is there some sort of middle ground? I mean, if someone wants their game character to be in a same sex relationship that's fine, it's their game, but if it's part of the story line that is exposing me to things I really don't wanna see.... i don't think that is ok, and the game should make that clear before purchase.
Sorry, dude, but cry me a river. Having an equal mix of relationships is the middle ground.
Because, honestly, some of us gay folks are sick and tired of seeing all the straight people. I mean, ewww. No offense to all you straight people, but it grosses me out.
Seriously, I sit down to watch an action movie with a badass female lead and all of a sudden, she's screwing some guy. WTF? Was that necessary? I would have been fine if she just kept beating the hell out of people. I mean, I won't hope she'd be a lesbian. I'm never going to get that, but I'd take a total lack of romance.
And never mind the action movies, which I know are for a straight male audience.
What about TV shows? Take Rizolli and Isles, which is quite possibly the most lesbian show on television. Ever. I swear it's gayer than the L Word and that was "about" lesbians. But no. I can't have my very gay female buddy cop drama. They keep trying to make the characters be straight. Ewww. If I have to watch another male love interest on that show with his total lack of chemistry, I'm going to throw things. Dear writers, the female leads have awesome chemistry. Stop trying to make them straight.
But really. All this stuff has been shoved down my throat my whole life. And you know what I do? I deal with it. And I yell at my television. And I hope that some day, those characters will actually represent my life and my family. And I don't generally complain about all the straight people I'm forced to see because majority groups are usually too blinded by their privilege to think about what life is like for the minority.
If I had a penny for every time a heterosexual relationship was shoved in my face without warning, I'd be richer than everyone in the world combined.
I've been a web designer since 1994. As all of my training was in the arts, not scripting or programming, I stumbled along making sites using visual editors until around 2001. At that point I realized that my various transitions from one visual editor to the next (Cyberstudio > Adobe GoLive > Dreamweaver) could be avoided if I did the proper thing and learned how to hand code HTML and CSS.
The New York Times agrees with this approach, and they seem to have one of the better websites around:
"It’s our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or TextMate, to “hand code” everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. We just find it yields better and faster results."
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/business/media/21askthetimes.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
Zombies are the new vampires, and to date none of them sparkle in the sun.
Want to know why zombies are so cool? Because Hollywood will never be able to get 14 year old girls interested in crappy zombie romance/emo books and movies....
You obviously haven't heard of the musical Zombie Prom...
I'm not so sure the AC was talking about the sex offender. Especially not if the AC is female. Not that you should kill yourself if you're raped. You lived. You should deal with that and try to actually live. But honestly? I think murder victims have it easier than rape victims.
I think I color this discussion differently because I'm female, but to me, rape is worse than murder. Most people on/. won't understand because they're male. Rape is not so much of an imminent threat to them. But trust me on this one. Rape is worse.
At least if you murder someone, they're dead and don't have to deal with it. Gone? Yes. Years of consequences? No.
When someone is raped, they never recover. My friend's mother is was raped as a teenager and to this day will not go back to New York because that's where it happened. It happened decades ago.
And I don't know. I think that the person you knew and loved is gone after rape too. They die and become someone else. Someone kinda like them is still there, only irreparably damaged. It can take years to have a healthy relationship again and that assumes they ever will.
Rape is a complete and total violation of the self. It's someone saying to you "You are not a person." People internalize that. And worse? Rapists rarely get prosecuted, nevermind convicted. Many don't even report them because they think people won't believe them or because they just want to forget it. Or because it was their "boyfriend" or whatever. You go to trial and they're going to find any way they can to slander you. They're going to say you wanted it. Or you were dressed like a whore. Or you're lying. Or all of these things. They'll try to say that somehow, it is your fault. It's a total assault on the self even if the bastard does get convicted. And that's besides the fact that these things are already internalized in many women.
I know I see this differently because I'm female. And I know no one is going to understand. And I know that there are false rape accusations. But the reality is that there are far too many real ones.
I am not saying the Apple version was realistic, but hey, the PCPro one is just as biaised in the other direction.
I have to agree with this. I know the apple ad is bogus, but the PCPro version makes it look like they had never played with an ipod before. I can navigate the screen faster than that, and I don't even own one.
It helps too look unapproachable, by which, of course, I mean it helps to look lesbian. I'm not Comp Sci, but the ratios are similar in Electrical Engineering (very few girls in my classes). Among friends and my roommates, it's generally assumed I don't really count as a girl. I consider this a good thing as even one of my roommates is on the creepier side. We like the kid, but my other roommate had to have the "back off my girlfriend" speech, which should have been unnecessary.
Still, my general persona and demeanor have kept creepy guys at a distance.
My guess is the poster is female, but doesn't necessarily subscribe to gender-specific terms for (her, I think) career. I know plenty of people who don't even use the term actress anymore and refer to everyone as an "actor."
We just signed up for the Do Not Call Registry (in the US here). Now, they can't call us unless they're non-profit, political campaigns, or we established a previous business relationship. It's nice, though sometimes, you miss messing with people. My family never yelled or hung up (except once when they guy on the other line wouldn't let me get in a word and talked for ten minutes straight), we just thought up fun and occasionally uncomfortable things to say.
I just wish the companies in charge would do their research. Check the time zone the phone numbers are in. Also check if the person you'll be asking for has died. We got phone calls for my grandmother more than two years after she died. I'm sorry, but that's just ridiculous.
Have you considered that your weight might be medical? If you're truly eating and exercising as you say, then it's indeed possible that you have a thyroid condition. I'm not doctor, but I'd look into talking to one. It seems like you should be losing weight. You might want to try keeping track of everything you eat for a week or two (still eating normally, of course). If you're eating what you think you are, bring the week or two of records to the doctor (plus info about your exercise program). If it's a thyroid issue, they can fix it and you'll drop the weight.
You seem to be making the mistake of associating "strong" government with "restrictive" government. You can have a strong, democratic government. Strong simply means that the government has power to enforce the rule of law and provide services to the people. This in no way requires oppression. Truth be told, most people would argue that you need a "strong" government (using my definition) everywhere.
Now, I was going to say something about your flippant Lebanon comment, but it would take far too long for me to go over the history and complexity of the situation. You can't simply "look" at Lebanon. The proper research required to actually understand what's going on would take hours and hours because to get a good picture, you need to start back before the civil war.
It's not always that simple. A lot of first-timers register through their hosting companies. Some of these companies make it damn near impossible to keep your domain name if you change hosts. I know at least two people who have been forced to let their domains expire in order to switch to cheaper, better hosts. The results? One got lucky and managed to get their domain back. The others found their domains registered by some company who did nothing but fill it with ads and ask for money with poor English.
By their reasoning, television companies should also block TiVo and other like DVRs. I know I always start TV shows twenty-minutes late so we can skip past the commercials.
Must be another one of those rampant kleptomaniacs. No only that, I'm encouraging more rampant kleptomaniacs: I just converted someone to Firefox with Adblock today. They were seeing an increase in annoying talking banner ads which interrupted the music they were listening to every time they loaded the page.
Blocking ads like that should be considered a public service.
I think high school murdered my desire to learn enough. Forcing me to choose a major? I think it would have been infinitely more likely for me to drop out and become a ski bum in that sort of enviroment.
I'm very indecisive, which isn't helped by the fact that I'm generally capabable acedemically if I put some work in. To prove my point: I go to a very good technical school (RPI, to be exact, one of those "new ivys") and I study Computer Engineering (though I think I'm adding electrical too). If I had gone to a big state university, I doubt I'd still be in Engineering. I'm halfway through and part of me wants to be an English major. Actually, if I wasn't doing computers, I'd be studying english. As it is, I'm trying to add a Literature minor. Basically, I'm the definition of academically indecisive.
I feel like all the education system has taught me is that I really like skiing better than any of it, so I'd better work for ten years and save up enough money that I can move to a ski town and be done with it all. Fuck normal life.
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is there some sort of middle ground? I mean, if someone wants their game character to be in a same sex relationship that's fine, it's their game, but if it's part of the story line that is exposing me to things I really don't wanna see.... i don't think that is ok, and the game should make that clear before purchase.
Sorry, dude, but cry me a river. Having an equal mix of relationships is the middle ground.
Because, honestly, some of us gay folks are sick and tired of seeing all the straight people. I mean, ewww. No offense to all you straight people, but it grosses me out.
Seriously, I sit down to watch an action movie with a badass female lead and all of a sudden, she's screwing some guy. WTF? Was that necessary? I would have been fine if she just kept beating the hell out of people. I mean, I won't hope she'd be a lesbian. I'm never going to get that, but I'd take a total lack of romance.
And never mind the action movies, which I know are for a straight male audience.
What about TV shows? Take Rizolli and Isles, which is quite possibly the most lesbian show on television. Ever. I swear it's gayer than the L Word and that was "about" lesbians. But no. I can't have my very gay female buddy cop drama. They keep trying to make the characters be straight. Ewww. If I have to watch another male love interest on that show with his total lack of chemistry, I'm going to throw things. Dear writers, the female leads have awesome chemistry. Stop trying to make them straight.
But really. All this stuff has been shoved down my throat my whole life. And you know what I do? I deal with it. And I yell at my television. And I hope that some day, those characters will actually represent my life and my family. And I don't generally complain about all the straight people I'm forced to see because majority groups are usually too blinded by their privilege to think about what life is like for the minority.
If I had a penny for every time a heterosexual relationship was shoved in my face without warning, I'd be richer than everyone in the world combined.
Check your privileged self at the door, sir.
I've been a web designer since 1994. As all of my training was in the arts, not scripting or programming, I stumbled along making sites using visual editors until around 2001. At that point I realized that my various transitions from one visual editor to the next (Cyberstudio > Adobe GoLive > Dreamweaver) could be avoided if I did the proper thing and learned how to hand code HTML and CSS.
The New York Times agrees with this approach, and they seem to have one of the better websites around: "It’s our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or TextMate, to “hand code” everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. We just find it yields better and faster results." Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/business/media/21askthetimes.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
Zombies are the new vampires, and to date none of them sparkle in the sun. Want to know why zombies are so cool? Because Hollywood will never be able to get 14 year old girls interested in crappy zombie romance/emo books and movies....
You obviously haven't heard of the musical Zombie Prom...
I'm not so sure the AC was talking about the sex offender. Especially not if the AC is female. Not that you should kill yourself if you're raped. You lived. You should deal with that and try to actually live. But honestly? I think murder victims have it easier than rape victims. I think I color this discussion differently because I'm female, but to me, rape is worse than murder. Most people on /. won't understand because they're male. Rape is not so much of an imminent threat to them. But trust me on this one. Rape is worse.
At least if you murder someone, they're dead and don't have to deal with it. Gone? Yes. Years of consequences? No.
When someone is raped, they never recover. My friend's mother is was raped as a teenager and to this day will not go back to New York because that's where it happened. It happened decades ago.
And I don't know. I think that the person you knew and loved is gone after rape too. They die and become someone else. Someone kinda like them is still there, only irreparably damaged. It can take years to have a healthy relationship again and that assumes they ever will.
Rape is a complete and total violation of the self. It's someone saying to you "You are not a person." People internalize that. And worse? Rapists rarely get prosecuted, nevermind convicted. Many don't even report them because they think people won't believe them or because they just want to forget it. Or because it was their "boyfriend" or whatever. You go to trial and they're going to find any way they can to slander you. They're going to say you wanted it. Or you were dressed like a whore. Or you're lying. Or all of these things. They'll try to say that somehow, it is your fault. It's a total assault on the self even if the bastard does get convicted. And that's besides the fact that these things are already internalized in many women.
I know I see this differently because I'm female. And I know no one is going to understand. And I know that there are false rape accusations. But the reality is that there are far too many real ones.
I am not saying the Apple version was realistic, but hey, the PCPro one is just as biaised in the other direction.
I have to agree with this. I know the apple ad is bogus, but the PCPro version makes it look like they had never played with an ipod before. I can navigate the screen faster than that, and I don't even own one.
It helps too look unapproachable, by which, of course, I mean it helps to look lesbian. I'm not Comp Sci, but the ratios are similar in Electrical Engineering (very few girls in my classes). Among friends and my roommates, it's generally assumed I don't really count as a girl. I consider this a good thing as even one of my roommates is on the creepier side. We like the kid, but my other roommate had to have the "back off my girlfriend" speech, which should have been unnecessary. Still, my general persona and demeanor have kept creepy guys at a distance.
... the Jatravartid people would not be the only race in history to have invented the aerosol deodorant before the wheel. [/geek]
My guess is the poster is female, but doesn't necessarily subscribe to gender-specific terms for (her, I think) career. I know plenty of people who don't even use the term actress anymore and refer to everyone as an "actor."
We just signed up for the Do Not Call Registry (in the US here). Now, they can't call us unless they're non-profit, political campaigns, or we established a previous business relationship. It's nice, though sometimes, you miss messing with people. My family never yelled or hung up (except once when they guy on the other line wouldn't let me get in a word and talked for ten minutes straight), we just thought up fun and occasionally uncomfortable things to say. I just wish the companies in charge would do their research. Check the time zone the phone numbers are in. Also check if the person you'll be asking for has died. We got phone calls for my grandmother more than two years after she died. I'm sorry, but that's just ridiculous.
Have you considered that your weight might be medical? If you're truly eating and exercising as you say, then it's indeed possible that you have a thyroid condition. I'm not doctor, but I'd look into talking to one. It seems like you should be losing weight. You might want to try keeping track of everything you eat for a week or two (still eating normally, of course). If you're eating what you think you are, bring the week or two of records to the doctor (plus info about your exercise program). If it's a thyroid issue, they can fix it and you'll drop the weight.
You seem to be making the mistake of associating "strong" government with "restrictive" government. You can have a strong, democratic government. Strong simply means that the government has power to enforce the rule of law and provide services to the people. This in no way requires oppression. Truth be told, most people would argue that you need a "strong" government (using my definition) everywhere. Now, I was going to say something about your flippant Lebanon comment, but it would take far too long for me to go over the history and complexity of the situation. You can't simply "look" at Lebanon. The proper research required to actually understand what's going on would take hours and hours because to get a good picture, you need to start back before the civil war.
It's not always that simple. A lot of first-timers register through their hosting companies. Some of these companies make it damn near impossible to keep your domain name if you change hosts. I know at least two people who have been forced to let their domains expire in order to switch to cheaper, better hosts. The results? One got lucky and managed to get their domain back. The others found their domains registered by some company who did nothing but fill it with ads and ask for money with poor English.
By their reasoning, television companies should also block TiVo and other like DVRs. I know I always start TV shows twenty-minutes late so we can skip past the commercials. Must be another one of those rampant kleptomaniacs. No only that, I'm encouraging more rampant kleptomaniacs: I just converted someone to Firefox with Adblock today. They were seeing an increase in annoying talking banner ads which interrupted the music they were listening to every time they loaded the page. Blocking ads like that should be considered a public service.
I think high school murdered my desire to learn enough. Forcing me to choose a major? I think it would have been infinitely more likely for me to drop out and become a ski bum in that sort of enviroment. I'm very indecisive, which isn't helped by the fact that I'm generally capabable acedemically if I put some work in. To prove my point: I go to a very good technical school (RPI, to be exact, one of those "new ivys") and I study Computer Engineering (though I think I'm adding electrical too). If I had gone to a big state university, I doubt I'd still be in Engineering. I'm halfway through and part of me wants to be an English major. Actually, if I wasn't doing computers, I'd be studying english. As it is, I'm trying to add a Literature minor. Basically, I'm the definition of academically indecisive. I feel like all the education system has taught me is that I really like skiing better than any of it, so I'd better work for ten years and save up enough money that I can move to a ski town and be done with it all. Fuck normal life.