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

So, I'm not big on shooters, slashers, etc. I prefer a game where you have to solve puzzles to move on, e.g. Indiana Jones is in a tomb and has to climb, push things around, find objects, etc in order to open the door to the next room, that kind of thing. Taking out a few Nazis along the way is fin...

<snip> I do think there's room for critical discussion of gaming. But at the end of the day it has to come from a perspective of love for the medium, not a perspective of hate . The problem is that it's 'rock and roll' and the morality brigade all over again. As a gamer, I've been in the cross-hair...

Speaking of Skyrim, modding, and what one determined guy (who wants a job at Bethesda) can produce mostly on his own: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/196520/ Hint: a LOT. Yeah, we (my daughter and I) can't run that mod so we're left out in the cold on it because it's too big for Steam Workshop a...

However, I still maintain, until proved otherwise, that really sophisticated, visually brilliant games like Fallout 3, Skyrim, and the like cannot be done by some geek in a bathrobe in a basement in the suburbs. Oh, btw, I forgot to address that point in my previous post. You can license the graphi...

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...

[ No, you're not. Even on this very thread, the sort of defensiveness you see from gamers is amazingly childish. Let me be clear: I think Sarkeesian's presentation sort of sucks, is too laundry-listy, and is overall annoying in tone. But despite all that, she's right . Games, generally , have a shi...

OK, so a few of you think that rather than complain about games, one should make one's own, and that to do so is easy, and sure to be successful ... because of some goofball cookie toy game. Right? Right. OK, I am disappoint that Fallout 3 will not run properly on Win 7 -- it is not compatible . So...

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." True story. Heard it myself. Yeah, I generally think that's a young-man, full-of-crap answer. People like to ...

@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...

I would argue that the amount that this effect is real (and it's not non-zero) IS sexism. Preferring to play characters of one gender or another is sexism. It's not always an overtly harmful form of sexism, but it is something. Gender bias IS sexism. That said, I think the amount of this type of se...

Sarkeesian lied by exaggeration-- about the online abuse she received. I know one lifelong feminist & women's college grad (raised in a Ms. Magazine/pro-ERA women's lib household) who loathes Sarkeesian, and names Sarkeesian as the foremost example of why she no longer calls herself a feminist. So....

The funny thing is, I watched Sarkeesian's TED talk long before I saw her videos on YouTube. I knew she was full of shit in her 'sexism' talk because I know gaming and the gaming community. But I did buy off on the 'poor Anita' being abused on the Internet bit. Until I found out that, in reality, it...

Am I the only one who thinks Anita Sarkeesian makes some pretty convincing points? Her videos certainly aren't perfect, and I ultimately reserve judgment until I see statistics on what percentage of the most popular games actually do relegate female characters to mostly or entirely passive roles, b...

@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/). . Things to consider: In brute hours, in 'full-time' jobs men ...

Ding Ding Ding. Class is the big dividing factor...often times race and even sometimes gender are simply "class markers", but the actual pivot point is class. It makes a lot of sense when you realize that the way things used to work was that you could get a BA in Basket Weaving and from there move ...

Badger3k wrote:Melody Hensley once chipped a nail, so she knows what it feels like to be murdered.

Did she mis-strike it with her screwdriver? I'm sure, somewhere on YouTube, there is a video on how to properly drive nails with a screwdriver.

How do these people function??? I mean, a telephone conversation is more distressing than a face-to-face?? I had a problem with phones when I fist got out of the military. Mine had to do with I was on constant call and had to be reachable anywhere, anytime unless I was on leave. Even when I was on ...

On Aug 28, Jen McCreight blogged about her suffering from debilitating anxiety when using the telephoneâ€” which is so severe that she describes it as â€œmental illnessâ€. http://freethoughtblogs.com/blaghag/2013/08/why-are-you-calling-my-texting-device/ She listed six symptoms as bullet points, w...

http://thedenveratheist.net/atheism-plus-is-a-fascist-movement-within-the-atheist-community/ @DenverAtheist opens a post on his/her relatively new blog with this: Iâ€™ve been blogging for about three weeks. Iâ€™ve been on Twitter for about two. Yesterday I wrote this entry about sex-determination i...

http://thedenveratheist.net/atheism-plus-is-a-fascist-movement-within-the-atheist-community/ @DenverAtheist opens a post on his/her relatively new blog with this: Iâ€™ve been blogging for about three weeks. Iâ€™ve been on Twitter for about two. Yesterday I wrote this entry about sex-determination i...

Edwina Rogers takes stage around 4:15PM EST with talk "Expanding the movement beyond the base - women and minorities" How are women not part of the base? And why is the demographic MAJORITY given treatment as if they're part of the minorities? If women don't want to join the skeptic/atheist communi...

https://www.facebook.com/badrescher/posts/10200620200729933 http://i.imgur.com/XfJSKaP.jpg Drescher needs to remember that when the fembots say that she is being aggressive towards women, what they really mean is that she is being mean to them . Because they represent all women, naturally. Right? R...

saying "I have a boyfriend" did not work.... In classic Skepchick kafkatrap fashion, the article wants it both ways. If the guy doesn't accept "I have a boyfriend" as equal to "no", then he's sexist. If the guy does accept "I have a boyfriend" as equal "no", then he's sexist: The alternative? Lying...

Because it's only sexist when someone else says it. As we know, only nominally liberal (and some moderate) women can be caused to suffer misogyny because they're the 'right sort of women.' It's right there, in black and white, Page 62, in the 'Perpetual Victim Handbook' written by the Two Gloria's.

The board is probably a low density softwood, like poplar or similar. FFS, Poplar is a HARDWOOD, not a softwood. Jesusfuckingchrist why are so many slymepitters so scientifically illiterate?? You made another dumbfuck mistake that could've been avoided by looking at wikipedia. Poplar wood comes fro...

There's a lot of variance here. Given the entire vid, I doubt he's holding a plate. The wood could be soft, and I don't think that takes anything away from anything. The fact that martial arts demos involve dry-ass pine boards, not green oak don't take anything away from them. As someone who's brok...

Oh, and if you watch closely when he slaps the nail the rest of the way through, the board flexes quite a bit. A sound, solid board that size and length wouldn't. I don't get any of that. I think it's probably legit, but with at least pertinent qualifier. The board is probably a low density softwoo...

Right. The very first place I heard of it was in English Literature. My feeling about it (PoMo) then, and now, is PoMo was just so much academic masturbation engaged by pretentious wankers because they had nothing new or insightful to offer beyond out-of-context and superficial analysis of stories ...

The FTB crowd's obsession with apologies is very reminiscent of religion. Repent! Confess your sins! Prostrate yourself before us and beg for forgiveness! They'll be selling indulgences next. Looks like a new line of SurlyAmics! She'll print them with potato blocks. Just like they do in Martha Stew...

I wonder if some of the people talking about postmodernism aren't really talking about deconstructionism. Which is not exactly the same thing.... I think when people talk about postmodernism, they may be really talking about deconstructionism (both use big words, come from similar schools of though...

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Bar.
Raised.
Mother.
Fuckers.

Oh! He's almost as hairy as me. Give him a couple of decades, he'll fill out.

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...

Wouldn't being a postmodernist preclude one from being an athiest? Lyotard argued thatâ€” since all religious beliefs were created by different culturesâ€” none of them can be seen as right or wrong. Yeah, but what about rejecting all religions, right? Well... Derrida said â€˜Desconstruction is not...

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...

DECIUS Do you still post at RD.net? I've only posted there a few times in the last year or two, but it seems to me that the number of replies on articles is way down. Two years ago, Richard's clarification post would have had two pages of comments in an hour. It's been up all day and only has 26 re...

tina wrote:
Gumby wrote:
another lurker wrote:I just want to point out that a discussion about abortion on the slymepit is less acrimonious than screwdriver vs. hammer :P
Yeah, but Screwdriver v. Hammer was a lot funnier than Roe v. Wade.
Please tell me the Marmite/Vegemite wars are done and dusted on here. PLEASE!

I have both.

BTW the @WIS3CFI Twitter page is apparently blocking a whole bunch of people. I'm interested in who it is blocking, especially secular women it is blocking. Thanks for checking! I've seen suggestions that "@WIS3CFI" must have utilised the Block Bot!!! Saying that, I've seen a tweet from Ron Lindsay...

Let me ask you -- at what stage of gestation do you think is a viable baby? Do you believe in imposing restrictions on any kind of abortions at all? Even if you believe most women wouldn't have late term abortions or post viability abortions (assuming it's a healthy baby and mother), are any worth ...

Richard Dawkins has written a clarification re his remarks on paedophilia: http://www.richarddawkins.net/foundation_articles/2013/9/11/child-abuse-a-misunderstanding I genuinely dont understand why he tries to engage with these idiots. See Gumbys sig-- There is always going to be someone out there ...

Richard Dawkins has written a clarification re his remarks on paedophilia: http://www.richarddawkins.net/foundation_articles/2013/9/11/child-abuse-a-misunderstanding Totally unnecessary. Those who want to understand what he said already do and those who don't never will. Every time I think these po...

Ape+lust wrote:http://i.imgur.com/LeYl2UJ.jpg

That is a good one.

Wow. Andrew Sullivan really let himself go. Back when I used to work out in a gay gym in San Diego I started to think there was some kind of "gay gene" that produced an unbelievable physique in the bearer. As a good skeptic I must now revise that theory in light of new evidence. Back in the 1980s, ...

Skimming my feed to see if Ophie takes down PZ for his pomo bs, but ran into this bit of privilege , entitled "Brain Dead" (more accurate then he may want to believe): You know what, guys? Iâ€™m really worn out. Wednesdays Iâ€™ve just got back-to-back-to-back teaching â€” I talk and coax students i...

Wow. Andrew Sullivan really let himself go. Back when I used to work out in a gay gym in San Diego I started to think there was some kind of "gay gene" that produced an unbelievable physique in the bearer. As a good skeptic I must now revise that theory in light of new evidence. Back in the 1980s, ...

Tony Parsehole wrote:@SkepTicle.
I see your point but I'm having a laugh so it's all good for me. Plus I want to get a rise out of Pixlee. And I will.

Then take off your pants and put on a DJ Grothe mask. :)

Remember tardblog? It's been my experience that a lot of teachers consider their students to be something along the lines of stupid, but very few of them are crass enough to say it in public. When they're talking off-the-record to colleagues, friends, or family, however, then the descriptive gloves...

I find it interesting when news stories surface some time later & get circulated as if new. Would be interesting to trace back the moment of resurrection. But, yeah, this was a pretty awful situation, and from what's reported it was handled really badly by the judge, with what sounds like a signifi...

PZs students rate him. http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=123513 Not bad overall - although the most recent review is not too complimentary: Wasn't organized. The syllabus was from the previous semester, and he made significant changes, making it hard to know what was going on. Thi...

Gefan, thank you for another video. Brilliant...and look, their providing more material all the time. Is their a next movie idea in the works, or am I being greedy? Too much good analysis from so many to comment on...enjoying it very much. A question or two for those more knowledgeable and astute t...

218 PZ Myers 10 September 2013 at 9:11 pm (UTC -5) OK, guys, you really need some help here. For example: heat albumin to 100 degrees centigrade in a solution of phosphate buffered saline with beta mercaptoethanol at 1 atmosphere, itâ€™s non-covalent bonds will dissociate. Thatâ€™s true. Thatâ€™s a...

218 PZ Myers 10 September 2013 at 9:11 pm (UTC -5) OK, guys, you really need some help here. For example: heat albumin to 100 degrees centigrade in a solution of phosphate buffered saline with beta mercaptoethanol at 1 atmosphere, itâ€™s non-covalent bonds will dissociate. Thatâ€™s true. Thatâ€™s a...

Yeah, I was writing in a "I share your worldview as I understand your world view" POV. I should have been clearer to that as the Internet is almost always a battle ground and people get edgy. Fuck you. My folks have a dog named Tribble, by the way. Looks a lot like this one: http://1.bp.blogspot.co...

Why, one may ask, has PZ suddenly chosen to praise post-modernism? My hunch is that it allows him to further distance himself from Dawkins facts and reality: http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/824 In theory postmodernism is supposed to inform us that all discussions of events/reality are not pe...

I wonder if he did finish a book, and somebody told him it was total shite. Between that and his lack of acceptance as a key player or "horseman" has lead to his current breakdown. If he can't go to the party, he'll crap on the lawn. Yes, a few of us have suggested that particular theory in the pas...

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 From the article: Another problem with the Four Horsemen analogy is the n...

Why, one may ask, has PZ suddenly chosen to praise post-modernism? My hunch is that it allows him to further distance himself from Dawkins facts and reality: http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/824 In theory postmodernism is supposed to inform us that all discussions of events/reality are not pe...

Tony Parsehole wrote:That was brilliant Gefan.

agreed

Dick Strawkins wrote:
One questio.
If it is always fair to judge past behavior by current standards, does that include judging posts of hentai rape porn and jokes about gang raping Kent Hovind?
:think:

Oh, snap, you went right to PZ's bad-touch place...

Feminism is stupid. Jesus was a myth. And more baboonary infests the pit. My take on the last few pages. YMMV Did you read the last babooneries to say this baboonish baboonery yourself? No matter how people here disagree with each other, I believe nobody ever went as nasty as PZ Myers in one of his...

Sulman wrote:What is it with the PZ lock-step with Watson? It's getting a bit weird. Any time she writes about anything, he follows up with something at Pharyngula.

It's like he's obsessed with White Knighting for her. As if there is some other, deeper connection. Like with his penis or something.

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