War Room Lounge v78: Figure someone will make a thread eventually.

[Gregolian]

Time stamped @Kafir-kun

 

[Lead]

@Lead,

Any reason why my account just got blocked from replying to member's posts across the whole site? Thanks- TJ

@TeTe

I already asked this earlier. No reason was given to me. But Any answer from moderators why my account just got blocked from replying to posts across the website? Thanks- TJ

Hey TJ,

You asked me 30 minutes before that follow up post saying no answer was provided. You aren’t going to get immediate answers from moderators as they aren’t always on here so don’t take that as being ignored. Giving at least 24 hours for a response is good rule of thumb imo.
As far as the pm issue, I would suggest to try it once you’re are at orange or yellow belt as there are a lot of disabled permissions for white belt accounts.

 

[waiguoren]

Cows are so stinking cute.

Only red meat I eat is bacon and the very occasional ground beef if I go out for Mexican.

Cognitive dissonance: detected.

Do the right thing, Mr. Trot. Go all the way.

 

[Deleted member 539235]

Would you have written the same if human baby flesh tasted as good as bacon and steak?

 

[JDragon]

Nah, I'm not about introducing new forms of meats into my diet. Already having hard enough time getting the ones I like out of the regular circulation.

Facts aren't vegan.

 

[Gregolian]

Cognitive dissonance: detected.

Do the right thing, Mr. Trot. Go all the way.

 

[Andy Capp]

Does it make your lips feel full and soft. Or just helps maintain its integrity throughout the dry days?

Only my wife is privy to that knowledge, though I believe you can likely guess given my personality.

 

[JDragon]

I already did. This is part of the reason I have the ultimate inner peace.

Have you forgiven your parents?

For this excellent piece of advice?

 

[Jack V Savage]

Nope. This is very similar to the Hillary Clinton/Gabbard podcast controversy from last week. Things are not always as they first appear, especially when the viewer has been primed (as in both cases).

In the Clinton thing, if you see the direct evidence, it doesn't support what people said. Likewise, nutter Trump fans' account of the video doesn't hold up if you watch the video.

I've read it. That was a very long time ago though, and I don't memorize passages. I think I'm doing better than you are in the category of learning the important lessons from that book. For example, I regularly monitor government intrusions into personal privacy and inform my network of friends and family members about them. I even make threads here about privacy concerns. Instead of doing the same, you get into petty disagreements with people about the Evil Right Wingers.

I don't think you understood the book, if you actually read it. And it's a crazy disagreement, for sure. Until yesterday, I didn't even know anyone was denying it. It's flat-Earth-level craziness. Great example of tribalism rotting people's brains.

 

[Trotsky]

Like I've said before, hacks like Yoo and Dershowitz are as danger as any of the more dim-witted and obvious hacks.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/john-yo...ing-i-did-deliberately-misconstrues-my-words/

@PolishHeadlock2 @Quipling

Also, as I feel I must say every time I watch a Laura Ingraham clip, it's truly impressive that someone so obviously flighty and stupid can be successful in the right-wing mediasphere.

 

[waiguoren]

In the Clinton thing, if you see the direct evidence, it doesn't support what people said. Likewise, nutter Trump fans' account of the video doesn't hold up if you watch the video.

The first statement is true. The second statement might be true, depending on what the "nutter Trump fans" assert.

It's also true that Trump's mockery of the disabled reporter cannot be connected definitively to the reporter's disability.

I don't think you understood the book, if you actually read it.

It's a book about a dystopian society in which the central government controls the lives of the citizens, who have almost no privacy.

Great example of tribalism rotting people's brains.

I do think that your stance here is likely indicative of tribalism rotting your brain.

 

[TJ Swagger]

@Lead , I understand, and thanks for getting back to me- TJ

 

[Higus]

Also, as I feel I must say every time I watch a Laura Ingraham clip, it's truly impressive that someone so obviously flighty and stupid can be successful in the right-wing mediasphere.

The bar is set really really really low for right wing media, or culture in general.
Speaking of which, has anyone had the stomach to watch that Kevin Sorbo vs Antifa movie?

 

[Rational Poster]

@Gregolian

More thoughts on Outer Worlds.

The world seems kind of small, despite taking place on multiple planets and environments. It doesn't have the massive feel of a Fallout or Elder Scrolls game. It's very similar to KOTOR with a major quest hub on the planet and a fairly linear path to explore the world and complete the quests. You can't just wander out into the wilderness and find some random dungeon or location that isn't tied to a quest. It's all pretty planned out.


Also a minor critique would be that the travel between planets is completely underwhelming for a space faring game. It takes like a second to go across the entire system and there is no visual for flying. It's just a map screen with your ship moving across it.

 

[JDragon]

@Gregolian

More thoughts on Outer Worlds.

The world seems kind of small, despite taking place on multiple planets and environments. It doesn't have the massive feel of a Fallout or Elder Scrolls game. It's very similar to KOTOR with a major quest hub on the city and a fairly linear path to explore the world and complete the quests.


Also a minor critique would be that the travel between planets is completely underwhelming for a space faring game. It takes like a second to go across the entire system and there is no visual for flying. It's just a map screen with your ship moving across it.

Did any of you ever play this?

 

[Rational Poster]

Did any of you ever play this?

Nope I'm not that old.

First game I really got into on PC was this;

 

[Fedorable]

disney bought fox films. They'll put those on disney streaming for a while. They are banning those movies from being shown at theaters and other places. Then they will take each movie off one by one about 5 years before they remake Aliens or Die Hard, etc....All hard copies of the movies will be discontinued and phased out. Everyone will be stuck with inferior and woke remakes as they try to erase the originals.

 

[Ruprecht]

Back in '97 the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (Julius Chan) hired a bunch of South African Mercenaries (through a British private military company, Sandline International and their South African associates, Executive Outcomes) and bought a couple of Soviet MI-24 helicopter gunships to put down the Bougainville Rebellion (locals armed largely with zip guns and abandoned ordinance from WWII) and reopen the Panguna mine.
The rebellion was an independence movement, motivated by the national government trashing their environment and mining copper/gold without developing the area at all with the huge amounts of money involved. The involvement of the mercenaries ended up being the end of Julius Chan's government due to public backlash.
Australian media publicity for the mercenary deal stoked that public backlash, and somehow we also stole the helicopters.
They ended up in a tip in Darwin after a protracted legal battle during which they deteriorated beyond repair.
Interesting episode.
The Sandline Affair has been getting some revisiting of late.
Mostly due to the increased use of PMCs in current conflicts, Chan's unrepentant attitude, the kleptocratic nature of subsequent governments, the attempt to return Chan unelected to prime ministership by outgoing corrupt PM Peter O'Neil, and the whole colonial postscript nature of corporate and mercenary involvement.

 

[LMP]

disney bought fox films. They'll put those on disney streaming for a while. They are banning those movies from being shown at theaters and other places. Then they will take each movie off one by one about 5 years before they remake Aliens or Die Hard, etc....All hard copies of the movies will be discontinued and phased out. Everyone will be stuck with inferior and woke remakes as they try to erase the originals.

 

[sickc0d3r]

Captain Pedantic is getting a bit of a mental cramp over this sentence. I can't find any technical flaw. It strikes me as inelegant, but that's hardly a fair criticism, particularly in a semi real time back and forth. It doesn't explain Captain Pedantic's rather visceral reaction. Can may or may not be redundant depending upon your intent, but it's presumptuous to assume error, There's is incongruent but arguably acceptable, so again, no call on the play.

Eureka!

It's the lack of correspondence between the this and the that in your "there's this and there's that" construction.

Captain Pedantic blames the drugs for the delayed realization and suggests, "There's people who believe... and people who believe [what Trump says] despite what they clearly see."

Sorry, but otherwise it would have bugged me all night.

Wow, you are a proper OCD freak ain’t ya?


I like it.