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Wetterdew posted...

There's only one case I can imagine where you could use the word gay as an insult innocuously. If we're talking about somebody (a child maybe) who has no idea what the word gay means and only knows it as a synonym of "bad" because that's how they've heard other people use it. Then I'd agree that is an instance where somebody is using it as an insult without any intention of associating it with its main usage.

For people who DO know what it means to be gay, that's not the case. If you know what the word means, you can't divorce it of that meaning when you use it to try to insult somebody. When used as an insult it inherently draws on bigotry for its power to hurt.

I feel like you're putting way too much weight on it. I'd agree that a gay person would be justified in being offended regardless of context, but I disagree that it inherently carries ill intent. I feel that's the same with the r-word. I feel it's much divorced from the connotation of people on the spectrum.

Wetterdew posted...

When people say "that's gay" as a way to try to mock something or express that they don't like it, it's inherently disrespecting gay people by equating the word gay with bad things. They are literally calling something gay, you can't act like there's no correlation with gay people.

Just because somebody uses gay as an insult doesn't inherently make them a homophobe, but at best it means they're willing to dabble in homophobia to insult somebody.

It's entirely possible to use a word and have absolutely no intention of associating it with the root definition. It doesn't make the context of the root definition disappear entirely, which is why I'd never say "it's not offensive, full stop," but the intended context does not need to be purposely offensive. It also doesn't take away from the chunk of people that do use it in a purposely offensive manner. My whole point is that it's impossible to make a single judgement call on the topic.

Wetterdew posted...

Can you give an example of using gay as an insult that is not inherently disrespectful to gay people?

"That's gay" with no particular emphasis on the correlation to gay people. As I said, it will offend some people regardless of intentions behind it. It's not the kind of speech I'd use, but people have and will use it in such a manner. I would agree it's juvenile, but it doesn't make someone a horrible person either.

I feel it's sort of like the r-word. There are purposely offensive applications and applications that have evolved away from the actual definition of the word. Both are certainly offensive to certain people regardless of context, but trying to act as the moral arbiters of speech seems pretty frivolous at the end of the day.

Sounds like a possible Smollett, but horrible if true.

I would write a 20 page glowing review of literally any horrible act in this world for that amount. You'd have better luck with "$100 million but you're publicly known as a Holocaust denier."

I'm confused. Was it a legit university where they managed to catch people who then illegally overstayed their visas, or did they create a situation in which a bunch of people came over for nothing and then fucked them over?

Humans naturally form in groups and out groups. Skin color is the easiest way to judge, so that's been a big thing for a long time now. But even without that, you have religion, where you're from, what you believe, political opinions, sexuality etc. We'd naturally find ways of being shitty to each other even if everyone had the same skin color.

If she was asking you to go in a chaperone position, it'd make sense, but it otherwise sounds like she thinks you or your sister would enjoy having the other around at an event for children. That just seems like a misguided attempt at family time. It would make more sense to go out somewhere after the event.

The box of my parrot's ashes. Everything else can be replaced.

Those deserving of the term are horrible people generally. I would not describe someone lightly progressive with such a term.

Things that are considered to be normal traits are seen as socially acceptable talking points. Thats true of everyone.

Nah. It's illegal, but it does not inherently deprive anyone of anything. You'd need to be able to prove intent to buy it to claim that it's equal to theft.

If I'm stuck there forever, I get severely depressed and don't give a shit if JFK is shot twenty times.

Asian countries naturally seem very collectivist, so throwing a form of communism on top of that just brings it to the very extreme.

Yes. There are likely a select few that make a shit load of money for comparatively little work, but most of them have to put in an effort equaling or exceeding a real job.

Kojima didn't do it alone. He was just one cog in the machine. The most important cog for sure, but a cog nonetheless.

CyricZ posted...

Cool. When are you gonna answer the question I asked about what you think we should do about racial "natural advantages"?

That's always a nonsensical take. Transwomen are transwomen. They are not "women born with a natural advantage over other women." They are male-bodied individuals who make a purposeful transition to their desired body state out of mental health concerns. I'm not of the "they're men" camp, but they also do not just fit completely into all the roles of biological women.

Maybe gymnastics for flexibility? I don't really know how much physical strength applies.

Its always funny seeing the image compilations from those hypocritical websites.

That lady isnt particularly fat, so I dont see any issue with that one. Too fat to model would be fat rolls while simply standing.

Antifar posted...

What's the userbase for Victoria's Secret? There's only so many supermodels out there.

The demographics of the userbase don't matter. It matters what the userbase wants to see representing the company. I'd imagine the majority of fat people don't want to see similarly fat people on a walkway. Only the people who make being fat a personality trait care.

There are some spaces that don't need to be inclusive. We don't need to cater to every demographic in every space. I don't get why businesses cater to one thousand people bitching on Twitter and one hundred starving "journalists" when their vast userbases doesn't care.

I bet the second One Piece is nearly over Oda is going to do a 200 chapter full and complete Roger flashback arc.

I remember thinking like ten years ago that he was dead for some reason. No idea why.

Sure, money and extended longevity would be great. Being a woman would be weird, but I'd be a fat, bald dwarf for hundreds of extra years of like.

Anyone who thought any of the issues would matter to casual players was delusional. That still doesn't make up for the many flaws that will now be justified for further sequels.

Assuming were taking main entertainment center, Ill never get anything less than a 60 inch now.

Im pretty damn out of shape, so it completely killed me the first few days. It seems pretty varied so far. The only real issue with the RPG part is some of the moves are pretty broken so I have found myself focusing on a couple moves too much.

How do they have reports about it but say nobody has come forward with it?

Nah, like what you like so long as you don't let it take over your life. Even shit like bronies are only really weird because they turn it into a fucking personality trait for some reason.

I honestly don't care whatsoever outside of that anyone who commits a crime should face the penalty, but I am resigned to the rich and powerful getting away with it.

It depends entirely on how much the product is garbage. That would be true for garbage like the most recent Paper Mario games. Everyone bought Sticker Star, so they made another. Comparatively nobody bought ME Andromeda, so they shelved it and didn't push out a sequel.

I guess you need to read physical books once per year and watch irrelevant nightime talk shows and news programs. That's the true way to adult.

Yes. There certainly are people out there with the mental fortitude to deal with such conditions, but I'm certain that more often than not it's just a financial and mental soul crushing, marriage ruining drain.

People like shiny things and expensive things. Much of the world has been convinced that diamonds are both through constant marketing. Now it's also a social thing where people feel pressured to buy them and people highly desire them.

Aren't creators supposed to be able to manually change their channel assessment? Is Youtube doing their usual thing of saying one thing but doing another against creator interests?

electricbugs2 posted...

Youre just continually proving you have absolutely no idea what youre talking about. Just shut up already, god damn.

What exactly are you trying to say? Just because you view something as a major issue locally does not make it major elsewhere. Ten murders in a place with a 0.00 murder rate per 100k would be a big deal for them, but not for you.

It's probably a problem for a Canadian city, but it's still a minor problem relative to places with high gang activity like the US. Even if this gang violence caused murders to spike by 1000%, which I'm certain is not the case, you're still looking at only 150 murders in one city.

electricbugs2 posted...

Bro. I live two hours from Vancouver. Vancouver Police have a dedicated gang task force. Stop being ignorant.

There being a problem does not make it a major problem, at least relative to the rest of the world. This hypothetical would not cause untold chaos in a place that had 15 murders in 2018.

I'm pretty sure the total murders in Canada in a yearly basis is equal to a single US state, so they certainly could not have anything I'd quality as "major" gang issues. Do such a thing in the US, and I'm sure gang related murders would spike like 10,000%. The percentage for Canada would certainly not be so great even if you did both at a per capita rate.

I honestly can't name a single first party title for Xbox outside of Halo, so they definitely need more of those if they want purchases.

It would definitely spike murders way up, but I doubt it would affect daily life that much. The number of people with a natural impetus to murder is definitely very low. It would affect any area with gang violence the most. I really can't imagine Canada with a major gang violence problem.

Im surprised nobody has made billions working as a proofreader for scammers.

Yes. We dont need to cap wealth. We just need to close the loopholes so they actually pay their fair share.

Yes, but I dont think Ill continuing beyond sequels about old characters. End Game was a good end point for the franchise.

Darmik posted...

I don't think it's obvious in the trailer but I don't know how you could possibly make that distinction.

This is the kind of talking point that will likely be at the head of every news article about the game. Even if the developers don't push it, it will definitely become associated with it regardless.

Darmik posted...

What do you mean from a marketing perspective?

If the point is to get PR for sales, then I doubt this is going to bring in any. It may even turn people away, regardless if it's from pure bigotry or simply having little interest in a narrative involving a transperson. It could just be they want to explore characterization that hasn't been explored in a mainstream game regardless of whether it's positive or negative for sales, which is perfectly fine.

I don't really see the point from a marketing perspective, but there's certainly nothing wrong with a company making a game however they want to make it.

I think the biggest issue is trying to use it on the level of individuals in the first place. I don't think there's anything wrong with saying such things based on averages. The second someone says "you have white privilege" or "your white privilege", they've lost the plot. No individual has inherent privlages. It all depends on where they live and who they live with. The idea of mass privilege comes from inspecting a large amount of cases where individuals of one particular grouping of people have certain experiences or don't have certain experiances. But that's just that, an average.