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PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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does the mobile steam app not work

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PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Tiler Kiwi posted:

slavery especially gets odd wrt using it as a barometer, since basically everyone was okay with it for most of history, to the point they couldn't even conceive of a world without it

course, even Roman slavery was arguably less hosed up than racial chattel slavery but still, even Spartacus apparently just didn't want to be a slave, he didn't give a gently caress about the whole owning people thing itself.

if anyone knows any figures way back when who said slavery sucked, that'd be cool to hear, since i didn't have any luck finding any, which was a little depressing.

the papacy at least occasionally condemned slavery

quote:

...The exalted God loved the human race so much that He created man in such a condition that he was not only a sharer in good as are other creatures, but also that he would be able to reach and see face to face the inaccessible and invisible Supreme Good... Seeing this and envying it, the enemy of the human race, who always opposes all good men so that the race may perish, has thought up a way, unheard of before now, by which he might impede the saving word of God from being preached to the nations. He (Satan) has stirred up some of his allies who, desiring to satisfy their own avarice, are presuming to assert far and wide that the Indians...be reduced to our service like brute animals, under the pretext that they are lacking the Catholic faith. And they reduce them to slavery, treating them with afflictions they would scarcely use with brute animals...

...by our Apostolic Authority decree and declare by these present letters that the same Indians and all other peoples - even though they are outside the faith - ...should not be deprived of their liberty... Rather they are to be able to use and enjoy this liberty and this ownership of property freely and licitly, and are not to be reduced to slavery...[90]

some pretty good language, even if the same pope turned around and endorsed slavery in rome itself a few years later.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Berke Negri posted:

uspol is absolutely terrible right now

sun continues to rise in the east

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...nia-passes-ban/ , probably

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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2008 also has to get credit for adding 'obamailure' to our collective lexicon. a priceless gift...

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Berke Negri posted:

did people even pretend to get excited for bob dole

absolutely not.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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i'm excited for the impending trump majority

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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SnakePlissken posted:

Communist,
Are you serious?

Besides, he's not a fascist. As of yet, genuine Fascism hasn't been revived. Trump is looking to become more what we might describe as Soft Fascism, and that's pretty much just jumping the gun on where we're heading already, and pretty much what my fav cyberpunk writers were talking about 30 years ago, minus the fun bits so far. As global warming proceeds we are going to inevitably become more autocratic in response to crises that will be too real to let our confederacy-of-dunces Republican congress jerk off with it anymore. That will be true whether it's a R or D in the white house.

And I might as well admit, I'm one of the people that has never believed Donald should be taken seriously. I think he's pretty lowbrow, but you can't naturally equate low class with downright dumb. He's worked with what he's had at hand and prospered. Of course, he probably could have done as well by putting all that cash into GI Joe doll factories, but who knows. As a general matter I'm opposed to gambling and can't believe we're seriously discussing having a casino owner for president, but what do I know.

And I'm still thinking there's an outside chance of a Bush candidacy. I'm seeing Trump as Crassus or Pompey, Cruz as Caligula, Obama as Caesar of course, and Beebs as Herod, racistly enough. Ah who am I kidding. We're gonna have President Trump, aren't we. And we're never gonna get out of the forever war in the Middle East until we annex a few ME states. Long live Republic of Gilead, Deus Vult, gently caress it.

One thing about branding. The Democrat party should have adopted a different mascot already. We need to get rid of the donkey, which is actually 19th Century dogwhistle for Irish and working-class, and adopt something different. My suggestion, esp. given Hillary's and Barak's tenacious natures, would be the bulldog. I've always wanted to put that out there, somewhere. The Democratic party could use a makeover.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
my dad got a new set of glasses and went around marveling at his depth perception for weeks. "wow, this tree looks so... three-dimensional! look at how 3D this cat is!"

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Berke Negri posted:

kerry would have probably made a pretty decent president

john kerry has a long face...

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Gravel Gravy posted:

You could've just got a trash can lid at Home Depot though.

this is a reasonable response to a surprising number of situations

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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PupsOfWar posted:

gearbox produced
development studio was something called Blackbird, which is apparently made up largely of the olden-tymes Homeworld crew.

reviews look good so far

people chatting about it in games make it sound really mediocre

apparently there really isn't any ai to speak of, and its multiplayer scene will last two weeks top, since it got released with zero marketing budget

the old homeworld devs are all in the art department, as far as I can tell - not in design/programming/w/e. the game was originally going to be some kind of f2p/mmo nonsense before gearbox picked it up and gave it the homeworld ip?

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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now repost the grover iraq invasion survey response

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Rodatose posted:

an introduction a d&d poster here posted on an offsite webcomics forum

to be more specific, after googling it, it's the official homestuck forum

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
i miss homestuck. and dangan ronpa. those were the days, when this forum was filled with bright, young, optimistic new posters...

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Berke Negri posted:

did you reg for dangan ranpa

what do you take me for? do you think I have no self-respect?

obviously, I regged for homestuck

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Badger of Basra posted:

i can't believe you of all people don't know what homestuck is

he's too young. it's before his time...

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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euphronius posted:

I have a hard time classifying you as a poster

euphronius posted:

I make my living studying slime moulds

this feels ironic, somehow.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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possibly :thejoke:

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off

twitter is a machine that removes context and creates drama




but, also: lmao

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Badger of Basra posted:

why do all of the subject lines from these hillary emails start with a non-capitalized letter

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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what is the deal?

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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no need to upset the apple-cart, now

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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mandatory lesbian posted:

jeb and hillary are both doing their best to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, tho i guess tbf to jeb he didn't actually have much say in the matter, everyone just assumed he would be the nominee without really thinking about it much

when people talk about the assumed inevitability of jeb, I keep thinking about this guy and laughing

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Jagchosis posted:

*reads about the history of the roman republic*

hmm

sometimes it feels like it's either that or poland-lithuania. fun options

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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nutranurse posted:

whats the deal w/ poland-lithuania. i want an effortpost stat.

started as a standard medieval power-sharing arrangement between the king and the aristocracy (latter represented by the parliament, the 'sejm'). Unlike elsewhere in europe (where the royalty became more powerful than the aristocracy - c.f. 'absolute monarchy', louis xiv etc), the aristocracy became more powerful than the king. (the period of 'golden liberty'.)

over the 16th and 17th centuries, they formalized their right to elect a compliant successor (rather than letting the king's children inherit), and then finished crippling central authority by creating the 'liberum veto' - the rule that any member of the sejm could at any point call out 'stop' and thereby (1) end the legislative session and (2) nullify any legislation passed thus far. This was initially supposed to be used only in extreme cases (like the presidential veto or the us senate's filibuster), but became routinized and paralyzed the legislature (like the presidential veto or the us senate's filibuster).

having no central government worked out great for the nobility for a few centuries, since they got to act like petty kings with unchallenged power over their own little fiefs. Then their neighbors decided to chop up poland-lithuania and divide it between each-other (austria, russia, and prussia), and the poles were helpless to stop them - not least because there was pervasive bribery in the sejm by the same foreign powers that were working to dismantle the country.



hard to see canada and mexico working together to carve up the us but it would be really funny if they did, from a certain point of view.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Literally The Worst posted:

So I'm mostly done pricing out Hellboy

To go from where I've read up to now to the end of the first major story cycle, including side stuff, is 431 bucks

Hoooo boy

how much without the side stuff

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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kustomkarkommando posted:

he only made one post in 2008 before today

he made a few more but they're all in ancient archived threads (not searchable). people made fun of him and he left

zoux posted:

ive never reported a post

also you can't.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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zoux posted:

hey berke i see dragons dogma has some internet social component how intrusive is it

also is this a completely impenetrable japanese game where if you don't have a walkthrough youre going to miss all the best stuff and get the worst ending

characters that other people made will wander through towns in your game, and you can hire them to help out. this is optional and you can go into 'offline mode' if you prefer.

you can gently caress around and do whatever; it's possible to fail or miss side quests but it's a huge game so w/e.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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what happened

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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someone posted a screenshot



lmao

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

the gently caress happened

someone was trying to fix people typing 'cu ck' and filtered every single space instead

probably

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

You could probably catch most instances with a pretty simple regular expression, but I don't know how the word filter works on the backend so maybe I'm just mistaken :shrug:

zen death robot posted:

Don't edit poo poo on cold medicine kids

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:

i feel like a word filter for gay is erasure

Problematic, to say the least.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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paranoid randroid posted:

how many times a day do i say to myself, dang i could use a clear line of sight to my supervisor

paranoid randroid posted:

hey samantha? still there? ok haha just checking... youre out of LoS and i get fidgety.... abandonment issues, you see... haha okay, ttyl

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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paranoid randroid posted:

i wish my workspace had square LoS.... i cant see the other side of the room when its diagonal to me and who knows whats lurking over there

this is exactly why I wear a cloak to work and regularly swirl it around myself dramatically. this protects me from my many enemies by providing concealment, roughly equivalent to a 'scroll of fog'

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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paranoid randroid posted:

gonna wear my denim jacket with the big TED CRUZ HAS A POSSE patch on the back over my YAAAS HILLARY shirt with my Feel the Bern two-tone shoes and phreak some epistemes

randroid ponders. his outfit is nearly complete, but he needs something else, something to cap it off... that's it!

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Hollismason posted:

Wasn't there a goon who wrote a story about him being at work and just loving doing nothing because his position was basically eliminated but they never thought to fire him so he'd just come into work every day and fake it.

there was.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:

i gave in and bought some pad thai at a street fair on campus

street fair pad thai is good, in my experience.

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PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:

it is very good but it'll take me very close to my calorie limit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OG0BmRqX8Y&t=15s

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