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X-O posted:If someone is reported for breaking one of the rules above it will be dealt with as soon as possible. Bans are not immediate. I will give a six hour probation to shut them up when I see the report and submit the ban but if the ban is not approved in six hours that means they might keep posting in this thread. So the banning process isn't automatic? It has to be ratified by a majority vote of the Council of Elders or something?
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site posted:Nazis and bad faith actors, attempt no landing here [nerd]I actually get this.[/nerd]
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Principal Hellmann posted:My other point is that Iron Sights is the worst goddamn comic I've ever seen. I don't even know where to start. From the boring try hard dialogue. From all of the political stuff thats in non-political comics (theres a big old 'joke' about how unions are bad.) From the ugliest art I've ever seen. *I* could write and draw something better than this, and I'm a complete idiot. FAKE EDIT: I'm tickled that someone else even remembers the New Universe.
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Captain Rufus posted:Also rages about milk but loves his weed Wait, what?
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Nov 19, 2018 03:18
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Lefties think that everyone who doesn't agree with them is far right, and vice versa.
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CynicalThundercunt posted:yeah, I guess it's fair to assume that it's a rereg, but I'm sure just by the way I post it's relatively easy to tell I'm not exactly "experienced" with this site, I just sort of lurked for a little bit recently and said gently caress it might as well make an account and this is my first time actually actively participating within a thread. Haha very funny. You reged a week ago and already you're making GBS threads up the thread like a pro. Who's taking bets on who this guy really is? Maybe Dare? Jon Pop?
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Lurdiak posted:It's definitely Death Ray. Yeah probably. ...but maybe Death Ray is really Dare???
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Nov 24, 2018 07:14
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Covok posted:When I open the app, I actually saw four and a half stars out of five. And then no ratings when I actually open the file. So I think they are aware it's being review bombed and disallowed some of the negative reviews. In browser, I see 5 stars.
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Maelstache posted:I recently revisited some Year 2000 issues of Ultimate Spider-Man, and oh boy, this series has not aged well. Not half as sleazy as when Logan's mind gets stuck into Peter's body and he tries to boink teenage MJ. (sorry if this was mentioned already)
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Dec 30, 2018 01:44
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Identity Crisis was absolutely DC's attempt to counter Marvel's more "grown up and realistic" vibe. There's a lot of stones to throw at Brad Meltzer, but poo poo like "Dr. Light tried to rape Sue Dibny" was, IIRC, a directive from editorial, not something he came into the project with the idea for. Tried? I thought he did.
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Dec 30, 2018 05:16
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Back then, Bill Jemas was Marvel's publisher with Quesada as Editor in Chief, and they both went for a sleazier, more adult vibe for Marvel at that time. I remember some kind of porn-looking X-Men manga series (Phoenix?), Chuck Austen writing weird sex stuff into mainstream X-Men, Millar doing creepy, pervy, unsettling stuff in Ultimate X-Men and Ultimates, some Howard Stern writer's gay panicky Rawhide Kid series, and Jemas' own sleazy, joke-free "comedy" Marville. Oh dear God don't get me started on Rawhide Kid. The reboot could have been so, so good if they had handled his gay-ness with a light touch, instead of shoving it in our faces every three pages.
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Kalli posted:For me I was reading an interview with Peter David in it and they were gushing over his latest work Sachs and Violens. I was like 11 at the time, found an issue used months later in a $.50 bin, and whoops it was pornography about a bunch of child pornographers who were making Barney themed torture porn Peter David is generally a great writer, but when his writing drifts toward sex, things get weird. Like one time in X-Factor, Danger was curious about sex, so she had her way with Cypher as he was sleeping... and no one cared.
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Edge & Christian posted:Other articles by the author of that Batgirl piece include: ...aaaaaaaand here's someone who skimmed the Cliff Notes for Atlas Shrugged.
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Roth posted:I've known a lot of gay men whose entire opinion of women seems to consist of "EW, PUSSY!" File under 'Things Hollywood Won't Tell You': not only are man-hating lesbians a very real thing, a fair amount of gay men seriously hate women. Not a huge amount, but statistically significant.
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420 Gank Mid posted:He created the first Arab-Muslim X-Men character and gave them sand powers. If he had been on the marvel team way back when and been given the task of making the first black X-Men what on earth would he have done then? Cotton and Watermelon powers? Honestly I think Dust is a pretty good depiction. She's pious and devoted, but at the same time she hates violent extremists, and takes pleasure in using her Sand Powers to remove their skin. Kamala Kahn is another awesome character... she's a normal teenaged American girl who just happens to be Muslim, and wants to live a normal teenaged American life. (whoops! Inhuman!) On the other side we have M, whom they decided to make Muslim because why the gently caress not. She's drank alcohol, had sex, and practically flies around with her boobs flopping out. She's not even remotely humble or spiritual.
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Alhazred posted:It's a little ridiculous to assume that every muslim is a pious individual that follows every rule. Eh. I don't claim to be an expert on Islam, but from what I've heard, alcohol and extramarital sex are BIG no-nos.
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Mar 12, 2019 22:11
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site posted:would just like to give a big gently caress you to whichever nazi coward gave archy that new av Personally, I think avatar 'gifts' should be public knowledge. People do lovely things when they can hide behind anonymity.
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Mar 14, 2019 22:06
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ImpAtom posted:They've said it isn't possible to do this, the admins can't even see who made the purchase. Wait what??? Mods/admins, can I get a confirmation on this?
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Mar 15, 2019 00:35
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X-O posted:Confirmed. gently caress. I had always assumed that if Goon A bought Goon B an *extremely* offensive avatar, Goon A would be banned. Now you're saying that the admins can't even tell who bought who what? Fuuuuuuuuuuck.
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Mar 15, 2019 01:38
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Can the mods/admins tell whether an avatar was bought by the user or by someone else?
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X-O posted:The only avatar adjustments that mods/admins can see a history of are the ones done personally by mods/admins. So if some mod gave someone an avatar I'd see that under their user history. If you gave someone or yourself one I would not. So, if someone was a racist trumploving chud, they could buy themselves an horrible racist avatar, and when people inevitably complain, they could say "Oh woe is me, some scurrilous individual forced this horrible, horrible avatar upon me! But fear not, I shall buy a new, friendly avatar as soon as I get a birthday check from my Aunt Mabel!" And no one could prove otherwise or do anything? gently caress.
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Mar 15, 2019 06:28
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Nessus posted:I had thought the av buying interface suggested that an admin had to at least glance at it to make sure it wasn't the goat man. I'm assuming that if a mod/admin sees an extremely offensive avatar, they will replace it with a kitten or something. The trouble is, they cannot take action because they have no way to know who bought it. It would be great if the admins could see that, but that would require actual coding changes, which is out of the question now because of SA's financial problems. My suggestion would be to increase the price of an avatar 'gift' to $25 or so. This would decrease the number of malicious avatars, while at the same time generate more money for the Lowtax's Spine Fund.
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Mar 16, 2019 01:06
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:The problem is that showing who bought it would involve tying the payment information more closely to the forums You misread my post. We can't implement any code changes at this point for several reasons, so increasing the cost of a gift avatar would be a stopgap measure. And please lets stop pointing at aatrek and going "mods are bad mmmmkay?" He was one guy out of a hundred.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Just make changing someone's av cost twice as many Lowtaxbux. That was my actual suggestion; increase the cost of a 'gift' avatar to $25 or maybe more. This would decrease the number of malicious avatar gifts, and also raise more money for the Lowtax Spine Fund.
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Wanderer posted:GamerGate ended up with a lot of dark money flowing into it, Wait, what?
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Vince MechMahon posted:Milo got a lot of funding from political think tanks and such to do his poo poo, which all started as GamerGate stuff on Breitbart. There are direct links between GamerGate and the ascension of the alt right. Fuuuuuck. I feel like I'm playing INWO.
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Rhyno posted:Cape comics ain't going nowhere so long as the MCU films keep doing a BILLION bucks each. A dude posted:The problem with that thought is while people may love to watch the movies, it's not translating into book sales. Captain Marvel has sold 100 million tickets; even with hype for the movie and being a new #1 Captain Marvel only sold just over 120,000 copies. #2 sold less than a third of that. And those comics cost a third as much as a movie ticket. Marvel is in a weird spot; the movies are cranking in a quajillion dollars a year, Marvel video games are hot, and marketing is as good as ever; but the actual paper comics are on life support. People young and old are standing in line to see Captain Marvel, but absolutely none of the young'uns are venturing into a comic store afterwards, and a lot of the old codgers like me have mostly given up on paper as well. I can't speak for DC/others, but I'd say that Marvel is keeping paper comics around to 'prop up' the movies even though they're losing money.
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Vandar posted:The problem is, who wants to go out of their way to a comic shop? Especially when comic shops don't have the best reputation in the world? Comic shops do have a rep of being dusty, dimly lit basement stores staffed by neckbeards. But there are a few bright, shiny stores like Newbury Comics, and from what I've heard sales are in the toilet there too. A dude posted:https://www.supermanhomepage.com/wa...man-comic-book/ FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
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Who the hell would *pretend* to be a homophobic Nazi??
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May 31, 2019 03:59
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ImpAtom posted:Someone who sees a way to bilk homophobic Nazis out of money and has no dignity or morals. Hell, If I thought of a way to scam money from Nazis I'd do it. They'd just spend it on Pabst Blue Ribbon or Marlboro Lights or Stormfront memberships anyway.
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Skwirl posted:I agree, but Peter/Carol is like the closest thing to an interesting story they've done since selling his marriage to satan in order to open up all the potential stories. Can we please just pretend that never happened?
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The King James Bible doesn't have Hell, full stop. (admittedly it does come close in places, such as a "lake of burning sulfur")
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site posted:i think you misunderstand, it's not that the comment hurt me, it's that it was an entirely asinine take. like, who here do you think needed to be told that drag and being trans are two different concepts? is that something you would feel comfortable tweeting at lilah? Even in TYOOL 2019, there are still a loooooot of people who lump gay, trans, "drag", and all other nonbinary into one big pile.
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Flytrap posted:James legit seems to be one of the nicest fuckers ever, it's a shame he inspired so many shitheels. I used to loving love AVGN, but I lost a lot of respect last year when he endorsed one of those ultra-lovely P2W mobile games. Age of Clans or Clash of Sperglords or something.
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Dreqqus posted:It might be because of the awful part of the US I live in but I'm legit surprised when I run into folks who are nerdy that aren't weird chuds. IMHO, the percentage of racist assholes among nerds is roughly that of the general population.
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Skwirl posted:I think you're severely underestimating how racist society in general is. I can't deny there are tons of racists in both society and among nerds. Even the crown jewel of nerddom, Magic the Gathering, has a KKK reference slipped in. My opinion was that among any given segment of the population, the ratio of CHUDs to normals among nerds is roughly equal to the ratio of CHUDs to normals among the general population.
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PenguinKnight posted:The card appearing as #1488 is a huge coincidence. Gatherer’s ordered by set->color->alphabetical. The card art was done by a certified white supremacist IHMO, it's too improbable to be a coincidence. It couldn't *possibly* be a coincidence that a card entitled "Invoke Prejudice" was assigned to a known white supremacist fuckface.
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Skwirl posted:That they think Dallas has more than one daily newspaper means they know nothing about the newspaper industry in America at the least. Does *any* US city that's not NY have more than one daily? Seriously, the deadtree newspaper has five years left at most, probably closer to two.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Boston has two, barely The Herald is a POS, it's only one small step above lovely supermarket tabloids. It barely deserves to be called a newspaper.
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