Anime Store Adventure posted:

Your avatar has been stuck in my head. I know I’ve seen that video before but I can’t remember what it was!!!

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Something something goons

also it seems like literally anyone who uses 'cultural appropriation' in any context is usually just a tedious, useless scold at best, I have literally never seen it used for any actual valid case of such

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

That's really more of an issue of internet discourse generally being hot garbage. Cultural appropriation is specifically when you poo poo on items of actual cultural significance, like the headdress. A qipao is just a piece of formalwear, wearing one is categorically not appropriation.

These two extremes are pretty easy to break down if you compare them to western concepts with actual institutional backing. The items on a war bonnet mark various achievements and honors bestowed by the tribe; wearing one is comparable to wearing military regalia and medals, and the latter is a crime if you are not the person who has earned those. A qipao is a status symbol indicating nothing more than that you are a person who can afford to wear and maintain a qipao. If you wear a three-piece suit you at worst out yourself as a dork rear end loser, it's never a crime to do so.

There's a whole thornier middle ground of cultural commodification versus meaningful exchange to which I would never trust twitter discourse to meaningfully contribute, but whether something is specifically appropriation or not is usually pretty clear cut.

"Arthur C Christy in 1945 posted:

Metaphysicians and mystics meanwhile created a new mythology of the "supernatural" and sought anew to understand physical phenomena or to secure kinship with the life in living things. During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, the intellectual horizons of Europeans had been broadened. With the progress of the nineteenth century the natural order of human experience followed: after the discovery of new facts, new peo-ples, and new realms of thought and human experience, came the inevitable deepening of insights and understanding. The processes of discovery continued geographically and outwardly with the exploration of the hearts of continents; but they also became increasingly inward, as each new translation of great Oriental works revealed the dimensions of the mystical and intellectual worlds in which other peoples lived. The guiding principle of European cultural appropriation from the Orient continued to be laissez faire. Like the winds that blow as they list, often unpredictable in origin and indeterminate in direction, the drift of "oriental-ism" continued in startling ways in a different and newer age.

Dr. Cool Aids posted:

the Legend of the Insufferable Discussion Regarding What Cultural Appropriation is

skeleton warrior posted:

Yeah, Rutibex’s taste in board games matched his taste in Path of Exiles builds, apparently.

I haven’t played Talisman since the 2000s, so maybe it got good in the meantime, but if you’re not familiar with it, just think of it as a fantasy adventure simulator that makes Monopoly seem like a short, strategic, enjoyable interactive experience in comparison

Paladinus posted:

You can teach an AI to generate best speed running strategies for video games, and then all speed runners will lose their jobs.

docbeard posted:

Only God and Resetera may judge me

vyelkin posted:

An AI would never be able to comprehend the half A press.

Half of Dracula posted:

Going nuts in the live chat for pendulum manipulation

B33rChiller posted:

you first. Wear gloves, mask and goggles

Psycho Landlord posted:

I think videogames should be enjoyed

I recognize that this ideology has caused multiple posters to declare a blood feud with me

Chewbecca posted:

In the op, "Hawaii retreat goes wrong" links to the thread about the piss being poured onto the Chicago tourist boat

I went looking cos I am interested to know 9f any hawaiian goon communers are still posting on these fine forums, and would care to share their memories of this time with us

pentyne posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3551376&pagenumber=5&perpage=40#post416107388

Fire Storm posted:

He did something bad in the past so goons hate him, got the thread gassed.

The project has been moved to a blog.

BigBadSteve posted:

From dense rainforest to retreat center [original thread, gassed]:
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3123495

Hawaii 5-5-5-5-5 [FYAD - goldmined]:
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3151205

Grassy Knowles posted:

Chewbecca posted:

The video essay is called "a child annihilating zipline" so not the same legend.

Also the blog link isn't loading

I've read the threads, was more looking for the postscript to the story (if there was one) from some real participants

BUMBACLOT posted:

our editors rank their favorite goon ballsacks

iwentdoodie posted:

Yeah not gonna root for someone who cheered two black kids getting murdered as hosed around and found out.

Sadly those posts are lost to the admin forum unless someone has them saved.

cheetah7071 posted:

a very unhealthy environment to be posting in.

Antivehicular posted:

Is it okay to ask why AI posters are getting a ton of sixers with car engine pics right now? It's current events stuff, but I assume it's not drama, just something funny/weird.

TheSwizzler posted:

surprised you're not completely against it

Tism the Dragon Tickler posted:

People whining about pictures in the LC will never not be funny to me.

I would like it if it was more filterable/searchable than it currently is but I imagine that's fairly low priority

BlankSystemDaemon posted:

The issue isn't really LC, or any particular thread - it's that handling pagination is apparently not a solved problem in the year 2023.

So if you've got something like the leper's colony or the yospos cat images thread, clicking the dropdown menu causes a tiny bit of lag because it has to render all the thousands of entries.

sweet geek swag posted:

Jeff posted a few times in the SAD thread about the sagas thread then completely disappeared for over a week. So people started making jokes about how he needed his naps.

Babe Magnet posted:

Marcade posted:

He certainly abused Ambien, true.

JacquelineDempsey posted:

So after about a year break, I came back to following this thread (well, the last one) just recently to catch the details about SPR's saga.

Now that I'm finally caught up: what's with the sleepy Jeff jokes? Clearly I missed something during my hiatus.

Heath posted:

Doctor Goat posted:

Imagine the karma we'd all have if we'd kept logging in on GameFAQs all these years...

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

its a presidential taunt

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

So did a Brooke Shields sitcom from the mid-90s.

Doublestep posted:

The rear end. You opened it, and we came.