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| Topic | Haste2 ranks all 180 VGMC Retirees. |
| Mr Lasastryke 01/16/21 7:45:04 PM #497 | LeonhartFour posted... The Moon is lame why are your music opinions so terrible --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Election 2020 Statistics and Discussion |
| Mr Lasastryke 11/02/20 5:16:34 PM #186 | 2016 didn't have tons of mail-in votes that slow everything down. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Election 2020 Statistics and Discussion |
| Mr Lasastryke 10/09/20 8:50:27 PM #72 | less than a month until the election! --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Election 2020 Statistics and Discussion |
| Mr Lasastryke 09/29/20 9:00:52 PM #69 | how will the presidential debate affect the polls? let's find out! --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Haste2 ranks all 180 VGMC Retirees. |
| Mr Lasastryke 09/25/20 4:26:17 AM #391 | man i was starting to warm up to nfun's taste in his topic where i rank his noms but then he had to bash tigar :-/ --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Election 2020 Statistics and Discussion |
| Mr Lasastryke 09/20/20 2:30:37 PM #68 | red sox 777 posted... I will say, Ulti and Corrik have both come out as saying that Biden is a virtual lock, which is a fairly strong indicator for me. I think them two are probably the most swingy voters we have on this board, and Ulti has a knack for knowing which way the wind is blowing, even if he can be incredibly far off on the magnitude (he called Trump winning in an electoral college landslide in 2016 and was further off the margin than people who picked Hillary to win a very narrow contest). it is a factor but it's also pretty anecdotal, really. counter-anecdote: scott adams predicted that trump would win in the '16 election literally days after trump announced he was running (though he, like ulti, incorrectly predicted that it would be a landslide). he's now arguing in his podcast that a trump victory in the upcoming election is a 100% lock. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Election 2020 Statistics and Discussion |
| Mr Lasastryke 09/13/20 4:28:11 AM #61 | bump --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Election 2020 Statistics and Discussion |
| Mr Lasastryke 08/21/20 9:53:30 AM #56 | the democrats could have made a more radical change (by nominating bernie, for instance) but "they didn't change a thing" is a ridiculous exaggeration. they changed plenty. biden is a man instead of a woman, he's emphasizing different things than hillary, the way he presents himself is very different from how hillary did it, etc. also, even if you're right and there are absolutely no differences between biden and hillary, i wouldn't say calling it a "losing strategy" is correct because hillary only BARELY lost to trump. this is like, after link narrowly lost to cloud in the summer 2003 contest, you're claiming that cloud "should have a fairly easy win" in the next character contest. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Election 2020 Statistics and Discussion |
| Mr Lasastryke 08/21/20 6:03:08 AM #51 | bump --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Haste2 ranks all 180 VGMC Retirees. |
| Mr Lasastryke 08/14/20 9:17:11 AM #348 | smooth mcgroove also calls it stickerbrush symphony. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Election 2020 Statistics and Discussion |
| Mr Lasastryke 08/11/20 4:33:41 AM #42 | bump --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/29/20 6:40:25 AM #494 | aside from what SEP said, muffin, you realize that if you want to make this point, you have to come up with an example that slightly resembles the "what's the percentage of covid deaths" question, right? "sales tax on something that costs $10"? wut? this has literally nothing to do with what we're talking about. you can keep coming up with "if people had to guess the percentage of trump family members in the US, would they guess 10%? huh? HUH?" examples until you're blue in the face, but that doesn't make you any more right. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/28/20 8:51:18 PM #489 | MoogleKupo141 posted... without checking, I dont think the actual answer is even a full percent, but I dont have any idea what decimal percentage it would be without doing a bit of math. it's about 0.04%. the fact that you think it could be 0.4% makes you a PANIC PORNER. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/28/20 8:29:41 PM #485 | SmartMuffin posted... If you asked them what percentage of people are billionaires, do you suppose the average answer would also be 10%? there's 630 billionaires in the US and about 151000 people who died from covid. this comparison is dumb. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/28/20 7:03:15 PM #473 | still don't get why muffin is taking the reported number of covid deaths as gospel when he's admitted on several occasions that we have no way of knowing if these numbers are accurate, btw --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/28/20 6:59:22 PM #466 | StealThisSheen posted... People just have no clue how many people actually live in the country, which is why guesses aren't going to be accurate. yeah, i see this as a "people are ignorant" thing. not excluding myself here either - if i had to take a guess at the covid death percentage in my country, i'd be way off too, i'm sure. of course people like muffin and that guy are going to use this to go "THE PANIC PORNERS WON," though. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/27/20 8:37:40 PM #415 | Corrik7 posted... I'll see what the guidelines are. If I am laid off and they are going to offer some sort of financial consideration, then why wouldn't I. because they're PSYCHOPATHS WHO ARE GONNA EXPERIMENT ON YOU rip corrik --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | just watched ep 1 of king of the hill and it was awesome |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/27/20 5:47:59 PM #43 | SeabassDebeste posted... paradox of tolerance is that you need to be intolerant of assholes. people who post the "tolerant liberal" meme should watch king of the hill because they never get this --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/27/20 2:10:34 PM #403 | he also wants to be the full throttle of covid news apparently --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/27/20 1:59:36 PM #400 | SmartMuffin posted... Yes, in reality, the actual state of affairs is that some countries are probably overstated, some are probably understated, and some are probably reasonably accurate. But as it stands today, we have no real way of knowing who is who. We can speculate, on a case by case basis, all we want. this is reasonable. but it baffles me that you're able to understand this but ALSO flood this topic with graphs, statistics and data on which you base wild claims like "new york has reached herd immunity" and "lockdowns do more harm than good." i'll admit that i've probably drawn too many conclusions on the available data. if you want to attack me (or CNN) for this, fair enough. but it doesn't come across as a believable attack when you're doing the exact same thing. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/27/20 1:46:24 PM #397 | SmartMuffin posted... I'm okay with either of the following: Trusting all the data we have (because even if it's not perfect, it's the best we've got), or admitting that all of the data is likely flawed in such a way that we cannot draw reliable conclusions. i guess i can agree that it's very likely all the data is flawed to a certain extent, but why the fuck are these the only two possbilities? this is a false dichotomy if i ever saw one. it's definitely possible that certain countries have less reliable data because they do shit to their data that other countries don't do. like, for instance, underreporting covid deaths to make themselves look better (there was a long time when people accused russia of doing this). there's absolutely no logical reason to go "EITHER 100% OF THE DATA IS GOOD OR IT ALL SUCKS!" --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/27/20 12:24:27 PM #392 | muffin: we have no evidence that the US numbers are right. also muffin: look at this perfect florida data! --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/27/20 10:33:33 AM #381 | SmartMuffin posted... https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1287755381083701249 not sure why you keep harping on this point - is anyone arguing that the only people who refuse to wear masks are american trump-worshiping science hating rednecks? sweden has already proven that's clearly not the case. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/27/20 8:01:00 AM #376 | v_charon posted... Factually incorrect. There's no expert opinion out that to support such a wild claim. you're insinuating muffin isn't an expert?! --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/26/20 12:14:38 PM #351 | SmartMuffin posted... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/world/asia/japan-coronavirus.html weren't you arguing before that japan was doing great despite minimal lockdown measures? --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/25/20 10:11:09 AM #315 | SmartMuffin posted... I've harped on inter-sport comparisons before (why is soccer supposedly safe, but football definitely not?) as people have pointed out when you were harping on this comparison before, neither is safe and soccer being allowed is definitely dumb, yeah. no argument there. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/24/20 6:21:32 PM #304 | SmartMuffin posted... Homeschool. why is homeschool necessarily better than privatized schools? --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/23/20 8:30:34 PM #275 | SmartMuffin posted... Almost as impressive as me being right both times! I prepped and told others to do so in early March, then by May, correctly realized it was all a big panicmongering exercise designed to advance progressive political ends... if it's all a big panicmongering exercise designed to advanc progressive political ends, how were you right in march about prepping being a super big deal --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 311: Ye says Nay |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/23/20 4:40:33 AM #456 | also, last time i wasn't THAT convinced trump wouldn't win. i did think hillary would win but i thought trump also had a decent chance. i think the chances of trump winning this time are like 0.1%. obviously, that percentage can change in the coming months. but as long as biden doesn't die, i think trump winning is quite unlikely. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 311: Ye says Nay |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/23/20 4:36:30 AM #455 | PerfectChaosZ posted... Everyone was convinced that Trump wouldnt win last time either. last time, trump wasn't president and he didn't completely screw up the handling of a pandemic --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 311: Ye says Nay |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/22/20 5:58:59 PM #381 | "well racism wasn't bad at the time so those presidents don't count" --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 311: Ye says Nay |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/22/20 4:04:25 PM #367 | as an enlightened centrist who's above everyone in this topic, corrik has to "both sides" absolutely everything --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 311: Ye says Nay |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/22/20 2:09:39 PM #361 | tucker would definitely fit in better at OANN than fox, yeah. he's too alt-right/racist for fox. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/21/20 9:33:03 PM #255 | Corrik7 posted... I said you are saying the Belgium numbers are incorrect for things new York and PA did also. You are providing zero proof they are incorrect. You just keep repeating it over and over. the belgium numbers are incorrect because they - like new york and pennsylvania - also count the deaths that are only suspected to be covid deaths. if you do it that way, it's obviously wrong to say "we're 100% sure these are all covid deaths." also, i'm basing this on the wikipedia article about covid deaths in belgium. so i don't have "absolutely nothing to back it up with." --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/21/20 9:10:04 PM #253 | Corrik7 posted... Why do you keep saying this with absolutely nothing to back it up with? weren't you saying "the belgium numbers are wrong but so are the new york numbers" earlier? now you're saying the belgium numbers are undeniably correct? --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/21/20 12:44:43 PM #247 | SmartMuffin posted... Sweden is doing very good in the sense that they engaged in basically no mitigation whatsoever and stack up favorably to various other countries that instituted draconian lockdowns. Also, it appears they've basically achieved herd immunity and that their pandemic is essentially over and they can go back to normal pretty soon. so they're doing poorly but also good? --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/21/20 11:18:59 AM #242 | also, weren't you arguing that sweden was doing pretty good not too long ago? literally using it as an example of a country that's doing poorly now lol --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/21/20 11:17:31 AM #241 | SmartMuffin posted... And still fewer deaths per million than France, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, and the UK! so...? i still don't get your "if a country isn't doing the absolute worst in the world, it's doing great!" logic. also for the millionth fucking time, the belgium numbers are wrong. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 311: Ye says Nay |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/19/20 6:43:55 PM #271 | yeah i haven't actually followed ron paul in ages. at least he USED to be rather principled! --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 311: Ye says Nay |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/19/20 6:01:12 PM #268 | red sox 777 posted... Trump is even less of a libertarian than Obama. He openly advocates giving money to the poor. At first he tried to dress it up as a respectable non-socialist plan by calling it a refundable tax credit but they aren't even putting in any effort to maintain that pretense now. He's a full-on socialist in terms of his belief in using government to directly direct the economy. weren't you saying he's a 1%er who only cares about the 1% earlier --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 311: Ye says Nay |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/19/20 5:59:59 PM #267 | xp1337 posted... "It's not - well it's not the hardest test. They have a picture and it says 'what's that' and it's an elephant." lol i also love how trump gets so triggered that he starts insulting wallace's intelligence. "well YOU wouldn't be able to answer many of the questions!" --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Coronavirus Topic 10 |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/19/20 2:44:39 PM #193 | ShatteredElysium posted... I genuinely don't understand the argument for not wearing masks. They are barely a mild inconvenience. If you're anti-mask then even if you're right, worst case you are mildly inconvenienced. However, if you're wrong then by not wearing a mask you possibly contributed to people getting seriously ill or dying. you don't understand man, if you're forced to wear a mask you're a SLAVE --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 311: Ye says Nay |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/19/20 2:42:18 PM #264 | Ashethan posted... Libertarianism in a nutshell. When I realized that, I stopped being a libertarian. actual libertians do exist (ron paul is one) but they're hard to find. the number of "libertarians" who passionately support trump is insanely high. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 311: Ye says Nay |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/19/20 2:36:53 PM #261 | Grimlyn posted... https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1284843237753139201 so the doctors were amazed that trump actually knew the answer to 100-7 --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 311: Ye says Nay |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/19/20 2:35:34 PM #260 | Reg posted... This argument is literally "I am ok with fascism and tyranny as long as it targets people I don't like" from what i've seen, this has been the stance of a lot of libertarians for a long time --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Remember any time someone thinks you are insane... there is always someone worse |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/19/20 5:51:12 AM #39 | also MoogleKupo141 posted... I mean you were watching speedrunners, would you ever want to watch a guy just mindlessly farm Gil for hours? you think mindless farming isn't a part of speedrunning? like, 90% of the dragon warrior 1 any% no RNG manipulation run is hours of mindless grinding. speedrunning isn't just executing super impressive tricks. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Remember any time someone thinks you are insane... there is always someone worse |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/19/20 5:47:54 AM #38 | Corrik7 posted... I am gonna say you need to have skill of some type to be good at speedrunning. Raka_Putra posted... Well, being so persistent at one goal is some kind of...talent. that's true. being persistent and incredibly patient is also a talent. i'm just saying that you don't necessarily have to be exceptionally good at playing games to be a speedrunner. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | [VGMC] R4D4: Moonstruck Blossom vs Thermosphere, Filthy Mind vs Midnight Lady |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/18/20 8:49:27 PM #49 | Thermosphere The Filthy Mind (Theme of the Hive Mind) --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Remember any time someone thinks you are insane... there is always someone worse |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/18/20 8:33:56 PM #34 | MoogleKupo141 posted... thats not the same thing. people care about and are impressed by speedruns. they take skill. I could dedicate all my time to being the SMW world record holder and I still might never achieve it. i think you're kind of overstating how important talent is in speedrunning, though. arcus is an average gamer (at best) and he has the any% world record in ninja gaiden. he's also done over 47000 attempts in te game. oftentimes, you can get a world record by just grinding it out. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
| Topic | Remember any time someone thinks you are insane... there is always someone worse |
| Mr Lasastryke 07/18/20 1:25:00 PM #27 | MoogleKupo141 posted... hey what did you do today perhaps it's because i watch so many speedrunners (i.e. people who do the same thing in a game over and over and over again) but i think this is a pretty dumb post tbqh. people don't have to care about or be impressed by a goal for it to be worthwhile. --- Geothermal terpsichorean ejectamenta |
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