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For once I agree with ledbowman, this site is rigged. I don't think it's rigged in the same way he thinks it is, but I do think it's rigged.

If your account is old enough, you can fuck up severely more than a dozen times without getting banned. You can't post for a few months, sure, but something that would warrant more severe action from a 2018 account only results in a long suspension for a 2003 account. You can have a proven track record of being an asshole, and a long mod history consisting of offensive posts and blatant troll posts, but given that your karma is roughly around 2500, you're going to get a lot of second chances.

It's like what happened with the Admiral. That guy never changed his stripes - he was a conservative shitposter for years, pushing conservative nonsense whenever he posted. He only got banned some time in the past two years, because after suspension after suspension - like our mutual acquaintance toyota - he kept coming back with the same provocative takes to "trigger the libs". And even now, the fact that a former mod was banned at all feels like a fucking miracle.

I get that these older legacy accounts have put a lot of time into their accounts, and to throw all that away is seen as a big deal. But rather than giving these old accounts chance after chance after chance that they keep squandering to annoy other people, we should be more proactive. Rather than keeping these high-karma accounts around on months-long suspensions, why not make an inquiry into how much their moderation history has changed when they're past a certain threshold of moderation? Like a "tiger doesn't change its stripes" thing.

Weigh an account's moderations past a certain point. Have the past 5 moderations been "offensive material" moderations, and have they all been about trans people? Consider stronger action against older accounts whose moderation history constitutes a pattern. Something other than exiling them for long stretches of time, only for them to come back and post the same dumb horseshit that gets them exiled again a week later.

Because it's really disheartening to see these 3000+ karma accounts get chance after chance, when their abrasive style of posting doesn't change. When was the last time toyota wasn't an intentionally provocative shitposter? Aside from his intentionally provocative takes and (presumably) any ad revenue his activity generates for the site, when was the last time he offered the community anything other than scorn and derision?

At what point did The Admiral cross the line to finally get banned? Because while it was a welcome decision, his eventual ban felt arbitrary. It didn't feel like he had overstepped the line significantly more than he was already doing, he just posted one too many moddable messages after over a decade of posting, after a series of superfluous second chances - and the particular post that got him banned, after plenty of posts in the same vein that were spread over the course of years, was only notable to the extent that it was the one that finally got him axed.

When a user has chance after chance after chance to chill the fuck out and follow the rules, and continues to get moderated for the same calibre of posting they've engaged in for years, why even bother with the 90 day suspensions? Why continue to give them more chances when they keep sticking their finger in the same sore spot for fun, like they've always done?

If a user is known for being bad news, and has a list of suspensions longer than my arm, why should it matter if that account is from 2003 or 2021? Obviously the more recent one is a throwaway designed to cause as much damage with the smallest effect on the main account as possible, so it's understandable that the website would get rid of those worker bees as fast as possible. But why continue to extend the same courtesy to legacy accounts who keep getting moderated for garbage troll posts that appeal to the lowest common denominator of trolls on this website? When it becomes clear that a tiger isn't going to change their stripes, is a ban not more fitting than letting them come back every three months to get moderated all over again?

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It's true, you haters were never rooting for me anyway

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M_Live posted...

I genuinely hate Ted Cruz. He's such an awful, and completely spineless person. I cannot wrap my head around how he has a single supporter.

Especially after the polar vortex/Cancun thing. So funny how he can be so opposed to AOC on principle when she stepped in to do his job and helped his constituents in his absence. You'd think it would warrant a "thank you" after fleeing his district in the face of a massive fucking crisis.

Imagine, in this day and age, a politician acting to benefit the constituents of another jurisdiction - let alone from the opposing political party. With the way politics are now, you leave those people to suffer and use their hardship as a trump card against the ruling party as an example of why they're so bad. AOC saw people freezing to death in a region where their elected official abandoned them, and she did whatever she could to ease their hardship - and her thanks for doing Ted Cruz's fucking job for him is the same qanon-pandering drivel that always falls out of his mouth. What a fucking disgrace.

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What finally did it?

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Bump for the... morning crowd, I guess?

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Because they were born as the opposite sex and expected to perform a gender role aligning with their sex, and thus they "transition" their sex or their gender presentation to align with their gender identity.

In regards to a trans person, some degree of transition - whether it be medical or social - tends to be involved. Hence, transgender.

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Zikten posted...

This makes me so mad. Did the mining company know what it was and it's age when they blew it up?

I'll be frank, I don't even know. I think they should have known before they did any destructive actions in the area, and I think they should have been punished more severely.

But what do you expect from a government that has inducted the mining industry into our political system through the office of "the Minerals Council"? Let them rape our country of its resources to the sole benefit of private enterprise, and slap them on the wrist when they destroy irreplaceable historical records of our indigenous forebearers.

I'm a bit full of beans right now, sorry. I just watched the ICAC hearings regarding Gladys Berejiklian and it pisses me off that in the face of blatant corruption that she could have stepped in to prevent, she feigns ignorance to avoid incriminating herself. It's fucking pathetic, and this government needs to fucking go.

Not in the American "Liberate Australia!" sense, because they would love this obstruction of justice from our conservative government. I mean in the sense that we need a government that works for the population, for the cause of the common man. Not colluding with corrupt mayors to the tune of 1.5 million dollars of personal gain.

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Sphyx posted...

I'm amazed the Stand With Thumb In Ass And Surprised Expression On Face technique of dealing with a crisis has kept Scott in power this long.

The LNP have a one seat majority or something ridiculous like that. When Craig Kelly went to the cross bench, culminating in him joining the United Australia Party, he put Scotty in a much stickier situation than he was before.

I'm not confident about Labor's chances next election unless enough Australians have woken up to themselves and realised how shit life has gotten under the past 8 years of Liberal rule. With the media refusing to report on the Labor party - running more articles on FriendlyJordies than Jodi McKay the same week she was ousted from her position of opposition leader - I'm worried this election is going to be closer than it has any right to be.

But I do think there's a substantial shift towards Labor in my neck of the woods, in both young and old. So maybe we have a chance next election.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

He's talking about the Australian aboriginals which probably predate the current Han / Mongol descendent Chinese.

There was a monument in the outback that dated back around 47,000 years - it proves that the indigenous people were here during the Ice Age.

I say "had", because the mining company Rio Tinto blew it up last year. They copped a fine from it - a fucking fine, for destroying a 47,000 year old record of indigenous occupation of Australia.

The indigenous population of Australia have one of the oldest oral histories on the planet, with indigenous stories about megafauna being present on the continent being confirmed through fossils. It's incredibly fascinating stuff.

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tfw Ted Cruz left his constituency in a time of need, and AOC did more to help freezing Texans than he did.

I think what he means when he says he's always admired Australians is that he admires our prime minister, who did the exact same fucking thing during the worst bushfires in Australia's recorded history.

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Good. I don't know whose alt it was, but they sucked.

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Xethuminra posted...

What disturbs me is this fantasy you have that you get under my skin. Honestly. I think its a little sick.

Double-posting about someone and saying they make you sick is a telltale sign of them being under your skin.

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The backlash began with the trailer of Ellie kissing Dinah. Everything that came later on added a metric fuckton of fuel to the fire, but I think people were prepared to go into this angry because The SJWs Are Ruining Gaming.

You can see how people wanted any excuse to bitch in the way they tried to disprove Abby's physique based on her diet, saying her musculature is too unrealistic as if that's a make or break detail. Like she's a part of a post-apocalyptic paramilitary group, of course she's gonna be buff. You don't need to pore over fuckin in-game meal plans to say "she's too fit for the setting, this is a critical immersion-breaking detail that ruins the entire game". That shit is looking for problems to nitpick.

The worst part of the nuclear backlash to this game is that it totally fucked up legitimate criticism of it, because you're either for the game or against it with no in between. I think it's a solid 7/10, the ending felt tacked on and I do agree that the game is stretched out a ton and wears out its welcome. That criticism has to share screentime with "SJWs made an unrealistic buff women", because that's one of the criticisms that took centre stage when the game was most relevant. It feels like you either have to regard the game with some apocalyptic level of scorn, or you have to defend it on some level, because that's what the conversation demands of anyone who takes part in it.

Like I wanted to have a legitimately critical and productive conversation about the good and bad aspects of the game when it came out. But from the first trailer to its release, it became clear that no matter what happened, that conversation was going to be drowned out by overwrought, toxic bullshit. It's fine to dislike where this game went, or to not like it at all, and it's fine to express your frustration about it - but so much of the backlash was anti-SJW horseshit that people were posting as a matter of principle rather than because they wanted to talk about the game. It made it next to impossible to actually engage with good-faith posters who wanted to talk about their experiences with the game, whether they be positive or negative.

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Like seriously, these are some ghoulish feet. I'm not a foot person, but I don't think you have to be a fetishist to tell that someone's body parts are fucking scary-looking.

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Fuckin Skelator

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This is petty as fuck, but when the Hong Kong protests were still happening they made a post saying I was a pro-Beijing poster. Shitty move on their part, and I hope they stay gone because all they offer is perv topics and shitty, sensationalized coverage of other people's accounts.

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Hope they boo his ass like last time

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/topic

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It's a toss-up between season 2 and 3 for me.

I think we can agree that there isn't a bad season of ATLA, though - this show has the same issue as the first Professor Layton trilogy, where the first installment is pretty great, but it pales in comparison to the next two instalments because they're just that good.

Compared to a lot of related media, the first season/game is rock-solid. It just had the misfortune within its own series to be the starting point of someone much larger, which diminishes it within the standing of the series.

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Some kid's supernatural caretaker used her powers to get rid of a bully. The only options I can see for discourse is "this endorses violence against children" and "this is a thinly veiled metaphor for the eradication of straight people by the queer community", both of which are brain-rottingly asinine.

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Scotty_Rogers posted...

A game about a blue hedgehog doesn't need this wannabe Guns n Roses type shit.

I saw your last post about Sonic R, the SatAM cartoon theme, City Escape etc.

You know you don't have to front for anyone, right? You can like shit and be as earnest as you want, because no-one can ever touch that.

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Crush 40 is cheesy as fuck, and so are the other vocal Sonic tunes like Dreams of an Absolution, This Machine and Livin' in Paradise. But shit, we're not talking about high art here. I love this shit, even to this day, because it's so over the top and fun.

I'm not making posts on social media like "GIVECRUSH40THEIRGRAMMY" or whatever the most extreme expression of fandom might be, but I still enjoy the vocal tracks from Sonic games. I think they're awesome.

If you don't get the appeal, that's fine. But there's nothing wrong with it.

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Freddie_Mercury posted...

you listen to better oblivion community center?

I did. It was okay,but I don't think I'm into Conor Oberst.

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MaxEffingBemis posted...

Im not reading all that. But I do like that album I just think Punisher was better in almost every way \_()_/

Punisher is really good too, I like Savior Complex a lot and the title track is great. But there's something about it that doesn't grip me as much.

I think what I prefer about Stranger is how stripped back everything is. Punisher is produced really well, but I find myself tuning out a bit on some of the songs and I didn't have the same reaction to the album as I did for Stranger. I think it comes down to how the albums sound, with Punisher being a more robust, polished project and Stranger feeling a bit more raw.

Punisher does seem to be recognised as the superior album, and I'm not at all saying that it's worse than Stranger - I'm not even saying it's bad. I think if this Phoebe Bridgers thing sticks, I'll move onto Punisher one day and simp for it as hard as I'm simping for Stranger in the Alps.

Like with The Weakerthans, I moved through their albums like The Very Hungry Caterpillar: first I preferred Fallow, then I got sick of it and really took to Left and Leaving. But the next two albums felt too over-produced and lacked the sort of lyricism and sound I appreciated about the band, until I wore out Left and Leaving and moved onto Reconstruction Site. And eventually that got old too, which is when I got into Reunion Tour super hard.

All four albums have their quirks, but they're all really good. It just took a long period of time and fandom for me to let all of it in.

Right now I prefer Stranger in the Alps for a more stripped back, personal feel. I connect and engage with the music a bit more than Punisher as a whole, though Savior Complex is my favorite Phoebe Bridgers song hands down. I don't think this is a permanent preference, and I'll come around in time - but for now, I've gotta spend some time in the Stranger mines until there's nothing left for me to dig up.

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oh shit, that looks amazing

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SiO4 posted...

If you'd like I post a pic of a Salad that I sometimes get...
~I guess I owe you!

Feel free if you like, no pressure. Thanks for the insightful commentary, I appreciate you stopping in.

Honestly the salad thing I said was so snide and petty. I'd woken up from a 3 hour nap off the back of an all-nighter, and the way I phrased it is really pathetic. Like there's nothing wrong with that salad choice, but I'm here like "I wonder what my HATERS would think of THIS!". That's some grade school shit on my part.

But yeah, if you've got a salad pic, I wouldn't mind seeing it.

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The worst part about the OP is that I didn't get to talk about Demi Moore or The Mountain Goats or anything else. I even had to cut off the last paragraph. So here's the bottom line:

Stranger in the Alps has a strong emotional through-line, I'd argue it's fairly consistent with a handful of weak links, and listening to the whole thing through was a refreshing and validating experience. This might be an album I have to add to my CD collection.

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To give you a frame of reference, other GOAT-tier albums in my eyes are like Hard Candy by Counting Crows, Plastic Beach by Gorillaz, Growing Pains by Maria Mena and Left and Leaving by The Weakerthans. Nonagon Infinity by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is right up there too, and I'd definitely give a nod to David Bowie's album Earthlings, but they're in a much different stripe.

I say this because what those first four albums have in common is a deep melancholy vein to it all. Hard Candy has a lot of dolled up summer rock, but songs like Up All Night and American Girls portray a greater vulnerability. Left and Leaving is Canadian indie rock, but it's also about loss, nostalgia and trauma. Plastic Beach is just a masterpiece, but On Melancholy Hill set a standard for the band that they didn't really approach for another 10 years - and Leaving You is one of the most raw breakup albums I've ever heard.

So an album like Stranger in the Alps has a lot to live up to. Even moreso because it was a track off the follow-up, Punisher, that got me into Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex, which is this strong, resolute, incredibly fucking sad track.

Stranger in the Alps, on paper, is an album I shouldn't like. I don't like high, perishing indie girl voices - and the album is easy to write off as just that if you listen to 30 seconds of it. What I like about Phoebe Bridgers is that while her voice is high, it's not perishing - it doesn't squeak and fade into nothing, she doesn't do like a slack-jawed baby voice. Even when she sounds fragile, she sounds clear and present, and the sadness of her music is palpable.

And while the album is basically folk-infused indie pop, the image of sadgirl pop, there's such a presence to it that makes it such a compelling listen.

Scott Street is one of those "hey we haven't caught up in a while" songs, a bit like a more mundane Same Old Lang Syne. And the thing about it is that I can take or leave the chorus, and the verses are very straightforward and basic. Where the song captures me is the ending, where after the second chorus, the drums punch it up a bit and this heartbreaking fucking violin kicks in. And the last leg of the song is this stirring violin playing in the background while Phoebe sings "Anyway, don't be a stranger" - and you know it's gonna be a other 5, 7, 12 years before these two characters are going to get in contact again.

There's this sadness to the subject of the song, but that's been done before. What really sells it is this weepy violin-steeped ending that makes it clear this isn't going to be an isolated incident. The subject is universal, which is why I think there have been a decent amount of takes on the topic in the past - but you don't always feel it resonate with your own experiences. I feel like as far as music goes, you can feel the intent of the song through the lyrics, and you can feel the intent of the song through the music. The music on this track resonates in a big way.

Or another one, Funeral - which is notable in that the first two songs felt like they adhered to two different aspects of indie music, with a very breathy sadgirl-pop sort of vibe to begin with followed up by some kinda bland indie rock-inspired follow-up.

The first track, Smoke Signals, is a good opening to Phoebe Bridgers if you can hang on. But Funeral is the song where I think most people would take notice.

Because it's this emotional roadtrip of the narrator singing at a funeral for a kid who was a year older than her. And the prospect of performing at such a heavy event weighs on her, but she remembers that a child - someone's son - is dead.

I'm butchering the narrative, but on this song the music is so pure and to-the-point, and Phoebe's vocals are so strong. They soar through this emotional rollercoaster of the song, cutting through the jangly folk guitar and preening violin. The only way I can describe how this song feels is cohesive and resonant, and it's this song where I think she really leaves her mark.

But what seals this album for me is the last song, Missed My Heart. It's a cover, through I haven't heard the original, and it's a murder ballad.

I got into Nick Cave's album Murder Ballads at the start of this year, and that's a high that's hard to chase. You're looking for these theatrical, macabre tales of death and heartbreak - songs like Stagger Lee and The Curse of Milhaven have bigger dicks than most men do, but they punctuate the track list in between songs like Henry Lee, Where the Wild Roses Grow and The Kindness of Strangers. All of them involve murder, but they often include romance and tragedy tempered by the worst expressions of the human soul. It's a mix of provocative emotional statements, like the deep romanticism of Where the Wild Roses Grow culminating in the male narrator smashing the female narrator's face in with a rock, or the deep, cloying nature of Henry Lee giving way to mocking and cruel statements about the dead characters beloved other, who'll wait forever for him to come home while his body rots at the bottom of a well.

So when you have an entire fucking album of that music, helpfully titled Murder Ballads for your convenience - where are you going to find more of that music?

In my experience? The answer is that you don't. But if you're lucky, you find it anyway.

Missed My Heart is a song where the narrator breaks into their old partner's house and threatens her new man to get him to leave. When he doesn't abide by this, they stab him in the back, and he mocks them for missing his heart until he dies on the kitchen floor.

Then the narrator chases the girl up the stairs and tells them how much they miss being with them, to which the girl responded that overall, they missed her heart the most - see the theme they're establishing? - and then fittingly, the narrator goes to jail for murder, where the song continues for another two verses.

Do you ever listen to a song, and spontaneously imagine whatever the singer is singing about without even meaning to? Like you can think about your own music videos and stuff as you daydream, but does the story of the song ever manifest without you even trying?

Because again - the last verse of this song is incredible, and the only word I have to describe it is "cinematic". It paints such a clear, vivid picture, and the last lines of the song just tie this incredible bow on the whole narrative, it's amazing. I could see a lingering still shot from the environment described in the song, enhanced by cicada chirps and flowing water. The way the song ends is the sonic equivalent of a still shot fading to black at the end of a movie.

With all of that being said - I really dig the vibe of the album altogether. I bitched about the first two songs a little, but I like the first song and the second one isn't objectionable either - it's just not what I came here for. I mentioned sadgirl pop, and I don't mean to disparage the album with that term - I'm interested in sadgirl pop. One of my favorite albums is by a Norweigan pop artist named Maria Mena that detailed the messy end of her marriage - I'd call some of the music on that album sadgirl pop, not in the sense of Lana Del Rey or Mitski but in the sheer emotionality of the subject matter and the music.

I brought sadgirl pop up because I get that that's a vibe that some people have an aversion to. I think Stranger in the Alps is sadgirl pop, but I think to saddle it with that term alone is doing it a disservice - like calling American Idiot an emo punk album at the turn of the millenium or something. When an album is framed as What The Kids Are Listening To, it can take years or decades to be recognised as a GOAT contender.

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Depends on if this is gonna be a Margaret Thatcher situation, where England got Ding Dong the Witch is Dead to #2 on the radio charts.

At a baseline, I'm not going to hold back but I don't think I'm going to be suspended because my style isn't to go "I'm glad he's dead". It'll be like 20 paragraphs talking about his impact on politics and the aftermath of his presidency, an expression of my strong dislike towards him, and a refusal to mourn someone who sowed so much division.

I wouldn't have ill will towards anyone who is mourning, and I would extend condolences to his loved ones. I'm a strong believer that people should be judged on the strength of their character, and sympathy and condolences should be made for their family who lost them - Donald Trump is no different, short of being the leader of the fucking free world at some point.

But if it is a Margaret Thatcher type situation, and I feel the itch to shitpost? I wouldn't mind losing this account to a goof like that. Of all the things to get banned for, this would be the most fitting end to my account and I could go out with a smile on my face.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Why did anyone ever like this guy?

Manic energy, loud voice, incredibly offbeat humor.

Then you revisit it as an adult and he's saying racial slurs because he thinks they're funny. Like not even an attempt at a joke, just saying racial slurs and laughing about it.

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I wonder how you guys would react to my salad order from Subway. It's like smashed falafel with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, pickles, carrot and onion, covered in chipotle sauce

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SapphicBoy posted...

I live in New York. I just asked 3 immediate coworkers to look at the pizza, and I described to them what was on it.

Then I asked "would you classify this as a 'Pizza Crime'?"

"This person belongs in a straight jacket."

"Yes what the fuck"

"That looks disgusting"

Being a pizza snob is the worst New Yorker trait there is, short of spitting on the sidewalk.

Anyways, since the verdict is in, I figured we could turn this into a bad pizza topic. I'll get the ball rolling with some Brazilian pizza:





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SapphicBoy posted...

Your pie absolutely, unequivocally belongs with the ones you posted

Anyway here's a picture I took with the flash on, which I think looks worse:



I guess why I'm responding so defensively is because I've seen CE shit on food for how it looks before, when someone posted beans and toast from Britain. Lots of "eww yucky it looks like poop!" reactions.

But having grown up in an environment where some of the tastiest meals of my life have looked like a dog's breakfast, I know the value of a hearty meal. The pizza I just posted might look like a burnt pile of shit, but it's absolutely delicious and it's hearty as fuck. It's one of those things where each mouthful you take goes down better than the last. It's great.

And like I can understand being entirely turned off by this pizza. Pineapple, anchovies and shrimp all on the same pie - how revolting. But this is a great pizza, and I'll continue to sing its praises against the vomit emojis and calls to submit it to a cringe subreddit.

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SapphicBoy posted...

Why...shrimp on pizza...

Pineapple also

This belongs on the Pizza Crimes subreddit Jesus Christ

I can respect that you don't like it, but this is coming on a little strong.

This deserves to be on the Pizza Crimes subreddit:




not my fuckin pizza with the lot.

modena posted...

I'd eat it after shaking off the toppings.

then what's the point of getting the pizza in the first place?


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mattymad posted...

That looks gross :X but then I'm a man that prefers only a couple of toppings. Loading shit up just confuses the flavour.

Fair enough, but personally I kinda like this clusterfuck of flavour. One second you've got mostly meat and cheese, the next you've got prawns popping in your mouth, then you've got a big bite of capsicum - and then you hit a vein of anchovy. You never know what each bite will bring, and it's delicious.

Saying that, I don't mind a simpler pizza. I like peri peri chicken a lot.

LincolnDuncan posted...

Ew, David.

darkprince45 posted...

Does not look like good pizza

Literally no such thing as bad pizza. Even bad pizza is still pretty good, no need to be a sook about it.

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@SiO4 asked me to tag him when I got this pizza next.

It's got everything - meat, olives, capsicum, anchovies, pineapple, prawns, salami etc. Shit is stacked sky high, and it's amazing.



My first topic after coming back from a warn had a 50/50 chance of being Richard Spencer and other neo-nazis getting punched in the fucking face, but I figured it was best to lie low and I got pizza tonight so CE gets pizza too

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16-BITTER posted...

Botch Is a good name for a band that performs a cover that lousy

Glad I'm not the only one who thought so, jesus

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Hoodroar posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com./user.php?db=.9.user=CRON

Here one second cron the next.

ftfy

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Max gets corrupted by Maleficent and you have to fight his Heartless in Kingdom Hearts 4

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Lonestar2000 posted...

Forget to switch to an alt?

Someone highlighted the first line of my post and went "the mind of an atheist", so I decided to highlight a more pertinent quote from later in the post and make the same comment as a joke.

I don't have any alts. In the event of this account going down, that's it - I'm not remaking, I'm not lurking, I'm leaving.

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Personally? Honestly, a lot of the dumb shit I've been doing this year.

My best friend revealed he watched Ben Shapiro and was a pro-lifer, which was an extremely frustrating conversation to have when he was drunk and I was stone-cold sober. He did something later on in the year that was completely unrelated, but I severed our friendship over it because it really fucking hurt me and I feel like I should have driven the wedge earlier because the Ben Shapiro stuff was a red flag, but also because there were a ton of red flags before that that did pertain to what happened, and also because fuck him in his stupid fucking face.

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Kastrada posted...

You've basically described The B-52's entire discography.

And Fred Schneider is one of the most underrated vocalists in pop music history.

One of my favorite Whose Line is it Anyway bits is a song informercial game where it's just Brad singing. The last song is a B-52s song called I've Got A Thorax To Grind With You, and he fucking KILLS the impression of the male vocalist. The crowd pops off and everything.

https://youtu.be/0R9OXmL2zfw

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MrMallard posted...

I think if God were to exist, I think he'd want people to live pious lives - but I also think he'd want us to carry our faith forward in our day to day interactions. Smiling at a stranger, helping out a neighbour. Understanding the difference between right and wrong, and working to get back on the good path should you err.

The mind of an atheist

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You didn't know? Rock Lobster fucks hard.

"We went to the beach - everybody there had matching towels"

Another B-52s banger, with much more of an acidy washed-out sort of sound,is Roam:

https://youtu.be/kqNQb0_s8v4

And another weird-ass banger in the spirit of Rock Lobster is Private Idaho:

https://youtu.be/jAxyoOd7dy4

The spoken word guy goes off his shits in Private Idaho, it's fantastic.

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The_Korey posted...

Death to butter sauce

Don't boil me, I'm still alive!

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teep_ posted...

What did the other topic say? I clicked on it and it was gone

It was stuff like "legalise all drugs" and "legalise prostitution completely", and then "abolish the age of consent (anyone can have sex at any age)". Shit was wack.

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Personal answer? God doesn't want us to feel guilty, because God doesn't exist. Life boils down to a cosmic side-effect bolstered by billions of years worth of incremental change that led to our existence through sheer luck, and when we die, there's nothing left for us. We become nothing.

The only being we were being faithful to was ourselves through the values we chose to embody throughout our lives, so to ask if God wanted us to feel guilty is basically asking if you wanted yourself to feel guilty - or if the church wanted you to feel guilty.

Serious answer pertaining to the topic:

I don't think an omnipotent God would want us to feel guilty. And my understanding is that Shi'a Muslims and possibly a broader stroke of faiths under the Muslim banner understand that concept quite well.

Apologies to any Muslim folks if this is butchering the concept, but my understanding is that in Islam, there's this idea that you serve God out of faith and piety. To worship God out of fear is disrespectful to you both - to worship out of fear or guilt is the faith of a slave: it does you no good, and it paints God in a negative light, so the worship of God should be carried forth in your actions and your emotions and your will to do so.

So already, we're seeing a disconnect between the Christian/Catholic idea of a vengeful god within the Abrahamic religions.

Personally, I think if God were to exist, I think he'd want people to live pious lives - but I also think he'd want us to carry our faith forward in our day to day interactions. Smiling at a stranger, helping out a neighbour. Understanding the difference between right and wrong, and working to get back on the good path should you err.

So to a degree, I do think God would encourage some guilt. But only insofar as to encourage people to stand by a strong set of ethics and personal morals. To make the world a better place for you and everyone else.

I don't think God would want gay or trans people to feel guilty for being gay or trans. I think he'd want them to carry the essence of faith - to be kind, to have ethics and morals, to make the world better for everyone around them. Regardless of the receptacle you keep your soul in, I think as long as you exemplify what it means to be a good person, you would be good with God.

So to sum all that up:

Assuming God exists, the only guilt I think he would want people to feel is in regards to straying from a kind and loving set of ethics and morals. Basically - don't be a piece of shit, and love openly as you would like to be loved, and I think you'd be good with God. Any guilt present would be in service to getting you back to that path.

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teep_ posted...

I never played this one, but it has a sequel on the DS that I played: Dawn of Sorrow. Great game, I'd highly recommend it

I really hope they do a DS collection too, though I'd imagine drawing the glyphs on the touch screen would make the prospect of a Dawn of Sorrow port kinda dicey. Kind of a drawback of that era of gaming, but if Nintendo can get a Wii pointer to work in Mario Galaxy with gyro controls, I feel like they could find some workaround for the DS games.

Really wanna play Dawn now, lol.

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