You're also in shock right now, which isn't a good time to make significant changes to your worldview.

It's pretty fucked up of you to decide that someone else's life wasn't worth living.

Snyder's art direction on point but has no subsistence

Compare it to Tim Burton's version of Gotham, which is (literally) dripping with character but is goofy as fuck. Nolan's was decent, despite being bland.

Sorcery is usually pretty easy at the beginning of the game, before any enemies are resistant to magic or are programmed to dodge.

Quote from: яУГэ on March 22, 2016, 11:10:57 PM

Quote from: xaxa funni meme on March 22, 2016, 11:08:09 PM

judy hemps b/c police officers are trained in lethal armed forces to shoot people with guns

but do u ever see her with a gun in poozopia?

wasnt the carrot thing a gun??

It was an audio recorder, bruh

I also respect the Orthodox Church's claims to legitimacy, although I am more skeptical about it than most converts probably are. I am also very supportive of the use of tradition (big T and small t tradition) as a guide when interpreting and practicing Christianity.

This is actually the reason I didn't convert to Orthodoxy. Their claim that they're the historical True Church is indefensible, and the extreme amount of tradition (AKA unwritten, unbiblical hearsay) is exactly what turned Catholicism into some weird pseudo-Christian religion. I really respect Orthodoxy for their focus on providing a reverent, traditional experience, but their exclusivity isn't justified.

I've actually stopped going to church since I've moved to the South, because it's either fire-and-brimstone Baptists or barely-Christian non-denominational rock bands and motivational speaking.

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on March 22, 2016, 06:15:04 PM

but I still think there's something deeply wrong with the government coopting (and continuing) the sale of drugs as awful as cocaine and heroin.

On the one hand, I agree, and support a strict and non-commercial form of regulation. Having the government sell heroin to people isn't something that sits well with most people.

On the other hand, I use cocaine irregularly. When drugs like coke and meth are mostly harmful to the users themselves, I'm not sure what mandate I have to strictly regulate the consumption of such drugs assuming the social harm is adequately dealt with (and, lets be honest, it's nothing compared to alcohol). On what basis do I and other "regulationists" restrict the distribution and use of such drugs? Even if they are not sold by the government, does the government still have the right to say "No, you cannot use this substance". Restricting the use of materials which could make weaponry is one thing, but restricting goods used for personal consumption is wholly another. There's a significant internal inconsistency here.

I'm not sure it's inconsistent. The government has an obligation to protect its citizenry, and in the case of drug use it's twofold: protecting the user, and protecting those around him/her. Cocaine's not a good example, because it's roughly as toxic as alcohol, but without trying to move the goalposts here I think the discussion is more general than a definitive list of what's okay or not.

Does the government have the right to control production of a drug and then tell the citizenry they don't have a right to use it? Absolutely. The pharmaceutical business is built on this principle. The same can be said for GPS, for example.

But even if we maintain the illegality of non-governmental production and distribution of drugs like cocaine and heroin, it doesn't follow that the appropriate response is to also gaol those purchasing it from these underground producers and distributors.

So what's the answer? Why not look at what the Swiss or the Dutch do? There's no reason making cocaine and heroin legal means it must be sold openly; the Dutch, for instance, allow heroin users to inject the drug with sterile needles in supervised, government-run consumption sites. This is a lot better than throwing addicts in prison.

It's kind of frustrating that you two are still attacking this strawman about incarcerating drug addicts, which I've already denied supporting.

And if the government were to openly produce and distribute hard drugs, what do you think would happen to their street prices? Demand would collapse.

Demand for cartel-supplied drugs, you mean? Literally the only model of legalization I believe is acceptable is one operated solely by government-run producers with no possibility for that money to leave the country, but that's incredibly unlikely to happen. And assuming it did happen, there's a need for a moral discussion about the government controlling access to a cripplingly addictive substance.

Having the government regulate production, distribution and consumption not only pulls the rug out from under the cartels, but is a fuck-tonne better in terms of reducing personal and societal harm from drug abuse.

There's no way in hell the FDA would allow drugs like cocaine or heroine to be sold freely; they'd have to be such vastly different products that it would be tantamount to prohibiting the drugs altogether. At the level of regulation requires to make those drugs "safe" enough to consume, there'd be no reason for cartels to not just continue black market sales.

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on March 22, 2016, 05:26:54 PM

Legalization does nothing but legitimize cartels and make it easier for them to sell drugs.

So? What, they can't be regulated?

No, they can't, because they operate outside of the country and are supported largely by puppet regimes in impoverished South American countries.

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on March 22, 2016, 04:51:13 PM

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (or the entire Man With No Name trilogy)
True Grit (remake and original)
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Once Upon a Time In the West
Hateful Eight

To name a few.

Is the h8ful 8 even worth watching or is it just Quinton making another meme movie? Like all I literally unironically know about it is that it takes place during the winter in a bar.

It's really good. A masterpiece of cinematography and character-acting.

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on March 22, 2016, 05:04:45 PM

Nothing.

Well, there you go.

There I go, what?

Fuck, completely forgot about The Revenant.

String theory is just mathematical theology. It's very little more than a hypothesis.