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I really don't get the squeamishness. I mean, if you didn't want to murder the absolute living **** out of somebody (or at least inflict grievous bodily harm), you wouldn't use a knife to begin with. That's what a self-defense knife is for!

What happened to "a similarity in core values is the foundation of community"?

pc master race ftw

They also released a hilariously bad trailer.

Yes please.

It's an even greater shame how some of the translations are... outright misinterpretive. Case in point: János Pilinszky: Fish in the net Writhing in a star-net like fish hauled on land we gasp in the emptiness our gills filled with sand The element we've left and lost whispers in vain we pant on the shingle were we've been thrown. Crammed one against the other fighting for breath we struggle and tremble in the face of death. From the wriggling mass come stifled cries but the massacre continues till one, then other, dies. Atonement and repentance are the language of the soul but nothing can save us from this hopeless hell – We writhe in the net of some cosmic fisherman and maybe at midnight will be in his frying pan. (Translation by a certain Kenneth White) It almost unrecognizably distorts the original meaning in at least two places. That was great until the last line. 'Frying pan' sounds too raw and direct compared to the overall flow of the rest of the poem. Sounds better in hungarian perhaps? The original ending went like this: "Roppant hálóban hányódunk s éjfélkor talán étek leszünk egy hatalmas halász asztalán." Literally, it means something like "we're writhing in a vast net and at midnight, perhaps, we'll be food on an immense fisherman's table". I think it's a pretty major departure from the original meaning, although it isn't quite as bad as some other lines.

Yeah, it has an excellent musical quality to it, which makes the distinct lack of decent recitations on youtube rather baffling.

So... people who are bad at metaphors are evil hypocrites, is that your point? Maybe, or just incompetent buffoons. Feel free to speculate. Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence, etc etc.

So... people who are bad at metaphors are evil hypocrites, is that your point?

I actually don't like this poem all that much, but hey, at least the translation is pretty pretty damn good. Without Hope Slowly, musingly I am as one who comes to rest by that sad, sandy, sodden shore and looks around, and undistressed nods his wise head, and hopes no more. Just so I try to turn my gaze with no deceptions, carelessly. A silver axe-swish lightly plays on the white leaf of the poplar tree. Upon a branch of nothingness my heart sits trembling voicelessly, and watching, watching, numberless, the mild stars gather round to see. In heaven’s ironblue vault ... In heaven’s ironblue vault revolves a cool and lacquered dynamo. The word sparks in my teeth, resolves - oh, noiseless constellations! - so - In me the past falls like a stone through space as voiceless as the air. Time, silent, blue, drifts off alone. The swordblade glitters; and my hair - My moustache, a fat chrysalis, tastes on my mouth of transience. My heart aches, words cool out to this. To whom, though, might their sound make sense? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsckMer0y60&feature=youtu.be&t=18

It may be happening sooner than you think. We may be taking the first steps to becoming Transhuman really soon Heh, you wish.

It's an even greater shame how some of the translations are... outright misinterpretive. Case in point: János Pilinszky: Fish in the net Writhing in a star-net like fish hauled on land we gasp in the emptiness our gills filled with sand The element we've left and lost whispers in vain we pant on the shingle were we've been thrown. Crammed one against the other fighting for breath we struggle and tremble in the face of death. From the wriggling mass come stifled cries but the massacre continues till one, then other, dies. Atonement and repentance are the language of the soul but nothing can save us from this hopeless hell – We writhe in the net of some cosmic fisherman and maybe at midnight will be in his frying pan. (Translation by a certain Kenneth White) It almost unrecognizably distorts the original meaning in at least two places.

Looked for hours, couldn't find any decent translations of my favorite Hungarian poems. It's... really quite dismaying.

Given that everything Onyx Path has touched turned out to be solid gold, I'm somewhat apprehensive about that course of action. Of course it's Paradox's IP now, they can do with it however they please, especially considering they've decided to keep the new World of Darkness line (renamed as Chronicles of Darkness), which I've personally always liked more.

A fair point, and I apologize for painting with a brush wider than it should've been. It's undeniable that this viewpoint has been loudly and repeatedly proclaimed in the various iterations of the Journalism and Bias... topics, and never challenged by self-identifying gamergate supporters, though.

I prefer not to waste my time getting into pointless arguments that go in circles and circles like the one where you insisted soldiers are fluffy and sensitive, and the typical FPS protagonist embodies the same general virtues as the typical stealth game protagonist. (Paraphrasing slightly.)

What does that even mean.

No I don't, I think the purpose was to state how unfit for purpose, corrupt and unethical games journalism has become, and highlight the obvious hypocrisy of game journalists lecturing others on issues when they are morally bankrupt. By whining about "but POLITICS!"? Strange way of accomplishing the purported goal. I've wasted months of my time providing you lot with links and detailed statistical analyses on why some of GG's big talking points don't hold water. They were unilaterally ignored or met with the equivalent of "nuh-uh, because... urm... because I said so". I'm done playing that game. Nothing can sway you people, least of all logic or common sense. (Side note: the irony of being accused of believing in conspiracy theorist nonsense by people who honestly think we are under threat by cultural marxists who insidiously want to turn all gaming into a tool of brainwashing and abolish all genres other than "walking simulators" is staggering.)

Book's way better. Not an indictment against the show by any means (Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is probably the best fantasy book I've read in the last, say, decade), but the material is pretty much impossible to adapt in a manner that showcases why the book's so great.

To be fair, if you were trying to harrass someone while trying to keep up the pretence of being a movement concerned with journalistic ethics, you'd most likely open a different account specifically for harrassing, which is - surprise surprise - what most of the harrassers were doing. And therein lies the crux of the problem. "Journalistic ethics" is the fig leaf covering the underlying sentiment of "take your filthy politics out of my vidya gaemz". Which is a terribly ignorant opinion, but hey, that's GG for you. Two citations needed for these conspiracy theories please. What, after about 30 threads full of whining about how "games journalism is no longer objective and is infected with filthy idealogues who want to push their message on us" on this very forum, threads in which you have actively participated, you still don't think the entire point of GG is railing against how "politicized" games journalism has become? I'll never understand how my assessment that '"Journalistic ethics" is the fig leaf covering the underlying sentiment of "take your filthy politics out of my vidya gaemz"' is in any way controversial, much less a "conspiracy theory".

To be fair, if you were trying to harrass someone while trying to keep up the pretence of being a movement concerned with journalistic ethics, you'd most likely open a different account specifically for harrassing, which is - surprise surprise - what most of the harrassers were doing. And therein lies the crux of the problem. "Journalistic ethics" is the fig leaf covering the underlying sentiment of "take your filthy politics out of my vidya gaemz". Which is a terribly ignorant opinion, but hey, that's GG for you.

That's a really pretty gun and I say that as someone who always found your firearm fetish weird

I do not think any of those is an inherent property of secular capitalist democracies.

Probably some combination of these. Except for the part where the pr0n has plot. That's just heresy.

It's no more theoretical than defining it as "Americans", like GD did. Never quite understood the mindset that causes one to profess commonality with a group that encompasses a significant number of rapists, murderers, pedophiles, people from a bunch of different religions and political persuasions, and hold that group up, saying "See these? Even a single one of these people, including the really horrible ones, is worth more than the millions whose homes and livelihoods were destroyed by war."