I'm just boggled by the sincere application of literal Scooby Doo logic:
"And we would've gotten away with it...if it weren't for TRUMPS TWEETS!"
You know, all you had to do was say "Yes" to my suggestion that you're a terminally-online internet arguer, or a faggoty European, and it would've saved you all the trouble of making this horrendous post-salad thing you decided to do. Again.
Oh man, is that what you tell yourself? That Canada was on the verge of sanity, and it was Trump's tweets that turned the ship back in the wrong direction?
No wonder you're so feisty about this. Some kids never get over finding out Santa's not real.
I don't know how likely it is to remain a "joke."
If Canada's top politico class keeps moving this hard, this fast, toward blatant China-alignment, they're going to force this from joke to very real. It certainly ups the odds that Alberta might make a real effort to get their butts off the Titanic, and with that example, other provinces might make noises in that direction too, seriously destabilizing Canada as a single Country under unified leadership.
Greenland is going to be somebody's soon, and it ain't Denmark. The U.S. basically has to see this through, or it's all over.
BD's post is a lot of silly media-driven leftist drivel. The things he dismissed are huge geopolitical concerns that will determine U.S. sovereignty and world peace for the rest of the 21st century.
I think you're likely mistaken regarding the future of some of these moves you're dismissing as "jingoist meme distractions."
You are laboring under such a profound misconception that it is a wonder that you've ended up here.
LOL as if I'm the one here seething, you ridiculous fruit. Okay, fine, go ahead, look down your nose. It's not a very handsome nose, nobody cares, and I was just trying to stop you from embarrassing yourself further. But you're determined.
It's not "laziness," it's putting creative tools in the hands of people who don't have any other options.
Think this through. Either everyone with something important to say has to develop the artistic and technical skill to put out hand-crafted work of this sort (ahead of time, just in case they're going to end up using it) or they have to hire people who have these skills and rely on them to make the content according to given designs.
Do you understand how slow and complicated and prohibitive in every way this is? This is why I said that without this "lazy" solution, the content would simply not exist.
Your version of how things should be is simply not tenable, not if you want good messaging to prevail. You're advocating hand-cuffing non-"creatives" by arbitrarily withholding technical tools from them that historically have been hoarded by "creatives," who are overwhelmingly metropolitan liberal elites.
This isn't about what the "only" option is, it's about what options are available to people to make themselves heard, at what cost. You are calling for completely arbitrary stagnation, and your tactic for achieving this is scolding.
LOL. Fuck you! Fuck your scolding, stupid pissy dinosaur. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle, so take your scolding prefect ass and sit in on a barbed pole sideways.
They won't stop until the cost because prohibitive to them continuing.
I was scratching my head over that as well. What a bizarre context to make that statement.
This guy was never going to have the resources or ability to hand-craft this message on his own. So without this tool, AI, he was just not going to put anything like this forward. Maybe he'd make a tweet, but that's as far as it would've gone.
The content is good--it looks good, sounds good, and the message it conveys is utterly needed right now.
Would you prefer that instead of this, he would've/could've done nothing? That's the result of your objection. You're not objecting to the content, you're griping about the process. Well, the options were use these tools, or do nothing. Personally I'm cool with this message being able to be produced, no matter what tools were used to do it.
Good lord but you're acting like the very worst of faux-compassionate, faux-empathetic, hysterical fruits. It's funny that you referred earlier to whether this was good "for us--" I don't recognize any "we" that includes both you and I, because we very clearly have nowhere near the same wants or goals.
This dumb bitch was literally a professional ICE-harasser. She moved to this hotspot specifically for the purpose of doing this, and she had no other job. She was a part of a pseudo-militia built for this exact purpose, and it's likely she was being paid--certainly funded, at least, for this activity.
She was in the process of carrying out this horrible duty when she rightfully got merked. This is what she was for. She was being backed to do exactly this.
You cry, literally cry "pointless cruelty," and I say absolutely nothing here was even close to "cruelty." It is frankly bizarre and not a little bit stupid to try and paint it this way.
I don't think you're stupid. You don't speak like somebody who is stupid. So what's your agenda here, seriously? I don't believe for a fraction of a second that you actually think there's some moral conundrum or "cruelty" or any other emotionally-laden woman-speak you're applying here, so what is it really you're after?
It reeks of reflexive anti-American-authority. If it was anti-authori-tarian-ism, we could have something to talk about. But I don't think it's that at all. This is so extreme and stupid a position you're taking, that the most parsimonious explanation is that you're just sincerely anti-American, even when we're just finally trying to clean up a goddamn domestic mess that's been long overdue for correction.
My position is to stop America from collapsing in on itself. Yours is clearly not that, so with all due respect, you can frankly fuck off with this "we" and "us" bullshit. If you stand in the way of this meagrest correction, you're an antagonist. Cry morals and cruelty all you want, pilpul enemy. I don't believe you, I don't respect you, I am not moved by your pleas and attempts to shame.
Lord, I hate post salad. This chippy-choppy thing is a thing people do to antagonize when they feel like they're getting the short end of a disagreement.
I can't remember this forum's architecture for quoting, so you get what you get.
"It's not a "good outcome" when it makes no difference in the grand scheme of things. In fact, it probably does damage to ICE and the deportation effort, as pathetic as it is."
It is a good outcome, because "the grand scheme of things" such as it is, is comprised of smaller moments and smaller actions just like this, and this one came out well. A mind-broken psychotic freak is no longer out there doing harm, and her stupid death serves as a warning to others. This does zero "damage to ICE," and you've not taken even baby steps to support that bold claim.
"See, a side that celebrates people being shot in the head is not a "fun process that people want to join", but rather something that repels people. Maybe psychopaths and prisoners would like that."
You sound like a faggot, or European (but I repeat myself). People who aren't faggots don't mind when enemy soldiers drop on the field, and that's exactly what this was. You are repelled either because you have no chest, or because you want to give some skin-in-the-game-less impression of completely misplaced empathy. This isn't about political sides, it's literally a matter of good and evil. You want to wail and bemoan the optics of devils taken off the battlefield, there's a place for it: It's called Purgatorio. Have fun chasing that flag, forever.
"That's what they say about us..."
Yeah, but they're wrong, and if you need 1,001 examples of why and how, then you're simply an indefatigable internet-arguer. Not only do they say this about good people, they act accordingly. Pretending to care about them earns you exactly zero goodboi points when they come at you. I'll not sit by and watch my kids raped and transed because some forum denizen gets the vapors when bad blood is spilled.
"What good has it done?"
A devil has been taken off the field. Her fellow devils, roaches all, are in disarray. A million Karens have cried out in fear and anger, and are now more likely to not stick their stupid faces out their car windows while obstructing necessary law enforcement. Millions have born witness, nodded sagely, and recognized, rightly, that this is how it should be. The good it has done is immediately obvious. FAFO is once again in play. This will save lives, good lives, and maybe even some who've gone bad but yet have time to change their course. Or not, and they'll FO too, and that will also be good.
I'll say it: Yes, I think this does (not "the right") but Good people, Good. We have to stop apologizing for Good outcomes and the elimination of Bad people and prevention of Bad outcomes. People should be perfectly free to celebrate the advancement of good, and the thwarting of evil.
I'm sick to death of your "polite lie" way of preserving decorum by making everything so fucking grim all of the time. You know where this is all going, I know where this is all going. If we're brave enough to learn to be honest again, quick enough, and make the ascendance of Good a fun process that people want to join, rather than this hand-wringing pathetic sadness thing that you want to make of it, then there's less likelihood that my sons have to die, face-down in a ditch, to get civilization and society patched together again.
This lady would've slit my throat without a moment's hesitation. If I were on her radar, she'd take and trans my kids. She'd do all this with what passes for joy in her wine-and-anti-depressant-ridden what-passes-for-a-heart.
She was a monster doing monster shit, and she died doing monster shit that hurt me and mine. The process of what got her there is sad. The resolution of that cosmic error is a cause for celebration.
In an esoteric way, yes, I find it sad that her brainwashing led her to do that. At the same time, in a more pragmatic way, regardless of how damaged people came to be, you really do have to treat them as they are, the whole finished product.
This lady was a dangerous antagonist to me, to my kin, to my folk, to my family, to my entire existence and way of life. There wasn't a minute of her life she didn't spend trying to undermine the foundations of my safety, security, potential prosperity. She didn't just have opinions, she actively worked for the destruction of what I believe to be Good, and the ascendance and victory of what I know to be Evil.
If I was a floating brain in a jar, maybe I could spare the sympathy to find the situation sad, in a literary, academic way.
As a creature made of meat, who has children, and is responsible for both myself and for a small clan of kin, not only am I not sad, I am glad that this awful piece has saved good folk the time and bother by removing herself from the board.
Ha! I actually had given up, signed out, didn't plan on signing in again.
But it looks like some sort of sanity might finally be in place. Thanks for the heads-up.
Also, is there some particular reason my comments keep getting deleted?
Is there some nuance I'm missing here, or does he literally mean "natalist" as "person with kids" or "people who think children are necessary for the continuation of the human species?"
The LSL games are great up through 7. 1, 2, 3, with a walkthrough handy, 5 is during the weird super-VGA/mouse interface switch happened and it's very easy, 6 is probably the best of the series, and 7 is decent. Don't even bother thinking about the rest--the college one, the hollywood one, or the dull recent entries.
Similar trajectory for most other Sierra franchises. The ega ones are nice but inscrutable and very die to die and almost as easy to enter a fail state but not find out about it until hours later, so walkthrough. The VGA ones and mouse interface ones tend to be softer and more forgiving, and the last entries were as the company and genre was failing.
King's Quest 1, 2, 3, 4 (ega era) 5 good but fairly easy (with a few soft-locks), 6 great, 7 pretty unimpressive, after that don't bother. Fans made some quite good re-makes of KQ1, 2, and 3 as well.
Space Quest 1, 2 (ega era) 3 (best one, but still ega) 4 for my money is when the wheels start to fall off, but the humor is still pretty good, 5 I recall being better than 4, and 6 is a mess.
Police Quest 1 good, 2 (ega era) great, 3 is where the decline sets in, but still good, 4 is just insanity.
Hero's Quest/Quest for Glory: Everything great except for 5. 1 wonderful, 2 even better, 3 quite good but vga and mouse, 4 wonderful but hugely buggy, 5 trash.
Those are the major ones, but then there's the others but similar:
Gold Rush, ega, good. Black Cauldron, ega, not very good Codename ICEMAN: ega, good, punctuated by bouts of awful Colonel's Bequest/Dagger of Amon Ra : both great Conquests of Camelot/Conquests of the Longbow: both great EcoQuest: not very good Freddy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist: decent, basically another Leisure Suit Larry Gabriel Knight: 1 good, 2 great, 3 okay but a departure, basically a different game
Then there's the oddballs that don't fit among those already listed:
Manhunter: New York and Manhunter: San Francisco: WEIRD, but kind of good. Not exactly point-n-click adventures, with arcade sequences. A lot of bizarre imagery and inscrutable puzzles. Rise of the Dragon, Heart of China, Willy Beamish: Timed events, bizarre puzzles, occasionally arcade. Not my cup of tea, but some people loved em. Phantasmagoria/Shivers: FMV puzzle games, akin to The 7th Guest. Betrayal at Krondor: Actually kind of great, but long, Betrayal at Antara: crap.
I think that covers most of what you'd be looking at, in Sierra adventure. I left out stuff like Gobliiins and INCA and the very early cga/apple adventure stuff and the garbage sports shovelware and decent but very decent games like Red Baron.
Overall, I'd play KQ1-6, SQ1-5, LSL1-6, QfG1-4, Police Quest1-4, Gold Rush, Colonel's Bequest, Dagger of Amon Ra, both Conquests, Gabriel Knights 1-2, and if you have time and life left over or itch for an RPG between adventure games, Betrayal at Krondor.
Then there's the old LucasArts catalogue...
God, YT celebrity really does ruin literally everyone and anyone.
This guy used to make a lot of sense back when most people in the real world weren't making a lot of sense, wearing napkins on their faces wrapped with rubber-bands, and screeching and pointing fingers at people who wouldn't follow suit.
I have no idea what this dude got up to after. And I don't want to know. I assume every e-celeb probably goes through the same process as the guy who made those Ultima videos.
When it comes to humor, on a scientific, visceral level, the Jews are on top of things. Their timing, their use of irony, their use of the unexpected and/or "subverting expectation" is unimpeachable.
It's suffused, just inseperable, from American comedy, which is the best comedy. You can pinpoint when pacing started to get good, and you had sit-coms went from things like Taxi and became more like Cheers, and it gets more Jewy. It gets more and more Jewy from Friends to The Office and then the entire idea of shows sort of falls off a cliff.
But basically all of it owes thanks to Mel and Jewry. He was so successful that we're still trying to climb our way out of the seemingly bottomless pit of irony he buried us into. Funny but fucking evil.
This is healthy to you? There's a whopping 1 dude there who could help me move a couch. Everyone else looks like they get their nutrition from an automatic cat-feeder.
It's not even as complicated as "enforce public order." Their order of operations stops at : "End the complaint." Every logic loop loops back around to what will stop them having to do anything at all, as quickly as possible.
Any attempts to introduce such concepts as "rights" or "who is really wrong here" simply introduces confusion, which in lower-IQ individuals, naturally results in anger.
Disney's spinning underground corpse undergoes one more indignity.
It somehow, in this day and age, still manages to cheapen the brand.
Nobody cares.
News at 11.
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