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@FluxWaveZ said:

@Godlyawesomeguy said:

Maybe I'm coming from a sheltered (and rather anecdotal) perspective, but I've never encountered racism in my life whether that is against others or myself. I have a feeling that the true racists out there are either dead or dying at this point.

Sheltered.

Extremely.

In Ireland, a lot of the older generation seem to have racist tendencies. But I think its mostly going to die out over the next few generations. My nephews are in school with about 5 black kids, 3 Asian kids, and a lot of eastern European kids. They don't even think about a difference between them. If you grow up making friends with people from different races, its kind of hard to be racist.

@jimmyfenix said:

@Humanity said:

@Barrock said:

@Hizang said:

What they should do is get it off of Justin TV and have it only available on Giant Bomb for us upper class folk.

Sick that the gutter trash gets to view our content! Argh! OUTRAGE!

I honestly always feel a little disgusted that premium members have to share the same forums as the non paying peasant class. I feel extremely dirty after posting in these "gutter threads" from time to time.

asshole.

Some day the lower classes will generate enough brain power between them to understand when someone is being sarcastic / facetious.

@august said:

@Pixeldemon said:

The number of people responding with anger, annoyance, or apathy to this article pretty much confirms the problem that the article is highlighting.

If you feel threatened by someone saying that a highly sexualized statue of a mutilated woman is sexist or representative of an undercurrent of misogyny in the community, then you need to grow up. This is not some radical agenda to tar all male game players with the sexist label. It is a response to an almost unthinkably stupid and insensitive marketing campaign that was dreamed up and approved by people working in the industry to appeal to what they perceive as their fans' tastes.

If there is no outcry, then this nonsense will keep happening over and over. If you are annoyed by the outcry, you should meditate on why you are annoyed. You don't have to participate in it if you don't want to, but it is pointless to hinder it with comments like "women gamers kill lots of virtual men all the time and don't care", as if these cases are similar in relevant ways.

Thank you.

@TobbRobb said:

Supporting has always been fun in its own way.

Not sure why you are saying the other lanes are more difficult now? If anything they feel easier with the insane damage buffs on S3 items.

I dont tend to play the other positions all that much, I play top/mid/adc every now and then. The Jungling definitely seems to have gotten more difficult because of sight-stones and tougher jungle mobs.

I guess its somewhat anecdotal, but going from what my friends who I play with say, their lanes seemed to have gotten more difficult. Especially if you are slow to try out the new items. (Coming up against Ashe and Darius with the AOE items is disgusting)

@FirePrince said:

@Canteu:

Then again, I do play with 2 or 3 people most of the time, but even so, nobody ever wants to play support unless it's ranked, where everyone is like: GOTTA GET SUPPORTS IT'S IN THE META.

Which is ok I guess, but so many carry lanes fail because of bad supports it's insane.

Yes. Bad supports lose games. With the sight-stones there's no excuse now to not have proper wards down, but it still happens. If you get sight-stone first > philosophers stone > kages you can get full build real quick.

@Canteu said:

It takes a lot of skill and quality decision making to be a powerful support. It takes a lot of patience to not kill everything in sight, and just let your little ADC get his job done. A lot of players don't have either of these qualities, so that's why i like to fill in.

Everyone wants to deal the damage.

My personal favourite supports are Lulu, Taric and Nami.

Dealing damage is fun, but I find it's equally satisfying to intelligently position yourself so that you can get some cc down and orchestrate a kill. A good support can control fights.

Taric is definitely my favourite support. There have been several occasions where we will get ganked, and I managed to stun the adc but not the jungler, or the other way around, and they dive the tower and kill the carry. Often in that situation my stun comes off cooldown and I can stun one of the enemy under the tower and kill them before they get away, or stall them while our jungler/mid makes their way down. Taric is great for making people pay for exchanges. It's cool to play a champ that is very aggressive but has great utility.

Looking forward to Thresh! He seems crazy. That lantern is going to change the dynamic of team fights completely.

@Ekpyroticuniverse said: Kids don't need shit hidden from them, the world is complicated enough

Couldn't agree more. Kids are lot smarter than we give them credit for. And if you don't explain it to them, they will huddle with their friends who also don't have a clue and come up with some crazy shit to explain it all.

There was a boy in my primary school class who thought that any kind of physical contact with a girl was sex, and that she would get pregnant. When we told him otherwise, he refused to believe us because this was what his parents had told him.

He already had a bit of trouble getting on with people in school, and this didnt make it any better. He still beleived it until 6th class, and only came around when we went to secondary (highschool) and there were girls and boys kissing everywhere.

His parents never told him anything, or corrected him. He had a hard time for a few years in Secondary school.

This is the episode of Captain Planet that got the show thrown off Irish television back in the early / mid nineties.

It deals with HIV, and as a by-product, homosexuality.

SCUM : "AIDS IS the best thing to come along since the Black Plague!". Oh, SCUM.

Todd gets HIV. Poor Todd. jump to 2:30 for the stunning revelation.

Keep in mind that in mid nineties Ireland there was no end of busy-bodies and arse-holes to write in to the network and complain about shows like this.

RTE received thousands of complaints from reactionary Catholics and intolerant old people, and they took it off TV, so if any Irish folk out there were wondering why RTE stopped showing Captain Planet, that's why.

I have never had a single issue with Steam. Not a one.

I think a lot of people on the internet tend to complain by proxy. I.E. they see someone else's issue not being resolved, so they complain about it themselves to highlight it.

This doesn't mean there is no issue, but it does tend to conflate it.

Is there one for being cynical?

"Alex paints hot-dogs... in the nude."

Could be a great feature, lots of potential.