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  1. Gromnir
    no, she was indeed arrested... cuffed, and taken to the police precinct. vandalism is a crime, but seriously? as far as we can tell, the nyc school district has decided to pass the buck on this issue. is weird, but it clearly is meant as a scare tactic and to shame kids outta their evil ways. silliness... unless it is working. HA! Good Fun! ps for things like this to occur, there needs to be a chain o' simpletons. group o' well-intentioned clowns come up with a zero-tolerance policy. then a teacher has gotta fail to deal with this kinda thing in class. a principal is then required to actual call the police (who were admittedly located right across the street) and request that the girl be formally arrested.
  2. Gromnir
    there were never any argument that a suit o' costume chain or scale could be made to accommodate b00b swell, so you really haven't been making a point for quite some time. b00b plate = bad b00b scale = good why? hiro and others has identified why the insta-differentiation excuse made by obsidian is not reasonable. so, what else is there? once b00b plate were nixed, b00b scale became untenable save as some kinda concession to engine limitations... and that weren't the route obsidian chose. HA! Good Fun!
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    most examples ain't fee speech issues at all and ain't real surprising in context. bester random pulls nonsense off of the inter-web w/o context. as hurl points out, ny city, perhaps foolishly, has a newish zero tolerance policy regarding vandalism in schools. you vandalize, they call cops... although actually all security in nyc schools is now considered cops. have no idea 'bout the fox news thing, but who cares? we don't have state run new media here in the US. you think fox news is jerky? well guess what, so does loads o' folks. the kid with the pop-tart gun is kinda funny. supposedly the pop tart were simply a last straw kinda situation, but until it goes through process we won't know. sounds ridiculous. we can post literal hundreds o' better examples o' travesty o' justice here in the US, 'cause sadly, rule o' law often results in questionable justice. the lady is blindfolded after all. take sentencing out o' judges hands in many cases exacerbates situation. how many 3-strike horror stories is there floating 'round? HA! Good Fun!
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    don't read your own posts... and irony, you take our quote and do stupid reply/quote and miss context... you said: "Plenty of fabrics aren't stretchy, and yet they still get fitted to people." we said: "again, is Not fabric. is metal. Heavy metal in links or plates. is no stitch or pleat in the world that is gonna make b00b swell show in chain or scale male. " way to selective quote and leave out the important part. sheesh. how is you thinking they fit those non-stretch fabrics and materials to people anyway? the rest is just silly... reduced to absolute absurd. HA! Good Fun!
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    again, is Not fabric. is metal. Heavy metal in links or plates. is no stitch or pleat in the world that is gonna make b00b swell show in chain or scale male. ... maybe a different visual is needed. take chest plate, with or without b00bs, and hang on a hook on wall. what happens to the shape o' the plate armour? nothing? exactamundo. you can do the same thing with some dresses. given how little the fabric weighs, designers can build shapes into cloth/whatever that is retained even without a person supporting. now, do same with chainmail or scale. what do you think happens? put a metal bustier backing into the chain, and have wearer don by being sealed in likes meat 'tween two pieces o' bread? am s'posing that would work... but can't you see just how ridiculous your example is needing to be? HA! Good Fun!
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    you is so cute when you immediate make our point with your next post. "ps regardless o' what actual happened, it is silly to make grand generalizations based on a single incident... not that you were doing something so ridiculous. forebear." ... not sure what a fox news incident has to do with anything though. oh well. HA! Good Fun!
  7. Gromnir
    No, no, no that's completely wrong. I believe in freedom absolutely but not if that freedom means it offends or hurts someone else That's not something that, as the offending party...or even necessarily the offended party...can control. it is fascinating to see how folks raised elsewhere sees different. in the US we view as kinda obvious that the speech that is most needing protection is speech that is likely to offend somebody. nevertheless, elsewhere, it is seen as equal obvious that hurtful or hateful speech is not worthy of govt. protection. we has actual written articles on this subject. HA! Good Fun! >USA >freedom of speech Cool story. university_of_florida_student_tasered_at_kerry_forum_for_asking_the_wrong_question.avi http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1031/p09s01-coop.html yeah, the video IS funny. HA! Good Fun! ps regardless o' what actual happened, it is silly to make grand generalizations based on a single incident... not that you were doing something so ridiculous. forebear.
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    wouldn't say that it had an "authentic approach" to romance neither... pretty far removed from authentic. 500 miles and across a mountain range removed from authentic. that being said, while we thinks authentic romance is better than twilight as source material, amentep brings up the excellent point that the women friends o' his who is reading the romance books is not reading for authentic-- they want fantasy. dave is in the business o' selling fantasy. as such, authentic may not serve dave all that well either. *shrug* dunno. maybe Gromnir is wrong, but we thinks twilight is not appealing to adult notions o' romance, fantasy or otherwise. is our opinion that twilight romance is deserving o' those criticisms dave hates seeing level'd at bio romances: juvenile, puerile, insipid, and seriously f'd up. that is why we would hope dave doesn't let the effectiveness o' twilight romances with fourteen-year old girls mentally poleaxe him into adopting twilight gimmicks for his writings. on the positive side, dave did seem to thinks twilight's positives were largely limited to romance. if he keeps trite twilight melodrama limited to the romances, we not care one bit. HA! Good Fun!
  9. Gromnir
    yes, we do have a problem with that. selective quote and response without context is kinda silly, don't you think? “oh, ’tis love, ’tis love that makes the world go round.”-- lewis carroll. isn't he romantic? well, no, actually, he weren't. had the DUCHESS utter that line. take lewis carroll's work as a whole, and is clear that the line were mocking. nevertheless, thanks to folks such as stun, it is the most famous line by carroll, and is used exact opposite o' the author's intentions. quote something, make a claim, and ignore what were said one paragraph earlier? *snort* HA! Good Fun!
  10. Gromnir
    the post You quoted and rejected included the portion Gromnir self-quotes immediate above. is not our fault if you like to read selective. just as is not our fault if you can somehow mistake our pov as "rigid, mathematical-like," which you don't bother to support neither btw. HA! Good Fun!
  11. Gromnir
    sure you did... 'course as we clear stated, "as for fun, we complete agree. sacrifice fun on the altar o' balance is stupid. the thing is, Gromnir don't have any idea how to be defining fun. your fun is likely different than ours, " well then, we can easily see how you would mistake our pov as being a "rigid, mathematical-like approach to game design." or not. am starting to see a systemic problem. *add another eye-roll." HA! Good Fun! side-note: we will concede that Gromnir is rational. no doubt this strikes some folks as rigid and mathematical.
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    aside: we wish Di still posted, seeing as how she were a romance novelist. no doubt we would be appalled by her contributions, but we can still mourn the absence. HA! Good Fun!
  13. Gromnir
    you got a point. still, if edward is a fifty-year old professor from new jersey, even if is a fantasy, am thinking we got a Very different scenario in the minds o' teenage girls and parents, and others. also, we doubt the female protagonists in such romances your friends read is teenage girls. HA! Good Fun!
  14. Gromnir
    who says they wouldn't get punished in the US? they would not get punished for the racial slurs... though there is weird enhancement laws that is a bit odd and would take much time and effort to explain... and seeing as how the Court seems confused by such enhancements, am not sure we would be helping. anywho... words alone are not enough... in most situations. you got more than that above. HA! Good Fun!
  15. Gromnir
    No, no, no that's completely wrong. I believe in freedom absolutely but not if that freedom means it offends or hurts someone else Sorry to say but there can be no freedom like that, you give people too much freedom you'll see peoples true colors. It goes a little something like this in my mind, Law - Limited Freedom, Standard Protection from Others Chaos - Absolute Freedom, No Protection from Others; Survival of the Fittest well, if we all lived in Melniboné, that would be perfectly reasonable. HA! Good Fun!
  16. Gromnir
    objective is not there. so what? you disagreed when we stated that you cannot define our definition/perception of fun. sooo... if you reject our claim that fun is subjective, whether or not we used word "subjective, " then... is an if/then statement... can you fill in the "then" part? *insert chicago-style eye-roll* sheesh. HA! Good Fun!
  17. Gromnir
    we can read Lolita and be amazed by Nabokov's craft. the thing is, we read Lolita with full awareness o' the nature o' the relationship. is a young girl and a much older man. there is some poignant moments in Lolita, particularly at the end of the novel, but Nabokov does not shy away from the realities o' the relationship. twilight is not 'bout the realities. twilight is the fantasy, and where as Lolita is open and honest with readers 'bout Humbert's fascination with "nymphets," twilight uses vampire shtick to camouflage. is the camouflage a bad thing? not necessarily. authors does such stuff all the time-- call it extended metaphor and get all pompous 'bout their cleverness. hell, is the kinda thing we does. regardless, am not thinking that the target audience can see through the camouflage. if a generation o' teenage girls were writing Humbert + ________ on their notebooks, or were picturing Humbert as he sparkled in the sunlight, most o' us adult folks would be dismayed and a bit appalled.... and conflicted 'cause we would be happily shocked that so many young folks were reading Nabokov. nevertheless, make Humbert a vampire, and it is all ok... 'cause then he is a fantasy protagonist, and 'cause the target audience is too gullible to see through the camouflage. is creepy. even if is fantasy, is creepy. HA! Good Fun!
  18. Gromnir
    "They're more fun to play than fighters, and more versatile than thieves." is a direct quote from you. you specific rejected Gromnir's argument that it were impossible for you to define our fun. not what you meant? that ain't Gromnir's fault. HA! Good Fun!
  19. Gromnir
    *shrug* am doubting Copi is required reading at any high school save for tweedy prep schools... and who the heck takes intro to logic at university these days? doesn't matter, but am almost never seeing people correct identify ad hominem fallacy, so don't feel bad. am admitting we is perplexed by how frequently we sees people claim straw man and ad hominem. logic is a very blunt tool and seeing as how few people actually had to study it, am amazed that these logic fallacies has entered common usage on internet message boards covering a dizzying array o' subject matter. HA! Good Fun!
  20. Gromnir
    our sister went to Berkeley after we did. she lived at the "roachdale" co-op and had seven roommates, all of whom were lesbian. our sister were one o' those statistics-- she were assaulted coming home from the library one night. so, we started visiting her almost every weekend... you know, 'cause that is what brothers do when they can't do anything useful. anyway we got to spend loads o' time with her new friends. hanging out with a bunch o' lesbians almost every weekend for a couple years, and routinely kicking their arses in basketball, were the closest we has ever come to being female. HA! Good Fun!
  21. Gromnir
    I still don't get it. So you are male? I wonder why MC said female. I was under the impression you guys voicechat during CoH games. does it matter? we likes to picture all of you naked... but naked and looking like monica bellucci, grace kelly, bettie page, etc. is amazing how much more interesting reading a vol posts is as long as we can hold onto such images. one o' the positives o' the internet is that it frequent don't matter if you is rich, poor, ugly, beautiful or... whatever. say something worthwhile and people will listen. am not saying that is always the case, but it is nice that we can post and not have to get special treatment just 'cause we is beautiful-- our stunning good looks being a bit of a curse. HA! Good Fun!
  22. Gromnir
    No, no, no that's completely wrong. I believe in freedom absolutely but not if that freedom means it offends or hurts someone else That's not something that, as the offending party...or even necessarily the offended party...can control. it is fascinating to see how folks raised elsewhere sees different. in the US we view as kinda obvious that the speech that is most needing protection is speech that is likely to offend somebody. nevertheless, elsewhere, it is seen as equal obvious that hurtful or hateful speech is not worthy of govt. protection. we has actual written articles on this subject. HA! Good Fun! You may have written articles on it but this post is a gross oversimplification AND misinterpretation of what is going on. Americans always say their most important amendment is free speech, but they're really not because they confuse their freedom to offend with their freedom to abuse. EDIT: This post rubbed me the wrong way and I edited out some choice comments about how dumb American law is that I added just to piss off the lawyer. My apologies. well hyperbole aside, we thinks your post is helpful as it does show how folks from places other than USA view freedom o' speech different. as we said earlier. it is fascinating. HA! Good Fun!
  23. Gromnir
    No, no, no that's completely wrong. I believe in freedom absolutely but not if that freedom means it offends or hurts someone else That's not something that, as the offending party...or even necessarily the offended party...can control. it is fascinating to see how folks raised elsewhere sees different. in the US we view as kinda obvious that the speech that is most needing protection is speech that is likely to offend somebody. nevertheless, elsewhere, it is seen as equal obvious that hurtful or hateful speech is not worthy of govt. protection. we has actual written articles on this subject. HA! Good Fun!
  24. Gromnir
    don't blame bruce for this. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-11254419 we got a bbc series o' stories on our work laptop that we always gives to euro clients as it does a fantastic job o' explaining fundamental differences 'tween US Constitutional protection o' free speech and what most o' the rest o' the world recognizes as free speech. maybe we access it later as it is informative for both non-Americans and Americans alike. is some things we take for granted here in the USA that other nations has decided is... wrong. HA! Good Fun!
  25. Gromnir
    Yes to a certain degree that's correct. Its the same as the laws in your country and mine that prosecute people for racist comments or comments about rape using mediums like Twitter. So you should take this issue up with the UK justice department? Let me know what they say I would absolutely hate to live in such a country. We have the NSA mining our every communication but sure as hell the Feds won't come knocking whenever I quote hardcore gangsta rap (without due citation) on Twitter. Wow its funny you think that in the USA you can just say what you want with no consequences. What happened to Donald Stirling recently? The government had nothing to do with Donald Sterling. The NBA policed the matter on their own. First Amendment only protects individuals from government prosecution for voicing opinions/beliefs. The NBA is not the government. US laws protect your right to free speech, but doesn't protect you from acting like a moron and not suffer the consequences from your community or employer should you be in violation of company rules. Any quibbles about such alleged violations can be settled in court. Okay so in the USA you don't prosecute for words. That's fine I understand that. Many Western countries can and do charge people for derogatory and offensive comments. The point being I support these types of legal prosecutions which is why leferd said he were glad he lives here... 'cause while every democratic and "westernized" nation claims they got freedom o' speech, only the USA gots something that resembles what we would consider freedom o' speech. HA! Good Fun!
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