Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20161116194210/@comment-3547390-20161207002039

It may sound odd, but I find it hard to believe that I can understand you more than another person. Is it the old games? If I recall correctly, you are quite popular with the students, but perhaps I fail to grasp what they cannot grasp.

America is a big melting pot of races. It is rather weird, go back 100 years and it would be my families possibly persecuted. I have a lot of Italian blood, of which America had a lot of problems with immigrants back then. Lynch mobs attacked us, we were barred from certain places, and they tried to deport us as often as possible. I also have Irish in me, conveniently the other type persecuted during that time. I also am Cherokee Indian. They suffered what was called the Trail of Tears, a pretty famous event in our history where we forced Indians off their lands and even gave them blankets with smallpox to wipe out as many as we could. The thing is, America has accepted all these races and has become a lot more tolerant of others in said last 100 years. Yet African-Americans still (note this is just a portion of the community, but a loud portion) feel that they are targeted and so there has been a lot of racial tension with them over the years, mostly not helping due to the media and people not knowing how to approach the subject. Say anything about it, you are racist or intolerant, so it leaves many people not knowing what to do. At the same time we have the whole war with Terrorism thing, so there is of course fear towards all Muslim cultures. Then we have Mexican immigrants doing much what the Italians/Irish were doing, but the big difference being that it is at a time when America is juggling all this other stuff, so they increase the tensions between whites and minorities. Similar to you, our ghetto is made up of mostly minorities and poor whites that pretty much are said to follow the minorities subculture. At the same time we are trying to all be tolerant, America is feeling all these feelings, and it becomes quite a chaotic mess. Think of it like a friendly exterior with many having skeletons in their closets. Add in the whole issue with homosexuals and even women and America is pretty much in the middle of a weird state. We are trying to all be overly tolerant to the point that we lash out at the slightest thing that is even seen as intolerant, then end up doing something intolerant that results in the whole cycle going again. That pretty much is the reason for what is called PC culture over here, where we pretty much are paranoid to offend anybody and so end up offending everybody. Combine all this together with different generations that have completely different opinions with all of this stuff and it is definitely not the easiest things to talk about, in fact it is probably one of the bigger problems America is struggling with.

Not to mention the fact that minorities often push the tensions by often diminishing the role of white people. Jesus was black. The first man was black. Zeus was black. The fridge was made by a black man, the engine by another black man, and the elevator by yet another. It isn't enough that blacks invented things, but that they are basically responsible for everything important and that the white man really is just jealous. A big part of the problem with the whole tolerance argument is that at the same time it pretty much is about taking down the white male, which of course looks like a raw deal to the white male. Everyone needs to show no racism, so they throw as many minorities as they can around, which means at times getting rid of the white person's role entirely. Right now a big thing is the fact that Black Pride is pretty much protested and enforced in schools, yet white pride just brings back the issues of racism since it is about us putting down minorities. Since whites had the greatness in the past, we have to suffer now. At the end of the day, that is pretty much the chaos, the fact that we are overcompensating to the point that the majority is becoming the minority. But if I said these things to a native American, it would be yelled as racist, and that it is impossible for the white man to be put down. That is another part of the problem, because of our past it is now impossible for them to do any wrongs to us. The chaos originally started with equality, but the problem is that the whole thing has spiraled out of control and has gotten a lot more complicated. As you can imagine, it has less to do with the color of a person's skin and more to do with their nature as a person, and I have met some extremes for both cases. I guess the big problem is that the terrible ones will use the whole sensationalism caused by the media that causes these tensions in the first place, embracing it and using it to lash out at anyone who isn't a minority. The problem is that culture exists and is not only embraced by terrible minorities, but by the people trying to give everyone equality, which in turn as I said goes to the far extreme. I could get in trouble for saying a racial slur I never used, but they could freely call me racial slurs on a daily basis with no problems. The problem is that we can't have equality just to call a terrible person terrible, instead I am the terrible one. This isn't a small collective group of people, unless you consider where I live to be a small collective, since pretty much everywhere I have gone has resulted in similar circumstances. I have had an African-American come up to my face and tell me how Jesus was black, everyone important was black, and that I am lucky to be living in a world given to me by blacks. I should be able to say he was a jerk and everyone should agree. But instead most people here say he has a right to free speech and that we need to be more accepting of him.

I guess the thing that stinks the most is that PC culture has spread to our media. For all the lack of portrayal of African-Americans in media, all I see is games like Mafia III and Watchdogs II where everyone important is a minority. I don't pay much attention to modern gaming, but apparently The Last of Us was a game dedicated to a lesbian female with a kissing scene. I guess the problem is that we can't just have this stuff naturally, we basically need to make up for it not being around and so all of our media has to be that. I guess that is one thing I fear about games like DOOM or the new Wolfensteins, they feel like they would cater to this new PC market and add some gay character just to appeal to the PC crowd. You know, because a guy's sexuality totally matters and must be emphasized while shooting demons. But this is the stuff that is creating Star Wars, Episode 8, where pretty much all the publicity is on Star Wars' gay character. I can accept characters as having these newly accepted things, but do we really need to have EVERYTHING be about it and devoted to it? Since when did anyone care or have any concern about the color of Doomguy or Quakeguy? The 90s was a pretty accepting time, but you don't see this stuff needing to be thrown into every piece of media. Unreal is a great example of how to do it right, that game doesn't shine in neon lights about how it is about gender issues and instead treats the main character as simply a human. As all games should.

The logic I have always had is that it makes no sense to pay for something that involves interest, since it pretty much is always the killer. Pretty much, think every month they add a percentage if you can't pay it back to the point that the original funds look minuscule next to it. I rather just pay a base sum and not have to worry about any interest. But there is a catch. You want a job? You will probably need to go to college. You want to go to college? You will need to take a student loan, they actually don't accept cash outright and will find ways to turn it down. Same with buying a car or house, I couldn't tell you the semantics of it all, but suffice to say that you actually NEED to take out a loan even if you have the money to pay for it. Debt isn't really a choice here, it just involves making smarter choices with the debt to quickly get caught up. Basically, don't move to America if you don't want debt, unless you don't mind not having a home or car.

Well, that covers something different, I am talking about the fact that the things I have tried have led to disappointments. I didn't really get into Heretic, found Elder Scrolls Arena/Daggerfall to be frustrating, and don't seem to enjoy any new games I try that isn't one of the ones I have been playing since Quake. I guess what I am saying is that I sometimes worry if I have lost the capacity to appreciate anything new or do I legitimately hate everything new I try.

Now, I will say that what you did say does also apply to me. Pretty much any time a new album comes out, everyone else gets enthusiastic for me. An example recently is the new Metallica album. I am quite sick of hearing it, but pretty much everywhere I go everyone has been curious if I have heard it and my opinions on it. Meanwhile I am afraid to even try it since I am worried I will be disappointed. Usually I am not, but Bloodbath is a good example of a band that did actually do that. I was afraid for months, gave in and tried to listen to the album's worth, and loathed the whole experience. But I will agree there were also great surprises and very enjoyable experiences.