Recent content by Lacedaemonius

Yes, that does sound perfectly reasonable.

I don't hate you for this, but I'm baffled by it.

No one, male or female, is going to want anything to do with someone who sees themselves as an unlovable garbage fire. Even worse would be someone who will need constant reassurance that they're not, or that you accept them despite their terrible self-image.

Prepare for some high-minded rhetoric about defining your own objectives, that misses your point completely.

Are you desperately trying to rack up internet points, or have a discussion? I get the sense that you're aiming for the former, while I'm really trying for the latter. If you like, I can give you ALL OF THE POINTS, and we can just talk about what you know everyone here including myself is...

There have always been people eager to frame their pettiness in high-minded terms, the internet didn't create this, it just networked it.

Yeah, it has, and not to the favor of NMS. Actually no, the "Why" does matter. There's something in even the most basic gameplay and storytelling called "Stakes"...

Exploring is the basis of the game, did you really think that I or anyone here forgot about that? As for the rest, trading for what? With whom? For what? What are you going to pirate, and why would you, and how would that even make sense in a game that's mostly empty space and not other players?

No we don't, and it would be terrific if you could lay off the industrial strength generalizations across cultures, ages, socioeconomic backgrounds for the whole fucking planet. 'Mkay? It's in human nature to assume that everyone shares our own worst qualities; that what each of us deals...

That's not a claim that's made in that graph, so I'm going to gently suggest that maybe skimming this and assuming that you got one over on the author isn't a winning strategy for you.

It sounds to me that sarcasm aside you were perfectly aware of what you were doing, which is why you bothered with the limp disclaimer at every turn. You still made the thread. So yeah.

You'd think that the very act of scraping the barrel to find something that does fit said narrative, would undermine his faith in it. But no. If you have to ask...

Yeah right, just like Bill Clinton was a virgin depending on your definition of the word "is".

Never judge something from only one side of a story, it's just a shortcut to a bad decision.