No, nononononononono that can NOT be a mindset we accept. Yes, one should resist bullies if possible, and I'll even advocate a little violence if it does the job, but blaming the victim for "not fighting back" is a dangerous path, and one that can breed more violence and resentment. I knew too many people who couldn't…

Agreed—-but I'd argue it bounces around to different class types depending on the community. Where I grew up, this was true but the reverse was true as well—I got it rough from both ends. (Not rich or in the right neighborhood to be "cool," grades good enough to get picked on by the poorer jocks who may have harbored…

The second I read that I went "goddammit my wallet is going to hate me."

It might be a prototype for the cutscenes we saw? Maybe for a while Spartan Ops was just going to have lame motion comics instead of fully rendered cutscenes?

I would like the latter very much. Technically they already have the first on Waypoint. And I guess they're holding on to the terminals 'cause of their transmedia stuff...

Oh, yeah, the books are the only reason I know/care about Jul M'Dama at all, and he was a pretty interesting character in them. A pity we haven't gotten to see that thoughtful side of him yet, but seeing as he's branded a "Terrorist" in the games I'm not sure we ever will.

Er, the game literally uses the same explanation. Palmer gives the same speech at the start of Spartan Ops...(They do never introduce Jul'Mdama properly, that's a problem. And no, I'm not counting the Terminal video)

"The group is full of unique people, wearing different hairdos and clothes. They also pull off hilarious dance moves."

First, proof.

""There's a lot of studies that show if someone's on the line, if someone's on the edge, [violent video games push] them over the edge," LaPierre says.

I argue it's dangerously close, especially when used to justify behavior that supports majority-dominant demographics.

Our differences make us great, but they aren't an excuse to say "women just aren't interested in computer science," especially given that one of the world's first computer scientists (if not THE first, my brain fails me) was a woman. Ada Lovelace, who worked on the Babbage machine, wrote notes and theories that I'm…

But many of them do, and it's being found more and more that our prior assumptions of the "Basic differences" between Men and women aren't as big as we thought. And considering many of those differences we used labeled women as "Weaker" I don't think the "different but equal" attitude truly reflects equality.

Maybe it's because they aren't encouraged to go into tech/computer science as much? Maybe because your fellow students were influenced by whatever they saw on TV and in the Media about ten to twelve years ago and didn't get the idea that they'd be interested in computer science? Might want to think about that before…

*sighs*

Yep, yeah, I was misreading what he wrote. My bad. >.<

Yeah, yeah, my bad, I had my facts wrong when I posted that. >.<

Coulton's cover was non-commercial, not Fox's. I imagine they paid Mix-A-Lot's people a lot to use the song.