Recent posts by ParaNoir on Kongregate

Topic: Kongregate / "Hey! Are you running an ad blocker?"

I use Adblock because the video-ads before games often crash my browser, and I absolutely can’t stand adverts with music. I’ll disable it for a bit and see how it is. If the pre-game ads crash my browser again, I’ll go back to Adblock. :)

Topic: Kongregate / Kong Plus problem

Originally posted by Ilmapallo:

FAQ

It clearly says “PowerUp Rewards is GameStop’s new rewards program in which you score rewards points to get awesome perks! Right now it’s only available for US gamers (or gamers who have access to US GameStops), but it aims towards achieving global domination in the years to come.”

And TheBestBoy is clearly asking about Kong Plus, not PowerUp rewards. :S

Topic: Kongregate / Best of 2011 *Official Voting*

Frantic Frigates. :)

Topic: Serious Discussion / Abortion

Originally posted by Redfin_802:

All I’m gonna say right now:

1. Have the child, no matter what.

2. Give it to a church/adoption home if you don’t want it.

Well, that’s what you can do if you get pregnant. :)

A large amount of people do not want to have a child, no matter what, and adoption isn’t an alternative to pregnancy – it’s an alternative to parenthood. Many babies in adoption homes do not get adopted (not to mention the amount of trauma separation can cause mothers). Your opinion isn’t going to suddenly become everybody else’s default. Expand why your points are valid, or read around a bit :)

Topic: Serious Discussion / Abortion

Agreed. The thread has been off topic for too long now. People are welcome to start a thread regarding people deserving/asking for rape if they wish to, but this thread is about abortion.

I suppose many points and questions from a few pages back will be ignored now.

Topic: Serious Discussion / What's the last book you've read?

‘Undertones of War’ by Edmund Blunden.

It was pretty good!

Topic: Serious Discussion / Abortion

Originally posted by DarkBaron:

So you’re saying your fantasies, that you are turned on by, should be ignored? Fascinating. Play-rape isn’t rape, that’s right. Which also means your fantasy is not being indulged. I bet you in those fantasies, they don’t have safety words.

Fantasies can be indulged. But a fantasy is just that. If somebody has a rape fantasy, it does not mean that they will enjoy being raped. They might, however, enjoy play-rape in a safe environment, and feel satisfied.

Maybe you ought to talk to people within a BDSM or Fetish community about this?

Topic: Serious Discussion / Abortion

Oh right, okay. So you meant somebody who sleeps around. And what do people who sleep around do? Have consensual sex!

Originally posted by DarkBaron:

This is also discounting how 83% of the females I surveyed told me an inner secret about how they kind of want to be raped, since it turns them on. Care trying to explain that? Enemies to the cause, or what?

Rape fantasy is common. It doesn’t mean people should be raped. Play-rape is not rape.

Can we get back on topic, please? You’re welcome to make a new topic about your views on rape culture and fetishes. :)

Topic: Serious Discussion / Abortion

Originally posted by DarkBaron:

I said a woman who dresses like a slut, and is treated as such, deserves such treatment.

…That is absolutely disgusting. Nobody deserves to be raped.

“And what do whores do?” Have consensual sex for money? :|

Topic: Serious Discussion / Abortion

Sorry Dark, but I’m still not getting it. My reading comprehension must be awful. :) Thank you for trying.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Abortion

I don’t believe I was quote mining. There is nothing in this that implies he is referring to the fetus. The discussion was regarding who should have input in the decision to abort (not just the mother). I didn’t get anything about a fetus from that.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Abortion

Originally posted by tenco1:

Originally posted by DarkBaron:

Jhco’s posts were not misogynistic at all.

Well, I could see how they could be interpreted as that.

I could write a paragraph or two on his views of women, but I think he already summed it up in one sentence for me a few pages back: “She is only the vessel and believe it or not she was designed by nature to be the vessel.”

A woman’s quality of life does not matter. Her career, education, family life, relationships, aspirations – all unimportant because she is a “vessel.” This is where the idea of “selfishness” comes from – her life is unimportant (this is why the death rates of abortion where it is illegal are continually ignored). How dare she put herself before an embryo? Because she is just a “vessel,” if she has sex she should be consenting to pregnancy too. That is, after all, the only thing she is good for.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Abortion

So my source wasn’t important or valid despite it being combined from government figures and WHO, and of course compiled by the reputable Guttmacher Institute.

But it’s okay for Jhco to quote from a pro-life source.

Okay then!

Jhco, your thinly veiled misogyny and total lack of logic makes people like me even more determined to ensure that abortions become or remain legal and widely available on demand. Thank you. :)

Topic: Kongregate / / ESCAPE \ mobile - badges with a price tag

I would prefer it if all users had an equal chance in earning badges. That idea has already been dismissed by the introduction of badges in Kongregate’s Android app – and a lot of people were irritated at the thought of exclusive badges when that was released. With the addition of paid-badges, the idea of all users having an equal chance is totally over.

I can only assume that Gamestop are breathing heavily down Kongregate’s neck for profit, and Kongregate are trying to go about it in the least problematic ways they can think of. They’re still compromising some of the feelings “old” Kongregate had – but the decision has been made. Our complaining wont really change things.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Abortion

Originally posted by jhco50:

I don’t care about the abortion rates in Europe and Africa compared to the US. The reason is, numbers can be manipulated to say whatever they want them to say. If your site is for abortion, the numbers will support their views.

So you don’t actually care about embryos, just American embryos? All of the stuff about it being “wrong” only applies in America? Or do you just want to police American women?

The website was the Guttmacher Institute -it’s quite reliable. The page I linked you to had sources from various places (US government, WHO…) too – so you can hardly call it biased. It is reputable. I also wasn’t asking you to compare the rates in Europe and Africa to the US. I was asking you to compare Europe and Africa’s abortion rates and realise that they are incredibly similar – despite it being illegal in Africa. Banning abortion does not make it less likely to happen.

Morals like this are set by society.

Abortion occurs in nature. Some animals reabsorb or abort their fetuses if conditions are not great. Rabbits , for example – if food is scarce or they are in a high stress environment, reabsorb fetuses. Male pipefish selectively abort embryos of mothers they find less appealing. If bears are not in their best condition, they will reabsorb the embryo and not give birth that year.

This moral is not “set by” society. The need for abortion exists in humans because unhappy pregnancies exist, like it exists in other animals because of poor conditions. Poor conditions cause unhappy pregnancies. Maybe you’re right – maybe this is just because it “interferes with desires-” for example, the desire to raise a child well and in a good environment. But where animals (very sensibly) naturally abort or reabsorb due to bad conditions, we have to make that choice. Like the 2600 Kenyan people who die from abortions each year.

Doing away with abortion is not going to save our civilization, just as Karma says, but it is one of the indications we as a people accept as right, even when deep down we know it’s wrong.

I don’t have any issue with abortion at all. Deep down, I think forcing people into continuing a pregnancy is wrong. Valuing ball of cells over a person is wrong, in my opinion. :)

Topic: Serious Discussion / Abortion

Jhco:

1) Did you remain a virgin until you were ready to have children?

2) Could you please respond to my points regarding the almost equal abortion rates in Europe and Africa, the high death rate in Africa, and the fact that abortion rates are lowest where abortion is most freely available? You have ignored this information in my previous posts twice now.

It isn’t acceptable to ignore all facts because “it’s a moral issue.” Morals like this are personal and therefore everybody’s views are different. As these issues affect everybody – not just those sharing your personal morals, it is much more logical to approach them from a fact-based viewpoint.

I took the time to respond to your post, and you have not even acknowledged it.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Do you know any video game for blind people ?

Magdales, I think this is a brilliant idea and I admire it. :)

If I spoke French, I would translate for you. I hope you can find somebody to translate for you – so your game can reach as many people as possible.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Abortion

Right… let my terrible formatting attempt begin!

Originally posted by jhco50:

Think about what you just said, you value your future children. If you become pregnant, that is your future children…or are some more important than others?

Future children? Nope! If I become pregnant, it’s my current embryo. It has the potential to be a future child – but only if a) I want it to be a child, and b) I have a successful pregnancy. And Dark is right – I meant “lives” as in their livelihoods – the quality of the life I give them. I thought that would be clear, as I mentioned that I am a student now and would rather wait until I had a steady job.

Humans are not animals without any morals, we are better than that…at least we are supposed to be. If you consider yourself just another animal, by all means, sleep with everyone you see. I don’t think most people besides the ones on this site would think real high of you, but hey, you are just an animal, right?

Why on earth would I want to sleep with everyone I see? That was a very strange assumption. For me, sex is something for a long term, committed relationship. Although I am very liberal, my own personal values regarding sex are fairly traditional. I made that decision and I would not dream of forcing it on anybody else. It doesn’t mean that I think having multiple sexual partners is wrong – because it isn’t, humans are sexual beings. As long as they’re all over 18, consenting and being safe, I don’t care what people do in their sexual lives – and I will defend their sexual freedom.

Consent to sex, knowing you could become pregnant is giving your consent to possibly having a child.

Why would people use contraception if they were consenting to pregnancy? People simply do not consent to pregnancy. If this was true, the only abortions would be for rape or medical cases. As this isn’t true, the idea that “consenting to sex is consenting to pregnancy” isn’t true. Just because you believe that they should does not mean that they do.

Also,

Originally posted by Twilight_Ninja:

And just out of plain curiousity, did you wait until you married your wife to have sex? Or were you ready for parenthood right out of the gate?

I’d like to know the answer to this.

And yes, abortion rates would fall if it was illegal. Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining!

Well, okay. But the abortion rate is around 28 in Europe where abortion is largely legal, and 29 in Africa, where it’s largely illegal. Some of the lowest abortion rates are actually where it is legal and widely available – 12 and 17 in West and Northern Europe. This page includes all of these stats – and some other interesting ones. Take a look. :)

(The interesting thing about abortions in Africa, though …)

Originally posted by Darkruler2005:

And I get the impression your brain can only process “oh, she’s against abortion, that must mean she’s a good, adorable, perfect, faithful wife!” and “oh, she’s for abortion, that must mean she’s a total slut, sleeping with every guy, laughing maniacally with every fetus she aborts”. I hope I don’t have to explain why that’s an insane viewpoint to take.

I’m absolutely for abortion and will probably be a good, adorable, faithful life-partner (nobody’s perfect). I certainly aim to be!

Topic: Serious Discussion / Abortion

Originally posted by paranova9:

whats to explain? if people valued life, they would not kill

I value the lives of my future children. That’s why I (and many others) would have an abortion for an unwanted pregnancy. I am quite certain that I’d be able to give a child a better life in the future when I have a degree and a steady job, as opposed to now, while I’m still studying.

I’d rather end the development of some cells than have a child in bad circumstances.

Originally posted by jhco50:
If a woman is willing to have sexual intercourse knowing it very well could cause pregnancy, she has already taken responsibility for the possible results of her decision.

This is not realistic. Humans enjoy sex. Many people are not going to wait until they’re ready to have children. I should hope that the fellow you were talking to remained celibate until he was in a settled relationship with decent income, and of course, ready for children. And I expect that you remained virginal until that circumstance, too.

Consent to sex is not consent to pregnancy. Just because you believe she “must live” with the results does not mean that she will, and indeed, she doesn’t have to. Abortion rates do not fall when abortion is illegal – unwanted pregnancies cannot suddenly become wanted. People will have abortions if they want abortions. If you think that’s “immature” or “ignorant,” then that’s an interesting opinion, but it wont change anything.

You’re still putting the value of an insentient group of cells above the life of a born, sentient person.

Topic: Kongregate / Perverted MMOs

Originally posted by Tetsuo_Shima:

Considering this thread is less than a day old, I’m assuming the rest of the english capable world doesn’t really see much positive or negative in mmo perversion.

Actually, quite a few people have an issue with the sexualisation of female characters in games. I’m getting incredibly tired of seeing females wearing tiny outfits over huge, out of proportion figures. I haven’t seen a male character on the front page of Kongregate with a giant, detailed bulge in his tightly fitting pants (with him thrusting his crotch forward, of course). Please, if anybody is aware of a male character with a huge penis barely concealed behind tiny armour, let me know. His penis must be the highlight of the graphic :)

It seems that only female characters must be sexualised, semi-naked or erotic in order to be considered worthy of being in the imagery of a game. Of course, some female characters are not. But it is incredibly rare that male characters have to be sexually attractive to be important. It is incredibly common that female characters do.

It is an issue (females aren’t worthy or important unless they’re sexually gratifying) – and it is in the developer’s hands to take control of that and not continue the sexist traditions of the game industry. If your game is good, people will play it. Some larger developers for consoles seem to be getting this idea (perhaps due to the increase of female gamers?) now :)

Topic: Serious Discussion / If you have children, will you raise them to choose their own religion?

Originally posted by jhco50:

Originally posted by ParaNoir:

Religion isn’t necessary to raise children well.

If I have children, I will teach them about different lifestyles and the importance of respect. Treat others as you would like to be treated

. Having respect for other people goes a long way in developing “good morals.” I would not raise them to believe in a religion, but they would be quite welcome to join one once old enough to decide.

Uhmmm, that is one of the teachings, word for word, taught by religion. May I ask how old you are? Just inquisitive. Message me if you want.

Yes, indeed, that is one of the teachings of religion, but it does not require religion, and it is not exclusive to religion. The idea is reflected in many religions throughout human history because it is a human teaching. It does not need religion attached to it. I think that would be evident to most people regardless of age. :) See “The Golden Rule.”

(Also, if I stated that I would teach my children about different lifestyles, doesn’t that hint at me having at least some detailed knowledge of various religions and their teachings?)

Topic: Serious Discussion / If you have children, will you raise them to choose their own religion?

Religion isn’t necessary to raise children well.

If I have children, I will teach them about different lifestyles and the importance of respect. Treat others as you would like to be treated. Having respect for other people goes a long way in developing “good morals.” I would not raise them to believe in a religion, but they would be quite welcome to join one once old enough to decide.

Topic: Kongregate / Official Kong Plus Thread

Originally posted by Darkruler2005:

It’s like, “Oh, we added this button but you can’t use it unless you pay for it.” I find that kind of thing annoying in MMOs already but for something like chat?

It’s like whispering, except now you can mass whisper. It makes it a little easier. You’re not blocked out from whispering.

But it is pretty annoying to have the option for it only to say “Kongregate Notice: You can make your very own private chat room by joining Kong+. Now you know!” I keep hitting it instead of “Private Message” by accident. There is already an ad for Kong+ whenever you load chat – so people will already be aware of it.

I understand that Kongregate would like to advertise Kong+ at any available opportunity, but I also understand why Kakkoii finds the in-chat option irritating. It’s just a hidden ad, really.

Topic: Kongregate / Official Kong Plus Thread

Originally posted by Lystie:

I bet everyone who complains make their own furniture and alcoholic beverages, grow their own vegetables and slaughter their own cattle.

Yea because it’s the free alternative to a completely optional, expensive, but vallid payable service.

Cattle are quite expensive. All of the things you mentioned require resources and labour – it’s often cheaper to buy things ready made.

The issue is not that people are paying for extras, the issue is with the content of the extras and the problems it might create. :)

Topic: Kongregate / Where are the priviledges and potential prizes?

Originally posted by Zhoom:

Will there ever be any priviledges, potential prizes, perks, or anything at all for people with a lot of points or levels?

Yes. If they want to pay $30 a year. Considering that something as basic as a profile skin is paid-content, the idea of regular users getting anything useful for loyalty or points is quite far fetched.