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This is terribly entertaining. We need more OC like this.

Man, she rocks that Momoka like a goddess.

Holy balls, this topic number is 88888.

This subject is weird because it's mired in faux-political feelings. It's one thing to have codified dress code, but it's another to expect everyone to accept and not question tastes in clothing. Ultimately, while this particular movement is driven by a legal issue, it's ultimate end comes down to a very high-reaching societal change.

What is ultimately desired is for people to look past the clothing and not make judgments, which sounds fine at first, but there's a certain level of absurdity to that request because clothing evokes responses that women do not want, such as guys gawking at their boobs. (Rape is a different matter and is largely irrelevant because there's no actual correlation with clothing choice and rape as far as I know.) The problem isn't necessarily the gawking either. It's the gawking attached to a person that you're not interested in that makes people feel yucky.

When men stare at chests, they're not thinking, "I want to make this woman feel like a piece of meat." In fact, it's probably the opposite given that they probably want that woman's beauty in that immediate moment, but it naturally comes off as being creepy and disgusting. The same thing with dressing slutty. Women aren't parading themselves out as cheap sex when they dress skimpy, they're proudly displaying themselves. It appears that regardless of intent, things are interpreted in a certain way and that society is not wrong for discouraging this natural conflict that arises from the two sexes.

I think on an interpersonal level, it's possible for women and men to actively prevent themselves from interpreting things in the negative light, but expecting that to happen on a societal level seems a little naive.

I think League is the better realization of the MOBA to me because it has a significantly stronger team focus. When it comes down to it, no MOBA is better than Starcraft in terms of gauging individual skill, so the more a MOBA leans towards team play, (which SC is not balanced for) the better off it is in context.

While denying is good for getting more player-skill transparency, it also allows for broken design because of how denying affects all stages of the game. In League, it's easier to create staggered levels of effectiveness in champion design. While it is restrictive to some degree, good team coordination, both in the picking stage and in actual play, is absolutely rewarded.

Also, draft mode is a really good way to mitigate the inevitable imbalances that come up with unit design. I don't know if DotA has it, but that feature alone clears up a good majority of the problems that naturally arise in MOBAs.

However, flavor and playstyle on the individual level is better in DotA. DotA has more interesting character design overall and League is playing catch-up in terms of translating roles over to their system.

HoN, however, is worth mentioning because it is the most individual-based of all the popular MOBAs. Hyper-carries in that game are bar-none bonkers. It's not necessarily shit and I know tons for SC2 players that love the spotlight that HoN's core design offers, but I don't really think it takes advantage of the MOBA format.

Honestly, if anime didn't have a baseline quality of shit, it would be remarkable news. Practically every form of creative media is mired in abject failures.

It definitely comes down to whether or not a critic faults a medium for having stylistic similarities. There's a lot of people who are sensitive to the idea of teaching an old dog new tricks.

Strangely enough, it is the sound quality that gets me. Holy shit sandpaper filter.

I, personally, dislike the approach that takes the insult and tries to deconstruct it based off its literal definition. If reciting a dictionary entry could stop individuals from feeling emotions, then yeah, that'd work, but it never does.

The two terms are more of a testament to how easy it is to insult men based on how competitive men naturally are.

In the scope of things, having sex doesn't change much for a guy, and yet you're always going to see these threads in every social outcast-oriented forum. It's simple: insinuating that you're less of a man bugs the shit out of men in general. Doesn't matter how dire the actual implication is. If it is said and the rest of the people around you generally concur, you're going to have the same pissed off response that every other guy has.

Being labeled gay is similar. The core thing that's implied there is that someone's lack of success with a woman can be attributed to their lack of attraction towards women/attraction towards men. Realistically, almost every guy slobbers over women in their head so that's actually not the problem at all. On a similar note, the term gay almost exclusively points towards the image of a submissive receiver. Nobody calls someone else gay and envisions them drilling out someone's asshole because that is a position of power. Either way, it's saying that you're less of a man because of this reason. Same target, different venue.

Basically, yes, these terms exist. No, they don't make 100% sense, but they get your goat because they're attacking the basics of your male identity. Build your emotional defenses around that part, not specific freaking words.

First time I've ever heard of this condition in this thread.

Yeah, I'd give it a go now that OKCupid is stupendously free. Succeeding at it, however, is beyond me. I just chat people up and make friends, haha.

Two things:

1. I love how OP shows how amazingly karmic the rep system is. It doesn't matter if the thread is long and forgotten, that negative rep is coming for you.

2. I just imagined how different Harry Potter would've been if he bitched about the legitimacy of the points system in Hogwarts, particularly in the realm of how it would make him a completely unlovable character.

This was actually pretty fucking good.

In Soviet Russia, Warcraft of World.

ITT: Guy who has paper pants.

I would really consider this: Thoughts are irrelevant without actions. It takes into account that we have rogue and inappropriate thoughts, but as long as they don't manifest themselves inside of reality, they are 100% inconsequential.

Basically, it only becomes weird if your reality begins to contour around it. Funny enough, if you mention it to people, their reality might start curving and it'll ultimately affect yours in the form of mistrust.

I think the whole surprise factor actually edifies Hollywood in a strangely effective manner. It may just be that they're not trying to be racist, but they're simply reacting to an audience that has a preference towards specific colors in specific roles. For the first time in a long while, we see a demonstration that the consumer, not the distributor, is crazy.

For the record, I'm a racist solely because I attribute competitive child-killing as a Japanese-only past-time. It was pretty hard to shake the whole, "Katniss and Peeta are white, what the hell?"

DAT AFRICAN QUEEN.

Techno is a subgenre of EDM. People who think otherwise have been fucking up for the last decade.

I'm popcorn.gif all over this thread.

Nothing satisfies me more than watching other people struggle with their desire to be pampered like a princess and the inevitable revocation of their mancards soon-after.

Find something, no matter how small, that you feel competent with and cling onto it for dear life.

Or just go on the internet, find someone you fucking hate and remember that you effectively lose to this person when you kill yourself.

Honestly, while success is important, it is not the norm. People being happy with themselves is a 100% exception to the status quo. The only difference between you and the next miserable person is that suicide isn't an option for them.

Kevin Sorbo.