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Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Inceltown posted:

Have you actually met people though? Being lonely is the better of the two.

So are you a Chandler or a Ross

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Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

OwlFancier posted:

Is he leftist I thought he was the guy whose main thing was being bad at women's anatomy.

he's the most obviously insecure lunatic tankie around

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

TinTower posted:

Only in so much as he sincerely believes in the ideology; if we include grifters who are currently in that sphere, Peter Coffin has him beat hands down by virtue of a self-kick to the balls on live television.

Peter Coffin is pathetic, but Haz has him beat on pure fragile masculinity. Guy just explodes with fury at any interaction that isn't someone grovelling to him.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

ghosthorse posted:

I don't know who he is/was but I thought releasing a video saying "I was a huge problem and actively made the forum bad" at the same time as trying to be some kind of forums history person is pretty dumb.

Trying to drive people off a site by being a huge rear end to them doesn't seem conducive to that site generating more fun content in the future. Maybe he wasn't that bad if I don't recognize the username but it still seems weird.

Guy Mann, Sleeveless, ...Of Science, couple others. He was a real rear end. Still, if the video is even half true it's a sad story, probably not that uncommon, and I hope he's telling the truth that he's working to turn things around.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Regy Rusty posted:

How long ago was the last Guy Mann account active anyway? Doesn't feel like it was that long ago for him to have had a complete change of heart but maybe time has just blended together.

It was a fair while ago, and according to him he'd been aware of the problem and trying to turn it around before that. I dunno, sounds plausible, but maybe I'm just a soft touch.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

He's American so it's understandable that he thinks all countries have exactly two cities worth going to and then everything in between is a barren wasteland

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Endjinneer posted:

Oh, we can tell you all about competing railroad companies. Visit Pontefract, a town of 30,000 inhabitants served by three railway stations established by two different railway companies- Tanshelf, Monkhill and Baghill.
On the other hand, there were rare occasions when rivals joined forces to create stations of unparalleled magnificence like Huddersfield.

That's England, it doesn't count as European. Or arguably people

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

If the forums censored cunts there'd be nobody posting in D&D at all :haw:

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

The sword missile is more viscerally unpleasant sounding than a high explosive. An explosive missile makes its targets (and the dozen innocent people nearby) helpfully disappear into a big cloud of smoke and fire, so you can stop thinking about it there before you get to the carnage. With the sword missile, there's no looking away from the fact that it's committing metal gear rising on a real human being.

E: loving terrible snipe, dogshit post, who is this idiot

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Mister Speaker posted:

Explosives leave plenty of human debris, it's just spread out over a wider area. I don't think you can really quantity the horror of these kinds of weapons. The murdering dweebs over at Lockheed probably just use words like "effect on target" and "secondaries."

Right, that's what I'm saying, you can just mentally handwave it away easier. "Missile hit, they're gone, that's the end of that thought." Whereas with the sword missile, even if you stop thinking about it right before it hits, that just means you're visualising a shot from a slasher movie

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

The people who make the decision about what missiles to fire don't generally plan on visiting the other end so

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

The Wicked ZOGA posted:

Dr Who is generally arse from a bum and Chibnall's stuff is particularly arse, but I did like how the Predatoresque guy who portrayed himself as a proud hunter turned out to be a craven weenie whose grand quarry was an unarmed and oblivious builder from a species centuries behind his own. Because that'd the kind of poo poo an 'honourable' hunter culture would quickly descend into IRL.

It literally has IRL. Look at all the rootin tootin proud hunters goin' out and baggin' theyselves a deer just like the pioneers did, from the back of a hummvee, with sniper rifles that could drill a hole in concrete and scopes that could spot a deer on the surface of the moon.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

If your last exposure to Native American culture was Disney's Peter Pan (1927) then you might very well think it was just a relevant word.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

He's credited as writing a few episodes. Specifically, the ones that get closest to cringy know it all "Idiocracy was a documentary you know" poo poo

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

sexpig by night posted:

the black kid has a normal name but the one adult black wizard is named Kingsley Shacklebolt

I don't think this one's racist, but there's also the black sportsball commentator, Lee Jordan

Ambitious Spider posted:

Don’t know a ton about Harry Potter but didn’t they recast some character from black to white when they finally had a couple of lines?

Yeah, Lavender Brown had two different black actors for her appearances as a background character, then one white actor for the last few films

quote:

- Many fans speculate as to why Lavender Brown's actress was changed for the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but the reasoning is quite simple. Before Half-Blood Prince, Lavender Brown played no major role, she was portrayed by two separate actresses in the second and third film and was a background character. Background characters have no specific casting, which is why multiple people can portray them. Usually they are given character names just to keep order on a film set. Lavender Brown, as a major character role, was not cast until the sixth film. The filmmakers had no way of knowing she would play such a role when they assigned her name to the background actresses from previous films, which is why her actress changed in the sixth film.
- Casting a white actress in a role that had previously been held by black actresses, however, earned the film-makers some criticism for white-washing the cast. Although, in the book, when she and Ron are cuddling, it is said that "it was impossible to tell whose hands were whose", implying she is the same race as Ron, as otherwise their hands could have been clearly distinguished.

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Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

DaysBefore posted:

Shackleboat for a Black person is... something when you think about it

Edit: Oh wait was bolt not boat. Whatever, probably other ways it was awful

I mean he's still basically named Martin Luther Slaveinchains

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

hallo spacedog posted:

When I was a teen and lived in Japan I read the first few books and thought hey it would be cool if there was a school of magic in Japan and then later jkr was like there's totally a school in Japan and all the kids from all of Asia go there and its name translates as "magic place" in Japanese, lol. Insanely low effort

Not only is its name shite, but it has fewer students than Hogwarts despite Japan having a way bigger population than the UK. So her zero effort approach did another racism by accidentally making the Japanese racially less magical or something

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Chief, boss

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

I thought the warp core set in the new Star Trek movies was a brewery

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012


Never heard of him OP

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Arsenic Lupin posted:

All I know about The Dalles is that it's a turnoff on the way from Portland to Corvallis. What's bad about it/them?

Have you seen what they look like

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Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Samovar posted:

The only way I could see that as being remotely considered racist would be if this Bailey person is Italian, and as someone who is from an Italian family, it ain't racist.

but have you considered that italians aren't white, so anything you say about them is a joke about all non white people? checkmate

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Remember the good old days, when poor people legally had to pretend they didn't exist

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Someone in the replies pointed out that she was posting some pretty risque poses to her IG, in the classroom, in the middle of class, surrounded by kids whose faces she didn't cover, and given the angle of the photos she was possibly getting the kids to take them.

https://twitter.com/deppforddwives/status/1562220873754578944

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Tiggum posted:

What's a UMA?

Ok serious answer, it stands for Unidentified Mysterious Animal. A cryptid.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Agents are GO! posted:

As a slight aside to a subject that's already a derail, and at the risk of becoming the IOSM myself, a really can't stand retrogamers who insist that old games need to be played on CRTs or with godawful CRT filters. That stuff looked like dogshit back in the day and I did everything I could before I got an HD TV to minimize the "feel" of a CRT. Oh, what's that, that's how those games were :airquote:intended:airquote: to look? They were intended to look like dogshit?

Also, cf that one loon in the Final Fantasy thread who keeps posting Jorge Luis Borges copypasta in response to AI upscale mods

Edit: my one exception to the "no CRT filters" are the scanlines in Caves of Qud.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Well that looks like smeared rear end and the CRT one looks nice, so

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Cool Kids Club Soda posted:

Oh you think you know a lot about oppressive empires? Name them all

The Empire.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

some plague rats posted:

Why not? That answer lines up with what he's been saying for years at this point, the amount of self-proclaimed leftists saying bloodthirsty poo poo about Ukraine absolutely bears his point out

I think the phenomenon you might be observing is that the people who got mad at imperialism when America did it, are now also mad when Russia is doing it. I'm a huge prick

E: Didn't see the mod post, awaiting hammer

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Now I'm not defending Russia, but what about the maybe 2000 and falling Nazis in a country with a population of about 41 million? Did you think of them? Huh? Cause I'm thinking of them all the time for reasons that have nothing to do with Russian propaganda.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Space Camp fuckup posted:

you should tell them to sign up for the smartest forums on the net so they can complain about stuff instead, OP

which ones are those

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

I remember reading a story, I think it was on here, ages ago, about a dad who thought his son buying Sailor Moon DVDs meant he was gay until the guy telling the story, who worked at the store, took the dad aside and pointed out, quote, "if those skirts were any shorter I'd have to ask him for ID". Homophobes are just scared of anything with girls in leading roles I guess

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

My Spirit Otter posted:

Oh man, i absolutely love this idea. I dont know enough about white supremacist filmography to suggest doing this with their favourite movie, but i would absolutely love to see their reactions.

Fight Club. C'mon.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Baron von Eevl posted:

That's true, but she also thought Musk was a socialist so it'd also possible she's just very very gullible and misheard something.

NATIONAL Socialist, common misconception

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

it's ok to say you just don't like dogs. watch, I'll do it now. I don't like dogs. There, that was easy

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012


holy gently caress I lost it at the special culinary sword

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

I thought Hawaii was floating until today. Like, not everywhere else, I know about the crust of the earth, but I thought I remembered learning that it was floating and shifted around a bit cause it was cooled lava from an undersea volcano. Turns out nah the lava sank and piled up so they are still anchored to the ocean floor

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

silence_kit posted:

I don't really believe that left-wing goons really have an ideological commitment to democracy. If we lived in a world where voters in the US were left-wing along the same vein as Jeffersonian Republicans, almost certainly goons would be falling all over themselves to defend the electoral college.

the social media is coming from inside the thread

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

silence_kit posted:

Goons are very quick to throw out the idea of democracy when it reaches conclusions that they don't like or agree with. And they defend un-democratic institutions when it suits their political ideology (example: the political process through which the Roe v. Wade ruling prevented restrictions on abortion was very anti-democratic). I question their ideological commitment to democracy.

be honest OP: which probation are you mad about

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Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Read After Burning posted:

Yeah, I only felt it fit the thread because, again, a celebrity (married to another celebrity) was using his verified IG account to try to start up affairs. If that ain't an IoSM, I dunno what is!

And I'm reminded of the time this happened:
https://twitter.com/AMENARTPOP/status/1572184854456074241

Fuckin wish she'd ended his career

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