The Gamer's Quarter

[dhex]

[everyone, please feel free to roll your own!]

dude the clitoris is erectile tissue encased/ensheathed in a larger casing of tissue.

but what genuinely comes to mind? parasitic wasps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_wasp



poetic flights can be a great thing, but sometimes a steady diet of puff-puff-give leads to, well, the reason the liberal arts on the university level are seen as worthless clownshoe operations.*

and when it comes down to it, the parasite model - ignoring deeper instinctive fears of raptors and other simian predators - can be used to describe any invasive force. it could be seen as a parable about fears of japan taking over america** - an alien force whose very existence requires american deaths. it also fits in well with the totalizing narratives of anti-capitalist writers - the corporate force in this case is willing to destroy human lives to capture the ultimate marketer; one whose product is not only completely parasitic but completely fatal and transformative.

no doubt there's a whole slew of potential slottings from the mid-1980s you can roll with. even aids, perhaps, but gay rape? that strikes me as a bit too der sturmer for my tastes.

*connecting to my totally worthless narrative and keeping with the egyptian/crowley theme, i forgot who does our lovely isis reborn take off with? a cat - bast. another female goddess. generative fertility, repressed ferocity, defender of the ultimate generator of life - the sun. of course, this paints me into a corner seeing as the sun was not only male but ultra-male, and solar mythologies are almost always male and generative, just as chthonic forces were almost always female and receptive/birthing in nature. of course, the bonus in literary circles is that peoples' knowledge of the mythology you're latching onto are generally surface-level at best, so you have several options going forward depending on the prejudices of your audience - my appeal is really entirely emotional as it lacks intellectual content to a staggering degree. which is a tremendous problem, and will no doubt become a larger portion of the non-technical ludology programs that will only continue to grow in popularity, just as cinema studies is now very light on technical knowledge and, well, let us not speak of literature.***

**yet another wildly popular scare narrative that went absolutely nowhere. keep this in mind when you read stories about how the chinese are buying up america, just like the japanese were; of course it also ignores huge foreign holders like UK and canadian firms, but they're not the scary other.

***to borrow a british-ism, the reason this gets on my tits is because the liberal arts are very fucking important.
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[Harveyjames]

It should be made clear that dhex is talking about the theory propositioned by film critic Mark Kermode that the film 'Alien' plays on the male fear of homosexual rape.

I don't have any reason to suppory in the gay rape angle on Alien beyond the fact that

1.) someone on TV said it so it must be true

2.)



Also the title of the thread refers to the fact that dhex is high from the drug 'marijuana', an activity I do not condone

[Scratchmonkey]

I could see it.

I always thought it was more of a fear-of-pregnancy thing anyway.

[Dracko]

I saw it as essentially genderless, though rape nonetheless. In any case it's invasive, and certainly the fear of what lays beyond made material in one of the most primal ways possible: Mindless, aggressive, violating and relentless.

You simply can't reason with the hostile void of space.
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"This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!"

[Harveyjames]

That's that settled. Next topic: It's 7pm. My 67-year old father is right now battling GlaDOS for the first time. At what time will he have defeated her? Closest guess wins the prize.

[Dracko]

What's he up to now?

Does anyone have any ideas how to help this poor person?
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"This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!"

[extrabastardformula]

[Harveyjames]

It took him roughly half an hour.

[dhex]

your father's a lot better at games than i am.
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[Scratchmonkey]

[Cycle]

hey guys what does "moe" mean
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[Harveyjames]

It's a word that describes a sensation not unlike love, but for men who have resigned themselves to the fact that they will never ever lay with a woman. Achieved through RealDolls and frequenting Maid Cafes and hella, hella Lolicon. Guess which country that concept comes from.

[Cycle]

RUSSIA
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[Harveyjames]

Tip: one of the few countries in the world whose population is actually in decline because so few people are actually getting laid.

[Cycle]

Canada?
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[Harveyjames]

No! A country who used to be a fearsome, rapacious land of violent jerks but are now through their post-war emasculation a nation of repressed manchildren!

[Cycle]

France!
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[Harveyjames]

They have little willies and everyone watches cartoons, even the adults!

[dhex]

these are all really good answers.

italy?
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[Cycle]

America!
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[Harveyjames]

they sleep in llttle boxes and everyone works 23 hour days!

[Dracko]

Madeleine McCann?
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"This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!"

[Harveyjames]

Alright, one last time. You must know what country I'm talking about here. Little group of islands. All their live-action films are terrible, their pop music is awful and their television programs incomprehensible! There's only one it could be!

[Scratchmonkey]

The UK?

[Harveyjames]

GODDAMMIT

[helicopterp]

canaries
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Like you thought you'd seen copter perverts before. They were nothing compared to this one.

[Patrick Alexander]

This is the best game.
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Raymondo Person | Eegra | Things

[Redeye]

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I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian.

[Harveyjames]

What does Moe mean, anyway?

[dhex]

the most sadistic of the three stooges, for starters.



that's pretty sadistic too.