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The problem with saying that not being trans is the default state of being is that most trans people feel they were born as the wrong sex/assigned the wrong gender, in the same way most gay people feel they were born attracted to the opposite sex.  Thus saying there should be no word for cis is equivalent to saying there should be no word for brown hair (or whatever the local most common hair is).  Both are the norm but you don't default to being cis any more than you default to being a brunette.

I think the thread needs an emergency dosage of Timecube!

I feel like I'm reading a conspiracy theory from an alternate universe.  An alternate universe where people have very different ideas about grammar.  BELLYBUTTON LOGIC WORKS

Cisgendered means that you identify as the gender you where born as.

Ok, devils advocate but if you use the formal meanings of "sex" and "gender" (which you probably are if you're using the word "cis") then gender is learned/constructed and you aren't born as a gender.  So there shouldn't be a need to add "gendered" on the end of the word.

The anticipation for this release is really starting to build up with me; I'm pretty excited about the combat changes and the new site types, among other things. Hm, I wonder if it'll be possible to climb goblin towers somehow...?

If I'm interpreting the new changes correctly, you can climb constructed walls but not smoothed natural walls. Since any above-ground structure has to used constructed walls (unless it uses obsidian), you should be able to literally climb the side of a goblin tower.

Or just climb the stairs, killing all in your path.

Weird auto-targeting that isn't controlled by the player

I've noticed this mostly in 3D beat-em-up style games, like The Matrix: Path of Neo (I'm sure it happens in good games, that's just the most immediate example I can think of). When you push your thumbstick in the direction of an enemy and press the attack button, you'd expect to attack in that direction, right? Wrong, according to some games: you should be sailing through the air in completely the opposite direction at a piece of destructible scenery.

Witcher 2: there are three enemies in front of you.  The one in the middle is too far away to hit.  You attack one of the two in front... and Geralt swings his sword through the empty air between them, because he auto-targeted the middle one.  *facepalm*

Do you guys think it would be worth it to get Hearts of Iron 3?  How does it compare to CK 2?

Ok... so right now, my heir is going to inherit both Norway and Denmark.  The problem is, my wife inherited Denmark before our son did, and she is currently the subject of a massive rebellion to press someone's claim on Denmark.

The thing is... I can't join the war.  Never mind that it has everything to do with me, and it involves my WIFE, the game doesn't even show the option for me to to offer to join her wars.  I didn't receive a call to arms.  I'm so incredibly mad right now.  Why is this happening and what can I do besides savescum assassinating her?

CoD IS my pet peeve.  My friends have gotten me to play it and I just... can't stand it.

I think I what I really despise about it is that it presents itself as all military and throws around "authentic" military jargon and plays on the whole "I wanna be a soldier boy" mentality, yet is completely unrealistic down to its very bones.  Technology is essentially magic that does whatever the game designers want it to (why does an anti-bomb suit block bullets?  why do claymores detonate via visible lasers?  Why can't allies trigger mines?), guns have BOTH a range and accuracy stat despite the fact that a SHOTGUN would be effective at all but the longest ranges CoD offers, recoil is bizarre (you can fire an enormous semiautomatic sniper rifle repeatedly and accurately while standing up, but if you try to spray and pray a machinegun at someone who is within spitting distance the bullets will jump away at 45 degree angles from the barrel).  The spawning mechanics and arena level design define the game more than any actual tactics.

It just feels so pretentious.  I think the reason it bothers me is because there are a lot of people who take the game dead serious and don't acknowledge how silly it is.

(most of the above was based on Modern Warfare 2 BTW)

So, there have been a series of tragic accidents in the Kingdom of Denmark, killing everyone in line for the throne up to his third daughter, the Queen of Norway.  Which meant that since the King died, and his infant son born at the last minute was mysteriously smothered in his sleep, the Kingdom of Denmark is set to be inherited by the young Prince of Norway.

As it turns out, if you abduct a woman and force her to become your concubine, and you are also a terrible and unattractive husband, you should not make said woman your spymaster.