You’re Norm MacDonald, aren’t you.

I left the Academy shortly before my third year after I was assaulted aboard a ship and the school refused to investigate my allegations. I remember standing in front of one of the administrators pleading them to at least never send another woman to that ship. They wouldn’t even do that much.

It’s also a great way of stripping newcomers of any feeling of power in their situation. So then when the instigators are abusing travellers, the newcomers at the very least won’t speak up. Or at the worst will join in to regain some feeling of power.

I’ve mentioned it in the past, but I attended a United States federal military academy. It’s amazing how much gets normalized in small group cultures. Sexual assault as a prank or a form of camaraderie is very common.

“Ok, sir, just a minute, let me look up your account. Can you spell your last name?”

No, no, not /every/ part....

You know you’re living in a golden age for names when Marmaduke Trebilcock finishes 4th.

“Pffttt! Been fired more times than Sabrina, but I am still here.”

“See, what I meant was that he was on a lean diet with a nutritionist named Molly! It was all a....a joke....you see? Can I.......can I have my job back?”

Well yes, of course, but what I mean is that a “4/10" is meaningless in this context, because nothing about “4/10" signals that the reviewer enjoyed the game but wasn’t able to finish it because of a bug. It’s just a random number. The text of IGN’s review is useful to readers, but if you’re just scanning for scores…

I believe the contention here is not that the system is good or bad per se, but that the current commander in chief doesn’t have a clue about what he is talking about, and to make such remarks off the cuff is disingenuous at best.  Furthermore, saying that the new system costs a lot and that you are not going to use…

I predict there will be 3-5 million stars cast for this comment illegally.

But the EMALS!

From a legal perspective you are very wrong. A game is protected by copyright. Changing the code or expanding the code, which is what mods do, is illegal unless permission is granted by the copyright holder. If companies would formally grant permission to modders to change illegal versions of their software, they…

I don’t buy the argument that everyone needs to just look the other way because it’s “not their place”. If someone can take simple steps to make their product marginally less compatible with stolen goods, there’s no reason they shouldn’t.

You know if I thought explaining it would make any difference at all I probably would have started with it. Truly your way of thinking is your own, but your “ethics” and way of thinking is flawed. Which is why I called it backwards.

So they’re basically the people of Pawnee.

pirates believe doing decent things is “shilling out to corporations” and “bootlicking”. never can they just admit “yeah, im a dickhead, i just dont want to pay for shit”, it’s always some bullshit justification to make themselves feel good about it. “it’s not stealing, it’s copying” “i’m not pirating, i’m preserving…

I was actually following this on the Steam forum for Automata last night (and part of this morning; there are a couple of people who got into it with Kaldaien that are still crowing about his ban/soothing their individually savaged egos--Kaldaien can field a pretty scorching argument when the mood strikes), and was…