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

Last month he described Robin Williamsâ€™ suicide as the death of a wealthy white man dragging us away from news about brown people, said that a white lady who made racist comments looks like the kind of person who would have laughed at nanu-nanu, then added that he should have been more rude, beca...

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/511778693161971712 Dawkins has taken PZ's advice. He's consciousness raising. Raising the consciousness of other mainstreamers within A/S that there's a problem with the SJL and letting it be known how he stands on it. (Snip) [youtube]Y3-aAx4SOn0[/youtube]

You mean Carolyn Porco, Cassini mission Porco, Highly credentialed and accomplished scientist Porco, apparent model for Jodie Foster in Sagan's Contact Porco, supports a known misogynist. What has the world come to. Her tweet made my day. I just wish that I'd been there when Peezus saw it. What ama...

Re Gamergate, I just heard someone refer to it as "house nerds throwing field nerds under the bus". I understand the slavery reference, I just have absolutely no idea how it applies to video games. Can someone who knows the first thing about this stuff explain WTF? Thank you. I guess it means those...

Re Gamergate, I just heard someone refer to it as "house nerds throwing field nerds under the bus". I understand the slavery reference, I just have absolutely no idea how it applies to video games. Can someone who knows the first thing about this stuff explain WTF? Thank you. That's an odd analogy....

sorry if duplicate https://twitter.com/SamHarrisOrg/status/511650738490339329 As good as it is to see these two publicly voicing disdain for Peezus and his cabal of shitbags, I really don't think they should be ignoring them. If they've made any headway against religion it wasn't by ignoring the ba...

I never understood why the Horde latched onto "cupcake" as acceptable, given that it's basically another form of "sweeheart". Not sure how it started, but it was generally considered to be a way of showing privileged men what it is like to be dismissed because you are a woman. The horde also invent...

I never understood why the Horde latched onto "cupcake" as acceptable, given that it's basically another form of "sweeheart". Not sure how it started, but it was generally considered to be a way of showing privileged men what it is like to be dismissed because you are a woman. The horde also invent...

https://twitter.com/xMattieBrice/status/510299357870960641 I'm guessing this is some pretentious meta thing. Or just garden variety stupid. One of those. This Just In: POMO twitter commenter falsifies the Pauli exclusion principle, falls to the center of the Earth. http://www.the-broad-side.com/wp-...

RD randomly tweeted about the difference between fried and pan fried, and tipping. Of course PZ can't miss this chancel https://twitter.com/pzmyers/status/510086944538107906 Note the . Look guys, I'm chastising RD again! Aren't I doing well? I'm such a good SJW. I love women. Ugh. I'm really surpri...

In case you weren't already infuriated enough with how the gamergate thing is being represented in the mainstream press, here's Helen Lewis' latest. It has of course been instantaneously accepted as gospel by the SJWs I follow on twitter. Their followers read the article and then respond with thing...

Hi All I may be filling in the Pit soon - I've been diagnosed with major depression, and hanging round the Pit is not really good for me, as far as I can tell. I'll be pondering this for a few days, and let you know my thoughts. If I do decide to shut up shop, I'm more than happy to send a tarball ...

Its a "White Nightengale"

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I wonder if HJ was the inspiration for this little toon.

Anybody interested in the #gamergate fun should read this now deleted article from a bloke called Greg Costikyan at Gamesutra: https://archive.today/vT7vp For decades, we had a market that catered to Maxim-reading horny boy-men who bought games by developers who spent man-years on developing better...

http://38.media.tumblr.com/bd9ec57b54f18f15bbcbac13365c3bd6/tumblr_nbeu73NEdI1ryeto5o1_400.png Never mind, here's the source image for those of you without the spoons to visit SWC. "they are seen as normal" norÂ·mal adjective \ËˆnÈ¯r-mÉ™l\ : usual or ordinary : not strange : mentally and physically...

Those who live in house full of people with stupidly pretentious nyms shouldn't throw bitchy stones: https://twitter.com/SpokesGay/status/507169015748636672 Wow, I know I say it all the time, but would a little introspection kill these people? They don't have to because OPRESSSION! Also, its your j...

(Chair-moshing intensifies) :character-beavisbutthead: I still think "Deicide" is their best. Glen Benton had a fucking great voice back then. I met him in a music shop in St Pete, nice guy. Legion is probably my fave, but "Deicide" is also fucking great. That's cool that you got to meet Benton.

Arc of the moral universe my ass. Oprah grade woo. Azathoth rules this universe and we are its servants, willing or otherwise. Any arcs or moral universes you might have noticed are purely illusiory, and most likely designed to crush your soul. (MUHUHUHAHAHA) Fine, fine... [youtube]9_SQ430-g7Q[/you...

I think part of the problem is the way humanities courses are taught. I can't say my experience is global, but at my college we would be given reading assignments and then class would consist of us sitting in a circle and have a touchy feely discussion about whatever we had read, and what we though...

https://twitter.com/tracyvwilson/status/507138292006289408 Gee, I wonder why. It's not like Anita is making sweeping empirical claims or anything, right? I think part of the problem is the way humanities courses are taught. I can't say my experience is global, but at my college we would be given re...

the fun never ends begins in sjwville https://twitter.com/saramayhew/status/506866639816884224 its the hypocrisy that never ends Barbara Drescher posted this on her Facebook and shortly thereafter Travis Roy posted a screen-cap showing that Carrie Poppy "Liked" the NAMBLA comment. https://scontent-...

If I were to wager a guess, it'd be that the decline in income come mostly from the whole skepticism/humanism/atheism movement loosing a lot of it's steam and tapering off. At least it seems to be that the whole "movement" is losing most of the momentum it had a few years ago. Some of that can prob...

(haven't seen the video, but ablut fun...) Old school game designer Raph Koster wrote â€œA Theory of Funâ€ which asserts that fun is the feeling when the brain understands something, i.e. when a model/system makes sense and you â€œget itâ€. While there is no agreed definition of what exactly is a...

Here is an interesting bit from Peezus' post on JREF Hereâ€™s one obvious reason: JREF Revenue: 2011: $1.56M, 2012: $1.29M, 2013: $887.5K. â€” Jim Lippard (@lippard) September 1, 2014 JREF Revenue: 2011: $1.56M, 2012: $1.29M, 2013: $887.5K. Theyâ€™re down to 60% of their 2011 revenue. Thatâ€™s a goo...

If you've got some time to kill Sargon of Akkad has a lengthy commentary on some of the "gaming is dead" articles in the gaming press. [youtube]N_K13iEWQfY[/youtube] Which was good for me because the last thing I want to do is give these Y. pestis carrying assfleas a hit for writing this drivel. My ...

Went back to page on on the Fark thread. As I suspected, the joe character I quoted is full-blown SJW (from page one): Deal with it, Fedorans - your silly little hobby has gone mainstream - it's a commodity now, like TV advertisements. It will be criticized and curated by a body of normal people wh...

http://33.media.tumblr.com/2d51054f9470c0fa18178bea13556ecd/tumblr_n8jb7r99wT1ryeto5o1_1280.png This one's for Tony. Does anyone know of any medical research done on this otherkin mental illness? Is it covered in DSM? Well there is an entry for "clinical lycanthropy" in the DSM apparently. DSM-IV C...

https://twitter.com/therealchriswei/status/505796915116535808 Of course the "us vs them" tone of #MaleFeministImpression Stormfront.org is abrasive, divisive, etc. but that's ok! You'd be abrasive too if oppressed. Of course the "us vs them" tone of #MaleFeministImpression the BNP is abrasive, divi...

I think Franc Hoggle explains it better: http://greylining.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/sarkeesian_self_threats.jpg Its a hypothesis worth considering. But it needs more evidence. If it could be shown that she never took any steps to protect herself (e.g. leaving her home, going to the police) then ...

IMO it depends on whether her crap has any effect on video games. If the worst thing that happens is a lot of lip-service and a few videogames where the protagonist is flat chested woman in a burqa, I don't really see it as a huge deal. If people actually get sacked over disagreeing with her, that ...

Hm. I just tried to post a comment in PZ's thread about a recent anti-vax paper. When I clicked Submit, I was taken to the top of the page and my post did not appear. Does that mean that I'm banned? In case anyone cares about that issue, here's what I wrote: +1 to #39 Like every inferential analysi...

BlueShiftRhino wrote:Hm. I just tried to post a comment in PZ's thread about a recent anti-vax paper. When I clicked Submit, I was taken to the top of the page and my post did not appear. Does that mean that I'm banned?

Yeah, it probably does.

[Sarkeesian] is a lying sack of shit, and because a misrepresentation of the game was more helpful to her narrative than a fair representation would have been. That Sarkeesian is a systematic liar has been proven beyond any rational doubt. This really is a line in the sand as far as I'm concerned -...

http://web.archive.org/web/20130523035020/http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/dungeon/ I only scanned a ways down that list, but Noel Plum?!? I'm sure that there are other ridiculous bans, but that one was enough for me to stop looking. I don't have one-tenth the redeeming qualities of Noel Plum...

http://web.archive.org/web/20130523035020/http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/dungeon/ I only scanned a ways down that list, but Noel Plum?!? I'm sure that there are other ridiculous bans, but that one was enough for me to stop looking. I don't have one-tenth the redeeming qualities of Noel Plum...

I'm new to a lot of this and haven't seen one of those Thunderdome threads before, but I'm tempted to say, with regards to their bitching about Dawkins' apology for Dear Muslima, that apologies are especially difficult to make when you weren't wrong and you know it. But I'm not ready to be banned y...

So far today on twitter, in support of Sarkesian... Joss Whedon Boing Boing Polygon DJGrothe Daring Fireball I think this battle is near lost, disagreeing with the narrative now is dangerous to many peoples careers IMO it depends on whether her crap has any effect on video games. If the worst thing...

[Sarkeesian] is a lying sack of shit, and because a misrepresentation of the game was more helpful to her narrative than a fair representation would have been. That Sarkeesian is a systematic liar has been proven beyond any rational doubt. This really is a line in the sand as far as I'm concerned -...

Must protect mediocre game franchises from criticism. Hitman is actually well though out. Lara Crofts titties... I've never played Hitman, but its quality is completely beside the point, because that isn't why Sarkeesian is criticizing it. The reason I don't like Sarkeesian's criticism is that I'm ...

Anita Sarkessian has no knowledge whatsoever how video games work, or stories in general. Also, rain wets concrete and if there is a shotgun over the couch, then it must be fired by the end of the story. Everything in a story should be functional, either directly or indirectly (as a red herring), a...

Anita Sarkessian has no knowledge whatsoever how video games work, or stories in general. Also, rain wets concrete and if there is a shotgun over the couch, then it must be fired by the end of the story. Everything in a story should be functional, either directly or indirectly (as a red herring), a...

Do videos of live performances count as "videos"?

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Mykeru wrote:
Old_ones wrote:
Mykeru wrote: [youtube]akL23VhXptc[/youtube]
Worst music video ever my ass.

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I see you and raise you:

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Mykeru wrote: [youtube]akL23VhXptc[/youtube]

Worst music video ever my ass.

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Conversely The Happy Atheist might have sold 40,000 instead of 400 (just an analogy) if PZ hadn't gone off the deep end starting with Elevatorgate, assuring effectively that no prominent atheist would ever blurb or mention his book ever. The book just flat out has a title issue. Under no circumstan...

https://twitter.com/OpheliaBenson/status/502869750662569984 Copy and paste are part of the repertoire, not one or the other. Sure, emotion is fine as long as you are capable of introspection and healthy emotion. Of course there is a problem with emotion that reason doesn't have; It isn't inherently...

PZ Myers and the Banhammer; An analysis of the changes in The Great Poopyhead from 2007 to 2013 Old_ones Introduction Whether or not PZ Myers changed is largely a subjective judgement, but there is at least one metric that can be quantified; Banhammer frequency. This can be quantified because PZ stu...

What I want to know is why people *cling* to this moronic fantasy that PZ used to be "different". He was NEVER different. Ever. His behavior has not changed a fucking jot or tittle. The only thing, the ONLY thing he changed was where he was aiming his bullshit. That quote proves it, and it shows ho...

What I want to know is why people *cling* to this moronic fantasy that PZ used to be "different". He was NEVER different. Ever. His behavior has not changed a fucking jot or tittle. The only thing, the ONLY thing he changed was where he was aiming his bullshit. That quote proves it, and it shows ho...

PZ Myers might not be as dumb as he appears. He knows at the back of his mind he has a group of dedicated shit for brains groupies who will defend literally anything he says. He knows also the only way he generates significant traffic is to personally attack someone, creationists don't work anymore...

<snip> Which, I think, tends to make the terms "male" and "female" useful abstractions - kind of like "patriarchy". Or Adam Smith's "Invisible hand". Or maybe even like "god" .... ;-) But to try and insist that any of those have some kind of causal efficacy or substance seems to commit the "sin", t...

Old_ones, thanks for posting that rant. I was about to do so. For accuracy: The 2 x 2 table (XX & XY on one axis, male & female on the other axis) is the "normal" scenario. The implementation by nature is much more complicated than that, yet still the correlation between genotype (XX or XY) and gen...

Well, I got trolled hard. Live and learn. Not really trolling despite what you, and Strawkins, may think. Jus' calling things the way I see 'em ... An HJ apologist too? You are trying way too hard to.find balance. Your retconning of HJs point is ridiculous. Not really. Consider that some 49% of the...

Gah! Sorry for the double post. I keep getting internal server errors, and I didn't think I'd successfully submitted it the first time. That's a notpology if ever I saw one. Intent isn't magic you know. Just use the Edit button like everyone else does. I would apologize again, but that would put me...

Gah! Sorry for the double post. I keep getting internal server errors, and I didn't think I'd successfully submitted it the first time.

https://twitter.com/sophiaphotos/status/497249871007461377 Chromosomes are are a patriarchal social construct. Well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipoid_congenital_adrenal_hyperplasia Obviously it's a rare condition, but yeah, XY does not always mean "biologically male" . Which doesn't refute the c...

https://twitter.com/sophiaphotos/status/497249871007461377 Chromosomes are are a patriarchal social construct. Well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipoid_congenital_adrenal_hyperplasia Obviously it's a rare condition, but yeah, XY does not always mean "biologically male" . Which doesn't refute the c...

chill girl sister punisher rape enabler https://twitter.com/lizzyf620 has had a fun series over the past few days https://twitter.com/lizzyf620/status/498239135552143360 Not just a chill girl sister punisher rape enabler, but a transphobe too. https://twitter.com/sophiaphotos/status/497249871007461...

Apparently my pharyngula alter-ego "Hurin" is banned after my last outburst about the Radford affair. So anyway, here is my contribution to the Robin Williams thread, that pharyngula will never see... â€œnews about brown peopleâ€. Really? I know I shouldnâ€™t be surprised, butâ€¦Iâ€™m surprised. Ei...

He desecrated a cracker? Odd choice of words when the issue is PZ talking about "Wealthy white guys"who have committed suicide. :lol: Yeah, and don't forget that Steven whats-his-face is also insensitive . That's some industrial grade irony. If someone starts a contest for the stupidest comment on ...

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