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What are you scheming this season? What are you happy for? What do you celebrate? Or are you sad? Me, I want to go on a vacation to some hot springs.

Neco-Arc is more goblin than catgirl, yes.

Jehovah's Witnesses are politically neutral, so they don't vote. This could lead to us being in unfavorable conditions if laws were passed against us, laws that they could have stopped if we had voted according to our interests (such as self-preservation). We do, however, fight in court. We...

I dunno, I've never met a Muslim, I hardly know anything about them.

Can goblins even be that smart? I thought they were always a little limited, intellectually. That's why it's okay to kill them. An attractive goblin is also a smart goblin that understands what sex is.

Do goblins count?

That's fair. Thank you.

Possibly. You could say that both things are in "bad taste" to discuss, which is how I tried to connect the two ideas. What makes two things, in bad taste, different?

This topic was made based off my musings of why bluegate found the topic about the hypothetical scenario to be in "bad taste". I don't think that bluegate was saying that the topic demonstrated a lack of respect towards anybody, but he was instead just tone-policing and tut-tutting the things...

That doesn't sound like any definition of "polite company" I've ever heard. It sounds more like you're describing people who are just being civil and polite to each-other by choice, and not because the situation demands it, or that you're mixing up "being polite" and "polite company". I think...

In your opinion, what wouldn't be an example of "polite company"? Because if online forums where you can say the n-word, and offices, where you can't, count as polite company, it doesn't seem like there are very many remaining exceptions. I would think that the threat of negative consequences...

I wouldn't think so. This is like a discussion in a public park among a group of friends. It might be publicly observable, but observing it is voluntary, so if someone gets offended, that's their fault, and they are free to leave at any time. In contrast, I would think that "polite company"...

Some kind of DRM on the disc (not the game data, but "outside" of it) so that it reads as an "official copy"? Just a guess, as I've never tried myself. Like, some kind of stamp on the disc that the device reads. Such a stamp wouldn't be contained in the data that you could extract or burn to...

That's just it, I'm not talking about "real life", I'm not talking about "polite company", I'm talking about places on the internet where everyone is anonymous. Like I said: So if you say to me "Houseman, your topics are in bad taste, this wouldn't fly in a real life discussion with a...

Sure, I guess, but I would think that only applies if you aren't ashamed of it. This topic isn't about porn, that was just an example to illustrate the point. Read the topic title: "Your topics are in bad taste!" Now, what topics is this probably referring to? Have I made any topics about...

Does talking about pornography fulfill a need? Personally, I've never wanted to do it, since I see it as something shameful. You should make a new username, so that you don't have that hanging over you.

I didn't ask, and this discussion isn't really what this thread is about, but I fit under category 3, I am deeply ashamed, and think that openly discussing this would mean embracing my shadow. I am proud to be able to say that I no longer look at "real stuff", however.

Consider pornography. Most people watch it, but they're scared to admit to it, let alone have discussions about it, even as semi-anonymous posters. Why's that? It could be because they're ashamed of it, so they'd rather not talk about it. It could be that people think that if they openly talk...

I dunno, I think "most people" are a bit dim. If we limited ourselves to what "most people" find acceptable, we would live very sad lives. Unfortunately, many people do actually pretend to live like this, and then end up being revealed to be pedophiles. Anybody who is as mad as BrawlMan is...

Apparently BrawlMan thinks that asking or discussing this hypothetical makes you a bad person.

I wanted to see if The Escapist has returned to doing journalism, since I had already criticized them for abandoning it long ago. Let's see what they (one of them, at least) have to say on the topic of, say, censorship...

Since they would have no power over Arnox, including the power to enforce their own rules, or moral values, they would not be able to "take over" in any meaningful sense. They would all flee whenever their opinions get challenged, or whenever they first encounter an idea that they're...

I would go and follow them over at "Second Wind", but I stopped following all of their video content a long time ago. The thing that drew me to the original Escapist was the journalism. They were one of the only places to write both-sides articles on Gamergate and to allow discussion about it...