Still stuck on the "Just a moment..." cloudflare screen. Maybe because I never post there? Or could be my isp pulling something.
It'll probably be a few days before the most coherent theories rise to the top of discussion, anyway.
I haven't been able to access thedonald all day. Can you summarize the situation over there?
I'm not talking about capitalism, I'm talking about power-wielders having no skin in the game.
Want to solve problems for real, cut the fucking breeding
I get your meaning, but you understand that this completely contradicts the modern business/governance model of infinite growth and expansion, right? The people pushing this stuff simply don't care about the detriments of their plots as long as they get their money/power.
It is also in the spirit of gamergate to be able to present unalterable proof. As an added optics bonus.
Very based. I can't benefit personally from this anymore since I got out of that hell, but I'm happy for the cooks still there doing all the work.
Of course, the details matter here. Will this transform the wages of being a cook into the same style that waiters get? How hard will it be for a cook looking for work to discover what his prospective employer's formal stance on tip sharing is? It is entirely up to the employer, right?
We don't need to go back or "forward", we can jump off the rollercoaster with some courage and planning.
Finding a place to live with a decent legal framework is a monumental task, so yeah, you're not wrong to have a bleak outlook. Everything is kinda shit, too, but advocating scorched earth practice isn't much different to telling your fellows to give up. I think it's better to support each other and bolster morale, which IS different from spreading false hopes or encouraging surrender.
I'm also kinda concerned about you, you take in a lot of this negativity and I don't know that you have a healthy outlet for your stress.
Thanks, it's interesting that they have gone so far as to have a section for "classified ads". I suppose they're doing their best to make a home for their ideals and develop a sense of community.
Keep an eye out for posts explaining how sjw minds function, we used to get some on r/kia2 and they were enriching. I think it's the kind of answer you need here.
I'll give a different theory, though. I think it's largely a product of people that are cursed with cognitive dissonance. Normally, if you get that feeling, you take a break, look inside yourself, and figure out how to resolve your internal conflicts. But some people (like sjws) are unable to self-examine - they aren't averse to it, they literally cannot do it. The why to this is tricky, but not important at the moment, so I'm gonna skip it. Well, what happens to their internal conflict, then? It either keeps building and tortures them, or they rely on outside parties (likely authority figures) to resolve their personal matters and build their belief structures off of a rotten foundation. Both options have terrible results worthy of pity.
So let's say you're broken by cognitive dissonance and encounter something that makes you feel worse (which is a common occurrence). It has some message or facet to it that you can't abide and that you cannot fathom a real human agreeing with. Everyone feels the same way as you, you're normal, of course. Well, naturally you'll want to correct this injustice. If you're a destroyer, you can boycott and form lynch mobs. If you're a builder, you can make a competing product. If you're a manipulator, you can go full villain and join the offending company to fix the problem at its core (which, to you, is to change the product, and not to engage in good faith with the human creators).
Things can spiral out of control when you lose the ability to self reflect. I sincerely wish for them all to get the help they need to overcome their ailment. I also hope a proper study is conducted on how this psychological epidemic came about.
Bro, ease up a little. I understand this is personal for you, but consider the effectiveness of your appeal. Most people want to avoid scorched earth policy.
I take a cultural approach to it, and arrogance isn't quite the word I'd use. Modern societal systems "just happen to" benefit the students of jewish culture. This is considering the positive efforts, too; negative efforts like propaganda are easy and fill most content on /pol/. I'm all for cultural preservation, but some cultures are - forgive the smooth-brain term - toxic to polite society. Cutting a cancer out of the body can cure it, but I think it's better to instead teach the body how to overcome the negative aspects of cancer and any other ailment that comes by. Yet my libertarian inclinations demand that there be some safe haven available for each culture, which would require some big changes in modern power structures.
It's funny, I've never actually read anything from stormfront. I've read lots and lots of other similar places, and I am curious, but I just can't get their damned site to function properly for me. From what I understand, it's a niche-speech zone, rather than free speech, so they aren't welcoming of alternate viewpoints or fully open discourse (correct me if I'm wrong, because I can't check).
Damn, that sucks. Was one of my regular news sources.
Sure, it's suspicious that it ends as such. I don't think the owner was ever a /pol/ guy, he just refused to ban them on principle? Maybe that's wrong. Regardless, allowing certain kinds of speech on your website invites literal federal harassment (the end of 9chan was proof enough in recent memory). It's not the kind of thing you can openly speak of with your userbase, in much the same way that an extortionist dislikes you talking to reporters or police.
The clearnet is simply not able to sustain a free speech absolutism space anymore, it seems.
The timing of it worries me the most.
I hate to defend this stuff, but I'll say 10 minutes after is still risky for me to walk after getting blood drawn. But I don't give a fuck about needles or pain, it's a blood phobia. I act like a child getting it done and then I have to hang out for a while because passing out and waking up cold, wet, and confused on the floor is really unpleasant (the staff don't like it either). Though I have a history of blood issues and am on blood thinners.
Best Kusogame: loosely translated to "shit game", kusogames can be quite charming and valuable in their own way. I would specify that a game has to appear low-effort and/or have stunningly poor implementation to qualify. You would not need to find anything good about the game greater than making you laugh or shocking you with terrible design. If you nearly love a game and one gigantic flaw ruins the whole thing for you, that could fit just as well (as long as the game doesn't better fit a different category). This is not intended as a demeritous award.
"Most Based and Redpilled Game"/"Most Philosophically Sane Game" is my second suggestion. I like the second label, but added the meme translation for the kids. This is intended as a merit award, as I think we could use a bigger Merit list. I consider philosophy often in my media and I think many others here might as well - this category is for games that carry valuable ideas that diverge from the scope of "anti-sjw" and "anti-communism".
I'll be the guy to suggest Best Porn Game as well. Just one rule: it must be more game than porn. I've seen my share of porn "games" - this isn't for that trash.
Best Anime | +2 -0 = 2 Best Manga | +2 -0 = 2 Best Card game | +2 -0 = 2 Best Board game | +2 -0 = 2 Best Comic | +2 -0 = 2 Best Movie | +2 -0 = 2 Best TV show | +2 -0 = 2 Best Podcast | +2 -0 = 2
I give a conditional nay vote on these. As the categories stand, these non-vidya entries are in the same group as vidya entries. There are no definitions laid out, so it creates an implication that more ambiguous entries such as "best music" could just be any music anywhere, and not the likely intended "best (vidya) music".
So, my condition to rescind nay voting those is to either seperate the non-vidya and vidya into different lists or to specify that ambiguous entries are for vidya (music is ambiguous and platformer is not ambiguous, as examples). I think the first option would look better and be more intuitive.
I'm gonna say aye for everything other than what I quoted. This is mostly out of laziness, but also curiousity. I'd also like to vote aye on all future additions, if possible, because it'll help force a system by to handle excess categories. Surely you weren't hoping for this thread's voting to have sufficient nays to trim any fat.
I'll make a seperate post for additional category suggestions.
Nice, thanks. It's rare to see "legacy users" get any kind of support.
Haha, you haven't seen this in a parking lot yet? I have.
Ah, well, thanks for volunteering!
There's something else I'd like to mention, then. While I can fall back to dark mode to avoid color issues, I cannot seem to escape the slight offset of the "cancel" and "save" buttons beneath the message entry box. Cancel is like 2 pixels higher than save and it's become unpleasant. Oddly enough, this only seems to be the case in dark mode, which I've only recently even started using.
Hm, had no idea. I'm kinda used to sites looking jacked up from leaving javascript disabled most of the time.
Are you the code volunteer or just an interested passerby?
Sure. Version: 27.9.4 (32-bit). I had to change a bunch of settings, but it was pretty much all comfort and security stuff.
I've got RequestPolicy on here too, but I already gave the site permissions. I'm also using some kind of cookie deleter, but those shouldn't affect css colors, right?
That pic is how it looks for me in firefox right now.
Convincing enough. I suppose I've taken eye condition for granted. Hard to say if not feeling the pain is good, but it is convenient haha.
Hm. Browser issue? I normally use an old version of Pale Moon. Just tried an old version of Firefox and got completely different colors (white text on green background, plus some blues and purples not present on Pale Moon). The newer versions don't play nice with my OS. I've got javascript turned on and I just tried disabling uBlock for a minute, but no color difference there.
Specific game system aside, a DM has the responsibility of keeping everyone engaged and having fun, yes. Don't misunderstand "fun", though. Fun is different for everyone. If fun for you is high tension and high stakes with no guarantees from your allies, you can make that happen with a cooperative DM and player group. Finding such a group is the trick, though, and you'd have to find a system that supports those traits in order to have a better kickstart to your search.
From my point of view, it makes sense that people go to pnp for the casual type of escapist fun. They probably have stressful daily lives with regular misery, so of course their game time is going to be in pursuit of the opposite.
Coop games are kind of boring and predictable
Tell your DM to step his game up, then. If he can't keep you engaged, tell him to let you run a session.
Completely unsurprising. It just confuses me when I hear others say "..when the lockdown ends/ when covid is over". Like, why should it? A serious belief that all persons in positions of power have our best interests in mind? You give them your throat to grasp and talk about being released?
Socially engineered, not genetically selected. One of the primary elements of the setup is intense social engineering. Though, eugenically, yes, I guess they are genetically selected for this because if they deviate from social norms a little they are killed in the night and all their friends' memories are erased. But it makes it sound like you're missing the point to call it genetic selection.
Hm. In a way. It is far from a utopia. They're confined to their own borders by the monsters they imagine. They must test, trick, and cull their young for the purpose of control and stability. Civil offences are punished with hypnosis and memory erasure, if not immediate assassination - though the testing and culling is so rigorous for the young that it's unlikely an adult ever commits a crime. Outside of these downsides, it does have a lot of nice and cool features, and I'd consider living there (as if immigration would be possible).
I don't really agree with your line of interpretation, but it's healthy to use these things as tools for helping you understand the world. So, no, you're not crazy.
I think of the balloondogs, myself. A monster made from pure imagination. It's highly reflective of the phenomenon with anti-racists hunting racism: you have a person who believes racism is extreme and rampant, they look and fail to see it, but they don't change their belief, instead they look harder and eventually create the racism they wanted to find. Having monsters is a terrific way to control a population. "Don't leave the security zone of Home, citizen, or you will be faced with danger!" Though that setting's social engineering is so powerful that they don't even require monsters to keep the citizens in town.
I forget the term, but the people that go nuts and lose control of their powers are pretty interesting. It makes me think of sociopaths. Sociopaths are great at adapting, and are the primary pitfall of social engineering efforts; the sociopath just mimics the actions they see without being affected by the brainwashing aspect. Then suddenly they stop acknowledging their neighbours as people and nothing can stop them from destroying the town. The real world has no attempted safeguards from sociopaths, and in fact, much of our society's systems are set up to safeguard and benefit them over non-sociopaths.