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The choice here seems obvious

Straight up money or a meal I might not be able to finish with a questionable person

Everything about her is attractive except that hair

Ruvan22 posted...

Most welcome - systemic racism in policing started this, did my brief definition make sense?

It made sense but it still came across as my original perception of it?

I don't want to bug you and the other users too much "asking 20 questions" so I'll try to do some of my own research .

I'm starting to get to the end of my attention span anyway.

Thanks again

Not crazy about shock the monkey but I got to agree with them on this one the UK definition a penis is required to rape is stupid

Ruvan22 posted...

Laws and financial policies that made it harder for certain races to get land

I thought this was based off income and/or living in a poor area? I tried googling this so I would have to ask less

Ruvan22 posted...

Ok so -
A) You believe that generational poverty exists for all races (makes sense) - *why* do you believe that means it affects all races equally?
B) Something countering a bad thing doesn't mean it *completely* erases it.. a bulletproof vest doesn't completely erase the danger of bullets

Because I've seen poor people of all races. I mean I guess I don't know that for a fact. I'm realizing this is a poor answer on my part.

Ruvan22 posted...

Again, you could Google - Food desert is an area with little to no access to fresh produce, food without additives, etc

Now this is one I've never heard of though I've heard murmurings of the other stuff but correct me if I'm wrong but I thought a lot of poor minorities live in the inner city. I'm huge into cooking international dishes and ingredient selection is often the best in cities.

PS
Wanted to thank you for taking the time to trying to teach me something

wanderingshade posted...

Barely. Martin Luther King Jr. was campaigning for better pay and unionization as a way to defeat generational poverty and he got shot for it. There's still urban communities that have problems stemming from Redlining that caused poorer education and food deserts.

I don't know what redlining is.

Doesn't generational poverty exists no matter what color you are? I thought things like affirmative action were meant to counter this, at least if you're a minority.

Apparently I've got a pretty bad education and I'm white/Spanish. Don't know what a food desert is either.

A_Good_Boy posted...

No offense, but I'm only barely hopping into this topic near the end and I think I'm already picking up the vibe that other people have been saying that you're full of shit.

Only shock the monkey but you're welcome to join him if you want to view the world through gray lenses where everyone is terrible.

wanderingshade posted...

Systemic oppression of Black people sorta started with a lack of rights and education in Antebellum south even for Freedmen and extends to Redlining new Northern black communities and banks not letting them get home loans for houses in the Suburbs. Which lead to generational poverty.

And then Nixon wanted to police the fuck outta them.

I have no doubt it started out this way but certainly we've come a long way since then?

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Of course you would have this stance because you're shocked the monkey and everything and everyone is evil and out to get you

A_Good_Boy posted...

The system is based on a document that considers black people 3/5 of a person and treats them as property, with a bunch of edits happening ever since. How'd you not consider the system itself was racist?

Is there an educational video that makes it easy to understand? Like no over complicating things.

I'm struggling to understand for example a traffic stop where the law says you have to give somebody going 20 miles over the speed limit a ticket but the black person gets two tickets?

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I looked back and read my post and I use voice to text a lot and realized my post didn't make sense for what I wanted to say so I edited it l. Go back and see if the edited version still gives that impression.

I guess I don't know because the definition of systematic oppression people give is usually pretty generic and broad? I just had the impression that systematic oppression was when people in positions of power abused their authority to oppress people of color not that the system itself was flawed (using the system to oppress).

Gremlynn posted...

ok so here's where your little disconnect from reality is. If your job trains you to do racist shit, and then you do racist shit because it's your job, nobody gives a fuck if you yourself actually feel that way about people for their race.

See here's the part I don't get.

Let's say I'm a cop.

I make a traffic stop because somebody's going 70 miles per hour in a 45 mph zone. I pull them over and I'm supposed to give him a citation for $200 and have him shop in court. That's pretty standard?

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Of all people whose opinions matter to me least it's probably yours.
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I'm sure you think I'm a secret racist and I hate all black people XD. Just say what you mean like me because otherwise I have no clue what you're trying to say.

thronedfire2 posted...

dioxxys must be one of the people that think systemic racism doesn't exist

Sure it does but but saying every cop is racist by simply joining the police force now that's some bull honky.

The police force will never change if good people don't join the police force because they think that's a job for racists smh.

Be the change you want

Antifar posted...

How do you quote a passage saying it doesn't matter whether individual cops are racist and reach this conclusion?

The whole point of racism is that an individual hates another person. Article saying well it's not the cops fault their racist no it's because the organization is inherently racist, so when they joined they became racist by association??

Bump

NoMeLx22x posted...

Did you.... read the article or are you just spitting shit out of your mouth to be intentionally dull?

I didn't but I just regretted reading it just now to give you the benefit of the doubt.

"So when demonstrators, activists and regular Black people refer to the police as racist, they are not complaining about the content held within the individual hearts of cops. They are not protesting the intent of each individual law enforcement agent or their feelings for Black people. They are talking about the system of policing, which, according to that little reference book, fits the exact definition of racism. The meaning, history or purpose does not change because the person performing the job has a different skin color. If Beyonc wore whiteface, she wouldnt automatically gain the ability to play the banjo and become Taylor Swift. A man who plants and harvests seeds is a farmer, even if he is wearing a tuxedo.

Farmers farm.

Singers sing.

Police perform racism"

Article is literally trying to say just by being a police officer you are racist and that's just stupid.

Steam deck makes it easy

INSCRYPTION was an amazing Roguelike take on Duel Monsters. We got a great atmosphere with a crazed dungeon master locking us in his house.

Seriously if anyone hasn't tried this game check out a trailer: https://youtu.be/RN5GSIWIN1k

But now we need a modern Dungeon Dice Monsters. Did anyone play this back on the game boy advance? It was pretty dope and actually a lot of fun. Also does anyone know of them Indie take on it?

BeantownHero posted...

https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1619359813967974400?t=kPCvwzFB7HIzcMmoorX2EQ&s=19

Damn, black cops murder black man and someone still manages to find a way to blame it on racism. Maybe they're just shit people? Heres another hot take, maybe even a lot of white/nonwhite murdering cops are just shit people too? Everything doesnt have to be racist. Its my opinion that its important to call out racism when it rears its head but when you call everything racist you create a "boy who cried wolf" syndrome. Its working against the destruction of racism by minimizing it.

DocileOrangeCup posted...

Wtf is this really how it is???

This sounds like something Steve Harvey would say

yes

Crazyman93 posted...

Why the fuck are love potions in books that are easily accessible to teenagers? Who still thinks that's a good idea? Like, I can see why they existed 200 years ago, but why are they in a potion text book alongside presumably normal potions like "how to regrow your fucking bones"?

If you took out everything out of Harry Potter that could be considered unethical, they'd much more boring. Could have been worse, hanging student up by the ceilings with chains.

PS
Damn this topic really blew up today

I think you misunderstood me.

I was saying try being a little pushy because depressed people can tend to think they are a burden and don't want drag you down with things like hanging out.

If they don't want to legitimately hang out that's fine.

Smackems posted...

That's kinda all I got lol I can't really leave my house for long or for a distance more than a few miles

I'm just saying you should go with your original idea but be a little pushy?

TeaMilk posted...

Im just venting but it feels like there's so many unwritten rules around social interactions that most other people just understand, and im going to make the wrong choices and fuck it up and look weird. I like the idea of having friends, but ive avoided opportunities for social interaction much of my adult life because of these fears. The few times I have put myself out there (going to extracurricular clubs in college, etc.) I just feel really scared/uncomfortable and don't make any progress

As someone with autism, social interaction has been tough for me. You can't learn if you're expecting to do everything perfect. So not trying at all is going to get you nowhere. Something that's also helped me studying social interactions like you would an exam. They've got some great videos about body language, mannerisms, etc on charisma on command on YouTube.

To plug em

Medussa posted...

it's as big as it's been in 25 years.

Lmao no it's not everyone says it's trash.

They derail their own plot lines, go nowhere with the good ideas and all form of chain of command is kind of broken down and people speak freely to their commanding officers all the time. Oh and they've got to have a good cry and talk about their feelings 24/7

Oh God
I definitely couldn't watch that, reading it was terrible enough.

For anyone not wanting to even read it in detail, they literally beat the ever living daylights out of him while he's half conscious, sometimes screaming for his mother.

ScazarMeltex posted...

This thread from Robert Evans breaks down the contents of the multiple videos.
It is horrifying. There is absolutely no reason that this man was killed other than to satiate the thirst for violence of the cops.
https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1619127848253681664

Oh God
I definitely couldn't watch that, reading it was terrible enough.

For anyone not wanting to even read it in detail, they literally beat the ever living daylights out of him while he's half conscious, sometimes screaming for his mother.

For anyone wanting more details without watching the video:. https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1619127848253681664

Smackems posted...

I told her all I can really offer is playing Mario kart or Jackbox or something, which I would gladly do with her if she wanted. Doubt it tho

She might feel like she's being a burden. I would try giving her a good memory

Why did people say it was bad?

Live action anime always goes terribly.

Video description says about a month ago.

No solid date yet

I'm not sure about the details but it's a Ken Levine game I was one of the biggest names behind the shock series

WingsOfGood posted...

Any news on the next bioshock game?

Maybe a year or two.

We finally got a trailer at least:
https://youtu.be/pmefiirV0JM

Not strictly Bioshock but watch that trailer and tell me that's not BioShock.

Big Bioshock fan here, I've even played System Shock 2, where it gets its inspiration.

While BioShock infinite is the worst of the series it's far from a bad game especially comparing it to the regular AAA trash we get.

Yes the story isn't that great but I didn't find it offensively bad (though I didn't meticulously pull it apart either). The gameplay is the bigger culprit here.

The biggest downfall of the game is the gun gameplay, if this alone had been fixed the game would have been way better. The biggest issue of the gun stems from the two gun limit. Which was a popular format for modern military FPS games. This was bound to piss people off since its prequels had no limit on gun inventory.

The second sin here is the the guns were boring. They were very basic standard FPS guns with no interesting mechanics or fantasy feel to them. We used to get flaming shotgun buck, chem sprayers, laser beams, etc.

People tend to also complain about the vigors the game's replacement for plasmids but I think this is not exactly the best criticism. While yes there was a lot less diversity and crazy powers, the powers we did get had some interesting synergies.

You could use the bull vigor to close the distance and go for great shotgun kills. You could use the bubble vigor to make enemies float in the sky for easy rifle kills. Possession could be a fun choice if you picked out a powerful enemy. I remember the most powerful combination in the game was using the kraken vigor to use water tentacles to pull a bunch of enemies in and then electrocute them with a different plasmid for an instant kill.

Also the world's while not as amazing as the dark depths of rapture, the skyrails made for a great mobility option. Hopping on and off rails while firing and using gorilla tactics was the only way to beat 1999 mode other than turtleing behind cover. I think hard mode was the optimal choice.

When y'all banging

UnfairRepresent posted...

Why is that better than a book that... doesn't do that? Why did anyone create and mass produce that?

I get that it's magic but that's straight up inpractical

It's actually only possible for someone to write something as odd and fantastical as Harry Potter because they are able to throw off the limitations of conventional thinking. Everything isn't going to make perfect logical sense but that's what makes the world of HP feel so whimsical and "magic".

I don't care about the debate but this person was definitely lying so they could go to prison with their sexual interest. Making the decision to transition during trial just screams "well if I'm going to prison where the only place rape culture is overlooked in 1st world countries, it might as well be with women". Heck they're prisoners, they'd probably jump at the chance for some dick.

I wouldn't know how to recognize a 2k suit but if they have a cheap car they probably more into fashion then cars.

Common trope

TeaMilk posted...

it's been fully remote since I joined cuz COVID, and it'll probably stay that way

yeah i'd definitely be willing to try something new, i'm just not sure how to start the conversation. I love stuff like stardew valley and terraria, but i wouldn't wanna bore him

I don't claim to speak for all gamer guys, but a lot of us would just be thrilled to talk to a girl. You are right? We would even try out stuff we wouldn't normally. So go for it!

Don't starve is so much fun

If you worked together how's he not know you have a wheel chair?

I really think coffee or lunch around be great

But if you so focused on the gaming aspect, you got to be willing to get into games you might not be into OR .. he does. Try playing some Minecraft or Stardew Valley?

Glad you like it. One piece can be hard to get into

UnfairRepresent posted...

I was gonna say, there hasn't even been outcry yet,

Theres not a big outcry because the cops and victim are both black

We just need robots to be cops now

MarthGoomba posted...

It's funny to me that people who live in places where strip clubs are normal find maid cafes and host clubs creepy

yeah lol, she just jelly

SSJKirby posted...

But after they said the game would be more open and no more trams, got me on board

The trams never bothered me. If anything it cut the map into more digestable parts and created the illusion of a massive space station.

lmaoo at that last image

David1988 posted...

good post tbh

The way this topic's been going you'd think everyone had Sonic fan blocked

hockeybub89 posted...

People aren't appalled that rapes happen in prison. They're appalled at the thought of a woman being raped by a man in prison.

True but I still think we would have major issues if we didn't separate by gender.