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Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





Haven't played Bloodborne (don't have a PS4) but wasn't it the case that people who hated Dark Souls played through Bloodborne, loved it, then played Dark Souls like Bloodborne and loved it too? At least, that's what Hbomb said iirc.

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Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





OwlFancier posted:

Wait jim jones was a maoist???


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWBjwgxEawo

e:f;b lmao

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





I do think Combat Liberalism is a good and important text, but I am in no way a Maoist, because Mao was loving horrible from the Great Leap Forward onwards and praising Mao in practice is akin to praising Stalin

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





Guavanaut posted:

Does being a Maoist require praising Mao personally? (Unrelated: Does it even follow as a train of thought in postindustrial societies?)

I don't have a secret shrine to Josip Broz Tito in my under stairs cupboard or anything*, but I think Titoism had a lot of useful thought in it for multinational socialist states in a post-Soviet world.

*:tito:

These are fair points and no, in theory authcoms like Maoists and Titoists don't have to praise the dictators they align themselves with, however:

Guavanaut posted:

You can be a Stalinist without praising Stalin himself,

in practice this part is just not true, as evidenced by 99.9% of Stalinists being Stalin apologists. I can't speak for Maoists and Titoists, and I concede that you may be right on that, but I cannot trust Stalinists not to be awful people.

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





They're probably not going to bring back the draft, but if they do, I sure hope people ITT are dual EU nationals and/or have some other way of getting off this rainy fascist island before the poo poo really hits the fan.

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





jaete posted:

Wait, what. The draft... in 2002? In the US? Or in the UK? What the gently caress?

It's the whole selective service thing they have going on, right? You won't be drafted unless they institute a formal draft, but they make you eligible to be drafted anyway.

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





happyhippy posted:

Never hear of the word before? Strange.
Its as in 'nutter'. A crank caller is a long ago created term for someone who calls into a radio show to troll or spout bizzare stuff.

I thought it meant someone who called people on the telephone as a joke to gently caress with them

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





kustomkarkommando posted:

the nation that produced it's a knockout

uhhhhh

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





e: gently caress, I shouldn't be doomsaying itt. Nevertheless, gently caress the Tories.

Venomous fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Jan 13, 2020

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





Guavanaut posted:

When you strip people not just of the harmful and irrational bits but also of the mythology and community, what replaces it?

Anomie, or disconnection from society at large, which is a big reason why we have so many fash these days without any sort of religious connections, because they have that horrible secular white nationalist community keeping them going in place of any sort of religious beliefs.

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





UK crisp thread, I require your assistance:

https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1218575671477358592?s=19
https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1218577258627174400?s=19
https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1218611859873574912?s=19

I have two questions:

1. Does Monster Munch really go in a cheese sandwich? That honestly sounds kinda :gonk: to me.
2. Is this Monster Munch opinion Correct or Heretical?

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





Miftan posted:

The correct monster munch opinion is to put it in the bin and get proper crisps (the best ones are wavey/ruffled, preferably ready salted don't @ me).

Here we have a Heretic in our midst

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





Mega Comrade posted:

So the Trump approach then? Cos that's exactly what he does.

Trump won the last election and unless Bernie Sanders is nominated he will win the next election

He is a fascist and a complete piece of poo poo, but I regret to say what he does is exactly how Labour should treat the right-wing press

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





hard to believe anyone could feasibly consider Neil Kinnock 'hard left', but that's liberalism for you

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





The only good expanded universe things were Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars animated series and Knights of the Old Republic II

the rest can gently caress a duck tbh

e: they have the entire Clone Wars series on YouTube!!! that's the rest of my morning gone lmao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLdlwZUO5mo

Venomous fucked around with this message at 11:22 on Jan 21, 2020

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





This is why, if anyone insists on watching Star Wars, they should watch it in Machete Order instead of wasting two hours hearing about midichlorians and trade bullshit

II is bad, but it doesn't ruin everything like I does

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





Noxville posted:

If you want to skip just skip the prequel trilogy entirely.

I mean yeah, II and III are bad films so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





Debbie Does Dagon posted:

Wasn't KoTOR II an unplayable buggy piece of poo poo?

It's been said on this page, but nevertheless: the Restored Content Mod loving rules and makes said unplayable buggy piece of poo poo one of the best RPGs ever made

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





so I just found out there's an Irish election coming up next month and lmaoooo. Couldn't be happening at a better time. Whoever wins, they're laughing at Britain all the way to the bank.

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





Skull Servant posted:

The only reason we haven't had an election sooner was because of Brexit. The last three years of government here have been FG being supported in confidence and supply by FF. Both parties have their origins in the Civil War, traditionally being bitterly opposed. They have taken turns governing the country since the foundation of the State.

Neither party expected the confidence and supply agreement to last very long, but then Brexit happened and neither wanted to rock the boat during negotiations and have concerns over the boarder used as a stick in an election. As soon as the Tories got a workable majority, an election was going to happen.

Things won't exactly go better for the UK as a result of the Irish GE. You will either get continuity with FG and Varadkar (unlikely but possible), a slightly harder line with FF being soft nationalists, or, if polling holds and gets better, Taoiseach Mary Lou of Sinn Fein. The last one is the least likely to happen, as Sinn Fein constantly underperform compared to polls, but a lot of people are very angry at FF and FG so it can't be completely discounted.

Completely agree. Sorry, I mistyped, and you beat me before my edit lmao. I don't expect things to get better for Britain because of this, at all. I fully expect things to get better for Ireland though.

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





marktheando posted:

They will a million percent re-elect Trump.

Only if (a) they run anyone other than Bernie (b) enough libs hold their nose and vote for Trump, because liberals hate socialists more than fascists

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





marktheando posted:


I can't see any Dem beating him. I remember 2004, I was so convinced there was no way the American public were dumb enough to re-elect this fucker. Now I realise I was the one being dumb, to think that.

Also surely the Libs would just stay home, they aren't going to vote Trump.

That's the thing though: 2004 was John Kerry, ie. your bogstandard neoliberal, against the man who bravely united the country after 9/11 and all that bullshit. Mark Blyth said John Kerry was 'what everyone in the Democratic Party thought everyone who was not a Democrat would like for President. Nobody actually voted for him because they were like, JOHN KERRY WHAT A GUY, they were like, we need to beat Bush, so who's someone that we think other people think would beat Bush?' That's why John Kerry lost, and that's why anyone who isn't Bernie will lose, because they're just another bunch of John Kerrys. Bernie is actually trying not to be a John Kerry, and he has a solid chance of pulling in Gary from Gary, Indiana who couldn't stand yet another John Kerry in the White House.

I mean, you say you were being dumb, but they didn't have a Bernie in the race that year. We didn't have Obama showing us just how bad John Kerry would have been. We didn't know any better. Now we do.

And no, I guarantee the #resistance will turn on the Dems in an instant if Bernie gets the nomination. Bloody numpties.

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





Guavanaut posted:

Ducks have terrifying hydraulic drill dicks and are terrible.

Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k01DIVDJlY

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





Thirty minutes. Welp.

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Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





Flipswitch posted:

I just saw the EU supergirl on the BBC and now I hope this island sinks in 20 mins

My God, she's still on the shitlib grift

To hell with it, one more time before the Baphomet returns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVANiQR0WYc

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