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Hmm, Well, Extra Credits did it again. This time they tried to jam the idea of "Nazi's are bad people !" into their talk about video games so hard that they are now about receiving 20 thumbs down for every 6 thumbs up.
Meanwhile, yeah I agree with the general message behind what they are saying. We must stop trying to normalize the idealisms of Nazi's. However to blame Video Gamers is Jack Thompson levels of insane to me, especially if you see how the arguements are formed.
Heck I am sure that the fact that there is a president in the U.S.A. who is being called a Nazi like clockwork is doing harm to 'normalize the Nazi's' than a game called "The life of Erwin Rommel, the VR experience"
No use looking that up either, I just had to think of a stupid game title and I had a brain fart about Fennec Foxes earlier...Wednesday, 03-Jul-19 23:23:30 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony Honestly all they can achieve with this is getting nazis to be seen positively in the long run. Think jews for example, they were universally disliked up until wwii, the nazis screwed up so badly with it than they became a group you can't criticize in most of the western world.
More so since what they call "nazis" have nothing to do with what an actual nazi is. Trump is a good example, he might have not delivered on most of the stuff he promised, but anyone else would be laureate after as US president being one of three main actors in the end of the korean war and restart of diplomatic relationships between the DPRK and the USA. Give it a few decades, and once the groups that screech about Trump cease to exist, he'll be seen in an overwhelmingly positive way in historical retrospectives. If these idiots conflate the words "nazi" and "trump", the logical conclussion is that he's a nazi, and therefore nazis are a boogeyman, okish people that are hated by fanatical groups. -
@nerthos You know, I agree with you. But you should probably go watch the video. Heck go with the straight up reply video of this guy https://youtu.be/KngleLumR_U .
I guess the biggest problem is that EC thinks that we should stop to normalize the Nazi's. Those being ACTUAL Nazi's and their ideology, by being extremely patronising to the point of nausea in Multiplayer Games.
Also to tinker with the matchmaking system to do the opposite of rewarding Nazi's. Which is just a system so insane that the moment you write it down you realize that you punish ALL players because your game has Nazi's in them.
Also it was stated that because 'safeguards are being eroded', you might not go off of a website like stormfront because you do not mind playing as Hanz Mit Der Flammenwerfer in some game.
But the birth of a meme, the absolute beginning. "There you are, playing a game, and all of a sudden bam you're a Nazi, you did not ask for this" is golden. I mean, you did buy the game.
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It feels so weird to be on SPC with some of the people from here, but half a decade after, all of us old and wise now. But I'm thankful for those connections, and for this place's uncanny ability to bring to light the most interesting people.
Who could have predicted that we'd go from bronies to shamans and wizards.Wednesday, 26-Jun-19 19:21:32 UTC from web- awlxaĺan likes this.
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@drinkingpony I don't really even get the big problem with drag. It's loud and over the top, sure, but it doesn't have to be sexy or kinky.
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@thismightbeauser Doesn't matter. There is shock and awe. Does not matter if they even raise concerns you agree with or not. I am just annoyed that it makes a large enough stink that I hear the screeching harpies on both sides of the arguement and it makes me sigh.
"Please just let me enjoy my Pizza without both Gordon Ramsay and Massimiliano Alajmo screaming at me about the existance of Pineapple." is what I am essentially saying.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony Gossip generally sucks.
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What the FrankerZ is up, losers?
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Who remembers when Red called Colfax a turbonerd but the filter changed it to turd
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Friday, 07-Jun-19 00:11:32 UTC from web-
@nerthos Imagine spotting that drinking coffee at the local starbucks or something. Just howmuch sugar would dissapear into one cup I wonder.
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Basically, I kinda just want a Calexit, and then also to live in a van in a cave in the jungle by the river all alone anyway, with solar panels on my Nintendo.
Thursday, 23-May-19 14:36:04 UTC from web-
@nerthos That's it, I'm running for President . . . of (one of the) California(s)!
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@nerthos Nah, Rural California would get shafted there because of where the urban areas are. Either a) Rural California ends up still being dominated by cities in the northern part of the state, or B) the urban parts of the state are split into MULTIPLE states, leading to urban over-representation.
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@scribus The schism of the future: the state of blue california vs the state of red california.
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Gotta love being 'shamed' for playing a video game in offline mode. Why is there even such a mode if the game then mocks you for using it ?
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@drinkingpony There is a mode besides offline?
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@adiwan Only to those who are defiant enough to dare and are not allergic to vitamin D.
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@nerthos Alas, it is woven into the loading screen tips of Rage 2. So you would not just have to plant the Jolly Roger flag deep into its hearts, but also mod out the loading screens.
I do not oppose any of those idea's by any means but for the sake of everything I like and love, I do not think it should have ever been there in the first place.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Who rember posey
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we need some politically incorrect leftists to combat politically incorrect people who are actually for real racist, who’s with me #Me2020
Thursday, 23-May-19 01:42:02 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@mrmattimation So fighting racism with racism? that's one way to go about it, I guess.
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@mrmattimation Inb4 people on the right of those leftists get ultra-confused since they claim they can no longer seperate the fascist-leftists from the actual-leftists.
Which results in a repeat of the blue-wave that never was.
For the sake of the sanity of both the American voters and everyone abroad taking notes. Please don't.
Try to unite people instead of separating them.
I never thought that I would think this, but Shia Labeouf was right for shouting ( very wishfully ) into a camera "SHE WILL NOT DIVIDE US"Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Trying for once to get a new warframe within the first 24 hours of it coming out, and the bugs match the expectations.
Even the unstuck command is bugged!Thursday, 23-May-19 07:56:34 UTC from web -
My spoilerfree opinion on the ending of GoT.
FFS I just saw the episode where they threw Cercei in jail. That is only Season 5. I do not even KNOW anything about the ending of GoT. I do know that the 2 main guru's are the most hated toons in the eyes of the fans, such a strong reaction from the fanbase I have not seen for YEARS. The only thing that comes close is when I was in spittle range of some uber-nerd's litteral waterfall of words regarding how 'Han shot first'.
Talking about Star Wars. The main guru's behind GoT are going to get their own Star Wars trilogy. But also Ryan Johnson was supposed to get his own trilogy. Meanwhile if I can take this thing anywhere close to serious http://rainbowdash.net/url/874466
If I had a betting sort of personality though I know what I would put my money on. But I am not. I'm just going to enjoy the Hindenburg-Train-Airbus-Hybrid-Crash while sipping my favorite beverage.
It makes me feel like a winner.Tuesday, 21-May-19 01:51:45 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@nerthos I think they need a different petition, to make the ending match the books'.
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@mrmattimation You definitely can considering they're both starting other projects and massively negative image can make investors reconsider their choice of director or writer.
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@nerthos [because the show writers got extremely focused on being unpredictable]
Ohhnoo... I heard the Ryan Johnson story one too many times before, I did not like it then. I'll assuredly will not like it now.
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It seems there was a study saying that women enjoy sex as much as men. And the idiots of the internet are saying "But I've never met a woman who enjoyed it!" Like, come on. Think, then post.
Tuesday, 14-May-19 04:56:37 UTC from web-
@scribus Still waiting for “Oh yeah, I’ve totally met women who enjoy sex, but I enjoy it waaaaaaaay more”
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@scribus Disappointing pee pee kung fu
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@scribus People like to be edgy, especially when anonymous. Heck the number of people that I 'raped' in online multiplayer games is probably astronomical. ... And then I learned what the word actually meant.
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for a while now I've wanted to try streaming RPG Maker so that viewers could help create the world, characters, plot etc. only issue is it would need a moderate number of people to actually be fun
Sunday, 12-May-19 21:55:34 UTC from web-
@tiff I'm up for it if you want. Credentials: years of playing and DMing tabletop games
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According to one of my friends. "This will never stop being funny". Then why does it make me cry on the inside ? http://rainbowdash.net/url/874279
Maybe he cries on the inside manifest themselves as laughter ?
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@nerthos Somewhere, in the distance, a whisper on the wind: "C h a l l e n g e A c c e p t e d"
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@nerthos Ohh, you are talking mental and physical fortitude to walk the route from A to B. Such as grain to bread if you have nothing but grain, lumber, stone and clayish mud. In which the walking the walk is the important part.
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@scribus Halfway there http://rainbowdash.net/url/874326
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@maiyannah I was honestly disgusted earlier at a local news anchor praising the measure with a "journalists and content creators get no revenue for social media sharing and now facebook and google will have to pay them, this is great" speech.
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Got these two cables to replace the wire of my headphones. Silicone coating instead of rubber, high quality. The black one is much nicer looking, but has 4 wires so it can only support the headphones. The orange one has five so it can support stereo headphones and a microphone, but is heavier and was used in an industrial welding area so it's not super pretty. I could try to use the common wire for both mic and speakers but I don't have a composite jack port on the computer and I'm not sure if it works with two separate jacks.
The connectors are compatible between both so that's not an issue, they'd connect to the same port.
Anyone experienced in audio hardware around?
https://appleposter.club/media/ef3d2e02-d633-4571-bf28-d0eaec895ef8/20190327_045124.jpgWednesday, 27-Mar-19 08:49:47 UTC from web-
@nerthos Basically my question is, will this configuration work or do I need to lay two separate ground circuits for it?
I simplified the L/R wiring, I know that it wouldn't work without the extra bridge between speakers, but it's not important to this question. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/874159
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The failure that was the last week of printing https://imgur.com/a/5nlwxT6 I underestimated the side forces too much.
Monday, 25-Mar-19 20:18:58 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@nerthos Bamboo comes highly recommended for many applications.
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@scribus Yeah but it's much harder to use for something like that. 90º angles and rails are super easy on steel frame.
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@nerthos True.
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In case anyone is interested, Morrowind is free for today https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/tes25
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Hey does anybody know what boobs sound like? Asking for an after-dark sound effects show.
Thursday, 21-Mar-19 23:22:42 UTC from web-
@scribus Slappy, basically. A fat man slapping his belly gently could do the same sound
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@nerthos @adiwan We ended up getting a 4lb bucket of slime, it makes a great wet slap for breasts OR tentacles!
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@scribus The combined sound of a really cartoonish "Boing" and balloons that are being pumped up.
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Thursday, 21-Mar-19 02:24:16 UTC from web
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I do want to talk about the implications of this unit for a moment, specifically "Dry Bones" and "Dry Bowser", whose naming conventions confuse and frighten me. When I die, will I become Dry Brian? Is a living Bowser Wet Bowser? Why do Piranha Plant have bone in it?
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@ceruleanspark You are a Wrian now, and a Drian when you are dead.
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@ceruleanspark Well, it was never proven that piranha plants are actually plants, and not plant-resembling animals. There's a marked lack of academic institutions in the mushroom kingdom.
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Interested in registering a GNU Social account, and found this provider, perfect for my correct tastes.
Monday, 18-Mar-19 17:40:23 UTC from web-
@midn Welcome to RDN! We're running StatusNet, a previous iteration of what would later be called GNU Social, but it's basically the same.
Do keep in mind that this instance is mostly self-oriented so federation might be iffy.Mid likes this. -
@nerthos Good enough, just wanted something federated :P.
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@midn Other than this one, the instances that I remember still running on GNU Social/PostActiv (other than small one-user instances or bot platforms) are loadaverage.org and community.highlandarrow.com
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@mushi https://aria.company/media/9b3d3aa3512b8741eae0af6223021557f772ddded5615a6bd40aeb20837108a8.png
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@nerthos So you can accidentally eat healthy.
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@thismightbeauser The vegans will never find your eggplant among the bepis
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Sad times for New Zealand.
Meanwhile, arguments about whether the shooter was legit or a CIA/whatever plant trying to do a 9/11 are popping up.Friday, 15-Mar-19 07:14:04 UTC from web-
@drinkingpony I shoulder that blame stoically.
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@scribus It was more like a bad joke though.
Like the recent games pretty much, Eyyyyoooo...Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@scribus https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Xy9B0pUpJ6E/maxresdefault.jpg
In any case this particular shooter looks less and less like one, particularly due to doing a classical 8chan thing of trying to sic the media on someone they dislike but is not particularly involved, and the fact that cia plants usually get themselves shot to tie loose ends, but this one got captured.
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Consider this for the upcoming pokémon game starters:
Water/Dragon for the chameleon
Fire/Fairy for the rabbit
Grass/Steel for the monkey
Then for the first time each starter would have one advantage and one disvantage over each other, and the rock paper scissors nature of starters would disappear once they evolve.Friday, 15-Mar-19 05:37:08 UTC from web-
@nerthos That would be a fundamental shift to the metagame. It would tear the fandom adunder! . . . Let's do it.
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@scribus It'd make rival fights more interesting too considering all three would have a chance against eachother.
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@xrevan86 Huh, didn't know there was a group for that.
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Yeah, this whole "unperson the problematic" movement is getting kind of like one of the more horror-y Bradbury stories.
Sunday, 10-Mar-19 06:51:08 UTC from web-
@drinkingpony Broad strokes: the general atmosphere of the internet and this outrage culture we're going through. Specific instigator: The Simpsons pulling a Stalin on the Michael Jackson guest star episode and deleting it entirely from the catalog as though it had never happened. You know, exactly like Warner Bros DIDN'T DO about their WWII propaganda shorts.
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@scribus " the general atmosphere of the internet and this outrage culture we're going through"
Oh, yeah, Outrage culture. Also known as the "Age of Apathy" for some. I know nothing of The Simpsons so I guess it is/was a recent episode.
But I guess most people have forgotten about it now since Notch ( the Minecraft dude ) done did something.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony @scribus It's not really about whether it was a good episode or not, it's about revisionism and a fascist mindset without any of the good parts of fascism, where anything that is deemed not kosher is censored and removed from public records.
It was an old episode that was relevant for the time it came out, but the kind of individual that complains about things being "problematic" has no sense of nuance, historical significance, context, or anything like that. Some would see anything that doesn't match the current discourse removed entirely.
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