Quote from: Flee on October 17, 2015, 05:44:22 PM

>not a single Flemish show in the top 250
>weebshit and nickelodeon in the top 30

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mad because MLP is nowhere to be found

Didn't even think of that. >_>

And fuck, good thing it isn't on the list. I already don't agree with a lot of the stuff on there, but putting MLP in the top 250 would've made it an absolute joke.

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Quote from: Flee on October 16, 2015, 05:02:51 PM

No clue who he even is. I know the name but never really watched his videos. 

Also, that get cancer and die tweet was a pretty asshole move, even if he apologised after. Can't say I really care much now.

He sent that tweet 4 years ago nigga.

And?

Because you've totally never said anything with malicious intent because you're oh so innocent.

Right?

I've called people assholes before. I've insulted others and said things that are far from innocent or nice.

But have I genuinely (publicly, even more so) told someone that they should fucking get cancer and die? Hell no. Doesn't even matter that it's 4 years ago either. This isn't some guy in his early 20's who said some stupid shit when he was a dumb teenager with raging hormones and an underdeveloped brain incapable of fully realizing the consequences of his actions. He was a 27 year old who apparently is educated in law when he tweeted that.

So far, I know two things about this person. He made gaming videos (which I now watched and didn't particularly like) and he told someone that he genuinely wished he would get cancer and die. I never cared about this person before and I will continue not caring about them now that he is dying of cancer. Completely indifferent, really.

Just here to point out that what he did then was a real asshole move and doesn't exactly help me feel sympathetic towards him.

Quote from: Flee on October 16, 2015, 05:02:51 PM

No clue who he even is. I know the name but never really watched his videos. 

Also, that get cancer and die tweet was a pretty asshole move, even if he apologised after. Can't say I really care much now.

He sent that tweet 4 years ago nigga.

And?

Like 4 like?

Quake Live, of course.

Amazing soundtrack, great first act, meh ending. All in all, a movie I enjoyed.

YouTube

You can beat the game in about 3 minutes if you know what you're doing.

Gotta get those achievements though.

Why do people still support the hollow shell that is the current Bungie? Even if I liked the game, I still don't think I would continue playing just because of how they treated their community and this game. 

It's a stealth game first, a third-person shooter second.

Don't worry about beating Far Cry 4 first, it will only take about an hour to beat Ground Zeroes.

You serious? I was expecting like a 5 hour prologue with another 10 maybe to collect all achievements. But 1-2 hours? Damn.

All I have is academic stuff.

Quote from: Flee on October 13, 2015, 04:02:02 PM

Jealous of that balisong.

A lot of euronations have them banned, don't they? I know Bongs can't get any, or a bunch of scandis or Germans.

Yeah, most knives with a hidden blade that can be fixed are generally banned. Same goes for Belgium. I own two and know of people who got them online without many issues, so they don't really make any issues out of it unless you carry them in public. Always wanted a Benchmark for myself.

Would maybe watch if it was at a reasonable time.

That guy with the anime picture.

Quote from: Flee on October 12, 2015, 01:53:19 PM

Less than 3% to 5% of all US crimes involve people with mental illness, and the percentages of those crimes actually involving guns is lower than the national average of these crimes commited by people without a mental illness.

I call bullshit; something like half of the prisoners in the US (or globally) have ASPD.

That is a good point. I simply went with the claim since it appeared in at least 2 renowned and peer reviewed journals, but I should probably give that some more research.

In its defense, that number does include all crimes. It makes sense that the amount of people who do something so bad it ends them up in prison would be more likely to be disturbed than those commiting petty crime, or that those illnesses become a lot more clear after permanent supervision in jail rather than right after the crime. Plus, at what point did those prisoners receive their psych evaluation? It's a matter of methodology, but it would make sense that simply the conditions of being imprisoned cause or at least go hand in hand with things like depression.

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Gun violence is caused by guns. More specifically, the glorification of these tools as part of the very prevalent American gun culture, their extreme availability to the general public and the extraordinarily high rates of private gun ownership.

So, since you say that none of those single factors are responsible for gun violence, wouldn't it make more sense that a variety of factors are responsible for the violence and the gun is just used to express it? I really don't see how guns being a prominent part of the country's culture is to blame for the violence, how could the gun be the root of the problem?

Of course, the gun is only a tool used as an expression of violence. However, the problem is that there is no simple way of explaining or addressing that violence. Humans are inherently violent and will always fight with one another. It just so happens to be that guns are an incredibly easy, convenient and efficient way to commit said violence with devastating results. On average in the US, 60% of all suicides are commited with a firearm. 70% of all homicides are done by a gun. 41% of all robberies involve a gun and 21% of all cases of aggravated assault are commited with a gun. Nearly half a million non-fatal crimes involving guns take place every single year.

Guns are not the root of the problem of violence. What they are, however, is the recurring and undeniable constant in gun violence that plays a much more important role than any of the other factors. While they are not the underlying reason for people's violent behavior, the American gun culture, the glorifying of an armed society and the easy access to firearms are the reason that this violence turns into gun violence. Like I said in my other post, gun control is no magical fix for all of these problems. But it is part of the successful treatment of the issue.