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I just watched a kid break down in the bookstore because his books for the semester totaled $600 and that’s the american university system in a nutshell
I was on the verge of tears when I got to the cashier so yeah, that’s messed up
Go here and just, don’t waste any more money okay?
YES. I FOUND THE THING, IF ANYONE DOESN’T HAVE MONEY FOR COLLEGE TEXT BOOKS LIKE ME, THEN GO HERE OKAY?
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"It is the 3rd Millennium. For more than a hundred months Games Workshop has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Nottingham. It is the foremost of wargames by the will of the neckbeards, and master of a million tabletops by the might of their inexhaustible wallets. It is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with business strategies from the Dark Age of the 90s. It is the Carrion Lord of the Wargaming Scene for whom a thousand veteran players are sacrificed every day, so that it may never truly die. Yet even in its deathless state, GW continues its eternal vigilance. Mighty battleforce starter-sets cross the online-store-infested miasma of the internet, the only route between distant countries, their way lit by a draconian retail trade-agreement, the psychic manifestation of the GW's will. Vast armies of lawyers give battle in GW's name on uncounted websites. Greatest amongst its soldiers are the Guardians of the IP, the Legal Team, bio-engineered super-assholes. Their comrades in arms are legion: the writing team and countless untested rulebooks, the ever vigilant redshirts and the writers of White Dwarf to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from other games, their own incompetence, Based Chinaman - and worse. To support Games Workshop in such times is to spend untold billions. It is to support the cruelest and most dickish company imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of specialist games and hobby articles, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of cheaper digital content and understanding the fanbase, for in the GW HQ there is only profit-seeking. There is no fun amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and spending, and the laughter of Privateer Press and Corvus Belli..."
Reblog if you can speak more than 1 language.
Reblog if you have depression, anxiety, an eating disorder, are dealing with self harm, or if you're just feeling sad. Anything like that.
I want to make one of my walls into a reminder that you’re not alone. I’m going to write the urls of people who reblog this and put them on my wall as a reminder that I’m not alone, that no one is alone.
This girl gets it right.
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?372125-Porco-s-three-colored-daemons-army
Exceptionally beautiful limited palate work by Porco
Fuck Yeah.
Because no one listens until it's too late.
For me, I had made several new friends while Lyn was joining the Army, people that helped me keep my mind off of him. One of these people was a man named Damian. I met him through my sister, of all people, and he had shown me that my fear at the time of overstating the danger of my sister was unfounded. As it had turned out, she was still in a relationship with a boy from her school when she began dating Lyn and actually wanted to have another casual relationship with Damian on the side. Damian had denied her and this caused a rift between them which had drawn me to him in the first place. For the next two years, we became very close. When we had heard of Lyn's breakup, Damian and I debated the virtues of me forgiving him. Damian maintained something like 'trust but verify' and said that while I should be wary of him, Lyn shouldn't have been held entirely accountable for being manipulated. I held off of that for a long time, thinking about if it was a good idea only in private moments. Tragedy struck during that time of introspection, Damian shot himself.
Life was misery. In my more dramatic moments I called what our friend-circle dealt with in the wake of his death an 'onslaught of horrors'. Thinking about it now, it still seems ridiculous-sounding but apt. His family refused to accept any responsibility for his depression, citing video games and religion and any gods-forsaken thing they could blame instead of admitting they had failed him. His grandmother retroactively changed his religion, saying he did not make the choices he did because it fit with her worldview. An aunt used his remembrance group to preach about the 'disaster' that would follow Obama's re-election and how Damian would not have wanted to live in the world afterward. His mother sold all of his possessions to get away from her boyfriend and moved several states away with only a few words. His father, who had campaigned constantly to be readmitted into Damian's life disappeared. And, unto all of this, a mutual friend had known about Damian's suicidal thoughts far ahead of time and told no one in some hair-brained scheme to get attention, then capitalized on his death to receive pity-sex from Damian's female friends. In all of this bullshit I checked out. I abandoned our friend group, the majority of relations with Damian's family, and many he had touched in my own personal life for a time. In those dark days I decided to forgive Lyn.
That decision brought some light back into my life and, at least I hope, his. We became close again but problems still remained. I was harried by my project, dealing with the predations of my own parents' nonsense, and dealing with school. He was still suicidally depressed at some points, drinking heavily often, and soon found out he had a series of congenital heart conditions that rendered him unfit for service. Unfortunately, this was found-out by a civilian doctor and the doctor on his base only held his position by virtue of rank instead of competence. The on-base doctor had a vested interest in keeping Lyn in the Army or at least seeing that he didn't get discharged honorably so as to not cost the Army for benefits & insurance costs. To give an example, that doctor prescribed 'meditation' for Lyn's heart palpitations and bloody cough. Lyn's parents hired ex-JAG lawyers to get him out and after an uphill battle for two years, they did. Still, things did not go well for Lyn in those two years. He went into a series of bad relationships, one with a parasitic woman, and his mother continued to interfere and harry his life whenever she decided she knew better than everyone else around her. At one point Lyn decided to buy a house for himself to stay in once he moved back from his base. His mother sold it out of under him for a profit she then spent to help him move back down once he was released and then charged him for it.
And that, further extraneous little details, slights, and complexities aside, is what brings me to the current situation. Since I heard of what his mother had done that Thanksgiving years ago, I had debated or argued with him at least every week about him letting her affect his life. It is my belief that he has the power to make her stop interfering or even abandon anywhere she holds sway and make his own way. Before these conversations always petered out over mumbled agreements or impasses that neither of us could navigate. For whatever reason, yesterday it changed and the aforementioned gun incident happened. I did not fear for my life and I do not now. I fear for his.
Last night my father exploded on me in a drunken rage about a minor logistical issue with our plumbing, as he has done nearly every other night about every other petty thing he can blow out of proportion. I am not without problems either and Lyn's mysterious aggression has only pushed me further down the spiral. I have thought of killing myself often in the last few years. I always stop planning when I realize that those thoughts are only brought on by false guilt heaped upon me by my mother, or my grades, or my own mediocrity when it comes to writing, or my father acting as if I am some massive disappointment because a carpet isn't clean. Those last gasps of self-esteem are always there right before I make for the cliff. This time, I feel like there isn't anything there. My best friend is a bad person, but I am much worse and I am afraid I may have become another catalyst for his own demons.
I write this here because no one I know personally is on my tumblr. On the off-chance anyone reads this, they wouldn't be able to stop me. Generally speaking, no one listens until it's too late anyway, so I don't know why I worry. I don't know if I'll shoot myself or if there will be some miraculous reconciliation to this and my and Lyn's life will go on without another death. I kinda feel better now that this piece is coming to a close, but I know a dark cloud still looms over the whole thing metaphorically speaking. Maybe everything'll be fine. Maybe I'll be able to beat Lyn to the punch if it comes to self-harm or other violence and, in a way, be able to stop him from getting any worse. Maybe one of our friends will find a solution to his issue and we can all simmer down. And maybe the world will go on without anyone really noticing whatever happens in the next week or so. Maybe.
"The reactor wasn’t hit, no nuclear overload detected!"
This odd looking cutie is known as the MSM-04G Juaggu Limited Production Assault Amphibious Mobile Suit. This suit is nearly a decade old when it assaulted Dakar along with a few other Zeon Remnants and demonstrated that it was still as deadly as any modern mobile suit, before being destroyed by a GM III.
This thing has little to no articulation which is fine considering the suit’s overall shape and size. I imagine it’s more like a mobile turret of some kind like the Zock. I’m still very confused on why this, or any mobile suit for that matter, needs an elephant trunk, maybe it’s a flamethrower or something and it was just never demonstrated, it’s known weapons are the 3-barrel Vulcan Cannons (which can be switched out for rocket launchers) and the 4 Mega Particle Cannons on it’s chest, this thing can also punch a hole through a mobile suit with it’s immense strength.
In the last picture, a Zaku II is comforting the poor shy guy after being bullied by the feddies because of his trunk
Tzeentch Demon Prince
JESUS-FUCK IT IS SO PRETTY
HOPE & CHANGE!
I’m the only Asian that will eat so much ass, that they call me “the pacific rim.
- Filthy Frank (via victoryspoon)
Wow! You managed to piss off all SJW's! Your next task: Piss off every republican in one sentence
The president is black.
Fucking ba-zing
CHRIST
NVKLHBOIF that poor guy XDDD
I couldn’t help but chuckle at this.
If the roles were reversed nobody would be laughing.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Apparently, this isn’t her first time doing something like this, either.
And does anyone else find it interesting that it says that she “demanded too much sex”? If it had been a male nympho and a female victim, anyone else think it would have been worded differently?
Here’s an example from the same site. Oh, the hypocrisy.
What’s even more disgusting is the comments. “He’s a pansy.” “Oh, I wish this could happen to me.” “Where’s her contact information?” “MAN UP!”
If a woman’s raped, it’s an atrocity. If a man’s raped, it’s a punchline - and it’s not even worth labeling “rape,” even though it is.
omg damn
ONLY 9 IPHONE USERS HAD THIS HAPPEN AND THERES A HUGE THING ON IT NOW WHEN IT TOTALLY HAPPENS TO OTHER PHONES TOO IM SO UPSET
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ahh the schadenfreude….
The circle jerk
Stop
Can't stop the rape train
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I see people claiming video games are harmful to women, that they make them feel inadequate, and I don’t think any woman who has actually played more than iPhone games would seriously say or believe that. (Oh yeah and playing mostly phone games don’t make you a gamer).
Sure the gaming market is geared mostly towards men but they are the VAST majority of gamers, that is the largest demographic and the most source of income. That’s why politicians appeal to women, they are the majority of voters. That’s why make-up companies advertise to women because they are the majority of the people who use make-up.
Its simple logic and economics. Being a gaming female isn’t about changing it to suit you, its about appreciating what it is for what it is.
i’m just gonna leave this here for you
this one too
please do research next time
thanks :)
On videogames and women
From your first source:
That just means that teen and adult males are 52% of the gaming demographic. This article says adult women (that is women over 18) make up 36% of the gaming community. Given that on the whole percentage of women as a whole is 48% that means that only 8% of the gaming demographic is a teen female. The article also says that adult men are 35% so that means 17% of gamers are male teenagers.
So in order of most common:
Adult Women 36%
Adult Males 35%
Teen Males 17%
Teen Females 8%
Ok, so given that information, women make up the largest demographic when you divide it by age AND gender. But in the gender war (which is the issue in video games, not age) then male are indeed the majority.
Also, remember when I said mobile games dont count?
From your first source:
Phone games cost significantly less than console and computer games. Some console games go for over $60. Most mobile games are free. Therefor, even if we do count mobile gaming (which i personally dont but I will humor you) men are still spending vastly more money on video games. Hence, the major demographic both in playing and spending.
Not to mention all the games that are coming under fire are console and computer games, not Mobile games. (well most, i havent seen any mobile games get attacked).
As for your second source, that is simply the source for your first source and if you ask me, your first source left out so much. Probably because it had a bias and it was trying to twist things around.
Listen sweetie, I did do my research, tons of it. You simply took the first thing you found on Google and didnt even read past the headline. Because even though it had a bias, it only proved itself wrong. And you.
So let me get this straight:
52% constitutes as a “vast majority” and justifiable reason to completely ignore the other 48%.
48% of a population doesn’t have any pull on a business? Even if, broken down, part of that demographic would be considered - by your standards - the ’ vast majority’.
Oh wait that’s because all women play mobile games, where as men pay for real games. That’s why I sit here and run a blog about games that I’ve never played or even heard of. Ok, that makes sense. Guess that’s another area where I don’t exist.
But my point is just this:
The idea that “men … are the VAST majority of gamers” is so completely wrong. "There is no longer a ‘stereotype game player’" And for gaming companies to continue to target a demographic that no longer exists is essentially moronic. Game companies have 48% of a population that they could be targeting, but they don’t. “Everything is about money.” So if everything is about money, why wouldn’t big game companies try to target the 48% of gamers? Ignoring basically half of your demographic seems completely idiotic to me.
But aside from money, let’s talk about representation, because representation matters and has a huge negative impact on those who are either misrepresented or not at all.
In 2009, researchers at the University of Southern California carried out a comprehensive study of the 150 biggest video game releases – they discovered that less than 10% of game characters are female.
And that’s just women:
"Latino children play more video games than white children. And they’re really not able to play themselves," Williams said. "For identity formation, that’s a problem. And for generating interest in technology, it may place underrepresented groups behind the curve.”
No one is asking for every single game to have be female led, but at least one or two titles a year to have a female lead. Females may not be the “vast majority” but they are a very large portion. More and more women are playing video games and video games continue to produce games with the same, white, scruffy, probably tattooed, guy over and over.
I’m not the only one who is sick of seeing the same character in my video games. I’m not the only one who is sick of not being able to play a character that I can identify with.
First of all, yes, they are still the majority of game players. I just debunked you dear.
Oh and dear, I never said all women play only mobile games and all men play only the games that cost a shit ton of money. Those stats are the majority and your own source proved that point. So yeah, men are spending far more money, or at least, games aimed at men are making the most money. Dont twist peoples words deary, no one ever said nor implied an “all”.
Why ignore the 48%? Well its simple, from the second source you provided:
Men are still buying more computer and console games, which as we know dominate the market in terms of sales.
(also from your own second source)
So what gaming demographic makes significantly more money? Well according to Gartner:
So, taking a look at last years total revenue you can see why they advertise to mostly console gamers, and most console gamers are men. Mobile gaming have always been the lowest even though they are predicted to rise.
But again.. i dont see anyone attacking mobile games or mobile gaming for not being friendly to females when it is in fact dominated by females. Why should something dominated by men cater to women? That how people lose money.
And all I have to say is that if you are unable to “relate” to a character because if their race, gender, or sexual orientation, that makes you the sexist and that makes you the racist. They dont have any proof latinos play video games more than whites, its just a claim they made.
I looked that up and found this which says that blacks play more than whites but Mexicans play less than whites.
And from your source:
They randomly selected characters where you can choose your own gender and stuff. That shows a clear bias because most games start with males (and lemme guess ur gonna cry that “y defultsex is nu male!!11!” and lemme just stop you before you do so i can say its a NONE ISSUE) and so they just pushed their own agenda with that.
It also says it excluded many games where you cant see your character (mirrors edge) and where the character is not human (Mass effect).
and take a look at the last paragraph. Read it. take it in. let it envelope you. Chances are, the reason most characters are white and male is because its rather easy to make a male character and have a backstory. In short, video games view men as simple creatures with simple motives.
However, if you’re still having trouble finding great women in video games, I suggest stop watching Anita Sarkessian and check this out. Because if you pay attention to a feminist who doesnt even like video games you wont learn anything.
as a hispanic male who grew up on video games with staunch stoic white male protagonists— I can tell you as a kid I gave all of three shits for the gender/race of the character. I mean if they looked cool? then awesome, they looked cool. it didnt stop or impede me for liking or being fascinated with my own cultural heritage (of which I feel very close to even without my family) and it sure as fuck wasnt something immasculating when I played as a girl in games either. I loved playing through metal gear as solid snake, I adored slaying dracula as Trevor Belmont and Alucard, I fucking reveled in hacking dumb fuck monsters to pieces in Dark Cloud and even had a load of fun playing COD Black Ops and Gears of War. I can tell you, the games I remember that I never really liked in regards to characters? It was when they had characters that felt piped in and token. You know, just like the whole idea of pushing for more random representation of johnny foreigner or jane thornburry into a title just for the sake of representation and nothing else. It just comes off as ingenuine and frankly boring. THAT all aside though, and this is coming from someone who is in the arts and creative industry; numbers aside, maybe these devs just ENJOY what they make. sure they have target audiences, but theres certainly something to be said for people who are enamored with their work— and trust me honey, you HAVE to be into what youre making in this field or else it comes out as shit. any artist, programmer, or dev will tell you this. for instance, David Jaffe, creator of God of War— he created a game with a brooding white male protagonist asshole. why didnt he do a woman, or you know, a flying spaghetti monster or whatever? Cause I can tell you, concept artist Charlie Wen went through plenty of designs with Jaffe. He settled on the final design of Kratos because he *LIKED* it, and he had dedicated 5 years of his life to his own artistic vision for what he wanted to make, his reasons, his homage to the claymation clash of the titans epics and greek myth of his childhood— all this rolled with subtext to the reason why he has Kratos the way he is in his design. He had so much heart in this project that when he finished he left the franchise, stepping away from a completed painting. EVEN despite being begged to create a sequel. it wasnt until long time friend, Cory Barlog, convinced him that he would treat the idea and vision jaffe had with RESPECT and reverence, that he allowed sony to take the rites to his God of War IP and produce a sequel. so how about this; realize the fact that these devs are *NOT* beholden to your brands of social justice. theyre individual people creating what they feel proud of and what they want to sell. if that doesnt fit nicely into your little hugbox of a world, then fuck it— dont buy it. just dont kick in the door of the rest of us and try to say you speak for US when you try to homogenize and ruin our beloved passtime with your thought policing bullshit for your own sense of moral superiority. cheers to anti-feminism-pro-equality for what they’ve said so far.
I didn’t want to write this piece, I really didn’t. I wanted to write a nice little article that I could possibly sell to a few gaming rags for a quick buck to pay the rent (I owe people money) and…
