BloodyHell

On 6/30/2020 at 1:21 PM, Chris- said:

My dad is the most impossible man to shop for so I didn’t even bother; usually I just cook dinner for him. I did give him a hair cut, though.

Think your dad is hard to shop for? I don’t even know who mine is. Lol

1 minute ago, skillzdadirecta said:

'twas a pun my friend.

🤣🤦‍♂️

2 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

I think the situation is probably different in Canada than the US for these terms. Here (in Saskatchewan), using Indian is considered offensive by all the Indigenous people I know. I don't know any Inuit since I am too far south, but from what I've read it's the same thing - they call themselves Inuit (or Inuk for an individual), and Eskimo is considered a racist, outdated term. Obviously I will simply listened to whatever a group of people want to call themselves (not my place to argue otherwise), but I'd assume that the culture is different in Canada and the US between the two groups, as the history is quite different as well (and relationship between the people and the state).

You will find some of us who find Indian offensive, but its very few. I grew up in Alaska, I know plenty of Eskimo, and thats what they are, not one of them would call themselves anything else. (Aside from when speaking their native tongue). 

2 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

In Canada we've gone through a gradual shift in terms for Indigenous people:

 

Indian

Native / Eskimo

First Nations / Inuit / Metis

Aboriginal

Indigenous / Inuit / Metis (though Indigenous can be used for all three)

 

Indigenous is the first to be self-chosen by Indigenous people, so unless it somehow becomes a slur I expect it will be the accepted term for a long time. There are still people who say Indian, though. :\ 

Indian is not an offensive term. It’s perfectly acceptable. This sounds a lot like white people deciding what is offensive. 

also, Eskimo are not offended by the term Eskimo, or at least the ones I have met weren’t. they definitely don’t call themselves Inuit (maybe in Canada they do, but not nirthern alaska).

1 hour ago, Bloodporne said:

 

Apparently not!!!!

 

 

Design reasons doesnt mean that the game was running badly.

of course it could also be that, but design isn’t performance.

I remember when I built my first real gaming PC, Crysis was pretty much the benchmark for a high end pc, and even they didn’t run it well 😋

9 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

I'm calling it, Biden's V.P. pick is gonna be Susan Rice. I just watched her on CNN and she pretty much auditioned for it with an impassioned attack on Trump. I'm rooting for Susan.

Ill take anyone as long as its not Kamala “prison for you and you and you” Harris. She’s like Oprah, but with Prison instead of cars. 

8 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Ahhh... when I joined the Marines in 2002 (I didn’t have a lot of other prospects and had a kid on the way) My mom was upset, asked me why I would go fight for the “white man” in another country. I told her that theee were two reasons. I wanted my son to grow up away from the poverty, hopelessness and depression that pervades reservations, and that I was going to war so hopefully he wouldn’t need to. 
 

He’s 18 next year, and we’re still fighting.  The same goddamn war. And he’s been talking about joining for a while now. 🤦‍♂️

10 hours ago, Commodore D said:

I've never had the chance to ask anyone this question since having the experience, first the experience:

 

I was traveling for work (in Chico, but came down to Sacramento), out to dinner by myself, eating at the bar, and a conversation was struck up between myself and the gorgeous woman sitting next to me; a recent transplant from Alaska.

 

At some point in the conversation I made reference to her being Native American (I think I was talking about my great great grandmother who had passed a few years earlier); her face did all types of tricks and she said that term offends her, and she find it derogatory as "native people don't look like her, they look like the beginning of time." I didn't get to ask what she would like to be called if anything, because she changed subjects and I let her know I was married and wouldn't hang out with her after my dinner. 

 

Every heard of such a distinction, or is that an Alaskan "Native American" thing? (Yes, I know its unfair to ask you to be the mouth piece of all)

 

I do know my great great grandmother took issue with the term because her nativeness precedes the land being called America. 

 

 

Ive never known any if us to be offended by  “Native” or “Native American”, so i guess without the whole convo, its hard to say what she reacted too. 
 

but don’t forget, we also have far left members of our community who think everything is racist, and are offended by everything, just like every community. We also have far right band members. We’re as diverse as any race. Some are easily offended, others are just offensive.

18 hours ago, Remarkableriots said:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cinemablend.com/television/2549245/mythbusters-adam-savage-denies-sexual-abuse-allegations-made-by-sister

Please don’t be real, please don’t be real 🙏 

21 minutes ago, osxmatt said:

Trump says of Russian bounties on American soldiers “it’s a hoax by the newspapers and the Democrats.”

 

 

This after he admitted intel has now officially prepped him on the info. 
 

“democrat hoax, like Covid! Vlad is my Friend, he wouldn’t do that!”

I wonder if the pawns on putins personal chess board are carved into fat little Trumps with tiny little hands. 

2 minutes ago, osxmatt said:

Just another accident, I’m sure..

 

 

Nothing matters anymore.

18 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

I’m on the @skillzdadirecta train of thought that you call it out, every time, with vigor. Racism should result in shame and embarrassment for the perpetrator and right now it most often results in shame and embarrassment for the victim. 

Thats the problem, when you’re the only minority in a group, the group mentality always takes over. “They didn’t mean it”, “They didn’t know!”, almost as though you’re the one who should be sorry for misinterpreting it.

36 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

There's been a lot of racial tension at work lately. We've had two major incidents between coworkers in the last couple weeks. First, two travel nurses got put on administrative leave for allegedly making racially insensitive comments. It sounds like the worst of what was alleged wasn't true, so they were allowed to come back. I wasn't there that night, so I don't know what was really said. But both denied using the slurs they were accused of.

 

This past weekend, there was a blow up where a nurse informed a patient's daughter(black) visiting hours were over and she'd have to leave. Daughter refused, started calling the nurse a racist, and recording. Security was called to escort her out and six Barney Fifes showed up, which was way overkill and both charge nurses were appalled and apologetic by that overshow of force. The daughter started screaming, claiming we were putting her life in danger, blah blah. While six guys was way overkill, I mean what I said about them being Barney Fifes. A couple of our officers and wannabe tough dudes, but the rest are pretty dopey. They carry no weapons, not even a taser. The daughter was most definitely in no physical danger. She claimed she had 27 minutes of video and she's going to the local news station to expose how racist the hospital is.

 

While that was most certainly overblown and ridiculous(I'd dealt with this daughter when I'd admitted the patient a few nights before and she was definitely a piece of work), what happened after, wasn't great. The primary nurse involved was recounting a story about her daughter as a child saying the n-word and she used the actual word. In front of a black nurse. The black nurse proceeded to respond to a fucking group text from our boss from a week or so ago asking for help one night to inform a bunch of random coworkers that this nurse was racist, said that word, and she refused to work with racism and it was illegal. I  was literally sitting at home at midnight, playing TLOU, when I get this text from a number I don't know. I don't know how dumb you have to be to respond to a prior group text with this allegation, but this girl is pretty fuckin' dumb. So now, we've got one nurse going to HR filing complaints of racism and we have another nurse going to HR to file a complaint of defamation of character.

 

So, yeah, a lot of tension.

 

But there's been a long time culture of insensitivity at my job for a while. I work with some really great nurses, but being fucking Arkansas, a lot of them have bigoted views. I've constantly heard racially insensitive statements, anti-Muslim rants, jokes and rude comments about LGBT people, etc. I think it's just finally coming to a head. Our manager is in a relationship with a woman, and when she came to us, some people were making derogatory comments about her personal life, calling her a "lezzy come lately" because she was married to a man and had kids from that marriage. I've wrestled with saying something for a long time and after these recent incidents, I finally stepped up and expressed concerns, giving examples of the kind of behavior I'm talking about. Stuff like "I identify as a cat today, bring me a litterbox for my preferred bathroom." I hope something will be done. I know these peoples' minds aren't going to change after decades of holding shitty views and I didn't name names because I don't want to fuck with peoples' livelihoods, but maybe they need to keep their shitty views to themselves at work.

If they think its ok to express those views at work (or anywhere, but especially at work) probably need to have their worlds shaken. 
 

I’ve let racism towards me pass at work because I had the ridiculous, “but their livelihoods!” View. But thats more respect for their jobs than they had ever shown for my humanity. 
 

Now, fuck it. I would report and be very clear with them who reported it. 

3 hours ago, mclumber1 said:

Fun fact:  Even though elephant ivory is essentially banned everywhere, you can buy and sell mammoth (of the extinct variety) ivory freely.  I found a shop in Hong Kong like 15 years ago that specialized in mammoth ivory sculptures.  Pretty neat stuff. 

My mother actually has ivory carvings from the Eskimo and Inuit, which she and my mother traded for ceremonial clothing they made. Its all from before I was born. Yhe artistry is incredible. 

2 hours ago, ManUtdRedDevils said:

This just proves what we all know to be true, North East > Rest of America

The north east is pretty much the obese stomach of America, while the south is its asshole. 

7 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

Thanks for the responses. Obviously racism is different where I live .Less racism against black people (mainly because there are so few in western Canada) and more so against Indigenous people, but it's just as prevalent and I obviously don't want to put someone in a difficult position by talking over them...but I do feel like it's better to err on the side of caution and speak up against racist people.

 

 

Racism against Indigenous people in Canada is really bad, especially in the west, where I live. The one positive current thing is that our entire education system has been retooled to focus around colonialism in basically all subjects. Every public event acknowledges which treaty nation/homeland you are in, etc, and reconciliation is taken very seriously in schools. Obviously politicians only pay lip service and don't bring forward real solutions like actual reparations, or changes to the racist Indian Act (which prevents people living on reserves from owning their homes, etc), but I do have hope that the next generation of white kids will be far better educated on how Canada came to be (the subjugation and elimination of entire nations).

 

It doesn’t matter because so far all those teachings are forgotten soon after they are learned. Even with our own youth. 
 

There is a lot of shame tied up in the identities of the subjugated, and until we tackle that in our own community, we’ll never fix external issues. 

8 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

A question: as a white guy, is it acceptable for me to call out an asshole in that situation (the African American ingenuity, etc)? Or is that overstepping bounds and being a "white saviour?"

 

Obviously I can safely get away with questioning someone's racism more easily since I have that privilege, but should I?

It depends. If im the only minority in a group, id prefer not, because it just causes more friction. And half the group usually need to tell me the person “just didn’t know better, and we should understand that”. Its a minefield. Unless its outright racism, I would say leave it. Nobody learns anything when confronted and defensive. Better to speak to them in private and explain without the extra embarrassment of a callout.

18 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Shit i can't imagine what it must be like to be an Indian/ Native American. I've always wanted to see more authentic representation of that experience in media and I always wanted to see more of your contemporary stories told.

Silly rabbit, America doesn’t want to see a realistic representation of their history . 
 

Hell, I’ve had white right wingers tell me there was no genocide of my people. I hate them only slightly more than those white liberals who tell me what should offend me.

2 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

"Oh gosh that's awful. Well, we better not let that ivory go to waste."

Doubtful. Most countries stamp it and store it in a vault to keep it off the market. There are massive siezed stockpiles of it. I actually recently watched a documentary on it.

2 minutes ago, sexy_shapiro said:

I don’t know what it’s like to be a racial minority but I can say that minor issues of homophobia/ignorance do add up over time. I’m not saying it’s the same, but I empathize because I know that being an “other” can be exhausting.
 

And yeah, for years I felt I had to be silent too. People like us when we’re sassy, witty, entertaining, life of the party, etc. Basically they like when we fill the roles that straight people have allowed us to exist in. But they don’t like when we call out behavior and speak our minds for once. Once I do I get called “dramatic”, sometimes by my own family. I’m just over it.

I imagine it is exactly the same. Its just that being gay, people can’t always immediately see it. Otherwise I have no doubt it would be every bit as bad. Im sure trans people are even worse off. 
Either way, don’t make excuses for it or feel you have no right to be angry because others might have it worst. it is harmful to everyone. 
 

with Indians (yes you can call us that), people think we’re offended by the wrong things. Like cultural appropriation. We don’t care if you aren’t trying to denigrate our culture. Wear a headdress, just don’t use it to belittle us, etc etc.
 

17 minutes ago, Reputator said:

 

It...it literally is saying he only likes briefings with pictures. I thought it was just us making a silly joke.

No, this is real life. 

My favourite is “i had nothing to do with the genocide of your people -and destruction of our culture- maybe you should get over it”

or “I had nothing to do with slavery”. 
 

ffs, nevermind. You will never understand.

I want them to give me a new experience. I want XSX VR, AR, i want experiences that I can’t get anywhere else. All im seeing are games I can play on PC, and very few interest me. My question from the start is WHY SHOULD I BUY AN XBOX? and don’t tell me MS doesn’t care, its just not true. 

I keep getting hostile “because they are creating the future” responses. But they aren’t, PC is. 
 

6 minutes ago, JPDunks4 said:

 

Tell that to Blockbuster when they laughed Netflix out of the building when Netflix asked for $50 million to sell their entire company back in the early 2000's.

 

The future comes fast when it comes to tech.

 

Blockbuster was the billion dollar giant in the video rental space.  Netflix was the little tech based start up trying something new.

 

https://www.cnet.com/news/blockbuster-laughed-at-netflix-partnership-offer/#:~:text=Blockbuster laughed at Netflix partnership offer Netflix proposed,out of the office%2C" recalled Netflix's outgoing CFO.

But they aren’t trying something new, they are trying to be a pc! Thats what I don’t want. I want xbox to be a unique experience, or it has no value to me.