My point is a lot more basic than you’re taking it to be. It observes that the categories with which we understand anything at all, even the experience of violence or trauma (such as in war, rape, domestic violence etc.) cannot be considered separate from those experiences. These experiences don’t stand totally…

Idk what the format is or why it would be bad. So I can’t respond to that. The spirit of the I’ll get back to you response is that you are not just leaving them hanging with I don’t know. A politician saying “I don’t know” would be crazy, in itself (crazy in a good way to me). But they could take it a step further in…

More real, sure, but not totally different or absolutely realer. If you imagine that civilians have one understanding on the one hand, and soldiers who have experienced war have one entirely different understanding on the other, than you are blind to the way that, before you or others went to war, your understanding…

How I wish either of them would have responded:

But a game, like anything at all whatever, can be a way of talking about things. That doesn’t make the game more important in itself. It’s not a way of elevating the game to the level of an Art (capital A). It’s merely a way of talking about it that is valid. It’s something else you can do with the game, besides just…

Yeah, don’t overthink war and terrorism guys! These are not even that serious, and anyway It’s just a game (about political topics we have a very hard time thinking about in our society as it is, but which I must stress, are really no big deal).

It’s kind of a creepy glitch yeah, so probably a good thing. 

I was more concerned about the possibility of you hearing that piano music even after you stopped playing the game. That would be a really evil glitch if that were the case.

Are you still hearing the piano music? 

I for one have never been mad that this guy doesn’t want to stream wit women, mainly because I don’t give a shit about streamers, streaming, any of the games these people play or that whole culture.

You’re confusing a lot of things here. We are talking about two separate groups of people who have problems with pokemon for two separate reasons. One of them sees it as endorsing animal cruelty. And though they are taking an extreme position most of us would not take, their view makes sense, is entirely rational…

A lot of people on this comments section are assuming the thirst person’s partner is abusive. I personally would love it if we all didn’t throw this word around so easily.

Can’t say she’s 100% abusive on this one action alone, regardless of how wrong it is. Abuse is a pattern of coercive and controlling behavior. Taken together with other things, we could definitely call her abusive and what she is doing abusive. But we don’t have the information to make that call, and I’d caution…

To you..because you aren’t an evangelical Christian. If you shared a world view with the bible thumpers you too would very likely believe it. 

But by very definition, to them it does. Think about it. If you define anything that has to do with monsters as being demonic, than it doesn’t matter what it is, whether you play it or not. If it has monsters in it, it is referencing the demonic. The popularity of that game for kids would naturally be at least a…

That’s an understandable position to take though, even if a ridiculous one. Pokemon is a game about what essentially is the equivalent of dog fighting, which most people understand to be animal cruelty. Even those bible thumpers who say pokemon is from the devil, their opinions make sense within their world view.…

PETA is psycho but that’s too crazy even for them. 

But the thing is, those people don’t exist. No one is that crazy. 

Every joke is going to offend at least one person, you’ll never completely please everyone and you’ll look foolish trying to do so.

It seems to me other bi people are replying to me that they are bi but are attracted to nonbinary people or are nonbinary themselves. So I guess the differences are a lot more subtle than that? I’m starting to think it really comes down to personal interpretation of the labels, as I am getting so many different…