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@Pezen: Sorry, I should have been more clear. Yes, eating food is the normal response to feeling hungry, but that isn't to say I didn't have a choice of what I ended up eating. For example, some people would say it is wrong for someone to respond to their hunger by eating meat. So I suppose the point is that the choice is in how you respond to the feeling.

@Omega: ha I concede, Michael Jackson argument trumps my argument

@Pezen: @Junkerman: Sure I agree, it's not a choice to have a feeling. I feel hungry sometimes but what I CHOOSE to do about it is where many people take issue.

@3reach said:

I love it when someone says " I don't like gay people", or " being gay is wrong" That is pure bigotry and bullshit. It is the same as saying " I don't like black people". You are a fucking ignorant asshole if you think this way. that is all.

Saying "I don't like gay people" and saying "being gay is wrong" are two very different claims. I don't like the Call of Duty series but that doesn't mean I think that it is "wrong" for someone to play the game.

Deciding to not filter out that distinction is problematic. I view a gay person as making a choice that they don't have to make. Like any choice in life it is influenced by life experiences and internal desires.

I view a black or a white person as a person that never had the choice. This is why I think the argument of a direct correlation between racial discrimination and gay rights isn't completely coherent. The issue of someone being discriminated against is similar (and wrong no matter what) but difference of choice is an important distinction between the two issues.

If someone does have excess invites I would totally be up for checking it out as well!

here is another code:

43GJ-64NM-8JC7

I have been developing a website with the idea that I would combine user feedback, public facebook data and public twitter data to create a score that would quickly display the general excitement for games that are coming out soon. The website is called  hypinion.com. Games enthusiasts (like myself!) tend to spend a lot of time discussing and thinking about upcoming games and I think hypinion adds to that discussion.     
 
An intentional design choice was to make the scoring and visual representation of the score similar to another popular score aggregation site, however hypinion is not designed to be another "me too". I am not interpreting review text and scores, instead hypinon is primarily tracking numbers, trends and direct feedback to quantify the public perception of a game.     
 
I would love constructive feedback and thoughts about what the site!    

Awesome! I was hoping someone would get the ball rolling. I will check it out 

 Typically I am pretty annoyed when I see these types of messages popping up in forums, but I consider the giantbomb community to be pretty awesome so I thought I would throw this out there.   
 
I have created something, I am not entirely sure where it will go from here, but this monster is called  “hypinion”.

The idea behind hypinions is pretty simple and I figured many of the folks from the giantbomb community would instantly understand what I am trying to accomplish. I have created a website called hypinion.com and a complimentary facebook game/app called Hypinion Tycoon.

Check out both, I think it will be fairly apparent how the two components interact with each other. This week I have moved out of alpha and into beta and am very excited for where this idea could go. I will openly admit, that the concept is pretty raw and almost surely will need refinement, but that can only happen from people using it!

If you are interested please check it out, let me know what you think. At this point any feedback on just about any part of it would be greatly appreciated!