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XtraSmiley wrote: Also, I quoted you because, This is literally what everyone arguing (in earnest anyway, not a troll) on the internet believes in their own heads 100% of the time, so I guess these threads are just like junk food for the mind. Based on your posts though, I believe you are correct.
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orange808 wrote:Doesn't matter what some dummy on a forum says, anyhow. I know what reality is. I'm right and I know it. You can write all the bullcrap you want. Won't make it true. :)
Holy crap this thread is still solid gold!

Also, I quoted you because, This is literally what everyone arguing (in earnest anyway, not a troll) on the internet believes in their own heads 100% of the time, so I guess these threads are just like junk food for the mind. Based on your posts though, I believe you are correct.
Brilliant, my man :lol:

I find it most amusing how many on this thread shun facts, statistics, mathematics, etc. but will bend right over for what ever US-centric political crap they believe in or all semblance of sense to evaporate as they invest fully in all and any half-arsed conspiracy theory. This, to me at the very least tells me more about the individual.
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GaijinPunch wrote:I assured all my FB friends that one day all of the social epidemiologists (except one) will disappear from their news feed one day.
Yeah, isn't amazing how many pandemic experts there are out there? Just in my entourage, turns out there are like 100 of them! Who would have thought? :lol:
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XtraSmiley wrote:Also, I quoted you because, This is literally what everyone arguing (in earnest anyway, not a troll) on the internet believes in their own heads 100% of the time, so I guess these threads are just like junk food for the mind. Based on your posts though, I believe you are correct.
It was pretty funny when you said money doesn't exist and wrestling is real, I guess.

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MintyTheCat wrote:
XtraSmiley wrote:
orange808 wrote:Doesn't matter what some dummy on a forum says, anyhow. I know what reality is. I'm right and I know it. You can write all the bullcrap you want. Won't make it true. :)
Holy crap this thread is still solid gold!

Also, I quoted you because, This is literally what everyone arguing (in earnest anyway, not a troll) on the internet believes in their own heads 100% of the time, so I guess these threads are just like junk food for the mind. Based on your posts though, I believe you are correct.
Brilliant, my man :lol:

I find it most amusing how many on this thread shun facts, statistics, mathematics, etc. but will bend right over for what ever US-centric political crap they believe in or all semblance of sense to evaporate as they invest fully in all and any half-arsed conspiracy theory. This, to me at the very least tells me more about the individual.
I have advanced no conspiracy theories. You're a skim reader. I'll reserve my other opinions about your home as I am not in country. Although, I will say I've met your own rural folk and they certainly don't seem all that bright to me.

Your constant need to attack Americans keeps bringing the subject of American politics up. You bring it up and get all pissy when people actually qualified to speak chime in. I am not in country, so I don't say sh*t about your Boris mess. See how that works? You don't live here, pipe down.

Your skim reading and need to have the "last word" on a nation you don't live in (while claiming the country in question is off limits and simultaneously discussing it) certainly does "tell me something about the individual".

:) Have a good one, mate.
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351 guests online, hmm. :o POST SCORES YOU PUSSIES (■`W´■)
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BIL wrote:351 guests online, hmm. :o POST SCORES YOU PUSSIES (■`W´■)
In a thread about a virus pandemic? That's morbid man.

Anyway, jeez what a thread. I thought shmuppers would be peace-loving and agreeable and not at all a bunch of deranged freaks with genocidal power fantasies [/S]

This situation seems much like a rorschach, or to put it in the original language of psychoanalysis: „Jeder sieht, was er sehen möchte“
It's so big and far-reaching that it's almost impossible for anyone to discern what it is or means while in the middle of it. What's left is projection.
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auryn wrote:Anyway, jeez what a thread. I thought shmuppers would be peace-loving and agreeable and not at all a bunch of deranged freaks with genocidal power fantasies [/S]
oh, don't overestimate us.

actually, I wouldn't mind if ALL political talk got banned
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FinalBaton wrote:[
oh, don't overestimate us.

actually, I wouldn't mind if ALL political talk got banned
Haha you got me

anyway, don't quite agree with the ban, I'd rather just read what's on people's minds when stuff like this is happening, even if there's a lot of... irrationality
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auryn wrote:
BIL wrote:351 guests online, hmm. :o POST SCORES YOU PUSSIES (■`W´■)
In a thread about a virus pandemic? That's morbid man.
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BIL wrote: SHOW NO MERCY (`ω´メ)
I don't know what I expected from a guy with an avatar like yours, but fine, here in The Netherlands the corona body count is 2248 as it stands

Though in the place I work (an assisted living facility for people with psychiatric problems) we've miraculously managed to hold on to a full life stock so far, mainly due to some lucky seat-of-pants dodging even while we are using a dodgy controller and there is significant lag.
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auryn wrote:I don't know what I expected from a guy with an avatar like yours
HOPEFULLY NOT MERCY (`ω´メ)

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BIL wrote: HOPEFULLY NOT MERCY (`ω´メ)
Haha (edit: nah man, not insensitive, I can appreciate black humor anyway)

Tell me did you always have that avatar or is this a precautionary measure?

Also, I have to inform you at this point that "bil" is Dutch for "buttock"
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auryn wrote:Haha

Tell me did you always have that avatar or is this a precautionary measure?
I have rocked HUMAN UNIT NEVER KILLED since summer 2018, other than a brief return to "Hard Gay Bill & Lance" in Fall 2019.

I'm mulling over a return to "Redneck Bill & Lance feat. Pentarou," but that's for another time. (`ω´メ)
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BIL wrote:
auryn wrote:
BIL wrote:351 guests online, hmm. :o POST SCORES YOU PUSSIES (■`W´■)
In a thread about a virus pandemic? That's morbid man.
SHOW NO MERCY (`ω´メ)

(I think they were reading my HARD-HITTING EXPOSE on that Gamergate shitbird's Chuck Tingle game! Best on web!)
I am curious.

Can you explain where the Gamergate lot comes from and describe where their "liberal" behavior properly fits in the American political vernacular? Are there other fringe groups in the same wing with them or is it something entrely different?

Of course, any discussion of where they fit is always a strict taboo (that can call down an army of internet cancel soldier), but I wonder how you see them.
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orange808 wrote:I am curious.
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Can you explain where the Gamergate lot comes from
Looks like a bunch of neckbeardy "FUCK YOU MOM AND DAD (DOES EAT PUSSY SIGN @ PASTOR)" ala the 80s satanic panic, but in a shocking twist, now the enemy is the neo-puritan left rather than the oldschool-puritan right! And instead of melting down Iron Maiden LPs (and getting HIGH OFF THA FUMES Image), they're bitching about MEAN GAYMERS (and getting rich off the publicity Image)

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and describe where their "liberal" behavior properly fits in the American political vernacular? Are there other fringe groups in the same wing with them or is it something entrely different?
Some real nutters and cringelords in there AFAIK, along with more rational sorts who just want to Hard Gayme in peace, but that's the internet for you!
Of course, any discussion of where they fit is always a strict taboo (that can call down an army of internet cancel soldier), but I wonder how you see them.
Is it/can it? I put enough justice shoes up Brianna and Zoe's scamming arses to render this forum strictly haraam for generations to come, and nobody cancelled me. Though this place is fairly neutral ground. Image Master BLOODF's hospitality is not to be abused, needless to say!
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The full explanation for them can be found in the way their backgrounds, childhoods, circumstances, and skin tones come together. It's also remarkably peculiar how well their profiles align to the gaming press--because they share a unique set of privileges and (general) socioeconomic circumstance that is out of step with the way many other people live.

Around New York or over in San Francisco, staples are expensive. Not just anybody can make a career out of making indie games or writing about video games, especially when the rites of passage require prerequisite unpaid work.
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orange808 wrote: Can you explain where the Gamergate lot comes from and describe where their "liberal" behavior properly fits in the American political vernacular? Are there other fringe groups in the same wing with them or is it something entrely different?

Of course, any discussion of where they fit is always a strict taboo (that can call down an army of internet cancel soldier), but I wonder how you see them.
I'm not from the USA but the way I interpreted this is always like it started out as a bunch of nerds angry about ass 'n titties being banned from video games, then sort of morphed into a reactionary right wing movement that opposes the overly-sensitive, no-toe-can-be-stepped-on politics coming from the extreme left.

GAMERGATORS I imagine would react to COVID-19 with some kind of careless (dare I say "merciless"?) "let the weak cucks die but don't touch muh freedoms" attitude, except of course when it's their own grandpa that kicks the bucket. At which point they will be confused, just like the ...

SJW's who just don't know how to respond as a united front, as this pandemic does not map neatly onto their binary Oppressor vs. Oppressed worldview, or rather it fits in more ways than one which means they are trying to figure out which way is up so they can start kicking.
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orange808 wrote:You're not getting something. You keep pretending that gun and bibles culture flows from the government. It doesn't. That comes from people and those same people have equally religious suspicion of the government itself--and that's culturally encoded throughout. If the elected official doesn't support guns and bibles, they will change their votes. They care about stupid things and believe stupid things--and that's what swings their votes. (That's the problem!)
In america two privately owned political parties choose two candidates with nearly identical policies and then voters try to guess which will be slightly less shitty. Both parties hold primary votes, but neither is under any legal obligation to uphold the results if they want to go with someone else. There's no preferential voting, the system is designed to give a third party candidate the longest odds possible. They use easily rigged electronic voting machines. The political and capitalist classes hold near complete control over mass media and have no reservations about lying or burying stories they don't like. On top of all of that, there is quite a lot of outright fraud in manufacturing fake votes and suppressing or destroying legitimate ones. American voters are stupid as hell but given the circumstances it's hard to place too much of the blame on them.
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orange808 wrote:The full explanation for them can be found in the way their backgrounds, childhoods, circumstances, and skin tones come together. It's also remarkably peculiar how well their profiles align to the gaming press--because they share a unique set of privileges and (general) socioeconomic circumstance that is out of step with the way many other people live.

Around New York or over in San Francisco, staples are expensive. Not just anybody can make a career out of making indie games or writing about video games, especially when the rites of passage require prerequisite unpaid work.
auryn wrote:I'm not from the USA but the way I interpreted this is always like it started out as a bunch of nerds angry about ass 'n titties being banned from video games, then sort of morphed into a reactionary right wing movement that opposes the overly-sensitive, no-toe-can-be-stepped-on politics coming from the extreme left.
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auryn wrote:GAMERGATORS I imagine would react to COVID-19 with some kind of careless (dare I say "merciless"?) "let the weak cucks die but don't touch muh freedoms" attitude, except of course when it's their own grandpa that kicks the bucket. At which point they will be confused, just like the ...

SJW's who just don't know how to respond as a united front, as this pandemic does not map neatly onto their binary Oppressor vs. Oppressed worldview, or rather it fits in more ways than one which means they are trying to figure out which way is up so they can start kicking.
Sounds like these motherfuckers ALL need to post some scores. (`ω´メ)
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auryn wrote: GAMERGATORS I imagine would react to COVID-19 with some kind of careless (dare I say "merciless"?) "let the weak cucks die but don't touch muh freedoms" attitude, except of course when it's their own grandpa that kicks the bucket. At which point they will be confused, just like the ...
Quite the opposite. That particular brand of lib would cringe if you stepped on a roach, ate dairy (stolen from the animal), or ate meat. They won't let anything die.

Combined with their wealthy backgrounds (and zero immediate threat to them), they are likely to advance the same "blank cheque" attitude toward Covid-19 that they use for environmentalism: a cause I support, but policy shouldn't be crafted on the backs of the poor.
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orange808 wrote:require prerequisite
That's a goddamn pleonasm man, mind your language. :evil:
orange808 wrote:Quite the opposite. That particular brand of lib would cringe if you stepped on a roach, ate dairy (stolen from the animal), or ate meat. They won't let anything die.

Combined with their wealthy backgrounds (and zero immediate threat to them), they are likely to advance the same "blank cheque" attitude toward Covid-19 that they use for environmentalism: a cause I support, but policy shouldn't be crafted on the backs of the poor.
it's weird, I always placed GAMERGATORS as pretty conservative/rightwing types (i.e. don't care about minority rights, don't care about animal rights, traditional male/female roles which -because they're mostly men- means a kind of affected hypermasculinity, that kind of stuff). Only thing that doesn't map onto the the traditional US right seems to me born-again-religiosity. I mean it's hard to truly conceive of yourself as god-fearing and righteous when you masturbate to tentacle porn.
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BIL wrote:
orange808 wrote:Sounds like these motherfuckers ALL need to post some scores. (`ω´メ)
Were that they would, there would at least be better compliance with the lockdown, LOL
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auryn wrote:
That's a goddamn pleonasm man, mind your language. :evil:
Given the subject matter, brevity is a bad idea. The group I'm referencing has terms (like "white trash", "trailer trash", and the safe racist term "ghetto") they use freely, but stabbing out the specific terms for them would almost certainly invite a backlash.
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orange808 wrote:
auryn wrote: GAMERGATORS I imagine would react to COVID-19 with some kind of careless (dare I say "merciless"?) "let the weak cucks die but don't touch muh freedoms" attitude, except of course when it's their own grandpa that kicks the bucket. At which point they will be confused, just like the ...
Quite the opposite. That particular brand of lib would cringe if you stepped on a roach, ate dairy (stolen from the animal), or ate meat. They won't let anything die.

Combined with their wealthy backgrounds (and zero immediate threat to them), they are likely to advance the same "blank cheque" attitude toward Covid-19 that they use for environmentalism: a cause I support, but policy shouldn't be crafted on the backs of the poor.
You're probably going to react to this in a volatile manner, but I suggest you re-read Auryn's post as you seem to have missed the point entirely. The section you quoted about libs isn't even talking about libs..

also that little analysis was spot on, Auryn.
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orange808 wrote:
MintyTheCat wrote:
XtraSmiley wrote:
Holy crap this thread is still solid gold!

Also, I quoted you because, This is literally what everyone arguing (in earnest anyway, not a troll) on the internet believes in their own heads 100% of the time, so I guess these threads are just like junk food for the mind. Based on your posts though, I believe you are correct.
Brilliant, my man :lol:

I find it most amusing how many on this thread shun facts, statistics, mathematics, etc. but will bend right over for what ever US-centric political crap they believe in or all semblance of sense to evaporate as they invest fully in all and any half-arsed conspiracy theory. This, to me at the very least tells me more about the individual.
I have advanced no conspiracy theories. You're a skim reader. I'll reserve my other opinions about your home as I am not in country. Although, I will say I've met your own rural folk and they certainly don't seem all that bright to me.

Your constant need to attack Americans keeps bringing the subject of American politics up. You bring it up and get all pissy when people actually qualified to speak chime in. I am not in country, so I don't say sh*t about your Boris mess. See how that works? You don't live here, pipe down.

Your skim reading and need to have the "last word" on a nation you don't live in (while claiming the country in question is off limits and simultaneously discussing it) certainly does "tell me something about the individual".

:) Have a good one, mate.
This thread is not exclusively about you. I don't give a shit about Boris and his tossers.

The behaviour still remains: instead of discussing useful, meaningful aspects of the C19 situation the vast majority of you lot talk total bollocks as you try in vain to propel your own little beliefs to the forefront: be it political or otherwise. The phrase : 'as useful as a chocolate ask tray' comes to mind.

orange808: you're behaving like a big girl's handbag, take a breathe.
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MintyTheCat wrote:...
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The NCMI report which had identified the potentially threatening virus as early as November is all over the MSM today. Puts a damper on the blame-China effort doesn't it?

Although, since I didn't accept that excuse to begin with, having a federal government entity and the MSM team up to direct the blame somewhere else is cause for concern. Is this one of the times when they are NOT full of you-know-what?

But there is also this: https://asia-review.com/186/no-china-di ... -outbreak/
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Koa Zo wrote:
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