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AladainAF: You gotta be kidding me with this shit. A video game that acknowledges and explains its historical inaccuracy is going to become a historical record? Are historians going to wonder how we managed to double in size after eating mushrooms, too? This busybodyism bullshit infuriates...

I own and (as far as I remember) beat Sword of Mana, but I never realized until a week ago that it was a remake of Final Fantasy Adventure. It just felt like its own thing, like Legend of Mana. I started playing it for a few minutes and it's already too story-heavy.

1. Awesomenauts (1,429 hours) 2. Pinball Arcade (106 hours) 3. Mad Max (74 hours) 4. Arkham Knight (63 hours) 5. Far Cry 3 (51 hours) 6. Spelunky (51 hours) 7. Shadow of Mordor (46 hours) 8. Rogue Legacy (44 hours) 9. Saints Row IV (43 hours) 10. (Tie) Arkham City (40 hours) & Mercenary Kings...

I also never realized there was a Final Fantasy Adventure remake available on mobile. It looks pretty great and I would consider paying the pretty hefty price (by mobile standards), but I've seen no mention of it being compatible with Bluetooth controllers. Having to use an on-screen virtual pad...

I was excited about the remake, but very discouraged after reading this. They included a clip where you can hear how badly they mangled the overworld forest theme. It literally sounds like they accidentally played 2 songs at once. Just awful. It's also a crying shame that they didn't take the...

I'm gonna have to backtrack a bit here, I got my wires crossed. Sarkeesian wasn't even talking about assault victims with her introduction of the "listen and believe" slogan. It was specifically about women's experiences with online harassment and sexism.

You clearly don't know what "objective" means. You're applying YOUR perspective to a social issue that she has an entirely different way of approaching, and because her view doesn't gel with yours you're applying a convenient (for you) label to her. While this is entirely expected (certainly...

So you start with a subjective evaluation based on your feels (that Sarkeesian is an epistemological subjectivist and a postmodernist), then take that already flawed premise and push it to an illogical conclusion (because you say she's postmodernist, she must also be totalitarian). I'm not even...

Dude, you can use mental gymnastic to draw parallels between ANYTHING and ANYTHING. If you think you've got a point to make, make it. So far you aren't holding up your claim to not look ridiculous while doing so, since your first opportunity to say something relevant was wasted making a failed...

I imagine this is being blown out of proportion. On the one hand, Twitch has to do something to prevent toxic behavior from ruining their business. Assholes acting like assholes is a problem across the internet, but unfortunately it often seems assholes are over-represented among the gamer...

This is the "stretching" phase before some strenuous mental gymnastics, isn't it?

I appreciate your insight, thank you. I apologize in advance for prying, but I'm curious: What was your process to get diagnosed with GD? Was it just talking with your shrink? Did you have to speak to any other medical professionals? What kind of questions did they ask you?

Mine's still working fine.

Have the ones who aren't actually suffering from GD been diagnosed otherwise? How good are we, professionally, at telling the real deal from the transtrenders, in your opinion?

khorum: You can keep telling yourself this, but you and the vocal anti-SJW crew absolutely played a role in those decisions being made.

AngryGerbil: Bet you couldn't.

AngryGerbil: Doesn't want to have shallow, surface-level discourse about social justice. Uses shallow, surface-level hyperbole to discuss social justice. Can't explain that.

Skanda:

Dude. All I'm arguing is that SCIENCE shows there is likely a biological basis for gender dysphoria, and that it isn't a product of people's imaginations. The fact that we were able to figure this out, using SCIENCE, shows that, at the bare minimum, the method used to diagnose those who were...

You're still not understanding this. It's not a "mythical cortex test". Doctors don't measure the cortex to determine if someone has GD or not. However, studying the cortexes of people who had ALREADY been diagnosed through established means found that there are likely biological factors that...

They ask them questions.

What?

I implied nothing of the sort. I said that the scientists who showed that trans people have different brains than regular people did so by studying people that had been DIAGNOSED with GD, as did the scientists who found that they react differently to certain scents. Clearly, we are more than...

I didn't say they did.

Adebisi: It's not crazy at all. We've seen this happen many times before. When a large number of vocal fanatics use half-truths and misinformation to try to portray someone as a villain, that person ends up being seen as the victim by non-fanatics and experiences a boom in popularity, fame...

I still love the interface and the graphics, but I usually end up playing until I can't remember what to do next!

Thanks! LSL3 was one of the first games that introduced me to PC gaming, well before I was even able to understand much of the humor. I love the series and own the compilation on CDs released many years back (which included some great bonuses not present here such as the original Softporn text...

I agree with all of that. It just turns out that the best way to diagnose people who actually suffer from gender dysphoria is to talk to them about it. Is there a possibility people will lie to scientists for political reasons? I guess, but you can't change the thickness of your cerebral cortex...

@Titan_Atlas No, but a professional can diagnose a person who's schizophrenic by talking to them and learning about their feelings and behavior, right? It's not a matter of believing them when they say they're believing followed, it's a matter of acknowledging that there's a reason they believe...

So I started Super Metroid over again, this time on my Super Famicom Mini. To prevent the difficulty I had figuring out where to go last time I played, I drew out maps of Brinstar and Norfair as I progressed, marking the spots I would need to return to with Power Bombs, the Dash ability, the...

You absolutely can. There is nothing stopping you. Your mouse wheel can handle it, I assure you. I am chilled out. I haven't posted anything "controversial" in months. Then I was explicitly invited to give my opinion, which organically flowed into a discussion that Fanaskin was very engaged in...

No. If people don't want to read it they can put on their big boy pants and put me on ignore or scroll past my posts.

Sounds to me like you're talking about neural pathways which yes, can absolutely be strengthened or deteriorated or re-mapped based on what they're exposed to. Someone who's blind, for example, can have neural receptors based on touch spread out into areas of the brain intended for visual input...

WTF I thought we agreed on no doxxing.

Here's the study about cortical thickness in the brain. Here's the one about hypothalamic response. I honestly don't know how to check if they've been peer-reviewed.

Because he has potential. He has a curious mind and makes an effort to post insightful content. When he fails, he's always willing to try again. He enjoys being challenged and he deserves to be challenged. I enjoy engaging him and the satisfaction of sparring far outweighs the frustration of...

They tested transgendered people and found that their brains bore physical similarities to the genders they identified as instead. They also found that trans people biologically reacted to a specific scent the way their identified gender would. You can't use "feelings" to change the physical...