Jason Shankel's discussions

"Im saying you should think about what youre complaining about and then give constructive criticism."

Physician, heal thyself. Read more

Well, if it's no big deal that there are dicks on the internet, why get all riled up about Sarkeesian or any of her supporters? They're on the internet too. Shock horror: there are dicks on the internet who complain about all the other dicks. Read more

Ad hominem, guilt by association, argument from motive, unsupported assertions. I guess there are a lot of people "like" Sarkeesian if you look closely enough. Read more

Ever notice that the same people who cannot abide the notion of criticizing video game culture on the basis of a few dozen measly titles have no problem basing their entire opinion of feminism on something they heard Andrea Dworkin once said? Read more

Would that we could all live up to your shining example of respect. Read more

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Creative laziness is a greater issue than casual cruelty? It's more of a problem? A bigger, more pressing issue? Given the problems of gender specific violence and derivative artworks, we should address derivative artworks first? Read more

And this is why my Saint's Row character is an elderly Hispanic woman. Cuz Team Abuela gots to get their payback, Cotton. Word. Read more

Sorry, but the princess is in another castle. Doh! Read more

I dunno, considering that not one member of the gender will admit to pooping, women sure do love them some yogurt commercials. Everyone is so happy. Must be Jamie Lee Curtis. Read more

100% of the responsibility for abuse lies with the abuser. Read more

The idea is that this technology does not allow you to outrun a light beam, which is the hard limit relativity puts on all information bearing signals or mass bearing objects. Any "faster than light" travel has this limitation: it can never actually outrun a light beam. Light itself never speeds up past C in local… Read more

Right, many thousands of years aka "eventually." Read more

Indeed it would. In a couple of tens of thousands of years, hopefully enough time to start mining the gas giants or other sources for more atmo. And we're not sure lack of magnetic field alone is enough to cause planetary outgassing. Venus has almost no magnetic field and her atmosphere is a hundred times denser… Read more

I get it. See the dozens of other posts where I explain that I get it.

Light is not truly changing speed. I get it. I fully get it. I get it every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

My point is this:

1) this technology allows a ship to appear to travel faster than light...say, by traveling from here to Proxima… Read more

Oh, you're a riot, Alice :) Read more

It's getting surreal :) Read more

Right I get that. Believe me, I fully get it. Please see the dozen or so places below where I clarify that I completely get it.

But I'll explain it one more time:

1) the universe has a rule that says that nothing with mass (or that carries any information) can ever outrun a light beam. No matter how you configure… Read more

Please, everyone: before you read my comment below about making light move faster and decide to jump in and explain to me that it's not speeding up light, please read the umpteen thousand responses where I explain that I fully get that light is not being sped up in local space.

I'll explain my comment here and if you… Read more