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Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

The Deleter posted:

glue your opponents to the floor with icing. Just be careful with the gingerbread!

tbf when it comes to glueyness and biscuits, there's a much worse alternative

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sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


The Deleter
May 22, 2010

Tesseraction posted:

tbf when it comes to glueyness and biscuits, there's a much worse alternative

The Private School Student subclass didn't get past the first round of playtesting for many reasons, and the soggy biscuit ritual was only one of them.

MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese

The Deleter posted:

The Private School Student subclass didn't get past the first round of playtesting for many reasons, and the soggy biscuit ritual was only one of them.

I pull out my +2 calipers and measure the orcs skull

Camrath
Mar 19, 2004

The UKMT Fudge Baron


The Deleter posted:

The Private School Student subclass didn't get past the first round of playtesting for many reasons, and the soggy biscuit ritual was only one of them.

As a former public school boy I can safely state I never saw a game of soggy biscuit- but it was always rumoured it was something the kids in the other class played on school trips.

Did have a kid who would publicly gently caress a 3’ teddy bear on school ski trips tho. Iirc he became something big in student politics in the noughties.

And on that bombshell I ride to Leicester to sell fudge to nerds!

The Question IRL
Jun 8, 2013

Only two contestants left! Here is Doom's chance for revenge...

The Deleter posted:

Well now I know what my next custom D&D class will be.

You scoff, but you could do this in 3.5 Ed D&D.

It was a prestige class called the Exemplar. Basically you take the skill Craft/Profession: Make Fudge and become so good at it that you make fudge that would sway even the most vile Pitt fiend to join your cause and fight for Socialism.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Guavanaut posted:

10 degrees to the left of center in good times, 10 degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally.

Also they love the idea of societal progress, it's like their version of nationalism, sometimes literally. But much like nationalism people whinge when it's happening to them rather than being a spectator sport.

The Deleter
May 22, 2010

The Question IRL posted:

You scoff, but you could do this in 3.5 Ed D&D.

It was a prestige class called the Exemplar. Basically you take the skill Craft/Profession: Make Fudge and become so good at it that you make fudge that would sway even the most vile Pitt fiend to join your cause and fight for Socialism.

I wasn't scoffing, but I'm glad that it's possible in older versions of the game!

Camrath posted:

Did have a kid who would publicly gently caress a 3’ teddy bear on school ski trips tho. Iirc he became something big in student politics in the noughties.

This explains so much and yet so little.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Camrath posted:

Did have a kid who would publicly gently caress a 3’ teddy bear on school ski trips tho. Iirc he became something big in student politics in the noughties.

Wow wes streeting's backstory is wild,

Borrovan
Aug 15, 2013

IT IS ME.
🧑‍💼
I AM THERESA MAY


Camrath posted:

As a former public school boy I can safely state I never saw a game of soggy biscuit- but it was always rumoured it was something the kids in the other class played on school trips.
Lived with a guy in student halls who went to a private boarding school - think it was in Devon somewhere? - who not only admitted to having played soggy biscuit, but seemed genuinely surprised that the rest of us thought it was hosed up & ripped the poo poo out of him for it

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Did he lose?

ronya
Nov 8, 2010

I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.
That's not quite an out-and-out Corbyndorsement but I suppose it will have to do:

https://twitter.com/RLong_Bailey/status/1233285705863958528

e: oh, it is the latest retweet on @jeremycorbyn (2.3m followers vs RLB's couple hundred thousand). Maybe that will move needles?
e#2: also shared on his facebook page couple hours ago, 60,000 views already

ronya fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Feb 28, 2020

Wolfsbane
Jul 29, 2009

What time is it, Eccles?

The Deleter posted:

Well now I know what my next custom D&D class will be.

Theres even an official D&D module you could play them in.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Lol if coronavirus causes a global recession right before we no deal brexit

Borrovan
Aug 15, 2013

IT IS ME.
🧑‍💼
I AM THERESA MAY


Tesseraction posted:

Did he lose?
The only winning move is not to play

(he says no, but he loving would)

Aramoro
Jun 1, 2012




ronya posted:

That's not quite an out-and-out Corbyndorsement but I suppose it will have to do:

https://twitter.com/RLong_Bailey/status/1233285705863958528

e: oh, it is the latest retweet on @jeremycorbyn (2.3m followers vs RLB's couple hundred thousand). Maybe that will move needles?
e#2: also shared on his facebook page couple hours ago, 60,000 views already

Move the needle for who? Like who is a Corbyn supporter and not already voting for RLB?

Private Speech
Mar 30, 2011

I HAVE EVEN MORE WORTHLESS BEANIE BABIES IN MY COLLECTION THAN I HAVE WORTHLESS POSTS IN THE BEANIE BABY THREAD YET I STILL HAVE THE TEMERITY TO CRITICIZE OTHERS' COLLECTIONS

IF YOU SEE ME TALKING ABOUT BEANIE BABIES, PLEASE TELL ME TO

EAT. SHIT.


OwlFancier posted:

The future is going to be great when being able to convincingly shitpost is the only way to verify you're a real person on the internet.

A shitppoleth.

That's how you know I'm the real deal. A real shitposter behind the keyboard (or a touchscreen as the case may be).

Sadly I'm thinking making a simple shitpost bot wouldn't be too hard though.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Borrovan posted:

The only winning move is not to play

(he says no, but he loving would)

I wonder if anyone who lost admits it.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

I mean obviously they can't escape their fate at the time. I mean years later, once the shame is distant.

ronya
Nov 8, 2010

I'm the normal one.

You hate ridden fucks will regret your words when you eventually grow up.

Peace.

Aramoro posted:

Move the needle for who? Like who is a Corbyn supporter and not already voting for RLB?

according to Yougov, ~12/11% of those expressing an intent to first-preference for Starmer and Nandy would switch to Corbyn if Corbyn was running again. And maybe an endorsement can swing some more of Nandy's second preferences to RLB

Combine this with a turnout effect maybe...

They're all fishing for marginal voters, not the true believers. My guess is that they're all now aiming at this kind of Labour member:



Since RLB has a comfortable lead amongst leavers already

ronya fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Feb 28, 2020

Julio Cruz
May 19, 2006
why is the next storm called Jorge? did I miss storms F-I sometime in the past few days?

ThomasPaine
Feb 4, 2009

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
Good things are bad, actually, haha, according to this egg faced sentient pickle jfc

https://twitter.com/stephenpollard/status/1233297553069953027?s=19

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Something to do with spain apparently.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Aramoro posted:

Move the needle for who? Like who is a Corbyn supporter and not already voting for RLB?

The people who are unaware that RLB is the continuity candidate. There's plenty of them.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Julio Cruz posted:

why is the next storm called Jorge? did I miss storms F-I sometime in the past few days?
Met Offices for UK and Ireland next storm name is Ellen then Francis and covers storms for the north Atlantic. France, Spain, Portugal and Belgium use a different scheme for storms coming from further south and they've had more; Amélie, Bernardo, Cecilia, Daniel, Elsa, Fabien, Gloria, Hervé, and Inès so far, all foreign no doubt.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

ThomasPaine posted:

Who would like some delicious tory whining this lunchtime, from the telegraph, a paper whose dumb old bastard staff don't realise you can bypass their subscription block by stopping the page before it fully loads? Careful this one is spicy! World's tiniest violin for this hard done by lady.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/tired-friends-bullying-right-wing/

I swear being right wing is a form of personality disorder. Complete inability to realise that their actions and ego are hurting others and want to make you out to be the bad guy for pointing it out.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

ThomasPaine posted:

Good things are bad, actually, haha, according to this egg faced sentient pickle jfc

https://twitter.com/stephenpollard/status/1233297553069953027?s=19

please don't post white supremacists itt it's bad enough you were allowed to post tweetman again

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Gonzo McFee posted:

I swear being right wing is a form of personality disorder. Complete inability to realise that their actions and ego are hurting others and want to make you out to be the bad guy for pointing it out.

yes

Ash Crimson
Apr 4, 2010

Gonzo McFee posted:

I swear being right wing is a form of personality disorder. Complete inability to realise that their actions and ego are hurting others and want to make you out to be the bad guy for pointing it out.

See, when I say this i get yelled at, spat on

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Ash Crimson posted:

See, when I say this i get yelled at, spat on

That's because when you say it you say "I swear being English is a form of personality disorder"

Ash Crimson
Apr 4, 2010

forkboy84 posted:

That's because when you say it you say "I swear being English is a form of personality disorder"

What do you want me to say?

ThomasPaine
Feb 4, 2009

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Tesseraction posted:

please don't post white supremacists itt it's bad enough you were allowed to post tweetman again

vile antisemitism

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I don't think it correlates 1:1 with right wingyness but certainly I think that outlook encourages it. More broadly though I think it's a way of being that a lot of people are either encouraged to do by society/upbringing or it's something they develop as a defence mechanism. It's certainly much easier to just assume you're correct and work backwards to reach that point.

It's also telling that it can so easily adopt the trappings of basically any movement to fit around it, obvious example being with Glinner's bullshit. Because they're not really engaging with the substance of it, they like the aesthetic and the emotional validation they get from it but at no point, I think, do they actually expand their empathetic range to really... take in the existence of other people? It's like cargo cult empathy, I guess. And it's often very manipulative too, in the sense that they know if they say the right things they can make actually empathetic people stop talking by making them feel guilty. But I don't think they actually understand they're doing that, it's again just a superficial approximation of the behaviour that better people do sincerely.

Some of them understand, sure, but I don't think a lot of them do, I think they're mostly just spectacularly emotionally stupid people.

OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Feb 28, 2020

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Gonzo McFee posted:

I swear being right wing is a form of personality disorder. Complete inability to realise that their actions and ego are hurting others and want to make you out to be the bad guy for pointing it out.

That's not a purely right-wing thing though, and (at least to me) feels like a more universal (and recent) thing. People loving *hate* having their flaws/mistakes/biases pointed out to them and react as if physically attacked to even relatively neutral stuff. I feel like it's a societal - or lack of societal - thing, people are so completely caught up in their own stories that even having to acknowledge that other people see things differently feels like an attack on the very core of their being.

Obviously it's an impulse that shows up most from the right because they've got the most wrong opinions, but you see it all the time from the Nice Sensible Centrists if you, for example, suggest that Raytheon Pride floats are a bad thing or drone-striking weddings on the other side of the world isn't actually morally pure, and I'll leave you all to fill in your own blanks when people ITT have reacted with terminal intensity to even the mildest disagreement.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


forkboy84 posted:

That's because when you say it you say "I swear being English is a form of personality disorder"

As an Englishman, this is true. Id extend it to all brits and anglos though

WhatEvil
Jun 6, 2004

Can't get no luck.

VideoGames posted:

Did we ever leave a recession?

The very rich did. We didn't.

Pistol_Pete
Sep 15, 2007

Oven Wrangler

Jose posted:

Lol if coronavirus causes a global recession right before we no deal brexit

Well, it's deffo looking that way after this week.

Also, I saw Greta Thunberg in Bristol today, by which I mean I stood around in the mud while it pissed down with rain for an hour and a half, then Greta rocked up and spoke for 4 minutes. It was... kinda inspiring, I guess. It was pretty funny to see the long series of preliminary speakers wibbling on with the crowd all applauding politely but visibly thinking: "Just get Greta onstage ffs, it's cold and I'm soaking wet!"







(Or maybe that was just me projecting.)

Doccykins
Feb 21, 2006
Tories are refusing to appear on Radio 4 atm so instead of empty charing them the bootlickers are booting off the Labour pundit as well for ""balance""

https://twitter.com/AndyMcDonaldMP/status/1233429546034225152

Apraxin
Feb 22, 2006

General-Admiral

Pistol_Pete posted:

Also, I saw Greta Thunberg in Bristol today, by which I mean I stood around in the mud while it pissed down with rain for an hour and a half, then Greta rocked up and spoke for 4 minutes. It was... kinda inspiring, I guess. It was pretty funny to see the long series of preliminary speakers wibbling on with the crowd all applauding politely but visibly thinking: "Just get Greta onstage ffs, it's cold and I'm soaking wet!"
Ah, so you're one of the monsters responsible for this terrible atrocity:
https://twitter.com/BeebJournalist/status/1233371686403280897

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Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/1233087443202691078

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