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« Reply #350 on: September 05, 2012, 02:04:50 AM »
File under: Quickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/14293468/homestuck-adventure-game

MS Paint Adventure guy creates a kickstarter to make an adventure game based off of his most recent story.  Starts it yesterday.  Already has over 300,000 dollars raised.  Jay-Z-us.

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« Reply #351 on: September 05, 2012, 03:45:06 AM »
A cool idea but holy fuck that thing would be long.  Like longer than The Longest Journey which is pretty notable for living up to its name so far as point and click adventure goes.
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« Reply #352 on: September 05, 2012, 04:43:18 AM »
Reading the kickstarter, it's not going to encompass the entire Homestuck story for that exact reason.  If anything, it will be a spin off story based because yeah holy fuck that would be one ridiculously long game.

EDIT: Holy fuck, less than a day and it's already over half the goal.  This is why Kickstarter is awesome.  Already have a dedicated fanbase? Crowdsource them as investors to put out something tits-assed awesome.

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« Reply #353 on: September 05, 2012, 09:16:25 AM »
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« Reply #354 on: September 05, 2012, 12:42:12 PM »
Pretty much.  Standard stuff you will hopefully hear in any Feminism course at University, but not bad to put it out there.

Edit - I should read Alternet more often. 

http://www.alternet.org/world/noam-chomsky-why-america-and-israel-are-greatest-threats-peace

It has been ages since I have heard/read any Chomsky articles.  10/10 still awesome.
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« Reply #355 on: September 05, 2012, 02:47:41 PM »
http://www.alternet.org/story/156194/what_about_the_men_why_our_gender_system_sucks_for_men%2C_too?page=entire&paging=off

Articulates well ideas I've had kicking around in my head the past couple years.

Yeah, that's basically "Contemporary Feminism and Gender Issues 101" and puts forth in a pretty articulate manner the current issues we face both as a movement and as a line of study. Great read regardless, will share this link around.
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« Reply #356 on: September 05, 2012, 03:04:52 PM »
There's not a big enough eyeroll in the world to describe Chomsky and his shit politics.
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« Reply #357 on: September 05, 2012, 04:26:50 PM »
http://www.alternet.org/story/156194/what_about_the_men_why_our_gender_system_sucks_for_men%2C_too?page=entire&paging=off

Articulates well ideas I've had kicking around in my head the past couple years.

Yeah, others have said it already, but solid article.

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« Reply #358 on: September 05, 2012, 09:39:16 PM »
Dunno if should move to politics thread or not, but which parts specifically Super?  (srs not sarcastic). Edit - I fuck up my tone here it is more aggressive than I want.  Tryin to be inquisitive to fish out opposing view to understand better.  My voice is restricted to dismissive sarcasm when typing on m phone it seems and I apologize.  Again srs.

I have trouble eye rolling at someone denouncing the Foreign Policy of the two countries that have instigated hot wars the most aggressively and most prolonged in the Middle East over the last decade/decade and a half.

I also don't see much wrong with similar finger pointing to old short term Realpolitik policies as the root cause of today's worries.  Supporting nuclear proliferation of your allies cuts both ways.  I know it is a very hindsighted thing to say but it is pretty revolting to have seen one of the superpowers engaged in a cold war centred around MAD supporting the generation of similar environments in smaller scale conflicts.
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« Reply #359 on: September 05, 2012, 10:01:13 PM »
Because Chomsky deserves zero credit on politics. He considers the US to be a terrorist state, and his entire ideology there can be boiled down to blame the US. There is plenty of reason to be critical of the US and Israel. Just not by someone who considers morally repulsive statements like little Eichemanns to be reasonable.
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« Reply #360 on: September 05, 2012, 11:49:27 PM »
The problem with Chomsky is that he has a reality distortion field around whatever it is he reads that removes anything bad about governments Chomsky likes and removes anything good about governments he doesn't.  He's not a liar but he is a zealot.

To remove the debate from more recent events, the thing I'll usually hold against Chomsky - and my example for why it's best to read him only for amusement not facts - is his morally abominable stance on the Khemer Rouge.  Now, the US participated in some pretty morally grey crap in Cambodia during the Vietnam War, as did the North Vietnamese - the war bled into Cambodia which included US bombing of it, although it must be noted that this is because the NVA was operating out of the border.  And of course said bombing surely killed lots of innocents in the process.  Anyway, the point is, if Chomsky wants to excoriate the United States, fine.

*However*, because Cambodia was dragged into the Vietnam War, that means in Chomsky's mind that the Khmer Rouge were stout anti-imperialist swell dudes.  He defended the Khmer Rouge for an * embarrassingly* long length of time, talked about how all this genocide yabber was nonsense and US propaganda, and said that if anybody was dying in Cambodia it was probably the US's fault.  That was bad enough to say that in the late 70s when it was somewhat unclear, but to still not really change your tune or apologize in the 80s?  IIRC, I even recall Chomsky indirectly ragging on the US for screwing with the UN in the late 70s...  except that some of this was, of course, in support of the Khmer Rouge (whom inexplicably had the US, USSR, and China all considering them buddies).  Genocide denial is not something to do lightly.

A quick Google turned this up, which seems about right: http://jim.com/chomsdis.htm

Anyway, the point is, I am sometimes in the mood for having someone point out the US's flaws, for all that the US in Chomsky's mind is something of a cartoon villain -e.g. any claimed nice motives are false, but Chomsky's not going to offer compelling different motives, so I guess the US just like hurting people for no reason.  I have no patience for dictatorial / genocidal apologists, however.  If Chomsky was one of those types who pointed out everyone's flaws from a leftist perspective, *including* Venezuela/ Iran/Hamas/etc.,  he'd be tolerable.  But no, if anybody stands up to the US they automatically can do no wrong in his book no matter how evil & corrupt they are.

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« Reply #361 on: September 06, 2012, 01:26:24 AM »
http://www.alternet.org/story/156194/what_about_the_men_why_our_gender_system_sucks_for_men%2C_too?page=entire&paging=off

Articulates well ideas I've had kicking around in my head the past couple years.

Yeah, that's basically "Contemporary Feminism and Gender Issues 101" and puts forth in a pretty articulate manner the current issues we face both as a movement and as a line of study. Great read regardless, will share this link around.

While I agree that it's a great article, it was really quite frustrating reading "Feminism always focuses on women! Feminists don't care about how enforced gender roles also harm men!" over and over and over.  While it's true that some less aware feminists do hold views similar to that, for the most part it's complete bullshit.  Moreover, that emphasis lets once good communities that focused on how gender roles negatively impact the lives of men turn into misogynistic women-bashing circlejerks.  Still, good article aside otherwise.

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« Reply #362 on: September 06, 2012, 02:38:11 AM »
You felt that? I dunno, Zenny, I don't think that was what they meant about the quip regarding second-wave feminism - at least, not as radically, and the article notes (and I agree completely with it in that regard) that the inclusive nature of feminism regarding gender and privilege issues is relatively new and still reaching through the surface of the seams.
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« Reply #363 on: September 06, 2012, 02:59:44 AM »
You felt that? I dunno, Zenny, I don't think that was what they meant about the quip regarding second-wave feminism - at least, not as radically, and the article notes (and I agree completely with it in that regard) that the inclusive nature of feminism regarding gender and privilege issues is relatively new and still reaching through the surface of the seams.

Not even that.  I was referring more to some sentences at the very start of the article.  "It's as if only women have a gender." and "Rarely, however, and often only as an afterthought does anyone remark on how the current gender system harms men."  My jerk knee reaction was "Well, yeah, because at least online that often leads to a bunch of unproductive circlejerking by dudes wanting to play the victim and downplay women's issues."   Though, re-reading the article, this was a lot less pronounced than at first glance, and I'll admit I must have glossed over the paragraph that addresses the very point I brought up:

"In many feminist spaces, most particularly on the Internet, it is difficult to establish a decent dialogue about women’s issues without various men intruding, insisting that circumcision rates in the U.S. must be addressed instead of the issue of female genital mutilation in Africa, insisting that male rape victims must be discussed instead of female rape victims. These persistent conversation-derailers have succeeded in making a bad name for themselves, and given rise to the “what about teh menz?” trope as a boilerplate dismissal of these tired distractions from the addressing of women’s issues that is the raison d’être of most feminist communities."

In fact, the article even brings up the men's rights movements.  So it's a little more self aware than it appeared at first and frankly I should have kept reading on before posting.  >_>
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« Reply #364 on: September 06, 2012, 04:19:25 AM »
Oh while we're ragging on men's rights then.  Some beautiful "nice guy" poetry for your consideration.  (Reminder: all "nice guys" are actually pathetic shut-ins who whine that they aren't getting enough sex and therefore think rape should be legal or something.)

http://manboobz.com/2011/08/14/a-nice-guys-lament-first-they-came-for-the-rapists/#comments

While we're at it, I refuse to look at it to see if it's changed, but as of awhile back (and probably still true now)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_celibacy
is a pretty big trainwreck from the same sorts.

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« Reply #365 on: September 06, 2012, 08:44:30 AM »
Related back to the kickstarter link I posted:  That 700k mark was reached in two days.

Jesus christ, talk about rabid fanboys.  I haven't even donated.  Yet.

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« Reply #366 on: September 07, 2012, 09:55:35 PM »
Chris Kluwe lays down one of the greatest verbal smackdowns I've ever seen in my life. Sorry, Super, but I think I may be rooting for the Vikings this year. At least when the punting unit is on the field.
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« Reply #367 on: September 07, 2012, 10:45:04 PM »
Well then you're going to be cheering them on a lot, because the Vikings punt unit is going to spend more time on the field than anyone but the Jags'.

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« Reply #368 on: September 08, 2012, 01:26:44 AM »
Bwaha, nice.
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« Reply #369 on: September 08, 2012, 08:02:50 AM »
Judge demands brief be no longer than 5 pages.  Lawyer responds with this.  Still lost the ruling, though.

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« Reply #370 on: September 08, 2012, 06:35:15 PM »
I more or less rolled my eyes at Kluwe's speech. It needed to be said, but I have trouble taking that over the top barrage of profanity seriously.
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« Reply #371 on: September 08, 2012, 10:46:28 PM »
Agreed, he was doing better when he was insulting like a sir and not just using profanity.


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« Reply #372 on: September 09, 2012, 10:39:20 PM »
Eh. The mixture is ideal. Honestly, I tend to find that "classy language" sounds more shallow and about as immature in most circumstances.

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« Reply #373 on: September 10, 2012, 01:31:41 AM »
Focusing too much on the diction used to convey a message instead of the message itself makes you a cunt.

Nobody is surprised that Super is a cunt, though.

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« Reply #374 on: September 10, 2012, 02:36:02 AM »
At minimum, a pedant. And nothing starting with ped is something you want to be.