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Quote:No, this is specifically a fundamental attribution error:I in no way intended to imply that people with no cap/all cap character aren't "decent human beings" (I am not the original poster and consider his phrasing far too extreme.) But it DOES offer a strong indication that they aren't interested enough in their own character to take a second at creation to put proper capitalization in the name. The only way this could be a fundamental atrribution error is if there were another rational reason from the player's point of view. When the name is clearly a joke or a reference to something else that's a rational reason, but most no/all cap names are due to a simple lack of care.
By saying "This person doesn't care" one is attributing entire attitudes and emotional states to the person and how they feel about said character, and excludes other reasons for unconventional capitalization (such as a conscious stylistic decision). You see the name and determine all kinds of things about the person that are likely not true. The truth is you do not know and cannot know how much that person cares about their character from whether the name is capitalized properly or not.
Fundamental attribution error does not depend on the existence of other motives that you would consider acceptable, it is simply the cognitive error of assuming you can tell what a person is like by overvaluing one or at most a very few observations of incidences or behavior involving that person. It is like hearing someone swear and deciding that they are typically inarticulate and angry all the time.
It has been my experience that judging others on the basis of spelling or grammar in any context rarely provides an accurate or useful perception of the people in question. -
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Quote:But didn't the Duke of Wellington use cannonettes in his duel with Prince George in December of 1813? Although the duel was technically to the death and Prince George lost the duel, he did survive thanks to a cigarello case gifted to him by the Duke of Wellington not long before.Worry not good sir Ebon, the British use the same spellings, Dual is for two of something and Duel is for a battle to first blood or the death between two gentleman with weapons of some kind.
Though Cannons were banned as an option from Duels after the 1722 incident of Bartholmey vs Gregory where the due to terrible aiming on the part of both parties, a small church was destroyed along with the local alehouse. -
Excellent news. Makes this the perfect month for me to restart my VIP ways.
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When jetpacks and portals became available, I used them by preference if needed.
I am not nearly masochistic enough to keep trying to use the gravity geysers past my first attempt (which got me all the way to the storm palace). -
Fundamental attribution error. Possibly confirmation bias as well.
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Anyway, I live by different rules in different MMOs. In City of Heroes, I don't really care how my teammates spec or how they play in most of the content because it really doesn't matter. The point is to get together and wreck things up with superpowers.
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Quote:I count many people who don't use caps as friends, and I have no idea where you're coming from with that generalization.1) Nobody with bad use of caps. I find that players that name themselves using all caps or can't be bothered to use them at all also can't be bothered to be decent human beings in a text environment. There have been exceptions to this, sure, but few and far between.
If anything, I find there's very little correlation between "decent human being" and "grammatical accuracy." -
It seemed to me that Statesman declined to use the awaken or accept the rez. That's the impression I received from the description and the preceding cinematic.
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I get what Silver Gale is saying. When I do raids in any game, it's mentally exhausting and I often need time to decompress. But a successful run can offset the stress to some extent.
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Similarly, wanting to team doesn't automatically make you extroverted.
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I'm introverted as well. I do like teaming and find the constant action to be stimulating and fun. It is also draining, and depending on the people I can end up feeling pretty badly burnt out - this is one of the reasons I tend to take breaks from this (and other) MMORPGs, and why I tend to stay in hide when I start playing again.
It's good to have solo options for doing stuff without having to grab three or more people to help you out. -
Quote:When I google "Disney princesses feminist critique" I get 85,700 results, which means it does get some flak.The ones doing the complaining are generally within certain groups of people who are just looking for reasons to call attention to whatever cause they're on about.
Look at that outfit! Not sensible at all for fighting against an evil wizard! And it shows off her belly. And her figure is totally exagerrated! She basically has a female comic book hero body (okay the breasts aren't Ds-DDs).
Yet doesn't get nearly the flak (if any. I havent heard any, but I'm sure someone has complained) and look, little girls like it.
Quote:It's not what superheroes are dressed in. It's not that comics are sexist (this doesnt mean there aren't sexist people in the industry). It comes down to the opinions of people and imparting those opinions on others.
Notice how they can say comics are sexist, this is the reason women don't read them, but women will enjoy the superhero movies?
Yeah.
One thing about comic books versus movies as well is the difference between going to a movie theater and to a comic book shop. The latter is much more likely to present a hostile environment to women (at least in my experience, and I've been buying stuff at comic shops since the 1970s). I've never run into the same degree of condescension or hostility in movie theaters no matter which movie I am there to watch as I have in comic book shops. The latter I dealt with by finding shops that didn't have that environment.
The article oversimplifies several points, and I wouldn't use it as a central critique of comic book media.
As far as film goes, this site is interesting:
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Quote:He stated his argument rather badly, but the basic premise is correct. I did read the entire article, and I didn't see that particular point as undermining his argument.If you read the article, you've seen it brought up in another context: the context of how objectifying and sexualizing both male and female characters denigrates women and glorifies men, because all men like to be objectified in exactly that way.
The problem isn't the male gaze idea. The problem is the article writer is attempting to *prove* that comic book costumes exhibit the male gaze phenomenon by explicitly stating without any evidence a rather extreme position: that no matter how sexualized or ludicrous Namor's costumes are, well, we all know all men would jump at the chance to look like Namor.
Do we all know that? Isn't that just as absurd as saying all women deep down inside want to look like Power Girl, even if they won't admit it?
The point was, simply that comic books are marketed toward boys and men. Characters are generally meant to fulfill boy's and men's fantasies. Yes, it's ludicrous to suggest that men would dress in speedos if they had Namor's body, but it doesn't tear his entire point down.
It's also not possible, in the larger social context, for sexism against men to have the same weight or meaning as sexism against women, because largely, women are still not treated as fully equal. You don't have multiple overlapping industries (media) presenting hypersexualized images of men as a necessity to be valued, loved, etc. -
Some people call that the chat window.
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The Cracked article in the OP is discussing comic book art in the context of the male gaze. Which is to say, that the art is created with an eye toward men reading the comics. Which is to say that the description of how Namor's depiction works is accurate in that context. Obviously, real life is messier than theory.
I can see what Arcanaville is arguing, but I have only seen "but men are objectified too" brought up to counter discussions about how women are objectified and sexualized. I wouldn't mind seeing a discussion of the topic that wasn't used as an attempt to derail, but I have not yet been witness to such. -
I'm not rejecting IO sets, I just don't really have any and don't even know where to start. I'm better at figuring out which ones to sell than which ones to use. Thanks for the advice.
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So I haven't been playing for a long time, for a variety of reasons, and I'm trying to get back into the game now. Most of my characters aren't too difficult to get a handle on, but my fire/kin has so many things to do, and so little endurance to do them with if I forget to hit transference whenever I can.
This is my current build, as I had stopped playing around the time she hit 50 and I hadn't really started working on sets.
My biggest problem is that while I could solo her on what I had my difficulty set to before, I seem to have a lot of awkwardness trying to do the same thing now, and this build is far more durable than what I had before (no fighting pool, no indomitable will).
Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.953
http://www.cohplanner.com/
Click this DataLink to open the build!
Fusionista: Level 50 Science Controller
Primary Power Set: Fire Control
Secondary Power Set: Kinetics
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Concealment
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Psionic Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Char- (A) Accuracy IO
- (3) Accuracy IO
- (3) Damage Increase IO
- (5) Damage Increase IO
- (5) Hold Duration IO
- (7) Hold Duration IO
- (A) Accuracy IO
- (7) Accuracy IO
- (9) Healing IO
- (9) Healing IO
- (11) Recharge Reduction IO
- (11) Endurance Reduction IO
- (A) Accuracy IO
- (13) Accuracy IO
- (A) Run Speed IO
- (A) Accuracy IO
- (13) Accuracy IO
- (15) Damage Increase IO
- (15) Damage Increase IO
- (17) Immobilisation Duration IO
- (17) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Accuracy IO
- (19) Accuracy IO
- (19) Damage Increase IO
- (21) Damage Increase IO
- (21) Endurance Reduction IO
- (23) Endurance Reduction IO
- (A) Accuracy IO
- (23) Accuracy IO
- (A) Accuracy IO
- (29) Accuracy IO
- (29) Disorient Duration IO
- (31) Disorient Duration IO
- (31) Recharge Reduction IO
- (31) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (33) Recharge Reduction IO
- (33) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Resist Damage IO
- (A) Accuracy IO
- (33) Accuracy IO
- (34) Hold Duration IO
- (34) Recharge Reduction IO
- (34) Recharge Reduction IO
- (36) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Endurance Modification IO
- (A) Endurance Reduction IO
- (A) Accuracy IO
- (A) Resist Damage IO
- (36) Resist Damage IO
- (36) Endurance Reduction IO
- (A) Jumping IO
- (A) Defense Buff IO
- (37) Karma - Knockback Protection
- (37) Endurance Reduction IO
- (A) Accuracy IO
- (37) Accuracy IO
- (39) Damage Increase IO
- (39) Damage Increase IO
- (39) Damage Increase IO
- (40) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Accuracy IO
- (40) Accuracy IO
- (40) Endurance Modification IO
- (42) Endurance Modification IO
- (42) Recharge Reduction IO
- (42) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Accuracy IO
- (43) Accuracy IO
- (43) Recharge Reduction IO
- (43) Recharge Reduction IO
- (45) Endurance Reduction IO
- (45) Endurance Reduction IO
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (45) Recharge Reduction IO
- (46) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Resist Damage IO
- (46) Resist Damage IO
- (46) Endurance Reduction IO
- (A) Accuracy IO
- (48) Accuracy IO
- (48) Damage Increase IO
- (48) Damage Increase IO
- (50) Recharge Reduction IO
- (50) Endurance Reduction IO
- (A) Accuracy IO
- (50) Accuracy IO
Level 2: Swift- (A) Run Speed IO
- (A) Healing IO
- (25) Healing IO
- (25) Healing IO
- (A) Jumping IO
- (A) Endurance Modification IO
- (27) Endurance Modification IO
- (27) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
- (A) Empty
Level 1: Sprint- (A) Empty
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
My biggest problem with sets is just general overwhelm at the options available. I'm not likely to go purple yet, but I do wonder which bonuses I should go for. -
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Yeah, I don't even have words for the logic, but anyone who could microwave a hamburger patty and eat it, you know, there's something off there.
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Quote:My ex used to cook hamburgers in the microwave.Yeah, it's true. That's why I decided to delve into the lost art of cooking. That and chicks dig a guy who can cook (except my home ec teacher, she apparently had a problem with it, but that's another story).
Grossest ever. I'd then get a lecture for frying hamburgers being unhealthy, but you know, I wanted to eat.
On topic:
I tried to get into tea a couple of years ago, but utterly failed to get it together. I should try again because it'd be nice to give up soda. Again. -
Quote:I think it's a bad idea to heat a lot of foods in the microwave.Personally, my fiance and I hate microwaves. The food tastes weird after heating it. Meat becomes rubbery, water tastes stale. Eggs and bacon taste bad.
I use it to reheat some leftovers, or cook some canned or frozen pre-cooked food, and some stuff is still better in the oven. You can get decent food out of it, but not from scratch usually.