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New Bors
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:01 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 18:45 |
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Bicyclops posted:Well, you gotta have one week of freebies. I mean, Halloween only gets you two at the most, and you can maybe get three out of the current President playing golf. Thankfully you can milk a whole month out of new year predictions/resolutions.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:02 |
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OldTennisCourt posted:Pretty sure the guy in that comic with Jennifer Lawrence is supposed to be the main character from the game Watch Dogs It's definitely supposed to be Aiden Pierce, the main character in Watch_Dogs. The thing is that the main character in Watch_Dogs is supposed to be a sympathetic character (I think) who's out for revenge against the people Who Killed His The problem is that Watch_Dogs is horribly written, and Aiden Pierce ends up coming off as a completely unlikeable psychopath who doesn't care about anyone except himself. Conceptually he's trying to avenge his niece for "his family" but early on in the game his sister explicitly tells him "you're putting us in even more danger, knock it the gently caress off" and he responds by running out of the house and beating a guy to death. Edit: Which is to say that Aiden Pierce as written would totally hack into Jennifer Lawrence's phone, steal her pictures, and then try and blackmail her over it. He actually does something similar to random people throughout the game, it's a gameplay mechanic. You can see "secrets" on various enemies' phones and then threaten to blackmail them in order to distract them. Xenoveritas fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Oct 21, 2014 |
# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:04 |
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Rorus Raz posted:Fyi, Tinsley does the "Asians and college requirements" arc every year without fail. Didn't we get 3 weeks of "College is for stupids!" from Tinsley two weeks after graduation time? Why does he even care about college requirements!? "Koleje Edjukashun is dums! Unless Asians are smarter than us and Blacks get a leg up! -hic-!" - A College Graduate
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:05 |
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Xenoveritas posted:It's definitely supposed to be Aiden Pierce, the main character in Watch_Dogs. It also doesn't help that WD is boring as sin with some of the worst driving controls in any video game ever made
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:06 |
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Susan G. Komen org is loving awful so that Bors got a laugh out of me.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:07 |
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OldTennisCourt posted:It also doesn't help that WD is boring as sin with some of the worst driving controls in any video game ever made Thanks for the heads up I guess?
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:08 |
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carry on then posted:Thanks for the heads up I guess? WD is a pretty bad game. Can someone point in the direction of a good explanation as to why Komen is so bad?
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:14 |
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beepsandboops posted:New Bors Took me a few seconds to realize that the drill in the first panel was not some horrific dildo.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:15 |
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Vogon Poet posted:Heh, rural folk like to rape their siblings. Comedy gold right there. It's funny cause it's true.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:18 |
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OldTennisCourt posted:WD is a pretty bad game. Well, yes, but what does that have to do with anything? The point I'm trying to make is that I disagree with loquacius when he says: loquacius posted:Yeah, I wasn't trying to say anything like that, and the joke is still in terrible taste, but it means he wasn't trying to make a statement on the hacks like we thought, he was just trying to mash together a current event and a vidjagame like his hero Tim Buckley or our jolly friends at Penny Arcade might do and it didn't really work. I think it was intended to make a statement. Aiden Pierce is supposed to be an "anti-hero" in the game, meaning he does "terrible things for the right reasons." Of course, Watch_Dogs is a bad game and the writing is bad enough that most normal people would find Aiden Pierce to be entirely unlikeable complete rear end in a top hat. Meaning that the idea of Aiden Pierce stealing Jennifer Lawrence's pictures and posting them online is entirely within his character (assuming she failed to meet whatever blackmail request he made first, of course). Which means that he'd be the villain to most normal people. I suspect that the cartoonist isn't like most normal people, and we're supposed to side with the hacker.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:30 |
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Xenoveritas posted:
I don't know, I feel like the tears on her face indicate some level of understanding that what happened was wrong and that the hacker wasn't a good guy. It's completely within the realm of possibility that it's a nerd seeing a dude in a game and thinking he's a hero due to A. bad writing or B. Being a weirdo, but I think that by drawing her crying he's not just saying "Hell Yeah, it sure is rad that her pictures got hacked!" OldTennisCourt fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Oct 21, 2014 |
# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:35 |
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To put it another way, I'm pretty sure it's A Good Cartoon: the cartoonist intended one message, and it's nearly impossible not to get the exact opposite message from it because the cartoonist isn't that good at what he does.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:36 |
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OldTennisCourt posted:WD is a pretty bad game. Here's a good start. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_G._Komen_for_the_Cure#Controversy_and_criticism The criticisms of Komen mostly boil down to: their corporate partnerships benefit the corporations more than they do breast cancer research; they allow corporations that use or profit from potentially carcinogenic chemicals to just slap pink on their products without trying to change them ("pinkwashing"); they've actually tried to trademark the phrase "for the cure"; and their leadership leans Republican, even though the GOP is openly contemptuous of women's issues and is constantly attacking Planned Parenthood and other women's health clinics that are vital in the detection of breast cancer. Selachian fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Oct 21, 2014 |
# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:38 |
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Have some Gamer Gate propaganda posters because the imagery will be familiar to a lot of you in the thread and also loving lol
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:38 |
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OldTennisCourt posted:WD is a pretty bad game. They're pretty well known for spending proportionately a lot more on advertising than actual research.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:39 |
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OldTennisCourt posted:WD is a pretty bad game. The criticism that's often leveled at them is that they're more interested in protecting and making money off of their very recognizable brand than they are about actually helping people. Podunk little towns will have their "Race for the Cure for Meth Abuse" or whatever broken up by Komen lawyers which insist that their brand is being harmed by any imitator. Also there have been several incidents where representatives or leaders in the Susan G. Komen Foundation advocate against other women's health issues such as contraception or abortion, and at some points even went so far as to attack Planned Parenthood. So basically they don't actually care about helping people and have in some cases actively worked against women's health. edit: God, those gamersgate posters are utter poo poo. The stuff about how important tweeting and emailing is read like satire about the pointlessness and lack of actual effort to go into a made up cause.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:41 |
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Saint Sputnik posted:Have some Gamer Gate propaganda posters because the imagery will be familiar to a lot of you in the thread and also loving lol That last is a cartoon teenager that 4chan invented as a Muirian stand in to bash feminism but with the "it's okay look my black mouth piece says all blacks are lazy garbage so it's not racist" logic transposed over to women. Her job is to be tweeted at feminists to tell them they don't actually represent her, a fictional female, and should check their 3d privilege. They supposedly immediately started drawing porn of her.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:49 |
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Krinkle posted:That last is a cartoon teenager that 4chan invented as a Muirian stand in to bash feminism but with the "it's okay look my black mouth piece says all blacks are lazy garbage so it's not racist" logic transposed over to women. Her job is to be tweeted at feminists to tell them they don't actually represent her, a fictional female, and should check their 3d privilege. They supposedly immediately started drawing porn of her. And when you point out to them that they demonstrably care more what a fictional woman has to say about video games than a real one, they just point out that she's based on a character from a haunted house game that predates #gamergate and so is brave and noble. It's baffling what they think that's supposed to prove.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:52 |
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Saint Sputnik posted:And when you point out to them that they demonstrably care more what a fictional woman has to say about video games than a real one, they just point out that she's based on a character from a haunted house game that predates #gamergate and so is brave and noble. It's baffling what they think that's supposed to prove. I kind of want there to be a thread on this whole #Gamergate thing, but then I think about what trolls are likely to arise to post in it, and am glad it doesn't exist/I haven't found it.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:55 |
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I love the last one, it's pretty much a Kelly. NFL FOOTBALL
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:56 |
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Madmarker posted:I kind of want there to be a thread on this whole #Gamergate thing, but then I think about what trolls are likely to arise to post in it, and am glad it doesn't exist/I haven't found it. It did exist (still does, I think), but yeah, GamerGate was not something that Something Awful could handle. Imp Zone took it upon themselves to destroy it, and I think it now lives on in YOSPOS. Edit: Nope, it's back in GBS now. Xenoveritas fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Oct 21, 2014 |
# ? Oct 21, 2014 16:56 |
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Saint Sputnik posted:Have some Gamer Gate propaganda posters because the imagery will be familiar to a lot of you in the thread and also loving lol At this point it is a telemarketing affair but you get paid in retweets?
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 17:00 |
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Americans who call for a travel ban are not racist because black people who are in entirely different circumstances support a travel ban (which in their circumstances is far more efficacious). This is the same reasoning that leads one to believe that because "black-on-black" crime exists, a white cop killing an unarmed black man couldn't possibly be characterized as being racist. Edible Hat fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Oct 21, 2014 |
# ? Oct 21, 2014 17:04 |
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Madmarker posted:I kind of want there to be a thread on this whole #Gamergate thing, but then I think about what trolls are likely to arise to post in it, and am glad it doesn't exist/I haven't found it. Click at your own despair, because despite all the :canthandle: in this thread, it's 20 times worse over there. The thread's title changes like on a daily basis now.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 17:06 |
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fatherboxx posted:It is half creepy and/or hateful poo poo and half saccharine redditbait. I like how he's trying to say that the KKK is not indicative of all Christians, but then he adds a guy with a Confederate flag on his hat. (Also sweet mirror Copy pasting for the background. Also also, I think one of the Muslims in the first panel is also in the Christians group in the 2nd panel! COULD IT BE A MUSLIM SPY?!?!)
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 17:07 |
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A rapidly developing country with over three times as many people as the U.S. now has a larger economy than ours? drat YOU OBAMA!
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 17:07 |
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They also have an extra billion more people than we do, so I'm not sure where the surprise here is. Is the implication here that Obama should be running things more like the Chinese--hopelessly corrupt, authoritarian, big government crony capitalism? I hate to say it, but I think this political cartoonist may not have fully thought out their idea here...
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 17:07 |
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Whenever these start coming around, I always end up watching those videos about the abandoned malls and apartment complexes in China. Because while their economy is growing at an amazing rate, it's only in certain sectors and there's not much growth for the citizens in China whose multi-family homes end up getting bulldozed to be replaced with unaffordable apartments. It's always sad and eerie how much the government denies that affordable housing isn't a problem when you juxtapose it against a building with one tenant. Hostile V fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Oct 21, 2014 |
# ? Oct 21, 2014 17:08 |
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Yeah, China's economy is booming but it's also kind of a Lovecraftian clusterfuck just waiting to implode.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 17:13 |
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I like that Branco's Ebola Reaper is a skinny white dude in sandals.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 17:16 |
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Shugojin posted:Yeah, China's economy is booming but it's also kind of a Lovecraftian clusterfuck just waiting to implode. Almost as if it's the hare in the fable, where it starts off fast but eventually tires out and stops, while Obama's turtle keeps going and wins in the end.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 17:22 |
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OldTennisCourt posted:I don't know, I feel like the tears on her face indicate some level of understanding that what happened was wrong and that the hacker wasn't a good guy. It's completely within the realm of possibility that it's a nerd seeing a dude in a game and thinking he's a hero due to A. bad writing or B. Being a weirdo, but I think that by drawing her crying he's not just saying "Hell Yeah, it sure is rad that her pictures got hacked!" On the other hand,he submitted it under the title "Thanks Aiden!", and the comments are filled with people sharing where to find the pics.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 17:26 |
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Obama 2012 posted:I hate to say it, but I think this political cartoonist may not have fully thought out their idea here... If only thread titles could be this long.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 17:28 |
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Yeah China's per capita GDP is still like a third of America's. It's a stupidly huge country that has been the world's largest economy for almost all of recorded history. It's kind of embarrassing that they weren't the world's largest economy for the 20th century.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 17:29 |
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I dunno, the Ebola Reaper seems pretty scared of the giant CDC snail.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 17:35 |
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Irony Be My Shield posted:I like that Branco's Ebola Reaper is a skinny white dude in sandals. He probably is balding and has a ponytail under that hood, too, the drat liberal.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 17:36 |
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alnilam posted:He probably is balding and has a ponytail under that hood, too, the drat liberal. "Save the trees and the whales, man! Now hold on I gotta go pick up a bunch of dead coal miners, hold my protest sign."
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 17:44 |
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Ah yes, because the real problem with China's growth is that it might outpace the U.S., and not things like the abject environmental catastrophe, which has broken the scale for air pollution and made lakes and rivers turn colors better suited to blacklight posters.
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 18:00 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 18:45 |
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USA can't compete with economic growth of commies because of the commie in the white house!
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# ? Oct 21, 2014 18:06 |