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I am currently punking the cyber. Check me out.
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Sep 26, 2023 19:13
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:
A skull and some bones. Toxic Mental posted:I am currently punking the cyber. Check me out. I appreciate having a fellow orange-yellow themed poster, as opposed to the usual pink-purple-black of cyberpunk. weg posted:
Its scarier. Many of them know they won't be at the top, they're just happy to not be at the bottom and punching down. Consider how many humans don't want to serve in heaven or rule in hell; they want to be prison guards in hell. quote:
Hard disagree there, "save yourself" without "along with as much of the world as possible" tends to turn into "become a junior oppressor crushing everyone else." Secret police and skull cracker riot cops are saving themselves from being at the bottom. Antigravitas posted:
I could do without the "WELL ACTUALLY, the giant capitalist demon lizards are necessary to keep the extradimensional spiky rape monsters from destroying the world" part of shadowrun lore. Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Sep 26, 2023 |
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Sep 26, 2023 19:21
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weg posted:I think the scary thing about cyberpunk fiction is that we are seeing the worst parts of it come true. The governments that haven't failed are becoming increasingly undemocratic and corporate control and business interests are paramount to human rights. I don't think this is even close to being as true as people will often throw it out as being a true thing. This is also not even close to being something like the worst possible time to be alive despite how you see that come up.
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Sep 26, 2023 19:30
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Flyinglemur posted:
After this led my brain down that path, I can't unsee how penile the Storm Shadow's head looks.
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Sep 26, 2023 19:31
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Computer viking posted:After this led my brain down that path, I can't unsee how penile the Storm Shadow's head looks. The entire thing still looks like Volvo 840 Estate roof box with glued in wings to me. And this even after it has been proven to be a very good weapon, which should get it some respect but no, it does not.
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Sep 26, 2023 19:35
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Computer viking posted:After this led my brain down that path, I can't unsee how penile the Storm Shadow's head looks. tbh, it's still far less penile than Blue Origin, Storm Shadows look kinda deflated or squashed
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Sep 26, 2023 19:39
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weg posted:The authoritarians are bad you dumbfucks, cool space future or not! The folks that look to the USSR as a misunderstood workers utopia are just the same morons who think Vader is a badass and not a villain, only they are into history and not science fiction. The point of Vader is you see this powerful and intimidating figure but also with the full story he's also incredibly weak willed and subservient to an abusive and terrible master. Palpatine is star wars Satan, and Vader is his enforcer. But the relationship you're supposed to realize is Vader is the pathetic guy who's role is likened to fetch Satan's cigarettes at the corner store.
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Sep 26, 2023 19:40
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Der Kyhe posted:The entire thing still looks like Volvo 840 Estate roof box with glued in wings to me. And this even after it has been proven to be a very good weapon, which should get it some respect but no, it does not. You're not wrong, but roof boxes don't have a delineated head with a stylized urethra.
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Sep 26, 2023 19:48
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The storm shadow's square profile with the tiny wings rules. Yeah we get to pack more of those babies inside a train car in Poland, wanna have a nook tantrum about it ??
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Sep 26, 2023 19:56
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Randarkman posted:I don't think this is even close to being as true as people will often throw it out as being a true thing.
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Sep 26, 2023 20:07
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Randarkman posted:I don't think this is even close to being as true as people will often throw it out as being a true thing. Yes, consider the fact that the genre was formed during a time of far greater geopolitical conflict and a harder shift towards privatization and corporate influence. If you were a baby boomer living in the 80s then you've only ever seen crime and drug usage increase over your entire life and the biggest expansion of corporate influence in generations. Plus proxy wars on a regular basis. If your (US) town had a train it went bankrupt when you were a kid. It was easy to predict that things would only keep getting worse. And they did get worse, before they got a lot better. And then worse again, but not as bad. But if you want an excuse to lay in bed and die twitter will give you all of them because the machine only wants your attention.
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Sep 26, 2023 20:08
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TBF if you're a baby boomer you're also responsible
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Sep 26, 2023 20:18
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Strategic Tea posted:TBF if you're a baby boomer you're also responsible 
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Sep 26, 2023 20:42
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Rad Russian posted:In Russia, the spin is that the Nazi ethnic Ukrainians were not simply existing, they began genociding ethnic Russians inside Ukraine for daring to speak Russian and for opposing the gay agenda of the West. They're at war to "save our people". But propaganda TV also runs the narrative of 'Ukraine is not real and actually Novorossiya belongs to us' so I don't think you can say that the average Russian is brainwashed into thinking they are saving children in the Donbass. In fact there are plenty of Russians firmly behind the idea that Ukraine is rightful Russian clay.
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Sep 26, 2023 21:14
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Rad Russian posted:An average Russian war supporter is not an imperialism supporter. [Citation needed]
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Sep 26, 2023 21:24
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Russian military expert: "target civilians" https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1706504750844215454
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Sep 26, 2023 21:59
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https://www.businessinsider.nl/russian-troops-raped-women-as-old-as-83-while-their-families-were-forced-to-listen/ Putin's a real piece of poo poo Trigger warning: sexual violence and literal war crimes against civilians.
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Sep 26, 2023 22:08
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Flyinglemur posted:
You inspired me. 
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Sep 26, 2023 22:15
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Dwesa posted:Russian military expert: "target civilians"
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Sep 26, 2023 22:27
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Dwesa posted:Russian military expert: "target civilians" Did this "expert" miss what Budanov had to say concerning Puccia's own infrastructure?
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Sep 26, 2023 22:30
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Dwesa posted:Russian military expert: "target civilians" The studio this is filmed at insults me with its smugness. maybe Big Z can send them a nice remodelling package.
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Sep 26, 2023 22:34
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bob dobbs is dead posted:theres a p good lp too I dunno if I'd agree Hong Kong is better, Dragonfall feels like the better one to me.
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Sep 26, 2023 22:43
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Deltasquid posted:https://www.businessinsider.nl/russian-troops-raped-women-as-old-as-83-while-their-families-were-forced-to-listen/ The worst part is they were forced to do this by the US of A back in the 90s.
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Sep 26, 2023 22:45
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Cyberpunk 2020 is anti-capitalist as hell. The world is a dystopian shallow hell hole where it's preferable to die in a blaze of glory to become a legend instead of living out a meaningless consumer life I haven't seen the complete history of Cyberpunk 2077 yet, but as far as I've gotten in the Let's Play it's pretty faithful to the source material. What the author says
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Sep 26, 2023 23:00
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https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1706797024409243999 This is normal, right?
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Sep 26, 2023 23:33
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1706797024409243999 In Russia, yes
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Sep 26, 2023 23:36
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1706797024409243999 Yeah, they do it to keep warm at night
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Sep 27, 2023 00:33
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1706797024409243999 These days it’s pretty normal
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Sep 27, 2023 00:42
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1706797024409243999 Whatever is on fire here isn't the airfield. The airfield is to the south east of the photo (location was geo-located on Twitter). The coordinates of the photo are: 55.9264432, 37.9573969 facing to the south west.
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Sep 27, 2023 00:51
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1706797024409243999
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Sep 27, 2023 01:12
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weg posted:Keeping on theme of video game chat: The funnier part is that the Russian players have to set it to Ukrainian to play as they can understand it kinda and also Russian is embargoed, and that's probably why it was even noticed 
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Sep 27, 2023 01:15
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1706797024409243999 No, airfields only do this when they're in extreme distress.
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Sep 27, 2023 01:15
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PinheadSlim posted:It wasn't a dare, Putin was told "Bush rides horses" and something got lost in translation Wait until he finds out about Michael Pence. Putin needs to be tortured to death. Fully given the treatment of Gitmo for his crimes against his people and the people of Ukraine. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Sep 27, 2023 01:31
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Wait until he finds out about Michael Pence. If there was a way for Putin to feel all of the pain and suffering that he has caused, I would be all for that, but such technology does not exist yet. Yet.
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Sep 27, 2023 01:39
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Randarkman posted:I don't think this is even close to being as true as people will often throw it out as being a true thing. je1 healthcare posted:Yes, consider the fact that the genre was formed during a time of far greater geopolitical conflict and a harder shift towards privatization and corporate influence. We were on a real dark timeline for awhile, and we still need to pull up before we hit climate collapse. I really don't like the insinuation of "don't be so negative, it could be far worse!" Nestle and other megacorps are doing things like securing ownership of drinking water and making GBS threads across the poor nations of the earth. Just because there are still comfortable middle class people in rich countries doesn't mean people aren't right to absolutely be outraged by the horrors of late capitalism just because they aren't being flayed alive by attila the hun or whatever. I'm disabled and probably going to die homeless in a couple of years and probably will need to go dumpster diving soon. For all the "all people despising the american system within america are soft well off tankies who think they're going to be in charge  ", honestly? It'd be easier to sell maoist action to the homeless. After awhile poo poo gets bad enough that a revolution where you know you will be killed/jailed forever/hurt beyond comprehension is still less awful than the status quo.I don't want this to happen, but its becoming explicitly clear american society wants me to gently caress off and die. yes, russia and other places are even worse shitholes, no, that won't dissuade from the fact the situation is intolerable. People reduced to the level of scared, cornered animals are not going to be tut-tutted about how this isn't the worst timeline, that doesn't matter if the timeline they're on is going to inflict a hideous, early, pointless death upon them. I really, really, really hope the lesson being taken from the past few years isn't "whew, okay that was spicy, but things are gonna be okay now  " Biden doing things like backing unions is great but its just making hope even possible, hope that might not arrive quick enough to save a bunch of people at the bottom because non-workers who aren't retired/kids who don't have or run out of a family support network get to go die on a street corner.
Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Sep 27, 2023 |
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Sep 27, 2023 02:04
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Vampire Panties posted:Tbf noted dork Richard Garriott had flown to space successfully on a Soyuz capsule around that same time. It wasn't some insane death wish that Lance Bass created whole cloth. A person I served on a non-profit board with did the Russian space tourist thing, and she said it was an amazing experience.
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Sep 27, 2023 02:27
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Subjunctive posted:A person I served on a non-profit board with did the Russian space tourist thing, and she said it was an amazing experience. I really am too loving poor for these forums, aren’t I?
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Sep 27, 2023 02:57
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subjunctive was employee number double digits at facebook. our very own extremely minor plute
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Sep 27, 2023 02:57
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it was a non-profit board, nobody got paid, and I didn’t go to space and my FB employee number had four digits someone’s really gotta update their spreadsheet
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Sep 27, 2023 03:00
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Serving on the kind of non-profit that has space tourists on the board is still a different universe from mine. I’m more of a condo board or church committee kind of guy. I’m not jealous or criticizing, btw, I have a mortgage and should be able to retire at some point. I’m doing fine.
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