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The Flood / Re: should i upgrade to windows 10?
« on: August 14, 2015, 08:54:45 PM »
No.

http://www.techworm.net/2015/08/windows-10-sends-data-to-microsoft-despite-of-privacy-setting-set-not-to.html
I don't understand why this is a big deal. If they are using the data for constructive purposes and aren't releasing it to the public, why should you care?
Unencrypted connection means pretty much anybody can get a hold of it, for starters.

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Gaming / Re: Who should I main in Smash Bros.
« on: August 14, 2015, 08:50:44 PM »
You're asking the wrong question. Just choose whomever you want to play as. Even if you decide not to main a character, at least get reasonably good with them so you understand them--that will make fighting that character easier. Asking other people is not the right way to get good at this game.

But to answer your question, Zero Suit Samus is the best out of that selection.

I hope you're not giving up on Samus based on the fact that she's currently regarded as the worst character in the game.
And guess who else just joined the bottom of the tier list? >.>

YouTube


If/when their hitboxes get fixed in a future patch, they'll be pretty decent, I imagine. They're just busted right now.

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The Flood / Re: ok fine
« on: August 14, 2015, 08:31:14 PM »

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gr8 b8 m8

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The Flood / Re: ok fine
« on: August 14, 2015, 06:01:22 PM »
omg kupo
omg bri'ish łémöń

BABY WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN JACK
gootsbae~

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skype

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The Flood / Re: ok fine
« on: August 14, 2015, 05:56:27 PM »

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The Flood / Re: ok fine
« on: August 14, 2015, 05:50:20 PM »
Get the fuck out you homo fuck
rude

um, rude
Here we go again, another fucking dickhead trying to tell me how to live my life. This babyfur_watch asshole on here, commenting on my LJ telling me im making a big mistake throwing away my college education just to, quote, "Roll around in crapped diapers and meddling in cheap and petty BDSM fetishes." Who the fuck do you think you are saying this shit, I swear to the fucking heavens above that if I knew where you were, i would come over, break my foot off in your ass and slice your damn throat. I have enough crap coming from my dad and grandmother about the way im living my life, so I dont need to hear it from some fuckign scumbag like you. There are two thing you do not fuck with when it comes to me, my friends and my lifestyle. You screw with either one of those things and you're going to have one pissed off fox on your ass. Just because im a babyfur doesnt mean i dont have a darkside, i will fo medieval on you if you provoke me. Im getting fucking sick and tired of these fuckers that think since were babyfurs that they can push us around and ridicule us and not have us fight back. Most, if not all babyfurs get pissed off if an outsiders decides to fuck with us. You may nto like the fact that we are babyfurs, but you will fucking respect it, thats all we ask anyways. Everyone has their fetishes, and ours just happens to be wearing and using diapers, sucking on pacifiers and bottles, wearing baby clothes and acting like babies. We aint hurting no one doing this, but there are some that are making it seem that way, which is complete and udder bullshit. As far as the BDSM stuff goes, so what, if i wanna be owned by someone and dommed by them, big deal. Keep your fucking comments to yourself if all they're going to do is piss off whoever you are sending them to. Use common sense you fucking tools... oh wait, you dont have any!

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Serious / Reports: ISIS committing ethnic cleansing and genocide in Iraq
« on: August 14, 2015, 05:41:48 PM »
Amnesty International released a report accusing ISIS of committing an ethnic cleansing in Iraq. The United Nations agreed with that assertion at the time.

Several months later, the UN released its own report, this time accusing ISIS of genocide.

This may come as little surprise considering that Saddam Hussein's former operatives are helming ISIS and would likely share a similar agenda.

This all begs the the question: Just what has the Iraq War accomplished? It's cost over $2 trillion, and has claimed the lives of nearly 4,500 US troops and left over 32,000 troops injured (which itself is a significant burden, costing the US around $134.7 billion as of 2013, and will continue to increase for the rest of their lives), and about 134,000 Iraqi civilian deaths, all just to get one guy--although his followers and successors are continuing a similar agenda beyond his death.

When we get past the fearmongering, the lies and coverups of WMDs, and the premature declarations of victory, the only justification left seems to be ending the human rights abuses of a morally bankrupt dictatorship. Presenting this argument as the primary rationale for the invasion is revisionist at best, as the supporters of the war only resorted to that argument when all the others failed to withstand scrutiny. But either way, in retrospect, it seems to have been for naught, because it seems as if the human rights situation in Iraq has only regressed since Saddam's ouster. ISIS comes across as a bit more unhinged than the Hussein administration ever was.

(Even if the situation were looking better, the human rights argument in this context would still be logically problematic, given that there were other abuses taking place too, but only Iraq got any mentionable amount of attention from the West.)

The US will be tied to ensuring stability in the Middle East for years to come--what has the war actually accomplished that isn't invalidated by the aftermath?

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The Flood / ok fine
« on: August 14, 2015, 05:40:32 PM »
i said i wouldn't be back so this is a little awkward

one last time though, maybe

unrelated:


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Gaming / Re: Reach UI is best UI
« on: April 07, 2015, 01:08:55 AM »
The Reach UI is one of my favorites in any game, ever.

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Serious / Re: it seems Jeb Bush has converted to Hispanicism
« on: April 07, 2015, 01:02:36 AM »
Didn't Romney try to claim something similar in a bid to win him the Hispanic vote?
Uh... he painted himself orange?


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Serious / Re: Rand Paul (formally) announces presidential bid
« on: April 07, 2015, 12:59:25 AM »
Gonna vote for the shittiest candidate, lol.
literally nobody is as shitty as Cruz
Rubio? Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory on everything from immigration to State of the Union rebuttals?

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Gaming / Re: club nintendo people
« on: April 07, 2015, 12:56:05 AM »
I never made Platinum but I really wanted New Leaf ;_;

I settled for Oracle of Seasons, however.

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Serious / Re: The Iraq War
« on: April 05, 2015, 04:18:26 PM »
...yeah.

I went apeshit and said some things I shouldn't have said. I tainted this whole thread. I should have just let it go when I had the chance.

*sigh*
Eh, happens to the best of us.
I deserved all of the shit I got from everyone >.>

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Serious / Re: The Iraq War
« on: April 05, 2015, 04:09:17 PM »
One would think that a humanitarian effort would make an effective attempt at minimizing any potential consequences (or, you know, be humanitarian from the outset). At what point do the consequences outweigh the benefits?
The point at which the Iraqis are clearly worse-off as a result of the Coalition's intervention.

Look, I'm starting to agree that this conversation is becoming redundant. I think it's best if we just leave it here in the best possible spirits, because at this point I think we're just talking past each other.
...yeah.

I went apeshit and said some things I shouldn't have said. I tainted this whole thread. I should have just let it go when I had the chance.

*sigh*

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Serious / Re: So, that Indiana pizzaria that was forced to close?
« on: April 05, 2015, 04:06:10 PM »
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-indiana-pizzeria-gay-rights-20150403-story.html

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A fundraiser for the owners of an Indiana pizzeria that became the target of widespread animosity after they said they wouldn't cater a same-sex wedding reception has collected more than $828,000 from anonymous donors.

A GoFundMe page started by a producer from The Blaze, a conservative news network founded by Glenn Beck, has drawn more than 28,500 donors.

"The intent was to help the family stave off the burdensome cost of having the media parked out front, activists tearing them down, and no customers coming in. Our goal was simply to help take one thing off this family's plate as the strangers sought to destroy them," wrote Lawrence Jones, a producer who works for Blaze personality Dana Loesch. "But other strangers came to the rescue and the total just keeps going up."

Don't worry, they've raised almost a million dollars.

There's no shortage of people who are willing to support a business that would refuse service to gays.

It's like Chick Fil A Day all over again.
I thought the Chick-fil-A boycott was worse because despite the donations, they didn't actually say 'no, we won't serve everyone.'

But in general, boycotts these days just seem like a farce. Thanks to the Internet, everyone can and will hear about it, and those who oppose the boycott can rally their own counter of sorts. Modern boycotts just seem ineffective and prone to backfiring.

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Serious / Re: The Iraq War
« on: April 05, 2015, 03:51:56 PM »
Because they're the same thing?

This conversation is over.
One would think that a humanitarian effort would make an effective attempt at minimizing any potential consequences (or, you know, be humanitarian from the outset). At what point do the consequences outweigh the benefits?

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Serious / Re: The Iraq War
« on: April 05, 2015, 11:39:00 AM »
I honestly don't know any other way of explaining to you why you're completely wrong about my position on Iraq. You are the one conflating support for the war with slavish, Bushite neoconsevatism.
Because they're the same thing? The humanitarian reasons only came into view after the claims about WMDs were proven false and thus damaging to the administration. They'd like us to think that they were the main reasons all along, but Bush didn't even support humanitarian intervention until it was convenient for him to do so. Instead, it was largely about the aforementioned WMD claims and general post-9/11 fearmongering, probably because the VP wanted to make a few bucks.

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Sorry? Funnily enough I can choose my own reasons for supporting the war. If you don't like the fact that they lie outside of your narrow, U.S.-centric view. . . I really don't give a crap.

You're ignoring the vast wealth of information that indicates that those weren't the main reasons for the war, and we paid a price for that. We're still paying it to this very day. 2 trillion dollars, 12 years, countless lies to our allies and the general public all for political or monetary gain (which doesn't simply affect the US, you know--it became their problem too when they went along with it), millions displaced, hundreds of thousands of civilians dead, ~3,500 Americans dead, a terrorist threat helmed by the same folks we sought to take from power...

That's narrow.

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The Sep7agon Hug Box

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The Flood / Re: penis will make you slap somebody
« on: April 05, 2015, 10:36:54 AM »
'Murica

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Serious / Re: The Iraq War
« on: April 05, 2015, 10:27:21 AM »
Let me put it as simply as I can. The US motivations of the war exist within the sphere of general motivations for the war. And is connected to the general consequences of the war which in turn contains the consequences specifically for the US. My argument is that the negative content in the two US spheres doesn't outweigh the positive content of the spheres taken as a whole. Is that finally clear?
Your argument has been to 'not care' about the primary reasons why the war was waged, and engage in what I can only think of as cherrypicking at best, historical revisionism at worst. You can't just choose the reasons that you wanted them to be.

Today's ISIS does exist in part due to the invasion of Iraq, and the US did indeed use 9/11 as justification for the invasion. I hope that finally puts your denial of those facts to rest.

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Gaming / Re: Nintendo Direct 4.1.2015 Thread
« on: April 03, 2015, 09:30:16 PM »
OH MY GOD EVERYBODY VOTE FOR BANJO

https://twitter.com/XboxP3/status/584023190692737024


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Serious / Re: The Iraq War
« on: April 03, 2015, 09:10:00 PM »
The problem is you're acting like it was a bad thing to invade and remove Saddam. It wasn't.

But Turkey, Mordo, and Meta, you guys are wrong for thinking this was some sort of righteous war. It wasn't. It was about oil and money.
...Yeah, you're right. Especially with the points Meta brought up, I didn't realize what a shitlord that Saddam was. I mean maybe it's illegal but even if it was, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's wrong.

damage cuntroll
;_;

And my point is I don't care.
You have no idea how validated I feel right now, holy shit

That's exactly the reason why you're wrong. You've adopted a preposterously narrow view of what counts as 'justified war' that you conveniently disregard or claim to 'acknowledge' it simply because saying so forwards your argument, but then nothing else you say actually sustains that claim.

I wish I had been more serious two posts ago, because I actually brought up a valid point:
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But let's be honest--it's so flipping convoluted that it's obvious we're never going to convince each other who's right or wrong. We're picking apart arguments like it's fucking Operation and completely missing the bigger picture.
And it's true, we did miss the bigger picture: you decided from the outset that most claims against the war are of little concern. You already decided you were right, and you weren't going to let facts or logic get in the way of that. My argument fell on deaf ears.

It's partisan fuckery at its finest. No wonder I was losing the argument--I'm outnumbered 3 to 1 with folks who, by your own admission, are going to ignore the overwhelming wealth of facts that proves them wrong. And then when someone sees the futility in arguing against an echo chamber/circlejerk, you declare 'victory' and tell that lone person that they are the one who's wrong and should go somewhere where they can hear agreeing opinions. There's a lot of irony in that.

As far as I can tell, my pros/cons list of the Iraq war has remained largely unchallenged. Apparently, you've decided ahead of time that most of the cons are simply irrelevant. You're going to claim again that you're 'not ignoring it' but you've proven that it simply isn't true.

You're a fucking joke. The three of you, really--any respect I had for you died with this thread.

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Serious / Re: The Iraq War
« on: April 03, 2015, 01:50:00 PM »
I'm glad to see you all were entertained by my post, but I was hoping the "are you not entertained" at the end of it would have made it obvious that I was half-joking. But given the direction this thread was going in for me, and my increasingly not-nice replies made a spergout expected. Especially since those unwelcome antics from a certain he-who-shall-not-be-named >.>

I could have just stopped replying, but I shot myself in the foot instead <.<

I think it would be a lost cause to try to salvage this thread. I don't think I'd have the time or interest to keep going (and I'm not winning here anyway), but more importantly I don't think anyone would take me seriously at this point... or ever again.

Oops. >.>

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The Flood / Re: watching star wars episode v ama me something
« on: April 02, 2015, 11:59:11 PM »
dicks
something something battlefront

derp de derp

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The Flood / Re: watching star wars episode v ama me something
« on: April 02, 2015, 11:57:35 PM »
The only good Rebel is a dead Rebel
IMPERIAL BASTARDS!

You read that in the skyrim woman's voice. It's still relevant.
I support The Empire in any fictional universe
"We've gained a command post!"
"We've lost a command post!"
"We've gained a command post!"
"FOR THE REPUBLIC!"
"We've lost a command post!"

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The Flood / Re: Signature Thread
« on: April 02, 2015, 10:33:41 PM »
I GOT YOUR SIGNATURE RIGHT HERE


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News / Re: The End of Anarchy (or is it?)
« on: April 02, 2015, 09:35:55 PM »
Population can't sustain private groups. You'll just be hiding content from potential members.
Besides Skype chat groups are already filling that role. Can't see myself wanting a private group over a private chat I already have.
SO MUCH THIS

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The Flood / Re: you all got trixed
« on: April 02, 2015, 09:31:21 PM »
*le trixxed

lern 2 dank newfrand

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Serious / Re: The Iraq War
« on: April 02, 2015, 09:20:45 PM »
blah blah blah
stop

blah blah blah
stop

blah blah blah
stop



I don't give a flying fuck about this shit. It's ruining Serious for me and I really don't feel like going to this board just to see this thread get bumped up again with more of your bullshit partisan shillery.

I don't have the time or the patience to deal with this horseshit anymore, and each post wears thin my illusion of being a halfway polite person.

More importantly, this thread is goddamn clusterfuck. Each reply requires an exponentially longer rebuttal. Soon enough I'm going to be marathoning all six of Peter Jackson's Tolkien movies in the time it takes me to call you out on all of your increasingly complicated partisan spin masquerading as truth.

*deep breath* But let's be honest--it's so flipping convoluted that it's obvious we're never going to convince each other who's right or wrong. We're picking apart arguments like it's fucking Operation and completely missing the bigger picture. This is not going to get anywhere because it stopped resembling coherency back on page 2.



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Let's agree to disagree, eh?


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