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At 12/4/14 02:31 PM, TNT wrote:

At 12/4/14 02:10 PM, TheKlown wrote: Eric Garner was murdered by criminals that wear a badge. The supposedly good police out there are not standing up against the bad police.

So because of an isolated incident, all cops are criminals?

If a business was involved in something like this, every other business in the same field would capitalise to run them down on PR and sales. People are deathly afraid of privatising police, but maybe that might get some more accountability for them, as departments would cease sticking up for one another.

Anyway gawker of all places has a pretty good post on this.
The very way they are trained to handle these situations is flawed from the getgo, and encourages confrontation and escalation. Why are they trained to rush up in your face and start shouting, thus activating a random civilian's fight-or-flight response? Why do they not use proper fire control? Why do they keep their hands to their belt at all time? Why would they engage children with guns drawn? So much why why why over and over. Shit be completely busted yo. And it's completely intentional to control 'the walking mealticket civvies' with fear and suspicion.

Germany has had 109 fatal shootings since 1998, a vast majority are mental illness related and not race or crime related. Adjusted for population that still puts them at approx well below 50% less than the US. Training the police to treat every single situation as a suspected terrorist attack or suspected drug deal is what causes so much of this mess.

At 5/14/14 05:02 PM, Cyberdevil wrote: Welcome to the 2x10k Hexalist - Update #11 (5/14/2014)
Top 5 Gainers
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Nuts. I stopped paying attention to the forums when this came out, hah. I like that I'm not biggest loser despite not doing anything at all.

At 9/7/14 03:43 AM, MykeiXWolfe wrote: Soooooooo, I can't tell...

Is she winninnnnnng, is this something as a gamer I should be worried about?

Or is this something that should pass without making any major headaches for the gaming industry?

I'm surprised NG got left so far behind. Wow, only 5 pages, not much pollination here!

Anyway long story short, if they had managed to win, you could expect US gaming to look like Germany's for a few years, before this happened all over again, and then again, until they finally lost.
http://shittywebcomics.tumblr.com/post/97849824124/why-it-is-impossible-for-gamergate-to-lose-lets

officially this will probably be stated by sites like ED to have ended on 9/11 in the future, both just to use an attractive date and also that's when a lot of stuff people had been working on reaaally fell out. Everything since then is them flailing in the quicksand. BUT That's not to say this can't happen again...they just will be sneakier than these folks. These dipsticks were so assured of themselves and their 'innoncence' in what they do (because they've never actually had a journalism class about this basic 101 shit) that they left pretty much everything wide open for a few years.

At 9/4/14 05:15 PM, Korriken wrote: What's wrong with ad Hitlerum?

That's really good, hahaha.
I'm surprised I'm gonna be the first one to go here but....
Shitlerposting.
Can work for non-nazi posts too!
See someone yammering on and on about 'key ethnic differences' and why yorup breaks out of the dark ages on the western hemisphere first? "Stop shitlerposting you historical revisionist!"
See someone posting imagery or straight up images that paint tea party as 'fair and rational' fellows while talking about moonbats?
"ugh, there goes [x] and his damned spammy shitlerposts again."

At 11/16/11 04:59 PM, dogpup4 wrote: I definitely remember there were quite a few. There were people you could optionally kill, I avoided killing them because I felt sorry for them. Also Carlos in Saints Row 2, though it was the best choice since he was dragged for miles by a car and couldn't even talk he was so battered. At least you didn't actually kill him, it was done by your character in a cutscene.

I always felt bad for killing the Ronin actually, because the storyline is set in stone. I wish you could have a respect meter towards other gangs ala the PS1 GTAs, as opposed to your own. All their talk on the street is bitching about what crappy leaders the Akujis are makes you feel like there should have been some missions where you positively take over sections of their gang territory through negotiation or bribery or special pro-ronin missions vs the other two gangs. Then during the Ultor missions not only would you have Saints but converted Ronin fighting against their former 'masters.'

And also Maero was an arse but you should have been able to negotiate a settlement with him, especially if you take out one or both of the other gangs first. I didn't feel bad about killing him, per se, but rather that it had to happen at all, rather than you getting really strong and bringing him officially into the Saints with the Brotherhood.
Also I didn't like there wasn't a way to activate the ronin trap out-of-cutscene and save Aisha, instead you have to walk into it like a dumbass, she screams, and gets her head cut off. And it's such a waste considering you just (likely) had to shoot down a helicopter with small arms meaning her sacrifice was worthless. You could have walked through those swords and punched the ronins' lights out while Gat challenges their enforcer guy (forget his name) to 1 on 1, badass as you are. Once you're finished punching them, then Gat gets cut down like normal, you fight him off, and then take Gat to the hospital along with Aisha. Would have made a lot more sense.

At 11/15/11 07:21 PM, majormelthesackboy wrote: Every enemy in klonoa.

they didn't deserve to die!

Heh, not even Leorina? She went completely crazy and burned down Volk after all...
God I wish Namco would give us a next-gen Klonoa ;_;
That series is one of my favourites. And they could go the Metal Gear Solid route, have the older ones (1, 2, GBA, the volleyball one) unlockable on the disc.

Anyway if any of you have seen the anime Record of Lodoss War, the black dragon Narse appears in the Dreamcast game. He's sickly and wounded from his battle during the series with Mison and wants you to recover the equipment of his champion, spread through 4 different temples, then come back wearing them and kill him in a last glorious fight. Now it is optional, but the game sort of pushes it upon you. He would rly rly like this as a final favour of you because he recognises how powerful you are and how great a final battle it will be. He is specifically asking Slayn to contact you for this purpose. Now he might be sickly, but he's still a dragon so he'll kick your ass if you stand still, but when you finally kill him he topples over in a depressing fashion, like a lame horse that was just shot in the head by its rider. It was hard to wear the full suit again after that, bonuses be damned.

Also I hate killing FROGs in MGS4, and I hate that you can't knock out your buddies and tranq them all yourself in those two areas you have help. Not cuz they're chicks but because based upon how merciless Ocelot was in Liquid mode, and how the B&B corps was formed, you can pretty much guess how their unit came to be. I wanted to have an option to do those areas solo with the shotgun stun pellets, flashbombs, and the tranq pistol and keep them around, and I would kill one of my team and have to continue whenever one of them got dickish and shot them after they were tranqed. XD
Those damned triggerhappy loons, especially the dude with the exclamation point mohawk. You would think Meryl would have been sympathetic at least, since she had to put up with a variety of implied bad scenarios with Ocelot.

I don't really have one, aside from grindy ones like the Disgaea series which I think I will never fully complete as I lose more and more interest each time. Ever since the Turbo-16 days I've blown past everything I got pretty fast, and actually 100%'d maybe 3/4ths of them. The only reason it takes me so godawful long with most flash games is I've never been comfortable with a keyboard as a gaming device outside of roguelikes.

Probably the most ridiculous one I 100%'d was Starflight and Starflight2, I COMPLETELY mined out /captured critters from every land-able planet in the entire game over the course of a few months. Basically I divided time between emulated and actual puzzle/rpg/strategy games on my PSP (especially strategy games because I could strip mine one planet per opponent turn) and then while it was loading/saving whatever I would drive home to sell all my loot. Let this sink in. I strip-mined the ENTIRE milky way galaxy in under a single season. And went to the sequel to do it again. Capitalism, HO!! The Cybran and Ferengi would be proud. I also did that in Star Control 2 but it isn't as crazy an accomplishment because planets have very limited resources each. You can do as many as 3 systems at a time because you have so much space. But in starflight a planet with a mineral rating of 100 drops a mere 30-40 points per trip. Why did I do this? I have no real reason. I can't really explain it. I guess just the masochistic challenge.
I have done the same with games like Medieval: Total War, first conquering the world as one of the weakest nations, say the Geonese (big money no troops), and then starting a new game, conquering a full modern country's worth like making spain+portugal one supercountry, then swapping over and playing the rebels.
Most of the big-release modern games hold no appeal for me past Infamous and Prototype which are pure fun, the rest simply have no challenge whatsoever, even when I try to force my own challenges! Single day rentals the lot of them!

Also I really like Recettear which is a bit of a guilty pleasure thing. I've gotten into the hundreds on hardcore survival, banking on average 2.5mil per day.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14177148/GameSho ts1/Recettear2-5mil.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14177148/GameSho ts1/Recettear2-5mil2.jpg
Although I am going to have an immense backlog from all the ps2/GC games I missed come next wekk....good ol' Black Friday Right now it's only a couple longer sandboxRPG/strategy ones, like Daisenkyuu Exceed and New Vegas.

At 10/22/11 03:57 PM, Hybridization wrote: Nothing works. Get over it.

Proudly displays his "don't blame me I voted for Kodos" badge

At 11/1/11 01:08 PM, Tramps wrote: Matter of discussion: Regenerating Health
Regenerating health is a new addition to any Bethesda game and not one that many people want to see. Although there were options in other Bethesda RPG's that allowed you to regenerate health through perks or items, never has it been automatically included.

Health will NOT regenerate during combat; however it will regenerate when outside of combat and it's fairly slow. Keep in mind that Oblivion allowed you to heal fully simply by waiting for any amount of time in a place that wasn't near enemies or you could simply spam healing spells. I personally hope that they take away the auto-heal by waiting if they're including regenerative health.

Pro's:
Less downtime between fights.
Less spamming of healing spells to heal.
More convenient than waiting in a corner.

Con's:
Dumbing down - making more accessible?
Easier?
Less realistic?

YOUR THOUGHTS?

Actually, regenerating health isn't really easier if it happens outside of combat. They could even have a little 'bandaging yourself' animation for it. Likewise not really dumbing down, actually if handled right it subtly INCREASES difficulty by lulling the player into a false sense of security. Sit in a cubbyhole waiting for yourself to heal because your cheap @$$ didn't want to overbuy on potions and you only want to use them for the vampire at the end of the dungeon. And then you get sniped by a lich's spell.
What I hope they get rid of is scaling monsters. Scaling monsters are stupid and really only making any sense in roguelikes, which are supposed to be balls-out hard (like that beginner dungeon in ADOM)

At 6/19/06 12:24 AM, Dramacydal_X wrote: I hate it how white music. (and yes its white music. With people like britney spears and..and... I really cant think of any other white slutty feamle singers at the moment. But its always the white whorish feamal large breasted attractive feamal singers who shake their tits and ass around singing songs like. Hit me baby one more time. [im horny now] who these little young ass girls try to be like. Now all of you people can flame be and say shit like well what about the gangsta rappin black men who make all these kids act gangsta and all cool even though there fake.)

Pop music has roots in hip-hop and R&B and other forms of black musicianship, allll the way back even to the 30's with crap like Doo-wop. The only form of American music not stolen from reluctant immigrants are country/bluegrass. (and I mean real country not that retarded shit on the radio, or gospel country which came from plantation workers.) That instead has its roots in the Celtic styles of music. So yes, on a technicality, black people ARE to blame. Both sides are responsible for the creation of rock music however, no matter how much old-ass religion-humping southern racists want to blame it on blacks. The themes and creation processes were used by both interchangeably, especially druggie rock bands from the woodstock era.

stopped then started...shit man, and I proofread that twice and still missed it. laaaame.

anyway, lethal injections also suck because you know they're lethal. Imagine being bitten by a rattler while strapped prone. Even though you don't feel as much pain as with snake venom, mentally you're beating yourself up, trying to keep track of where the fluid is going, trying to fight back against all odds and purify yourself using your own willpower. I'd say that's gotta suck a lot more than "Ow! Lots of pointy things just hit me. Welp, I'm done."
I don't know about this, but wouldn't this also fuck up perfectly usable organs? Least firing squad only take out one or two, maybe even zero if you have a well trained group.
Please also nobody post about oxygen masks or suffucating by inhaling 'pleasant' chemicals. Halting one's breathing leads to effects similar to drowning or choking almost all the freakin' time. Internally, pretty nasty. (the lack of reaction from the body perishing from an OD is from the brain or heart taking most of the assault first while the person is still conscious and enjoying it.)

At 6/17/06 01:25 AM, Dinodoode wrote: I don't think you quite grasp the fact that they actually picked a quote from HITLER. HITLER, you know the guy that the entire world hates, killed 6 million jews and others? Yeah, he was one guy that I wouldn't base my college quote on, no matter how sensical it sounded. Stalin, Mao and Saddam aren't too far from the bandwagon of Not-Quotable-in-College-Yearbook.

You know how you can tell who has and who hasn't ever left American soil? When they say something like this.

I've always been amazed at the people calling to ban Mein Kampf overlook things like Dianetics. Hubbard, Cruise, Travola, and Elfman are all friggin' loony maniacs, and the only thing keeping their precious book around is the fact no one has been (verifiably) killed by Scientology. In some ways it is actually the worse of the two books as adherents believe most scientifically proven maladies (even some biggies like AIDS) are all in the sufferer's head and curable through quarantine and solitude.
If you have to join a cult about aliens, good god why did everyone join THAT one? Raelians are lots more sane. I think deep down, everyone is wired to search out power and conflict to some degree, which is why peaceable religions never take off, they're a minority that have over-ridden our innate programming either through force of will or luck of mental deformity. (note that the previous paragraph has been written supposing Hubbard took it seriously. It's entirely possible he could be another Alestair Crowley.)

Also: Stalin killed many more Jews but some of them actually like him. What's up with that? That's a topic for another day (and more knowledgable people than I), but a little food for thought there.

At 6/16/06 02:29 AM, KingAdrock wrote: If you want painful executions, I say forget the electric chair. I say go for straight for Crucifixion ! And I'd go a little further and crucify people upside down!

Fah. Sawing. Romans were creative, yes, but it's their least creative methods that are the best and most painful.
Take two poles.
Turn prisoner upside down.
Affix prisoner to poles.
Bring out toothy saw.
Straight down the middle you go.
Opium optional.

Even I'm not hardcore enough to pull off that execution. Think I would have to start about 10 seconds after I started. Yeck.

anyway, for painless executions, you're looking for three criteria.
Speed.
Nerve Damage. (Why the guillotine failed right here.)
Mess. (The messier it is the more likely parts 1 and 2 were addressed.)

The speediest way inflicting the most amount of central nervous system damage in the messiest way possible? Bigass stone block to the head. I'm serious. That would beat lethal injection any day, if you use something like an aircraft catapult to launch it, it may even be too fast for the condemned's mind to contemplate the pain. Bullets are #2, simply for the fact it IS possible to screw up shooting someone in the head, as many have survived it, and even more have been back on their feet before the smoke cleared. (Look up the history of plastic surgery and why it started if you doubt it.)

HAAAAAATE granholm (Reason I got the hell out of there actually) but I was also familiar with DeVos before I left...and I would say even I would vote for Granholm.
He really has an appropriate name.

At 6/18/06 04:47 PM, JudgeMeHarshX wrote: I wonder what video game Hitler played to make him so evil.

I hear he was a big fan of Total Annihilation. Unfortunately for him he only played on normal, while his general staff played the hardest difficulty level! No wonder they could never agree on what plan to follow.

At 6/18/06 10:40 AM, Athlas wrote: What about the crusades? Women and children slaughtered, whole towns burnt to the ground (this was not the case during the Holocasut), simply because the christians believed their religion was the "right" religion. And what about he war in Bosnia? "Ethnic" purifications? The presecution of the Koerds?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Crusade

Jihads could be just as bad under the wrong sultan. (See: Aftermath)
Personally though, I think large scale death like this, being emotionally driven, is excusable. Things like the Thuggee cultists in India are what are really inexcusable. Killing simply for money and religion are way worse than territorial wars and their reprisals, just because it takes on positive qualities over time and with enough preaching, while military conquest is usually a result of a necessity that unfortunately has the possibility of spinning out of control.
That's one of the things that made the second half of the World War so terrible, both sides (especially the eastern front) were highly agitated and angry towards the opposition, and also encouraged to practice scorched earth policies to prevent the enemy from extracting anything useful from the reconquered land.

I think it was the Iraqi police who did it, for whatever reason (which caused the girl to make inconsistant mistakes like their speaking English), and once they found out there were marines nearby shifted blame to keep themselves clean. After all, there's lots of grudges still unsettled over there in that country.

Rise and Rule, if you play Civilisation without this, you're a total MORON, because the original has a bloody stupid tech tree.

Tom is on the right track.
That sort of buggering is what goes on at...shall we say less-than-ethical mortuaries. Let's put it this way, if the dude is screwing your momma's body before/during/after embalming...What ELSE has he just screwed you on?

Necrosodomy assumes a type 2 necro, the rarer kind that prefers them rotted/zombified. This does not apply to the first half of the thread soooo...

I notice nobody has visited the disease angle. A few diseases die with you, but what about an undertaker who screws a dead body afflicted with an STD?
What about the type2 who becomes afflicted with an advanced form of a disease that strengthed after the decay began? What if either of them transmits this to the population afterwards?
This is the only reason it should be illegal, as truly fair law is supposed to be removed from religion. As far as religious desecration goes, family gets to choose what to do, that's it.
If only sexylosers still updated. Sociopolitical anti-necro commentary GO!

African american makes the retarded assumption they were born in the US. African-africans hate that. Coloreds, well....Isn't white a colour, or is it a lack of colour? Either way, that's a debate for art class dangit, not politics. Black, is...well, just a colour. Brown can apply to mid-eastern/meds too. Therefore...I simply use Negro.

...What? What did you think I was going to say?

Are you seriously telling me you don't find that fun?
Fuck, since every OTHER form of having fun is illegal now, legalize drugs so there are MORE hippies to beat on. OHYEAAAH
If there's anything that desperately needs legalization it's prostitution, just to chop out the STD element. Probably make relationships more stable too.
"Girlfriend giving you trouble? Afraid she screwed around on you and might have aids? Don't worry, marry her anyway, and let the bunnies take care of all your...natural needs, then you can maintain a happy marriage without all that sexual tension!"
Zapow, problems solved.

I wanted to go into the Luftwaffe but my eyesight is terrible even after getting some surgery done. Just wasn't meant to be. I guess I could always be a merc or something, I'm sure they don't ask for credentials so long as you got the skill.
I've done as many hours in the sims as a real pilot, alas I shall never pass the physical exam in a real army.

Er, anyway, my position? Military service is a good thing, but don't be all blindly patriotic about it, that's just dumb. If you don't agree with the mission you shouldn't go, that's why it's VOLUNTARY. There should be enough jobs in the military they can find a place to stick you if you think the current action is less than sane. (this being directed to you folks in the US/UK of course, dunno anyone else currently involved and having dissention in the ranks)
It's also a great way for less wealthy families to send a kid through a training course, to become an electrician or a doctor, should he show the potential for such a thing.

One thing I don't like though, as being an outside observer looking in...it seems you can't be critical of your superiors in some countries without being shouted down. At least that's an improvement over losing your head like in pre-Enlightenment days. ;p

At 4/29/06 05:47 PM, BlackMetal-BadAss wrote:
your the perfect example of the youth of today.

"education is stupid" "i dont need an education to get by" "i can be a celebrity, anyone and everyone can do it, its so easy"

yeah...keep holding onto that lie.

i am not even going to say anything to you. i think your worthless.

Youth, aahahahaha, YOUTH HAHAHA, YOUTH!!!!!!! FUCKING HAHA
27, upper management, earl scheib.
Eat it, 'worthless' peasant.
You didn't even read that link, did you. No wonder you remain so ignorant. Ahh, in my day, the metalheads were set to make something of themselves...now the only ones going anywhere are the skins, and they sabotage themselves by being so bloody racist. *sigh*
They tell me I'm young but having seen a musical movement I got into during its final days crash so badly, I feel so old. I guess maybe old R&B artists feel the same way though.

You know what's a really fun movie on this subject?
Soldier's Girl
Heartily recommend this. =)

also, I forgot to mention there in my haste...There are far too many teachers who want to teach as though the students were their own children, to essentially make miniature versions of themselves, and it only gets worse the closer you get to graduation. From teaching with video tapes, to shouting down their own students in 'class discussions' for holding 'unpopular' opinions. That most certainly does NOT encourage any sort of a learning environment. Don't even get me started on how horribly misappropriated funding is, and cutting out extracurricular arts and science activities.

This thread is made of lol and fail.

Celebrity High School Dropouts

Schooling is utterly WORTHLESS, especially in this country, it is motivation that is lacking. Points to Raven for figuring that out.
There's too much 'education' based on emotional and spiritual dogma, and too many lobbyists allowed to control what curriculum is. Plus those first few years are an absolute waste and probably better taught by parents. Parents don't know? Send them to school as well! I bet you could chop out the first 3-5 grades and see no decline whatsoever. School should not be about SOCIALISING and 'building friendships.' PC Hippy crap. It should be about FUCKING LEARNING, something I never did in school. I had to skip classes to learn what I needed.

If anything, the gypsies deserve more recognition. But then again, gypsies are one of the few remaining ethnic groups that it's still politically correct to discriminate upon.
Oh, and the Poles and the Czechs, too.

Latvians too, just cuz they've always been a puny puny group. Nobody cares about the poor Latvians.
"550,000? That's nothing six MEEELEEEUN j00s died!"
Yeah, but is this arbitrary six million a third of the population? No of course not, because after the war there were more of them around than at the start.
Latvia? Not so lucky.

Most of the 'problems' seem to be a result of lazy fucking hicks who do ALL their shopping at Wal-Mart and neglect other places of business even if the quality of their shit is FAR higher.
I'd rather buy some gooey pectin candies for $6.25 than buy three giant VATS of shitty low-grade chocolate or purely synthetic crap, but then I actually have taste.

At 4/19/06 09:14 PM, -LazyDrunk- wrote:

If the animal happens to be a great white shark, I'm not much going to fuck with it, eh?

You've never had shark-fin soup? Ihzgooooood :D

:Isolated? Peta drugs and murderes 70% of the animals they take in, according to their :tax report. Over 12,000 animals in hardley an isolated incident.

Have you seen the actual report? Suspiciously, a few times they have managed to 'return to owners' exactly the amount of 'strays' they took in. Hmmm...!

anyway I'm beyond caring about PeTA now myself (remember that the ethical part is always lowercase! :Þ) because it appears no one in the government at all considers them a threat, therefore the only way to fight PeTA is the same vigilante violence their pets in ELF use. Apparently the government wishes this to escalate so they may imprison all sides at once. That's the only reason I can think up for not responding to the animal rights movement as violently as other more rational world governments have done. (See: Japan, and their battleship chasing off Greenpeace)
Their kind only understands a response similar to their own, if the government won't take up responsibility because they are too lazy (or predisposed elsewhere *kaff*) then it is up to the people!

Insanity, you're refering to the Flat Earth Society and their spinoffs. They died out when the "Information Age" came around. That number should barely be above 1% now. Still a scary amount of retards, but not as much as it used to. Remember that rural communites only had two sources of outside information 'til recent, a preacher who would go to the cities and come back to regale them with tales of how sinful that life was, and a shifty robber baron who would take advantage of their ignorance to purchase land or equipment cheap.

I would like to take time out to make a startling announcement.
Lieberman hates his ass. That is all. (Lieberman also praises the very thing Jack is attacking, ESRB, and states it's a lack of store enforcement not industry enforcement.)
This is akin to Mrs. Sheehan's position looking worse because neonazis are supporting her. Some days you just don't want support from the extremists.

This is why Hellery won't win squat if she runs, she's trying to coddle all the freakazoids. Won't surprise me if she starts fraternizing with PeTArds next.