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Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:

it's good imitation of bot writing, but it's def NOT bot writing. somebody played AI dungeon and got creative

I do think it's a little suspect, but it's also possible that they did it like a million billion times and these are the only ones that were funny.

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Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
That very same twitter thread has an update a year later saying that things that used to be impossible are now possible. And now it's been another year since then.

I don't disagree that it's at the least heavily cherry-picked and edited to be more readable though.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Give that the deep state was running things even when Trump was in office you'd think that this election wouldn't even matter to them.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
I don't think all religions have initiation rites. Broadly speaking, religion isn't about swearing loyalty to a team, it's about describing what goes on the spiritual world, which you presumably believe is true regardless of what anyone else thinks. So when, like, Buddhism spreads to other cultures, it doesn't go "you have to swear devotion to Buddha or you're going to Hell!" it just says "well, here are some tricks to improve your odds of getting reincarnated somewhere nice." Buddhism doesn't ask its believers to replace their local religions, or to stop praying to their local gods, it just has some big ideas about how the world works as a whole. Polytheism in general rather easily accepts the existence of foreign gods too. They often end up added to the pantheon.

Monotheism is more of the exception, since by definition it cannot coexist with other religious beliefs. But even then a lot of local gods end up as saints or demons.

Clarste fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Dec 3, 2020

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

the implication seems to also be that the PRC are basically the reapers/tyranid/unknowable monster evil and once they are killing the chuds and poo poo, they will kill all the lickspittles and collaborators too because ????? idk insert racist "inscrutability" meme here.

I think the basic idea is that the leftists have to die in this scenario because otherwise they'd have won, and the point is to prove that they're all fools leading America to its doom, not that they're going to win in the end.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

gay picnic defence posted:

Why would you invade when you can just use social media to prod idiots into electing leaders who will do a more effective job at degrading the US than decades of war ever could?

It's vitally important that they invade in order to prove the Qanon people right. What could be more important than that?

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Mercury_Storm posted:



Electronic Ball Shocking probably not coming, alas

I don't know why but I find it extremely funny that this person decided that they needed rabbit-hole emojis in what is otherwise a rather desperate and frustrated post.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

its because its an easy way of making someone the worst of the worst with something thats completely unjustifiable. like someone said, its like saturday morning cartoon baddie logic warped through grown up poo poo.

It's basically synonymous with "satan worshiper" in their minds, as far as I can tell.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Carnival of Shrews posted:

In terms of game mechanics that's true, but in most games and stories involving magic, learning to cast spells is described as an arduous process ('wild magic' exceptions tend to have snags like being unpredictable, or damaging to your sanity). Whether you're a white-light purist or a torture mage, magic involves specialisation, and mastery takes time.

That's not quite how it works in religious tracts. Here, there's a perennial theme, detectable at least as early as the legend of Faust, that the key to the sorcerous big time is signing up to evil. Faust spends years studying magic until he can summon a demon at will, but true power is unlocked by simply agreeing to sell his soul. You can see the same idea at work in Debbie's weird, sneering expression in the Chick tract. Either Debbie went bad, and magic now works for her because she Deliberately Chose Evil, or she was foolish, and the moment her first spell worked, it also morally corrupted her.

I mean that's literally the Warlock class in D&D too.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Do they think the cold is fake too or what?

I mean is just rain when it's below freezing.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
AFAIK, literally everything we know about druidism comes from the Romans (because the druids never wrote anything down), and the Romans were explicitly trying to fit it into their own religion by saying stuff like "they worship as aspect of Jupiter because blah blah blah."

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
I don't recommend eating them just in case they have prion diseases or something.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

All boomers have terrible spelling and punctuation. Grammar too.

To be fair, we grew up in a "texting generation" where communicating over text (and emails, etc) is the primary means of communication. As opposed to calling everyone on the phone all the time.

Telephones ruin writing skills, you heard it here first.

Clarste fucked around with this message at 10:59 on May 22, 2021

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

CopywrightMMXI posted:

I think the rationale is by not nutting they are storing up extra testosterone and becoming more manly. These aren’t bright people!

Incidentally, actual research indicates that it's the exact opposite and the body starts producing less testosterone when they don't masturbate.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Dang It Bhabhi! posted:

It's literally the coolest/most metal part about the whole thing: spikes of tungsten smashing the world into oblivion with sheer kinetic force. And they hosed it up. God damnit!

I think they're just latching onto the "of God" part and assuming that they are some kind of holy weapon to defeat Satan.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
If magic is real then it's not magic, it's just the way the world works. I think the distinction between natural and supernatural presupposes that one is false, otherwise it makes no sense.

Then again I'm an atheist so maybe I just don't understand the mindset in the first place.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

RatHat posted:

I think the Kraken was supposed to be some big piece of evidence that would prove the election was stolen, or something?

I think the idea predated the election, it was more generally about exposing the deep state conspiracy iirc.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Relevant Tangent posted:

don't be dumb, if dude didn't gently caress teens he'd just say that instead of "it was legal when i hosed that teen"

I think calling it equivalent to Qanon is a bit weird, but I think the point is that there's a difference between him admitting it and him suffering any consequences for it whatsoever, legal or political or anything.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
The Constitution makes an extremely important legal distinction between people and citizens. Some rights are granted to people, other rights are only granted to citizens.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Okay, but what if we started selling "gently caress Biden" t-shirts? What happens then?

Clarste fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Dec 30, 2021

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

Ambitious Spider posted:

Also no idea how anyone survived that deposition with a straight face.

When I was a legal intern my boss reprimanded me for looking like I was suppressing a laugh during a deposition. Keeping a poker face is just another skill you have to learn.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
To be fair, the people telling them this stuff are feeding them lies from top to bottom, so it's not too surprising if their understanding of reality is flawed at best. They're literally living in an alternate reality where everything trying to tell them the truth is "fake news."

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Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Those are just standard conspiracy cult behaviors. I think what he meant by there not being a lot of overlap that these are not exactly the same people doing both at once.

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