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by unalone 13y ago
It suggests that, if you want to get truly pedantic.
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by unalone 13y ago
Image has nothing to do with reality and everything to do with perception. The interesting thing about this campaign is that it shows how strangers are far more complimentary about how people look than those people would be about themselves
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by unalone 14y ago
That's facetious and doesn't address OP's point, which is that certain industries are banned from advertising their products in certain ways when said products could harm their users. I don't agree that Facebook is necessarily at the point
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by unalone 14y ago
Yes, well, people are terrible, terrible , at thinking for themselves. And when they do think for themselves, they are even more terrible at acknowledging that their thoughts don't shape reality. That's glib. There is a very, very difficul
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by unalone 14y ago
Build quality also got drastically better. The hardware buttons are impressively responsive. The phone also got considerably lighter and denser, which I definitely notice in my daily usage.
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by unalone 14y ago
> Factor in how woeful Apple Maps was (and is), and how much steam the competition had picked up , and yes, the iPhone 5 was simply disappointing. [emphasis mine] I like my iPhone 5 and think it's the best phone I've ever used. Apple M
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by unalone 14y ago
You know what, it's totally possible! I've studied games from a critical perspective, but never a historical one; while my criticisms of Xbox's marketing make sense from the games that I know , it may be that I have completely misinterpret
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by unalone 14y ago
Well, Bungie has some good writers, but the very concept of the game they created is inherently xenophobic. You're pitted against an Other who exists only for you to kill. Eventually, you are allowed to see that this Other is more complex t
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by unalone 14y ago
Punch-Drunk Love is one of my favorite romantic films! Adam Sandler is a damned talented man, don't get me wrong. That's why I'm even more okay with criticizing his more standard fare. The dude can do better. I think the key to understandin
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by unalone 14y ago
> God forbid other "bro types" enjoy games too. Being a bro isn't, like, something you're born into. It's a certain mentality, a certain way of approaching the world. And while I like many facets of bro-dom, and enjoy the hell out of
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by unalone 14y ago
This is assuming that this post is primarily marketing rather than a guy who is emotionally invested in both game design and his past getting something off of his chest. Sure, it acts as self-promotion, but it's cynical to assume that ever
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by unalone 14y ago
Wolfenstein and Doom were simple, playful, colorful. Even as game devices became more powerful, there was a playfulness to FPSes that you can see in titles like Perfect Dark and the Unreal series. One of Halo's major innovations was that it
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by unalone 14y ago
When I was a kid I hated the Xbox, hated Halo, and hated how it seemed to create a new model for playing games. It was released when I was in middle school, and I remember there being a sudden and abrupt shift in what kind of gaming mentali
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by unalone 14y ago
Hahaha, what?
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by unalone 14y ago
"We" do not use those words. "We" are not part of a single interconnected culture. You might use those words, since from what little contact I've had with you you come across as a narcissistic asshole with little concern for others. But I
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by unalone 14y ago
There's something ironic about a cynic, in the classic sense of "question everything and undermine assertions", protesting the corruption of his own self-declared title. ;-)
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by unalone 14y ago
Yes, very! But do you really want to emulate a guy whose whole shtick is being wrong and unlikable every time he does anything? I mean, literally the point of The Office is that Michael Scott is a racist, sexist bigot. And when you ironical
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by unalone 14y ago
It's also possible that your perspective on feminist issues is distorted enough that while you're interpreting this as smarmy and self-congratulatory, it is in fact reasonable and well-argued. Right? That sort of argument by its nature sw
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by unalone 14y ago
Me personally? I'm a young straight cisgendered white guy. I love dirty jokes. I like talking far nastier than mere "dongle" jokes, I assure you. I enjoy my wild and crazy give-no-fucks lifestyle. The "master-and-slave" thing was mentioned
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by unalone 14y ago
> My peeve really is the "straight white guy" meme which seems to suggest "hey, you are straight and white you have it easy" which is necessarily going to alienate huge numbers of people from the debate. Yeah but nobody says that. They
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by unalone 14y ago
You... are aware that there's a huge movement against treating people with low IQs like they're subhuman, right? There's a thread currently on the front page in which people are arguing about whether or not the word "retarded" should be u
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by unalone 14y ago
I've heard from many women in the last few days that they are , in fact, made uncomfortable by the overt sexualization that happens in programmer culture. This comment on MetaFilter [ http://www.metafilter.com/126184/Furore-over-sexism-bei
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by unalone 14y ago
Haha, indeed. Nobody here feels victorious. It's a lot of trekking through mud all around. Anyway, I think that the fact that systems have imbalance is why we need to talk frequently about what imbalance exists, and how we might fix it. I
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by unalone 14y ago
Yes, which is why plenty of people think that capitalism is inherently flawed. A system which rewards production over anything is a system in which those who can't produce as effectively will be punished. Unless you truly believe that produ
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by unalone 14y ago
> Nip it in the bud. Don't feed the trolls. Respect people who respect you. I would agree with you entirely. The problem is that a lot of people in this current PyCon discussion are assuming that certain other people are trolling and
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by unalone 14y ago
Acknowledging that you were born with certain advantages, and that said advantages make you blind to the difficulties that people who are not like you face, is a weird thing to call "self-flagellation". Or narcissism for that matter. Like i
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by unalone 14y ago
John Scalzi is an award-winning author with a considerable fanbase. Last time I was in Times Square, his latest book was being projected on the largest screen there. I humbly suggest that among his immense readership are people who either d
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by unalone 14y ago
> I find it interesting that it is generally considered correct and fair that somebody has better income and quality of life because of high intelligence when this is a factor as much outside your control as race or gender. I don't thin
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by unalone 14y ago
Really not necessary, relevant, helpful, or even funny, dude.

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