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Dec 5, 2002
Armchair Philistine

orange juche posted:

Quoting from the trumplol thread in GBS, I had a pretty good chuckle.

You do not have to hand it to Steve Bannon but God drat lmao

It's like if "heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point" and "heartwarming: the worst people you know are all fighting" had a baby

And he's not even in office yet.

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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS

orange juche posted:

Quoting from the trumplol thread in GBS, I had a pretty good chuckle.

SquirrelyPSU
May 27, 2003


I have literally not heard about Steve Bannon in 5 years and I'm okay with that.

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


SquirrelyPSU posted:

I have literally not heard about Steve Bannon in 5 years and I'm okay with that.

He was in prison

pygmy tyrant
Nov 25, 2005

*not a small business owner

Platystemon posted:

That’s the best news that Elon has gotten since the election.

He’s been on thin ice, but everything that Bannon touches turns to poo poo, so he’s got a chance to stay in Trump’s good graces.

Yeah I was pretty confident Trump and Musk would fall out until I saw this. But who knows, maybe Bannon can leverage his Biosphere 2 experience and lock them in a greenhouse infested with ants

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

That Works posted:

He was in prison

and I’m okay with that.

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


Stultus Maximus posted:

and I’m okay with that.

:same:

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


That Works posted:

He was in prison

he should go back

Ronwayne
Nov 20, 2007

That warm and fuzzy feeling.
Many people in trump's orbit have gone to prison but he's the first one I know of that got out of jail and decided he wanted right back in.

crazyivan45
Apr 30, 2008
Question: in the probable event (since he’s said it on the campaign trail repeatedly) that trumpy bear decides to withhold federal aid from California, what can California actually do in response?

Coasterphreak
May 29, 2007
I like cookies.

crazyivan45 posted:

Question: in the probable event (since he’s said it on the campaign trail repeatedly) that trumpy bear decides to withhold federal aid from California, what can California actually do in response?

iirc, basically the most they can do short of seceding is kick the military out.

Entirely possible I’m wrong on that.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

crazyivan45 posted:

Question: in the probable event (since he’s said it on the campaign trail repeatedly) that trumpy bear decides to withhold federal aid from California, what can California actually do in response?

They can appeal through the totally non-partisan federal courts.

fknlo
Jul 6, 2009


Fun Shoe
Wouldn't their senators be able to hold up federal aid to anyone else they chose as retaliation? I seem to recall that happening in the past after Hurricane Sandy if I remember right?

Xenoborg
Mar 10, 2007

It also looks like CA gives about 3x back the federal government in tax then what they receive in federal funding. Might not work out so great if the feds withhold their half of the bargain.

pygmy tyrant
Nov 25, 2005

*not a small business owner

Xenoborg posted:

It also looks like CA gives about 3x back the federal government in tax then what they receive in federal funding. Might not work out so great if the feds withhold their half of the bargain.

I get what you're going for here but do states even collect taxes on behalf of the federal government? I feel like you'd need a whole bunch of banks to side with California over the rest of the US and refuse to process transactions for the IRS to accomplish tax withholding as a state.

Quackles
Aug 11, 2018

Pixels of Light.



pygmy tyrant posted:

Yeah I was pretty confident Trump and Musk would fall out until I saw this. But who knows, maybe Bannon can leverage his Biosphere 2 experience and lock them in a greenhouse infested with ants

I'm sorry, Bannon was involved in mcfreaking Biosphere 2?!

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Quackles posted:

I'm sorry, Bannon was involved in mcfreaking Biosphere 2?!

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-strange-history-of-steve-bannon-and-the-biosphere-2-experiment/

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


Seems like the better fit would have been biodome

Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

Quackles posted:

I'm sorry, Bannon was involved in mcfreaking Biosphere 2?!

I found this out during the first Trump administration and had the same exact reaction.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

That Works posted:

Seems like the better fit would have been biodome

there is no chance he would work in montreal

Suicide Watch
Sep 8, 2009

Quackles posted:

I'm sorry, Bannon was involved in mcfreaking Biosphere 2?!

Even funnier is how most of his wealth and the initial funding source for Breitbart likely came from Seinfeld residuals

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

Blue Jackoffs are Rags west
https://x.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1878583909023453285?t=wVibdg_HnK1mAxhK0y92Xw&s=19

Wait, what?

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sausage.

Smellrose

Elon Moron has been paying a guy to improve his account stats in some video game.

davecrazy
Nov 25, 2004

I'm an insufferable shitposter who does not deserve to root for such a good team. Also, this is what Matt Harvey thinks of me and my garbage posting.

Elon Musk has all the best gear and maxed out stats in Diablo4 but has no clue how to actually play.

Fallom
Sep 6, 2008


That sums it up pretty well. He's been saying he's among the best in the world at a couple games while demonstrating quite clearly that he barely knows how to play them, and showing off progress that even NEETs/streamers can't compete with. Any additional context is just the details of how people figured that out.

MonkeyFit
May 13, 2009

davecrazy posted:

Elon Musk has all the best gear and maxed out stats in Diablo4 but has no clue how to actually play.

Path of Exile 2 as well. It's amazing how his supporters are able to ignore how absolutely pathetic he is.

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


Wait, he's done it in Diablo as well? I thought it was just POE2, holy gently caress.

Dum Cumpster
Sep 12, 2003

*pozes your neghole*

Kith posted:

Wait, he's done it in Diablo as well? I thought it was just POE2, holy gently caress.

People assumed his Diablo poo poo was authentic until everyone saw him playing POE like a grandma

My Spirit Otter
Jun 15, 2006

I LOVE STICKS!!

Dum Cumpster posted:

People assumed his Diablo poo poo was authentic until everyone saw him playing POE like a grandma

to be fair, its entirely believable that this loser would claim to be the hardest working man while simultaneously doing nothing but playing vidya

Grip it and rip it
Apr 28, 2020

Elon loving sucks so much.

Dum Cumpster
Sep 12, 2003

*pozes your neghole*

My Spirit Otter posted:

to be fair, its entirely believable that this loser would claim to be the hardest working man while simultaneously doing nothing but playing vidya

Yeah I understand why but then it instantly became "oh of course he's lying about this too"

pmchem
Jan 22, 2010

elon is about as good at POE2 as he is at rocket science

Pine Cone Jones
Dec 6, 2009

You throw me the acorn, I throw you the whip!
Makes me excited to see how the whole doge thing is gonna gently caress up the dod

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Dude's so busy being extremely online with Twitter shitposting that he doesn't even have time to play video games, lol. There was a graph going around showing how much and when he tweets, Musky boi is DEEP in the K-hole shitposting quite literally through the night getting very little if any sleep.

Oh and then there's some baloney about having his money work for him at various companies he cosplays as CEO at but you're a fool if you believe any of that by this point. Once he's done carrying a sink through the lobby for the cameras and PR pieces he goes back to shitposting and stabbing growth hormones into his rear end again.

My Spirit Otter
Jun 15, 2006

I LOVE STICKS!!

Pine Cone Jones posted:

Makes me excited to see how the whole doge thing is gonna gently caress up the dod

current pay system is ineffecient, all pay going forward will be issued via dogecoin and will be held in trust by elon musk

Punished Ape
Sep 17, 2021
Starting to have serious doubts about Musk's ability at Polytopia

Hyrax Attack!
Jan 13, 2009

We demand to be taken seriously

I miss the days when Steve Wozniak would mail photos of his game boy tetris high scores to Nintendo Power & he was so dominant they stopped letting him do that so others would have a chance, and there was zero doubt yeah he was really getting those scores.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011

The Diablo 1 speedrun record that stood for over a decade was recently found to be illegitimate. Each floor was run separately and spliced together with hacked save files, the runner changed the time on their computer to generate more optimal level placement, and in some points they stitched together different bits of footage seamlessly (at least, in video -- you can see evidence of the splice in the audio stream).

If there is any type of gamer you don't want to draw the ire of, it's ARPG dorks.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Hyrax Attack! posted:

I miss the days when Steve Wozniak would mail photos of his game boy tetris high scores to Nintendo Power & he was so dominant they stopped letting him do that so others would have a chance, and there was zero doubt yeah he was really getting those scores.

Woz is what I wish all the SV people were like.

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Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011

Midjack posted:

Woz is what I wish all the SV people were like.

Ehhhh, he kinda went a bit loopy after his plane crash in the 80s and it's only gotten more and more... fascinating. I think most recently he's gotten into, out of, and back into cryptocurrency, as well as having a stroke and then deciding the best thing to do would be to become a Serbian citizen to promote how great it is there and how there's definitely nothing going on in Kosovo.

Turns out a month and a half of not being able to form new memories after massive physical head trauma is a real solid sign of brain damage.

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