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Yeah, being a 'contractor' is not the problem, because the whole point of the contract is so that if things go south you or them can cut loose. Not getting paid is a rather more pressing problem, because getting paid is what makes you a professional, not experience. You deserve better than working for exposure. You can build a portfolio on your own time, and retain ownership.

Yes, actually that dulls the pain of BG&E2 never actually existing: Ubisoft's editorial team would surely ruin it. (Ubisoft have an editorial team - there is a reason why all their games are so homogenous these days.)

I hate to bring this up, but if we're going to have a run-up at why Rodgers (a name that will never stick in my head) did what he did, some attention needs to be paid to how much more common shootings are in the US compared to any other developed country. Plenty of other countries have MRAs, have spoiled entitled rich kids, have poor handling of mental illness, have guns reasonably available. At this point, violent rampages are almost part of American culture, and that's a horrifying scenario that you can't really revert.

Because you have been taken in by the idea that you can improve Wikipedia. It is not meritocratic; it is hierarchical, and whoever has the higher status wins. As a new editor, you have just as much sway over the article as a drive-by editor, except now they've made you feel like you're responsible.

Wow, that looks nothing like a cat.

So I found the origins of the Bombcast Australian thong beef, and oh my god it's a Melbourne vs Sydney beef. You know how most cities have beefs they work out via sports, and every year they play their rival city and metaphorical blood is spilled? We can't agree on the game. It's that bad. (also they're called thongs because a strap of leather tied onto itself to secure an item of clothing was called a thong, and it's not hard to see how that got applied to both flip-flops, basically a bit of plastic with a thong strap, and g-strings, a bit of groin covering with a thong strap) (the Bombcast can sort their own shit out, I'm not writing in)

I didn't see this the last time, but this seems fixable with drops from kills.

I'm sorry.

All this European racist revival stuff makes me wonder how it compares to our policies. We've got some really terrible immigration policies right now, but we don't really have a racist party (we have One Nation, but One Nation's a joke), which makes me wonder if that means that the racist fringe has a home in the mainstream parties, or that we pulled back from it successfully.

The Argodale brand in the kitchen, the Phaedrus Motorcycle ad that Sam has in her room, and the ghost game in the parent's cupboard, that I remember.

I spent most of my formative years oblivious to the fact that there were different people, so I didn't really internalise any kind of attitude like that. You would have had to work pretty hard to convince me that girls were different to boys because to my mind they were all not-mes. I did go through an awkward "trying to be progressive but mostly making it worse" phase as an adult.

Now, let's not jump to conclusions. His head cannon may be the thing that's biased.

The Idle Thumbs references aren't the punchline to anything, though. You wouldn't detect there was anything significant about them if you weren't familiar with the podcast injokes. That's very different to 'reference humour' where your punchline is clearly a reference to something.

Glad to see we agree that the people who made this cover are also unintentionally racist and that the imagery they used has racist origins they should have been more sensitive to, given that the only bit you actually objected to was the bit where I took a cheap shot at your handle. Still didn't really work because you replied that an obnoxious American is surely wacky and not the prevailing cultural stereotype outside of America, and did not reply that you're going to prove me wrong and listen to the marginalised to try to understand how they feel.

Another excuse to link to We Hunted The Mammoth, who talked about this very thing? It's like Easter! In that it's borne out of a really shitty event and that the story'll trail off after about four days without any closure My heart goes out to the families involved; the victims, who didn't deserve this, and the killer's, who saw it coming and tried to stop it.

I'm uncomfortable with you drawing a correlation between having Aspergers and writing a presumptuous rant on the Firaxis forums. You can be one or the other without being both. But holy crap is that post full of itself.

I've played this recently, so: the sell-out ending to Saints Row the Third is that you shoot a Saints Row movie called Gangsters in Space. You move through a Mars movie set jumping trucks off ramps and blowing up bases, and being generally sociopathic because Saints Row, but Teg's overselling it because you're mostly shooting up the villain's base and not just going to random colonists and destroying everything they own for no reason. It's stupid and video gamey because you basically chose to sell out and be wacky Video game characters instead of violent mobsters.

Yeah, technically he's an incel, not an MRA or a PUA, but honestly I don't know if there's value in splitting hairs. For instance, there are "Men Going Their Own Way" who supposedly swear off women but still manage to spend most of their time hating them. What they identify as is a facade; scratch a little away and you find someone furious that whatever hierarchy there is, they're not up high and women aren't below them. So! I don't think I've told the story about my PUA roommate. I had one! His name was Justin. This was back before I understood feminism or had heard about PUAs. He was very charming except he was also pretty racist and pretty shitty towards women, and he had set a goal to sleep with 50 women in a year. I mentioned once that I was heading out to go to my friend Belinda's place, and he literally could not comprehend that I could be friends with a woman and that we could have shared interests and do cool things. It was bizarre. My other housemate and I eventually decided that his view on women was shaped by the women he spent time with - his techniques basically only worked on the kind of women that conformed to his stereotype. I suspect now that this probably isn't true, that they probably had more to offer, and he wouldn't have seen it.

Oh boy, it's Mr. No You're The Racist. Apparently the people who created this image are fucking unicorns because they are the only people in Western civilisation who aren't even the tiniest bit racist, and it's lucky that we have Mr. No You're The Racist here who is uniquely qualified to bring us this scoop, having probed deeply into their subconscious and discovered that they have never thought that someone of a different culture, colour or creed is different than them. And apparently images of reckless affluence don't have a racial component at all despite many of them being rooted in systemic exploitation, because as soon as we decided that was bad, suddenly they all changed their meaning overnight. Because that's how it works! People don't do blackface because poop jokes and puns are in right now. It is delicious to me that on this forum, Mr. No You're The Racist goes by the handle of WackyForeigner. Like, if you're looking for someone who has never once thought how the experiences of a person of another race might differ from their own, the first name you'd look for would be someone who named themselves after a trope built on the idea that people from other cultures are inherently unknowable, wouldn't you.

So in case you aren't aware, a men's rights activist went on a shooting rampage because he couldn't stand to see women make their own dating decisions instead of dating him (charmingly, particularly if they weren't white). A transcript of his last video, where he made the threat (and also an excuse to link We Hunted The Mammoth). The YouTube comments are, obviously, appalling. There are many people trying to work out whether mental illness is the problem, or MRAs, or trivial access to guns. It would be nice if the argument didn't assume we had to choose. Also if people didn't automatically assume that mental illness makes you shoot up a university when you get angry. Lowlights: he'd been murdering people in his apartment before the shooting, and apparently his family worked out he was a danger to others and reported it to the police, who interviewed him and found him a nice young man. Rape culture!

Hey guys what's going on in this thread-- --uh-- --well at least I can back up the idea that it's basically impossible for people who grew up in 'civilised' cultures to not be racist, including the victims of racism. Similarly for sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and any other kind of marginalisation. The best you can hope for is to catch when you are being racist, learn from it, and resolve to check yourself in the future, in the hope that if enough people do it, it'll eventually stop being passed onto the next generation. Being racist doesn't mean that you want to lynch black people, it means you have ideas you can't quite get away from.

I'm enjoying Chris going apeshit over inadvertently starting a pun thread, and Sean's just storking the fire.

I'm pretty sure someone convinced me to part with my Max Hat.

The fewer decision game clients make, the fewer decisions that can be changed by hacks. That said, this is easily dealt with by distributing validation of the game state.

The problem is that he pushes back in the wrong places. Zelda could stand to be less talky and more evocative, but Koizuma deftly handles the kinds of plots that he attempts with Mario - never too heavy, with a nice dose of melancholy.