BellaStrega

I feel terrible for the state of microwaveable food in Germany.

I agree with you about boiling water, but there's a lot of reasons why someone might end up using a microwave to prepare food over the more traditional oven.

Just trying to standardize my name usage across multiple platforms.

Haha.

Moderation!


Actually, now I really want some. Since caffeine sets my mind in motion, I should take steps.

I think we always knew what was going to happen.

IDK, it looked mythic and godlike to me, what with Asgard and all of the Norse gods. It didn't show any crowning moments of badass, but I really prefer trailers to not turn out like Day Watch.

I have no idea what you're complaining about. The Thor trailer is pretty amazing, but focused a lot more on the world they created for the film (Asgard) and perhaps less on spoiling the best effects shots in the movies.

Iron Man wasn't even about Iron Man! After all, he was turned to steel in the great magnetic field when he traveled time for the future of mankind.

I see this assumption a lot, but I'm not seeing it empirically play out.

Also, other applications of RealID may be okay with the playerbase as long as no one is forced to link their real name to their WoW activities.

Have you been paying attention to how Activision-Blizzard is set up?

Everything I've heard from multiple sources now indicates that Blizzard employees were virtually all against this. That doesn't mean any of them wanted to lose their jobs by engaging in passive resistance, rather than actively objecting up the chain.

Actually, what he said makes sense and I didn't read that into it at all.

I'm not ashamed of playing, but I don't want to deal with employers who don't want to hire WoW players making up their minds about me because they saw my name on the WoW forum.

This is promising.

I've had my own sources, and same.

Too bad I haven't talked to Chris Metzen is ages. <-- not one of my sources

I trust them a bit less, but yeah, I think it's up to everyone to decide how far to trust them. A lot of people mainly wanted Blizzard to move away from this invasive policy (and future policies like it). I did, but I'm still at a point where I'm less likely to buy their games than I would have been last week, even if more likely to do so than a couple of days ago.

Was annoying, that apparently I'm not allowed nuance and "They backpedaled" means I automatically trust them as much as I did before, per some posters here. To be fair, I doubt Nethergoat's one of those.

Oh, yeah, who needs three raid-geared 80s, am I right? I can just start all over again!

Although, any reasonable, empathic human being would in fact see this as persuasive because to do otherwise is to advocate harm (whether it's social or potentially physical) against another human being. But maybe I have impossibly high standards!

I agree. This is just one of the many numerous examples as to how this could potentially be abused.

I didn't say I thought you were mean-spirited, I told you I didn't take offense. I suggested that saying "no offense" is generally a bad move because if you feel the need to say it, you're probably saying something that could be said better.

As I said, I'm not continuing this. I didn't read your response, I don't intend to read your response. I've made my points.

I will actually suggest one last thing: You seem to assume that my examples were meant to cover the entirety of what was wrong with this policy. I suggest you consider what I wrote to be examples of what could go wrong.

There's no such thing as reverse sexism. I would think "reverse sexism" would mean not being sexist.

Also, the stuff I talked about? Stalkers harassing women? Happens far more often to women than men. Just being a woman playing a video game can often be enough to attract attention.

You misunderstood my criticism of Venture's use of statistics if you think I said any use of statistics was bad. What I said was that he's trying to use statistics to cloak the fact that this stuff happens, by pretending that it's okay to enable an increased amount of potential harassment and violence if it's a small amount, and implying that rather than one person being killed, maybe 1,000 people are each .1% murdered.

The murder was more a matter of abusive exes stalking their ex-wives and ex-girlfriends and trying or succeeding at killing them, something that happens more frequently than it should, and is a context that Ventrue tried to erase by just making the blanket statement that men are more likely to be murdered than women, and not looking at how women are often murdered.

Also, my argument was not about the victimizability of women. It was about how some (NOT ALL <-- NEON ******* LETTERS) men often try to victimize women. Of course all men don't try to victimize women, and it's true that some women victimizes men, but in the context of video games? I've heard lots of stories about women being stalked and harassed. I've been stalked and harassed. I honestly have never heard about men being stalked and harassed by women in video games.

I wish people wouldn't say "I mean no offense" because that's usually out of your hands when you hit send, and usually the impulse to say it is the first sign you're about to step in something messy. Even so, I'm not offended by your complete misreading of my point, Thirty-Seven, I just wish you'd read more carefully before you decided to jump in with both feet.

Anyway, I'm dropping this now, and I hope you're willing to do the same.

Did you see where they said this was just the first step to a glorious RealID revolution?

This outcome was what people wanted when they protested Blizzard. I still think a lot of people don't trust them because they were willing to impose this change, and won't trust them for a long time*.

* Right now this includes me.

Did you notice how what I wanted was them to not put real names on forum posts, and how I said several times that this was why I wasn't going to buy any future games from them? They've suggested that they're moving away from that, so I'm suggesting that maybe I'll end up buying Cataclysm.

I've been consistent in my stance. You, on the other hand, seem to think that it's pretty awesome to attack me if I say anything more positive than "Blizzard is made of Satan's disgusting bodily fluids."