Recent content by Chromanin

Broadstairs, England. I know someone there. I'd still like to be born in 1985. No complaints with that.

Just a week or so ago I learned Rock is not weak to Ice, Ground is. I've been with Pokemon since the NA Red/Blue release, and all this time I was being mislead by the abundance of Rock/Ground hybrids. I felt like my whole life had been a lie. In addition, I've never played a table-top RPG. I...

Here's a really good website you should all visit: hardcoregaming101.net If you're willing to set aside your preconceived notions for a moment, it should shed some light on what hardcore gaming is.

It isn't rocket science. Gaming is a skill like anything else. Think of it as a sport. If you get together with your friends once in awhile to play basketball, you're a casual basketball player. If you play everyday, watch and go to basketball games, and practice constantly to possibly make a...

As I said, the rate at which it happens isn't what makes it a problem. It isn't a problem for men because, no matter how often men get hypersexualized in media, they will never be viewed exclusively as sex objects. They never have. Women, however, have been burdened by this stigma for a long...

I think this is the third instance in this topic of the accusation of male sexualization being just as rampant as women sexualization, and all anyone has been able to come up with as an example is Twilight. The hypersexualization of males happens. Yes, Twilight is an example. It is nowhere...

This form of retaliation always occurs in theses debates, and I just don't get it. Even if it were true that men were just as hypersexualized as women, why does that make it okay? All that proves is that both men and women are being unfairly represented in media.

Well, back in the day, before men had to be equal with women, men had a pretty good thing going. We were aggressive and warlike, and it was acceptable because we were men. That's just how we rolled. "If you see Buddha on the road, kill him!" Do what comes natural, the essence of Bushido, the...

When I opened this thread, my eyes keyed on the words "people wearing hazmat suits" and "ps3, wii," and I thought, "This is going to be painful to read." After reading the last line though, "Now I can only afford a 360 which annoys me," I'm pretty confident I just got taken for a ride. Bravo...

I have a severe problem with that. I wake up a lot during the night. So it happens to me constantly. It was getting to the point that I'd wake up sweating and exhausted from the hallucinations I sometimes had. I've taken to wearing a sleep mask to enure my eyes stay closed. So if it happens, I...

Yeah, I have heard about the taxes. If I actually see the benefit of paying them, though, it doesn't bother me so much. In addition to our government pretty much giving up on monitering big business to ensure they pay what they're supposed to be paying in taxes, I haven't seen the benefit of our...

Seeing as Alan Moore wrote V for Vendetta in the 80's and was based off England's super conservative, authoritarian government, I'd say we've long since been in "V for Vendetta" times." It's just that Americans are finally starting to realize it. Like Alan Moore in the late 80's. I've begun...

Holy shit, someone open-minded and understanding. Everyone saying "man up, and get over it," you are, at least, part of the reason people like TC exist. You're calling him the misanthrope when you're callously saying "shut up and fall in line, wuss."

Unless you're a weight training neophyte, your sessions are probably not too short. Once you're an experienced lifter, you only need forty-five minutes to an hour per session. Three or four days a week is average. If you're training for the olymics, or the strongest man competition, or Mr...

Take it from a guy who has tried to find a solitary occupation: settle for something that just has less people. I was a dishwasher in a small pub at one time. I only had to deal with three people. Luckily, I liked all three, as well. I worked as a Backroom Associate at Target. Overnight...