Homosexuality, transsexualism and all the other bullshit should be treated just like any other mental disorder.
Actually at least homosexuality is inherited from mother. If someone is gay, there's an elevated chance that his uncle from mother's side is also gay. So apparently it's in the genes, but the exact gene(s) are not known. This is what I have heard.
It is not about who are valid or not. Gay people, computer folk, etc. are obviously all valid and mostly cool people. The point is just what kind of common baseline the game wants to target.
It does not mean that they are discriminating anyone. Being attracted to the opposite sex is the standard thing for mammals (and most creatures). Being a gay is anomaly. What if we made a game about hamsters, and they did not include any albino hamsters, would that be discrimination towards albinos? No. They are just focusing on the baseline, that's all.
Now, on the other hand, there is a lot of LGBT people, so making the game support same-sex relationships could have been a good business move.
In many parts of Europe (I can speak for the Balkans for sure), it's perfectly normal to comment on weight and friends and family. It's not said out of malice, it's with best intentions.
In Finland, the topic is avoided, and if mentioned, is interpreted as mild malice. Only among very close friends and family members can overweight be openly discussed. A random coworker, for example, will never talk about it.
I heard that in East Asia countries it is more common to people point out that you are fat. They are not necessarily angry but more like "wow, you're been gaining some weight, my friend". Something like that should indeed come in spades to the western world too, instead of people being extremely careful of "not insulting" (wavy hands) anyone.
MyCleanPC and Golden Girls are passing fads, but this random-word-spam keeps coming year after year. The subject line usually has something like "mod d0wn" and the word "BSD" often appears in the body.
Interesting and mysterious. Somewhere there is hiding a machine and its operator who maintain this little tradition.
All right, I'm cool with that, but around Slashdot it's often the opposite: people see making a buck somehow wrong, when it comes to software and entertainment.
Wouldn't law enforcement just require the account usernames and then get the data from the respective service providers with a warrant? Sounds a bit unprofessional that they would go logging in to the accounts by themselves.
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Why would you need the source code?
Maybe this might be something for gog.com to make? GogNet anyone?
That's quite cool idea, actually.
Where's all the cool aliens? Where's the "earth-like planet" which we can immediately conquer and start growing maize on?
Hehhee! *brofist*
Are there viable solutions to simply sending my old computers to Africa?
Arrgghhh... ;)
Homosexuality, transsexualism and all the other bullshit should be treated just like any other mental disorder.
Actually at least homosexuality is inherited from mother. If someone is gay, there's an elevated chance that his uncle from mother's side is also gay. So apparently it's in the genes, but the exact gene(s) are not known. This is what I have heard.
Agreed, my word choice wasn't probably the best. Let's call it "deviation" instead.
It is not about who are valid or not. Gay people, computer folk, etc. are obviously all valid and mostly cool people. The point is just what kind of common baseline the game wants to target.
Yep.
It does not mean that they are discriminating anyone. Being attracted to the opposite sex is the standard thing for mammals (and most creatures). Being a gay is anomaly. What if we made a game about hamsters, and they did not include any albino hamsters, would that be discrimination towards albinos? No. They are just focusing on the baseline, that's all.
Now, on the other hand, there is a lot of LGBT people, so making the game support same-sex relationships could have been a good business move.
Interestingly, I'm the first to mention alcohol in this discussion.
In many parts of Europe (I can speak for the Balkans for sure), it's perfectly normal to comment on weight and friends and family. It's not said out of malice, it's with best intentions.
In Finland, the topic is avoided, and if mentioned, is interpreted as mild malice. Only among very close friends and family members can overweight be openly discussed. A random coworker, for example, will never talk about it.
Mod parent back up, he is correct.
I heard that in East Asia countries it is more common to people point out that you are fat. They are not necessarily angry but more like "wow, you're been gaining some weight, my friend". Something like that should indeed come in spades to the western world too, instead of people being extremely careful of "not insulting" (wavy hands) anyone.
Spicy! Write a fictional novel around that theme, I'll read it.
I am not a programmer. Wanted to be. Too late to start I think.
Garbage! You can start programming in any age just fine. :)
Ill-educated, eh? :) How about you? Have you created a full playable deathmatch level from beginning to end?
Make an Oculus Rift display appropriate Google Street View imagery and go traveling on the streets on a unicycle.
Heh, UVB-76 indeed crossed my mind when I wrote the message.
MyCleanPC and Golden Girls are passing fads, but this random-word-spam keeps coming year after year. The subject line usually has something like "mod d0wn" and the word "BSD" often appears in the body.
Interesting and mysterious. Somewhere there is hiding a machine and its operator who maintain this little tradition.
All right, I'm cool with that, but around Slashdot it's often the opposite: people see making a buck somehow wrong, when it comes to software and entertainment.
As if someone else can't make the same or equivalent thing and simply not charge for it.
Ok, I'm sure you will then volunteer to do all that extremely hard work for not a single penny.
Wouldn't law enforcement just require the account usernames and then get the data from the respective service providers with a warrant? Sounds a bit unprofessional that they would go logging in to the accounts by themselves.
Apparently you are modded down because the so called hive mind (wavy hands) does not agree.
Anyway, interesting and proud comment. Thank you for it. But out of curiosity, what language would you prefer, then?