yes.

To me it makes sense.

@ddl (more proper response) Ok, that's fair. Yeah, it _is_ a naive argument, and yeah, it _is_ specific to our current society but the ideas of male inheritance and male limits on reproduction seem to have shaped a lot of the gender roles of the past 2000 years of western culture...and that all come...

In my oppinion the internet has merely supercharged rhetorics. I mean, yeah. I can deconstruct arguments much better because I've been an internet dweller for almost 20 years. Unfortunately, a lot of discussions can't be determined using deconstruction. You can only criticize the way something is sa...

Nearly all species are seperated into a childbearing gender and a non-childbearing gender. The non-childbearing gender is consistently disadvantaged as to their probability of reproducing. This is the same accross almost all species, right? So that must mean this is generally a better setup for the ...

I've been watching a lets play of bioshock infinite - and it's thematically very sound.

I've no idea how you fail to make sense of it Jaedar. It's completely cohesive in every way, so far as I can tell, and it's not like anything comes out of nowhere at any point at all.

@SilverSpook I imagine that's absolutely the case; and it absolutely needs to be talked about once in a while. It's a big problem when people are excluded from working in a business they'd love to work in because of how they were born, but it becomes decidedly tragic when they have all the merits th...

Do you actually know any feminists in person? I was the same way for the longest time, but actually talking to some of the activists about their viewpoints has turned me around. This is not to say that some of them aren't truly vile human beings (Burchill, ugh) but most of them are quite reasonable...

This is going to make me sound like a horrible person, but here goes: Statistically, I hate feminists. It is very rare that I partake in an online discussion, or watch a debate, or anything else that has a self titled feminist in it and I don't come away from the debate thinking they're a total ass....

Your tale started off charming, but it ended up in rant territory too only missing the point and ultimately failing in it's purpose It was basically one big lack-of-sleep induced piece. I'm fine that it derailed eventually, I had fun writing it, but yeah I'm not happy about the quality towards the ...

And there it is. The whole reason for the online only play requirement.

Sit down kids and I shall tell you a tale of long ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto_Games This was manifesto games. It launched in 2005. This is a manifesto published on manifesto games in 2006: http://web.archive.org/web/20061021151019/http://www.manifestogames.com/node/1943 This is 7 yea...

Well there's a pretty massive distinction between correspondence and roleplaying. When we play single player video games and we make choices by roleplaying - that is, by pretending we're in that situation presented ourselves - then the pretense is obvious. In fact, we're not even actually pretending...

Well, I try to play it in the fashion I find most interesting. This commonly means playing it such that the protagonist is clever - but also, on occasion, such that he is awkward or a bit of a doofus, or just plain weird. For instance, walking into the womens bathroom as JC? Priceless. You need to d...

I think what really did it is the lying.

Catching them in an outright lie is a bridge too far for most people to stomach.

So I've been loosely following the simcity issue that's been going on since a bit before the launch of the game, and I'm curious to hear what people here think about it. A quick summary goes as follows: The latest simcity game requires always on internet to play, and it's distributed through Origin....