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Simply Simon
Nov 6, 2010

📡scanning🛰️ for good game 🎮design🦔🦔🦔
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WfD4wg2ltY

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Mezzanine
Aug 23, 2009

*Koralle :colbert:

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




No.

Healbot
Jul 7, 2006

very very very fucjable
very vywr very



*Vater

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

The Anime Liker
Aug 8, 2009

by VideoGames

welcome 2 Clown Town
Aug 1, 2006

GALAXY'S #2 SCULL*!

*scrunt skull

dudes gonna get cucked by a dragon

Bad Wolf
Apr 7, 2007
Without evil there could be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometime !

C.P.A.N. posted:



Porn star April O'Neil cosplaying as April O'Neil

Right. This has been a wake-up call. I need to seriously re-evaluate my life, because the first thing I noticed in that picture was the goddamn Tardis, not the cosplay. And that poo poo just isn't right.

KazigluBey
Oct 30, 2011

boner

Fighting fire with fire.

While Islam seems unchangeable because by its very nature it is axiomatic and dogmatic, there is one loophole, in two separate contexts.

if Islam is the word of Muhammed, then the only one who can fundamentally alter the texts is by Muhammed himself, or a recognized descendant (and prophet) of Muhammed.

After all, both sides (Shia and Sunni) would have to respect the visionary.

Enter King Abdullah II of Jordan, a direct descendant of Muhammed, with the requisite political power to be taken seriously.

I'll explain the first option through the popular Sci-Fi phenomenon of Star Wars:

Well, Luke was torn.

Between following the code of the Jedi vs following the lusty nature of the Empire, he is torn between his allegiance to his father, Darth Vader, and to the rebel base.

King Abdullah is Luke, a descendant of a powerful ancestor. Muhammed is Darth Vader, a man turned to the Dark Side, who helped the Empire (Islam) gain great footholds over the galaxy (Planet Earth).

Emperor Palpatine is Abu Bakr-Al Baghdadi, the personification of evil, but only following the powers invested in him from the Senate (he is a terrible person, but didn't actually do anything legally wrong senate-wise). He also didn't create the Jedi Order, but is just trying to return it to his (accurate) version of the force - unleashing the original powers via hatred.

Remember that like America after 9/11, the Jedi Senate arrested (or tried to, anyway) Senator Palpatine without just cause, without fair trial, and did so with lightsabers turned on. In self-defence, he naturally killed them (just as you cannot take off a cop uniform and raid a house without a warrant - the guy inside might think you're ).

Ergo, King Abdullah II has to decide between following the destiny of his "father" and joining the Empire, or between following the path of a more progressive age, with his non-Muslim friends, Han Solo (hilariously Jewish apparently), Leia (Christian queen), and Chewbacca (the family dog?) that he has come to grow and love (Star Trek, Georgetown University, Stanford University, partnerships with Egypt and Israel).

Luke's actions, by their virtue of being committed by that one descendant, send powerful messages that a new dawn has arisen over the Empire, and that a dark ages is finally over.

Just to take this full-circle in the new trailer for the upcoming Star Wars movie, Luke states:

> "You have that power too. In time you'll learn to use it as I have. The Force runs strong in my family. My father has it. I have it. "

Luke states (implicitly) because of his contributions to the Force, he has paved the way for others to help re-build the Jedi Order (or something close to it), whereby it's acceptable to use the Force once more, and not confined to a prior age.

King Abdullah II will usher in a new understanding of Islam, a righteous one, based on actual love and peace, with his contributions in (hopefully) reforming the loophole.

However, this option places too much credit on the Muslims adhering to Islam, and since the Quran wouldn't be fundamentally changed, it would still enable terror attacks in the name of Islam. The religious sectarian war between Sunni and Shia would still occur, and as seen in Libya, and the with the Arab Spring, the rebels wouldn't know if they wanted a Caliphate, a secular pro-Western country, or what they want at all. It's too risky to think that people would automatically change their opinions about Islam, especially when the very idea of Islam is axiomatic, dogmatic, and believed to be the Religion of Peace, even though there's much evidence to the contrary that it's anything but peaceful.

Therefore, the second (and more absolute) way of reforming Islam is through the establishment of a Caliphate (which is the original goal of Islam, and of all the terrorist groups - Shia or Sunni).

King Abdullah II (related to Muhammed, and thus respected by all sides) would need to follow the code of the Quran and establish a Caliphate. Once declared the Caliph leader (although the counterpart of ISIS), he would be able to make sweeping reformations to the Quran, as part of a new era of Islam.

However, it couldn't be done through treaties establishing temporary control, because the very ideology requires that Islam is spread through forceful conversion (the penalty for apostasy is death), and by the sword and not through trade negotiations.

However, he seems to be a good candidate (and our only hope) because his Kingdom of Jordan seems to be moderate, and Abdullah II acknowledges it wasn't because of introspection of the Quran, but of the British protectorate system that imbued healthy values unto him.

His family has been educated at Georgetown university, and Stanford university, and he's a huge fan of Star Trek (and their peaceful 23rd century space federation).

Like Anakin Skywalker, he would need to embrace his dark side as Darth Vader in order to finally help overthrow the Empire (by throwing the Emperor down an exhaust tunnel).

But that's the scary option because that's too much power to trust to one man. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

Myrddin_Emrys
Mar 27, 2007

by Hand Knit

KazigluBey posted:

Fighting fire with fire.

In the meme thread? Seriously?

Jedrick
Mar 21, 2010

:420: There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high-powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
Smoke weed every day.
:420:
From the deviant fart thread:
Reeeal tempted to put this one on facebook.

Nuevo
May 23, 2006

:eyepop::shittypop::eyepop::shittypop::eyepop::shittypop::eyepop::shittypop::eyepop::shittypop::eyepop::shittypop::eyepop::shittypop::eyepop::shittypop:
Fun Shoe

Jedrick posted:

From the deviant fart thread:

Reeeal tempted to put this one on facebook.

:france:

Brimruk
Jun 5, 2009


Phone calls are generally harder on the dog, etc. etc.

Karate Bastard
Jul 31, 2007

Soiled Meat

Yeah lick those bugs off the grill you filthy whore.


KazigluBey posted:

FWiAEIWBKERELJ>LKHTKHHHLB

:confused:



What? What is is dog? Didn't she make it? Did you lose custody? They never found the ball they threw? Talk to me dog, you're scaring me now.

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

Brimruk posted:



Phone calls are generally harder on the dog, etc. etc.

The dog can still move past it and heel

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


KazigluBey
Oct 30, 2011

boner

pwnyXpress
Mar 28, 2007

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

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coolskull
Nov 11, 2007


That's right. love my anime you hussy.

CobiWann
Oct 21, 2009

Have fun!

I have the best crossover in my pants right now.

CobiWann has a new favorite as of 01:48 on Nov 24, 2015

The Anime Liker
Aug 8, 2009

by VideoGames

lmbo

Hogge Wild
Aug 21, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Pillbug

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

that is one of the more personally horrific scenes in movies

like an education in mortality with purpose

miles bennet dyson did nothing wrong

Male Tiers
Dec 27, 2012

Why don't you just lay down your weapons now?

Stex T
Mar 7, 2005

Shut the fuck up and get out. Have fun being a slave of the rich and powerful.

Shayu
Feb 9, 2014
Five dollars for five words.

I just notice he is touching exhaust pipe like a penis so maybe the car is a boy and he likes gay cars? It's interesting to think.

anotherblownsave
Feb 26, 2008

The sponsors will like you better this way, trust me.

Ozz81 posted:

The dog can still move past it and heel

:golfclap:

Judge Schnoopy
Nov 2, 2005

dont even TRY it, pal

Shayu posted:

It's interesting to think.

Give it some practice and it will start to feel more natural.

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.



Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋




Girlfriend threaten drat it

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

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Etoniichuan
Oct 27, 2005


Intoluene
Jul 6, 2011

Activating self-destruct sequence!
Fun Shoe

:vince:

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

Your avatar made me remember something...


https://youtu.be/u3LQ6UZFVFs?t=5m12s

wyoming
Jun 7, 2010

Like a television
tuned to a dead channel.

Wow.

beato
Nov 26, 2004

CHILLL OUT, DICK WAD.

XenophobicAirport
Dec 15, 2007

Please have your weapons prepared at the terminal.

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