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Post by The Hype Himself on Dec 28, 2020 22:55:07 GMT
"War Criminal" a term that's been peddled by gamers is just one of many phrases that just make people feel that they're smart. Wait, what?
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Post by The Hype Himself on Dec 28, 2020 22:58:15 GMT
Why do people use the term "Objective" when it comes to determine whether or not a movie is good or bad? In other words, I can't call a movie a good movie? I thought that something "objective" was based on fact. Is this some way to control people? To uphold a status quo? What are they trying to accomplish? I rarely hear it in terms like that. I think people that describe a film in terms like 'objective' are probably pointing out some aspect of the film, i.e. the parts, not the whole. Some people do err when they conflate that for meaning something along the lines of the whole being equal to the sum of its parts.
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Post by smilesja on Dec 28, 2020 23:19:28 GMT
"War Criminal" a term that's been peddled by gamers is just one of many phrases that just make people feel that they're smart. Wait, what? I've seen people being accused of comitting war crimes when playing FPS games with a flair pretentiousness that goes along with it.
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Post by The Hype Himself on Dec 29, 2020 14:19:19 GMT
I've seen people being accused of comitting war crimes when playing FPS games with a flair pretentiousness that goes along with it. Oh. Well, that's not unpopular I'd say, that's just some dweebs being upset because you killed them. Or a thousand thems. It's a video game, and, barring tasteless ones designed around killing children in a school or committing sexual crimes or other things along similar insensitive lines, it's just that.
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Post by skekSil on Dec 29, 2020 19:51:07 GMT
I've seen people being accused of comitting war crimes when playing FPS games with a flair pretentiousness that goes along with it. Wasn't there was a story how people were pointing out that red cross symbol is a protected symbol under Geneva convention and people who were showing it in video games were violating said convention aka committing war crime? IRK Red cross had to issue a statement that they are not going to prosecute anyone for this.
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Post by The Hype Himself on Dec 29, 2020 20:20:22 GMT
I've seen people being accused of comitting war crimes when playing FPS games with a flair pretentiousness that goes along with it. Wasn't there was a story how people were pointing out that red cross symbol is a protected symbol under Geneva convention and people who were showing it in video games were violating said convention aka committing war crime? IRK Red cross had to issue a statement that they are not going to prosecute anyone for this. Who would they say sue at any rate? I've seen a few dorks around the web, some even on the BSN (although at different times, I think when BW still ran their fan forum) where self-righteous dickheads would go around and castigate Grand Theft Auto. Does it glorify crime and violence? Hell fuckin' yeah. Does it inspire people to actually go out and commit crimes? Not so much. And a few people who do are not the fault of the developers, publishers, or players.
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Post by smilesja on Dec 29, 2020 20:27:29 GMT
I've seen people being accused of comitting war crimes when playing FPS games with a flair pretentiousness that goes along with it. Wasn't there was a story how people were pointing out that red cross symbol is a protected symbol under Geneva convention and people who were showing it in video games were violating said convention aka committing war crime? IRK Red cross had to issue a statement that they are not going to prosecute anyone for this. See where acting like moral guardians gets us? Gamers can tell the difference between fantasy and reality, but of course there's that gamer who needs to feel morally superior. Sadly there are games that do act high mighty like they need to make a moral statement about war crimes.
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Post by Vortex13 on Jan 5, 2021 17:44:59 GMT
Eugenics programs are morally reprehensible.
This normally wouldn't be an unpopular opinion but seeing as how more and more governments, like China with the One Child Policy, or Denmark with it's anti-Downs Syndrome programs, are dead set on eliminating 'undesirables' from their populations really makes me wonder.
It's not like deeming one group of humanity as "valued" less than any others has had negative repercussions though-out history, and very rarely has it ever just stopped with only one specific group.
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Post by skekSil on Jan 6, 2021 19:22:07 GMT
like China with the One Child Policy They ended it in 2015 Denmark with it's anti-Downs Syndrome programs, are dead set on eliminating 'undesirables' pre-natal screening is not the same thing as gas chambers. By the way Down syndrome can occur in healthy humans due to random mutations so you cant actually eradicate it like we did with smallpox. Speaking of, do you think it was morally reprehensible to kill of an entire species of viruses to make life of humans easier?
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Post by Vortex13 on Jan 6, 2021 20:53:59 GMT
like China with the One Child Policy They ended it in 2015 Denmark with it's anti-Downs Syndrome programs, are dead set on eliminating 'undesirables' pre-natal screening is not the same thing as gas chambers. By the way Down syndrome can occur in healthy humans due to random mutations so you cant actually eradicate it like we did with smallpox. Speaking of, do you think it was morally reprehensible to kill of an entire species of viruses to make life of humans easier? It still has vast reaching consequences thanks to China's policy, and not to mention the preference they had for boys over girls. No telling how many children were disposed of because the government's mandate, and the massive disproportionate amount of men to women as a result is bound to impact the country. No, its just a mandatory requirement of all pregnant women by Denmark's government. Now it's true that they don't force the woman to abort (yet) if their child is found to have signs pointing to Down's Syndrome but what they do have is tantamount to government endorsed peer pressure to try and convince the woman to terminate the pregnancy because the child will be a "burden on society" and/or try and talk her into an abortion by saying that a child with Down's Syndrome is: "not a life worth living". And like your analogy of gas chambers, wiping out viruses and bacteria in order save human lives is not even remotely in the same ballpark.
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Post by skekSil on Jan 6, 2021 21:10:29 GMT
No telling how many children were disposed of because the government's mandate, and the massive disproportionate amount of men to women as a result is bound to impact the country. Some estimate it to be around 400 millions. No, its just a mandatory requirement of all pregnant women by Denmark's government. Now it's true that they don't force the woman to abort (yet) if their child is found to have signs pointing to Down's Syndrome but what they do have is tantamount to government endorsed peer pressure to try and convince the woman to terminate the pregnancy because the child will be a "burden on society" and/or try and talk her into an abortion by saying that a child with Down's Syndrome is: "not a life worth living". So, not mandatory. And like your analogy of gas chambers, wiping out viruses and bacteria in order save human lives is not even remotely in the same ballpark. Down syndrome is illness, smallpox is illness, wiping them both out will benefit humanity.
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Post by Vortex13 on Jan 6, 2021 21:34:11 GMT
No telling how many children were disposed of because the government's mandate, and the massive disproportionate amount of men to women as a result is bound to impact the country. Some estimate it to be around 400 millions. No, its just a mandatory requirement of all pregnant women by Denmark's government. Now it's true that they don't force the woman to abort (yet) if their child is found to have signs pointing to Down's Syndrome but what they do have is tantamount to government endorsed peer pressure to try and convince the woman to terminate the pregnancy because the child will be a "burden on society" and/or try and talk her into an abortion by saying that a child with Down's Syndrome is: "not a life worth living". So, not mandatory. And like your analogy of gas chambers, wiping out viruses and bacteria in order save human lives is not even remotely in the same ballpark. Down syndrome is illness, smallpox is illness, wiping them both out will benefit humanity. So ~400 million people killed for no other reason than because the people in power said you can only have one child. Hitler and Stalin combined couldn't even achieve those kinds of numbers. If you mean by "wiping out" by finding a medical cure for the condition then yes, but not if the 'solution' is to just kill the person affected. Breakthroughs in medicine and technology have benefited humanity killing off the 'undesirables' of the world does not.
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Post by skekSil on Jan 6, 2021 22:32:35 GMT
So ~400 million people killed for no other reason than because the people in power said you can only have one child. My mistake, that's the number of people that are estimated to be preventented from being born. Inculding those that were simply not concieved. If you mean by "wiping out" by finding a medical cure for the condition then yes, but not if the 'solution' is to just kill the person affected. There is no medical solution for Down syndrome for already born person, its a genetic disorder present in almost every cell in a body. You can only do it in embryonal stage were you either abort it or modify its genome with something like CRISPR gene editing, which has not yet been approved for human use (not well studied as of now) and morally dubious, because SURPRISE its just another form of eugenics. but not if the 'solution' is to just kill the person affected This presupposes that abortion equals killing a person. Which is another lengthy debate i would prefer not to delve into.
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Post by frosted on Jan 6, 2021 22:35:37 GMT
They ended it in 2015 pre-natal screening is not the same thing as gas chambers. By the way Down syndrome can occur in healthy humans due to random mutations so you cant actually eradicate it like we did with smallpox. Speaking of, do you think it was morally reprehensible to kill of an entire species of viruses to make life of humans easier? It still has vast reaching consequences thanks to China's policy, and not to mention the preference they had for boys over girls. No telling how many children were disposed of because the government's mandate, and the massive disproportionate amount of men to women as a result is bound to impact the country. No, its just a mandatory requirement of all pregnant women by Denmark's government. Now it's true that they don't force the woman to abort (yet) if their child is found to have signs pointing to Down's Syndrome but what they do have is tantamount to government endorsed peer pressure to try and convince the woman to terminate the pregnancy because the child will be a "burden on society" and/or try and talk her into an abortion by saying that a child with Down's Syndrome is: "not a life worth living". And like your analogy of gas chambers, wiping out viruses and bacteria in order save human lives is not even remotely in the same ballpark. At least Denmark protects the rights of their female citizens to make their own choices on intimate matters. And isn't this getting just a little too political?
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Post by ArcadiaGrey on Jan 6, 2021 22:43:06 GMT
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And isn't this getting just a little too political? Yep. Move the conversation on please....
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Jan 7, 2021 11:19:51 GMT
Unpopular opinion: Mika Häkkinen was the last cool F1 driver.
I remember when he was driving against Schumacher and he was always such a cool, unemotional calculating deadpan guy, but also a immensely talented and fierce driver. Very different from todays breed of F1 drivers.
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Post by Pounce de León on Jan 7, 2021 18:00:04 GMT
Unpopular opinion: Mika Häkkinen was the last cool F1 driver. I remember when he was driving against Schumacher and he was always such a cool, unemotional calculating deadpan guy, but also a immensely talented and fierce driver. Very different from todays breed of F1 drivers. I wouldn't call it "cool" but it seems about right a disposition for a guy who needs to go in circles for half a day.
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Post by michaeln7 on Jan 8, 2021 1:58:53 GMT
All right, here I go, ready to regret again.
I think Rey being Palpatine's granddaughter was a good plot-twist, in that it helped explain her "Mary-Sue" qualities. I think J.J. Abrams did a really good job with "Rise of Skywalker" considering what he had to work with and what he was stepping into.
I think the MCU should have stopped at Endgame; to be more precise, everything after should be considered "Alternate Universe" stuff or spin-offs.
I think siding with the Templars in DA:2 is the least bad option (incoming flak) I think the ending to Mass Effect 3 is good (incoming bomb) I think that Mass Effect Andromeda had a great story, but was buried under excessive "wokeness" and poor game design (incoming hate)
Have I triggered enough of the willfully-fragile today?
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Post by vella on Jan 13, 2021 7:46:24 GMT
Snow and cold weather are way underrated in my opinion.
I'm completely okay if there's four months of snow and -20°C. I detest mild winter weather.
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Post by Unicephalon 40-D on Jan 13, 2021 10:45:54 GMT
Snow and cold weather are way underrated in my opinion. I'm completely okay if there's four months of snow and -20°C. I detest mild winter weather. So say we all (Finns) Nothing is worse than having to go walk into slush and its raining water/slush around +1 - -1C
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Post by michaeln7 on Jan 13, 2021 12:15:03 GMT
Cheese is overrated. Cream cheese is overrated.
Other than calcium and vitamin D (being a dairy product), it serves as an obstacle for your digestive tract. Cream cheese is just sugar with extra fat, so you can have all the guilt of excess calories with the added bonus of constipation!
Fun!
It smells too.
To be fair, I'm not saying it's bad. My experience is anecdotal; I have a buddy who's lactose-intolerant, but will eat an entire plat of crab rangoon. He'll then complain about feeling ill.
More Fun!
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Far be it for me to dictate other people's diets, but boy-howdy is there a difference between indulging and self-destruction.
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Post by michaeln7 on Jan 13, 2021 12:18:44 GMT
Nutella is overrated.
Yes, I said it. "I'll take you ALL on!"
It's chocolate frosting that tries too hard to be peanut butter, but only succeeds at being the inside of an Almond Joy, without the joy.
It is the indigo of foods. It cannot be blue, it cannot be purple, so it fails at both.
I don't care for indigo.
Irrational? Absolutely.
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Post by Son of Dorn on Jan 13, 2021 12:27:17 GMT
Casey Hudson is an overrated hack....
Come at me Bioware fanbois! 😈😈😈😈
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Post by Pounce de León on Jan 13, 2021 13:56:19 GMT
Nutella is overrated. Yes, I said it. "I'll take you ALL on!" It's chocolate frosting that tries too hard to be peanut butter, but only succeeds at being the inside of an Almond Joy, without the joy. It is the indigo of foods. It cannot be blue, it cannot be purple, so it fails at both. I don't care for indigo. Irrational? Absolutely. Yeah, sticky and overly sweet. That's what it is.
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Post by vella on Jan 13, 2021 16:50:33 GMT
Snow and cold weather are way underrated in my opinion. I'm completely okay if there's four months of snow and -20°C. I detest mild winter weather. So say we all (Finns) Nothing is worse than having to go walk into slush and its raining water/slush around +1 - -1C Not all finns. I know many who do not enjoy snow and cold. Traitors to the country, all of them
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