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- 2010-04-04 03:14pm
- Forum: Parting Shots
- Topic: I am leaving this forum
- Replies: 17
- Views: 14207
Re: I am leaving this forum
I've soiled my reputation here, so I don't feel welcome here anymore. Therefore, I think I will be doing SDN a favor by leaving here for good. Good bye. And just like at the forum you invited these fuckers in from, you'll come back in a few months and do it all over again. Jesus, I hope someone ban...
- 2010-04-04 02:30pm
- Forum: Parting Shots
- Topic: I am leaving this forum
- Replies: 17
- Views: 14207
I am leaving this forum
I've soiled my reputation here, so I don't feel welcome here anymore. Therefore, I think I will be doing SDN a favor by leaving here for good. Good bye.
- 2010-04-03 09:48pm
- Forum: Debating Help
- Topic: Argument on Egyptsearch about the blackness of ancient Egypt
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13966
Re: Argument on Egyptsearch about the blackness of ancient Egypt
I've got something addressing the limb-length issue: Mathilda's anthropology blog: limb length in ancient and modern Egyptians, compared : In all ‘who were the Egyptians’ arguments, the single most important question is always ‘are the ancient Egyptians different to the modern?’ It is not enough to...
- 2010-04-03 03:48am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: SF Military Tropes
- Replies: 385
- Views: 43152
Re: SF Military Tropes
It's not too hard to make a plausible sci-fi group with spiffy fascistic attire and regalia that's Nazi-like. However, despite actual-factual Space Nazi implausibility (as in, actual-factual Nazis in space), it's still a cool trope (ugh, tropes) to play around with. Nazis! In space! Hitler's brains...
- 2010-04-02 07:11pm
- Forum: Debating Help
- Topic: Argument on Egyptsearch about the blackness of ancient Egypt
- Replies: 8
- Views: 13966
Argument on Egyptsearch about the blackness of ancient Egypt
After my defeat in the debate in the HoS, I've decided to argue with some proponents of the "black Egypt" hypothesis: http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=006724 This is my opening post: I've just finished debating the StarDestroyer.net people, and honestly,...
- 2010-04-01 11:21pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Fatist anyone?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 12317
Re: Fatist anyone?
"Honey, he's just being Fatist because some people are just naturally large and are just fine that way. I seriously doubt any human being is born with enough fat content to be considered "fat". Animal species with naturally high fat content, such as polar bears, tend to live in envir...
- 2010-04-01 09:02pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: 7 year old pimped by older sister
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3279
Re: 7 year old pimped by older sister
Did you read the comments section? How about this one: I don't know the race of these young people but something tells me that they are African American. Admit it people, white liberals have messed up reconstruction in this country with the bankrolling of out-of-wedlock births and the destruction o...
- 2010-03-29 10:05pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: How to train your Dragon (Spoilers)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3821
Re: How to train your Dragon (Spoilers)
I thought it was pretty good too. However, I am tired of every Dreamworks animated movie being a CGI comedy. Whatever happened to the more serious, traditionally animated movies they used to make?
- 2010-03-29 09:42pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: The Last Airbender's Racebending
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2752
The Last Airbender's Racebending
You know that "Last Airbender" movie that's coming out later this year? The one adapting a cartoon inspired by various Asian cultures? Well, it appears that, despite the cartoon's Asian setting, the movie's protagonists are portrayed by white people, with Asian actors being cast only as mi...
- 2010-03-29 05:07pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Teabaggers getting nastier.
- Replies: 246
- Views: 28334
Re: Teabaggers getting nastier.
A significant portion is, yes, because Obama is black. I'm not sure how to determine how of it is due to that. Surely someone could do a study comparing the amount of death threats Clinton received with that received by Obama (assuming data on anti-Clinton threats has been collected). If Obama is f...
- 2010-03-29 12:15pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Anime proof that two nukes weren't enough??
- Replies: 68
- Views: 8088
Re: Anime proof that two nukes weren't enough??
I think anime is overrated myself, but blaming all Japanese people for it to the extent that you want to nuke the entire population is inexcusable.
- 2010-03-29 12:09pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Are old-school RTSes a dying breed?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3413
Are old-school RTSes a dying breed?
One editorialist on DigitalBattle.com think so. Remember back in the day, when RTS games were about base building and resource management as much as they were about combat? Remember classics like Total Annihilation, arguably the greatest RTS game ever created? And Age Of Empires? Sadly, RTS games a...
- 2010-03-28 12:33am
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: Naming characters
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2666
Re: Naming characters
Most of the cultures I make up draw from real world cultures, so I just look up names from the real cultures I am using. For instance, if I had a culture based on West Africa, I'd look up actual West African names.
- 2010-03-27 12:30am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: LoTR, Racism & Historical Analologies
- Replies: 217
- Views: 28813
Re: LoTR, Racism & Historical Analologies
Being "not as racist" doesn't make him "not racist". A racist shitbag is a racist shitbag regardless of any sort of quanification. Nonetheless, it seemed ironic to me that an author who wrote for a mature audience had more family-friendly views on a certain issue than an author ...
- 2010-03-27 12:15am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: LoTR, Racism & Historical Analologies
- Replies: 217
- Views: 28813
Re: LoTR, Racism & Historical Analologies
Tolkien was a man of his time. Just because people living today admire his work doesn't make him innocent of espousing the prejudices that were accepted as normal during the age he wrote in. That said, Tolkien was far from the most racist fantasy author ever to exist. He practically comes across as ...
- 2010-03-26 10:40pm
- Forum: User Fiction
- Topic: Writing battle scenes
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4745
Writing battle scenes
As someone who aspires to be a writer, I find battle scenes especially hard to write for two reasons. 1. An important aspect of battles is the tactics used: for instance, how formations of soldiers are moved around the battlefield. Unfortunately, good stories focus on a small number of characters, o...
- 2010-03-26 09:13pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Teabaggers getting nastier.
- Replies: 246
- Views: 28334
Re: Teabaggers getting nastier.
The scary thing about this is that Obama is merely a biracial centrist. If that's enough to rile up the Republicans to the extent that it has, imagine how they'll act were he either a dark-skinned black man, an actual liberal, or both.
- 2010-03-26 07:28pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Iron man vs The Dark Knight thoughts
- Replies: 76
- Views: 9709
Re: Iron man vs The Dark Knight thoughts
I too thought Iron Man was much better than The Dark Knight. TDK sucked. Its plot was incoherent, and Heath Ledger's acting was terrible (Jack Nicholson's Joker in the old Tim Burton Batman was much better).
- 2010-03-25 08:34pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Reprehensible Movies
- Replies: 310
- Views: 43274
Re: Reprehensible Movies
The Africans known to ride into battle upon elephants were Phoenicians who migrated from the mideast. Not Black. I'm calling bullshit on this one. There is some evidence of black Africans serving in the Carthaginian army: [quote="E.W. Bolli in "The golden trade of the Moors: West African ...
- 2010-03-24 10:51pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Dinosaurs did not gradually die out, European study claims
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1655
Dinosaurs did not gradually die out, European study claims
From Discovery News Non-avian dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, and now researchers have proven that this die-off didn't happen over a long period of time. A detailed look at dinosaur bones, tracks and eggs located at 29 archaeological sites located in the Catalan Pyrenees reveals that...
- 2010-03-24 10:10pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: James Randi admits being homosexual
- Replies: 49
- Views: 6691
Re: James Randi admits being homosexual
Didn't Oprah once have on her show some mother who promoted the idea that vaccines cause autism? It's sad that one of the world's most successful female celebrities endorses woo. Hardly unprecedented. Look at how many celebs are Scientologists or following some other stupid cult. When you're that p...
- 2010-03-24 09:55pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Does democracy lead to the tyranny of the majority?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2382
Does democracy lead to the tyranny of the majority?
I was reading Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience for an English class, and I found that near the beginning of his essay, Thoreau states an old criticism against democracy: namely, that democracy is unjust because of majority rule. You know, the old "tyranny in the majority" argument....
- 2010-03-24 03:42pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Reprehensible Movies
- Replies: 310
- Views: 43274
Re: Reprehensible Movies
That is unfortunately spread throughout the entire culture. Somewhere along the line people got the idea that racial stereotypes are OK and not racist at all, as long as you do it to every race, not just one . The problem is that many Americans are not aware that there are real socioeconomic power ...
- 2010-03-24 01:51pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: James Randi admits being homosexual
- Replies: 49
- Views: 6691
Re: James Randi admits being homosexual
To add, recently I saw an old episode of Oprah, where Randi was on as the guest skeptic with like four or five women who claimed to be psychic. Didn't Oprah once have on her show some mother who promoted the idea that vaccines cause autism? It's sad that one of the world's most successful female ce...
- 2010-03-23 08:49pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Reprehensible Movies
- Replies: 310
- Views: 43274
Re: Reprehensible Movies
Another movie I'd like to nominate is Christmas With The Kranks . It's about this family, the Kranks, who decide not to celebrate Christmas the usual way, and their neighbors give them hell for it. The movie clearly sides with the neighbors and has the Kranks finally give in by the end. Apparently C...