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"You're a Fake Geek!" and Sexism among Geeks/Nerds/Etc (us)

What does Spam have to do with Fake Geeks?

Mass Effect: Nova

Dervish said
I can't imagine the salarians allowing one to escape.

To be fair, Mass Effect 3 does say it happened.

A salarian research facility on Sur'Kesh captured and experimented on several yahg. The salarians planned to secretly uplift the yahg and use them to further their initiatives with full deniability in a similar manner as the krogan. During a Cerberus assault on the STG base, one yahg breaks out of containment and goes on a rampage, killing several Cerberus soldiers. Its fate is unknown.

Though, looking at it again, the involvement of Cerberus/the way it's read makes it seem like it was during ME3 or slightly before.

Mass Effect: Nova

Gaia said
Okay so I'm curious, would you guys be willing to take on a Yahg that was part of a Salarian STG research project? If not I have other ideas, but I have been dying to play my Yahg character again.

Probably not. Although that is technically canon from ME3 (though I couldn't find a date for the research project or when the one yahg escaped), it'd be hard to pull off an argument for a yahg in the team. Yahgs are not allowed in Citadel space/to be dealt with in Citadel space, so Nova would have an extra reason to be gunned down off the bat if they took 'em in. That isn't a deal breaker on its own (we've got a few of those guys), but yahg are known to be both extremely intelligent, perceptive, and aggressive/murderous. The reason they got blocked from the space community is because they killed the Council delegation for acting as equals. It'd be a constant threat and danger to the team, especially since there's not much known about the yahg's psychology.

If you can make a really fantastic argument for it, maybe it'd work. But the yahg's mindset and temperament, combined with the fact they can be a serious risk, isn't genial to cooperation. Especially on a ship that's running a democracy.

Mass Effect: Nova

Hey, does anyone remember the xenophobes? They were in one side Citadel convo in ME1, where they were protesting something?
I recall them being a group, but I'm blanking on their names.

Strangest Roleplays

Way back, I saw a surprisingly popular Vampire Master/Human Slave smut RP in what was a kiddy site. Didn't get banned or warned. But I think the trend picked up steam, because way later, there was a new rule against it.

Foxxie I missed you ;-;

Blitzkrieg said
Ok, really shouldn't of have opened this thread up at the library.

I used to have an avatar of a video game model, floating with its head upside down. It was hilariously weird/disturbing.
It might have got this site banned at a library way in the South.

That, or they're not a fan of forums and other nonacademic activities (the blocking effect sent you to a new link that contained words like "lolcats" and "4chan", or the like).

Cover ups

This might be the most informative Spam thread I've seen in recent history.

Mass Effect: Nova

I've got no idea how you sleep, Vakte, let alone how you RP. I salute you for spitting on the rules of impossibility.

Gowi - Awesome, good to see another post up. :]

Dervish said
Then again, people bitch and complain about how hard it is being able to tell the difference between some of the characters, like Lord Commander Mormont, Davos Seaworth, Barristen Selmy, and Rodrick Cassel, or Stannis Baratheon and Roose Bolton. Some people need friggin' training wheels and colouring books. >_>

Who's Seaworth? Why are they seaworthy?
What's a Baratheon?
Why are we talking about castles?
Is Selmy a type of cat? Is it the cat we color in?:

Mass Effect: Nova

Volt - The fuck?
I wish I had known that gif existed when I made a moth sig.

On the Jaime thing again. Derv already said it, but yeah, it wasn't the act itself, it was that it didn't make sense. I got why he pushed the kid off, and to a lesser degree why he killed his family to get out a cell. If the rape was supposed to be out of hate, the show didn't build that up at all. What they built up was that Cersei was rebuffing him, and he saw his son die. He seemed frustrated, maybe desperate, but he didn't seem to realize Cersei was a bad person. Beyond the sudden "hateful woman" comment slapped onto the rape scene (and a writer shouldn't make the build-up seconds before the pay-off).
I haven't seen Jaime written as someone that experiences flash moments/fits of violence, either. Not toward other characters he despises, and not toward family. Which is what it reads like, as the show is.

I get your points, Mosis, to explain it. I can see where the action'd make sense, from that perspective. Though violent rape still seems like a weird way for Jaime Lannister to go, if he had those problems. The thing is (what causes me not to agree with your sentiment fully), I don't think the show really set those points up (other than the general rejection at King's Landing). Which is the show's job. Viewers shouldn't have to explain/justify the cause and effect to other viewers.

And yeah, I agree, it likely wouldn't be any better if it followed the books to the letter, due to the changed conditions before. I can't say that, at that point, there would have been a better way to do it.

Mass Effect: Nova

Gowi said
Debating if I should post what I have so far and Vakte and I's collab can be the second post continuing that.

If Vakte's cool with it, I don't see why not. If it's too ahead of what's going on on the Nova side, we can just treat it as different points in time.