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@Darkman124 posted...

amazing that they designed a game with effective agendas two decades ago (SMAC) and cant get it right now

A lot of the agendas make sense. Like the ones that want you to have a large military or many cities. Fine. But the ones that I gripe about are the ones you can't do anything about for a long while, like the aforementioned France.

How are you liking Civ 6 and the expansion anyway? I'm taking a break from Nioh to play it.

@Vegy posted...

When should i make the switch to civ vi

Whenever it is affordable for you to do so. Which would have been the past month or so. Civ 6 was on Humble Bundle for $12, the expansion preorder was well discounted on Green Man Gaming, and so were all the DLC civs.
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Back_Stabbath posted...

yeah i was playing vi yesterday.
its ok, i had very fond times with V a while ago but I've played it too much now. An expansion pack or two more and VI will probably be able to properly rival it.

Honestly, with the addition of Rise and Fall expansion, I'd say Civ 6 already surpasses Civ 5.

The only gripe I have is the Agenda system for Civ diplomacy can result in some nonsensical scenarios. Like Catherine de Medici (France) hating your guts during the entirety of the early game because you don't have spies. Which you can't get at all until the Renaissance Era, leaving you with an angry France throughout the Ancient, Classical, and Medieval Eras.

I'm fine with the Civ leaders having their own agendas, but maybe those agendas carry a little too much weight in diplomacy.
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That seems unnecessary.
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Yes.

My wife and I chose not to have our son circumcised though. So, he is natural.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Esrac posted...

Three responses to their one?

Might as well tack on a "Please respond."

those were her replies

I didn't say they were yours.
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I think the "Black Panther is really alt-right" shtick was just trolling.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

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Justapoorchibi posted...

I hate people like this. They're a big reason as to why girls in the gaming community can get treated with some real hostility because of the stigma they attach to them and they know it. It's just gross

Girls get treated with hostility by gamers because there is a high percentage of gamers that are incels and upset that said girl won't fuck them.

some interesting projecting going on

Looks like we found one

hahahah lmfao bro



just got laid last weekend bruv

how can i be projecting since i don't need to drool over the shameless camgirls in the first place?

Three responses to their one?

Might as well tack on a "Please respond."
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Vegy posted...

What are the differences?

Civ 6 has a lot of differences from 5. The major addition is probably districts. Wonders being objects placed on the map and requiring specific terrain requirements is big too. The civics policy system is new.

I think civs having both a Civ ability and a leader ability is new too.

For example, Rome has 'All Roads Lead to Rome', which gives every city you found within trading range an immediate road to the closest Roman city you have, a free Trading Post, and +1 gold for each Roman city a trade route passes through. So, you want to arrange your cities in a way that you can get several on your trade routes.

Trajan is the leader of Rome and his ability is Trajan's Column. It gives each city you found a free first building in the city center. In the early game starts, it's a Monument.

Other stuff too.
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Kuwabara was easily my favorite character.
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Also, I guess Muslim Man's power would be pyrokinesis.
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Capn Circus posted...

CarlGrimes posted...

Many of my listeners were also quick to point out the Black Panther, played by actor Chadwick Boseman, hails from an African nation that's depicted as both wealthy and technologically advanced. To many, this was the perfect response to Donald Trump reportedly calling Africa a "shithole"

Wouldn't the perfect responce be of a real country like that and not one that is made up?

I'd say so

That quoted segment is pretty eyeroll-worthy.

If you have to invent a fictional African nation that isn't a shithole to try to show up the jackass who called African nations shitholes, you're handing him the win.
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Doesn't that assume your worst fear is something tangible?

A lot of adult fears are less material.
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AmonAmarth posted...

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AmonAmarth posted...

i just wish Vegeta won once,
and the humans were stronger.

He beat Goku both times he fought him

like Saiyan saga and Majin Vegeta fight? (sorry its been 10 years since I saw it).
also I mean against a major villian.

I like Vegeta, but he's a total jobber.

Although, Goku vs Vegeta way back in the Saiyan Saga is still one of my favorite DBZ fights.
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Nah, Cell was a pretty cool villain. Buu was lame.
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Frieza Saga = Saiyan Saga > Cell Saga > Buu Saga.

The Buu Saga kinda sucks. Nappa and Vegeta were cool villains. Frieza Saga is where it should have ended, but Cell Saga was acceptable.
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Pepys Monster posted...

4 Chan.

4chan censors illegal content like child porn.

8chan might be a bit closer to a no-censorship site, but I don't know offhand if it censors anything.
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thanosibe posted...

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HydraSlayer82 posted...

Leftists only reading huffpost. Rightists only reading breitbart.

one of these things is not like the other

Here's your example TC.

Boom.
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The tendency to disregard, consciously or unconsciously, information that doesn't already support your preexisting beliefs or hypotheses or interpret new data as supportive of those beliefs or hypotheses.
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PSOs own internal investigations cleared the officers of any wrongdoing, and no officers have been fired as a result of the shooting.

We have investigated ourselves and found that we are not guilty of any wrongdoing.
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Popcorn_Fairy posted...

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I think 2B will win this, since Widowmaker was robbed.

Honestly, as much as I'd like to say Widow could have beaten 2B, I think 2B would have still won if Widow made it.

Should have used this image for Widowmaker:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0XmFco_NowM/maxresdefault.jpg
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I think 2B will win this, since Widowmaker was robbed.
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Also, I suspect at least one response will be to give her flak for interviewing Richard Spencer that one time.
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I've seen some of her videos and I am subscribed to her (I don't remember subscribing to her, I only realize now after I checked my subs list because her name sounded familiar). She seems like a fairly standard Right-leaning youtuber who makes videos critical of progressive causes.
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LordRazziel posted...

@Esrac posted...

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Pepys Monster posted...

SJWs ostracized white people just for being white. So big surprise, a marginalized group began banding together.

*Ricky Ricardo laugh*
Oh, Pepsy

Eh...I don't know that I'd agree that white people are generally a marginalized group in the US.

However, if you have vocal activists and media that routinely shit on a group, it shouldn't be a surprise when some individuals within that group get pushed into unsavory associations.

I mean, isn't that how radicalism often works?

So when the KKK was lynching black people, their radicalism was fueled by the marginalization of white people?

Did you miss the part where I said I wouldn't agree about whites being a marginalized group in the US? Don't quote me if you won't read what I said.

Regardless...

You don't think there could be different influencing factors for different contexts? That maybe when white supremacy was the status quo there would be different reasons for their violence (probably wanting to prevent colored people from supplanting them as the dominant demographic) than when it's publicly unacceptable but is seeing cells of resurgence?

You don't think that vilification of white people being relatively acceptable behavior in public discourse could push vulnerable whites (usually males) into unsavory, but apparently sympathetic groups? Most seem to agree that vilification of other demographics, like Muslims, can contribute to radicalization. I don't see it being different for the radicalization for young white men.

You know, now that I read your post agian, i noticed i missed a couple key words. I've been arguing on CE all day, and I guess was just looking for something to go off on. My bad. Prolly best I take a break. lol
Sorry 'bout that

It happens.
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Kineth posted...

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Kineth posted...

Opening up his campaign by calling illegal immigrants from Mexico "a bunch of murderers and rapists", calling for a travel ban for Muslim countries and proposing building a wall to keep out illegal immigrants south of the border.

During his presidency, there's been the repeated attempts at getting those travel bans, the "shithole countries" statement, Sean Spicer, former White House Press Secretary, saying that Hitler never used chemicals on his own people while justifying that air strike in Syria, "good people on both sides", "sons of bitches", having Bannon in his staff and having Mike Pence as his VP and making it a goal to erase all of Obama's accomplishments/plans, whether or not if they were good or bad.

Oh and his promise to "find the real birth certificate".

So? The travel ban was for terrorist countries not muslims. One of the biggest muslin countrys the philipeans was not on the list. Also wanting border security is not xenophobic. Trumps own wife is a legal immigrant. Also super poor cities with super high poverty rates and run down cities are not not deserving of the title

So your response didn't address half of what I said.

Anyway, it was presented as a Muslim travel ban. I watched his candidacy announcement and it's targeting Muslim countries. Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population wasn't on the list at first either. I never said that wanting a border wall was xenophobic so I don't need to address this and I have no idea what you think the relevance of those other sentences is supposed to be....

Also, he called for investigations into white supremacist groups to be suspended and had BLM labeled as a terrorist organization.

It'd be more believable if you would also admit that some of the stuff that you failed to respond to could be considered as examples of catering to white supremacists instead of simply cherrypicking your response to only look for "nuh uhs".

I'm not saying Donald Trump is a white supremacist, but white supremacists sure seem to really like him. For some reason.
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Zeeak4444 posted...

Esrac posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

Esrac posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

Esrac posted...

sympathetic groups

I would say that any possible sympathy went out the window about 80 or 90 years ago when they killed 17 million people in the name of their ideology.

Not sympathetic as in people should sympathize with white supremacists, but that they would be outwardly sympathetic to those young white men who are vulnerable to their rhetoric.

Eh, it's still a pretty stupid argument since the same people generally will demonizing 'gangstas' and 'thugs' for choosing to be part of violent groups without even considering why they might 'choose' to live a life of crime.

I don't think that's particularly relevant to whether or not vulnerable young, white men are susceptible to radicalization by white supremacist groups due, in part, to popular rhetoric that is often uncharitable to white men.

If we can acknowledge that the way Right Wing media and political activists characterizes Muslims can contribute to radicalization, why is it hard to acknowledge that the was Left Wing media and political activists characterizes white men can contribute to radicalization?

You're missing the point. You have centuries of history reflecting African Americans in a negative light. We've reinforced this in the last 30 years further by harping on rap culture.

You're statement is that the shitty treatment of a group has some disgruntled members being more vocal about injustices and somehow that should generate sympathy in us because those poor white kids heard a statement about "the worst of the worst in white culture" and said "you know what, not only do I identify with those aspects, I fully embrace them".

Get the fuck outta here. Treat them like thugs and lock them up on flimsy circumstances just to "keep the streets safe".

We can start talking about them after we've addressed the more pressing issues concerning our society. We can rule white supremacist with an iron fist. It's not unprecedented in our nation.

I didn't say anything about being sympathetic to them. I said their feels of alienation leave them susceptible to white supremacist groups that will be outwardly sympathetic to them as white people. And the fact that rhetoric excoriating white people is often considered acceptable in public discourse is, I believe, a contributing factor to their radicalization. In a similar fashion to how the way Right Wing media demonizing muslims can contribute to the radicalization of young muslim men.
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The23rdMagus posted...

Esrac posted...

My wife is a DD, so I voted D. I wouldn't object if they were bigger....which they have been when she was pregnant.

Bra sizes are confusing, but a DD is technically an E. I think. Depending on brand. And mood. And phase of the moon.

She's been a DDD while and shortly after pregnancy. Which is apparently a thing. You'd think it'd just go A, B, C, D, E, F, etc.
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Dash_Harber posted...

Esrac posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

Esrac posted...

sympathetic groups

I would say that any possible sympathy went out the window about 80 or 90 years ago when they killed 17 million people in the name of their ideology.

Not sympathetic as in people should sympathize with white supremacists, but that they would be outwardly sympathetic to those young white men who are vulnerable to their rhetoric.

Eh, it's still a pretty stupid argument since the same people generally will demonizing 'gangstas' and 'thugs' for choosing to be part of violent groups without even considering why they might 'choose' to live a life of crime.

I don't think that's particularly relevant to whether or not vulnerable young, white men are susceptible to radicalization by white supremacist groups due, in part, to popular rhetoric that is often uncharitable to white men.

If we can acknowledge that the way Right Wing media and political activists characterizes Muslims can contribute to radicalization, why is it hard to acknowledge that the was Left Wing media and political activists characterizes white men can contribute to radicalization?
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Dash_Harber posted...

Esrac posted...

sympathetic groups

I would say that any possible sympathy went out the window about 80 or 90 years ago when they killed 17 million people in the name of their ideology.

Not sympathetic as in people should sympathize with white supremacists, but that they would be outwardly sympathetic to those young white men who are vulnerable to their rhetoric.
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ThanksUglyGod posted...

Ben111 posted...

No it isnt. If that was a fact then Obama would never of been president,

White supremacy is the reason we went from Obama to Trump

I know Trump had the vaunted white supremacist vote on lockdown, but if it were that large a factor, I don't think Obama would've had a second term. Probably not even a first term.

I still think Trump won less because he was a great candidate than because the Democrats just totally dropped the ball. What's the phrase? Grasp defeat from the jaws of victory?
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LordRazziel posted...

Esrac posted...

LordRazziel posted...

Pepys Monster posted...

SJWs ostracized white people just for being white. So big surprise, a marginalized group began banding together.

*Ricky Ricardo laugh*
Oh, Pepsy

Eh...I don't know that I'd agree that white people are generally a marginalized group in the US.

However, if you have vocal activists and media that routinely shit on a group, it shouldn't be a surprise when some individuals within that group get pushed into unsavory associations.

I mean, isn't that how radicalism often works?

So when the KKK was lynching black people, their radicalism was fueled by the marginalization of white people?

Did you miss the part where I said I wouldn't agree about whites being a marginalized group in the US? Don't quote me if you won't read what I said.

Regardless...

You don't think there could be different influencing factors for different contexts? That maybe when white supremacy was the status quo there would be different reasons for their violence (probably wanting to prevent colored people from supplanting them as the dominant demographic) than when it's publicly unacceptable but is seeing cells of resurgence?

You don't think that vilification of white people being relatively acceptable behavior in public discourse could push vulnerable whites (usually males) into unsavory, but apparently sympathetic groups? Most seem to agree that vilification of other demographics, like Muslims, can contribute to radicalization. I don't see it being different for the radicalization for young white men.
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My wife is a DD, so I voted D. I wouldn't object if they were bigger....which they have been when she was pregnant.
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I like Dark Souls. I like fanservice. I can probably like what seems like Dark Souls with fanservice.
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LordRazziel posted...

Pepys Monster posted...

SJWs ostracized white people just for being white. So big surprise, a marginalized group began banding together.

*Ricky Ricardo laugh*
Oh, Pepsy

Eh...I don't know that I'd agree that white people are generally a marginalized group in the US.

However, if you have vocal activists and media that routinely shit on a group, it shouldn't be a surprise when some individuals within that group get pushed into unsavory associations.

I mean, isn't that how radicalism often works?
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stoltenberg11 posted...

Bless the rains

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No.
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spanky1 posted...

said that it was a big deal because it was the very first black super hero movie.

Fuck Blade and Spawn, am I right guys? ayy lmao

I get the feeling that no one remembers those because they're from a time before being big into social justice was trendy.
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I'll probably wait a week or two. I don't like to go the movies when they're brand new because I don't like the large audience.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

MangaFan462 posted...

Why didn't the black kid get any toys?

Bait. The whole thing is just NYT baiting both "sides" at once.

I think the message of the image is the black kid is butthurt because the white kid bought the last Black Panther costume at the store; with the implication that maybe he's justified in his butthurt because Black Panther is a black superhero.

But apparently the actual article is a different, more positive story.
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That's cool. I considered picking it up, but...eh... I already have it on Wii U. Even if I haven't played it yet.
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It has been said that schools are run by women for girls.

Maybe there is a point there when boys have been falling so far behind.

It doesn't help that there is a lot of social enthusiasm around getting girls to succeed and next to nothing about getting boys to succeed.
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But I thought gamers were the alt-right these days.
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hollow_shrine posted...

Esrac posted...

You can associate with, even date, people you don't entirely agree with on every subject.

But it's not just 'every subject;' that's being dismissive. It's politics explicitly legitimizing the experiences of everyone who has been disenfranchised by society specifically because of who/what they are (woman, latinx, gay, neuro-atypical, TGNC, disabled, etc). Many of these questions and how they're treated inform our sense of ethics, civics, the responsibilities we have to our neighbors and ourselves, and what we want for our futures.

You're talking like these or related politics don't influence several parts of your daily life, but they do. People enfranchised by the status quo can conveniently ignore it, that's their privilege should they choose to exercise it. The rest of us live in the double consciousness, aware of the status quo and ways we fall outside it.

Ms. Green is trying to straddle the line between choosing that bubble and popping it, but it doesn't work that way. If she still wants to be seen as an advocate for these causes, she needs to walk the walk in addition to talking the talk. The bare minimum here is not shacking up with people who's political beliefs dehumanize or erase people like you.

I'm being dismissive because your position hasn't been worth anything beyond dismissal. We get it, you want to police who a woman can have a relationship with if the person they want to date isn't on your political side. As if they can't have personal qualities beyond their political positions.

You don't get to decide what counts as the bare minimum. Who she decides to date has no bearing on whether or not she can support or advocate for social justice causes and willingness to debate or converse with anti-sjw, anti-pc types doesn't detract from that.

Maybe we should disengage from this conversation for a bit. I'm trying to keep it civil, but I'm having an increasingly difficult time not being openly hostile toward you and I'd rather not get so antagonistic.

You're probably not trying to, but the message I keep getting from you in regard to her harassment is "she deserves it for associating with the anti-sjw crowd" and it irks me how often the Left will turn a blind eye to other progressive folks behaving badly. Trying not to get too riled up, you see.
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