Roderick

It's for stress relief, and Shy Guy is there to watch I'll spoil your surely delightful fantasies by pointing out that when the weather is cold, the skin on my hands gets dry to point of cracking and bleeding at the knuckles. Vaseline is a godsend in preventing that. The romantic candles; I have no explanation. Thunder, shit to hear you have weird side effects. Can our resident doctor come in for some primo advice?

Another reason is that people usually play with subtitles on. As a result, you instantly read the joke, but then have to wait for the actor's delivery before you feel you can laugh, and that destroys some of the surprise and fun. You could play without subtitles, but I don't know who would.

Sorry for the double post: I just made a picture of my custom-ordered, crocheted necktie based on the My Little Pony character of Rainbow Dash. This way I can go into meetings and still carry out my outrageous nerdhood. You can't tell me what to do!

(Miffy's youngest son.)

You think Toblix looks like THAT GUY? No no no, in my mind, Toblix is like a unicorn.

Send me your address, Orvidos, and I'll begin your weekly stipend of waffles immediately. Ooh, ooh, I have another quaint tale! Dutch people make it a sport to impersonate Belgian accents, because to us it sounds really soft and funny. Now, I'm all up for that. At the same time, I just know in Belgium people must be impersonating the Dutch as well. But every time I ask Belgian acquaintances to do their best impression, they always get shy! Come on, I just want to laugh at my own ridiculous language, is that too much to ask? Gward; I have heard of Paris being an island quite separate from the rest of France. The same is somewhat true of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and perhaps every country's capital? (Just for the really, really obvious record, I have no actual beef with any other country. I've been on holiday to tons of European countries and one thing always struck me wherever I went: how goddamn friendly, neighbourly and plain good the people were. Doesn't matter whether I was in Sweden, Turkey, Spain or Scotland, folks were always kind and hospitable. Screw racial stereotypes.)

Then again, this is what their politicians are like: T7Dw9GL9Pdc drunk out of their skull

The Dutch have an entire library of comedy based on the "hilarious" notion that Belgians are retarded. I guess their secession from us 180 years ago still hurts like a motherfucker.

I can only assume they are the very same Germans demolishing our shores.

Well, sorry to disappoint, but we were miles above the camping crowd. We would always rent apartments or vacation houses we got via friends. We avoided any tourist traps like the plague, preferring instead to blend in with the local crowd. And French people loved us, in all my years I never met any of those fabled 'arrogant French' that people in my country (and outside?) always, always complain about. It's entirely hilarious though that everyone hates the Dutch towing caravans (The Dutch sign is actually NL, D is Deutschland) You know what our favorite ethnic stereotype is? Germans coming to our shores and digging holes to sit in on the beach.

Yeah, Gwardinen, I speak both French and German. When hearing Luxembourgian, my brain is constantly trying to convince me I'm hearing the two languages all at once and it's driving me nuts. It's French! No, it's German! No French! German! Even the HUGE GAZOINKAS on the lady do nothing to stop the mental hemorrhaging. I first heard this when I was young. My family went on holiday in France almost every year. Driving there from the Netherlands we would inevitably cross Luxembourg and pick up their radio signal, filling the car with this unholy weirdness.

Not to mention it'll take Chris, Jake and Sean a full year to handle all those $1000 dinner dates. The Idle Supper Cast.

I want to go off on a tangent and point out that the Luxembourgish language is the weirdest thing in existence. It's like someone speaking French and German at the same time. Like hearing two people talking at once, my mind can't process it. Here's a quick example. cxIOX5rh8Gc&

It's not that strange, Tanu, since this is prime marketing material. This will lure more people to the Kickstarter since it really delves into why adventure games are terrific!

That's a big load off your chest, Nach! I'm a little vexed trying to tackle all of it, but I'll try to deal with some of it. 1. In general I agree with you about [nerd] culture (please replace nerd also with media, movie, high school, pop music culture) treating sex in entirely bizarre and wrong ways. Ways that does further unacceptable behavior towards women. 2. You are very quick there to link white privilege to having weird sexual hangups, but maybe I'm misreading that? I didn't quite know what to make of it, but then I haven't thought about that link specifically. Weird sexual/social hangups happen in every culture on Earth, that's not a white thing at all. Rape happens in every culture too, so I would hesitate to link it to white privilige. 3. About my joke, I don't know what more to say than I have already said. I hope that in your zeal you didn't see this as a 'rape is funny' joke, that's just not the case. A joke can incorporate the subject of rape for any reason without it being about demeaning women at all. 4. I understand where everything you wrote is coming from, but you might be barking up the wrong tree. One dubious joke does not a forum of assholes maketh. Idle Thumbs is a community whose people generally don't have weird social/sexual stuntedness. Many of us are either married, have had girl/boyfriends and relationships or are developing those social skills. None of that crazy misogynist, pick-up-artist stuff around here, to my knowledge. But you seem positively upset and worried, so is there any way we can calm you down? In any case, I hope there's still room after this to, in its own good time, make wholly awful jokes about every subject on Earth, because if we don't, Subbes will get fat.

Look, guys, I don't give a shit about what you think and how many arguments you throw at me. The fact of the matter is that I'm just not going to make a whole lot of rape jokes anymore and you'll just have to live with that.

Sorry to hear about your encounter with a Dr. Spaceman, Thunder. Now about the rape jokes. Let's for the moment envision a reality where this forum is still populated with reasonable, consenting adults who have well over seven years of history with each other and also know that we are prone to every sort of humor, from silly sarcasm to ironic crassness and everything in between. Good, now we can talk to each other. What makes any comment or joke inappropriate or bad is context and intention. You hit the nail on the head, Thunder, when you said that you can say these sort of things to friends. I consider you my friends. You are all people I hold close to my heart and as a result of that I feel at liberty to, say, invite everyone to rape Kroms. Knowing that this proposition is so ludicrous both in and of itself and as a response to the situation of Kroms finding love, that no one in their right mind would take it seriously as a misogynist rape joke. If I said this to a stranger, it would indeed be appalling. I am very careful with making anything a taboo or put a moratorium on humor. Again, context matters. If I for instance knew that Kroms had been raped at some point, I would not have made the joke. Neither would the joke have been funny if I had meant it maliciously. But the point here, the joke, wasn't the rape. It was the shock and awe it induced, the deliberate provocation with a very negative subject. Rest at ease: this type of joke very quickly loses its flavor if repeated too often, since it hinges on the surprise effect. Damn you for making me explain comedy. Also, now that I know that a few folks here have a real issue with it (probably (hopefully!) not personally, but vicariously), I'll be more careful with it. After all, there's no sense to making a joke if nobody's laughing.

The economy in Zelda has always been completely fucked up and useless. Yuo need Rupees only for these big splash items, everything else you can buy is stupid and unnecessary (bombs and stuff, which you can find for free in bushes). I'd be interested in an expanded items/armor system in Zelda. It's one of the things that might give it a little nudge in the right direction. Disclaimer: I've always enjoyed Zelda, but feel that I'm pretty much done with the whole series for a while.

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LET'S ALL RAPE KROMS

I hate these games. I love them and want to love them, but I rarely have the time to really invest in them. It takes a deal of learning... I must say that's one hell of a map. Maps are breathtaking.

At least we figured out you're not the Nintendo Mole.

Fuck you, Miffy

Man, this would be the opportune time for the Nintendo mole here to nudge us over the edge and trade in years of effort for a cool 30 Euros. Well played, Nintendo!

Kromslieben!