The Tanoubliette: Pussy Hurt and Delusions or TTPHAD for short.

Fana: "I don't mind being shitty to people I think are wrong, Neither do you if you or them if you were to genuflect on it. it might offend them which is good cause it would cause them to develop their ideas in response."

No, Fanaskin. Being offended doesn't lead to ideas being developed. Being CHALLENGED leads to ideas being developed. Being offended gets the opposite response, it gets people to double down on their own beliefs and make it a battle instead of an exchange of ideas.




AngryGerbil: "It has ALWAYS been about Anita with Tan. He digresses from time to time, but this is his true passion. She is his cult leader. "

Well, I will readily admit that it's my favorite topic since it's the one with the least clear resolution. While I suppose it's somewhat possible Sarkeesian IS a con artist, the way the anti-Sarkies go about it has such a negative overall effect that I'm in a rare win-win situation here. I still maintain that I'm not arguing about Sarkeesian at all, that I'm arguing about the reactions to her work including those I've seen on this board.

I will also admit that she looks pretty hot in that popcorn gif.

Now who's being obtuse, Doc?

Sixth and final part in the series:

Why Are You So Angry? Part 6: Talking to Angry Jack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfPAoz9GnWM

It was a little too "us vs them" for my liking, and I have no doubt some of you will be upset at his referencing the wage gap, but there are still some outstanding points in there.

Quaid: "Is it really worth watching? Really?"

Obviously I think so. He makes his points quite well and it's a decent perspective on the internet anger machine.




Doc: "I guess I still don't get it "

Clearly.

I have no idea who you're talking about, Cad, but it certainly isn't me. Nice straw men, tho.

If you don't mind me going off-topic, Doc, what's your favorite Mario game? For me, it's pretty hard to decide between Super Mario 3 and Super Mario World. On the one hand, Mario 3 took Mario back to what made him a name in the first place, but just super-sized everything. Bigger, more varied worlds, innovative powerups, TONS of secrets... it's an absolute masterpiece. On the other hand, SMW took advantage of new tech to push things even further, not just graphically but content-wise, adding new mechanics and establishing itself as reason alone to get a SNES. They both share the quality of being almost infinitely re-playable, since I can enjoy the shit out of either one to this day. I mean, yeah, Galaxy and Galaxy 2 were fantastic in their own right and had probably the most stellar soundtracks of any Mario games, but I think Mario is at his Marioest in 2D platformers, and I don't think they ever got better than SM3 and SMW. I'm assuming you're a fan based on your name and avatar, so I'd like your opinion.

I guess you guys are younger than I am. I still remember seeing screen shots of Mario 3 in a gaming mag before it came out and being psyched. Plus there was "The Wizard" (brilliant marketing), the Happy Meal toys, the best commercial EVER (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2zps0pzrxk), the Player's Guide from Nintendo Power (which I brought with me every day of summer camp and read religiously)... I think Mario 3 was the game that proved to me I wasn't wasting my time appreciating this stuff. It made the best case for video games as art before people generally even considered the question.

But if we're going to go into the non-platformer stuff too, Super Mario RPG was fucking incredible. It was a dream-team Square/Nintendo project that lived up to the expectations from both. It also innovated on turn-based battle in a way that resonates in the Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi series that continue to this day (and I can not recommend the Mario & Luigi games enough. If you've got the portable consoles, you've got to check them out. Dream Team in particular really impressed me and was a lot of fun.).

The original Mario Kart is near and dear to me. The multiplayer battle mode, as far as I'm concerned, never got better than the original's (despite a 2 player maximum). And the original Rainbow Road is my favorite MK track of all time (before they became bloated and dragged on too long).

Khorum: "That'll get you heckled off-stage as a Presidential Candidate nowadays, you know. Here's Governor O'Malley getting booed off stage when he had the temerity to claim that "white lives matter, all lives matter"."

I'm not sure you now what "off stage" means.

Caliane: ""fair use" Aka, you are an artist, we both know you can't afford to sue me for stealing your work. I love how FullMcIntosh thinks the person doing the stealing is the one who decides what is and is not "fair use"."

Reminder:
- FF used the image believing it to be the property of the game's copyright holder (they didn't realize it was fan art when they found it).
- They were allowed to use the image under fair use. Nothing was "stolen".
- They took the image down ANYWAY.

Heck, the original artist's whole case was based on "Well why can't you SHOW ME that you're a non-profit?" Turns out the reason was "Because we don't want people doxxing us." Believe it or not, FF were the ones being reasonable during the entire exchange and ended up accommodating the artist despite having no obligation to do so, so I have no idea where all your butthurt is coming from.