I think a lot of the distaste is because it's violence against a woman
Which is more unpleasant because of a mixture of sexist protective/paternalistic attitudes toward women (or sexist callousness toward the suffering of men) and justified concerns about violence against women as an enaction of misogyny and oppression
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
I keep accidentally touching the square inch of my neck that got electrocuted today.
I'm worried I'm gonna give myself MRSA or something.
How did you...?
I am being purposefully obtuse.
I had some thermolytic electrolysis today during my free consult. I hate how expensive and long it takes and permanent it is, but I really have to get rid of my beard somehow.
If I could just shave and makeup forever I might, but the shadow is a pain in the ass and this is the only way to get rid of it. I'm worried about regretting it even though the chances I will are... low.
No shaving is always worth it.
As part of the nervous condition I have apparently developed, I keep on plucking out my beard stubble. It makes for a surprisingly smooth stretch of skin down the side on my chin.
What do you mean
Ohhh "(no shaving) is always worth it"
Not "no, shaving is always worth it"
Lisp is way more elegant than English. All things should have nested clauses.
Yeah, I am sure I've mentioned this before but I'm always scared of big changes and permanence. I have not had much of a beard for years and have loved it, yet I'm worried I'm going to miss it and all of a sudden want to be Indiana Jones for Halloween. Like, if I keep a patch for cloning and reimplantation I will feel safer, which is weird as shit because that's not something I'd ever do, but the option is appealing. I know it's a hilarious human bias and yet I still suffer it.
Fuck biases!
Yup, I really dislike shaving.
Might I recommend a mild case of Trichotillomania?
Much better results than my mach-3, if a bit inconsistent.
Oh that is painful!
Straight razor works fine :P
That is one thing, I will totally miss shaving like I'm in the mid 19th century.
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TavIrish Minister for DefenceRegistered Userregular
set up email filters
twitter, fb, amazon and discogs all go to their own label and skip the inbox
no more thinking I'm popular when I wake up to 7 unread emails!
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KageraImitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered Userregular
That death cinematic is so unnecessary. With the struggling.
Yuck.
Game aint even out yet and that scene and the rapey scene are what the game is known for.
Pre-order automatically signs you up for FBI watchlist now.
People impaled tend to struggle. Unless its like in the brain or through the spine. But I doubt that would even be better, just seeing her limp and dying but her eyes still moving.
Y'know we probably didn't need an impalement death at all really. Just have her fall off a cliff into the horizon or something.
My neck, my back, my FUPA and my crack.
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surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
revengeance would be way better if it was a female cyborg slicing the shit out of everybody tho
I think a lot of the distaste is because it's violence against a woman
Which is more unpleasant because of a mixture of sexist protective/paternalistic attitudes toward women (or sexist callousness toward the suffering of men) and justified concerns about violence against women as an enaction of misogyny and oppression
I honestly don't know if I would enjoy this any more if it were a dude. I am a wuss now and like ... I have watched a lot of simulated deaths and maimings in my video game career.
I don't need to see a guy lose a lung in 60 fps 1080p.
How common is it for people to confuse being racist, sexist, etc. with being funny? Most of the time it isn't even "ironic."
there can be funny sexist/racist jokes
much in the same way that there can be funny jokes about any subject matter
There are basically jokes that happen to be involve sensitive, jokes that involve something sensitive in a way that is not so great, and references to problematic things that people think are funny.
They're all kinda different.
Both things can be funny, it is just incredibly dependant on a multitude of different factors such as delivery, timing, context, the actual joke itself, the audience, etc
Saying "this is a super special topic that you can't make light of" is just going to (a) make people go after the topic more and (b) give people who actually want to be hurtful a better idea of how they can do so.
I admit this is something I actually do, and I should probably stop.
i don't necessarily think it's hugely offensive (or racist, in a way worth addressing) but i have always felt p uncomfortable with the non-poor 'haha slummin it #thuglife' thing. there was this white girl who lived in the same building as me in nyc- total suburban white girl, ballet flats, loved broadway, had a little yappy dog. but she had this ring with a gigantic THUG LIFE thing covering her whole hand. i guess she thought it was cute.
i dunno. i spend enough time fantasizing about being wealthy/surrounded by non-trashy people that i guess it makes sense that people stumble about, trying to put themselves into novel ideas and all. it doesn't really 'not make sense' to me, or bother me on a rational level. it just nags at the back of my head like 'hey that's really weird'.
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SarksusATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered Userregular
I don't wanna see people's necks get impaled with spikes
pls stahp teh spikes
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
I think a lot of the distaste is because it's violence against a woman
Which is more unpleasant because of a mixture of sexist protective/paternalistic attitudes toward women (or sexist callousness toward the suffering of men) and justified concerns about violence against women as an enaction of misogyny and oppression
Let's be honest though: When's the last time a AAA title had a male protagonist struggling feebly after his head was impaled on a spike?
fuck gendered marketing
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CorehealerThe ApothecaryThe softer edge of the universe.Registered Userregular
I think a lot of the distaste is because it's violence against a woman
Which is more unpleasant because of a mixture of sexist protective/paternalistic attitudes toward women (or sexist callousness toward the suffering of men) and justified concerns about violence against women as an enaction of misogyny and oppression
I honestly don't know if I would enjoy this any more if it were a dude. I am a wuss now and like ... I have watched a lot of simulated deaths and maimings in my video game career.
I don't need to see a guy lose a lung in 60 fps 1080p.
For sure.
I was thinking about the brutal Dead Space and Resident Evil deaths, which I greatly enjoyed.
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KageraImitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered Userregular
Dead space has a lot of the 'torture porn' deaths that people seem to be up in arms about but cuz it is a dude it's okay?
I dunno I didn't like seeing those either and tried to survive as best I could I know some wanted to experience all those deaths.
a pipe in her kidneys? i guess that's one way to get the lead out. no seriously I know a girl's plumbing is a little different but that's just ridiculous
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CorehealerThe ApothecaryThe softer edge of the universe.Registered Userregular
The new Lara Croft does look like it has depth. But there is just as much needless emphasis on Lara experiencing pain and gory deaths.
when you're cmd+tabbing through apps, you can cmd+q from there (even though the menu bar's context hasn't changed)
that's really handy, though it doesn't really save more than a half second or so (enter to select app, cmd+q, cmd+tab again to reenter the tab mode... being my previous menu
but still
cute
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
I think a lot of the distaste is because it's violence against a woman
Which is more unpleasant because of a mixture of sexist protective/paternalistic attitudes toward women (or sexist callousness toward the suffering of men) and justified concerns about violence against women as an enaction of misogyny and oppression
Let's be honest though: When's the last time a AAA title had a male protagonist struggling feebly after his head was impaled on a spike?
Dead Space 2.
"Stick a needle in my eye."
emnmnme on
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surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
How common is it for people to confuse being racist, sexist, etc. with being funny? Most of the time it isn't even "ironic."
there can be funny sexist/racist jokes
much in the same way that there can be funny jokes about any subject matter
There are basically jokes that happen to be involve sensitive, jokes that involve something sensitive in a way that is not so great, and references to problematic things that people think are funny.
They're all kinda different.
Both things can be funny, it is just incredibly dependant on a multitude of different factors such as delivery, timing, context, the actual joke itself, the audience, etc
Saying "this is a super special topic that you can't make light of" is just going to (a) make people go after the topic more and (b) give people who actually want to be hurtful a better idea of how they can do so.
I admit this is something I actually do, and I should probably stop.
i don't necessarily think it's hugely offensive (or racist, in a way worth addressing) but i have always felt p uncomfortable with the non-poor 'haha slummin it #thuglife' thing. there was this white girl who lived in the same building as me in nyc- total suburban white girl, ballet flats, loved broadway, had a little yappy dog. but she had this ring with a gigantic THUG LIFE thing covering her whole hand. i guess she thought it was cute.
i dunno. i spend enough time fantasizing about being wealthy/surrounded by non-trashy people that i guess it makes sense that people stumble about, trying to put themselves into novel ideas and all. it doesn't really 'not make sense' to me, or bother me on a rational level. it just nags at the back of my head like 'hey that's really weird'.
I think a lot of the distaste is because it's violence against a woman
Which is more unpleasant because of a mixture of sexist protective/paternalistic attitudes toward women (or sexist callousness toward the suffering of men) and justified concerns about violence against women as an enaction of misogyny and oppression
Let's be honest though: When's the last time a AAA title had a male protagonist struggling feebly after his head was impaled on a spike?
P sure this is the first time a game has done it with any protagonist.
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surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
a pipe in her kidneys? i guess that's one way to get the lead out. no seriously I know a girl's plumbing is a little different but that's just ridiculous
actually, evil multifarious watch this
also u tyrannus
it is astonishingly relevant both 2 wat u said and to general methods of treating disgusting things
How common is it for people to confuse being racist, sexist, etc. with being funny? Most of the time it isn't even "ironic."
there can be funny sexist/racist jokes
much in the same way that there can be funny jokes about any subject matter
There are basically jokes that happen to be involve sensitive, jokes that involve something sensitive in a way that is not so great, and references to problematic things that people think are funny.
They're all kinda different.
Both things can be funny, it is just incredibly dependant on a multitude of different factors such as delivery, timing, context, the actual joke itself, the audience, etc
Saying "this is a super special topic that you can't make light of" is just going to (a) make people go after the topic more and (b) give people who actually want to be hurtful a better idea of how they can do so.
I admit this is something I actually do, and I should probably stop.
i don't necessarily think it's hugely offensive (or racist, in a way worth addressing) but i have always felt p uncomfortable with the non-poor 'haha slummin it #thuglife' thing. there was this white girl who lived in the same building as me in nyc- total suburban white girl, ballet flats, loved broadway, had a little yappy dog. but she had this ring with a gigantic THUG LIFE thing covering her whole hand. i guess she thought it was cute.
i dunno. i spend enough time fantasizing about being wealthy/surrounded by non-trashy people that i guess it makes sense that people stumble about, trying to put themselves into novel ideas and all. it doesn't really 'not make sense' to me, or bother me on a rational level. it just nags at the back of my head like 'hey that's really weird'.
most people that do it are like 'yeah living in this poor area is really awesome as long as I have a strong family and social support network to fall back on'
How common is it for people to confuse being racist, sexist, etc. with being funny? Most of the time it isn't even "ironic."
there can be funny sexist/racist jokes
much in the same way that there can be funny jokes about any subject matter
There are basically jokes that happen to be involve sensitive, jokes that involve something sensitive in a way that is not so great, and references to problematic things that people think are funny.
They're all kinda different.
Both things can be funny, it is just incredibly dependant on a multitude of different factors such as delivery, timing, context, the actual joke itself, the audience, etc
Saying "this is a super special topic that you can't make light of" is just going to (a) make people go after the topic more and (b) give people who actually want to be hurtful a better idea of how they can do so.
I admit this is something I actually do, and I should probably stop.
Man I think I agree with the gist but "race isn't complicated because it's not real" is dumb.
For analogies, consider gender or our selection of axioms for mathematics.
There's probably quite a bit wrong with the article, but it does speak to me.
It's something that I do a lot, mostly because I carry a lot of guilt over my still quite recent cultural heritage.
I had a friend who I used to verbally spar with like this. Jokingly, but probably also as a way to find our place in the "new South Africa" since we were both one foot in/one foot out since the transition happened in our teens, but from different sides.
And that conversation style tends to carry over to other people (including this forum) but without any of the history and context that it was born in.
And I really need to unlearn that.
Ha.
Transition.
Anyway, I find myself in the state of "You are a complete dumbass and your argument is riddled with holes but I agree with the conclusion" a lot. And I usually end up playing "devil's advocate" because of it, but what I'm really doing is shooting down terrible arguments because they bug me almost as much as people being terrible. And then saying "but this is right in the end because" and then something that is less terrible an argument.
People love this, I assure you.
I also do this all the time
Trying to do it less, since people often find it irritating, or interpret me as disagreeing with them more strongly than I do.
I don't do it too often, make it obvious I agree with them, and am really not aggressive while still making firm points. Also, have a female username. Which I'm sure matters because we're dealing with people here. So people usually don't find it irritating, because I couch it in so many "I agree with you but" and "I don't think this makes sense because" and so on.
I mean I'm anxious and hate argumentation and am generally just not particularly courageous at social stuff so that is all natural, but I'm also good at identifying fallacies while providing alternative arguments.
Well I never do it on the forums, and less and less in real life because in the end I also pretty much hate arguments.
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Which is more unpleasant because of a mixture of sexist protective/paternalistic attitudes toward women (or sexist callousness toward the suffering of men) and justified concerns about violence against women as an enaction of misogyny and oppression
Oh that is painful!
Straight razor works fine :P
That is one thing, I will totally miss shaving like I'm in the mid 19th century.
twitter, fb, amazon and discogs all go to their own label and skip the inbox
no more thinking I'm popular when I wake up to 7 unread emails!
People impaled tend to struggle. Unless its like in the brain or through the spine. But I doubt that would even be better, just seeing her limp and dying but her eyes still moving.
Y'know we probably didn't need an impalement death at all really. Just have her fall off a cliff into the horizon or something.
just sayin
male heroes are so boring 9 times out of 10
this game is going to get skewered by watchdog groups
I honestly don't know if I would enjoy this any more if it were a dude. I am a wuss now and like ... I have watched a lot of simulated deaths and maimings in my video game career.
I don't need to see a guy lose a lung in 60 fps 1080p.
SUCK ON THAT, LIBERALS
gooey pls
http://izismile.com/2011/03/07/eyebrowless_stars_30_pics.html
And that means without them people look terrifying even if they are normally good-looking.
So yeah, alopecia kinda sucks.
i don't necessarily think it's hugely offensive (or racist, in a way worth addressing) but i have always felt p uncomfortable with the non-poor 'haha slummin it #thuglife' thing. there was this white girl who lived in the same building as me in nyc- total suburban white girl, ballet flats, loved broadway, had a little yappy dog. but she had this ring with a gigantic THUG LIFE thing covering her whole hand. i guess she thought it was cute.
i dunno. i spend enough time fantasizing about being wealthy/surrounded by non-trashy people that i guess it makes sense that people stumble about, trying to put themselves into novel ideas and all. it doesn't really 'not make sense' to me, or bother me on a rational level. it just nags at the back of my head like 'hey that's really weird'.
pls stahp teh spikes
...so she doesn't die from blood loss?
Let's be honest though: When's the last time a AAA title had a male protagonist struggling feebly after his head was impaled on a spike?
MAXIMUM STRENGTH KIWI TOSS MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT
For sure.
I was thinking about the brutal Dead Space and Resident Evil deaths, which I greatly enjoyed.
I dunno I didn't like seeing those either and tried to survive as best I could I know some wanted to experience all those deaths.
It's disturbing, overly graphic, and lingers far too long.
It's a hard bargain to strike.
when you're cmd+tabbing through apps, you can cmd+q from there (even though the menu bar's context hasn't changed)
that's really handy, though it doesn't really save more than a half second or so (enter to select app, cmd+q, cmd+tab again to reenter the tab mode... being my previous menu
but still
cute
I really need to figure out how to make them good looking.
The eyebrows. Celebrities can do it themselves.
The only dead space bit that got to me was the bit in 2 where
It's never held back our main man Matt!
It's uncomfortable
Dead Space 2.
well, u no
thug lyfe.
I guess the plausibility of the game's brutality makes it more affecting too
Like the human violence in Last of Us
THE WORLD IS IN CHEY-OSS
P sure this is the first time a game has done it with any protagonist.
actually, evil multifarious watch this
also u tyrannus
it is astonishingly relevant both 2 wat u said and to general methods of treating disgusting things
well on the flip side this impales in perspective to what you see in some movies these days
IT HAPPENS THREE TIMES
most people that do it are like 'yeah living in this poor area is really awesome as long as I have a strong family and social support network to fall back on'
which is not as catchy as 'thug life'
It's a long and painful process. Pluck, Shivahn. Pluck forever.
But if you made 'touch screen vivisect lemmings for the iphone' you couldn't pay me to play it.
There's violence and then there is gross ass shit.
Well I never do it on the forums, and less and less in real life because in the end I also pretty much hate arguments.