date is known far ahead of time, so the rich parties can spend whatever they want until the 32 days prior to the election.

Technically we vote for people. Westminster system. We vote for MPs, the party with the most mps forms government, and the leader of that party becomes Prime Minister.

So are you suggesting that Anita wants to separate the races in education? To be fair to Anita, I have heard the same thing about segregated schooling. Especially regarding gender. Men and women learn differently and at different paces. So segregated schooling can lead to better performance.

I would like an NDP lead coalition with the Liberals. NDP ideals held in check by Liberal financial stewardship.

I'm going to be honest but there has been very little coverage about this on the international news channels I watch...so I see this election as a non-event in the global stage It will only be interesting for those that care about the Canadian elections ...and that will be very few people. I imagine the South African election is similar ? Well, there really isn't a lot of coverage until the election is actually called and parliament is dissolved. The fixed election date is October and the campaign usually runs like 2 1/2 months, so there won't be a ton of news till July, but there has been more movement than usual before an election. The conservatives are using a ton of federal funds to run ad campaigns to try to make themselves look good as the sitting government. The NDP has been releasing policy info early to get people used to the idea that they actually have policy ideas, since they have never formed government. The Cons have also been running negative attack ads against Trudeau for like 2 years, which he's mostly ignored, a tactic that has mostly worked since his approval has gone up every time the Cons run ads, but either way the Liberals are starting to make their policies public now as well, since part of the attack ads have been about how he has no ideas. You are probably right about it not being big internationally though. I just saw the other threads and a lot of local news coverage and figured I'd get a head start. I think elections are interesting. If you wanted to do a thread and keep people updated when the SA elections happened, I would definitely check it out.

Inequality For All, documentary on income inequality. Interesting data on how rising inequality coincided with lowered union power, lower education funding, and lower taxes on the rich, all of which began in Reagan's presidency. (last point was alluded to but not explicitly stated in the film). Based on the work of Robert Reich, secretary of labour for Bill Clinton, who stars in and narrates the film.

I like the idea of doing a 3.5 e D&D style class system, being able to choose whatever class you want at level up, with some prestige classes at higher level.