It's more complex.

This is a general comment about cancel culture after reading Terry Crews's recent tweet . I agree with some paragraphs, not with others, and will explain some of the concepts/problems related to cancel culture . Ambiguous or Unclear Definitions. To some degree I consider valid the criticism of this term's abuse, precisely because of the lack of an official definition/ambiguity of the definitions. As you see, different definitions are suggested by people from different fields: Even if we could discuss about the overlapping, it's obvious that they can be significantly different, leaving too much room for abuse. For example, some people can use the term as reflex because of its negative connotation to instantly reject coherent arguments from a collective. Also some of the comments under Terry's tweet seem to imply that cancelling only takes place when that person has lost his/her job, influence (would be hard to operationalize), etc., regardless of the intention of the ...

Introduction. The idea for this experiment was suggested in the middle of a friendly discussion with SkyArt and Blossom in Turtle's server. SkyArt's stance was that inertia is irrelevant for casual players who are unfamiliar with high level gameplay in DMC4/5, because they could not even identify it in high level clips or understand how it works. And probably that's why it was dismissed in DMC5. The summary of my own stance was that it's most probably (perceptively) relevant even when people don't know DMC4/5 and don't understand said mechanic. Because it still provides a more complex structure that affects the visual stimuli (like a combo or gameplay clip). In other words, one shouldn't need to understand how inertia in DMC4 works to perceive the difference between Dante remaining relatively static and Dante moving in relation to an enemy in a way that makes sense  in terms of structure. And even to enjoy said structure. The main question for the experimen...

Gonna use some colors this time. Maybe by some miracle people will focus on key points and stop lying. Or they won't, but this will stay for the record anyway. Lies and hilarious assumptions. Replying first to the more obvious BS: 1) I never manipulated Dinocrusher emotionally to make him dependent in any way . It would imply intention. All I did was a dissection and counter-argumentation of some of his tweets and opinions. Then he thanked me in DMs and I considered commendable the fact that he admitted he was wrong. We didn't even communicate frequently. I never knew he relied on my judgment to such extent, and I DMd him asap after reading his tweet. I explained I consider he may have BPD, at least going quickly and informally with him through DSM5's criteria, and it would be a good idea to visit a therapist for a proper diagnosis and therapy. Along with explanations to design his own strategies to identify incoherent emotional reactions and what not. Precisely to be ind...

Basics. It would be really hard to find the concrete origins of the first versions of he and she  in any language, but they most probably had to do with typical role and functional distribution (which obviously evolved/evolves), along with sexual and love relationships and the obvious tendency to identify and treat differently potential partners. The actual replacement of a name for a pronoun in itself is obviously to ease and accelerate communication (while still providing relevant info). With the development of science and language, a distinction was made to differentiate biological sex from the behavioral and emotional tendencies that individuals from concrete social groups would perceive as masculine or feminine. This is the concept of (social) gender or gender role, mainly coined from social psychology and sociology. It's not incompatible with the concept of biological sex, it actually complements it to understand ourselves with more precision. Be...

Note 1: As I said in the previous reply, this is rather for the importance of related topics and not so much the origin of the discussion. Even when I say half-joking that I hate DMC4 sometimes, it's technically true. And I don't consider it optimal, but it's obviously not very transcendent to hate DMC4 or DmC  passively  compared to much more relevant issues. Note 2: This reply is mainly directed at DK, but I intentionally wrote about extra subtopics that he doesn't necessarily disagree with. Because I want others like Turtle to read it as well. What I am basically saying is: don't read this as if I were arguing with DK in every point. It's more an essay about ethics that has to do with a past conversation than an argument or discussion (at least for me). Emotions aren't absolutely independent from choices . Emotions are rarely  pure. And they are usually still attached to morality in both directions: they can influence choices, and choices ca...