Sektor
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Post by Sektor on Aug 12, 2013 0:18:09 GMT -5
The word "gamer" needs to go away. We don't call people who read books "Readers", or people who watch TV "Watchers". What? People who read books are called readers all the time (e.g., "I'm not much of a reader"), and movie fans are called movie buffs or cinephiles. The term "watchers" has never really caught on; maybe "TV fan" is closely to the term used. (There really isn't much of one, though. I'm not sure why.) What's so wrong with using a label that makes total sense? I mean, if you write, you're a writer. If you play guitar, you're a guitarist. If you practice law, you're a lawyer. If you play basketball, you're a basketball player. You wouldn't identify yourself as a reader, or someone who watches TV, or movies. They're just things that you do. Most everyone does them. And in 2013, most everyone plays or has played a videogame. It's just a weird distinction at this point, and kind've feeds into video game culture's built-in inferiority complex, and the need for it to be an exclusive club. I mean, it's not a pressing matter, it's just something I think that doesn't seem very popular.
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Post by salsashark on Aug 12, 2013 0:23:15 GMT -5
What? People who read books are called readers all the time (e.g., "I'm not much of a reader"), and movie fans are called movie buffs or cinephiles. The term "watchers" has never really caught on; maybe "TV fan" is closely to the term used. (There really isn't much of one, though. I'm not sure why.) What's so wrong with using a label that makes total sense? I mean, if you write, you're a writer. If you play guitar, you're a guitarist. If you practice law, you're a lawyer. If you play basketball, you're a basketball player. You wouldn't identify yourself as a reader, or someone who watches TV, or movies. They're just things that you do. Most everyone does them. And in 2013, most everyone plays or has played a videogame. It's just a weird distinction at this point, and kind've feeds into video game culture's built-in inferiority complex, and the need for it to be an exclusive club. I mean, it's not a pressing matter, it's just something I think that doesn't seem very popular. I see what you mean about the inferiority complex thing, but at the same time, "gamer" is a useful word because not everyone who has played a game plays games with enough regularity for it to be the norm for them. That's not a bad thing; gaming is still a young medium with some negative stigmas still attached to it (not saying they're right or anything, but the stigmas are there). I just don't see a difference between writing a profile of yourself where you say "I'm a gamer" versus "I play video games," or "I'm a mom" versus "I have two kids," or "I'm like to watch birds" versus "I'm a bird watcher." It's ultimately the same thing; I guess there's some nuances and other connotations of the word "gamer" I'm not too tuned into.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2013 1:02:38 GMT -5
-You should have to pass a basic IQ test first to post comments on Youtube. - Registering made up names for children should be met with "No, sorry. Pick a real, established name, please." The parents dreaming of children named Bryniffer and Jaxxon or LaDasha will be so pissed. And I'll be so amused. -There should be a way to filter people under 18 into their own exclusive part of Twitter where they don't mingle or burden the actually informed, mature, intelligent people with their blathering bullshit and idol worshiping garbage that plagues and fills the trending topics. -Women who post pictures of themselves in their wedding gowns as avatars should be mocked openly and frequently. That shit is over, girl. We "get it". You got married. 10 years ago. Congrats. -To avoid being bullied, some parents should first gauge whether or not their child is just really annoying. No one funny or likeable gets punched in the face on a daily basis (I'm just kidding on this one). - It should be against the law for young girls to wear sexualized slogans on their clothing like shorts that say "juicy" on the ass. *shudder*. - Full on basketball slamming an iphone out of someone's hand who is texting while you're talking should be met with applause by by-standers, not shock and disgust. -I should be allowed to post pictures of my asshole on Facebook into random people's feeds that insist on posting a million meandering updates or pictures of their lunches. Fair's, fair. Ya, I'm half kidding about most of these. Maybe. I would high-five this post if I could - especially for the part about the names.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2013 2:12:41 GMT -5
I have quite a few controversial opinions.
People complain too much.
After spending years giving relationship advice I came to realise, you can't save everyone and are better off letting most of them fall. Loads of people are in terrible relationships.
Every time a man criticizes a woman, he is really criticizing himself. Same for Woman. Women need to stop saying "All men are"
Arranged marriage should be brought in ASAP. It works, plain and simple. Our current dating system is a bad joke, that seem's to reward us for being obnoxious jerks.
9 out of 10 marries end because both the man and women were selfish.
All royalty are just the descendants of thugs who bullied and stole from everyone else. They are the lowest, not the highest. All current royalty should have to stand trial from high treason against humanity.
Ok, I'll stop and talk about wrestling.
The real thing that is causing pro wrestling to decline is lack of respect for the fans, the traditions and for the industry itself. Sports entertainment jumped the shark in 2001.
Hollywood Hogan vs Warrior is the worst match of all time. Sharmel vs Jenna Morsca doesn't count as nether woman is a wrestler. Jackie Gayga was green as heck and shouldn't have be put in that position.
David Flair was pretty good really.
Roddy Piper drew Wrestlemania 1.
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Post by britishbulldog on Aug 12, 2013 2:37:23 GMT -5
Political correctness and worrying about someone being offended will be the death of society. Nirvana was a shitty band, that became more than they should have been because their singer was a coward and made himself a legend because he killed himself.
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Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 12, 2013 2:58:07 GMT -5
-You should have to pass a basic IQ test first to post comments on Youtube. - Registering made up names for children should be met with "No, sorry. Pick a real, established name, please." The parents dreaming of children named Bryniffer and Jaxxon or LaDasha will be so pissed. And I'll be so amused. Friend of mine, his sister in law wanted to name their kid La-a. Go ahead, guess how it's pronounced. Also, on young girls wearing sexualized slogans on them. Comic Ed Byrne talked about that. He said he decided to show the parents how inappropriate it was was to act like it's not inappropriate at all and comment on how the clothes are a fitting description.
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Post by angryfan on Aug 12, 2013 3:21:06 GMT -5
On the name thing, the day I realized it had just gone too far was when I was teaching English as a second language. One of the kids in the class was name Dejonaise.
I mean, personal expression, freedoms and traditions, whatever, that's fine, but...really? A quick googling proves that this wasn't an anomaly there's more than one of them. That means that more than one set of parents said "I want to name my child after a condiment".
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Aug 12, 2013 3:49:56 GMT -5
- Registering made up names for children should be met with "No, sorry. Pick a real, established name, please." The parents dreaming of children named Bryniffer and Jaxxon or LaDasha will be so pissed. And I'll be so amused. I don't know about other counties but in New Zealand there is a law which prohibits parents from giving their child incredibly stupid names. Hell a few years ago a couple of f***wits got pissed off because they couldn't name their child 4real.
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Post by BigBadZ on Aug 12, 2013 4:22:38 GMT -5
-I take this thread as a grain of salt -The word "swag" and all of it's derivatives -It's been a long time since I've played but all the marijuana references in Call of Duty multiplayer. I don't necessarily have a problem with it being there but it seems like I couldn't go a single game without a pot leaf call sign or gamertags that refer to weed. -You should have to pass a basic IQ test first to post comments on Youtube. - Registering made up names for children should be met with "No, sorry. Pick a real, established name, please." The parents dreaming of children named Bryniffer and Jaxxon or LaDasha will be so pissed. And I'll be so amused. Friend of mine, his sister in law wanted to name their kid La-a. Go ahead, guess how it's pronounced. It's pronounced "La (dash) a" I had a friend who worked with a person named La-a and I never believed it until she showed me the birth certificate.
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Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 12, 2013 4:33:19 GMT -5
-I take this thread as a grain of salt -The word "swag" and all of it's derivatives -It's been a long time since I've played but all the marijuana references in Call of Duty multiplayer. I don't necessarily have a problem with it being there but it seems like I couldn't go a single game without a pot leaf call sign or gamertags that refer to weed. Friend of mine, his sister in law wanted to name their kid La-a. Go ahead, guess how it's pronounced. It's pronounced "La (dash) a" I had a friend who worked with a person named La-a and I never believed it until she showed me the birth certificate. Yeah! Not sure if the kid got named that in the end, but I said "No, that's Laaa. Also, it's a hyphen." I was getting a haircut once and women were discussing names for a baby. One insisted the kid be named Charlie. However, it ought to be spelled Char'lee.
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Post by Reflecto on Aug 12, 2013 4:33:23 GMT -5
-Most of the biggest cases of misogyny on the Internet would be a lot easier to deal with if the person who makes the claims would just be willing to say that it boils down to "I'm ugly, but I still want to get laid."
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Aug 12, 2013 4:43:28 GMT -5
- I'm not annoyed by the use of "Swag" or "Yolo" at all. In fact I find it amusing. - As a bi dude, I have no issue with flagrant use of gay slurs as insults (insults directed at straight people, not at us). If some bro calls his roommate "the other F-Word" for forgetting to bring the beer to the party, I'm not going to get my panties in a bunch and bring out rainbow torches and pink pitchforks. Just because I like guys doesn't mean I'm anal. - Daniel Bryan's beard is seriously compromising his hotness and that upsets me so much. - There's noting wrong with parents giv ing their children weird names. I mean, something like "Jamarcus", "DeSheldon", or Shadynasty is fine, as long as they're not naming their children "Gatorade", "I Robot", or "Peach Cobbler".
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Aug 12, 2013 5:30:31 GMT -5
I'm off the chain, going against the grain.
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on Aug 12, 2013 5:43:12 GMT -5
-When someone says something that has no basis in any sort of logic, they should not be allowed to hide behind the "Well, it's just my opinion!" defense. For example, the Nostalgia Critic is allowed to say he doesn't like the way Disney's version of Hercules was presented. However, he isn't allowed to imply that the story of the movie is ripping off Superman cliches when the story of Hercules out dates the story of Superman by thousands of years.
-On that same note, people shouldn't be allowed to yell "HATER!" when someone gives out constructive criticism to them. Facing that criticism head on and adapting when needed is important.
-Political correctness has lost it's definition and has now become a go to excuse for veiled bigotry. If someone going to accuse people of being "politically correct", they should explain why that's the case and why those calling them out are being politically correct and why they're not just using it as an excuse to say ignorant nonsense. Don't just say something that might be construed as ignorant and then yell "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS" when someone calls you out on it and then be done with it.
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CM Dazz
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Post by CM Dazz on Aug 12, 2013 5:48:22 GMT -5
On the topic of dumb names, a kid I used to know had a niece named Pajama Flannel. You see, his sister loved flannel pajamas. The name was pronounced Pa-ja-ma Fla-nal... Moron.
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SEAN CARLESS
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Aug 12, 2013 6:47:00 GMT -5
- There's noting wrong with parents giv ing their children weird names. I mean, something like "Jamarcus", "DeSheldon", or Shadynasty is fine, as long as they're not naming their children "Gatorade", "I Robot", or "Peach Cobbler". Those names are made up gibberish. What a lot of people don't understand is that most names on earth have actual meanings in their original tongue. Like, for example, Sean is the Gaelic version of John, which in Hebrew means "God is gracious." They were tributes or had certain meanings, and this goes for names found in almost every ethnicity. Those other names you mentioned however, along with the obsession with apostrophes and weird re-spellings, are just contrived nothingness with no sense of history or value. I think they're stupid and read stupid. What the f*** is a DeSheldon? Why not just Sheldon? That name at least has meaning. (valley with steep side in ye olde English apparently).
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CM Dazz
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Post by CM Dazz on Aug 12, 2013 6:55:52 GMT -5
- There's noting wrong with parents giv ing their children weird names. I mean, something like "Jamarcus", "DeSheldon", or Shadynasty is fine, as long as they're not naming their children "Gatorade", "I Robot", or "Peach Cobbler". Those names are made up gibberish. What a lot of people don't understand is that most names on earth have actual meanings in their original tongue. Like, for example, Sean is the Gaelic version of John, which in Hebrew means "God is gracious." They were tributes or had certain meanings, and this goes for names found in almost every ethnicity. Those other names you mentioned however, along with the obsession with apostrophes and weird re-spellings, are just contrived nothingness with no sense of history or value. I think they're stupid and read stupid. What the f*** is a DeSheldon? Why not just Sheldon? That name at least has meaning. (valley with steep side in ye olde English apparently). The people who name their kids Porsche, Lexus, Mercedes, & Pinto are f***ing idiots too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2013 7:08:14 GMT -5
-It's been a long time since I've played but all the marijuana references in Call of Duty multiplayer. I don't necessarily have a problem with it being there but it seems like I couldn't go a single game without a pot leaf call sign or gamertags that refer to weed. I prefer those (some of them are pretty clever) than the clans where every member has to have a crudely-created gamertag where it features over-inflated beach-ball-sized boobs... Or a penis.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Aug 12, 2013 7:27:26 GMT -5
- While I have nothing against Lesbians and chicks who are actually bi whatsoever, I really don't get the appeal of girl on girl and the obsession that a lot of guys have over it. Because to me seeing two girls who are obviously straight kiss each other at a club/bar in front of audience of guys to me just screams out look at us we are major attention whores, that and come on that shit so is so high school.
- I have no sympathy for men and women who keep on making the same mistakes over and over again when it comes to relationships and demand that people feel bad for them when things to turn to custard. Yes relationships are learning curve but seriously I don't care if your the type of women who complains that she always gets burned by men because she dates the same old losers or the guy who always takes back his unfaithful girlfriend who will then cheat on him again. These people need to grow up and learn from their f*** ups not have people feel sorry for them.
- Also 99% of guys who proclaim that they are Alpha males are really just aresholes who spent their time trying to justify areshole behavior.
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CM Dazz
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Post by CM Dazz on Aug 12, 2013 7:56:30 GMT -5
While we're at it, f*** Tiger woods too. </Carlin> #MeToo Complaining about people who use #HashTags outside Twitter is stupid. Who gives a shit. I'll use it here, or in a text from time to time, but it's basically meant as a joke. Is your world that perfect you have nothing better to complain about? #WTFEver
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