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Mead posted...

Chess literally is sometimes an Olympic event lmao

Chess isn't an Olympic event, but the presiding organization that oversees chess is officially recognized by the IOC, so it's like the runner-up prize.

Arguably, people would be less pissy about eSports being recognized if it was treated the same way, rather than included as anything resembling an official event.

Conversely, the only other acceptible scenario is if they force everyone to play Super Mario Bros 3, and you have to use the Power Glove.
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Definitely wouldn't have stopped, and the person doing the turn is an asshole, but it's not your moral responsibility to police the roads so you're fine.
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Name one for me, but maintain dark fantasy immersion and call him Porlock.
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hungrymike posted...

Want to see me stick nine inch nails through each one of my eyelids

Man, you wasted.
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rjsilverthorn posted...

I know, although I'm not quite that old myself. My first computer used audio cassettes.

:D

http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/pet/h/petcass.jpg
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My day:

http://www.nightfallcrew.com/wp-content/gallery/commodore-pet-2001-8c-chicklet-keyboard/IMG_9799.jpg
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Building generation ships to start pointing off in random directions in space in the hopes that one hits something.
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Gaawa_chan posted...

Depends on the individual movie. Some of them are making social commentary, for example, like Night of the Living Dead. Really obvious example, where the black hero survives the zombies only to be gunned down by a bunch of trigger happy white people.

The irony is, that wasn't even the original intention. His character basically dies in the end as a sort of cynical "Hah hah, fuck you" ending to show off the futility of it all.

As originally written, the character was supposed to be a dumb white guy and NONE of the subtext existed. It wasn't until they cast a black man in the role - and he rewrote his dialogue to better represent his own natural intelligence/education - that it kind of took on the additional meaning.

It's been mentioned that Romero himself didn't really intend for the film to have any social commentary or implications, but after the actor himself pointed out how his performance was going to be interpreted, Romero loved the idea.
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What is the point of anything?
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MrMelodramatic posted...

If your friend asked you to do them a favor...

I'd probably do it.



MrMelodramatic posted...

If your sibling asked you to do them a favor...

I'd be astonished, because the only sibling I had (that I know of) died about 15 years ago.



MrMelodramatic posted...

If your neighbor asked you to do them a favor...

I'd be surprised, because I don't really talk to my neighbors.



MrMelodramatic posted...

So lets say your good friend or sibling or parent or whatever was going on vacation and they asked you to bring the mail in. Gave you a key if you dont already have one, etc.

The last time my aunt asked me to bring her mail in when she was on vacation, I didn't even go into her kitchen, so she could have had an entire sink full of dishes and a corpse stuffed into the garbage can and I'd have never known. I just dropped her mail on the coffee table in the living room right inside the front door. Not that she would have done that, because she's kind of a clean freak.

It wouldn't even occur to me to clean up someone's house, though. That just sounds like crazy talk to me.
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CoorsLight posted...

I just tire of the cynicism especially in the face of the problems of the world when people say stuff like it could always be worse. It could also be way better too

Ohh, I agree. But again, that's not really what I was saying.

My point was more along the lines of people saying things now are worse than they've ever been before or we're going to wipe ourselves out as a species in the next couple decades are kind of asinine. Because even when you consider the things that ARE wrong, we're still better off than most of the rest of human history for nearly every single facet of human existence and behavior. And we've survived a HELL of a lot worse things than anything that's currently on our horizon. Surviving is basically what humans do, and we've got more tools in our arsenal now than most previous generations ever did.

Even as a pessimist/cynic, I'm capable of acknowledging that we're far better off than most humans throughout history, that people in The West/North America/the US/etc are far better off than most of the rest of the world, and that at least a significant part of why things can seem worse than ever before to people today is because a) we're constantly being bombarded by news, and most of it is bad, because we live in an information age and that's what draws ratings, and b) because most people completely lack historical insight.

That's not to say that things can't improve, or that we shouldn't seek to improve them, or that we should be absolutely content with what we have and we're not allowed to complain about anything because people are starving in Africa etc etc. It just means we kind of have to have a sense of perspective.

Egotism and ethnocentrism are huge problems for how we relate to the world and the other people in it, but that doesn't just apply to location but history as well. The better we understand the past and the world as a whole, the better we'd actually understand our place in it and what our reality is really like.
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ReggieTheReckless posted...

And then you jerk off while you respond to their comments

That would probably require me to actually give enough of a fuck about your opinions or feelings to care what your reaction is.
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Judgmenl posted...

They're going to drop baseball? Absolute monsters. Baseball is the only good sport.

It's also a sport that no one on Earth cares about other than Americans and the Japanese. And even Americans have been losing interest in it over the last few decades.

Not that niche appeal is necessarily an argument against anything, considering they added snowboarding when the only people who did it were rich white American kids.

If you've got enough money and are willing to throw it at the IOC, you could probably get pretty much any event recognized.
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Sarcasthma posted...

I guess we could call it a gold medal but make it silver.

Maybe just pyrite.
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Sarcasthma posted...

Do you think pionear should get a Gold Medal for being good a Duckbear Lite? (Poll Question)

Shouldn't the top medal for that category just be Silver?
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KodyKeir posted...

The original Questionable Content sub, after Jeph decided to change his comic from indy rock adjacent, to a SJW lovefest. (It was a change for the better imo)

It was a change from shit to a different flavor of shit IMO.

But the fandom of QC at pretty much any point is something I'd avoid like the Arcturan Mega-plague, regardless of where it was communicating.

Same deal with Homestuck. The comic was interesting (at least until it fell victim to terminal overcomplication and lack of focus), but the fandom was a festering wound in the psyche of the universe and you'd have to be a masochist to ever want to engage with it.

Ultimately, as has been repeatedly point out in this topic:

Mead posted...

Its all about what subs you are in

some are decent folks. Some are frothing mutants

If every subreddit you're going to is terrible, maybe you should stop going to terrible subreddits.

Or maybe you should look in a mirror and start reevaluating your own life, and consider why it might be that all of your peers in all of the places you feel drawn to are apparently such monsters (and start wondering how they view you).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4qh_9vH1Ww
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Judgmenl posted...

I don't actually need reddit and reddit is inherently toxic.

And yet you're still here?



Mead posted...

I wouldnt go that far. There is plenty that happens and is discussed on Reddit without toxicity

I see more toxicity on this board alone on a weekly basis than I've ever seen on Reddit in the entire time I've been using it.
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I'm not sure I've ever said "one hundred and eleven" in my entire life.

Most of the time I'd just say "one-eleven", except in the most formal of situations.

In the same way the current year isn't "Two thousand and twenty one", it's "twenty twenty-one".



CrackCloud posted...

I dont think a racist restructuring of the past is the holy solution you think it is.

But we've always been at war with Eurasia.
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Mead posted...

I dont think we can know the answers to those questions

Not knowing the answers to those question plays a large role in contributing to the fucked up nature of society, though.
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Mead posted...

What he did was wrong though.

The question we have to ask, though, is whether when someone does wrong we're willing to forgive them if they seem honestly remorseful and make an attempt to atone in some way, or if we'll simply hold it against them for the rest of their lives, regardless of how long that might be, or whether or not they might change as a person over time.

And then the second question we have to ask is, in any given specific case, has the person in question honestly regretted their actions and made a sincere attempt to make amends, or have they not sufficiently atoned based on whatever arbitrary standard we've decided is "good enough" or "not good enough"?

The legal system says "if you're convicted of X crime you're punished in Y fashion for Z amount of time", after which point you've technically fulfilled your debt to society. But we as a culture tend to act on the assumption that if you do something bad even once, you're pretty much fucked until you're dead. And even moreso when you're not convicted of a crime (and thus aren't "punished"), in spite of the fact that none of us are omniscient and have absolutely no idea of whether or not the accusation was even true in the first place.

No matter how much we pay lip service to the idea of people being rehabilitated for their crimes, we almost never actually accept the idea that anyone is ever really rehabilitated, and tend to treat them like criminals for the rest of their lives. Which is kind of fucked up.
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Pretty much everything released on a Nintendo console or exclusively to PC for the last 20+years.
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helIy posted...

where did this take place at

In the other guy's dining room.
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Ogurisama posted...

Bananas easy
Got a strawberry allergy

Strawberries easy
Got a banana allergy
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That's what stoners believe, yes.
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CoorsLight posted...

Edit: Or do it federally cause republican states would probably push back but you get the idea

A fair amount of the people pushing back against vaccination right now generally fall into the sphere of the Left. Unions complaining about mandatory vaccination, ethnic communities opposed to vaccination at all.

It's not just a political issue. And the people who insist on politicizing it are a large part of the problem causing the very thing they're complaining about.
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Metalsonic66 posted...

What do you get when you cross an owl with a bungee cord?

My ass!
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Dmess85 posted...

The only thing i don't like is when hollywood portrays king arthur and his knights as if they were the power rangers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0K6YGCSiwA

Bonus points for being Shuki Levy's last project before going to work on Power Rangers.
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CoorsLight posted...

"Kids are starving in Africa so shut up" - PO

Not really what I said at all, but I don't expect you to understand complex concepts anyway.

Or concepts in general, honestly.

You dum
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Mead posted...

and how often have groups of well educated and well meaning men of science been proven wrong?

Less often than stoners and philosophers.
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Entity13 posted...

I mean, the way things have been going the last couple decades, I'd be more surprised if humanity in general was around by 2040

That's recency bias, though. Modern events can seem bad because we're living through them, but compared to most of the rest of human history, we're probably living in the most golden of golden ages our species have ever known.

Even aside from comparing things like how even some of the poorest people have a quality of life higher than the average medieval noble, just looking back at the last decade or so there are still people alive who grew up being taught to hide under their desks at school to survive an atomic explosion because we were all pretty convinced WWIII was going to start tomorrow and we were going to burn the world with thermonuclear fire.

We can look at the world and scream about wealth and social inequality, but it's still mostly better than nearly any other meaningful point in human history, especially if we're focusing on major cultures as opposed to smaller hunter-gatherer groups or other microcosm communities. We can even complain about Covid, but honestly, we're only just a few years off being in the same century of a WAAAY worse outbreak. Crime is lower, global conflict is lower... for most things, it only SEEMS worse because the 24-hour news cycle and the Internet have made it possible for EVERYTHING to feel magnified and blown far out of proportion, because we hear about things now we never would have heard about even 50 years ago. We're essentially looking at the world under a microscope and being horrified by the fact that everything looks bigger.

If anything, the only real incipient threat that could take us out for realsies is probably climate change, but that would take much longer to really kick in. And it's plausible that we could eventually adjust to cope with that as well (though as a cynic and a realist, I tend to doubt we're capable of the required long-term planning and systemic thinking that would be necessary, so we might be screwed).



Entity13 posted...

leaving some post-singularity AI to speculate about their creators, why they exist, and why there's such terrible music on the broadcast network they all share.

I find this to be extremely optimistic. Partly because there's a good chance we'll screw everything up before we ever figure out how to create seriously advanced AI, and partly because the Singularity as a concept is kind of magical wish-fulfillment bullshit.

When we finally manage to kill ourselves off, we aren't leaving anything of value behind.
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Mead posted...

Let it permeate

The nope is pretty well permeated already. It's been marinating in reality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity#Criticisms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil#Criticism
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Lokarin posted...

For metric, Final Fantasy Mystic Quest gets the Mendoza Seal of Mediocrity - it's the bar and you have to perform under it to be "bad"

Mystic Quest isn't even that bad - it was just "Baby's First RPG" at a time when people were coming off way more advanced Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy games (or worse, WRPGs like Ultima and Wizardry) and expected more. Especially since they slapped the Final Fantasy brand name on something that was never originally a Final Fantasy game in the first place (the same way they later did on GameBoy, releasing the SaGa games as Final Fantasy Legend and a Mana game as Final Fantasy Adventure).

It doesn't help that 99% of the time, when you hear someone complain about it these days, they've never actually played it. It's just "memetically bad" in the same way that 7th Saga is "memetically hard".



Garlands_Soul posted...

The problem for me is that I've definitely played worse but they were so forgettable that I've forgotten about them

This is the problem for me, honestly. It's easy to remember games you like, but when you don't devote a ton of time to a game because it's terrible, and you move on with your life, it's much easier to forget the weird, obscure, or just-plain-bad RPGs you've played.

Sometimes I even have the problem where I'll remember having played a game, and I'll remember that I didn't like it, but not why - and I can't even entirely remember the genre. Like I'm not entirely sure whether it was an adventure game or an RPG, but I just remember thinking it was kind of shit.



KodyKeir posted...

I was going to say Legend of Dragoon, but that's PS1

I was going to say Chrono Trigger, but that's at least partly me trolling.

But it's also partly because I never really liked the game at all (it doesn't help that I hate Toriyama's art style, and that I played and enjoyed Chrono Cross first and never really went back to CT until years later). And because it always felt like there were better RPGs out there even when it was contemporary. And because the Internet has spent the last 20 years or so sucking it off far harder than it ever deserved, to the point where now I mostly just kind of hate it out of spite (see also, Ocarina of Time).

Nostalgia always complicates things, though. There are a lot of popular games that I dislike that I might have been more willing to go to bat for if I'd played them when they were new and I was a child forming fresh memories and undying loyalty for brand identity, but which kind of look and feel like shit when you're coming back to them years later when you're older and have way more experiences to compare them to. I loved the absolute shit out of the original Dragon Warrior/Dragon Quest as a kid, but if I'd never played it before and played it for the first time today, I'd probably find it boring and needlessly frustrating ("Why do I need to use a separate command to walk down stairs?!").
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I've never ordered electronics in the middle of a global microchip shortage, so no, I've never had that problem.
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OhhhJa posted...

Pretty much everyone knew this was going to happen. At least I figured it would as well as many others I talked to. Are you telling me that I have more foresight that our medical experts and other related government agencies?

Why not? I certainly did. I've been predicting pretty much every step along the way of this thing since last February. Including most of the fuck-ups.

But it's worth remembering that being able to accurately predict something or suggest something isn't the same as being able to implement something. Saying "We're going to need some sort of universal ID system to show who's been vaccinated and who hasn't, we should probably have some sort of easy-to-carry card that is about the same size as a driver's license/credit card" is easy. Actually developing the system for such a thing and coordinating with every single vaccination point to distribute it, and establishing means to check for valid cards versus fakes, is much, much harder.

Regardless of whether you want to use it as an excuse to shit on either Trump or Biden, both administrations have completely dropped the ball on providing anything resembling coherent leadership or legislation. But it's also somewhat understandable, because people have been predicting a global pandemic was pretty much inevitable for years, and suggesting we needed systems in place to deal with it, and we never bothered establishing even the most basic of plans. So now we're like the metaphorical kid trying to finish his term paper an hour before the class where it's due.

When you're in the middle of a crisis where no one is really taking charge and hundreds of people, groups, local governments, or private businesses are being forced to invent policy on the fly with no real guidance, there's going to be a LOT of counter-intuitive shit going on.
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I saw Haley's Comet when I was 9, and 9-year old me predicted that I'd never make it to the next go-around.

So I'll probably be dead by 2060.

44-year old me suspects I might not make it to 2040. Possibly not even 2030.
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Mead posted...

The singularity or something close to its magnitude is in our near future

Nope.
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ArvTheGreat posted...

And she pretends to be her sister and sleeps with you is that considered cheating Arvs asking for an Arv

It's not cheating, it's "rape by deception". She can go to jail for it.

Hopefully they arrest the right twin.
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Lokarin posted...

I mean, no one eats spaghetti at the beach

Macaroni Salad is a pretty common picnic/outdoor food, though.
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-2
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Zeus posted...

Still probably my favorite Martin Lawrence film, which is a little sad (although I guess the Bad Boys films are the only other contender)

Death at a Funeral is pretty good, though he's only part of a larger ensemble cast in that, as opposed to it being a starring vehicle for him. And there's definitely an argument to be made that the original British version of the movie is much better, but that's mostly a matter of subjective taste.
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Dmess85 posted...

Yeah, King arthur it's crap treatment in Hollywood

"A Kid in King arthur's Court"

Well, that's just a modified adaptation of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur%27s_Court

Same as this, honestly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_(film)
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