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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Gripweed posted:

aaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH Chapo spreading that Millennium Challenge bullshit again!

it's annoying because the ways RED cheated and the ways RED "cheated" are difficult to disentangle

on the one hand, loading up speedboats with missiles bigger than speedboats is just some absolute script kiddy trying to break the game horseshit

on the other hand, "wait if I know the opposing force has compromised electronic communications, what if I don't use electronic communications for important poo poo" is exactly the kind of strategic decision we've been screaming NO FAIR at our opponents for using since Vietnam

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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Ace of Baes posted:

might wanna take out the RL episode to avoid uncomfortable follow up questions...like why he dissapeared

on the same line it is probably worth editing out the Rein Over Me episode if you're trying to avoid awkward questions

it's a genuinely fascinating deep-dive onto no seriously what the gently caress was wrong with America post 9/11, but the Discourse related to it was extensive enough to get them to stop using the word retarded entirely.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

i say swears online posted:

drat I never knew this part

it's revealing of the underlying flaw, though. Riper or Ripper or whatever did what he did not as a demonstration that the US could be beaten by Iran, but as a way of saying "this entire simulation is loving stupid." everything is contingent on RED's commander behaving exactly on-script. if he messes with what the simulation was designed to do, even slightly, the whole thing breaks down. and he was not interested in only slightly breaking it.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

420 Gank Mid posted:

Kill All Normies is extremely forboding of someone who doesnt quite understand anything thats going on and learned everything they know on 4chan and accepted a great deal of it uncritically.

it's pretty good as an anthropological study of the lovely tribe in question

as literally anything else it's godawful and somewhere along the line she got the idea it was something else.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
In conclusion launching Brooklyn into the sun would have wholly acceptable numbers of innocent casualties

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Badger of Basra posted:

luckily I also think both of those podcasts are bad

but also, those were before her article about how the Chinese exclusion act was good

also the Louis ck thing...

the first one of those two eps is alright, the second one kinda sucks rear end

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Autism Sneaks posted:

haha holy poo poo a Shakesville mod in the wild. I don't think a more damaged kind of lib feminist brain exists, even McEwan is second to the kind of person who would be her apostles

the fandom is always so much worse than the person it has focused on

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

a Loving Dog posted:

gently caress, his confidence in spite of everything about him is inspiring

god bless the saving power of daddy's money

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

gh0stpinballa posted:

normally don't mind amber but she's insufferably boring re epstein. either go full epbrain or go home at this point.

outgrowth of the whole brooklyn mean girl #brand. epstein brain involves admitting weakness and confusion in the face of something gigantic and horrible, which could potentially interfere with taking a superior position the next time you feel like some antifa guys are engaged in a Bad Look.

when she is right she's right but she's always been a Messy Bitch Whomst Loves Drama first and a lefty second.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Ytlaya posted:

The recommendation to listen to early chapo was a good one. I didn't know that they had gone on Street Fight podcast before making their own, and that Street Fight even existed before Chapo. What did they even do before the podcast? The awkward pauses in the first episode were kinda funny.

I'm pretty convinced now that Felix is by far the most talented Chapo in terms of general ability to be funny and entertaining.

felix occupies a not-uncommon niche in the comedy world, and an extremely not uncommon niche in the podcasting world: The One Who's Dead Weight 95% Of The Time But Holy poo poo, That Five Percent.

that was the deal with Graham Chapman in Monty Python; guy was an alcoholic by even English standards, and ended up playing the main characters in the movies mostly so he wouldn't have to keep track of who he was from scene to scene. he did not contribute much to the general writing, but when he did, it was stuff like saying "you've got something there, but a broken toaster just isn't funny enough. what if it was a dead parrot."

admittedly he accidentally invented the whole monkey cheese genre of humor as a result, but in his defense the dead parrot sketch still slaps regardless.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

i say swears online posted:

Parasocial Activity

this is possibly the only justification for creating another podcast in brooklyn

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

AnEdgelord posted:

Duncan deliberately tries to keep a neutral voice in the podcast and give every side a fair shake. His real beliefs leak out every now and then though.

he started out extremely lib in Rome, but by the eighteenth time he read "and then the liberals betrayed them to the counterrevolutionaries and they all got purged" he couldn't help but draw a few conclusions

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
good job team we made it five months before completely degenerating into the bizarre twitter beef thread again

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Victory Position posted:

thankfully, I am at work and not watching the Democrats piss all over themselves

they're actually doing surprisingly well

the republicans are in the "whine terrified" mode and the democrats are treating them like tenants trying to make excuses for a late rent check.

it's still just spectacle, but it's a lot less embarrassing a spectacle than preceding ones

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Gripweed posted:

I was listening to an episode of Pod drat America with Matt Christman talking about something, and one of the hosts was really annoying in a way that felt familiar. I looked it up and he's also really annoying on Ballin Out Super. I don't like that guy, he makes podcasts bad.

he's good in contexts where the people are familiar enough with him to smack him down when he starts getting rambunctious

when people are not sure whether they are allowed to tell him to shut up his material suffers

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
from a mechanical standpoint FF6 is astonishingly bad, and its back half is the birth scream of the dread god "if you run out of budget in the second half of your game, just throw everything you've got at a random spot on the world map and make the player buy the guide to figure out where/what anything is."

chrono trigger aged well; FF6... was a bold step forward, and like most bold steps forward, it didn't age well

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
it is some extremely bougie Brooklyn poo poo

the treatlads' attendance is not disqualifying, merely funny

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

papa horny michael posted:

their supposed bourgeois party is identical in look and content to most queer parties, you blobs.

that extremely bad picture of virgil at the party is straight out of college facebook and it owns

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Serf posted:

goku cannot legally consent

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
the article suffers a little bit from the boundaries of the PMC being vague enough you can slot anyone you don't like into it, and also from the inescapable need of the academic to blame the problems of the world on the kids these days showing insufficient respect to their elders, but good article.

every other one of the chapos has an uncertain future, but it is an absolute certainty Amber's includes the time she gets pissy at some adjunct for poo poo-talking her and sues, completing the cycle

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

we know our own, and despise them

it's one of the parts of the article that rang incredibly true

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Ace of Baes posted:

people have been whining amber is about to become a fascist for like 2 years now which never stops being funny because she's been a socialist longer than pretty much everyone leveling that accusation

nah, she won't become a fascist. but she is absolutely going to decide some piece of poo poo adjunct is showing her insufficient respect in a faculty meeting and go nuclear. the Circle of Academia is inescapable in this regard.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Ace of Baes posted:

how often do you spend fantasizing and getting enraged about stuff she hasn't done? kinda weird dude

slow day for twitter drama, huh

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Trabisnikof posted:

Sorry dude but Jorden Peterson sucks.

peterson's funny because he's about as close to an academic's academic as you can get, with politics that are a pure expression of his material circumstances. the things that annoy him in his day-to-day work are students who won't respect him and other professors who won't agree with him, and therefore, he builds a political worldview where once -those- issues are dealt with, everything else will fall into place.

amber's certainly smarter than that low bar, but you'll notice her takes get a little more galaxy brain every time discussion strays towards those topics. there is a reason for this.

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Larry Parrish posted:

why worry about any of that stuff when we can instead shoot the rich people and the people who say we shouldn't shoot the rich people

because sometimes someone has the wrong opinions about video games

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Crowsbeak posted:

Lol. Hey. Bourgeois just need to accept their failures to come out. Unless you’re suggesting their genetically incapable of not exploiting their fellow man. Also. Lol at you trying to justify telling people to kill themselves. Reminds me of a dnd person who did that.

perhaps we can put the women who have sex out of wedlock in a different part of the camps, rod

gotta do something about those damnable slatterns shaming their families in the eyes of God, after all

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Serf posted:

its pretty hard to do the richard wolff thing and go solo unless you're reading off a script. its always good to have someone to carry on a discussion with

the second person is added to be an audience surrogate- to go into the details that you might have brushed over.
the third person is added because person one and two need an outside influence when they get stuck in a rut. two people with a third guest is -probably- the ideal.

the fourth person is where it usually starts to go off the rails

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

AnEdgelord posted:

Actually the third person is for you and your friend to bully for cheap laughs

this is also the case

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Victory Position posted:

it's for the better these days, as I think I've heard Dave's recurring bits on every show for the last three years

the dollop accomplishes the impossible in making the live episodes significantly better than any of the studio episodes

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

how many levels of bit deep are we here

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Jonah Galtberg posted:

but unironically

when his debate with the UKIP Gamer Caucus finally convinces The_Macedonian_Groyper to abandon fascism, the australian pissing himself over the DSA will tearfully accept the masses' accolades

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Serf posted:

starting to feel like i should've asked for something in return for y'all. like the ability to use the new york accent and no one can get mad at me

this is the native right of all americans and most forms of swede

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Crowsbeak posted:

He coined the term. Really he is pretty bog standard lib con. Most of the IDW is pretty boring. Rubin annoys me just because of his open dishonesty.

weinstein is the guy who went on fox news to bemoan how Evergreen College was anti-white now because there was some kind of sensitivity day that hurt his feelings

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Retromancer posted:

It's definitely the best one made this century.

empire's probably a better movie if only because it didn't have "we need to give the guy JJ decided not to kill because he liked him a character" burning up a third of its plot

TLJ's probably the best you can do with a star wars movie under disney

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
though if Johnson had had the balls to Abrams-style "Poe Dameron died in fortnite, anyway let me tell the story of Finn+Leia and Rey+Luke now" that would have been fantastic

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

TheBalor posted:

The only silver lining of climate change will be seeing all the apocalypse fetishists and their dawning realization that the USA will not be destroyed even by the violent inundation of whole coastlines. Historically states have suffered losses to plague and war upwards of 70 percent, and still kept running. There will be no grand balkanization, no regression to a primitive state. The absolute worst that I see happening is a regression to early 20th century standard of living en masse...which while bad, will not free you from the tax man.

I mean, there's gonna be a nontrivial amount of balkanization

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Crowsbeak posted:

Amber had a great episode on Red Scare I think it’s ridiculous that it is so difficult to do a female gonzo book. Also. Hope Nagle is on again.

remember back when you established that while we'd need reeducation camps for people pushing Jordan Peterson thought, they must exclude dear, sweet Angie

sexual pathology so thick you can cut it with a knife

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Doc Hawkins posted:

is this peak parasociality

nobody's started shipping them yet, but we can see that point from here

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

extremely

you can tell they edited it down, extremely, to avoid getting into the weeds with the boys on any issues, and they come off as pathetically weak as a result

just pure, uncut liberal terror of actually having to defend a position

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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006
virgil is clearly Russo-Abkhazian. in this essay i will

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