I also think it's very easy to mix up a community that is an echo chamber, in which people's opinions are shouted down because they're unpopular, to a healthy community, in which people's opinions are shouted down because they're wrong. I should hope that were someone to appear here, and begin talk...

Currently looking like my package won't be getting sent much before Christmas (ordering from a rather busy person!); since it's crossing the pond, it's unfortunately quite unlikely to reach my Santee before the day itself. I can only apologise :-/

Having just watched the My Summer Car stream, the game that it most reminds me of is Kerbal Space Program. Stick with me, I'm going somewhere with this. KSP is a game about exploring space in a fashion that, like My Summer Car, treads a strange line between realism (Newtonian physics models and part...

The UK has something of an archaic view on gender, and the emotional roles thereof. It is an unwritten law (not rule, or advice, but law) that there are only 3 times a "real man" may show emotion - Upon the death of their child, upon learning they have contracted a fatal illness, or upon ...

I... might be able to send something next week? What exactly mine consists of is still in a bit of a state of flux

It's not a crime thriller strictly speaking, and if you're looking for a film you've not seen before then it's almost certainly an unhelpful suggestion, but the film that immediately springs to mind is Zero Dark Thirty.

Charity is the most competitive and hard-fought industry in the developed world, simply because humans have a limited capacity for compassion. It is emotionally draining to care constantly about the things that Matter to you or all the worthy causes in this world, and this is essentially the limitin...

Because Elomin is nice overlord, he said I could slip in under the radar after a bit of an admin cockup on my end: CONFIRMED: My pseudonym is Ix Early twenties British engineering student- likes space, machines, explosions, medieval history, woodwork and hiking over cold, crisp moorland of an autumn...

All the pain I'm in, all the scars I've endured, all the times I've been crushed and betrayed and the people I know treat me like I'm a lower priority in their lives than burning cookies. That's right. Burning cookies takes precedence over me actually healing. A message to say I'm actually on the r...

And even after all that I forgot to talk about the Hamilton thing. To summarize that point, I feel like what they did, calling Pence out, was no different than what wraith did. I don't see it. At all. - There is a difference between criticizing a public official about how they carry out the duties ...

There is no line for full-scale panic. Panic doesn't get shit done. First comes calling out bad stuff as it happens, second comes public protest, and thereafter public disruption to varying extents. Personally, I don't think panic is a useful response at any point. Panic isn't the right word I gran...

There is no line for full-scale panic. Panic doesn't get shit done. First comes calling out bad stuff as it happens, second comes public protest, and thereafter public disruption to varying extents. Personally, I don't think panic is a useful response at any point.

I didn't want something like this to be my next post on here, because honestly I'm doing better now at controlling and managing and getting over my depression now than at any point in the past five years. I'm winning, and winning HARD. But... I write a lot. It's one of the reasons I've made so much ...

...yup, I find that entirely unsurprising in every way.

Echoing Sieg's comments about Ben. For this if nothing else

EDIT: Also, this was my challenge and in hindsight, I'm super pleased with how well it worked out.

Warning for crass language I fucking guess... Fuck a shitting dickwhistle. Fuck all this emotional bullcrap that seemingly can't cope with the tiniest motherfucking deviation to some fucking inner teenager's idea of a way this fucking 'should' go. Fuck my mind's inability to focu...

Don't.

Don't ****ing say it, Ix.

Just... eurgh. I'm off to the Venting thread.

This The link above is an experiment about the 'bubble' we create for ourselves that polarises us from our opponents' point of view- it's a wonderful illustrator of the extent of the political divide. All it needed to be perfect would be for the people to actually speak to one another afterwards, t...

To add to Sieg's points, I personally don't think that Wraith and others were offering advice; they were offering an opinion regarding the necessity and usefulness of the stream shelter such as it is. Perhaps there was advice implicit therein, but one could argue that with pretty much all opinions. ...

Thank you, Sieg, for injecting some sanity back into proceedings. Y'all, this is what happens when you actually try and sympathise with your opponents- it actually GETS you both somewhere.

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I personally would have let Wraith be, in the name of equitability. From my perspective, Wraith was being no more abrasive than those he was arguing with- he was just in an environment where his view was in the minority, so a greater number of people felt like he was rubbing them up the wrong way. A...

On Soldiers and Remembrance DISCLAIMER: Despite prior efforts to the contrary, I have never been a member of the military. I have never been to a warzone in my life, never held a firearm outside of a couple of incidents on a firing range, and never used a weapon to intentionally inflict harm on anot...

Does anyone remember the Codes of Conduct (or whatever it was called) thread from a few weeks/months back? Because we had the Exact. Same. Argument. There. And, frankly, I reckon we got a lot of the groundwork out of the way there. I'm not going to repeat the arguments I made there but... guys, can ...

This video (warning- NSFW language and repeated reference to minor occurrences in the British media) has been doing the rounds in the UK at present, and although the message is delivered more angrily than I personally would do (and I think veers a little off its rails at the end), I think it's stra...

Agreed. I anticipate a year or two of back-and-forth negotiation between RC and the Pro12, before they either bite the bullet or RC go cap in hand back to the PRO NA league... but who knows, rugby's top brass have been known to pull their finger out every once in a while.