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Because it's the 'in' thing. Like fashion. Quite a few people want to be in the 'in' crowd and look 'cool'. For now that means supporting those kinds of things if not claiming to be one yourself. Just wait. Before long it will no longer be 'in' and suddenly a bunch of the 'genderfluid' people will either give it up or find a gender that is suspiciously close to 'cis' to identify as.

For the record (and I shouldn't even have to say this IMO), I'm not saying or implying in any way that trans or gender-fluid people don't exist or whatever. What I'm saying is that a lot of people are treating it like a designer accessory and the moment it stops being 'in' a lot of it will vanish.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Eh. Kinda. Not really. Depends.

The Atheist who opts to not believe in God: Not really. They can be annoyed if you pressure them but 'easiest'? No.

The Atheist who is outraged by even the notion of God and will fervently attack anyone expressing a belief in God: Defiantly a contender.

One thing that constantly annoys me is that Atheists seem to assume that they are on equal footing with religious people and they're perfectly willing to co-exist while the religious people are shoving it down their throats. In reality religious people make up the vast majority of the worlds population and have done so for thousands of years. Much of human history has been shaped by it, many nations have had religion be a driving force in their history, and the majority of their populations still subscribe to some form of religious belief even in 'non-religious' settings. This is ignoring that, technically, atheism IS a religion, just one in which the belief in no God has replaced the belief in a specific deity.

So, naturally, when you get a bunch of people talking about their plans for Sunday a lot are going to mention church. If something comes up revolving around religion most people are gonna care. With over 80% of the population worldwide being religious atheists are surprised when they find religion surrounding them and act oppressed.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Nichtcrawler X posted...

Also seeing a lot of topics lately and tried to ask in those but got no response.

Kneeling is one of the most profound ways of showing respect, so why are people acting like it is disrespectful?

Please note, I am not taking a side in this, just explaining how I've understood it.

It's a matter of respect and protest. People are usually not required to stand for the national anthem (though they do ask that people rise). About a decade ago people wouldn't have given a **** if you didn't so long as you said it. However, a large part of this is because you're just one face in the masses as opposed to a famous player with the eyes of the nation upon you. It's disrespectful and it's using that position of popularity to broadcast your disrespect to the entire nation. To top it off, this is a football game, not a setting in which politics of any kind would ever be appropriate. Imagine you wanted to bring a bunch of friends over to play a game with them, but suddenly one of them decides to talk about some aspect of politics he hates. Would you be eager to talk about it or very irritated by it?

With its growth the dislike has gotten much worse. Especially since we're reaching the point where entire teams are opting to not even take the field except for one player, then the team turning on said player for 'throwing them under a bus'. The attitude being displayed isn't one of 'respectful protest' but 'outrage and hurt feelings; and if you disagree go **** yourself'. One player even stated that a bunch of people getting rid of their NFL merchandise out of dislike shouldn't come to the games ever again.

It's not *just* the kneeling, it's the attitude that's accompanying it and the increasing disrespect for the fans, especially those who disagree with them. It reeks of entitlement and elitism, especially to bring up an issue in which the players earning massive paychecks and showered in national publicity and fans are telling the people, some of which are struggling to get by and are using the sport as one of their few moments of enjoyment, to 'check their privilege'.

That's how I've understood the situation to be unfolding and why it's becoming a big issue.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

I've never given a girl a wedgie or anyone for that matter. However... It kind of is. Some bullies don't care but you tend to end up in a bit more trouble and, even if you don't, guys tend to look down on you a bit more.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Where did "recognizing our limits" ever enter into the conversation? This topic has never been about "should we save ALL of them", it's been about "should Japan (or we) do more?" with the answer being "Yes, obviously".

No. That's not the 'obvious' answer. One of the important bits of being a nation is deciding who lives within. Borders exist for a reason and if anyone can just go anywhere than there is no point in having a nation at all. Like it or not Japan is entirely within its rights as a nation to refuse refugee's for any reason.

However, the point with this statement is not that we should take 'all' the refugee's but, rather, that a lot of people didn't care about rescuing refugee's until this specific group came up. Then suddenly they all went and became active and insisting that 'we need to take more' all while never talking about other groups of people. To borrow the cat analogy it's like getting outraged every time someone refuses to adopt a calico and claiming that they're part of a pro-dog conspiracy and utter monsters, but when someone refuses to adopt a tabby, Siamese, or Maine coon the same group is suddenly silent.

It's not that you need to accept 'all' the refugee's (though if you can't close your borders or exclude people from traveling across them why aren't you accepting all of them?), it's that no one cared until this one group became an issue at which point they suddenly stopped being apathetic and started to care.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Japan is entirely in their rights to refuse refugees. They ARE a sovereign nation and part of being one is having the ability to close your borders. So... Go Japan!
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

You know, the thing that baffles me about time travel is that everyone assumes that messing with the past will result in an inherently worse outcome than what happened in reality. As opposed to simply a different one or a better one. As if the one we're living in now is the 'good' future.

I'm not saying that the world would be better off if, say, Stalin suddenly got zapped by a raygun from the future. What I am saying that assuming things would be WORSE as opposed to different seems stupid. Besides, I can time travel! I can keep traveling back and forwards in time to fix all the little problems until things work out. If killing Stalin causes a race of radioactive super-ants to arise I can just go back to where they came from and kill said ants with more future-tech!
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Time travel.

At the very least I could go forwards and backwards in time to win lotto tickets and bets and the like. I could go back in time and ask Jesus exactly what his stance on stuff like homosexuality is or buy buttloads of stock in Apple or be the person who invented sliced bread. If I'm really willing to **** up the timeline I could go back in time with a ton of guns and war vehicles (slip into a gun store before traveling or something) and carve out my own kingdom. If I further supplement my kingdom with future tech I'd basically have space ships in the bronze age!
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

I don't think it should be a rule. That's just... not something that the government show have power over. With that said, I do feel that doing stuff like that is a great way to lose any respect I had for the player/team. So... No rule but I sure won't be happy if you do that stuff.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

adjl posted...

fuzi11 posted...

incestuous - nope. birth defects and what not. I'm playing the nature card now. Nature truly does not intend to create inbreeds.

I'm inclined to disregard the nature angle against incest because there are just so many ways to work around it now. Genetic testing can confirm just what the risks are far better than any guess based on consanguinity estimates can, and even when the risks are confirmed to be high, marriage doesn't have to involve biological children anyway (either not having kids, surrogacy, or adoption). Yeah, nature doesn't like inbreeding, which is why most people have the Westermarck effect, but in cases where that's deficient, there doesn't have to be any actual harm. Just a couple extra hoops to jump through.

That, and making it illegal on the basis of the child's genetic health is logically the same as restricting people with confirmed genetic disorders from reproducing, which is pretty shaky territory. There are certainly arguments to be made in favour of such restrictions, so that approach isn't completely invalid, but that is something you need to consider before taking this approach, if you want to be logically consistent.

Also, let's be honest, it isn't too far a leap to go from 'preventing genetic defects' to 'gay is a genetic defect' or 'black is a genetic defect'. I'm not saying that they're in the same league but, well, that it's a complicated subject. Basically, the odds that a child gets two matching recessive genes is only like 25% or so for a 'close' pairing (like father/daughter) assuming it's the first instance. It grows drastically as it happens more but, assuming it's the first time, odds are your kid will be normal and healthy. Even getting two recessive genes isn't 'bad'. It's only once those things start piling up that it falls apart.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

You ALWAYS have a choice of how you practice your religion. If you choose to practice it in a manner that is intolerant of gay people, you are being homophobic. Period.

Yes. Because that's how it always works out. Things exist entirely on a binary where you either are running through the streets with a rainbow flag or out trying to bash their brains out. Good going. Real accurate view of reality there. You can't, say, be friends with a gay person and wish them well with their life while trying to adhere to a religion that views such things as unacceptable. Or, say, someone who is entirely fine with gay people and votes for it but is totally freaked out if one ever hits on you. Or feels that the act is disgusting and utterly immoral but votes in favor of it due to seeing it as unacceptable for the government to forbid two consenting adults. Yup. It's tooootally binary.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

It didn't. There was a lot of crappy anime with production values on par with 'North Korean Sweat Shop'. It's just that no one remembers something like Mad Bull 34 while almost everyone remembers Dragonball Z. Meanwhile everyone can easily access pretty much every modern anime, including the ones that look outright horrible.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

adjl posted...

Unbridled9 posted...

I find it funny that, ignoring the multiple option, people are less opposed to marrying their twin sisters in a polygamous marriage than they are marrying someone who is 17. Of course with the 'multiple' option I'm sure that number is different.

As I said, consent is the only important thing. Confirming consent can get hazy in cases of incest, because grooming is a thing, but provided all involved parties are consenting adults, they can do whatever they want.

But then, say, couldn't a woman consent to having sex with her dog and the dog 'consent' by engaging in the act?
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Yea... Voting no because of religious reasons isn't homophobic. Let's say you work for a company like Coke and the company decides to run an anti-seltzer campaign up to the point that you're not allowed to own said products. Ignoring the legality of how they'd know if you owned them or if they should be able to fire you for that; would working for Coke mean you hate seltzer water? Sure, you could quit or leave, but the point here is that being part of a group which makes decisions which can affect a multitude doesn't mean the individual agrees. Where I work sells cigarettes. Does that mean I'm fine with people smoking them? No. I hate them and would love to remove our cigarette section if possible. How would you feel if you had to vote Hilary/Trump in the last election JUST because you were a democrat/republican?

If you voted against gay marriage for religious reasons, you aren't a homophobe of necessity. You recognize that, for better or worse, your religion disagrees with such a thing and you value that faith more than permitting homosexual marriages. Doesn't mean you hate gays by a longshot.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

I find it funny that, ignoring the multiple option, people are less opposed to marrying their twin sisters in a polygamous marriage than they are marrying someone who is 17. Of course with the 'multiple' option I'm sure that number is different.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

I really should have included 'human/robot/doll' in hindsight.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Topic title. Is there some form of marriage you disapprove of or that is illegal and you approve of?
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Do I believe that conspiracies exist? Yes. They're rare but certainly happen. Do I believe stuff like the moon landing being faked? **** no! Like, seriously? The US hoped to fool the USSR in the race to the moon with a video that one cooped up nerd is able to debunk entirely? All because the Americans made stupid mistakes like leaving a 'C' on one of the prop rocks? No. That's not 'evidence'. That's you trying to sound smarter than you actually are by claiming that the catholic church manufactures condoms designed to fail to discourage people from having gay sex.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Most porn is scripted anyways. I think it's something like 95% being planned out and scripted by companies as opposed to being 'real'. Some good indicators are a room that's a bit too clean/orderly, multiple camera angles, someone clearly holding the camera, and so-forth.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Bunny is the fourth! This one is the fifth.

Heck, if they really wanted to do SJW pandering why NOT bring back bunny to show beauty in other body types or mental problems or whatever? This just reeks of a designer who knows nothing of the PPG making an OC.

And yea. What's up with those hips? Part of the appeal of the PPG was that they were still young children. You don't get hips like that when you're not even in the double digits. That's not to mention that the PPG were made from the classic 'girl' elements of sugar, spice, and everything nice (with some Chemical X. Would that be Bunny?) Likewise the Rowdy Rough Boys were 'Snips, snails, and puppydog tails'. So what's this new girl? Insecurity issues?

I'm not saying that the PPG can't have a fifth. I'm not saying that it can't be a 'diverse' character. I am saying that this one reeks of SJW pandering by someone who didn't watch the original series at all. Shouldn't that be, like, a requirement for any show/comic/game/whatever? Before you can do anything you HAVE to sit down and watch all the episodes?

Edit: Not that it matters. I don't care about this new PPG at all since I've heard a lot of negative things. Cutting Ms. Bellum killed all interest for me since it showed they didn't care about the series.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

slacker03150 posted...

This is like saying pc gamer should be a mens health magazine. They serve 2 different purposes.

How to get fit on a Mountain Dew and Cheetos diet! Read inside for twelve tips to shedding those pounds with this wonder diet!

Find out the graphics cards that make your female character wet!

How to dress for more furry sex!

How to make your own Six-Pack Red Bulls!
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Also, let me be frank. This person is a graphics designer. They have ****all to do with what's actually inside the magazine. Imagine if you wanted to make a magazine about dog health care and your graphics designer decided that they would rather make a cover detailing Trump scandals. How long do you think the graphic artist would remain on the payroll?
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

The one on the left looks done like a professional and like something you'd find crammed into a supermarket checkout aisle. The one on the right looks like something you'd find in the doctors office or dentist waiting room and looks pretty cruddy on the whole.

On a visual level the one on the right is simply uninteresting and actually a bit ugly. The cut white boxes under those text boxes make it look like they were cut over the picture by someone who couldn't even be bothered to round the edges off to make it look neat. The picture itself is also pretty bad for a magazine cover. It's just fine for an article but on the cover of a magazine it looks ugly and doesn't catch much interest.

But, for the big one, what's actually printed on it. Both are complete garbage. However the one on the left is just garbage in the 'traditional' sense of stuff you'd see in Cosmo while the one on the right, well, seems like it's the sort of thing where you'd read an article that would remind you of just how important your bi-annual dentist visit is. Not to mention it looks pretty self-gratifying; as if it's trying to say 'because I say it, it's right'. I'd say it kind of looks closer to those homestyle type magazines where it would contain several ways to spice up a Thanksgiving with wooden clothes pins that inevitably fail and make you realize just how much like Martha Steward you're not if I had to compare it to a supermarket magazine.

So, yea, the one on the left looks better while the one on the right looks boring at best
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Zach8920 posted...

A Sonic 06 sequel..fuck man I'd rather get a remaster/patch tbh.

Guess they'd just make sonic more open ended, which would sate me.

Well, you netted 'indie hyper-violent FPS' so... Well... Crud. Looks more like a Shadow the Hedgehog remaster.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

pedro45 posted...

uhhhh....
how does this work?

i thought of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2.

Take a look at the seconds of your post time. The first is the company your game will be developed for, the second is the type of game.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

lostdragon posted...

Why not post here.

Well sure I guess.

Final Fantasy is now an ubisoft-supported Dating Sim. The game will feature Gilgamesh going around to various swords and trying to woo each of them so that he can claim them as his own. However his true love is the sword Excalibur being held by the evil Butz and his companions. Despite his best efforts he is constantly defeated by men, women, and women who dress like men leaving his love unrequited. At least unless the player pays to buy extra DLC. The game is also completely littered with bugs throughout to the point of characters outright turning invisible. They must also log on to Uplay to play the dating sim. Despite all this they will manage to release a game every year. However, the fanbase will constantly pine for them to let Gilgamesh to date Masemune but have it turned down for being 'too familiar'.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

TheCyborgNinja posted...

Hillary Clinton: villain or supervillain?

Incapable buffoon who managed to pull off the amazing feat of losing to Trump. If she's a supervillain I'd say she's roughly in the same league as Condiment King.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

HarukaKitsune posted...

How do you feel about the growing disillusionment, particularly among millennials, with traditional party politics causing many of them to find emerging alternative movements more attractive (on the right, things like the alt-right and re-emerging white nationalist movements; on the left, things like antifa and rising membership in socialist and communist movements)?

It is the inevitable, if highly unfortunate, consequence of parties that have become insular within their upper echelons and provide little attention to either the desires of their common voters or even to anything that does not immediately reward their own private interests. However the two stem from two completely different sources with the democratic party being corrupt through and through while boasting a young voter populace that is entitled and actively detrimental to the core values which have enabled the nation to prosper while the republican party is stuck with a party that is self-congratulating and ineffective combined with a populace more than willing to insult and condemn them the moment they opt to speak out. As a result a movement like ANTIFA, in which a young populace whom has known naught but political bounty as they have had eight years of relative political prosperity preceded by a member of the opposing party who was involved in an unpopular war is now forced to deal with a party which effectively assassinated their own candidate, was an inevitability. Conversely the alt-right, nationalist, and Neo-Nazi parties on the opposing side were an inevitability when the common populace of the party was consistently informed that they were wrong, evil, and corrupt and their own party didn't even bother to try and stick up for them in any regard. A sad but inevitable fracture for this state of affairs.

Lightning Bolt posted...

Do the ends justify the means, or do the means justify the ends, when the two are at odds?

A question impossible to answer as it devolves down to being situational. However, certain core ideals must be held in order for an ends to have any meaning and if the method to obtain those ends compromises those ideals the end result will almost assuredly be tainted.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Could I poop hard enough to rocket to the moon?
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

That game has recently had a sequel announced that will be developed by:
0: Nintendo
1: EA
2: SEGA
3: Blizzard
4: Ubisoft
5: An indie developer with a self-referential title.

And it will be a:
0: Dancing game
1: Real Time Strategy
2: Hyper-violent FPS
3: Dating Sim
4: 100+ hour JRPG
5: Freemium title
6: Platformer
7: G-rated fighting game
8: City-building simulation game
9: MOBA

If it's already one of those move on to the next one up. What did you get and what's the game like?
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

SunWuKung420 posted...

Do you agree that the divide between republicans and democrats that's being widened by the media and our politicians is the most detrimental thing for America?

There are many things that are causing the divide between republicans and democrats that are feeding off of each other. To claim any one thing is 'the most detrimental' is simply inaccurate with so many things, especially with the divide often coming down to individual issues as opposed to a blanket statement. However the media and various politicians seem to have gone out of their way of late to make things worse.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

RCtheWSBC posted...

How come cows can go up stairs, but not down them?

Because they struggle to see the 'ground' next stair meaning that, to them, it's basically looking over a cliff face and being told to take a step. Thank you local petting zoo.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

I won't promise I'll answer everything, especially stuff that pertains to my privacy, but I'll certainly try to answer some stuff.
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage

Dikitain posted...

wwinterj25 posted...

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

Then you have failed at failing, making you the ultimate failure.

What happens when you take two vacuums, point the hoses at each other, and turn them on?

They kiss, make out, and a few months later a baby roomba is born.

Why don't they sell tomacco?
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I am the gentle hand who heals, the happy smile who shields, and the foot that will kick your ***! - White Mage