For a party that says it is all about state rights over a large federal government... they sure seem to love to contradict themselves. "Know how you made weed legal? Yeah, we're undoing that, state rights don't apply... but if you want to make it so that family that has a kid with bone cancer can't afford their insurance or treatment, then fill free to let that kid die, we're not going to force you to keep pre-existing conditions covered affordably... if they wanted that kid to live, they should have had better jobs... and certainly don't have to make men pay for pre-natal care, but make sure those women pay for men's Viagra, because men have to get their fuck on, any women who does is just a whore." And they are also the "moral" party... Christ...

Merry Christmas,
Happy Hanukkah,
Gesëende Kersfees,
Glædelig Jul,
Buon Natale or Buone Feste Natalizie,
Froehliche Weihnachten,
Feliz Navidad,
Sung Tan Chuk Ha,
Feliz Natal,
Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto.
These are not the droids you're looking for,
Mele Kalikimaka,
Kala Christouyenna,
Bada Din Mubarak Ho,
Nollaig Shona Dhuit,

Dysphoria goes way beyond that. I still enjoy boy things. If you want to call them boy things. That's one issue there: we gender activities and clothing needlessly.

Instead, it's a matter of your body being completely and utterly wrong. To the point where looking in the mirror is a nightmare to be avoided. Absolutely no pictures. For the longest time I couldn't even recognize myself in a photo without trying. It didn't come naturally for me like it did with other people. That picture just *wasn't* me. It was *wrong*.

So yeah, in his case, being a tomboy and being transgender are completely different places on the spectrum. A tomboy doesn't feel pain over their appearance the way a transgender would. I remember first finding out that boys and girls actually had different parts. I wished every night that it would fix itself, until finally, at age 11, I resolved to remove it myself. I didn't succeed, but the scars still exist.

Additionally, the "he" and "she" parts are painful. It's the same as if someone picked a mean nickname for you and refused to ever acknowledge your real name, but insisted on calling you by the offending one instead. It's our identity. It's part of the core of who we are, and by ignoring that, you ignore us. You ignore one of the most fundamental things that makes us who we are.

You'd be surprised just how much kids ages 3-4 understand gender identity and roles. I mean, most of our childhood is learning societal roles we play, and kids really pick up on that. So when a transgender kid sees other girls being treated one way, and they're being treated like the boys, or vice versa in this boys case, it's demoralizing beyond understanding as a 4 year old.



I don't mean to rant at you, but I hope that helps you understand why it's different for us. Oh, and I also didn't go into the science of it. But strictly speaking, our brains are different. Chemically, and even physically, we exhibit the sex characteristics of the gender we identify with. Even the hormones our body produces naturally due to our natal sex causes great discomfort and pain until they are eliminated. Even minor doses can go a long way to eliminating the physical pain we feel.

Personally, I think this is a brilliant move (no pun intended) that MS should've picked up on, too.

A lot of wii owners are frustrated, the lack of games that properly use the wii-mote, and the ones that do are generally PG are just making the wii a gimmicky console that was novel at the time.

The fact that PS3 isn't really limited to nintendos "fun for the whole family" type of games means we'll be getting things like.. Socom and CoD, with fantastic graphics and a smooth control scheme to play it with. (Like it or lump it, the wii-mote only has two easy to use buttons, A and B, whereas the "Move" controller has its upper and lower buttons, plus the 4 face buttons right around thumb level.)

I'm more excited for this technology then I was for wii-motion+, or Natal/kinect. Especially since the e3 kinect demo of the star wars game was completely faked

And just because I can, here's a picture of Kevin Butler.

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Hmm. Thought I had posted a response but it didn't go through. It was something like

I won't argue that it's rife with potential for abuse. But all a cop needs to search your vehicle during a traffic stop is "probable cause" - so let me ask you this: When is the last time that you, a friend, family member or co-worker got pulled over and had your/their car searched?

Rife with potential for abuse does not mean rife with abuse.

And case in point: I just got back from a ride on my motorcycle that I had parked in some extra space next to my car. I was putting the cover on it when a painter (they're here to paint the covered parking) came up to me and asked in what was only barely passable broken English if I could move my car further away from the cover they were about to paint. It was something like "you move...car? We paint...spray....over there....we cover bike easy.... car big." I'll leave out the pronunciation effects like "jew move" so as not to be an ass, but let's say I had to think about what he was saying to actually understand it.

my point is this: This guy could very well be an illegal, and probably is. It's no secret that they're hired for unskilled labor such as this. While yes, he is working, if he is indeed illegally here, it means he's not paying taxes. That means if his residence catches on fire, he receives free services from the fire and police departments. I'm not saying that you or I would get a bill, but they are funded by our tax dollars. If he catches a stray bullet from a near-by gun fight, he goes to the hospital on our tax dollar. To be a little more realistic, bear this in mind: If a Mexican crosses our border illegally only to have birth three feet across it, that child is now an American citizen, and will receive post-natal health care in our hospitals on our dollar. This happens ALL the time.

How does Microsoft manage to make even the coolest ideas seem incredibly square and doofy?

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http://www.videosift.com/video/XBOX-360-Project-Natal-No-Controllers-required

Microsoft's project natal got into shit a while back because their system had the same issue (or issues if you know what i mean)

there has to be a line drawn.

I truly can't see why people are still making a fuss about these sorts of things. You need to realize that this wont influence anything that isn't already there.

It's the presence of a strong moral background that stops people from doing things, like accepting violent tendencies from video games and accepting them into their own life styles. The same works for any situation in any video game.

How do we know this objectifies anything? I see the claim that this is a "Hentai" video game, however, I see no proof of having any form of nudity in it, she doesn't have a camel toe, and nothing gets see-through as it gets wet. the only thing I've seen so far is a comment by mxxcon stating the game is a -Dating Simulator- that can be hooked to a webcam and react to how you act with it.

For all we know, the thing gets pissed off if you spend too long looking at her girlie parts, and the only thing we see get poked or prodded is her face, and thats by hands. The reason she's well endowed? Well, if it were me, I wouldn't be as flustered in real life talking to someone flat chested, assed, with a lazy eye and a terrible haircut as I would talking to someone like Meagan Fox.

Sure, that comment is somewhat sexist, but true. I can get past looks for personality and intelligence when it comes to dating, but if I were to approach someone of that caliber I'd probably be tripping over words and be somewhat uncomfortable.

Give me proof, rather then speculation. A term many on the sift are familiar with for their belief on religion. It stands just as true here. Stop saying this is objectifying women, without showing her be dominated by a male, be submissive when she is being fondled (Which this video shows that she isn't) or that she has no opinions and is only there to please her master (And without a translation, we don't know what she talks about during the video)

Until such time as any evidence to those are presented, I'll assume this is just a more adult version of project Milo for natal, and truly lives up to its "Dating Simulator" name, rather then some smut game.

Congratulations! (again?)

I suggest a couple of demon's PQ vids for consideration;

http://www.videosift.com/video/Five-Ways-Natal-Will-Ruin-Halo (includes amusing kitty joke)

http://www.videosift.com/video/Jet-Li-is-Nobody-s-Bitch - excellent Jet Li actionpack.

You'll notice how everyone is wearing orange jumpsuits?

That's not because they're fashionable, that's for sure. It's because the software isn't capable of "finding" person without help in the form of a huge orange marker. Granted it could be the studio lighting is too powerful... or it could be that the vision isn't particularly good at discerning background information from relevant player movements. I've dabbled with computer vision software - its not easy hacking by any means. Not impossible, that's for sure, but I doubt we'll see the huge strides still needed to complete whatever plans MS may have for Natal within a few months, that's for sure.

Everything about Natal screams "We're not nearly ready to sell this, but we'll keep pretending it's ready by showing people playing our tech demos." Just like the original 360 - it was rushed, and suffers a high rate of hardware failure for it (16%, or 4 out of every 25 360s sold, granted that number is prior to the Jasper revision, which supposedly has cut number down, but remember that across the entire consumer electronics industry, the hardware failure rate is 15%, and the Wii and PS3 fail at a rate of 3%).

I own a Wii, got it just a couple weeks after it launched, and I make no apology for enjoying it. I've been playing video games for over 25 years, and watched the industry evolve into what it is today. Microsoft is repeating the mistakes it's made since entering the console business, and I'm surprised they've lasted this long.

Besides, Nintendo has historic ties to the Yakuza. How cool is that?

I'm not just a Wii fanboy. I'm a I <3 The Big N Fanboy, diehard. I see my favorite game maker rise to power as it did in my childhood, and I laugh at the wannabe tech that Sony and MS have been scrambling to try and 1-up Nintendo, but they both fall short. Motion-control wasn't added to the PS3 control until late in it's development, after they saw what Nintendo was doing with the Wii remote, and they thought that they could just take that, just as they took their basic controller design from the SNES pad. The DS has outsold the PSP by over 2-to-1, and there hasn't been a time in the last 20 years when they didn't dominate the handheld market.

FINALLY! Someone articulated perfectly my problem with the Wii and Natal.

It is EXACTLY what he said. I play videogames to unwind and waving my hands around like an idiot is not a good way to unwind.

Plus Natal uses two cameras to capture your position in 3-D space. EyeToy, and Playstation Eye, obviously don't. The camera tech for these, obviously, has gotten way better in terms of resolution and frame rate as well, so comparing it to the original PS2 EyeToy is definitely a little disingenuous. And really all the Wii is is a couple of infrared cameras and some accelerometers, which also must be pretty low resolution given how jittery Wii seems to be. Anyway, personally I was more psyched about the Milo demo than this kind of thing, and also way more psyched about Sony's motion control demo using the PS Eye and the wands at a vastly higher resolution than the Wii provides. We'll see what happens next spring. Regardless, I can say with a fair amount of certainty that I'm not interested in Nintendo's Vitality Sensor.