1,397 Forum Posts by "AxTekk"
So, earlier this year we had quite probably the last official newgrounds rap battle tournament (which ended with the host admitting only after the last battle that he didn't actually have any prizes for the winners). Interest had been dropping for a while although, evidently, NG still loves them lyrical beat-em-ups.
Anyway, turns out the MC Invitational Tournament which is currently sponsored by two independent rap labels (and features beats by a lot of NG audio portal artists) is thinking about moving their party down onto Newgrounds as well as youtube. Which is p cool.
Question I have for you guys as Newgrounds users: Does battle rap have a place here? Are you guys likely to listen to this stuff?
Oh, and here's the battle I saw posted here - beat's by shaggyhaired from the audio portal and VAMO (the 2nd MC) I believe has voice acted on a couple of front paged animations. Figure it should serve as a decent sample of what I'm talking on, and give everyone some idea of the talent NG's produced.
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MCI14: Systematic vs VAMO by RRStudiosThe 2014 MC Invitational Tournament
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- Hip Hop - Olskool
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At 4/25/14 12:29 PM, 24901miles wrote: So just so us all a favor and eat the blue cheese packet on camera. Don't even peel off the fucking wrapper. Just insert it into your slack jawed mouth, lube it up with spit, and swallow.
Just bumping so everyone else can enjoy this timeless post.
At 4/26/14 07:02 PM, Xenomit wrote: One thing I particularly love to no end is when we start out by touching the tips of our tongues together, and then gradually press the tops together more and more.
That actually sounds really fucking awesome. Definitely stealing.
Use your tongue like you'd massage a woman's back - Tease her at first for the first few smooches, then give her some passion bruh.
Of course, there's a thousand and one different ways to kiss a girl but if in doubt... Just don't washing machine or dead fish :P
Sounds liberating; every sin ever been dies when the brain stops.
At 4/24/14 05:42 PM, Coop wrote: Something wrong with a little passion? I always wear my heart on my sleeve and I feel I present my arguments in a well laid-out format.
Yeah, that's definitely true.
At 4/23/14 05:14 PM, Camarohusky wrote: In order to definitively prove evolution, as it relates to humans, we would need a generation by generation family tree tracking a current generation human to another species in a lineal manner.
I think that sounds solid - I'm not sure we as a species will survive for the millions of years necessary for that to happen though. Nor do I think the environmental pressures are that high for us to change in significant, non-superficial ways.
Like I said before, I'm not saying evolution isn't right, or that I don't believe it. I'm merely asking people to acknowledge how much we actually know about it. There have been numerous such theories with mountains of evidence that were proven wrong. There will be more in the future.
Yeah, that sounds fair. I do think it's odd that people always act most skeptical with evolution though - It's widely been described as the most solid scientific theory yet in terms of all the proof for it that exists. Yet, no-one argues that we should be teaching the alternatives for gravity or the general theory of relativity in science classes (except for where mainstream science suggests they don't apply). I mean, the theory that epilepsy used to be caused by being possessed by demons probably has more scientific evidence than intelligent design (and it might be true) it's just that evolutions more of a du jour target for skepticism.
At 4/23/14 11:15 PM, Feoric wrote: There's no such thing as an objectively ideal economy, because everyone has their own ideas as to what that entails.
I think that's true. I do think there's only a few main ideas of what an ideal economy is though, just with minor variations. I meant to reply to your first post but Skype started annoying me - If ideally we're supposed to have 5% or so unemployment with reasonably low demand for labour, how should we treat the unemployed? How would you balance out treating citizens who would inevitably have to not work for the good of the country well and making sure there are incentives to work and be entrepreneurial?
At 4/23/14 10:06 PM, GameChild214 wrote: Too busy with work & school.
If you have just a few hours a week spare, you have time for a new interest. If you don't want to, I understand, but trust - it'll be more rewarding (and probably less time consuming) than Second Life.
Probably Othello - edgy, uncomfortable but exotic and beautiful. Titus Andronicus is a close second though - shit reads like 16th century Tarantino flick.
At 4/23/14 06:21 PM, Coop wrote: Anyway, Happy Birthday, Shakespeare. While I regret that it's 450 years since you were born, I rejoice that it's also 398 years since you left this mortal coil, like so many of your tragic characters.
lol this guy... I'll never get how people manage to have so many strong opinions on so many minor topics. Guess some people got a lot of passion in their system.
Dude, fuck that. Go find an interest - I got into martial arts a few years back, you meet loads of really cool people and learn to keep fit and just do cool stuff. Lately I've been learning to draw and stuff with artsier friends, I MC and shit so I go to cyphers, I produces music with people... Interests.
Learn to do something awesome - it'll take time and effort, but you'll meet new people AND you'll end up with a high self worth.
At 4/23/14 04:50 PM, lapis wrote: What's an 'ideal' economy? One without scarcity? In such an economy, no one would really work at all, and just do whatever they felt like at the moment. Everyone would be on welfare, in a sense, because they could just take from the (infinite) resource pool what they wanted.
Really, economics is about how to distribute scarce materials. Leftwingers and rightwingers will have different about what the ideal distribution would be - always. Defining an 'ideal' economy in the context of scarce resources is really hard by itself.
I think that's the question at the heart of it - Everyone should have different definitions of an ideal economy imho. Some balance of high productivity and good labour conditions. Really, I think it'll change from country to country with cultural differences - If I lived on a Spanish beach, I'd probably want a lot more spare time. If I lived in, say, Iceland (and enjoyed my job) I wouldn't mind spending more time with my colleagues.
Just a point for debate - In an ideal economy, would everyone have a full-time job?
Wouldn't the ideal situation be for not everyone to have to have a full-time job, yet everyone to have plenty?
How would welfare etc work around this?
Should everyone work roughly the same hours to support themselves?
At 4/23/14 10:22 AM, Camarohusky wrote: Ranger2 and I are right in that by the technical definition of proven, evolution has not been proven.
Would you say that it would ever be possible for evolution to be proven in that sense though?
I don't think sex-robots will really take off in the West - sex is a much more social thing for us. It's not enough just to orgasm, we want the chase, the danger and the bragging rights of real life, organic meaningless sex.
Interesting thread tho
I'd probably choose to immigrate to China - They tend to be more welcoming to white foreigners, middle class jobs get better holiday and the cost of living would be much lower.
I'd probably rather be born into Japan though - More political freedom etc etc, stronger economy, better social mobility, generally less weird shit and better recourse to the law.
When I was really young, I jerked off to the DnD descirption of succubus.
Honestly, I kinda deserve being judged for that one.
At 4/16/14 06:09 AM, yurgenburgen wrote: zero growth
no credit score
Exactly what I was thinking, although presumably he's only moving relatively small amounts of money through them. Sounds smart enough if you couple it with an ISA and just use GameStop for disposable income you wanna keep on hand (due to short queue etc).
At 4/15/14 10:57 PM, Stretchysumo wrote: You've got that completely backwards. Coke is nowhere near as addictive as it's made out to be, and there's no way you can say it's more addictive than H. Pure heroin is actually not that bad for you, but opiate addiction sucks. No offense, but it seems like the extent of your drug knowledge comes from TV. For most addictive drugs, benzos take the cake. Takes a while to develop physical addiction, but the withdrawals are far worse than opiates, to the extent of causing seizures or even death if you get too deep and go cold turkey.
Actually, I'm basing all of this entirely off of Dr Nutt's empirical research on drug addiction and harm. (See pic below from this paper.) I guess it depends largely on how you measure addiction though - if you go to page 5 of said paper, it becomes clear that while cocaine scored very highly on mean addiction, physical addiction is indeed relatively low compared to other drugs like barbituates, methadone and (like you said) benzos. The reason I ranked cocaine higher than these in terms of addictive commonly taken drugs though, is that I was under the (perhaps misinformed) impression that cocaine rushes generally last a shorter period of time while being more intensely euphoric, necessitating repeat doses and increasing the potential for addiction.
Thanks for the pointer though, benzos sound really fucking nasty. Funny, because I think a lot of people just see that shit (along with barbituates) as some kind of party drug you can just take on special occasions.
Paegniarii bruh. Fuck dying.
Cisgender is just the term for being the same gender and born sex. It's like the "heterosexual" of gender identity, and recent efforts to bring it as a term into the public consciousness stem from a desire to (rightly or wrongly) make non-cis individuals seem less alien. The point being that we all have a gender identity, it's just that some of us don't have one that matches our born sex.
I've literally never heard anyone unironically use the term cis-scum, and I basically live on tumblr. Either you're all terrible at following blogs you enjoy reading, or you're seeking out offense in order to indulge in outrage just as badly as any 14 year old liberal. Do you genuinely expect young teenagers not to be radical and have unpolished philosophies? There's no shortage of apathy in the world, and unless you're expecting everyone to come into politics with a fully formed and finalised set of beliefs, your reactions aren't overly constructive.
In terms of most addictive commonly used drug, probably cocaine. In terms of worst for your health, probably heroin. In terms of most long lasting, mind altering effects, idk maybe LSD or Ayhuasca.
Thing is, it all depends how much you take/ how you take it. Snorting coke's relatively harmless compared to freebasing it and whilst codeine in your cough syrup's relatively harmless, that shit killed Pimp C and DJ Screw in higher doses.
Heroin's my nominated evilest drug though.
At 4/15/14 07:15 PM, AxTekk wrote: Lately I've found that listening to hard rock/ hip-hop epic $4 Vic by El-P helps me sleep. Music's just odd man, just imagine trying to describe it to a deaf person. What it do.
Oh, links if anyone gaf Gopher Guts $4 Vic
I think that's great, music that makes you cry is music that you connect with. Gopher Guts by Aesop Rock always moves me to tears, but that's mostly because of the ridiculously great lyrics.
Lately I've found that listening to hard rock/ hip-hop epic $4 Vic by El-P helps me sleep. Music's just odd man, just imagine trying to describe it to a deaf person. What it do.
At 4/15/14 06:58 PM, Light wrote: As was I. Unfortunately, conspiracy theories are almost never true. :(
Hahahaha, absolutely. The world would be so much more interesting (and make so much more sense) if only they were...
Yeah, you gotta love Occam's razor. It's the #1 enemy of conspiracy theorists everywhere.
Oh man, I have such a nerd boner for Occam's razor. It's one of those beautiful concepts that philosophy turns out that can actually helps with most important everyday decisions. It improves my life and validates reading interesting stuff :3
As someone who lost their virginity to what legally could not be defined as consensual sex - There's a huge difference in most cases because young men are known to seek out sex, while young women are not (at least, in the eyes of society).
Problem is, gender isn't the morally relevant part - it's the seeking out of sex. The stereotype might have some degree of accuracy so I'm not so rustled by it, but gender shouldn't be taken to be a factor at all if we know more about the person's motives.
Age should also be less of a factor, although only insofar as the person is mentally competent.
For what it's worth, I was very into conspiracy theories at one point in my life too.
This shit definitely happened though. Occam's razor goes a long way.
Erm, any time I do LSD feels like an adventure
Also, trekking out to abandoned houses to colonise for a day with friends
Also, going out tagging feels like an adventure
Also, going to random cities for the day and stuff
