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Chaos: "Bro, let's talk about this. I say "causing" and "contributing to" are fundamentally the same thing." And I say they fundamentally aren't. Both the dictionary and your previous official stance seem to suggest I'm in the right here. Unless, of course, there is some context in which I...

Chaos: "That would be a failure, not a victory. A victory would be to make him understand the corner he has painted himself into simply because he WANTS to support this person's positions." Wait a second. You have taken two diametrically opposed stances to argue 2 back-to-back points, but...

Chaos: "'Dude, contributing to something is absolutely the same as causing." No, it's not. #wordshavemeanings Chaos: "I don't buy it. I haven't seen the studies, maybe one day I'll really dive into it, but I somehow doubt there is a mountain of peer reviewed evidence on her side of...

Chaos: "#modprivilege #rickitickitavibitch" Yeah, that's not right. At least give me mod privileges so I can edit my own posts, then.

Chaos: "Bro, it isn't my interpretation. Words have meanings. Again, I don't know why you give this huge leeway to Sarkeesian when literally any other person on Earth would not get so much charity as to just redefine words on a whim, and then to have you put on a performance to justify the use...

Khaliar: "I agree, who the fuck am I? Maybe I am biased. So I suggested a poll. You declared the idea of such a poll ridiculous on its face. So there is your citation that only you declared that your specific made up definition matters." I didn't reject the idea of a poll. I said that the...

Doc: "I applaud you Khalid. You've managed to make Tanoomba so butthurt that, after spending literal years and hundreds of thousands of words talking about how "calling someone a liar" and "being an asshole" is just such a terrible thing to do, he addresses you as a liar in every post directed...

Khaliar: "However, when talking about what someone meant when they said something, then we should probably go by the dictionary definition of the words." No, we should go by how HOW THEY EXPLAIN THEMSELVES, especially if they make a clear and unambiguous explanation that negates taking what...

Woohoo! Page 100! Thanks, guys, couldn't have done it without you.

Quaid: "Well, you could use the like/dislike ratio on Sark's videos to prove that most people exposed to her message disagree with it... Wait... Shit" Could you, Quaid? She left likes active on one of her videos on a lark, the "dislikes" shot up in less time than it would have taken to...

Khaliar: "You keep asking me for citations, then I provide them and you try to pedantically walk your way out of it. Kinda sick of presenting you with proof and you ignoring it time and time again. Even Chaos, who you respect so much, you are getting all snippy with because he refuses to accept...

Khaliar: "Somewhere along the line, Tanoomba was convinced that if he makes up the definition for a word to protect someone, that he has "proved" that his meaning is the way it is. Even when his definition time and time again conflicts with both the dictionary definition and how everyone coming...

Chaos: "Your alcohol analogy is silly. All of them." Why are they silly? You claim that "X causes Y" and "X contributes to an environment where Y is more likely to occur" are virtually the same statement. I have given several examples that show they are nowhere near the same statement. We can...

Gerb: "The bullet didn't cause his death officer. Did you see his cholesterol levels? At best I'd say the bullet merely contributed to his death." He was brandishing a plastic knife which the police believed posed a threat to those around him, so they shot him dead. Cause of death: Plastic...

Chaos: "So what you're trying to say is that there is some substantive difference between saying "blank causes blank" and "blank contributes to blank"? If I were to use the two interchangeably in subsequent phrases, would you be utterly confused and not understand what I meant? Don't do that...

That actually seems like a pretty decent idea.

A thousand times "yes". My local video store had an Addams Family machine and I fell in love with it. Everything just felt so right. I would get goosebumps when I triggered multiball! I think it had a knack for making you feel like you were making progress with every shot, even though it could...

Sorry Hodj, I can't read your shit here. My post was addressed to Khaliar.

Khaliar: "The best part of all this is Tanoomba being forced to defend religious nutjobs like a_skeleton_03 and Rescorla, or MRA advocates like Dumar. All so he can try to get what he thinks are potshots on Hodj." It's really all-or-nothing with you, isn't it? I defend reasonable points...

"I have no responsibility to answer." "I don't owe you anything." I like that, it's a great get out of jail free card. I'm sure if I ever used those phrases in a discussion, everybody would have no choice but to let it slide, right? Or, I can continue to clearly state my stances...

Khaliar: "Yes, you are far more arrogant. Also, really fucking stupid. As your last few embarrassing in your special monkey cage thread shows." Oh, it shows it because you SAY it shows it? Once again, you're sticking to your tried-and-true MO of assuming something is self-evident...

^^^^ This.

Doc: "Oh look Tan is trying to make a retarded semantics argument. Who could have predicted this turn of events?" Oh, so you don't think it's weird that Anita using a word in a way she makes explicitly clear is somehow dishonest, but to portray her position using words she never used is not...

Does alcohol cause pregnancy, Chaos? "Words have meanings, except when they don't and they can mean whatever you want." #justchaosthings

OK, I guess I should mention that playing on a virtual representation of a pinball machine isnowhere nearthe same experience as playing a physically existent machine. It's very possible (outright probable) that it is significantly easier to consistently get the billion point shot with an XBox...

Contributing towards something is NOT causing something. Does McDonald's cause obesity or does it contribute to an atmosphere where cheap, unhealthy food is conveniently available at any time within a few minutes from anywhere, which can lead to obesity? I can say with confidence that I love...

Doc: "Anita's whole premise for this video series and its importance is that the treatment of women in video games effects how people think and behave towards women in real life. Mainly, that the misogynistic portrayals of women in media leads to the proliferation of misogynistic attitudes in...

Picasso: "I was taking the patch adams approach to helping them. I don't know if I can give up on those poor kids. " Fuck you for reminding me of that terrible, terrible movie.

(That was trolling)

Lithose throwing in the towel, I guess!

Khaliar: "I mean, I get it, you keep trying to play both sides of the fence here. The problem is, this results in you taking a pretty contradictory stance. So yeah, at this stage I don't expect you to admit you are wrong, but everyone else sees how utterly inconsistent your position is on...

Khaliar: "I feel like this is one of those moments, like the moon landing admission, that really shines a light into how utterly worthless it is to discuss something with him." He says, as his hypocrisy level reaches OVER 9000!!!

Edit: Words have meanings.

Khaliar: "Holy shit dude, seriously?" Yes, dude, seriously. "Video games cause misogyny!" =/= "Some game content can have an effect on how women are perceived and treated in real life." It's an obtuse and inaccurate oversimplification. Are you ready to fess up yet?

You can keep Birdo, though.

Khalid: "You claim to not care, but Anita clearly does and thinks it causes misogyny." Citation needed. Just kidding, as if you'd ever back up something you said with facts! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Chaos: "(which no, it doesn't exist, encouragement is by its nature explicit)" *sigh...* So...

Chaos: "You wrote a huge, long post to try and qualify her use of the word encourage. That can't make you confident in your argument, come on. " To tell you the truth, it's all stuff that I considered readily apparent for a long time. I just tried to take you through it step by step so you...

Fana: "You literally just wrote how you ejaculated over defending her." Nope. The proof I was talking about there was that Khalid is a liar. No connection to Sarkeesian.