Fellas! Better hold on to yourselves, because I’ve got some terrible news for you.
Actually, you’d better NOT hold on to yourselves. Because this is the news, straight from that always 100% reliable news source, the Men’s Rights subreddit:
I wonder if manginal orgasms are still allowed?
I see that.
Although lots of MRAs basically talk as though they believe the same thing, they just don’t go so far as saying there should be intervention beyond changing the culture away from matriarchy.
I am sorry that people have had bad body image issues and were pushed into harmful habits because of what they thought society expected of them (or because of a drug they were prescribed, or whatever). I am sorry that people hurt themselves as a way of dealing with the stress. I care about everybody on this message board (yes, even the trolls, it must be difficult to live like that, and it hurts other people) and I want them all to be safe and healthy and happy.
All I can do about it is Internet Hugs. And if someone finds something problematical about the paragraph above, please let me know.
Having said that, GAH THE SINGULAR OF “WOMAN” IS NOT “WOMEN” THE NEXT MRA I SEE USING THE PHRASE “A WOMEN” IS GOING TO GET A VERY STERN LOOK ENGLISH, MONEYFONDLER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?!
“Heathenbee – *cough* it gets a bit weird about what I actually embroidered with hair. Let’s just say it represented … hair.”
Madame, I like the cut of your jib.
If the singular is “a women” does that make the plural “womans”?
Last year there was an outcry among Mass Effect fans because they didn’t like the ending to the third game.
I have been trying to avoid spoilers, but I seem unable to escape the conclusion that Ebpxf Snyy, Rirelobql Qvrf. rot13.com
My Beloved stopped playing the first game because she didn’t want to have to choose.
“All I can do about it is Internet Hugs.”
http://content.simonscat.com/Images/Community/ED/EDrees/Need-hugs/L0.jpg
At least “a womens” is better than “female(s).”
D’awwww *hugs Wilford Brimley cat*
Learning English is Misandry.
“Ebpxf Snyy, Rirelobql Qvrf”
Eh, something like that. I haven’t played the mass effect games, but, from what I understand, if wasn’t a very happy ending.
A lot of fans were upset because their in-game choices didn’t affect the endings enough. I wonder if these people have ever actually programmed a game.
@some gal: Amen to that.
Falconer — I can only speak for myself here, but no, I don’t find it problematic. It’s just that real hugs trump Internet hugs (truly mean nothing personal here) — cats do come close though!
Having said that, GAH THE SINGULAR OF “WOMAN” IS NOT “WOMEN” THE NEXT MRA I SEE USING THE PHRASE “A WOMEN” IS GOING TO GET A VERY STERN LOOK ENGLISH, MONEYFONDLER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?!”
OMFGS YES. A woman’s [thing] = proper. A women =/= proper!
@atomicgrizzly: As far as I can tell, the choices you make in Mass Effect as to personnel assignments don’t change the ending, they just affect who’s available for your final team.
There was a choice I made in ME2 that seemed to be, “Choose who doesn’t make it out of this game.” I don’t know if I had chosen someone else, they would have survived better, or if the game was basically all, choose someone you can do without, cause you’ll have to.
Kind of like how I’ve heard you don’t have to mash buttons to get Snake through the microwave corridor, the fact he barely crawls through it is just playing with your emotions. (I don’t have a PS3 and I’m split about actually playing MGS4 because I couldn’t follow the plots for 1 to 3).
@Argenti: I’m having trouble parsing OMFGS. OMFG is known to me, but what’s the S for?
“A lot of fans were upset because their in-game choices didn’t affect the endings enough. I wonder if these people have ever actually programmed a game.”
And this is why I love vampire the masquerade: bloodlines — there are like 6 endings depending on your choices. (Do not play redemption, the first game , it is horrible and should be taken out back and shot)
“@Argenti: I’m having trouble parsing OMFGS. OMFG is known to me, but what’s the S for?”
Lol, sorry to break your brain, it’s just a pagan pluralization of god => gods.
“(I don’t have a PS3 and I’m split about actually playing MGS4 because I couldn’t follow the plots for 1 to 3)”
You and me both, and I’m a huge MGS fan. Still have yet to play MGS4 though. I have watched the cutscenes, and the story is a real doozy.
“there are like 6 endings depending on your choices.”
Sounds like Silent Hill. A lot of people were upset with the second game when they got the “in water” ending (the super depressing one).
The first couple of Fallout games were kind of like that. You’d end up in the same place no matter how you played the game (there were like, three places in Fallout 1 where you could go to resolve the plot) but the time you took and the choices you made in the course of your adventures got you so many different fates for all the places you visited.
Apparently recording the endings for Fallout 2 drove Ron Perlman to threaten to kill one of the writers. Not cool, but darkly amusing.
Oh! I’ve also beaten Fallout 3, which had a stupid, railroady ending, but I can’t remember if we got the Perlman narrations at the end. I think we do, but there’s so many places in F3 he must have hit the highlights.
@atomicgrizzly
The thing about that is that, your choices affecting how the game plays out was one of the hallmarks of the Mass Effect series, and something that was emphasised by the two previous games and the majority of the third game, and by the creators as well. So it seemed particularly egregious for them to have an ending that basically erased the previous like 100 hours spent on the series. I mean, no doubt it’s hard to program for that, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect them to do something that they had been doing the whole series. I mean, I find it kinda funny that people organized around this so much that they released the patched ending (I haven’t played the new ending so I don’t know what’s changed), but I don’t blame people for being pissed about that ending.
@Argenti — sorry! I wasn’t thinking laterally enough 🙂
I haven’t played Silent Hill, but sounds similar. The VtM:B endings are um…interesting, two get you more or less killed (trapped vs straight up killed) and are basically the same “you survive, shit changes” and one is weird, illuminati level weird. I think that means there are five endings, or that I’m forgetting one…
If you play it, and get the solo vs anarch choice, side with them, Smiling Jack is hilarious.
@Falconer
I was so pissed off about Fallout 3 when I played it because it was after my decade long wait for teh Van Buren project. But after, cooling off for a month or so, and throwing it back in the Xbox,I found myself loving the game. I just needed to get over the fact that I wasn’t getting my sequel to Fallout 2 😛 Although, I think I’ve just gotten over the fact that Bethesda won’t provide it for us, I still hang on to my hope that someone else might loll
Falconer — no worries, I have my own issues parsing abbreviations!