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iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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The Kins posted:

Here's that very essay courtesy of the SAclopedia.

Can you or someone c/p? Not having archives sucks for some of these.

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iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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I think one of those coin machines will let you turn your spare change into bitcoin

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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RenegadeStyle1 posted:

I always assumed it was due to americans viewing ourselves as the saviors of Europe in WWII (and WWI to a lesser extent) and so to really bring it home they made the French seem effete and arrogant as a result and a reason they couldn't do it without us.

https://archive.org/details/pocketguidetofra00unit/page/n7/mode/2up

Thats the handbook for GIs going in to France in 1944. It's a good look at how things were viewed, and shows also how opinions could be clouded for guys coming back from the war.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Probably around 4th grade

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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How is your head that fat but fingers so skinny?

Like he has the head of a walrus and the fingers of a frail child.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Sir Not Appearing posted:

We need a Turtlicious vs Sleeveless PPV event to determine that title.

Well, sleeveless is still posting after wanting to gently caress children under his old name so...

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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pentyne posted:

First post
Dec 16, 2020 19:03(7:03 pm)

Holding probe

12/16/20 09:58pm

2 hrs and 55 minutes. Mods are slipping.

But for real, I'd love to know the fastest post:probe/perma time achieved yet. That's some real employee of the month accomplishment.

I'm pretty sure he's had qcs threads that burned multiples of same day registration.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Scarodactyl posted:

Sometimes I feel like I don't have a hobby,
Sometimes I feel like I want to post,
On the forums I'm banned from,
The forums of awful,
Lonely as I am, my bitcoins and I.

It's hard to believe that there's no coinbase out there
It's hard to believe that I'm all alone
At least I have her love, the blockchain, she loves me
Lonely as I am, "bitcoins!" I cry

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Heath posted:

You know what, gently caress it, I made my point. That poo poo sucks rear end and makes the forums a worse place and it happens way too frequently

I agree, honeytrappentyne. Let's hear him out.

About kid fuckin

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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RFC2324 posted:

Spend enough time poor as poo poo when you are younger, and you pick up all kinda of bad habits in the name of saving money.

I have 3 week old milk I am contemplating using for muffins.

There's not much worse than a failed sniff test on milk.

Other than not sniffing it and having chunks pour out.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Desert Bus posted:

Yeah but then you have 5.5 cans of beer left and only a savage drinks canned beer instead of bottled.

Sorry you never got weaned, bottle baby.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Len posted:

Haven't spent much time around small children?

Not all of us are libertarians

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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toanoradian posted:

None of the game jargon made sense to me, all I get is that he takes being conned well. It's all part of the game EVE, I guess, but it does sour me that goons started off by scamming this guy.

Thats literally just eve. It's a scam built on scams.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Tjadeth posted:

sometimes it's better that way. for instance, I did not realize "my wheelhouse" was a user name, which made for interesting reading in the cyrano thread

Glad it's not just me, I was super confused why someone was bragging about being creepy and animated CP being in their wheel house and mad that another user had horned in on their gig. I figured it was them applying for Cyranos spot until I got a few more pages in.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Josef bugman posted:

If I might answer the first bit slightly churlishly; nothing is lost or gained from it. You'd have to think that there is somehow value to be found in discussion or meaning to be found in connection at all. Two things which I am unsure everyone respects.

But the point is that you, the person being refered to, don't matter. This isn't an attempt to truly persuade but to inform. It's the hope that waving the battle flag when you are shot means something. That somehow the emotional throughput that comes from getting very very cross and trying to do something with enough venom and spite that it makes the other person think about why you would be that angry.

I understand that it probably wouldn't change anyone's mind. However, have you never wanted to reply to anyone (either IRL or on here) by calling them foolish?

Not until this moment

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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I mean this probably does illustrate a new thing added to your work pile if it was that hard to find :v:

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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MarcusSA posted:

I swear I remember this too.

It was definitely a lot of bad advice like that lol

Person: "hey, I like this person, should I be open and honest and communicate with them in an open and polite manner?"

Goons: "no. gently caress no. No. Do you have a printer? OK. Here's the plan..."

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Harrow posted:

How does it keep getting worse the longer I listen

Turn off the "hear own voice" option on your mic

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Taciturn Tactician posted:

what exactly was the coup part? no one's explained that bit

Which one? The one KM attempted or the one that the piss bath admin thought was a great April fools prank?

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Because on the internet then, and still now but nowhere near as bad, being a woman was automatically bad.

And being a woman who didn't look like they had just escaped a concentration camp meant you were fat, especially if the person calling you fat was a fat neckbeard.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Acebuckeye13 posted:

personally when a person tells me that a word is a slur and relates their personal experience with it, I try to listen as opposed to straight up ignoring them while continuing to justify the use of the word

But you'll willingly die on the hill of a piss bathing former admin who posts screeds about baby teeth on his penis

Curiouser and curiouser...

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Ugly In The Morning posted:



As for why they don’t want things to end, it’s probably doomscrolling addiction, or having a reason to scold people.

Not gonna lie I loving miss quarantine.

I got so much poo poo done. Learned new skills. Made a bunch of stuff. Work hours were cut back. Didn't have to see people. No work or social events to get forced into. That poo poo was great.

I mean yeah everything else fuckin sucked, but that part was awesome personally.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Spinz posted:

Ha
When I was a teenager and poor it was sort of a catastrophe that after my first careful acid trip with a girlfriend we discovered that we had smoked most of our eighth

We never got stoned of course

My first acid trip was on a rover canoe trip that my brother in law brought me along on, when I was 13.

I found a sugar cube.
I ate a sugar cube.
They all reacted in horror.

It was amazing.

Right up until we all stopped to camp for the night, and someone had brought fireworks and they got soaked. So they put them near the fire to dry out.

Right as I was peaking a 100ish count Saturn missile battery went off (loud piercing shrieks, they fly then explode with a pop) and shot through all of us. Despite being 13, and never in a war, I swear I had a Nam flashback.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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ThingOne posted:

So who was Someone that is banned and how did they manage to piss off 3629 posters in less than a month?

On mobile so I can't look at dates, but I think back in the early days a ban was literally your account being deleted

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Spatial posted:

The Anime Anal Probe

Look, just because there's an open mod spot doesn't mean you have to drop a resume

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Apr 29, 2005

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Josef bugman posted:

I mean, it's also the idea that if you live a happy life then the looming threat of it ending is made worse. If your already miserable then what is the worst that can happen? More misery?

The ultimate problem is that nothing makes intuitive sense and there is a feeling, caused by knowing at least a little bit about the world, that "you don't matter". Now of course people matter to other people and to themselves, but an even passing knowledge of how the world works makes people more and more convinced that anything they do isn't going to change anything. That sense of powerlessness and alineation gets expressed in some weird as gently caress ways, especially on the internet.

That is some serious doomer brain, not a rational, healthy or normal way of viewing the world.

Jesus christ. "Well this flower sure is pretty but the world is warming so might as well cut it down and save some time!" Except it's not even that, it's posting rants on the internet about how people are so loving dumb and you're (the royal you, not you personally) are obviously so much better because you know it's pointless to enjoy anything.

Your post made me seriously sad because that is some depressing poo poo that no one should be feeling. It's the exact opposite of self improvement, self love, activism, whatever.

gently caress.

I'm gonna go watch some birds or something.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Tiler Kiwi posted:

i think antidoomer thought can veer into a sort of weird nihilism in its own right, where you get very concerned about people being concerned about actually serious issues because you feel it is pointless to care about things. i think theres room for balance and understanding not everyone thinks, reacts, or copes with things like you, and that is okay.

e: like if the thought of future climate disaster upsets you, that's a normal reaction to reality.

No, I agree. But that's rational thought.

But posting or thinking constantly about how everything is bad, and everything good is going to die and end, and that change isn't possible because you can't see a way to help it IS unhealthy as gently caress.

I'm married to a social worker who currently works with nothing but underprivleged and abused kids, I see and hear about this stuff every day. The world sucks, poo poo is overwhelming, and venting is normal. Like I'm obviously not always happy myself, but it makes the world better to try and make others happy/comfortable and make yourself feel better as well vs the constant Super Eeyore that internet leftists have adopted as a lifestyle.

Using that as a personality and attacking people who don't act the same way is the issue. Not that bugman or you do that, but goddamn if it isn't prevalent, and bugman has posted some things in this thread in the past in a similar doom way that got the same reaction from a lot of people.

iwentdoodie
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Peachfart posted:

It is okay to be sad sometimes, and okay to be happy sometimes. But obsessing over the saddest and worst things all day long, no matter how immune you think you are to the downsides, will destroy your brain.

Basically this.

If every time you expound on your ideas and thoughts outside of an echo chamber the response is "holy poo poo are you okay", it's not a failing of everyone else's view of the world.

I'm often sad and clinically depressed, I'm a leftist who drinks way too much, but gently caress man if your view is "all good things die" and you don't see an issue or want to view it that way out of sheer stubbornness because the other people are wrong, that's a massive issue.

You can feel anxiety/anger/fear for things without it being your personality.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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CaptainSarcastic posted:

I think the topic is less about depression and more about people crawling into existential crab buckets of doomposting.

P much

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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The Saddest Rhino posted:

I can't remember his real name but it was a pretty big reported case, he was a cop and was charged with shooting dead an unarmed person without provocation

The ban for failing a writing toxx happened way before that. Most of us were unaware of the shooting until much later

He also got released from prison not too long ago

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Kennel posted:

I ain't afraid of no goon

Bag wine can be pretty scary

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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So wait did I miss a squizzle meltdown thread that lead to demodding or was it just behind the scenes?

I know there was the lovely post about ALD but that was so long ago I figured nothing would ever happen.

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Apr 29, 2005

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Squizzle posted:

total meltdown. in my rancor i grappled with jeffrey on the streambank, holding him in a muscular stalemate for hours, until he struck me on the blue star to hobble me.

this is also why we do not eat the meat of moderators fyi

The only rancor I know of is the one you feed grenades to in kotor so this checks out.

iwentdoodie
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:

IIRC by the end it was filled with gross racism and grosser porn.

I wondered where cspam got the inspiration from...

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Kazinsal posted:

everyone's favourite source of reliable knowledge wikipedia says an average of ten pints of small beer per day. assuming it's maybe 1% that's like, two normal pints over the course of 14-16 hours. you'd probably be immune to getting a buzz from that by the time you were twelve

The drunks were 1800s Americans. If I remember correctly in the mid 1800s the average consumption equaled 7 gallons of pure alcohol per person per year.

iwentdoodie
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Regarde Aduck posted:

Siding with a stalker is defo gbs. Come on that’s an easy one.

When you acknowledge that there are sets of people who think remembering things and looking at post history is doxxing that post makes more sense.

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Empty Sandwich posted:

I remember someone suggesting that

MODS!!!!!

iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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some plague rats posted:

You just got to put a bell on em and that's the bird problem solved

My idiot cats have never caught a bird in their lives but they'll sit for hours by a mousehole and wait for one to come out

Must be nice.

My cats are inside only but they get each other to bite bells until they don't make noise.

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some plague rats posted:

holy poo poo lol

Have you tried consulting your local wizard about this

Theyre just rear end in a top hat Siameseish cats. The one was a streetcat from Guam and the other was taken from a warehouse hoarder in San Diego. If you put bells on them they just bite each others necks until the bells are flattened and don't make a sound.

If they had thumbs 9/11 would have looked like a picnic

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iwentdoodie
Apr 29, 2005

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Desert Bus posted:

I find myself 100% happy about asking for the probe last night because I have some OPINIONS about outside cats. Opinions I would not have expressed well. Good job Mod team!

This could go either way, because goon, so I'm choosing to believe you are pro cat murder.

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