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- Thu Aug 15, 2013 12:27 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Aliens and Botflies.
- Replies: 24
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Because clearly, the thing that makes it rape or not rape is if it produces offspring that has some of the victim's DNA. Right? Right. Whatever argument you're thinking of came after this hilariously offensive and terrible start. But his next few posts aren't much better, either. I quoted the FBI a...
- Sun Aug 11, 2013 1:04 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Aliens and Botflies.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5246
I don't see any way to resolve this with a reasonable sounding conclusion, but reality is under no obligation to seem reasonable. You have forced me to accept that botflys do indeed commit rape, and Alien 1 is a movie about rape even though they do a good job of tricking people into thinking it's ab...
- Sat Aug 10, 2013 12:59 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 9:49 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 8:44 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
You haven't stated what you specifically disagree with, but I'll assume you consider it mandatory that the first episode of a series is examined in the context of sequels as soon as such sequels exist. This is the most charitable interpretation, because it's the only one that doesn't involve you bel...
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 8:36 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 8:28 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
So man up and admit that you were fucking wrong or you go on ignore and don't come off. Ever. Some consistent positions you could support: 1: Ovipositors are sexual organs. Inserting a sexual organ into an open wound is rape. Botflys are rapists. The xenomorph is a rapist. 2: Ovipositors are sexual...
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 4:09 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
When I watched Alien 1 I watched a movie about a parasite. It was clearly about a creature that reproduced like a botfly. I later discovered that it had a hidden metaphorical meaning of rape, but that does absolutely nothing to change the plain factual meaning that it's about a botfly style parasite...
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 3:48 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
The Alien 1 xenomorph is not committing sexual violence and more than a botfly is committing sexual violence.Whatever wrote:Go live in a fire.Pulsewidth wrote:Preserving the outmoded dictionary definition of a word for all time is more important to me than acknowledging that many forms of sexual violence constitute rape.
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 3:46 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
Sex organs include flowers and prostates. It's a really big category. Forcibly inserting a flower into somebody's mouth is not rape under any reasonable definition. If you define ovipositors to be sexual organs then the only way you can prevent botflys from being rapists is by relying on a special ...
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 3:19 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 3:09 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 3:00 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 2:52 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 2:36 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 2:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
Alien was high art precisely because it is one of the most transgressive and upsetting films ever made. I actually think that the tentacle rape in Eberron is way less horrifying than Alien It does not require sex to be horrifying. Its overt message is about parasites. Parasites can be even more hor...
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 2:14 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
If we have a fantasy monster that reproduces by trusting a veiny tube into a hapless victim mouth and injecting spores that will grow inside them, that's not rape as far as you're concerned? If the resulting offspring receives genetic information from the host, as in Alien 3, then it is rape. "...
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 1:46 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 1:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 12:58 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 3:34 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
- Fri Aug 09, 2013 2:44 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: What is the biggest debacle of RPG history?
- Replies: 311
- Views: 40085
It's not until the sequels and crossovers that the form of the new xenomorph somehow resembles the form of the host. You could argue that's a type of sexual reproduction, even if it uses magical space biology instead of DNA. But it doesn't happen in the original, so if the original Alien is about ra...
- Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:51 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Failing Forward: yay or nay ?
- Replies: 102
- Views: 16522
- Wed Jul 31, 2013 1:02 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Surprise Rules In Every Edition Of Shadowrun Are Terrible
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3373
Real life combatants don't have wired reflexes, smartguns or tacnets. Movies characters can have equivalent superpowers, but they're crippled by the low framerate of the medium (making it literally impossible to show fast action clearly), and the expectation that untrained audiences should have some...
- Thu Jul 18, 2013 4:16 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Shadowrun Situation
- Replies: 5055
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