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

Ugh. Just ugh.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/73669

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock with no access to Twitter or Reddit, you've probably heard of the Gamergate scandal that began a little over a year ago. In short, game developer Zoe Quinn, creator of DEPRESSION QUEST, was accused by a vindictive ex-boyfriend of using her relationship with Kotaku journalist Nathan Grayson to generate positive publicity for her game. That led to a massive outpour of rape and death threats, public posts of her personal information, and a wider awareness of just how sexist the game industry can be.

And here’s Hollywood, currently riding the feminist wave like it’s BIG WEDNESDAY, to come and put things in a proper perspective.

Former Sony exec Amy Pascal has bought the rights to Quinn’s memoir, Crash Override, and Scarlett Johansson is said to be eyeing the role of Quinn.

This is easily one of the most controversial subjects I’ve seen in pop culture over the past few years, with the opposition maintaining, steadfastly, that Quinn is an opportunist and a liar that used her sex for personal gain, and that the sexist overtones of much of gamer culture is thoroughly justified. Its an argument that, ironically enough, could only persist if the accusations against the state of the industry were thoroughly true, and has created a focus on what it means to be a gamer in the 21st century.

This can't end well for anyone.

I'd watch the Zoe movie if Scarlett covers the "Locke Valentine" nude photo episode with appropriate aplomb.

In fact if she gets that right she can skip the rest.

Brive1987 wrote:I'd watch the Zoe movie if Scarlett covers the "Locke Valentine" nude photo episode with appropriate aplomb.

In fact if she gets that right she can skip the rest.

Actually, that wouldn't be so bad. 130 minutes of Scarlett getting filled airtight by five guys while her boyfriend watches until he gets sick of it.

free thoughtpolice wrote:Holy shit! Watch this:
[youtube]i8Y2q8V6I2w[/youtube]

She so starves for attention.

Maybe some people are better off on the bottle.

Brive1987 wrote:I'd watch the Zoe movie if Scarlett covers the "Locke Valentine" nude photo episode with appropriate aplomb.

In fact if she gets that right she can skip the rest.

To get Scarjo to look like Quinn, I recommend they get the make-up artist who transformed Charlize Theron into Aileen Wuornos in Monster.

Brive1987 wrote:Logans Run and Jenny Agutter blew Star Wars and Carrie Fisher away. IMHO.

Not sure I agree with that. But I do have an obsession with call the midwife that's... unhealthy.

Brive1987 wrote:

Matt Cavanaugh wrote: (Though Juliet Mills in AVANTI is a close second.)

http://i.imgur.com/FT1gLNL.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/XRIsATo.jpg

Kirsten Dunst was allowed an American accent in Marie Antoinette. I dont see any moral requirement to bridge the gap below. Let Scarlett's outward appearance be a metaphor for Zoe's internal grace.

Please.

http://i.imgur.com/hZOv8Py.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/kHxk9GG.jpg


Ive just been watching the last Hobbit movie. We have rented the damn thing three times and never finished it, now it has an hour left and it will not beat me.

I did just glance up though and I could have sworn I saw Legolas climb up a pile of free-falling rocks like it was a staircase.

Nah. Couldn't have been.

deLurch wrote:

free thoughtpolice wrote:Holy shit! Watch this:
[youtube]i8Y2q8V6I2w[/youtube]

She so starves for attention.

Maybe some people are better off on the bottle.

An hour and 50 minutes? No thanks. The only question I need answered is what does Sargon think he's going to accomplish?

CuntajusRationality wrote:

deLurch wrote:[youtube]9IEFD_JVYd0[/youtube]

:shock:

As your position as Head Master, it is your job to create a place of comfort and home for the students that live at Silliman.

IT IS NOT ABOUT CREATING AN INTELLECTUAL SPACE! IT IS NOT! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?! IT'S ABOUT CREATING A HOME HERE! YOU ARE NOT DOING THAT!

Yale Mission Statement:
Like all great research universities, Yale has a tripartite mission: to create, preserve, and disseminate knowledge a place of comfort and home for the students.

Yale admissions dean: "She appeared stable during the interview." :oops:

Parody Accountant wrote:

free thoughtpolice wrote:Holy shit! Watch this:
[youtube]i8Y2q8V6I2w[/youtube]

Was that laughing witch?

Yes. She was claiming that people were demanding ransoms. It is kind of funny to hear Sargon try to ask her a question about her claims, and every time he does, she backs off of her claim. She is completely vague, and when you try to nail down the specifics she just backs away.

Parody Accountant wrote:

free thoughtpolice wrote:Holy shit! Watch this:
[youtube]i8Y2q8V6I2w[/youtube]

Was that laughing witch?

Which one? At the beginning the Laughing Witch aka Jenny Bathtub was on for a while and sounding kind of loony but signed out after a short while. I'm not sure how long the stream had gone on when I found it, maybe she spoke a lot earlier.
Bewildered Ape came across as even more of a dimbulb than he does in his videos. He doesn't really seem to have any ideas of his own, and when you hear him talk you can see he is someone that has struggled with stuttering and lisping. He comes across as an incredibly socially awkward person.

katamari Damassi wrote:An hour and 50 minutes? No thanks. The only question I need answered is what does Sargon think he's going to accomplish?

Sargon likes to invite "opponents" on his streams for interviews. I suspect he is returning the favor since Mr. Potato did that for him. Sargon's interviews tend to be heavy on the question and trying to identifying a person's position and letting themselves express themselves for good or bad. Sargon doesn't do the hanging. It is up to the interviewer to hang themselves in the ears of the listener.

katamari Damassi wrote:

deLurch wrote:

free thoughtpolice wrote:Holy shit! Watch this:
[youtube]i8Y2q8V6I2w[/youtube]

She so starves for attention.

Maybe some people are better off on the bottle.

An hour and 50 minutes? No thanks. The only question I need answered is what does Sargon think he's going to accomplish?

I can watch more LW karma tripping down the stairs all day.

I'm new to some of these people. Also I'm new to these hangout. Do they get re uploaded to some new url after the live streaming is over?

Parody Accountant wrote:Also I'm new to these hangout. Do they get re uploaded to some new url after the live streaming is over?

Nope. The whole thing is still available on the existing URL (unless it gets taken down).

Parody Accountant wrote:
I can watch more LW karma tripping down the stairs all day.

I'm new to some of these people. Also I'm new to these hangout. Do they get re uploaded to some new url after the live streaming is over?

She's clearly mentally disturbed. Is there any chance that the fat fuck in the fez catches fire and we watch him burn on camera? Because that's the only reason I could think to watch him in anything.

katamari Damassi wrote:

Parody Accountant wrote:
I can watch more LW karma tripping down the stairs all day.

I'm new to some of these people. Also I'm new to these hangout. Do they get re uploaded to some new url after the live streaming is over?

She's clearly mentally disturbed. Is there any chance that the fat fuck in the fez catches fire and we watch him burn on camera? Because that's the only reason I could think to watch him in anything.

Am I to understand that you don't find K-lo charming? :think:

deLurch wrote:

Parody Accountant wrote:Also I'm new to these hangout. Do they get re uploaded to some new url after the live streaming is over?

Nope. The whole thing is still available on the existing URL (unless it gets taken down).

LW says she chose the 25000 number specifically. It wasn't random.

She said the 25k came from 30 days worth of paying her 14 employees.

If all split equal, it's 1875 per month per employee. That puts them at $21428 annual salary.

http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=Bathtub+Refinishing&l1=

Typical salary for bath tub refinishing is 33k per year, so we're a little off but ok.

She described her employees as having families, which makes sense.

The us poverty line for 2015 is 24,250k per year for a family of four.

Brive1987 wrote:Logans Run and Jenny Agutter blew Star Wars and Carrie Fisher away. IMHO.

Yeah, you could see her tits better! The acting was worse. Not because the actors were bad actors, but because the dialog was so damned stiff. But I was 15 and the acting & dialog Did Not Matter At All. It had hot babes in a sci-fi show. I was sold.

Of course, I liked BSG the original too. Well, the women. Watching Mr. Cartwright lead the Mormon Expedition to Earth with a bunch of lousy male actors, constantly repeated stock footage and silly swear words (well, felbercarb at least) was not all that great. But the woman who played Cassiopeia... Oh SCHWING!!!!!

If I was writing a yelp review, I'd give it 5 stars and describe how underpaid the excellent staff are

comhcinc wrote:https://i.imgur.com/WLgod7E.jpg

Thanks I sent to family

Parody Accountant wrote:

deLurch wrote:

Parody Accountant wrote:Also I'm new to these hangout. Do they get re uploaded to some new url after the live streaming is over?

Nope. The whole thing is still available on the existing URL (unless it gets taken down).

LW says she chose the 25000 number specifically. It wasn't random.

She said the 25k came from 30 days worth of paying her 14 employees.

If all split equal, it's 1875 per month per employee. That puts them at $21428 annual salary.

http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=Bathtub+Refinishing&l1=

Typical salary for bath tub refinishing is 33k per year, so we're a little off but ok.

She described her employees as having families, which makes sense.

The us poverty line for 2015 is 24,250k per year for a family of four.

Roughly 66% of the standard salary for the job is "ok?" She's clearly lying.

Really? wrote:

Parody Accountant wrote:

deLurch wrote: Nope. The whole thing is still available on the existing URL (unless it gets taken down).

LW says she chose the 25000 number specifically. It wasn't random.

She said the 25k came from 30 days worth of paying her 14 employees.

If all split equal, it's 1875 per month per employee. That puts them at $21428 annual salary.

http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=Bathtub+Refinishing&l1=

Typical salary for bath tub refinishing is 33k per year, so we're a little off but ok.

She described her employees as having families, which makes sense.

The us poverty line for 2015 is 24,250k per year for a family of four.

Roughly 66% of the standard salary for the job is "ok?" She's clearly lying.

I chose to believe that she's so evil that it's true. She's arguing it so!

She's arguing that she's under paying her employees so severely that they are well below the poverty line.

K.

FYI if billy from autism wants to do the math, the relevant portion of the hangout is roughly 48 minutes into it?

She described the 25k number, and even that mildly attractive annoying girl winced at the explanation

Fallout 4 Launch Trailer

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And the Steam Pre-Load has started for the PC Master Race:

http://i.imgur.com/TfcfKrH.png


Four more days till it unlocks.

I'm going to a midnight release at gamestop lol. First game I've ever done that for in my life.

deLurch wrote:

free thoughtpolice wrote:Holy shit! Watch this:
[youtube]i8Y2q8V6I2w[/youtube]

She so starves for attention.

Maybe some people are better off on the bottle.

Maybe it would have been more interesting with Elyse in there...

But it makes me glad that I don't have to deal with people like the Non-Sargon crew on that vid.

Parody Accountant wrote:LW says she chose the 25000 number specifically. It wasn't random.

She said the 25k came from 30 days worth of paying her 14 employees.

If all split equal, it's 1875 per month per employee. That puts them at $21428 annual salary.

http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=Bathtub+Refinishing&l1=

Typical salary for bath tub refinishing is 33k per year, so we're a little off but ok.

She described her employees as having families, which makes sense.

The us poverty line for 2015 is 24,250k per year for a family of four.

I caught that too. She specifically said she calculated 2 pay periods. So it would be safe to assume she pays bi-weekly. That would work out to $23,214.29. And she says that he has had people working for her for years.

DC is an expensive metro area to live in. Her employees have got to have 2nd jobs to get by.

Parody Accountant wrote:FYI if billy from autism wants to do the math...

Sorry, man, but it's the weekend. Ask again on Monday.

Plus, I'm still trying to wrap my head around this:

Tribble wrote:Yeah, you could see her tits better! The acting was worse. Not because the actors were bad actors, but because the dialog was so damned stiff.

I get calling it a "log" but "dia-" as a prefix makes it super creepy.

deLurch wrote:

Parody Accountant wrote:LW says she chose the 25000 number specifically. It wasn't random.

She said the 25k came from 30 days worth of paying her 14 employees.

If all split equal, it's 1875 per month per employee. That puts them at $21428 annual salary.

http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=Bathtub+Refinishing&l1=

Typical salary for bath tub refinishing is 33k per year, so we're a little off but ok.

She described her employees as having families, which makes sense.

The us poverty line for 2015 is 24,250k per year for a family of four.

I caught that too. She specifically said she calculated 2 pay periods. So it would be safe to assume she pays bi-weekly. That would work out to $23,214.29. And she says that he has had people working for her for years.

DC is an expensive metro area to live in. Her employees have got to have 2nd jobs to get by.

Looks like Laughing Sweatshop Owner and her husband don't know how to run a business that can support the owners and the employees. I read the theory that the tub refinishing business was passed down to him. Makes sense.

Stowaway Snail Helps Save Species from Extinction
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/ext ... way-snail/

Feh, Zoe Quinn is now likely set for life. Proof, if proof were needed, that karma isn't really a thing.

I mean, she still has to be Zoe Quinn and her personal life will continue to be a mess, but....

deLurch wrote:

Parody Accountant wrote:LW says she chose the 25000 number specifically. It wasn't random.

She said the 25k came from 30 days worth of paying her 14 employees.

If all split equal, it's 1875 per month per employee. That puts them at $21428 annual salary.

http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=Bathtub+Refinishing&l1=

Typical salary for bath tub refinishing is 33k per year, so we're a little off but ok.

She described her employees as having families, which makes sense.

The us poverty line for 2015 is 24,250k per year for a family of four.

I caught that too. She specifically said she calculated 2 pay periods. So it would be safe to assume she pays bi-weekly. That would work out to $23,214.29. And she says that he has had people working for her for years.

DC is an expensive metro area to live in. Her employees have got to have 2nd jobs to get by.

I see they have some sort of ventilation thing that Mr. Laughing Witch designed along with his own blend of tub finish, I wouldn't trust my health to that dingbat's judgement, especially for minimal money.
That, and have "your boss" tell you you're in big fuckin trouble if you go on your own facebook page and make a remark about feminism she disagrees with.
My sympathies to the poor fuckers (the employees).

Why oh why are New Zealander men such ruffians?

Context...

http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-p ... number-one

Bring on that fucking asteroid.

http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/asteroid-hits-earth-2.jpg

I can't remember if I saw this here or elsewhere.
But it fascinates me.
I am sure it is their version of a joke...but I know some think it would be reasonable.

Cnutella wrote:Context...

http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-p ... number-one

Looks like Jack Chick has branched out.

HoneyWagon wrote:I can't remember if I saw this here or elsewhere.
But it fascinates me.
I am sure it is their version of a joke...but I know some think it would be reasonable.

Holy shit.

I have no words, but feel obliged to remark on this tweet.

Holy shit.

Suet Cardigan wrote:

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Bring on that fucking asteroid.

http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/asteroid-hits-earth-2.jpg

Notice that they didnt allow comments on this OP.

:think:

And by we, they mean 99% of humans.

Michael J wrote:You also get Google Play Music (Which I already subscribe to) as well. So I see it as a free add on to my current subscription. There are some other goodies as well - Which includes the ability to download and store videos - also to just download and store the audio stream. I listen to music while I'm driving/running and this is a good way to grab music from unpublished indie bands who aren't on any other streaming service.

You can already rip video and audio files from Youtube in a multitude of ways, for example:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... deo-downl/

x_?_x wrote:

HoneyWagon wrote:I can't remember if I saw this here or elsewhere.
But it fascinates me.
I am sure it is their version of a joke...but I know some think it would be reasonable.

Holy shit.

I have no words, but feel obliged to remark on this tweet.

Holy shit.

S/H/it/S A FUCKING RETARD, hope that helps.

Cnutella wrote:Context...

http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-p ... number-one

"Last year NZ police were called to cases of domestic abuse, on average, every five and a half minutes- and that's just the ones that were reported"

Do not believe lol.

KiwiInOz wrote:

Cnutella wrote:Context...

http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-p ... number-one

Looks like Jack Chick has branched out.

I only miss the inevitable final panel: "Nobody else can save you! Andrea Dworkin died for your sins. Accept Andrea today!"
Maybe Ape can help this Toby Morris guy out.

HoneyWagon wrote:I can't remember if I saw this here or elsewhere.
But it fascinates me.
I am sure it is their version of a joke...but I know some think it would be reasonable.

Well obviously puberty is as much a decision as losing your milk teeth, but let's leave that aside for now.

What we see once again is that trans advocates who will claim that sex/gender/whatever are just whatever you say they are and you can have a full beard and penis and still call yourself a women will STILL fall back on gender essentialism when it suits them.

Trans advocates are shooting themselves in the girlcock by trying to argue that SRS and hormone therapy are irrelevant and unnecessary, when a lot of them still want those procedures to be treated as medical necessities.

feathers wrote:

Cnutella wrote:Context...

http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-p ... number-one

"Last year NZ police were called to cases of domestic abuse, on average, every five and a half minutes- and that's just the ones that were reported"

Do not believe lol.

I doubt there was a violent incident every 5&1/2 minutes... during the US invasion of Afghanistan.

feathers wrote:

Cnutella wrote:Context...

http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-p ... number-one

"Last year NZ police were called to cases of domestic abuse, on average, every five and a half minutes- and that's just the ones that were reported"

Do not believe lol.

This.

deLurch wrote:

DaveDodo007 wrote:Allies are women haters and anti-feminists are women haters. Basically men are women haters end of. WTF and what is the end goal here?

Kind of the same goal of Original Sin in the Catholic Church. Make everyone feel guilty, so they feel ashamed and must make amends. And who tells you how to make things right? The same ones who told you that you have Original Sin.

The goal is to collect as many servile lackeys as possible to do what they say based on their whims. It is all about control.

Yeah, but at least Christian original sin holds out the possibility of redemption.

I don't think it's about control at all for this kind of feminist. It's purely about self-aggrandisement.

paddybrown wrote:

deLurch wrote:

DaveDodo007 wrote:Allies are women haters and anti-feminists are women haters. Basically men are women haters end of. WTF and what is the end goal here?

Kind of the same goal of Original Sin in the Catholic Church. Make everyone feel guilty, so they feel ashamed and must make amends. And who tells you how to make things right? The same ones who told you that you have Original Sin.

The goal is to collect as many servile lackeys as possible to do what they say based on their whims. It is all about control.

Yeah, but at least Christian original sin holds out the possibility of redemption.

I don't think it's about control at all for this kind of feminist. It's purely about self-aggrandisement.

You can always be a good ally if you try.

deLurch wrote: You can always be a good ally if you try.

Actually I don't think you can, as they (the allies) are always being shit on. No gold star for them or cookies even. :(

What I do like is the fact that Truman stood up to the southern "gentleman" white racists and told them to go pee up a rope, and most especially the fact that the convention backed him up on it. If the convention had pussyfooted on civil rights I would have been strongly tempted to vote the vegetarian ticket.

That quote is from a letter, from Robert A. Heinlein to his wife, dated 1948. He was talking about the race between Democrat Harry S Truman and Republican Tom Dewey; and the spoiler candidates who risked splitting the Democrats: Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond and Henry Wallace's Progressive Party.

I found the anti-racism, the pre-civil-rights-era reference to 'civil rights', and the 'vegetarian ticket' to defy the standard historical narrative. It's easy to believe Heinlein was ahead of his time. Also easy to believe the standard narrative omits contrary facts.

I've begun reading the 2nd volume of William H. Patterson, Jr.'s biography of Heinlein. I posted about the first part, earlier this year... it was amazing. I hope this is just as good, but Heinlein's life may have settled-down after he became a fulltime writer. (His childhood, naval career, socialist political organizing, WW2 engineering, and post-war re-invention... were an excellent tour of the time period.)

Right now, I'm reading about how the 1951 Congressional hearings against Comic Books influence on children... had a chilling effect on Heinlein's editors... so that they were afraid to publish his juvenile novel Red Planet without panicky edits. They were afraid of sexual connotations in a description of the lead boy playing on his bunk... with his dog-sized martian pet. And afraid of descriptions of teenage settlers on Mars... carrying handguns to protect themselves from alien 'water-seeker' critters.

Regarding the discussion about the merits of Star Trek:
Early sci-fi fans saw themselves as boosters for a techno-progressive future, using fiction to lobby for space-travel becoming a reality. I just read excerpts of bickering correspondence between Forrest J. Ackerman and Heinlein, where Ackerman accused Heinlein of dumbing-down science-fiction for a mainstream audience; and Heinlein replied that he was doing outreach by seeding stories in the Saturday Evening Post. The original Star Trek series is a wonderful artifact of riding the line between hardcore dreamers and mainstream dopes.

Brive1987 wrote: Who is this and how do I stalk her?

Documentarian Cassie Jaye.

Crucial question: does she know all the keyboard shortcuts?

Hmm, if I make this into an avatar it doesn't shine that bright anymore, does it:
http://www.jeffhightower.com/cassie3.jpg

https://d13pix9kaak6wt.cloudfront.net/b ... 424_57.jpg
She makes those young black matters live

feathers,
http://i.imgur.com/z0vKpqq.jpg

What about discussing her documentary-making capabilities? I mean, it's not like this all looks like a weird obsession because she's cute AND open-minded about things, but it kinda is.

No?

Oh, ok then.

Service Dog wrote:feathers,
http://i.imgur.com/z0vKpqq.jpg

Nah, no leg.