Well in many subsaharan cultures, Women are assets as they draw bride prices from a prospective groom's family. So have a excess of females in that culture is beneficial for a family (and polygamy is commonly practiced) while in India the bride's family have to pay the groom's family making daughters unwanted financial liabilities. China's is due to the one child policy and the desire of families to continue the family name.
It's interesting that Vietnam's got slightly more women than men, but it also exports thousands of women to countries like Taiwan, Korea and China (plus those poached by ex-pat english teachers in country). Men do counter act this trend my smashing their brains all over the pavement on a regular basis.
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Lago PARANOIA
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Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
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Uh... so paleolithic matriarichal human society that treated men as transients that brought in food, and were kicked out when they couldn't do so anymore were... emotional?
I doan fucking think so.
Hell, women being described as calculating and unemotional is old hat. This guy is just making shit up, and using a regulated and obvious time when a persons hormones are in full force as an excuse to dismiss their actions most of the time.
Also, I thought that guys also have the hormonal equivalent of PMS (we definitely get the equivalent of menopause; just look at how furious old men can be), it's just that we don't have any visible indication that we are in or out of that state, so when we act like jerks it gets handwaved. When really the guy is in the male equivalent of "being on the rag".
Fuck his skull with a crowbar. By fuck, I mean smash.
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I was just responding to Bigode (And apparently, I misspelled your name. I'm sorry). I helped raise my two siblings, and while I adore my sister to death, she is much more difficult to deal with than my brother for precisely the reason I posted.Absentminded Wizard wrote:If you click through to the whole blog entry, you get the claim that women have never done any tasks that require "more logic than emotion." Last time I checked, figuring out which berries are poisonous wasn't an emotional endeavor.
I thought the blog entry was so laughable it didn't deserve comment.
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Women have been described as whatever a given society considers worst, including by women, as evidenced right here. Amusing.Judging__Eagle wrote:Hell, women being described as calculating and unemotional is old hat. This guy is just making shit up, and using a regulated and obvious time when a persons hormones are in full force as an excuse to dismiss their actions most of the time.
Source?Judging__Eagle wrote:Also, I thought that guys also have the hormonal equivalent of PMS (we definitely get the equivalent of menopause; just look at how furious old men can be), it's just that we don't have any visible indication that we are in or out of that state, so when we act like jerks it gets handwaved. When really the guy is in the male equivalent of "being on the rag".
Agreed, though.Judging__Eagle wrote:Fuck his skull with a crowbar. By fuck, I mean smash.
You shall never be forgiven. And for someone so concerned, you didn't even go edit it.Maj wrote:I was just responding to Bigode (And apparently, I misspelled your name. I'm sorry). I helped raise my two siblings, and while I adore my sister to death, she is much more difficult to deal with than my brother for precisely the reason I posted.
Thanks for explaining how women are untrustworthy, though. Guess mothers don't think about teenage and violence ...Hans Freyer, s.b.u.h. wrote:A manly, a bold tone prevails in history. He who has the grip has the booty.
Huston Smith wrote:Life gives us no view of the whole. We see only snatches here and there, (...)
brotherfrancis75 wrote:Perhaps you imagine that Ayn Rand is our friend? And the Mont Pelerin Society? No, those are but the more subtle versions of the Bolshevik Communist Revolution you imagine you reject. (...) FOX NEWS IS ALSO COMMUNIST!
LDSChristian wrote:True. I do wonder which is worse: killing so many people like Hitler did or denying Christ 3 times like Peter did.
I don't understand this comment.Bigode wrote:Guess mothers don't think about teenage and violence ...
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Seems way easier to get women from being killed.Maj wrote:I don't understand this comment.Bigode wrote:Guess mothers don't think about teenage and violence ...
Hans Freyer, s.b.u.h. wrote:A manly, a bold tone prevails in history. He who has the grip has the booty.
Huston Smith wrote:Life gives us no view of the whole. We see only snatches here and there, (...)
brotherfrancis75 wrote:Perhaps you imagine that Ayn Rand is our friend? And the Mont Pelerin Society? No, those are but the more subtle versions of the Bolshevik Communist Revolution you imagine you reject. (...) FOX NEWS IS ALSO COMMUNIST!
LDSChristian wrote:True. I do wonder which is worse: killing so many people like Hitler did or denying Christ 3 times like Peter did.
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What's bad is, I know someone who has much the same attitude. Except Aleksy is smarter. He still has the "I can kick anyone's ass" arrogance, though.
What's bad is, I know someone who has much the same attitude. Except Aleksy is smarter. He still has the "I can kick anyone's ass" arrogance, though.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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I have a really hard time not seeing this as anything other than intentional parody.Maxus's link wrote:I am a Master of three martial arts including ninjitsu, which means I can wear the special boots to climb walls. I don’t think any of you are working as hard as I am to be prepared. I asked a serious question about tactical armor and I wanted a serious response. If you want to laugh at somebody, try laughing at the sheep out there who go to the mall unarmed trusting in me to stand guiard over their lives like a God.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
Seriously. If Gecko45 is lying in the expectation he'd be believed, why would he make up unbelievable shit about malls being vital points in national security, guarded by shadowy figures who are so 'elite' they get special dispensations about what weapons they can carry and can flout the law of 'civvies'?
I'm sure it'd make an exciting, but brainless, action movie, about shootouts happening in malls to stop the Mayor's nephew from being sodomized, and everyone in the mall being given big enough doses of cash to induce amnesia able to keep gunfights and SWAT teams getting overpowered out of the public eye. Despite it happening *in* the public eye.
I'm sure it'd make an exciting, but brainless, action movie, about shootouts happening in malls to stop the Mayor's nephew from being sodomized, and everyone in the mall being given big enough doses of cash to induce amnesia able to keep gunfights and SWAT teams getting overpowered out of the public eye. Despite it happening *in* the public eye.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Digging through my favorites list to try to find something for a bummed friend, I turned this up:
http://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html
http://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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It's called Andropause. When men get older, their hormone levels change just like they do in women, it's just not considered a problem. (My theory is that men having to deal with bitchy women is considered a huge issue, but women have to shut up and deal when men are bitchy.)Bigode wrote:Source?
In this moment, I am Ur-phoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my int score.
I've actually heard about a monthly cycle which they caught glimpses of by measuring things like variations in grip strength over a period of time.Count_Arioch_the_28th wrote:It's called Andropause. When men get older, their hormone levels change just like they do in women, it's just not considered a problem. (My theory is that men having to deal with bitchy women is considered a huge issue, but women have to shut up and deal when men are bitchy.)Bigode wrote:Source?
It was years ago when I saw it on the news, though, so I can't point you to anything helpful.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
PMS is bullshit, along with female hysteria. Menstruation, in addition to obvious concerns, can be painful like beind repeatedly stabbed in the stomach with a blunt knife. It being over is a cause for seeing lollipops and rainbows everywhere, not for bitching.
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I have some male hysteria.
Can... can I get some help with that? No?
Then screw you, harvest moon.
Can... can I get some help with that? No?
Then screw you, harvest moon.
Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
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Idiots per Thousand:
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1572
EDIT:
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy- ... trends.php
Particularly amusing since I just did some homework on statistical questions.
http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1572
EDIT:
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy- ... trends.php
Particularly amusing since I just did some homework on statistical questions.
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It's simple. There is a direct culture clash between lax communicators and fastidious communicators. Both groups are generally oppositional and drive the other out if they are in dominance. However, there is a noted trend towards fastidious communicators investing more effort in single communication channels than lax communicators - their communication takes more investment by it's very nature. Lax communicators tend to spread their communication attention over a multitude of channels.
Whilst it would be beyond this general rundown to establish what topics in particular the groups tend to favour it should suffice to say that topics that require a larger degree of investment tend to attract more fastidious communicators. Lax communicators trend towards topics that either require minimum investment to discuss, or else topics that see universal investment in their culture. Thus, small obscure fandoms tend to attract more fastidious communicators, whilst widely broadcast TV shows and sports attract lax communicators.
Both kinds of communicators like to bring along their fellows from other channels into a new one. However, in the case of fastidious communicators they have a smaller pool of these to draw upon and the tendancy to become interested in niches restricts the attraction of new channels that have a strong focus on particular topics. Thus once a thriving subcommunity of lax communicators has taken root in a community they tend to balkanise against the fastidious communicators and draw in more members until such a time as they outnumber the fastidious communicators, who then tend to flee for other parts at the first oppurtunity.
Fastidious communicators therefore tend to instigate policies that require decent levels of communication to participate, excluding lax communicators. However, most large scale channels owned by corporate interests either cannot do so due to corporate mission, or are too large to effectively police. This means that most large channels inevitably fall victim to overwhelming numbers of lax communicators.
Youtube is, in actual fact, an interesting case because it is a comment system attached to a media delivery platform. The fact that a topic is rammed down your throat (thanks to the comment-creation behaviour emergant from the system) means that the communication channels present select a subset of the userbase, which is a community that develops in isolation of the others. The content of the video a set of comments are associated with strongly predicts the content of those comments.
Lax communicators and fastidious communicators are balkanised successfully and safely due to insulation in the form of forced media consumption. Primarily this is reinforced by a shared culture that requires you to watch the video associated with the comments before adding your own.
Whilst it would be beyond this general rundown to establish what topics in particular the groups tend to favour it should suffice to say that topics that require a larger degree of investment tend to attract more fastidious communicators. Lax communicators trend towards topics that either require minimum investment to discuss, or else topics that see universal investment in their culture. Thus, small obscure fandoms tend to attract more fastidious communicators, whilst widely broadcast TV shows and sports attract lax communicators.
Both kinds of communicators like to bring along their fellows from other channels into a new one. However, in the case of fastidious communicators they have a smaller pool of these to draw upon and the tendancy to become interested in niches restricts the attraction of new channels that have a strong focus on particular topics. Thus once a thriving subcommunity of lax communicators has taken root in a community they tend to balkanise against the fastidious communicators and draw in more members until such a time as they outnumber the fastidious communicators, who then tend to flee for other parts at the first oppurtunity.
Fastidious communicators therefore tend to instigate policies that require decent levels of communication to participate, excluding lax communicators. However, most large scale channels owned by corporate interests either cannot do so due to corporate mission, or are too large to effectively police. This means that most large channels inevitably fall victim to overwhelming numbers of lax communicators.
Youtube is, in actual fact, an interesting case because it is a comment system attached to a media delivery platform. The fact that a topic is rammed down your throat (thanks to the comment-creation behaviour emergant from the system) means that the communication channels present select a subset of the userbase, which is a community that develops in isolation of the others. The content of the video a set of comments are associated with strongly predicts the content of those comments.
Lax communicators and fastidious communicators are balkanised successfully and safely due to insulation in the form of forced media consumption. Primarily this is reinforced by a shared culture that requires you to watch the video associated with the comments before adding your own.
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I hope no one asks me to try out a WoD game in the next month or so.
I hope no one asks me to try out a WoD game in the next month or so.
Photobucket is really starting to piss me off. Somebody there seems to be targeting me for reporting supposed ToS violations, and thus having pics taken down. Frankly, it's retarded since there's a lot worse than what I've posted being allowed, in large quantities.
The latest victim is a painting of mine. Classy oil painting on canvas I got in the Dominican Republic a couple years ago. Nice shot of some naked chick from behind, tastefully done and with *gasp* a little bit of sideboob. Given you can see more than this in art galleries and shit and on magazines, why is this apparently so offensive? I had it reuploaded for all of 12 hours before it got taken down again.
Laaame.
The latest victim is a painting of mine. Classy oil painting on canvas I got in the Dominican Republic a couple years ago. Nice shot of some naked chick from behind, tastefully done and with *gasp* a little bit of sideboob. Given you can see more than this in art galleries and shit and on magazines, why is this apparently so offensive? I had it reuploaded for all of 12 hours before it got taken down again.
Laaame.
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