Hiro Protagonist

Thanks. It's the last time I go into a boss fight alone on HC. I will never do that again solo. Co-op games for now. Safety in numbers. Also, doing HC gets you two achievements instead of one as you get the SC achievement as well. It's why I wanted to do HC first. HC Co-op is the best for achievement hunting.

Yeah, I was reading up on it before and it's two separates sources for both TV shows, even though both shows are very similar, almost identical. Also, it appears the French TV show is getting an American adaption titled They Come Back.

The comic is awesome. The show is getting to the point that I can't watch it every week now. I'll just get all the episodes and watch it in one go. I still can't get over how they turn an awesome comic book into a bad TV show. Even characters like Andrea who is still alive in the comic and is a great character, was awful in the show.

Noticed on the internet, people have been saying this is just a rip off of the French TV series Les Revenants (The Returned). So I decided to download this series and.. WOW, now I know why people are saying this is a rip off. The French version is a great show btw.

My partner and I must be one of the very few people that have never had any problems or dramas with flying, other passengers and airports over the last 20 years. Also the online booking, pick your seats, print your ticket is so much easier now for domestic flights. It's great to just walk through without having to do anything. Similar with overseas travel and when checking in, it's never been a problem for us.

I love flying. I can't get enough of it. Also, catch up on watching the movies or take a good book to read and before you know it, you're at your destination

Been watching some new TV shows. From Dusk Till Dawn. Not as good as the movie but it's similar. First episode was from the first 10 minutes or so from the movie but just extended as a TV episode. You can see the main actors are trying to mimic George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino. Even the actor who plays the ranger is trying to be the same as Michael Parks' Earl McGraw. They've changed QT's character with having an 'ability' (and not sure for the better) but I won't mention spoilers. Overall, it was ok and I'll stick with it. Believe. Interesting show with a little girl with powers. Too implausible to believe, not because of the powers but the situations that happen. Where are the police when all the things in the show are happening? Crazy woman wielding a gun in a hospital, the car chases, the car going through a door to a building. No police around. Where are the government agents wanting to take this little girl with powers? No where to be found. Will still watch to see where it goes.. Resurrection. People come back to life after many years, even decades and wake up in weird places. Sort of has a 4400 feel to it with people coming back. Seems to be the best out of these new series.

True Detective. I watched this over the last two nights and I'm glad I waited for all the episodes. Great series. And some great quotes from Rust with every episode.

First problem. Are they being assertive or are they being bossy? They may very well are being bossy and not assertive. Can you give real life examples of how a girl is being assertive and then being labelled bossy? No? The site doesn't either! The site doesn't even give a hypothetical example. It gives no examples at all. Just accept it, okay? Trust us! Second problem. Are they not applying for jobs in their adult years because they were labelled as bossy when they were kids? Or are there other reasons why they didn't have the confidence for not applying for that job? Is it because they might not get the job believing they don't have the necessary skills and nothing to do with labels from their childhood? Is there other reasons why they didn't apply for the job or other reasons why they didn't have the confidence to apply? It's a huge leap to say most/all adult women don't apply for jobs because of something that happened in their youth. I suspect it's probably other reasons than being called bossy when they were 10 years old. Not to say some girls aren't teased during their school years, given names like bossy and this carries over to adulthood. There are cases of people who haven't had a good time during their school years and this has affected their adult life. I suspect there are other reasons at play why a lot of women don't apply for jobs and not what happened during their school years.

I have no idea whether that's true or not. I don't know how you can measure 'confidence' and I don't think it's confidence that's the entire problem. There's more to it. What you've described is a stereotype and can equally apply to a lot of males in that example. For example, swap the gender around in your example and it can still apply. I think you may be confusing 'confidence' with applicants and 'prejudice' from employers which may be a reason why a female didn't get the job - but that is also a stereotype too.

Statistics? No need for that. Some people would have you believe that a thesis was done on this.

What does that even mean. Achieve their full potential? I imagine not many people get to achieve their full potential in life, regardless if they're male or female.

Maybe they should have used the 'ban bossy' message as being something attributed to both boys and girls. Like don't be bossy, be a leader to both genders. That would have been a better message. And not single out one gender as being bossy (girls) and comparing it to leadership with another (boys) when they say the exact same thing. The fact is that they don't actually give an example of that same exact thing. It's deceptive hyperbole. But then I guess it would come across as another type of anti-bullying encouragement building site and drown in the hundreds of other anti-bullying encouragement building websites if it was aimed at both genders. Easier to aim it at one gender and get the emotional responses that it's received.

Alan, some points for you to take in. It's not a thesis. Tick one on failure at critical thinking. And many more ticks on failure at critical thinking. I don't have the time to list them all. Yeah 'cool story bro'. How about using that critical thing? No? Okay. Go ahead with your long winded straw man arguments, irrelevancies and red herrings.

Well here's a tip for you. Read my post that says “bossy” and “leader” aren’t the same thing, by any stretch. We can’t swap one for the other because they aren’t synonymous. So a bossy female and male leader aren't the same thing. The same as a bossy male and female leader aren't the same thing. Similarly, a bossy female and a female leader aren't the same thing. Glad I could clear that up for you. And Oerwinde disagrees with my assertion? Where? If anything Oerwinde agrees with my assertion that bossy should be linked to both girls and boys.

One of the problems with the site is “bossy” and “leader” aren’t the same thing, by any stretch. We can’t swap one for the other because they aren’t synonymous. Rarely is a bossy person ever a good leader. Bossy girls or boys aren’t always leaders. A good leader is one that communicates the paths to achieve the goal in an articulate manner, while establishing teamwork via a coherent vision. In other words, when the leader comes across as knowledgable, the team becomes confident. When the leader appears to be ignorant while demanding others do as they say, they are seen as arrogant bullies. And this is not just at work, but also in schools. Male or female, many kids go their entire lives without ever being called “bossy” and they become bosses. Really good ones.

I wouldn't be calling it a thesis. It's far from a thesis as you can get.

Personally, I find the site discriminatory. I've seen many male bossy supervisors and managers in my career and they were not being assertive. No idea why bossy and female seem to be linked on the site and no mention of bossy males.

Bruce brings up a good point. I don't think banning the word 'bossy' is enough. We should ban any and all words that anybody may take offense to. In fact, any words I don't like needs to be banned starting with any responses to this post. I await our land of unicorns and rainbows with hive like minded people.

I enjoyed Gravity. It made me think about if I ever wanted to go into space, do I really want to? Because I felt it captures quite well how dangerous it is in space. I was on the edge of my seat. Also the filming of it is something I'd never seen. I also liked how the camera would pan in and out of the space suit's visor and you see what the actors were seeing, and then pan out of the space suit through the visor and see their face. Some great techniques.

I haven't seen a 3D movie at all.

Writing can mean many things. Does it mean that PoE should have x in its writing because BG2 did? Considering nearly half the races you play aren't romanceable, the writing/romance isn't there in BG. Play a Halfling? Nope. Play a dwarf? Nope. What about a Gnome? Nope. I've always played Halflings in at least my first or second play through. Where's the romance dialogue? Not there. So it would be false advertising to sell BG2 having romances when some of those races don't have romances. You would have to put a disclaimer on it. Romances but only for these types of races. Other races are excluded. Even the box doesn't mention romances. It was never a selling point in the first place.

Stop with the straw-man tactics Bruce. Of course I have an interest in the homophobic laws in Uganda. It's why I was following this thread. Also, how do you know I have never shown any interest in any social justice issues that you've raised? Do I have to reply to a thread to show I show an interest? Is not reading a thread enough? Just because I haven't responded to a thread doesn't mean I'm not taking an interest in it. Also, I don't know what your hang up is with RPGCodex. It seems you bring this up on every thread (exaggeration I know but it seems to becoming the norm). I'm not a member of that forum and I don't need to bring up the Codex or other forums to know that there's some lunatics on the internet. If the Codex is the worse you've seen, then you must live a sheltered life which can be a good thing. You're not subjected to stuff that you aren't comfortable to see. Again, that may be a good thing for you. Because there's some really horrible stuff out there and you haven't even scratched the surface. That's what the internet is or what it seems to be. A free for all - good and bad. And I clearly said what I said about your comments. Also, you're being very evasive and still NOT refuted the news article I linked. How about being honest and state the facts instead of dancing around the issue. Is it some sort of national pride, that you take issue with people highlighting bad stuff with South Africa, like stuff that happens in the news link I quoted? Because I've noticed a trend with you highlighting the good stuff in South Africa but always getting defensive and downplaying the bad things that happen there. Oh no, it's not common at all... Seriously? I wonder if this sort of stuff in South Africa is happening in Uganda. One can only hope it's not.

First. can you tidy up your post please? You've been asked before to avoid mutli-quoting as it becomes a mess when you're quoting multiple posts within multiple posts. I'm not trying to find an oblique point at all. I was responding to your downplaying of AGX-17's post. I didn't even see that part of AGX-17's post until you quoted him and tried to downplay what was happening in South Africa. AGX-17 made an offhand comment, you've also taken it off topic and I'm responding to your posts. Also, just because I have never heard of a term before and go and do some research doesn't have anything to do with lack of credibility or lack of knowledge on the subject. In the last hour or so, I did some reading up on various sites and studies that have been quoted, to get different accounts of what it is. Also you say it's not common? Everywhere I've read (news reports, studies, etc) state the opposite. You say the perpetrators are brought to justice when they are caught. I guess the operative word here is 'when' because it seems according to a lot of reports and studies, most are never caught due to various (sometimes eyebrow raising) reasons. You attack me about credibility and lack of knowledge (an ad hominem attack) but don't refute the news article. There seems to be an issue with lack of credibility Bruce, and it's not me.

I'd never heard the term before. After doing a google search and from news reports, it doesn't seem to be uncommon. Quite the opposite. I'm not sure why you're downplaying this. I'm appalled by just reading one story that was reported last month and this practice continues in South Africa.