EtcetEraThreadWNBA Player Brittney Griner detained in Russia makes a plea to Biden
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I feel bad for her, honestly, but Russian atrocities are well known & she was taking Russian money to play basketball while we all knew Russia was gonna Invade Ukraine for like 5 months.
The WNBA doesn’t pay shit but you gotta be smarter.
GamingThreadWhat is the very first screenshot you took on your PS5/XSX?
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Good on both of you for posting Xbox pictures, as well. It’s very lame of to not recognize that there’s more consoles out there than just the Sony ones.
If I was in front of my Switch, I’d post that picture here, but I won’t be back home until likely tomorrow.
EtcetEraThreadJoey Chestnut just Rambo'd a guy at the Hot Dog Eating Contest
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On one thread we are denouncing gun ownership as it leads to horrific violence and on another thread pretty much giving someone license to kill over a shove. You can see he is simply annoyed not in fear of his life for fuck sake.
People need to be able to restrain themselves better, too many people are happy to resort to violence for fucking anything.
EtcetEraThreadA glowing celebration of America's flag.
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this is weird and hostile for no reason, especially since there’s an administrator on the same page making the same type of posts you’re calling out
weird people are on this site and they deserve to be called out
EtcetEraThreadA glowing celebration of America's flag.
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The one thing that I always find very weird about US communists is that their entire project hinges on the US military being willing to overthrow the US government (as US-based militias stand no chance against the US military in combat), but they also constantly are against the institutions that are generally aligned with the US military as well as the US military itself.
It just comes off as so bad tactically to make the whole thing seem like a LARP.
EtcetEraThreadA glowing celebration of America's flag.
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You posted "Chill" last year.Very glad. It was good to make the thread last year, and it's good to make it this year.Yeah, I did see a lot of them are gone now lol
edit: my quote made the spoiler tag look odd and enlarged your emote. huh.
EtcetEraThreadPsychedelics give a glimpse of enlightenment
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You absolute ignoramus. Please stop speaking on things of which you have no idea. Unless you’re familiar with the subject you are talking about it’s best you stay silent and listen to people smarter than you instead of saying stupid shit like this.
“Hippy”…really? Grow the fuck up.
EtcetEraThreadPsychedelics give a glimpse of enlightenment
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Wow, did you forget to take your happy pill today?
You sound like all druggies I've ever met. Grasping at straws to try to convince yourselves that your vice is something other than that.
You are messing with the chemicals in your brain, not entering the 5th dimension.
EtcetEraThreadGizmodo: Crypto Platforms Are Halting Withdrawals as Bitcoin Tanks Over 13%
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I'm not saying an opposing one is a hive mind, I'm saying using the same rhetoric and talking points that are rattled off in this thread, and even the dismissive laughing, is indication of a hive mind.
Also - your assertions are bold, I'll give you that, but I don't understand the reason for trying to drown the idea before it even has some level of fruition (unless you just get off on hating anything new/trendy, in which case go ahead).
GamingThreadKinda Funny is Reallly good at maintaining Crew.
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I don’t think being friends with people with different viewpoints from yours is a bad thing. We have a huge political divide in the world right now. Cutting out people with different political beliefs just means that the only place they can look for friendship is in other people with the same beliefs, which is partially why both sides have become more extreme and the middle is disappearing. And for that reason, I prefer Colin’s stance of being inclusive rather than the Kinda Funny stance of “if you don’t agree with us, then just leave”.
To word it another way, racism is objectively bad, but if you immediately demonize everyone who has different political beliefs to yours, is that really any better?
EtcetEraThreadAnime Expo looking like another COVID superspreader event in the making
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More so it was a take on how white people like to colonize every single aspect of international culture. Though I’d say you could take it to the next step and say that capitalism is to blame for how it enables white people to colonize these cultural aspects.
EtcetEraThreadBiden sidesteps Kentucky Democrats, strikes deal with McConnell to appoint anti-abortion lawyer who was too controversial for Trump as federal judge
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I got yelled at in the politics OT this week for suggesting how inept Biden and his team are and how the Democrats fucking suck and are leading us to shit and have been for 50 years.
Nice seeing that shit deals like this are still being made by the Biden admin. Keep voting ya'll! One day they will finally listen to us. Im sure of it.
Like I said in the OT - if you're some kind of minority, for your own good, please look to leave the USA behind cause shit is gonna get down right ugly for you all these next 20 years here. Unfortunately, the party that was supposed to be looking out for you all is too asleep at the wheel, or just plain old corrupt, to do anything about it. Fuck the GOP, Biden, and the Democrats.
EtcetEraThreadThe Oatmeal re-posted an old comic to argue against religious extremism and it really hasn't aged well
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Perfect example of "both sides are dumb and bad" with maybe the dumbest comparison of extremism in the last panel.
FYI this isn't the full comic. The full comic can be found .
GamingThreadRon Gilbert will no longer post about Return to Monkey Island because of toxic "fans"
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They must've known the art style will be controversial and went with it anyway. If you decide to do that then better just not read comments because internet is internet.
GamingThreadRon Gilbert will no longer post about Return to Monkey Island because of toxic "fans"
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I'm surprised when creatives can't handle this type of criticism (if you can call it that).
If someone makes a hateful and/or flippant comment about your work they probably socially immature or an actual child , so why take it to heart? You cannot reason with them, call them out, shame them or make any sort of intelligent rebuttal that will land with them. None of that works because don't care and are probably just making a drive-by comment anyway.
The thing is, there valid reason to critique the art style. I bet if someone had privately posted the character designs in a community of professional designers they would get lots of sensible suggestions on how to improve the designs (I suspect its more about proportionality of the facial features than any other choices).
Art is subjective, yes, but there are tried and tested scientific principles that underpin good character design. Its not surprising how collective this response has been when you consider that when it comes to faces, you are not just dealing with artistic taste but also our shared lizard-brain perceptions of what a human aught to look like.
I’m going to answer your question. First and foremost, K-12 public “education” in America is not actually education, it’s indoctrination. They don’t actually teach history in America or civics. At best the schools teach white supremacist ideology, and worst, schools public function as pipelines to prison.
If you’d like, I’m happy to tell you what kind of education children receive in American prisons.
Now, as for what I expect Biden to do, I expect him to continue making deals to keep refugee children in cages, or helping McConnell decide which federal judges he’d like to give life time appointments to. Which frankly is par for the course.
Do I expect him to beat senators or challenge people to a duel? Don’t be silly. Biden’s goal is to uphold American colonialism and imperialism, not work on behalf of his constituents.
EtcetEraThreadNew Florida Law Makes Blasting Music in Car A Punishable Offense
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I agree, but I’ve been in situations where music blaring has been an inconvenience. No one needs three or four 12 inch or bigger subs to listen to their preferred genre.
GamingThread[Rumor] The Snitch teases Imminent God of War: Ragnarok related announcement (Potentially next week)
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Sony literally moved from Never releasing on PC --> Releasing Helldivers on PC ---> Releasing PS4 games on PC ---> Releasing PS5 games on PC ---> Announcing games for PC Together with the console version (TLOU Remake) but OMG DAY 1 RELEASES ARE TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE ANYONE WHO THINKS IT IS IS A MORON PLZ BAN
grow the fuck up ya'll and touch some grass
How the fuck can you even derail a thread like this
EtcetEraThreadNew Florida Law Makes Blasting Music in Car A Punishable Offense
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If you're blasting your trash music in the vicinity of others, as if others don't require silence for anything they want to do, you know what you're doing, and since you don't care about others' quality of life, no one else should feel bad whether or not you feel like shit for being punished for it. It will be briefly humorous, at the very least, for everyone else.
For the many that are prematurely assuming this will unfairly target minorities, it's almost as if you want them to, so you can congratulate yourselves when it becomes true. The thing is, all of you might be exactly right, but we don't know that yet. Also, how would you even know it actually targeted minorities? Assuming Florida's police are corrupt enough, which probably aligns with said assumptions, they could just falsify or make up their stats. And then, assuming they actually recorded videos, retained evidence, and do everything to apply the law prudently, will the negative assumptions still be there? I just don't understand the need to prematurely whine about something that hasn't happened yet, and yet, everyone also whines about there not being enough evidence or that there's too much corruption or some other things that are directly related to automatically assuming others are assholes and lying.
I'm surprised that at least one moderator has prematurely made this about race, somehow, with no presented evidence. Is this how the forum is operated? Will this post be deleted?
EtcetEraThreadSupreme Court overturns Roe v Wade (See Staff Post)
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Assume that every dollar donated to the Democrats goes into Pelosi's stock portfolio and Obama's Netflix show. These people will never lift a finger to work in your interest. They were out having their egos tickled over a free lunch with their private health insurance industry lobbyist friends when they heard this news, and they responded by having one of their unpaid aides type up a quick thoughts & prayers tweet. The Republicans are the party of true evil, the Democrats are the party of going "golly gee we didn't think they'd actually do it, that sucks for you" while they do insider trading.
Imagine the hardship and suffering that these people cause or allow to happen every day of their working lives. Imagine the evil that Biden has personally helped with, if not spearheaded, over his decades in politics, being on the wrong side of every major decision for longer than most of us have been alive (and that's BEFORE he got to just literally kill people with the drone strike button). I lose sleep over wondering if I was accidentally rude to someone I had a 20 second encounter with that day, these people sleep soundly after letting something like this happen. Ghouls. Rotten on the inside.
(Before someone gets on my case, yes I think you should still vote for them. They will never work proactively to help you, and there will always be some excuse for why they can't, but at least while they're in power the Republicans will only be able to reshape the entire country to their whims at a slightly slower pace. That seems to be about the best you can hope for.)
GamingThreadI forgot how sparsely detailed environments were in the PS2 era
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No screenshots but I've been to rooms in games with nothing in them at all. Not sure if this was down to memory or what but it's kinda surprising how often it's happened. Memory fools the best of us but I always remember games in a much more densely packed manner with objects that were never there in the first place. lol
GamingThreadPlayStation Studios |OT29| Please be Excited. PlayStation Era supports reproductive freedom and women's rights.
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sucker punch , insomniac, naughty dog and sms are the only PSS devs that have released a 10/10 project. Big surprise, they’re the ones with the pride logos.
I really hope P5 runs like wet dogshit on the Switch, would be nice comeuppance to all those who wouldn't stop whinging about the darn game not being on Switch
