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Title: MechWarrior Online
Status: Released Graphics: 3D
Genre: MMOFPS
Developer: Infinite Game Publishing
Publisher: Piranha Games
Explosive Features:
- Impressive visuals powered by CryEngine 3.
- Highly Customizable BattleMechs.
- Impressive Combat Depth.
MechWarrior Online is a free to play 3D simulation style multiplayer FPS mech game that captures the feeling of piloting a gigantic BattleMech. Players take control of one of a variety of towering Mechs which weight dozens of tons. Players are able to choose from various mech weight classes, each with their own unique strengths and weaknesses. For example the heavier the mech, the more weapons and armor it can carry but the slower it moves and turns.
Outside of the PvP matches, players can purchase new BattleMech types and equip them with a dizzying amount of unique weapons and attachments. Players must choose a balance between armor and weapons since their is a finite amount of space and weight available for both the weapons and their accompanying ammo types.
Fans of slower simulation games will enjoy MechWarrior Online. The mechs move slowly and the FPS focuses heavily on team coordination and communication in order to achieve victory.
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Hawken is muck better than this crap
MechWarrior Online is a very shallow imitation of what the older PC MechWarrior games were there is very little content game modes or even Community warfare. I would rate it a 2 out of 10 as far as MechWarrior games go. Without private matches leagues and even savable mech configurations in mechlab its a play a few matches and forget you ever installed the game. Then there are so many bugs and crashes its a nightmare to stay playing its to bad it had real promise until the devs moved away from true a MechWarrior and made it a World Of Tanks Clone.
"""Without private matches leagues and even savable mech configurations in mechlab"""
UMMMM there is and ummm there is….and
YOU can Save mechs You have to Own them first…..Why not try and play it for more then 2 games and not just write a review about something you know little about
But Your right its a bit buggy at times….
BUT its not a WOT clone by far……..MWO is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better the WOT in options YOU obviously Didnt take the time to look at the cuxtomzation is Way larger then WOT…….
please play it more before writing a bad review.
No there isn't. he is not referring to thabiltiy to change your mech, he's referring tot he ability to have 3 or 4 setup presets of one mech without having to either buy 3 or 4 mechs or manually change them every time you want to use a different setup.
Private matches are premium only, which is no issue for me buy I compltely understand why it would be issue for some.
And the customisation being a lot bigger than WOT is exactly why its astounding that this game will not allow you to save different configurations.
It's a really really good game that's well made and well balanced. This is pretty much a fact.
What's objective is whether or not you will be into this kind of game.
If games like War Thunder, World of Tanks, or STEEL BATALLION, or Armored Core have ever excited you, than you'll probably love this game. If you've ever dreamed of stomping around in gigantic robots than this could be for you.
The game is F2P and cash money has no real effect on gameplay. New content is released about every month or 2. Mech-building is fun and addictive. Teamwork has a real effect on the outcome of the game, but lone-wolfs can still turn a battle by themselves if they play well enough.
I definitely would recommend this game.
I definitely would not reccommend this game.
Pay mechs litter the meta play. there's 3 game modes and buggy maps, hitboxes, servers.
a horrible UI and New player experience.
Matchmaker will throw your basic mech against fully upgraded vets all the time and the economy will leave you grinding for weeks to master anything.
It's an unfinished broken game surviving off addicted nerds stomping people into the ground with their wallets, ballance? I'll never understand the heat on weapons, the ghost heat that's arbitary values and then quirks that change stuff AGAIN! and the devs are always changng these values year after year invalidating your purchases and creating horrble metas to feul their lates $100 mech packs.
It's a stupid game stay away or play the much more fair and detaled older mechwarrior games.
For people saying it's a simulator, JUST STOP ALREADY.. You can't simulate what doesn't exist.. A simulator imitates the reality, you can't imitate something that doesn't exist.
Wrong. I'm working for a industrial technologies company, where simulation IS part of testing design hypotheses BEFORE they construct the real thing. Mind you, hypotheses. As in UNPROVEN THEORIES. Testing non-existing things before they roll out of the factory.
Good game for an FP2, no pay-to-win. People might say "don't be an idiot, buy Clan mechs and it's P2W." I'd say no, it's just you lacking skills. Anyway, with the recent changes (PGI buying out the game from IGP), the community's hoping for a better future in this game. We'll see… If not, then, we can kiss MWO good bye.
Why this game when hawken is available?
because this game is totally different… Hawken FPS (only with robots), MW – "simulator"
You need patience to play this game as unlike hawken, Mechwarrior is geared more towards a simulator than an FPS. It starts off slow and it takes awhile till you can buy your first mech, but it really picks up after that. So far it's not pay to win in any way and holds a lot of promise. Community is also nice if you ever get on the forums.
What's it simulating genius? The battlemechs the army's been hiding? Not pay to win? Really? Might want to check that
I've played ALL prior incarnations of Mechwarrior, and this one is an abomination. Need patience… No, you need to overlook half the game physics and the pay to win/look cool..
Takes forever to even get ok gear but gets fun after a little after that
HAWKEN is much better than this game,in my opinoin.
But it takes long time to get new weapons and mechs though.
Fantastic game. Definitely not pay to win. Tough learning curve. Thinking mans shooter.
It's free to try. 60 bucks will take you quite far. Wait for sales if your short on cash.
Super fun when you start getting into better optimized mechs and gear.
Good game, pretty true to the old school MechWarrior franchise. There is a bit of a learning curve, and some room for improvement, but for a free game, NOT PAY TO WIN, this is a solid effort and a worthwhile time sink.
how to download this game? help me guys plss iwant to play this game..
how to download mech? help me plss ..? i want to play this game..
The Customer support for this game is non-existent , they the game and nothing works crashes to desktop constantly, and their community managers are just @ssholes….Shame I love this game. But with all the crashes and non-fixing of….and their community teams are just incompetent….Looking at you staff moderator DESTINED
they patch*
Hey people of MWO… just insatlling game files and gonna try it out.
Haven't fired a C5 mech in a long time…
not pay to win good game
If you have never played a Mechwarrior on PC before, you probably wont get it. It's a simulator. They are giant robots and guess what, 90 tons of metal takes a bit of time to get up to speed or turn. It's a very fun game, atleast was. Initially they were trying to keep a balance between the same old Mechwarrior simulator and the BattleTech board game rules. The developer has begun to make changes to gear toward the general public to give it a more arcade feel alienating the diehard Mechwarrior and BattleTech players. As someone playing Mechwarrior since Mecharrior II for DOS that came free with my father's PC purchase, I prefer the simulator feel. I admit, I do not like the changes, but what are ya gonna do.
10-100 ton Mechs.
Try Hawken it looks like this.. just better.
Hawken is an FPS game with fast-paced low curve learning action type sort of thing, even if it has something similar to mechwarrior as in the robots I don't think its wise comparing both since hawken has no simulation feel at all, its just a typical fps shooter like any other,just fitted with robots and stuff, so both games are totally different.
I have played both Battletech and Mechwarrior … Mechwarrior online is nothing like the mechwarrior series … Battletech is the pvp setting for Mechwarrior … Mechwarrior is the RPG setting …
I have many hours of play with MWO … If you like WoT … you will like MWO … If you do not like WoT … you will not like MWO … You can get some fairly good mechs without paying any money … However if you want the top of the line stuff … you will have to pay money …
It is partially about skill / partially about the amount of money you spend … and mostly about whether or not you have good clan mates …
good luck … I dont play this dissapointment any more … if they make it like Mechwarrior is supposed to be … then I would play in a heart beat …
Great Game. Completely free to try & play. Everything in game can be bought for the grind, cash just helps speed it up.
Oh, and a bunch of angry trolls & goon squad guys from Eve that are trying to crash the party.
Try it for yourself. Definitely worth the free download. Gameplay is amazing, and content coming in looks very exciting.
The thing is, it's just a shooter. You get a mech and go fight other mechs. The MechWarrior universe has a great story behind it. I don't see any of that incorporated into this game. It could have been a great game but instead it's just a time killer and I can do that grinding in STO.
Really a waste of time this game. im not a troll nor am i going to sit here telling you not to play it. it is free it does have a MC shop. The server is in canada only if your Eu or East europe inc russia forget playing it your will lag out bad you go through USA and then into Canada on the backbone routers. If you like lag in your games then this is for you.
It seems you have a bad internet….
I've got loads of friends who play and no one had that much lag problems…
Game is long awaited child of older Mechwarrior games, Devs do tend to make mistakes more than often, but still it gave us some awesome gameplay time…
I've had root canals that were more fun than this game.


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Finally finished painted my Xbox silver but there's a little part on the side of the front panel that turned green (no idea how or why). Is there something I can use to touch it up? I've already put my top clear coat on it. Thanks.
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i know b4 u can touch up with a paint pen i did but never used it with CLEAR COAT ON i think it would work but not sure try it and put another clear coat on
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Coachella has come and gone, bringing together music lovers who pride themselves on knowing obscure bands that we, the general public, have never heard of. Enter Jimmy Kimmel to take them all down one by one.


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Dear Bruce,
It was so wonderful having the opportunity to reconnect last month. I enjoyed getting to know you better and coming to understand more of the parallels in our political and spiritual journeys. I look forward to many more deep discussions in the future.
I also really appreciate the book recommendations. These titles on the harmony between religion and science by Gerald Schroeder I put on hold at the library right after getting back from our lunch:
I look forward to exploring these subjects in pieces more soon and think we should continue brainstorming together; let's definitely plan on collaborating more in the future on ways to explore these concepts in articles, perhaps with some of your delightful artistic illustrations?
I want to congratulate you for your invention of the Bamusers, as showcased in your new collection of sketches that straddle the line between art and humor.
We've already talked about a few directions you might want to consider exploring using the Bamusers style of quick, simple illustrations accompanied by short titles. Today, I wanted to encourage you to consider another that could have some potential, both as a way to make perceptive cultural commentary and connect with new audiences: generational theory. Here are two books I'll throw back your direction:
30 Bad Ideas Men Should Embrace If They Want To Destroy Themselves, Part III
Click here for Part 1, and here for Part 2 of this list-letter to Lisa De Pasquale in response to her memoir. Also see here for Hannah Sternberg's contribution to the discussion, "5 Life and Relationship Lessons from Finding Mr. Righteous."
21. Hedonism: "It is perfectly possible for entire peoples to live only for their own pleasure and feel nothing for their prospective obliteration." – David P. "Spengler" Goldman, page 351 of It's Not the End of the World, It's Just the End of You: The Great Extinction of the Nations.
Dear Lisa,
I concluded part II with this question:
What does it mean to love someone? How do we learn to do it?
Amongst my book piles, I stumbled across this excerpt from page 141 of A Mystical Key to the English Language by Robert M. Hoffstein which points to the linguistic similarities between LIVE, LOVE and LEAVE as a clue:
I think the concept of what it means to "worship" someone, something, or God is no longer understood by most people. Do you think there's a significant difference between love and worship? Are the series of patterns that you identify throughout the men in your book indicative of links between the way humans' interpersonal relationships mirror their intellectual relationship with transcendence? Does the way in which we try to love others mirror the way in which we have learned to love God? Is worship a kind of training for loving others?
10 Classic Disney Cartoons For Introducing Mythology & Morality to the Next Generation
My New Year's Resolutions this year:
Dear Spencer Klavan,
I'd like to congratulate you for your first PJ Lifestyle piece that we published today, "10 Movies Stolen Right Out of The Odyssey." Editing it and talking with you inspired me to finally get around to finishing a list that's been on my mind lingering for a few weeks now. But I'm also going to twist things up a bit to really start pushing this list business further. I wrote my previous list post in letter format to Lisa De Pasquale in response to her book Finding Mr. Righteous, and I think it's a style I'm going to continue and encourage for others as a way to, borrowing a phrase from my wife, kill two stones with one bird. This month I'm going to start focusing to try and write more lists myself but they'll be with the increased goal of trying to encourage dialogue between writers and readers and to inspire ideas for more articles.
Over the course of several months this spring I watched through and featured all of the Silly Symphony Disney cartoons from the 1930s in the PJ Lifestyle Cartoon at Noon feature. They're all available on YouTube and are filled with insights into the period's culture, fashions, racial shortcomings, and technological developments. In studying them and now in comparing to other studios' generally less impressive releases, it's clear how Disney dominated: he continually pushed the technology further and he used it to develop meaningful art drawing from deep, substantive mythological sources to promote positive moral values. I believe cinematically these efforts reached their peak with Fantasia, what has become my favorite film of late, and whose pieces can be seen in some of these earlier efforts.
Spencer, with your background in classics and your interest in bringing out some of the dark, hidden aspects of Greek and Roman mythology and their relation to our culture today I'm really excited about the ideas you're going to start developing. Here are some of the ideas that I've been considering courtesy of some of the mythology, folklore, and fables Disney drew from in making his shorts.
CCing some of the other Lifestyle writers exploring pop culture and moral value themes on occasion too: Chris Queen, Susan L.M. Goldberg, Kathy Shaidle, and Hannah Sternberg, I'd invite you to consider these subjects too in your own writings. (And if anyone else would like to submit a blog post responding to these ideas DaveSwindlePJM @ gmail.com or lets talk on Twitter: @DaveSwindle. I'd like to start featuring more Twitter discussions at PJ Lifestyle.)
30 Bad Ideas Men Should Embrace if They Want to Destroy Themselves, Part II
Click here for Part 1 of my list-letter to Lisa responding to her great memoir of her journey searching for relationships with both men and God.
11. Internet Porn Idolatry… and its coming Spawn of Virtual Reality Sex Addiction: Men who expect real-life women to behave as their porn star goddesses do, that is, if they're still interested in flesh and blood women at all.… As noted in Kathy Shaidle's must-read e-book culture critique Confessions of a Failed Slut, a compelling exploration of the last four decades' sexual confusions:
That porn could warp young men's sexual expectations was a commonplace talking point during the feminist 'porn wars' of the Eighties. The notion was roundly dismissed, but now it looks like the 'anti-s' were onto something.
Dear Lisa,
In the previous part I already highlighted how some New Testament-centric theologies provided rather inadequate answers to questions of love, marriage, and sex. In the Evangelical Christian youth culture of my teen years it was abstinence until marriage and each lustful thought was morally equivalent to actually cheating on your future spouse. Jesus supposedly knew every bad thought that popped into our heads and each one was responsible for pounding those nails into his innocent flesh.
Just as I showed in point 3 how some Christians snip out a verse from Paul like some kind of biblical bandage to justify their demands for a wifely hooker performing on demand, the end of the sex discussion for those not yet married was Matthew 5:27-30:
27 You have heard that it was said, "You shall not commit adultery."[a] 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
Is it any wonder that sex and violence seem so joined at the hip when it's ingrained in so many Christians that lustful thoughts should be banished with thoughts of self-mutilation?
None of the commenters responding to my posts even bothered to acknowledge the alternative solution to the Pauline Christian approach to sex that I'd put up in the beginning:
Just as Christians and secularists would feel better physically by adopting a food diet closer to Kosher, so too the ideals and approach toward a Kosher sexuality in marriage is also the attitude to pursue.
And part of that comes in recognizing what junk food and porn sex have in common: they're both the products of an emotional, feelings-based pagan culture that we indulge in because of our inability to develop self-control through finding a higher pleasure than the escape of orgasm and the endorphin rush of the tasty food.
This great video of John Piper that Walter Hudson shared in his article "10 Barriers to Healthy Relationships Explored in Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Don Jon" is worth considering again:
30 Bad Ideas Men Should Embrace if They Want to Destroy Themselves, Part I
See the previous parts of this ongoing series exploring culture, relationships, and religion through books:
April 11: Men Should Read Lisa De Pasquale's Sexy Memoir
Lisa's book provokes many questions and this post is the beginning of a series to host and encourage a discussion about them. Lisa organizes her book around 7 different men — Chris the Atheist, Joe the Catholic, John the Evangelical, Preston the Quaker, Ryan the Preacher, Adam the Jew, and Brandon the Nondenominational Believer — and how her pursuit of them shaped her own religious journey. I'm going to give each one at least one blog post excerpting from her book and raising a question for debate…. Lisa's memoir is an inspiring journey through her own struggles with the idols she's worshiped. In future posts I'll consider an idol-based reading of her book in juxtaposition with other texts and the stories of the day. Recognizing the idol we're worshiping that's keeping us enslaved is the first step to picking it up, smashing it, and finding the free life God wants us to have. Lisa's book collects the fragments of seven of her smashed idols and there's much we can learn from her. Stay tuned, in future posts I'll also consider Lisa's insights alongside two related books I've read recently, Kathy Shaidle's Confessions of a Failed Slut (which Ed Driscoll interviewed her about here today) and Dr. Helen Smith's Men On Strike…
April 17: The Normal Way Godless Men Treat Women (A discussion of Chris the Atheist's sexual violence against Lisa and its ancient cultural roots.)
June 26 at the PJ Tatler: 30 Books For Defeating Valerie Jarrett's Cult of Political Criminals.
That Sunday, June 29, excerpting a section of it at PJ Lifestyle: 5 Deep Books For Overcoming Our Addiction to Idol Worship
Here are links to round 1 of a debate at PJ inspired by the "spreadsheet husband" that ran July 20-24:
- Dr. Helen Smith: Would You Want a Wife This Clueless About Sex and Your Emotions?
- Dave Swindle: Would You Want a Husband This Incompetent at Turning You On?
- Dr. Helen Smith: A Classic Example of White Knighting
- Dave Swindle: Deeply Religious Marriages Are Better Than Secularist Civil Unions
- Francis W. Porretto: Some Thoughts on Sex and the Bonded Couple
- Dave Swindle: 'Man Is More Inclined to Do Evil Than to Do Good' – Machiavelli
- Kathy Shaidle, concluding: How to Be the Perfect Wife in 3 Easy Steps
This extended list article today, tomorrow, and
Wednesday Friday draws from the debate's comments and juxtaposes them with excerpts from Finding Mr. Righteous, 3 of the 5 books on idolatry, and a few more related titles.
This can be understood as opening up Round 2 and and inviting others to participate. Send submissions in response to these subjects to DaveSwindlePJM {@} gmail.com or please leave comments below or feel free to get in touch on Twitter: @DaveSwindle (We should start featuring more Twitter discussions at PJ Lifestyle…)
Dear Lisa,
I hope your last few months have been less tumultuous than mine. After almost a month in our new apartment in South L.A., April and I are starting to get comfortable and settled — we finally tested out the pool yesterday. (Siberian Husky Maura remained skeptical and chose not to go in even though our landlord said she could. Someday we hope to get her swimming. She does enjoy going to the beach.) Here's a picture of her exploring the new town, I'm going to try to collect more sunrise pictures of her:
After the first two posts in the series on your book I ran into a writer's block, a challenge that I've now at last overcome: how best to explain the difference between Judeo-Christians and pagan Christians, one of the phenomena your book illustrates so vividly. This is my way of trying to contribute to understanding the wide range of religious relationship experiences you had over the years and why they varied so much amongst men who were supposedly committed to the same holy book, worshipping the same God. Illustrating the paganism of your first failed Mr. Righteous, Chris the Atheist, was easy enough. Camille Paglia is probably the most perceptive writer today analyzing the cultural blend of secularism and amoral neopagan values.
But in analyzing the varieties of Christianity in the context of their ratio of pagan to Jewish influences, there's another writer — who's exhibited an even stronger influence on my views the last three years — who I want to encourage you to consider both for future writings and for his insights on life in general.
David P. Goldman is a PJ columnist with a diverse background and a knowledge base ranging from economics and finance to history, philosophy, art, music and culture, to religion and theology. I read his book How Civilizations Die (And Why Islam is Dying Too) a few years ago and make it a point to try and edit as many of his pieces here at PJ as I can. I've just recently acquired and read his essay collection It's Not the End of the World, It's Just the End of You: The Great Extinction of the Nations.
Among Goldman's unique insights is to apply the theological writings of Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig and his magnum opus The Star of Redemption to understand demographic and cultural trends today, particularly why it is that so many nations and people around the world choose to destroy themselves. Goldman's answer: secularism produces hopelessness and does not inspire people to marry and reproduce. There is a big link between religiosity, family size, and happiness. Goldman lays out the data to both show that it's there and then, through explaining Rosenzweig's analysis of pagan, Jewish, and Christian cultures, explain how to fix it.
And it starts with applying it to our own lives — his ideas are just as useful at the macro level as they are for understanding ourselves and interpersonal relationships. The same techniques the West needs to use for defeating the sex-and-murder worshipping barbarians on the global stage we can use for overcoming these challenges in their smaller manifestations in the people around us and in our own unruly, jealous hearts.
So here are some of the bad ideas that your book does a great job of exposing — warning signs for both men and women — and some related ideas too that will yield further insights into the challenge of overcoming the stumbling blocks preventing us from being the righteous people our friends and family need us to be.
'Man Is More Inclined to Do Evil Than to Do Good' – Machiavelli
See the first five parts of this ongoing discussion and you are invited to leave your ideas in the comments or submit via email: DaveSwindlePJM AT gmail dot.com
Dr. Helen Smith: Would You Want a Wife This Clueless About Sex and Your Emotions?
Dave Swindle: Would You Want a Husband This Incompetent at Turning You On?
Dr. Helen Smith: A Classic Example of White Knighting
Dave Swindle: Deeply Religious Marriages Are Better Than Secularist Civil Unions
Francis W. Porretto: Some Thoughts on Sex and the Bonded Couple
Dear Francis,
I very much appreciate your contribution to the discussion about sex and marriage yesterday. As I made explicit in my answer to Dr. Helen Smith's reply, I think these disagreements about marriage and sex are really expressions of more fundamental philosophical and religious conflicts. These comments of yours in particular jumped out, indicating that our worldviews start from very different places as I already knew from these years of enjoying your great comments and occasional pieces. Emphases mine:
Male orgasm — his spasmodic release of tension and seminal fluid — is not the reason a decent man cherishes his lover's body and access to it. That there are a fair number of "indecent" men roaming about need not cloud the central issue.
Indeed, a mature, self-assured man, properly reared and past the urgings of adolescence, is less concerned with his own physical pleasure than with bringing pleasure to her. Her desire for his desire, with all that follows from that, gives him what he most wants: the opportunity to bring her pleasure, even if he gets little or none for himself. This has often been dismissed as merely a form of politeness, but in fact it's the source of his greatest sexual fulfillment and, apart from progeny, his principal reason for wanting her to want him.
Yes, there are men so self-absorbed that a woman's sexual desire is merely an opening through which to seek their own fulfillment, including the evanescent and essentially trivial pleasure of orgasm. Yes, there are men who never bother to learn "what she likes." But in any decent society these will be a minority.
I've written over the years about my ideological shift from Nation-style progressivism to Tea Party conservatism. I'm not the person today that I was a decade ago at 20, in the middle of my undergraduate days when I expanded my studies from English to political science. Amongst the many shifts that I've made gradually over the years as life experiences and new philosophical influences chipped away at the ideology I was indoctrinated in from K-12 through college, one of the most fundamental has been my change in understanding human nature. It's a change from what Victor Davis Hanson has described as the "therapeutic view" to the "tragic view."
When I was a progressive who supported big government programs and a dovish foreign policy it was because I naively assumed that most human beings wanted the same things, were decent people at heart, and could be trusted not to deceive others. Multiculturalism taught that all cultures were equal and all religions expressed the same basic, universal moral values. Anytime someone did something wrong it was because they were ignorant or mentally unbalanced in a way that was distorting their perception of consensus reality. Sure, occasionally nature would make a mistake and burp out serial killers, child molesters, or Hitlers but in general such people were aberrations. Thus it was possible — and necessary — and moral to move forward with trying to reason our way to a perfect, peaceful world by convincing everyone else what was best for them to do.
But I don't believe that at all anymore. Now I believe the exact opposite. The state of nature from which humanity escaped is chaos, cruelty, hatred and selfishness. More people in the world are evil than good, more of the cultures in the world will die through suicide rather survive. It's more normal for humans to worship death than for them to pursue eternal life. And the pimp-prostitute, promiscuous, polygamous sexual culture is more natural and universal than monogamous marriage. The absolute nuclear family that powers American prosperity is an aberration that we take for granted — see James C. Bennett and Michael Lotus's amazing America 3.0 for more on this. And in failing to understand and defend this culture today it's slipping away.
Deeply Religious Marriages Are Better Than Secularist Civil Unions
Dear Helen,
Thank you so much for your provocative, engaging reply to my post challenging you on the issue of who is ultimately to blame for sexless marriages:
I have a few questions for you, Dave. What if the man does all of the things you suggest such as put her in the mood, goes through all of the rituals etc. you suggest and then ends up with nothing? Then what? The man should then continue in a sexless marriage? Bask in the glow of his "self-control" as he wonders where the sex went? According to you, he alone (the loser!) is to blame. It takes two to tango, if you blame him alone for their lack of sex, you see women as having no responsibility and no agency in sex. Isn't this a little sexist?
In framing the question this way, you're kind of understating the degree of our disagreement. What I advocate for in my post goes far deeper than just rituals and more foreplay. I put the philosophy embedded in Shmuley Boteach's three books on Jewish mysticism and Biblical marriage on the table. It's not that this is just some magic trick that will result in more sex, it's that I'm advocating that both husband and wife together choose to embrace a religious attitude toward sex and marriage instead of being secularists.
A sexless marriage is not an actual problem — it's just one outward symptom of a deeper disease. In focusing on fixing sexlessness in a marriage we miss the source of what's driving it. In any marriage — apart from where physical illness prevents partners from performing — when either husband or wife all of a sudden isn't interested in sex the reason is so obvious and simple it seems silly to point it out: something else exists that is more important to them than their marriage. They have found a new idol and their devotion to it will destroy their lives as a result. They are engaged in self-sacrifice in service to their new deity.
Would You Want a Husband This Incompetent at Turning You On?
Yesterday, Dr. Helen blogged about a viral story of a husband who compiled a spreadsheet of every time his wife turned down his requests for sex (24/27 over 7 weeks) and who responded by posting it on the internet: "Would You Want a Wife This Clueless About Sex and Your Emotions?":
And she seriously wonders why the guy is mad? She has sex three times in seven weeks and he has probably been angry and boiling for some time before that. Why is she posting their problems on Reddit? She mentions his immature behavior; is hers any better? She says he wouldn't talk to her about the chart etc., so maybe during this quiet time, she should stop and think about her behavior.
But more importantly, the husband should reflect on his marriage and ask himself a few questions. So far, there are no kids. If she lets her job interfere with her sex life, what about the kids? Will he have an eighteen year chart of excuses and pain? If kids are involved and he wants to get out of the marriage then, he is going to have a much harder time. Perhaps he simply needs some quiet time to reflect on what to do, whether this is going to work in the long run and why his wife would turn to strangers on the internet and post his chart on a Reddit site instead of sitting back and giving him some breathing room. This does not reflect well on how things will go for him in the future if they stay married.
What do you think?
I'm actually going to take the wife's side in this dispute. I have absolutely ZERO SYMPATHY WHATSOEVER for this loser. Why?
Because it's not a wife's responsibility to be her husband's happy whore, eagerly providing him with his orgasms on demand.
Dissatisfied husbands, want to know the secret to having sex with your wife whenever you want? It is not your wife's responsibility to be ready to go on command, it's YOUR responsibility to know your wife so well that you are capable of seducing her anytime. When you want to have sex with her you don't ask her, you put her in the mood yourself. It's really that simple: know you wife well enough so you can push the right buttons, say the right things, and create an environment where sex just naturally happens.
Unfortunately, that's more work than most men are used to for getting orgasms. Twenty or thirty minutes of close attention, massage, and foreplay first? Taking the effort to really get to know your wife's unique preferences and turn-ons? Learning how to read her moods? That's effort — and energy.
4 Incredible Cult Films Coming to Criterion Blu Ray In August, September, and October
4. Y Tu Mama Tambien on August 19, 2014
Special features of note:
- Two new pieces on the making of the film, featuring interviews, recorded at the time of production and in 2014, with actors Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, and Maribel Verdú; Alfonso Cuarón; cowriter Carlos Cuarón; and Lubezki
- New interview with philosopher Slavoj Žižek about the film's social and political aspects
This 2002 coming-of-age comedy-drama from Mexico was one of my favorites during my high school and college years working at an art house movie theatre. It starts with the American Pie premise but infuses it with amazing, artistic photography and then deeper insights about life and death, philosophy, friendships, and relationships. Looks like it's on Netflix streaming… I should probably give it a re-watch…
And what's the deal with this trendy neo-Marxist, postmodernist "philosopher" Slavoj Žižek showing up all over the place? His documentary The Pervert's Guide to Ideology is also on Netflix and while I've tried watching it a few times I have yet to succeed in completing it… So silly and boring, but, alas, rising in influence and popularity in the culture such that he's probably in need of a dissection soon in list form…
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Dear Hannah,
I'm so sorry for your troubles this week. I hope this list can help. Here's some streaming sunshine with potential to provoke more positive moods via a variety of genres.
20. New Girl
I was very shocked at just how effective, funny and likable this sitcom was. Starring Zooey Deschanel as a perky, klutzy young woman moving in with three guys, the show has a sense of lightness and Deschanel is immensely sympathetic and entertaining. I don't really watch sitcoms these days, but New Girl is done so well and is so consistently funny episode-to-episode that it's worth checking out.
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10. The Romulans
What exactly do the Romulans have that justifies their defining quality, their arrogance? They're among the most boring species in all of Trek, the kind of evil twin to the Vulcans, known for their deceitful and warlike nature.
Their only redeeming feature seems to be how cool and genuinely intimidating their warbird ships are:
The 17 Places and Things We'll Miss Most About Living in the San Fernando Valley
17. The ArcLight movie theater at the Galleria.
Where: 15301 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks, CA
Our theater attendance tended to drop the last few years as my wife's graduate school workload increased, but when we really wanted to see something projected well and make a nice date of a movie this was our preferred indulgence.
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8. Live And Let Die
Is the first Bond movie with Roger Moore the best one in which he starred? Was it all downhill from here? I tend to think so. Moore took over the series from Sean Connery with this fun 1973 spy thriller set in New Orleans and featuring a blaxploitation and Black Panther-inspired villains. My friend Chris Queen included the theme song on his list of best Bond songs in 2012:
Paul and Linda McCartney banged out a unique title tune for 1973's Live And Let Die. While previous 007 themes fell into more of an easy listening vein, "Live And Let Die" blends bracing rock and intense orchestration by Beatles producer George Martin, who scored the film.
According to The Billboard Book Of Number Two Singles, Wings almost missed out on the chance to record it, and subsequently the producers almost missed out on the song itself. Martin recalled that when he played the Wings track for producers Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli, they complimented Martin on the song and asked who should record it.
The producers suggested future disco diva Thelma Houston, and otherwise insisted that a black woman perform the song because of the film's New Orleans setting. Martin and McCartney held firm that there would be no song if Wings couldn't perform it. Looking back nearly 40 years later, it's hard to imagine anyone but McCartney belting those immortal words, "Live And Let Die."
Did the Bond films just get too silly with Moore? Are they better when there's more of a balance between tough spy action and the occasional jokes and clever gadgets?
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10. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
I suppose in one sense, Netflix serves the same purpose as Facebook: perpetual high school reunion and never-ending nostalgia fests, reminders of a time before adulthood and the weight of responsibilities.
Nowadays when I go back and watch some film that was fun or memorable from childhood or adolescence I tend to see it more from the parents' perspective, relating to those characters, rather than the kids. I wonder how Honey, I Shrunk the Kids will hold up when rewatching it. Rather than experiencing it as a child wandering through the grass and inner-tubing in a cheerio, I'll consider it as the father searching for his lost children…
5 Deep Books For Overcoming Our Addiction to Idol Worship
Over at the PJ Tatler last week I unveiled my newest e-book size, giant list post: "30 Books For Defeating Valerie Jarrett's Cult of Political Criminals."
I organized the list into eight different sections by either theme or author, the second to last being a subject I've been preoccupied with perhaps more than all the others the past few years: "5 on cults, idol worship, and the origins of religion." Here are numbers 21 through 25. I intend to eventually do a much longer, more in depth list devoted specifically to this subject. What other books do you think I should include? I'm now taking suggestions… Also related from earlier this month for those looking for more: "Is God a Noun or a Verb? 6 Great Books Introducing Jewish Mysticism"
21. and 22. Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered by Leora Batnitzky and The Star of Redemption by Franz Rosenzweig
From PJ Media columnist David P. Goldman's articles and books I've developed a fascination with Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig. This book provides accessible insight into a core component of his thought very much of relevance to those wanting to better understand and overcome the powerful personality cults dominating America today. Leora Batnitzky focuses the discussion of Rosenzweig on idolatry, the primitive religious practice Judaism evolved against. For Rosenzweig idolatry is not based in the images or in the "foreign" customs of competing religions. It's based in an incorrect apprehension of how to worship. Rosenzweig argues that the postmodernist, Nietzchean, truth-is-relative philosopher engages in the same practice as the ancient idolaters, self-worship, from page 47:
Once I finish reading Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed this year it'll be time to focus on The Star of Redemption. As Goldman's first essay book demonstrates, Rosenzweig's ideas provide piercing analysis of our culture today…
The 10 Most Terrible, Overrated Shows on Netflix Streaming You Must Avoid
10. Amish Mafia
I think it's with Amish Mafia that the "reality TV" trend jumped the shark. It was at this point that premises for shows had to start becoming so outlandish and ridiculous that viewers could no longer be expected to put up with the charade that they're watching something "real." With Amish Mafia the show has to be upfront about the fact that the footage is all actually "reenactments." It's the TV version of non-alcoholic beer.
The show's amusing novelty — hearing the Pennsylvania Dutch spoken by some Amish subtitled and saying thuggish things — wears off quick.
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When someone is threatened by a murderous dictator it's usually not something to cheer and laugh about. Unless it's my generation's funniest actor-filmmaker being intimidated in response to a satirical film about the tyrant's assassination.
When one of the world's most evil men declares your work "an act of war" you're doing something right. The Verge reported:
The government of North Korea today issued an unsurprisingly harsh statement about Seth Rogen's upcoming film, The Interview, denouncing the action-comedy as an "act of war." In the movie, Rogen and James Franco star as two journalists who, after scoring an interview with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, are ordered by the CIA to assassinate him. In a statement published by the state-run KCNA news agency, a foreign ministry spokesman characterized Rogen as a "gangster filmmaker" and called upon the US to block the film, according to a report from the AFP.
"The act of making and screening such a movie that portrays an attack on our top leadership… is a most wanton act of terror and act of war, and is absolutely intolerable," the spokesman said, adding that the US would face a "resolute and merciless response" if it fails to ban the film, which is slated for release later this year.
Rogen was born in 1982 and is 32 now — making him 2 years older than me and part of my generational cohort of those born 1981-1985, which I argued in this article here should best be understood as stuck between generations, the Millennial-Xer Blend. (Those born 1976-1980 are Millennial-leaning Gen-Xers. Those born 1986-1990 are X-er leaning Millennials. I think it's only those born in '71-'75 and '91-'95 who tend to most embody the peer personality traits associated with the Generation X and Millennial stereotypes.)
So I'm a fan. I think Rogen's consistently funny and now that he's expanded into screenwriting and directing he's shining. He has real potential to be our generation's Woody Allen, minus all the narcissistic and creepy stuff. (Rogen doesn't seem to be particularly self-obsessed and most of his films have a moral core amidst the skillful vulgarity.)
Here's how I'd rank his 10 best so far. We'll have to wait until October 10 to find out where The Interview ranks among them…
The Classic Cartoon Reinvented as Video Game
It appears like I'm not the only one exploring the animated innovations of the 1930s for inspirations today. The Daily Dot featured this fascinating write-up of a new video game coming this year for X-Box:
The devil and hell setting reminds me of this early entry in the Silly Symphony series, "Hell's Bells," animated by Ub Iwerks:
I think where the deepest lasting imprint of the hellfire stuff remains in the Disney cultural consciousness is as the notorious ending of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at DisneyLand, a perpetual mystery to all children who pass through it:
At the end of the ride when you get to hell the room noticeably heats up. I bet it's just a matter of time before home video games get to the point where they're shifting the physical environments the players are in to match with the on-screen action…
The 7 Revolutionary Silly Symphony Cartoons That Won Oscars In the 1930s
From 1929 through 1939 the Walt Disney studio released 75 short cartoons in the Silly Symphony series. Starting in March I began watching and featuring them all at PJ Lifestyle to learn more about the culture, history, and technology of the period. It's really neat to see how the series evolved from beginning to end as Disney utilized it as a kind of experimental laboratory for testing new ideas that would later make it into the feature films. Fantasia – which has become one of my absolute favorite films in recent years, I'll often have it on in the background while writing — can be understood as the ultimate Silly Symphony. So many of the themes and techniques developed over the decade would find their greatest expression there (a subject that I'll write about more soon.)
I've scheduled the last two Silly Symphony cartoons for tomorrow and Friday. Now that I've seen them all I'll be organizing them into a few lists and collections to highlight the good, the bad, the ugly, and the fascinating. And starting on Monday the PJ Lifestyle Cartoon at Noon feature will take a break from Disney and turn to another company and its standard bearer: Fleischer studios and Betty Boop.
But to start, so others can start to see the fascinating pattern of advancement over the decade, here's a collection of the 7 Silly Symphony cartoons that won Oscars, along with some remarks on each.
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3 Adorable Photos of Our Beloved Siberian Husky Taking Her Afternoon Nap
Dennis Prager's column of course hit close to home today: "Pope Francis: Pets Can't Replace Children":
Pope Francis said something so important last week that it will either be widely ignored or widely disparaged.
The pope criticized "these marriages, in which the spouses do not want children, in which the spouses want to remain without fertility. This culture of well-being … convinced us: It's better not to have children! It's better! You can go explore the world, go on holiday, you can have a villa in the countryside; you can be carefree. It might be better — more comfortable — to have a dog, two cats, and the love goes to the two cats and the dog."
He is right. More than ever before, young men and women in most affluent Western countries (and Russia) have decided not to have children. Instead, many shower love and attention on dogs and cats. Ask many young women — married or single — if they have any children, and if they do not, you are likely to be told, "I have two cats" or "I have two dogs." There are authors whose book jacket photo shows them with their dog or cat.
In much of the West, animals are the new children.
He's right. Read the whole thing.
My wife and I are of course guilty as charged. But there's another way to look at it too.
Not that pets have to necessarily be a permanent substitute for children, but rather, a kind of kids-training wheels. My friend and colleague Rhonda Robinson suggested this to me years ago when we were first beginning our collaborations. Rhonda's a super-mom with 10 (it's 10, right, Rhonda?) kids and I don't recall how many grand-kids so far and she's just full of wisdom and life observations.
And she very much got it right, here. Our Siberian Husky Maura turned five this year (easy to remember since she's the same age as our marriage.) Over the years Maura has been a strong factor in shifting me from the "kind of maybe want to be a parent" to the "YES. Need to be a dad" mindset.
I just don't think there's a rush. Better to wait until after the war is won before starting a family. Today is akin to 1938 and I'd rather wait until 1951 or so and would be more than content to adopt…
This Nicolas Cage Trolling Pic Is the Most Hilarious Thing Ever
He's wearing a t-shirt of himself, at a Guns 'n' Roses concert, via Instagram:
Defamer points out that his face is in the pose of the infamous online "troll" image:
I'm just going to pull this up every time I need to laugh out loud. He's trolling the world.
Or is this just a paid publicity stunt and totally inauthentic? (But still entertaining…)
Is God a Noun or a Verb? 6 Great Books Introducing Jewish Mysticism
Hi Myra,
I'll publish your piece on Sunday and provide you with an answer to your question "Why Was Jesus Born Jewish?" Perhaps I'll just reprint this email.
"Now, will someone who practices Judaism PLEASE "have an opinion on this" and answer my question?"
There are different kinds of Judaism. Whether you talk to a reform Jew, a conservative Jew, a progressive Jew, or an orthodox Jew you'll get a different answer. The reason is because all define the word "God" differently.
I generally don't classify myself primarily as a Jew but the fact is I am one of a particularly marginalized, misunderstood variety — a mystical Jew. Kabbalah and mystical practices derived from the Torah are the foundation of my occultism — as they are in all "right hand" mystical and occult practices. (It's only the "left hand" that are engaged in Paganism, earth-worship, demon-worship, sex-worship, and the various practices of the ancient Canaanite fertility cults.)
Your question is a non sequitur for Jews for a number of reasons. Jesus was not "born Jewish" because Jewishness is not a race/ethnicity like being French, American, Spanish, etc. It's a religion and moral value system. When a baby is born they are Jewish only in the sense that their parents plan to raise them in the Jewish value system, not that they are somehow inherently Jewish in their blood. Jesus wasn't "born Jewish," he was raised Jewish. People can become or stop being Jewish whenever they want.
Your questions about why did God do this or that:
Do you believe God made Jesus a Jew just for the heck of it?
Like do you believe God made you a Jew just for the heck of it?
I certainly do not believe God made me a Jew just for the heck of it.
These questions change depending on how one chooses to understand and define God. By this, I mean this question: most of the time when you think about God, is God a noun or a verb? Is God a thing or is God an action? Is God a guy up in the clouds making stuff happen, or Is God a process of change and transformation? I take the position of Exodus 3:14.
Central to Jewish mysticism is the idea that God is transcendent – a verb – and as Maimonides argues in The Guide of the Perplexed, all references to God as a thing or a person or a father in the Torah are just metaphors and parables hinting at a transcendent reality beyond our comprehension. So these questions only make sense within a Christian theology that anthropomorphizes God into a person. Hence why you get "no opinion" from Jews. They don't believe that God operates the way you do.
- David
P.S. Five other book recommendations. These have been some of my biggest influences on why I describe myself as "Pagan Soul, Christian Heart, Jewish Mind, Secular Spirit" and strive to syncretize religious traditions:
1. Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism by Douglas Rushkoff
Page 31: "Maimonides understood that any fixed conception of God must also be a form of idolatry."


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Sustained snowfall through Autumn is what's needed. Some British media outlets have reported that a strong 'El Nino weather event' in the Pacific could not only bring an end to the four season drought in Western North America but also bring 'End of the world' type winter weather to Europe... there is no real scientific evidence of that (but it makes a good story); no one really knows what's coming.
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Hi and welcome to TEC radio. My name is Lyndsay Wise, and I'm the senior research analyst for business intelligence [BI] here at Technology Evaluation Centers. Today with me I have Robert Abate, the managing principal and global practice lead for RCG Information Technology. RCG Information Technology is a leading consulting firm with in-depth project experience within the manufacturing industry. Today with Robert I'm going to explore how manufacturers can optimize their supply [chains] to maximize profits and increase customer satisfaction through the use of business intelligence.
Lyndsay Wise: Hi Robert, it's a pleasure to have you with us today.
Robert Abate: Hello.
LW: Robert, how do you feel organizations can optimize their supply chains to maximize profits and increase customer satisfaction?
RA: That is a very good question. I start by saying that because the optimization of a supply chain obviously would maximize profits and would increase customer satisfaction, and manufacturers are specifically sensitive to overruns and costs and customer dissatisfaction. Obviously, the need for a supply chain in any manufacturing organization is keygetting raw materials into that chain in delivery of its products.
LW: How does BI add benefit to this process, and why is it important?
RA: Well, business intelligence, as you know, is the revealing of data or the reporting on data and the "turning data into information." So, BI specifically helps manufacturers in optimizing their supply [chains] by reviewing tons of products, read tons of raw materials and, in turn, allows for things like alerts. Reports can alert organizations to problems in their supply [chains], to problems in the manufacturing process, or in problems with delivery. So, BI is a component of understanding the data you have and organizations, and especially manufacturing organizations[they] have tremendous amounts of datapulling that data and turning it into information and knowledge is what business intelligence is all about.
LW: Based on your experience within the industry, could you provide an example of a customer who has used this approach?
RA: Yes, and many examples. First, I would start withas a director of Polo Ralph Lauren, we used business intelligence to first understand what were the issues we were having with the lead time of materials. One issue in the development of clothing is [that] clothing is seasonal-based, so raw materials are brought to manufacturing facilities usually with a long lead time prior to getting it out into the sale and retail floors. And when there are issues with those materialsany of the materials in the manufacturing processit would cause problems downstream, and the ripple effect occurs. One small problem in the manufacturing process could cause a much larger problem by the time it gets to the retail process. So what we did was we collected information on all the raw materials, predicted deliveries and times, and created a number of different reporting metricsmanagement metricsthat helped us analyze not only the production of the raw materials, but the transportation and delivery of raw materials which added to the problem, which allowed us to maximize not only the ordering and delivery of the materials, but the just-in-time delivery of materials, which increased our ability to manufacture, and also increased our productivity and profit as well.
LW: Why did the client choose BI to solve this issue?
RA: Business intelligence was the preferred method to isolate what the issue was. First, we had to determine what problem was occurring in the supply chain and the manufacturing process. We weren't sure whether the problem was the delivery of raw materials or if the problem was related to the stacking of supplies in the manufacturing facilities and therefore wasn't a delivery problem, it was a manufacturing problem. So, business intelligence allowed us to determine what was the root cause of the problem, and then allowed us to maximize or improve the productivity of that supply chain.
LW: How is BI beneficial?
RA: Well, business intelligence in itself is part of a loop, and it's a loop of business learning. Business intelligence provides executives with information, and what I was referring to earliermetricsspecific indicators that would allow us to determine what are issues or what are problems. But business intelligence itself is part of a circle, a collection of information, the learning from that information, the correction or change of business profits, and then the re-evaluation of that information to see, "Was the correction made improving the course of the manufacturing facility, or [was it] detrimental?" And then further improvements or further changes can be isolated to determine how we would improve the efficiency and the effectiveness. That's the primary 101, the primary benefits. Business intelligence itself is part of a management reporting of the health of a business, and to understand the health of a business, we have to understand the business itself, the process, the associated metrics with that process. For example, to manufacturers specifically, there is a need to understand what part of the businesses might be affecting other parts downstream of prophecies. For example, the collection of raw materials [is] important in supply chain, but just as important as the demand plan. What is the demand of product and where does that plan fit in? And since it's all interrelated, business intelligence allows us to connect the dots between the supply and the demand, and allows us to report on changes to that process which would improve the overall health of the organization and productivity.
LW: Robert, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us today.
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That's why Trek is escapist fiction.
Humanity isn't headed in the direction we see in Trek.
It's also in a way you really shouldn't compare "Inner Light" to "Memorial" because the message, scenarios and reason behind both are completely different. The only similarity is the "Quantum Leap" syndrome. One isn't about politics or social injustice, the other is. "Memorial" is a ep. that allows us to do just what we're doing now, discuss and debate it more so than "Inner Light". They didn't want you to feel good after seeing it, they wanted you to be uncomfortable because that's what real war is. It's not even pretty as DS9 made it where the good guys don't get killed during it.
I agree. Despite their commonalities, they're very different episodes with entirely different purposes.
While I may not have particularly enjoyed it, I agree there's a lot to be discussed in Memorial. Glad we're having this conversation.
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