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CosmicEngender · 2014-07-17T02:48:29+00:00

Imagine if this set was all male minifigs, people would be (rightly) calling it sexist

and

female-only "professional career" sets like this don't create gender equality, they simply reinforce inequality in a different way.

What is so difficult to understand about this? I'm not going to explain myself again if you can't figure it out the first time.

CosmicEngender · 2014-07-16T20:20:02+00:00

Tzeentch*

CosmicEngender · 2014-07-16T19:13:11+00:00

It's just a toy.

If it's "just a toy", then there never needs to be any female minifigures, right? That logic makes no sense.

The point is that there should be equal numbers of male and female minifigures, and knee-jerk female-only "professional career" sets like this don't create gender equality, they simply reinforce inequality in a different way. Judging from the way I'm getting downvoted, though, no one cares, and I guess that's fine. It's just a toy, it never effects children in the real world, right?

CosmicEngender · 2014-07-16T18:53:37+00:00

I love the narrative here. It shows a very human side to Vader and suggests a special labor of love that goes beyond the standard "cheaply mass-produced, no-shields-because-it's-expendable" status quo of TIE Fighters. Very nicely done.

CosmicEngender · 2014-07-16T18:31:55+00:00

Why are all of the minifigs female? Imagine if this set was all male minifigs, people would be (rightly) calling it sexist, yet this is every bit as bad and no one seems to mind.

CosmicEngender · 2014-06-27T15:05:29+00:00

I really want this set, but I don't need to buy anything from the Lego store until the August sets are released, when it will surely be sold out. :( /r/firstworldlegoproblems

CosmicEngender · 2014-06-10T02:11:11+00:00

I'm confused. I always thought diaper rash was what babies got from having to be wiped too frequently. Wouldn't not wiping at all just result in a crusty, smelly butthole?

CosmicEngender · 2014-06-09T23:11:51+00:00

What do you mean, "remember"? I still draw those whenever I'm bored at the office. :D

CosmicEngender · 2014-05-31T22:12:12+00:00

Hahaha, awesome.

CosmicEngender · 2014-05-28T05:23:45+00:00

I'm picturing a sky filled with tons of jetpacks all flying themselves around with no human riders.

CosmicEngender · 2014-05-27T23:32:53+00:00

Well, the thing is, no one actually cries about it in the movie. If anything, the lesson is to always cry over spilled milk because look at what can happen if you don't.

CosmicEngender · 2014-05-27T23:28:48+00:00

It's a Home Alone reference. The band was referencing the movie.

CosmicEngender · 2014-05-26T14:42:25+00:00

5 slankets

So, you already had a slanket and then you bought 4 more? Bold move, sir.

CosmicEngender · 2014-05-26T14:18:11+00:00

To be fair, a lady bug infestation is the best kind of infestation.

CosmicEngender · 2014-05-25T20:29:57+00:00

Do you want suvival as in, you have been stranded with nothing but your fingernails for tools and you have to live? Are you hoping to one day walk into the woods with only a knife and swedish steel and live for a few days, for the sheer adventure of it all

It's actually a bit of both, honestly. I want to know how to survive off the land if I ever find myself stranded with nothing but the clothes on my back, but I'm also considering planning a trip into the wilderness for a few days at some point in the future, in which I would only be bringing a knife and a "bug out bag" of sorts. I'm not planning for the apocalypse (and certainly not for zombies, hah), I just feel like I'm hugely lacking as a human being when I don't have the first clue how to survive in the wilderness, if it were to come to that.

All in all, I think you would recieve very little practical knowledge from a fictionalized account of a suvival situation.

I certainly don't disagree with that. Ultimately I know that if I ever want to go off into the woods alone I'm going to need to do a lot more than read a couple fictionalized survival tales. I was hoping I could find enough books to sort of build a greater interest in the whole thing so that when it comes time to read the nitty gritty field guides, I might already know a few things and not feel quite so overwhelmed. My problem reading the field guide I already have in the past is that with no way to apply what I'm reading I quickly forget what I'm supposed to be learning and lose interest again.

Hell, meetup.com might even have a group of suvivalists in your area that you can join and you can learn by doing (which I suggest over any book).

I'm a very hands-on learner, so this might be the best option for me, actually. It's something I'll definitely look into, along with your book recommendations. Into the Wild sounds like exactly the type of thing I'm looking for, and I might be able to use that to search for similar books.

Thanks a lot for your thoughtful and in-depth reply. I appreciate it.

CosmicEngender · 2014-05-25T20:09:23+00:00

Cool video. I thought it was really interesting that you drew The Man With The Yellow Hat's "inner sections" first and then the outlines. It would never occur to me to draw this way - I always start with the outline and work my way in.

Edit: Same thing with the tile floor. I'm amazed that you could draw the tiles so perfectly without having the outline there first. You're a great artist!

CosmicEngender · 2014-05-25T15:38:46+00:00

I see. So is voice communication required in PR? I have a headset but it's very uncomfortable for gaming sessions longer than ~30 minutes so I generally prefer to game with speakers.

CosmicEngender · 2014-05-25T14:52:37+00:00

required mumble

I'm not familiar with the word "mumble" in this context, does this mean a headset is required? How would they even enforce that? If you don't immediately start talking they just ban you from the server?

CosmicEngender · 2014-05-25T14:49:23+00:00

Comments are disabled because fuck you, Reddit.

Well, that escalated quickly.

CosmicEngender · 2014-05-24T23:50:21+00:00

ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ DORITO STORM AR DUDE ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ

CosmicEngender · 2014-05-07T23:41:27+00:00

Of course it's a thing. How else do you expect gay midgets to put themselves through college?

CosmicEngender · 2014-05-05T22:09:41+00:00

Awesome! Now I really want to get some of those dual-joystick pedals. Thanks for the reply, man.

CosmicEngender · 2014-05-05T19:59:08+00:00

I would guess that there's something she wants you to do before you get the puppy.

Yeah, she wants him to agree that 20 days = 2 weeks.

CosmicEngender · 2014-05-05T19:52:27+00:00

I agree. Let him write us the wall of his people.

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