edit: it wasn't considered pedophilia back then fireguy.
It's technically ephebophilia anyway.
I have no idea what that means, but I'm going to agree with you.
Ephebes were pubescent kids in ancient Greece (or maybe Rome too). Shacking up with an older dude for semi-fucking purposes was considered a critical part of apprenticeship and all of that.
I don't think that sexual attraction to children is categorically equivalent to sexual attraction to pubescent teenagers, especially in a culture that glorifies youth.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Did I read that right in the Monkey Den suggestion thread guys were arguing that people shouldn't make game threads in G7T? I mean what the fuck do they just want to spend all their time slagging off the console they don't own and not let games enter into it?
Wouldn't that run counter to G&T's policy of "No Mega Threads"?
Shit man I don't know what their philosophy is over there. Alls I know is that when I'm curious about whether a game is any good or not, or if I want balanced perspective on whether a console will be a good purchase for me, G&T is fucking useless.
G&T is pretty much fucking useless across the board. It's basically a forum filled with fanboy partisanship and fanboy circle jerks. I wouldn't miss it if it were nuked from orbit, to be honest.
The CS:S thread is helpful to start games.
Most of the threads are dead on arrival though.
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Did I read that right in the Monkey Den suggestion thread guys were arguing that people shouldn't make game threads in G7T? I mean what the fuck do they just want to spend all their time slagging off the console they don't own and not let games enter into it?
Wouldn't that run counter to G&T's policy of "No Mega Threads"?
Shit man I don't know what their philosophy is over there. Alls I know is that when I'm curious about whether a game is any good or not, or if I want balanced perspective on whether a console will be a good purchase for me, G&T is fucking useless.
G&T is pretty much fucking useless across the board. It's basically a forum filled with fanboy partisanship and fanboy circle jerks. I wouldn't miss it if it were nuked from orbit, to be honest.
In all fairness, they do collectively have pretty damn good taste in games. I read G&T mostly for game recommendations. Review sites are fucking useless these days anyway.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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Did I read that right in the Monkey Den suggestion thread guys were arguing that people shouldn't make game threads in G7T? I mean what the fuck do they just want to spend all their time slagging off the console they don't own and not let games enter into it?
Wouldn't that run counter to G&T's policy of "No Mega Threads"?
Shit man I don't know what their philosophy is over there. Alls I know is that when I'm curious about whether a game is any good or not, or if I want balanced perspective on whether a console will be a good purchase for me, G&T is fucking useless.
G&T is pretty much fucking useless across the board. It's basically a forum filled with fanboy partisanship and fanboy circle jerks. I wouldn't miss it if it were nuked from orbit, to be honest.
kusu, I am straight starving but am to lazy to walk to my kitchen.
Do I want to grill some steaks?
They are frozen so I might just make some kraft dinner
kusu, I am straight starving but am to lazy to walk to my kitchen.
Do I want to grill some steaks?
They are frozen so I might just make some kraft dinner
dude you are knowledgeable about food. do I make
1. Breakfast sandwich
2. super-meaty hashbrowns
3. grilled cheese w/ normal hashbrowns
4. french toast
5. tamales
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And by semi-fucking, IIRC, he means that penetrative intercourse was strongly frowned upon. Sternly frowned upon? Yeah.
I think this is kind of controversial, mostly because all these esteemed greek thinkers were, in retrospect, pretty much fucking little boys. Even Dante created a special happy land to allow Socrates to hang out instead of being damned. Let's just say that the tradition has continued and a lot of classicists who like to jerk off to Plato don't much cotton to the idea of their heroes being gay pedohpiles, so they really like to, when it comes up, oversell the femural intercourse or whatever their euphemism is.
kusu, I am straight starving but am to lazy to walk to my kitchen.
Do I want to grill some steaks?
They are frozen so I might just make some kraft dinner
dude you are knowledgeable about food. do I make
1. Breakfast sandwich
2. super-meaty hashbrowns
3. grilled cheese w/ normal hashbrowns
4. french toast
5. tamales
I vote 3, 'cause that's what I'd have if my mouth worked right now.
kusu, I am straight starving but am to lazy to walk to my kitchen.
Do I want to grill some steaks?
They are frozen so I might just make some kraft dinner
dude you are knowledgeable about food. do I make
1. Breakfast sandwich
2. super-meaty hashbrowns
3. grilled cheese w/ normal hashbrowns
4. french toast
5. tamales
If you've got ketchup, the grilled cheese with hash browns would be pretty dice. Catsup is a suitable ketchup replacement
French toast is pretty rad, but it doesn't fill you for very long and you end up getting things all sticky.
It's just that the guy likes to wave the "Barely Started Puberty, but getting fucked like a mare in heat" flag.
It's like if you were reading Harry Potter, but in every book there was a chapter where Hermoine gets bukkaked by Dumbledore.
But see then, I wouldn't read it.
It's still better than the Great Gatsby.
I'm just irritated at the guy's cheap style when it comes to that particular character set. The rest of the scenes, while somewhat cheesy, are written fairly well. But the subplot with the dragon folks has been so laaaaaaaame so far.
More to the point, I need to figure out what style characterizes his work, so I can figure out how it's getting in to people's heads.
For instance, the combat in the Dark Elf Trilogy reads like choreography. Every physical movement is specifically mentioned, as if you were playing Simon Says. There's a subtler trait of this nature in the Justicar books, which also had a fair following.
This then suggests that perhaps the very specific combat scenes are a big draw, and are something I should consider in my own work, rather than glossing over them.
And by semi-fucking, IIRC, he means that penetrative intercourse was strongly frowned upon. Sternly frowned upon? Yeah.
I think this is kind of controversial, mostly because all these esteemed greek thinkers were, in retrospect, pretty much fucking little boys. Even Dante created a special happy land to allow Socrates to hang out instead of being damned. Let's just say that the tradition has continued and a lot of classicists who like to jerk off to Plato don't much cotton to the idea of their heroes being gay pedohpiles, so they really like to, when it comes up, oversell the femural intercourse or whatever their euphemism is.
I'm sure you're right. I haven't studied this. It came up for like 30 minutes in one of my electives this year. The teacher said, checking my notes, that the eromenos (passive) was 13-16, the erastes was 25-30, and that it was a one-year liason followed by a father-son relationship. He said that you weren't supposed to be hubristic with respect to boundaries and that if you were it reflected poorly mainly on the eromenos? And that the whole thing was focused on like, bonding, so you can have a good sponsor for public life.
Oh, and we have Alcibiades in the Symposium as an example of a bad eromenos.
This is, I think, mostly separate from the passages in Plato where Socrates joygasms over the youths? I got the impression that the sexual stuff was sorta separate from this mentor system, but probably present.
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I don't think that sexual attraction to children is categorically equivalent to sexual attraction to pubescent teenagers, especially in a culture that glorifies youth.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I read Peir Antonys bio and well, I think he's a bit of a perv.
fuck sheri
FUCKKKKKKKKKKKK
(also AC)
Most of the threads are dead on arrival though.
But see then, I wouldn't read it.
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In all fairness, they do collectively have pretty damn good taste in games. I read G&T mostly for game recommendations. Review sites are fucking useless these days anyway.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
George Takei claims the next Chat thread in the name of the Uncleland.
Do I want to grill some steaks?
They are frozen so I might just make some kraft dinner
Have you read any Xanth?
One of the series is a book called "The Color of Her Panties."
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Haha, sucker.
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1. Breakfast sandwich
2. super-meaty hashbrowns
3. grilled cheese w/ normal hashbrowns
4. french toast
5. tamales
i wish we had some gravy so i could gravy up my hashbrowns
French toast is pretty rad, but it doesn't fill you for very long and you end up getting things all sticky.
It's still better than the Great Gatsby.
I'm just irritated at the guy's cheap style when it comes to that particular character set. The rest of the scenes, while somewhat cheesy, are written fairly well. But the subplot with the dragon folks has been so laaaaaaaame so far.
More to the point, I need to figure out what style characterizes his work, so I can figure out how it's getting in to people's heads.
For instance, the combat in the Dark Elf Trilogy reads like choreography. Every physical movement is specifically mentioned, as if you were playing Simon Says. There's a subtler trait of this nature in the Justicar books, which also had a fair following.
This then suggests that perhaps the very specific combat scenes are a big draw, and are something I should consider in my own work, rather than glossing over them.
I'm sure you're right. I haven't studied this. It came up for like 30 minutes in one of my electives this year. The teacher said, checking my notes, that the eromenos (passive) was 13-16, the erastes was 25-30, and that it was a one-year liason followed by a father-son relationship. He said that you weren't supposed to be hubristic with respect to boundaries and that if you were it reflected poorly mainly on the eromenos? And that the whole thing was focused on like, bonding, so you can have a good sponsor for public life.
Oh, and we have Alcibiades in the Symposium as an example of a bad eromenos.
This is, I think, mostly separate from the passages in Plato where Socrates joygasms over the youths? I got the impression that the sexual stuff was sorta separate from this mentor system, but probably present.