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I'm sorry, xir.

A better way to fix that is to leave gender, race, photo and name out of the application process, not that Rube Goldberg scheme. Feynman read applications this way, why can't we?

Because that's sexist and racist. Didn't you know?

you are a retard if you think its cuz of guns..how about getting access to healthcare?

The idiots peddling guns to kids in America while wrapping themselves in the flag are the same ones trying to tear down Obamacare. I stand by my original comment. OK, then fatasses with guns.

BTW, you call others retards??

Yes, because I should vote for a Left that is beyond convinced that we are greedy, racist, sexist, homophobe morons who hate science and love Hitler.

You mean Democrats. Democrats are not left, they're another crazy right wing party.

The American right wing owns the media. [imgur.com] OK. LOL! What, like the New York Times, Washington Post. CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, and all the rest? Those are all right wing?

Of course they are. Or haven't you not noticed that they've all jumped on the we-need-to-push-Trump-into-bombing-Syria-with-zero-evidence just within the last week? They've gone so far to the right that the only people pushing back are Fucker Carlson and Tomi Lahren of all people, and they're on Fox.

I think you represent some kind of tiny splinter group that has zero traction. The Left is about sound economic policies? It's about borrow and spend to buy votes.

As is usually the case, when wingers whine about leftists they're really complaining about their fellow right-wingers. Leftists would slash a trillion out of the annual imperial budget, which would eliminate the deficit overnight while giving everyone free-to-use UBE, medical care, and higher education.

OMG the Left invented identity politics and used it as a club to beat the crap out of us. It worked, too.

Again, you're complaining about your fellow right-wingers in the Democratic party. They're the ones smearing anyone to the left of them as sexist racists for not jumping onboard the next coronation of an ultra-corrupt corporatist who loves slave labor.

They encouraged the BLM riots and cheered as people were attacked and neighborhoods burned.

Now you're just talking out of your ass. And I'm betting this describes you to a T.

> Games haven't changed, I have.

Yes they HAVE changed -- often times for the worse. FPS Map Design 1993 vs 2010

Modern games are full of bullshit:

* unskippable cut-scenes
* MTX (micro-transaction) because the game devs don't respect your Time, Space, nor Wallet.
* Season Pass
* bullshit DLC (DownLoadable Content)
* QTE (Quick-Time Events) You remember Dragon's Lair ? Yup, that's what modern "AAA" gaming has devolved into.
* Grindfests aka Skinner boxes
* Flat UI that you can't fucking tell what are UI elements you can interact with vs static elements.
* Multiplayer games that don't allow you to run your own server -- typical EA bullshit.

When the "gaming industry" refers to its customers as "whales" you know they don't give a fuck about you -- only how long they can keep "milking" you. If you wat to know the general state of the "industry" Jim Sterling excellent Jimquisition pretty much sucks up the fuckery that publishers and devs try to pull.

With that said I'm a professional game developer and have over 500+ games in my Steam Library. This is my "best of the best" of modern games are in alphabetical order (I've included the "genre" in parenthesis):

* Borderlands 1 and 2 (FPS)
* Dishonored 1 and 2 (FPS)
* Doom (2017) (FPS)
* Elite: Dangerous (Space)
* Inside (Adventure)
* Left for Dead (1 not 2) (FPS)
* Limbo (Adventure)
* Luftrausers (2D shmup)
* Minecraft (3D Survival)
* Path of Exile (RPG)
* Portal 1 and 2 (Puzzle)
* Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 1 and 2
* Serious Sam 1, 2, and 3 (FPS)
* Terraria (2D Survival)
* Team Fortress 2 (FPS)
* The Stanley Parable (Story)
* The Talos Principle (FPS)
* The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (Puzzle)
* The Witness (Puzzle)
* Torchlight 1 and 2 (RPG)

Stay away from grind-shift-fests like:

* Defiance
* Destiny
* Diablo 3
* Evolve
* Fashionframe, er, Warframe

There are still some good games out there -- but about 95% of them are shit. i.e. Any game that has non-cosmetic MTX is crap.

Yeah I'll just leave this here...

I just hope law enforcement doesn't think they can sell this to a jury.

FTFY.

CSI has already proved problematic in that jurors have developed unreasonable expectations of what is possible.

If you're already fat and you insist on spending what little you have on more food, maybe you SHOULD be ashamed. Actually, there's no "maybe" about it. There is nobody alive today who has not heard about the ill effects of being overweight, so there really is no excuse. Governments have implemented free exercise programs (aka sidewalks) to help those same poor people lose weight, and their excuse is always the same - "I'll lose it when I'm ready. I'm not ready yet."

FTFY.

Oh, wait. Fat shaming is Eeeeevil.
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Might result in this: http://static.fjcdn.com/pictur...

Crushing a media organization under the power of one's wallet is NOT standing up for free speech. Even if it's a shitty company that was actually just used as a pawn for other rich people.I'm torn between celebrating this as a great victory and mourning it as a blow to an important pillar of society. Gawker wasn't just shitty for its hypocrisy on a variety of topics but for some seriously evil acts, not the least of which are directly related to the lawsuits at hand. In the end all I can say is I'm glad it's over and the world has a moment's rest before a "crowd funded" Totally-Not-Gawker picks up the pieces and starts spewing vileness again.

i live in area that was devastated half a decade ago and i can tell you when you're world is torn to shreds, you need hope and you need to tell tragedy where to shove it. This is why we WILL rebuild. When it's all over, you can proudly declare that you cannot be defeated. #ClickThemLinks

Nerd rage

In reference to that, here's an instructional image for you.
Have a nice day, newfriend! Be sure to enjoy your Autism Awareness Day cake!

I'm not a native speaker, and I obviously make mistakes while writing English.
But for the love of god, how can someone be stupid enough to write "should of" instead of "should have"?
It's not even like "it's" and "its", or "you're" and "your", because the pronunciation really isn't close.
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doesn't have a girlfriend

Well, not any more

fail

Suddenly, this isn't so funny any more.

Everything else in KSP has had months of testing (perhaps even years) and they change fundamental things like the aerodynamics model without letting it be tested by the established community?

But isn't that so in the Kerbal spirit? ;) Hmm, what's the coding equivalent of forgetting a ladder? :)

Oh, I'm sorry. Is my tone offending you?

I have a lot of growing up to do, huh?

Fuck off.

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Do you mean this kind of stabbing device?

Yep, I think you do. Of course it would be great if one could "stab" people over the Internet.

Merely serves as a distraction in the "infographics." This one calls for "a small rock."

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Bah... http://static.fjcdn.com/pictur... Just Say No!

why bother with wrist sensors, people will learn to get around them like in this gif everyone has seen by now.

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Criminals can still shoot a gun with a sensor. How to stop that person from being a continuing threat is the problem to solve. This sounds like, hey I got a sensor for sale so let me spin my marketing as a way to solve a difficult social problem. It won't help

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Posting anon because I enjoy my job.

For some reason, slashdot has mostly ignored this topic for the past couple weeks, and now we get an article that revels in moralistic naysaying while ignoring what keeps this going.

The recent "ugliness" is not just a product of sexism and misogyny. To be fair, women have been harassed. To be even more fair, not all women who have been harassed have been harassed by "gamers".

The fiasco that has now grown into "Gamergate" (not my term) is not easy to relate in few words, but I will summarize that it is a reaction by enthusiast gamers against a clique of prominent video games journalists, writers, and indie developers who have been using their personal connections to promote each other's works and political ideology, as well as exclude those who do not toe the line.

It began when the ex-boyfriend of indie developer Zoe Quinn made a blog post detailing with evidence how Ms Quinn cheated on him with at least five other people, as well as perceived attempts by her to emotionally manipulate him. (http://thezoepost.wordpress.com/) Among individuals named in the post were Nathan Grayson (a writer for Gawker Media's Kotaku and former writer at Rock, Paper, Shotgun) and Robin Arnott (a judge at the Indiecade independent games competition that later went on to give Ms Quinn's game an award). Initially, this post was ignored by games journalists, and was circulated in online gaming forums. However, many forums deleted any and all topics concerning the matter, including the largest reddit thread deletion in history (with over 20K comments deleted; http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/2dz0gs/totalbiscuit_discusses_the_state_of_games/) concerning youtube commentator TotalBiscuit's response to Ms Quinn allegedly using a false DMCA request to take down one of the first videos discussing the subject (http://themundanematt.tumblr.com/post/95428752119/dmca-notice-and-removal).

Investigation by redditors and members of various boards on 4chan soon uncovered that Ms Quinn allegedly pointed her twitter followers to critique a new game charity designed to help female game designers have their ideas actualized because she felt the charity's profit-motivated goals and its policy towards transwomen (biological males who identify as women) were oppressive (http://static.fjcdn.com/large/pictures/60/24/6024fb_5271447.jpg). When the creator of the charity attempted to seek promotion from major gaming journalist sites, he was told that since Ms Quinn had issues with the charity, no promotion would be possible (knowyourmeme.com/photos/814183-quinnspiracy).

While specific written pieces promoting Ms Quinn's work were actually short in supply, further investigations showed that the relationships of other journalists to their subjects were less tenuous. Patricia Hernandez of Kotaku was shown through previous twitter conversations to have lived with and possibly had a romantic relationship with Anne Anthropy, an indie developer she directly promoted in several articles. Ben Kuchera of Polygon, among others, was shown to be a supporter of Ms Quinn on Patreon, a site designed to crowd-fund stipends to content-creators. In response to these issues, the two above mentioned games journalism sites posted clarifications and/or updates to their positions on conflicts of interest, noting that they would attempt more honest journalism in the future, as well as in the case of Kotaku disallowing writers to contribute to subjects' Patreon accounts.

This is when hell started breaking loose. Prominent games journalists and indie developers cried out on twitter that Kotaku and Polygon

It tells us that Neanderthals pooped, just like us. Everybody poops. Even robots.

It's Bachelor Chow for me.

My bear cavalry laughs at your inadequately-provisioned horses.

Simpsons has been preachy for a while now. Here is a pretty good summary of the problem.

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So they're replicating Dragonforce?

It was an ugly baby anyway. http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/The_cde6eb_2496453.jpeg That bathtub should have been dumped long ago.

Don't know how long Apple would last in jail.

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They can call it "Up-Butt".... http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/The_9df6c5_1754318.jpg

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