Recent content by Haukur Isleifsson

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    What do people actually want male gamers to be like?

    As a male gamer I have never been berated or harassed or pressured into changing anything about my behavior. I'm not so deluded as to think that my experiences are representative of all male gamers everywhere all the time. So I will not dismiss you by insinuating that you are exaggerating or...
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    Asexuality

    If you doubt that a group is misunderstood and faces prejudice. Than make a thread acknowledging their existence. The comments will show you if a label is necessary.
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    Why do women like ***** characters?

    Cause they have been conditioned to describe admirable characteristics of females in negative terms.
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    How much do you care?

    I care to little, and yet to much. I care so much that it makes me sick with worries and robs me of sleep. Yet I don't care enough for me to do anything productive about it.
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    Excluding Women From E-Sports Does Not Legitimize It

    I still think that it's worthy of discussion if some degree of separation between the genders could encourage more women to get into traditionally male hobbies/sports. Like Carly says in her article it can be very isolating to be in an extreme minority in a group. Could it not be that more women...
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    Salutatorian forced to change her graduation speech, is praised for doing so

    Isn't she being given this platform of expression by the school? The school being a publicly funded organization and the speech being a part of an official ceremony held by them. Isn't her speech than in fact publicly funded? Does funding a religious speech not constitute "respecting an...
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    Do you necessarily need to have mental health issues to kill someone?

    Not unless you redefine mental illness to mean something different from what the medical community means by it. Sometimes it seems like a certain killer must be mentally ill because we can't understand why they killed. But that is essentially just an argument from ignorance. Me not understanding...
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    What is the hardest degree to get?

    I'm going with the "incomparables" crowd. For me math, languages and facts are hard but big theories and concepts are hard. For other people it is completely different. I know doctors who have struggled with sociology courses and engineers who have flunked history. Not because of a lack of...
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    Absolutely Fed Up With The "Men only care about sex" ideology

    This is f***ing disgusting and Mr. Maher should be ashamed of himself. He is basically laughing at the rape of young boys and the f***ing audience is bursting with laughter to. What the f*** is wrong with this f***ing society. F***!!! I'm sorry, I really am. It's just... this is so damn sad...
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    How to deal with people who are just plain stupid

    I find it helps to establish first what kind of things people will take as evidence before you start. Than their moving-of-goalposts and hypocrisy becomes more obvious. Sometimes even obvious enough for them to acknowledge it themselves.
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    Poll: Do you think there will be more openly gay prime minsters and presidents in the next 20 years

    I'm hoping to be able to vote for Páll Óskar Hjálmtýrsson for president of Iceland in the next presidential elections (He is homosexual). I really would have liked it if he had run and been elected the last time. Then we would have had a homosexual person as both president and prime minister at...
  12. Haukur Isleifsson

    What to do about a friend that constantly challenges your opinion on things?

    Don't take it personally. Opinions are just opinions and should be challenged. If you find it so uncomfortable to defend your opinions than just don't bring them up, or if you can't do that just refuse to talk about it. But if I were you I would try to learn from it, maybe he has a point...
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    About 25% of Americans Don't Know the Earth Revolves Around the Sun

    It was very funny seeing the reaction over here when this came out. Everyone was saying Americans were so stupid and ill informed. But than I pointed out to them that in a very similar survey some 8 years ago something like 36% of Icelanders did not know that the earth revolved around the sun.
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    "Nobody could sincerely think this is good." (NO CLASSICS!)

    I was just about to call you out on that but than I realized that I was thinking of Postal, another Uwe Boll film. Cause I rather liked that one.
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    Poll: So, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series

    I've played SoC and CS and I liked them both. Liked the addition of upgrading and repairing in CS but money also seemed much more scarce, perhaps because you now had things to spend it on. As they say vanilla they are both very buggy but it usually doesn't do much harm. But for some reason CS...