Lurker > haarlem1982

I am 200% behind you on that last sentence. The us is one of the biggest factors in most wars around the globe.

That said, if people are dead set on killing each other, they will find a way. You can make explosives by mixing certain cleaning agents and guns can be 3d printed.

If minimizing casualties is the main goal, isolate all the people that want to kill, so the rest is safe from the violence. You could even use Israel's Iron Dome technology to stop missiles , bombs etc from getting out of the arena.

Might even make for some good tv show even

Ricemills posted...

The ideal solution is to make everyone stop killing, not encouraging them to kill each other.

True, but that has been tried for almost 80 years now. the thing is that people have this thing called free will.

The people that would be in the square clearly used their free will to choose to fight and kill each other.

If that choice, bloody as it will be, ends up creating a better life for the rest of the middle east, and with that possibly the world, I'd say for the greater good, it's the best coice

Here's a random thought. Why not use the combined geo political influence western countries have to create a square of, say 100 square kilometres somewhere in the desert, drop all war mongering fractions in there and have a massive fight team deathmatch style?

Last faction standing will get to live out their lives in said desert square so the normal people in the entire middle east can live together peacefully

It depends. Usually they're green-ish with flakes of grey, but when I look in the mirror I've seen them being light brown or blue as well

Go after the other guy and beat him to death while doggie works on his guy. Then tell him what a good boy he is and feed him 'steak' untill all the evidence is turned to shit.

Then feed him real steak for the rest of his life.

I've been in a similar place some years ago TC.

What helped me was a smack on the head by a friend and basically going into a few weeks of 'unlimited' godlessnes of boozing, drug abuse and screwing around just to put my mind towards other things.

Now, I'm not saying the above is good advice, it's just my way of dealing with things, but the point I'm trying to make is to find something, anything that will pull you back into the world without having her on your mind and after a while, the sting will be out. Then at some point, when you think you are ready to, try to forgive her. Don't tell her, let the bitch live her life far away from you, but just to yourself and you will feel a lot better

Back when was in my early-mid 20s, I used to go to raves just about every other week. There always was this one guy who was known in that scene as 'hardcore grampa' ( not really but I have no better translation for it).

One time I was chilling a bit, he sat down next to me and we had a conversation. Turned out the guy was 68 at the time and was taken to a rave the first time by his grandson. He said he had a great time and hadn't skipped a party since.

Now that I'm in my 40s just thinking about doing stuff like that makes me tired, Although I do still go to 1 festival a year. Raves like that unfortunately got banned about 10 years ago, cuz, well, fun is no longer allowed in the Netherlands

1997, the year I turned 15, lots of first times that year:

Having sex
Smoking weed
Taking XTC
Going to a rave
Convinced my parents it was pointless to ground me
Getting suspended from high school
Going on vacation without my parents
And probably some more if I think a little harder

Assuming 'gang weed' means selling weed as member of a gang, I'm only guilty of 1; video games.

Guess I'm well on my way to becoming a saint lol

Either being out with my judo friends walking around the neighbourhoord doing shit I probably shouldn't post, doing a 1 on 1 with my (former) girl from that group or out with my neighbourhood friends doing even worse shit than i'd do with my judo friends.

That's what my life was about back then lol

Well, the first picture is probably made to show what's on the burger: mustard, ketchup onion shreds and a slice of pickle.

The actual slav... err.. workers at McD are taught to put everything more or less in the middle of the bun, so it will never look like the picture, even if it was built perfectly.

the lower picture looks like somebody actually put the burger on the toilet, took a dump while sitting on it and then took the picture though

Diablo 4 wanderer Blizzard sorc at lvl 77.

She'll just keep Wolfie at a distance while the blizzard freezes him and the auto summoned ice spikes rip the flesh from his adamantium skeleton.

and if he does close the gap, she'll have a shield that makes her invincible for a few seconds, just enough to teleport out again

Played the shit out of mk 1 2 and 3 back in the sense days.

Then tekken 2 in the psx days.

Then nothing up until sf4, which really didn't work for me. Tried my hand at sf 5 as well, but no dice there either.

Also got into mk10 and 11 which was ok, but can't find the time or motivation to really get into them anymore

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I don't do political division games

I shouldn't even have bothered posting this

If you're talking about the lift near the mimic that goes up into a spike trap, then sure, I think most people would the first time through.

Unfair? nah, it doesn't outright kill you unless you have very little HP, and even if it does, it's fairly early on, now, if they had put something like that just before the exit to the roof and do have it outright kill you, then sure. I remember my first time through there taking me several hours

My mom, yes. While it was tough going at times, she made sure me and my brother had the best possible upbringing she could give us and is always there when shit hit(s) the fan.

My dad, hell no. Aside from never being there for me and my brother, he saw fit to send a lawyer on my ass because he was convinced I owed him a lot of money, while in fact, according to the judge, it was the other way around. Which I made damn sure he payed me (think almost 100k euros). Loser's probably still in debt over it.

But that's not even the worst, influenced by the witch bitch he married after my parents divorced, he kicked my brother onto the street, where he lived homeless for over 2 years. 2 years because it took my mom, who moved to the other end of the country btw, that long to finally find him and take him in. My brother became a different person because of it

PMarth2002 posted...

Lords of the realm 2. I've seen maybe a handful of people other than me ever mention it. Its an old turn based strategy game from Sierra.

I used to play the crap out of lotr 1 back in the day. Never managed to get my hans on 2

Right now, I'm watching Lucifer on Netflix, getting towards the end of season 2 and Aimee Garcia is by far the hottest actress in there so far.

Overall, tough to say, so many beautiful women, first ones coming to mind would be Courtney Cox, Lucy Liu and Jeri Ryan although I have no idea what any of them look like today

Garioshi posted...

Until anything at all indicates FTL travel is remotely possible, I am going to stick with the entirety of physics that says otherwise.

Do you think Einstein-Rosen bridges could exist and if so could be made?

If yes, FTL travel would become unnecessary

The entire world is weird, I am the only normal one

Watching that made me miss my own (failed cuz too severe injury at age 16) judo career. Although if I'd step on the mat right now with any of those teeny tiny girls (-44kg is like average 12 year old boy weight), I'd probably get tossed around by a girl less than half my weight lol

Depends on my mood, but yeah. To the point where I once got a singing ban in my previous job and the neighbour of a friend during a party he held saying something along the lines of 'I don't mind the party, I don't mind the karaoke either, but can that guy PLEASE stop singing' while it was my turn.

Should probably add I have a terrible singing voice

Luteo posted...

Not defending what he did, what he did was truly reprehensible but in Dutch culture they view prison as a place to rehabilitate so you can come back to society and contribute to society. So to them he served his time, underwent therapy, showed that he's not a risk to reoffended again therefore he has a place in society again. I know that is different than other countries. I know that in the US if you're a convicted felon you can even end up being a Presidential candidate one day.

Being Dutch I can say that's not necessarily correct.

The problem here is that the justice system here tends to favor the offender while the victim can go fuck himself.

Especially when it comes to pedophiles since the justice department is alledged to be riddled with them (look up Joris Demmink)

Funkydog posted...

Fuck the Netherlands for letting a convicted child rapist compete. Should throw them out tbh if they keep him in.

Welcome to the Dutch injustice system, where pedophiles and murderers get off with not much more than a slap on the wrist, while people exposing pedos in power get sent to prison for years or a mental institution.

Pepys_Monster posted...

It could be feathered, but...it's not a mammal. Not sure how you could make it fluffy.

I don't know either, I just want a fluffy damn T-rex :)

I mean, if they're going to mess with genetics, why not adapt the genes to make it a domesticated, dog sized, fluffy T-rex that can be kept as a pet.

I would have loved to have one of those when I was a kid

Hmm. Diablo 3 firebird twister wizard is by far the strongest thing in the game. May only have 2k paragons right now, but just like Goku, she will only get stronger and is also incredibily tanky even at a low level.

The only problem is, unless she can lure Goku into a corner the single target damage is crap, and even if she did, Goku would just instant transmission away.

If nothing else, it would be a long fight that could go either way.

Give me a few weeks to get the paragons up though and it might be a very different story.

Shadow Hearts (if you forget about Koudelka which was a precursor to the series)

Worked at McDonald's in high school. Was shit pay then, will be shit pay now, so no thanks.

And then there's the distinct smell of that only good for the trashbin not even stray dogs will eat that crap excuse for food they make and sell. Just thinking about it makes me need to vomit

Lightsaber without a doubt. Once I get tired of messing with it, I'd take it apart to reverse engineer and start building mass produced ones to sell and make millions

A massive flu about 8 years ago. At some point I was literally hallucinating on the couch, just barely able to realize it wasn't real

Depends on your definition of god

Do I believe that entities like Jahweh, Allah, Buddah, Odin, Ra etc. exist or have existed in some form or another? Possibly, although I wouldn't call those entities gods.

Do I believe in a being of pure conciousness of which all that is has stemmed from?
Yes, but I do not think this being is either good or evil, just neutral, otherwise free will could not exist

GeminiDeus posted...

I've never seen Cobra Kai, so I can only assume it's something like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLMJLcdHG6A

If you liked the Karate Kid movies way back when, this will be a nostalgia ride for the first season, after that, things go way over the top but it's still very entertaining. i also love how they managed to get just about every actor/actress that was in the movies to also show up in this at one point or another (except mr Miyagi RIP and one of Johnny's high school thugs)

Also, that parody is fucking hilarious

Congrats man, respect!

Coming up on 12 years free from cocaine myself, so I know the neverending struggle. Alcohol is even harder to stay away from I think

'I'll be back' with a German accent

NoxObscuras posted...

Yes, you would be privileged too. I know people get defensive about the word, but what you're considering "normal" isn't normal for a majority of the country. In a 2023 survey, 76% of people in the US were living paycheck to paycheck, with no savings to speak of.

So you're a lot better off than majority of the country and don't even realize it. It's not to say that you don't have struggles of your own, or that you don't deserve to be where you are.

Like, I acknowledge that I grew up privileged. I don't take offense to it. I'm glad that I had the upbringing that I did. But it doesn't change that I did grow up with a better standard of living than many (middle/upper middle class).

I should probably clarify that I don't live in the US, nowhere even near it, but that does give some explanation.

It's just not a label I'd choose to give it I guess

bsp77 posted...

To some, yeah

But how is it priviledged if I put in the work to earn it? That's what I don't understand.

I mean, if everything was just dropped into my lap, then sure, but it wasn't, I worked for hard for it.

I'm getting confused about what priviledged means in this context.

Is TC priviledged simply because he got his life together, of which I'm assuming he put in the necessary work for it vs his cousin who, to me, sounds like someone who is rather unmotivated at life to put it nicely?

If I look at myself, I have all the basics in life, nice home and a decently paying job, yet nothing I have came to me for free, getting my house to where it is now was an 8 year struggle, 2 of which was a legal struggle costing me the relationship with my father and his side of the family.

My position at my job I got through hard work and contstantly learnig/self teaching to get better and better at it, creating my own chances instead of waiting for handouts.

Does this make me priviledged vs someone who is always crying about what they don't have but refuse to put in the work?

Humans as a species is right between dung beetles and house flies I presume?

Thionylchloride

Sayoria posted...

Met a girl about 15 years ago who named her kid Sephiroth. Wonder how that kid is doing these days.

Probably trying to call down a Meteor.

Not video game characters, but one of my coworker's wife is pregnant with twins that he wants to name Goku and Naruto. Although I'm not sure he's serious about that

None. I always traded up and always liked the new one better than the old one.

Although I will have to say I'm really glad my previous car got a new owner and don't end up on the scrapyard, because I really liked that one even though it is 20 years old now

divot1338 posted...

These two statements seem wildly inconsistent.

Can you explain why they are inconsistent?

I never gave the reason why I'm against it.

In my opinion death is an easier way out than a long prison sentence.

And also why I would pick a fairly gruesome death over being locked up for the rest of my life

The one question I have while reading through all of this is why are people even talking about being 'humane' about it?

Isn't death supposed to be a punishment worse than life imprisonment?

I would honestly pick any of those options, and worse, over spending the rest of my life in a 5 square meter room.

I will add that I am against death penalty btw.

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The one thing on my bucket list I'll never be able to fullfill is going to a Queen concert with Freddy still alive. So yeah, Queen by a mile

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I had a motor accident about 20 years ago where I pretty much did the same thing. For me it was judo that gave me that muscle memory, but I got off with just a minor scraping on my hip and a ruined coat.

The cop that arrived first was beyond surprised I was on my feet and said I could have died judging by the speed it all went down

In earth years roughly 173946251936 years, 3 months and 2 days

The past 2 or so years I got suspended twice after letting myself get a bit carried away, both of which could be considered fair enough depending on your world view.

Other than that over the past 16 years my moderations can be counted on one hand with fingers to spare, all with NKL iirc

2023 Toyota Yaris hybrid. Does about 100km on 4,5 litres