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by Vastatosaurus Rex
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...
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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.
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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...
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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...
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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,...
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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...
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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...
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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?
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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...
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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...
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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.
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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...
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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.
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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 ...
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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 ...
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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...
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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.
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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).
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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 ...
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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...
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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...
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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....
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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 ...
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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...
by Vastatosaurus Rex
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...