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I would like an RPG try to go further with the Wikipedia-like conversations Morrowind had. I think it could be interesting to make a system that's not actually modeling a conversation, as all systems that have tried to model conversations have failed utterly. Having keywords you click, no typed sentences for your character and such could in fact make suspension of disbelief easier.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/04/11/arma-3-zeus-dlc-out-now/

The book is definitely better. Plenty of the jokes in the film fail to land as well as they do in the book.

Damn Anglos.

How great is this Silicon Valley ad? I really liked the first episode, although I will admit the single female character's role could turn out to be questionable.

That's way nicer than the bulky things I've previously seen. Much less of a useless ugly toy by appearance. Actually impressed.

What I was thinking was that Americans are gorram weird.

Nerdourage. Good lord, a new Mike Judge series!

Oh, I thought it was utter shit.

I'm so happy S3 ended like it ended. The first episode of the new season was so much more enjoyable knowing I wouldn't have to follow that plotline.

They have nothing at all to show.

Well, no. They just didn't show all of it.

Just saw Free to Play. Pretty much loved it even though I understand Dota even less than sports in general.

You know, that's a good way to look at it. I had a similar experience, but nerd never held the kind of connotations the other words discussed in this thread have held. If it did, I doubt it would have been possible for me to just let it go. Even if I identified as a nerd, I never called myself one and certainly if you look at my relationship history, I have tended to hide that part of myself from my partners. If I was growing up now, I doubt that would have happened -- it would just have been part the identity I display.

Bjorn, don't talk about people in the same room like they're not there! Faegbeard, it's not conducive to a discussion if you your answer to direct replies to your post with "I don't see how that applies to what I wrote". If that's the case, clarify what you wrote and tell us why the reply didn't apply to it. The derailing tactics Bjorn mentioned are questions that are easy to ask but demand effort to answer, followed by some quick dismissal of the answer. They exhaust the people you are debating with. That said, I would refrain from posting links to lists...

Allowing people to identify as members of society not essentially different from anyone else is huge. And the you know which communities, they've been mentioned.

Getting into that debate is not a great idea for this thread. That's an unending philosophical mire. The value of reclaiming words is obvious from looking at communities that have managed to do so. Examining that would be more useful than continuing a debate on the nature of language and human thought.

Language is how ideas are formed, transformed and spread. Feelings of revulsion and fear can exist independent of language, but it's problematic to say any idea even could exist somehow apart from language. Don't just think about individuals. Language and culture are completely intertwined. Change one, you change them both. Gay has been almost completely removed from pejorative use, which forces homophobes to use another term, which could ostensibly be appropriated later. That forces them to use words which have less power. Additionally, appropriating words doesn't just change how language is used and perceived afterwards. It also changes how earlier use of that word is perceived. Something said with the purpose of being the most vehement insult imaginable twenty years ago can just appear a bit sad and funny now. We can change history! Or at least the power history has on us. So, it's like 1984, but for good.

Yes. You can find it on Snopes.

You don't want to know how that is possible. Not suitable for this thread.

Yup, all that done.

Installing GTA IV was the absolute worst. But I think I'm ready for Thumb Auto for the first time ever.

If you're feeling like shooting a dude with a railgun, now's the time to connect to Mumble or message me or toblix on Steam!

Good! It looks good!

I honestly don't really know. I don't know what Lords Management stands for, either. Lords Management. Somehow I can't say that right. M, O, B, A, Lords Management.