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fun hater
May 24, 2009

its a neat trick, but you can only do it once
that might not be good for some people

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Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Frank Frank posted:

There was some weird incel thing that espoused something like that for a while. I have no idea if goons participated though

Goons pop up in pretty much every online community, so guessing there was one sad goon who tried it.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

I’m permabanned poster demonstomper58.

Douche Wolf 89
Dec 9, 2010

🍉🐺8️⃣9️⃣
Where to post my magic thread, hmm, how about the forum for terminal doomposters

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Douche Wolf 89 posted:

Where to post my magic thread, hmm, how about the forum for terminal doomposters

Hey, not all are terminal.

ilmucche
Mar 16, 2016

What did you say the strategy was?

Douche Wolf 89 posted:

Where to post my magic thread, hmm, how about the forum for terminal doomposters

trad games isn't that bad

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
tbf doomposting is what you should be doing when demons are involved

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

turn off yuor monitor

and grab a shotgun

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

We all know about the entity called "the cop in your head"

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

standning up and saying that matter of factly at the dinner table. everyone hates my guts

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


*slow heavy metal music intensifies*

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



i'm summoning my persona, Cop In My Head!

Douche Wolf 89
Dec 9, 2010

🍉🐺8️⃣9️⃣
Haunted by the negative energy tulpas released when they found my old tweets calling glenn greenwald poggers

Fantastic Foreskin
Jan 6, 2013

A golden helix streaked skyward from the Helvault. A thunderous explosion shattered the silver monolith and Avacyn emerged, free from her prison at last.

I don't have links but there was a big blowup about how criticizing the witchcraft thread was inherently misogynistic near the start of it / spilled over into QCS.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011

Fantastic Foreskin posted:

I don't have links but there was a big blowup about how criticizing the witchcraft thread was inherently misogynistic near the start of it / spilled over into QCS.

IIRC that kicked off when Larry Parrish called it a bougie hobby for middle class white people and ate a week probe and it exploded from there.

The original iteration of the witchcraft thread I think was a spinoff of the C-SPAM mod feedback thread. Someone was trying to use tarot readings to explain how they should have been made an IK.

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014

Kazinsal posted:

IIRC that kicked off when Larry Parrish called it a bougie hobby for middle class white people and ate a week probe and it exploded from there.

The original iteration of the witchcraft thread I think was a spinoff of the C-SPAM mod feedback thread. Someone was trying to use tarot readings to explain how they should have been made an IK.

lmao at all of this

FruitNYogurtParfait
Mar 29, 2006

Sion lied. Deadtear died for our sins. #VengeanceForDeadtear
#PunGateNeverForget
#ModLivesMatter

fun hater posted:

ty for making me aware of this thread. it's hysterical.

that guy is a solipsist too

Daikatana Ritsu
Aug 1, 2008

Kazinsal posted:

IIRC that kicked off when Larry Parrish called it a bougie hobby for middle class white people and ate a week probe and it exploded from there.

Someone explain how this is wrong

Nuns with Guns
Jul 23, 2010

It's fine.
Don't worry about it.

pentyne posted:

the sunflower thing was especially dumb, because it's can't be that sunflowers are a common, widely used symbol or metaphor in fiction as a whole, no its a specific meaning across decades that links these things together via the hand of an invisible savior author.

They're not even sunflowers, they're basically nega-sunflowers from the dream realms transplanted to the waking world as part of some hosed up eugenics program instigated by a bunch of powerful old pseudo-intellectual men who wanted to out-smart the universe though abuse and torture.

Bloodborne kind of gets wild.

FruitNYogurtParfait posted:

that guy is a solipsist too

Cereal box board games.... solipsism, a modern renaissance man.

Douche Wolf 89 posted:

Haunted by the negative energy tulpas released when they found my old tweets calling glenn greenwald poggers

But can I use the Persona 3 dream gun to summon the spirit of Stalin to slay my enemies?

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Nuns with Guns posted:

But can I use the Persona 3 dream gun to summon the spirit of Stalin to slay my enemies?

Of course not

You have to use a real one

Douche Wolf 89
Dec 9, 2010

🍉🐺8️⃣9️⃣

Xarbala posted:

Of course not

You have to use a real one

*Looks directly into the camera, nods*

doingitwrong
Jul 27, 2013

pentyne posted:

it's just numerology, but with gender.
This is a good thread title.

quote:

anyway it doesn't matter if you think it's real or not, the important thing is it makes you feel like you have some sort of control over your life
This is too long for a thread title.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011

Daikatana Ritsu posted:

Someone explain how this is wrong

It gets better, one of the mods started handing out probes claiming that being anti-astrology was misogynistic. I can't remember which mod exactly but I'm pretty sure they were one of the ones involved in the chipmunk porn quadra kill too lmao

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Paladinus posted:

I now have read a good chunk of OP's analysis, and I'm going to be honest with you, I don't think that theory qualifies as textual interpretation, it's pure conspiracy speculation. It's different in its content, but in principle not dissimilar to believing that a shadowy cabal hid messages in Beatles songs that explain their world domination plans.

fun hater posted:

it's a strange attempt at a textual reading that completely ignores the actual text in favor of tenuous connections based mostly on intuition from the author. you can absolutely overthink the souls series and wring some pretty wild poo poo out of it, but it doesn't involve attempting to connect everything i like into one big ball


Sure. All I'm saying is that if the OP had said "this is a theory that means a lot to me personally and deepens my enjoyment of the games" and left it there, it would have been the kind of thing where you smile and nod and say "cool, glad that makes you happy." The thread still would have had negligible value for other people, but that's SA for ya.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Daikatana Ritsu posted:

Someone explain how this is wrong

Overall belief in the supernatural is basically a 50/50 thing but the only people who get poo poo for it most of the time are white women.

fun hater
May 24, 2009

its a neat trick, but you can only do it once
all magic is fake except bujeria which is real but it has to be performed by someone over 50

doingitwrong
Jul 27, 2013

fun hater posted:

ty for making me aware of this thread. it's hysterical.

Bold to call witches hysterical.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

Ugly In The Morning posted:

I only know a few people from my age to 23 or so who are into it, but the ones I do know are into it. Like “please I am begging you to talk about anything else” into it.

The people i know who are into it are casual "i don't really believe in spells but doing rituals is fun" type people that are self aware about it but maybe they are the exception

copy
Jul 26, 2007

Daikatana Ritsu posted:

Someone explain how this is wrong

probably gonna have to wait a while on that, hoss, because larry was actually being extremely correct.

Fajita Queen
Jun 21, 2012

idk the witchcraft stuff seems like harmless fun for these people. One of my irl friends is really into it and does tarot readings and such. I don't get it at all but I don't see any reason to go out of the way to give people poo poo for a dumb hobby.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

The Shortest Path posted:

idk the witchcraft stuff seems like harmless fun for these people. One of my irl friends is really into it and does tarot readings and such. I don't get it at all but I don't see any reason to go out of the way to give people poo poo for a dumb hobby.

If it represents a retreat from politics and into the self, I don’t like it. I myself have many dumb hobbies though, and doing them with friends is nice and makes me feel good.

Daikatana Ritsu
Aug 1, 2008

The Shortest Path posted:

idk the witchcraft stuff seems like harmless fun for these people. One of my irl friends is really into it and does tarot readings and such. I don't get it at all but I don't see any reason to go out of the way to give people poo poo for a dumb hobby.

It becomes a problem when people act like poking fun at your dumb hobby is ACtual Literal Hate Speech

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

Daikatana Ritsu posted:

It becomes a problem when people act like poking fun at your dumb hobby is ACtual Literal Hate Speech

Also it stops being harmless if you spend all your money on it and ruin your relationships and livelihood over it

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012
There's got to be some research or studies about how trying to cope with life by embracsing a fantastical belief system its at best not going to make things worse but it sure isn't going to help fix anything.

There's definitely a strong vibe of patronizing white savior vibes around the whole thing. Also like 90% of the somewhat formal stuff is less then a century old its just the same stuff the traveling conmen and rainmakers in the 20s were going town to town bilking the locals with then disappearing into the night

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

ilmucche posted:

trad games isn't that bad

i can tell you've never posted in trad games

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Arivia posted:

i can tell you've never posted in trad games

they had to move a dice discussion thread to the mod forum because it got so heated someone started revealing company secrets in the thread to win an arguement

Bismuth
Jun 11, 2010

by Azathoth
Hell Gem
Yeah most of modern "wicca" type witchcraft was made up by some weirdo white people at a country club in england in the 40s/50s and just sort of cherry picks stuff they thought was 'cool' from a ton of different completely unrelated sources

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

Douche Wolf 89 posted:

Where to post my magic thread, hmm, how about the forum for terminal doomposters

What else have they got to do? It's 'too late' to 'do anything'. Let it be known that from 2016-2020 they did everything they could to save the planet but sometime around when Bernie lost the nomination it became clear that nothing could ever be done. But it's ok because Bernie is and was always bad actually now. Silver linings and all that.

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

pentyne posted:

they had to move a dice discussion thread to the mod forum because it got so heated someone started revealing company secrets in the thread to win an arguement

that's not correct. the dice thread was in A&T and was pretty peaceful, it did get moved after the dude seemed to share too much about working at Chessex but it wasn't someone revealing company secrets to win a fight, just sharing cool details about working at the nerd dice company

also now i know i have dice that are counterfeiting tools in the EU

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MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Internet witches aren’t real and can’t hurt y

(User was banned for this post)

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