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VFalcone posted...

This happened in March so I wasn't following the stories anymore. Point taken.

Didn't say they weren't terrorists. I said evidence suggests that they didn't think it would go as far as it has, and didn't think Israel would bomb the hostages. I mean shit, you were literally posting in the live threads. Not sure why you're acting like this didn't happen

i don't disagree that some hostages said they weren't beaten and raped and tortured, i just thought your tone and intent in that post seemed really alarming

Yazarogi posted...

The 1,500ish killed on Oct. 7th pales in comparison to what Israel continues to do, 7-8 months later.

Where is the limit?

why is nobody asking why it happened in the first place? Israel encroaching on the West Bank and stealing settlements wholesale from the Palestinians. Jailing, beating, maiming, killing kids. Forcing an entire group of people into whats essentially a walled city, limiting their movements for years.

It is on Hamas as well, but lets not pretend this is a war it is not a war at this point that much is clear.

Israel wants Gaza. They got business moguls already divvying up land. They openly brag about it. And instead of using education and indoctrination over time, they create animosity and more fuel for Hamas regime.

bibi is an extremist right wing war criminal and he is opportunistically using this to shift the focus away from his criminal acts and trials and has used it to consolidate more power. there are even worse high ranking officials in the government than him.

knicks are back baby one more series until we wreck boston in the ecf

jalen brunson is a playoff god

cjsdowg posted...

So are you looking for police reporting themselves for the shit that they did. Is that what you are asking for ?

no, you could give me reports from a reputable media source or something more than 'this statement is true 'cause i say so'

VFalcone posted...

It's not like I just made it up. Those are the stories they told. I can't speak on stories from after I stopped making making the threads. At the time though, there were no firsthand accounts of rape by freed hostages and the Red Cross also checked and cleared them. Hostages were returned in good health without evidence of assault. The Israeli government said after the fact that hostages were beaten, raped, and killed in captivity. Completely contrary to what the Red Cross said. Like the little girl they claimed was raped and killed but was actually alive and totally fine.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/26/middleeast/amit-soussana-israeli-hostage-hamas-sexual-assault-intl/index.html

obviously hamas is explicitly a terrorist group that murdered thousands of people and took hostages, it's weird af that you would try and make them out to be an 'aww shucks what did i get myself into' gag reel instead of insane and evil terrorists. just because the far right israeli government is bad doesn't mean the shitheels in hamas aren't just as bad

iran just had protests last year where tons of people got murdered by live ammo shooting religious police. seems like a bad idea

ZMythos posted...

So instead they fired on civilians and the hostages.

yeah, bibi is essentially a terrorist and criminal himself as well

andel posted...

post the statistics that bare out your statement 'cause im not just gonna take your word on it

cjsdowg 8 minutes ago
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undefined posted...

post the statistics that bare out your statement 'cause im not just gonna take your word on it

What statistics would make you happy, in situation like this

?

the ones that confirm the statement i quoted. i didn't see biden excusing violence from anything posted itt or see him blaming victims of violence, much less actual numbers that confirm your claim

Garioshi posted...

That's how hostage-taking works, yes. You get leverage in order to make demands.

a terrorist organization that just slaughtered thousands of civilians doesn't exactly have credibility two days after slaughtering thousands of civilians. bibi is basically a terrorist himself as well, but no legitimate government would ever accept that 'deal'

cjsdowg posted...

So no comment on the fact that he is excusing the people doing the violence and blaming victims of said violence.

post the statistics that bare out your statement 'cause im not just gonna take your word on it

emblem-man posted...

I pretty much agree. I'm just scared the fear mongering tactics that the right uses of inflationary threats is going to be more salient and effective to people, whether it's true or not.

their strategy for 70+ years has just been to call any objectively good and popular policy idea communism so they will keep attacking anything that their billionaire overlords pay them to attack and the federalist society morons who control scotus now answer to the same dipshits.

communism is garbage af but none of the popular policy democrats have supported have been even remotely close to communism.

the industrialists turned into the tycoons who turned into the corporations who just accumulated more power and demolished more of the regulations put in place to curb the insanity of the gilded age. the only way out is getting a few consecutive democratic white houses to replace the stooges in the federal judiciary and scotus. we could really use an fdr type run of wins now.

cjsdowg posted...

Obama also called people thugs, Obama got away with a lot of bullshit. BTW, the police who he gave more money to started most of the violence where is his hard words for them.

i don't give a shit about random twitter 'gotchas' from a russian troll farm. democracy and the rights of women and lgbt people are on the ballot so idgaf if some dipshit smoothbrain on twitter is mad they can't tone police biden.

idgaf about any gaffe biden has made or his stutter or that he is old af. i care about not handing the country to the qanon karens of the world who want to ban jewish space lasers and adrenochrome

the inflation we have been experiencing has been global (and hit most other places much harder). part of it is due to covid shutting the world down for a year and then consumerism going buckwild globally, and part is due to the war in ukraine caused by vlad pootin and supported by the gop.

progressive policy in the us would be something like investing in green energy much more or regulating insurance/healthcare better and those would both drive tons of good paying domestic jobs. some inflation is inevitable, but massive inflation in a country with a stable currency and economy is p much always cyclical and rare and brought on by outside circumstances. the us government could invest in a massive public works program and education and healthcare without any negative consequences other than raising taxes on the top 10%. it probably won't happen because our congress is so broken and gerrymandered and the senate is fixed for the minority party, but it could be done and only benefit americans

luigi33 posted...

Like I said, its easy for us armchair activists to say that. But those people close to whats happening probably feel 400X more hatred towards this administration. And that kind of hate is incredibly illogical and irrational. This rhetoric does not work on them.

if they hate biden more than trump they are morons and were never voting against trump anyway

if biden loses it won't be because of his stance on israel/palestine or this perfectly reasonable statement (the exact statement obama made), it will be because of dipshit 'centrists' who are 'concerned' about the economy despite this economy being better than fat donny left it. young people and twitter hypocrites almost never vote, and the ones that do will likely be motivated to vote for women's bodily autonomy and against trump installing himself as a redneck cult leader for life

lue is losing users but the number of pages has been the same for at least 5+ years

i would give it an 8/10. it was really good imo and better than i expected. the story wasn't quite as focused as i would have hoped for, but it tied most everything together and every aspect of it was good quality

people using literal twitter to demand ideological purity are massive hypocrites. if someone is willing to support alt right billionaire elon musk by keeping his platform alive their opinions on anything related to ideology are a joke.

aoc is actually doing good much more than almost anyone in the country, and losers who demand she torpedo her career while they do nothing are despicable

saspa posted...

I see. I remember they announced it right around the time I was debating whether to buy the ps1 games on ps3 before the psn store gets shut down.

on the official site it says it got pushed back but is still in development and other articles i saw mentioned similar things with no official release date. i have 2 on ps3 and still have physical copies of the rest of them. replayed 3 recently and it is really great still imo

2 is the best of the series to me but all of them aside from 4 are just really great

cjsdowg posted...

Have you heard the stuff the leadership of Israel as said ..does that logic go both ways?

bibi is a war criminal and regular criminal and should be in prison. the current ruling regime I'm israel being evil doesn't somehow absolve people showing up places with nazi slogans or paraphernalia

saspa posted...

What happened to that announcement where they said they were remastering 1 and 2. Run out of money or something, did they cancel their plans

they are still releasing it but it got pushed back. guessing sometime this year but idk, doesn't look like a concrete release date has been announced yet

they are all good aside from 4 imo. 2 and 3 and 5 are all a+ tier

also countcornivus has been an open trump supporter in the past on this board. that gimmick is laughably transparent

the people that argue against biden online tend to be trump cultists and useful idiots. you can certainly disagree with biden on policy, but it isn't a coincidence that the same users in every anti biden topic don't ever show up to attack trump in the topics talking about blatant gop fascist policy

the tiktok 'ban' isn't actually a ban as it could be sold to a non chinese government entity that has to abide by regulations. the chinese government using it to spy on people is a bridge too far.

obviously no social media should be allowed to be as intrusive as they are, but tiktok is demonstrably worse in that regard with no oversight outside of a malicious foreign actor.

the rock is a shit actor and i am glad he isn't the top guy anymore. it was always weird the rock was the top actor for a few years.

he was great as a wrestler back in the day, his mic skills were second only to stone cold, but his actual acting skills are not good

TheMikh posted...

it may not seem like it but unsweet cornbread made from scratch instead of store-bought mix is goat

yep, it is so good. and cornbread + milk combo is top tier

SydnieStarlight posted...

Speaking as a writer, I feel it depends on how significant the detail really is. If it's a throwaway line about something that doesn't really come up elsewhere, then I think it's fine to discard it. Better still if it can be spun as something that was misunderstood or misrepresented. But if whole character arcs or major plot events hinge on something being true, it's a problem if that thing is ignored.

Personally, I always try (but don't always succeed) to come back to any little details I might have messed up about and work that error into the story. So, like, if I say at one point that only elves can use a certain kind of magic, then forget all about that and write a dwarf using it, I might then turn around and make it ~a whole thing~ that a dwarf used this supposedly elf-only magic, and what it could mean. I'd go so far as to say that forgetting a lore detail until it's too late to fix it is a great way to add a twist that keeps the story moving~

i think this is a perfect mentality to have on this. the most hardcore fans will always overreact to anything they view as a departure from the headcanon they have crafted, but the most important thing is just being consistent with the most important core elements of the lore and if something in the future contradicts it there should be a logical explanation.

if you have nazis at your event and they aren't kicked out it is a nazi event. if we are seeing video of blatant anti semitism it is due to the events being anti semitic. it is not hard to advocate against the authoritarian bibi regime without signal boosting holocaust supporters

DipDipDiver posted...

But corn is sweet

not really. it's kinda sweet for a vegetable but isn't actually sweet. sweet cornbread is made using tons of added sugar anyway, and that shit is not good.

sweet cornbread is nasty. cornbread is not supposed to be sweet

i am sorry you had to deal with that kinda situation in that kinda heavy environment. that kinda thing can lead to stress and be trauma inducing even if you didn't know the source at the time, especially as a younger person

tc clearly has no idea what he is talking about but keeps posting the same absurd shit ad nauseum

no forum from the early 00's has anywhere near the traffic it did then and forums in particular have greatly declined. gamefaqs has never gotten most of its traffic to the boards and no 'average joe' is writing writing a tails level diatribe about gamefaqs.

tc hasn't highlighted a single way in which fandom has worked on improving gamefaqs. smells like a 'libs bad' type insane rant tbh

STEROLIZER posted...

I reckon that the current userbase is not large or profitable enough to sustain the hand that feeds it.

fandom isn't about operating one site and sustaining their business model that way. gamefaqs is probably in the middle or higher end of traffic for all the sites they own, as they own wiki for the most niche shit imaginable. their gimmick is taking something over and turning it into absolute shit with invasive ads and such

Luigi_and_Tails posted...

Ha, there's a name I haven't seen for many years. Yep, I had LUE access but at some point I was user level -3 (account pending closure). Obviously I chickened out of closing my account. However at that time I lost LUE access.

As my theme in this topic seems to be, hope you're keeping as well matey. We've seen a lot on this site.

good to see you still around! and that's fuckin' brutal that you would lose access like that when your account wasn't even closed. i am assuming you tried to get it back at some point and the administration didn't go for it?

lue is basically as dead as it has been for close to a decade, still 4ish pages most of the time

edit: 5 pages now but the user base has definitely continued to shrink

who the fuck is this dude suggesting major tech company advertising campaigns as a legitimate way for gamefaqs to operate? no one is dumping millions of dollars into gamefaqs advertising, we have always been a niche community and gamefaqs is much harder to monetize than the kinda places that would use that boilerplate tech 'strategy'.

fandom could just not obliterate the loyal community of thousands of daily active users and continue getting traffic via guides like gamefaqs has always done. maybe also bring back contests because there was a time that those drove tons of traffic to the front page

tc did you not sign up for lue on that account? it is old enough to have access unless you just didn't sign up and closed your account that did. i had one other account that had access aside from this one but i lost it to cold storage and didn't remember the sign up email i used for it

SuperShake666 posted...

CyricZ could single-handedly tank this place's search rank by nuking his Yakuza guides.

i have seen random redditors on random non game or gamefaqs related subs talk about his guides out of the blue. they definitely get traffic

someone modded me like a week ago for not adding a politics tag and now this

fandom is complete shit for sure

there are plenty of new country artists that are great, they just aren't the pop country people.

billy strings
benjamin tod/lost dog street band
tyler childers

i like some country music but garth brooks was one of the pioneers of garbage pop country. he was basically the florida georgia line of the 90s

advocating for a 'one state solution' is advocating for genocide, regardless of which state someone thinks should cease to exist. it isn't possible to abolish israel or palestine without an actual genocide occurring

i have been around this long. as long as lue still exists i will still be here until i am the last lueser (or one of my descendants is)

i thought it was great and can't wait for s2