:) honestly, sometimes the female gamers annoy me in my go-to game, well the ones i can identify as female, aka the ones that use the mic. they don't spam the mic more than other players, but in general they have higher voices, and it gets aggravating. same way some adolescents can get really aggravating when they spam the mic. Also, they need to up their game. they just don't put in the hours.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents, thanks for sharing your perspective.
well, it sounds stupid as hell. you instantly have in your mind something akin to a power ranger when you hear it, or at least i did. I'm fairly sure I cringed the first time i read it. Saw the acronym, wondered what the hell it was, looked it up, and cringed.
It is as stupid and clunky a title as you can come up with. but sure, take pride in being called something ridiculous.
I'm fairly liberal as they go, my big ones are civil liberties and free speech, gay rights aren't really my thing, gender equality less so, though i'm pretty sure i fall on the right side of the fence on both. But when i read some of the shit going on with gamers gate... all i'm thinking is... if you feel this passionate about women's rights... actually do something about it. give money, give time, send a girl to school in pakistan or some shit. there are actual women's issues, that shit isn't one of them. talk is cheap.
gamers make fun of women? so? they make fun of everybody. what's your point?
nah, movement tricks, positioning, how often they check their six etc, how they fight certain enemies, not necessarily tactically, but if it's just aim/reaction or if it's something else. how long they take traversing the map, and how long do they spend entering a room etc etc. what they aim for in a clusterfuck etc etc.
also, for smaller games that don't have massive followings. could help sharing information.
and you're putting the cart before the horse. you're talking of armed rebellion, when i think all we'd be seeing would be one lunatic with an AR-15 trying to shoot a fucking tank.
really? half the military would be deserting at the drop of a hat? we should probably work on that.:) the republic comes first. before you, or me. I think the majority of americans will say, fuck everything else, we must remain united.
depends, i've got people on my friends list who my watching could probably improve my game. movement, aiming and such. the in-game spectator mode isn't phenomenal.
... you realize that watching geoblocked TV is of questionable legality right? not saying it's particularly egregious or necessarily wrong, or that the content producer even cares, but they might wish to retain you as a customer for like, dvd sales.
they fit more now, but i don't really see much problem with the old tests you listed.
yeah, it's not as tailored to the job, but it didn't sound as out-there as you make it.
is climbing anything at all not something that's ever encountered? what happens if they need to climb over debris to escape a room? what happens if there's a floor collapse that needs to be navigated? an 8 foot wall isn't really, you know out of the questions.
running is kinda a general measure of physical fitness and cardiovascular health too. maybe scale it with height or length of legs? anyway, none of that seems too out there.
We need people to step up and say. this is not alright, this is not okay. we need the moderates to go, "hey you see that guy that just killed a bunch of people? he's not a martyr, he's mentally ill." and "Don't be like him billy."
you know what they'll hear instead. "It's not right to kill people, but those people at that magazine, they really had it coming, they were asking for it" and 'showing the face of the prophet, even in caricature, by anyone anywhere even in some podunk town in denmark or in liberal liberal france, that's an affront to all of islam'
they should have and they should continue having, because when everybody starts thinking 'perhaps they shouldn't have' eventually it will turn into 'perhaps we shouldn't'
And i never want to live in a society where it is the norm to be afraid to speak your mind for fear.
a better analogy would be getting run over on the sidewalk. people walk down the side walk every day. it's clearly marked that you know, you're allowed to be there and cars aren't.
then someone comes and shoots you in the face... and runs you over.
your analogy would make more sense if you're running into the middle of a firing range... the only really appropriate place for firearms to be discharging in everyday life.
and the fact that people feel so strongly about it that we've got people saying "fuck me and whatever happens to me, you'll still be dead" sometimes makes me feel like we should just glass the place. and by that i mean the middle east, just the entire thing. we'll tell the israelis to go visit family, or take a holiday in NYC and do it while they're away.
:) i don't really use it much any more in life, fallen out of habit with swearing. but this one was for parallel construction:). i'd probably be more likely to use, fuck off, or go fuck yourself.:)
and if i said i'd kill you if you looked at me funny?:) we won't lose our freedoms all at once, but piecemeal. when our media self-censors for fear of reprisal, we let impose limits on our freedoms.
nah that amish thing was because you were saying the anti-christian thing was only happening among atheists... and it's like, yeah, because where you're allowed to make fun of religion, everybody is a fucking christian.
the whole, getting bent line is because yeah, you've got your lunatic fringe in the US too.
they should have, and they should continue to having. my internal compass tells me that there are no sacred cows that satire, and wit should never touch, that being cowed by the threat of violence is infinitely worse than that violence happening. Is it really OK that people can silence us simply by being offended?
Islam is trying to hold hostage our thoughts. fuck that, i'm free to see what i want to see, hear what i want to hear and say what i want to say. if they don't like it, they don't have to see, hear or say it.
i was addressing the idea of proof, it is infinitely easier to prove presence than absence. all you need is one example for presence, but you would need to exclude all for absence.
“If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch," Francis said, throwing a pretend punch at Gasparri. "It's normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others."
very fucking strongly that that was his logical course of action.
so you're literally fighting for your right to speak freely? if anyone takes issue with what you said, you could be severely injured? you've just stolen the right to free expression from anyone with a handicap.
if duke receives public funds, then the most you can say is that it shouldn't promote one religion over another.
the separation between church and state was a response to fears that the government would eventually adopt an official religion. if the christian, the buddhist, the scientologist, the mormon, and yes the secular have the same rights to access to the bell tower, and it's use, as the muslim student groups, I see no issue.
limit the religious voice in governmental affairs, and if possible, scientific policy, but let people live their lives as they see fit.
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:) honestly, sometimes the female gamers annoy me in my go-to game, well the ones i can identify as female, aka the ones that use the mic. they don't spam the mic more than other players, but in general they have higher voices, and it gets aggravating. same way some adolescents can get really aggravating when they spam the mic. Also, they need to up their game. they just don't put in the hours.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents, thanks for sharing your perspective.
you don't lose much by consolidating that set.
well, it sounds stupid as hell. you instantly have in your mind something akin to a power ranger when you hear it, or at least i did. I'm fairly sure I cringed the first time i read it. Saw the acronym, wondered what the hell it was, looked it up, and cringed.
It is as stupid and clunky a title as you can come up with. but sure, take pride in being called something ridiculous.
I'm fairly liberal as they go, my big ones are civil liberties and free speech, gay rights aren't really my thing, gender equality less so, though i'm pretty sure i fall on the right side of the fence on both. But when i read some of the shit going on with gamers gate... all i'm thinking is... if you feel this passionate about women's rights... actually do something about it. give money, give time, send a girl to school in pakistan or some shit. there are actual women's issues, that shit isn't one of them. talk is cheap.
gamers make fun of women? so? they make fun of everybody. what's your point?
i see someone eating cake.
nah, movement tricks, positioning, how often they check their six etc, how they fight certain enemies, not necessarily tactically, but if it's just aim/reaction or if it's something else. how long they take traversing the map, and how long do they spend entering a room etc etc. what they aim for in a clusterfuck etc etc.
also, for smaller games that don't have massive followings. could help sharing information.
and you're putting the cart before the horse. you're talking of armed rebellion, when i think all we'd be seeing would be one lunatic with an AR-15 trying to shoot a fucking tank.
really? half the military would be deserting at the drop of a hat? we should probably work on that. :) the republic comes first. before you, or me. I think the majority of americans will say, fuck everything else, we must remain united.
sometimes you get to a point where nothing you do is making you good enough to beat those people. and maybe spectating some of them might help.
i'm probably somewhere near the point where spectating some of the better players in ns2 will help me against them or against people like them.
depends, i've got people on my friends list who my watching could probably improve my game. movement, aiming and such. the in-game spectator mode isn't phenomenal.
... you realize that watching geoblocked TV is of questionable legality right? not saying it's particularly egregious or necessarily wrong, or that the content producer even cares, but they might wish to retain you as a customer for like, dvd sales.
because your arms will do very much against a tank...
they fit more now, but i don't really see much problem with the old tests you listed.
yeah, it's not as tailored to the job, but it didn't sound as out-there as you make it.
is climbing anything at all not something that's ever encountered? what happens if they need to climb over debris to escape a room? what happens if there's a floor collapse that needs to be navigated? an 8 foot wall isn't really, you know out of the questions.
running is kinda a general measure of physical fitness and cardiovascular health too. maybe scale it with height or length of legs? anyway, none of that seems too out there.
don't fire fighters need to carry my unconscious ass out of a burning building too? with like. 40 lbs of equipment already strapped to them?
We need people to step up and say. this is not alright, this is not okay. we need the moderates to go, "hey you see that guy that just killed a bunch of people? he's not a martyr, he's mentally ill." and "Don't be like him billy."
you know what they'll hear instead. "It's not right to kill people, but those people at that magazine, they really had it coming, they were asking for it" and 'showing the face of the prophet, even in caricature, by anyone anywhere even in some podunk town in denmark or in liberal liberal france, that's an affront to all of islam'
they should have and they should continue having, because when everybody starts thinking 'perhaps they shouldn't have' eventually it will turn into 'perhaps we shouldn't'
And i never want to live in a society where it is the norm to be afraid to speak your mind for fear.
a better analogy would be getting run over on the sidewalk. people walk down the side walk every day. it's clearly marked that you know, you're allowed to be there and cars aren't.
then someone comes and shoots you in the face... and runs you over.
your analogy would make more sense if you're running into the middle of a firing range...
the only really appropriate place for firearms to be discharging in everyday life.
and the fact that people feel so strongly about it that we've got people saying "fuck me and whatever happens to me, you'll still be dead" sometimes makes me feel like we should just glass the place. and by that i mean the middle east, just the entire thing. we'll tell the israelis to go visit family, or take a holiday in NYC and do it while they're away.
Nobody from jakarta has ever called for my death.
:) i don't really use it much any more in life, fallen out of habit with swearing. but this one was for parallel construction :). i'd probably be more likely to use, fuck off, or go fuck yourself. :)
and if i said i'd kill you if you looked at me funny? :) we won't lose our freedoms all at once, but piecemeal. when our media self-censors for fear of reprisal, we let impose limits on our freedoms.
nah that amish thing was because you were saying the anti-christian thing was only happening among atheists... and it's like, yeah, because where you're allowed to make fun of religion, everybody is a fucking christian.
the whole, getting bent line is because yeah, you've got your lunatic fringe in the US too.
they should have, and they should continue to having. my internal compass tells me that there are no sacred cows that satire, and wit should never touch, that being cowed by the threat of violence is infinitely worse than that violence happening. Is it really OK that people can silence us simply by being offended?
Islam is trying to hold hostage our thoughts. fuck that, i'm free to see what i want to see, hear what i want to hear and say what i want to say. if they don't like it, they don't have to see, hear or say it.
i was addressing the idea of proof, it is infinitely easier to prove presence than absence. all you need is one example for presence, but you would need to exclude all for absence.
1) yes
2) we have laws against that.
3) number 2 is supposed to make it so that this doesn't happen, and ideas aren't suppressed.
the implication was there,
“If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch," Francis said, throwing a pretend punch at Gasparri. "It's normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others."
very fucking strongly that that was his logical course of action.
so you're literally fighting for your right to speak freely? if anyone takes issue with what you said, you could be severely injured? you've just stolen the right to free expression from anyone with a handicap.
why do you hate cripples?
wait, i'm a god fearing atheist, and i still find that quote horrifying... i believe you just made an assumption and used it in an ad hominem attack.
his point stands regardless of his faith.
if duke receives public funds, then the most you can say is that it shouldn't promote one religion over another.
the separation between church and state was a response to fears that the government would eventually adopt an official religion. if the christian, the buddhist, the scientologist, the mormon, and yes the secular have the same rights to access to the bell tower, and it's use, as the muslim student groups, I see no issue.
limit the religious voice in governmental affairs, and if possible, scientific policy, but let people live their lives as they see fit.