This goes beyond a college prank. It's a nationwide thing and people are doing it everywhere from subdivisions to apartment complexes. If you can't accept that legal action should be taken towards scumbags trying to give nonconsenting bystanders panic attacks, you should at least accept that it's an immoral thing to do.

Oh, I didn't know that this was happening elsewhere.

That's fucking stupid.

And there's nothing wrong with being a timid person. Being unable to sleep out of sheer terror from the memory of the clown you saw gesturing toward you from the edge of the woods isn't "harmless". This is happening in more places than college campuses, but even it if weren't, it would still be bad. No one has the right to scare you without your consent.

People attacking the clowns are going too far, but police action should definetely be taken.

The extent of "Police action" being taken should be "Hey, buddy, stop dressing up as a clown and scaring people." Not arresting someone. There are circumstances where this can be done with some degree of appropriateness, although I have no doubt there are many others where this is just an awful idea. Some deserted bike path? Bad place to do this. Public college campus, relatively close to people and near various buildings? I would be hard-pressed to argue any sort of legitimate legal action should be taken. Maybe a meeting with the dean of students or some basic, inconsequential talking-to.

No one should be forced to "get into the spirit" of a holiday that revolves around fear. Some people fucking hate fear, and that's reasonable and should be respected.

People partaking in this clown craze should be arrested for disturbing the peace.

"Disturbing the peace?" Give me a break. On a college campus, of all places, nobody has any right to hurt someone just because they're dressed as a clown and maybe jumping out at people when they walk past some bushes, or just standing eerily along a footpath. If the person dressed as a clown runs up and physically threatens an individual (Grabs them, rushes at them with any sort of weapon, etc), then that's just plain stupid- And the use of violence as a means of defense is understandable. The blame then falls on the person pulling the prank. But this dumb craze can be appropriately handled and regulated as harmless fun in the hands of people who aren't idiots.

Unless there are any reasonable suspicions that an individual has a right to harm someone, nothing should be done. Scare a few people, who cares? If you can't laugh that sort of thing off, you're too timid of a person.

I mean apparently kids have reported that some clowns were trying to lure them into the woods

Oh, that's pretty fucked up, actually.

I made somethin' out of nothin', Sean Don the magician
She doin' tricks with her pussy, I guess she's a vagician

- Logic

We're all weird in our own terrible, special ways.

I was actually gonna ask if it was a Frogfoot, but I was confused as to why you had Sukhois where you were.

What plane is that behind you?

If you're willing to spare five minutes.

To be fair, AddictingGames was awesome.

Quote from: Winy on October 02, 2016, 03:47:31 PM

I've honestly never seen someone try to justify a bad game's quality with this statement.

This is an old thread, but I just had the conversation with someone the other day. I said that Smash 64 kinda sucked, and someone was like, "How can you say that? WIthout 64, there would be no Melee."

Maybe they're looking at it from the perspective of the significance or importance of the game, instead of how good it necessarily is. Instead of taking the statement to mean "It doesn't play well," it's interpreted as "Everything about this game, and anything it spawned, is bad." And that's inaccurate, because if you say "Smash 64 is bad," it should be assumed that you mean the actual game itself, not its importance in the history of a gaming franchise- But I can see how it might be misinterpreted.

it's still not a word i'd use to describe anyone other than bodybuilders,

That's perfectly acceptable, I'm just pointing out that, like many other elements of language, the meaning of certain words is very dynamic and applies differently depending on context, environment, and culture. In this circumstance, I've been a part of the "Lifting community" for many years now, have interacted with so many different people of different body types, and have just come to understand what certain words mean to the people who are most experienced with critiquing and understanding this type of body morphology.

You can say you're a "Good person" for doing x activity, but of course, one person can do something exponentially more good than another, but still just be called a "Good person." Each statement still stands as correct, but it must be understood that there are varying degrees of "Good." It's the same with body descriptions. You have to specify in regards to what you are basing your judgements. And, considering most people will judge physiques based on standards, the casual definition of "Jacked" isn't as high and mighty as you think for most people- It's just "Guy with reasonably big muscles." It isn't a word with an objective meaning. There's very little pride in the term for me.

It's just a nice complement, it doesn't make me swell up with confidence and think I'm some king of the gym. And it's a silly thing to cause a fuss over, I just feel the need to explain to you why that word is used the way it is.

I haven't watched any of the new episodes, I actually sort of fell of with South Park after whatever season had "Medicinal Fried Chicken," and the parody of the Jonas Brothers. That was while I was in sixth grade, although when some of the older episodes ran on TV, I would watch them when the opportunity came up. I think part of why I've lost interest in the show is that, while the comedy was always partially dependent on parodying things going on in the world at the time, the show has actually become too politically charged for me to enjoy it. I might just not be giving enough of a chance, but once the show steered away from being more "Just a bunch of dumb kids doing stupid things," and more towards having a structured agenda, it lost its charm to me.