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Unchained Acolyte: "Terrorist acts are also not okay. Coercion via religion (whether Christian, Muslim, or otherwise) isn't okay, either. Ignoring the freedoms of others = not okay." Agreed. In fact, nobody on this entire board has ever suggested otherwise. Unchained Acolyte:: "I'll...

Cinge: "This is one of the reasons that society is going down. That people actually think 'sorry no one is allowed to insult someone, ever'." That isn't what he said and you know it. What do you think he meant by "OK"? Is it legal? - Yes. Is it protected by the constitution? - Yes...

CaughtCross: "So many lulz Anti-#GamerGate Harasser Arthur Chu Outed As Creepy Sex Fiend" In before: A) Ha ha they're eating their own! B) They didn't blacklist him? Fucking hypocrites!

Khorum: "SJW's discovered that trying to guilt a company that was built to MONETIZE GUILT will--trigger warning--prolly result in some form of economic rape." Yes, they "discovered" it years ago and have heavily exploited that scenario to their own benefit. See: When Sarkeesian got anti-SJW...

IIRC, Sebudai, the ONE example I've seen you use to support that theory was a personal anecdote in which the insulting played ZERO beneficial role. I have no idea how you were convinced that's it's "often necessary" to insult people, but I find that brand of "counter-productive behavior...

Sebudai: "Not only is it okay to insult people, it's often necessary." Ugh. Just... UGH.

Tuco: "Here's my argument: Anytime a freedom loving person encounters a group that says you can't draw a cartoon depicting our holy figure in any context, the appropriate response is to draw them in any context." See: Shit sandwich.

No, I admit that I decided the benefits of posting in the Rickshaw outweigh the risk of triggering a bitchfest outside the Rickshaw. The problem is not, and has never been, my posting. The problem is the bitchfests. Cad: "Its actually our civil duty to insult EVERYONE." So much ridiculous...

Interestingly, the reviews of Cards Against Humanity that the Leigh Alexander piece links to do a pretty good job of explaining why the game isn't very good on its own merits. I have no doubt that both articles will boost the game's sales, though, since if there's anything GamerGate+ likes to do...

Dr. Mario Speedwagon: "I think your own stellar work with the infamous tardnoomba proves that rehabilitation does work. He confines himself to the shaw now. It truly is incredible." To be fair, none of the credit for that goes to you. In fact, one of the reasons I was able to be the bigger...

To be fair, I am pretty consistent.

Kriptini: "Ugh, is 'this person is a Tanoomba alt' Rerolled's version of 'this person is a shill?' I like this forum, can we please not turn it into cancer?" A thousand times YES! That shit is obnoxious as hell. For the record, I've never posted under an alt account. Ever. All of that...

Mist: "When was gamergate the extreme position? #1 Don't insult your consumers. #2 Don't lie to your customers. #3 Don't promote "frauds for social justice" to deflect from #1 or #2. None of those are extreme." You forgot: - Assign highly judgmental labels (HEAVILY influenced by...

"...the truth that we've built a society that rewards being competitive assholes and that that is our norm(and that for the most part, we find that ok)." Citation needed.

Anti-SJWs: "HA HA Joss Whedon left Twitter because of SJWs!!! They're eating their own WHEEEEEEEEE" Joss Whedon explains that that was NOT why he left Twitter, actively criticizes feminists and liberals for infighting, explains the problems linked to associating yourself with a...

Phazael: "It would be comical if these blue hair dick choppers were not effectively censoring our entertainment." lolwut

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Seb: "Try not to be racist in the future." Don't toss shit like that around unless you can back it up. And yes, expect me to explain to you why you're wrong.

Oh, I don't think anybody's about to consider you and me in the same boat, sport. No need to make up shit to be upset about just to get that point across.

Maester Chuk: "this thing still going on? i thought everyone moved on when most people kept not believing these nebulous rape/regret stories." Well, "not believing" or "believing, but realizing nothing is going to come of it anyway". Either way, yeah, most people have moved on.

Seb: "I haven't yet read the last few pages of that thread. If someone attempts to insult and discard another poster's opinion based solely on their skin color--like you've done in the past--I'll be sure to report them too. Your racism wasn't 'supposed.' " A couple of corrections for you...

Funny how vocally uppity Sebudai can get over the supposed "racism" in acknowledging that much of the anti-SJW crowd are angry white guys (quote: "I despise racism. Reported, bro."), and yet he's remained ghostly silent in the last few pages of the Michael Brown thread. Things that make you go...

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Fucking. A. Hodj, I'm sorry I was ever mean to you. You're an alright guy.

Skanda: 'Why on gods green earth are you responding to a post I made in the Amod thread in the rickshaw? Have you gone stupider than normal?" Well, this is where I can speak freely. People can't legitimately complain about what I say in the Rickshaw. It's pretty nice. Disclaimer: This is...

Skanda: "You have that much clarity of vision? Quite the ego for someone who previously decided the moon landing was faked and was a 9/11 truther." That's dangerously close to shitposting. See, it has already been clarified MULTIPLE TIMES that I never believed the moon landing was fake, nor...

Also, between this: "Is the protagonist in Gone Home a girl? So would she be Gone Home... (?_?) ( ?_?)>??-? (??_?) Gamer Girl" and this: "My idea of moderation is way too loose for what people wanted done in that thread. I would never have rickshaw'd Tanoomba, as just being...

By the way, a late congratulations to Mist for an excellent job taking on all comers in the Michael Brown thread and thoroughly trouncing them. Bravo.

Quaid: "Well, if the definition that we are gonna use for game is 'you control an avatar in an environment', then yes, I suppose Gone Home fits that criteria. I still don't believe that is an adequate definition of a 'video game', but I'll agree to disagree." I agree, that's not an...

OK then, so as I said, you control a protagonist in an environment with a purpose. Is that not enough?

I actually took a bunch of screen shots of all that before I remembered I can't post images...

When you start up the game for the first time, you hear Kaitlin leave a message to her parents explaining that she'll be arriving after midnight and doesn't need to be picked up from the airport. When you start the game, you are informed that it's after 1am. The first thing you see is your...

Not sure how you came to that conclusion. You play Kaitlin, home from a trip abroad only to find the recently moved-into house empty. You explore the house for the purposes of both learning about your new home and to figuring out where your family is. You are given a fully realized, three...

Well, Gone Home is easy to categorize as a video game. You control a protagonist in an environment with a purpose.

Quaid: "@Tanoomba: what exactly is your definition of a video game?" That's a good question, but an incredibly difficult one to answer, like "What is art?" I mean, I guess I could say if it's digital, interactive and meant for entertainment, then it's a video game. However, it wouldn't...

Kriptini: "The value of distinction is that I don't want to be tricked into buying another game like Stanley Parable where I hold down my W key and listen to the most self-masturbatory narrative I've ever listened to in my life. Steam categorizes its listed items as "games" or "software." Just...

I acknowledged the "not enough titles to warrant a new genre" point already. But even then, the solution is simply a new genre, and even THEN, there will be gray areas and people who disagree with how certain titles are classified. I have zero doubt that we will see more and more titles like...