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Push El Burrito posted:This grouping loving sucks. Could you only afford one target? All those hits above the target remind me of going to a range in south Orlando. There was a guy with his daughter and a .22 pistol and her target (placed relatively far down) looked like it had been peppered with birdshot. Bullets flying all over the place. Then suddenly there's a bright flash of sparks as one of her bullets hits the target line pulley. Range had to shut down for a bit so they could run a new cable across. Later there was also a guy with a pistol-grip-only shotgun that took every single target he brought off the holders and a guy who didn't secure his laser sight to his pistol, causing it to go flying across the range floor under recoil. And the guy who pointed a Beretta almost all the way over his shoulder at the viewing window to unload it for some reason.
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Nov 26, 2019 23:10
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I feel that nerddom has gotten a lot more progressive in general as more kinds of people are coming into the clubhouse. The reactionaries complaining about "SJWs" "ruining" their fandoms are just that: reactionaries. This isn't to say that fandom is free from toxicity - any community where you're rewarded for being narrowly obsessed with one thing is bound to be at least a little unhealthy, and all fandoms have to be careful not to encourage creepy or bullying behavior - but I think things are getting better overall.
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Nov 26, 2019 23:26
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Pththya-lyi posted:I feel that nerddom has gotten a lot more progressive in general as more kinds of people are coming into the clubhouse. The reactionaries complaining about "SJWs" "ruining" their fandoms are just that: reactionaries. This isn't to say that fandom is free from toxicity - any community where you're rewarded for being narrowly obsessed with one thing is bound to be at least a little unhealthy, and all fandoms have to be careful not to encourage creepy or bullying behavior - but I think things are getting better overall. Much like with boomers, the toxic old generation will eventually die out. Their influence will last longer than their lives because of what they teach other people, but traditional nerd spaces becoming accepted by the mainstream has likely caused an irrevocable, slow change that will gradually push out the "SJWs gettin' in my star wars" people.
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Nov 26, 2019 23:31
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chitoryu12 posted:All those hits above the target remind me of going to a range in south Orlando. There was a guy with his daughter and a .22 pistol and her target (placed relatively far down) looked like it had been peppered with birdshot. Bullets flying all over the place. The first time I fired a pistol at a range I hit one of the clips holding the target and the whole thing just fell to the floor. I turned to my friend and asked him to walk down the lane and grab it for me. He refused 
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Nov 26, 2019 23:45
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Push El Burrito posted:The first time I fired a pistol at a range I hit one of the clips holding the target and the whole thing just fell to the floor. I turned to my friend and asked him to walk down the lane and grab it for me. Your plot failed.
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Nov 26, 2019 23:51
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The Star Wara EU had this monstrosity post-Endor, but how treaded motorcycles are a bridge too far?
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Nov 26, 2019 23:51
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Brawnfire posted:It's a diverse galaxy! Anything goes! Was Star Wars the franchise where one writer said that gay people just don’t exist in that universe?
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Nov 26, 2019 23:55
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RatHat posted:Was Star Wars the franchise where one writer said that gay people just don’t exist in that universe? I thought that was Iran.
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Nov 26, 2019 23:59
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Dr Christmas posted:The Star Wara EU had this monstrosity post-Endor, but how treaded motorcycles are a bridge too far? BUT THEY HAVE  HOVERCRAFT
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Nov 27, 2019 00:05
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RatHat posted:Was Star Wars the franchise where one writer said that gay people just don’t exist in that universe? i think yeah that was the lady who wrote all the books about mandalorians and was unusually obsessed with their culture, which was basically entirely just her fanfic because no one else ever wrote about them. so they were all super hetero and no gay mandalorians ever existed. that or she made all the mandalorians gay, one or the other or that might all be confused with the dragonrider lady who says that only gay people can ride certain dragons and riding the gay dragons makes you gay or with anne rice who says that when a penis penetrates a man's butthole it releases hormones that turn him gay, it's scientifically proven there are a lot of problematic sex ideas in sf and fantasy
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Nov 27, 2019 00:15
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BB-h8 (the first order one) was the best droid and also a giant round wheel. 
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Nov 27, 2019 00:16
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Sagebrush posted:i think yeah that was the lady who wrote all the books about mandalorians and was unusually obsessed with their culture, which was basically entirely just her fanfic because no one else ever wrote about them. so they were all super hetero and no gay mandalorians ever existed. Idk if Anne Rice also said that, but the thing about being penetrated during anal sex making you gay due to hormones was definitely the dragonrider lady, Anne McCaffrey.
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Nov 27, 2019 00:19
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Sagebrush posted:i think yeah that was the lady who wrote all the books about mandalorians and was unusually obsessed with their culture, which was basically entirely just her fanfic because no one else ever wrote about them. so they were all super hetero and no gay mandalorians ever existed. That's Karen Traviss, who is super-weird in general and specifically about Star Wars. She hated the Jedi so much that she gave the Episode III montage where the Clone troopers massacre them a standing ovation, right there in the movie theater. She also called fans who disagreed with her "Talifans," after the Islamic fundamentalists.
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Nov 27, 2019 00:22
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Pastry of the Year posted:I read that first post, which was at the end of a page, and thought "haha you're doing a thing, no one is mad at Star Wars for having wheels" and then, well 
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Nov 27, 2019 00:35
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RatHat posted:Was Star Wars the franchise where one writer said that gay people just don’t exist in that universe? It's from The Old Republic, the Star Wars MMO. Explanation: TOR launched with nothing but straight romances. This being Bioware, a lot of fans expected same-sex romances and asked about it on the forums. A dev said they had been planned they just didn't make it in to launch and would be patched in soon. When soon passed, people posted more and a moderator said that people in Star Wars don't think of themselves as gay or straight or bi, they're just attracted to who they're attracted to and no one makes a big deal about it or considers it an identity - this is the response that everyone said was "No gays in Star Wars!" Also, Makeb had two queer romance options: a bisexual woman for the Republic and a gay man for the Empire. Both ended in a kiss, nothing more, and they've never been seen or mentioned again. Shadows of Revan added two recurring NPCs who could be romanced, a man and a woman. Both had completely gender neutral romances that never mentioned your gender at all. There have been more steadily dribbling into the game ever since, all of them completely gender neutral and consisting both of brand new bisexual romances and formerly straight characters who come out of the closet and can start a romance with a PC of the same sex. Still have to wait until you finish the entire base game's story to reach any LGBT content at all, though.
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Nov 27, 2019 00:59
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Wasn’t TOR the one with a gay planet?
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Nov 27, 2019 01:04
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goblin week posted:Wasn’t TOR the one with a gay planet? That would be Makeb. One gay man for one faction, one bisexual woman for the other faction. Neither seen or mentioned again after you finish the story on that planet. Partially because the gay guy can die depending on your story choices, and you'd better believe that when that expansion was new there were people on the official TOR forums loudly talking about how they got the guy killed because he was gay.
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Nov 27, 2019 01:06
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goblin week posted:Wasn’t TOR the one with a gay planet? Idk but Doom Patrol had a gay street
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Nov 27, 2019 01:12
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Nov 27, 2019 01:38
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https://twitter.com/Phoebe_Fuller98/status/1199360663904235527 Labour really should just get down with bigots, that'll bring in votes. Nobody else has done that ever.
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Nov 27, 2019 01:48
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Clerical Terrors posted:https://twitter.com/Phoebe_Fuller98/status/1199360663904235527 I don't think ive ever seen anyone who wasnt on tumblr ask for anything like xe/xir, and the tumblr people were likely either trolls or 14 year olds who thought they had the soul of an anime. I've never seen a non-binary person ask for anything other than "they" on any other platform. Tbf if i actually met someone who insisted on a completely unique pronoun, i would probably just avoid them under the assumption they were either super immature or a narcissist.
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Nov 27, 2019 02:08
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The writer s. e. smith goes by “ou”.
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Nov 27, 2019 02:27
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When thoughts of other posters cross my mind: https://mobile.twitter.com/bestofnextdoor/status/1199507967680204800 AlbieQuirky posted:The writer s. e. smith goes by “ou”. OuOu what's this E: lol she writes sci fi bodice rippers zoux has a new favorite as of 03:05 on Nov 27, 2019 |
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Nov 27, 2019 03:03
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zoux posted:When thoughts of other posters cross my mind: 
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Nov 27, 2019 03:26
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Nov 27, 2019 03:43
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 "Unlike you Liberals/Millennials, I'm not so easily offended" part 134729.
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Nov 27, 2019 04:09
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Picnic Princess posted:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/1199485863857655808 Oh it's gonna be a thing now
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Nov 27, 2019 04:14
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Oh my god thanksgiving isn't even religious you loving shitrags.
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Nov 27, 2019 04:16
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RoboRodent posted:Oh my god thanksgiving isn't even religious you loving shitrags. Depends on how closely you tie it to the Pilgrims. There was also a thing a while back about Obama making a Thanksgiving proclamation without explicitly mentioning God.
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Nov 27, 2019 04:21
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but its OLD and therefore GOOD and shouldn't be CHANGED (even though it won't)
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Nov 27, 2019 04:22
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Nov 27, 2019 04:25
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/wyp100/status/1199280554929262593?s=21 I had to go delving and he explains it. Since the calendar didn't have a year 0 and started at year 1 the first decade would have be 1-10 which makes this current decade 2011-2020
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Nov 27, 2019 04:28
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Mr. "Everybody Else Has The Same Boring Food Taste That I Do And Are Just Faking It" is doubling down: https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1198644080923815936 https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1198644373715587073 https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1198644649105080320 
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Nov 27, 2019 04:30
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Nov 27, 2019 04:39
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1/10 Can't make ice cream. Len posted:I had to go delving and he explains it. Since the calendar didn't have a year 0 and started at year 1 the first decade would have be 1-10 which makes this current decade 2011-2020 Which is, on its face, ridiculous, because we don't about the 202nd Decade, we talk about the 2010s. It's absurd to propose that 2010 wasn't part of the 2010s but 2020 is. likewise 1999 was the last year of the 1900s but 2000 was the last year of the 20th century
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Nov 27, 2019 04:41
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John Wayne's Neighborhood where he narcs on Mr. McFeely to the CIA because he talked about unions once.
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Nov 27, 2019 04:43
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Faustian Bargain posted:Is Friendsgiving a “liberals” thing or is this just another case of thing-I-don’t-like-must-be-liberals? I think it's multiple things: 1) Liberals want to replace Merry Christmas with Happy Holidays, so it only makes sense for them to try to eliminate Thanksgiving too 2) Young people are more likely to celebrate with their friends rather than travel home to their (racist, sexist) relatives, and if Millennials are doing something it's probably bad 3) The word "Friendsgiving" was coined after 1975, so it's an idiot fad
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Nov 27, 2019 04:49
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Imagine calling other people wimps and looking like this joke of a man.
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Nov 27, 2019 04:52
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Mr. "Everybody Else Has The Same Boring Food Taste That I Do And Are Just Faking It" is doubling down: Hey, buddy, just because you can't handle spicy food doesn't mean the rest of us are only pretending to enjoy the experience. Full confession: I am definitely a person who has happily ordered food that last time brought me to tears. I never regret it.
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Nov 27, 2019 04:57
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