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Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004




Hollismason posted:

What the gently caress is happening right now

The Blue Jays bullpen is blowing another game.

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cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Randler posted:

loving racist Swedes said every Payday 2 user gets access to the new RAID beta and then secretly bars Germans from entering.

Is it too much to ask for at least one Swedish game developer that isn't terrible? :smith:

:staredog: oh wow

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

Furnaceface posted:

The Blue Jays bullpen is blowing another game.

Whole teams bad

the old ceremony
Aug 1, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
look i'm into death of the author and all that but

at no point in his life did enhydra kill his brother and sleep with his corpse

WrenP-Complete
Jul 27, 2012

I'm going to Cleveland tomorrow for my cousin's bar mitzvah this weekend. :jewish: :yayclod:

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good

Keeshhound posted:

Pick the spiciest thing on the menu.

the spiciest thing on the menu comes with a legal disclaimer that they are not responsible if you begin to violently poo poo out your internal organs

Hollismason
Jun 30, 2007
An alright dude.
I think I am going to make Chicken Parmesan tomorrow night can probably make enough to make it to like Sunday on like 8 bucks I think

Hollismason
Jun 30, 2007
An alright dude.
I'm currently watching Chopping Mall and its pretty great

the old ceremony
Aug 1, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
speaking of which, i planted some very important seeds today

WrenP-Complete
Jul 27, 2012

the old ceremony posted:

speaking of which, i planted some very important seeds today

Oooohhhh....

treasured8elief
Jul 25, 2011

Salad Prong

the old ceremony posted:

speaking of which, i planted some very important seeds today

🌱

Hollismason
Jun 30, 2007
An alright dude.
the US really shouldn't have someone nick named "Indian Killer" on the 20 dollar bill and the fact we're not getting Harriet Tubman makes me mad

ass struggle
Dec 25, 2012

by Athanatos
up till 3 am week 1


this'll be a fun semester


at least im still better than vb failin' highschool math for the 3rd time

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

This is literally the first September where I don't have to go back to school or college. Rejoice! :megadeath:

Randler posted:

loving racist Swedes said every Payday 2 user gets access to the new RAID beta and then secretly bars Germans from entering.

Is it too much to ask for at least one Swedish game developer that isn't terrible? :smith:
Ask Pewds about it.

Hollismason
Jun 30, 2007
An alright dude.
I am awake because I lost track of time because I was playing Arkham City but mostly I was just flying around the city beating up thugs then screaming "Free Market!" until my upstairs neighbor texted me to say they kept hearing yelling so I stopped

Hollismason
Jun 30, 2007
An alright dude.
There was a small amount of alcohol involved

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Grouchio posted:

This is literally the first September where I don't have to go back to school or college. Rejoice! :megadeath:

I went back in August. :smug:

ass struggle
Dec 25, 2012

by Athanatos

Grouchio posted:

This is literally the first September where I don't have to go back to school or college. Rejoice! :megadeath:

Ask Pewds about it.

whoa poo poo?

did you get your degree is disabled terrorism yet?

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Conspiratorial Worldview 101
Intro to Alex Jones
Dirty Bombs II
Clancychat 223

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




for some reason swedish embassy in downtown riga is fortified like no other embassy around lol

MLKQUOTEMACHINE
Oct 22, 2012

Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill

cinci zoo sniper posted:

for some reason swedish embassy in downtown riga is fortified like no other embassy around lol

its where the jomsvikings live

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

Martha Stewart Undying posted:

its where the jomsvikings live

um they lived in what is now poland jackass how dare you

Submarine Sandpaper
May 27, 2007


WrenP-Complete posted:

I'm going to Cleveland tomorrow for my cousin's bar mitzvah this weekend. :jewish: :yayclod:

Welcome! If you want to pet a basset hound hit me up

MLKQUOTEMACHINE
Oct 22, 2012

Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill

WoodrowSkillson posted:

um they lived in what is now poland jackass how dare you

not in my ck2 games

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

Martha Stewart Undying posted:

not in my ck2 games

you probably also have an empire based on some game of thrones incestuous dynasty you degenerate

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




american embassy by the way is a gigantic building inside a park on a walled off territory in the "suburb" between riga and riga airport

ass struggle
Dec 25, 2012

by Athanatos

cinci zoo sniper posted:

american embassy by the way is a gigantic building inside a park on a walled off territory in the "suburb" between riga and riga airport

i think there is a mission in ghost recon 1 where you have to rescue the ambassador after the russians invade

WrenP-Complete
Jul 27, 2012

Submarine Sandpaper posted:

Welcome! If you want to pet a basset hound hit me up

Thank you! I have so much family to see but maybe next time!

Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004




cinci zoo sniper posted:

american embassy by the way is a gigantic building inside a park on a walled off territory in the "suburb" between riga and riga airport

Please tell me the Canadian one is just a little shack next to a hockey rink.

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Furnaceface posted:

Please tell me the Canadian one is just a little shack next to a hockey rink.

it's a glass cube next to an old church

Furnaceface
Oct 21, 2004




That is so boring and uninspired that it truly must be ours.

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Q for thread: if I make a thread about basic political theories and have links to formative texts and one or two texts studying them is that like, too simplistic? Or would that still be okay?

Like, a section on fascism recommending for study and understanding Mussolini's fascist doctrines (as the basis) and Ecos essay "eternal fascism" and Mann's book on fascism as the two follow-ups?

I was also going to use a poll to see where people in d&d fall politically but that's only sort of related to the main topic.

pangstrom
Jan 25, 2003

Wedge Regret

cinci zoo sniper posted:

it's a glass cube next to an old church

It looks like the facade is being pulled off by cables
"seems a bit dishonest to hide the building contents"
"yeah but, you know, weather. also it's glass they can just look right in"
"let's compromise"
"maybe pull it off a little?"
"ok"
"ok"
*in unison* "sorry"

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS

Grapplejack posted:

Q for thread: if I make a thread about basic political theories and have links to formative texts and one or two texts studying them is that like, too simplistic? Or would that still be okay?

Like, a section on fascism recommending for study and understanding Mussolini's fascist doctrines (as the basis) and Ecos essay "eternal fascism" and Mann's book on fascism as the two follow-ups?

I was also going to use a poll to see where people in d&d fall politically but that's only sort of related to the main topic.

Why are you excluding the sizeable amounts of goon tankies from the poll?

Shbobdb
Dec 16, 2010

by Reene

Grapplejack posted:

Q for thread: if I make a thread about basic political theories and have links to formative texts and one or two texts studying them is that like, too simplistic? Or would that still be okay?

Like, a section on fascism recommending for study and understanding Mussolini's fascist doctrines (as the basis) and Ecos essay "eternal fascism" and Mann's book on fascism as the two follow-ups?

I was also going to use a poll to see where people in d&d fall politically but that's only sort of related to the main topic.

Fascism as an ideology is a controversial idea. It's certainly not a coherent ideology. It does, however, have some common features.

Two of those features are "irrationalism" and "anti-modernism" so fascism is hard to pin down precisely. You can talk about various strains of communism, liberalism and authoritarianism because those ideologies at least try to define themselves. Divine Right of Kings and Mandate of Heaven might seem quaint but you can point to something and say, "That is it." You can't really do that with fascism.

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Randler posted:

Why are you excluding the sizeable amounts of goon tankies from the poll?

I think the poll will be something like anarchist > communist (split between mao, trotsky, leninist, given how many self-proclaimed communists this forum has) > socialist > social dem > conservative > libertarian, as the options.

The point of the thread would be for teaching about some of the basic political philosophies (fascism, social democracy/socialism, anarchism, communism, conservatism) and checking where this forum falls.

I really don't know if it's a good thread topic though or if people would be interested :s

Shbobdb posted:

Fascism as an ideology is a controversial idea. It's certainly not a coherent ideology. It does, however, have some common features.

Two of those features are "irrationalism" and "anti-modernism" so fascism is hard to pin down precisely. You can talk about various strains of communism, liberalism and authoritarianism because those ideologies at least try to define themselves. Divine Right of Kings and Mandate of Heaven might seem quaint but you can point to something and say, "That is it." You can't really do that with fascism.

It's reactionary conservatism/authoritarianism couched heavily in nationalism. It's important due to how it impacted world politics in the 20th century, and also people in D&D call each other fascists enough that some basic info on what fascism is can't hurt :v:

Grapplejack fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Sep 1, 2017

Shbobdb
Dec 16, 2010

by Reene

Grapplejack posted:


It's reactionary conservatism/authoritarianism couched heavily in nationalism. It's important due to how it impacted world politics in the 20th century, and also people in D&D call each other fascists enough that some basic info on what fascism is can't hurt :v:

That describes what it is but not its ideology.

Plus, by that definition, the Democrats (let alone Republicans) could be classified as fascists.

I'm OK with that but as a definition it's so broad as to be useless.

Randler
Jan 3, 2013

ACER ET VEHEMENS BONAVIS

Shbobdb posted:

That describes what it is but not its ideology.

Plus, by that definition, the Democrats (let alone Republicans) could be classified as fascists.

I'm OK with that but as a definition it's so broad as to be useless.

The Democrats Are a waste thread is pretty insistend that liberals are the real fascists, so this checks out.

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




pangstrom posted:

It looks like the facade is being pulled off by cables
"seems a bit dishonest to hide the building contents"
"yeah but, you know, weather. also it's glass they can just look right in"
"let's compromise"
"maybe pull it off a little?"
"ok"
"ok"
*in unison* "sorry"

it is a weird building

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MLKQUOTEMACHINE
Oct 22, 2012

Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill

WoodrowSkillson posted:

you probably also have an empire based on some game of thrones incestuous dynasty you degenerate

no but i do have a warhammer game where im an incestuous immortal vampire lord so close enough

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