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Not gonna lie, there have been situations where I've really, really wanted to drop a dirty c-bomb.

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I love how scrappy the first 2 generations of Pokemon were. I've said it before and I'll say it again - glitching Pokemon Crystal was one of my favorite childhood pastimes.

Teru-Sama and cloning Pokemon until creating a game-freezing abomination with a Kingdra sprite are irreplaceable childhood memories.

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Damn TC, you must be tired. You should go to bed.

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Zeus posted...

Love =/= lust. And the reference to him as a brother clearly refutes the trollish nonsense you were trying to claim. The passage basically just amounts to "bros before hoes"

Okay, I'm lost here. Where in the OP did TC equate same-sex relationship with sex? Where did they draw a sexual connection between King David and Jonathan, and where would that implication fit into the way they discussed this Bible verse or within the Bible verse itself?

Because all it implies is that the love King David felt for Jonathan was more than he felt for women. There's no sexual connotation. It can be implied that he was in love with Jonathan, however - which would make him biromantic, which is a modern extension to the term bisexual which TC used, which people use as a term for romantic compatibility in the same way that they use heterosexual.

I don't want to misrepresent your point, but unless you're taking issue with TC calling King David bisexual, I don't see how you're assuming lust from their post. The implication is that he loved Jonathan more than he loved women, and there's nothing inherently lustful about that.

It's as valid of an interpretation as "bros before hoes", that's for sure.

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I hope their new album comes out soon, it's been a couple months since the last one came out lol

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TheCurseX2 posted...

Your parent must be proud.

My parent was raised Christian, but became areligious later in life. She didn't have me or my sister baptized because she wanted us to have the freedom to find religion if it resonated with us, rather than having us inducted into a religion that we didn't resonate with.

I actually experimented with religion a couple of times, and I've been ambivalent about Christianity for most of my life. Hence why I call myself spiritually agnostic. I've been dabbling in satanist ideology recently, but it's not as sensationalized as you seem to believe it is - nothing about blood hexes or ritualistic sacrifice or whatever crazy shit "satanism" might sound like to you, just discourse about personal freedom and responsibility to others. It's a school of thought, a take on philosophy - nothing occult.

I've said what I want to say about religion, so I'm going to stop taking the bait in this topic. You can't touch a single thing I've said thus far, and I've made the points I wanted to make.

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TheCurseX2 posted...

"Philosophical Satanist"

lmao

I don't believe in any religious institutions, least of all a hackjob corporation run by a bunch of bigoted carnies. I find the philosophical side of Satanism to be interesting, in its preaching of personal freedom alongside one's responsibility to others. Nothing about philosophical satanism is anti-religion, moreso about understanding the way religions work and looking out for yourself.

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Armando is right in one sense, that a lot of churches have split off from God. Christianity has become so scattershot and split over the years that you can't take any one reading as the definitive word of God. Whether we're talking about bias or not, there have been so many different translations of the Bible that change things up and word things in different ways, to the point that you have a "Satanic Bible" that's literally just a rushed piece of dogshit with typos all over the place. Nothing about it is satanic - it was just translated and transliterated by a bunch of morons who didn't give a fuck about quality control.

Another user brought up that the translation being used by users like Armando tends to err on the side of conservatism, where there are other translations that are truer to the text or a lot more open about the scripture. Which illustrates the point that you have branching schools of thought and religious expression within the bounds of Christianity, and they don't necessarily get along.

Someone else made a comment about how we should stop insisting that bigotry is inherent to the Christian faith. Unfortunately, there's a religious zeitgeist that does promote bigotry within the Christian faith. In western nations, you have organisations like Hillsong and the like, these fundie megachurches that preach a message of deserved affluence - that by the act of having more money, you are inherently deserving of that wealth and more worthy of a Christian than a Christian who is poor and struggling. In America specifically, you have the Bible Belt where Christian teachings are married with hardcore conservative rhetoric - with one of the most extreme organisations having been the Westboro Public Church, who picketed the funerals of soldiers and outwardly preached homophobia and intolerance. Bigotry isn't inherent to Christianity, but there are Christian sects where it is promoted and practiced as the word of God. The same way we should discuss the differences between Shi'a and Sunni Muslims in relation to Islam, we should acknowledge the different sects and schools of thoughts within the Christian faith, and acknowledge the bad apples of the bunch.

Considering how much of a hatchet job the Bible truly is - most of its books were written centuries apart and are apocryphal at best, and different books have been added and removed from the Bible by the church for thousands of years - I'm surprised that more academic Christians haven't thought to research the Torah. It's an Abrahamic text that has remained unchanged or minimally changed for the entirety of its existence, with fables and supposedly historical accounts of events concerning the Jewish people being added as they happened. It's written in one of the oldest languages on Earth. I imagine there are parts of the Bible that have been taken from the Torah and anglicized/condensed, and over the centuries those aspects of the text have been chopped up and re-translated so many times that they aren't an accurate portrayal of the original text - so as supposed scholars of the Bible, it would make sense to take the Torah into account.

Because if we're talking about the Christian word of God, you're pulling from multiple interpretations translated and interpreted through human hands, with each interpretation leaving its own biased fingerprint on the text. The more you fuck with a text that's supposedly the word of God, you're inserting more human bias into it, and with that bias comes an evil that's inherent to human bias - wilfully or not. So long story short, it really shouldn't matter whether you believe that the Bible advocates against gay people, because it's a hatchet job of unrelated narratives written centuries apart, translated through so many time periods and interpretations that the words that exist today might as well be meaningless, and filtered through so many unrelated schools of Christian thought that there's no way to get one single, definitive "word of God" from the Bible.

As a spiritual agnostic and a philosophical satanist, I think that's a more interesting line of commentary than a shitty troll job from a known shit-stirrer.

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If this is about the girl who got raped, then this is a shitty topic and duckbear should be ashamed of himself.

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For the uninitiated:

https://youtu.be/lkZd2lBQb2c
https://youtu.be/cmAlQvDQGoI
https://youtu.be/q0Fa1UuGMVE

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are a lot of things, but the thing I love the most about them is their hard rock. I'm not the biggest fan of Infest the Rat's Nest, Stu's vocals aren't the best when he's going for that thrash metal sound, but the heaviness of songs like Self-Immolate, Superbug and Organ Farmer is fantastic.

Something to keep in mind is their use of uncommon time signatures. I don't know enough about music to tell you what the time signatures actually are, but Robot Stop sounds like it's in 7/4 time or something and I'm pretty sure Self-immolate is some wacky time signature as well. It's deliberately off-kilter.

They also have experience with making jazz, psychedelic rock, whatever the fuck Papier Mache Dream Balloon was, funk and surf rock - on top of hard rock and thrash metal as represented by this post. They seem to be trending towards really deserty-sounding psychedelic rock at the moment, really grimy stuff. I bring all of this up because I think their versatility would lend itself well to a movie soundtrack - they're not just a pretty face, they've got their fingers in a fuckton of pies.

And it'd be fitting because they're Australian.

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Yesterday, I viewed a full bottle of gin as the start of a dark path that could end in my death. Today, I think I can take what I learned from my sobriety and finagle it into a healthy balance. Alcoholism is fucking abhorrent and I was using it to self-destruct, but despite my best efforts, sobriety took me to some incredibly dark places too. I can't keep living my life as all or nothing. I think I can benefit from the social aspects of alcohol and maintain a healthy mental lifestyle outside of alcohol, but I'm sure as shit not able to maintain a healthy life with just one or the other. I've tried both, and they both lead me to dark, dark places.

I think this is what I needed to achieve moderation.

Quick post-script: I don't want to influence any sober people to pick up alcohol again. If you have the willpower and support to cut alcohol out of your life, and if you've come to a point where you understand that your exposure to alcohol is completely and irrevocably unsustainable, I urge you to maintain a sober lifestyle. Don't take my experience and go "well gee, maybe giving booze the old college try could be good for me!".

I grappled with this decision, and I'm testing the waters of moderation to see if I'm able to maintain a balanced relationship with alcohol. I might relapse in a seriously bad way for all I know. This is uncharted territory. I don't want to glamorise or normalise alcohol for anyone, and I don't want to remove the stigma from relapse.

Just please, do everything in your power to take care of yourself. That's what I'm trying to do.

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I was grappling with it for a while. I brought a bottle of gin to a friend's place, and I sat outside by myself staring at it for a bit. I had some one on one conversations with my friends - they weren't going to stop me, but they were worried about me and they wanted to know that they cared about my safety and well-being. They would accept me whether I drank or not, but they wanted me to be okay.

I saw drinking as the start of a dark road that might eventually lead to my death. I had drank myself into health problems before, and by introducing it back into my life, I invite that level of addiction and self-harm back.

After drinking, I think it's safe to say that pure straight-edge sobriety was harmful in its own way - because I felt like total shit. I simply don't have a sober-friendly support structure - everyone in my life drinks, so I'm always around it, and frankly I've been so high-strung and emotionally fragile lately that despite the peak of my sobriety feeling life-changing, the low points are probably the lowest I've sunken in a long, long time. It has been rough beyond comprehension.

I understand the narrative that this is just the alcohol talking, and I'm besieged by a terrible addiction and I need to stop before I fall back into its clutches. That I'm justifying an evil, self-destructive pattern that could overtake me at any time. I do believe that I'm an addict to some degree, and there was a sweet spot 2 months in where I realised how much emotional progress I had made after alcohol stunted my personal growth. I should be around alcohol as little as possible.

But as bad as it probably sounds coming from someone who broke three and a half months of sobriety - sobriety just wasn't tenable. I was slipping into a level of despair that I couldn't have steered out of on my own. Alcohol was a last resort - I couldn't endure any more, I refused to lash out, so I resigned myself to drink.

Last night was one of the most liberating, stress-eliminating nights I've had all year.

I went to the pub and sunk a couple beers. I saw friends I hadn't seen in ages - in one case, I got approached by a girl I haven't seen in years and spent most of the night with her and her friends. I went back to my friend's place and drank some more gin, and apparently it was a great time for everyone. There was a noticeable shift in how I carried myself, and it honestly did me a world of good emotionally. I can't properly express how much of a 180 my entire personality has taken.

I understand that addicts tend to have a honeymoon period before things go south again. I understand that the positive reaction was probably partially due to my brain getting a hit of a substance I hadn't indulged in a while after forming a dependency on it. I want to approach this smart - I don't want to fall back into addiction, and I want to be a better, healthier person.

I began binge drinking for 3-4 days a week because of the trauma that 2020 provided. It wasn't just COVID - it was the worst bushfire season in recorded history, and I was checking fire maps daily because I was worried about my dad dying in a bushfire. My town didn't get hit, but I woke up one January morning choking on smoke and the air was polluted until around March or April. COVID hit me hard as well, but it was in combination with the bushfires that led to a months-long downward spiral involving my abuse of alcohol. It got so bad that I damaged my liver.

2021 has been better, and maintaining sobriety and working to move forward with my life helped with that. I confessed that I liked a girl - she let me down easy, but I worked up the balls to tell her and it's cool now. I cut a friend out of my life because I realise how profoundly unhappy I felt being around him. But under sobriety, both of these things soured to a point where I began falling into despair again, and I fell back into old habits. And I would have fallen into despair even if I was drinking during all of this - let's be real, the core of the issue is my mental health, which I'm working through with a psychiatrist. But last night, as subversive as it might sound, was a swerve back into the right lane. I can't describe it in any other way.

The weirdest feeling is that drinking made me feel like myself again. That's a huge red flag, I know - but the feeling of "not being myself" has been so lonely and isolating that most of my waking hours lately have felt like I was staring into an abyss. I don't want to think about the depths that I could have sunk to. I wanted to try ecstasy at one point, anything to alter my mood towards feeling more positive that wasn't alcohol.

So, where does that leave me? Is this a relapse? Am I making a grave mistake?

Right now, I don't think sobriety is a tenable life plan for me. I just don't have the infrastructure in my life to support it. I tried to make it work, and I just couldn't. I improved to a degree when I wasn't drinking, but that soured and I became cripplingly depressed - truly out of my gourd. CE was exposed to an ongoing emotional meltdown on my part with my sobriety topics, y'all saw the lows I was hitting and the effort I was making.

But I understand the danger that drinking poses, and I haven't forgotten the despair I fell into that led to my 3-4 day drinking binges. I don't want to normalise drinking in my life too much, because I've been down that rabbit hole and I know where it ends. Ideally, I would be able to live a free, happy and sober life, but things just aren't that ideal - so I have to find a healthy balance.

My psychiatrist has reached out to me to help me avoid an early death from drinking. I then put an unreasonable burden on her to be something of an authority or an arbiter who could judge when it would be appropriate to drink - someone who's looking out for me, but who I could bargain with. Now I realise that I have to be an adult and figure this out myself - with input and advice from the people I trust, like my psychiatrist, to inform my decisions. I'm in charge of my own life, and I need to figure out what that means. I need to figure out what works for me.

Alcohol has been a vice, and I never want to view it as a necessity or something I can and should indulge in whenever I want. I've been harmed by my irresponsible use of it, and I understand that if I'm going to live a life of balance, I'll need to watch myself and consider whether my indulgence in alcohol is appropriate or not.

I've unwound so much in the course of one night. Under sobriety, I faced some challenges head-on and I found strength within myself that I didn't know I had to make some tough calls and move forward with my life. But there are stresses and issues that I can't rationalise away, that build up despite my best efforts. Unwinding with a drink can help to liberate those, given that my usage of alcohol is appropriate.

My main goal is to maintain a sober lifestyle for the most part, with the occasional socially acceptable drink at the pub or with friends. I'm going to abstain from drinking weekly. There are things I can't cope with when I'm drinking, and there's things I can't cope with when I'm fully sober - I need to try balance, at least until I'm in a place where I can live a fully sober life. I'm hoping that I'll be able to pin something down with the help of my psychiatrist, and hopefully there's a medication which will make my life much more functional.

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Choco posted...

she should get cancelled for referring to shoes as "kicks"
fucking cringe

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...in response to Lil Nas X's Montero video, to own the libs:


This is the sort of troglodyte who legitimately targets people like Lil Nas X for "societal decay" or whatever the fuck.

Have fun with your sisterdaughter, as if that wouldn't be a bigger abomination in the eyes of god any day of the week than a gay man giving a fake Satan a lapdance.

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Romulox28 posted...

this is why nobody invites u to the panty raid

It's true

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Fucking lol. You're really gonna have beef with Hindus? What did they ever do to you?

That's some next level bigotry shit, going after Hindus. Fuckin morons.

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I never got the appeal of a panty raid. You're stealing a girl's underwear... for what exactly? Are you wearing them? Are you gonna wash them and return them? Are you going to throw them away afterwards?

I grew up with porn on the internet, so maybe I'm just desensitised to this sort of thing. But still, how would you feel if someone started stealing your underwear? I don't get it.

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BuckVanHammer posted...

this isn't a live service game like destiny, more like borderlands in that aspect. is online only tho...

So... it's a live service game?

I understand that there's a certain type of game that gets labelled a "live service", but wouldn't any game that's online only be considered a live service game due to the fact that it's entirely inaccessible once they turn off the servers? Even if there's gameplay that could be salvaged for singleplayer or LAN, that simply won't because everything's online?

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dr_strangelove posted...

it's true. he's a product of a scientific experiment of aborted fetuses specifically for indiana jones

Those babies were gonna grow up to be nobodies anyway. But now? They get to be a part of Harrison Ford!

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I know I've made this topic before. ultimate reaver made a good point that this issue is bigger than CE and I need professional help. But it's 7.30pm on Good Friday. My psychiatrist isn't gonna get back to me if I spill my guts in an email, I would know since it's been a week since I emailed her about our next appointment and that wasn't even a public holiday.

I've tried to hold on for weeks, but I keep feeling worse and worse. My entire life has snowballed since mid-March, and I feel more alone today than I can remember in recent memory.

I'm trying to endure this, but I've already endured it for so long and I don't think I can hold on for much longer without breaking. I can lash out at people, but I don't want to lash out at anyone. So if I can't endure and if I can't lash out, resigning myself to intoxication is the next option.

There's only so long that I can try to distract myself, and even if I make it another week or two until I'm four months sober, I'm going to be just as alone and sad as I was now, if not moreso. My mental health is gonna keep spiralling and I don't know how I'm gonna make it stop.

I want to be strong enough to live a sober life, but I'm just not strong enough for that right now. I have a bottle of gin I got for Christmas, and if I make it through that, I'll think about what I'm going to do next.

I was thinking about planning a trip interstate and having a vacation, and I was gonna fuck a prostitute named Mango for the sake of a yarn - note to mods, prostitution is legal in Australia and it'd be through a legal establishment, so plz no mod. idk, how funny would it be to say you've fucked a prostitute named Mango?

I'd like to make that vacation happen, but I don't know if I can hold onto sobriety long enough to set it up. I'm an emotional trainwreck right now, and it's hard to live with myself at the moment. I just want to block it all out for a little while - which I know is unhealthy, but I've got nothing else to help me.

I'm making a lot of threads like this, I know - I'm having a hard time right now. I'm sorry.

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Jagr_68 posted...

Six feet under.

Indiana Jones 5: Indy Goes to Hell

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I stopped my rewatch at 3, but for the most part I agree. I think Creed and Rocky III is better than Rocky 2 though, in that order.

It's like, Rocky 2 suffers from growing pains. The first movie was an incredible character study, and the third movie is a pretty decent franchise movie - but the second movie had to establish the franchise, and transition from that character study to a franchise. It's considered a classic, but Rocky 1 is such a tough act to follow and I just don't think Rocky 2 rose to the occasion. 3 was a decent franchise movie, and from there they were off to the races - but 2 is an awkward middle step that I just didn't enjoy as much as 1 or 3.

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Jiggy101011 posted...

You had a platform that could play cyberpunk at launch and yet you got Outer Worlds on the Switch?

No, I just remember seeing how batshit crazy the Cyberpunk launch was. After seeing the extent to which that game broke, The Outer Worlds on Switch seems slightly less bad.

Don't get me wrong, the graphics are still blurry and awful. But it runs decently and the combat works. You can play it from beginning to end without the entire game shitting out on you, at least to my knowledge. You're not going to get a character model that looks like the blow-up doll from Saints Row 3, or a car that glitches vertically, dumps its driver in midair and then explodes.

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This game is ugly as sin, but it's not outside of my wheelhouse.

I think I'm not as harsh on it as I could be because it's nowhere near as bad as Cyberpunk was on launch

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I'll keep y'all motherfuckers updated on whether it's good or not.

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sauceje posted...

Switch is probably the worst console to play Outer Worlds on tbh. You're already having storage issues with the humongous patch you have to download, and even afterwards it'll likely still look ugly and have performance issues

True, but it was $30 on clearance. At worst, it's a funny little curio.

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The game needs a 6gb patch at LEAST before I can play it, and probably more patches on top of that. My switch has a busted memory card port, so I'm working with the stock 32gb here.

I'm gonna have to get rid of Gems of War, which I recently got back into. I already had to delete Paladins off my system, too.

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That's $30 AUD, so like 20-something USD.

Have they patched the worst aspects of the game yet? I can live without some particle effects and a blurry texture or two as long as there's been an effort to improve the really bad aspects of the game and get a steady frame rate out of it.

Like, I played the Mass Effect games on PS3, and all 3 games were sub-30 fps. Something a little nicer than that would be fantastic.

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Does your mum know what's up with her leg?

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Everybody gets a rock. What they do with it is up to them.

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I hope your mom is okay!

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The_Creep_2020 posted...

Ask an America Republican and its a lawless wasteland here though

They've got their heads stuck in 1776, so their view of Australia as a prison colony is informed by that

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I live in Australia. No, true safety in modern society doesn't require a gun.

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For a second I thought you were talking about the international day of trans visibility, lmao.

Yeah, I got duped a year or two ago by dumb April fools bullshit. It made me realise that I was becoming a dumb grown-up boomer who wasn't "with it" any more, and I gained a lot more sympathy for people who fall for April fools jokes.

It was a post about Russell T. Davies making a spinoff to Doctor Who about Rose and metaverse-10 >_> I just wanted to believe

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Free my boy orange!

Is your "idk why" in the OP about why you can't access any other websites, or why you're in hospital?


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Kastrada posted...

He wanted to portray sick characters so he nor the shows would have to cover up his sickness. He wanted to portray characters with different sickness so he wouldn't be typecast and so he could also give portrayals for others suffering from debilitating diseases.

Source: His book.

Respect. Thank you for having the answers.

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And never anyone with Parkinson's either. In Scrubs his character had OCD, and in Boston Legal his character had terminal lung cancer.

Unless it was a conscious decision on his part to only play sick characters, why did they only cast him to play characters with serious illnesses? And unless it was a mandate that he didn't want to portray Parkinson's on screen, out of those characters, why not go with Parkinsons?

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Kastrada posted...

How are surgeons not doctors?

Doctors do the diagnosing and the check-ups and all of the bedside manner stuff. Surgeons cut into you and remove/replace bad stuff. They're two different skill sets in the same field.

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SquirtleSkwad posted...

I don't even care that they swapped races. Fucking Donald Faison? The dude is corny as shit and not a good actor.

Professor Utonium is corny as shit. Have you seen the Powerpuff Girls?

I can absolutely see Donald Faison putting on a goofy vocal affect and nailing a role like Professor Utonium

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I'm looking forward to pride month this year.

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Kami_no_Kami posted...

I think someone would need to watch it to be mad.

It didn't stop people from being mad about Titans. I remember all the accounts getting buttmad because Starfire was played by a black woman, so people began posting about how redheads were being discriminated against and losing their representation by traditionally redheaded characters being race-shifted to black.

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If I say who it is, I'll get mass-marked for harassment and warned like everybody else. I'm not Einstein, but I'm not a drooling moron.

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Finishing move: Mothersister Birthday Surprise

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Eh. My last interaction with him was pretty reasonable. Why he get banned?

There was a string of topics that were critical of trans people. The softer of the two, while still stupid as hell, was about labels like "transmasculine queer" and why queer people would bundle themselves up in terminology. The TC didn't "get" it, and what commentary he offered to users who tried to explain the whole deal with it amounted to "I see" or "true" - trans/questioning users saw it as disingenuous and insulting, and saw the thread's existence as a way to goof on queer people with the bare minimum lip service paid to claim "I don't dislike trans people!".

The second thread was "aha I respect pronouns and understand the trans struggle, but I cringe at them and feel disdainful towards any of them who try to force people to share their delusion". The user went as far as to say he viewed transgenderism as a mental illness to "get rid of perfectly working body parts". It was the trans equivalent of going "I'm not racist, but..." before unloading some hardcore shit on whoever was reading.

That user got a NKL, despite posting a transphobic screed. The user who's the focus of this thread then made a thread drawing attention to the fact that it was a NKL, other trans, questioning and trans ally users weighed in on how much of a shitshow it was, and a large chunk of them were subsequently suspended.

So, in essence, trans users got a harsher punishment for calling out blatant transphobia than the user who went out of his way to paint trans people as sick, deluded people who are worthy of disdain and scorn for their gender identity.

Not naming any names, not trying to misrepresent anyone, just calling it how I see it. As someone who saw the first thread and who's seen a screenshot of the nkl thread, I do think that the trans and questioning users were justified in being uncomfortable with the users talking about their gender identity like that - the first user could have used more tact, and the second one was outright looking for a reaction.

And while I understand why the warned user keeps getting their accounts axed, despite working on themselves and finding a degree of calm and acceptance in their transition - I've never seen users like FlameTurtle step that far out of line, only for occasions where trans rhetoric is trending towards pointlessly critical or mocking. Unless there's something I'm missing, I don't see why a user like FlameTurtle deserved to get axed over this - especially over the user who instigated this whole mess in the first place by being blatantly transphobic in the hopes of making people upset.

They'll be back in time on new accounts, but this punishment is honestly disproportionate to the inciting incident, and people are right to be criticising the mod staff for this.

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It's a good time to talk about the philosophy of satanism and strip away the LaVeyian Church of Satan's grasp on it. LaVey and "Lucien Greaves" are a bunch of carnie hacks who extort copyrighted symbols for cashflow, using their position as self-appointed authorities on satanism to enable eugenicist and neo-nazi rhetoric, but then turning around and suing a small group of progressive satanists for "politicizing" the church because they espoused anti-fascist views.

Satanism at its core is looking out for your own wellbeing and questioning power structures as to whether they're helping or hindering your personal freedoms, but also being responsible to the people around you and facilitating a fair and equal world for everyone. The "Satan" part of "satanism" isn't anti-religion, it's egalitarity and freedom - and that means honoring the faith of others.

The LNX video is more of a cultural satanism, poking fun at the Christian boogeyman of Hell. That in itself is an interesting conversation - personally, the Christian backlash against this music video rings hollow when I remember the irreverent way the Simpsons handled Hell and Satan. Hell hasn't been taboo for decades. And the commentary of the video, that LNX is trolling about religious conservatism as a response to his repression and backlash as a gay man, justifies the video in my eyes.

But my current bag is philosophical satanism, and the hokeyness of LeVayian Satanism in relation to the egalitarian roots of philosophical satanism. If we're talking about satanism right now, let's talk about satanism.

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This is now a music thread
https://youtu.be/cHlf08yTPiU
https://youtu.be/rXgXFwnrGqE
https://youtu.be/tR-qQcNT_fY
https://youtu.be/izeDRfkyMAQ

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Dakimakura posted...

Wasn't he the dumb guy on Scrubs? Is Scrubs racist?

Scrubs is a cast full of dumb people. Turk's silly, but he has his share of serious arcs and he's no more airheaded than JD, even if he can be more flamboyant at times.

Scrubs did toe the race line pretty closely, like the skit where JD does blackface while Turk does whiteface (and leaves JD to get beaten up by his frat buddies) or the way JD talks about Turk's "warm, soft, caramel skin" and all that.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Damn I havent seen him in something in a long time.

I remember seeing him in The Wolverine years before I got my friend into Scrubs, I was like "it's Turk! :D" and no-one gave a shit.

Kitt posted...

Everything about this sounds awful, including this casting decision. And yet -- I do love Donald Faison. I'm kind of conflicted lol

Edgy PPG reboot by the CW sounds dogshit, but I won't blame the cast. Dude's gotta eat.

Tangentially related, but Titans ended up being a lot better than the haters insisted it'd be, and the Doom Patrol episode was great. idk how the rest of the show ended up, but I want to watch it pretty badly.

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Kloe_Rinz posted...

But you didnt answer my question

what if they are just posting legitimately and you happen to disagree with them, like with some religious extremists on this board. That doesnt constitute trolling yet the word still gets thrown around

MrMallard posted...

When it's actually someone new, and not another dumbass shitposter jumping into the same stupid shitposting habits as the other fuckwits who make new accounts to troll when they get suspended, despite claiming to be "new here".

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