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nigga crab pollock
Mar 26, 2010

by Lowtax
also does being a dragon give you any innate skill bonuses or passive skills

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DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

KawaiiAtomicBombs posted:

How do you feel about genocide and nuclear weapons? How would you feel if dragons were eradicating races and scorching the earth instead of people?

Genocide is bad. As for nuclear weapons, I agree with Teller. They seem beneficial, at least for nations. But maybe nations shouldn't have such guarantees of existence, and should be able to collapse or be overthrown. Time will tell whether the peace of nuclear deterrence just leads to another form of despotism from governments that cease to have a certain perverse accountability.

If dragons were guilty of genocide, I guess it would be a question of whether they all were or only most were. Obviously they should be stopped by force, and reasonable civilian casualties should be accepted, but not genocide unless all dragons are actually, concretely evil. Basically the same as with people.

nigga crab pollock posted:

have you considered trying to capitalize on your skill in The Dark Arts

I have no skill.

nigga crab pollock posted:

also does being a dragon give you any innate skill bonuses or passive skills

Empirically? I've become much better at making, and profiting from, bad decisions. Hypothetically? Well, that gets into megalomania.

DrowningInDreams fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Aug 20, 2016

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
what I hit on 4 depends entirely on the tee box. I know the pin but it rained a bunch today so they might change the box. It's probably a 6 iron but as a lefty who hits a draw I hope it's a 7 since the pin is going to be left

Garcin
Jun 15, 2000

DrowningInDreams posted:

I've literally read both Being and Time and Being and Nothingness. I couldn't make heads or tails of the former, but the latter was very useful for understanding myself as a perfectly free person whose concrete existence doesn't dictate my choices in any way. I've used my knowledge of this freedom mostly to make unethical decisions that went against the momentum of my life, though, so...
You can't literally read something, you just read it. Again, take a step back. You have great communication skills.

Being in time means you do not separate your conscious self from reality. You are not a pretty pony. You are a being who exists and there is no higher power, such as god, your own brain, or your own superior being that dictates your interactions with reality. Heidegger is loving bleak, but it makes you focus on what is in front of you and again:

Helps you understand when you are making excuses.

HIGHLY recommend Sartre. You learn about the facts in your life, how attempting to transcend to a higher place is not such a good thing, and how your reflection in others is not just inevitable but is something to be cherished.

Rasta_Al
Jul 14, 2001

she had tiny Italian boobs.
Well that's my story.
Fun Shoe
What about the loving wizards man? No mention of those stone cold badasses.

Who's your favorite fictional wizard, and have you ever met an irl wizard?

My favorite wizard is probably Lo Pan from Big Trouble In Little China.

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
5 I can open way the gently caress up, so that's good and okay, it's birdie or par depending on if my second shot misses or hits the bunker 80 yards out

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

Garcin posted:

HIGHLY recommend Sartre. You learn about the facts in your life, how attempting to transcend to a higher place is not such a good thing, and how your reflection in others is not just inevitable but is something to be cherished.

Hell is other people.

Rasta_Al posted:

What about the loving wizards man? No mention of those stone cold badasses.

Who's your favorite fictional wizard, and have you ever met an irl wizard?

My favorite wizard is probably Lo Pan from Big Trouble In Little China.

I've met several irl wizards. My favorite fictional wizard is Schmendrick the Magician from The Last Unicorn.

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
What do you feel when you visualize the mental image of Wario from the Mario series from Nintendo jacking off a can of coke at a brisk pace but his manimal palms crush the can of soda and soda sprays everywhere, dousing Wario and everything in a three foot radius of the soda can as Wario contemplates what went wrong through an ever unchanging visage of meth-induced greed plastered on his face?

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

EorayMel posted:

What do you feel when you visualize the mental image of Wario from the Mario series from Nintendo jacking off a can of coke at a brisk pace but his manimal palms crush the can of soda and soda sprays everywhere, dousing Wario and everything in a three foot radius of the soda can as Wario contemplates what went wrong through an ever unchanging visage of meth-induced greed plastered on his face?

Peaceful, then amused.

Ville Valo
Sep 17, 2004

I'm waiting for your call
and I'm ready to take
your six six six
in my heart
What are your thoughts on Malatora, and could you run for mayor if it ever gets off the ground?

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
6 is okay for driver but I gotta be careful. There's a bunker right and a bad bounce left. Not entirely sure, I might hit 3 wood off that tee. Either way, tomorrow's pin is protected by a slope and a nasty grass bunker. The tee shot doesn't really matter, the approach does.

KawaiiAtomicBombs
Apr 15, 2016

~Ka-Boom~
How do you feel about anime and how would you feel if anime didn't exist

Garcin
Jun 15, 2000

DrowningInDreams posted:

Hell is other people.
Great quote, but are you struggling to live within it's meaning? Or are you in neutral.

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

Ville Valo posted:

What are your thoughts on Terra Malatora, and could you run for mayor if it ever gets off the ground?

I just became aware of him through these forums. I think the inner lives of people are fascinating, but that all ideas need to be measured against other people in some way otherwise they become rotten, no matter how impressive the impetus behind them. I don't have a lot of concrete respect for his escapist fantasies, however, partially because he apparently hasn't recognized them as such. I have no idea what the requirements are to run for mayor, and wouldn't want to be part of a society that didn't recognize property rights anyway.

KawaiiAtomicBombs posted:

How do you feel about anime and how would you feel if anime didn't exist

There are some good anime, like Kino's Journey, and I would be sad if these didn't exist, but also glad that weaboos and their love for bad anime didn't exist.

Garcin posted:

Great quote, but are you struggling to live within it's meaning? Or are you in neutral.

I'm not sure what you mean.

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
On 7, we're back to hybrid or 4 iron, maybe even 5 off the tee depending on wind and how wet the course is. This is another where the tee shot doesn't really matter, especially with a massive slope from back to front on the green

the approach shot has to land above and left of the hole

Garcin
Jun 15, 2000
neutral

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
8 thank god we are wide open and driver is in full effect!!!!

approach is easy, but the mid left pin has some tricky slope

Rasta_Al
Jul 14, 2001

she had tiny Italian boobs.
Well that's my story.
Fun Shoe

jackyl posted:

6 is okay for driver but I gotta be careful. There's a bunker right and a bad bounce left. Not entirely sure, I might hit 3 wood off that tee. Either way, tomorrow's pin is protected by a slope and a nasty grass bunker. The tee shot doesn't really matter, the approach does.

I suggest playin it safe and comin up a little short, make it up on the approach. Don't wanna end up in the ol' bunker, pal!

KawaiiAtomicBombs
Apr 15, 2016

~Ka-Boom~

jackyl posted:

8 thank god we are wide open and driver is in full effect!!!!

approach is easy, but the mid left pin has some tricky slope

What is it like to be a golfkin and what are your powers?

wane tendo
Mar 19, 2005

Buglord

DrowningInDreams posted:


There are some good anime, like Kino's Journey, and I would be sad if these didn't exist, but also glad that weaboos and their love for bad anime didn't exist.


do you want a free pass to crunchy roll dot come for 48 hrs so you can watch mor e anime?

Vastarien
Dec 20, 2012

Where I live is nightmare, thus a certain nonchalance.



Buglord

DrowningInDreams posted:

It pertains to my specific case of mental illness, namely that the symbol "dragon" has taken on a very personal experience to me, and that I've found my experiences with mental illness to be well interpreted through a framework that combines magick, psychoanalysis, and comparative mythology.

Are you like the dude from the Thomas Harris novel Red Dragon?

SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


have a a good night drowning in dragons i enjoy your crazy stuff see you tomorrow

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
9 we have a 220 yard carry over a ravine so u gotta hit driver

after that it's a large uphill approach that is short if that makes sense. I should have about 110 in tomorrow but it will likely play about 125 with the wet and the uphill to a back right pin

the green back right is easy tho, compared to short left.

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

carrion kit posted:

do you want a free pass to crunchy roll dot come for 48 hrs so you can watch mor e anime?

No, but thank you.

Vastarien posted:

Are you like the dude from the Thomas Harris novel Red Dragon?



I mean, not in any holistic sense? But in one or two respects, like the matter of deformity as a driving principle of my psychology, and a sexuality that was denigrated in my youth.

Celluloid Sam posted:

have a a good night drowning in dragons i enjoy your crazy stuff see you tomorrow

Goodnight! Thanks a bunch.

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
I think I just declared my intent to shoot 33 tomorrow op

can u do the magic

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
that's just the first nine but I am going to pass out so I'll worry about the rest after the 33

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

jackyl posted:

I think I just declared my intent to shoot 33 tomorrow op

can u do the magic

I could, but will not. Don't shoot anyone, unless in defense of self or others.

Beefeater
May 17, 2003

I'm hungry.
Hair Elf
I'm enjoying Jackyl's gameplan for golf tomorrow more than the nuttier-than-squirrel-poo poo stuff going on around it.

KawaiiAtomicBombs
Apr 15, 2016

~Ka-Boom~
Do you like videogames and if you do what videogames do you like?

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

KawaiiAtomicBombs posted:

Do you like videogames and if you do what videogames do you like?

Ico
MGS2
Drakengard 3
Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri
Shadowrun: Dragonfall
DDR
PIU
ITG

and others I forget momentarily

SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


DrowningInDreams posted:

Ico
MGS2
Drakengard 3
Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri
Shadowrun: Dragonfall
DDR
PIU
ITG

and others I forget momentarily

have you played bastion

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

Celluloid Sam posted:

have you played bastion

Yes, but unfortunately I haven't beaten it yet, and other things keep competing for my time. Also, I got tired of the harder enemies and sections. I am in truth not all that great at games.

KawaiiAtomicBombs
Apr 15, 2016

~Ka-Boom~

Celluloid Sam posted:

have you played bastion

Blizzard made a movie about that today and it brought back some very pleasant memories of mine

Zorodius
Feb 11, 2007

EA GAMES' MASTERPIECE 'MADDEN 2018 G.O.A.T. EDITION' IS A GLORIOUS TRIUMPH OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY. IT BRINGS GAMEDAY RIGHT TO THE PLAYER AND WHOEVER SAYS OTHERWISE CAN, YOU GUESSED IT...
SUCK THE SHIT STRAIGHT OUT OF MY OWN ASSHOLE.

BUY IT.
You said that you can influence probabilities through magick. Do you believe that? If so, why aren't you cleaning up in Vegas?

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

DrowningInDreams posted:

I am the ultimate arbiter

can you recall and stasis tho

DrowningInDreams
Mar 13, 2009

Dilettante lizard

Zorodius posted:

You said that you can influence probabilities through magick. Do you believe that? If so, why aren't you cleaning up in Vegas?

Testing things out first on SWC. I've read Sklansky and Janda and spent quite a few hours playing, so it's not like I'm entirely ignorant of how poker is supposed to work. I believe probabilities can be influenced through magick when it suits me, I guess, which from a rationalist perspective basically amounts to intermittent pure random play, which puts me closer to Game Theory Optimality, so suppose it's just a flight of fancy, or that it's the real thing. In either case, I've been learning how to make it work for me. But to answer your question, I am too poor to test my skills at the local casino, which I would do before hitting up Vegas, and I also just frankly hate poker quite a bit because it's not meritocratic and it's filled with morons who will call you a moron for losing to a ridiculous 2% equity bad beat and the like.

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
Wow hey this is a really wordy thread, but also none of it seems worth reading?

Hit me with the highlights that don't involve untaken pharmaceuticals... unless they all do in which case spare me.

Zorodius
Feb 11, 2007

EA GAMES' MASTERPIECE 'MADDEN 2018 G.O.A.T. EDITION' IS A GLORIOUS TRIUMPH OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY. IT BRINGS GAMEDAY RIGHT TO THE PLAYER AND WHOEVER SAYS OTHERWISE CAN, YOU GUESSED IT...
SUCK THE SHIT STRAIGHT OUT OF MY OWN ASSHOLE.

BUY IT.

DrowningInDreams posted:

Testing things out first on SWC. I've read Sklansky and Janda and spent quite a few hours playing, so it's not like I'm entirely ignorant of how poker is supposed to work. I believe probabilities can be influenced through magick when it suits me, I guess, which from a rationalist perspective basically amounts to intermittent pure random play, which puts me closer to Game Theory Optimality, so suppose it's just a flight of fancy, or that it's the real thing. In either case, I've been learning how to make it work for me. But to answer your question, I am too poor to test my skills at the local casino, which I would do before hitting up Vegas, and I also just frankly hate poker quite a bit because it's not meritocratic and it's filled with morons who will call you a moron for losing to a ridiculous 2% equity bad beat and the like.

why would you care if it's fun/meritocratic/whatever. Just play roulette and beat the slight house edge reliably, and you'd be set for life.

SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


i just got bastion ive heard good things about it transistor was really hard and weird though is it easier to play

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Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

DrowningInDreams posted:

I also just frankly hate poker quite a bit because it's not meritocratic and it's filled with morons who will call you a moron for losing to a ridiculous 2% equity bad beat and the like.

buddy tables filled with morons who don't understand pot odds is like solid loving gold to me idk what you're doing

and i can't even control fate or whatever

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