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Lottery of Babylon
Apr 25, 2012

STRAIGHT TROPIN'

Woolie Wool posted:

I'm so sorry for my bad political opinions back then, I was 14 and it was Bush's first term and Fox News was lying to me :ohdear:

non-cuck-ism

Commies want to cuck the taxpayers with transfer payments.

Lolbergtarian induhvidualists want to cuck Whites by prohibiting Whites from organizing collectively while letting Japan, which does act as a nation, dump radios and cars on us.

Our economic philosophy is non-cuck-ism, because nature abhors a cuck.

This is the same as our general philosophy. Our core demand is that we not be cucked by being second class citizens our own country.

We can now dispense with the glib nonsense about elites and sheeple and social classes. Intellectuals, defined as people capable of overcoming their ingrained worldview, used to see themselves as superior, but the instincts and emotions that are our inheritance must have been adaptive. The average White man probably couldn’t deal with the PDEs of modern physics, but they can instinctually and intuitively deal with biology, the history of the White race, and make the demand not to be cucked.

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Peel
Dec 3, 2007

There's nothing wrong with arguing about Who Would Win In A Fight as long as you remember you're having a fun time bullshitting rather than determining true facts about anything.


edit:

Woolie Wool posted:

I'm so sorry for my bad political opinions back then, I was 14 and it was Bush's first term and Fox News was lying to me :ohdear:

I forgive anything except upholding the ICS. :colbert:

Peel has a new favorite as of 21:04 on Jun 22, 2016

Woolie Wool
Jun 2, 2006


I can assure you that Spacebattles took imaginary space battles with the utmost seriousness, analyzing special effects frame by frame to calculate phaser yields to the kilojoule. People were told to literally approach television and film scenes like documentary evidence, and speculation on author's intent or dramatic purpose of written battle scenes in books or magazine serials was forbidden. It was, as described in the :tvtropes: thread, like treating stories as alternate realities that cannot be examined in any outside context.

There was a notorious episode of Deep Space 9 where the Romulans glass the Founder homeworld and the forum concluded that the dialogue was wrong and the characters were idiots because the VFX wasn't melty enough, and thus the weapons used were little more powerful than modern nuclear weapons and the planet sustained very little damage.

Woolie Wool
Jun 2, 2006



Poetry...isn't...music...:eng99:

Brainiac Five
Mar 28, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

Woolie Wool posted:

I can assure you that Spacebattles took imaginary space battles with the utmost seriousness, analyzing special effects frame by frame to calculate phaser yields to the kilojoule. People were told to literally approach television and film scenes like documentary evidence, and speculation on author's intent or dramatic purpose of written battle scenes in books or magazine serials was forbidden. It was, as described in the :tvtropes: thread, like treating stories as alternate realities that cannot be examined in any outside context.

There was a notorious episode of Deep Space 9 where the Romulans glass the Founder homeworld and the forum concluded that the dialogue was wrong and the characters were idiots because the VFX wasn't melty enough, and thus the weapons used were little more powerful than modern nuclear weapons and the planet sustained very little damage.

This place sounds hella badass.

World War Mammories
Aug 25, 2006



Out of all the insane alt-right slang in this post, this one stood out to me. I feel like "berg" isn't a typo. Are libertarian thinkers also part of the world-spanning Jew-Lizard Empire?

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!

Woolie Wool posted:

Dear lord, I am having flashbacks to "vs. debates" on Spacebattles. What a goddamn black hole of stupidity, and 14 years ago I was in it. :cripes:

Let's do ex culo math on our favorite war porn, this is totally more sophisticated than shipping, guys!

I'm on Spacebattles these days, though it's the Worm fandom creating megawords of fanfic. Of course in the actual discussion threads I ... have certain people on ignore.

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow

Woolie Wool posted:

Poetry...isn't...music...:eng99:

Well you see, Homer's poems were done with musical accompaniment, therefore this is always and forever what poetry absolutely has to be at all times.

Anything else is dirty status signalling

pookel
Oct 27, 2011

Ultra Carp
I hung out briefly at the small local Pride event this weekend with my gay alt-right-adjacent friend. He seemed to have a hard time handling the atmosphere of cheesy folk music, "virtue signalling," "SWPL" and "dildo politics." He was going to wear his Make America Great Again hat, but couldn't find it.

Apparently it's hard out there for gay reactionaries.

e X
Feb 23, 2013

cool but crude
Please tell me more about the ins and outs (heh) of dildo politics.

Woolie Wool
Jun 2, 2006


Peel posted:

I forgive anything except upholding the ICS. :colbert:

The what now?

Brainiac Five
Mar 28, 2016

by FactsAreUseless

Woolie Wool posted:

The what now?

Infinite City Sprawl, it's a 4X game tactic.

Woolie Wool
Jun 2, 2006


I always preferred the "get killed by barbarians and lose in a few rounds" tactic in those games. :downs:

Assepoester
Jul 18, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
Melman v2

e X posted:

Please tell me more about the ins and outs (heh) of dildo politics.


Ronwayne
Nov 20, 2007

That warm and fuzzy feeling.

Woolie Wool posted:

I can assure you that Spacebattles took imaginary space battles with the utmost seriousness, analyzing special effects frame by frame to calculate phaser yields to the kilojoule. People were told to literally approach television and film scenes like documentary evidence, and speculation on author's intent or dramatic purpose of written battle scenes in books or magazine serials was forbidden. It was, as described in the :tvtropes: thread, like treating stories as alternate realities that cannot be examined in any outside context.

There was a notorious episode of Deep Space 9 where the Romulans glass the Founder homeworld and the forum concluded that the dialogue was wrong and the characters were idiots because the VFX wasn't melty enough, and thus the weapons used were little more powerful than modern nuclear weapons and the planet sustained very little damage.

Oh hey fellow SB refugee.

You were asking earlier about unironic authoritarians who believe and talk about nothing but power, and as I recall there were a few of them there (lots of mourning for :britain: sun setting, etc). I haven't been on there in...christ, 12 years, so I don't know if they're still there but I definitely remember various old assholes getting really angry about political correctness run amok! and jerking off over space imperialism in all its forms.


Its also where I picked up Warhammer 40k :negative:

Woolie Wool
Jun 2, 2006


The older I get the more I start to detest Warhammer 40,000. It's really kind of gross.

Ronwayne
Nov 20, 2007

That warm and fuzzy feeling.
:vomarine: Oh, totally. I stick to the RPGs rather than tabletop, since I enjoy having disposable income.. I haven't met many of the people who take it super seriously, thankfully, but then again, its hard to do that with orks :orks101:

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

As far as I can tell as an outsider whose non-lovely friends are into it, it's effectively trying to be a parody of a grimdark cyberfuture except the parody part is lost on the vast majority of the fanbase who just treat it like Very Serious Manly Men Making Manly Man Decisions or whatever, is that accurate?

Ronwayne
Nov 20, 2007

That warm and fuzzy feeling.
I wouldn't know if the vast majority, just the worst part, but more or less. They've taken a setting about large potatoshaped men wearing refridgerators and hitting each other with chainsaws and think its some kind of literary magnum opus.

Lady Naga
Apr 25, 2008

Voyons Donc!

Parallel Paraplegic posted:

As far as I can tell as an outsider whose non-lovely friends are into it, it's effectively trying to be a parody of a grimdark cyberfuture except the parody part is lost on the vast majority of the fanbase who just treat it like Very Serious Manly Men Making Manly Man Decisions or whatever, is that accurate?

It stopped being a parody like a decade ago, once the inmates started running the asylum it became incredibly self-serious.

GunnerJ
Aug 1, 2005

Do you think this is funny?

Ronwayne
Nov 20, 2007

That warm and fuzzy feeling.
Oh yes, one of the factions is a technology worshiping group of coders who hoard tech despite not understanding it, despise the rest of humanity, and seek to use machines to separate them from fleshy weakness.

Ronwayne has a new favorite as of 02:46 on Jun 23, 2016

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth

Lady Naga posted:

It stopped being a parody like a decade ago, once the inmates started running the asylum it became incredibly self-serious.

It starting to get a little better and mellow out, especially the RPGs and video games. Most of the fans are still poo poo, though.

Woolie Wool
Jun 2, 2006


Ronwayne posted:

Oh yes, one of the factions is a technology worshiping group of coders who hoard tech despite not understanding it, despise the rest of humanity, and seek to use machines to separate them from fleshy weakness.

Don't forget that the avatar of technology they worship is actually an evil demigod that's plotting the downfall of humanity.

I Killed GBS
Jun 2, 2011

by Lowtax

Woolie Wool posted:

Don't forget that the avatar of technology they worship is actually an evil demigod that's plotting the downfall of humanity.

Ugh please no the Necron fluff is so bad, in every incarnation

Lady Naga
Apr 25, 2008

Voyons Donc!

Who What Now posted:

It starting to get a little better and mellow out, especially the RPGs and video games. Most of the fans are still poo poo, though.

What Warhammer videogame wasn't self-serious garbage?

I Killed GBS
Jun 2, 2011

by Lowtax

Lady Naga posted:

What Warhammer videogame wasn't self-serious garbage?

Go back to Politoons LN

Lady Naga
Apr 25, 2008

Voyons Donc!

Small Frozen Thing posted:

Go back to Politoons LN

I don't get it.

Woolie Wool
Jun 2, 2006


Small Frozen Thing posted:

Ugh please no the Necron fluff is so bad, in every incarnation

Even when I was kind of into the whole 40k universe, I thought the very existence of the Necrons was gratuitous. What purpose did they ever serve? It's not like the setting has a shortage of unstoppable doomsday villains.

I Killed GBS
Jun 2, 2011

by Lowtax

Woolie Wool posted:

Even when I was kind of into the whole 40k universe, I thought the very existence of the Necrons was gratuitous. What purpose did they ever serve? It's not like the setting has a shortage of unstoppable doomsday villains.

Their purpose was to be another Warhammer Fantasy faction... IN SPAAAAACE

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747
I like to imagine that the horrible apocalypse that's looming at the end of the 40th millennia is actually all of their apocalypses happening at once

Demons bust out of the eye as the Tyranid fleet makes contact and the orkz unite into a giant waaaaagh and

Lady Naga
Apr 25, 2008

Voyons Donc!
Lore nothing they had giant laser pyramids in Dawn of War and it was dope as hell.

GunnerJ
Aug 1, 2005

Do you think this is funny?
All of the apocalyptic threats are basically mutually exclusive in their goals so they balance/cancel each other out. Solving too many problems will therefore bring the apocalypse.

:black101: GRIMDARK :unsmigghh:

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow
If Davis Aurini is any indication, fascists are now moving from Warhammer 40k to Fallout.

Probably for economic reasons, because who the gently caress wants to spend five billion dollars on glorified dolls.

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth

Lady Naga posted:

What Warhammer videogame wasn't self-serious garbage?

Dawn of War has an Inquisitor enlist the help of Ork free bootaz by promising their Kaptain her sweet hat. It also referenced at least one 40k-based 4chan meme.

Lady Naga
Apr 25, 2008

Voyons Donc!

Who What Now posted:

Dawn of War has an Inquisitor enlist the help of Ork free bootaz by promising their Kaptain her sweet hat. It also referenced at least one 40k-based 4chan meme.

Oh fair enough, I never played the campaigns in DoW. The only singleplayer 40k experience I had was Space Marine and uhhhhhhh

Luisfe
Aug 17, 2005

Hee-lo-ho!

Who What Now posted:

Dawn of War has an Inquisitor enlist the help of Ork free bootaz by promising their Kaptain her sweet hat. It also referenced at least one 40k-based 4chan meme.

This one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hB19tHMS94

Because that always made me laugh.

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth
^^^^^^^^
That's the one. Always makes me grin.

Lady Naga posted:

Oh fair enough, I never played the campaigns in DoW. The only singleplayer 40k experience I had was Space Marine and uhhhhhhh

The tabletop RPG from Fantasy Flight Games also has an easter egg that references a pretty famous 40k fan fic. Mostly it's things outside of GW that are better.

And I liked Space Marine. I thought riding around on a Titan was absurd and fun. v:shobon:v

But I'm gonna stop cluttering up the thread with 40k chat.

Who What Now has a new favorite as of 04:23 on Jun 23, 2016

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Woolie Wool posted:

Even when I was kind of into the whole 40k universe, I thought the very existence of the Necrons was gratuitous. What purpose did they ever serve? It's not like the setting has a shortage of unstoppable doomsday villains.

You're looking at it from the wrong perspective. 40K is, at its heart, a celebration of sci-fi villains, from space fascists through hungry, hungry bug-monsters to barbarian hordes with starships. The Necrons are the ancient, unknowable Lovecraftian horrors of the setting, impossibly old and impossibly advanced and utterly inscrutable. They're for if you like your sci-fi evil cold, weird, and uncaring, with a proper sense of grandeur, more ominous than in-your-face hideous like the Tyranids and Chaos.

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Lady Naga
Apr 25, 2008

Voyons Donc!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VXUDlcr0qI

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