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GhostofJohnMuir posted:how about you defend this unusual post, you thread traitor My dislike of Star Wars is well versed and known. KOTOR1 was the only good thing to come out of that franchise (though TOR had some good parts too). 
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Dec 12, 2020 23:53
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i also disdain the star war in all its incarnations
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Dec 13, 2020 00:01
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though i still have a weakness for baby yoda. but there's a perfectly reasonable explanation. you see,
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Dec 13, 2020 00:02
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Had a dream the other night where the NYT called me up and wanted me to take over a column. One of the columnists personally wanted me to take over for them, but they wouldn't tell me who. It turned out to be Ross Douthat, who was leaving earth with Elon Musk. The only condition if I accepted the position is that I would have to talk to Ross for 4 hours every day so he wouldn't get lonely in space.
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Dec 13, 2020 00:09
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Furnaceface posted:My dislike of Star Wars is well versed and known. KOTOR1 was the only good thing to come out of that franchise (though TOR had some good parts too). wow the disrespect for KOTOR2.
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Dec 13, 2020 00:17
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Furnaceface posted:My dislike of Star Wars is well versed and known. KOTOR1 was the only good thing to come out of that franchise (though TOR had some good parts too). the tie fighter series was the height of space sims, thank you very much perepelki posted:though i still have a weakness for baby yoda. but there's a perfectly reasonable explanation. you see, i haven't watched the mandalorian, so i might be mistaken, but i don't think the baby in question is actually yoda, which makes the widespread nickname kind of racist Sinnlos posted:Had a dream the other night where the NYT called me up and wanted me to take over a column. One of the columnists personally wanted me to take over for them, but they wouldn't tell me who. It turned out to be Ross Douthat, who was leaving earth with Elon Musk. The only condition if I accepted the position is that I would have to talk to Ross for 4 hours every day so he wouldn't get lonely in space. i'm pretty sure that's how most nyt columnists get their starts
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Dec 13, 2020 00:31
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next you're going to tell me I can't say mando and that droids deserve the vote
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Dec 13, 2020 00:40
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:
He's a white guy in my game at least, stereotypical russian mob goon character
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Dec 13, 2020 21:12
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i had a realization today that i never had a libertarian phase when i was younger. according to my mother, at age seven, after reading a history book which touched on the basic tenants of communism, i confidently told her it was the best system and never looked back
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Dec 15, 2020 06:01
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:i had a realization today that i never had a libertarian phase when i was younger. according to my mother, at age seven, after reading a history book which touched on the basic tenants of communism, i confidently told her it was the best system and never looked back I remember reading an old Steve Ditko comic book and thinking "wow this guy is really intense about ???!?" It's hard to become a liberal when you've experienced an actual welfare society and the beginning of its end as a kid.
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Dec 15, 2020 06:20
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i had a shameful atheist liberal phase in my early-mid teens
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Dec 15, 2020 06:24
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I don't even own an "Atlas Shrugged" 
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Dec 15, 2020 06:29
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i think i've mentioned it but i was a paying member of a social democratic party when I was a teen lol
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Dec 15, 2020 06:59
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I almost joined a party this Autumn but then I remembered I'm broke.
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Dec 15, 2020 07:02
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our government sanctioned "research" betting site is finally paying out some, but not all, positions it's already looking like a very nice christmas V. Illych L. posted:i think i've mentioned it but i was a paying member of a social democratic party when I was a teen lol 3D Megadoodoo posted:I almost joined a party this Autumn but then I remembered I'm broke. i'm a member of the local DSA chapter, but they work off of donations, not dues. what are the typical amounts for you guys?
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Dec 15, 2020 07:52
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:i'm a member of the local DSA chapter, but they work off of donations, not dues. what are the typical amounts for you guys? SDP has a flat 57€ for over 25-year-olds. The Left is tiered so I'd pay 72€ because it's based on loving brut income not net income.
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Dec 15, 2020 08:26
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my only political leanings as a teenager were wild fantasies about assassinating george w bush, to the point where my perpetual high school fantasy novel was about gay werewolf elves doing exactly that
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Dec 15, 2020 08:32
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teens pay, like, ten dollars a year for a youth party membership. rn i pay $30-$40 depending on currency moments
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Dec 15, 2020 12:06
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at least in the states, libertarianism is a common waypoint on the journey of extracting oneself from a conservative upbringing. the whole "socially liberal, economically conservative" nonsense does play an important role as a way for people stagger the blows. For me by dropping the religious part of my upbringing, i was able to accept my gay friends and support them, etc. And then once you realize that half of conservatism is nonsense, the rest starts to fall as well since there is no longer some sacred status for trickle down economics and eventually capitalism itself. I started college as a standard suburban conservative, became a libertarian in the first year, was a democrat by the time i was 25, and now I'm a socialist.
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Dec 15, 2020 16:12
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WoodrowSkillson posted:He's a white guy in my game at least, stereotypical russian mob goon character He has a slightly tan skin texture, in the two of the three appearances where he is actually somewhere with light and not in some dark basement area on the way to the club. So he probably is not supposed to be read as black. 
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Dec 15, 2020 21:53
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I sold a nice record player (an SL-1200 Mk2 clone, for cheap) to a young (I'm guessing 20-25) Latvian guy on Facebook marketplace, and he friended me and I was like OK why not? Today he shared a Ben Shapiro Twit or whatever and I just felt really bad because he seemed so nice 
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Dec 15, 2020 22:38
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I think Facebook, Twitter, and on the whole "commenting" (on-line) are responsible for the dramatic rise of Nazism globally.
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Dec 15, 2020 22:39
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I think Facebook, Twitter, and on the whole "commenting" (on-line) are responsible for the dramatic rise of Nazism globally. Those platforms have been allowed to operate without a single ounce of governance or law applying to them. Given that kind of environment and the fact that the guys in charge like Zuck and Jack dont exactly disagree with many of the ones that found their platforms useful, it shouldnt be that shocking that the end result of unfiltered hate and fascism is the spread of it. The fact it seems to skew so heavily to the boomers is the part I dont understand.
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Dec 16, 2020 01:04
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Furnaceface posted:The fact it seems to skew so heavily to the boomers is the part I dont understand. Then it became the 'oh gonna send photos of my grandkids' app
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Dec 16, 2020 01:08
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 five more eggs have entered the incubator i think it's been a whole year since my last hatch. stoked for chix 
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Dec 16, 2020 05:28
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perepelki posted:
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Dec 16, 2020 05:52
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Dec 16, 2020 05:58
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perepelki posted:
i'm not going to repeat my mistake and get emotionally invested in these creatures who crave death
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Dec 16, 2020 06:06
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WoodrowSkillson posted:at least in the states, libertarianism is a common waypoint on the journey of extracting oneself from a conservative upbringing. the whole "socially liberal, economically conservative" nonsense does play an important role as a way for people stagger the blows. For me by dropping the religious part of my upbringing, i was able to accept my gay friends and support them, etc. And then once you realize that half of conservatism is nonsense, the rest starts to fall as well since there is no longer some sacred status for trickle down economics and eventually capitalism itself. I started college as a standard suburban conservative, became a libertarian in the first year, was a democrat by the time i was 25, and now I'm a socialist. unfortunately its also a pathway to really weird piss brain sects of libertarian nationalism, though that's less common and mostly just for the "intellectual" chuds who want to feel special.
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Dec 16, 2020 06:27
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:i'm not going to repeat my mistake and get emotionally invested in these creatures who crave death
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Dec 16, 2020 06:56
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Does anyone else feel like cyberpunk is a very boring game
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Dec 18, 2020 02:16
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Does anyone else feel like cyberpunk is a very boring game my only experience with that game is seeing all the tweets with clips of the insane bugs and broken poo poo in it, so i've been enjoying it lol https://twitter.com/GenePark/status/1339662024268247043
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Dec 18, 2020 02:55
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Does anyone else feel like cyberpunk is a very boring game story is good, side quests are real good, its gorgeous, its buggy on PC and broken on old consoles and cdpr is utterly stupid as poo poo for releasing a good game broken af so that everyone will trash it forever
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Dec 18, 2020 03:16
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WoodrowSkillson posted:story is good, side quests are real good, its gorgeous, its buggy on PC and broken on old consoles and cdpr is utterly stupid as poo poo for releasing a good game broken af so that everyone will trash it forever Idk man I've felt bored as gently caress. Scheduled random event Things only happen once. Ala the scavengers trying to run you down. I wanted a world that was a little more random in terms of poo poo that wants to kill you. Also on very hard I've found enemies are insanely bullet sponge. Like 3-4 pistol mags to drop a dude. Which is fairly annoying when the enemies kill you in 2 shots. I mean I'm kataning a loving guy and he's actually shooting me while being stapped in the chest repeatedly. I mean like 10-15 stabs. I like the aesthetics but it feels like they walled you off into very small streets to avoid strain on the game It's obvious a lot was cut in terms of assassin's creed type views of the city due to poor optimization. I mean the ps4 version looks like the original resident evil 2.
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Dec 18, 2020 03:36
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Maybe it’ll be like No Man’s Sky and the game will become good 2 years after launch
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Dec 18, 2020 03:39
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Idk man I've felt bored as gently caress. Scheduled random event Things only happen once. Ala the scavengers trying to run you down. I wanted a world that was a little more random in terms of poo poo that wants to kill you. Like all games that throw loot at you as much as cyberpunk does it's very important that you keep gear up to date. I'm playing on hard and my revolver one shots almost any one if its too the head. Level appropriate shotguns are also good. Submachine guns are pretty poo poo and so are any non-revolver pistols.
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Dec 18, 2020 04:03
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Pirate Radar posted:Maybe it’ll be like No Man’s Sky and the game will become good 2 years after launch it in no way as bad as no mans sky. they are loving idiots who did not have the courage to be honest and admit the game was too modern to run on a ps4 and that they could not optimize it for the platform in time. people would have been disappointed but if they had come out 2 years ago and admitted it wont run on the old systems, it would have spared them all of this vitriol they delivered the game they advertised if you are playing on a ps5 or a pc. it is not as good as witcher 3, but its still a good game. with polish it will be even better, and if they do DLC the way they did with W3, it could be very good.
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Dec 18, 2020 04:05
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:I mean I'm kataning a loving guy and he's actually shooting me while being stapped in the chest repeatedly. I mean like 10-15 stabs.
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Dec 18, 2020 04:09
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:when my sister asks where i learn about all the food abominations i forward to her i simply tell her i have a reliable eastern european connection https://twitter.com/zhugeex/status/1339875467302735872
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Dec 18, 2020 11:39
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I sold a nice record player (an SL-1200 Mk2 clone, for cheap) to a young (I'm guessing 20-25) Latvian guy on Facebook marketplace, and he friended me and I was like OK why not? Sounds like a 16 year old dude ready to scam you again
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Dec 18, 2020 12:37
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