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Bushiz
Sep 21, 2004

The #1 Threat to Ba Sing Se

Grimey Drawer

Del Capitan posted:

I was under the impression that Notch mostly did his stuff to mess with people, and even announced his intentions to do so beforehand?

At least this is what my otherwise dependable friend who follows his twitter tells me.

notch is self-aware enough to see what a loathsome sadsack he is and calls himself out in advance as some cargo cult version of irony.

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Mel Mudkiper
Jan 19, 2012

At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.
for all the talk of how bad NPR is by shoe gazing lamefucks, there was an amazing exchange just now where an 89 year old woman tore into an undecided Bernie voter for being dumb

Ash1138
Sep 29, 2001

Get up, chief. We're just gettin' started.

fishmech posted:

He got married in 2011 and divorced in 2012.
From the old CNET article on sadNotch:

quote:

Persson explained: "In sweden, I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do poo poo, watching my reflection in the monitor."

He added: "Found a great girl, but she's afraid of me and my life style and went with a normal person instead."
Yes, they are "too busy" and she is "afraid" of your life style :lol:

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

My Linux Rig posted:

Nah he probably just used okcupid like every other fat developer

:smith: Hits too close to home man.

greatn
Nov 15, 2006

by Lowtax

cant cook creole bream posted:

So what if he did? Is there something inherently wrong with that? A rich man paying for sex isn't really spectacular news.

There's something inherently sad about it

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord

Electric Sugar posted:

I'll try to write things up - hopefully everything will be fine. They seemed pretty organized and made sure to set newbies up with experienced poll workers, though there were a lot of new recruits for this election.

Did they have the touch screens set up at Eastland? I thought the whole "ballot assist" was pretty clever - the touch screen just helps you fill out the dots on the ballot, so there is still a paper record as well.

I would like to see more local Dems running, but with whackadoodles like the BLNews lady around griping about the Coliseum no wonder no one wants to get involved in the local shitshow.
Yeah, it was touch screens with the paper tape inside the machine. It went really smoothly - I liked it better than the scantrons I was normally using every time I've voted in the past 8 years.

I only notice BLNews when some idiot friend on facebook shares them for some reason. The only good part of it all is how Mayor Renner comes on Sound Ideas a few times a month and spends like half his time complaining about the local Tea Party. I love how much open contempt he has for them; he seems like a pretty together dude and I'd vote for him if I was in Bloomington. (Also, since I have kids in hockey, I am needless to say very much opposed to the insane idea that Bloomington should shut down the Coliseum. I mean, for real, these people will be fighting that battle for the next decade.)

Minimalist Program
Aug 14, 2010

Ash1138 posted:

From the old CNET article on sadNotch:
Yes, they are "too busy" and she is "afraid" of your life style :lol:

she's afraid of his life style re: being an angry and fat man who likes java programming.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Del Capitan posted:

I was under the impression that Notch mostly did his stuff to mess with people, and even announced his intentions to do so beforehand?

At least this is what my otherwise dependable friend who follows his twitter tells me.

There's no way to prove whether or not he's sincere but by this point he's so committed to this persona that either it's accurate or he doesn't care that this is how he comes off which is equally bad.

Donkwich
Feb 28, 2011


Grimey Drawer
she's afraid of me and my not having a life style

BlueBlazer
Apr 1, 2010

Phone posted:

He got corncobbed hard by Lowtax the other night. Notch corrected Lowtax's assertion that he wears a $4 fedora with "its actually a $250 fedora".

Lowtax is a pretty good troll sometimes. His current timeline on Twitter is quite amusing.

He really is one one the best people to put alt-right internet dick heads in their place after all. Though I think they tend to just respond with "SHUTUP GRANDPA!"

Mel Mudkiper
Jan 19, 2012

At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

My Linux Rig posted:

Nah he probably just used okcupid like every other fat developer

hey gently caress you man I am not a developer

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot

BlueBlazer posted:

Lowtax is a pretty good troll sometimes. His current timeline on Twitter is quite amusing.

He really is one one the best people to put alt-right internet dick heads in their place after all. Though I think they tend to just respond with "SHUTUP GRANDPA!"

I thought Lowtax's life was falling apart ever since his divorce and zero income from the forums

Unzip and Attack
Mar 3, 2008

USPOL May

GalacticAcid posted:

I think someone should make a Google Doc where every poster can fill in their feelings on NPR.

One link in the OP so that we don't have this lovely derail every few pages would be great.

Fitzy Fitz
May 14, 2005




Agrajag posted:

I thought Lowtax's life was falling apart since his divorce and zero income from the forums

Hey, that's something he and Notch have in common.

Donkwich
Feb 28, 2011


Grimey Drawer

haveblue posted:

There's no way to prove whether or not he's sincere but by this point he's so committed to this persona that either it's accurate or he doesn't care that this is how he comes off which is equally bad.

Irony poisoning is real

(although in notch's case it probably wasn't irony to begin with)

5436
Jul 11, 2003

by astral
*Breaking News*

Guy who makes video games from Something Awful is a loving loser.

Minimalist Program
Aug 14, 2010
I want to go to Notch's house and ride the in door water slide and eat candy from the candy wall and go in the bouncy castle room and wear a freaking diaper because apparently being filthy rich means you get live in a physical space that reflects the fact that you are mentally a child.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

FactsAreUseless posted:

Do you think Notch hired an escort to take his virginity?

I wasn't gonna say this, but now that we're on the topic, why is he sad about women? He's rich and in LA, he could literally bang pornstars/high end escorts all day every day for the rest of his life.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

cant cook creole bream posted:

So what if he did? Is there something inherently wrong with that? A rich man paying for sex isn't really spectacular news.
It isn't a judgement, it's trivia. Just an item of interest.

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/791369493809201152

Joe Walsh posted:

On November 8th, I'm voting for Trump.

On November 9th, if Trump loses, I'm grabbing my musket.

You in?

canepazzo
May 29, 2006



https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/791369493809201152

This loving guy.

emdash
Oct 19, 2003

and?
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/atandt-time-warner-letter?inline=file

Bernie letter to the DoJ urging Time Warner/AT&T merger blockage

Spacebump
Dec 24, 2003

Dallas Mavericks: Generations
I don't understand why so many polls in Ohio have Trump in the lead, what's wrong with that state?

Crow Jane
Oct 18, 2012

nothin' wrong with a lady drinkin' alone in her room
I bet the candy wall is full of ants and other bugs. I know Notch is a lardass and all, but no one can eat that much candy, and he doesn't have friends to help him

boner confessor
Apr 25, 2013

by R. Guyovich

Minimalist Program posted:

I want to go to Notch's house and ride the in door water slide and eat candy from the candy wall and go in the bouncy castle room and wear a freaking diaper because apparently being filthy rich means you get live in a physical space that reflects the fact that you are mentally a child.

what i liked most about the video tour is that notch, a man with no friends or social skills, bought a house which is clearly oriented around constant entertaining and social events

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


Donkwich posted:

So basically what every alt-right type tells themselves.
Conservative ideology now can be boiled down to weak trolling and pseudo irony.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Spacebump posted:

I don't understand why so many polls in Ohio have Trump in the lead, what's wrong with that state?

Lots of non college educated white people?

Minimalist Program
Aug 14, 2010
Like imagine if instead of spending 98% of his fortune on foundation/charity work, Bill Gates had just made the most freaking epic sony playstation mancave and candy grotto in the world and tweeted jokes about ghostbusters.

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat
I lost my virginity to one of those really tall water slides.



This dude uses twitter but doesn't know firearms progressed past the musket?

Mel Mudkiper
Jan 19, 2012

At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

WampaLord posted:

I wasn't gonna say this, but now that we're on the topic, why is he sad about women? He's rich and in LA, he could literally bang pornstars/high end escorts all day every day for the rest of his life.

The problem with being an obese antisocial millionaire is that your only companionship is with women willing to gently caress an obese antisocial millionaire

Mel Mudkiper
Jan 19, 2012

At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.

War Re-enactors for Change PAC

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


BROCK LESBIAN posted:

I lost my virginity to one of those really tall water slides.


This dude uses twitter but doesn't know firearms progressed past the musket?
Using a musket enhances the role playing, which is all they're doing when they talk about revolution.

Harold Fjord
Jan 3, 2004

Spacebump posted:

I don't understand why so many polls in Ohio have Trump in the lead, what's wrong with that state?
All the good people move away like a reverse free state project.

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord

Spacebump posted:

I don't understand why so many polls in Ohio have Trump in the lead, what's wrong with that state?
I think this was covered before, but "bunch of white people who used to use in manufacturing until automation/China/Bill Clinton/Mexicans/Obama/Kaiju Invasion ruined their jobs"

It's the rustiest of the rust belt.

boner confessor
Apr 25, 2013

by R. Guyovich

Minimalist Program posted:

Like imagine if instead of spending 98% of his fortune on foundation/charity work, Bill Gates had just made the most freaking epic sony playstation mancave and candy grotto in the world and tweeted jokes about ghostbusters.

although i'm sure a lot of it has to do with location (beverly hills heights los angeles vs. suburban but still close to city seattle) but notch's house cost 7x-8x as much as bill gates house

Crow Jane
Oct 18, 2012

nothin' wrong with a lady drinkin' alone in her room
I keep thinking Joe Walsh is the America's Most Wanted guy, and feeling vaguely disappointed but not surprised

Mel Mudkiper
Jan 19, 2012

At this point, Mudman abruptly ends the conversation. He usually insists on the last word.
On Nov 9 I am heading out there with my arbalest and trebuchet

BlueBlazer
Apr 1, 2010

Casimir Radon posted:

Some guy chipped Trump's name off his Walk of Fame Star. Unfortunately he's the most uncoordinated guy in the world. Isn't very good at swinging a pickax or sledge hammer.



I would of just used a cordless rotohammer, would have taken < minute. /armchair-contruction-worker

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

Agrajag posted:

I thought Lowtax's life was falling apart ever since his divorce and zero income from the forums

He got remarried like a while back.

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Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011


Is that what they're calling it these days?

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