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And Charles is back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unbridled9 posted...

Who says I 'don't stand up to them'? I kick them out of my friend groups and, the moment someone expresses such a belief, I intend to challenge and destroy that heinous ideology. That doesn't mean I think the freedom to speech should be banned.

Also, if you SERIOUSLY are arguing people shouldn't be allowed to speak their views because it MIGHT lead to nazi's, shouldn't we ALSO ban anyone advocating for communism and reading Marx because of the horrors IT lead to as well? It goes both ways after all.

Also, if you REALLY hate what the Nazi's did, are you standing up to, say, China and what it's doing right now with it's minority groups? I am. I've been warning everyone I know about what they've been doing to both ethnic and religious minorities because it's unacceptable and outright horrifying (things like forced organ harvesting).

Finally, I IMMENSELY disagree with what you said, because part of the things the Nazi's did was make it so you COULDN'T speak out against the party. I'd say championing the right to be able to speak out against the government, or speak out in general, is what my family would have wanted. If only so that word of the horrors that the government was inflicting upon them could spread.

Except we have already passed the "leading to" stage. These fuckers are Nazis and you are too if you support them.

Revelation34 posted...

Literally everybody who bought these Switches did so for piracy.

Can you actually prove that I understated it?

But can you prove that the seller knew that before selling them? It isn't his responsibility to check the social media accts of his customers to see what they MAY or MAY NOT do with their purchases.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

It's called a joke, lighten up.

Is it a joke when you constantly bring it up? Nah, you actually believe and want others too as well because you refuse to believe that you are sucking Repugnican dick

adjl posted... Do you honestly believe he sold these without expecting people to use them to play pirated games?

Please quote the passage where I said that every pirated copy is a lost sale.

What evidence?

Yes I do believe that sold these without any expectation of them being used for piracy because MODDING FOR HOMEBREW PURPOSES FUCKING EXISTS! Christ how can you be so dense here and actually intelligent when it comes to the Flu Trux Klan.

This You?
adjl posted... To say that "1 pirated copy=0 lost sales," you are making the claim that absolutely nobody that has ever pirated a game would have paid for it if the option were available. The reverse is not true (which is the claim you're actually trying to make), but neither is that claim. Quite obviously so. The reality is considerably more nuanced and complicated than that.

adjl posted...

Again, nobody is clueless enough to believe that he genuinely didn't know they were going to be used for piracy. Any way you try to spin it, he has profited from being a willing accessory to piracy, even if there are other potential applications for the mods he installed and sold.

To say that "1 pirated copy=0 lost sales," you are making the claim that absolutely nobody that has ever pirated a game would have paid for it if the option were available. The reverse is not true (which is the claim you're actually trying to make), but neither is that claim. Quite obviously so. The reality is considerably more nuanced and complicated than that.

First of all, how the fuck do you know what someone else is going to do with something you sell them? Are you psychic? If not then there is sufficient doubt to make it so that you have pronounce seller innocent of the charge. Second of all, again how the fuck do you know that every pirate WAS going to buy a copy but decided to pirate instead? And, again, since you aren't psychic then there is sufficient doubt to make it so that each of these "pirates" are innocent. You have prove to beyond the shadow of a doubt if you want someone judged guilty. AND YOU CAN'T!

Edit: You also didn't refute my evidence against your bullshit of modding for homebrew. My guess is you can't and you are just bitching because you are seeing someone making money and you aren't getting a cut of it.

adjl posted...

That is indeed relevant. There's a very easy case to be made for piracy for obsolete systems, where buying games officially is difficult or outright impossible (and therefore piracy is the only option, as opposed to being an alternative to paying for it properly), but when it's a current system, anyone enabling piracy is presenting an alternative to the legitimate demand that companies depend on to function. That's a problem, even if the "1 pirated copy=1 lost sale" equivalency has little basis in reality ("1 pirated copy=0 lost sales" is similarly fallacious).

Except 1 pirated copy = 0 lost sales is very based in reality because there is no proof that the person was ever considering buying the game and only wanted to try it out.

adjl posted...

That's not remotely what I said. He modded these consoles to be used to play pirated games. That's the specific charge, and there's zero room for him to claim enough ignorance of that use as to not be responsible for it.

I don't know why so many people insist on interpreting this as "they want to make modding illegal!", but that's not at all what's going on here. Modding is legal. It's piracy that's not. He's in trouble for modding the consoles for piracy's sake, not for modding in general.

He modded them period. What the buyer does is their business. Have you fucking heard of homebrew or are you just that fucking dense? I'd wager the latter given your arguments.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Thanks, Joe

Eat shit and die, antivaxxer!

custard500011 posted...

Four Nazi flags does not discredit an entire four-day long multi thousand person protest and a convoy driving across the entire country, and countless upon countless people and flags promoting freedom. And a few of those flags or symbols we're used in conjunction with comparing the current Canadian government mandates to Nazi socialism. They weren't promoting nazism they were condemning it.

It kinda fucking does.

MartianManchild posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/0/2/AAb2N0AAC4Du.jpg

@MartianManchild
And you test positive for Dipshit-19
Symptoms: Wanting everyone to die of Covid-19 to protect "MUH FREEDUMBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

adjl posted...

Nintendo also makes money on game sales (in fact, I'm pretty sure they sell the systems themselves at a loss and recover that through game sales, so they didn't make money when he purchased them), which he was deliberately subverting. That $65 million figure is likely nonsense, based on the thoroughly fallacious belief that every act of piracy would otherwise have been a sale, but his actions absolutely did interfere with their ability to make money.

No judge in the world would believe that he sold these expecting customers not to use them to play pirated games, given that he specifically modded them for that purpose. These were very clearly sold for illegal purposes.

Depends how you mod it. Mod it with go-faster stripes and a spoiler? That's fine. Mod it with a hood-mounted minigun? Decidedly less so.

If the judge really believed that every single person that buys a modded product intends to use it nefarious purposes then he needs to be removed from the bench because he is delusional at best and really just unfit to perform his duties.

Veedrock- posted...

* Post 3 speaks in terms of hardware instead of software, and also doesn't realize ownership isn't permission to make and especially profit from illegal variations.
* Post 5 (hi Rev) for a laughably low figure, likely just meant to undermine the situation.
* Post 6 thinks the crime here is simple resale.
* Post 11's strawman doesn't realize illegal car mods exist.
* Post 12 building off post 11 and somehow trying to pin it on Nintendo for making the console in the first place instead of the modder for intentional misuse and profiting from that misuse.
* Post 14 is just dumb as bricks with the false equivalencies, and doesn't think laws should have nuance for the nature or intent of actions.
* Post 19 for being Lokarin.

I'm sorry, but no. I wasn't pinning it on Nintendo. I was saying that they need to go after the people doing all of the illegal pirating. Not Nintendo or the people modding the consoles. LEARN TO FUCKING READ!

Cable still being the predominate provider kinda saddens me. It shows that until Biden gets off his ass and gets his person into the FCC Fiber won't get moving more.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

Car leasing is a thing.

But is isn't mandatory. You can buy a car outright and never have another payment on it. This would make it so that no matter what you are always paying for something on the car even if it were otherwise payed off.

pionear posted...

Yea, I think he was filming on a sidewalk or an area he wasn't supposed to...but the Media is blowing it out of proportion

BULLSHIT! The Chinese are the absolute worst when it comes to human rights. I have no doubt that this is exactly as it was shown. The Chinese were trying to censor but couldn't get away with it because it was on live tv and thus they realized if they tried anything the rest of the world would jump down their throat. Why the fuck would you be a Chinese government apologist?

MICHALECOLE posted...

If you buy a car and mod it and sell it, is that illegal?

No, it's not. And thus neither should this. And don't give me any of that apples and oranges bullshit. This is literally the same thing in both scenarios. Modding a car is the same as modding a console. The seller of anything is not responsible for how the buyer uses said anything. Or else we would have to arrest the heads of Toyota, Honda and such because illegal street races happen with cars they sold.

Edit: This is especially true since the government isn't going after the people that bought the modded switches. They so rarely go after the NRA and gun sellers after all with so much murder going on with said guns.

The_Viscount posted...

You mean a well-intentioned SJW act hurt the very people it was supposed to help? I'm shocked, SHOCKED! ...well, not that shocked.

Considering *children* often worked in mines given their smaller stature, I wonder where the Dink got the idea that shorter people wouldn't work in mines. His claim feels counterintuitive.

"Well Intentioned"? What the fuck are you on because I want some.

captpackrat posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/3/2/AAQwHjAAC3gQ.jpg

Seems about right that Canadian MAGAt or MCGAt would wear a hat saying Anal First.

MartianManchild posted...

Yes because replacing 32,000 veteran and certified truck drivers with a bunch of noobs is actually going to happen and be so much safer /s. Remember that King of the Hill episode where they thought they could just easily replace the propane truck drivers? Remember how that worked out? Continue to enjoy your shortages and ever increasing inflation.

Do you think King of the Hill is real life? Dude, I hate to tell you this but cartoons aren't real. Like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles aren't real mutants that fight ninjas that want to take over the world.

EvilMegas posted...

You hear it here folks. Latin people can't be pale.

Have you personally seen an albino latin american?

Zeus posted...

CENSOR BYPASS POSTED

...are you claiming that the US can fund this group to block Russian influence? Because they're a pro-Russia group.

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Russia has always been a major player, the limit of their influence has less to do with their lack of power and more to do with how far away they are. The countries with the the greater influence tend to be more centrally located because, and this is true, being NEAR the the center of activities gives you a greater ability to influence those activities.

CENSOR BYPASS POSTED

Not even close -- because we've NEVER seen surveillance on anything close to this level, among other issues -- but okay.

CENSOR BYPASS POSTED

lolwut? No, it wasn't. At all. Unless you mean it worked in getting Russia to reclaim Crimea, at which point I guess that's a *kind* of working.

CENSOR BYPASS POSTED

Calls Obama by name, calls McConnell Moscow Mitch -- and this is all after that big facetious show of claiming non-partisanship.

Also LOL @ the actual claim

Well, I mean, Mitch is another puppet of Putin. Just like your favorite cuckboy Trump.

Zeus posted...

I mean, a president who raids news offices, engages in wiretapping journalists' phones, tortures whistleblowers, justifies the use of drones to assassinate US citizens without benefit of trial, argues in favor of spying on the entire nations' emails, and so much more, is objectively dangerous.

Yes, Trump is dangerous but he isn't our president anymore, so what's your point?

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

None of those have been scientifically proven.

Umm, man made climate change has very much been scientifically proven. As has evolution. What the fuck are you on because I want some.

Unbridled9 posted...

So Biden's plan to overhaul failed... And as a result of the failure of this overhaul... he's claiming that the election may be illegitimate... despite this being the system that was in place when he got elected since this overhaul (which was rejected) didn't exist yet. So the system that Biden got elected under is illegitimate by his own logic?

It is illegitimate. Republicans are doing everything they can to lie, cheat and steal the election. Nice to know the Repugnican propaganda machine is still taking in victims.

Zeus posted...

*Cue laugh track*

Although I guess this shows the propaganda is effective.

There was less to assure integrity integrity in 2020, considering the mass rollout of previously untested practices.

Although what you really mean to say is that you're more sympathetic depending on the party, at which point you don't care whether it's by hook or crook they win.

SHUT THE FUCK UP! @Zeus No one gives a flying fuck about your opinion because it is bullshit. So shut the fuck up

MartianManchild posted...

I never said that. I dont believe in vaccine mandates. If you want the vaccine, go and get it, but the mandates are wrong on several levels.

Did you go to public school?

Umm, Rosa is a White Mage. Ignore the sword at her side. That is just concept art.

LinkPizza posted...

As of right now, it doesnt look like he will be And while I cant be sure, I believe Leukemia weakens the immune system. So, he probably wouldnt be able to get it at 5, anyway So, hes most likely not going anywhere

The parents on the other hand...

Zareth posted...

Yes, the Democrats being do-nothing moderates who still think bipartisanship is an option

Funny way of saying I'm a republican stooge that thinks I should always do what the rich man tells me to.

Ozmose posted...

I'm not a Trump supporter. I'm just not so brainwashed I can't see both sides are full of shit. Clearly you can't say the same.

Can you? I haven't seen proof of this.

OneGrumpyUncle posted...

I absolutely love this. She is doing exactly what she was indoctrinated to do. She simply "Chose" to identify a a poor foster kid, which she actually was technically a foster kid for a bit, and now she is being punished by the academic community that trained her that she can "choose" to identify as anything she wants. Duckbear even posted a picture of her with there one of their heroes AOC. This is epic levels of irony.

Except I'm pretty sure Ms. Ocasio-Cortez wasn't intending this level of bullshit and couldn't have predicted it either because there are just some humans that born evil like this dipshit child.

InfernalFive posted...

Sorry manchild (fitting username btw), but I'd rather listen to the millions of other sources rather than analyze one day at one random hospital in lolFlorida.

I thought it was renamed America's Anus? I have been addressing a lot of mail to Orlando, America's Anus, USA.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Seems like an open and shut case to me.

I did a quick google search and got this.
Russo was charged with the unauthorized practice of a profession.

Which means the charge has less than a 0.0000000000000000000001% chance of sticking. Because that isn't a law. At all.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

if you prioritize health over freedom, then you should be for banning alcohol, tobacco, fast food, cars, guns, etc.

I'm all for banning tobacco and guns. The other stuff isn't inherently poisonous or lethal.

papercup posted...

I feel like the anti vaxx should be rounded up as dumped on some island somewhere that way the rest of us can get back to our lives already.

I've felt that way for several years now.

MagicalPrincess posted...

It's completely unconstitutional and illegal to force it anyway.

Did you go to a public (elementary, middle or high) school in the USA?

Zeus posted...

jfc, that's ridiculous, and the ultimate slippery slope.

Shut the fuck up @Zeus . Everything you say is bullshit and lies based on only watching Fox News or NewsMax.

Zeus posted...

While you can bullshit all you want, this is almost certainly the direction the technology is going. And when it's implemented, there will very likely be ways to either handle a highway shutdown or -- more likely -- they'll simply wait for them to leave the highway before initiating the shutdown.

And while that should concern any citizen with a healthy understanding of government excess, the *much* bigger issue is that any backdoor the government adds to a system can and will be exploited by criminals. And keep in mind they've repeatedly tried to do this in other areas:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-congress-insight/spy-agency-ducks-questions-about-back-doors-in-tech-products-idUSKBN27D1CS

Unfortunately, the US government isn't big on good ideas when it comes to citizens' rights.

It's @Zeus the guy that spouts bullshit like it's going out of business. Just ignore him and don't respond to his posts.

Zeus posted...

I had to reread your post several times because the article starts by talking about how the boy cut ties to the family, and I was kinda surprised you seemed to be supporting the father and you randomly capitalized "Nation". I should have guessed you were still working your stupid ultra-nationalist gimmick which you've faithlessly endorsed over the years, choosing to go all-in when Obama was illegally wiretapping journalists' phones and raiding news offices to crack down on whistleblowing while decrying Trump for referring to CNN as fake news when CNN was spinning lies.

One is, the other is just okay. The crazier thing is they're 8 years apart yet I'm not 100% sure which the 24 y/o, although I'm assuming it's the hotter of the two.

And, tbh, when they showed the guy's face in the first photo, it took me a second to realize that was a guy.

Hey @Zeus shut the fuck up! Thanks!

Veedrock- posted...

Thanks Biden.

I really hope this is sarcasm because none of this is on Biden. It's on the Republicans who are refusing to use their fucking brains. All businesses with over 100 employees NEED TO FORCE VACCINATIONS.

Yeah, I hate my state too.

Zeus posted...

Why? Just why?

Was this something the daughter wanted and the mother was being irresponsible? Did the man bribe the mother? Or was the mother pimping out the daughter the whole time? It mentions the man and daughter had exchanged x-rated messages, but was that something the mother was getting her to do or something the girl did? The oddness of the story and lack of details raises so many fucking questions, although the mother looks like a POS in all of them

Care to share which version you believe? We all know that you believe the daughter is somehow at fault and the mom and pedo are somehow innocent.

Dmess85 posted...

The hypnox the chamber

That one was on purpose.

Zeus posted...

Pretty shitty troll topic, even for you. Comparing pretty much anything to 9/11 is like comparing things to the Holocaust -- that's an impossibly high bar. And it's pretty deranged to think the two have anything in common.

The Jan 6 Riots were tame compared to other riots in the preceding years which saw large portions of cities burned to the ground, including the destruction of minority-owned businesses.

First off, we're more likely to become a leftwing dictatorship. Second, to the Hitler point -- lest anybody forget -- Nazi is short for National SOCIALIST.

Neither was the Jan 6 riots.

And there were multiple police stations across the US set on fire during BLM riots, including the Seattle example where they literally tried to murder officers. Setting fire to a government building then trying to stop the government workers from leaving that building gets zero attention from partisan Pioneer because of who was involved.

I'm not sure if that's more disingenuous or deliberately deceitful.

He literally shot needlessly into a crowd when his OWN fellow officers were right behind them. He could have killed another cop. You've gone on tirades over far less reckless behavior.

Propaganda 101.

...which brings us back to whether you're being more disingenuous or deliberately deceitful. When the participants who attended the protest are involved in the riots, you can't pretend that there's a distinction.

Holy fucking shit! I didn't think I could possibly read a more ignorant and downright wrong statement. The 1/6 riot wasn't trying to overthrow the government? What do you think they were there to do? Have a fucking tea party? Christ Zeus, there is being out of touch with people and then there is you. You are closer to living on Mars than here on good 'ole Earth. What the fucking hell is wrong with you?

BlackScythe0 posted...

Well that makes sense too. Bet Blizzard has some to sell.

LOL