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The incompetent business fool who is making it, Clive Palmer, has a heart attack while out at sea. The upper echelon of corporate one-percenters who bought their way onto its maiden voyage sip bubbly and eat caviar with the full knowledge that there's a decomposing body on board, and it will be a week before they hit the shoreline.
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Antifar posted...

Jesus Christ

I mean all I would need is a sheet, but nah.

NES4EVER posted...

Go as ZombiePelican

Mosh through the party and tell everyone else they are posers. Also disparage nintendo.

There's a chance that I'll be getting laid on the night of this party if I play my cards right, or at least solidify a relationship that could lead to sex in the future. I'd rather excavate my brains through the roof of my mouth and out the back of my head with a bullet than be the sort of person who does this at a Halloween party, especially since it would ruin all chances of the above.

DoomsSD posted...

Wormtongue.

If all goes well, I'll be fulfilling this role by the end of the night
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Makeveli_lives posted...

Thor

I am Australian. Dark hair though, so probably not :(

TheKentster posted...

Aquaman

Not entirely willing to go full dweeb for suited Aquaman, definitely not sexy enough to hit Momoa Aquaman
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YukihoHagiwara posted...

cousin it

lol, I like it. Not entirely feasible, but I like it.

_PrincessZelda posted...

Snape.

Nah, I'm not gonna go out and buy a cloak.

gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Wayne or Garth

Yeah, definitely not.

Dyinglegacy posted...

The crow

I haven't been that edgy since I was 13

SuperMedz3 posted...

a girl

You might be onto something...
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Ah, okay. Might abstain from this guy.
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SwayM posted...

Winter Soldier

This might be a good one to go as, I like this one a lot. Recon I should go with a foil-coated arm as well?

SSJCAT posted...

the dude
jay or silent bob
qui gon jin
thor
captain jack sparrow

Thanks for the list, I'd be keen for the first two for sure. This is a good list of long haired male characters.

KookyCouture posted...

a hippie

To my understanding, this would roll well into The Dude.

YukihoHagiwara posted...

that one guy from curse of darkness

*googles*

Very extra, I love it. Though I don't think I have the means to put a costume together that could look that good.
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pres_madagascar posted...

Go as Steve Aoki for shits and jiggles

That would be cool, but I don't think many people are gonna know who this guy is. I don't have any DragonForce shirts either, and I feel like that'd be the only way to really point out who it would be.

Frolex posted...

undertaker

I'm not bald on top though :P

LLKoolJosh posted...

Simon Belmont

This is a cool one, a bit nerdy but I'm down with this. Not sure how I'd put it together before this Friday though, I'm going to a Halloween bash at a pub. Good suggestion though, I'm down with this

Kajagogo posted...

Nathan Drake doesn't have long hair though. You're a Laura, just accept it.

Hey, I don't disagree. I'm just saying that "male Lara Croft" is basically just Nathan Drake. I'm not going to dress up specifically as a genderbent female character because of the hair, I'd go as Nathan Drake before "rule 63 Lara Croft".
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Go up to a woman at a bar and go "hey babe, wanna get lubed up?"
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PoopPotato posted...

Lord Farquaad

Not short enough, also lol

ALIEN_WORK2HOP posted...

dead Jesus

I mean, zombie Jesus with bits of the Cross hanging off, sure. That sounds neato. Not my thing personally, but this is a fun one.

YookaLaylee posted...

Dress as the lead singer of a metal band. Like Nathan Explosion or something

Interesting, but I'm like the furthest thing from a metalhead.

Kajagogo posted...

Gender bent Laura Croft.

I don't think I have the physique to pull that off. Also this is basically Nathan Drake lmao
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My initial costume idea is Ash Williams, but I think my hair might not be suitable for that one. Is there a suitable costume idea for guys that involves long hair, or should I say "fuck it" and go as Ash anyway with my hair as is, or tied back?

Hair is around shoulder length.
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You can beat all those cards with a single lit match.
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Noumas posted...

https://www.lays.ca/sites/lays.ca/files/255g_Lays_RstChic.png

Or is it just chicken "flavoring" a chemically made flavor in the lab that resembles what chicken would taste like?

Same question for "pizza flavored" potato chips.

It's flavoring. We have chicken chips here in Australia, it's a very chemical-yellow dust that gives the chip a slight zest - very easy to burn your tastebuds out on it.
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Master_Bass posted...

Why are you having sex with ghosts?

When you're banging a 10/10 poltergeist
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HellsingOrg posted...

VipaGTS posted...

Yes. Many artists talented enough to have long lasting careers change their style.

Rap/Hip Hop artists for over 20-30 years still doing their thing.
RNB artists over 30-40 years still doing their thing
Jazz artists too
Rock/Metal artists still doing their thing like 30-50 years later

Some acts are comfortable with staying in the one genre, you don't see ZZ Top with beard Mohawks or those slatted shades trying to make punk or EDM music. But a lot of musicians change their style up over their career, with a lot of innovative musicians reinventing themselves at times and pursuing new ideas.

Like sure, I wouldn't mind to see a world where David Bowie kept putting out Space Oddity, these story-driven tunes that aren't afraid to pull their emotional punches. But a lot of his music from the time isn't particularly good, and a lot of music that was born from his experimentation was phenomenal. Shit, he even put out a solid 90's industrial-style record at one point - would he have lasted that long if he had stuck to the folk songs he started off with? He would have quit and become a painter.

DJs that make elctronic music still do electronic music.

Being a DJ is a different skillset to playing an instrument or singing. It still requires skill and talent, but how many DJs do you know who know how to play a guitar? Am I wrong for not knowing any DJs who sing on their own tracks, except for DJ Khaled who just shouts a bunch of buzzwords at the start of the track?

DJs produce electronic music for others to perform over, or to light up clubs. The day Calvin Harris becomes a performer who leaves the DJ booth, sings on his own tracks and plays an instrument rather than using a computer to produce his music, there's going to be some major whiplash in response.
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littlebro07 posted...

She saw how much success Taylor Swift had by changing her style and did the same.

It worked great for T Swizzle but yeah 2009-2011 GaGa was GOAT and she sucks now in comparison.

I doubt that. Taylor Swift and Katy Perry seemed to emulate Miley Cyrus' fall from grace, ditching wholesome or earnest-looking images for bland, shock-jock edginess. I mean Katy Perry was already making waves with a song about kissing girls in the late 2000's (but not in a gay way - she hopes her boyfriend won't mind it!), but her schtick after that became cheery bubblegum pop with pastel-colored music videos. Though I Kissed A Girl was still pretty upbeat at the end of the day.

Taylor Swift's entry into the charts was through country-infused teenage pop. Now Taylor Swift is singing about how the "old" Taylor is dead, and Katy Perry's last record was a much less jubilant affair with singles that sounded much more generic and low-key than usual.

Lady Gaga has gone in the opposite direction in that she got her start making edgy club bangers and making a name for herself with extremely outlandish or unconventional gimmicks, and has since settled into a much more earnest musical style. She's found a path in her music that she wants to pursue that doesn't involve kilograms of glitter and $1,000,000 music videos to produce. Taylor Swift went from guitar songs and goofy meme songs to impactless electronic tunes, while Katy Perry went from a more playfully provocative image to a "realist" who did stuff like pointing out that her label buys off awards like many others in the music industry (which was a stunt that I imagine her label was more than willing to put out there, because fake authenticity sells for a while before the big comeback). Lady Gaga went from these hulking metal costumes and riding to awards shows in egg pods carried by her entourage to singing country/folk-type songs.

Lady Gaga's career trajectory is the polar opposite of Taylor Swift's. Katy Perry is a bit murkier, we'll have to see the next album cycle to know for sure - but Lady Gaga isn't just chasing a trend here. She started off by going "off-the-rails", and her current career path is very much on the rails - you don't get much more earnest than country or folk music, unless you're a partyboy with a soul patch and a willingness to sell your identity out for dumbed down radio rock. Whereas Taylor Swift started with an earnest image and tried to go "off-the-rails" in maybe the least believable manner possible, and Katy Perry went from bubblegum pop to a more edgy "realist" sort of type.

I'm sure that Lady Gaga realises that she can sell gangbusters if she focuses more on glitzy club pop, like how Taylor Swift and Katy Perry have both steered towards that market - but she doesn't. She pursues a career that's much more low-key, and she seems to really enjoy it.
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The only beers I won't drink are light strength, medium strength or a beer that is otherwise just the worst.

A couple years ago, a friend of mine turned 21 - drinking age is 18 over here, but we still do 21st birthday parties because of Americanisation. They had an open bar - so I made my way down the bar tap. Tooheys, Coopers, Carlton, Reschs, VB - all of these Australian beers. And every time, I would neck the beer. Just scull that shit.

Now I had already drank like 5 beers at the time that my story takes place. But you can be assured that if it was a more bearable beverage, I would have been sent to hold my own.

So I down these five drinks. Some of them go down easy. Others are a bit of a struggle. But they're all down the hatch.

So in comes drink #6, XXXX Gold. It's a light beer from Queensland, it's mid or light strength and it tastes like fucking garbage. It's a dropkick beer that only old alcohol-ruined fogeys drink, or that Garbo redneck trash drink.

I have a schooner full of it. 425 ml of this beer. And I down it.

But that weak, stale, pissy taste hits the end of my tongue like a gag reflex, and to my continued shame and embarassment, I tilt my head to the side and I puke.

I've puked on a fair few beers due to over consumpton. But on very few beers have Inpuked on solely the taste. XXXX Gold is that beer for me.
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30+ years old, a bit long in the tooth but still good for a playthrough of 50+ hours when you can get around to it?
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Oh wow, that's no good. Never heard of a hops allergy before, but if you like a good beer, that sounds devastating. Sorry about that.

What kinds of wine/mead and liquor do you gravitate towards? Me and my dad recently shared a bottle of 10 year aged port, which was delicious.
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ne14a6t9r posted...

I only read the topic title and not the opening post at all. I like craft beer in my mouthhole

Cool, no hate. My preferred beers are Coopers and Cricketer's Arms, though I'll go for a nice Pure Blonde when I'm feeling fat.
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But is he as good of a dad as BronyDad?
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fucking

LOL
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Kombucha posted...

i can't drink beer anymore. only wine/mead and liquor for me.

Whatever reason that might have lead to this, I respect - whether it be health reasons or a matter of personal taste. I do like spirits more than beer, some for unhealthy reasons ("hoo boy that's a lot of alcohol") and other times because I just like and/or handle myself better on it ("hoo boy I like a good drop of gin")
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Lordgold666 posted...

Freal, dark beer >>

I don't mind a good dark beer. I try to stay closer to the less heavy beers, like rn I'm drinking Pure Blonde longnecks - but I can appreciate a good dark beer.

LordRazziel posted...

I love lamp

are you a moth
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I mean, if there's any unworthy shitstain whose usage of this phrase is deified by a group of shitty people to enact violence, then fuck that guy. Get him the fuck out of here.

But I have to say, I do genuinely like a good beer. Gin is my preferred beverage, but to get by in this life, it's beneficial to develop a taste for beer. I'm sitting here, getting rid of a few brews - I don't mind a decent beer.

Anyone who drinks a light beer like XXXX Gold is fucking awful, though
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pegusus123456 posted...

Are there any countries other than America than are so firmly against the idea of climate change?

There are Australian politicians who are against wind farms and those big white windmills for A) being "eye sores" and B) because they think that when the wind blows the other way, the windmills will actually suck power out of the power grid.
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LeoRyan posted...

Deal. For $10 billion, I'd leave this site forever too.

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I had a sister who was the worst. She had undiagnosed BPD ever since she was young, which is unfortunate for her, but that led to abuse levelled towards me - hitting me in joints with blunt objects, calling me the f-slur and insulting my sexuality to put me down ever since I was like 7 or 8 (I'm bi, not out because of this treatment, and it only developed as I got into my teens - and she ended up being gay, which makes the whole thing ever more embittering), and stealing my belongings when she felt like she deserved them more than I did.

No idea where this idealised image of having a sister comes from. She would be a person just like you or me, not some naturally temperamented wonder person who smiles and is polite all the time. There's no guarantee that she would add any positivity to your life, and to think that the presence of another feminine figure in your life would have jived with your personality and improved your life is completely unfounded.
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Specifically by posters who say it's a step towards black people feeling racially superior over whites.

Keep feeling threatened. Your insecurity over the term highlights the weakness of your character.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

There's a bit of difference between "I'll drive you go vote!" and "I'll drive you to go vote... for Turd Sandwich!"
Even then, it's 80s-teen-movie villainy to bust people on the technicality.

Was the bus specifically for democratic voters, or were they open to voters of all walks of life granted that they were elderly and required the service to get to a polling station?

If the bus was running solely for Democratic voters, with the intention of only picking up those voting blue, then this action would make a lick of sense. If the people taking the bus were all intending to vote Democrat, but the bus was open to all voters, then this charge is still wrong.
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"Prohibited political activity"

A bus transporting eligible voters to the polls, giving the elderly the chance to exercise their rights as American citizens to cast a ballot, halted because apparently a bus ride is as disruptive and intimidating as a group of protestors blocking heavy traffic and causing a public disturbance.

This is disgusting.
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I don't know what I was expecting. Kudos for the genuine warning, TC.

And yeah, I've spent long enough on the horny side of the internet to believe this.
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I mean the dude's username is Jonestown. Are we really expecting that much substance or potential growth from this guy, SMAL or not?
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Honestly, I've seen stuff that was that bad in the past. There was a surprising lack of blood, for one.

A good way to cope with this is to accept that people do this sort of shit to themselves. You don't have to visualise it or feel it, you just have to accept that these people live in the world and do that to themselves recreationally. That's half the battle won.
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Thank God the mods were onto that shit so quick. I guess marking shit works?
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This is the first time I've encountered an account suicide. Honestly, I've seen this sort of shit before, so it doesn't phase me too much.

Some people just do this shit to their bodies.
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Yep :)
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Safety Not Guaranteed
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MGS has a mood that's unmatched by the other games in the franchise. Even having not played the 2D games, you can tell that Snake has been through a lot and you can feel his reluctance going back into the field even as he excels at what he does. The game does a great job of building Snake's character, and even if the plot is a bit dated, the twists and turns are all pretty great. You see Snake as this legendary badass to begin with, but over time you realise how broken of a person he really is, living in isolation with only dogs for company - none of the games really capture that same mood of done-ness in their protagonists, except when MGS4 layers it on too dam thick. 3-Snake is a bit green, PW Snake is a merc doing wetwork for profit, 4-Snake is ready to just fucking eat a bullet and 5-Snake is just a fucking jerk-off who doesn't do anything on his own accord.

And the way they did the whole Liquid Snake/Metal Gear REX thing was really spectacular - it's all very campy and grimy and exciting. I think REX's boss fight is one of my favorite ones in the series, I loved the pattern memorisation and I think beating REX was one of my favorite Metal Gear series moments ever. The Boss is a good symbolic boss battle, but I see it as a pain in the ass, wandering around a field taking pot shots at an enemy for ages. I get that this is the point, and that it's a test between mentor and student, but I can't help but just prefer fighting against Metal Gear REX and its dick laser. It's a fun romp, it's serious in the universe it's in and I like how the game establishes stakes. While the whole "Boss's ideals, following in her footsteps" angle has been done to death by every game post-3, with the moment being echoed in future games and the Boss driving every other game in the series. Metal Gear Solid 3, and what it established, has been ground into the dirt by thematic repetition and the attempt to recapture what it was.

Metal Gear Solid 3 raised the bar, and it's a fantastic game that expands upon what Metal Gear Solid built. It's a better game technically, and it's got a good balance between serious and fucked up (Volgin with the steel drum), and stupid, goofy humor (Snake's shit eating grin at the start of the game, the fucking Raikov sneaking segment in its entirety). But I'm desensitised to MGS3, because it feels like every game that came after it tried to top it or at least followed in its footsteps. Peace Walker rehashes the Boss, and the game is this big action romp about nuclear disarmament and stopping Peace Walker from nuking the US. Metal Gear Solid 4 was cinematic to the point of detriment, using the processing power of the PS3 to render a full blown miniseries-worth of cutscenes in a way that MGS' brief but memorable plot could never do, and it failed by trying to capture the fatalism of Solid Snake in MGS1 in a larger quantity than it ever existed in that game. MGS5 was a breath of fresh air in places, really nice camera angles, until Skull Face turns out to be nothing worth caring about and the plot falls apart like a wet paper bag.

Like all the MGS games are very cinematic and goofy and serious and convoluted, sure. But MGS1 evokes a different vibe from the rest of the series that just makes it so hard to beat. MGS3 is a great game, and it's a spectacular James Bond pastiche. But I think that the later MGS games tried to capture the same genie in a bottle, sans MGS4, and in a sense I feel like I've played through MGS3 and been exposed to its themes over and over and over again, when I have 2 playthroughs to my name maximum. There's a good two or three other games that tried to be the MGS3 of the series, but nothing really feels like MGS1 does. And I think that's a shame, because I enjoyed MGS's claustrophobic atmosphere and unabashed videogame-ness. Metal Gear Solid 3 is put together a lot better and really moved video games forward a notch, but Metal Gear Solid was a flash in the pan that's never really been replicated. Whereas MGS3 has been emulated too many times.
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fucking lol

Pandamaster would be so happy to see this topic
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In most of the world, the article explains, the gene that allows for the digestion of lactose switches off after childhood. But with the arrival of the first cattle herders in Europe some 5,000 years ago, a chance mutation that left it turned on provided enough of a nutritional leg up that nearly all of those who survived eventually carried it. In the post, the link is accompanied by a snippet of hate speech urging individuals of African ancestry to leave America. If you cant drink milk, it says in part, you have to go back.

In an inconvenient truth for white supremacists, a similar bit of evolution turns out to have occurred among cattle breeders in East Africa. Scientists need to be more aware of the racial lens through which some of their basic findings are being filtered, Dr. Novembre says, and do a better job at pointing out how they can be twisted.

But the white nationalist infatuation with dairy also heightened Dr. Novembres concerns about how to handle new evolutionary studies that deal with behavioral traits, such as how long people stay in school.

Anticipating misinterpretations of a recent study on how genes associated with high education attainment, identified in Europeans, varied in different populations around the world, the lead author, Fernando Racimo, created his own frequently asked questions document for nonscientists, which he posted on Twitter.

And in a commentary that accompanied the paper in the journal Genetics, Dr. Novembre warned that such research is wrapped in numerous caveats that are likely to get lost in translation.

Great care, his commentary concludes, should be taken in communicating results of these studies to general audiences.

Already, some of those audiences are flaunting DNA ancestry test results indicating exclusively European heritage as though they were racial ID cards. They are celebrating traces of Neanderthal DNA not found in people with only African ancestry. And they are trading messages with the coded term race realism, which takes oxygen from the claim that the liberal scientific establishment has obscured the truth about biological racial differences.

This is by no means the end of the article, so if you're interested enough to keep reading into this, keep going. I just wanted to point out how kneejerk you'd have to be to jump to the conclusion that "Oh, SJWs/White Nationalists are saying milk is racist now!"

The story is about a bunch of white folks drinking milk to prove that the act doesn't make them want to shit their guts out and die, and using it as an example of genetic superiority over other races who might not be able to digest dairy as well. And the funny thing is that white people have begun to lose this gene, rendering a ton of white folks lactose intolerant - not to mention that a similar mutation found its way into East Africa around the same time as it did in Europe, so this isn't even an example that's unique and beneficial solely to white people. It's just the ignorant hollerings of the alt-right trying to make that case.

But the white supremacists don't care - they're going to chug gallons of heavy, full-cream milk until they're churning butter in their guts while they walk, because it's the only genetic perk to being white that they can objectively parade around as being a thing - again, despite the fact that it isn't just a caucasian thing.
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Nowhere on the agenda of the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, being held in San Diego this week, is a topic plaguing many of its members: the recurring appropriation of the fields research in the name of white supremacy.

Sticking your neck out on political issues is difficult, said Jennifer Wagner, a bioethicist and president of the groups social issues committee, who had sought to convene a panel on the racist misuse of genetics and found little traction.

But the specter of the fields ignominious past, which includes support for the American eugenics movement, looms large for many geneticists in light of todays white identity politics. They also worry about how new tools that are allowing them to home in on the genetic basis of hot-button traits like intelligence will be misconstrued to fit racist ideologies.

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In recent months, some scientists have spotted distortions of their own academic papers in far-right internet forums. Others have fielded confused queries about claims of white superiority wrapped in the jargon of human genetics. Misconceptions about how genes factor into Americas stark racial disparities have surfaced in the nations increasingly heated arguments over school achievement gaps, immigration and policing.

Instead of long-discounted proxies like skull circumference and family pedigrees, according to experts who track the far-right, todays proponents of racial hierarchy are making their case by misinterpreting research on the human genome itself. And in debates that have largely been limited to ivory-tower forums, the scientists whose job is to mine humanitys genetic variations for the collective good are grappling with how to respond.

Studying human genetic diversity is easier in a society where diversity is clearly valued and celebrated right now, that is very much on my mind, said John Novembre, a University of Chicago evolutionary biologist who has taken to concluding his visiting seminars by illustrating how one of the fields textbook examples of natural selection has been adopted for illiberal ends.

One slide Dr. Novembre has folded into his recent talks depicts a group of white nationalists chugging milk at a 2017 gathering to draw attention to a genetic trait known to be more common in white people than others the ability to digest lactose as adults. It also shows a social media post from an account called Enter The Milk Zone with a map lifted from a scientific journal article on the traits evolutionary history.

To be continued in the next post, but before that, let's break down each bolded sentence.

1: White supremacists are hijacking genetic research talking points to spread their hateful ideaology.

2: New tools are helping to home in on genetic traits that may show how different aspects of the human mind develop depending on your DNA, which people are worried will be hijacked by racists to claim racial superiority over others, essentially vindicating their views with hard science.

3: Genetics papers and studies have been showing up on right-wing forums, reframed with racist language and connotations, which is gaining enough traction that other non-right people who are ignorant to these alterations think that this angle is being assumed by the scientists themselves.

4-5: Rather than the old pseudosciences like phrenology, the modern white supremacist movement are making their points of racial superiority by misconstruing the evolutionary traits of white people and other races. This is where the milk comes in, as white Europeans developed a mutation which allowed them to better process dairy well into adulthood - hence the title of the news article. White supremacists are chugging milk to show off the supposed genetic advantage of being able to digest dairy as an adult.
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I would assume that the 22 weeks is a limit that wouldn't be passed unless the mother's life was in imminent danger. It's not like they're going to a doctor with an unwanted pregnancy of 22 weeks and going "Scoop it out, please!" - like it feels to me that at this point, it's easier to get an abortion in this timeframe if there's a risk to the child or mother, whereas any later than 22 weeks will be a much harder sell unless the mother has like blood poisoning or something that endangers her and the child.

Abortion at that late in development is a precautionary measure taken to preserve the life of someone who's got more to offer the world. And if it's an earlier decision, then you most likely have women who have so much to give to the world right now, in the prime of their lives - I don't see it as fair to saddle them with a responsibility that they don't feel capable of handling, just over this moral superiority over "saving a life". I'd rather see less children being born, but more children being born into functional homes with the means and support to raise them. If that means that women who don't have the means or support to raise a child abort those potential lives, then I'm down with it.

There's this platitude about letting life spring forth undeterred, but the women who get pregnant and who are quite literally bonded to these children for ~9 months are fully living, breathing autonomous beings who have their own skills and experience to offer. Y'all are freaking out over an unformed human with all of this magical potential and such, but if that kid comes into a world where it's not wanted, or where its life will be marred by poverty because its parents can barely stay afloat with them and a baby, or where it's been conceived as a "problem solver" for a dysfunctional relationship, then you've ruined the life of the parents as well as the kid.

There are plenty of legitimate reasons for abortion, though this late in the development would require an imminent health scare for me to be fully behind it.
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I'd be more willing to push back against publishers. The reason that a lot of huge games are worked on up to the day they release and beyond, and why they suffer from a lack of content or rushed/missing story content, is because big publishers are ultimately working towards that bottom line. You need a game with this, this and this, it has to release by this date, and if it doesn't sell X million amount of copies, we will deem it a failure and the penalties for not complying may put your company under.

But a part of this is due to the expense and work needed to make a big AAA game nowadays. Games that require thousands of voiced lines and dialogue trees and skill trees and levelling mechanics and parkour and random missions - games that try to capture the current zeitgeist while lugging mechanics from a decade ago and onwards, all of which have their own development pitfalls and necessities, requiring more time, expense and talent to work on it all. Games are reaching critical mass, because we've come to expect so much from them with release dates as soon as possible, at a similar cost, and they now have to deal with these big publishers who throw their big money into the game on the condition that the game sells one, two, three million copies - all to pay for the million dollar advertising and the corporate management to guide their game along, which is often the only way that these games can be made in the first place.

Games have always been a business, but it's only recently that it's become this big of a business. Some devs in the SNES era probably had to spend a good few nights at the office to hit deadlines, and games have been getting bigger and more ambitious for years. But it's in the last 13 years, I feel like, that it's been commonplace to mass-hire a bunch of freelancers, have them work up to 16 hours a day for weeks before launch, work on patches after the game launches and then dismiss them all. That's not something that most developers do unless there's a deal involved - I don't doubt that Telltale did that after that whole fiasco, but 9 times out of 10 it's the workings of a big publisher pulling those strings.

Publishers have been a necessary evil until recently, but they still have a large presence in the industry and they're the reason why a lot of these incomplete games go out. They're also a reason why the games come out at all, or are even developed. Developers can be bad, but I would argue that a lot of shortcomings in the industry stem from the meddling of publishers.
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I was almost expecting this to be a really good copypasta. Like you start arguing with the girl and she says that she'll give you the tacos for "around tree fiddy", and that's when you notice that her hands are really flippers that look like they belong to a prehistoric plesiosaur...
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So someone who was born into a shitty, dysfunctional family and has no hope of upward trajectory because they were never granted the upbringing, resources and education in order to be even remotely successful? I think there's a ton of people like that who have no chance despite their passion for something.

Tons of fine, passionate people are born into poverty and never find a way out of it.
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I doubt it, but free money is free money. Fuck it, I hope TC delivers if he wins.
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If you treat everyone with kindness, then those who also subscribe to this idea will treat you with respect and kindness in return. You'll get along with nicer people, or have the chance to get through to a ruder individual and have a more level conversation that way. Yeah, there are these self-absorbed fuckwits that'll screw you over because they fucking suck - there are a lot of them. But your life will be easier and happier if you are a more polite, considerate person.

Giving in and becoming a ruder, more self-involved person in response just turns more people away and negatively affects the lives of those around you. Yeah, you get a hit of dopamine for yelling at someone for being too slow on the freeway, but everyone else in that situation - possibly including any friendly people you have in your car - resents you for it. If you want to be a source of unhappiness for the people around you, go right ahead - personally, I'd prefer to be polite and have as positive of an impact on people's lives as I can.
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Wasn't one of the original witches gay or bisexual?
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I mean, I don't think most of that is too unreasonable. It gets a bit nutty near the end, but they're not entirely wrong.
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