608 Forum Posts by "Profanity"
At 2/23/14 01:09 PM, Shauna wrote:At 2/23/14 01:08 PM, Shauna wrote: Hi guys, this is Sensationalism and I. I'm the DARING one! :)totally missed photo opportunity
I will not respond to this with a sick joke calling out all the Newgrounders who I know are obese. I will not. I am better than that.
That depends on what you mean by 'construct'. The behavioral, social, and physiological effects of the sex hormones estrogen, androgen, and testosterone–and the emulation of those effects–are typically what people are talking about when they say 'gender'. People with more testosterone act more manly and people with more estrogen act more effeminately. There are many hormones, and people always have the ability to act independently of their hormones (which will change their hormone levels, incidentally). People can also take hormones to change the way their body functions biologically, and their behavior. But endocrinology is an extremely complex subject, and there are new hormones (and steroids, and all sorts of chemicals) being researched and discovered all the time.
Random fact: brain scans of male and female brains have shown obvious and macroscopic distinctions between the way men and women think.
At 2/22/14 04:51 PM, Sensationalism wrote: You guys are not in charge. The users of this forum are the ones in charge. Fuck it up and you'll be the mod of an empty forum.
Wait a minute. You mean to tell me that moderating a forum has repercussions?. That clicking the Moderate button doesn't suddenly change peoples opinions, core personality, and decades of individuality? And if people leave the forum, they aren't suddenly replenished by an infinite supply of people who agree with the opinions of the moderators?
At 2/22/14 08:34 AM, Expectrum wrote:At 2/22/14 07:16 AM, Profanity wrote: How are liberals 'killing newgrounds' in any way shape or form? Do you even know what that word means? Did you grow up in an extremely conservative household?Ideals/definitions =/= actions/reality.
Not that I give a turd about politics, but just pointing out how your argument is flawed.
I made no argument. Maybe the 'cancer killing newgrounds' is actually that the usebase is mostly functionally illiterate people?
At 2/22/14 02:56 AM, TheMajormel wrote: liberals
How are liberals 'killing newgrounds' in any way shape or form? Do you even know what that word means? Did you grow up in an extremely conservative household?
lib·er·al
ˈlib(ə)rəl
adjective
adjective: liberal
1.
• open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.
"they have more liberal views toward marriage and divorce than some people"
• favorable to or respectful of individual rights and freedoms.
"liberal citizenship laws"
synonyms: tolerant, unprejudiced, unbigoted, broad-minded, open-minded, enlightened; More
antonyms: narrow-minded, bigoted
• (in a political context) favoring maximum individual liberty in political and social reform.
"a liberal democratic state"
synonyms: progressive, advanced, modern, forward-looking, forward-thinking, progressivist, enlightened, reformist, radical More
antonyms: reactionary, conservative
• of or characteristic of Liberals or a Liberal Party.
adjective: Liberal
• (in the UK) of or relating to the Liberal Democrat Party.
adjective: Liberal
"the Liberal leader"
THEOLOGY
• regarding many traditional beliefs as dispensable, invalidated by modern thought, or liable to change.
2.
• (of education) concerned mainly with broadening a person's general knowledge and experience, rather than with technical or professional training.
synonyms: wide-ranging, broad-based, general More
3.
• (esp. of an interpretation of a law) broadly construed or understood; not strictly literal or exact.
"they could have given the 1968 Act a more liberal interpretation"
synonyms: flexible, broad, loose, rough, free, general, nonliteral, nonspecific, imprecise, vague, indefinite More
antonyms: strict, to the letter
4.
• given, used, or occurring in generous amounts.
"liberal amounts of wine had been consumed"
synonyms: abundant, copious, ample, plentiful, generous, lavish, luxuriant, profuse, considerable, prolific, rich; More
antonyms: scant
• (of a person) giving generously.
"Sam was too liberal with the wine"
synonyms: generous, openhanded, unsparing, unstinting, ungrudging, lavish, free, munificent, bountiful, beneficent, benevolent, big-hearted, philanthropic, charitable, altruistic, unselfish; More
antonyms: careful, miserly
noun
noun: liberal; plural noun: liberals
1.
• a person of liberal views.
• a supporter or member of a Liberal Party.
noun: Liberal; plural noun: Liberals
Gee whiz, I wish all the super mega ultra geniuses on the Newgrounds Bulletin Board System would tell those lowly stupid Scientists how utterly wrong they are about the entire philosophy of science! We need more insights into how science is 100% wrong because of how much smarter we all are than everybody else (and we're smarter because we're geniuses, not because we haven't been exposed to a huge amount of scientific debate and don't understand the field).
It's not science which is flawed, it's communication and population statistics which are flawed. It's incredibly easy to claim that "all people x years ago believed y" when that may not be the case whatsoever. The oral and written traditions which are passed down err in judgement to favor the strongest military presence. Cultures which had it right may not have spent enough time strengthening their army rather than letting their mathematicians measure shadows in wells at noon, and were then subsumed by larger warring cultures.
Modern science is different from ancient philosophy, too. Millions of people are given credibility based on how well their hypotheses related to the extant measurements of pure science, and a billion people are working to prove those hypotheses wrong. The end result is that the theories of science make accurate predictions about the universe.
Your politician had no prior knowledge of the alleged political scheming, coincidentally advantageous creative redistricting, and corrupt abuses of office which have been libelously leveled against his staff.
My politician is a corrupt tyrant who hand-picked political thugs to strategically execute partisan warfare.
At 2/17/14 12:04 AM, naronic wrote: Secondly human genetic delineation doesn't follow "racial" lines in that manner.
Human genetic diversity is polyphyletic and most of the phenotypes you observe within it don't follow global genetic distance in a way that would warrant such distinctions, and this is something that's more apparent to us then ever in the genomic age.
You're arguing for an incredibly flawed position that no one takes seriously (or maybe you take it seriously, but I think you're just using it to support bias). It's called Lewontin's Fallacy.
You're also trying to sound like an expert of genetics (and saying 'us' to seem like part of a larger community of experts) in order to disarm any casual readers, making them less likely to refute your arguments.
Actual geneticists believe there is a heritable basis for complex traits such as intelligence, beauty, athleticism, and longevity. It's a taboo subject, but it is being studied thoroughly in China.
It's gonna get pretty ugly when the levees around the Social Science community give way and everyone realizes they've been lying to protect the general public from the truth of genetics.
YOU ARE A PARENT YOU FUCKING IDIOT. PUT IT IN A SAVINGS ACCOUNT FOR YOUR CHILDREN TO GO TO COLLEGE SO THEY DON'T END UP AS LOSERS LIKE DADDY.
I don't remember you ever being a mod. There have been so many random people shuffled in/out of the mod list, we should really keep a list of it.
Chuckling about a stupid Facebook status I tossed up an hour ago. Kicking back, listening to the weird synth&bass in the credits from 'Adult World' (2013).
At 2/15/14 09:13 AM, Fluffington wrote: Holy fuck how are you NOT permabanned yet? No wonder the population of the NG forums is a fraction of what it was several years ago.
Why would supergandhi64 be permabanned? Even in the "good ole days"?
Tony Darkgrave's a great guy and people like him a lot more than they like you (which is not much).
Your biological mother, your biological father, and the suppliers of the local grocery store are your creators.
At 2/14/14 07:03 AM, Ejit wrote: Also apart from anything the vigourous opposition is just silly when you consider it'd be a tiny number in the corner of a post. A tiny number in the corner of a post that would RUIN NEWGROUNDS, mind.
It's a real slippery slope. First it's numbers in the corner of your posts. Then it's numbers tattoed on your forearm. Then you're just a number carved into a genocide memorial.
Excellent idea. Take it a step further. And burn the haters, they just fear change.
If people have the ability to make 'generic post' replies without derailing the thread, they can afford to be more social without detracting from the conversation. 'Lol' and 'this' don't need to take up ten rows every time someone makes a post you agree with. They could nest into the next column and be contained in collapsible trees.
I recall @TomFulp mentioning that he had considered adding some Reddit-like features to the forums. It's unfortunate that 'redditlike' is the only word to describe it, because NG had a voting/reputation system built in from the very beginning, a few years before Reddit was even launched. And now it's at the point where rebuilding the forums to be a 'discussion/debate/writing portal' might seem plagiaristic rather than original.
Guam, Puerto Rico, Mexico (31 divisions), Canada (13 divisions), Australia (16 divisions), Moon Colony, Mars Colony.
50 current states in the United States, 104 states total.
Every human body is roughly 90% nonhuman organisms.
That is: for every 1 human cell you have in your body, you have 9 bacteria, viruses, fungi, chimera, cancers, and more. You are a thriving ecosystem full of organisms which are living symbiotically with your body and diseases which lie dormant and are kept in check by your immune system.
The nonhuman 90% of the body will be replaced with bioengineered cells which work to nourish your human cells, augment bodily functions, protect you from harm, and convert waste into useful materials. If you are shot, those cells will react to the bullet impact, absorbing it, and deflecting it. If the projectile breaks the flesh, they will support the body as reconstruct the tissue, and dissolve the bullet unto its chemical constituents to be used for future construction or expelled as waste.
Every one of these cells will contain an onboard computer system capable of working in tandem with the cells surrounding it to understand the environment and supply information to the consciousness. People will be able to see any wavelength of light, in 360°, and project any image into the surrounding area.
The only word for this in modern English is superpower.
Lol.
Companies which host websites log and track the activities of the people who use their web services. Everything you do, is logged. The site you were on previously, the link/address bar/advertisement/social site you used to get there. What device you're using. What browser. What IP address. What ISP you use. Where you're located. How long you spent on that website. How long you spent on each page. Other webpages you went to while you were there (if the information can be obtained).
All that information is bundled along with all the information of thousands of others, and they trade it to a larger packager in exchange for credits. They can buy advertisements with those credits or get paid.
Then, the bundler runs a whole huge number of algorithms on it to compare it with all the data on thousands of other bundles. Your IP address is compared with core databases (subscription services, etc), social networking databases, polling data and statistics to determine what the occupants of your house enjoy doing online, and that information can be used to determine your identity and a bit about your consumer psyche. It's used to feed you advertisements that you're more likely to respond to.
Phone companies, ISPs, private web hosts, search engines, and advertisers do these things to the best of their abilities, although some of them have patchy, incomplete data just because they can't access all of the juicy stuff.
Aside from that, the military intelligence groups around the world track all of the data moving through their respective territories and share them as bundles, mapping out the social networks of criminals, dissidents, important individuals, the media, and the economy. The NSA, notably. In the USA and many parts of the world, routing stations have been built within the infrastructure of the internet backbone in order to siphon off this information. The governments dont need to bargsin with any private corporations for it. However, the information from the private sector is juicy enough thst they also pay the companies I mentioned above for bundles to get a better understanding of the sociology of some of their targets.
You're not anonymous on the internet.
At 2/13/14 12:02 AM, MrObamius wrote: Since when were Black people Africans unless your talking about immigrants from African nations
Kill yourself.
You fucking idiot. "Black History Month" is a backhanded compliment from the whip cracker to the African race. Why do you think it's held during the coldest, shortest, month of the year? Why the fuck do you think their 'nicest' whiteys spend their time championing western idealogues with black skin for 28-29 days every year, while the rest of the devils laugh about how they stole the ground from Africa and sold it back at ten times the price? While they pat down every black man in every major city in America, raid African family's homes looking for 'drugs', and kick every black skinned job applicant in the Save The Whales recycling bins.
Fuck you.
Because the game itself isn't played on the board, it's played in the mind. It's what you do leading up to the game that decides whether you are a stronger player or not.
There are four ways to play the game:
1. Try every combination of games. You slightly vary your game or jump around between a huge number of games until you eventually find a game that let's you win. This is essentially guess-and-check, which is known as 'brute forcing' the gameplay. There are so many possible games that it would be impossible to employ this strategy without borrowing tactics from 2, 3, and 4.
2. Apply your intuition oe some sort of forward thought to the way you move your pieces. This is, as some players call it, 'thinking n moves ahead. It's how most people play, because they're just playing to feel smart, and this takes the largest amount of brainpower.
3. Apply visual-spatial techniques to the board. When estimating the value of a move, invent a system of visualizing the topology of each piece and how they interact through time.
4. Read books by chess masters. Despite how smart you may be, you will always gain hundreds of ratings points by reading a books written by a master. Chess openings, games, and strategies have been thoroughly explored for hundreds of years, and none of the other techniques will help you understand the game as fully as this.
Number four is the only technique you can't do during gameplay. It must be memorized, and practiced beforehand, to have any effect on your gameplay. The more practice you have, the more your rating will grow.
At 2/10/14 11:39 PM, Zachary wrote:At 2/10/14 11:36 PM, Little-Kinky wrote: The "crime" part of victimless crimes tends to be the reason people get in trouble~What makes it a crime if there are no victims
It's a crime against yourself, like suicide. If you hadn't noticed (do you know stonera?) people who smoke weed tend to have very poorly worded responses which are mostly devoid of complex thought and a thorough understanding of concepts. They're stupid, even if they had once been intelligent. Pot has no place in the lungs of a student, and it takes a lot more work to overcome that sort of self-imposed handicap when you're studying for a degree.
Maybe you'll learn your lesson, Entice.
At 2/10/14 02:31 AM, FRAYDO wrote:At 2/10/14 01:51 AM, Entice wrote: Offending a moderator certainly isn't grounds for a permaban.i would agree. personal feelings should not be the cause of a ban, nor play a part.
Offending moderators has always been against the rules. It's actually written into the "things which might get you banned" rules rewrite. Would you eschew such a proud, ancient tradition just to make this place a bit more tolerable? Well, ha. You might! They won't.
At 2/9/14 08:13 PM, Zachary wrote:At 2/9/14 08:05 PM, Profanity wrote: Want a community which lures you in with the illusion of gaining from the experience of talented artists and programmers, self-improvement through constructive criticism, and interesting intellectual discussion?Why exactly are you here if you have such a bad experience with the site?
The other 5%.
Newgrounds – No Fun Allowed… Ever!
Want a community which lures you in with the illusion of gaining from the experience of talented artists and programmers, self-improvement through constructive criticism, and interesting intellectual discussion? Great! Just sit down and be sure not to do anything impulsive. And avoid typing anything in asterisks (roleplaying is a bannable offense). Be sure not to share opinions, though, facts only! The MLA format will earn you immense respect from the forums, even if it's just a mask for your lack of critical thought! Be sure to ignore 95% of the posts on the forums, they'll drag your IQ through the mud with no apology! Wanna be a mod? Sure! Just put some cotton balls up your nostrils and bury your nose directly into the ass of every mod, admin, and old regular in the queue! All it takes is sycophantic blase, pretentiousness, and a dash of wit!
So come on down and join the F5in' community! Together, we'll…
What if @Brentheman rewrote the forum code to include voting systems to sort threads and replies within threads by popularity rather than most recent reply, and added the capacity to nest replies to specific posts within the post that is being responded to? And what if instead of having moderators do all the work, threads were automatically hidden from the forum if there were too many negative votes? And then, what if instead of replacing the current system, he added a button to the forums which lets each user view them by either the current system (most recent post) or the new system.
And what if there was a way to tally each member's cumulative score on posts/threads/who voted for them to map out the way the forum works in order to choose which users should be banned for straying too far from popular opinion?
And what if instead of creating a strict set of rules and hiring people to enforce them, you just built a forum around this sort of evolving mechanism to allow the superego of the community to take discrete steps in the path of least resistance without being anchored to rules and opinions which are a decade old?
Sounds like a lot of work. Better get drunk instead.
