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Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:06 am**

Someone please tell me how these are legal.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:08 am**

The Grey Wolf wrote:Someone please tell me how these are legal.

I'm not sure I can help. Because I don't understand why these can't be legal.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:10 am**

Altito Asmoro wrote:
The Grey Wolf wrote:Someone please tell me how these are legal.

I'm not sure I can help. Because I don't understand why these can't be legal.

Because they're Dr. Pepper knock-offs?

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:12 am**

The Grey Wolf wrote:
Altito Asmoro wrote:
I'm not sure I can help. Because I don't understand why these can't be legal.

Because they're Dr. Pepper knock-offs?

I never heard of Dr. Pepper, actually.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:15 am**

The Grey Wolf wrote:
Landenburg wrote:The weeabo in my class got angry at kids for thinking it was Ray-men noodles and not Rah-men noodles.

You sure he or she wasn't just mad because of the utter stupidity that goes into pronouncing Ramen noodles "Ray-men?"

EDIT: Also, I didn't know Ramen noodles were Japanese. Next chat thread should be "P2TM: You learn something new every day."

No, it should be called "P2TM: What Have You Learned Today?"

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:26 am**

http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Stereo-H ... itech+h110

Cheap and good headset for everyone interested in joining P2TM Vocal Chat Group.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:44 am**

So I finally watched Dr. Who back on the 17th or 18th.

I thought it was pretty good. Matt Smith is a decent actor.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 10:05 am**

Agritum wrote:http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Stereo-Headset-H150-Cloud/dp/B005DKZTNK/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1422462252&sr=1-2&keywords=logitech+h110

Cheap and good headset for everyone interested in joining P2TM Vocal Chat Group.

Twelve dollars aren't cheap to me, Agri.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 10:06 am**

Zarkenis Ultima wrote:
Agritum wrote:http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Stereo-Headset-H150-Cloud/dp/B005DKZTNK/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1422462252&sr=1-2&keywords=logitech+h110

Cheap and good headset for everyone interested in joining P2TM Vocal Chat Group.

Twelve dollars aren't cheap to me, Agri.

I can't be bothered to spend 12 dollars on something I already have.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 10:10 am**

The Grey Wolf wrote:Someone please tell me how these are legal.

Because they aren't direct copies.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 12:37 pm**

Ayreonia wrote:I don't get why people are busy shitting themselves and each other over how awesome Dragon Age: Inquisition is for its portrayal of LGBT people. It's like,
"Bioware, how's your new RPG stand out from the rest of them?"
"Well, uh, we have a, um, gay wizard! Who's, like, openly gay!"
*cue award for positive portrayal of LGBT folk or something*
Sure, I mean, yeah, let's use gays as a marketing gimmick, that's a great way to raise awareness within the notoriously homophobic gaming community.

At what point does it stop being a "marketing gimmick" and become an actual component of the game, though?
BioWare's been integrating LGBT characters in their games for years, their lead writer on DA is gay, they've basically been nothing but sensitive about how they've handled that whole front (barring the whole ME1 Liara thing, but that was sort of their first real attempt at it). Hell, they put a gay character in KOTOR in open defiance of LucasArts, simply because they thought it made a good story element - and it kinda did. That was far from a "marketing gimmick" - it could've caused serious trouble if LucasArts had found out about it, and it was so camouflaged that most people never even knew about it, but it's there.

None of the LGBT characters in ME or DA have struck me as being exploitative - the whole "make everyone bi" idea in DA2 was more the product of BioWare being terrified of displeasing anybody, but the actual writing was tasteful and reasonable. Bioware mostly treats its gay characters just like any other characters, and the fact that they have to accentuate the fact that OMG their game actually contains LGBT characters isn't a "marketing gimmick", it's almost a backhanded insult at the rest of the community for being so regressive that Bioware's almost alone on this.

Have you actually played any of the games?

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 12:49 pm**

Ayreonia wrote:New thread, huh? Imagine me losing it trying to look for the reply button in an archived thread.

I don't get why people are busy shitting themselves and each other over how awesome Dragon Age: Inquisition is for its portrayal of LGBT people. It's like,

"Bioware, how's your new RPG stand out from the rest of them?"

"Well, uh, we have a, um, gay wizard! Who's, like, openly gay!"

*cue award for positive portrayal of LGBT folk or something*

Sure, I mean, yeah, let's use gays as a marketing gimmick, that's a great way to raise awareness within the notoriously homophobic gaming community.

I haven't played the game, but watched some of the gay sex scenes on YouTube (well that sounds suspicious). It actually surprised me how emotional one particular scene was. While it was a NC-17 scene, it didn't focus on the sexual environment, and actually the characters and their relationship (one of them coming from a culture where sex with the same sex was acceptable, but pursuing a relationship was not).

If you're going to fucking complain about homophobia in the gaming community, maybe not criticize games that depict them as human beings and not overly sexualized lust objects.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:17 pm**

The Grey Wolf wrote:So I finally watched Dr. Who back on the 17th or 18th.

I thought it was pretty good. Matt Smith is a decent actor.

Matt's great; his successor is better, because it is physically impossible for Peter Capaldi not to be the best at whatever he tries, but still.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:19 pm**

Nationstatelandsville wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:Oh, trust me, I've had my lively days. Settled down me is better.

Bear in mind that "settled down" Khan will kill a man for pronouncing it "skedule".

Skehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-yooooooo-ullllllll.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:29 pm**

Nationstatelandsville wrote:
The Grey Wolf wrote:So I finally watched Dr. Who back on the 17th or 18th.

I thought it was pretty good. Matt Smith is a decent actor.

Matt's great; his successor is better, because it is physically impossible for Peter Capaldi not to be the best at whatever he tries, but still.

I haven't watched Peter Capaldi as the Doctor yet, and while I'm sure he's great, I prefer Matt's Doctor because he seems more eccentric and carefree. Mind you, I only watched one or two episodes.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:37 pm**

The Grey Wolf wrote:
Zarkenis Ultima wrote:
Twelve dollars aren't cheap to me, Agri.

I can't be bothered to spend 12 dollars on something I already have.

You do? Perfect.

That was mostly a suggestion for headset-less people.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:41 pm**

Agritum wrote:
The Grey Wolf wrote:
I can't be bothered to spend 12 dollars on something I already have.

You do? Perfect.

That was mostly a suggestion for headset-less people.

I have headphones, but not a mic.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:41 pm**

The Grey Wolf wrote:
Agritum wrote:You do? Perfect.

That was mostly a suggestion for headset-less people.

I have headphones, but not a mic.

I'll find you a cheap one tomorrow.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:46 pm**

Agritum wrote:
The Grey Wolf wrote:
I have headphones, but not a mic.

I'll find you a cheap one tomorrow.

Eh, I can fork over $12, it's just a matter of whether or not I want to. I mean, I just bought a pair last October. All I'd really be buying is a new mic.

Though I am tempted to make a joke about how desperate you are to hear my voice.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:53 pm**

The Grey Wolf wrote:
Nationstatelandsville wrote:Matt's great; his successor is better, because it is physically impossible for Peter Capaldi not to be the best at whatever he tries, but still.

I haven't watched Peter Capaldi as the Doctor yet, and while I'm sure he's great, I prefer Matt's Doctor because he seems more eccentric and carefree. Mind you, I only watched one or two episodes.

"Carefree" and "eccentric" are certainly words one could use for Twelve, given as he doesn't care about anything and transcends sanity.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:56 pm**

The Grey Wolf wrote:
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Agritum wrote:I'll find you a cheap one tomorrow.

Eh, I can fork over $12, it's just a matter of whether or not I want to. I mean, I just bought a pair last October. All I'd really be buying is a new mic.

Though I am tempted to make a joke about how desperate you are to hear my voice.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:57 pm**

I'm pretty sure Kevan and Nat are split personalities of Mark Sheppard.

Just putting that out there.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 2:20 pm**

Ahhhhh.

It still has the beautiful unobserved quanta smell.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 3:02 pm**

The Grey Wolf wrote:
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Agritum wrote:I'll find you a cheap one tomorrow.

Eh, I can fork over $12, it's just a matter of whether or not I want to. I mean, I just bought a pair last October. All I'd really be buying is a new mic.

Though I am tempted to make a joke about how desperate you are to hear my voice.

I'm laughing so hard it hurts.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2015 3:46 pm**

Landenburg wrote:
The Grey Wolf wrote:
You sure he or she wasn't just mad because of the utter stupidity that goes into pronouncing Ramen noodles "Ray-men?"

EDIT: Also, I didn't know Ramen noodles were Japanese. Next chat thread should be "P2TM: You learn something new every day."

No, he got very mad and specified that the Japanese language didn't have an ay sound.

"it's Japan not Jaypan!"

Yeah, okay. So they're wrong. No reason to get angry and scream at them over it.

... But the Japanese name for Japan is nihon. :/

Constaniana wrote:
The Grey Wolf wrote:
You sure he or she wasn't just mad because of the utter stupidity that goes into pronouncing Ramen noodles "Ray-men?"

EDIT: Also, I didn't know Ramen noodles were Japanese. Next chat thread should be "P2TM: You learn something new every day."

No, it should be called "P2TM: What Have You Learned Today?"

Good god, no....

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