Longcat

Seconding Space Jam

I'm dredging up this topic because I just got around to playing this game and I have to vent. Dishonored fucking blew, storywise. Not only was the game terribly predictable, it fails miserably in storytelling. SPOILERS DURRR. You're immersed in a decently interesting steampunk world full of plague and superstition regarding "The Outsider". Do you ever get to find anything out about the outsider? No. Despite him showing up randomly throughout the game to spout irrelevant nonsense about your progress, and his name being on every fucking wall in the game, the character is never explored. Do you ever get to do anything about the plague? Nope. Despite one of the "Endings" showing Piero and Sokolov teaming up to handle the plague, that couldnt be something that you participated in during the game. Like, send Corvo off on a side mission to gather some materials and nonlethally capture some really bad weepers so they can do some tests? And of course, I put quotation marks around the word ending a couple of sentences ago because those endings BARELY pass. You see a really shitty cutscene and the Outsider narrates your future. On par with the ending of KOTOR 2, just really fucking disappointing. Not to mention the pseudo-morality the developers try to force upon you. "You don't get the good ending unless you tried not to kill the people trying to kill you and supporting a tyrant!" My god how naive and stupid that writing was. I honestly can't believe Bethesda published it. I would be embarassed to have such a well known name attached to such a crap story.

I'm going to go play Arkham Asylum.

EDIT: AND FUCK SAM THE BOATMAN. What in the fuck was up with that. You know you've done a hack job of your writing when 90% of your players just get randomly blindsided by a complete reversal of character dynamic in the last half hour. "I've been beside you supporting everything you do this whole game and I thought enough of you to save you when the chips were down." Fastforward an hour later "You're a terrible piece of shit just like the rest of them and I hope you die and I'm going to alert everyone to your presence." I'm glad I shot him in the fucking face.

Dojima is more sensible than most of the retards that filter in and out of staff. I'd say yeah.

As for old people dying with dignity;

The prelate also denounced a "culture of discarding" regarding the elderly, which treats them as if they are disposable and worthless due to their advanced age.

"In Argentina there is clandestine euthanasia. Social services pay up to a certain point; if you pass it, ‘die, you are very old’. Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society," he said, and observed that "the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity."

We each have our different opinions and approach things in different ways, he has his and we have ours. I wouldn't jump on him and say he's trying to prevent the elderly from dying with dignity.

Thank you for enlightening me on this. If this is indeed the reasoning behind these anti-euthanasia statements I've seen in articles about this pope, I certainly revoke my statement referring to this.

I would respect him far more if he lived the rockstar lifestyle of some other church leaders but also decided to help move the catholic church forward into the 21st century. To praise the guy as being awesome for a few lifestyle choices while ignoring the negative ways in which he has influcened Argentinians, and now is in a position to influence the world, is foolish.To quote Uncle Ben: "With great power comes great responsibility." and the record of this new pope does not reflect a responsible view on human equality and morality in this day and age.

Although religion may be bullshit to a growing number of people, if you read about the guy, he's actually pretty awesome.

Yeah, great to idolize a man who opposes contraceptives to prevent pregnancy (gotta punish all of the sinful premarital sex having heathens!). This is a guy who doesn't want the elderly to have the right to die with dignity. A man who wants to deny the right of a woman to make decisions about her body, and opposes same sex marriage. The Catholic church is not a force for good or morality in this ever changing world.

Didn't mean his beliefs or his religion, but merely the way he has lived his life compared to the other bishops and people who represent the vatican.

You can't separate the two. His life is his religion. He's risen to the highest office in Catholicism, and he's going to continue to espouse his backwards, out of date ideologies based upon a millenia old book. No matter how much of a humanitarian some may claim him to be, he's still horribly discriminatory towards women and homosexuals based upon his support for these positions.

Although religion may be bullshit to a growing number of people, if you read about the guy, he's actually pretty awesome.

Yeah, great to idolize a man who opposes contraceptives to prevent pregnancy (gotta punish all of the sinful premarital sex having heathens!). This is a guy who doesn't want the elderly to have the right to die with dignity. A man who wants to deny the right of a woman to make decisions about her body, and opposes same sex marriage. The Catholic church is not a force for good or morality in this ever changing world.

I was so very much hoping for an African pope so I could break this joke out and have it make sense:

"Gabby says the new pope is near!"

tl;dr: This article is about abusing children, not punishing them. This article is misleading. Critical reading is important.

Tell me everyone, when you think of physical punishment from your parents what do you think of? You think of a spanking. That is obvious, almost everyone gets spanked. However, when we actually read the article: "She did not examine spanking because it’s not easy to define." SHE DIDN'T EVEN ACCOUNT FOR THE MOST STANDARD TYPE OF "HITTING YOUR CHILD" EVER! I can define spanking. Can you? If we actually included all kinds of "hitting" including spanking, I posit that there woudl be a GREAT deal of normalization of her statistics. Add in the fact that the fucking picture on the website is a dad spanking his kid and you end up with a lot of people who only read headlines being misled.

Then lets see the part of the study where this researcher was able to account for children with behavioral disorders being more likely to experience physical punishment. Zachmanman is dead on, and this is another massively glaring red mark on this study. Correlation =/= causation argument applies here. And just for shits and giggles, lets expand this study to include ALL mental disorders. Lets look at the rate of these "abused" children who end up with narcissistic personality disorder, or histrionic.

i cant get into walking dead though, i tried to watch a whole episode and i got so bored i started to play chess on my phone instead =/

That is a good call. The first season is decent, but then the 2nd season is the most ungodly boring single season of TV I've ever watched. Third season is just disappointing. It takes a lot of patience, and like I said, I only watch in hopes that it will someday live up to its source material.

Having watched neither, I think game of thrones is clearly better than both.

Believe it or not, I'd actually say Breaking Bad is better than Game of Thrones, though Game of Thrones is fucking sweet too.

You guys fucking kidding me? There is absolutely no debate here! Breaking bad is 10x better. The acting and writing is better all around. I could go on and on, but I couldn't possibly address all of the things that make Breaking Bad the perfect TV show. Yeah, sure, The world is more interesting in TWD, but when all of your characters are retarded and don't make sense, you're going to have a bad time. You can always tell who has read the comics when you discuss TWD because those who have weep for what could have been. The TV show has butchered a FANTASTIC source material. When you sit all of the tv characters up next to their comic analogues, you only find disappointment. They've made Rick into an emotional retard (this happens in the comics, but he is still in control while he fights his demons. You never go full retard), Andrea has been completely wasted, they killed off Dale (one of their only non-retarded characters), and Michonne is literally just a blade. "Oh I could resolve all of this mistrust simply by SPEAKING? Nah, I'll just stay silent." I don't understand how you people can sit through the 2nd season of TWD and not agree that it is a huge waste of time. The Walking Dead comics are better, the video game is better. The only reason I still watch TWD on occasion is because I pray that eventually the writers may have a random epiphany and figure out how to live up to the name of the TV show. And Daryl. He's the one bright spot on the show.

Share any nudes she may have sent you. Revenge is best medicine.

Oh cmon we gotta get deets. Did you shake the rap? Did your friend who drove the getaway vehicle roll over on you? Did you plead for lighter punishments? Did you get to keep any of the lootz? SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS.

And nothing of value was lost. OH NOES! How will the rednecks be able to overtake Louisville and Cincinnati each year for 'MURICA tiems?

Open and shut case here. Violent movie causes murders. This obviously mentally stable and otherwise perfect young, impressionable child is also a victim in this! Somebody get me hollywood, they've got a lotta splainin to do!

Downloaded yesterday. Earlier today I was dropping dynamite on a Sherman on Wake Island as I'm parachuting down from my zero, which is now smashing into a sniper on a hillside. So much nostalgia.

You have differently perceived semantics behind your initial statement. I get it. I'll leave it alone. There is nothing I can do to convince you that your first post said something that you hadn't intended. I'm wrong and reach outlandish conclusions blah blah blah, we've exhausted that discussion. We've plainly laid it out for everybody else and they can read it for themselves. No sense for either of us to beat our heads against the wall anymore when neither will be convinced otherwise. That topic is done, as you wish.

Next topic(tangent):

It is still hilarious to me that you still deny being a birther, that you think I had inferred that and that I am wrong. Lets discuss that. How are you not a birther conspiracy theorist if you think he was born in Kenya? You don't have to be at a tea party rally to fit that mold. The only requirement for that is to deny that Obama was born in Hawaii, making his birth certificate a forgery. So what sets you apart from others who fit that title, and why do you think he was born in Kenya?

Must be trolling now or I am going to retract my intelligent statement about you. Seriously, I never stated or even came close to inferring that I believe that Obama got more votes for his race than lost votes for his race

I'm going to do this one more time, and it is all that can be done. If you honestly don't understand after this, there is no hope for you. Let me know if I need to line it out any more clearly or use smaller words:

I just laugh at everyone on Facebook saying his victory had nothing to do with his skin color

This statement right here is the entire crux of what I have been trying to make clear to you. You said his victory had to do with his skin color. If you wish to credit his victory in ANY way to his race, you HAVE to acknowledge that your statement implies that there were more votes based solely upon race FOR him than would be AGAINST him. If you had thought the opposite was true, that his blackness wasn't more of a benefit than an impediment, or if you thought that race didn't make a difference, you clearly wouldn't have made this statement. You have to acknowledge that, OR you have to acknowledge that you didn't say what you meant to. It is so simple, I really don't see how you can't see that you've contradicted yourself.

I get that your statement now is that you don't think race helped him and you were just trying to say that people vote based upon appearance, but the very first thing you said in this thread is clearly different than what you say now.

Shadow, I'll not spend any more time trying to make you understand that the number of people who voted for Obama because of his race was less than the number who voted against him for that reason. You say that wasn't what you meant, I'll accept that and write it off as poor wording.

And I did mean that Obama was able to more closely relate to the lower classes. His rhetoric proves that, and his policies do as well. Utilizing empathy, seeing them as allies, instead of enemies as Mitt Romney did with his 47% statement, Barack Obama far and away is able to relate to the lower classes than Mitt Romney could ever dream of.

http://web.archive.org/web/20110429013125/http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf Here is the birth certificate. You've probably seen it before, and it probably won't change your mind, but I don't want anyone to think that argument has any credence.

When did I even post my political views or anything related to my own beliefs in politics? (1.) I posted a fun statistic that my friend is doing research on. When did I ever say that the majority of people do this one way or another? I said a majority votes based on what a candidate looks like or how they speak, which I am sure statistically speaking the percentage is quite high. I never stated or even implied that Obama received more votes for being black than Romney getting votes for being white. (.2)

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I know he is not eligible, but the whole controversy with the Obama birth certificate and what not had Arnold all wild up, which had him thinking he should be entitled to run too, since Obama was probably born in Kenya.

Derp derp derp EDIT: It looks like you are denying that you align yourself with the birther movement, despite claiming here that you think the president was born in Kenya. You're more unsteady on your words than Mitt Romney was when confronted with things he said in the Republican primaries.

2. You asserted, based upon your very small sampling, that he won in part because he was black. You say that a huge majority of America votes based upon how candidates look or talk. There is an absolute inference here, through your assertion about his victory being based upon skin color, that you think more people voted for him for being black than voted against him for the same. Maybe you misspoke or didn't say what you meant to, I'll let you have that out.

The reason the study is based off of African Americans is because majority of non-African students did not vote on my campus, me being one of them, because lack of interest or in my case disliking both candidates and not agreeing with their stances on majority of the issues. Also my friend is African American, which is why he is interested in other African Americans decisions compared to his own.

You seem to have done a lot of assuming and misinterpreting, which proceeds to you using ad hominem in argument that doesn't exist.

There are no logical fallacies in my statements. I've laid out what you said, and what that means logically. The only person you can blame for how your statements are interpreted is you. Like I said up there, maybe you didn't say what you meant to.

Since you seem to have wanted to engage a response from me here is one

Minorities make up a larger portion of lower socioeconomic classes, which Mitt Romney simply can't relate to

Oh tell me more about how Obama grew up in the lower socioeconomic class. Since you decided to imply that Obama can better understand the lower classes because of what? His non-existent experience, his huge intellect advantage over Romney, which also doesn't exist, or because he is half African-american?

The reason Obama can be assumed to better understand lower socioeconomic classes is based upon his political stances, which he has backed up in his first term. He's set in motion the Affordable Care Act, which will extend to all citizens the ability to gain health care coverage. This is huge for the lowest rungs of our society, who could be financially crippled by an unexpected health incident. They have an umbrella coming in 2014. Mitt Romney wanted to remove that. Just in case you missed it, there was also this movement during the Obama presidency called the Occupy movement. It involved a large portion of lower socioeconomic classes being fed up with paying a larger portion of the tax dollars proportional to those who control the majority of the country's wealth. The president embraced this movement, running on a budget plan that involved both closing tax loophooles for the wealthy and asking that they pitch in more through taxes. Mitt Romney on the other hand, went on to, on video, paint 47% of Americans as paying no income taxes, who loaf around and suck the blood of the government. This all while he himself refused to release the standard amount of tax refunds (12 years, which his father started) that presidential candidates release. All signs point to this being because he wished to keep secret from America just how readily he participates in tax avoidance programs. An exectutive from Bain Capital, which Mitt Romney owns, stated that Romney may have payed ZERO dollars in income taxes because of the loopholes he utilized. Maybe he wished to hide the fact that he greatly benefited from the stimulus which he so readily attacks as having failed. The years he did release showed that he paid a lower percentage of taxes on his vast amount of earnings than I do on my mediocre salary. He pays 9% less of his income to taxes than I do. THESE are the reasons Barack Obama can more closely relate to the lower socioeconomic classes. He cares about them, his policies prove it. Mitt can't say that same.

Also, It is cute that you tried to paint me me into a corner by assuming that the only reasons he could possibly relate better would be a lack of experience (Compared to Romney, who won ONE election in his entire life? Huh? And he couldn't even win the state in which he won that election), an intellectual advantage, or because of his blackness. And you claim that I made assumptions.

You can sit down now.

I just laugh at everyone on Facebook saying his victory had nothing to do with his skin color. Face it a huge majority of America votes based on what the person looks like and how they talk. 450 African American students waited outside our student center at my campus to vote at 8 am. 448 voted for Obama. 75 were quickly interviewed 68 knew 1 or none political stances of either candidate. Popularity contest like anything else.

Still waiting for Arnold Schwarzenegger to run, we need a muscular president to protect us from terrorism.

It is absolutely adorable that you actually think there are more voters out there who voted FOR the president simply because he is black than those who voted AGAINST him because of that same fact. I'm not sure where you're from, but here in the south I've seen terms like Nigger and Spade thrown around all the time to describe Barack Obama for the past 5 years. I've actively heard people say "I will never vote for a nigger for office." That entire swath of states from Montana, down to Texas, and then over to Georgia is chock full of racists chomping at the bit to "dethrone the nigger king" (a facebook quote from a recently unfriended "friend")

Minorities make up a larger portion of lower socioeconomic classes, which Mitt Romney simply can't relate to, and his policies offer far fewer benefits for them than Obama's. Young and well educated persons also tend to vote primarily democrat. So we have young, college attending black people. What reason would a significant number of young minorities have to vote for Mitt Romney? Just about zero.

PS, black people don't really care if you call them black. African American just takes too long to type out.

PPS: LOL! Shadow is a birther! Retard alert! If this is one of the "issues" you based your decision on, I would consider those 68/75 to be far better informed than you. Better to have little to no understanding than to be sucked in by lies, mistruths, and conspiracy theories. I bet you think Jeep is shipping jobs to China, too.

shown a massive amount of respect for those principles socially through his public endorsement of marriage equality.

Does he support gay marriage? In the 2008 vp debate, Biden said that the Obama administration supported constitutional equality of all couples, but did not support the change of the definition of marriage. I don't know what he has done, really, to support gay marriage; but, I'm fairly disconnected from politics, current events and anything outside my immediate life.

http://articles.cnn.com/2012-05-09/politics/politics_obama-same-sex-marriage_1_gay-marriage-civil-unions-word-marriage?_s=PM:POLITICS

He sure does. He and the democratic party added it to their platform for this upcoming election earlier this year.

Tell her soldiers want to let her know she isnt allowed to use us in an arguement anymore.

I'll not be wasting any more of my time debating with that stupid cunt.

I just wanted to share this fun thing I saw on facebook. I had a friend who said that because Obama was using "Forward" as his slogan, he was a communist because soviets did that too. I rebutted, and his wife went off the deep end.

Young people are indoctrinated Chris...quit wasting your breath. Until they own a business and have a family to feed, or it directly affects them they DON'T CARE. The policies of this administrations have killed small business.How do we know because YOU own a small business that services small business (not just a feeling or an opinions but a fact). People who haven't read Obamas books or studied into Obamas beliefs are voting for him bc most still either live at home, live on entitlements, don't feed a family yet, or went off to college and hugged trees or saved rabbits or work for the gov't. And yes we have read Obamas books and YES he is COMMUNIST/SOCIALIST and is not for FREEDOM OR LIBERTY..you know that thing our soldiers died for. Oh yeah most young people wouldn't fight for this country anymore bc their too brainwashed from their college professors (who are marxist, communist or socialist). And everyone needs to know Chris likes neither candidate..he is a registered American not republican or democrat. I'm beginning to notice Obama supporters argue just like their college professor. You remember that openly admitted communist professor you had in college Chris. The one that was always trying to brainwash your class but never could get you to cross over, because you took the time to study history and economics.

Total fucking batshit. So I smacked her down.

Kim, your anti-intellectualism has stunned me. Congratulations for in one fell swoop belittling 1) Anyone who doesn't own a business (and implying that any employees thereof are stupid and lazy) 2) Any elderly or sick who are utilizing social security, medicare, or other entitlements (and implying that they are bloodsuckers) 3) Anyone with a college degree who thinks differently than you 4) Anyone who may have difficulty finding employment and have to live with their parents 5) Anyone employed by the government, including your Police, Fire, EMS personnel amongst millions of others, and 6) Anyone who isn't yet a parent. In your one series of asinine assertions, you've set yourself apart from greater than 95% of the country and inferred that only people like you can think clearly and aren't brainwashed or lazy. The massive amount of ridiculous generalizations packed into your one post have exceeded any post I've ever seen on facebook. To call me brainwashed when you're expressing such narrowminded thinking as to infer that all college professors are marxist, communist, or socialist shows a lot of need for some reevaluation and introspection. I posit to you that no matter how much you think he hates freedom and liberty, the president has shown a massive amount of respect for those principles socially through his public endorsement of marriage equality.

Total fuckin crazy. So glad I got out of my hometown and away from retards like this.

Romney is against gay marriage, yet another area in which he thinks he can legislate the decisions and lives of others who are behaving in a manner that has no effect on him or anyone else. Keep Obama in, keep gay marriage rights on the right path.

Is this like a hint at something Longcat

Yup, I'm fighting your fight for you good buddy Level playing field for all people, regardless of any choice they make or way they are born. As long as that decision does not negatively impact another human being, I'm fine with it, Mitch. Smoke your pot, suck that dick, and get your abortions, you tranny motherfucker.