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Ragnarblackmane: Oh so because you can't find any evidence to back up your claims you go back to the "waaahwaah privileged white males are becoming an underclass" argument that's thin as shale? Come on lad, be better than that.
But I can find evidence. It's just not worth while for a GOG thread. Even if I was to do a blog post on this subject, I would still debate whether it is worth while.

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Ragnarblackmane: *beardpalms*If you don't realize how corporatized and monetized the media is, and how biased it is towards the status quo, with very few exceptions, then there's really not much else to say to you on this subject.
But I do realize that, hence why I am stating minorities are faster but under the good light than the bad light.

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Ragnarblackmane: How in the world was the Ferguson shooting not based on institutionalized racism and oppression that teaches that "white cops=good" "black males=bad"? It happens all the time, the difference is that this time people are fighting against it as a community, which is really amazing.
I don't know what news you followed, but as far as the subject was discussed in my AP Gov class, we analyzed a bunch of articles which called the cop racist. It took an actual video or something of that one African American student trying to reach for the cop's gun for the media to chill out. But then again, there might be southern influences on the media here, though the articles we analyzed were from the web.
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Crewdroog: Ferguson has nothing to do with racism.... wtf rock do you live under? whether the shooting was racially motivated or not, the whole incident has EVERYTHING to do with racism for both blacks and whites! Good lord, man.
That was not my point. Way to miss the point.

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Crewdroog: Who the hell are you to deem people ignorant? Symmetry made one comment that didn't encompass the whole of Afghanistan's history, so she's stupid? I really hope that one day I can gain the level of knowledge that you have on, well, everything, apparently. You sir, are pretentious. And honestly, who the hell wants your respect?
Oh! So now we have special jobs or positions that deem people ignorant?
As far as the Afghanistan comment goes, that was stupid. Whether the individual is intelligent in other areas, I don't know. The possibility exists.
I don't give a flying F who wants my respect or not. I clearly stated it's not worth a dime, but I don't give it unless I want to. So deal with it.
Post edited October 21, 2014 by HijacK
*Sigh*

*Eats popcorn*
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Sage103082: Someone need a bath? =P
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Momo1991: Dawn dishwashing liquid actually works...
Yes, it does

Another fun fact. You can spray a whole room with popcorn using an air popper

*demonstrates by showering room with fluffy kernels in hope of distracting the argument*
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Momo1991: Dawn dishwashing liquid actually works...
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SalarShushan: Yes, it does

Another fun fact. You can spray a whole room with popcorn using an air popper

*demonstrates by showering room with fluffy kernels in hope of distracting the argument*
Yay!!

And didn't I hear something about lesbians? *tears off normal clothes to reveal pjs* PJ Party!!!!!!!
*falls down and makes snow, er, popcorn angels*
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SalarShushan: Yes, it does

Another fun fact. You can spray a whole room with popcorn using an air popper

*demonstrates by showering room with fluffy kernels in hope of distracting the argument*
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Crewdroog: Yay!!

And didn't I hear something about lesbians? *tears off normal clothes to reveal pjs* PJ Party!!!!!!!
*falls down and makes snow, er, popcorn angels*
Popcorn angels are great. as a bonus, they're edible.
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ddickinson: I pretty much stopped watching anime. I do still enjoy Studio Ghibli's movies, but I got tired of the rubbish shows they make now, full of perverted topics and featuring younger and younger characters. I enjoyed the 80's and 90's animes, when they could have adult topics and adult characters, not just a bunch of slutty schoolgirls fighting monsters and falling madly in love with the effeminate male class mates.
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Crewdroog: I ask this of everyone: have you seen Berserk? If not, I highly recommend.

Actually, I think you are right, the anime I tend to watch I think is from the 90s and early 2000s, not much from today. I enjoyed Darker Than Black, Death Note and Mushishi (very strange, yet beautiful anime) and have watched half of Attack on Titan.

Oh, and I LOVE Miyazaki!!!!!!
Check out Naoki Urasawa's Monster. It takes a while to get started, and it's very serious, but I rate it higher than Death Note even, and I'm extremely picky about anime. Also, Psycho-Pass is the hot new kid on the Anime block.
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Crewdroog: I ask this of everyone: have you seen Berserk? If not, I highly recommend.

Actually, I think you are right, the anime I tend to watch I think is from the 90s and early 2000s, not much from today. I enjoyed Darker Than Black, Death Note and Mushishi (very strange, yet beautiful anime) and have watched half of Attack on Titan.

Oh, and I LOVE Miyazaki!!!!!!
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Mrstarker: Check out Naoki Urasawa's Monster. It takes a while to get started, and it's very serious, but I rate it higher than Death Note even, and I'm extremely picky about anime. Also, Psycho-Pass is the hot new kid on the Anime block.
Oh cool, thanks for the suggestions, I will totally check them out :)
*hands Mrstarker a handful of popcorn in appreciation*
If we're moving onto anime now, I'm going to recommend Hunter X Hunter.

Great anime.
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HijacK: It's not necessarily sexist, but it is somewhat unfair. :P

Take it this way. There are more males on the forums than females by a high margin. While I don't have any hard numbers or evidence, I think it is somewhat quite obvious. Anyone willing to disagree with this surely doesn't understand how GOG appeals more to old gamers due to the classics they provide, which pretty much means most of them are males since in the 90s and early 2000s for some stupid reason society didn't accept females as gamers. I don't know. Humans are stupid.
But back on topic now. So, there are more males on GOG than females. What does that mean? It means that in a female only giveaway the participants will have a higher chance percentage of winning than in an all male one, which basically favors the minority in this sense. (sounds like American politics to me xD)
In any case, I am not opposed to this giveaway, though I can see why some would see this as sexist. This being said, let's all calm down and enjoy this Sunday. I have college applications to fill, so drama on the forums is not what I'm looking for. :P
Ah, this must be the "simple math and logic" you were referring to. Well, I will grant you, it is simple, if by "simple" you are implying some deficiency in its mental faculties.

Setting aside that you just pulled your statistics of the breakdown of the gender of members of this forum... Actually, no, let's start there. Without any hard data to work with, how are we to know that it isn't the other way around? I see your argument about the audience older games might have attracted (*might* being the key word), but it is worth pointing out that GOG also sells more recent games that might appeal to a wider market that might include females. At the end of the day, we simply don't know the gender breakdown of the GOG forum users. The responses from posters might help give a rough idea, but since the sample will be composed of an entirely self-selected sample who happen to stumble onto the thread, the sample's usefulness to that end is questionable; I mean, how many people might not enter the GAs, read their threads, read the community section of the forums, or just flat out avoid the forums entirely?

Secondly, if there was a single giveaway that encompassed all of the forum members, *everyone* would have a lower chance of winning. With two separate ones, one for each gender, the odds of winning go up for members on each side now that a sizable portion of the competition has been cut. Is there something I'm missing here?

But yes, I'm with Crewdroog, let's get back to the lesbians and popcorn angels.
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Mrstarker: Oh, and I LOVE Miyazaki!!!!!!
Been meaning to get into Death Note for a while; need to see if it is on Netflix. Also, what do you think is a good starting point for getting into Miyazaki?
Post edited October 21, 2014 by Jonesy89
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Jonesy89: But yes, I'm with Crewdroog, let's get back to the lesbians and popcorn angels.
This is a perfect spot for the "Why Not Both" Meme
*fills pillow cases with popcorn and tosses them left, right, and center*

pillow fights are better with popcorn too :D
*Fills a glass of popcorn*

Because why the hell not
For the Anime: I know that Attack on Titan is the anime of the hour, but I just couldn't get through it. The middle just kinda wound down way too much for me. Is it worth plugging through, am I the only one that felt this way?
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Jonesy89: Been meaning to get into Death Note for a while; need to see if it is on Netflix. Also, what do you think is a good starting point for getting into Miyazaki?
Hmm... this is highly subjective, but for me it was Princess Mononoke. It was actually one of the movies that got me into watching anime in the first place.
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Crewdroog: For the Anime: I know that Attack on Titan is the anime of the hour, but I just couldn't get through it. The middle just kinda wound down way too much for me. Is it worth plugging through, am I the only one that felt this way?
I haven't tried it. I'm still working my way through season 1 of Wakfu. lol