Recent content by Jarek Mace

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    Games you love to play... except for that one part!

    See, I stopped there too but for a different reason. Up until that point I had been literally stomping and slamming my way through. You see, the whole "Weapon weight affects ability cooldown" combined with a high level ported vanguard meant that you were essentially invulnerable and could wipe...
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    What's the opposite of a SJW?

    Rational, normal, and collected human beings with jobs? That does seem to be the tendency.
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    I don't get it. Free Speech Under Threat At University? (Added Extra)

    I don't see anything about minorities in there. Do you? Maybe you could point it out for me. That'd be real nice of you.
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    I don't get it. Free Speech Under Threat At University? (Added Extra)

    If you're ever so sick and tired of these discussions than it might be best not to actually join said discussion. It's like going into a pub for a drink whilst berating the regulars for drinking. Cis Hetero White Guys aren't the most oppressed group in history. Then again, nor are the poor...
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    I don't get it. Free Speech Under Threat At University? (Added Extra)

    There's such strong irony in your closing statement I'm not even sure of how to respond to it. No, it's not about that. It has a tendency to do with the political leanings of an extremely vocal group on Western Campuses that attempt to silence opposition rather than respond to it.
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    I don't get it. Free Speech Under Threat At University? (Added Extra)

    I don't know about you, but when someone is barred from speaking at an intellectual institution because their ideology doesn't match a hyper liberal, borderline university exclusive agenda it does start to ring alarm bells. It's almost as if people are trying to create an echo chamber of ideas.
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    Is this guy a dick or is this ableism?

    "He can't wear gloves" He can wear socks though. Imagine a nice pair of really thick thermal ones. Now that'd be better than gloves.
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    Is The Old Republic worth it?

    Yeah this. From someone who played an Inquisitor, the games story has so many memorable and awesome moments that just make me grin like an idiot. Sadly, to reach those moments you have to grind your arse off. As an MMO, it's... 'meh' at the best of moments. As a story based game it would be...
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    So I'm kind of confused about what an "Ableist" exactly means.

    See, Tumblr is like meatgrinder of oppression. Terms and phrases go in, oppressed snowflakes come out. If the word had any grounding in reality it left about the same time the Tumblr crowd got ahold of it. Anyone watch chicken run? "Chickens go in, pies come out." Well, just picture the...
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    The Danish Girl - Transgender Issues in the 1920s

    You know, I have a temper. I really do. I am ever so desperately trying to control it but right now its getting funneled into sheer frustration and it shouldn't be, but it is. "Casting white people in the roles of ethnic minorities is a classic tactic of excluding ethnic minorities from film"...
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    The Danish Girl - Transgender Issues in the 1920s

    A: If that's so then we wouldn't pick actors based on roles. We wouldn't pick a black actor for that film about that famous American footballer from the ghetto (Big Mike was it? I don't know). We'd be casting Johnny Depp as God, and Morgan Freeman as Jack Sparrow. Both an individuals skill at...
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    Violent video games improve your sex drive

    ...Uh, delightful. Well that's certainly an interesting discovery, so do you reckon it escalates with higher violence levels? Like, if I go and intensively play Killing Floor I'll be whitewashing the walls or will it produce the same result as hitting small helpless animals with a spade in...
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    The Danish Girl - Transgender Issues in the 1920s

    ...This is cool and all that we're having such an intense discussion on the topic of gender dysphoria and how brave people are with it, etc. But has no one at any stage sat down and just considered the tick boxes? A: Does the actor/actress in question possess the physical attributes...
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    The Danish Girl - Transgender Issues in the 1920s

    This is the among one of the most off the wall threads I've seen on here in a while. Speaking of which, the same people cry about having a 'cis' person plays a 'trans' person are the same people who fling the term shitlord around when people complain about female Thor, or female Jimmy in the new...
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    Why do people scream "Feminist Agenda" when there is a female lead?

    Ssshhh, you're posting on the Escapist. It's become increasingly 'progressive' (I hate using that word) over the past year or so to the point of being outright disturbing at times. (Like threads about legalising incest being giving overwhelming support). The issue is that at one time the idea of...