>i> If the rpg developers move to the 360 (shudders)......and the developers making the same exact game on the 360 instead of the ps3 is bad how? Nobody even has a ps3 yet so it's not like you'd have to switch.
"...but what I'm saying is that it is discriminatory, whether or not it is intended to be."
I think this is gonna be pretty much where we don't see eye to eye. I just simply believe a words importance comes from its context. If you want to bring up etymology, the fact that it originally meant merry, or happy proves that etymology does not really matter when you look at the context.
"I'm honestly just not sure what you mean by that."
Maybe I am only assuming you are not gay but I just meant that from your own translation of the usage of gay, it would not actually be offensive to you since you are not gay yourself.
"...people should have thicker skin and not complain about perceived insults where none exist"
I suppose this is too much of an idealistic thought but I actually believe people should have thicker skin about insults even when they do actually exist. Being a minority I encounter tons of discriminatory statements that I happen to overhear made about my race. I'll even occasionally counter some at work where I actually believe they simply forget I am of that race. I am comfortable with who I am though, and that lets me brush these comments off easily. In the end I know none of these comment will actually affect what I make out of my own life.
I hope nobody interprets anything I say as me actually condoning bigotry. It's just a fact that there are truly ignorant people out there who are simply afraid of anything different from themselves, but it is up to the rest of us to diminish their significance.
Seems here the person that would actually need to correct something would be you. On one hand you have a person using a word (again which has more than one meaning) in a non-discriminative way. On the other hand you have a person taking a word obviously used in a non-discriminative context and making it discriminative, simply because they feel like it. Worst of all, the discrimination wouldn't even apply to them. A professional environment (such as the one your session is presenting) is completely different from a public environment (such as slashdot). If a person can't go out in public without being offended at one thing or another then that person has some deeper issues to work out.
To add my bit of anecdotal evidence, none of the homosexual people I know are offended by me calling something gay. I would go so far as to say I'm pretty sure the majority of them wouldn't either. The ones that do are probably still struggling to feel comfortable with the fact that they are homosexual, and again that's their problem to work out.
I'm assuming you have a job. That doesn't work so well whenever you have to actually deal with anybody outside of your company. Meetings or conference calls and such are usually scheduled assuming you will be at work at a certain time and out to lunch at a certain time. If everybodys work schedule starts varying throughout the year based on when the sun is rising, it could cause some problems. I would think the majority of white collar jobs would be affected by this.
What the hell is the point though if hardly any ps2 games support dolby digital compared to the xbox? It's a feature that definitely enhances the game.
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I did this too, and this was around 1989. It wasn't until about a couple years later that I noticed no more voices were heard.
A good local company to support like Wal-Mart? If you had to choose between the lesser of two evils I'd have to say Best Buy would be it.
>i> If the rpg developers move to the 360 (shudders)... ...and the developers making the same exact game on the 360 instead of the ps3 is bad how? Nobody even has a ps3 yet so it's not like you'd have to switch.
I'll even occasionally counter some at work
oops that was encounter.
"...but what I'm saying is that it is discriminatory, whether or not it is intended to be."
I think this is gonna be pretty much where we don't see eye to eye. I just simply believe a words importance comes from its context. If you want to bring up etymology, the fact that it originally meant merry, or happy proves that etymology does not really matter when you look at the context.
"I'm honestly just not sure what you mean by that."
Maybe I am only assuming you are not gay but I just meant that from your own translation of the usage of gay, it would not actually be offensive to you since you are not gay yourself.
"...people should have thicker skin and not complain about perceived insults where none exist"
I suppose this is too much of an idealistic thought but I actually believe people should have thicker skin about insults even when they do actually exist. Being a minority I encounter tons of discriminatory statements that I happen to overhear made about my race. I'll even occasionally counter some at work where I actually believe they simply forget I am of that race. I am comfortable with who I am though, and that lets me brush these comments off easily. In the end I know none of these comment will actually affect what I make out of my own life.
I hope nobody interprets anything I say as me actually condoning bigotry. It's just a fact that there are truly ignorant people out there who are simply afraid of anything different from themselves, but it is up to the rest of us to diminish their significance.
Seems here the person that would actually need to correct something would be you. On one hand you have a person using a word (again which has more than one meaning) in a non-discriminative way. On the other hand you have a person taking a word obviously used in a non-discriminative context and making it discriminative, simply because they feel like it. Worst of all, the discrimination wouldn't even apply to them. A professional environment (such as the one your session is presenting) is completely different from a public environment (such as slashdot). If a person can't go out in public without being offended at one thing or another then that person has some deeper issues to work out.
To add my bit of anecdotal evidence, none of the homosexual people I know are offended by me calling something gay. I would go so far as to say I'm pretty sure the majority of them wouldn't either. The ones that do are probably still struggling to feel comfortable with the fact that they are homosexual, and again that's their problem to work out.
God hates? Wow if that isn't an oxymoron I don't know what is.
Hmm. Let's see. This post is about a game that is being released on Live Arcade. Not sure how that slipped by you.
And why can't this be "...I cared about having fun activities (billiards, video games, bowling, friends) and girls."???
Yes. They did have this planned at one point but it was a short-lived idea. It has since been scrapped.
I'm assuming you have a job. That doesn't work so well whenever you have to actually deal with anybody outside of your company. Meetings or conference calls and such are usually scheduled assuming you will be at work at a certain time and out to lunch at a certain time. If everybodys work schedule starts varying throughout the year based on when the sun is rising, it could cause some problems. I would think the majority of white collar jobs would be affected by this.
What the hell is the point though if hardly any ps2 games support dolby digital compared to the xbox? It's a feature that definitely enhances the game.