Recent content by Velocir_X

note: emphasis mine also note: Green is considered the color of islam; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_in_Islam Of course none of this imagery could have been deliberate or anything. After all the filmmakers have no interest in exploring relevant political parallels...

Pshaw its like this guy has never heard of Ironman Impossible in XCOM, Insane mode in Witcher 2, or the entirety of IWTBTG.

Yeah I got to go too. Night. If you look I'm not in anthropology. (actually in chemE and materialsE but) I happen to have a love evolutionary psychology ever since reading Dawkins' early work, so yeah. Those things you posted, though, are mighty interesting, and I'd love to see them examined...

I would describe Twilight not as serving an undeserved market but rather as the predictor of a fad. You wouldn't say Justin Bieber or the Jonas Brothers' popularity was the result of serving an undeserved market, would you? By shaming I meant the general inflammatory tone of the initial...

"Zatkin said. It?s also hard to draw many broad conclusions from this data. There are so few games with exclusively female heroes, and those few games are given such a small marketing budget, do we even know how well a large-budget, marketed game with a female hero would perform?" The study...

Thank you, I will have to go to the schools library and read this closer. Very compelling work from the synopsis, but as always the devil lies in the details. Its quite possible this can be described in terms of the difference between Empathizing and Systematizing (Simon's work). Maybe its even...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ParanormalRomance look under literature Also Nancy Drew, and that one thing about the girl that was recently on kickstarter for a reboot/continuation I personally find discussions of any sort fun, but to explain the rest of my brethren: a)These...

You closet Aristotelian, you! (patiently waits for someone to get the joke)

The object of the documentary, and the studies its based on, is both sexes, not just women. Just wanted to get that out of the way first. As for your hypothetical scenario (which for the sake of argument I won't argue against) why is it pertinent that the guy who made the documentary is white? A...

From dictionary.com: Cocksure: overconfident, arrogant, conceited arrogant and conceited are clearly insults, and of a similar connotation to dense Now I could give less than two shits about what people call me, but its inconsistent to complain about being called dense on the grounds that...

Woah Woah Woah, calm down; no need to explode. But yes, generally presentations of a series of related cited facts (documentaries), peer reviewed scholarly articles, logical lines of argumentation, and the results of controlled experiments are considered closer to the "truth" (as much as that...

Calling someone cocksure is as much capable of being perceived as an insult as calling someone dense.

Your personal anecdote is inspiring, but that claim is outright debunked (for the most part) in the documentary I keep on posting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJVJ5QRRUE or if you want to skip the video and go right down to the nitty gritty...

Protip: if you want people to stop throwing around perceived insults, you probably should do the same. Anyway there's a significant difference between what we talk about in scientific models and generalizations and what you experience in your day to day life. Of course you will find...

To be honest I haven't been paying attention to the discussion, but I had an interesting thought that may be pertinent. Samus was quickly discounted because she's conventionally attractive. For the sake of argument allow me to challenge that for a second. If you were to ask a...