Lurker > Mr Lasastryke

Corrik posted...

It is bad. Are you arguing crime is not bad?

depends on the crime. i don't think people smoking weed is necessarily bad, as long as they're not bothering me while doing so.
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Corrik posted...

Then maybe democracy isn't the best political system for you. It is to make open debate and best arguments and respect everyone's rights to make those opinions and them as people as part of your nation. Then for those ideas be decided upon by which is the most prevailing idea.

sure.

spoilers: saying someone is a piece of shit is also an opinion. do you respect my right to state it?
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seriously, i don't get this "people shouldn't get so vile about politics" mindset. (this is also why i never understood why sir chris found the need to make those "nice" politics topics because "the people in the regular one are so mean and nasty!")

if there's one area people SHOULD get "vile" about, it's politics. this isn't a fucking video game character popularity contest. real people are affected by this.
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Vlado posted...

Wrong. I blased both parties before Trump appeared.

wow, it's almost as if trump tricked you into thinking the GOP suddenly became a totally different party after a gazillion years for no particular reason
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Corrik posted...

It is fair to say a Nazi is a piece of shit in reference to vile acts such as massacring the Jews. Yes.

what if a nazi hasn't massacred any jews but just subscribes to the ideology?
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Corrik posted...

I am shaking my head at calling someone a "piece of shit" because they do not have the same political opinions as you.

is it fair to say a nazi is a piece of shit?
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i don't have much of an opinion on ash but it's kind of weird to see that one of the main reasons he's hated is that "he never wins." are you all ayn rand adherents or something?
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Vlado posted...

Ideally, the family. In a good family, no child would watch such utter trash in the first place. However, since there are tragically many parents who haven't got the time and/or are simply awful parents and just put their children in front of the TV without monitoring what they watch, the government needs to do what it can to protect the children. Very sound decision on Russia's part.

lol, i don't think you have you priorities in check as far as censoring goes.

racist and nazi writings - shouldn't be censored
a low quality cartoon show - OMG THIS IS TERRIBLE PLEASE GOVERNMENT CENSOR THIS
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as if trump's twitter wasn't obnoxious enough, he retweeted like 20 tweets he posted himself over the past few days.
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the obsession with DOAX3 was one of the weirdest things about gamergate. i remember wang constantly posting updates about "ass physics" in the game and whatnot.
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ahh.

given that it's putin, i should have known.
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lol, the "material not suitable for children" was material that goes against the christian religion?

"my best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: keep him or her as far away from a church as you can." - frank zappa
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Censorship is a very dangerous thing & absolutely impossible to police. If you are weeding out Fake News, there is nothing so Fake as CNN & MSNBC, & yet I do not ask that their sick behavior be removed. I get used to it and watch with a grain of salt, or dont watch at all.

Too many voices are being destroyed, some good & some bad, and that cannot be allowed to happen. Who is making the choices, because I can already tell you that too many mistakes are being made. Let everybody participate, good & bad, and we will all just have to figure it out!

Except when it comes to Steven Universe. Fuck that shit.

i modified these trump tweets vlado praised to make them more in line with vlado's actual stance on this
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_Dog_ posted...

Nah, most viewers who quit the anime do not have a favorable view of Ash.

I again suggest you read my essay in my sig.

fair enough.

that essay is a bit long. can you provide a tl;dr version?
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Vlado posted...

The cartoon had some scenes not suitable for children removed - in Russia.

who decides what's not suitable for children? putin?
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Vlado posted...

lmfao, imagine pretending some cartoon is equal to political censorship.

oh, so when you say you're against censorship you actually mean just political censorship.

also, i think a government censoring anything is quite a bit more harmful/dangerous than a private company doing so.
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LapisLazuli posted...

What's a good site that live updates this stuff as it comes out?

trump's twitter account
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igordebraga posted...

Must be how after all these years he's still a bit whiny

i doubt most of the people who watched the anime when they were children (because everyone did) and stopped watching when they grew up have much of a problem with ash, though.

perhaps die hard fans of the anime who are still watching hate him now, but it seems wrong to extrapolate that to "everyone."
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it's pretty inventive how vlado manages to combine "the 1% sucks" and "people fighting for the 99% are immoral because they don't believe in the christian god."
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another name to add to the "european VGM composers" list: david whittaker. he's british.

i've seen someone describe his spider-man: return of the sinister six soundtrack as "follinesque." personally i don't think that soundtrack is of follin brothers-level quality, but it's good.
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they both sucked.
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Vlado posted...

Let me spell it out for you. The 1% is the corporations - the googles, facebooks, amazons, etc. which PUSH SJW nonsense and CENSOR anti-globalist views. The ones whose media libel Trump 24/7. The ones who divide and conquer the working class. You know, the ones doing exactly what you want. As a US leftist, you are a tool of the 1%, you are their very useful puppet.

nice job dodging deepspraw's question.
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man, wtf is up with this "everyone hates ash" shit? i don't remember that at all from my childhood. gary was the character everyone hated.
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Advokaiser posted...

Remember, Leon, when you said to me that Crash wasn't going to boost because of the N Sane Trilogy?

huh, he said that?

remakes and stuff don't necessarily boost characters but the n. sane trilogy was pretty freaking big. if you're even casually following game news you should know this!
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fair enough!

i think the title track is actually pretty relaxing but the rest of the album, uh, isn't. when a track is based on calculus algorithms it's probably not going to be very ambient >.>
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im317 posted...

the optimist in me would say Allen is investigating stuffing, but the realist in me says its an error and not Allen doing real work.

it's the weekend so allen doing something work-related now is unlikely, yeah.
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Raetsel_Lapin posted...

Finished the rest of Phaze III and threw in "Feeding the Monkies at Ma Maison"; though I listened to that on Spotify and it didn't have Worms from Hell or Samba Funk. I'll have to go find those later.

Fun, though the length of the title track of Feeding makes it difficult to listen to without setting aside a lot of time specifically for it.

glad you liked them! the backstory behind FTMAMM is that it was an album frank finished but never released before his death that originally did NOT contain worms from hell and samba funk - those are just "bonus tracks" his widow added when she finally released the album in 2011. frank recorded these tracks during the same period he made FTMAMM. so the version of the album on spotify is the version frank intended it to be. not sure what the best way to listen to samba funk is (i just bought the CD to hear the full album) but you can listen to worms from hell here:

I did highly appreciate the chance to listen to the different versions of Buffalo Voice, that was an unexpected surprise.

and the different versions of secular humanism!

fun fact: though the FTMAMM versions of buffalo voice and secular humanism were released later than the ones on civ phaze iii, they were recorded earlier. civ phaze iii was actually one of the very last projects frank finished before he died.
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Lopen posted...

Rallies require people to care. No one cares about League of Legends that much anymore. It's just a thing that exists with tepid enjoyment from the fanbase it still has at this point.

yeah, that's fair. i guess i didn't realize how much LoL has decreased in popularity.
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LeonhartFour posted...

you can't even rally on the LoL subreddit anymore (largely thanks to us)

so yeah it's over

a rally doesn't have to originate on the LoL subreddit. and it's possible that the reddit mods won't enforce the rules strictly. (these are both points doctorjimmy made a bunch of posts ago.)

i'm not saying draven winning is LIKELY, but i've seen enough weird shit happen in these contests to be hesistant to go "YUP THIS IS OVER" after two hours.
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LeonhartFour posted...

and now you know why

this match is over after two hours?! wow, that was fast.
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CelesMyUserName posted...

wait

... what would be fun about Draven winning again

I thought the whole point of Draven's run was hating the same results... which the OP is complaining about..... but wanting another Draven win?

in fairness, draven only won once (possibly not even legitimately) while link won 1000 times. so draven winning again would be slightly more interesting.

i know i probably shouldn't take the tc's argument seriously but still!
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yeah, i'm a bit surprised the crew unanimously took amaterasu. a draven rally seems unlikely with the subreddit not allowing rallies but it could happen.

also, the "look at what happened to monika and sans!" argument is ass. the league of legends community is entirely different from, respectively, the DDLC community and the undertale community.
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do the babylonbee people seriously think this garbage is funny? would be pretty depressing.
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trdl23 posted...

Jfc Lasa

do you actually have an argument or do you just want to bitch at me?
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also, the "IF TRUMP HAD DONE THIS ETC." whataboutism is stupid. if anyone can give me a gigantic list of borderline racist things hillary has said before making this joke i'll consider treating her the way i treat trump when it comes to this subject.
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Lopen posted...

Not really, no. To me it read like it was glorified as "GOOD ONE, HILLARY" a bit in the language and presentation.

how is that "diminishing" racism? just because you're saying a racist joke is funny doesn't mean you're not acknowledging it's racist. i know plenty of racist jokes i find funny.

(also, lol @ calling hillary a "liberal" but that's a different debate.)
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Lopen posted...

The closest thing to a misrepresentation was Dark Young Link who reacted by saying he wasn't sure if it was sarcasm/a joke due to not reading the article well.

Link title literally says it's a joke, article says it was a joke, so I mean, sure, it was a joke. No one argued against that. It's a bad one. I'm offended it was bad.

FlyingForever said it was a racist joke. That's not really a misrepresentation, either. She did it off the cuff due to the interviewer blundering, but it's still a racist joke.

you don't think there's anything wrong with strahax saying "a liberal media outlet is trying to diminish racism from a liberal knob"?
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HeroicObiWan posted...

The Original Trilogy was also poorly written and constructed. If you're looking for a series with good writing, then Star Wars is not the movie you are looking for.

uh, what was so poor about the construction of the OT?

"poorly written" i'll give you since the dialogue is often clunky, though i still enjoy it (well, in ANH and ESB, anyway). but i don't see what's bad about the structure.
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be sure to wear your MAGA hat
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Lopen posted...

Crew is full of Persona fanboys. Wouldn't have been a crew curse had they kept the voice of reason Lopen around.

pretty much, yeah. this match reminds of when the whole crew took persona 3 over dragon quest viii.
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i mean, draven trolls were pretty much the most obnoxious people in existence. it's almost impossible for any troll to NOT be more subtle than them.
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ExThaNemesis posted...

this is the most immature I've been in years.

if by "in years" you mean "since last week" then yeah
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i liked the metropolitan.
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it's funny, here in the netherlands barbie girl was actually a super controversial song that literally made the national news.

not sure if this happened elsewhere in the world but yeah.
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Now avenatti is a white supremacist basically and a sexist bigot. Yinz were just singing his praises for how long.

was i? pretty sure all i said about avenatti before this was "what he says about kavanaugh is pretty sensible."
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wow, nice. get a life isn't one of my favorite zappa tracks but i'm glad you got so much enjoyment out of it!

also, nice to see you had a positive response to what you've heard of the album in general.
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XIII_rocks posted...

Yeah because the topic spent that time engaging MWC, Corrik and SephG instead.

Legitimate republicans/conservatives do exist. That's not to say they would constantly defend Trump, but they are shades of grey between "non-stop condemnation of Trump" and "Ulti".

And if I'm wrong and they didn't then so what? Hanging on that one facet of my post is a great way to dodge the issue. At least if you cut them out you'd be discussing stuff with actual people, rather than manufactured, false points that you can easily destroy to make yourselves feel better. It's B8, you will find ways to disagree with each other once they're gone even if you all lean liberal/democrat.

If all you guys want out of these topics are easily-destroyed lures, batting practice, then you do you. But at least be honest and admit that.

hey, i don't disagree. it blows my mind that sephy can literally accuse everyone in these topics of being autistic and the next topic everyone is arguing with him again as if he's a "reasonable conservative" you can have a legitimate debate with. remember when i offered to stop arguing with red sox if everyone would stop arguing with sephy and i got an INCREDIBLE amount of vitriol? tony: "this is one of the worst posts in the history of this topic series." reg: "fuck you" and "you're full of shit, whether you know it or not." this is how badly people want to argue with sephy. it's utterly insane.

but uh, i digress. point is, i just don't think the "legitimate conservatives" care at all about posting in these topics, regardless of the number of conservatrolls who post here. shame, but what can you do.
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responding to the "debating trolls" stuff: lol @ the idea that "legitimate republicans" would "fill the void" if ulti leaves. if they had any interest in posting here, they would have done so by now. you get that there was a long time when ulti wasn't posting in these topics and there weren't any legitimate republicans posting here either, right?
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