Really, the hos are a major selling point for women. All the girls I know love to run around beating hookers to death. The first time my sister played GTA3, that's all she did for hours. Same with my girlfriend's little sister. She loved it.
The point isn't that the guy characters are being objectified for women like the girl characters are for guys, it's that all these characters are superficial stereotypes. It's not sexist, it's just shallow. Also, to be fair, these video game characters -are- objects.
Personally, I think the buxom women are good to have. It lets me know how bad the plot is going to be just by looking at the box.
I dunno about that. Besides the Sims, GTA is the game that the most women I know play. It's the open-endedness that does it, I think. My sister, especially, can spend hours and hours driving around and running people over. The only other games she's ever really liked to play were The Sims (of course), Katamari Damacy (got her to stop playing GTA to try it), and F-Zero (way back in '92).
I don't know about booth babes, but I remember hanging out in the Slashdot area a lot because one of the guys' GFs was gorgeous. My cousin spent a long time trying to flirt with her.
If that's what you think the feminine view is, you must not have had a teenage sister. Women have a kind of nastiness that make fistfights seem like reasoned debate in comparison.
The thing is, womanly qualities have as many positives and negatives as their manly counterparts. Our current culture can really favor women, in word at least. Trying to make up for the centuries of male-domination, I guess. Eventually we might balance out and quit the gender war, but I kind of doubt it.
I see GTA coming up a lot in this thread. I know I've had fleeting thoughts of jacking cars and stuff sometimes. but it mostly just comes up as jokes with my friends and such.
On the other hand, there were a couple of times on the freeway where some drunk and/or terrible driver drifted into my lane (once across four lanes, very quickly), and I instinctually got out of the way and back into the lane while avoid the center divider three feet away. If it weren't for all the practice I'd had dodging cops and swerving through traffic, I'm sure I'd have jerked the wheel too far and crashed. As it was, I didn't realize what happened until a few seconds later. I was pretty glad I'd wasted so much time gaming after that.
I guess this means that I'm going to have to find a nice lumber mill to work in, preferably one with a really good health plan. Actually, I should probably wait until they figure out adamantium.
Hah, so you say. Committing murder takes a damn good bit of effort, let me tell you. Sometimes you've got to stab a person a dozen times before they die. And when you've already got carpel tunnel, man...
Man, I used to love Lincoln Logs as a kid. But you're right, it was annoying having to hide the little houses in the basement when the neighbor kid's tip-off leads to a government raid. Though on the bright side, I got at least two dozen cabin patents myself before I turned eight. You know the kind that looks like an 'L'? That's all mine.
So what the article is telling us is that Americans are crappy consumers compared to the Japanese. If we'd only spend all our money on new, expensive, and mostly useless gadgets every six months, we'd catch right up to them.
C'mon people! These megacorporations want to help you, but you need to put in some effort first! Where's your national pride?
Thank you! I've been trying to think of that game's name for years!
I used to play Rocky's Boots constantly as a little kid. I had no idea what it actually represented, but I loved playing with it. Unfortunately, my Apple IIe got stolen while my family was on vacation, so I lost it a long time ago. It was a really big influence on me when I figured out a few years later what all those gates and switches meant.
Well I, for one, have been interested in how (read: whether) E17 is developing, so I was glad to see some news on slashdot. It's a pretty big project.
Also, slashdot posts a lot of things that aren't necessarily important. Really, "news for nerds" is almost the opposite of "stuff that matters," when you think about it. Even so, most of what's on here is a lot more revelant than the kind of stuff they come up with to fill the air on CNN and Fox News and such, so you can't complain too much.
Governments act to protect themselves just like any other organism. New segments (regulations and personell) will be formed to protect against any new threat -citizens having easy access to information which might make the government look bad, for example. This is a bad thing. Ergo government is bad.
That's a pretty sweeping conclusion from the the statement you made. I could say that government prevents me from being killed randomly by violent gangs that wander the countryside, therefore government is good. Really, it does both good and bad things, so what you probably mean to say is that government is not perfect, which I totally agree with. But then again, I can't really think of anything in life that is perfect, other than Salma Hayek.
Technically the US is a democratic republic, so we only vote for the electoral college, which could technically vote whichever way it wants. Of course, the elected officials themselves can then change stances on issues, and work against what we had voted him in for. So while in theory we are part of the government, in practice it's pretty tenuous.
On the other hand, I think the ability to vote for state propositions directly is very important and make it my priority when voting.
I think we all take it as a given that these satellites will have antiballistic lasers, plasma shielding and, what the hell, let's throw in an orbital particle beam platform.
I think the problem is that programmers don't understand patent law, and patent lawyers don't understand programming. So he doesn't know how to make his program avoid patent infringement, and there are very few lawyers out there that can go through all the code and make sure that the various algorithms and implementation details don't match any patents.
The very idea of banning books disturbs me, almost as much as destroying them, but I can kind of see why someone would ban that Scary Stories book, especially from public schools. I found that in the school library as a kid, and Jesus Christ was it the scariest damn thing I had ever read. It frightened me for years after that. I recently bought the Scary Stories Collection at the bookstore, and it still managed to creep me out. Jesus.
That said, when I was in junior high, I often had to sit out of class due to health reasons, and they made me sit in an extra room in the office. Maybe they hadn't noticed, but they also used that room to store all the books they'd removed from the library as inappropriate. That was some good reading, I must say.
If someone is only nice because they are afraid to upset someone, then are they really nice? I wouldn't think so. But a man who will stand up for you, protect you? Now that would be nice.
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Of course a certain amount of unpredictability is exciting. Everyone is attracted to someone who does the things that we wish we could do but can't. But I think that's really different to what you mean.
Exactly. The trick is to be sweet, loving and tender toward your girlfriend, while being insane, intimidating and twisted toward everyone else. The best of both worlds. She'll love you for it.
Heh, I always noticed that too. The other thing that confused me is how he would be able to swing to the top of a building like he often does. The web is pretty much always attached to something higher but not actually visible. My hypothesis is that he is actually swinging from carefully placed blimps that are conveniently located around the city.
Anyway, you gotta give it to the guy, it's way cooler than flying.
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I don't really understand your argument. Well, I understand that people often do stupid things, but I don't get why the solar system would care.
It seems to be that the parent poster was saying (albeit in an inflammatory way) that since there is apparently no life in the solar system that can tell us otherwise, there's nothing stopping us from exploring and utilizing the resources of these planets. I mean, it's not like the rock itself will rise up against us and tell us off for disturbing it.
The only logical reason I can see for us to avoid fumbling around the solar system and messing with things is to preserve it for future (and perhaps smarter) humans. But that would mean that we would eventually go out into the solar system anyway, which would require more technology, likely gained by our current attempts at space travel.
Anyway, what it gets down to is that we have to do stupid things for a while to get smart. We wouldn't have environmentalism if we hadn't wasted our resources, we wouldn't have atheism if nobody saw faults with religion, and we won't be able to appreciate the wonder of space if we don't muck it up a bit first.
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Really, the hos are a major selling point for women. All the girls I know love to run around beating hookers to death. The first time my sister played GTA3, that's all she did for hours. Same with my girlfriend's little sister. She loved it.
The point isn't that the guy characters are being objectified for women like the girl characters are for guys, it's that all these characters are superficial stereotypes. It's not sexist, it's just shallow. Also, to be fair, these video game characters -are- objects.
Personally, I think the buxom women are good to have. It lets me know how bad the plot is going to be just by looking at the box.
I dunno about that. Besides the Sims, GTA is the game that the most women I know play. It's the open-endedness that does it, I think. My sister, especially, can spend hours and hours driving around and running people over. The only other games she's ever really liked to play were The Sims (of course), Katamari Damacy (got her to stop playing GTA to try it), and F-Zero (way back in '92).
I don't know about booth babes, but I remember hanging out in the Slashdot area a lot because one of the guys' GFs was gorgeous. My cousin spent a long time trying to flirt with her.
If that's what you think the feminine view is, you must not have had a teenage sister. Women have a kind of nastiness that make fistfights seem like reasoned debate in comparison.
The thing is, womanly qualities have as many positives and negatives as their manly counterparts. Our current culture can really favor women, in word at least. Trying to make up for the centuries of male-domination, I guess. Eventually we might balance out and quit the gender war, but I kind of doubt it.
I see GTA coming up a lot in this thread. I know I've had fleeting thoughts of jacking cars and stuff sometimes. but it mostly just comes up as jokes with my friends and such.
On the other hand, there were a couple of times on the freeway where some drunk and/or terrible driver drifted into my lane (once across four lanes, very quickly), and I instinctually got out of the way and back into the lane while avoid the center divider three feet away. If it weren't for all the practice I'd had dodging cops and swerving through traffic, I'm sure I'd have jerked the wheel too far and crashed. As it was, I didn't realize what happened until a few seconds later. I was pretty glad I'd wasted so much time gaming after that.
I guess this means that I'm going to have to find a nice lumber mill to work in, preferably one with a really good health plan. Actually, I should probably wait until they figure out adamantium.
You're a bastard. A terrible, terrible bastard. I applaud you.
It's going to be the toilet, of course. Technology historians -love- the toilet.
Hah, so you say. Committing murder takes a damn good bit of effort, let me tell you. Sometimes you've got to stab a person a dozen times before they die. And when you've already got carpel tunnel, man...
Wait, forget I said anything.
Man, I used to love Lincoln Logs as a kid. But you're right, it was annoying having to hide the little houses in the basement when the neighbor kid's tip-off leads to a government raid. Though on the bright side, I got at least two dozen cabin patents myself before I turned eight. You know the kind that looks like an 'L'? That's all mine.
So what the article is telling us is that Americans are crappy consumers compared to the Japanese. If we'd only spend all our money on new, expensive, and mostly useless gadgets every six months, we'd catch right up to them.
C'mon people! These megacorporations want to help you, but you need to put in some effort first! Where's your national pride?
Thank you! I've been trying to think of that game's name for years!
I used to play Rocky's Boots constantly as a little kid. I had no idea what it actually represented, but I loved playing with it. Unfortunately, my Apple IIe got stolen while my family was on vacation, so I lost it a long time ago. It was a really big influence on me when I figured out a few years later what all those gates and switches meant.
Well I, for one, have been interested in how (read: whether) E17 is developing, so I was glad to see some news on slashdot. It's a pretty big project.
Also, slashdot posts a lot of things that aren't necessarily important. Really, "news for nerds" is almost the opposite of "stuff that matters," when you think about it. Even so, most of what's on here is a lot more revelant than the kind of stuff they come up with to fill the air on CNN and Fox News and such, so you can't complain too much.
Governments act to protect themselves just like any other organism. New segments (regulations and personell) will be formed to protect against any new threat -citizens having easy access to information which might make the government look bad, for example. This is a bad thing. Ergo government is bad.
That's a pretty sweeping conclusion from the the statement you made. I could say that government prevents me from being killed randomly by violent gangs that wander the countryside, therefore government is good. Really, it does both good and bad things, so what you probably mean to say is that government is not perfect, which I totally agree with. But then again, I can't really think of anything in life that is perfect, other than Salma Hayek.
Technically the US is a democratic republic, so we only vote for the electoral college, which could technically vote whichever way it wants. Of course, the elected officials themselves can then change stances on issues, and work against what we had voted him in for. So while in theory we are part of the government, in practice it's pretty tenuous.
On the other hand, I think the ability to vote for state propositions directly is very important and make it my priority when voting.
Now I'm going to have to start calling everyone Randian bastards. It's just too good a phrase.
It reminds me of a quote on the back of America: the Book by John Stewart:
"This is similar to my works in that anyone who reads it is sure to be an asshole for at least a month afterward."
-- Ayn Rand
I think we all take it as a given that these satellites will have antiballistic lasers, plasma shielding and, what the hell, let's throw in an orbital particle beam platform.
I think the problem is that programmers don't understand patent law, and patent lawyers don't understand programming. So he doesn't know how to make his program avoid patent infringement, and there are very few lawyers out there that can go through all the code and make sure that the various algorithms and implementation details don't match any patents.
The very idea of banning books disturbs me, almost as much as destroying them, but I can kind of see why someone would ban that Scary Stories book, especially from public schools. I found that in the school library as a kid, and Jesus Christ was it the scariest damn thing I had ever read. It frightened me for years after that. I recently bought the Scary Stories Collection at the bookstore, and it still managed to creep me out. Jesus.
That said, when I was in junior high, I often had to sit out of class due to health reasons, and they made me sit in an extra room in the office. Maybe they hadn't noticed, but they also used that room to store all the books they'd removed from the library as inappropriate. That was some good reading, I must say.
I think its FAIRLY safe to say that the majority of true "geeks" are not thugs. The lifestyles/cultures just clash too much for that to seem feasible.
According to my friends in Oakland, I'm an "undercover thug." I'm not sure what it means exactly, but I like it.
Of course a certain amount of unpredictability is exciting. Everyone is attracted to someone who does the things that we wish we could do but can't. But I think that's really different to what you mean.
Exactly. The trick is to be sweet, loving and tender toward your girlfriend, while being insane, intimidating and twisted toward everyone else. The best of both worlds. She'll love you for it.
Heh, I always noticed that too. The other thing that confused me is how he would be able to swing to the top of a building like he often does. The web is pretty much always attached to something higher but not actually visible. My hypothesis is that he is actually swinging from carefully placed blimps that are conveniently located around the city.
Anyway, you gotta give it to the guy, it's way cooler than flying.
I don't really understand your argument. Well, I understand that people often do stupid things, but I don't get why the solar system would care.
It seems to be that the parent poster was saying (albeit in an inflammatory way) that since there is apparently no life in the solar system that can tell us otherwise, there's nothing stopping us from exploring and utilizing the resources of these planets. I mean, it's not like the rock itself will rise up against us and tell us off for disturbing it.
The only logical reason I can see for us to avoid fumbling around the solar system and messing with things is to preserve it for future (and perhaps smarter) humans. But that would mean that we would eventually go out into the solar system anyway, which would require more technology, likely gained by our current attempts at space travel.
Anyway, what it gets down to is that we have to do stupid things for a while to get smart. We wouldn't have environmentalism if we hadn't wasted our resources, we wouldn't have atheism if nobody saw faults with religion, and we won't be able to appreciate the wonder of space if we don't muck it up a bit first.
Get rid of them without violence? But what's the point?