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[Hybrida]

... Anyway, America leads once again in Olympic gold medals. A display of American superiority versus the world. We lead while the rest of the planet follows. Enjoy your soccer, it's the only sport you can win at.

Other nations can bitch moan all day, but they'll always be 2nd best. If you guys think you're so tough, please do something about it... Yeah, it would be Suicide if you did. Complaining is all you can do. Y'all better recognize.

USA has 2,500 operational ICBM's rated at 20 megatons. Can reach anywhere on earth within 45 minutes. Enough to annihilate the world's population 5 times over. Can obliterate all of Canada in under 10 minutes. Deal with it. I suggest you non nuclear nations be behave.

Show a some respect to the most powerful Nation on Earth:
The United States of America!!

 

[coyotecraft]

I've seen homes that look like a third world country. Like, they're a big family in a small house. The house is a dump. Kitchen is one big pile of dishes. They throw dirty laundry down the stairs because fuck it. They have 1 trashcan in the entire house that's overflowing, but even if you replaced it they'd just leave wrappers or whatever lay wherever they opened it.
Their front yard is a mess of weeds and broken shit that needs to be hauled off to the dump. And their backyard is a dirt patch with a mountain of dog crap in the corner.

 

[Byron]

It looks half chub. You need to make the dicke bigger.

NSFW
You're playing with powers you don't understand.

Holy fugk yesss.

 

[Ellie]

Meh, the EU has over 60 gold medals so far. Considering the difference in population between the US and UK, we're punching above our weight with 13.

 

[Ellie]

Is demon lord single btw

 

[Byron]

I think I trust robots more than humans.
Robots never say "Eh, fuck it."

 

[Hybrida]

Skynet begs to differ...

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

What do you guys think about people that identify themselves as gender fluid, totally legit or not? I honestly don't have an informed opinion on the subject since there aren't many people like that in my country. In fact, I think I've never met one (though I did happen to see a lot of transgender patients - oh god, so much syphilis).

 

[Xilef]

What do you guys think about people that identify themselves as gender fluid, totally legit or not?

Some aspects of gender come from labels written by society, rather than chromosomal differences, and even sexuality is out of the definition these days.

In an ideal world we wouldn't separate men and women, they'd be equally as strong, toilets would all be unisex, clothing would by worn by all kinds of people. The differences would be reproduction, and I believe in an ideal world we'd be sticking two (or more?) partners together and treating them as one entity throughout child rearing.

Gender fluidity I think is a step towards that ideal, where it doesn't matter what gender you are because there won't be genders, there will just be people.

One important thing is to remember that "gender fluid" is not a third gender. Being gender fluid is - the way I see it - a rejection of the idea that you have to be one or the other according to society. Why can't I be who I am, rather than who people expect me to be?

So I think people who say they are gender fluid are legit, but if you see that as a "third gender" then you're looking at it wrong.

EDIT: Also, you'll get gender fluid people who themselves go around saying "I'm a third gender" - these people are also looking at it wrong. The point is, the categorisation that society puts on people is void, not that it needs a 3rd option. You can tell people you're option 3, but the point of being gender fluid is that there's no options at all.

 

[Hybrida]

Meh, the EU has over 60 gold medals so far. Considering the difference in population between the US and UK, we're punching above our weight with 13.

15 now for Great Britain. 2nd place overall. Congratulations you guys beat China in the medal race as of today!

 

[ZenVirZan]

if you gave elements from no mans sky less fady-ness
and made the inventory system look less 'polished'

itd no joke feel like playing an indie early access game (on pc i should clarify)

fov slider is broken
fps is tanking
nonstop hitching
gathering gameplay is literally hell when just walking around is torture
having to spend resources on your armour cus it needs recharging every two seconds feels like the biggest waste of time
graphics appear to be pretty 'meh'
space gameplay seems to be really lacking

 

[Xilef]

I never cared about no man's sky because to me it looked like a peace of shit since announcement.

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

What do you guys think about people that identify themselves as gender fluid, totally legit or not?

Some aspects of gender come from labels written by society, rather than chromosomal differences, and even sexuality is out of the definition these days.

In an ideal world we wouldn't separate men and women, they'd be equally as strong, toilets would all be unisex, clothing would by worn by all kinds of people. The differences would be reproduction, and I believe in an ideal world we'd be sticking two (or more?) partners together and treating them as one entity throughout child rearing.

Gender fluidity I think is a step towards that ideal, where it doesn't matter what gender you are because there won't be genders, there will just be people.

One important thing is to remember that "gender fluid" is not a third gender. Being gender fluid is - the way I see it - a rejection of the idea that you have to be one or the other according to society. Why can't I be who I am, rather than who people expect me to be?

So I think people who say they are gender fluid are legit, but if you see that as a "third gender" then you're looking at it wrong.

EDIT: Also, you'll get gender fluid people who themselves go around saying "I'm a third gender" - these people are also looking at it wrong. The point is, the categorisation that society puts on people is void, not that it needs a 3rd option. You can tell people you're option 3, but the point of being gender fluid is that there's no options at all.

Thanks. I appreciate it.

Man, I'm so bummed out about No Man's Sky.

 

[Xilef]

Thanks. I appreciate it.

I said all that as a white heterosexual male, it would probably be best to get someone who actually identifies as gender fluid to give their opinion.

 

[Hybrida]

I never cared about no man's sky because to me it looked like a peace of shit since announcement.

Smart on your part. I also never buy into overhyped BS, I wait for reviews from sites, and actual players.

Sony lives on Hype, it's why they seem so repulsive to me. Also I never owned a PlayStation 2 because everyone wouldn't STFU about it. I got a GameCube instead and never regretted it. Hype can cloud vision, just ask people who bought Destiny, Haze, Rage, or Street Fighter V... LOL.

(GameCube had the best Star Wars games, and Resident Evil games. It was more powerful than a PS2)

 

[Xilef]

The vast majority of gamers are sucking off the marketing teams at game studios without even realising it. When you have fans say "omg they're using game engine X" or "I hope they use game engine Y" then you know they've been sucking at the tits of various marketing departments for a while.

What engine a game uses literally only matters to modders, the 99.9% of gamers have no business worrying about the engine, they need to worry about if the game is fun.

The other one that gets me are the monkeys who circle jerk over a game's story, right now Overwatch comes to mind. Gamers have zero reason to care about Overwatch's story, it has absolutely zero impact to the actual game experience, it's 100% marketing - and if you're lucky a clever ARG is involved (still marketing, but at least it's community oriented). The dialogue interaction between characters is fun, that's good writing, but the actual context of what they're talking about means jack shit, the important part is their one-liners that starts your game off with a smile.

 

[coyotecraft]

I was just thinking the other day how different game marketing is today vs 10+ years ago. How important it is for marketing to prime audiences to accept a product.

Like uh...Maybe this is too abstract, but say you were selling food and it was important that people eat it with a spoon, not a fork, as part of the experience. But you don't want to market it as "Spoon Food" because the idea you're pushing is "something to eat with a spoon" "Finally! I can put my spoon to work."
I know that's dumb, and it's not why people buy food.
Now if you marketed it as "Spoon Licking Good", you're selling it as being delicious while still getting the spoon idea across.

 

[coyotecraft]

Oh gosh, reading the back of game cases and how uninformative and irrelevant some of them can be.

Like the blurbs.

Ar Tonelico 1 | You never forget your first...
Ar Tonelico 2 | Always come back for seconds...
Ar Tonelico 3 | The culmination of eternal determination. (wot? not "Third time's the charm..."?)

Ar noSurge | A deeply immersive, 7th dimension RPG.
("7th dimension" meaning it breaks the 4th wall and acknowledges you, the player, will use information the characters aren't aware of to advance the story. Literally metagaming. So not very immersive at all)

Just reinforces my opinion that everything after 2 was garbage.

 

[Xilef]

I got Alien Isolation working with my VR headset again! And my latest GPU drivers let me use SLI so things are even more realistic!

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

So jelly. :box: