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Can you seriously point to a culture where, when it comes to marriage, people don't expect/want a virginal bride? This one. The "modern western society". The one we are a part of. Marrying as virgins in modern western society makes you some sort of fundamentalist weirdo instead of a norma...

Point out to me where I have said that all fat people are ugly, where fat is weighs more than 100lbs. I didn't actually say that, because it'd be dumb. "healthy weight" is more of a voodoo number than anything, because its' different for every person. As for anecdotes, most of the articles...

The most hilarious thing about this thread is the difference between the 4e and 3e players. The 4e player just says "reduce the options available to the players" whereas everyone else is suggesting ways to make the dungeon more entertaining and complex. Very indicative of the differences b...

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/200804/all-stereotypes-are-true-except-ii-beauty-is-in-the-eye-th In the most recent version of this experiment, newborn babies less than one week old show significantly greater preference for faces that adults judge to be attractive....

I don't "hide behind" most people. The truth is that a lot of human behaviour is instinctual and defined by the genes - standards of attractiveness are universal(If you don't believe this, you are wrong, with no questions allowed. There are mathematical equations for working out the attrac...

Well this thread went into crazy town pretty quickly. As for the link given by Starmaker, that was filled almost entirely with bullshit. Innocence? That IS attractive to men. The closer a woman is to virginal, the more attractive she is to men. Now because a lot of you are going to say "HURR I ...

The size penalties to attack have mystified me - Under the rules I have 0 chance of squashing a cockroach or a mosquito, when reality has demonstrated that the opposite is true.

The real evidence that feminism isn't "equality for women" is feminist opposition to paternity testing.

Besides, anyone who's seen a close male relative go through a divorce knows that women have it better off in western society.

Its' pretty much all politenewb, but I just put it under headings because directly quoting all of his stuff would create an utterly unreadable mess.

On Social constructs Pretty much don't fucking exist. As has been pointed out, standards of female attractiveness are genetic. The blind have them, and every time we have tested them, people with no exposure to western media have them. In order to say that female attractiveness is a social construc...

On Personality Personality is less important than a woman's physical attractiveness when it comes to finding a long term partner. When I say matters less, it obviously doesn't mean NOT AT ALL. And you wouldn't want to get into a relationship with those amazingly hot and yet annoying women. But woul...

Somebody hasn't read the RoW fighter or in fact any tome class at all.

Seriously, take a level 15 tome fighter and pit them against a level 15 wizard/sorcerer/psion.

Tome fighters are the strongest class in the entire game by a fucking shit-ton.

Of course they were studying game - the set of behaviours that maximise attention from women. Dominant social behaviour and posture increases attraction from women? You betcha. Instilling a woman with dread makes her more into you? You betcha. Being nice to women has been demonstratively shown to ma...

haha watch me rip apart shadzar, obviously the greatest intellect on the gaming den and ignore kaelik, because he is obviously the dumbest person here Pretty sure you just accidentally implied that I am the greatest intellect on TGD. There's obviously a margin of error - Plebian and Shadzar have bo...

1) If you stop game, she will still love you, because you psychologically trained her to love you, regardless of how you act. IE, she is a dog, and you can ring the bell, and you never have to feed her. That is definitely brainwashing, no question. Ok, I'm looking up the definition for brainwashing...

I had someone play a tome monk in a real life game myself, and it was their first time playing dnd. They did really well and did a whole bunch of crazy shit using their styles. Jumping off cliffs while on fire in an attempt to hurt people and survive a giant fall and succeeding, etc etc. A monk who ...

I think we see the real heartlessness and cruelty of people saying that game is awful here. Game has a multitude of lessons and a lot of them are devoted to building and maintaining a variety of social relationships, even if you're not particularly good at it. For people like Orion and other autisti...

Game theory seems to posit that men come in two flavors: asshole or pussy. There are shades of asshole, and shades of p... Completely false. Women have two different strategies for optimising reproductive success, strategies that work concurrently. A man should be appealing on both axes, but neglec...

I don't know what you're talking about, since I neither mentioned a passage nor called anything misogynistic. That was directed at PoliteNewb, not you. Actually, I do find myself telling people, "I'm a gamer, but I'm not one of *those* gamers." But more the point, that standard is bullshi...

On looks vs. personality Firstly, to say that that passage is misogynistic is laughable. Look at the rest of his blog if you really want to find "misogyny" - hell, look at one of the "stickied" posts. When I say men care less about personality I mean it the same way when I say t...

All right, is this what Orion was talking about with using the same terms to describe different things? Because I never thought of "game" or this PUA crap that has been discussed as a way of "giving women what they want"...I see it as "getting what you want from women"...

One of the most important things to remember in any discussion of game is that it works. I've built a long and stable relationship out of it, and the guy who started the whole thing seems to be doing pretty well himself. Roissy, who runs http://roissy.wordpress.com/ writes one of the best blogs on r...

I think this quote, from the people who did that forum invasion earlier, really sums up what happens in the mind of a 4e fan. The problem at it's most basic - and one of the things that lead to caster superiority - is that while 3e is the only D&D edition to mandate NPCs and PCs working the same...

Well, today I managed to, while on painkillers, sort of eat a burger. I guess that's progress.