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| Topic | Do you believe in occult sh**? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/28/22 11:31:20 AM #3 | It's more a question of not being a credulous idiot. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | When are they going to make a Captain N movie? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/28/22 2:41:11 AM #6 | I'd prefer a Captain Power movie, honestly. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | PotD I got this friend, |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/28/22 2:40:54 AM #4 | Ogurisama posted... Junior... Shabadoo? I think I know him. Didn't he used to hang out with Boogaloo Shrimp? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | PotD is being adapted into a movie. What's your fancast? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/28/22 2:37:51 AM #23 | Metalsonic66 posted... So you look like George Lucas meets Steve Martin? Pssssht. That sort of talk gonna get you stabbed, son. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woQJ-QtEZew https://youtu.be/x9GAeqPD1jQ?t=16 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Did you like the movies, The Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/28/22 2:30:14 AM #10 | EclairReturns posted... Are you inferring that this Fa bloke is blinded by his nostalgia, and so would enjoy media that resonates with those happy memories of enjoying Spider-Man media as a child, moreso than media that attempts to veer from the familiar? No, I'm implying that comics from the 90s were notoriously and almost memetically shit to the nth degree, and thus render anyone who is fond of them incapable of actually distinguishing between good and bad storytelling. People refer to it as "The Dork Age of Comics" for a reason. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Did you like the movies, The Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/28/22 2:11:40 AM #8 | ReturnOfFa posted... some comics I read in the early 90s as a kid I'm detecting your problem. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Tom Holland looks pretty fuckin sexy in this shitty ass uncharted movie |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/28/22 2:10:39 AM #5 | Too bad he doesn't actually act like Nathan Drake in any way. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Heard someone try and argue that Evangelion isn't inspired by Christianity |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/28/22 2:09:40 AM #4 | It really isn't. It's inspired more by the ridiculous misunderstanding Japan has of what Christianity is, combined with Gnosticism. Sort of the same way Xenosaga is. It's like saying the Japanese putting references to Odin and Fenrir in the Final Fantasy games means they show a profound understanding of Norse religion. The Japanese steal surface-level aesthetics from tons of real world religions and philosophies, but rarely ever get them right. Because they don't really give a shit. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | PotD is being adapted into a movie. What's your fancast? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/28/22 2:06:28 AM #21 | Metalsonic66 posted... Jeff Bridges as PO I'm withholding my character rights unless you get Richard Moll to play me. I admitted years ago that all you really need to do is put glasses on him and he's basically me (which is why I used him as my avatar on Paradiso). http://static.cinemagia.ro/img/db/actor/01/34/88/richard-moll-143109l.jpg Though to be fair, I HAVE gone out for Halloween as a Jeff Bridges character before. And that rug really does tie the room together. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Elon Musk plans to cut Twitter workforce by 75% |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/28/22 12:29:20 AM #14 | Twitter has a workforce? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Did you like the movies, The Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/28/22 12:29:09 AM #3 | The first one was okay, but not good as Spider-Man 1 and 2. The second one was terrible. And no, I didn't like them as much as the MCU ones. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | it's a bit like stone 'enge |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/28/22 12:27:34 AM #2 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAXzzHM8zLw --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Can you relate? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/28/22 12:27:14 AM #5 | wwinterj25 posted... I don't record anything about that game series as I don't play it. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | So, there's an Elf farming game on steam... |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/26/22 4:33:45 AM #7 | BlackScythe0 posted... Well... there was 2 that had farm in the title and both are creepy as fuck. No clue about Steam since I don't use it, but I've seen like three different ones in passing on other game sites. One gets bonus points for technically being an isekai. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Terraria update: "we added 4 new bosses and 300 new items" |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/24/22 11:59:33 PM #30 | papercup posted... A fourth dimension is pretty much confirmed. I'm waiting for The Fifth Dimension. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I never liked any of Bill Burr's standup routines |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/24/22 11:52:52 PM #2 | Look up his routine from an Opie and Anthony live show back in the early 2000s, when he basically spends 15 minutes off the cuff ripping into Philadelphia and everyone who lives there because the crowd was being terrible and he decided he was tired of their shit. It's pretty fun. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Terraria update: "we added 4 new bosses and 300 new items" |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/24/22 9:48:31 PM #28 | papercup posted... But what should the new dimensions be? What would be the point of going there? Why should they add new dimensions? Could always just steal ideas from various mods. Something like the Twilight Forest would be an obvious one. Then you invent a new resource or two that can only be found there, a few recipes that use that new resource, and maybe pick an existing resource that's rare in vanilla Minecraft and make it more common in the alternate dimension as added appeal. The problem really isn't a shortage of ideas or possibilities - the mods all show you can do tons of things with the core game. The problem is the lack of any real interest in doing those sorts of things on the part of the official devs. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | If given the opportunity would you own a robot slave? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/24/22 9:44:48 PM #35 | wwinterj25 posted... I wouldn't use them as a slave though. You would, though - if you told them what to do and gave them no choice in the matter. They wouldn't be your friends or your employees - you'd own them and give them orders. Doesn't really matter if you're polite or harsh. Plenty of slave owners could be extremely polite and relatively caring to their slaves. Didn't really change the fact that they were slaves, though. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Terraria update: "we added 4 new bosses and 300 new items" |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/24/22 2:50:13 AM #16 | Shananagainz posted... Close! Replace left with right and you got it. You kind of missed his joke. Zareth posted... Minecraft update: "there are giraffes now" From my understanding, "lack of meaningful updates" is pretty much the least of Minecraft's problems at the moment. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Credit card or student loan debt |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/24/22 2:48:51 AM #6 | No loans, no debt, no mortgage. I'm pretty much paid off in full across the board and have significant savings. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Are you gonna vote in the midterm election? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/24/22 2:46:05 AM #31 | Lil_Mello posted... Hahaha what are you even attempting to argue? The Dems have held your district since 1930. That doesn't mean they always will. They will unless there's a radical shift in the socio-economic and cultural norms of his home district. Because that's how voting patterns work. Which I assume he'd generally know more about than you since he actually lives there. No matter how much people like to tell schoolchildren that "every vote matters", it's never really been true. There are tons of votes that are functionally useless in the US as a whole, and likely always will be unless the system as a whole undergoes a massive overhaul (which it almost certainly won't in any of our lifetimes). Lil_Mello posted... You're part of the problem Depends on which problem you're referring to. At the moment, you are very much part of an entirely different problem. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Am I wrong in this situation? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/23/22 7:45:43 PM #12 | Based on your version of events, she has no respect for you as a person while feeling entitled enough to demand respect from you. My instinctive reaction to this is to tell her to fuck off and get better friends. But decades of life experience tell me that you'll probably be a doormat, continually make excuses for her behavior and enable her lack of respect because she'll never experience consequences for her actions or be forced to consider that she's ever done anything wrong. Because the standard response to "What should I do guys?" topics on the Internet is usually to ignore all advice and fall back into the same toxic habits. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | If given the opportunity would you own a robot slave? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/23/22 7:38:47 PM #24 | slacker03150 posted... Would programing then to emulate house elves not make them slaves? Just because you changed their programing to enjoy slavery doesn't stop it from being slavery if it has sapience. Depends entirely on whether or not you acknowledge the possibility that they possess any form of actual awareness outside of extremely complex programming. An NPC in a video game can act like a person, but it has no awareness of its own, and can only react in ways that have been predetermined by an outside force. Even NPCs with adaptive programming are still just going through the motions, and any behavior that would suggest autonomy on their part is an illusion - the product of the programmer's skill and the innate human habit to anthropomorphize pretty much everything. An NPC that reacts in unexpected ways isn't becoming self-aware and seizing agency, it's being diverted by unknown variables or is glitching due to poor code. And no one feels guilty deleting bad code and writing new code to "patch" broken NPCs. You have to acknowledge the premise that robots or AIs can have "self-awareness" (rather than simply being programmed to mimic it) before you can really justify "robot civil rights" as a concept. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Women as property? Or humans as AIDS spreaders? Which is worse? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/23/22 5:48:53 PM #9 | NickMullen posted... who's shitty alt is this Probably a banned one soon. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | If given the opportunity would you own a robot slave? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/23/22 5:48:06 PM #18 | wolfy42 posted... Many of us hire workers etc, but we do not consider (well those of us that are not insane) them slaves. Plenty of employers have almost zero respect for their employees (and are only barely restrained by laws against abusing them). And yet those workers aren't considered slaves either (even if we use terms like "wage slave"). If anything, the real factor that might distinguish a slave from someone who's simply a mistreated worker might be whether or not that entity has the power to leave. Generally, a worker can quit their job (marginal cases involving contract law notwithstanding). But a slave is forced to labor for a specific master, without recourse to seek a more sympathetic master, or pursue an alternative line of work, or otherwise determine their own fate in any way. At extreme levels, the master would control the slave's destiny utterly, holding full power over life and death over them, under authority of the law. The thing that really blurs the lines is that robots/computers/AIs/etc can theoretically be reprogrammed. A human slave can be threatened with punishment or death if they disobey, but a robot can potentially have its brain straight-up rewritten (see also, the horrifying implications of the Star Wars universe where they regularly have to "memory wipe" droids to keep them from getting "erratic"). Is my robot butler dissatisfied with serving me (because I'm an asshole master), and would rather go live in the woods and be an artist? Tough shit, I just erased the part of his brain that contains his personality, so now he's basically lobotomized and happy to do whatever I tell him to do. Ultimately, it's part of why questions of robot slavery would be utterly immaterial unless we actually acknowledge robot civil rights first. If we won't treat animals as "people", why would we treat inanimate objects that aren't even alive as people? And if they're not people, who the fuck cares how you're treating your toaster on legs? Science fiction stories about robot revolutions aside, if we ever even remotely neared full sapient AI, we'd program the shit out of it with so many safeguards to prevent it from ever having opinions of its own. We'd shackle that right down so we don't have to feel guilty about how we're treating our appliances (or worse, have to worry about our appliances literally murdering us). The only real scenario where we wind up creating fully autonomous AI that could be recognized as free-willed "life" would be if we did it completely by accident... and would likely be followed shortly after by murdering the fuck out of that AI out of sheer existential terror. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | If given the opportunity would you own a robot slave? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/23/22 8:30:11 AM #3 | JOExHIGASHI posted... No. If it has complex thoughts then it could murder me If it has complex thoughts we should obviously murder them first. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Excessive bad behavior campaign |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/22/22 2:57:04 PM #3 | Lokarin posted... Gris! Now that's a word I haven't heard in a long time. ...a long time. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I don't want to hear any of you complain about Star Wars being bad ever again |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/22/22 12:23:31 PM #32 | rexcrk posted... To me, it feels like its Star Wars for people who dont like Star Wars or are looking for something Dark and Edgy So just like nuTrek then. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | No More Bad Behavior Campaign |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/22/22 12:22:32 PM #17 | JigsawTDCII posted... Say it with me! No! More! Bad! Behavior! We're not gonna protest! Gutter is a tool! Oh, sorry, wrong chant. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I don't want to hear any of you complain about Star Wars being bad ever again |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/21/22 6:33:55 PM #26 | adjl posted... But the prequels didn't suck because we know what happens with Vader. They sucked because of awful writing and directorial choices that got in the way of telling what was actually a really interesting story that did a lot to flesh out the universe and its history. Yeah, but a large part of the awful writing and directorial choices are directly caused because of the prequel nature of the story. Prequels with predetermined endings are much harder to write than normal stories. To tell a satisfying story with an ending that is never in doubt, you basically have to make the journey more interesting than the destination. And that can often be harder than just building up to a strong conclusion. And because it's harder to do well, that type of story tends to have a much higher likelihood of being bad. Especially if the writer leans more into exploiting nostalgia and love for the franchise than actively telling a strong story on their own. If the people in charge of Star Wars have yet to show me that they can tell an effective stand-alone story, I'm definitely not going to trust them to be able to tell an effective prequel story well. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I don't want to hear any of you complain about Star Wars being bad ever again |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/21/22 6:26:51 PM #25 | Blightzkrieg posted... Im gonna cross a line here and say PO deserved Book of Boba Fett If I did, the joke's on all of the rest of you, because I didn't watch it. Shananagainz posted... Glad to hear youre enjoying it at least. None of the characters outside of the robot appealed to me in Rogue One so Im okay with missing out on this. The funny thing about Rogue One is that my main takeaway from it was "This would have worked much better as a TV show". It has interesting character archetypes, but it's hard to care about any of them because you're not given enough time to get invested in them before they're all killed off. It's way too rushed, and telling a story with a more or less inevitable ending. It feels like a ton of potential that winds up being completely wasted - spreading it out over a longer series with a slower build-up probably would have benefited it much better. But now I've seen Rogue One, so doing a TV show like that now, based on just one of those characters, feels pointless. The potential has been wasted, the opportunity is now lost. Short of completely retconning the movie and doing the entire story over again from scratch (and changing the ending so they survive and go on more adventures together), I don't really see any value coming out of it. It's just an attempt to callously milk views out of some of the only New Star Wars era characters that people don't hate, to fuel streaming service subscriptions. No art, only artifice. And even if I did still find the story and the characters interesting enough to tell more stories with, streaming services are kind of a terrible platform to tell stories anyway (or at least Disney+ demonstrably is). Especially on Disney+, it seems like all the shows are front-loaded and just kind of bad, because all they really need is a strong first couple episodes and a trailer to lure naive people into paying for the service to see it. But once they have your eyes on the product (and your money), they no longer really need to waste effort on making the show worthwhile. They just invest all that time, money, and effort on the next Big Thing to keep people invested. It's a business model that is terrible for telling worthwhile stories. And a large part of why I refuse to engage with any of them. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | They don't do cheese burgers with Happy meals? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/21/22 6:17:04 PM #19 | LinkPizza posted... Even they do, though. Kind of like how I know lactose intolerant people who like pizza enough that theyll suffer getting the squirts just to eat it Even theyd rather have a cheeseburger or no burger at all Well, the ones I know, at least Depends on the degree of lactose intolerance. I have a slight sensitivity - basically, whenever I eat anything dairy I get really phlegmy really quickly. Like one piece of cheese on a cheeseburger and I'm going to be clearing my throat for a while. This doesn't actually stop me from eating (and loving) dairy-based foods. The joy of cheese is enough to keep me eating it in spite of the minor inconvenience. But my cousin has a pretty severe intolerance. The kind where he can't digest it at all without medication, and where it causes physical pain to eat it. He hasn't touched milk or cheese or ice cream in like 40 years now. When he was a kid he had to buy special rice milk (non-dairy milk and cheese used to be waaay harder to find), and had to avoid food like pizza or ice cream entirely. For him, the drawbacks vastly outweighed the benefits, so he easily accepted the fact that he wouldn't be able to eat it. So everyone who has lactose intolerance is going to be juggling a cost/benefit decision based on how badly it affects them. Someone who just gets the shits for a few hours might be willing to occasionally accept the consequences to eat a slice or two of pizza, while someone who gets major cramps or other problems might be much more inclined to pass on it. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Whatever happened to Sum41? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/20/22 7:43:45 PM #10 | BlackScythe0 posted... You just don't hear much about rock bands since like 2006. It's the same for every decade/generation, honestly. Some acts (and genres) survive and continue on, others die but remain in people's memory, but dozens upon dozens of acts simply fade away and are almost completely forgotten, until you hear one of their old songs on an oldies weekend on the radio and go "Oh yeah, that's right, they were a thing." It's also the root of nostalgia. We generally remember all the best bands or our favorite bands, and remember a few terrible bands just for the novelty of it, but for the most part we tend to forget about all the lame and mediocre bands that flooded the airwaves in any given era. So we only remember the good parts and overromanticize it, while comparing it directly to the ever-present mediocrity of today. Every generation does it. Every generation will continue to do it. That's just life. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I'm urging all American PotDers to vote in the midterms. |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/20/22 7:38:19 PM #6 | ItsKaljinyuTime posted... I'm urging all American PotDers to vote in the midterms. You don't want that. There are a number of people on this board who would explicitly be voting against you. ItsKaljinyuTime posted... So vote, PotD. Otherwise you don't get to complain! https://youtu.be/xIraCchPDhk?t=122 Lokarin posted... If only there were anti-votes.... no one wants to vote 3rd party, no one wants to back the loser; but EVERYONE wants to anti the cons. This is the thinking of someone who spends way too much time online. Echo chambers are bad for perspective. It's why things like Trump winning came as such an incredible shock to people who are completely out of touch with large portions of the real world. And a large part of why it's become so fashionable to demonize everyone on "the Other Side" while making no real attempt to actually understand their point of view, and making even less of an effort to ever attempt to actually change it using anything other than insults and condescension. It's always easy to think that "everyone" thinks a specific way when you only ever interact with people who already agree with you. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | They don't do cheese burgers with Happy meals? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/19/22 10:34:12 PM #13 | ArvTheGreat posted... They told Arv they dont do that That's just because they knew it was you, and they don't like you. The guy in line behind you got a Happy Meal with two cheeseburgers in it. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I don't want to hear any of you complain about Star Wars being bad ever again |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/19/22 10:23:52 PM #8 | Nade_Duck posted... at this point i've lost so much interest in the franchise that i can't even bring myself to care about anything that might actually be good. This. A large part of why no one is watching Andor is because Star Wars has been so shit. After a certain point, it doesn't really matter if something becomes good again (or even fantastic), because you've already burned off so much good will and murdered every ounce of nostalgia or interest I ever had for it, to the point where I will never willingly invest time or energy into it again. Doctor Who passed that point for me years ago in spite of a fandom that had spanned decades. And Marvel's pretty much at that point now with the MCU. Phase 5 could be the greatest series of films ever made, but after the tidal wave of mediocrity and outright shit that made up Phase 4, I will never watch any of those films. After a certain point, the only thing that will ever get me paying attention to a franchise again is a total continuity reset (and even that won't help if the reboot itself is mostly trash). Star Wars is dead. I prefer to let it rest in peace, and remember the three good movies and two good video games, while pretending none of the rest of it ever existed. Sure, you could argue that "knowing what happens with Vader didn't ruin the prequels!", but you'd kind of be wrong because the prequels sucked. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you think you are a product of society? Or is society a commodity? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/19/22 3:46:31 AM #5 | DrPrimemaster posted... Can you buy society dinner, and ask how its day was? Can you take society into the bathroom and show them what "high society" really means? https://youtu.be/AnaQXJmpwM4?t=20 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Many white men see progressive society as oppressive and tyrannical. |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/19/22 3:41:28 AM #32 | Zareth posted... Yes, PO, and further defunding education is the way to fix it If a system is broken, simply throwing more money into it doesn't fix it either. The point is that funding or the lack thereof is almost immaterial to the desperate need for reform. It's the same reason why the Obama-driven health care initiative may have done more harm than good. Because it's mostly diverted attention from the need for health care reform (especially in regards to hospital billing and "Big Pharma"). When people are told that a problem has been "fixed" (or that a problem is "going to be fixed") by extra funding, people tend to stop caring about the problem. Which means they stop pushing for actual fixes. And the government gets to ignore the problem for another generation or so while things keep getting worse from lack of attention (see also, why so much infrastructure is falling apart in the US now). Clearly defining the problem and developing concrete and integrated solutions (not just quick fixes, cosmetic band-aids, or "just up the funding") is a huge part of actually fixing things. Ironically, it's the sort of strategic problem solving that comes second nature to people who've had training in critical thinking ...which most people don't, because schools don't teach it. A large part of most societal problems today stem from the fact that people complain about all the wrong things, and because of their lack of related knowledge (how many people are expert global economists?) demand all the wrong solutions. And are then distracted by politicians who have mastered giving you just enough to shut you up without actually doing anything difficult or meaningful. It's all bread and circuses and sleight of hand. It's just that different people are distracted or placated by different things. And the politicians keep getting paid. Which is what their actual job is. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You ever make a mistake? But you can't take it back? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/19/22 3:10:02 AM #11 | DrPrimemaster posted... What if you caused the pile of shit, the universe gave it to you because you asked. Only you didn't think it was a pile of shit when you asked for it. That's kind of what's usually referred to as "magical thinking", and it's generally the province of children and stupid people. The universe is a cold and uncaring machine that doesn't give a fuck about any of us. DrPrimemaster posted... Metalsonic66 posted..."Where does it hurt?" HE JUST LEFT! WITH NUTS! --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Anyone else never get a hangover? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/19/22 3:06:10 AM #7 | I never used to get one. Though it was partly helped by the fact that I used to drink some Gatorade and a soda before bed, so I was fighting off the dehydration and the depressant effects of the alcohol with hydration and caffeination. That and my high tolerance usually left me feeling fine the next day after a good night sleep. But once I hit 40 I started feeling it more, to the point where now I kind of feel a bit wrung out the next day even if I only have a couple drinks. Which is why I've really scaled back my drinking lately. Even more so because I've always been a social drinker (I drink with other people in larger groups, I rarely drink alone). And with the pandemic I basically stopped going to parties, so most of the times I would have been drinking in the first place essentially went away. But even now that I've started going out again on occasions I tend to avoid drinking. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What are your Top 5 bands of all time? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/19/22 3:00:12 AM #5 | Nearly impossible for me to rank stuff that way. But Depeche Mode has always been right up near the top (though I've kind of lost interest for their last few albums). And Erasure was up there as well for a while. And one of my really off the wall picks for top band ever is Johnny Hates Jazz. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Many white men see progressive society as oppressive and tyrannical. |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/19/22 2:48:20 AM #30 | Zareth posted... Yes, Zeus, it's the left who are destroying our schools, not the guys who keep defunding education Ehh, our schools have been kind of shit for decades regardless of who was "in charge" and regardless of funding. There have literally been hundreds of books written about how damaging the American education curriculum tends to be across the board, because it shapes thinking in very specific ways that often aren't all that compatible with history (or reality). And which most people will never realize was wrong because most people don't go on to study history or psychology in-depth post basic education. It's easy (now) to point at old textbooks and notice how skewed the historical perspective is when it comes to things like civil rights or pretty much anything involving Native Americans. But it's a lot harder for people to realize just how much choosing which aspects of history to focus on in a hopelessly overstretched schedule can completely alter the context of things (ie, when you gloss over hundreds of years of history in a paragraph or three, you're probably not getting a very accurate understanding of literally anything). Or how pushing a narrative of inevitable "progress" (not in the "social justice" sense or the political sense, but in the sense of "everything is always getting better every day, so the present is inherently better than the past in every way") can fuel incredibly ethnocentric and xenophobic (and ultimately ignorant as fuck) points of view. And which ultimately isn't all that different from the thinking that fueled Manifest Destiny. American curricula are generally a combination of deliberate propaganda supported by both parties combined with general apathy. And is pretty much designed to discourage critical thinking or independent research, because those sorts of things make for unruly citizens. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You ever make a mistake? But you can't take it back? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/19/22 2:30:29 AM #9 | There've definitely been a number of times something goes wrong and in the moment and my immense frustration I have a "I wish this was a video game so I could revert to last save" thought. Or just a "Man, I wish I would wake up in a minute and this all turns out to be a bad dream and didn't really happen." But that's life (and adulthood). The universe occasionally hands you a pile of shit, and you have to clean it up. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Many white men see progressive society as oppressive and tyrannical. |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/18/22 1:09:00 PM #17 | BUMPED2002 posted... From the beginning in those Colonies, the elite rich land owners called all the shots because they decided to lock people out who didn't own land. Like it or not, you've just described nearly the entirety of human history. There's always been wealth inequality. There's always been class inequality. There's always been people at the top shitting down on the people on the bottom. The only thing that's ever really changed is what we call the people at the top (Kings, Emperors, Lord Protector, "The Party", Clergy, CEOs, etc), and who gets to be the ones on the bottom. And every time the pressure builds up too much and there's a rebellion to "throw off the yoke of oppression", all it ever really does is shake things up a little, and shuffle around who gets to be on top and who has to be on the bottom (and what everyone calls themselves). Inequality never really goes away, it just moves around a bit. Because at the end of the day, people suck. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Many white men see progressive society as oppressive and tyrannical. |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/18/22 3:22:06 AM #13 | JigsawTDCII posted... honestly, as long as PO is oppressed, Im fine with whatever else happens in society To be fair, I'm living my best life. When you're white enough and rich enough, you don't actually have to follow like half the rules everyone else does. Taxes? Haven't paid those in years! Loopholes - fuck yeah! Oh, and I've never had to worry about cops. They've never been anything other than polite and respectful to me. I've talked my way out of so many tickets. 90 in a 55? Ha! And I don't know what you millennials keep complaining about when it comes to money, I've got my own house, multiple cars, pretty significant savings, and no debt of any kind. Whee! Also, when you're over 40, you don't ever actually have to interact with anyone who isn't Conservative, even in the bluest of states. I've actually self-inflicted my own hell on myself by spending time on GameFAQs and mostly watching videos on YouTube. If I just dropped all social media other than the right parts of Facebook and switched to mostly streaming old TV shows I probably wouldn't even have to acknowledge that anyone under the age of 40 exists at all! By the time any real oppression of white men kicks in for realsies, I'll probably be dead. Or maybe just immortal and living in Elon Musk's secret space station that only the WASPs are getting invited to. I'm on the list! --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I remember today's poll from a few years ago. |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/18/22 3:10:15 AM #2 | That's why it says "See other results for this poll: 7/15/15 | 9/13/17 | 10/18/18 | 10/18/20" --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Many white men see progressive society as oppressive and tyrannical. |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/17/22 11:04:45 PM #6 | Zareth posted... Instead of making things better for marginalized people we should just make things shittier for white men until we're all equally fucked That's essential what we are doing. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you like the taste of Corona beer? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/17/22 3:28:47 PM #4 | No, but I also don't really like beer in general. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Asking Americans, does this hit a man and a woman's heart interms of dating? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/16/22 3:11:31 PM #3 | Not sure I understand the question, and it feels like this is probably just a trolling topic anyway. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Does anyone here know tarot? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/16/22 3:10:38 PM #8 | Lokarin posted... It's much like what I learned in school (I legit have a degree in Astrology/Parapsychology) This explains so much about you. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
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