Wubbles

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  5. Posted

    John Steinbeck: "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

    Not only is it pretty funny, but it basically sums up the American Dream, and American Exceptionalism generally.

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    I chose those images without thought for their historical context because the point I'm making has little to do with history (although it is obviously steeped in it). The point is that the meaning of words does not lie only in the eyes their beholders.

    Humans are not perfectly rational - despite ourselves, we tend to become invested in what others think of us, knowing, even, how little weight ought to be placed in it if we are at peace with who we are. For that reason, it is not sensible to ask the gay man to grow a thicker skin about people calling him a faggot because "faggot", to him, has come to represent all the contempt the world feels for who he is. He may know quite well there's little "faggot" suggests about his true nature (or, perhaps, as might be likelier, does not know), but it hardly stops the word from hammering home, perhaps again, just how alien and how dirty he is to others. Yes, although he understands homosexuality is not a flaw, the hate still bears down on him: "I am unwanted. I am society's detritus." Would you fault him for feeling that way?

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    That guy is an ignoramus with a choir, and every fatuous point he makes hinders social progress. Maybe Mr. Straight, White, and Wealthy has never felt the sting of true hatred, but for every person who winces when he spouts "faggot", I hope he does.

    What could the problem with words be?

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    What the casual use "stop fucking me in the arse" and, more generally, "rape" does unambiguously is contribute positively (or negatively depending on definitions) to rape culture - this sort of language en masse creates an environment in which, essentially, the perception of rape's cruelty is wrongfully diminished.

    I think a good rule for having an opinion is to avoid language that hurts socially disadvantaged people. Water-sport fetishists are not socially disadvantaged people; homosexuality is not a fetish. In fact, the breed of equivocation that places the shaming of homosexuals and the shaming water-sport fetishists in the same category is straw-man nonsense. Water-sport fetishists aren't beaten to death for their fondness for urine.

    maybe this is all parody what's happening

  15. Posted

    It seems like Bethesda has spent their last few development cycles working on improving the parts of their games that have the most visceral impact on the play experience (physics, animations, graphics, voice acting) while dodging around what ought to be the most important part of the Bethesdan experience - storytelling. They've certainly improved hugely since Oblivion, Morrowind, and Fallout, especially in terms of non-dialogue-based storytelling, but I don't understand why so much of the writing put into Skyrim is still so bad.

    I suppose pacing is a large part of the problem Skyrim. I wonder if Bethesda worries that players'll get bored of the same themes after a while, so they try to keep questlines short, expecting players to move on to different ones.

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    Man, the Thieves' Guild questline is awful. You steal like three things for them and

    suddenly you're the greatest thief anyone in the guild has ever seen and you deserve not only to lead them, but to be given the power of the god Nocturnal, a privilege granted to members of Thieves' Guild, apparently, once in periods of centuries.

    It's like Bethesda wanted to convey what it feels like to be part of a seedy criminal organization, but didn't have the patience to make anything that does that effectively.

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    As far as I can tell, it's still being suggested that the people who made the video wasted their effort, which is an assumption that relies on the idea that the video was created at the expense of a more valuable endeavor. That assumption is baseless; there is nothing to show the creators didn't spend the time they didn't use to make the video doing something important, and I don't understand why anyone, without the information to know otherwise, would imply that isn't so.

    I'm going to go out on a limb and say the guys who made the video probably have day-jobs (perhaps, if they're as creatively talented as Sal 'n' Limones says they ought to be, they have jobs making some kinds of worthwhile cultural contributions) and the time they spent making the video was spare - secondary to that which they spend on their career. My point with the Gears of War and Superbowl examples was that every second of the day doesn't need to be consumed doing something useful. While the Minecraft video seemingly required an inordinate amount of discipline and time for a product of value equal to anything gained watching men chainsaw each other or score touchdowns, it is probably as significant to the people who made it as chainsaws and touchdowns are to a different, regular person.

    "I'm off work, so I'll unwind for the evening with GoW multiplayer."

    "I'm off work, so I'll unwind for the evening by making a silly, mindless Minecraft project with some friends."

    (Also, that the project took the guys months (as it says in the video's description) implies that they probably weren't working on it every waking moment.)

  24. Posted

    You know, it's possible that they have jobs and just made the video after getting home from work each day or something like that. It's weird to assume they wasted every waking second of time they had when the video was in production, granting that making the video was a waste of time at all.

  25. Posted

    So.. late to the party here, but just got to the first boss battle. I had heard about them of course, and figured that they sounded boring and took you out of the experience. I had no idea they were just beyond fucking stupid. I just die, over and over again. I have a hugely upgraded pistol and I've been silently taking dudes out for eight hours, and now I just have a huge dude with a gun walking at me. Brilliant.

    If you haven't finished the fight yet and you have the strength aug (although you might not need it, I can't remember):

    Just throw the poisonous gas and explosive canisters lying around the room at him. If you have a stun gun or EMP grenades, you can use those to make that tactic a little easier to execute, as they disable him for a little bit

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