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TheLovablePlutonis posted:He gifted me the original Payday iirc but I never played it because I already had the sequel then. Some people just like using the same username everywhere, I use mine for 99% of my account names for example
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Sep 25, 2015 20:36
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paradoxGentleman posted:We really need aomething like this in opposition to grognards.txt http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3654381 Thread died. "Cause unknown."
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Sep 25, 2015 20:58
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Reddit is better than SA. If its better over there, then why do you stick around here?
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Sep 25, 2015 20:59
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:Reddit is better than SA. Please leave forever and make all your shitposts there then.
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Sep 25, 2015 21:03
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People who get mad at Plutonis and Effectronica are sad people who I don't wish to speak to.
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Sep 25, 2015 21:06
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SunAndSpring posted:People who get mad at Plutonis and Effectronica are sad people who I don't wish to speak to. Didn't we ban you from BWF for transphobia? You're in with the right group, then.
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Sep 25, 2015 21:32
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:Witchers are pretty much Gary Stu dick bags so it's a shades of gray dick bag story as opposed to a broader, open ended story. The writer of the Witcher is the Polish love child of George R.R. Martin and R.A. Salvatore. Putting aside the Witcher for now even though I disagree with you, at least about the books in general, the terms Mary Sue/Gary Stu bug the poo poo out of me. Really they're supposed to refer to a specific type of fan fiction writing, the self-insert who fucks Kirk and is a better archer than Legolas and that sort of thing, not any character who is a protagonist. Lightning Lord fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Sep 25, 2015 |
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Sep 25, 2015 21:49
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Sep 25, 2015 21:51
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I love posting on Reddit about how Monsanto actually has been demonized by most people and how they actually do good work for farmers and how a Costco membership is "on fleek" but everyone gets negative when I say it here.
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Sep 25, 2015 21:55
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Arivia posted:You're right, these forums and the world in general would be a better place without you or Plutonis in them. This attempt at owning me by agreeing with all the reprehensible distortions I make of people's posts is kinda lackluster. You need to work in some overly-specific intimations, I feel. Like, suggesting you'll beat me to death with copies of my favorite RPG, Rolemaster. Or making oblique threats against my pet frogs.
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Sep 25, 2015 22:22
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SunAndSpring posted:People who get mad at Plutonis and Effectronica are sad people who I don't wish to speak to.
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Sep 25, 2015 22:32
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Ningyou posted:ah yes if only we opened our hearts to I'm A Gimmick Poster And My Gimmick Is Racism Guy and an abrasive weirdo
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Sep 25, 2015 22:34
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Ningyou posted:ah yes if only we opened our hearts to I'm A Gimmick Poster And My Gimmick Is Racism Guy and an abrasive weirdo My gimmick is threats of violence, not racism.
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Sep 25, 2015 22:51
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Plutonis, help me out here. I've recently seen you post in the Ask/Tell military history thread. You're clearly capable of asking questions sincerely, you want to learn more about things and people, you're plenty knowledgeable about the history of South America. And then you post here and...you...just... ...why? What do you gain from being a troll and posting "ironically" and saying mean things and just being a jerk on this particular subforum? Why not act the way you do on the military history thread on the forum as a whole? Same with all the other people who leave those one-line snipes and talk down to other posters so condescendingly. If you're capable of posting sincerely, why not just...do so?
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Sep 25, 2015 22:52
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this is more fun
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Sep 25, 2015 22:55
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Here's a suggestion: if a poster makes a joke that isn't to your taste, ignore it rather than start a page long fight about it.
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Sep 25, 2015 22:57
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Davin Valkri posted:Plutonis, help me out here. I've recently seen you post in the Ask/Tell military history thread. You're clearly capable of asking questions sincerely, you want to learn more about things and people, you're plenty knowledgeable about the history of South America. And then you post here and...you...just... I do it because I am not actually a human being, but a set of mystical instructions programmed into a statue by a Harappan sorceress to automate the process of mystical initiation. Acts of vandalism and the collapse of the Indus Valley civilization have warped these instructions to the point where I go around being a gadfly to provoke hypocritical, angry, and/or funny reactions from people on the Internet. It feels pretty good to get this off my chest. Also because most of the people who I snipe at are uninterested in any kind of conversation or discussion they don't totally control, and I consider that to be unjust, and every day I wake up and say to myself, "Today, that boulder is getting to the top of that hill."
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Sep 25, 2015 22:57
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Arivia posted:Didn't we ban you from BWF for transphobia? You're in with the right group, then. I don't remember that, but aren't you the retard who got mad about some dumb poem in a video game?
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Sep 25, 2015 22:58
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SunAndSpring posted:I don't remember that, but aren't you the retard who got mad about some dumb poem in a video game? Nope. I'm the feminist who cares about the messages we send in media and acts to fix them. Nice try, though.
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Sep 25, 2015 23:00
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Arivia posted:Nope. I'm the feminist who cares about the messages we send in media and acts to fix them. Nice try, though. There's only one feminist who does? Sounds like feminism needs to get its house in order.
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Sep 25, 2015 23:01
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And then Effectronica hoped someone died, the end
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Sep 25, 2015 23:07
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Everyone needs to calm the fudge down for a minute.
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Sep 25, 2015 23:11
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Effectronica posted:There's only one feminist who does? Sounds like feminism needs to get its house in order. Effectronica posted:This attempt at owning me by agreeing with all the reprehensible distortions I make of people's posts is kinda lackluster. You need to work in some overly-specific intimations, I feel. Like, suggesting you'll beat me to death with copies of my favorite RPG, Rolemaster. Or making oblique threats against my pet frogs. lol
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Sep 25, 2015 23:12
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Traveller posted:And then Effectronica hoped someone died, the end Wroth as you are, your powers of English disperse, in such fashion that you twist a lament that feminism, among the noblest and most righteous causes of all human history, has fallen into so weak a state that only one feminist cares about the continuation of patriarchy through media, through the culture of the populace and of the elite, and an expression of hope that feminism will regenerate and the unjust, villainous, and infamous male-supremacist society we live in fall before its banner and be totally disintegrated, and the reign of justice come into play for the first time in human history so far as we know or can reasonably speculate- that this, you turn into an expression of blood-thirst. Well, shame on you.
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Effectronica posted:Wroth as you are, your powers of English disperse, in such fashion that you twist a lament that feminism, among the noblest and most righteous causes of all human history, has fallen into so weak a state that only one feminist cares about the continuation of patriarchy through media, through the culture of the populace and of the elite, and an expression of hope that feminism will regenerate and the unjust, villainous, and infamous male-supremacist society we live in fall before its banner and be totally disintegrated, and the reign of justice come into play for the first time in human history so far as we know or can reasonably speculate- that this, you turn into an expression of blood-thirst. Well, shame on you. translation: 
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Sep 25, 2015 23:14
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Just put them on ignore you dummies.
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Sep 25, 2015 23:20
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Sep 25, 2015 23:22
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Slimnoid posted:Just put them on ignore
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Sep 25, 2015 23:24
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Why would you put one of the best parts of tgchat on ignore? Seems counterproductive imho
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Sep 25, 2015 23:29
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Small Frozen Thing posted:Why would you put one of the best parts of tgchat on ignore? Seems counterproductive imho I don't have Moola on ignore, though.
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Sep 25, 2015 23:31
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I'll be frank here, and say that my dislike largely stems from the attitude on display. In this, prejudicial statements are OK to make, and prejudicial beliefs good to hold, against people, except in the particular cases of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, classism, and so on. That is, these definitions of people are essential. I hold a different belief, which is that prejudice is always wrong, and always will be wrong, and racism and sexism are merely what happens when you encourage prejudicial thinking and acting, creating a vast hierarchy of evils which are committed against all of humanity. I doubt that Traveller or anybody consciously believes that race is inherent to humanity, and that's the only reason why it's wrong to be racially prejudiced, but I do feel that that's the only way people's actions make sense, not just here, but in many other cases.
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Okay, so you believe that some other prejudice is at play in these forums. Now we are getting somewhere. I don't know where that somewhere is but we are getting there. What sort of prejudice do you feel are unjustly tolerated here?
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Sep 25, 2015 23:36
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Well, uh, about actual game stuff, I did character creation with my Hellenistic WFRP group. We've got a Greek grave robber whose dad died fighting for Ptolemy II, a German Ogre Maneater who fought as a gladiator, a native Egyptian goat-healer turned witch, and a Bedouin elf apothecary who's a lesser son of a minor chief out on his own. We're starting the adventures in Alexandria and we'll go from there.
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paradoxGentleman posted:Okay, so you believe that some other prejudice is at play in these forums. Now we are getting somewhere. I don't know where that somewhere is but we are getting there. That's not what I said. I said that people are quite willing to engage in prejudicial thinking, and to enact that prejudicial thinking by making various comments, such as about how nerds are all one thing, or that the world would be better if certain posters were dead, or interpreting everything a certain poster says through a monomaniacal lens. Most of them profess opposition to racism, to sexism, to homophobia and transphobia, and so on. So, either we believe that prejudice is part of those things, or we don't. The latter case is hardly sustainable, saying as it does that there is nothing racist about the use of racial slurs. So racial prejudice is part of racism, sexual prejudice part of sexism, and so on. Furthermore, we can see historically how prejudices are enacted in order to generate racism, homophobia, etc. (sexism dating too far back to really see in progress, though we can see its advance through the enactment of prejudices). But we see people engaging in prejudicial behaviors, and these are underlain by prejudicial thinking. Therefore, they must believe that there are certain types of prejudice that are acceptable and certain types that are unacceptable. This in turn either requires a convenient set of acceptable prejudices that Occam's Razor slashes apart, or a belief that only certain prejudices are unacceptable. The likeliest explanation is simply an unconscious belief that sex and race are "real" categories it's wrong to be prejudiced against, while other categories are "fake" and it's OK to be prejudiced against them. But race and sex are totally arbitrary in the sense that they are mere descriptors that have no value beyond their literal definitions which is not generated by discrimination. They are also arbitrary in the sense that they are categories that are placed on top of real human differences (though this is not so obvious with sex as with race, it's still quite true) and similarities. There is no way to say that prejudice is okay in certain situations without generating a specific set of categories against which it's OK to be prejudiced, which has not happened and still would be fairly weak, I suspect.
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Sep 25, 2015 23:47
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Here's some prejudice for you, Effectronica: go die in a tire fire, you piece of poo poo. Done!
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Sep 25, 2015 23:57
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Ugh, I feel like poo poo today and I open up my browser to this. In other news, it only took a week for a PC to die in my new game. That's not a record, even for me, but I realized I missed the drama that comes from actual stakes in a game that isn't really present in my other gaming activities.
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Arivia posted:Nope. I'm the feminist who cares about the messages we send in media and acts to fix them. Nice try, though. For the dire crime of thinking Elminster is good, I hereby strip you of your rank and privileges. May goddess have mercy on your soul.
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I am not equipped to handle a discussion like this at 1 am. I'll read your post again in the morning and see if it makes sense then.
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