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i don't mean we want to constantly haggle over every little loving detail but the avenue for reasonable compromise on any meaningful social issue has to exist especially at a class level or things start getting hosed and if they get too hosed everything breaks down or at least even the appearance of that option existing, gently caress they are going to fail to manufacture consent the way poo poo is headed
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Trabisnikof posted:lol idk if they’re actually even going to try and stave off collapse good point they have already fortified their wine caves in the age of corona and are well prepared for what comes next im p sure the real joke is surviving to the end is the only losing move now, like that b movie gehenna: where death lives
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what i'm saying is get nutty with it, who would you rather be the person who gets instantly flashed on the nukes impact or the one who survives the blast only to slowfully and painfully wither from cancer maybe getting raptured is a metaphor for a good clean dignified end maybe our nature is so deeply flawed those in power fooled themselves into thinking they can bargain their way out of the earth dying Percelus has issued a correction as of 16:53 on Apr 21, 2020 |
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with all that said in the back of my mind im thinking maybe learn ruby and javascript, get a place to work from home with a commander style special big boy chair for my desk only i can sit on and a rad leather couch for guests
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Mantis42 posted:How do modern rpgs resolve this? In ToC, your skills are divided between investigative skills and action skills, so no one is left out of big chunks of the game. The skill list is also a lot shorter, so you don't wind up with players who have Archaeology and Ancient Greek, when they actually needed the Natural History and Spanish skills for this adventure. And for investigation, you spend points instead of rolling dice, so the adventure doesn't hit a dead end because someone failed a Library Use roll. Often Abbreviated posted:I think I get what he means but talking about it in terms of fascism is tough because fascism itself is kind of wooly and aesthetic. I think he means more a by-the-numbers military corporate junta is the last thing to save the US from Trumpism, or whatever the follow-up to Trumpism is. Boring authoritarians in suits and military uniforms saving the urban elite from white nationalist death cult loons who want to detonate the nukes to bring back Jesus. Both are authoritarian nightmares, the second more closely resembles the death cult, swivel-eyed lunacy of nazism. Anyway, he doesn't see a military coup as saving us from fascism, but the fulfillment of fascism. A more sustainable kind of fascism than MAGA chud death cult lunacy, and accounts for the fact that the military is a lot less white than it is in MAGA chuds' favourite novels.
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The Muppets On PCP posted:it's the last place americans would think to look why do you think these langoliers won't let me rest at night you read one leather-bound book misplaced next to the encyclopedias and next there's metallic shrieking and loud grinding at all hours of the night
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one thing matt is right about is the real possibility of ubi implementation because of corona, it is a stabilizing option that plugs enough holes to keep this leaky boat afloat for another day
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MizPiz posted:Tabletop games are the best way to let out things you want to do in the game We have a player who grew up in Ireland; last night as everyone was trying to figure out how to speeder bomb an Imperial barracks as a distraction he said it was taking him back to his childhood
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Percelus posted:one thing matt is right about is the real possibility of ubi implementation because of corona, it is a stabilizing option that plugs enough holes to keep this leaky boat afloat for another day if you live in a poor enough area that's basically existed for decades via ssi/ssdi
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Percelus posted:one thing matt is right about is the real possibility of ubi implementation because of corona, it is a stabilizing option that plugs enough holes to keep this leaky boat afloat for another day But it's a real question now whether or not the rich even care about keeping boat afloat
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there is already substantial rioting from corona and this poo poo is just starting, but i don't think there will be society breaking civil unrest until food banks and homeless shelters and all the other last bits of the safety net cease to function completely and this is a real possibility sometime this year or next but i mean no one really knows im just throwing one possible timeline out there
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a few dozen sheetrock supply and boat dealership owners getting bused in by ALEC or whoever to traipse around their empty state capitols with prefab signs demanding sit-down service at tgi fridays isn't a riot
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Percelus posted:there is already substantial rioting from corona and this poo poo is just starting A few chuds waving signs doesnt really count as civil unrest imo. When tear gas starts getting launched, then we can call it a riot. quote:but i don't think there will be society breaking civil unrest until food banks and homeless shelters and all the other last bits of the safety net cease to function completely and this is a real possibility sometime this year or next but i mean no one really knows im just throwing one possible timeline out there I agree with this though. Something is going to give but I have no idea when or how, or what form itll take.
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ya i guess it has mostly been prison riots up till now, idk if prisons count for much they are trying to get people out of rikers now to avoid that powderkeg from going off
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france has more serious rioting but social tension has been worse there for longer, it'll probably take awhile for things here to reach that level even if the yellow jacket thing was all over the place they were clearly on edge with austerity before this poo poo we already have models of neoliberal austerity rotting a society like greece to examine but the us isn't going to be raked over the coals by the eu like them so we could avoid that poo poo if idiots weren't in charge
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trillbillies "for fucks sake do even the tiniest bit of research before you pop off on news items" challenge Tom's reading Capital!! I'm just asking for a few articles e: Percelus posted:https://stavbot.github.io/ fair enough slicing up eyeballs has issued a correction as of 20:50 on Apr 21, 2020 |
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slicing up eyeballs posted:trillbillies "for fucks sake do even the tiniest bit of research before you pop off on news items" challenge https://stavbot.github.io/ regular sounds- no gently caress no
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tarance and tom don't know poo poo about the atari-playing ai and if i tell them that enough on twitter they will surely invite me on the show as an expert
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Doc Hawkins posted:tarance and tom don't know poo poo about the atari-playing ai and if i tell them that enough on twitter they will surely invite me on the show as an expert I just got to this part in the episode and i wouldn't change a thing about it lmao
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i just started listening to War Nerd from episode one. why is the War Nerd guy travelling all over Europe/Eastern Europe in the first few episodes?
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he's traveling pretty much constantly, and getting denied visas constantly maybe he's doing it for work or someone else's work, maybe he's just a persona non grata so he's gotta keep moving around 
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I'm willing to provide weapons grade gender studies takes for any anti-american podcast
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Starting War Nerd from the first episode is extremely masochistic. Consider skipping to the episode where they hire a real producer and studio for Mark to record his half in. John Dolan keeps travelling because he is the earthly incarnation of some sort of god of pestilence and disease. This is proven by COVID-19 happening pretty much at the same time his own career achieved a sort of stability for the first time in decades.
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Atrocious Joe posted:Starting War Nerd from the first episode is extremely masochistic. Consider skipping to the episode where they hire a real producer and studio for Mark to record his half in. Yeah it is very off the rails so far but I was interested to hear it during the time of ISIS and the Syrian Civil War. It sounds like he taught English all over so I thought it was something around that.
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err posted:i just started listening to War Nerd from episode one. why is the War Nerd guy travelling all over Europe/Eastern Europe in the first few episodes? He was run out of East Timur by the Australian government and so he googled cheapest places to live and went to Macedonia.
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Doc Hawkins posted:tarance and tom don't know poo poo about the atari-playing ai and if i tell them that enough on twitter they will surely invite me on the show as an expert the abyss yawns and Mario learns how to finally vault the second pipe, only to be slain by a Koopa Trooper thereafter
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Off the top of my head Places Dolan has been run out of: East Timor Kuwait Saudi Arabia Iraqi Kurdistan (kicked out of US run university, questionable if the Kurdish authorities care) Macedonia (he may have just imagined being hated by villagers there honestly) Places Dolan may be banned from: Canada - Visa stuff India - may have pissed off Modi's minions Atrocious Joe has issued a correction as of 22:41 on Apr 21, 2020 |
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lancemantis posted:he's been run out of lots of places India didn't even let him in Probably a lucky thing actually, although it would've been funny to hear him record an episode while starving inside a cave in India https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52364601
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dolan got so much hate for telling the truth about syria years before biederman made it cool. now his take is just common sense instead of epic assadist war crimes denial. life is funny like that.
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I don't know if John Dolan got run out of Russia, but Mark Ames certainly was!
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he does or did teach English but it turns out writing War Nerd columns and teaching English in authoritarian countries do not work well together.
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nikosoft posted:I don't know if John Dolan got run out of Russia, but Mark Ames certainly was! I think everyone working for the eXile did to some extent in the vague sort of pay Putin and friends threaten your existence (except Yasha, but he is Russian so that helps) uber_stoat posted:he does or did teach English but it turns out writing War Nerd columns and teaching English in authoritarian countries do not work well together. yeah keep in mind he taught english in Saudi Arabia, given that his contempt for that country almost matches that of his loathing of the British Empire and Canada.
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hot take - do androids dream of electric sheep is far superior to bladerunner, it's all style no substance with the cut parts like mercerism from the novel that give it subtext and depth also death stranding is basically the empathy box, gj kojima ridley scott is that gundam nerd missing the message meme Percelus has issued a correction as of 00:30 on Apr 22, 2020 |
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wills completely unacknowledged bit where he does reddit style compound swears ftw
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Percelus posted:hot take - do androids dream of electric sheep is far superior to bladerunner, it's all style no substance with the cut parts like mercerism from the novel that give it subtext and depth shut the gently caress up baby yoda
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Ridley Scott’s a set designer and the only time he lucked into a good script bullied out of that weird old pervert dan obannon he tried to gently caress that up too
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