Vilageidiotx

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

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Yea, Bioshock 1 has always come across as being an attack against the philosophy of Ayn Rand and the entire basis of Libertarian society. It out-right depicts and is set in a society where everything ever functioned through buying and selling and literally nothing was free, ever. It being the supposed utopia of unregulated commerce on every level it basically tore itself to pieces and died.

That and the use of Adam, which was already being more or less used quite a bit by those who already did really well for themselves on Andrew Ryan's dream.

But in any case because Rapture was a Libertarian and Randian wet dream it died because the inevitable class warfare it created.

Then Bioshock 2 was a wild swing at revolutionary socialism because blah-blah-blah, and Infinite a sting on American Exceptional-ism and all things that made the turn of the last century so fun.

But I don't think it ever once painted Libertarianism is a good light so as to set about actually encouraging more Libertarians.

@Dinh AaronMk

I knew all that. That's why I was a bit thrown off by the idea that it created libertarians.

Movie-ticket-stub-tearer theory

wait are you saying people in wheelchairs don't have feelings? that fucked up

"Who's Line Is it Anyway?" game

i don't want to have sex with you

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

@MoiraEl Wait... So what words would you use to describe bisexual, asexual, heterosexual and pansexual? Homosexual is just a blanket term for gay or lesbian, since both are (for the most part) separated by gender. i.e. You're likely to meet a lesbian woman, but not a lesbian man. So instead of referring to two friends as "the gay guy and the lesbian chick" you could just say "The homosexual ones" or shorten it to homo, just like with hetero, bi or pan.

Words can take on whole new meanings after periods of time. The simplest example is how "fag" was the term used to refer to a bundle of sticks typically used to burn homosexuals at the stake. But now a word that was literally used to describe sticks is seen as offensive (much the same as the Italian word for "black"), while others like "buff" (which originally meant nude) or referring to someone as "black" are not. Hell, "dick" used to just be a shortened form of Richard and "African-American" is now being considered offensive!

The only way words become or indeed remain offensive is if you keep considering them as such or using them in an offensive manner.

@Hjalti

It won't change just because you feel like it should. Language is a living moving thing, and it's not under the control of any manageable intellectual progress. I suspect "homosexual" has become ugly to people is because it's become the term most used by people opposed to gay rights, so that you see evangelicals and politicians spitting the word like it is a bad thing. That's how slurs are born, and it's not something you can easily harness.

Compare the life of fuck; you start with a medieval word meaning "To stab", then becomes slang for sex, then becomes seen as the most vulgar of words, and then becomes a go-to word if you want something strongly vulgar. Nobody decided that, it was just one application leading to another. So you have the word "Homosexual" then. Simple clinical word becomes the go-to legal term (that and sodomy), faggot becomes an unacceptably vulgar slur so that all those preachers and politicians run the risk of being seen as trash if they use it, so they turn to the clinical word because it sounds detached enough for their rhetoric. Then it becomes an uglier sounding word and gay becomes the go-to generic.

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Bioshock gave birth to too many libertarians, so for that reason I cant forgive it.

@Dynamo Frokane

Wait, did it? I've never ran across those type.

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I don't call myself black or African American. I am a Louisiana creole of French heritage. That's how i identify myself. Its all a matter of preference. So I call myself creole and not black

@Weird Tales

That's pretty cool. Though that's more a local thing, so most black people in the US can't really use that term.

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

Playing a paradox game on console sounds like a major pain

Beneath our Two Suns

Judging by the map i'd say the coastal parts of Havana are underwater, including downtown Havana and the capitol, but the upper parts of the city and the suburbs should be either dry or in a tidal zone.

Any advice for itdentifying herbs?

It's a weed.

B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

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You are aware that gay meant happy right?

@Weird Tales

Gay didn't really mean happy per see. It's one of those words that disappeared because it's context withered away and now the best word to compare it to is happy. That's why, back in the day, you will see both words used in the same sentences. They weren't being redundant, the context was difference.

The best way to describe gay is something like "Preppy", but if preppy was cool. It was a socially desirable state of merriment that stopped being socially desirable sometime in the mid twentieth century. Gay would be that state of being where happiness can flow from barbershop quartets and meeting chaste young ladies at ice-cream parlors all while having a chipper, outgoing, and completely family friendly disposition. It's place in society was replaced with words like "Cool" because the social behaviors we consider most desirably has changed, and now we prefer people who show a relaxed comfort with social situations rather than a gitty excitement. A person who acted gay now in the original sense might be seen as dweeb now unless they were a Mormon.

I don't know when gay started being used for homosexuality... but i have suspicions that this happened further back then you'd think. I once read a paragraph written in the same century of the American Revolution that seemed to be using the word gay as slang for homosexuality, but it could have been an accidentally prescient wording too. Of course, when you get to the point where gay stops being a useful word in everyday conversation, the homosexual slang is all you have left. So they didn't steal the word like so many people *coughmygrandmacough* think so much as they took a dying word and gave it new life.

And the term African American... the only people i've met who used that one without blinking were HR managers, teachers rattling statistics, and white people from so deep in the suburbs that actually meeting a black person was something of a unique once-a-year event for them. Everybody else uses black. Not a good term for a group of people because it is so clinical and sterile... the type of name you might use for something you only touch with rubber gloves and a pair of tweezers. Same problem with homosexuality. No life in those words.

Space does not exist

ur mom does not exist

Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

*Tries to find places to stay in New York for cheap.*

*Fails.*

I'm one step above finding my poncho and making a field expedient hooch in Central Park but my little brother tells me I have to wait until I'm out of the Army to be homeless.

@TheEvanCat

I am pretty sure you have to have at least one trust fund for an apartment there. Two trust funds if you don't want to share a bathroom.