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Kutske                 Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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Ailure: Would it really be moral to permamently delete a computer program that have feelings and acts like a normal human would? That question, of course, is the pivotal point of many a science-fiction feature. But as for this topic, I'm more interested in whether or not blood can carry binary information. Same goes for you, Zam. I mean, I'm up for the whole A.I. philosophical debate, but I'm really curious as to whether blood could carry information as I've suggested. |
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Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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| Just so we're clear, I'm not anti-young-marraige. I was just making statements and responses I felt were relevant to the subject at hand. I dislike marraige in general, because it's merely a title, merely a legal doccument, and I don't like such concrete things being attached to highly abstract concepts such as love. Anyway, the term "young marraige" is in itself useless, because youth is not directly related to maturity. It's immature marraige that should be worried about -- two stupid kids getting hitched because their horny and desperate and in puppy love, instead of real love, or two stupid adults getting hitched because they're both going through midlife crises and think that their transient companionship and mutual empathy can last forever, or at least as long as their previous marraiges. But even then, I don't care. People should do what they want to. | |||
Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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I mean machine-readable data. That is to say, could I carry around a text doccument in my blood? Imagine if you could type up your living will and store it in your blood -- that'd virtually do away with forgeries and disputes. The technology could also replace dogtags; presuming that you don't lose 100% of your blood, that is. It'd be like Johnny Mnemonic, without the creepy hobo who thinks he's Jesus. Anyway, the entire reason I'm asking is because I was throwing around the idea of using blood as a carrier for information as a plot point in a story of mine, and I just wanted to see if it's even remotely feasable. |
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Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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| Search my post history and you'll see numerous examples of Acmlmboard incorrectly displaying special characters I've tried using. First off, I want to know why this is. Secondly, can it and will it be fixed? Lastly, has anyone even noticed, or was it just me? | |||
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Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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| I'm not a fan myself, but you people need to cool it on the smoker-bashing. As long as they aren't blowing it in your face, let them do as they please. I certainly hope that no one here thinks that telling a smoker about lung cancer will be a startling revelation that makes them quit. The bottom line is, we're all gonna die; at least they've got some control over it. As for smoking being sexy? Not for me. For me, food isn't sexy, music isn't sexy, etc. I don't know why, I just don't find sex in otherwise-mundane things. I suppose I'm just extremely easy to please, so I don't have to go out of my way to find things to arouse me -- spend a night naked with me and in the morning, I'll make you breakfast and my heart will be yours.
Snow Tomato: I think smoking shows that the person is kind of carefree, maybe has a wild side.. and people who smoke aren't usually judgemental. You haven't been to France, have you? *audience boos* And that concludes Kutske's Low Blow at Frace for the day. Thank you and goodnight. Enness Nick: I think smoking can be pulled off better because of the whole oral fixation thing. I've never understood men's "oral fixation," as you put it, like eating a banana or a popsicle or lollipop or something. I mean, everyone likes something different, but what is it, fantasizing about fellatio? Or is it the lips themselves that are the object of attraction? |
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Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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| Meh, unless they double the size of the XABY buttons and get rid of the "clickiness" of it all, I won't touch it. Also, does this system look smaller than the original DS to anyone else? The DS is too small for my tastes to begin with, my hand cramps when playing it for too long, which wasn't true of my GBA...I wonder why that is. Perhaps because the GBA is thicker than the bottom half of the DS, but not thicker than the entire thing. And now I'm thinking aloud... | |||
Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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| HyperHacker, bless you for introducing me to the acronym tag. You can all expect me to use it like a fiend in the coming weeks and months. | |||
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Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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| Oh yeah? Well I've been kicking my idea around since the turn of the millenium, and my dad can beat up your dad >:p
"1nes and Zer0s in the Blood" is actually the title of a chapter from the story. Erm, I say "chapter," but it's written in script form. But anyway, developing this idea, sequencing is indeed a problem. Perhaps the stain could imprint each platelet with the entire binary sequence, or each individual zero and one could be numbered so the machine knows where it goes in the sequence. Or perhaps nanomachines could simply be placed in the bloodstream, and they could be smart enough to work their way up or downstream to the location of the syringe. Well, in any event, thank god for suspension of disbelief. This is interesting, though, let's keep kicking around ideas for futurey biologically-integrated technology. Something I thought up that's probably on a lot of people's minds already are what in one story are known colloquially as "tags." At birth, a new part of the routine of fixing up the infant is to implant a device in the wrist which is just smaller than a granule of salt. This keeps information such as social security number, bloodtype, date of birth and such. Later in life, it can also play the role of a credit card; instead of swiping a card through a slot, you wave your wrist over a device that reads the tag. Although it's illegal, you can modify your tag to carry additional information. Implants and National I.D. are scary thoughts to us, but in the story tags are used in, people are used to it. I've got more, but I'll stop here for now; don't wanna get to detracted from bloody binary. |
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Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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| In related news, Donald Trump was taken to a hospital last Wednesday and treated for minor smoke inhalation after standing too close to his fireplace while he burned eighty thousand dollars in small bills to heat his gold-plated livingroom. Said Trump, "I guess there were too many twenties; next time I'll use Franklins." | |||
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Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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Mr. X: Uh, yes, that's why it's called light. And I agree; the buttons are already too small for my hand, and the placement of the ABXY buttons is just crap (I always thought it should be.. Y Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll move it around so GBA games aren't so awkward to play anymore... Heretic! Blasphemer! That's the Xbox/Dreamcast setup, you heathen! X That's the original, that's the best. If you disagree, we'll throw you to the lions. |
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Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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| A rarely-noticed Easter egg tying in with the console's SNES roots lies in the PlayStation's controller design. The four face buttons on the right (Circle, Square, Triangle, and X) seem to be based off the magic attack cast by the Magikoopas found in Super Mario World and Kamek in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. The spell consists of three spinning geometric shapes (a circle, a square, and a triangle) followed by a trail of sparks that appear X-shaped.
It should also be noted that Nintendo's N64DD used the Circle/X/Square/Triangle buttons, which is why you can find the symbols in Animal Crossing (originally Animal Forest for the DD) when typing. But read the topic next time; this was already mentioned three or four times. |
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Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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| Yeah, I know you're used to my philosophising by now, but this has bugged me for a long time already. Which do you think is less expensive; using paper plates as much as possible, or using dishware plates exclusively? See, paper plates are only good for one use, so you constantly have to buy new ones (which is what constantly requires funds), but on the other hand, dishware must be washed after each use (using water, detergent, electricity in the dish washer). So, over time, which would consume more money -- washing dishware or buying paper plates? What do you think? Or do you know for a fact? This is assuming that the same amount of food would be consumed regardeless of which type of plate you were using (although good luck eating spaghetti on a paper plate). | |||
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Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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Cymoro: I know for a fact that paper plates are cheaper. Where you can buy 100 cheap ones for $10, running a gross total of 100 dishes through a dishwasher would cost a lot more. Ahh, but say if you just used the plate to eat a sandwich, and then you wanted a piece of cake for desert; you'd need two paper plates (unless you want your cake sitting in sandwich crumbs) but you could simply run some water over the dishware plate in the sink for a few seconds, then wipe it off and use again. Zamboni Name Changer: Depends...do I intend to only eat for a week then starve to death...Or like...for the rest of my life? I'm talking like, over your lifetime, which is going to cost more? Clockworkz: Running water. Over time, more expensive. Posting fast. Happy hour. Garth; that was a haiku! Alright, excellent. Thoughtless: That is how I handle life. By guessing and bullshitting. Works for me. neotransotaku: i think paper plates, because you are doing more damage in the long run in terms of running out of resources; with dishware, sure you use water (and electricity), but there are natural ways of regenerating those two things Well, we're talking about what is more economical for the individual person making the purchases, but on the large scale I think paper plates actually do less damage to the economy; paper is a renewable resource, I imagine it's less destructive to the environment to make paper plates than to purify the water and generate the electricity (both of which consume oil in the process, and we know how precious that's becoming lately) necessary to run a dishwasher. |
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Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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| netscape, what in the hell are you talking about? My "copy?" Maybe you posted in the wrong topic by accident, but this topic has absolutely nothing to do with clones or copying genes or anything even remotely like that. While an interesting read, that lengthy post has absolutely nothing to do with anything that anybody has said thus far in this topic. Really, wow, that was totally out of left-field.
I won't even type what I was gonna until you explain what that post is supposed to mean. I'm just guessing you posted in the wrong topic by mistake. |
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Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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Wurl: Dude, just buy a couple of bowls. They're easier to wash and more versatile. Nothing like a good ol' fashioned steak dinner served in a bowl. Scatterheart: I'd say that dish washers might occupy about a quarter of all households. The choice is definately "Dishware" for me. I've heard of alot of negative feedback from dishwashers lately...mainly consisting of the dishwasher not cleaning the dishes properly. But good old-fashioned cleaning-the-dishes-via-the-sink-and-detergent (IMO) far outweigh the benefits of constantly using paper plates. I just used the dishwasher as an example, washing the dishes by hand still costs money, what with the detergent and running water. Zamboni Name Changer: So basically, three meals a day minimum multiplied by 7. So, let's say 5 plates a day. So that's 35 plates a week, minimums, again. So, once a month you have to replace these plates (if you're using them only for yourself). So, that's 10 dollars a month, or 120 dollars a year. Now, spread that out over 5 years. For 25 to 30 dollars you can get enough plateware and silverware for 4 people from a Goodwill. Now, when you take that initial investment you've already spent two months worth. Now, the total cost of running water into a sink two or three times a week is probably less than a dollar. Ahh, but paper plates can't be used for all the same things that dishware can, like my earlier example of pasta, or how about meat and potatoes smothered in gravy. Things like that would soak straight through. neotransotaku: Paper/Cardboard + oil from food == unusable paper You misread, or perhaps you don't understand the term "renewable resource." That doesn't mean you recycle the paper plates, it means that paper can be generated infinitely. Coal and oil, for example, only exist in limited numbers on this or any planet, they can't be generated. Paper can be generated, however, because trees can be grown as much as needed, not to mention that many other forms of paper as well as forms of wood (cardboard boxes and tubes, old furniture, etc.) are recycled and can mix with the freshly-harvested wood in order to make more paper. Zamboni Name Changer: Ummm...Paper plates are REALLY bad for the environment, mostly because of the dyes that they use and the packaging that they are put into. I never noticed that part of Kutske's post. I don't mean to be annoying, but I'd like to see some resources before claims of that severity are made. Snow Tomato: Especially if the paper plates are made from styrofoam, which alot of them are. If the paper plates were made from styrofoam, then you wouldn't call them paper plates, now would you? You'd call them styrofoam plates. For the purposes of this topic, we're talking about paper plates, not styrofoam. By the way, did you use a different username on the old Acmlmboard, or are you a new user? |
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Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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Kailieann: To put this in a different perspective, consider alcohol. Even if you don't like the term 'addicted', if someone were to consistantly drink five beers a day, every day, you would be extremely stupid if you thought they didn't have at least somewhat of a problem with alcohol. Nicotine is far more addictive than alcohol, and cigarettes are far more harmful than beer. Five cigarettes a day is addicted. Even if you don't like the term 'addicted', one cigarette a day is still a problem. What do you care if they're addicted? Unless someone close to you starts smoking and you're worried they'll develop cancer, why should you care if some random person you pass in the street is a smoker? Or an alcoholic for that matter (unless they're violent drunks or drive while inebriated or something else like that which is dangerous to other people). Really, having an opinion is one thing, forcing your own way of life on everyone else is another. SuperKawaiiNeko: But thats not to say it isnt possible. Cool isnt our only alternative. Ive seen pictures and scenes in movies where it certainly DID add a little something. Would I call it sexy or sensual? ...no, not really. But I have seen it add a certian casual flair, or a certain mysterious allure. A certian something that does, in fact, result in me being more attracted, sexually or otherwise, to either the individual or situation. This is a good time to note that the only reason that smoking became commonplace in America is the same reason that tattooing became popular; white people picked it up off another culture, then bastardized it for their own purposes. Smoking was taken from the indigeneous peoples of what we now call America, and tattoos were taken from Africa. The bastardization part comes in that both smoking and tattooing were ceremonious things, involved in sacred rites and rituals, but they were then taken and made into a casual everyday thing which holds no special meaning. Dunno why I felt the need to mention that, I've got nothing against white people or anything, just thought it was interesting. SuperKawaiiNeko: Its like a movie star getting mad because fans keep mobbing him for autographs. "Boo-hoo, I make ninety-six billion dollars a year and have servants waiting to address my every beck and call, but I don't have eight minutes to spare to say hi to a crowd of people who adore me because I'll be late for my all-day spa treatment." Not to defend the papparazi of course - they're human leeches, like lawyers and marine biologists - just agreeing with the point; if you start doing something which is unnecessary to your livelihood and you know that what you're about to do is going to garner specific responses or cause specific events around you that you might not like, then you have to deal with it, that's your responsibility. And I do believe that responsibility is at the core of this issue. The smokers say, "Waaah, the non-smokers are opressing my freedom." The non-smokers say, "Waaah, the smokers have bad teeth and are stinky." Always blaming it on "the other guy," that's what our society has reduced to, and unlike fine sauces, our reduction doesn't intensify our goodness, it merely degenerates our quality as a whole. Jomb: Clockworkz - You seriously think lighting up a whole new cigarrette is going to make the conditions better on you? I laughed at that too, for some reason. "Ahh crap, I'm caught in the rain. Here, lemme jump in this pool of water." Wurl: I need a smoke. Badly. Red Wizard needs food, badly. Red Wizard shot a food. Red Wizard is about to die. Zamboni Name Changer: It depends on the cigarette. Various brands, particularly European and Asian ones, have lovely scents. North American brands (along with Chinese) are notorious for their poor quality and heinous smell. That's interesting. Got any links to product websites? I'm curious. |
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Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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Clockworkz: Seiously; Nintendo, this shit has to stop It weighs fine, it looks fine, and feels fine as it is now. I'm not shelling out $150 more dollars to become a more dedicated Nintendo whore than I already am. Well, you have to remember, Nintendo is based in and primarily caters to Japan, and Japanese videogame customers have very different wants and needs than us. Also, unless Nintendo specifically left features out of an initial release of a console in order to make people spend more money on the newer model, no one's forcing you to buy it. Think of it like this -- the release of the DS Lite just gives people who don't own a DS yet more options to choose from. Alastor the Stylish: The Dreamcast is the best system. Regardeless, Nintendo came up with the (clockwise from top) XABY setup, and Sega merely copied that for their Dreamcast. They were worried that they might get into a legal tassle if they directly coppied that setup, so they rearranged the XABY to YBAX. Also note that the Japanese version of the Super Nintendo (the Super Famicom) had it's four face buttons colored (clockwise from top in blue, red, yellow, green). Sega again copied directly from Nintendo, merely changing that order of colors to green, blue, red, yellow. SFC Controller Dreamcast Controller As an oldschooler, I have to go with the original, not the ripoff. Besides, if Nintendo came up with XABY and Sega copied them, why the heck would Nintendo then change their original formula to the copied version? I am dissapointed that they dropped the four colors thing, but they're up against the "cool" looking PSP, so they had to sacrifice a lot for the sake of percieved coolness. |
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Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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| Blizzard isn't homophobic, neither is World of Warcraft, they're simply taking preventative measures. I mean, let's face it, 90% of the population of any online game consists of immature pricks whose only joy in life is getting a rouse out of other people via the internet, and being gay is something that is utmostly reprehensible to them. Making a "GLBT friendly" guild is just asking to be insulted. It'd be like me going to the DNC message board and posting a lengthy topic about how much I love Bush -- sure, I'm saying that I like him and I'm not insulting anyone, but in the process, I'm stirring up a hornet's nest. In the end, World of Warcraft is an adventure game and discussion of one's sexuality, regardeless of what it is, has no place. They made the sensible descision.
Hmm, I wonder though, are you allowed to have a homosexual character on a Roleplaying server? |
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Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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Ailure: That's not a Super Famicom Controller, that's a European SNES console. SFC Console/Controller PAL Console/Controller They're nearly identical, I just couldn't find a pic of the SFC at the moment I made that post. Besides, in case you didn't notice, my point was about the color and layout of the XABY buttons, which is identical between the two; the minute nuances were negligable to my . Colin Mochrie: I always lamented the fact that we got the drab controller as opposed to the colorful Japanese/European one. If memory serves me, the SFC/PAL controllers work with the NTSC console, and vice-versa. What always confused me back when the SNES was new (this was far before I had internet access or knew anything about videogaming in Japan) was the four-colored symbol that was the logo of the SNES (like the GC has the cube logo and the N64 has the N logo), because I saw that logo on a couple of SNES accessories in stores and didn't know what it was. I actually thought it was the logo of another console or manufacturer for awhile. Hmm, I wonder if I'd be able to color in my XABY buttons on my DS... |
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Kutske Since: 11-19-05 Last post: 6670 days Last view: 6670 days |
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Kasumi-Astra: It's clearly asking to be insulted now that Blizzard has made it's intentions clear. It's simple, don't ask, don't tell because we don't want to deal with the trouble you will inevitably cause. Blizzard thought they were acting in the best interests of all parties, but spectacularly failed. It's insensitive and ignorant of the feelings, freedoms and inteligence of the LGBT communities. What's even worse is the amount of completely dim-witted comments being hurled around by insecure opinionated posters in the US forums. The offenders should be reported then, and no matter what, the bottom line is that sexuality has no place in a computer game like World of Warcraft. Mr. X: Kutske said it perfectly, they'd be setting themselves up for insulting... Of course, I would've just let it go. As long as they know they're going to be harassed for it, it's their problem... The only thing troublesome about doing that is that making discriminatory comments is against the ToS and as I said, the userbase is widely immature on any online game. Potentially, half of all online users could end up banned because of the controversy stirring over this LGBT-friendly guild. Also note that the term "LGBT-friendly" in itself suggests that other guilds are not LGBT-friendly, which I hardly believe is true. Social/political guilds have always seemed backwards and inflamatory to me, anyway; make a guild of all mages, make a guild for you and your friends, make a guild for dwarves, because those are all in-game things, but please, don't make a guild for Republicans, don't make a guild for pro-lifers, don't make a guild for Christians -- there's just no reason for it and it only results in flames and controversy. And in the larger scope of things, I'm sick of special interest groups and their ilk turning every little thing into a controversy and a culture war. Homophobe, racist, sexist -- these terms have become meaningless because of how casually they're thrown around by the "politically correct" in an opportunistic bid for sympathy. It's a game. On the internet. Sticks and stones. Kasumi-Astra: Founding a GLBT friendly guild was intended to provide a way for everyone to come together to play in an environment where everyone can feel safer, straight, les, gay, bi and trans. This is nonsense logic because World of Warcraft =! real life and World of Warcraft =! a political forum. The purpose of the game is to take on the role of an adventurer in a world of fantasy where you can explore vast realms, interact with mythical beings and do battle with monsters and opposing faction members. There is absolutely, positively no reason whatsoever that issues need to be brought in from the real world -- this is supposed to be fantasy, afterall. This isn't specific to the LGBT community; a Black Pride guild or a Foot Fetishists guild are equally as inapropriate. There isn't a need to create a "friendly, safe environment" either. Yes, many players on WoW (and every other online game, most message boards and most junior high schools nationwide, for that matter) use "gay" as a generic insult ("Killstealing? That's so gay!") but that's because the word has different meaning to them -- it's just a loanword for "lame" or "unfair" or what have you, and while I don't approve of the use of the term, they aren't using it in a homophobic context. The reason that LGBT groups are needed in real life is because in real life there is a real threat to the lives of the homosexual and transsexual (and to a lesser extent, the bisexual); there's people out there who might actually, physically attack you or make an attempt on your life. In World of Warcraft, there is nowhere near the same level of a threat, and I actually think it's belittling to real LGBT groups to act as if an LGBT guild in an online game is anywhere near as daring or brave as in real life. Once again, the bottom line is, sexuality has no place in World of Warcraft, end of story. |
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