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queenfattyoftherollpalace: bandkanon: raivokuningas: lesbianso...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:00:25 +0200

bandkanon:

raivokuningas:

lesbiansofficial:

thatpointlessidiot:

magnezone:

krudman:

smilingemoticon:

itsvondell:

voldey:

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse.

wow

is this a joke because i’m not laughing at all

I thought to myself when I saw this, “no. This has to be some one being silly. This has to be something some one fabricated to make microsoft look worse and people just aren’t checking the source.”

NOPE. IT’S REAL.

AND IT GOT WORSE:

WHAT.

remember when the basic fucking concept of a commodity was that buying something meant it was yours

I want everyone to think long and hard on this information.

This means that you are not buying your games. You are paying 60+ dollars to rent the games from Microsoft, and they can take their game back whenever they feel like it.

You will not own your game. You will not own your console. Essentially, Microsoft is saying “We can disable your games and cut you off from accessing your console whenever we choose to.” Because a ban that locks your XBox Live account means that you will be locked out from all non-game functionality of the system, and by revoking your ‘licenses’ on all your games associated with your account, they can then disable each and every game you own for the system. Leaving you with a five hundred dollar cable receiver. Or, in the case of most users of the console, a five hundred dollar paperweight.

All because you accidentally walked into some online glitch and the rest of the players rage-report you for cheating.

This is unacceptable. Buy any console but an XBox One. Do not support Microsoft’s sudden belief that they own everything despite our purchase of it, and we have to prove we’re worthy of being shared with by paying exorbitant fees and jumping through constant hoops and hoping someone doesn’t report us for cheating because we made them mad in an online game.

Tell Microsoft ‘No,’ and do not give them your hard-earned money for what amounts to a video game subscription service with a $500 starting fee and $60+ dollar purchases.

There are way too many people that get banned unfairly. This is bullshit. I let my nephew play on my live account once when he was little, and I got a lot of people reporting me just because he was playing like a five year old. So. Cool.

A video game console should be something you can play anywhere you can get a screen to view it on and a power supply. Period.

Internet requirements should only be necessary for online multiplayer games, never for ANYTHING else.

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>ok… This is a pretty riveting subject for me. Let me look into it. …Ooh, this guys brings up a valid question. Support’s answer sounds pretty valid too, right?

> But that leaves me wondering… I just HAVE to ask…

> Their answer…?

>Wai—wh—…what.
…So I have to… either make an alternate account… or use someone else’s… JUST to make an appeal?? Couldn’t we just, like, send appeals via e-mail to the moderators?
Well… that’s a strange system to me, but I’ll just have to see how well it goes. So let’s go through this thing.

> Looks pretty organized, I guess. Now let’s read through some of these appeals as thoroughly as I can…

> …

> wh—…

> WHAT.

>Ok so I went through 17 pages reading pretty much all of the appeals top to bottom. Seventeen pages. That’s 255 appeal posts.
Some of the appeals were pretty strong cases, but NOT A SINGLE ONE was solved, whether through recovering/unbanning accounts or ms point refunds.
@XboxSupport1 told @Tobias otherwise.

So that leaves me wondering ONE more thing…

> So what do they say….?

> …

Well that was quite the non-answer.

So there you have it. I was doubting what thatpointlessidiot was saying, but now after doing some serious research I can say for a fact that this is real.

And let’s just leave it at that. I’m just going to play the Live games I have to date, hope to GOD I don’t get randomly banned, and wait a year for my gold account to roll over and die by the end of this year.

Not that I was planning on doing that from the start. There’s really no use sticking around with xbox if I’m gonna have to log in every single goddamn day just so I can play a game.

I have nothing else really to say on the matter, except that Xbox One is not going to be found in or anywhere near my household.

Oh and just one more thing.

….

Omg does the train wreck never end

This is why you should never buy an Xbone.

I actually really enjoyed WiiFit. Kinda wish I had the balance...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:00:17 +0200

I actually really enjoyed WiiFit. Kinda wish I had the balance board in kbh…

tastefullyoffensive: [bevinbarbarian] EVERY. DAMN. DAY.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:00:09 +0200

tastefullyoffensive:

[bevinbarbarian]

EVERY. DAMN. DAY.

pc-gamer-girl: shota-san: IM LAHUGJING SO HARD OMGG THE...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:00:14 +0200

pc-gamer-girl:

shota-san:

IM LAHUGJING SO HARD OMGG

THE DIFFERENCE IN REACTIONS BETWEEN PRICES OF PS4 AND XBOX ONE EVERYBODY

oh god it’s almost cruel to laugh

latentpower: awkwardsituationist: cambridge university...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:00:34 +0200

latentpower:

awkwardsituationist:

cambridge university students were asked on campus why they needed feminism. here are 60 answers. click the link for over about 600 more.

This is amazing

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:00:21 +0200

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:00:14 +0200

gunshowcomic: have a wonderful night! We did it! Another comic!...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:00:17 +0200

gunshowcomic:

have a wonderful night!

We did it! Another comic! Woo! finally! What a weird two days its been since the last update. There is a kickstarter up for a Horror Anthology called Sleep of Reason and I have a 20 page story in it. You can preorder it now basically and help it get printed. All the stories are scary comic stories! They are good, I’ve seen them :0

wat.

commanderjshepard: literally what happens

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:00:12 +0200

commanderjshepard:

literally what happens

The Villager

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:00:37 +0200

The Villager

sexxxisbeautiful: bigfatfeminist: marzipanfawn: thedukeoflions...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:00:14 +0200

sexxxisbeautiful:

bigfatfeminist:

marzipanfawn:

thedukeoflions:

How Can I Show Feminists That I Am Smarter Than Them? (NCITW)

I think this is the best response this guy has given yet. (Don’t worry, the title is regarding what he’s been asked.)

Really good!!

REALLY GOOD

“You don’t point out that some people die of drowning”

Feminist Frequency: Twitter vs Female Protagonists in Video Games

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:00:27 +0200

Feminist Frequency: Twitter vs Female Protagonists in Video Games:

femfreq:

Thanks #XboxOne #E3 press conference for revealing to us exactly zero games featuring a female protagonist for the next generation.

— Feminist Frequency (@femfreq)

June 10, 2013

Above is a tweet I made this afternoon in reaction to the fact that none of the games presented at…

Genuinely depressing. Not as depressing as the fact that 50 years ago today, the US Congress passed a law that demanded men and women are paid the same and they are still not being paid the same.

OH GOD.

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:00:27 +0200

OH GOD.

Sony's conference in a nutshell

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:15:15 +0200

sadsausage:

dazure:

Most accurate description yet

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Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:00:27 +0200

"In one recent study, more than 100 university psychologists were asked to rate the CVs of Dr. Karen..."

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 08:49:04 +0200

“In one recent study, more than 100 university psychologists were asked to rate the CVs of Dr. Karen Miller or Dr. Brian Miller, fictitious applicants for an academic tenure-track job. The CVs were identical, apart from the name. Yet strangely, the male Dr. Miller was perceived (by both male and female reviewers) to have better research, teaching, and service experience than the luckless female Dr. Miller. Overall, about three-quarters of the psychologists thought that Dr. Brian was hirable, while only just under half had the same confidence in Dr. Karen. The same researchers also sent out applications for the position of tenured professor, again identical but for the male and female name at the top. This time, the application was so strong that most of the raters thought that tenure was deserved, regardless of sex. However, the endorsement of Karen’s application was four times more likely to be accompanied by cautionary caveats scrawled in the margins of the questionnaire: such as, ‘I would need to see evidence that she had gotten these grants and publications on her own’ and ‘We would have to see her job talk.’”

- Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (via cockchomp)

THIS IS REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT AND INCREDIBLE

(via beloquacious)
If I were to work with Fricker at Sheffield, I would be really interested in this kind of stuff. Id love to spend some time looking at Mindreading (as understood in cognitive science, not hocus pocus) in combination with the implicit bias stuff I was reading about for the psychology/happiness course. Or at least, Fricker would be very interested in looking at the division of responsibility, and I’d want to work some kind of epistemology in there somehow.

wilwheaton: (via Reddit)

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:45:32 +0200

wilwheaton:

(via Reddit)

Oooouch.

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:43:48 +0200

Oooouch.

tastefullyoffensive: [via]

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 21:51:43 +0200

tastefullyoffensive:

[via]

femfreq: This is the second in a series of three videos...

Wed, 29 May 2013 16:00:33 +0200

femfreq:

This is the second in a series of three videos exploring the Damsel in Distress trope in video games. In this installment we look at the “dark and edgy” side of the trope in more modern games and how the plot device is often used in conjunction with graphic depictions of violence against women. Over the past decade we’ve seen developers try to spice up the old Damsel in Distress cliche by combining it with other tropes involving victimized women including the disposable woman, the mercy killing and the woman in the refrigerator.

Due to the nature of the topic, this video comes with a trigger warning for violence against women.

For more information and a full transcript visit: http://www.feministfrequency.com/2013/05/damsel-in-distress-part-2-tropes-vs-women/

DEFINITIONS:

The Damsel in Distress: As a trope the damsel in distress is a plot device in which a female character is placed in a perilous situation from which she cannot escape on her own and must then be rescued by a male character, usually providing an incentive or motivation for the protagonist’s quest. This is most often accomplished via kidnapping but it can also take the form of petrification, a curse or demon possession. Traditionally the woman in distress is a love interest or family member of the hero; princesses, wives, girlfriends and sisters are all commonly used to fill the role.

Damsel in the Refrigerator: A combination of the Women in Refrigerators trope and the Damsel in Distress trope. Typically this happens when a female character is killed near the beginning of a story but her soul is then stolen or trapped and must be rescued or freed by the male hero. Occasionally time travel or some other form of resurrection may be involved in the quest to bring the women in question back from the dead.

Disposable Damsel: A variant of the Damsel in Distress trope in which the hero fails to save the woman in peril either because he arrives too late or because (surprise twist!) it turns out she has been dead the whole time.

Euthanized Damsel: A combination of the Damsel in Distress trope and the Mercy Killing trope. This usually happens when the player character must murder the woman in peril “for her own good”. Typically the damsel has been mutilated or deformed in some way by the villain and the “only option left” to the hero is to put her “out of her misery” himself. Occasionally the damsel’ed character will be written so as beg the player to kill her.

This is great. Also, I’m very pleased that it’s on the top of the gaming tag tracker as well as the feminism tag tracker.