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DynamicSloth posted:All true, but it needs to be emphasized Brooks inhabited a world that universally hailed him as a hero until his dying breath. He was re-elected in an explicit endorsement of the Senate beating. No one in the South gave a poo poo about him dodging a northern duel any more then they were bothered by him beating a defenseless man, they had a different concept of honour. On the plus side, he choked to death in horrifying spasms of terror and pain, trying to claw open his own throat to get air.
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Phenotype posted:So I don't know where else to bitch about this, but it seems like Elon finally managed to gently caress Twitter into an unusable state a couple days ago. I think it was just Thursday my feed started getting inundated with no-name right-wingers, mostly bluechecks, and I've spent a day or two going through and hitting "Not interested > Show less posts from this user" on every third tweet. And they still keep coming. I gotta think this is just what he intended all along, for every couple posts to be like "*retweets any black person doing anything wrong* and that's why DEI doesn't work" or "im gonna piss a lot of people off but Jan 6 was a huge hoax." It's just such a distinct change that it's hard to believe that it isn't intentional. That's weird; my feed, as usual, is showing me all the lefties I follow like Ken Klippenstein, Rania Khalek & Max Blumenthal. 
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There’s a thread for the enshittification of social media in general and Twitter in particular somewhere in D&D
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Phenotype posted:
No idea. The time to get out was def spring ‘22 when he announced the buy. Blissfully unaware of the how X is going.
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That said, people existing in 2024 that are somehow just now discovering that Twitter is run by Elon Musk, explicitly to serve Nazis, seems like it belongs here because I imagine these are the exact people responding to all the polls in here that raise peoples' blood pressures.
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My twitter is just art from all the art accounts I follow.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Brooks sucks and all, but not going to a duel is the right move because duels are dumb as poo poo. Not traveling to a different country so some guy can try and shoot him to death is probably the only smart thing Brooks ever did. He initiated the duel and then backed out when he realized he was going to get owned in it, which makes him an honorless coward. Your construction makes it sound like he declined the duel instead of proposing it and then backing out when he realized he was actually going to have to duel, this is a weird argument/position.
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Phenotype posted:So I don't know where else to bitch about this, There's the Tech Nightmare thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3763277&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 It could be you've just found yourself in an /ab test, or just the slow collapse reaching you before others.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Brooks sucks and all, but not going to a duel is the right move because duels are dumb as poo poo. Not traveling to a different country so some guy can try and shoot him to death is probably the only smart thing Brooks ever did. Brooks demanded it of Burlingame, not the other way around. Brooks could just as easily have responded to Burlingame through his own media pieces, but instead he said "I demand you come to a place where I am legally allowed to kill you." Brooks was perfectly happy to participate in duels, as long they were duels he was guaranteed to win, and if the terms of the duel had Brooks at an advantage, Brooks would've gleefully killed Burlingame. That's not intelligence for functioning in society, that's being a piece of poo poo and he deserved to be publically shot in the face for it. eta: I don't disagree with you on principle for dueling. It's illegal for good reasons. And if someone shittalks you in a newspaper, the right thing to do is handling it through the many nonviolent means that exist to resolve or defuse the situation. My issue in this situation is if someone's going to take that stance they can't also go around challenging people to duels, then weigh their odds and decide to only go through with it if they think they'll win. DynamicSloth posted:All true, but it needs to be emphasized Brooks inhabited a world that universally hailed him as a hero until his dying breath. He was re-elected in an explicit endorsement of the Senate beating. No one in the South gave a poo poo about him dodging a northern duel any more then they were bothered by him beating a defenseless man, they had a different concept of honour. That's a fair point and sucks. Dopilsya fucked around with this message at 20:14 on May 18, 2024 |
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TaintedBalance posted:He initiated the duel and then backed out when he realized he was going to get owned in it, which makes him an honorless coward. Your construction makes it sound like he declined the duel instead of proposing it and then backing out when he realized he was actually going to have to duel, this is a weird argument/position. I just hate duels as a concept so much that it prevents me from thinking rationally. They're not honorable! They're dumb!
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On the one hand, dueling is barbaric. On the other hand, if dueling was allowed, we'd only need one strapping Marxist with a gun.
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Technically DJ battles are duels
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We have so many guns in this country and so little dueling.
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lobster shirt posted:dueling should be legal Make all the social media owners duel each other
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a.lo posted:We have so many guns in this country and so little dueling. we used to be a proper country...
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Xalidur posted:On the one hand, dueling is barbaric. On the other hand, if dueling was allowed, we'd only need one strapping Marxist with a gun. We need a new John Brown
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lobster shirt posted:dueling should be legal Drake would still be cooked
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Metal Gear Rising 2 : Senator Raiden tries to win his first legit election.
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Tayter Swift posted:Technically DJ battles are duels Blake Bortles! If you don't get it, I don't know what to tell you.
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Any time I have a problem, I throw a Molotov cocktail, and then I have a different problem!
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lobster shirt posted:dueling should be legal Beyblades at dawn.
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The only duelist worthy of respect is Miyamoto Musashi, the famous samurai and world's most successful murder hobo. That guy taught the world a very important lesson, and that lesson was "Don't duel Miyamoto Musashi you will die a humiliating pointless death".
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C. Everett Koop posted:Beyblades at dawn. More like crossfire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50
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too much duolingo not enough dueling bro
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Feel like dueling should be legal and that I specifically should be able to duel the eli lilly ceo
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Raenir Salazar posted:My twitter is just art from all the art accounts I follow. Yeah my twitter is also all "art" that I "appreciate".
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Bodyholes posted:Yeah my twitter is also all "art" that I "appreciate". P U $ $ Y in bio
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:The only duelist worthy of respect is Miyamoto Musashi, the famous samurai and world's most successful murder hobo. That guy taught the world a very important lesson, and that lesson was "Don't duel Miyamoto Musashi you will die a humiliating pointless death". How dare you impugn the name of Scott Pilgrim
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Bodyholes posted:Yeah my twitter is also all "art" that I "appreciate". Ah you're also a poster of culture I see.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:The only duelist worthy of respect is Miyamoto Musashi, the famous samurai and world's most successful murder hobo. That guy taught the world a very important lesson, and that lesson was "Don't duel Miyamoto Musashi you will die a humiliating pointless death". Musashi was an honorless dick who purposefully delayed duels and used illegal weapons (like a giant oar instead of a sword) against people he didn’t think he could actually beat. Where’s that Fate Abridged tirade by Assassin about the poo poo he pulled against Sasaki Kojirou? Doesnt actually matter. Most of the poo poo surrounding Musashi is apocryphal anyway.
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AlternateNu posted:Musashi was an honorless dick who purposefully delayed duels and used illegal weapons (like a giant oar instead of a sword) against people he didn’t think he could actually beat. You must be popular at samurai film conventions.
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AlternateNu posted:Musashi was an honorless dick who purposefully delayed duels and used illegal weapons (like a giant oar instead of a sword) against people he didn’t think he could actually beat. Yeah. That's my point. I think duels are dumb as poo poo and Musashi PROVED they were dumb as poo poo by showing that being a successful duelist isn't about honor it's about making sure the other guy dies by any means necessary and that's why you shouldn't agree to a situation where someone is legally allowed to kill you. Shooting Blanks posted:How dare you impugn the name of Scott Pilgrim I mean I get where you're coming from but Scott Pilgrim sucking is like a main plot point in the series so I feel pretty comfortable impugning his name.
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AlternateNu posted:Musashi was an honorless dick who purposefully delayed duels and used illegal weapons (like a giant oar instead of a sword) against people he didn’t think he could actually beat. Idk, maybe I've seen too much Grappler Baki but I kinda see it as like, that's part of what constitutes skill; duels, especially 1v1 duels where death is on the one, its like war on a smaller scale. Oda wasn't an honourless dick for using guns and modern tactics against Shingen. He was aiming to win and win decisively.
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Wikipedia posted:Musashi became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 62 duels [...] Writings on Musashi's life rarely mention his relationship with women, and often when they do Musashi is regularly depicted as rejecting sexual advances in favor of focusing on his swordsmanship. He's the original "While You Were Partying, I Studied the Blade"
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AlternateNu posted:Musashi was an honorless dick who purposefully delayed duels and used illegal weapons (like a giant oar instead of a sword) against people he didn’t think he could actually beat. He actually used a sword, not an oar. He carved the oar into a wooden sword because he was bored on the way to the duel. It wasn't because he had honor or anything, though. He was just straight up a murderhobo, after all. But the people who wanted to kill him were arrogant jerks looking for fights.
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He gave us a good kate beaton strip, and thats what matters in history
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you could play him in onimusha blade warriors and one of his weapon sets was a soup ladle and a leek. beating people up with an onion ruled
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Captain_Maclaine posted:On the plus side, he choked to death in horrifying spasms of terror and pain, trying to claw open his own throat to get air. you learn some good news everyday
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