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I used to have a bunch of booze, but I don't drink that often anymore. I usually just try to keep a bottle of good stuff stashed away now for when the want arises. All I have right now is a bottle of Torres 30 Jaime I. Discovered the stuff on a business trip a few years back. I think when that's gone I might bite the bullet and pick up a bottle of Bruichladdich Black Art.

Sounds like he should have joined the ATF. I'm pretty sure shooting dogs is a mandatory job requirement there.

hungrymike posted...

Prices have always been going up since the beginning of time. And the government borrowing money printed out of thin air from the fed doesn't help with inflation. Hope you enjoyed your $2000 stimmy money, and if student loan repayment goes through, get ready for even more inflation.

It wasn't always like this. When Nixon put the final nail in the coffin of the gold standard in 1971, that's when everything started to really spiral out of control.

Prime, Hulu, and Max. If it weren't for the fact that my mom uses all of my accounts, I'd cancel them all. Hence the reason Netflix just got axed from that list.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/6/0/AAMabeAAEpCU.jpg
I think I could manage. There's certainly worse on the list than a horny preacher's wife.

pionear posted...

Nobody wants a bunch of anti-social workaholic bots walking around in their books all day, if that's the only criteria of getting in.

Depends on the field. If they're going to be designing a nuclear reactor or performing brain surgery, that's exactly the kind of person I'd want doing it.

I totally get why the lawsuit was raised. I remember seeing the demographic numbers that were brought up in the case, and the asian families were absolutely getting screwed. With the highest scores of all the applicants they still only had like a 12% chance of entry. Doesn't help that Harvard activity tried to conceal it. People seem to forget that the asian community didn't exactly have it all too good in the past here either, but for some reason they don't get the same soft handed treatment.

He's just being a contrarian prick because it was my post. He's made a habit of going out of his way to try to flame me regardless of the topic. It's just kinda sad at this point.

SwollenColon posted...

Grendel_Prime posted...

There's the rub: you're expecting someone who thinks books are scary to be rational lmao

That's easy to say when you've never held something truly dark.
One of the worst I've seen was a handbook used by a South American death cult that practiced fetishism. There's no description for how disturbing it is to sit and read some of the worst acts a person could commit, full knowing that the dirty old book in your hand was there, in the room while it was happening. The one I read had little hand written notes in the margins, personal tips on how to keep children calm and quiet while everything was going on, like "Make sure the doors are closed so they don't see mom".
Sorry, but if you don't find that scary, you should probably be removed from society and never permitted back in. You're not being some kind of hyper-analytical observer, you're a fucking sociopath.

On a side note. The guy that owned the book was trying to convince me it came from the Constanzo compound, which I'm quite confident was bullshit, and a good excuse to jack up the price on something I had no intention of buying anyway. I only mention it, because it was a rather famous death cult (mainly because they killed an American), and if you're curious about the stuff. That's a good place to start. Just Google Adolfo Constanzo.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Lovecraft probably never even heard of the Shams al-Ma'arif al-Kubra.

No, I doubt Lovecraft ever had any direct contact with the Shams. If I recall correctly, his inspiration came from the Al Azif. The Al Azif was inspired by the Shams. Then again, I've heard both were based on the Picatrix, so who knows. It's all based on some brief notes and passing conversations from almost a century ago. I wouldn't really consider any of it to be written in stone, nor does it help my endeavor any either way.

I wouldn't really say Lovecraft "stole" anything. I think he genuinely loved most of the sources he took inspiration from. The whole circle of authors he was involved in were constantly using each others work to blend in with their own. Lovecraft's entire universe could probably be attributed to directly to Robert W. Chambers, he just brought it to a whole other level. They were all pretty much just pulp writers at the time, so I don't think any of them took it all too seriously. I'd almost liken it to a fan-fiction that grew so large it smothered the source material.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

He's translating the Necronomicon.

You're not far off.
It's Shams al-Ma'arif al-Kubra. It's the real life basis for the mythical book Al Azif, which was the inspiration for the Necronomicon. Outside of old school traditionalist Sufis, it's pretty much treated like the most evil thing ever written. Like most of this stuff though, there's a whole lot of misunderstanding around it. It's not so much Al-Buni's writings that attract the ire, it's everything that was added throughout the 17th-century. Even that stuff seems pretty tame though. I've seen way scarier books before.

shadowsword87 posted...

Probably either use liberal use of google translate, or pay someone.

I wish Google was an option. I need to translate an old book, so a lot of it is not naturally formatted.
As for paying someone to translate, that would likely be met with some very negative reactions at best. To say it's taboo is an understatement. There has been some translation done, but I've only seen about 40 pages that were done properly and the book is nearly 600 pages long.

AltOmega2 posted...

Beaches yes, lakes not really
Lakes are just okay if you happen to fall off a boat or go tubing or something but I kinda hate the idea of swimming around with huge dead trees and shit.
Swimming from a lake shore is even worse because you feel all the trash and shit.

Sounds like they have some pretty shitty land management where you live. They keep them real clean near me, and fine the hell out of anyone that makes a mess. I absolutely hate the DNR, but I'll admit they do a good job at keeping the forests and lakes in good shape.
The only lakes I've seen with large trees in them were out in Washington. Don't really see that here. That's also the only place where a lake did in fact scare the shit out of me. There's a tiny little lake out there that looks very pretty and harmless, but it's formed in an old glacial gouge. Just a few hundred feet from the beach it drops off to over 700' deep. You go down in that, you're never coming back up.

I've been digging back into some studying I did years ago, but now I'm at a of a brick wall until I actually learn the language. I have a feeling I'll need to study a bit of Persian to get where I need to as well. Just wondering if there's anything helpful to know before I really get started. I can already tell it's going to be a pain. It's going to be mainly 13th-century Egyptian Arabic if that matters. Who knows what else I'll run into along the way though.

Well, people have been doing it since the dawn of mankind, so I think it's been proven to be quite safe.

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I think I'm going to start compiling every post you make that starts with "Awww", just so you can see how childish it looks.

potdnewb posted...

criticism without action is just whining

Exactly. Backing up your words with action requires a certain degree of character though. Something that's highly lacking among them. Their entire personality is dependent on hollow words.

agesboy posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/7/6/AAI1MSAAEKjA.jpg

I've seen you post this a bunch of times here. It wasn't clever or funny any of those times either.

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You probably would have sided with the British, so you don't really deserve any of those freedoms people fought and died for. You come on here bitching about this country, while utilizing all of the luxuries it's afforded you to do so. That's pretty much the textbook definition of a whiny hypocrite. If you don't like it here, leave. Nobody is forcing you to stay.

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Then maybe you should leave. I'll gladly buy you a one way ticket to Somalia. I'd like to see how well you fare without all of the comforts this country has afforded you.

I don't think there's a specific age really. I would say it's when you become entirely self-sufficient. All of your bills, food, shelter, chores, personal care, etc. are taken care of by you without the need of any kind of assistance.

Muscles posted...

Beto O'rourke, Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell, Cory Booker, Chuck Schumer, Lindsey Graham, etc. most politicians honestly

I'll second Beto. I would love to see a slo-mo of McConnell's jowls flapping around after a good smack though.

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That's funny, I didn't see you name a single specific right.
Here, I'll even provide you with the list. Go ahead, point out the one that's being denied.
https://www.ushistory.org/us/18a.asp

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Oh look, the typical 2 step response when posed a simple question.
Step 1: Ignore the question or give a vague nonsense answer.
Step 2: Spew insults and label everyone that disagrees with you a bigot.

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What rights?

adjl posted...

If your grandfather stole something that he passed on to you, should you not return it when you learn it was stolen?

That's not really a good analogy for reparations. An overwhelming amount of white people in this country were poor working class individuals. Why should their descendants need to pay? Hell, my family wasn't even living here at the time. What entities anyone to my money?

papercup posted...

Do you think that 1)The democrats of today are the same democrats of 120 years ago? And 2) you don't actually think those people are still alive, do you? And ask yourself, if it's the democrats that were pro-slavery, why is it then the republicans are the ones eroding rights and trying to to turn anyone that isn't a straight white male christian into a second class citizen?

What rights are they eroding exactly? Last I saw, a black person has the exact same rights a white person has. What they don't tolerate is tribalism. Something that has come to be an extreme fetish on the left. Nobody seems to see the irony in the fact that the people that are sorting everyone into groups and assigning them a societal status, are calling the people that don't bigots.

potdnewb posted...

yes the parties have changed but saying the confederacy wasn't democratic is plain wrong and akin to an ostrich with its head in the sand

The "head in the sand" technique is pretty much the gold standard around here. The democrats have generally fallen on the wrong side of history since the beginning. I wouldn't even say the party has changed all that much. Don't believe me? Here's a little something copy pasted straight from snopes. It's funny. It reads like they want to soften LBJ, but it only makes him sound even worse.

There's no question that Lyndon Johnson, despite championing the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and signing it into law, was also a sometime racist and notorious vulgarian who rarely shied away from using the N-word in private. For example, he reportedly referred to the Civil Rights Act of 1957 as the "n****r bill" in more than one private phone conversation with Senate colleagues. And he reportedly said upon appointing African-American judge Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court, "Son, when I appoint a n****r to the court, I want everyone to know he's a n****r."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-voting-democratic/

Accrovideogames posted...

You mean something like a second civil war to purge the conservatives again?

Lol! Who do you think has all of the guns! Hope you're not relying on the military to do your fighting for you considering they average about 70% conservative. Not sure what you mean by "again" either. You do realize the south was overwhelmingly run by Democrats during the Civil War, right?

Assassin's Creed. It's pretty much the definition of mediocrity.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

They staple boobs to your face.

My eyes are up here!

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You should find a topic to post in that's more on your level. Cocomelon perhaps? Maybe something with songs about shapes and colors?

It's ridiculous. All you do is call me a shill without even remotely considering what the actual truth is. You only care about assigning sides to it. The truth is completely irrelevant to you. Post-modern mental gymnastics at its finest.

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Don't lie.

papercup posted...

You mean the obviously photoshopped documents that don't reflect the reality of the situation in any way, shape or form? Cus there were multiple versions of those documents floating around, and the ones that said Ukraine were getting their asses kicked were obviously among the altered versions.

They were most certainly altered, but not by the Russians. Hence the reason I put very big quotation marks around the word leaked. If you honestly believe the Russians found those documents on Discord, and managed to remove and replace them with shopped versions before anyone on the server noticed, you're delusional. It supposedly took us weeks to find them, but the Russians made it there before the people that were actively viewing the stuff on the server could notice they were changed, please.

So I'm guessing none of you actually read the "leaked" documents that outright said most of the news was propaganda, and Ukraine was getting its ass kicked?

shadowsword87 posted...

oh wow you're an expert in military tactics?
What's your qualifications?

I used to work for a private GIS company that worked very closely with military intelligence. I was never privy to all of the confidential stuff, but I was close with people who were. It was plenty enough to learn about how the information is handled and how it gets used (or doesn't get used) to shape public opinion. You only need to look at Iraq and the WMD story to see that. That wasn't "bad intelligence". They knew nothing was there, but they needed the American people to support the invasion. I don't get how people can be blatantly lied to over, and over, and still gobble up the next lie with a smile.
SinisterSlay posted...

Found the Russian bot.

Yup, you busted me. The Russians set up this account back in 2005 for just this very occasion. They had the genius foresight to realize that the best use of resources in 18 years would be to influence a bunch of nerds on a video game forum.

GranTurismo posted...

idk, maybe, the great george carlin right, he made that quote. you're a big fan of george carlin?

I miss Carlin. I'm definition a huge fan. I can only Imagine what he'd have to say about the state of the world today.
Nichtcrawler-X posted...

I would hope/assume that "a majority of Americans" knows more about it than me, a non-American.

Well, most Americans couldn't pass the US citizenship test if they took it, so it honestly wouldn't surprise me if a foreigner knew more.

GranTurismo posted...

you do believe that most americans don't even know what the supreme court is? so you don't have a very high opinion of most americans do you?

I don't. They did a survey a few years back, and over half of Americans couldn't name the three branches of government. It's like that old quote "Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of them are even dumber than that".

shadowsword87 posted...

Y'all really know a lot about military tactics.

Lol, not even close. Most of the same people were saying Ukraine was going to crush Russia just a few months ago. They just parrot back whatever the news is saying.
All you need to know is that the overall plan is to get NATO fully involved in the war. They want WWIII, and every little goal post they move brings us closer. A good example is the recent announcement they made about declaring Article 5 should there be any kind of a "radiological event". Seems awfully convenient since the Zaporizhzhia plant is now running a risk of overheating, since someone (that someone most certainly being Ukraine) went and blew up the dam that kept the required water levels there.

Tool>Puscifer>APC

I'd wager a majority of Americans don't even know what the supreme court is, let alone who's in it.

potdnewb posted...

in many states its required that you get paid if you must leave your job to go vote

Never heard of that. It sure as hell isn't my state. A friend of mine actually got written up for it at his last job.

Dawg posted...

Pride month and black history month and so on are definitely about sucking dicks and having a certain skin color and not about a history of having to fight oppression

These "whole months" come with zero actual days off from work btw, or am I just not sucking enough dicks? How many dicks do I gotta suck before they let me take it off

You really think it's about fighting oppression? I can't say I see any of that going on. All I see is a bunch of corporate virtue signaling. Go take a look at the social media accounts for all of the big companies that are all in on pride month, then compare it to their accounts for China and Saudi Arabia. Funny how all the pride stuff seems to vanish, particularly where the oppression is actually taking place.

And the answer to your question is 12. You have to suck 12 dicks, but make sure they punch your card after, or you can't redeem it.

Sounds like a good opportunity to get to know someone that can move you up. They're just another human being. They probably sit at home in their underwear and watch The Price is Right with a bowl of cereal half spilled on them like anybody else. Nothing to be afraid of guy.

We celebrate things all wrong in this country. You can get a day off work every year to commemorate mythical events that probably never even happened, but they won't give you one to go vote. Thousands of people got maimed and murdered to liberate people from concentration camps and they give them a day, but suck a few dicks and they'll dedicate a whole month to you. Logic.

We tend to placate and make excuses for people with mental health problems these days. It's turned into a get out of jail free card to a degree, allowing people to avoid punishment for their bad behavior.
People are actively faking mental disorders now because it gets them attention. I was just reading about how there's a trend of people on TikTok now pretending to have Tourette's for views. I can't fathom what would make someone do that. They certainly have mental health problems, but Tourette's isn't one of them.

https://youtu.be/16QY3ixMi7M

https://youtu.be/ome-04JCNtY

There are certain brands I am absolutely loyal to. Not necessarily based on the product, but on how they've treated me. There have been a few that have gone ridiculously above and beyond to help me.

I have a suppressed Sig MPX that's pretty much the perfect home defense gun in my opinion. I keep it loaded up with 147grn Federal HST so it stays sub-sonic. Not exactly heavy firepower, but I figure 30 rounds of 9mm should be plenty to take on a couple of midnight visitors, and I don't have to worry about blowing out my eardrums in the process.