Currently going through:
The Land: Predators, Chaos Seeds book 7, by Aleron Kong
The Land series is on book 7, and I find that I don’t really care how long it takes to finish. I’m just enjoying the adventure. I do wonder how the series might end, but Aleron Kong can take 7 more books to carry on with the adventures of Richter and the Mist Village, and I’d be okay with it.
I wish twitter would be more specific about whether a suspicious login was actually successful or not. I’m going to be all paranoid about that for a while.
And yes, I’ve just changed my password.
I make all my passwords super-hard gobbledygook that only my password manager can remember.
I’m of two minds about that. On the one hand, I think it’s similarly arrogant to blanketedly attack any and all dogmatic principles as ludicrous and worthy of scorn. One might say that to hold that no principles are incontrovertibly true is, itself, a principle one can hold to be incontrovertibly true, and is therefore hypocritical.
On the other hand, specific dogmatic principles are indeed harmful to the self, the culture, and to society. Also, being a devout Christian myself, I’m well aware of the dogma that Jesus personally railed against and turned on its head because they completely missed the point.
I suppose it comes down to an issue of who is challenging certain dogma, their motivation for doing so, and their approach at doing it.
That’s great, oojason. But of course you’re just a humble tailor now 😉
Do you know what the sad part is, Mrebo? I’m a very good tailor.
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I think the analogy would work better if you were an exiled mod from theforce.net.
Why was Possessed banned?
He swore at Warb but that was 2 days ago.
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver.
I’ve played the first Soul Reaver game at least three times from start to finish, having originally bought it for the Sega Dreamcast.
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so combining the weight of all the buildings everywhere would still be a laughably small drop in the bucket comparatively.
I’m going to start using this rational but for dessert.
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I agree with mfm.
…About slavish devotion to the anthem, not that he can go f*ck himself.
Well, maybe mfm can also do that, if he so chooses and is flexible enough to, but that’s none of my business. 😃
What I’ll never understand about this debate is that kneeling is literally a form of respect.
Not when it is done during the Nation Anthem which is a clear violation of the proper protocol.
Proper protocol my ass. The same people complaining the loudest are the ones who have the American flag on their underwear.
I don’t have the flag on my underwear.
I never said you did. I’m sure you follow the rules to the letter.
Following protocol and showing respect aren’t necessarily the same thing.
When the rules say you should stand at attention and you kneel, I have having hard time seeing how that is not disrespectful.
What you described is them being disrespectful to the rules. Not disrespectful to the flag/what it stands for (not that I’d have a problem if they did, but they aren’t so). Unless you think it stands for “the rules”…
Anyway following the rules has no direct correlation with actual respect. They’re on different planes.
If you can’t see that kneeling when it is clear you are supposed to stand is disrespectful, that protesting the Nation Anthem is disrespectful, I don’t know what else to say to you.
They’re not protesting the anthem.
In your opinion.
It’s not an opinion. Their target of protest is police brutality, not the anthem.
You ever realize that buildings don’t make the earth any heavier because the materials were already on it?
Nevermind that the Earth itself weighs about 13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (13.170 septillion) pounds, so combining the weight of all the buildings everywhere would still be a laughably small drop in the bucket comparatively.
You like her, and she likes you? I don’t see the problem.
Is the problem that she’s with someone else? Because I’d advise against getting too close in that case.
* For extraordinarily loose definitions of popular.
Well, I don’t know how popular this particular boycott is, because idgaf about it really, but people often seem to enjoy bitching about this or that to the point that bitching about whatever-it-is becomes a bandwagon.
Personally, I think boycotting Nike is misdirected outrage, and that this outrage is just a fad. So many consumer boycotts come and go, and next year no one will remember this one. Being angry at Nike is just the recent popular thing to do.
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Okay, you’ve known mfm for a long enough time now that you shouldn’t be surprised.
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It looked to me like he was trying to politely tell you to shut up about Frink.
I just said I’m not sorry he’s gone. Maybe that’s too critical for the mods, or maybe it just opened the door for other people to be critical. I assumed the latter, but I took no offense because I won’t get banned or even harshly chastized by the mods for saying that one thing. So I was content to leave it at that and not worry about it.
Now, I’m assuming they would prefer we change the subject, so…
I’ve been hungry a lot in recent days. My family has been on this “intermittent fasting” thing lately, which basically means only eating within an 8-hour period each day. I’m trying to get back down to fitting into some of my pants that are now too small, but I’m not losing weight very fast, if at all, which is bothering me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html
Even for the Trumpster fire, this is big.
I actually find this a bit disturbing. Trump won the election, and with the help of these people. Seems like they want their cake and eat it too. Also, it’s the Trump supporters always claiming that there is some sort of Democrat-led “deep state”, when actually if this article is to be believed, there really IS a deep state and it is entirely Republican. If they were truly patriots, they would come out in the open and say what’s right, not quietly benefit from something they know is sick.
Trump just called it “gutless”. He’s right.
Hard disagree. The person who wrote it is just letting America know that “there are adults in the room”, which while small comfort, is still a comfort that Trump isn’t allowed to completely ruin the executive branch of government. And the press is constitutionally given the right to not tell Trump who wrote it, despite Trumps protestations.
The point is, is that is is unfair to allow positive comments about X but yet not allow legit criticism of X.
But it’s not unfair. The reasoning why they don’t want active users to criticize banned users is because said banned users can’t personally rebut to defend themselves. It’s not a blanket rule against criticism in general or against people in general. It is with regard to specific people for specific reasons.
And SW was not telling me off. He was giving fair warning in advance of anything actionable that we might say, while trying to be civil and friendly about it.
To brand it as “X” suggests that all negative criticism is created equal, that their reasons are unimportant, and that allowing non-negative conversation makes them hypocrites, which is not true. Therefore, attacking “criticism of ‘X’” instead of specifically criticism of banned users is a strawman.
Then the house exploded
For the record, a strawman is when you create a caricature of someone’s argument, so you can then attack that caricature and make your position look more reasonable by comparison to it.
Why did TV’s Frink get banned? I’m just curious
Because this:
I didn’t take it personally, but that’s because I don’t place much regard on your posts in general. You said it wasn’t aimed at me (which I think is a lie, since you’re the master of subtle trolling), but you didn’t say it wasn’t aimed at other members; let’s not pretend you didn’t intend for it to reflect on them.
We both know this was an attempt at a gotcha post after what happened in the Politics thread and not a genuine attempt to have a meaningful conversation. Since you ask, my problem is that you engage primarily to stir up trouble and rarely develop a cogent thought that goes beyond a general contradiction—usually mockery—of someone else’s post, after which you smugly strut around bathed in self-satisfaction thanks to another job well done.
You make running the forum a more stressful job than should be necessary and it’s not only me who’s getting a bit fed up with it.
Ah ok we’ve crossed back into admin-making-subtle-threats territory, which is par for the course.
That’s not the case here, Frink - yet that’s quite an incendiary and erroneous claim to make. Yes, we have had recent conversations (once more) where you’ve been repeatedly asked to refrain from derailing threads, give consideration to adapting your posting style, halt with the flame-baiting, stop with personal attacks etc… Yet despite these discussions it’s been pretty much just the same as before - albeit the mods/admin receiving more shite from you, with you simultaneously going into some kind of ‘they’re out to get me’ / martyr mode.
They should probably both unwind a bit. I am not the only one who feels this way.
I suggest a visit to the catina (separately of course)
I just don’t like bullshit. I call it out, I get more bullshit in return. It’s…bullshit, and I’m tired of it.
You say you don’t like bullshit - yet you are seemingly doing a fine job at stirring it, even more so of late.
Request after request, PM after PM, warning after warning; enough is enough - my patience has worn out… Have some off time away from this place. Hopefully it’ll do you some good - and also for the site too upon your return as a valued member and contributor here once more…
What about XXX strawmen?
Would that be Vin Diesel-shaped strawmen, or pornographic strawmen?
