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Does anyone still have the city map that goon troll designed with the AIDS Camp in it? That was back when we had actually hilarious conservative trolls like Scrubber.
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:no one's ever complimented my posting before, and i aspire to be as great as swan oat one day  thank you my friend, i will use this as inspiration to continue exposing something awful to my scorching hot takes and top notch content
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Jul 29, 2014 05:36
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Popular Thug Drink posted:what the gently caress is this poo poo How does this not immediately turn into a slum?
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Jul 29, 2014 05:38
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Popular Thug Drink posted:it's just fine if you're dicking around with cheap building on your own property, but if you want the local government to pay to make children live there? come on Plus it's nowhere near anything so unless they're planning on everyone just staying within the confines of the old mall, it's still entirely car-reliant.
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Jul 29, 2014 05:40
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Hedera Helix posted:How does this not immediately turn into a slum? apparently they want to convert the mall into some kind of nebulous incubator startup industrial facility thing with a culinary kitchen, which i guess implies that the residential camp is a factory town? so it's a slum by design then, but for easily manipulable neophilic millenial graduates? comes along bort posted:Plus it's nowhere near anything so unless they're planning on everyone just staying within the confines of the old mall, it's still entirely car-reliant. one of if not the fatal flaw with new urbanism is that you can't really do much about the comprehensive suburban matrix being hostile to pedestrians. the best you can do is site redevelopment to punch holes in the sprawl and hope that they vaguely connect up somehow, decades from now, with like a train or something new urbanism is like the giant waving banner of leftist urbanist innovation in america and it spends most of its time hanging limply being endlessly discussed in academia while the political-developer alliance continues to make crazy money doing virgin site tract housing and strip malls e: this is addressed to the thread in general but it's important. when an area moves from lower density to higher density, what do you do to the infrastructure which sustains that population? you upgrade its capacity. you build more power lines, build more schools and hospitals, install more utility/sewer lines, and so on. the problem is that transportation infrastructure, once placed, is really hard to move. you can dig more gas lines. you can't really root up an entire subdivision and put down urban blocks. of all the infrastructure that goes into building a human settlement, roadways and land lots are the least flexible. nearly all of the new development in america since 1950 has been specifically for cars, not people. yeah. boner confessor fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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Jul 29, 2014 05:54
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ReindeerF posted:Does anyone still have the city map that goon troll designed with the AIDS Camp in it? That was back when we had actually hilarious conservative trolls like Scrubber. couldn't find it, drat. these popped up while looking though.  
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Jul 29, 2014 05:57
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ReindeerF posted:Does anyone still have the city map that goon troll designed with the AIDS Camp in it? That was back when we had actually hilarious conservative trolls like Scrubber. I don't think anyone would actually believe that D&D was full of Earnest Libertarian Discussions back in the day, or that one of the mods idealized Churchill.
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Jul 29, 2014 06:03
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cafel posted:I've seen some neat structures built out of cargo containers, but uh yeah, doesn't seem like the best kind of thing for human habitation. They can look fairly decent once some effort is put in:    Main thing to keep in mind is that most of the walls don't need to be there for actual structural reasons.
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Jul 29, 2014 06:05
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Dreylad posted:I don't think anyone would actually believe that D&D was full of Earnest Libertarian Discussions back in the day, or that one of the mods idealized Churchill. EDIT: Also, is this a good time for someone to post the whole Remedy saga? Because that is some hilarious poo poo. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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Jul 29, 2014 06:11
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It is very important that I not pay correct taxes on this internet space bux converted to real money i embezzled, your honor.
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Jul 29, 2014 06:19
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Also prosecution and enlisting in the Army.
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Jul 29, 2014 06:26
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:there's lots of buddhist sects and it's all tied up with nationalism and poo poo, i just like the food, which makes me the worst buddhist, i think Well I'm no Buddha but I think that actually makes you a pretty good Buddhist.
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Jul 29, 2014 06:46
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ReindeerF posted:Does anyone still have the city map that goon troll designed with the AIDS Camp in it? That guy's probably Steve Stockman by now ReindeerF posted:Sometimes it reminds me of now, except instead of painful discussions on the minutiae of the particular strain of your snowflake ideology that you follow on the fringe right (e.g. "I'm not an AnCap, I'm a MinArchist") it's the same from the fringe left. God having to listen to those morons like Remedy go on in their niche politics code-speak was so loving painful. I'm a dark minarchist, the Native American genocide was necessary to increase the # of casinos
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Jul 29, 2014 07:06
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SedanChair posted:That guy's probably Steve Stockman by now ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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Jul 29, 2014 07:10
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any fans of white lung in the house? that is some good rear end music, in my opinion.
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Jul 29, 2014 07:36
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So, we all gonna get Ebola and poop blood and die or what?
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Jul 29, 2014 07:42
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Tatum Girlparts posted:So, we all gonna get Ebola and poop blood and die or what? Wrap it up ebolailures.
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Jul 29, 2014 07:47
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ReindeerF posted:Wrap it up ebolailures. 
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Jul 29, 2014 07:52
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Tatum Girlparts posted:So, we all gonna get Ebola and poop blood and die or what? We'll see in two or three weeks how many countries Mr. International Airport managed to infect 
treasured8elief fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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Jul 29, 2014 07:54
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Yeah no literally wrap it up that poo poo is hella contagious okay?
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Jul 29, 2014 07:55
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Tatum Girlparts posted:So, we all gonna get Ebola and poop blood and die or what? It's not airborne, so just don't drink contaminated water, eat contaminated food, or share bodily fluids with someone who's infected and you should be fine? edit: v Or that. 
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Jul 29, 2014 07:57
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Hedera Helix posted:It's not airborne, so just don't drink contaminated water, eat contaminated food, or share bodily fluids with someone who's infected and you should be fine? Or get bitten by a monkey, I think?
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Jul 29, 2014 08:09
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The Hot Zone is a fascinating book. I have no idea about the science, but it's a great read. Outbreak, the movie, was pretty hilariously awful. Has there ever been a disease outbreak movie (non-zombie, so no Boyle or Zombieland) that was any good? Like the scientific type? And, no, Soderbergh's piece of poo poo Contagion was not good. If you want a good chuckle, go back and watch the original Andromeda Strain. Holy poo poo is that funny.
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Jul 29, 2014 08:14
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ReindeerF posted:The Hot Zone is a fascinating book. I have no idea about the science, but it's a great read. Outbreak, the movie, was pretty hilariously awful. The Stand (which was a TV series adaptation of a Stephen King novel, not a movie, but whatevs) was pretty good, although I've only seen it once, and that was a decade ago. I'm not sure if it would hold up today. Do be aware that the resolution to the plot comes out of nowhere, and the CGI is pretty goofy.
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Jul 29, 2014 08:19
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e: I'm dumb.ReindeerF posted:Outbreak, the movie, was pretty hilariously awful. What was the deal with that movie? I never got around to seeing it. Was Dustin Hoffman just unconvincing as an action star?
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Jul 29, 2014 08:20
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It was one of those flicks where everything is just hilariously stupid. Petersen's unpredictable. Sometimes you get Das Boot and sometimes you get Poseidon.
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Jul 29, 2014 08:28
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Yeah, he's a rangy director, even in the space of one movie. Look at "Troy" - lots to like in that movie, but a lot to hate too. (seriously, who tells the story of "The Iliad" and decides to remove the Greek gods from it?)
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Jul 29, 2014 08:35
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ReindeerF posted:The Hot Zone is a fascinating book. I have no idea about the science, but it's a great read. Outbreak, the movie, was pretty hilariously awful. Seconding the Hot Zone as a very interesting read. The detail Richard Preston put into that work blew my 12 year old brain.
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Jul 29, 2014 08:42
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Majorian posted:(seriously, who tells the story of "The Iliad" and decides to remove the Greek gods from it?) lol, what?
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nutranurse posted:lol, what? The movie "Troy" basically tried to tell the story of "The Iliad," but the only supernatural thing in it, besides Achilles (Brad Pitt, who was good) being a badass, was his mom popping out of nowhere to tell him he was going to die at Troy. Otherwise, David Benioff, the screenwriter (of Game of Thrones fame), decided he was going to make it realistic, maaaaan. And it sucked.
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Jul 29, 2014 08:45
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I love Peter O'Toole and Brendan Gleeson and they made that movie for me, but it was awful. As was O'Toole's "Paris has loved many women and many women have loved Paris but..." speech in his late, great Hepburn accent.
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Jul 29, 2014 08:48
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The Gleeson/Bloom fight is still really entertaining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS9kqq6PNnQ
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Jul 29, 2014 08:49
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ReindeerF posted:I love Peter O'Toole and Brendan Gleeson and they made that movie for me, but it was awful. As was O'Toole's "Paris has loved many women and many women have loved Paris but..." speech in his late, great Hepburn accent. Definitely, and that's what makes me sad about that movie: most of the performances were good. Orlando Bloom was weak, quelle surprise, but everyone else did good stuff with what they were given. But starting from the premise of taking a Greek epic poem set in the Age of Heroes, and then taking out all the gods and magic and monsters and other fun stuff? Honestly, how could anybody have thought that was a good idea?
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Jul 29, 2014 08:52
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The Hot Zone terrified me for like a decade, some cruel person gave it to me in about sixth grade and I couldn't finish it until some time in college. Good book, but Ebola is some scary poo poo.
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Jul 29, 2014 08:56
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Swan Oat posted:The Hot Zone terrified me for like a decade, some cruel person gave it to me in about sixth grade and I couldn't finish it until some time in college. Good book, but Ebola is some scary poo poo. The part where he is describing the monkeys in that lab being taken out in bags as more soup than animal was pretty scary. Still sticks with me. Oh also the part where the doctor cuts themselves accidentally while working on an infected specimen and they are peeling off the layers of the containment suit trying to see how far the breach was, that was also a really well done but deeply unnerving scene. Oh, speaking of Troy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPaj8lR786s AstheWorldWorlds fucked around with this message at 09:06 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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Jul 29, 2014 09:03
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ReindeerF posted:Has there ever been a disease outbreak movie (non-zombie, so no Boyle or Zombieland) that was any good? Like the scientific type? And, no, Soderbergh's piece of poo poo Contagion was not good. If you want a good chuckle, go back and watch the original Andromeda Strain. Holy poo poo is that funny.
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Dreylad posted:I was in northern Portugal recently and got served chicken stomach and it was pretty good! They also have a ton of game meat. It's a red meat paradise, also the landscape is gorgeous, and the vinho verde flows like water. I get the feeling that Portugal is like the destination for a lot of English people because Portugal's economy is in the shitter from the recession and a tenth of their population leaving because their Prime Minister told Portuguese young people that they're overqualified and should go look for work outside the country. Tripas are delicious. I think it came about because all the good meat got shipped out to the sailors, and people in Porto were left with the offals, so you get tripas (tripe). Also the reason why people from Porto are sometimes nicknamed "Tripeiros".
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Jul 29, 2014 09:22
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Dreylad posted:I don't think anyone would actually believe that D&D was full of Earnest Libertarian Discussions back in the day, or that one of the mods idealized Churchill. its still pretty funny to me that the actual, honest to god Communist D&D mod was turfed out by a vote from kooky left-wing LF.
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Jul 29, 2014 10:39
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paranoid randroid posted:its still pretty funny to me that the actual, honest to god Communist D&D mod was turfed out by a vote from kooky left-wing LF. Who was that?
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Dreylad posted:I don't think anyone would actually believe that D&D was full of Earnest Libertarian Discussions back in the day, or that one of the mods idealized Churchill. D&D used to be full-on conservative. I remember when saying that Saddam might not have WMDs would get you hounded out for being a crazy leftie. They also really didn't like Islam http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1372067 Gum fucked around with this message at 11:39 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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