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MysticalMachineGun posted:Honest question - what sort of discrimination would a bi person face? Considering that a male bi-sexual walking the streets with a current female partner would look like a straight dude to the bigots of the world. So long thread. Im checking out for the night
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Yeah I kinda get why the thread's not stickied.
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Jun 6, 2018 07:00
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MysticalMachineGun posted:
Kilik is the lamest boy.
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Jun 6, 2018 07:01
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Gematsu has discovered tov10th.tales-ch.jp—a password-protected website presumably for the Tales of Vesperia remaster Gematsu has heard is in production in celebration of the RPG’s 10th anniversary. no longer confined to the gaijin xbox
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Jun 6, 2018 07:03
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Ometeotl posted:This is like saying that Jews can't face discrimination because to passer-byes they just look like regular white people I honestly didn't mean any offense, just trying to correct my own ignorance. If it's an utterly stupid question then please ignore.
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Jun 6, 2018 07:08
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Jun 6, 2018 07:10
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Thumbnail size and full size tell very different stories.
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Jun 6, 2018 07:11
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Quest For Glory II posted:Gematsu has discovered tov10th.tales-ch.jp—a password-protected website presumably for the Tales of Vesperia remaster Gematsu has heard is in production in celebration of the RPG’s 10th anniversary. if you're gonna give me a remaster of a tales game give me legendia dammit legendia with revamped combat and jp voices is all i ask
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quote:Work x Work follows a prince with a mission to defeat the demon king and a hard-working young man working a part-time job who take on various dungeons with the unique visitors of the theme park “Heroes Land.” quote:Scenario: Nobuyuki Inoue – Known for Mother 3 (director), Magical Vacation, Hanjuku Hero: Aa, Sekaiyo Hanjukunare…!
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Jun 6, 2018 07:12
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In Knack 2 the titular character goes to a mountain monastery and learns advanced martial arts techniques from a group of warrior monks, including the Hundred Crack Fist and Scorpion Spear. He also builds advanced gadgets to augment his capabilities in battle. He is basically Batman
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Jun 6, 2018 07:15
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chumbler posted:Thumbnail size and full size tell very different stories.   
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Jun 6, 2018 07:18
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HAL apparently leaves that Kirby doll out on their little road marker all the time so it's just waving to people as they drive by. It somehow became a meme and now a 4k picture of it exists. I hope you enjoy the story of Kirb
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Honest question - what sort of discrimination would a bi person face? Considering that a male bi-sexual walking the streets with a current female partner would look like a straight dude to the bigots of the world. As far as minor things go, it is mainly people telling KCB that she had better watch out because me being bi means that I'm likely to leave her for a man. For more major things, when I was homeless and hunting for an apartment, another guy and I agreed to combine our efforts and search for a place together and we found a really decent place at a cheap price and the landlord told me he wouldn't let me rent it even on my own because he thought it'd be weird to have a potentially gay couple living there. There were also a few times when my mother would pull me aside to explain that being gay is a sin and that I can never like men in any kind of romantic way because then I would burn in hell. Of course, those things are things that gay people experience as well, so it isn't like it's a form of discrimination exclusive to bi people. There was an awful lot of harassment in general though in school. I was never out about my being bi (and to be honest, the circumstances of my realization of my bisexuality isn't something I'd want to get into because it's just real sad) but for a majority of my school-going life, it was extremely common for guys to flirt with me or play grab-rear end or otherwise just try to touch me sexually and then call me gay or a human being or what-have-you for it. Anyway, yeah the only one of those that is I guess a mostly-exclusive-to-bi-people thing is the belief that bi people are more promiscuous and therefore are not faithful, the belief that bisexuality is just a stepping stone to homosexuality and that it is only a matter of time before I abandon my heterosexual relationship to be in a homosexual one simply because I identify as bisexual.
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Quest For Glory II posted:finally a game based off that snl sketch with adam sandler and chris farley 
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Thanks for answering man, sucks that this sort of poo poo still goes on. I didn't realise.
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Thanks for answering man, sucks that this sort of poo poo still goes on. I didn't realise. I am very lucky because I'm a white dude in a relationship with a woman so I end up passing under the radar a lot, though I'm open about my bisexuality. Not in the sense of me just bringing it up whenever I have the chance, but if it's somehow related then I'm not gonna hide it because despite all my issues, that is somehow one of the few things I can be comfortably open about. I should've stayed off facebook though lol because the nice-feeling anger turned into just real sad anger, even if it did feel refreshing because basically there was a guy whose poo poo I've put up with for several years and he was trying to talk to me and explain the other viewpoints and I just started getting pissy with him and telling him off because gently caress that guy lol, dude's a tool and an awful person and he was doing that whole dumb "well I'm not saying I agree with [thing], I'm just asking questions, I'm just trying to understand and trying to help you understand" bullshit so hahaha gently caress 'im :P
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Jun 6, 2018 07:33
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Nothing good comes from facebook.
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Jun 6, 2018 07:34
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My method of engaging with social media nowadays is to basically never actually look at things that are posted and instead just look at instagram stories and such from old friends who are bad and slow at responding to texts.
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Jun 6, 2018 07:37
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chumbler posted:Nothing good comes from facebook. i get tons of hawaiian language practice reading my facebook feed because half the people on my friends list have extensive conversations in it incidentally it's all the same petty poo poo we talk about in english
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Jun 6, 2018 07:39
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chumbler posted:Nothing good comes from facebook. This was something that has been boiling up irl anyway because this is a dude whose presence I usually tolerate, this was just a case where he was trying to teach me about something I have personal experience with and I told him I wasn't taking that kinda poo poo from him and he needed to knock it off. So it has been a long time coming. Felt good to get off my chest. Dude's an rear end in a top hat, a rapist, a creep, a jerk, and I can't say I'm unhappy with having stood up to him because I feel pretty good about telling him off like that.
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Jun 6, 2018 07:42
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The White Dragon posted:i get tons of hawaiian language practice reading my facebook feed because half the people on my friends list have extensive conversations in it What's hawaiian language like?
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FirstAidKite posted:What's hawaiian language like? it's like english with only thirteen letters, a glottal stop, and lots of tense prefixes
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Thanks for answering man, sucks that this sort of poo poo still goes on. I didn't realise. One other thing I'd add is that historically a lot of this discrimination has come from the gay community. It's the whole idea of "I can't be with a pussy that's touched dick" (or the reverse). This is extra poo poo because it meant bi people were being pushed out of the very space that they were meant to be in. This has gone down a lot in the last couple of decades but it's still not completely gone.
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I had a bizarre dream where I was a drug lord in Miami, but then I woke up and had to change someone's diaper. Never before have I felt such a dichotomy.
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The White Dragon posted:it's like english with only thirteen letters, a glottal stop, and lots of tense prefixes What is it written like? Does it have its own unique characters apart from other languages or does it share its alphabet with any other languages?
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FirstAidKite posted:What is it written like? Does it have its own unique characters apart from other languages or does it share its alphabet with any other languages? we have some unicode grave vowels, like how you see sometimes in koei games to show long japanese vowels, and a really specific unicode sign for the glottal stop called the 'okina, and it basically looks like an apostrophe but it's a pain because when you try to search words in hawaiian, which i always have to do because my basic vocab is ok but i cannot get my brain around memorizing all the one-to-three-letter tense prefixes, because dictionary searches don't accept apostrophe in place of 'okina. some dictionaries provide it as a clickable javascript object that types it at the text cursor, but others will not, and you have to look it up on wikipedia to get it in your paste history. mac os has had hawaiian keyboard support for decades with the alt key and lets you circumvent this if you're a specialist who needs to type in it regularly, or like you're poo poo posting on the hawaii reddit, but of course windows does not
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I honestly don't know why people like the Fable series. I remember hating the second game growing up and everyone at least agrees that the third game was garbage, but I saw that the first one was available on the Xbox game pass so I thought I'd give it a shot. I wish I hadn't.  Not even an hour into the game I'm done. Trying to beat a 50 second race where your character decides to start sneaking if you tilt your thumbstick the wrong way can 
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the problem i had with fable is that the combat is utterly loving dull and it's 90% of the game
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Fables one of those games that would've been great if they just changed everything about it. I remember Fable 2 being a huge hit (at least in the UK) when it came out. I played it for a couple of hours and I didn't get it at all. I think a lot of people just liked that you could gently caress in it.
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The thing with Fable 2 is it presents you with a few decent options for combat at the start of the game which all play very fun but then after a couple of hours you realise those are the only options for the whole game and suddenly the combat system feels really limited.
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Rarity posted:One other thing I'd add is that historically a lot of this discrimination has come from the gay community. It's the whole idea of "I can't be with a pussy that's touched dick" (or the reverse). This is extra poo poo because it meant bi people were being pushed out of the very space that they were meant to be in. This has gone down a lot in the last couple of decades but it's still not completely gone. That's really sad to hear. One would think that making you ostracized as a group would make you more compassionate towards other people experiencing something similar but I guess that would be too naive.
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FirstAidKite posted:What's hawaiian language like? If I recall correctly from my undergrad linguistics, Hawaiian is one of the phonetically simplest languages. Low number of consonants, low number of vowels, few (no?) coda consonants, few (no?) consonant clusters. It basically has the poo poo every language has and very very little on top of that, at least in terms of possible words.
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lordfrikk posted:That's really sad to hear. One would think that making you ostracized as a group would make you more compassionate towards other people experiencing something similar but I guess that would be too naive. It's just an unfortunate aspect of human nature. People who were formerly oppressed or even currently oppressed will quite happily exclude others because they convince themselves it's different somehow.
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babypolis posted:its called righteous anger and it is in fact addictive. probably good for you in moderation I stopped getting any satisfaction out of that awhile ago. I mean it feels good to be right but what doesn't feel good is nothing ever loving changing. No matter how much you get mad at some terrible injustice or try to argue with some bigot, that anger doesn't actually change anything. Its just a waste of time.
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Samuringa posted:VideoGames is so shook from playing Automata that he forgot about stickying the thread I am so sorry everyone this is absolutely what happened. I have been long posting about it in the PS4 thread and the whole thing just amazed me to my core. It is stickied now!
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chumbler posted:I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your friend is very dumb. I found this out about an acquaintance when he commented on a post I'd made and spent like 2000 words saying that abortion is actually a problem for men because it encourages them to not stick around and be a father. He then tied this in to why libertarianism is the solution because it would just strip the government of power to regulate and if a business wanted to offer abortion services, it would be accepted or not by the free market And I was like "wow you're extremely dumb"
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I'm really looking forward to Nier Automata but need to finish the first one before I start it. Story and music is loving great but the combat isn't much fun at all, at least I'm playing on Easy so it's not as much of a pain as the last time I tried it 
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Convex posted:I'm really looking forward to Nier Automata but need to finish the first one before I start it. Story and music is loving great but the combat isn't much fun at all, at least I'm playing on Easy so it's not as much of a pain as the last time I tried it Nier 1 is Excellent. I hope you have a good time Regarding sidequests; 
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If it helps, the bullet hell bits can be cancelled by your own shots and erased and absorbed by regular attacks. I didn't mind nier's combat for the most part but the boss that follows the first part of the game is the worst.
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