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Oct 27, 2010

cinci zoo sniper posted:

thank you secret service for changing the thread title

I too am a not a fan of star wars or salafist terrorism

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Oct 27, 2010

Homeless Friend posted:

im just lollin at the inability to firewall online and offline. how do people not do this by default. it is so goddamn easy

few people really have everything together in their lives. i only manage it because my damage is that my soul is cold and dead, shriveled and withered by utter self-contempt

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Oct 27, 2010

Dreylad posted:

what if they're royalty


im not clicking on twitter.com what's going on

:shillary: is bringing back the 2016 spirit

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Oct 27, 2010

V. Illych L. posted:

it really is, in that inimitable american way


you've only had an organised national left for four years, the right in my country is currently cheerfully helping kill innocent people to prevent them from inconveniencing us and has dealt possibly lethal blows to every centre of power the left once had

we've been seeing tangible defeats more or less constantly since the eighties, everyone who joins the left is basically a masochist

The US used to have an organized national left.

It got crushed in the 70s and essentially annihilated in the 80s.

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Oct 27, 2010

Randler posted:

Was Biden's performance actually surprising or is his recovery weird to non goons as well?

Biden polled in first place by a fair margin basically everywhere for literally an entire year. Then he way underperformed in Iowa and NH, and his numbers plummeted in favor of the guy who got all the centrist votes in Iowa and NH. Then the new centrist frontrunner dropped out and endorsed Biden, along with basically the entire party establishment.

What I'm saying is that this was always Biden's race to lose, and the first two weeks were shocking because Biden was originally expected to perform way better than he actually did. Last night's results were the kind of thing we'd expected from Super Tuesday back in December or January, but after Biden's complete failure to perform in Iowa and NH, a lot of people dropped their expectations.

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Oct 27, 2010

Berke Negri posted:

i smell a goon meet!

when goons meet, the whole town smells it

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Oct 27, 2010

Raskolnikov38 posted:

oh what the gently caress

beats me

I found out from the leper's colony entry, same as you

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Oct 27, 2010

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Remember that scene in Jaws where the mayor keeps the beach open and a kid gets eaten?

I'd take that mayor over our pollies any day.

better buy tickets to the UK then

https://mobile.twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1238016923029430272

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Oct 27, 2010

Berke Negri posted:

that said biden still polls better than trump in most matchups i believe and we're basically about to get the entire global economy tanking harder than the recession and trump murdering tens of thousands before november

if were uh, doing elections in november thats got to be worked out too probably. itll probably all be mail in and that will have pretty unpredictable results

even if Biden wins, a massive life-changing event like this would have been the perfect political opportunity to push some major New Deal-esque reforms, and instead we're looking at a November contest between a senile corporate puppet and a fascist senile corporate puppet

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Oct 27, 2010

Homura and Sickle posted:

they permabanned avshalom for empty quoting someone saying "nuke the pope" but didnt permaban or even probate the person who said nuke the pope

excellent modding as usual

avshalom got permaed for spamming the forums with underage fart porn stories

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Oct 27, 2010

Sinnlos posted:

It is with a heavy heart that I announce that our friend and veteran DaDChat poster, Lumberjackbonanza, also known as Arsonist Daria, passed on April 1st of this year. She is survived by both of her parents. A channel has been set aside in DaDSlack to organize a memorial.

poo poo, I'm real sorry to hear that

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Oct 27, 2010
meltdown may ending on a high note I guess

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Oct 27, 2010

V. Illych L. posted:

avs is a forums treasure and imo her threats to the life of the president should be seen as a form of literary art given her location on a farm in australia and perpetual lack of funds except for heroic rereg efforts

The people you're going to have to convince are Lowtax and the Secret Service, not me. As things currently stand, not openly calling for the death of the president is a non-negotiable condition for continuing to post on this website - no exceptions, no matter how funny it is.

I just want to be clear here, since this is apparently the Avshalom Discussion Thread these days: the one and only reason Avshalom is permabanned right now is because, after her first perma for repeatedly threatening the life of the president, she was eventually unpermaed on the sole condition that she would stop calling for the death of the president. This was made clear to her. And then she kept posting about how much she wanted the president to be dead. All she had to do was stop posting threats against the president of the United States, and she could have copy-pasted fart porn fanfiction into mental health threads all she loving wanted and probably not gotten re-permaed.

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Oct 27, 2010
Reminder:

Lightning Knight posted:

notes:
  • While this thread is more relaxed than a normal D&D thread, try to keep things at least a bit above GBS levels of relaxed
  • Don't report people for spelling errors or caps stuff, but please also don't spam a hundred images or generally try to make the thread unreadable
  • :siren:Please don't turn this into a clearing house for drama and grudges:siren:

Have fun guys. :)

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Oct 27, 2010

Randler posted:

The gently caress? How can your mind go to "Excesses of PC mindset" on 4 June 2020 with all that is going on right now?

the media classes are entirely detached from the struggles of ordinary Americans

mass unemployment and racist death squads are just news headlines to someone like yglesias. they're not real to him in the same way as potentially facing consequences for one of his articles would be

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Oct 27, 2010

Martha Stewart Undying posted:

so what

a million offsites now? reddit? goontok???

people are rushing to discords or hasty offsite plans for now, just in case Lowtax deletes the forums in a flash of rage tomorrow or whatever. no telling what the hell he's gonna do

"where do we go after we leave SA" is a question a lot of people are very interested in figuring out right now. none of us really wants to see the SA community splinter into a million separate mini-communities connected only by their shared history and the vague concept of "goon". it seems like the admins have some ideas, but they're keeping it under wraps for now so idk what they're thinking. for now just make sure you have some offsite way to hear about it, just in case we lose the ability to communicate post-SA plans on the forums themselves

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Oct 27, 2010

V. Illych L. posted:

it always surprises me a bit that there are still other forums dedicated to the destruction and undermining of this one

what was your old avatar text? i'm reverting all the Trump/MAGA avatars but i have no way to see exactly what the old avatar was

(and if you want a different text, that's fine too)

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Oct 27, 2010

V. Illych L. posted:

if i may, could i have the penguin av instead? it's the one i had immediately before getting trump'd

Oh, this one?

I'll put it in.

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Oct 27, 2010
This thread is a lot of things but it ain't QCS

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Oct 27, 2010
Jeffrey posted a thread in QCS talking about the future of FYAD and letting people directly give feedback and concerns. It's locked right now because he's only keeping it open when he's available to directly participate, but if you'd like I can make a post in here when it gets reopened so that you can ask him directly about things. You can also PM him, though I hear his PM box is pretty backlogged right now so it may take a little while to get a response.

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Oct 27, 2010

V. Illych L. posted:

no president is going to be convicted of anything they've done as president or in the process of becoming president unless something dramatically changes or they're immediately pardoned

personally I'm just glad he's probably not gonna live long enough to rehab his reputation and become a bipartisanly respected elder statesman like Nixon did

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Oct 27, 2010

Berke Negri posted:

id have probably said five years ago its likely far more boring than you could imagine but its been nothing but clown shoes tripping over themselves the past years so maybe not

it's boring, but not in the fun relaxing way

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Oct 27, 2010

adoration for none posted:

Lol no not that. I understand the intent to show respect but the result seems... wanting to me. Did anyone find it offensive for Skittles to have a rainbow? Why would I buy this if it looks like they're all the same flavor - I can't enjoy what makes skittles skittles? Why is this still being sold in October?

Looking up the reaction at the time, people noted that it was kind of bad taste to put this out just as the BLM movement was ramping up as well. The whole scene of it is just so out of place.

Maybe the intent is all that matters and I'm overthinking this.

October is when they throw all the old candy clogging up their warehouses on the shelves

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Oct 27, 2010

Furnaceface posted:

The average age of a US politician is like 99 so its most likely that youre just used to it and it doesnt seem out of place.

Also how the gently caress is your election still going on? Its like making people wait in 7 hour lineups to vote isnt enough torture, now you need to draw out the final process to further the pain.

normally the vote counting goes on for ages, but no one cares because the important states are all called pretty quickly. it took weeks to get final popular vote numbers for 2016, and turnout is way higher this year

after 2016, though, news orgs are too cowardly to call the election at the normal margins so they're letting those last few states draw things out even after the result is very clear

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Oct 27, 2010

Cease to Hope posted:

lmao mpf's avatar

ahahahahahahaha holy poo poo

thanks, i hadn't noticed yet

:lol:

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Oct 27, 2010
opening schools would probably be fine if we were closing everything else down, but Biden seems to intend to maintain business as usual as much as possible

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Oct 27, 2010
lmao

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Oct 27, 2010

Shrecknet posted:

Is there a thread in D&D for philosophy (specifically discussing the existence and eventual end of the concept of money)? Or is that buried in BFC for some ungodly reason?

making a thread about whatever philosophy discussion you want to have is fine in D&D. there used to always be a couple of philosophy threads active at any given time

haven't seen any in a while, but it's not banned or anything

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Oct 27, 2010

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

drat, i started playing the factorio demo while sitting at home being sick. i figured there was no one the game actually ended up being as compelling as people say, but god drat if it isn't just completely addictive

if you haven't bought factorio yet, you might wanna check out other similar games like Dyson Sphere Program or shapez.io first

factorio's main dev had a big Reddit meltdown ranting about CANCEL CULTURE last month

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Oct 27, 2010

CommieGIR posted:

Yes, but he had largely been banned for a while prior.

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Oct 27, 2010

CommieGIR posted:

Yeah he created a sockpuppet to post the crimes. The thread he posted them in is locked away for now.

While he did use the sockpuppet to post the crimes, he didn't create the sockpuppet for that purpose. He created it last year because he got banned from an offsite for making too many jokes about murdering people, so he decided to return to SA

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Oct 27, 2010
lowtax is either dead, or recruited fragmaster in an elaborate attempt to fake his death

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Oct 27, 2010

Cease to Hope posted:

this is about twitter but it's about the purest poster manifesto you'll ever see

there are two kinds of people: those who have embraced the hopelessness of posting, and those who continue to deceive themselves to cling to those last few shreds of imagined dignity

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Oct 27, 2010
i had a feeling meltdown may was gonna be spicy this year, but drat

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Oct 27, 2010
turns out the internet makes us stupid

who'da thought

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Oct 27, 2010

this is really cool

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Oct 27, 2010

The ideology eater posted:

Do we have a forums general

grover

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Oct 27, 2010

exmarx posted:

this is the purpose of ask/tell and its subforums

yet again, the mods try to fix d&d by writing a big long list of rules while providing zero clarity on their general approach to moderation. do you seriously want people to report jokes1 that are made in "non-lenient"2 threads, for judgement by the jarhead, the latvian food criminal, the interchangeable democrat party creeps, etc.?


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1 see guideline ii(b)
2 category not further defined beyond "regional" threads

probably the only way to fix D&D is to permaban anyone who posts in the US politics threads more than twice a week

but there's never gonna be a shortage of people rolling in figuring that THEY could be the ones who fix D&D if they just construct the PERFECT logical set of arguments and rules

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Oct 27, 2010
it could very well be that closed-minded traditional evolutionists are rejecting new science and being fail

or it could be that all this new stuff is actually bullshit after all

the writer covers EES proponents' arguments for it in considerable detail, but makes no real attempt to reckon with counterarguments of skeptics. it barely mentions them, and even when it does, it handwaves them away as if they're meaningless

that's a big red flag, imo. pseudoscience types who shill nonsense love to rely on this narrative of stodgy old scientists stuck in their old ways and ignoring or suppressing new research

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Oct 27, 2010

cinci zoo sniper posted:

I think the sticking point here is that dadchat is a pre-2016 relic thread with a large body of institutional lore. It doesn’t mesh well with the current moderation, but it has also been dead for 6 years, so the practical outcome here is to simply archive this thread, and create a new chat thread with clearer expectations.

this thread might be a good fit among CCCC honestly

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