Hah, I hated being the last one in CS:S - I was guaranteed to choke on the clutch. :( Except possibly by accident, when blindly panic-firing all around me upon encountering an enemy. Ditto for BLOPS2 S&D. ;P

Yep, and Adam Orth learned that lesson the hard way.

I just find that once a couple people start camping, _everyone_ on both sides starts doing it, and the match just drags on and on. Sometimes I'll just deliberately die when people start camping so I can hopefully respawn somewhere behind enemy lines and take them out from behind. :P Lazy campers are hilarious…

I think it's justifiable if your entire team abandons you and no new people join the match. I've won Halo: Reach matches outnumbered 4:1 before, doing that. I'm so glad newer shooters allow people to drop in on a game though, because there were some real rage-quitting jerks on Reach. :P I hate having to play…

Yeah, it might be fun just to play it as a virtual parkour game. At least until DICE finishes Mirror's Edge 2. ;)

Did you just compare human beings to dogs? You do realize that that is false equivalence, right? Dogs don't have mass media, technology, culture, socioeconomic conditions, education, etc., all the things which directly impact how individuals of different groups can develop, and determines whether their human…

Yeah, sadly I've actually had to argue against Asian Americans who apparently believe this pseudoscience, as well as anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Thankfully it's been relatively rare, but still, as a minority I'm well aware of how the vociferousness of even one member of a minority group is often taken as…

Maybe "willfully ignorant" would be a better wording. I definitely would not absolve Ann Coulter of any of the disgusting things she likes to spout, because I _know_ she's not stupid, and I somehow suspect she isn't even as racist as she claims: she's putting on a show, for her own personal aggrandizement and…

I think it depends on what kind of intelligence we're talking about. Certainly some of the people who rated highly in intelligence in some areas, had entire deficits in others (eg. emotional intelligence). In fact, I would argue that in many cases, extreme competence in one area of intelligence may come at the cost…

You ask some important (maybe the most important?) questions surrounding the entire issue.

I don't disagree about issues of white privilege and white supremacy being particularly insidious in our society, but I never got the impression that Fauxcused was speaking to those issues, but specifically only in response to pisa2012's scientific racism.

One of the unwritten laws of science, particularly amongst statisticians and especially when studying human behaviour, is that if every study you have on a subject shows the exact same results, chances are there is a flaw in the studies themselves, because real life results do _not_ look anything like what they are…

Ah, thank you for bringing up the logical fallacies, I was about to. ;)

Or you're comparing apples and oranges again: an appeal to authority is entirely invalid and a logical fallacy if it's not an appropriate authority relevant to the topic at hand. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_…)

In this case, if I want to know about the early history of computing, I'll talk to Shockley (my…

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While I don't disagree with Watson there, since the Irish (not to mention the Scottish and Welsh, but the Irish in particular) have faced oppression in the British Isles for a long time at the hands of the reigning Irish.

And yet, I find it telling that Watson can clearly see that when it comes to his own heritage,…

While I don't disagree, I also think that American cultural hegemony _does_ have tangible and intangible effects on people around the world, and racism and white supremacy exported to other nations and cultures is part of it, so I think it's fair to ask _why_ Asian women are being pressured to get eyelid surgery,…

As an Asian (North) American... and a self-identified slacker, I appreciate your post very much. ;)

I still get asked if I'm a tourist if I look even slightly lost (no sense of direction)... in Toronto, the city I've lived in since 1977 (other than Ottawa). :P

/no model minority here

You're entirely ignoring the effect of socialization, culture, as well as the benefits that countries like Japan enjoyed in the post-war era where they did not face onerous war debt the way Germany did after WWI with the Treaty of Versailles. MacArthur's SCAP may have been problematic from a colonialism/imperialism…

THIS.