death .cab for qt posted:

Maybe there isn't a goon hivemind...

pentyne posted:

Nothing is a better example then Bioshock. A FPS console game comes out that draws from the classic FPS style of the 90s PC games and is one of the most innovative FPS console games in years offering more then just "shoot enemy soldiers" and creating an atmosphere, story, lore, and feeling of exploration. It wasn't flawless, it had issues, but on a whole a poo poo ton of people loved the game and it was regarded as the best game of the year by many.

Goons immediately turned against it and started savaging it as "babbys first FPS", telling anyone who liked it that they were loving retarded because System Shock 2 did it better and mocked the CoD/Battlefield crowd for thinking it was deep and meaningful. Hating Bioshock became the big "elite gamer" thing on the forums at the time and for years was constantly referenced whenever goons would started making GBS threads all over a new popular game en masse.

Kajeesus posted:

I didn't really care for the control scheme so I didn't play the game long enough to have or post about any opinions.

The MSJ posted:

The female orgasm of message boards.

pentyne posted:

Nothing is a better example then Bioshock. A FPS console game comes out that draws from the classic FPS style of the 90s PC games and is one of the most innovative FPS console games in years offering more then just "shoot enemy soldiers" and creating an atmosphere, story, lore, and feeling of exploration. It wasn't flawless, it had issues, but on a whole a poo poo ton of people loved the game and it was regarded as the best game of the year by many.

Goons immediately turned against it and started savaging it as "babbys first FPS", telling anyone who liked it that they were loving retarded because System Shock 2 did it better and mocked the CoD/Battlefield crowd for thinking it was deep and meaningful. Hating Bioshock became the big "elite gamer" thing on the forums at the time and for years was constantly referenced whenever goons would started making GBS threads all over a new popular game en masse.

Big Anime Fan Here posted:

They're jealous of his opportunity. There aren't any porn websites called "She just turned 28, and is at a reasonably equal maturity level to me"

Bobby Digital posted:

sweeperbravo posted:

I just read through that whole thread. Man, there's nothing so perfect as an e/n thread where the OP goes "You know what, guys? You're right. I'm gonna go do the right thing like you've all been telling me and get everything straightened out. I'll do it tomorrow!" And then the OP never posts again.

pentyne posted:

Outside of "CPS is trying to take away my kids" I can't think of a single E/N that had a positive outcome come about. Every single thread is either someone who does not comprehend how normal human relationships work or someone so far into the depths of batshit crazy that people are sure its fake until it turns out to be true. Plus, there's always goons who married and then get into hilarious lovely situations like that guy from BFC who's wife coerced him into buying a house they couldn't afford then tricked him into getting her pregnant and his budget proposals were hilariously hosed up with like $2k a month for luxuries and him barely paying the bills.

Kavak posted:

Zaurg (Get a divorce) later admitted that his wife might've been cheating on him, but refused to get a paternity test on this very convenient new pregnancy because he thought preggo sex was hot.

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These are the texts to ex from around that time.

10/24/2011 2:58pm - Sorry, its been crazy busy today
10/24/2011 3:01pm - No, call tomorrow- meeting at 4:30 today may run late
11/2/2011 11:02am - Not Sure Yet
11/2/2011 11:04am - When u free? I will see if i can get someone to cover
11/2/2011 11:22am - Meet at my moms at 1:30
11/2/2011 12:31pm - Yes

Now I'm retracing the timeline in my head and this is not good.

In early December, she was late on her period, to which I immediately replied "wtf? we didn't even have sex since your last period!" but I wasn't 100% sure, and she acted incredibly offended, and she convinced me we did have sex late in November around Thanksgiving, even though I didn't remember it well.

Then last month I found out she actually miscarried in December, so she WAS pregnant. She had visited her doctor in December and told me afterwards that the doctor was "pretty sure she hadn't miscarried" or something to that effect, which sounds stupid now. Surely they would have known that one way or the other.

So if my initial thought was correct that we did not have sex between 11/15-12/15 and she was pregnant, well then poo poo.

These conspiracy theories are driving me nuts right now but now I'm starting to think there is some truth to this.

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She did a couple times say that if I wouldn't give her a second child, she'd find someone that would. I didn't think she was serious.

pentyne posted:

Outside of "CPS is trying to take away my kids" I can't think of a single E/N that had a positive outcome come about.

pentyne posted:

Chichevache posted:

Link to the thread please. This sounds incredible.

pentyne posted:

Outside of "CPS is trying to take away my kids" I can't think of a single E/N that had a positive outcome come about. Every single thread is either someone who does not comprehend how normal human relationships work or someone so far into the depths of batshit crazy that people are sure its fake until it turns out to be true. Plus, there's always goons who married and then get into hilarious lovely situations like that guy from BFC who's wife coerced him into buying a house they couldn't afford then tricked him into getting her pregnant and his budget proposals were hilariously hosed up with like $2k a month for luxuries and him barely paying the bills.

pentyne posted:

Outside of "CPS is trying to take away my kids" I can't think of a single E/N that had a positive outcome come about. Every single thread is either someone who does not comprehend how normal human relationships work or someone so far into the depths of batshit crazy that people are sure its fake until it turns out to be true. Plus, there's always goons who married and then get into hilarious lovely situations like that guy from BFC who's wife coerced him into buying a house they couldn't afford then tricked him into getting her pregnant and his budget proposals were hilariously hosed up with like $2k a month for luxuries and him barely paying the bills.

PupsOfWar posted:

the Springfield Republican Party fails every time because they treat their opposition as bleeding-heart granola liberals when in reality the Springfield Democrats are a hard crew whose command of county-level machine politics has allowed them to control the city for over a century

are you willing to send your volunteers into Bum Town and Little Stockholm to take on the bosses, Burns? Are you willing to send them to die? Are you willing to dirty your hands by bribing Chief Wiggum or schmoozing with the patrons at Moe's? Are you willing to humiliate your puppet candidates by sending them to make banal small-talk at every restaurant opening and shopping event?

dont underestimate Joe Quimby, Burns. Joe Quimby will gently caress you up.

pentyne posted:

Nothing is a better example then Bioshock. A FPS console game comes out that draws from the classic FPS style of the 90s PC games and is one of the most innovative FPS console games in years offering more then just "shoot enemy soldiers" and creating an atmosphere, story, lore, and feeling of exploration. It wasn't flawless, it had issues, but on a whole a poo poo ton of people loved the game and it was regarded as the best game of the year by many.

Goons immediately turned against it and started savaging it as "babbys first FPS", telling anyone who liked it that they were loving retarded because System Shock 2 did it better and mocked the CoD/Battlefield crowd for thinking it was deep and meaningful. Hating Bioshock became the big "elite gamer" thing on the forums at the time and for years was constantly referenced whenever goons would started making GBS threads all over a new popular game en masse.

mind the walrus posted:

Look I know that Bioshock meant a lot to you when you first played it at 13 but you need to have some perspective here. Much like Halo and Quake and Goldeneye and Half-Life and Doom, Bioshock is depressingly adolescent. It really did streamline everything it could from System Shock 2. The only real design coup it made was that for the first time developers decided to fuse the nerd poo poo of an underwater and vaguely steampunk aesthetic with some legitimate artistic stylings like art deco, and the graphical capability of the video game systems it ran on could finally support such an aesthetic without looking like poo poo. Couple that with a surface level commentary on Ayn Rand and a nice twist about player agency and it's no wonder that it blew the minds of teenagers everywhere. But it's not that great a game in the end. It's a bog-standard content muncher that looks and feels a lot prettier than the Gen-X washout aesthetics gamers had been used to for 15 years. It's not some snobby opinion to recognize this. I do and I still like Bioshock a really great deal and recognize its importance in gaming history, but if you like it and aren't willing to do a Google 101 search on its influences and history and realize its place then that's on you, not mean-hearted video gamers.

AnonSpore posted:

There lived in Games lots of ill goons
In fact you might say they were loons
About games they were mad
No laughs to be had
What a bunch of horrific baboons

Chichevache posted:

Link to the thread please. This sounds incredible.

quote:

Easier to agree than tell her no? With this one, both are very hard. Both suck at this point. Upbeat - no. I was upbeat about finances a short while ago when the spreadsheet said I could be debt free in less than 5 years and all these possibilities started roaming around in my head about options we could take... pay off part of debt... then save... pay off all debt... save like mad... buy a house for cash in less than 10 years, etc. All options that sounded amazing if it wasn't for wife hating where we live.

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Quite stressful and the wife is not taking my decision as well as I'd hoped. Doesn't sound like our relationship will survive this and the threat made of her moving out of state with my daughter has me a little freaked out - but I honestly think that was just her expressing frustration and anger and would not do something like that.

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Now I have to divorce my wife. Daughter is 2 years old and will no longer live with her daddy and mommy. But hey my net worth will be better. Oh wait, no it won't.

quote:

Hahaha oh man I forgot about that one, that was my sister's wedding. We stayed in the same hotel room. We had our daughter stay with grandma in a different room so we could have a room to ourselves. But then we rented hotel porn and didn't have any sex.

quote:

Had the most awesome sex last night. Seriously probably the best in the past 2 years. Didn't even use any of the porn, sex toys, or lube. Stuck to the plan of handling getting daughter to bed, set up some candles, poured her some chilled wine, and I am so surprised about how smoothly it went. Wasn't weird or awkward or anything like I had been thinking it might be after a 5 month hiatus. I think some renewed confidence helped me a lot.

Zaurg's sound financial plan posted:

This is embarrassing.


Blow soup lunch $14.00
Blow mcdonalds $6.99
Blow firstgiving $82.00
Blow mcdonalds $4.55
Blow mcdonalds $6.99
Blow pei wei $8.70
Blow panera bread $27.31
Blow cvs easter $10.57
Blow domain names $35.47
Blow Walgreens-Easter $7.41
Blow Deals - Easter $50.00
Blow mcdonalds $10.77
Blow mcdonalds $3.18
Blow niece gift 40.98
Blow pizza 17.35
blow wife Lunches 21.00
Blow wife Lunches 2.00
Blow jamba juice 8.88
Blow mcdonalds 5.81
Blow pei wei 3.63
Blow wife Lunches 13.00
Blow family fest 37.00
Blow mcdonalds 5.82
Blow mcdonalds 11.53
Blow party Dessert 8.99
Blow Wine 11.65
Blow Moe's 17.39
Blow beer 10.16
Blow netflix 8.54
Blow mcdonalds 3.50

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She explained to me in detail how hurt she was and how she acted in haste, she was furious, she was lashing out, etc. and that she shouldn't have and any of her references to taking our daughter was just a result of that anger and not based on something she'd realistically do.

quote:

Taking my daughter away from her mom = the best. You guys are psycho!

quote:

From that point on, is in big question. Wife literally balked at the idea of living here for an ADDITIONAL 6 MONTHS after child is born to save more to buy a house. I just don't see how this is going to work, other than me just holding my ground, making this place more livable, and her just living with it.

Lottery of Babylon posted:

The zaurg thread is actually quite derivative of previous e/n threads, though I appreciate its historical significance

mind the walrus posted:

Look I know that Bioshock meant a lot to you when you first played it at 13 but you need to have some perspective here. Much like Halo and Quake and Goldeneye and Half-Life and Doom, Bioshock is depressingly adolescent. It really did streamline everything it could from System Shock 2. The only real design coup it made was that for the first time developers decided to fuse the nerd poo poo of an underwater and vaguely steampunk aesthetic with some legitimate artistic stylings like art deco, and the graphical capability of the video game systems it ran on could finally support such an aesthetic without looking like poo poo. Couple that with a surface level commentary on Ayn Rand and a nice twist about player agency and it's no wonder that it blew the minds of teenagers everywhere. But it's not that great a game in the end. It's a bog-standard content muncher that looks and feels a lot prettier than the Gen-X washout aesthetics gamers had been used to for 15 years. It's not some snobby opinion to recognize this. I do and I still like Bioshock a really great deal and recognize its importance in gaming history, but if you like it and aren't willing to do a Google 101 search on its influences and history and realize its place then that's on you, not mean-hearted video gamers.

mind the walrus posted:

Look I know that Bioshock meant a lot to you when you first played it at 13 but you need to have some perspective here. Much like Halo and Quake and Goldeneye and Half-Life and Doom, Bioshock is depressingly adolescent. It really did streamline everything it could from System Shock 2. The only real design coup it made was that for the first time developers decided to fuse the nerd poo poo of an underwater and vaguely steampunk aesthetic with some legitimate artistic stylings like art deco, and the graphical capability of the video game systems it ran on could finally support such an aesthetic without looking like poo poo. Couple that with a surface level commentary on Ayn Rand and a nice twist about player agency and it's no wonder that it blew the minds of teenagers everywhere. But it's not that great a game in the end. It's a bog-standard content muncher that looks and feels a lot prettier than the Gen-X washout aesthetics gamers had been used to for 15 years. It's not some snobby opinion to recognize this. I do and I still like Bioshock a really great deal and recognize its importance in gaming history, but if you like it and aren't willing to do a Google 101 search on its influences and history and realize its place then that's on you, not mean-hearted video gamers.

scary ghost dog posted:

me (watching a man struggle to maintain his relationship with his wife with the hope that their daughter grows up in a financially and emotionally stable household): wtf? wheres the action? where's the imagination? doesnt he know if he leaves her he can live the glorious goon bachelor lifestyle

Mean Bean Machine posted:

Wow that's amazing, you're telling me J. R. R. Tolkien and D&D was an influence for an actor, who didn't write or direct any of these movies? You telling me this guy read the motherfucking Lord of the Rings books, like millions of other people? This obviously means Dom Toretto is a friggin level 30 berserker with a +5 Vorpal Holy Avenger Car just pwning those little newbs. Epic. Friggin epic.
Listen this is a movie series about fast cars, explosions, swole guys and hot babes, can we maybe talk about that stuff and leave this geeky dumb poo poo to the literally hundreds of threads in these forums specifically related to that stuff?

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

The MSJ posted:

Someone angry about nerds:

Bertrand Hustle posted:

I thought it was a well-known fact that Vin Diesel was a giant nerd. Supposedly he taught Dame Judi Dench to play D&D.

Jenny Angel posted:

It's also explicitly a D&D campaign, as confirmed by a Justin Lin interview posted some pages ago. The order in which I saw the movies was 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, and going from 5 to 1 I was floored by how low-key everything was. But it's about escalation. Dom Toretto in Furious 6 is not the same person as Dom Toretto in TF&TF because he's leveled up from like 5 to 20-something. And there are things that are necessary to the process of leveling that far. There's the continuing growth and harmony of the adventuring party/family, and the acquisition and use of magic items/cars. Cars are not just a thing you drive fast in this series (Though it's kinda hilarious how there's the additional parallel of broadening scope of items. In TF&TF, the cars are super important but they don't really do much. They drive exclusively in straight lines, often badly, because these are just +2 Cars compared to the +5 Vorpal Holy Avenger Cars we get later).

Cars are a lifeblood and a part of the character, and as someone astutely noted earlier in this thread, Letty starts to remember "who she is" when she gets behind the wheel against Dom. When you're describing your epic-level character, the artifact-level items he's attained are part of that identity. This is the correct way to play D&D, Lin claims, as opposed to Shaw's crew who are again explicitly referred to by Rome in "evil mirror party" terms. These guys are powergamers. They drive ridiculously minmaxed armored F1 cars, they've looked through a hundred splatbooks to find a little car-disabling artifact that's totally gonna be broken in this next encounter, and they've sorta forgotten to give their characters personality. Shaw just cares about the result, the winning/losing binary, and if one of the characters in his party dies it's because that character wasn't optimized enough. So whatever, roll a new one.

And then it's still confusing somehow when Epic Level Dom Toretto does a superman jump to save Letty and they land on a car which breaks their fall. "How did you know there's be a car to break our fall?" is a line that's ridiculous on purpose and ideally jolts the audience into realizing "Wait, it's probably not actually literal cars that are being talked about here". I'm pretty sure cars are not actually soft and do not actually break falls. But that doesn't matter because it's a (not-particularly-subtle, this movie is not particularly subtle) set of metaphors. You take a big ridiculous risk, as big and ridiculous as you can, to save your fellow party member, and it pays off because of the life-saving force of epic level items. The DM (Lin) is not a neckbearded gently caress, so his priorities are straight. He rejects Shaw's code (brutal, gamist, us-versus-them minmaxing) and accepts Dom's (escalation predicated on doing cooler and cooler things with your friends that you're getting closer and closer to as you play).

I think it's fairly unlikely that we're gonna get a better D&D movie than Furious 6 for a long while. I saw the film a couple week ago and it's still a little baffling just how much Lin "gets" it.

tbp posted:

he was loving around you retards