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^ I was once banned from the last.fm forums for two weeks for calling a particularly persistent grammar nazi named LICA-98 a cunt. Literally, all he ever did was correct inconsequential grammar and spelling errors on the forums, all day, every day, often posting hundreds of times a time. I'm still not sure if he was a simply an extremely committed troll filling the void where his soul once resided, or a genuine self-imposed corrector of internet commentary filling the void where his soul once resided.

Because you really can tell the gender of the cat in question just by looking. It's unmistakable. I almost feel silly even bringing it up! :3

I wish open world games would do away with your characters carry-weight mechanics. I know it's supposed to make the game slightly more realistic and introduce an actual degree of challenge, but in all honesty I want to collect every piece of useless tat I come across. I want to pick shit up and not ever have to worry about it ever again. disclaimer: I might not be in an entirely serious or even reasonable mood tonight...

Reverend Ushanka Cat: Either the fickle feline persona of some rough n' ready swamp rock soloist or else the eccentric moniker of a trip hop DJ. Maybe some sort of "swamp trip" fusion artist.

Voice Of Your Noise by Agent Side Grinder

I'm pretty sure at one point on this forum I said to never be afraid to offend someone, and I still stand by that. In my experience people who are easy to offend are often the worst people I've ever met. I pretty much agree with this. I'm the biggest liberal pro-everything fanny you're ever likely to meet, but even I have enough self-awareness to realize that many on the left-hand spectrum of politics and ideology can be excruciatingly oversensitive. Leftist critique was a much rigorous and robust field in it's mainstream and everyday tenements, but this willingness to be self-critical and rhetorically expansive has suffered in the last twenty years thanks to the fretful self-policing of neoliberalism. I never want to offend anyone, and in fact I'll often try to word things in order to make others feel included and able to offer congenial rebuttal to my opinions. But I won't compromise my own beliefs or shut myself off from new and tangential ideas in order to avoid sacrificing the sacred cows of a giant baby.

There's definitely a worthwhile argument to be aired in regards to the notion of counter-cultural sexuality mindfully bucking societal norms. That being said though, any student of recent history will tell that the LGBT community (hell, add women in general to that) had to inhabit those counter-cultural spheres of influence to even have any kind of the voices prior to the 80's, the mainstream certinly wasn't accommodating them. And in regards to my own personal orientation, though I'm quite self-effacing about it and am certain of my heterosexuality, the whole asexual archetypal personality remains something that appeals to me, if only to explain some of my Houellebecqian sense of indifference in regards to relationships. I'm all too aware that I'm a subpar overweight unattractive male, and the older I've gotten the more content I am with that "depressive realist" outlook. I hope I didn't come across as somebody denouncing the next generation for their lurid sexuality and lack of respect - I'm not an old man yet! Even if I feel like one. I also have to elaborate on the fact that I was predominantly trying to analyse the western (i.e. metropolitan European and American mores, to oversimplify the argument) model of sexual politics. Specifically in regards to England, I find that we have a peculiar relationship to sex before the age of consent. We largely uncritically accept that children and teenagers are exposed to sexuality through popular media, but then condemn those same children for expressing any kind of sexual awareness - which will invariably be a distorted and undeveloped concept of sex and gender. Maybe some of the current terminology and memetic themes are faddy, and that the language and subcultural motifs will fade into obsolescence, but I honestly think that the future of sexual identification and gender is set to become multifaceted and (by our still almost unavoidably binary standards) anarchic and unutterably strange.

Leisure Suit Geralt :3 This may be a glaring indication of my age and abilities, but I already found the combat of Witcher 3 challenging enough...

That's the "lets assume players aren't drooling abhuman imbeciles and actually give them a multitudinous and multidimensional options menu" school of thinking common to the previous decade, that's the OLD way of thinking Helio. Nobody wants to tailor anything to their own tastes anymore. Nobody wants to learn anything. OLD... ;p Basically I agree with you. I personally have no issues with fast-travelling, but that may have something to do with me being a slightly casual second-interest gamer. I'm amazed how spartan the actual content of option menus in games can be these days. I think it's nice to have the option to tinker with the mechanics of a complex and diverse game that warrants it.

I like this thematic tangent Rarity. Types out an entire thread about some weird topic. BinkyTheRabbit used to reply once or twice. Nobody else cares or are too freaked out to reply. Repeat the process ad infinitum... Eats Chinese food. ^ Repeat the process ad infinitum...

You could argue that at thirteen most people beginning to have the first stirrings of sexual awareness, and I think my generation (born in 1987) were beginning to be exposed to sexuality at an age previous generations would of found difficult to accept. I'd imagine life is only set to get more sexually pressured and complicated for the current pre-teen demographic, what with the social networking and more nebulous concept of gender that one can find therein. For me growing up, the internet was something that I could do whenever it felt like actually working. And when it did actually work, I spent about fourty-seven minutes attempting to download a single four minute song. Looking back at that time retrospectively the internet was much less of a sensory overload than it is today. These days I can't go a few minutes on the internet without being inundated with pseudopornographic visual filler and "chaosgender" pride pages.

I don't think anybody says this enough Daniel, but your efforts and contribution to Ross's channel are nothing short of heroic. By the (somewhat imaginary) power invested in me, I therefore name this day "danielsangeo" day! :3

Uses big words. Properly.

Thanks for being the first poster Zaraki. Žāŗàкï: Some backwater Eastern European regionalist one-man black metal who may or may not be a national socialist.

I enjoy doing this a little too much.

Jebedina Jebedette Jebediana Jebedaria Jebedella Jebedilotte Jebedibella [/playing loose and fast with gendered spellings :3]

I noticed that we have several "hot" topics that are remarkably similar to one another. I'd personally like to see more imaginative topics or otherwise positive threads. I try to come up with stuff from time to time [shamelessplug] I HAZ THRIID LOLBURGERZ[/shamelessplug] but the interest tends to fizzle out rather rapidly.

As undeniably logical and true as all of this is, I'm still a massive English jeff and thusly mortified at the prospect of offending anyones sensibilities.

Whilst I've never read any of his books, I am an avid reader of the Fortean Times and his philosophy and subsequent following heavily influences my own thinking.

Screeching Cassowaries Overreach Themselves Tonight BYPKX

I've come up with this thread a couple of times before on old forums and it has usually come up with some amusing results, so I'll explain the premise. Imagine the username of the person above you was the name of a band, or at least a solo artists weird moniker. What kind of band or musician would have a name like that? Be as conservative or liberal with the interpretation as you please, and give as many details or descriptive fluff as you please. Feel free to fiddle with the name if you think you can get a slightly better and "band-ier" sounding name (Selfsurprisethrone sounds kvlt as fvck) and as a means of stopping the thread from becoming too repetitive. Obviously given that this is the first post, I'll have to interpret myself, but if the next poster could interpret my name again I'd be most grateful. I hope the rules make sense and I look forward to reading your assuredly goofy answers... :3 Selfsurprise: An improv saxophonist with a three-second memory.

Sad to report that the author, physicist, pacifist, feminist, peace activist and generally clever lady Ursula Franklin died on the 22nd of July. I first came across her via her foreword in J.E. Rehder's The Mastery And Uses Of Fire In Antiquity and a little later came to know of her primarily through her 1985 paper Will Women Change Technology Or Will Technology Change Women?, in which she argues that the intention and employment of technology in still very much an attempt at gendering male and female labour. Best of all is the title Ursula Franklin Speaks: Thoughts and Afterthoughts, a collection of her transcribed speeches and interviews regarding her work and interests. 1921-2016 "There are things that are easier to do and say when one is old and no longer has a job or reputation to lose, and this certainly holds true for those associated with universities. Throughout the years, the vision of tenure has been a contribution to self-censorship as well as to academic freedom [...] Let me start from the premise that to remain silent on crucial issues is a conscious decision. It is therefore pointless to remain silent in order to avoid accountability. We will be held responsible for our silence, as well as for our activities, just as the university teachers of the Germany of my childhood were held responsible - morally and fraternally - for their silence and collaboration with an evil system." - Ursula Franklin, Ursula Franklin Speaks ~ EDIT: Just found out that the French painter Bernard Dufour died on the same day. This hasn't been a good week for my heroes... :c

No prob Bob Don't get angry, don't even get even with people! Just politely decline to do stuff for them and see how they react. If they accept it amicably they will either be learning a lesson in fairness or be too self-aware of their selfishness to not push you any further. If they react negatively and accused of God-knows-what for failing to soothe their fragile egos, then you live safe in the knowledge that they weren't worth the effort to begin with.

9. Vorpal Crawlers A lurid nightmare inspired by conspiracy theories involving Walt Disney's frozen head being buried beneath his themepark and the Norris-head-spider scene from the 1982 sci-fi horror classic The Thing. Vorpal Crawlers are an unfortunate result of an experimental pre-war cryogenic technique that involved the severing of the clients head in order to focus all preservation of the brain, with the understanding that said clients would be given life-like synthesized bodies upon revival. However between the bombs falling in 2077 and the unfortunate fact that the cryogenic firm in question was actually a front for a shady psychometabolic research program, the clients would never be the same again. Awoken centuries later, psionically altered and understandably traumatized by their physical predicament, the clients transformed into disembodied monstrosities that skitter around on legs composed of appropriated cranial and cerebral matter. Dextrous and surprisingly strong for their size, Vorpal Crawlers attack any humanoid they stumble upon in an ultimately futile attempt to acquire a body. 10. Twitcher Colloquially and less politically-correctly referred to as "Spazzers" by the Commonwealth's inhabitants, Twitchers are ex-human mutant drug addicts (typically jet and psycho dependent raiders and scavengers) who under ordinary circumstances would have succumbed to their affliction, but somehow due to some perverse kind of natural selection transformed into a frightening inhabitant of the post-apocalyptic landscape. Twitcher's move at alarming speeds and, as their name suggests, are constantly subject to unnaturally violent tics, bodily contractions and spasms. Capable of closing upon prey with terrifying speed, Twitchers will often inadvertently sidestep ranged attacks and masterful close-quarter strikes, or failing that shrug off blows that would down (or at least subdue) most creatures. 11. Pigeon Roc Vermin get everywhere. Rats and roaches would no doubt gnaw their way into the cosy interiors of military compounds and vaults given enough time, and I don't see why those multitudes of the sky more commonly known as pigeons would roost inside these structures along with their earthbound equivalents. Through some unknown and accidental means of consumption of F.E.V. tainted material and good old fashioned accelerated natural selection, one of the most fearful predators of the Commonwealth thus arose - the Pigeon Roc. Thankfully exceedingly rare, the Concorde-sized Pigeon Roc's pose a threat to even Deathclaws and will actively predate humans the same way hawks hunt rabbits if given the opportunity. It even retains it's miniscule ancestors distinctive "cooing", albeit of a thunderously deep and sonorous tone that echoes for miles around the wastes. 12. Elvis Impersonator Bandits For no reason other than my own infantile sense of amusement. Their in-game combat dialogue would consist of "unh-uhhs" or otherwise be half-arsed references to lyrics meant as threats and taunts.