Idiot of the day 2013: Wishing that the Mayans were right.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Fuck! There has to be a way to change this shit.

Nope!  Police will continue to be the largest, most powerful street gang in the world for the time being.  You can be arrested for filming them because it "endangers their safety."  Apparently police, like some tribes of aboriginals but no male models, believe taking your picture steals part of your soul.  In the latest breakthrough in enabling tyranny, you no longer have the right to remain silent.  You only have that right after you have been formally arrested now.

[metroid composite]

o_0

I mean I know the statistics (which suggest like a 30% raise if switching gender magically adjusted such inequities), but I'm kinda curious, what field is this?

I dunno, probably not programming, because the two programmer guys in the group I spoke with a little about work and game development, and it wasn't one of them.  And it was some kind of office job. 

(And to be fair, I kind-of just pulled the 30% number out of my ass based on unrelated statistics.  The exact wording was something less well-defined like "massive raise".)

[Idun]

Shock. Being black in the US, let alone being a black man.

5th amendment right and witnesses. Huh, never thought about that.

[superaielman]

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/105853/breaking-bad-karma

*Facepalm

[Dark Holy Elf]

That got so bad, so fast.

[Meeplelard]

That got so bad, so fast.

[AndrewRogue]

Warning: MRA

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[Cotigo]

Wow. All that's some incoherent fuckin' nonsense, I tell you what.

[Captain K.]

I wish you hadn't linked that.  While I guess I already know there are people like that in the world, seeing it in print is just stomach-turning.

[Sierra]

*wonders what MRA is* *clicks* *immediate regret*

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

*wonders what MRA is* *clicks* *immediate regret*

I somewhat envy your former ignorance of the subject at hand.

[Luther Lansfeld]

Men are only 80% of the Senate, 75% of the Senate and all of the Presidents?? Why you not think of the menz and their rights ya'll is basically it.

(I am not clicking that link for my own sanity.)

[Sierra]

*wonders what MRA is* *clicks* *immediate regret*

I somewhat envy your former ignorance of the subject at hand.

I've heard of this tripe before, the acronym just didn't click because I try and pretend anything that staggeringly dim and self-involved doesn't actually exist.

[metroid composite]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/is-this-the-most-embarrassing-interview-fox-news-has-ever-do

Yes, you read that title correctly; it does indeed ask "Is This The Most Embarrassing Interview Fox News Has Ever Done?"

[Grefter]

"Don't you think that INCREDIBLY STUPID THING."

"No, because I am not intellectually dishonest and a gaping void of contempt for academia."

10/10 would watch more interviews with him.

[Meeplelard]

I watched one minute of the interview, can already see where it's going.  The minute I did watch though?

"So why would a Muslim write a book about Jesus?"

"I'm a professor in the area who just happens to be a Muslim, not a Muslim writing about this kind of stuff, I don't see what's hard to understand."

"but why would a Muslim want to write about the founder of Christianity!?"

"I just told you, because it's my job..."


Also, correct me if I'm wrong but a Muslim writing about Jesus sounds incredibly normal, no?  I mean, isn't Jesus one of their 3 Main Prophets?  Strikes me that any self respecting member of the religion would at least have some interest in the figure.  Seems no different to me than a Christian writing a historical book about Moses or Joshua.


...or hell, how hard is it to understand the basic idea of "I believe this, but I still think this religion's beliefs are interesting enough!"  You can totally be fascinated by one thing while not believing what they do.  Not a hard concept to understand people!


(I don't know if the interview said anything else, but I would not be surprised if this was the least stupid thing.)

[Grefter]

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/633261-dragons-crown/66875048

Astounding pile of stupid.

[Fenrir]

The first post was bad enough but then it goes on and on and on.
I hope they're all just 12.

For the record this is in the game: http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/1/16049/2525624-5141663141-3dkae.jpg
A reviewer found the art generally immature and questionable and docked a few points for it. -> Immense backlash of the male privilege internet community.

[Meeplelard]

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/633261-dragons-crown/66875048

Astounding pile of stupid.

AT first I thought it was simply "oh look, another Dragon's Crown got ONE bad review among the sea of high scores" topic, but reading it further...um, wow, that's pretty special.

[Cotigo]

For the record, this is also in the game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex133LSR6xE#t=1m05s

And this is a resin figure you can buy in many of the Animes shops around here (have not seen it in person, thankfully... yet): http://imgur.com/a/Z7sAo

It's a shame, too, because the game looks like it has decent hack-and-slash sidescrolling gameplay, and the art isn't terrible when the characters' proportions are realistic (the Archer/Elf character looks fine, for instance).  Won't be buying it out of principle, though.

[Luther Lansfeld]

Fffffgggggluuuuuhhh that topic....

[Meeplelard]

I'm pretty much in the same boat as Zenny regarding Dragon's Crown.  It looks like the spiritual successor to DnD: Shadows Over Mystara, which, well, my forcing people to Multiplayer the game at DLCon speaks about my opinion of the game.

The Art-style and over-the-top designs ruin it for me to some degree.  I get it's going for parody, and it was trying for an 80s Fantasy Style to fully capture the parody, but it doesn't change the fact that the character designs generally look off.  The Elf and the Wizard (or whatever the Male Spellcaster's name is) are the only designs that I can I say like, simply because they aren't over the top, and actually work with the art-style, not sort of clashing with it because "parody."  As was mentioned in chat at one point, it's not a talent thing going on here, but a stylistic choice.

Was considering getting the game but then considering all that I have to play and how I want to cut back on spending, game seems like it's better skipped or bought at reduced price.

[Shale]

Yeah, the problematic PCs were a definite strike against the game, but it's the in-game NPC stuff that really pushes into "fuck no" territory.

Also, for the record, I got four posts into that GF topic.

[Grefter]

I was considering picking it up to see how it went.  I didn't realise you could tweak the nipples of the chained up female npc in the first 3 minutes of gameplay.

Wow.  But yes, topic linked for statements made, not for the Dragon's Crown shenanigans.

[AndrewRogue]

Yeah, I've been bitching about the morons on that forum for at least three days now and have been generally disgusted by the response to the Polygon review. I've been (since I'm stupid) posting in other topics, but kinda threw my hand up at that one.

Not really bothered by the shamelessness of Dragon's Crown myself, but anyone who doesn't realize that's going to bother some people is seriously a moron.

Amusingly, at this point, I'm so over the male vs female thing on that forum that I've started to get really angry that people don't seem to understand how reviews work instead. The number of "reviews should be objective, how dare the reviewer bring opinion into this!" type of responses have been staggering.

I dunno. Entire community has just sort of pissed me off.

That all said, whatevs. Picking up my copy today. I'll see how it actually is.

Edit: Also, don't think parody is the right word, Meeps. From all my experience, the game plays 100% straight. It is more homage to 80's fantasy with Vanillaware cutting loose artistically.

Edit the Second: Also, the review is still fucking 6.5. Jesus Christ, people. Learn how an out of 10 scale works. I've said it a million times, but, in the Polygon review, it is pretty obvious the repititiveness bugs her (she makes a LOT of reference to it and the steps taken to try and deal with it). Frankly, the review sounds like a solid 7 (maaaaaaaaaaaybe an 8) that she docks because she hates the art that you, you know, will have to look at all game.

She still scores the game a decent chunk above average and well into the good game territory.

Edit the Third: God dammit Grefter. You got me angry about that forum all over again.