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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #120 on: October 18, 2014, 08:04:37 PM »
I just noticed something.

We are on the NINTH iteration of the Small Rants Thread... And on the first iteration of the Happy Happy Joy Joy thread.

It seems that we, as a whole, are nine times more likely to complain than we are to be genuinely happy that something has happened.

This is unsettling. We need to become happier.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #121 on: October 18, 2014, 08:10:56 PM »
Request received.  Deploying laughing gas by orbital bombardment in 5... 4... 3...
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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #122 on: October 18, 2014, 08:13:15 PM »
Request received.  Deploying laughing gas by orbital bombardment in 5... 4... 3...

But I am allergic!

Did you take into account the fact that these threads tend to randomly veer off into topics such as cooking?
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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #123 on: October 18, 2014, 08:23:45 PM »
we put 7 pages on this thread in two or three days  :rolleyes
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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #124 on: October 18, 2014, 09:06:45 PM »
Also, as a species, there's some psychology at play that increases the amount of complaining but decreases the amount of happy posts.  See, we tend to notice bad things happening more than good things.  And that's not really pessimism, it's just that a bad thing takes more effort to deal with than a good thing (mentally).  Your brain thus focuses on bad things, and that leads to you remembering them more.

Also, and more significant in this case, we tend to vent more about the bad things, as a coping mechanism.  You don't need to vent to cope with good things....
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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #125 on: October 18, 2014, 09:21:51 PM »
Also, talking about happy stuff feels like bragging, and I hate bragging.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #126 on: October 18, 2014, 10:07:06 PM »

This is unsettling. We need to become happier.

I will need an XM-134 Minigun, 4 billion rounds of ammunition, and a line of people comprising much of the human race.

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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #127 on: October 19, 2014, 12:19:13 AM »

This is unsettling. We need to become happier.

I will need an XM-134 Minigun, 4 billion rounds of ammunition, and a line of people comprising much of the human race.

And we need to sell FastPasses for the ride!

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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #128 on: October 19, 2014, 01:42:41 AM »
Went to a Chinese restaurant for my dad's and uncle's birthdays.  I ordered "spicy chicken curry" and got...  Bland fatty chicken onion shit.  Should have gone with the lemon chicken or the sweet and sour chicken.  Also, when I used the bathroom there wasn't any toilet paper so I had to wad up some paper towels.

But hey, at least the ham fried riced was good.

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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #129 on: October 19, 2014, 01:54:02 PM »
For a very small rant:

I've picked up a copy of Tintin: The Prisoner's of the Sun as a piece of nostalgia; I played the shit out of that game when I was a kid.

I apparently forgot how balls to the wall HARD it is. And it's legit difficulty too; there's no cheap tricks, just a demand for precision.

I picked up a copy of Tintin in Tibet recently, and that demands sequences of precise jumps in the first level.

EDIT: RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGH

The FUCKING AVALANCHE LEVEL. WHY YOU RIGHT AFTER THE CONDOR LEVEL?
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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #130 on: October 19, 2014, 04:44:56 PM »

The FUCKING AVALANCHE LEVEL. WHY YOU RIGHT AFTER THE CONDOR LEVEL?

http://explosm.net/comics/3470/

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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #131 on: October 19, 2014, 05:20:17 PM »
I died on that level something like 35 times in rapid succession before I decided to screw it and look up the level password for the next set of levels.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #132 on: October 19, 2014, 09:15:44 PM »
I don't understand the logic behind the anti-gamergaters wanting Intel to put their ad campaign back up on Gamasutra.  "Gamergate accomplished this, therefor it must be evil?"
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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #133 on: October 19, 2014, 09:18:39 PM »
Gamersgate is a clusterfuck...  I don't recommend trying to understand it anymore.

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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #134 on: October 19, 2014, 09:41:04 PM »
What the fuck is gamersgate?
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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #135 on: October 19, 2014, 10:00:18 PM »
Basically, a female game developer made a "game" about depression, and a bunch of idiots (a lot of them were men's rights activists too...) thought it was bad that it got good reviews because it wasn't a first person shooter (it was more of a choose your own adventure, not really trying to be a "game" game).  Then her ex boyfriend made some stupid remarks and sexual statements about her, and claimed it only got good reviews because she slept with the reviewers.  Also probably said she raped him or something.  It was a whole thing.  Then the MRAs scared her out of her home, destroyed her life, terrorized her, and said it was all because they value honest reporting and integrity in the review system.

EDIT: I try not to talk about it to give it more credibility than it deserves (that is, none).  The thing is, it's bled in to the real world in a way that these sorts of things rarely do.  As in, it's gotten media attention.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #136 on: October 19, 2014, 10:09:27 PM »
Basically, a female game developer made a "game" about depression, and a bunch of idiots (a lot of them were men's rights activists too...) thought it was bad that it got good reviews because it wasn't a first person shooter (it was more of a choose your own adventure, not really trying to be a "game" game).  Then her ex boyfriend made some stupid remarks and sexual statements about her, and claimed it only got good reviews because she slept with the reviewers.  Also probably said she raped him or something.  It was a whole thing.  Then the MRAs scared her out of her home, destroyed her life, terrorized her, and said it was all because they value honest reporting and integrity in the review system.

Oh I read stuff about this!

There's actually a lot of (alledged) proof of all the underhanded things the lady actually did to get her game out there and popular. Mostly chat logs from the ex boyfriend, yes. Like, a ton of chat logs. Hella incriminating. I'm not saying I'm picking a side, but hey, no smoke without fire :v

Too bad I personally don't find the game interesting, much less good, so I couldn't care less about the drama behind it!  :tongue

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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #137 on: October 19, 2014, 10:18:16 PM »
All of those chat logs aren't reliable.  Basically, her boyfriend made up a ton of lies about her.  The various organizations that had someone do a review basically proved it was all false.
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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #138 on: October 19, 2014, 10:54:19 PM »
https://archive.today/jV3gs
This is making me rage.
Retroactively withdraw consent...
It's a BDSM oriented article, surely you've heard of safe, sane and consensual. The article is a bunch of long winded BS that at times suggests the author forgets what s/he is talking about, but it can be boiled down to communication and safe words.

Saying yes to being spanked for instance is ambiguous. Even if you agree on the less painful flogger the strength, speed, target, and aim create a lot of impossible to determine variables and pain tolerance MASSIVELY varies based on everything from mood, hormones, sleep, stress, to rolling fifty d20s. To counter this is the safe word, a way to call stop to things that exceed your level of tolerance. Safe words as you can expect are much debated, on the one hand a full-stop word gives the submissive the ultimate control and on the other how far should you push past someone's word to make them feel helpless? The answer is as unique as it is to the specific combination of participants, but that doesn't stop people from arguing what (probably doesn't) work for them.

Outside of sex and rape, without legal documentation otherwise you can withdraw consent. You can tell people to get out of your car or house just as you can refuse to stop paying for your kid's insurance. This is why people from contracts, you agreed under the specific terms that you cannot take back your consent or you sold the product and you have chosen to given up all rights to it. Unless you're a dipshit in 50 Shades of Grey, you don't have a sex contract signed and notarized before hand do you?

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I looked at it but it isn't my style at all.
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I just noticed something.
We are on the NINTH iteration of the Small Rants Thread... And on the first iteration of the Happy Happy Joy Joy thread.
It seems that we, as a whole, are nine times more likely to complain than we are to be genuinely happy that something has happened.
This is unsettling. We need to become happier.
Heh. And all this time people thought I was the hateful one here. I've barely contributed to any of them.

All of those chat logs aren't reliable.  Basically, her boyfriend made up a ton of lies about her.  The various organizations that had someone do a review basically proved it was all false.
Meh, now you know what I think about all the bad cop shit hitting my FB news feed.

The last one was a pot smoking kid refusing to get out of his vehicle that went full on firing at the cop that pulled him over with one of the many guns he purchased illegally. But per the media it's a hate crime, the white cop dragged the bible thumping teen out of his car and shot an unarmed black kid for no reason, petitions still are flying around demanding the cop to be charged with 1st degree murder. You can only imagine the trolling he receives daily because, generally, people need to commit seppuku but choose to ruin our day instead.

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Re: The Small Rants Thread IX: Leaping into the Well of Darkness
« Reply #139 on: October 19, 2014, 10:56:48 PM »
There was a lot of hype about this on reddit & 4chan. If we're to believe their accounts, she also slept with a lot of 4chan mods & janitors, as well as a bunch of redditors, because all threads about it are getting censored...

Personally i think it's all a bunch of hogwash. Some people did fish out nudes of the girl, though. I don't really care either way, if she did slept with the reviewers to get good reviews or not. I don't think she's really all that good-looking either.
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