Off-Topic General Discussion - Page 5037

On May 20 2015 01:22 Slayer91 wrote:
i found this offensive and perpetuating stereotypes which is part of patriarchy
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On May 19 2015 22:00 mordek wrote:
Any of you elite Hearthstoners know if Handlock is decent in the current meta? I seem to have a really good matchup vs warriors but hunter is rough. Seems like half of my games are those two.

On May 20 2015 01:54 Gahlo wrote:
At least she's playing good champions.

On May 20 2015 02:08 Gahlo wrote:

And if it was Ghandi playing XCOM, that exploding car would have killed you.

On May 20 2015 02:14 Dandel Ion wrote:
how does one even become a toho

Turner: When I read that scene, I kinda loved it. I love the way Ramsay had Theon watching. It was all so messed up. It’s also so daunting for me to do it. I’ve been making [producer Bryan Cogman] feel so bad for writing that scene: “I can’t believe you’re doing this to me!” But I secretly loved it.

On May 20 2015 02:32 jcarlsoniv wrote:


The amount of complaining is pitiful. Is it fucked up? Absolutely. Have you been watching the show? The story is all sorts of fucked up.

I try to avoid these things because sexual assault is a terrible, terrible thing that has been marginalized for a long time and it does, in general, need to be addressed. But this is just ridiculous.

On May 20 2015 02:41 Numy wrote:


It would be better if Martin did it like Erikson where 6 books later you now reading a POV of the child born from the woman being raped earlier. This was so real geez. He doesn't even know the "auntie" that pops in every now is his real mother or why she looks at him with that sad expression.

Issue is Martin largely just uses assault as a way to bring shock value to the story. The aftermath of these things are hardly covered. Anyway isn't it better to have it being physically repulsive on screen than make it seem not a big deal? It seems people are fine with implied rape or all other kinds of sexual assault but when they see an actual depiction of how horrible it is they cry wolf? Maybe it wouldn't be so romanticized if people started to depict it.

edit: Steve Erikson, specifically Malazan Book of the Fallen. Should prob spoiler that but it's not really a big deal lol.

On May 20 2015 02:41 sung_moon wrote:
I don't think telling these people "Well, it was like 5x worse in the books", will make it better.

Of course, they should of expected this/unsurprised by this (given Ramsay's personality), but even I was feeling like crap for Sansa, and I knew what was about to happen to.

I know/hear a lot of people legit, dropping the show after this episode, and I can't really blame them though. Yes when justice comes, it will be sweet, but too long, and people get tired of reading/watching their favorite characters/good guys getting killed/raped/tortured/rotting in prison.