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skeleton warrior
Nov 12, 2016


Yeah, long story short is that an anarchist group took over part of Seattle (CHAZ) and some kids got shot by CHAZ antifa, and the ACAB/thin blue line argument happened as usual but with participants trying out the other side to make it novel

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TheSwizzler
May 13, 2005

LETTIN THE CAT OUTTA THE BAG
That whole situation was depressing af and relitigating those ghoulish posts has both been done to death with some pretty entrenched camps and isn't funny

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
There was also a lot of misinformation going around. To my knowledge, it's still a little unclear what actually happened that night (besides the victim being shot), but the narrative going around at the time, in the quote from Elise there, seems to have been completely false, and possibly an outright lie by the killer to cover their rear end.

I'm in that block of linked quotes and I'm happy that, even with the completely false information, I was pushing back on the thread and saying "you know, this is still a tragedy, right?" I'll fully repudiate and apologize for the part where I said that it seemed like an unavoidable tragedy, which was based on bad information that I really should have been less credulous of.

I was active in the protests in the area (though I wasn't present that night, and wasn't deeply involved enough to be in the Signal chats where the narrative was being passed around) and there was a real energy of wanting to show that the people could do it better than the state, and that definitely spilled over into the response to the tragedy. Not an excuse; only an explanation. Add onto that the usual cspam keyboard warriors and a handful of would-be domestic terrorists like the later shooter and you get a very unhealthy environment to be posting in.

cheetah7071 fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Apr 4, 2023

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

cheetah7071 posted:

a very unhealthy environment to be posting in.

Thanks for sharing, legitimately. Still not my favorite saga but at least this worthwhile post came out of the conversation about it this time.

skeleton warrior
Nov 12, 2016


Yeah, I think we’ve had a good explanation on this one and can move on to more saga-y sagas. Thanks to everyone who contributed.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"
Okay that most recent rereg username is hilarious

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Grassy Knowles posted:

Okay that most recent rereg username is hilarious

"Buy less reregs."

"No."

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

Is it okay to ask why AI posters are getting a ton of sixers with car engine pics right now? It's current events stuff, but I assume it's not drama, just something funny/weird.

TheSwizzler
May 13, 2005

LETTIN THE CAT OUTTA THE BAG

Antivehicular posted:

Is it okay to ask why AI posters are getting a ton of sixers with car engine pics right now? It's current events stuff, but I assume it's not drama, just something funny/weird.

surprised you're not completely against it

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Antivehicular posted:

Is it okay to ask why AI posters are getting a ton of sixers with car engine pics right now? It's current events stuff, but I assume it's not drama, just something funny/weird.

They’re requesting them, providing the photos of ‘engine porn’ they’d like to be probed with. I don’t think there’s much more to it than that.

Edit:

TheSwizzler posted:

surprised you're not completely against it

Lol

Grassy Knowles fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Apr 4, 2023

Fajita Queen
Jun 21, 2012

Sometimes mods or iks will give everyone posting in a thread image sixers because they can.

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014

it's freaking epicballs

rox
Sep 7, 2016

TheSwizzler posted:

surprised you're not completely against it

lol

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

symbolic posted:

it's freaking epicballs

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014
placenta style chili

rox
Sep 7, 2016

i picked the wrong thread to open while eating lmao

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

symbolic posted:

it's freaking epicballs

Leal
Oct 2, 2009

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

placenta style chili

DSP Tries It: Placenta style chili. The placenta was generously donated by his mo- wife.

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
god dammit

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

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



haha what posted:

i picked the wrong thread to open while eating lmao

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
🍀👽🆚🪖🏋

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Mini “saga” involving the 2019 GIP secret Santa

Guy gets nice gift package

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Dude you deserve every prize in the contest for this haul, holy loving poo poo






We have here: one package skilcraft pens
One REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT lanyard
One UV blacklight
One "Guillotine" cardgame "where you win by getting a head"
Two bags of bully sticks for Luca and Niuniu
One White Donkey Terminal Lance book
One Shop of Theseus book
One General Electric radio receiver
One set ThermoPro remote food thermometers
One excellent shirt

Oh, and this box here:


...the gently caress?



YOU SENT ME A loving DOSIMETER??????

DUDE

HOLY

gently caress

Best Christmas ever. I am in loving awe, dude.

I'm making up a batch of bbq sauce and jerky for presents, so I'm making some extra and sending it your way.


Seriously man, I am in awe. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Guy almost causes National emergency trying to calibrate one of the gifts.

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

So as I mentioned the meter hasn't been calibrated since 1982. I just got off the phone to the National Radiation Laboratory to see if I could arrange to have it calibrated and had a very amusing conversation with them.
When I called I said look it's picked up some readings and I was hoping to get it calibrated as I'm not sure it's accurate. The nice lady transferred me to another gentleman who asked me for the details of what the readings were and where I was when I noticed them, and I mentioned the meter hadn't been calibrated since 1982 so I wasn't sure if it was accurate.
The guy let out an audible sigh of relief and said 'ok, you've been transferred through to the emergency line, I thought we might have a major incident on our hands.'
Arc Light, you forever loving win every prize for genuinely scaring the poor scientists ahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahah

Metis of the Chat Thread
Aug 1, 2014



loving hell

Dongicus
Jun 12, 2015


lmao gross

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



holy poo poo

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014


lmfao

Runa
Feb 13, 2011


oh no

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014

lol

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

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




Dear God

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos

rox
Sep 7, 2016




rox
Sep 7, 2016

i was eating spaghetti and meatballs :(

SirSamVimes
Jul 21, 2008

~* Challenge *~



looking forward to seeing how many images of "rhino returning with pizza, stunned/horrified" will be produced by this thread and previous/future ones

tristeham
Jul 31, 2022

lol

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

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



here's jeff as pizza face

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

You bastard

NeatHeteroDude
Jan 15, 2017


Oh god

misguided rage
Jun 15, 2010

:shepface:God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title:shepface:
And it's still only the second-worst chili posted on the forums

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

misguided rage posted:

And it's still only the second-worst chili posted on the forums

True, true.

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B33rChiller
Aug 18, 2011




Just loving giggling over here. Chili's, pizzas, and come to find out somebody nuked New Zealand and nobody knew until secret Santa rolled into town.

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