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https://theintercept.com/2015/09/18/prominent-anti-muslim-group-says-ahmed-mohameds-clock-resembles-ied-trigger-produced-iranians/ This is main stream America here. This isn't fringe. Serious people with jobs and keys are thinking and saying these things out loud.

Well, they would "love" for it to be out by then. Unless they've announced an actual date?

The key, to me, is that they called the cops to arrest the kid (who only ever said it was a clock) but didn't evacuate the school. How can they argue they were following protocols in the face of a credible threat when they clearly knew it wasn't a bomb?

Same

The Rachel Dolezal case is very specific and exists in the context of Blackness in America. I feel like there are circumstances there which totally warrant the reaction against her. It's similar to the "nightmare scenario" that transphobes trot out when arguing against granting transwomen washrooms or what Joe Rogan bangs on about when he's demanding that trans women out themselves before they are allowed to fight other women in the UFC (in that they argue that "sick fucks" will "chop their dicks off" to sneak in). But does that translate to universally?

But then, the demand that trans people to not "lie" about where they came from and to not pretend they are someone they aren't is gross. I guess it comes down to who gets to decide what people feel on the inside vs. who is a poser. TERFs use the same line of reasoning against Male to Female trans people but they're generally considered to be on the wrong side of the argument.

Ooh look, banks are now creating their own alternative to money that isn't tied to notoriously earthbound nation states: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/15/us-banks-blockchain-idUSKCN0RF24M20150915 I wonder if Blythe "Credit Default Swap Whoops the economy crashed" Masters is even a real person and not a sardonically named hologram.

Iiiiiiit's a shoe?

That version of E1M1 sounds more like how I remember it than the re-releases do. Of all the episodes, Knee Deep in the Dead always had the best sense of place to me and I wonder if it's the result of the more narrative focus the game had at first. Also, there were many designers with different design aesthetics. Tom Hall and John Romero were more narrative focused and did a majority of Knee Deep where as Sandy Peterson was more into encounter design and didn't give the setting a lot of thought, and a lot of the later levels were his work. (at least, that's how I remember the process being described in Masters of Doom, but it's been a decade since I've read it). He also made / finished 19 levels in the 10 weeks before Doom was released after Tom Hall left, which probably accounts for the rough edges. That said, my fave level in Doom is E2M7 (a Tom Hall / Sandy Peterson joint).

Clearly this is why he was removed from the air!

Remember that scene at the end of Dr. Strangelove when, after it's clear the missiles will fly, the conversation immediately shifts to how they (as in the generals on the War Room) could survive or even thrive in well equipped mineshafts? Climate change is the last credible threat to the main beneficiaries of global capitalism; either we do nothing and the economy as we know it collapses, or we take the radical action necessary to prevent it (if that's even possible) which would be equally as disruptive to the status quo. However, for the super rich and powerful, there's a third option: decouple global capitalism from the globe and the suckers who have to live there. Isn't it interesting how, when it was clear we were reaching the tipping point, there was a whole lot of money being thrown at in private space travel, robots, radical free trade agreements approaching corporate statehood status and life extension.

Win 7 ~4 years old medium spec. However, I think it might actually be the HDD it's installed on is dying >.< I'm investigating now and I'll PM you with the results. 90% sure it isn't your problem tho.

That's the thing. People who complain about microaggressions being a thing like to act like people are blowing up at them "out of nowhere" when, in reality, the blow up is a result of that person doubling down on the shitty thing they said. Like, it would be cool if it could just go: Bob: *says problematic thing the first time* Jim: "The thing you just said hurt my feelings" Bob: "Oh, sorry" *it more thoughtful in future* And then it's done! End of story! Cool! Let's go ride bikes! Instead we have: Bob: *says problematic thing for the ten thousandth time* Jim: "The thing you said hurt my feelings, as it has ten thousand times before" Bob: "No it didn't, and in fact you are the asshole" Jim: "Fuck you then" Bob: *Writes think piece about victim-hood culture*

I've been loving the game but at about 2 hours in I started to get hit with >1 minute long load times when I transition between screens. Is anyone else seeing this?

Using a gun in the header for an article calling for people to suck up their hurt feelings instead of wallowing in "victim-hood" just seems bone-headed to me in an age where there are almost daily spree killings and suicides by people who don't feel they can express their pain in any other way, for fear of appearing weak (or undignified).

Holy fucking shit, this article. Let's not even bother going into the body of text itself, which is basically an instructions directed towards marginalized people to "harden up" and stop standing up for themselves and focus on the juxtaposition of the headline and the image in the header: I suppose it is possible that the author has simply never watched that little TV show called "The News" as, otherwise, she'd know that a lot of grown-ups are already resulting to firearms to address attacks on their dignity and, thus, would have been confronted by the notion that, perhaps, trying to create a more empathetic society might not be such a bad thing after all. And you'll be shocked to hear that I found this article on reddit, /r/TrueReddit no less, at the eye of a veritable hurricane of sage nods and golf claps.

What's the point of having a Canadian Netflix if they're not going to have any goddam Cronenberg movies >:|

1. what counts as "violence"? Does rotting in a refugee camp count? Does 0 job security, housing security, food security count as violence? Does gentrification? Boom and bust economics? Just because I don't have to worry about some mook mashing me over the head for my wallet doesn't mean i'm not at risk of having a riot cop mash me over the head if I'm not satisfied with the ever shrinking number of scraps the owners of the world deem to brush off their table. However, I would firmly agree that it's safer than it's ever been in history to be a plutocrat. 2. forgive me if I'm skeptical of the Economist quoting Tony Blaire on what a great job neo-liberal capitalism is doing eliminating poverty by explaining how about how the "fireman's helmut" will rise all boats. in conclusion :waves arms furiously and goes out to buy liquor:

If your choice of targets are either hypocrits or rabid dogs, there's not a lot of point in foaming mouth shaming. We're slipping into a new gilded age, only the masters don't even have to pretend to be worried about a general uprising. I'm drifting into the conspiracy thread's domain but I don't think it's a coincidence that, for the last 30 years, both right and left wings of just about every northern democracy have been slashing and burning financial and trade regulations while innovations in "security" and automation have been booming. Basically, the power that props up the status quo is being decoupled from the parts of society that can impede it without massive blood shed, namely the 99%. Why? Climate change, water shortages, food shortages, could render the world unrecognizable before any workers revolt will ever get off the ground. Just so happens that when the threat of climate change was discovered, "we" started working furiously to ensure that the 1% will not only survive but also maintain a life style they are accustomed to. Bah! Gah! Burn it all down! What am I even talking about!? Right. Zizek. He's always the kind of right that just makes me cynical and despondent. Yup! We can save the world! Just need to change every aspect of society from the foundations up, kill about 2 billion people and then just hope the next gang of bosses don't just do all the same shit that literally every gang of bosses have eventually done in the past (if they weren't bumped off).

Maybe this is what Kojima meant that we'd be ashamed of all along.

I wasn't originally going to put this in this thread but I think some might find it useful. This article by Sady Doyle (it's a gut-wrenching read if you haven't seen it) left me feeling extremely ambivalent in a way that I couldn't fully articulate. That's (unfortunately) never prevented me from posting things online before and so I did partially articulate it... simultaneously with another comment that specifically requested that the Feminism thread not be turned into a debate about the rhetorical merits of an article about rape culture: wrong time wrong place. I respect that, and please hear me out, but I did come across this response by Timothy Burke that did manage to articulate what left me feeling uneasy about the first article and I think it's worth thinking about. In regards to the unintended consequences of art: Yes. Exactly. This is how I feel. And my feelings are wrong. Timothy Burke's response isn't really a response to Doyle's article at all. Burke is responding to a strawman which claims the "PC" brigade wants to cleanse all expression of the potential of any feeling getting hurt for any reason in any context. It's the same strawman that Patton Oswald and Jerry Sienfeld and Chris Rock are blaming for their discomfort at the backlash they get on college campuses. Doyle's article is not calling for a moratorium on any and all expression which a hidden cabal of wet blanket millennials deem unacceptable. Doyle is focused specifically on rape culture and its contribution to rapes actually occurring. In the context of Doyle's article, the sword Burke describes is "rape jokes", and the two audiences are "rapists" and "victims of rape". How can one refuse to specifically stop telling jokes which light of rape and the victims of rape for the reasons Burke puts forward; I can't think of anything redeemable which society is in danger of losing if we oblige. And thinking it through, it is difficult see a reason to continue to tell jokes about the victims of racism, patriarchy, or any other pervasive oppression that infects society. At first, Doyle's article triggered a reaction in me that Burke helped me identify and writing this post helped me get past it. Now, if you DO want to argue about this, please PM me or do it in the Random Thought thread. I'm game to do so but lets respect the fact that others here are not interested.

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The missing number there is what percentage of that 4% who purchased the game pirated it first (not to mention how many purchased due to word of mouth from pirates).

I have a feeling that article began with the following as a tweet: And ballooned from there.

She does mention Manson and Helter Skelter though I didn't find her reasoning for why that was totally different very convincing.