TinTower posted:

The Doctor was basically one of the few fictional characters that the fandom wants to be asexual.

Small Frozen Thing posted:

This is generally backlash from how awkward and horrible anything related to romance is in Doctor Who, in my experience

Jack Gladney posted:

He has the beard/glasses/ponytail trio of a fat man. And the standard-issue dress-up polo of a fat man. Curious.

Woolie Wool posted:

Most "friendly AI" arguments presuppose godlike, massively powerful AI overlords, however, and those AI overlords would be exceedingly unlikely to have any gendered characteristics at all so they are commonly implied to be male.

Woolie Wool posted:

Most "friendly AI" arguments presuppose godlike, massively powerful AI overlords, however, and those AI overlords would be exceedingly unlikely to have any gendered characteristics at all.

Night10194 posted:

I mean, so would the omnipotent god of the Abrahamic religions, yet we all know He is always referred to as such despite explicitly being intended to be without distinct gender.

Woolie Wool posted:

divabot posted:

That new other thread is entirely terrible and full of nazis who think Jewish echoes are a funny meme

Fixed that for you.

divabot posted:

You are quite correct of course, evidently I was reading the other thread from the mirror universe where it had a goatee and didn't suck.

pookel posted:

FTFY

Koanic Soul posted:

Aeoli attempts to pick an example anime character for each of Vox’s SSMV hierarchy ranks. I rather disagree with his rankings. Go read it and then I’ll explain why.

First, let’s deal with Alucard – Dracula tamed. A BETA??? HA!

Ah Aeoli, ever thou art doomed to miscomprehend the MT.

It’s the backstory. White Turkish slave, raped and executed… and tastes the battlefield’s blood.

Rose again, alpha, violence and vengeance incarnate, unlimited bloodlust.

Brought low by the Hellsings. Humble, mortal men. Such courage, such glory.

The freedom was false, hollow, tainted, without honor. The unlimited violence an empty boast. The final foe was more worthy than he. Bound he became, and loved his chains. The bird of Hermes, eating my wings to make me tame.

An MT by nature must press against a limit, an authority. Without hierarchy, he is lost.

In his servant status, Alucard finds joy – the joy of contained bloodlust. Within the bounds of honor, he plots, presses, manipulates, forsees with vast and patient cunning, the day of his final release – control limit zero. To die, to destroy, to serve – all is sameness, but submission only possible to a worthy foe.

To seduce the true daughter of Van Hellsing; to settle all accounts; to achieve his final form, everywhere and nowhere, and take his bride:

That was Alucard’s long game.

Force channeled through rigid planes becomes a cutting blade. It’s simply more fun to play within the rules.

`

My memory’s fuzzy, but Jet Black strikes me more as a Beta with oneitis for a woman out of his league. Delta is weaker.

Vash seems more Sigma, but again, fuzzy memory. He’s always playing games… but winning. No concern for maintaining alpha posture.

Shinji Ikari – just skipped all the parts with him in it, some weird Japanese thing going on. But clearly gamma. He’s included. If not for plot mechanics, then yeah probly omega. Although don’t rule out how much groveling that bitch would do when hit by the lonelies. We the death-eaters, the introverts, fear neither silence nor Silence.

Guts – dude wtf? This guy strikes me as a beta. Strong but a follower at heart. Events force him on a lonely path, but he’s just disaffected and tribeless. That does not a sigma make. Although he’s improved by it.

Lambda – no idea about Gilgamesh, weirdo Japanese effete nobility posing is its own category. But here’s a coupla AWESOME ones. Now I feel like an anime freak.

Yurimaru – Ninja Scroll. ‘Nuff said.
And here’s the one you didn’t see coming. Hint: major Hellsing character. Give up?
.tuo mih denrut flowereW .zenroD .C retlaW fo noitanracnier niav lufhtuoy dna rennam ,sevitom eht ta kooL
decoder ring:
http://textmechanic.com/text-tools/obfuscation-tools/reverse-text-generator/

Not too impressed by the other commenter’s SSMV answers, EXCEPT Craig seems to get it:
Jubei in Ninja Scroll– Sigma. yep
Kinada in Akira– Alpha. yep
Tetsuo in Akira– Disagree. Gamma on a very ugly journey to transcendant sigma.

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Note: Jubei is sigma with a strong beta streak.
It occurs to me there are no deltas here. Most supporting and minor or weakish characters will be deltas. E.g., just picking from Hellsing: Jan Valentine, Sir Shelby M. Penwood, Cheddar Priest, Richard Hellsing. They vary primarily by their situational status, but fail to reach the heights of true ALPHA or depths of total gamma/omega.

The Vosgian Beast posted:

Curvature of Earth posted:

Neoreactionary art criticism is universally poo poo. It's actually a worse version than conservative art criticism, which is already overwhelmingly poo poo.

The Vosgian Beast posted:

http://www.koanicsoul.com/blog/2015/12/29/the-peace-sign-unites-pedophiles-and-rabbits-liberals/

Jack Gladney posted:

That reads like word salad to me. Is there some current event that's supposed to be a response to?

Fututor Magnus posted:

That is, far as I understand it, a guy who thinks that there are Neanderthals amongst us, and that the thals (as he calls them) are a superior race. He's also a pick-up artist. Wesley took him pretty seriously.

Fututor Magnus posted:

That is, far as I understand it, a guy who thinks that there are Neanderthals amongst us, and that the thals (as he calls them) are a superior race. He's also a pick-up artist. Wesley took him pretty seriously.

Jack Gladney posted:

Didn't his cosmology also involve aliens who created homo sapiens? Like some reverse version of the Nation of Islam and Yakub?

Jack Gladney posted:

That reads like word salad to me. Is there some current event that's supposed to be a response to?

Heresiarch posted:

Delany's views are complicated, and influenced by his own experiences as a child. This particular conversation is very recent and probably a lot more useful than the infamous statement from the 90's; it's also not really on topic for the thread and I'm sharing it because people are asking. And no, I don't agree with him either on a lot of the subject but the situation is a lot more nuanced than "he's a NAMBLA supporter", read the whole conversation and draw your own opinions.

quote:

Imagine that you’re faced with a problem, and some other agent X is involved in, or at least adjacent to, that problem. You suspect that X is oppressing you. How can you be sure?

Consider the following criterion:

"If reality were altered such that X did not exist, and never had existed, would I still have the same problem?"

If your answer is “Yes, I would still have this problem,” then consider the possibility that X is not actually oppressing you, but simply failing to serve your goals. Then ask yourself this:

"Am I upset that X is not serving my goals?"

If your answer is “Yes, I am upset that X is not serving my goals”, then consider the possibility that you are the oppressor.

divabot posted:

You'll be pleased to know that RationalWiki has successfully replaced the alt-right with a very small shell script.

Fututor Magnus posted:

I'm sure we all want to know what Rev's definition of "oppressed" is, and thankfully, there's an entire sharticle he's written on it.


E: He tweeted it in response to this article.

MikeCrotch posted:

I thought Phil Sandifer had already dispelled the alt-right using black magic tho

The Vosgian Beast posted:

animu junk

Puppy Time posted:

If I find out what "SSMV" and "MT" mean will this make any more sense, or is it just a list of "the most badass anime mans!" with bonus idiocy?

Frogisis posted:

"Spherical society on a frictionless plane" has never seemed more apt. It's ironic that this is supposed to be a rebuttal to an article saying autistic white tech bros have an oversimplified view of the world that erases everyone else's perspective.

Hermetic posted:

I think the discussion was about the emegence of a widely accepted (in rightwing circles) conservative figure. The LCRs tend to be treated like garbage, from what I've heard...As others have said, basically, "Vote for us in November, then go burn in hell, degenerate."

Hence why I wasn't sure if Milo counted, as his mainstream acceptance level is questionable.

I mean, guy doesn't even have a checkmark on Twitter.

Somfin posted:

Milo is the GOP's gay friend who totally can't understand why gay people would even want to get married and who totally said it's fine to call gay people "human being" and who thinks that gay people totally already have plenty of rights so why would they like even want more, right guys haha but seriously?

He's a sellout who is so grateful for the scraps of attention thrown his way he doesn't understand how much damage he is really doing to his own future.

He's an other crab-bucketing his way to the top of the other oppressed others, not realising that he's never getting out of the bucket.

Wikkheiser posted:

The clearest evidence that Milo Yiannopoulos is or is not making inroads for gay right-wingers is if the right-wing (and the alt-right) starts allowing more room for gays other than Yiannopoulos.

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

I mean if all the gays were self-hating misogynist racists like Milo then I'm sure Republicans would be fine with them. Milo is the Uncle Tom of gays.

Fututor Magnus posted:

I'm sure we all want to know what Rev's definition of "oppressed" is, and thankfully, there's an entire sharticle he's written on it.


E: He tweeted it in response to this article.

VirtualBasement posted:

If autistic white guys didn't exist and had never existed, I'm pretty sure the problem of representation among women and minorities in tech wouldn't exist.

So even according to his own criteria, women and minorities in tech are oppressed.

Hermetic posted:

Careful. There are some severely lovely people in this thread that flip out if you use autistic as an insult.

That said, you're 100% right, autistic white tech dudes are pretty much the worst, and responsible for making tech and related fields awful for anyone else.

The Vosgian Beast posted:

Shut the gently caress up Immortan