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Oh, and here is a nice thing. Not a video, but a serie of article, each rebutting a common argument by the climate deniers. If you think global warming is an hoax for such and such reasons, check it against this list, I'm betting it's there somewhere, along with the rebuttal.

ARGH, THE CURIOSITY, IT BURNS ME IN THE HEAD. LINK PLEASE!

The thing is, society still treats women as if they are poor delicate little flowers, in need of constant protection.

...um, yeah, those are exactly the sort of gender roles that feminists want ended.

Feminists want "equal" rights, they want the perks with none of the down sides.

Strawman. You have built an enemy in your mind, one that does not reflect reality.

If a woman hits me, assaults me, want to know what society expects me to do? Take it like a man.

You keep citing the same youtube user: one with a clear agenda. "The Happy Misogynist"? That is hardly credible.

Do you see any feminists saying women should have to sign up for the draft? No, you don't.

How is that the fault of feminism? The reason that females are exempt from the draft is because people believed that women were unfit to serve in the military. And besides, you're just plain wrong: The feminist National Organization for Women passed a resolution in 1980, stating: "We oppose any registration or draft that excludes women as an unconstitutional denial of rights to both young men and women". More and more it becomes clear that you have no idea what feminism really is.

Yes, the idea that people can discriminate against males, or white people is completely absurd and never happens, I feel just ever so privileged.

Did I even use the world privilege once in my post?

PCP or LSD would, seriously, just reduce DF to a bunch of flashy lights with no particular meaning.

Showing DF to someone in that frame of mind would be like showing someone a book in a language with a totally different alphabet than the one they understand - they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the raving confessions of a mass murdering cannibal from a recipe to bake a pie. 

PCP, maybe. LSD, not quite.

You'd able to understand what you were seeing, but it would just mean something different to you. You might notice the colors as being infinitely beautiful, or the content of the game being more horrific than usual. The controls would definitely be confusing due to disorientation, and the rows/patterns would be hard to see because of the visual effects of LSD. The entire Dwarf Fortress window would probably melt and sway, and you might see faces in the ground tile arrangements.

You would see the visuals, but the conclusions you drew from those visuals combined with enhanced abstraction of thought would make you feel differently about dwarf fortress. You would still be able to understand it unless you had taken a much higher dose, when you would probably just become lost in your own mental world.

I grew up with video games. Most of my childhood and adolescence were spent stomping on or shooting a variety of virtual monsters. I immersed myself in the worlds of Mario, the lone wanderer, Gordon Freeman and Master Chief.

Once in a while, probably after watching me mow down counter terrorists in counterstrike, my parents would come to me and voice their concern for my sanity with the usual remarks:

"Now don't go thinking that shooting someone will solve anything,"
"Son, are you upset at something?"
"Why don't you go outside?"

Between their (reasonable) concern and the numerous news stories written about how violent media was destroying the moral fabric of America's youth, you'd think that the "gaming generation" would grow up and begin to bunny hop down the street, busting out a flamethrower after every disagreement.

We all already mostly agree that violent media doesn't make people violent, and this topic has been discussed to death probably everywhere on the internet. But another interesting question arises... has videogame violence generally made gamers more opposed to violence?

My videogame-playing friends have expressed similar feelings now that most of us have grown up into generally well-adjusted adults. Video games seem relatively existential, in that while you may become immersed in the action, you're still generally aware that you're playing a game and you will usually know that it isn't really that important. Does that perspective cross over into our perception of the real world?

The absurdity of violence in games like Postal and DOOM seems to have made real world violence look even more absurd. Violence seems to belong on a screen, and not in the real world at all. This may just be part of the maturing process, but it seems strange that a culture so obsessed with fictional violence would reject it in real world affairs.

I'm guessing most of us here enjoy violent videogames. I'm also guessing that most of us here also play dwarf fortress, maybe one of the most "violent" (as far as ASCII goes) games in existence. How do you feel about real world violence compared to media violence? Do you believe that videogames have affected your attitudes towards violence in general?

 

I really love the colors and font, but the dwarves should have beards!

What tileset is that? Or is it truetype?

My favorite iron ore is magnetite:



I took this photo at the Rushmore Cave gift shop. A lot of gift shops have cabinets full of small polished rocks and ores that kids (or geology/DF fans) can buy, and there are also whole stores dedicated to selling rocks, ores, gems, fossils, and crafts made from all those. I bought a 2-pound chunk of Obsidian from one in Keystone, South Dakota. It's pretty cool to have something that you deal with in dwarf fortress on a regular basis.