http://opa-ages.com/forums/topic/273-aw ... msearch__1
A Russian dude linking to my gameplay article:
http://forum.gameland.ru/m_1932886/mpag ... tm#1955633
So I guess they must have an equivalent word in Russian. It also seems that all Romance languages have one. Greek and Japanese do not, as far as I know. I wonder about the rest of the world.
And some of the fallout from the hobag article:
http://girl-wonder.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4953
Thomas wrote:Psychology is the "queen of sciences" now? lol
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of mankind is Man.
--Alexander Pope
Thomas wrote:It's not even a real science.
And you of course know all about real sciences. I bet you also know all about electrons, quarks, equality, justice, and the like.
Science:
the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment
If psychology is not a science then nothing is a science. But I guess common people are pleased to think that if there's no numbers in it it can't possibly be a science. What is it then, eh? A hobby?
spargelkol wrote:I like (in the sense of hate) how he hates all these women who write about video games, except the ones he likes.
Isn't this natural? How could it ever be otherwise? I like what I like and I dislike what I dislike!
Noah Brand wrote:One of the difficulties with being male is testosterone.
Testosterone is now a "male difficulty" lol! They probably also think that a lion's claws are a "difficulty" to the lions! Maybe TO OTHER ANIMALS they are a difficulty, but not to the lions themselves! Of course if the lions were in process of ingratiating themselves to the other animals, of, say, trying to fit in and make friends with a bunch of sheep, then yeah, in that case I guess their claws would be a "difficulty"! At the very sight of them all the sheep would run for cover! And so one's best, most precious attributes finally become a "difficulty"...
hippokrene wrote:icycalm wrote:Another thing I've already talked about here (in the "Icy's Genius" thread). Style is not a "decision". Only someone who has never created anything could think that it is. Style, as Schopenhauer somewhere explains, is a direct reflection of the author's character. And character is NEVER a decision. It is "an order of fate" as Baudrillard would put it. All I did was express myself as genuinely, as honestly, as directly as I could.
"And that, judge" he added, "is why I should not be punished for flinging poo at people who walk by my apartment building."
Exactly, because no one is ultimately responsible for what they do. So if you punish people because you regard them as responsible, YOU are the one who is committing the "injustice". Unfortunately, no one is capable of understanding this.
http://twitter.com/maurawhite/status/2131798898
maurawhite wrote:Alex Kierkegaard's rant against Leigh Alexander: RT @KyleOrl: Any good, valid points are drowned out by misogyny...
Quick! Someone throw them a life vest!
http://twitter.com/KyleOrl/status/2130921312
Kyle Orland wrote:Any good, valid points in here are drowned out by some ugly, bitter misogyny.
How heartless all you people must be to just sit there and watch my good, valid points drown while you do nothing to rescue them! If I am a misogynist then you are misgoodpointists!
http://twitter.com/Sup3rT3d/status/2133932853
Sup3rT3d wrote:Whoo, just read Icycalm's latest http://is.gd/ZYVH it's a shame he's abandoned his normal detached tone, but I fully agree with the content
My "normal detached tone", lol. What the fuck website has he been reading?
http://twitter.com/JeffGrubb/status/2137837603
http://twitter.com/TEEDEEESE/status/2127436574
http://twitter.com/GameAddict/status/2134961168
http://twitter.com/elenielstorm/status/2131371206
http://twitter.com/jim_sterling/status/2130290368
http://m.twitter.com/retroblique/status/2128036183
retroblique wrote:I suspect his misogyny is just a mask for professional jealousy.
lol. How can you get everything so wrong? On the one hand I love few things as much as women, on the other you couldn't pay me enough to do Leigh's wretched job. Not to mention I already have far more money than I need, and thus hardly any reason to desire a "job", let alone Leigh's. I am in a sub-tropical paradise island swimming, playing basketball and surfing every day. Why the fuck would I want to hole myself up in some nightmarish urban prison-apartment and be forced to scribble endless worthless comments about random games I couldn't care less about? But hey, some random dude on the internet who knows nothing about me "suspects" that my "misogyny" is just a mask for "professional jealousy". All the while I could be a billionaire for all he knows for fuck's sakes!
retroblique wrote:Regardless, insomnia.ac just lost a subscriber.
Oh noes! Come baaaaaaaaaaack!