If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

OK, OK, I must curmodgeonly admit defeat. There have, apparently, been some games, other than just crackerjack boxes paint-by-numbers tiddly-winkers, right?, made and published, successfully, over the last few years. Now, as I've never heard of them (except Minecraft, which like one other commenter...

Although, I would be happier if I could see her video in broader context. I can't really trust short quote with lots of edits. Wish granted! You can view the source video here . The relevant part begins a little after 12:20 , but feel free to watch the whole thing to see if you can find anything el...

Watson has a post up on how she is not terrible to kids, as a counter-point to what Mayhew was saying on Twatter. Except that her story validates what Sara said, and then theres that tiny thing we all got to witness, which was Twatson being a massive bitch to some kids in front of all their friends...

@Dogen:

The boob plate article was pretty good!

By the way, Jerry Coyne's latest post on Dawkins make me giddy. I do think it would be best for Richard to lay off the Twitter. If thereâ€™s one thing Iâ€™ve learned after years of writing, both here and in popular magazines, itâ€™s that you should not respond to criticism in all but the most severe...

Wow. If you think the days still exist where even a unique and extremely talented and experienced individual could actually create and successfully produce a video game still exist, I want whatever drugs you're using; they must be fun. Game production is a highly formulaic, extremely expensive corp...

I have heard that some men prefer playing female chars - especially in relation to the Tomb Raider series, because, and I paraphrase "I would rather look at a cute female ass all day long." Certainly... and that STILL doesn't make them sexist. I know a lot of women who watch (men's) soccer for the ...

Meh, when people complain about realism in media like games, books, movies, etc, what they usually are talking about is plausibility and breaking immersion. Magic etc in fantasy is completely plausible as long as it holds true to the system and doesn't break the rules that's been laid out by the au...

There are lot of good replies and I won't be quoting everyone (you can thank for this later). First, WTF are those dolphin boobs? @another lurker: All right, that's a fair point. Actually, I also like to do silly things with games (kill a damn dragon with nothing on) and etc. Oh, and in Age of Conan...

One of the fond memories that I have of Caine (from back in the day when I used to read and comment on FTB pharyungula) is from one of the usual big SJW bitchfests where caine and a bunch of others were being their usual selves, insluting and abusing people with different opinions. Annoyed by their ...

Also, did you even think about what you were writing before you hit the submit button? You say "the point is not banning" , and then you follow it by writing that it's to "to force game developers" to not design characters this way? Peezus Christ! :doh: Oh no, you're right. Criticism = censorship. ...

@JackRayner: "She says, "Unfortunately, in addition to all of these benefits, many games tend to reinforce and amplify sexist and downright misogynist ideas about women.", If you think this is an honest argument ..." Okay, let's review: 1) She didn't say "evil developers". You made it up. In that se...

@JackRayner: A bikini combat suit is retarded. She's just presented as eye candy since there is no logical reason to create a bikini combat outfit with stockings. Stockings. Those things rip when you put them on. I guess she's only missing combat high heels. Also, the point is not banning the shitt...

Question, do you guys have any real, unbiased sources for the whole "Wage Gap is a Myth" thing? I've been looking around at those sources, but it's starting to look like a lot of them are Conservative think-tanks. It sounds plausible to me, but it looks like they could also be bullshitting. Thanks....

Also, did you even think about what you were writing before you hit the submit button? You say "the point is not banning" , and then you follow it by writing that it's to "to force game developers" to not design characters this way? Peezus Christ! :doh: Oh no, you're right. Criticism = censorship. ...

@JackRayner: A bikini combat suit is retarded. She's just presented as eye candy since there is no logical reason to create a bikini combat outfit with stockings. Stockings. Those things rip when you put them on. I guess she's only missing combat high heels. Also, the point is not banning the shitty...

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What's the main point of that video? It got me extremely bored. I don't really care about "Mr Bagget" or some "handwriting seminars" or crap like that.

What do people here think about the overwhelmingly one-sided article on Anita Sarkeesian on Wikipedia ? The consensus on the talk page suggests there are no credible notable sources out there that are critical of her. If that's true, it's got to be one of Wikipedia's fatal weaknesses. I've noticed ...

@bovarchist: The original question was about "wage gap" which to me implies both gender and racial wage gap. Besides, similar experiments have been done with respect to gender as well (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/perdita/GenderBias/). And finally, regarding " It's not that the names Lakisha and Ja...

Feminist Frequency's Sarkeesian an opportunistic con-artist? [youtube]gcPIu3sDkEw[/youtube] Interesting .... http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Lenny-Listening-The-Simpsons.gif Although, I would be happier if I could see her video in broader context. I can't really trust short quote wit...

Question, do you guys have any real, unbiased sources for the whole "Wage Gap is a Myth" thing? I've been looking around at those sources, but it's starting to look like a lot of them are Conservative think-tanks. It sounds plausible to me, but it looks like they could also be bullshitting. Thanks....

Gefan wrote:Gefan's Law:

As the level of baboonery drops, the probability of a fight breaking out on The Slymepit over something involving a nail approaches one.

Nailed it.

anyone have the lowdown on why Damion left the pyt and now seems to be gunning for us? Or is it just the usual accomodationist bollocks? It's because Franc said if Ophelia was a dog she should be put down and because me and Bhoytony wouldn't stop calling people (people, mind you, not just women) "c...

From a Slate article by Marcotte, on declining estrogen levels contributing to age-related changes in men: In a fun coincidence, this study came out in the same week that popular blogger and biologist P.Z. Myers, at his blog Pharyngula, begged the science community to take more seriously some of th...

It doesn't need to be a lie. In fact, if Sasha's statement turns out to be untruthful, I wouldn't call it a lie necessarily. He might have misunderstood, misheard, or misinterpreted what DJ said. He could even misremember it. It's perfectly normal for two people to have totally different recollecti...

I had some big laughs reading the pharyngula thread on Dawkins. Not as big as usual, because thier usual over-the-top screaming and bitching has become a bit boring. But still, it's pretty amusing how Caine wields his/her/hir/hix/xix moderation powers, like "Wheee, look I've a big fucking hammer!!" ...

Rehabilitated post-modernism I guess http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/09/10/can-we-rehabilitate-post-modernism-please/comment-page-1/#comment-689225 218 PZ Myers 10 September 2013 at 9:11 pm (UTC -5) <snip> Thatâ€™s postmodernism. Wake up and notice all your assumptions. If youâ€™re a go...

I can't keep up with the list of characters. Was he not part of their in-crowd, or are they cannibalizing their own again? If I recall correctly, DJ works for JREF, which means he's certainly "fair game". As Steersman noted, it's hard to take DJ's claim at face value, but if he has the witnesses, h...

Found this via a comment on Barbara Drescher's FB page: In 2009, PZ wrote an article in The Humanist within which he declares, "So I'm going to very prematurely declare myself a fifth horseman". http://i.imgur.com/zqblWpF.gif LOL! Fucking awesome! I think it's safe to say that instead of the fifth ...

Man, I'm reading the piece by Michael BÃ©rubÃ© (http://www.democracyjournal.org/19/6789.php?page=all ) that is cited by PZ as great example, and it's profoundly stupid. Take a look at this that talks about the aftermath of Sokal affair. The damage to the academic leftâ€“and the sense of betrayal on ...

From that piece of dreck (quoted by PZ): It was there that I first unveiled my counterargument, namely, that the world really is divvied up into â€œbrute factâ€ and â€œsocial fact,â€ just as philosopher John Searle says it is, but the distinction between brute fact and social fact is itself a soc...

What I find amazing is that as soon as PZ posts ridiculous arguments like the above, the average pharyngulite goes through a process of cognitive dissonance to accommodate for the new dogma. Look at this for instance: Well, in that case we should dismiss medicine since the Lancet published Wakefield...

:D :D :lol: :lol: Peezus has just embraced post-modernism! http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/09/10/can-we-rehabilitate-post-modernism-please/ The transformation is complete! Hmmm, he got a few things wrong. Let me fix it for him. Iâ€™m about to alienate even more knee-jerk skeptics ( and ...

September 5 is not the first time I heard reports about Richard Dawkins blackballing Rebecca Watson. August 7 is not the first time I heard reports about Lawrence Kraus sexually harassing women at conferences. August 7 is not the first time I heard reports about Michael Shermer sexually harassing a...

It amazes me that someone as stupid and inconsequential as Watson takes up so much of our time. I propose that we all stop talking about her, reading about her, or otherwise paying attention to her. Rather than actively dissuade her from speaking at conferences, simply leave when she starts to spea...

They have now officially become Dawkins's fleas. Hate on little people, hate on. I'm sure Dawkins is trembling with fear of the wrath of lilliputians.

In connection to my previous post, something that Rebecca Watson did before the elevatorgate incident was to participate in a panel discussion regarding "Communicating Atheism". But Rebecca was pissed at Paula Kirby's comments during a previous section on women. So what she did was to shamelessly ch...

Someone somewhere linked to this video regarding Dawkins and Rebecca that I found interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2irVyzKe3u8&feature=youtu.be&t=1h30s Basically, the short version is that perhaps one reason Dawkins made his "Dear Muslima" post was that he shared a few panels right before...

Trophy, Welch you're acting like baboons. You've leaped from Abbie not receiving an invitation and wondering whether PZ had anything to do with it - to: OMG PZ Myers really did it the hypocrite!!!! blah, blah . :rolleyes: *shakes head with disappointment* You are missing the obvious point that's al...

Ha. AA replies on Facebook: While Mr. Silverman does not dispute that an exchange with Dr. Dawkins took place in Miami in September of 2011, there was no acquiescence on Mr. Silverman's part. At the time the exchange took place, Ms. Watson had not in fact been invited to speak at the Reason Rally, a...

Of course, PZ ignores that he did the same thing he's accusing Dawkins of. That by having a big name like Dawkins PZ threaten to pull out of a conference if a little name he doesn't like, such as Watson Abbie is allowed to speak, he's threatening the ability of the conference to draw the same numbe...

I havent mentioned this, but since we are on the topic... Late 2011 I received an email from Texas Freethought organizers about speaking at their conference in 2012. It was not in any way, shape, or form an invitation. Just 'Hey we like your stuff and we are looking into names, its all tentative, w...

*Warning: I'm still reading through the pages that I missed so I'll be resurrecting a lot of horses to be crucified again later. Up front, allow me to say: Mea Culpa. Yep, I bought into it without even looking at the Slymepit to verify for myself. Pitters are universally evil and disgusting and com...

Wow, RenÃ©e, I just read your post linked by Steers in Trophy's comment (Inception much?) Very sorry to hear about your story, and I fully understand your anger at those SJW clowns. And Phil your avatar makes me really sad I can't imagine how it was for you. I was a very irrelgular reader of the pi...

For the record and before I try to read the massive number of pages of posts on this board, I want to say that I'm sick as fuck over the absolute bullshit crap put out by the regular crap-fest jackasses about how they feel rape should be treated. As a rape victim myself, if I hear one more time fro...

So Caine fantasizes about murdering innocent people but which one is the rapist and which one is the pedo? Just for future reference. http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/08/30/stunned-silence/comment-page-2/#comment-682206 But I didnâ€™t stop before raping three young girls (all were, give ...

-quotes of roxie from pharyngula comments seciton- This blew my mind. Psychadelic killer clown nutjobs. Trigger warning - Long post: As free thoughtpolice was just pointing out - a few of Caine's contributions to the "Stunned silence" thread (which alternated with dozens of saccharine support group...

Elyse Anders has a piece on skepchick at the moment about her past experiences. Apparently she was raped by four men and one woman. Three of the rapes appear to be date/drunken party rapes and the other was some weird situation where she was a sex slave for a photographer and his wife. She was rape...

Specially, what's the fucking point of posting his wife's information? Wonky Donkey you are full of shit. Shove your head in the toilet bowl where it belongs.

in my opinion the personal info on oolon shouldn't be allowed to stay. It is easy to find elsewhere but that is not the point. I think the pit has an anti-doxxing ethos and posting that info definitely goes against it. Yeah. I agree. What's the fucking point of posting the personal information of a...

For example: I picked a random year, 2010. Here's her talk at TAM 2010; [youtube]ktezbfBhdyE[/youtube] There is 0 substance there. Nothing. For bonus: she talks about people being "dicks" and also claims it's not a gendered insult because she's not necessarily using it against men only. Mwhahahahaha.

What I don't understand are the speakers who will booze it up heavily the night before they have to do a speech. A speech is essentially a performance. I don't see how anyone thinks they can do a competent job hung over. Becky doesn't have to be competent (or sober), she just has to show up. Too ma...

So TJ claims he knows who Shermer's accuser is. How the fuck?! Really, how the fuck?! I don't get how TJ became privy to this information, i am not saying his claim is bs, what i am saying is, how the fuck?! As far as i'm aware he isn't big buddies with Shermer, nor is he big buddies with carrie th...

Damn, I'm feeling popular today. Must be a slow news day at the pit. @JackRayner Trophy is a guy. I thought he was a chick - I don't know why, maybe because he's always arguing with the MRA's here :P But yes, he is lacking tits for us to honk - unless he's built like Clarence, of course;) I've start...

RazorBladeKandy is a moron. And a creep as well, for getting boners from hugs. And what, at all , do you know about owning a dick and about when it does and doesn't become erect? Or what authority do you have to decide when another person's dick should or shouldn't? I'm not even interested in RBK's...

...She could try not giving hugs to some guy she has no intention of fucking. "Hey, if she didn't want to be groped, she shouldn't have worn a burqa that revealed so much ankle." I think now I get what's confusing them ... http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/sometimes-you-just-need-a-...

She could try not giving hugs to some guy she has no intention of fucking. Oh come on. Are you saying that any hug from a woman is a sexual come on? I know I've missed a lot of opportunities over the years, but I never knew it was that many. I'm beginning to understand their universe now: hugging i...

Regarding the Ashley Paramore (Heathy Addict) Conference Assault. RazorBladeKandy has just posted a walk through of her video from an MRA perspective. I think it's perceptive and fair (if a bit long). [youtube]qesM2_z6QBE[/youtube] Oh, marverlous! Then I'll post a walk through of his video, just to...

New post from Damien makes the Pit out as just like FTB, just...I dunno. You read it, see what you think. http://www.skepticink.com/backgroundprobability/2013/08/18/time-to-pick-a-side/ What I want to know is, who are the "opinion leaders" here? Because I'd like to know who I'm supposed to agree wi...

I was very fond of Storify prior to this incident, but it should be noted that itâ€™s currently setup in ways which facilitate stalkers. Iâ€™ve circulated on Twitter a picture of the Storify â€œAdd them allâ€ button which is a one-click way to add the last ~800 tweets someone has tweeted on their ...

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