Recent content by clangunn

So not a disagreement, but rather a point of clarification. A number of the deists among the founding fathers did indeed claim to be Christian. However, their form of "Christian" belief fundamentally differs from current Evangelic American denominations of Christianity - to the point that it may...

This may have been addressed already but this is actually something of misnomer. The "failed" expansion of the Mongol Empire into Europe actually was more directly related to severe infighting taking place in the the leadership of the Khanate which culminated in a competition for the throne of...

I keep hopping into this conversations late and want to address points from the first page >< So, I bet this has been addressed, but Steam does not (to the best of my limited understanding) sell you video games. Steam is selling you access to video games. You do not own any digitally...

Well, a couple of options. He could have slid around on his belly to disperse the pressure on the surface of the ice. He could have some how used "the Bat" to hover over the ice and spray the lighter fluid on the ice. He could have stood on the bridge with a super-soaker full of kerosine -...

I loved this scene. Everyone in the theater laughed but I knew that only a handful of viewers shared the reference with me. It could not be anything but a direct call back to the best line in Kingdom Come. Second "easter egg" that I am surprised hasn't been addressed yet is the...

Strangely enough - of the three links I provided the 2nd is the only one that is readable in it's entirety. The first is a summary of a book. The second is a chapter from that same book. The third is an abstract about an academic article which provides an overview, context, and general findings...

I was wrong about not further responses: So short post: How can we as a community claim that the roots of our culture are not steeped in misogynistic portrayals of privilege: gender, race, and class. When we have games like this: Do you think this game was really being marketed...

Last post on this thread, I promise >.< Except the the assumption isn't that the video game industry is sexist... The point that many have tried to make in these threads is that Sarkeesian has attempted to point out that many of the societal norms that limit the bandwidth of prospective...

Again, this isn't rhetorical... but have you ever taken the time to ask a body of professional women as to why they wear high heels? Many I have spoken to on the topic over the years maintain that if given the option they would prefer flats. Some really do enjoy wearing pumps, but even they say...

I think that I my perceptions are skewed by coming from PC multi-player gaming, but if you go to forums dedicated to MMOs (including WoW, FFXI, Aion, etc.) or pay attention to chat in games such as Blacklight Retribution you will repeatedly encounter players who say something along the lines of...

The same way that Glenn Beck thinks he is an educator? Glenn Beck knows he's a showman and a celebrity persona, not a scholar. The presentation of a topic in a didactic fashion =/= education. Even in the mind of the presenter.

Actually, after watching her vids I actually can't conclude that she thinks that these are works of education. To the best of my understanding - never having spoken with her personally or seen an interview wherein she provides an outline of the intent of her video series - is that she is more of...

So, again, two responses: 1) Can you somehow prove that the majority of successfully crowd-funded projects are posted by females? Where is the evidence? I am not trying to be rhetorical. I personal don't know the gender split in successfully funded crowd sourced projects. 2) If your right...

So I realized that I shouldn't just make trite statements about the fact that women are still recognizably economically disenfranchised. Here are some sources, if you have access to academic journal compilers you can get full-text otherwise you might be stuck with abstracts. These are (mostly)...

Two questions: 1) So, having a vagina is an economic benefit? I am sure that a sizable chunk of the world population would disagree with you on that one. 2) After seeing all the hate spewing on these forums I went and actually watched her videos. Out of the handful of videos I watched I...