Posts made by raphjd

Tom and Lance are raffling off tickets to win a double date in London.

I didn't look at the article fully because I was busy, but it's for some charity.

It's a great game series.

I love the steampunk  aspect of it all.

YEP, that's right, we now have our Constitutional crisis requiring the US Supreme Court to rule on marriage equality.

In the 2-1 decision, they said that courts, judges and lawyers shouldn't be the heroes of the gay civil rights movement, but that individual people should be the heroes.  The also said that the civil rights process needs to follow the traditional path of going through the government, not the courts.

Of course they ignored the countless civil rights cases that have been settled throughout US history.

XBox has the best exclusive driving games.

In the UK at least, PS4 has more exclusive extra content (extra missions, etc) for non exclusive games.

@raphjd:

@ajax0980:

@groovedware:

I would recommend first timers go for the fleshiest spot they can.

Sitting may be uncomfortable for a bit!  :haha: :funny2:

You may laugh but it's true.

The most painful spots to get a tattoo is where there's the least flesh; ie spine, top of hands, top of feet, etc.  The 2nd worst are the areas that don't come into a lot of "outside" contact, such as the inside of your upper arm.

Somewhere on the internet there's a great color chart that shows the tattoo pain levels.

There's still a lot of homophobia in gaming, from the players.

Game makers have learned that they can't make too much noise about their gay characters before hand or people will freak out.  That's why we see gay characters being put into games without any real fanfare.  No one wants another SWTOR type disaster where the player base went nuts over 2 gay characters.  They didn't mind the 2 lesbians though.

@mcmxc1983:

Conservative compared to Berlin.
But better than USA

That's too generic.

A lot of the US is gay friendly.

The marriage equality movement is going forward at record pace in the US.

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/italy-charges-six-gay-activists-kissing241014

**Italy charges six gay activists for kissing

Police say their 'long and passionate' kisses 'disgusted' passersby**

24 OCTOBER 2014 | BY DARREN WEE

Six LGBTI rights activists have been charged with disturbing the peace because they kissed at an anti-gay protest in March.

The public prosecutor’s office notified the six of the charges earlier this month.

The three men and three women held a spontaneous, uncoordinated protest against an anti-gay group Sentinelle in Piedi, Standing Sentries, in Perugia, central Italy.

The Sentinelle stage demonstrations against gay marriage and efforts to extend hate crime protections to LGBTI people. Members stand silently in plazas, holding books or praying.

Two of the activists are members of LGBTI rights group Omphalos and four belong to Bella Queer. All six are accused of disturbing the peace and four are also accused of holding an unlawful demonstration.

‘The charges would be laughable if they didn’t reflect exactly the anti-gay sentiment the activists are fighting against,' said Judith Sunderland, senior Western Europe researcher at Human Rights Watch.

‘The public prosecutor should withdraw these charges immediately.’

The prosecutor acted on a police report that accused two of the men of engaging in ‘a long and passionate kiss on the mouth… in front of many families with children and adolescents many of whom are minors, leaving passersby disgusted by such a demonstration.’

The report included a description of the protesters’ clothing - colorful shirts and a feather boa - and said one of the activists made noise with a small tambourine.

‘Gay men and lesbian women kissing in public is not a crime,’ Sunderland said.

‘The activists’ actions are clearly protected by their right to peaceful protest.’

Earlier this month, the Sentinelle held prayer vigils in cities across Italy. Scuffles broke out between Sentinelle and counter-protesters in Trento, Torino, Naples, and Bologna.

In Venice, military police registered the identities of two men who kissed each other in the plaza, threatening to charge them with holding an unlawful demonstration.

This isn't about current games, but about future releases whether they have been announced or not.

I'm looking forward to Fallout 4.

It's not a culture either.

Maybe if you live the Queer As Folk life it's a culture, but that's not my life.

@ajax0980:

http://thesword.com/fraternity-x-crew-roofies-and-rapes-same-twink-for-second-time.html

Based on that, and other blogs, I'd say NOT rape

(Frat X site posted a similar disclaimer but I couldn't locate it at time of posting).

If you look at the pictures, the supposedly "roofied" guy is an active participant in the sex.  It's only after the sex that the "roofies" seem to work, how convenient.

There are lots and lots of fantasy rape sites (gay and hetero) on the internet.  I have yet to see any real rape videos posted, except on occasion in news articles when someone is busted over them.

Also, with all the homophobes around, every tiny bit of gay porn gets reported and investigated by police, just in case.  When I was a Yahoo groups owner, I used to regularly get reported for kiddie porn and they never found anything.  Even the most obvious stuff would get reported and it has to be checked out.

DL (downlow) and closeted is the same thing.  It's different terms people use for the same thing.

Most often, blacks use the term DL or downlow.

I don't consider being gay a "lifestyle", since we are just as varied as heteros are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Slovakia

Eastern Europe isn't very gay friendly.  The few gay rights they do have is solely due to them belonging to the EU.

I should also point out that there is some debate on exactly which date an administratively converted civil partnership to marriage will use.  From my understanding,  it should be the date you originally got your civil partnership and not the date of the changeover, but some have said this isn't the case.

Converting from a civil partnership to a gay marriage through a marriage ceremony will be dated on the day of the marriage ceremony.  This isn't disputed.

Gays will still be able to get civil partnerships, but understand that with the UK (except Northern Ireland) having gay marriage,  you probably won't be entitled to the same rights internationally as you would have with a marriage.

Alaska, Nevada and Idaho all had their gay marriage bans struck down by various levels of federal courts, since the ruling in San Francisco.

Unfortunately, anything after the US Supreme Court calendar announcement about a week ago, can still make it to the US Supreme Court so they will still be in play until next year about this time.

Starting on 31 December  2014, gay marriages can take place in Scotland.   HOWEVER,  you will need to register 15 days in advance (starting on 16 December 2014), the same with hetero marriage and civil partnerships.

Anyone who wants to convert a civil partnership to a marriage without a ceremony can do this starting on 16 December 2014.  This is supposed to be free for the 1st year, but only if your civil partnership was dated on or before 15 December 2014.

Depending on where you live, you may need to make an appointment.  This is true in larger areas.

If you plan on doing it right way, call at least 1 week in advance to make sure they ordered and received the correct paperwork.

It works out great, 16 December is my mom's birthday and she's a homophobe, so you know what my partner and I will be doing.  :cheers:

@ajax0980:

@groovedware:

I would recommend first timers go for the fleshiest spot they can.

Sitting may be uncomfortable for a bit!  :haha: :funny2:

You may laugh but it's true.

The most painful spots to get a tattoo is where there's the least flesh; ie spine, top of hands, top of feet, etc.  The 2nd worst are the areas that don't come into a lot of "outside" contact, such as the inside of your upper arm.

Somewhere on the internet there's a great color chart that shows the tattoo pain levels.

Scientology is the most evil.  It was born out of corruption and is the only major religion that you have to pay for to get "enlightenment".  It breaks up families and does horrible things to people that leave and/or disagree with them publicly.

Mormonism is just a con man's made up religion.  It's basically the bible that we all know, but based in North America.  Polygamy wasn't in the religion until he got caught banging his best friend's wife.  Then he claimed the angel told him to be polygamous and everything was alright then.

Islam, if you put it into chronological order, is basically Mohammed's desires.  It's pretty telling that the quran was changed and made into the shortest to longest verses, rather than the original chronology based text.  We could take any autobiography and convert it into a religion, as the muslims did.

Judaism uses the Cain and Able story to separate themselves from the Canaanites which they were once part of.  It just goes downhill from there.  They were never slaves in Egypt.  They never wandered the desert.  They have an extremely bloodthirsty history, as well.

Christianity is very strange.  Nothing except the stuff written by Paul is from the person it's claimed to be by.  Paul was a paid christian killer until he meets Jesus' ghost, then he decides to take over the religion which means eliminating a few more of the leaders.    Jesus know what the prophecies were and he made them happen.  As an example, when going into Jerusalem, he told his buddies to go steal a donkey and a purple robe for him because that's what the prophecy said.  There were 2 Bethlehems,  one in the north and one in the south.  For about the first 600 years, the Bethlehem in the north was Jesus' birthplace.  I don't know what exactly happened by now he was born in the southern Bethlehem.  The mosaic floor from the original church (the one in the north) marking his birth place is in the wall at Tel Aviv airport.

Sadly, I'm not too clued in on the eastern religions and their beginnings.