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Endie posted:Yeah did kotor or whatever they called the mmo not have fishing? If not they are jerks but if so its canon soz m8s A couple of beers in and your posting goes right out the window. You can take the boy out of teuchterland, but you can't take the teuchter out of the boy.
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you have a valid point or two, but that little clerks-lite speech does gloss over raising an army of darkness to commit genocide
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We never see any actual genocide though, do we? War involves attack as well as defence but nobody says Churchill raised an army to commit genocide when he tried to defend *his* little patch of homeland.
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Endie posted:We never see any actual genocide though, do we? War involves attack as well as defence but nobody says Churchill raised an army to commit genocide when he tried to defend *his* little patch of homeland. There's an old history adage - "History is written by the victors." It's not genocide if you win. Sort of like in EVE, like with all the betrayal and political intrigue goons did against BoB and such, Goons won at the end of the day so they get to write the narrative, it would have been different if "Well goons did all this meta poo poo to try and gently caress is and they still lost, how terrible are they." War and conflict plays out far different in the court of public opinion when casus belli is on your side. I learned that from playing EU4 ![]()
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Kesper North posted:I didn't like it. Magical powers and no actual spaceship! That doesn't sound tempting. Even LotR has a spaceship.
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Kimsemus posted:There's an old history adage - "History is written by the victors." I think its sometimes genocide even if you win. Like Arthur"Bomber" Harris. There is some serious shuffling of feet when his name crops up.
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Endie posted:I think its sometimes genocide even if you win. Like Arthur"Bomber" Harris. There is some serious shuffling of feet when his name crops up. Never heard of him, tell me more? Most applicable example I can think of is the "Indian Wars" after the Civil War, which was pretty much mass genocide no matter how you try to argue it, but the US "won" and manifest destiny, etc etc.
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Endie posted:That doesn't sound tempting. Even LotR has a spaceship. Oh, it gets worse. The spaceship everyone lives on is actually just a bullshit BioDome-style experiment; they never left Earth. Totally the space opera we've been looking for, right?
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Kimsemus posted:Never heard of him, tell me more? Head of bomber command in wwii and basically not a huge germanophile. He believed that by means of a strategic bombing offensive* he could bring about victory in Europe. *bombing the bejesus out of anything that couldn't pronounce the letter "w" properly.
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god drat you have to admit the citadels look impressive:![]() Endie posted:Head of bomber command in wwii and basically not a huge germanophile. He believed that by means of a strategic bombing offensive* he could bring about victory in Europe. Ah, interesting, from the UK, or American? I mean even with the dropping of the h-bomb...in war I guess the ends justify the means? Don't we use that excuse in EVE constantly against our enemies?
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Kimsemus posted:god drat you have to admit the citadels look impressive: The existence of hentai suggests that if anything you stopped dropping nukes a few cities too early. And Arthur Harris was as British as he sounds.
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Kimsemus posted:god drat you have to admit the citadels look impressive: UK; he received a baronetcy or something.
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Endie posted:We never see any actual genocide though, do we? War involves attack as well as defence but nobody says Churchill raised an army to commit genocide when he tried to defend *his* little patch of homeland. Sauron works for Morgoth and seeks to blanket middle earth in his will, which is to corrupt or destroy everything good. Morgoth is literally the divine source of all evil. It'd be like defending hitler even after you found out that the devil is real, and hitler is his conduit to put his will upon man.
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Khablam posted:Sauron works for Morgoth and seeks to blanket middle earth in his will, which is to corrupt or destroy everything good. Morgoth is literally the divine source of all evil. Well, as long as we're godwinning - as an atheist, many people believe that I work for Satan, and that Satan is real, and evil, and not their friend. Something similar is no doubt at work here. (Somewhere in Middle Earth, an orc assigned to conquer the Shire has discovered that hobbit feet have different shapes adapted to their local environments, and is writing a treatise: 'On the Origin of Dinner'.)
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The hobbits are about as close as it gets to atheism in lotr, in that their naive existence from reality allows them to ignore the good/evil poo poo going on. Elsewhere it's pretty hard to be an atheist when deities have physical forms and tend to do things to announce their presence, like throw you a few hundred feet through the air and perform necromancy. It's basically the real world situation inverted.
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Terry Pratchett has great fun with atheists in his Discworld novels; they quickly invented lightning-rod helmets. (The gods of the Disc live on the Hub in its center, and tend to throw lightning bolts at the insufficiently worshipful. Or worse, come round to make all your drawers stick.)
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As to his explanation as to why atheists are a thing in an overtly theistic universe: sheer human cussedness.
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Eonwe posted:this is way better than the other thread When the bar is set so low...
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Kesper North posted:Terry Pratchett has great fun with atheists in his Discworld novels; they quickly invented lightning-rod helmets. (The gods of the Disc live on the Hub in its center, and tend to throw lightning bolts at the insufficiently worshipful. Or worse, come round to make all your drawers stick.) ![]() He wrote some of the coolest poo poo.
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You still feeling the Bern Eonwe?
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Dalael posted:You still feeling the Bern Eonwe? yes he is very good
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i dont want the sanderistas tag because if anything I'd discourage someone from voting for them if they read my posts an I had the gangtag
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You should come back to the Debate & Discussion: You Are Racist › Your Candidate Sucks > Bernie 2016 - Gay Communist Gun Club #staywoke thread and shitpost some more there. It could use your quality type posting.
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i will try to drop in
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Vote Trump 2016.
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Unfunny Poster posted:Vote Trump 2016. eh
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Vote Globby?
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Unfunny Poster posted:Vote Globby? i'd vote for that guy
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Unfunny Poster posted:Vote Trump 2016. Living up to your username with that one, my friend. :P
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Kesper North posted:Living up to your username with that one, my friend. :P Let's not say things we can't take back friend.
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Unfunny Poster posted:Let's not say things we can't take back friend. I'm not sure why I'd want to?
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I think I've watched too many ATs, because honestly at this point Trump looks like the democrat's B candidate, that they're running through the losers bracket in order to beat easily in the final without needing to rig anything makes you think
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just made politics about eve for you all
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[02:53:30] Hendrick Tallardar > shut up globby [02:53:33] Hendrick Tallardar > you're mean ![]()
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avatarinwin posted:[02:53:30] Hendrick Tallardar > shut up globby Don't Hound shame me.
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dual masb rocket autocannon manticores
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Can someone edit the Jeffraider show to omit DnG.
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# ? Jun 16, 2024 01:27 |
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Oodles posted:Can someone edit the Jeffraider show to omit DnG. Why?
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