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New Call of Duty Videogame Trailer Features Yuri Bezmenov
Yuri Bezmenov is the high-ranking KGB defector whose warning about Soviet subversion -- noting it takes only 15-20 years to demoralize a country, once you capture its media and schools -- is often cited.
The new Call of Duty entry is called "Cold War." It features long clips from Bezmenov, and shows images of 1960s radical protesters as he shifts from talking about the first step of subversion (demoralization) to the second (destabilization). I'm so suspicious of anyone in the entertainment or tech industries that I take this as an attempt to claim that the last step in Soviet subversion is... Trump. But leftwingers are freaking out about the use of a KGB defector exposing all their plans, so I guess I'll take it that way too, provisionally. Just because a former KGB agent warned us that Marxist propaganda and agitation was intended to destabilize us from the inside doesn't mean the avowedly-Marxist grievance terrorists of Black Lives Matter who have besieged our cities and destroyed our economy for 80+ days are just executing the Marxist active measures plan. It could just be like a coincidence or something.Know your history, or be doomed to repeat it.
— IGN (@IGN) August 19, 2020
Watch the chilling new teaser for Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War. https://t.co/V2oj6DA7hZ pic.twitter.com/Yg6sBLBUki
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KGB!
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:05 PM (J8nVw)
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Why did I read the content???
Posted by: lin-duh en nui! at August 21, 2020 07:06 PM (UUBmN)
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:06 PM (J8nVw)
4
Vmom,
Did you nood?
Did you nood?
Posted by: lin-duh en nui! at August 21, 2020 07:06 PM (UUBmN)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2020 07:07 PM (ZLI7S)
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I read content amd still am first
*flexes bingo wings*
*flexes bingo wings*
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:07 PM (J8nVw)
7
Critics and feminists defend Netflix Pedo movie "Cuties."
https://is.gd/0mmRrn
"Please do not boycott an important film especially one by a Black female filmmaker, based on inaccurate and inflammatory marketing over which she had no control."
https://is.gd/0mmRrn
"Please do not boycott an important film especially one by a Black female filmmaker, based on inaccurate and inflammatory marketing over which she had no control."
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 21, 2020 07:08 PM (OeBYn)
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I understand being gun-shy, but sometimes what is on the surface is what is all the way through. Call of Duty may be actually honest right there.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Boo Hoo? You Do! Pity Party Supplies at The Outrage Outlet! at August 21, 2020 07:08 PM (cZjDV)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 21, 2020 07:08 PM (5p7BC)
10
*yells nood into other thread*
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:09 PM (J8nVw)
11
I been telling you peoples
Posted by: Miklos from Karl Marx U. at August 21, 2020 07:09 PM (QzkSJ)
12
Damn.
Last thread, I made a joke about the Designated Hitter, expecting a big fight.
Nothing.
.380 prices must be affecting people worse than I anticipated.
This is bad.
Last thread, I made a joke about the Designated Hitter, expecting a big fight.
Nothing.
.380 prices must be affecting people worse than I anticipated.
This is bad.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 21, 2020 07:10 PM (df7zy)
13
The noods just keep on comin'!
Posted by: Pine-scented Druid philosopher James Comey at August 21, 2020 07:11 PM (EgshT)
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"Please do not boycott an important film especially one by a Black
female filmmaker, based on inaccurate and inflammatory marketing over
which she had no control."
So......It's an important film because it was made by a Black female? Good to know. Triumph of the Will was made by a woman, so I guess it's just peaches too, right?
female filmmaker, based on inaccurate and inflammatory marketing over
which she had no control."
So......It's an important film because it was made by a Black female? Good to know. Triumph of the Will was made by a woman, so I guess it's just peaches too, right?
Posted by: pep at August 21, 2020 07:11 PM (v16oJ)
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Just an awesome trailer.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 21, 2020 07:08 PM (5p7BC)
Sorry Dave...not sold in Florida - you get a sub-version called Call of Doody.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 21, 2020 07:08 PM (5p7BC)
Sorry Dave...not sold in Florida - you get a sub-version called Call of Doody.
Posted by: Boswell at August 21, 2020 07:11 PM (w2LAm)
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I've watched a good bit of the original. It's absolutely horrifying because we've been watching it unfold right in front of us.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:12 PM (NWiLs)
17
Is poisoning one of the weapons you can choose?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 21, 2020 07:13 PM (x/sA1)
18
Video games have always pushed buttons.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2020 07:13 PM (3H9h1)
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Progress?
I nope-d out of COD after Modern War 2, where the first chapter has you running a false flag op by massacring civilians at an airport.
This is hopeful.
I nope-d out of COD after Modern War 2, where the first chapter has you running a false flag op by massacring civilians at an airport.
This is hopeful.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 21, 2020 07:13 PM (d1uFV)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 21, 2020 07:13 PM (5p7BC)
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I had CoD 2 for PC, but I kept getting blowed up. I couldn't get past about the 3rd scenario, so I quit. I think having to do everything on the keyboard slowed me down so much I couldn't make it work.
Posted by: Old Blue at August 21, 2020 07:13 PM (VNmG1)
22
I want a RPG
Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2020 07:13 PM (OjZpE)
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Video games have always pushed buttons.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2020 07:13 PM (3H9h1)
Yeah - its like their playing games, right?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2020 07:13 PM (3H9h1)
Yeah - its like their playing games, right?
Posted by: Boswell at August 21, 2020 07:14 PM (w2LAm)
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Last video game I played with any enthusiasm was Ms. Pac Man. So, probably will sit this one out.
Posted by: Chin music at August 21, 2020 07:14 PM (1Xx0L)
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Wow. I can't believe a video game company made that.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 21, 2020 07:14 PM (wGeit)
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>>Video games have always pushed buttons.
Recently they have sewed much discord. What, with the wireless controllers and such.
Recently they have sewed much discord. What, with the wireless controllers and such.
Posted by: garrett at August 21, 2020 07:14 PM (ijYiG)
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If I played video games I would totally play this one
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:14 PM (J8nVw)
Posted by: pep at August 21, 2020 07:14 PM (v16oJ)
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Even agitprop might tell the truth on occasion. It woun't be the "truth" it's trying to tell, but it will be true nonetheless.
The Left uses Trump's erratic and (let's be honest) shallow understanding of our governmental system to project their own bad intentions and and pathologies. Trump's not an incipient dictator, but Kamala Harris might well be if she acted like Trump. Obama already tried. THe crumbling of this country's governmental norms preceded Trump by 20+ years, back to the Arkansas mafia shit and wild overreach of the Clintons.
It really is going according to plan. It's just not a good plan.
Even agitprop might tell the truth on occasion. It woun't be the "truth" it's trying to tell, but it will be true nonetheless.
The Left uses Trump's erratic and (let's be honest) shallow understanding of our governmental system to project their own bad intentions and and pathologies. Trump's not an incipient dictator, but Kamala Harris might well be if she acted like Trump. Obama already tried. THe crumbling of this country's governmental norms preceded Trump by 20+ years, back to the Arkansas mafia shit and wild overreach of the Clintons.
It really is going according to plan. It's just not a good plan.
Posted by: imp at August 21, 2020 07:14 PM (SFOr6)
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This is kind of like having it both ways. The game is trying appeal to the anti-Trump Russian conspiracy progtards and ALSO the hipster alt-right gamers who understand the real significance of this interview. Pretty clever.
Posted by: Max Power at August 21, 2020 07:14 PM (q177U)
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I want a RPG
Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2020 07:13 PM
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I will settle for a couple of cases of M-72 LAW's.
I want a RPG
Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2020 07:13 PM
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I will settle for a couple of cases of M-72 LAW's.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 21, 2020 07:15 PM (JUOKG)
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10 *yells nood into other thread*
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:09 PM (J8nVw)
*Shouts Love into the heart of world*
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:09 PM (J8nVw)
*Shouts Love into the heart of world*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 21, 2020 07:15 PM (d1uFV)
33
Critics defend pedos - but it's art and Jeff was only sort of weird.
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 21, 2020 07:15 PM (nFRLh)
34
This Gina Carano tweet on CoVid is awesome:
https://twitter.com/ginacarano/status/
1296759817491509249?s=19
https://twitter.com/ginacarano/status/
1296759817491509249?s=19
Posted by: Sharkman at August 21, 2020 07:15 PM (8FYLQ)
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Posted by: Pine-scented Druid philosopher James Comey at August 21, 2020 07:11 PM (EgshT
Ace's original quote is going down in history next to that Shakespeare dude.
Unless Biden wins.
Then all bets are off.
Ace's original quote is going down in history next to that Shakespeare dude.
Unless Biden wins.
Then all bets are off.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 21, 2020 07:16 PM (df7zy)
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I don't know much about Call of Duty. Sometimes I hear griping that the game has been tired and has lacked innovation for its last several iterations.
Seems positively fresh to me.
Seems positively fresh to me.
Posted by: Madden Football at August 21, 2020 07:16 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: Corn Pop at August 21, 2020 07:16 PM (EgshT)
38
Last thread, I made a joke about the Designated Hitter, expecting a big fight.
Left coast dawg
You assume we give a shit about baseball anymore.
Sob
Left coast dawg
You assume we give a shit about baseball anymore.
Sob
Posted by: MarkY, committing 3 felonies per day. at August 21, 2020 07:16 PM (JbTDu)
Posted by: garrett at August 21, 2020 07:16 PM (ijYiG)
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No reason why any marxist should be suffered to live.
Posted by: fktheleft at August 21, 2020 07:17 PM (lvXKd)
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Once the video paddles went above the A-B buttons and up-down left-right arrows I lost all interest in them. Couldn't play with the kids anymore.
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at August 21, 2020 07:17 PM (hN5th)
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About FUCKING time.
Video game journalists HATE the first person shooter in general, and hate both its popularity and celebration of the military specifically. Battlefield V was such a colossal failure that even Electronic Arts might realize that you get woke and go broke. And Call of Duty has been running out of creative steam for some time.
So they may as well embrace the right wing and just celebrate being proudly American. Why not? It might even be profitable.
Video game journalists HATE the first person shooter in general, and hate both its popularity and celebration of the military specifically. Battlefield V was such a colossal failure that even Electronic Arts might realize that you get woke and go broke. And Call of Duty has been running out of creative steam for some time.
So they may as well embrace the right wing and just celebrate being proudly American. Why not? It might even be profitable.
Posted by: trev006 at August 21, 2020 07:17 PM (mMpeQ)
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COD has a history of trying out unusual things. I think the last one I played all the way through might have been COD II.
I just remember in the middle of the game, you are playing your character on what is touted to be a suicide mission.
Turns out it is. You complete the mission and die.
Then you start the rest of the game as someone else.
I just remember in the middle of the game, you are playing your character on what is touted to be a suicide mission.
Turns out it is. You complete the mission and die.
Then you start the rest of the game as someone else.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 21, 2020 07:18 PM (5p7BC)
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Sorry Dave...not sold in Florida - you get a sub-version called Call of Doody.
Posted by: Boswell at August 21, 2020 07:11 PM (w2LAm)
Bay of Pigs. 1950's tech, Green Beret tactics, and in the end you get a scratchy shortwave message from the CIA handlers saying "Sorry guys, JFK decided it wasn't worth backing you any further. The extraction boat is 2 miles off the point for the next 3 hours"
Posted by: Boswell at August 21, 2020 07:11 PM (w2LAm)
Bay of Pigs. 1950's tech, Green Beret tactics, and in the end you get a scratchy shortwave message from the CIA handlers saying "Sorry guys, JFK decided it wasn't worth backing you any further. The extraction boat is 2 miles off the point for the next 3 hours"
Posted by: Kindltot at August 21, 2020 07:18 PM (WyVLE)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2020 07:18 PM (cI3Q7)
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It showed the Democrats' game, but not the video game. What exactly am I buying?
Posted by: t-bird at August 21, 2020 07:18 PM (mogRH)
47
Lebron supports Goodyear, stunner.
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 21, 2020 07:18 PM (nFRLh)
48
I thought Grand Theft Auto was the game the Soviets wanted invented.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 07:18 PM (2DOZq)
49
>>Call of Duty: Portlandia
Posted by: garrett at August 21, 2020 07:18 PM (5udk3)
50
Bay of Pigs. 1950's tech, Green Beret tactics, and in the end you get a scratchy shortwave message from the CIA handlers saying "Sorry guys, JFK decided it wasn't worth backing you any further. The extraction boat is 2 miles off the point for the next 3 hours"
Posted by: Kindltot at August 21, 2020 07:18 PM (WyVLE)
LOL. That is the beginning for Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 21, 2020 07:18 PM (WyVLE)
LOL. That is the beginning for Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2020 07:19 PM (cI3Q7)
51
Marquise Love turns himself in.
https://tinyurl.com/y3kjw2lf
Posted by: pep at August 21, 2020 07:14 PM (v16oJ)
4Chan doxxed him, he figured the cops would protect him.
https://tinyurl.com/y3kjw2lf
Posted by: pep at August 21, 2020 07:14 PM (v16oJ)
4Chan doxxed him, he figured the cops would protect him.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 21, 2020 07:19 PM (WyVLE)
52
OT but kinda big news
Mayor Jenny of Seattle is going to veto the defund police bill. Load up on popcorn.
Mayor Jenny of Seattle is going to veto the defund police bill. Load up on popcorn.
Posted by: Asshoes at August 21, 2020 07:19 PM (OOFog)
53
Video games are the mind killer. Jesus people give your kids a lawn mower and a hoe or shovel. You can do or you can watch.
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (nFRLh)
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If it red pills the younger generation, I'm for it. I'll keep playing theHunter call of the wild.
Posted by: WeBoned! at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (8k7U7)
55
52 OT but kinda big news
Mayor Jenny of Seattle is going to veto the defund police bill. Load up on popcorn.
Posted by: Asshoes at August 21, 2020 07:19 PM (OOFog)
Wait, I thought she wanted to defund the police?
Mayor Jenny of Seattle is going to veto the defund police bill. Load up on popcorn.
Posted by: Asshoes at August 21, 2020 07:19 PM (OOFog)
Wait, I thought she wanted to defund the police?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (cI3Q7)
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42 About FUCKING time.
Video game journalists HATE the first person shooter in general, and hate both its popularity and celebration of the military specifically. Battlefield V was such a colossal failure that even Electronic Arts might realize that you get woke and go broke. And Call of Duty has been running out of creative steam for some time.
So they may as well embrace the right wing and just celebrate being proudly American. Why not? It might even be profitable.
Posted by: trev006 at August 21, 2020 07:17 PM (mMpeQ)
Nobody cares what video game journalists think. As soon as game companies realized that, they stopped caring too. The market movers in video games are the various Twitch streamers and youtubers. I recommend 21Kiloton if you want to know whether or not to buy a game.
Video game journalists HATE the first person shooter in general, and hate both its popularity and celebration of the military specifically. Battlefield V was such a colossal failure that even Electronic Arts might realize that you get woke and go broke. And Call of Duty has been running out of creative steam for some time.
So they may as well embrace the right wing and just celebrate being proudly American. Why not? It might even be profitable.
Posted by: trev006 at August 21, 2020 07:17 PM (mMpeQ)
Nobody cares what video game journalists think. As soon as game companies realized that, they stopped caring too. The market movers in video games are the various Twitch streamers and youtubers. I recommend 21Kiloton if you want to know whether or not to buy a game.
Posted by: Madden Football at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (unn44)
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IT is running a system update on my computer that will take a few hours, so I have no choice but to take the rest of the evening off. Darn!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (NWiLs)
59
i just remembered - nowadays non gamer kids like to watch gamers play on YouTube (weird)
so maybe games like this will have a wider impact than expected?
so maybe games like this will have a wider impact than expected?
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (J8nVw)
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Bezmenov is probably right, but this quote of his makes me smile:
"You see, the useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned they become the worst enemies....When they see that Marxist Leninist has come to power obviously they get offended. They think they will come to power. That will never happen of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot."
"You see, the useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned they become the worst enemies....When they see that Marxist Leninist has come to power obviously they get offended. They think they will come to power. That will never happen of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot."
Posted by: Steve in Greensboro at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (Su9Le)
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"Please do not boycott an important film especially one by a Black female filmmaker, based on inaccurate and inflammatory marketing over which she had no control."
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 21, 2020 07:08 PM (OeBYn)
A Black female filmmaker, a black Female filmmaker, a black female Filmmaker, or a black female filmmaker?
So many choices ...
Bottom line: who cares whether the filmmaker is black, or female? What differences that make? If you don't like the subject matter, or the presentation, you boycott it. If you are OK with it, you don't.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 21, 2020 07:08 PM (OeBYn)
A Black female filmmaker, a black Female filmmaker, a black female Filmmaker, or a black female filmmaker?
So many choices ...
Bottom line: who cares whether the filmmaker is black, or female? What differences that make? If you don't like the subject matter, or the presentation, you boycott it. If you are OK with it, you don't.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 21, 2020 07:21 PM (3bNB6)
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Pep @ 28 Turned himself in? Does this mean we finally find out what a 'pompatus' is? Because I bet a Marquise Love would know that kind of stuff.
Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2020 07:21 PM (XhWtx)
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*Shouts Love into the heart of world*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 21, 2020 07:15 PM (d1uFV)
Goldarnit! You and Rose gotta stop yelling down the well. Don't do no good anyway!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 21, 2020 07:15 PM (d1uFV)
Goldarnit! You and Rose gotta stop yelling down the well. Don't do no good anyway!
Posted by: Kindltot at August 21, 2020 07:21 PM (WyVLE)
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46 It showed the Democrats' game, but not the video game. What exactly am I buying?
Posted by: t-bird at August 21, 2020 07:18 PM (mogRH)
Yet another FPS, same as the last dozen.
Posted by: t-bird at August 21, 2020 07:18 PM (mogRH)
Yet another FPS, same as the last dozen.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 21, 2020 07:21 PM (wGeit)
65
> Wait, I thought she wanted to defund the police?
Like Gory Groothead in Chicago, she seems to have changed her mind after the mob showed up at her house.
Like Gory Groothead in Chicago, she seems to have changed her mind after the mob showed up at her house.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 21, 2020 07:22 PM (unn44)
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"Trump's erratic and (let's be honest) shallow understanding of our governmental system "
Not seeing it.
Unless you are referring to him not understanding the depth of the rot within our government.
And I think the last three years has opened many of our eyes, far beyond our original skepticism.
Not seeing it.
Unless you are referring to him not understanding the depth of the rot within our government.
And I think the last three years has opened many of our eyes, far beyond our original skepticism.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 21, 2020 07:22 PM (3D/fK)
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LOL. That is the beginning for Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2020 07:19 PM (cI3Q7)
The raycist version!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2020 07:19 PM (cI3Q7)
The raycist version!
Posted by: Boswell at August 21, 2020 07:22 PM (w2LAm)
68
I do like a good FPS but my PS4 is bricked. Boooo.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:22 PM (NWiLs)
69
Support black people and watch a movie about black 11 year old girls twerking. Um no. Kill me now.
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 21, 2020 07:22 PM (nFRLh)
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59 i just remembered - nowadays non gamer kids like to watch gamers play on YouTube (weird)
so maybe games like this will have a wider impact than expected?
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (J8nVw)
Yep. That's sports viewing for the kids.
so maybe games like this will have a wider impact than expected?
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (J8nVw)
Yep. That's sports viewing for the kids.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 21, 2020 07:23 PM (wGeit)
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Let's get this straight people. You cannot say "black". Evah !
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:23 PM (zr5Kq)
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> That will never happen of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot.
"After the revolution, revolutionaries become superfluous."
"After the revolution, revolutionaries become superfluous."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 21, 2020 07:23 PM (unn44)
73
is Mayor Jenny and that Sawant Indian-dot councilwench still at war with each other?
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:23 PM (J8nVw)
74
Last thread, I made a joke about the Designated Hitter, expecting a big fight.
Left coast dawg
You assume we give a shit about baseball anymore.
Sob
Posted by: MarkY, committing 3 felonies per day. at August 21, 2020 07:16 PM (JbTDu)
Explain exactly how my mother has to do with the Designated Hitter has to do with baseball?
Left coast dawg
You assume we give a shit about baseball anymore.
Sob
Posted by: MarkY, committing 3 felonies per day. at August 21, 2020 07:16 PM (JbTDu)
Explain exactly how my mother has to do with the Designated Hitter has to do with baseball?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 21, 2020 07:23 PM (df7zy)
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I rewatch Bezmenov clips every so often to remind myself how prescient he was.
It's eerie.
Nothing eerie about it. Russia planned for a long time to take us over. They even told us how they were going to do it. But nobody took them seriously and now we have what we see today.
I rewatch Bezmenov clips every so often to remind myself how prescient he was.
It's eerie.
Nothing eerie about it. Russia planned for a long time to take us over. They even told us how they were going to do it. But nobody took them seriously and now we have what we see today.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - who still wants a pony at August 21, 2020 07:23 PM (HaL55)
76
Wow, that comment got nuked fast
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 21, 2020 07:23 PM (5p7BC)
77
So fast.
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:24 PM (zr5Kq)
78
I don't play vid games but Forbes has an article that the top gamers make 10s of millions of dollars a year. Pretty good gig if you can get it.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 07:24 PM (2DOZq)
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Why aren't war based FPS easy to write for? You could just do historical battles. Their are thousands of those just since 1936.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 21, 2020 07:24 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 21, 2020 07:24 PM (df7zy)
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I think Joe Biden was in office when Yuri Bezmenov gave his interview.
He's been around and stealing forever......
He's been around and stealing forever......
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 21, 2020 07:25 PM (Z+IKu)
82
a FPS game that taught gun maintenance and field stripping would be pretty cool
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:25 PM (J8nVw)
83
Call of Duty: Portland
With Pinochet as a playable character.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (unn44)[/i[
Sao Paulo rules. "They guy who plays bait gets to shoot the ones we don't need"
With Pinochet as a playable character.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (unn44)[/i[
Sao Paulo rules. "They guy who plays bait gets to shoot the ones we don't need"
Posted by: Kindltot at August 21, 2020 07:25 PM (WyVLE)
84
I still want revenge. But against whom?
If you could get revenge against anyone in your entire life, no obstacles, no consequences - who would it be?
If you could get revenge against anyone in your entire life, no obstacles, no consequences - who would it be?
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:25 PM (NWiLs)
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78 I don't play vid games but Forbes has an article that the top gamers make 10s of millions of dollars a year. Pretty good gig if you can get it.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 07:24 PM (2DOZq)
It's as bad as the NFL for longevity, though. Maybe worse. How would you like to be a washed up has-been at age 20?
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 07:24 PM (2DOZq)
It's as bad as the NFL for longevity, though. Maybe worse. How would you like to be a washed up has-been at age 20?
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 21, 2020 07:25 PM (wGeit)
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narf
Posted by: Kindltot at August 21, 2020 07:25 PM (WyVLE)
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63 *Shouts Love into the heart of world*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 21, 2020 07:15 PM (d1uFV)
Goldarnit! You and Rose gotta stop yelling down the well. Don't do no good anyway!
Posted by: Kindltot at August 21, 2020 07:21 PM (WyVLE)
It distracts them while I'm reloading.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 21, 2020 07:15 PM (d1uFV)
Goldarnit! You and Rose gotta stop yelling down the well. Don't do no good anyway!
Posted by: Kindltot at August 21, 2020 07:21 PM (WyVLE)
It distracts them while I'm reloading.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 21, 2020 07:26 PM (d1uFV)
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COD: Warzone is the current game in the queue, but the single player is not terribly involved. In the single player campaign , you help middle eastern insurgents fight Russia backed thugs (kinda Syria-ish). It's real action is multiplayer, and that is simply ru and gun against other people, no propaganda involved.
This seems to be an actual story arc, like Black Ops. The truth manages to get through in cases like that.
COD: Warzone is the current game in the queue, but the single player is not terribly involved. In the single player campaign , you help middle eastern insurgents fight Russia backed thugs (kinda Syria-ish). It's real action is multiplayer, and that is simply ru and gun against other people, no propaganda involved.
This seems to be an actual story arc, like Black Ops. The truth manages to get through in cases like that.
Posted by: imp at August 21, 2020 07:26 PM (SFOr6)
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I've got he entire run of CoD. Haven't played in a long time. I stuck to single-player because I found that the online "community" was a bit like Twatter - a sewer.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 21, 2020 07:26 PM (EgshT)
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Jewells45 announced in the previous Thread that she got lucky at Bass Pro Shops.
Posted by: Moron News Service at August 21, 2020 07:26 PM (DMUuz)
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This interview is must see. I have the whole thing, somewhere. Bezmenov lays it all out pretty clearly.
This interview is must see. I have the whole thing, somewhere. Bezmenov lays it all out pretty clearly.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2020 07:26 PM (xkm5f)
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82 a FPS game that taught gun maintenance and field stripping would be pretty cool
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:25 PM (J8nVw)
That would be. There are games in which maintenance is a game mechanic but it's not particularly realistic.
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:25 PM (J8nVw)
That would be. There are games in which maintenance is a game mechanic but it's not particularly realistic.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:26 PM (NWiLs)
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Like Gory Groothead in Chicago, she seems to have changed her mind after the mob showed up at her house.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 21, 2020 07:22 PM
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I am Groot..........
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 21, 2020 07:22 PM
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I am Groot..........
Posted by: Lori Light Loafers at August 21, 2020 07:26 PM (JUOKG)
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Call of Duty is basically Activision's version of Madden/FIFA. Microtransactions as a cash cow with a yearly release with barely any improvements.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:27 PM (vMCab)
95
Clearing baffles.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 21, 2020 07:27 PM (JUOKG)
96
"Vengeance is mine, I will repay".
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:27 PM (zr5Kq)
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Trump's erratic and (let's be honest) shallow understanding of our governmental system...
He's just lucky. It's the darnedest thing.
He's just lucky. It's the darnedest thing.
Posted by: t-bird at August 21, 2020 07:27 PM (mogRH)
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79 Why aren't war based FPS easy to write for? You could just do historical battles. Their are thousands of those just since 1936.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 21, 2020 07:24 PM (yQpMk)
It's been done. D-Day, in particular, has been done a couple times.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 21, 2020 07:24 PM (yQpMk)
It's been done. D-Day, in particular, has been done a couple times.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 21, 2020 07:27 PM (wGeit)
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I tried to watch the new documentry High Score about the evolution of video games. One of the first few people profiled was a tranny who had won a contest as a boy as a kid, turned it off.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 21, 2020 07:28 PM (x/sA1)
100
I'm so suspicious of anyone in the entertainment or tech industries that
I take this as an attempt to claim that the last step in Soviet
subversion is... Trump.
But leftwingers are freaking out about the use of a KGB defector
exposing all their plans, so I guess I'll take it that way too,
provisionally.
Let me help you with this. You don't have kids. I have two - a 21 year old girl that's going through college - and a 16 years old boy that's getting through high school and I doubt will ever attend another school once he's done.
He's sane. She's a piece of work.
His cohort is making connections and openly talking about shit that the higher minds here would consider radical. She's going through all the forms and processes to get a credential to do - something. Who knows what ? She doesn't. But she's sure she needs one.
The point is - stuff like this getting through via entertainment, and this bunch is WAY MORE influenced by gaming than movies or television when it comes to entertainment - is not surprising. There is a significant portion of youth now that view the entire higher education process as horse shit.
Supposedly, we do as well. Until it gets down to people actually not going to college. Then - some get a little antsy. Is Johnny really gonna' just be pipe-fitter rather than a lawyer ?
And here's the deal - as I've always seen it. The US was NEVER great when it mattered because of our higher ed. We were great because you could find a surplus of dicks in Normandy that could weld a plow to a Sherman. And plenty of fucks that could use basic algebra and pull the right tape to land time on target.
Nothing wrong with that. A bunch right with it. But we've never been a nation of all doctors and lawyers. We've kicked a couple in the teeth that thought that was the way to go.
I take this as an attempt to claim that the last step in Soviet
subversion is... Trump.
But leftwingers are freaking out about the use of a KGB defector
exposing all their plans, so I guess I'll take it that way too,
provisionally.
Let me help you with this. You don't have kids. I have two - a 21 year old girl that's going through college - and a 16 years old boy that's getting through high school and I doubt will ever attend another school once he's done.
He's sane. She's a piece of work.
His cohort is making connections and openly talking about shit that the higher minds here would consider radical. She's going through all the forms and processes to get a credential to do - something. Who knows what ? She doesn't. But she's sure she needs one.
The point is - stuff like this getting through via entertainment, and this bunch is WAY MORE influenced by gaming than movies or television when it comes to entertainment - is not surprising. There is a significant portion of youth now that view the entire higher education process as horse shit.
Supposedly, we do as well. Until it gets down to people actually not going to college. Then - some get a little antsy. Is Johnny really gonna' just be pipe-fitter rather than a lawyer ?
And here's the deal - as I've always seen it. The US was NEVER great when it mattered because of our higher ed. We were great because you could find a surplus of dicks in Normandy that could weld a plow to a Sherman. And plenty of fucks that could use basic algebra and pull the right tape to land time on target.
Nothing wrong with that. A bunch right with it. But we've never been a nation of all doctors and lawyers. We've kicked a couple in the teeth that thought that was the way to go.
Posted by: Round and Round We Go at August 21, 2020 07:28 PM (Arprc)
Posted by: fixerupper at August 21, 2020 07:28 PM (nw6Hr)
102
Clearing baffles.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 21, 2020 07:27 PM
Control Room, Sonar, Crazy Ivan!
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 21, 2020 07:27 PM
Control Room, Sonar, Crazy Ivan!
Posted by: Sonar Dude at August 21, 2020 07:28 PM (DMUuz)
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90 Jewells45 announced in the previous Thread that she got lucky at Bass Pro Shops.
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Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:28 PM (J8nVw)
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79 Why aren't war based FPS easy to write for? You could just do historical battles. Their are thousands of those just since 1936.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 21, 2020 07:24 PM (yQpMk)
Because the money isn't in the single player storyline. Its in the $10 for the metallic blue skin for an AK-47 and the night vision goggle headpiece for $3.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 21, 2020 07:24 PM (yQpMk)
Because the money isn't in the single player storyline. Its in the $10 for the metallic blue skin for an AK-47 and the night vision goggle headpiece for $3.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:29 PM (vMCab)
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They will be lined up against the wall and shot."
Posted by: Steve in Greensboro at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (Su9Le)
Communism or its pet monkey, socialism, is really just the Game of Thrones in the end - disguised up as social justice - the usual throne sniffers and would-be power seekers typically get theirs.
Posted by: Steve in Greensboro at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (Su9Le)
Communism or its pet monkey, socialism, is really just the Game of Thrones in the end - disguised up as social justice - the usual throne sniffers and would-be power seekers typically get theirs.
Posted by: Boswell at August 21, 2020 07:29 PM (w2LAm)
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Jewells45 announced in the previous Thread that she got lucky at Bass Pro Shops.
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Jewells45 announced in the previous Thread that she got lucky at Bass Pro Shops.
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Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:29 PM (zr5Kq)
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55 52 OT but kinda big news
Mayor Jenny of Seattle is going to veto the defund police bill. Load up on popcorn.
Posted by: Asshoes at August 21, 2020 07:19 PM (OOFog)
Wait, I thought she wanted to defund the police?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (cI3Q7)
She knows the City council will probably override her veto
Mayor Jenny of Seattle is going to veto the defund police bill. Load up on popcorn.
Posted by: Asshoes at August 21, 2020 07:19 PM (OOFog)
Wait, I thought she wanted to defund the police?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (cI3Q7)
She knows the City council will probably override her veto
Posted by: josephistan at August 21, 2020 07:29 PM (Izzlo)
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I knew the guy (a retired infantry colonel) who was the technical advisor for the original COD. He helped the modelers with things like tactics, weapons effects, and ammunition basic loads, with the goal of not making it too unrealistic. He was well compensated in stock options.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 21, 2020 07:29 PM (jK8Z7)
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I saw a doc a long time ago of the guy who was the top guy for Donkey Kong and a few other arcade games. Surprisingly very interesting.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 07:29 PM (2DOZq)
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Speaking of Chicago, like comment 93, the little boy whose family was stuck at ronald McDonald House while it was under BLM seige got a nice surprise by the Chicago Police. They brought him a little party witha cool police themed cake. The family is very Back the Blue types. I hope he makes it, next round of stem cell therapy coming up soon. Hope it makes the chemo more effective.
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2020 07:30 PM (ONvIw)
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103 90 Jewells45 announced in the previous Thread that she got lucky at Bass Pro Shops.
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Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:28 PM (J8nVw)
I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom!
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Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:28 PM (J8nVw)
I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom!
Posted by: Humpty, spelled with a "umpty" at August 21, 2020 07:30 PM (NWiLs)
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We will Barry you!
Posted by: Nikita Khrushchev at August 21, 2020 07:30 PM (yQpMk)
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Not seeing it.
Unless you are referring to him not understanding the depth of the rot within our government.
And I think the last three years has opened many of our eyes, far beyond our original skepticism.
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I'm for the guy, but he is not exactly a constitutional scholar. Neither was the asshole who preceded Trump who actually called himself one. The norms of government have been eroded to the bare nubs. Issuing executive orders for things that should be legislation is a terrible practice, but it's not like we should unilaterally disarm because of supposed "propriety" when the Dems will simply run roughshod over everything themselves.
I'm glad Trump's a rogue dick, since he's OUR rogue dick. But its a long way from what should be the presidency.
Have a good weekend, y'all.
Not seeing it.
Unless you are referring to him not understanding the depth of the rot within our government.
And I think the last three years has opened many of our eyes, far beyond our original skepticism.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
I'm for the guy, but he is not exactly a constitutional scholar. Neither was the asshole who preceded Trump who actually called himself one. The norms of government have been eroded to the bare nubs. Issuing executive orders for things that should be legislation is a terrible practice, but it's not like we should unilaterally disarm because of supposed "propriety" when the Dems will simply run roughshod over everything themselves.
I'm glad Trump's a rogue dick, since he's OUR rogue dick. But its a long way from what should be the presidency.
Have a good weekend, y'all.
Posted by: imp at August 21, 2020 07:30 PM (SFOr6)
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Nobody cares what video game journalists think. As soon as game companies realized that, they stopped caring too.
Posted by: Madden Football at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (wGeit)
EA obviously cared, given how badly cucked its recent product has been. In the Corona age, of course, I suspect they'll double down just as Disney has. The Mouse may be doing relatively badly, but EA is riding high.
Posted by: Madden Football at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (wGeit)
EA obviously cared, given how badly cucked its recent product has been. In the Corona age, of course, I suspect they'll double down just as Disney has. The Mouse may be doing relatively badly, but EA is riding high.
Posted by: trev006 at August 21, 2020 07:30 PM (mMpeQ)
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Jewells45 announced in the previous Thread that she got lucky at Bass Pro Shops.
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Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:29 PM (zr5Kq)
Nice. I'm heading there tonight instead of Applebee's
Jewells45 announced in the previous Thread that she got lucky at Bass Pro Shops.
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Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:29 PM (zr5Kq)
Nice. I'm heading there tonight instead of Applebee's
Posted by: josephistan at August 21, 2020 07:31 PM (Izzlo)
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OT: Marquise Love turns himself in.
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He turned himself in before he got a nice healthy dose of vigilante justice.
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He turned himself in before he got a nice healthy dose of vigilante justice.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 21, 2020 07:31 PM (h1jJh)
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111 103 90 Jewells45 announced in the previous Thread that she got lucky at Bass Pro Shops.
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Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:28 PM (J8nVw)
I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom!
Posted by: Humpty, spelled with a "umpty" at August 21, 2020 07:30 PM (NWiLs)
I love that album
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Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:28 PM (J8nVw)
I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom!
Posted by: Humpty, spelled with a "umpty" at August 21, 2020 07:30 PM (NWiLs)
I love that album
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 21, 2020 07:31 PM (d1uFV)
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"our governmental system" = Their systematic looting
Posted by: klaftern at August 21, 2020 07:31 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 21, 2020 07:32 PM (df7zy)
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If you could get revenge against anyone in your entire life, no obstacles, no consequences - who would it be?
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo
I don't have anyone worth avenging myself on
I would love to go back in time and give younger me several well-timed dope slaps, though
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo
I don't have anyone worth avenging myself on
I would love to go back in time and give younger me several well-timed dope slaps, though
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:32 PM (J8nVw)
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Jewells45 announced in the previous Thread that she got lucky at Bass Pro Shops.
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Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:29 PM (zr5Kq)
Nice. I'm heading there tonight instead of Applebee's
Posted by: josephistan at August 21, 2020 07:31 PM (Izzlo)
Good luck, man !
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Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:29 PM (zr5Kq)
Nice. I'm heading there tonight instead of Applebee's
Posted by: josephistan at August 21, 2020 07:31 PM (Izzlo)
Good luck, man !
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:32 PM (zr5Kq)
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59 i just remembered - nowadays non gamer kids like to watch gamers play on YouTube (weird)
so maybe games like this will have a wider impact than expected?
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (J8nVw)
Yep. Junior-ette does this with a boy from the U.K.
He tried to get her to play too, but she head shot him in the first ten minutes. I died laughing. He even heard me laughing over her microphone. Now they watch horror movies sometimes. I like to sneak up on her and scream while grabbing her arm. She shreaks and scares the crap out of him.
When they watch movies now, i can hear her telling no, im watching dad so he cant scare us.
Best thing, he is in the U.K, no dating. Bwahahahahaha.
so maybe games like this will have a wider impact than expected?
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (J8nVw)
Yep. Junior-ette does this with a boy from the U.K.
He tried to get her to play too, but she head shot him in the first ten minutes. I died laughing. He even heard me laughing over her microphone. Now they watch horror movies sometimes. I like to sneak up on her and scream while grabbing her arm. She shreaks and scares the crap out of him.
When they watch movies now, i can hear her telling no, im watching dad so he cant scare us.
Best thing, he is in the U.K, no dating. Bwahahahahaha.
Posted by: BifBewalski at August 21, 2020 07:32 PM (VcFUs)
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120 If you could get revenge against anyone in your entire life, no obstacles, no consequences - who would it be?
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo
I don't have anyone worth avenging myself on
I would love to go back in time and give younger me several well-timed dope slaps, though
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:32 PM (J8nVw)
Your honor, move to strike from the record as non-responsive.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo
I don't have anyone worth avenging myself on
I would love to go back in time and give younger me several well-timed dope slaps, though
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:32 PM (J8nVw)
Your honor, move to strike from the record as non-responsive.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:32 PM (NWiLs)
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59 i just remembered - nowadays non gamer kids like to watch gamers play on YouTube (weird)
so maybe games like this will have a wider impact than expected?
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (J8nVw)
They're watching entertainment. That is the way to think about it. The person they're watching is the personality and the game is the interactive medium. Honestly though games like this they're not going to be watching them play the single player story.
so maybe games like this will have a wider impact than expected?
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (J8nVw)
They're watching entertainment. That is the way to think about it. The person they're watching is the personality and the game is the interactive medium. Honestly though games like this they're not going to be watching them play the single player story.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:33 PM (vMCab)
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EA obviously cared, given how badly cucked its recent product has been. In the Corona age, of course, I suspect they'll double down just as Disney has. The Mouse may be doing relatively badly, but EA is riding high.
Posted by: trev006 at August 21, 2020 07:30 PM (mMpeQ)
I don't think EA is actually doing that well. The last few big releases have been flops.
Posted by: trev006 at August 21, 2020 07:30 PM (mMpeQ)
I don't think EA is actually doing that well. The last few big releases have been flops.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 21, 2020 07:33 PM (wGeit)
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kids are weirdos
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:33 PM (zr5Kq)
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I'm for the guy, but he is not exactly a constitutional scholar. Neither was the asshole who preceded Trump who actually called himself one. The norms of government have been eroded to the bare nubs. Issuing executive orders for things that should be legislation is a terrible practice, but it's not like we should unilaterally disarm because of supposed "propriety" when the Dems will simply run roughshod over everything themselves.
I'm glad Trump's a rogue dick, since he's OUR rogue dick. But its a long way from what should be the presidency.
Have a good weekend, y'all.
Posted by: imp at August 21, 2020 07:30 PM (SFOr6)
I would say that the recent Supreme Court decision on DACA repeal has broadened the understanding of what can be done by executive order. A coupld of months ago, I would have thought the EO was of course much more restricted than the Obama precedent. Now I can't say that.
I'm for the guy, but he is not exactly a constitutional scholar. Neither was the asshole who preceded Trump who actually called himself one. The norms of government have been eroded to the bare nubs. Issuing executive orders for things that should be legislation is a terrible practice, but it's not like we should unilaterally disarm because of supposed "propriety" when the Dems will simply run roughshod over everything themselves.
I'm glad Trump's a rogue dick, since he's OUR rogue dick. But its a long way from what should be the presidency.
Have a good weekend, y'all.
Posted by: imp at August 21, 2020 07:30 PM (SFOr6)
I would say that the recent Supreme Court decision on DACA repeal has broadened the understanding of what can be done by executive order. A coupld of months ago, I would have thought the EO was of course much more restricted than the Obama precedent. Now I can't say that.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 21, 2020 07:33 PM (jK8Z7)
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19 Progress?
I nope-d out of COD after Modern War 2, where the first chapter has you running a false flag op by massacring civilians at an airport.
This is hopeful.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 21, 2020 07:13 PM (d1uFV)
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I played COD:UO--which was the expansion to the first game (United Offensive)--on a competitive team. We got to first on the ladder in our league. I was actually on the practice team, and slotted in for the A team when someone couldn't make the game.
It's still the best gaming experience I've ever had.
And as soon as the second call of duty came out I was pretty sure I'd never play any of the remaining games. None of them has been anything like the original in terms of structure, content, you name it.
I nope-d out of COD after Modern War 2, where the first chapter has you running a false flag op by massacring civilians at an airport.
This is hopeful.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 21, 2020 07:13 PM (d1uFV)
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I played COD:UO--which was the expansion to the first game (United Offensive)--on a competitive team. We got to first on the ladder in our league. I was actually on the practice team, and slotted in for the A team when someone couldn't make the game.
It's still the best gaming experience I've ever had.
And as soon as the second call of duty came out I was pretty sure I'd never play any of the remaining games. None of them has been anything like the original in terms of structure, content, you name it.
Posted by: TexasDan at August 21, 2020 07:34 PM (yL25O)
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*bangs on Beelzebubs lectern with a shoe*
I FOOCKING TOLD YOU! DA!!
~Nakita Kruschev
"We will Barry you!"
I FOOCKING TOLD YOU! DA!!
~Nakita Kruschev
"We will Barry you!"
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - who still wants a pony at August 21, 2020 07:34 PM (HaL55)
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53 Video games are the mind killer. Jesus people give your kids a lawn mower and a hoe or shovel. You can do or you can watch.
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (nFRLh)
You'll never admit it, but I'm willing to bet you're addicted to television. You can play or you can watch.
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (nFRLh)
You'll never admit it, but I'm willing to bet you're addicted to television. You can play or you can watch.
Posted by: drerbrerard at August 21, 2020 07:35 PM (VdJ4L)
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Revenge? I've been wronged a few times due to selfishness by the other party, but nothing I'm worked up about today. The last gf cheated on me, but as I told her at the time "I forgive you. Not for your sake, though. For mine."
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 21, 2020 07:35 PM (wGeit)
132
The last video game I played was in black and white, had 2 paddles and a little white bouncing ball that made noises.
Posted by: navybrat, at large at August 21, 2020 07:35 PM (w7KSn)
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120 If you could get revenge against anyone in your entire life, no obstacles, no consequences - who would it be?
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo
It just wouldn;t do any good after all this time, in my case. I sort of had a chance to do this (not anything that would lead to consequences for me), but did not want to dirty my hands by getting involved with that person again.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo
It just wouldn;t do any good after all this time, in my case. I sort of had a chance to do this (not anything that would lead to consequences for me), but did not want to dirty my hands by getting involved with that person again.
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2020 07:35 PM (ONvIw)
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EA obviously cared, given how badly cucked its recent product has been. In the Corona age, of course, I suspect they'll double down just as Disney has. The Mouse may be doing relatively badly, but EA is riding high.
Posted by: trev006 at August 21, 2020 07:30 PM (mMpeQ)
Shareholders Deny EA Execs Multi-Million Dollar Raise In Rare Rebuke
https://youtu.be/eSmDpA2toKc
Posted by: trev006 at August 21, 2020 07:30 PM (mMpeQ)
Shareholders Deny EA Execs Multi-Million Dollar Raise In Rare Rebuke
https://youtu.be/eSmDpA2toKc
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:35 PM (vMCab)
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"Your grandchildren will be socialists."
- Niki Khrushchev.
But nooooo, they weren't serious.
- Our Elite Betters
- Niki Khrushchev.
But nooooo, they weren't serious.
- Our Elite Betters
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - who still wants a pony at August 21, 2020 07:36 PM (HaL55)
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So Creepy Joe Biden & Kameltow Harris are flat out lying again & the media is lapping it up with a spoon...
Biden to ABC's Robin Roberts: "I don't want to defund" the police, but Trump does
https://t.co/d8W727Rq8i?amp=1
However on July 8, 2020 Joe Biden said this (https://t.co/SPNGL7lohu?amp=1) :
Joe Biden said in an interview Wednesday July 8th that some funding should "absolutely" be redirected from police, amid calls from some in his party to "defund the police" in the wake of the protests across the country.
...in a Now This interview with activist Ady Barkan, the presumptive Democratic nominee said that police forces don't need surplus military equipment, saying this is what leads them to "become the enemy" in a community.
"But do we agree that we can redirect some of the [police] funding?" Barkan asked Biden.
"Yes, absolutely," said the former vice president.
On June 11, 2020 Kameltoe Harris said this (https://tinyurl.com/y8u7a63w):
In an interview with "Good Morning America" on Tuesday, Harris applauded Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's decision to cut $150 million from the Los Angeles Police Department's budget, but she stopped short of saying she supports completely defunding the police.
"We've got to re-examine what we're doing with American taxpayer dollars and ask the question: are we getting the right return on our investment? Are we actually creating healthy and safe communities?" she said. "That's a legitimate conversation and it requires a really critical evaluation. I applaud Eric Garcetti for doing what he's done."
Biden to ABC's Robin Roberts: "I don't want to defund" the police, but Trump does
https://t.co/d8W727Rq8i?amp=1
However on July 8, 2020 Joe Biden said this (https://t.co/SPNGL7lohu?amp=1) :
Joe Biden said in an interview Wednesday July 8th that some funding should "absolutely" be redirected from police, amid calls from some in his party to "defund the police" in the wake of the protests across the country.
...in a Now This interview with activist Ady Barkan, the presumptive Democratic nominee said that police forces don't need surplus military equipment, saying this is what leads them to "become the enemy" in a community.
"But do we agree that we can redirect some of the [police] funding?" Barkan asked Biden.
"Yes, absolutely," said the former vice president.
On June 11, 2020 Kameltoe Harris said this (https://tinyurl.com/y8u7a63w):
In an interview with "Good Morning America" on Tuesday, Harris applauded Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's decision to cut $150 million from the Los Angeles Police Department's budget, but she stopped short of saying she supports completely defunding the police.
"We've got to re-examine what we're doing with American taxpayer dollars and ask the question: are we getting the right return on our investment? Are we actually creating healthy and safe communities?" she said. "That's a legitimate conversation and it requires a really critical evaluation. I applaud Eric Garcetti for doing what he's done."
Posted by: BetaCuck4Life at August 21, 2020 07:36 PM (FBrfY)
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If we're going to postulate time travel, I would go try to talk to my miserable, broken, despairing 10-year-old self.
Or do something to get myself taken out of the home permanently.
Or do something to get myself taken out of the home permanently.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:36 PM (NWiLs)
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Speaking of EO's, fckn polesmoker extended mandatory masks for 30 more days. EO #168 for this year. He needs beaten with a tire iron.
Posted by: Infidel at August 21, 2020 07:36 PM (R4aZ2)
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124 59 i just remembered - nowadays non gamer kids like to watch gamers play on YouTube (weird)
so maybe games like this will have a wider impact than expected?
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (J8nVw)
They're watching entertainment. That is the way to think about it. The person they're watching is the personality and the game is the interactive medium. Honestly though games like this they're not going to be watching them play the single player story.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:33 PM (vMCab)
...
The counter strike major is on right now.
As someone with like 1500 hours of game play in that game, I love watching pros.
so maybe games like this will have a wider impact than expected?
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (J8nVw)
They're watching entertainment. That is the way to think about it. The person they're watching is the personality and the game is the interactive medium. Honestly though games like this they're not going to be watching them play the single player story.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:33 PM (vMCab)
...
The counter strike major is on right now.
As someone with like 1500 hours of game play in that game, I love watching pros.
Posted by: TexasDan at August 21, 2020 07:36 PM (yL25O)
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59 i just remembered - nowadays non gamer kids like to watch gamers play on YouTube (weird)
so maybe games like this will have a wider impact than expected?
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (J8nVw)
People that can't throw a ball watch the NFL all day long. It's the same thing. Quite literally the same thing.
And when the odd gamer fan wears some shirt that the gamer kid wore ? Same damn thing.
It always struck me as perverse - always - how many people talk about "us" beating "them". You didn't beat a damn thing. You watched. Now sit your ass down and quit thumping your chest about something you didn't do the first fucking thing about.
so maybe games like this will have a wider impact than expected?
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:20 PM (J8nVw)
People that can't throw a ball watch the NFL all day long. It's the same thing. Quite literally the same thing.
And when the odd gamer fan wears some shirt that the gamer kid wore ? Same damn thing.
It always struck me as perverse - always - how many people talk about "us" beating "them". You didn't beat a damn thing. You watched. Now sit your ass down and quit thumping your chest about something you didn't do the first fucking thing about.
Posted by: Round and Round We Go at August 21, 2020 07:37 PM (Arprc)
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Yuri sounds like he knows what he's talking about. Then there's the problem of us pesky Kulaks to be dealt with. Comrade.
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:37 PM (bCLt0)
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pjmedia breaking all federal buildings in portland evacuated amid car bomb threat
I figure it's all a hoax now, but sooner or later they will start making IEDs, unless they just want to stay teenagers and break things.
I figure it's all a hoax now, but sooner or later they will start making IEDs, unless they just want to stay teenagers and break things.
Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2020 07:37 PM (OjZpE)
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I don't think EA is actually doing that well. The last few big releases have been flops.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 21, 2020 07:33 PM (wGeit)
Back in March? That was true. Now they have 61% growth in live services revenue. Command and Conquer was a major success in a way that Warcraft Reforged manifestly was not. Apex hit an apex in revenue.
They may not be a juggernaut like CDPR, but they look like they're learning.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 21, 2020 07:33 PM (wGeit)
Back in March? That was true. Now they have 61% growth in live services revenue. Command and Conquer was a major success in a way that Warcraft Reforged manifestly was not. Apex hit an apex in revenue.
They may not be a juggernaut like CDPR, but they look like they're learning.
Posted by: trev006 at August 21, 2020 07:37 PM (mMpeQ)
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The Call of Duty games that aren't set in World War 2 tend to have rather annoying plot twists. Modern Warfare 2 combined a particularly bad one (imo) with a level that quite literally asked you to murder civilians as part of a terrorist attack on a public airport.So I'm still skeptical. Yes, the trailer could be a good sign. Or it could be the usual bait and switch.
Posted by: junior at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (OpsaK)
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'If you could get revenge against anyone in your entire life, no obstacles, no consequences - who would it be? '
Ace. For banning me. Revenge would be unbanning me. I'm pretty easy.
Ace. For banning me. Revenge would be unbanning me. I'm pretty easy.
Posted by: freaked at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (heBAH)
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Whoever ok'd this ad had the sense to know that it'll sell games more effectively and cheaper than your run of the mill teaser. It's nice to know there are still some people at big corps who care about making money not kissing the ass of the Twitterati.
Posted by: Jackal at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (o3+fQ)
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Another OT: The Chicoms have yet to land a fighter on one of their manmade reefs in the South China Sea. It seems that features made by Hoovering sand off the sea bottom and making it into a sea-level pile, and then building atop it without even allowing for subsidence, might not be the best approach.
https://tinyurl.com/y227quve
https://tinyurl.com/y227quve
Posted by: pep at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (v16oJ)
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The counter strike major is on right now.
As someone with like 1500 hours of game play in that game, I love watching pros.
Posted by: TexasDan at August 21, 2020 07:36 PM (yL25O)
Those guys are insanely good. I know it's just a game and all, but damn.
As someone with like 1500 hours of game play in that game, I love watching pros.
Posted by: TexasDan at August 21, 2020 07:36 PM (yL25O)
Those guys are insanely good. I know it's just a game and all, but damn.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (NWiLs)
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145 'If you could get revenge against anyone in your entire life, no obstacles, no consequences - who would it be? '
Ace. For banning me. Revenge would be unbanning me. I'm pretty easy.
Posted by: freaked at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (heBAH)
Think bigger. Have ace ban himself.
Ace. For banning me. Revenge would be unbanning me. I'm pretty easy.
Posted by: freaked at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (heBAH)
Think bigger. Have ace ban himself.
Posted by: Someguy at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (Zm+LZ)
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I don't think EA is actually doing that well. The last few big releases have been flops.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 21, 2020 07:33 PM (wGeit)
As long as the idiots the buy Madden and FIFA each year keep paying for the Ultimate Team packs they don't care. That's why they're terrified of that stuff getting called gambling and being banned in countries, and when they get called in front of government bodies they call it "surprise mechanics"
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 21, 2020 07:33 PM (wGeit)
As long as the idiots the buy Madden and FIFA each year keep paying for the Ultimate Team packs they don't care. That's why they're terrified of that stuff getting called gambling and being banned in countries, and when they get called in front of government bodies they call it "surprise mechanics"
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (vMCab)
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137 If we're going to postulate time travel, I would go try to talk to my miserable, broken, despairing 10-year-old self.
Or do something to get myself taken out of the home permanently.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:36 PM (NWiLs)
Fortunately I had some non-parental supports who were useful although I was physically stuck. As I said, at this time, all it would do is revisit something and someone who is no longer worth my time.
Or do something to get myself taken out of the home permanently.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:36 PM (NWiLs)
Fortunately I had some non-parental supports who were useful although I was physically stuck. As I said, at this time, all it would do is revisit something and someone who is no longer worth my time.
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (ONvIw)
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I am not a fucking kulak.
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:39 PM (zr5Kq)
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149 145 'If you could get revenge against anyone in your entire life, no obstacles, no consequences - who would it be? '
Ace. For banning me. Revenge would be unbanning me. I'm pretty easy.
Posted by: freaked at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (heBAH)
Think bigger. Have ace ban himself.
Posted by: Someguy at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (Zm+LZ)
That's old and busted. #BeBetter.
Ace. For banning me. Revenge would be unbanning me. I'm pretty easy.
Posted by: freaked at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (heBAH)
Think bigger. Have ace ban himself.
Posted by: Someguy at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (Zm+LZ)
That's old and busted. #BeBetter.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:39 PM (NWiLs)
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*Shouts Love into the heart of world*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Nice Harlan Ellison reference.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Nice Harlan Ellison reference.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 21, 2020 07:39 PM (8FYLQ)
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120 If you could get revenge against anyone in your entire life, no obstacles, no consequences - who would it be?
Bwahahahahah. I've been getting revenge on an 0-3, from active duty since August of 1991. Bastard phucked me without the courtesy of a reach around. Claimed that the unit had the highest maintenance and availability in the DoD (we earned the Toftoy award, look it up) in spite of the unit maintenance warrant officer (me).
Dude had an engineering degree from westpoint. Now he cannot hold a midddle management job for more than two years. Somehow or another, his nasty ass personality always outs him as an asshole. I've only 'helped' once or twice since the late 90s.
Waiting till he's nearing retirement so i can sell his ssn and personal data.
Every now and then, i take him out of my deep freeze and admire the freezer burn on my revenge.
Bwahahahahah. I've been getting revenge on an 0-3, from active duty since August of 1991. Bastard phucked me without the courtesy of a reach around. Claimed that the unit had the highest maintenance and availability in the DoD (we earned the Toftoy award, look it up) in spite of the unit maintenance warrant officer (me).
Dude had an engineering degree from westpoint. Now he cannot hold a midddle management job for more than two years. Somehow or another, his nasty ass personality always outs him as an asshole. I've only 'helped' once or twice since the late 90s.
Waiting till he's nearing retirement so i can sell his ssn and personal data.
Every now and then, i take him out of my deep freeze and admire the freezer burn on my revenge.
Posted by: BifBewalski at August 21, 2020 07:39 PM (VcFUs)
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You'll never admit it, but I'm willing to bet you're addicted to television. You can play or you can watch.
Posted by: drerbrerard at August 21, 2020 07:35 PM (VdJ4L)
I guessing you smoke weed too because that is the similar retort for pot advocates.
' But I bet you drink alcohol right which is more dangerous '
Posted by: drerbrerard at August 21, 2020 07:35 PM (VdJ4L)
I guessing you smoke weed too because that is the similar retort for pot advocates.
' But I bet you drink alcohol right which is more dangerous '
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 07:39 PM (2DOZq)
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How is someone banned, yet posting?? Maybe it's virtual posting. Or virtual banning. My head hurts.
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:39 PM (bCLt0)
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Speaking of EO's, fckn polesmoker extended mandatory masks for 30 more days. EO #168 for this year.
A splendid idea! Keep moving those posts.
A splendid idea! Keep moving those posts.
Posted by: Gov. DeWinemom at August 21, 2020 07:40 PM (EgshT)
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I would not mind becoming a professional poker player. International professional poker player.
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:40 PM (zr5Kq)
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If you want peace, and if you would like to return to the kind of prosperity we enjoyed before the beginning of this accursed year, then get used to the idea of denying marxists any voice.
If it is your fetish to turn the Bill of Rights into a suicide pact, then get fucked.
Accept that marxist lies are not protected by 1A. That is the only way that freedom can prevail.
If you want peace, and if you would like to return to the kind of prosperity we enjoyed before the beginning of this accursed year, then get used to the idea of denying marxists any voice.
If it is your fetish to turn the Bill of Rights into a suicide pact, then get fucked.
Accept that marxist lies are not protected by 1A. That is the only way that freedom can prevail.
Posted by: fktheleft at August 21, 2020 07:40 PM (lvXKd)
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Shareholders Deny EA Execs Multi-Million Dollar Raise
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:35 PM (vMCab)
That surprises me. Given the metrics Wilson described in July, he probably thought he was a shoo in for a raise. Apparently not.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:35 PM (vMCab)
That surprises me. Given the metrics Wilson described in July, he probably thought he was a shoo in for a raise. Apparently not.
Posted by: trev006 at August 21, 2020 07:40 PM (mMpeQ)
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I'm excited about this, I was super interested in the Cold War when I was a kid, so much that I took Russian. I do t expect much, but if they even leave a hint that the soviets were evil that's a win.
Posted by: Inogame at August 21, 2020 07:40 PM (+2xjH)
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I would say that the recent Supreme Court decision on DACA repeal has broadened the understanding of what can be done by executive order. A coupld of months ago, I would have thought the EO was of course much more restricted than the Obama precedent. Now I can't say that.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 21, 2020 07:33 PM (jK8Z7)
Insty had a really good post about that. He pointed to a court decision very early in Bush's first term which had the government prosecuting a guy for selling stuff to the Iranians. The law under which he was prosecuted had, in fact, lapsed. But Bush issued an executive order extending it.
The defendant, as you might expect, said that's something only Congress can do. Presidents can't just issue new laws like that. But the court said Congress really meant to act, even though it hadn't actually done so, so the EO was a-okay and ruled for the prosecution.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 21, 2020 07:33 PM (jK8Z7)
Insty had a really good post about that. He pointed to a court decision very early in Bush's first term which had the government prosecuting a guy for selling stuff to the Iranians. The law under which he was prosecuted had, in fact, lapsed. But Bush issued an executive order extending it.
The defendant, as you might expect, said that's something only Congress can do. Presidents can't just issue new laws like that. But the court said Congress really meant to act, even though it hadn't actually done so, so the EO was a-okay and ruled for the prosecution.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 21, 2020 07:40 PM (wGeit)
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freaked is banned ?
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:41 PM (zr5Kq)
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I have never played a video game. Except that one where you walk down the street and shoot everybody who is an enemy combatant. But this is an old one we played in the run-up for Desert Storm. And a waste of time for me because detailer told me it would be over in less that 6 months. Guy was right.
Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2020 07:41 PM (XhWtx)
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As I said, at this time, all it would do is revisit something and someone who is no longer worth my time.
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (ONvIw)
I guess that's probably true in a lot of cases. For me there are a number of tormentors from the past, whose names I still remember, upon whom revenge would be wasted at this point. I can only think of one or two at present for which it would be truly meaningful and satisfying.
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (ONvIw)
I guess that's probably true in a lot of cases. For me there are a number of tormentors from the past, whose names I still remember, upon whom revenge would be wasted at this point. I can only think of one or two at present for which it would be truly meaningful and satisfying.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:41 PM (NWiLs)
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freaked, send ace some carb free cupcakes.
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:41 PM (zr5Kq)
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Revenge... for me... Is a dangerous path to take. Im not much of one for getting even..... getting WAAAAAY ahead and making examples of transgressors is more my speed.
Its a character flaw I know I have. It's best if I tell myself it is what it is and let it go.
Had to learn that the hard way, more than once.
Revenge... for me... Is a dangerous path to take. Im not much of one for getting even..... getting WAAAAAY ahead and making examples of transgressors is more my speed.
Its a character flaw I know I have. It's best if I tell myself it is what it is and let it go.
Had to learn that the hard way, more than once.
Posted by: fixerupper at August 21, 2020 07:41 PM (nw6Hr)
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148 The counter strike major is on right now.
As someone with like 1500 hours of game play in that game, I love watching pros.
Posted by: TexasDan at August 21, 2020 07:36 PM (yL25O)
Those guys are insanely good. I know it's just a game and all, but damn.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (NWiLs)
...
I never watched hockey until grad school, when I had roommates that loved it.
It took months for me to understand the game--even visually to be able to follow the puck on screen. And then I really started to enjoy it.
I can completely understand why a casual observer sees a video game stream and dismisses it as uninteresting (or worse).
But, if you begin to have a sense of the skill and gamesmanship going on--it has the same drama and display of talent that other kinds of entertainment provide.
As someone with like 1500 hours of game play in that game, I love watching pros.
Posted by: TexasDan at August 21, 2020 07:36 PM (yL25O)
Those guys are insanely good. I know it's just a game and all, but damn.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (NWiLs)
...
I never watched hockey until grad school, when I had roommates that loved it.
It took months for me to understand the game--even visually to be able to follow the puck on screen. And then I really started to enjoy it.
I can completely understand why a casual observer sees a video game stream and dismisses it as uninteresting (or worse).
But, if you begin to have a sense of the skill and gamesmanship going on--it has the same drama and display of talent that other kinds of entertainment provide.
Posted by: TexasDan at August 21, 2020 07:42 PM (yL25O)
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164 freaked is banned ?
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:41 PM (zr5Kq)
And yet, he persists!!
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:41 PM (zr5Kq)
And yet, he persists!!
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:42 PM (bCLt0)
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The counter strike major is on right now.
As someone with like 1500 hours of game play in that game, I love watching pros.
Posted by: TexasDan at August 21, 2020 07:36 PM (yL25O)
That's like a completely different level than twitch streamers though. Sort of a parallel path for a lot of them. MMA vs. WWE is probably the closest comparison I can think of.
The counter strike major is on right now.
As someone with like 1500 hours of game play in that game, I love watching pros.
Posted by: TexasDan at August 21, 2020 07:36 PM (yL25O)
That's like a completely different level than twitch streamers though. Sort of a parallel path for a lot of them. MMA vs. WWE is probably the closest comparison I can think of.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:42 PM (vMCab)
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154 *Shouts Love into the heart of world*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Nice Harlan Ellison reference.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 21, 2020 07:39 PM (8FYLQ)
Thankee
Harlan was an old Leftie, but he could write.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Nice Harlan Ellison reference.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 21, 2020 07:39 PM (8FYLQ)
Thankee
Harlan was an old Leftie, but he could write.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 21, 2020 07:42 PM (d1uFV)
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You know - gaming gets a bad rap. It does. I get tired of it.
Plenty of folks talk about the good old days - where you collected cards of somebody doing something you weren't doing. Watching the screen while somebody was doing something you weren't doing. Collecting shirts and posters and line-up cards and this and that and other - but you were not catching balls or making tackles.
You were watching.
So these kids - they watch your preferred ball games less. Often not at all. But they at least twiddle their thumbs and actively engage and make decisions - and often network toward a common goal.
How many of you old time sports ball fans - after a great game by the Packers - drug your asses out there and pushed a blocking sled ? I'm betting few to none.
At least this bunch is twiddling their thumbs and talking.
Plenty of folks talk about the good old days - where you collected cards of somebody doing something you weren't doing. Watching the screen while somebody was doing something you weren't doing. Collecting shirts and posters and line-up cards and this and that and other - but you were not catching balls or making tackles.
You were watching.
So these kids - they watch your preferred ball games less. Often not at all. But they at least twiddle their thumbs and actively engage and make decisions - and often network toward a common goal.
How many of you old time sports ball fans - after a great game by the Packers - drug your asses out there and pushed a blocking sled ? I'm betting few to none.
At least this bunch is twiddling their thumbs and talking.
Posted by: Round and Round We Go at August 21, 2020 07:43 PM (Arprc)
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Wouldnt a more realistic game be fun if the military of Peruvia invaded the realm of Portlandia and annexed it and cleaned it up.
Posted by: morigu at August 21, 2020 07:43 PM (Eu98u)
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imo there are white hats (wandering into LARP Qanon verbiage) in and around DC. Buck Sexton ... probably one of the white hats. If they have lived in the beltway too long, they may be in need of red pill therapy ... but staying leftist Woke is requiring more and more 2+2=5 submission.
I'll take a little portion of credit for tweeting back to Buck when he claimed Trump was Bad for his "good people" Covington comment. He thought Trump was calling the KKK good people. But he tweeted back to me (a nobody) and was open to dialogue ... Big Difference from the Cucks that continue to push the BigLie (as Biden just did). And later Buck was one of those pushing the "Trump did not call the KKK good people" guys. Winner.
so it may be we are at a precipice ... and good people are waking up, even in DC, or in the gaming world. imo that Bergey guy in ShadowGate movie is telling the truth ... being shunned by most, even as those Generals (the ones that backed Biden are the ones exposed in that video) ... run their own shadow PsyOps for profit. Would really help to have more serious indictments ...
I'll take a little portion of credit for tweeting back to Buck when he claimed Trump was Bad for his "good people" Covington comment. He thought Trump was calling the KKK good people. But he tweeted back to me (a nobody) and was open to dialogue ... Big Difference from the Cucks that continue to push the BigLie (as Biden just did). And later Buck was one of those pushing the "Trump did not call the KKK good people" guys. Winner.
so it may be we are at a precipice ... and good people are waking up, even in DC, or in the gaming world. imo that Bergey guy in ShadowGate movie is telling the truth ... being shunned by most, even as those Generals (the ones that backed Biden are the ones exposed in that video) ... run their own shadow PsyOps for profit. Would really help to have more serious indictments ...
Posted by: illiniwek at August 21, 2020 07:43 PM (Cus5s)
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154 *Shouts Love into the heart of world*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Nice Harlan Ellison reference.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 21, 2020 07:39 PM (8FYLQ)
Is this akin to " Shower the People with Love"??
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Nice Harlan Ellison reference.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 21, 2020 07:39 PM (8FYLQ)
Is this akin to " Shower the People with Love"??
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:43 PM (bCLt0)
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Takes some doing to make ace ban you 2.5 months before election.
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:43 PM (zr5Kq)
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Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:41 PM (NWiLs)
Every time you have talked about that I can't help but think of Billy Madison.
Every time you have talked about that I can't help but think of Billy Madison.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 07:44 PM (2DOZq)
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Insom, the best revenge is to smile sweetly and as they walk away they find the knife sticking out of their back.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2020 07:44 PM (1G0gF)
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I found a Hobo with Shotgun DVD at the Dollar Tree.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2020 07:44 PM (pQbTS)
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If it was Oc-Nov timeframe, I'd understand. But in August ?
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:44 PM (zr5Kq)
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Every time you have talked about that I can't help but think of Billy Madison.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 07:44 PM (2DOZq)
Heh. I'm not quite THAT deranged.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 07:44 PM (2DOZq)
Heh. I'm not quite THAT deranged.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:45 PM (NWiLs)
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I guess that's probably true in a lot of cases. For me there are a number of tormentors from the past, whose names I still remember, upon whom revenge would be wasted at this point. I can only think of one or two at present for which it would be truly meaningful and satisfying.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:41 PM (NWiLs)
Yes, and it would change nothing in my life and restore nothing I lost at the time. I will never regret entirely removing myself from that person and that person's orbit. It was the wisest choice I could make and allowed me to raise my kids and live my life free from the poison I endured.
I guess that's probably true in a lot of cases. For me there are a number of tormentors from the past, whose names I still remember, upon whom revenge would be wasted at this point. I can only think of one or two at present for which it would be truly meaningful and satisfying.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:41 PM (NWiLs)
Yes, and it would change nothing in my life and restore nothing I lost at the time. I will never regret entirely removing myself from that person and that person's orbit. It was the wisest choice I could make and allowed me to raise my kids and live my life free from the poison I endured.
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2020 07:46 PM (ONvIw)
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I had the same nic for (*thinks) 12 years. But for some inexplicable reason people change it every month. Psychosis ?
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:46 PM (zr5Kq)
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As long as some asshole isn't trying to teach me to sing.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2020 07:46 PM (1G0gF)
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KGB? AM or FM?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at August 21, 2020 07:46 PM (SchxB)
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Thankee
Harlan was an old Leftie, but he could write.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Such a colossal asshole has seldom been scene, but yeah, he could write the Hell out of a story.
He also put me onto Cordwainer Smith, who has some very, very strange but very well-written stories.
Welp, off I go to Amazon again . . .
Harlan was an old Leftie, but he could write.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Such a colossal asshole has seldom been scene, but yeah, he could write the Hell out of a story.
He also put me onto Cordwainer Smith, who has some very, very strange but very well-written stories.
Welp, off I go to Amazon again . . .
Posted by: Sharkman at August 21, 2020 07:46 PM (BM2fS)
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130 You would be wrong and then some. But thanks for playing.
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 21, 2020 07:46 PM (nFRLh)
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Eh, guess I better edumacate myself about the Gaming World, a realm I know almost nothing about. It seems to come up around hear once in a while.
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:47 PM (bCLt0)
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184 I had the same nic for (*thinks) 12 years. But for some inexplicable reason people change it every month. Psychosis ?
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:46 PM (zr5Kq)
Some probably do it because they're annoying assholes so they change it to make people forget that they are the annoying asshole everyone got sick of hearing say stupid shit all last month.
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:46 PM (zr5Kq)
Some probably do it because they're annoying assholes so they change it to make people forget that they are the annoying asshole everyone got sick of hearing say stupid shit all last month.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:47 PM (vMCab)
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Hey Ben Had even though I'm persona non gratin around here I want to let you know that I am still good for our wager.
Posted by: freaked at August 21, 2020 07:47 PM (heBAH)
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Posted by: Round and Round We Go at August 21, 2020 07:43 PM (Arprc)
I think the issue is getting off the computer or gaming system and do something outside for real. Not about kids who watch or play an hour or so a day.
I think the issue is getting off the computer or gaming system and do something outside for real. Not about kids who watch or play an hour or so a day.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 07:48 PM (2DOZq)
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I can go back to 10 year old thread and there is JackStraw. Same as today.
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:48 PM (zr5Kq)
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193 I can go back to 10 year old thread and there is JackStraw. Same as today.
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:48 PM (zr5Kq)
Same as he ever was
Same as he ever was
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:48 PM (zr5Kq)
Same as he ever was
Same as he ever was
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (bCLt0)
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I'm waiting for the Outer Worlds to finally get a Steam release, Horizon: Zero Dawn to get a patch to fix those issues, Cyberpunk 2077, and to see if the Mass Effect Trilogy remaster is real and they actually do a real fix of the ending.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (vMCab)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (1G0gF)
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Eh, guess I better edumacate myself about the Gaming World, a realm I
know almost nothing about. It seems to come up around hear once in a
while.
I liked exactly one game: Crimson Skies. Still have my copy but Win10 won't play it at all. I've tried everything to get it to play to no avail.
Flying-shooty games are a lot of fun. I wouldn't mind finding another one if they still make them these days.
Eh, guess I better edumacate myself about the Gaming World, a realm I
know almost nothing about. It seems to come up around hear once in a
while.
I liked exactly one game: Crimson Skies. Still have my copy but Win10 won't play it at all. I've tried everything to get it to play to no avail.
Flying-shooty games are a lot of fun. I wouldn't mind finding another one if they still make them these days.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - who still wants a pony at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (HaL55)
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That's like a completely different level than twitch streamers though. Sort of a parallel path for a lot of them. MMA vs. WWE is probably the closest comparison I can think of.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:42 PM (vMCab)
Sure, but it's a different business. A professional video game player has to win, but beyond that he doesn't have much in the way of obligations. A twitch streamer has to be entertaining, even if the game is kinda dull.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:42 PM (vMCab)
Sure, but it's a different business. A professional video game player has to win, but beyond that he doesn't have much in the way of obligations. A twitch streamer has to be entertaining, even if the game is kinda dull.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (wGeit)
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But seriously...I remember by first and last name those shitty little bastards who made my already-miserable life just that much more miserable as a kid. I don't even have to try, they're right there in my immediate recall. I have a REALLY hard time forgetting certain things.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (NWiLs)
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When I had a computer loved video games, had a few military aircraft simulation games.
Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2020 07:50 PM (OjZpE)
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Heh. I'm not quite THAT deranged.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:45 PM (NWiLs)
Just crossing names off the list, not the lipstick.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:45 PM (NWiLs)
Just crossing names off the list, not the lipstick.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 07:50 PM (2DOZq)
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194 193 I can go back to 10 year old thread and there is JackStraw. Same as today.
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:48 PM (zr5Kq)
Same as he ever was
Same as he ever was
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (bCLt0)
*makes chopping motion down forearm*
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:48 PM (zr5Kq)
Same as he ever was
Same as he ever was
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (bCLt0)
*makes chopping motion down forearm*
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:50 PM (NWiLs)
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191 Hey Ben Had even though I'm persona non gratin around here I want to let you know that I am still good for our wager.
Posted by: freaked at August 21, 2020 07:47 PM (heBAH)
Apologies can go a long way.
Posted by: freaked at August 21, 2020 07:47 PM (heBAH)
Apologies can go a long way.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:50 PM (vMCab)
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Incidentally, I was directed to the trailer yesterday over on YouTube. Someone noted the comments on the trailer, and I took a look. The majority of the comments were quite encouraging.
Posted by: junior at August 21, 2020 07:50 PM (OpsaK)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 21, 2020 07:50 PM (3yUsq)
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201 Heh. I'm not quite THAT deranged.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:45 PM (NWiLs)
Just crossing names off the list, not the lipstick.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 07:50 PM (2DOZq)
LOL - yeah, something like that.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:45 PM (NWiLs)
Just crossing names off the list, not the lipstick.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 07:50 PM (2DOZq)
LOL - yeah, something like that.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:51 PM (NWiLs)
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199 But seriously...I remember by first and last name those shitty little bastards who made my already-miserable life just that much more miserable as a kid. I don't even have to try, they're right there in my immediate recall. I have a REALLY hard time forgetting certain things.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (NWiLs)
For you, it'll improve your mood
https://youtu.be/P0TzUNti3rY
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (NWiLs)
For you, it'll improve your mood
https://youtu.be/P0TzUNti3rY
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 21, 2020 07:51 PM (d1uFV)
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After Beirut, ports around the world are dispersing extra international shipping containers full of ammonium nitrate.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2020 07:51 PM (pQbTS)
Posted by: four seasons at August 21, 2020 07:51 PM (PisyI)
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208 After Beirut, ports around the world are dispersing extra international shipping containers full of ammonium nitrate.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2020 07:51 PM (pQbTS)
For the soybeans. Yeah, that's it.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2020 07:51 PM (pQbTS)
For the soybeans. Yeah, that's it.
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:52 PM (bCLt0)
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Flying-shooty games are a lot of fun. I wouldn't mind finding another one if they still make them these days.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - who still wants a pony at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (HaL55)
There's a whole subculture of realistic combat simulators. A little to pricey for me, but if you're the kind of guy who would argue over the maximum dive rate of a Fokker DR 1, you might like it.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - who still wants a pony at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (HaL55)
There's a whole subculture of realistic combat simulators. A little to pricey for me, but if you're the kind of guy who would argue over the maximum dive rate of a Fokker DR 1, you might like it.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 21, 2020 07:52 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: fixerupper at August 21, 2020 07:52 PM (nw6Hr)
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Same as he ever was
Same as he ever was
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (bCLt0)
https://tinyurl.com/y7pxs7m7
Same as he ever was
Same as he ever was
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (bCLt0)
https://tinyurl.com/y7pxs7m7
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:52 PM (zr5Kq)
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I've played three games of Civilization I from 'pirated' floppies that a friend 'cracked'; completing one game and printing out the dot-matrix map after it was over. I still remember the foreign ambassadors, like the Assyrians, going relatively ape-shit considering the era's graphics when you did something their nations disliked; that and entrenched phalanxes on hills being able to withstand modern weapons' attacks! And temples magically stop earthquakes!
Posted by: andycanuck at August 21, 2020 07:52 PM (an7Mv)
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Hey freaked, if you aren't banned but think you are/should be, just take a day off. Stop with the attention whore act.
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 21, 2020 07:52 PM (nFRLh)
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After Beirut, ports around the world are dispersing extra international shipping containers full of ammonium nitrate.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2020 07:51 PM
buyer's market?
After Beirut, ports around the world are dispersing extra international shipping containers full of ammonium nitrate.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2020 07:51 PM
buyer's market?
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 21, 2020 07:52 PM (xP4/Q)
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For a contrary view on Bezmenov's claims - I think the Russians have always been experts at claiming to be responsible for things other, more creative people did. I don't doubt that Bezmenov and his superiors wanted it to happen, but I think we had far more than enough home grown monsters and haters to self sabotage us, even starting back in WW2. We've *always* had people who hated Capitalism and hated other Americans, and who craved power for themselves. So the Russians made themselves seem big by claiming they were doing it all, but they were a tiny drop in the bucket. It was Us. We did it to Ourselves, because we had people who Wanted it to happen.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2020 07:53 PM (V2Yro)
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Insom, you're going to have some really good memories to battle the bad ones shortly.
You are going to wake up and look out over hundreds of acres, coffee in hand and greet a whole bunch of the Horde.
You are going to wake up and look out over hundreds of acres, coffee in hand and greet a whole bunch of the Horde.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2020 07:53 PM (1G0gF)
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One of the guys arrested last night at the Portland ICE protests is Christopher Wise, 30, an Antifa "street medic".
Wise used to work as an EMT, but now works as a receptionist. I guess being a receptionist pays better.
In July, along with other "street medics", Wise sued the city of Portland and Homeland Security for targeting them.
The lawyers representing them were from the ACLU and Perkins Coie, the Democratic party's favorite law firm.
Wise used to work as an EMT, but now works as a receptionist. I guess being a receptionist pays better.
In July, along with other "street medics", Wise sued the city of Portland and Homeland Security for targeting them.
The lawyers representing them were from the ACLU and Perkins Coie, the Democratic party's favorite law firm.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 21, 2020 07:54 PM (I2/tG)
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It's elfin magic.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 21, 2020 07:54 PM (MFVpO)
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Sure, but it's a different business. A professional video game player has to win, but beyond that he doesn't have much in the way of obligations. A twitch streamer has to be entertaining, even if the game is kinda dull.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (wGeit)
Definitely. That why I used MMA and WWE. The MMA fighter better win, it can help if he puts on an interesting fight but winning is very important. Pro wrestling, you better have the personality and some talent to draw the people in. There are very few pro-wrestlers that can pull off the MMA fighter character and be successful with no charisma.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (wGeit)
Definitely. That why I used MMA and WWE. The MMA fighter better win, it can help if he puts on an interesting fight but winning is very important. Pro wrestling, you better have the personality and some talent to draw the people in. There are very few pro-wrestlers that can pull off the MMA fighter character and be successful with no charisma.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:54 PM (vMCab)
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Bmov didn't rat one of those special Russian sandwiches did he.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2020 07:54 PM (pQbTS)
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You are going to wake up and look out over hundreds of acres, coffee in hand and greet a whole bunch of the Horde.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2020 07:53 PM (1G0gF)
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And then I show up.
You are going to wake up and look out over hundreds of acres, coffee in hand and greet a whole bunch of the Horde.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2020 07:53 PM (1G0gF)
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And then I show up.
Posted by: Weasel at August 21, 2020 07:55 PM (MVjcR)
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doggeh is growling at something outside the window
KTE says apparently weblive on the thoroughfare of America's Most Wanted, according to.doggeh
KTE says apparently weblive on the thoroughfare of America's Most Wanted, according to.doggeh
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 07:55 PM (J8nVw)
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Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2020 07:53 PM (V2Yro)
The Soviets always supported the Frankfurt School.
The Soviets always supported the Frankfurt School.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 07:55 PM (2DOZq)
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If people went to counseling every time there were issues at work, they'd be supporting a psychiatrist and his family. And psychiatrists, as we all know, go into psychiatry because they are themselves slightly nuts.
If people went to counseling every time there were issues at work, they'd be supporting a psychiatrist and his family. And psychiatrists, as we all know, go into psychiatry because they are themselves slightly nuts.
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:55 PM (zr5Kq)
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199 But seriously...I remember by first and last name those shitty little bastards who made my already-miserable life just that much more miserable as a kid. I don't even have to try, they're right there in my immediate recall. I have a REALLY hard time forgetting certain things.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (NWiLs)
I rehash things some times, and while the events are unforgetable, they don't diminish me in my own eyes the way they used to, Insom. At the time, I felt horrible and ashamed of my circumstances. Those feelings are sort of extinguished. Part of that, I hate to admit is, is due to social media. I can see where they are and where I am and I really experienced no long term damage. A few of them are in circumstances that make me feel as though a revenge was already visited on their lives. And that doesn't make me feel better, and I'm glad it not because of any thing I did.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (NWiLs)
I rehash things some times, and while the events are unforgetable, they don't diminish me in my own eyes the way they used to, Insom. At the time, I felt horrible and ashamed of my circumstances. Those feelings are sort of extinguished. Part of that, I hate to admit is, is due to social media. I can see where they are and where I am and I really experienced no long term damage. A few of them are in circumstances that make me feel as though a revenge was already visited on their lives. And that doesn't make me feel better, and I'm glad it not because of any thing I did.
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2020 07:56 PM (ONvIw)
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I liked exactly one game: Crimson Skies. Still have my copy but Win10 won't play it at all. I've tried everything to get it to play to no avail.
Flying-shooty games are a lot of fun. I wouldn't mind finding another one if they still make them these days.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - who still wants a pony at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (HaL55)
...
I still have my copy too.
It's awesome.
You can sorta get the same experience if you have access to an xbox 360 and can find a xbox copy. But the PC version is just better all around.
Flying-shooty games are a lot of fun. I wouldn't mind finding another one if they still make them these days.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - who still wants a pony at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (HaL55)
...
I still have my copy too.
It's awesome.
You can sorta get the same experience if you have access to an xbox 360 and can find a xbox copy. But the PC version is just better all around.
Posted by: TexasDan at August 21, 2020 07:56 PM (yL25O)
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Imagine Call of Duty, 1889.
Be one of the elite scout groups for one of the colonial powers exploring and conquering Mars or Venus at the end of the Victorian age.
Be one of the elite scout groups for one of the colonial powers exploring and conquering Mars or Venus at the end of the Victorian age.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 21, 2020 07:56 PM (WyVLE)
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I think the issue is getting off the computer or
gaming system and do something outside for real. Not about kids who
watch or play an hour or so a day.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 07:48 PM (2DOZq)
And how many adults do it ? How many would tolerate kids playing ball or roaming wild now ?
And again - how many adults get their ass chapped about little johnny playing that damn machine, before they snuggle down for the Eagles / Redskins before the real attraction hits when the Cowboys play the Niners ?
I get tired of hearing about it. I understand - a lot of folks like to scold. But they won't like the alternative, where kids are chopping cotton. Because in that alternative - there ain't no TV. Or electricity. Or cheap liquor. Or newspapers.
gaming system and do something outside for real. Not about kids who
watch or play an hour or so a day.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 07:48 PM (2DOZq)
And how many adults do it ? How many would tolerate kids playing ball or roaming wild now ?
And again - how many adults get their ass chapped about little johnny playing that damn machine, before they snuggle down for the Eagles / Redskins before the real attraction hits when the Cowboys play the Niners ?
I get tired of hearing about it. I understand - a lot of folks like to scold. But they won't like the alternative, where kids are chopping cotton. Because in that alternative - there ain't no TV. Or electricity. Or cheap liquor. Or newspapers.
Posted by: Round and Round We Go at August 21, 2020 07:56 PM (Arprc)
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Weasel, who do think is going to bring Insom the coffee.
You're already there too.
I'm just a little later with those mini cinnamon rolls
You're already there too.
I'm just a little later with those mini cinnamon rolls
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2020 07:57 PM (1G0gF)
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@197.
Flying-shooty games are a lot of fun. I wouldn't mind finding another one if they still make them these days.
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IL-2 Sturmovik is supposed to be good if you like realistic prop-plane combat.
Ace Combat 7 is for the "Realism? What's that?" crowd, with jets and missiles.
Flying-shooty games are a lot of fun. I wouldn't mind finding another one if they still make them these days.
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IL-2 Sturmovik is supposed to be good if you like realistic prop-plane combat.
Ace Combat 7 is for the "Realism? What's that?" crowd, with jets and missiles.
Posted by: junior at August 21, 2020 07:57 PM (OpsaK)
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Revenge?
Nah.
The list is too long. And I don't have enough ammo.
While I'm weak on the subject, I'll listen to what that guy said about it, about 2,000 years ago, give or take.
I think that the guy had a beard and sandals.
Kinda hippie-like.
Hang on, I'll remember that dude's name, give me a couple of minutes.
Nah.
The list is too long. And I don't have enough ammo.
While I'm weak on the subject, I'll listen to what that guy said about it, about 2,000 years ago, give or take.
I think that the guy had a beard and sandals.
Kinda hippie-like.
Hang on, I'll remember that dude's name, give me a couple of minutes.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 21, 2020 07:57 PM (df7zy)
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47 Lebron supports Goodyear, stunner.
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 21, 2020 07:18 PM (nFRLh)
Who's Lebron?
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 21, 2020 07:18 PM (nFRLh)
Who's Lebron?
Posted by: Gilded Age II at August 21, 2020 07:57 PM (BRkq2)
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There's a whole subculture of realistic combat simulators. A little to
pricey for me, but if you're the kind of guy who would argue over the
maximum dive rate of a Fokker DR 1, you might like it.
I'm not too terribly geeky about that. Crimson Skies had some interesting planes that you could build, none of them based on any real aircraft. It was typical weight/armament tradeoff type stuff. Fast planes couldn't have much firepower and had no bombs. There were some ground targets and air targets, the armored zeppelins were the most fun to try to shoot down. The banter before a mission was sorta retro and the back story was pretty kewl. All PG-rated. No blood or gore or guts or veins in your teeth.
I miss that game.
pricey for me, but if you're the kind of guy who would argue over the
maximum dive rate of a Fokker DR 1, you might like it.
I'm not too terribly geeky about that. Crimson Skies had some interesting planes that you could build, none of them based on any real aircraft. It was typical weight/armament tradeoff type stuff. Fast planes couldn't have much firepower and had no bombs. There were some ground targets and air targets, the armored zeppelins were the most fun to try to shoot down. The banter before a mission was sorta retro and the back story was pretty kewl. All PG-rated. No blood or gore or guts or veins in your teeth.
I miss that game.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - who still wants a pony at August 21, 2020 07:58 PM (HaL55)
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231 Weasel, who do think is going to bring Insom the coffee.
You're already there too.
I'm just a little later with those mini cinnamon rolls
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2020 07:57 PM (1G0gF)
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Cinnamon rolls? Oh my.
You're already there too.
I'm just a little later with those mini cinnamon rolls
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2020 07:57 PM (1G0gF)
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Cinnamon rolls? Oh my.
Posted by: Weasel at August 21, 2020 07:58 PM (MVjcR)
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213
Same as he ever was
Same as he ever was
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (bCLt0)
https://tinyurl.com/y7pxs7m7
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:52 PM (zr5Kq)
Wow. Thanks runner.!! Takes me back, that does. Also, reminds me of a Pentecostal Tent Revival I once got taken to, for some reason.
Same as he ever was
Same as he ever was
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (bCLt0)
https://tinyurl.com/y7pxs7m7
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 07:52 PM (zr5Kq)
Wow. Thanks runner.!! Takes me back, that does. Also, reminds me of a Pentecostal Tent Revival I once got taken to, for some reason.
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:58 PM (bCLt0)
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:59 PM (vMCab)
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>>I'm not too terribly geeky about that. Crimson Skies had some interesting planes that you could build, none of them based on any real aircraft. It was typical weight/armament tradeoff type stuff. Fast planes couldn't have much firepower and had no bombs. There were some ground targets and air targets, the armored zeppelins were the most fun to try to shoot down. The banter before a mission was sorta retro and the back story was pretty kewl. All PG-rated. No blood or gore or guts or veins in your teeth.
Sounds like Defender. Man, I miss that game.
Sounds like Defender. Man, I miss that game.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 21, 2020 07:59 PM (MFVpO)
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I think he used to play basketball with that guy that was in that helicopter crash.
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 21, 2020 07:59 PM (pQbTS)
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Caesar, expanding the definition of what an EO can do is just lawlessness, yet another new(ish) form.
The DACA example is just brazen, and outlandish, in this respect.
Rule of law related to immigration and borders is becoming almost extinct. Presidents can rule by decree, courts can usurp constitutional authority from presidents, courts can ignore Congress in their rulings (even express limitations on their jurisdiction), states and municipalities can of course completely ignore or undermine enforcement of law in their jurisdictions.
Those without direct experience won't be as stunned by the resemblance to failed/corrupt/lawless foreign systems, but it's there.
The DACA example is just brazen, and outlandish, in this respect.
Rule of law related to immigration and borders is becoming almost extinct. Presidents can rule by decree, courts can usurp constitutional authority from presidents, courts can ignore Congress in their rulings (even express limitations on their jurisdiction), states and municipalities can of course completely ignore or undermine enforcement of law in their jurisdictions.
Those without direct experience won't be as stunned by the resemblance to failed/corrupt/lawless foreign systems, but it's there.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2020 07:59 PM (OTzUX)
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I'm waiting for the Outer Worlds to finally get a Steam release,
Horizon: Zero Dawn to get a patch to fix those issues, Cyberpunk 2077,
and to see if the Mass Effect Trilogy remaster is real and they actually
do a real fix of the ending.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (vMCab)
Horizon Zero Dawn Song/Video:
https://youtu.be/M_epoUlyzGM
Mass Effect 3 Song/Video:
https://youtu.be/hfelfyV8LwA
Miracle of Sound have a number of good tunes that are video game related.
I'm waiting for the Outer Worlds to finally get a Steam release,
Horizon: Zero Dawn to get a patch to fix those issues, Cyberpunk 2077,
and to see if the Mass Effect Trilogy remaster is real and they actually
do a real fix of the ending.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:49 PM (vMCab)
Horizon Zero Dawn Song/Video:
https://youtu.be/M_epoUlyzGM
Mass Effect 3 Song/Video:
https://youtu.be/hfelfyV8LwA
Miracle of Sound have a number of good tunes that are video game related.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2020 07:59 PM (ufFY8)
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Hmm Mass Effect 1 and 2, with the game mechanics of 3 would be outstanding.
I have well over 2000 hours of time in ME3 multiplayer, got to the point I was pretty good at it.
And then one day I just got bored with it and walked away.
I have well over 2000 hours of time in ME3 multiplayer, got to the point I was pretty good at it.
And then one day I just got bored with it and walked away.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 21, 2020 08:00 PM (5p7BC)
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Wow. Thanks runner.!! Takes me back, that does. Also, reminds me of a Pentecostal Tent Revival I once got taken to, for some reason.
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:58 PM (bCLt0)
Pentecostal ? are they like Baptists ?
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:58 PM (bCLt0)
Pentecostal ? are they like Baptists ?
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 08:00 PM (zr5Kq)
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>>>He also put me onto Cordwainer Smith, who has some very, very strange but very well-written stories.<<<<
"I tell you it is sad, it is more than sad, it is fearful--it is a dreadful thing to go into the Up and Out, to fly without flying, to drift between the stars as a moth may drift among the leaves on a summer night...."
The dude wrote poetry disguised as prose.
"I tell you it is sad, it is more than sad, it is fearful--it is a dreadful thing to go into the Up and Out, to fly without flying, to drift between the stars as a moth may drift among the leaves on a summer night...."
The dude wrote poetry disguised as prose.
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living) at August 21, 2020 08:00 PM (3DZIZ)
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Looking forward to next episode of Gundam Build Divers re:Rise as a very pissed off alien AI invades a gigantic virtual world full of serious Gundam freaks and 80 other AIs.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 21, 2020 08:00 PM (3yUsq)
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I sava da princessa. Get offa my lawn.
Posted by: Mario at August 21, 2020 08:00 PM (a1s18)
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I found a Hobo with Shotgun DVD at the Dollar Tree.
Posted by: Boss Moss
I must confess that I enjoyed that movie thoroughly.
Posted by: Boss Moss
I must confess that I enjoyed that movie thoroughly.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 21, 2020 08:00 PM (BM2fS)
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Oh, I don't have a game console either. So it'd need to be PC-based.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - who still wants a pony at August 21, 2020 08:01 PM (HaL55)
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Ace. For banning me. Revenge would be unbanning me. I'm pretty easy.
Posted by: freaked at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (heBAH)
D00d. You brought it on yourself. Learn from it.
Posted by: freaked at August 21, 2020 07:38 PM (heBAH)
D00d. You brought it on yourself. Learn from it.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at August 21, 2020 08:01 PM (ZSK0i)
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232 @197.
Flying-shooty games are a lot of fun. I wouldn't mind finding another one if they still make them these days.
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IL-2 Sturmovik is supposed to be good if you like realistic prop-plane combat.
Ace Combat 7 is for the "Realism? What's that?" crowd, with jets and missiles.
Posted by: junior at August 21, 2020 07:57 PM (OpsaK)
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Microsoft had a game - Fighter Ace?--that was a very early online WW2 sim. I think it split the difference between realism and arcade flying mechanics.
It was a lot of fun, but mostly because the center of the map between the four bases (American, British, German, Japanese) was just a hornets nest of people trying to chase each other in a circle.
No one would spend the time climbing to get their plane to elevation, so they'd be all sitting on each other's tail just barely above stall speed in one long horizontal turn.
Dropping in from above was a thing of beauty.
Flying-shooty games are a lot of fun. I wouldn't mind finding another one if they still make them these days.
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IL-2 Sturmovik is supposed to be good if you like realistic prop-plane combat.
Ace Combat 7 is for the "Realism? What's that?" crowd, with jets and missiles.
Posted by: junior at August 21, 2020 07:57 PM (OpsaK)
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Microsoft had a game - Fighter Ace?--that was a very early online WW2 sim. I think it split the difference between realism and arcade flying mechanics.
It was a lot of fun, but mostly because the center of the map between the four bases (American, British, German, Japanese) was just a hornets nest of people trying to chase each other in a circle.
No one would spend the time climbing to get their plane to elevation, so they'd be all sitting on each other's tail just barely above stall speed in one long horizontal turn.
Dropping in from above was a thing of beauty.
Posted by: TexasDan at August 21, 2020 08:01 PM (yL25O)
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218 Insom, you're going to have some really good memories to battle the bad ones shortly.
You are going to wake up and look out over hundreds of acres, coffee in hand and greet a whole bunch of the Horde.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2020 07:53 PM (1G0gF)
Ah...can't wait.
You are going to wake up and look out over hundreds of acres, coffee in hand and greet a whole bunch of the Horde.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2020 07:53 PM (1G0gF)
Ah...can't wait.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 08:01 PM (NWiLs)
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Sounds like Defender. Man, I miss that game.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 21, 2020 07:59 PM (MFVpO)
There is an arcade machine at my club that has all the 70's and 80's arcade games on it including Defender. I usually play Moon Patrol or Missile Command.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 21, 2020 07:59 PM (MFVpO)
There is an arcade machine at my club that has all the 70's and 80's arcade games on it including Defender. I usually play Moon Patrol or Missile Command.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 08:01 PM (2DOZq)
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Back in the day I loved playing Red Storm Rising.
Sneaking around in a sub torpedoing shit, or launching missiles.
Sneaking around in a sub torpedoing shit, or launching missiles.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2020 08:01 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 21, 2020 08:01 PM (d1uFV)
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He also put me onto Cordwainer Smith, who has some very, very strange but very well-written stories.
"I tell you it is sad, it is more than sad, it is fearful--it is a dreadful thing to go into the Up and Out, to fly without flying, to drift between the stars as a moth may drift among the leaves on a summer night...."
The dude wrote poetry disguised as prose.
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living)
He did, indeed.
"I tell you it is sad, it is more than sad, it is fearful--it is a dreadful thing to go into the Up and Out, to fly without flying, to drift between the stars as a moth may drift among the leaves on a summer night...."
The dude wrote poetry disguised as prose.
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living)
He did, indeed.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 21, 2020 08:01 PM (BM2fS)
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nothin like a nood
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar nazi and write supremacist at August 21, 2020 08:01 PM (J8nVw)
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243 Hmm Mass Effect 1 and 2, with the game mechanics of 3 would be outstanding.
I have well over 2000 hours of time in ME3 multiplayer, got to the point I was pretty good at it.
And then one day I just got bored with it and walked away.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 21, 2020 08:00 PM (5p7BC)
My dog is named Tali
I have well over 2000 hours of time in ME3 multiplayer, got to the point I was pretty good at it.
And then one day I just got bored with it and walked away.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 21, 2020 08:00 PM (5p7BC)
My dog is named Tali
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 08:01 PM (vMCab)
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244 Wow. Thanks runner.!! Takes me back, that does. Also, reminds me of a Pentecostal Tent Revival I once got taken to, for some reason.
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:58 PM (bCLt0)
Pentecostal ? are they like Baptists ?
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 08:00 PM (zr5Kq)
Hmmm. A little more " flamboyant" perhaps. And the music is decidedly better!!
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:58 PM (bCLt0)
Pentecostal ? are they like Baptists ?
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2020 08:00 PM (zr5Kq)
Hmmm. A little more " flamboyant" perhaps. And the music is decidedly better!!
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 08:02 PM (bCLt0)
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There is an arcade machine at my club that has all the 70's and 80's arcade games on it including Defender. I usually play Moon Patrol or Missile Command.
Nothing would make me happier than a proper machine with the right control to play Tempest.
Nothing would make me happier than a proper machine with the right control to play Tempest.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at August 21, 2020 08:02 PM (ZSK0i)
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238 Apparently you can get Crimson Skies to work on Windows 10.
https://tinyurl.com/y388xt8o
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:59 PM (vMCab)
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Oh man. I gotta try that.
wait.
I have not a joystick anymore....
https://tinyurl.com/y388xt8o
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 07:59 PM (vMCab)
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Oh man. I gotta try that.
wait.
I have not a joystick anymore....
Posted by: TexasDan at August 21, 2020 08:03 PM (yL25O)
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Oh man. I gotta try that.
wait.
I have not a joystick anymore....
Posted by: TexasDan at August 21, 2020 08:03 PM (yL25O)
I have one somewhere. And you can still buy them.
wait.
I have not a joystick anymore....
Posted by: TexasDan at August 21, 2020 08:03 PM (yL25O)
I have one somewhere. And you can still buy them.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 08:04 PM (vMCab)
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We've *always* had people who hated Capitalism and hated other Americans, and who craved power for themselves.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2020 07:53 PM (V2Yro)
We did and we always will. That's not the point.
Marxism gives these malcontent pieces of shit who suck at life a "rational" basis to air their baseless grievances.
Strip them of the forums where they can express their complaints, and their impact on the rest of us is neutralized.
Disappear a few marxists, wait until the next wave takes their place and loudly self-identifies, lather, rinse, and repeat, and any country can be marxist-free within three or four such cycles.
That is the lesson Pinochet bestowed upon the world.
Th
We've *always* had people who hated Capitalism and hated other Americans, and who craved power for themselves.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2020 07:53 PM (V2Yro)
We did and we always will. That's not the point.
Marxism gives these malcontent pieces of shit who suck at life a "rational" basis to air their baseless grievances.
Strip them of the forums where they can express their complaints, and their impact on the rest of us is neutralized.
Disappear a few marxists, wait until the next wave takes their place and loudly self-identifies, lather, rinse, and repeat, and any country can be marxist-free within three or four such cycles.
That is the lesson Pinochet bestowed upon the world.
Th
Posted by: fktheleft at August 21, 2020 08:04 PM (lvXKd)
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I rehash things some times, and while the events are unforgetable, they don't diminish me in my own eyes the way they used to, Insom. At the time, I felt horrible and ashamed of my circumstances. Those feelings are sort of extinguished. Part of that, I hate to admit is, is due to social media. I can see where they are and where I am and I really experienced no long term damage. A few of them are in circumstances that make me feel as though a revenge was already visited on their lives. And that doesn't make me feel better, and I'm glad it not because of any thing I did.
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2020 07:56 PM (ONvIw)
Oof. Sounds very rough. I am glad you aren't feeling those things as sharply anymore. Not feeling like less of a person is really challenging sometimes when you believed to your very core for a long time that you were basically worthless.
Posted by: CN at August 21, 2020 07:56 PM (ONvIw)
Oof. Sounds very rough. I am glad you aren't feeling those things as sharply anymore. Not feeling like less of a person is really challenging sometimes when you believed to your very core for a long time that you were basically worthless.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 08:05 PM (NWiLs)
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Also, reminds me of a Pentecostal Tent Revival I once got taken to, for some reason.
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:58 PM (bCLt0)
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Just read the first 8 pages of Blood Meridian already!
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2020 07:58 PM (bCLt0)
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Just read the first 8 pages of Blood Meridian already!
Posted by: Gilded Age II at August 21, 2020 08:08 PM (BRkq2)
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68 I do like a good FPS but my PS4 is bricked. Boooo.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:22 PM (NWiLs)
STONE THE INFIDEL!
I Hate playing FPS on console. It is like eating with chopsticks. Sure, you can do it, but it is a whole different game on keyboard and mouse.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 21, 2020 07:22 PM (NWiLs)
STONE THE INFIDEL!
I Hate playing FPS on console. It is like eating with chopsticks. Sure, you can do it, but it is a whole different game on keyboard and mouse.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2020 08:09 PM (cI3Q7)
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A retro arcade place opened up nearby, but wanted to charge everyone by the hour instead of per game.
I told them they'd be out of business in six months and they were.
(Their idea *might've* made sense from a business end, and probably would be an okay deal for the customer, but they didn't understand the nature of arcades -- people come and go. Might play 20 games, Or might play one game and leave.)
I told them they'd be out of business in six months and they were.
(Their idea *might've* made sense from a business end, and probably would be an okay deal for the customer, but they didn't understand the nature of arcades -- people come and go. Might play 20 games, Or might play one game and leave.)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 21, 2020 08:09 PM (MFVpO)
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I saw on Steam a Samurai Jack game that's coming out: "Battle For Time". I just can't. I was a big fan of the cartoon. But what the cartoon network did in the end was terrible. I know, I know, just a cartoon character, but it was criminal. Not going to spoil it for you if you haven't seen the end but they give him everything he wanted and them break him.
If the video game is Jack hunting down the animators to undo his final episode then I'll buy.
If the video game is Jack hunting down the animators to undo his final episode then I'll buy.
Posted by: banana Dream at August 21, 2020 08:09 PM (l6b3d)
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Freaked: a couple of weeks ago I got the accidental MUMR treatment too; assumed pixyware thought I was spam.
You aren't banned or you'd be getting a message saying something like your ISP has been banned and i would be impossible to comment at all.
I complained one comment at a time before it was disappeared and whoever was running the ONT -- I think MisHum that night and not Dave -- and he did something to fix it without me having to contact Ace or Pixy -- something I've had to do in the past after accidental true bannings.
You aren't banned or you'd be getting a message saying something like your ISP has been banned and i would be impossible to comment at all.
I complained one comment at a time before it was disappeared and whoever was running the ONT -- I think MisHum that night and not Dave -- and he did something to fix it without me having to contact Ace or Pixy -- something I've had to do in the past after accidental true bannings.
Posted by: andycanuck at August 21, 2020 08:11 PM (an7Mv)
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Apparently you can get Crimson Skies to work on Windows 10.
Kewl. Thanks buzzion. I'll see what kind of success I have with that. None of the standard Win10 compatibility settings gets it to run that I've found so far.
Kewl. Thanks buzzion. I'll see what kind of success I have with that. None of the standard Win10 compatibility settings gets it to run that I've found so far.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - who still wants a pony at August 21, 2020 08:12 PM (HaL55)
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I completely understand why they are angry this is pretty much the game plan of the left. Commies\socialist.
Posted by: USNtakim at August 21, 2020 08:12 PM (0OmEj)
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@Insomniac-Had a guy that f'ed with me on two separate occasions in my twenties. Two separate times within a year I bumped into this guy I was by myself and drunk AF. I've never really been a drinker let alone get wasted. Probably within that year I ran into him was the only two times I was drunk. It was over a mouthy girlfriend of his that gave me shit for something a friend of mine did which was trivial in itself. He blindsided me with a shove at a local club parking lot in Reno that knocked me on my ass. I let it roll off my back but the SOB confronted me again, drunk, alone while he was with a group of friends. Never ran into him again but always swore if I did, and was sober, we were going to have words. I would see I'm on occasion in his vehicle but never on foot and I wasn't about to chase him down. Ten years passed and I ended up behind this guy at a left hand turn signal on the outskirts of Reno. I honked my horn and signaled for him to pull over. Both of us got out of our trucks and he was clueless as to who I was and was wondering if he had a flat. I asked if he recognized me and he said "no, should I". I explained what he had done and that right now he has a chance to confront me sober. I let him know I intended to fight right there. Years hadn't been kind to the guy as he was chubby and out of shape and wasn't surrounded by friends. He actually apologized, said he did stupid shit back then. He said thanks for giving him the chance he didn't give. He was pretty sincere in my opinion and it was squashed right there.
Posted by: JROD at August 21, 2020 08:12 PM (0jZnq)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - who still wants a pony at August 21, 2020 08:14 PM (HaL55)
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267 A retro arcade place opened up nearby, but wanted to charge everyone by the hour instead of per game.
I told them they'd be out of business in six months and they were.
(Their idea *might've* made sense from a business end, and probably would be an okay deal for the customer, but they didn't understand the nature of arcades -- people come and go. Might play 20 games, Or might play one game and leave.)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 21, 2020 08:09 PM (MFVpO)
Dave & Busters does really well in my area. Old video games, new video games, and... beer.
I told them they'd be out of business in six months and they were.
(Their idea *might've* made sense from a business end, and probably would be an okay deal for the customer, but they didn't understand the nature of arcades -- people come and go. Might play 20 games, Or might play one game and leave.)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 21, 2020 08:09 PM (MFVpO)
Dave & Busters does really well in my area. Old video games, new video games, and... beer.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 21, 2020 08:14 PM (wGeit)
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269 Freaked: a couple of weeks ago I got the accidental MUMR treatment too; assumed pixyware thought I was spam.
You aren't banned or you'd be getting a message saying something like your ISP has been banned and i would be impossible to comment at all.
I complained one comment at a time before it was disappeared and whoever was running the ONT -- I think MisHum that night and not Dave -- and he did something to fix it without me having to contact Ace or Pixy -- something I've had to do in the past after accidental true bannings.
Posted by: andycanuck at August 21, 2020 08:11 PM (an7Mv)
No. freaked got banned. Go look at the Goodyear threat yesterday. Ticked off ace. So someone is doing a scrub of their comments because nothing has been said that they're allowed back yet.
You aren't banned or you'd be getting a message saying something like your ISP has been banned and i would be impossible to comment at all.
I complained one comment at a time before it was disappeared and whoever was running the ONT -- I think MisHum that night and not Dave -- and he did something to fix it without me having to contact Ace or Pixy -- something I've had to do in the past after accidental true bannings.
Posted by: andycanuck at August 21, 2020 08:11 PM (an7Mv)
No. freaked got banned. Go look at the Goodyear threat yesterday. Ticked off ace. So someone is doing a scrub of their comments because nothing has been said that they're allowed back yet.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 08:14 PM (vMCab)
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I'm so suspicious of anyone in the entertainment or tech industries that I take this as an attempt to claim that the last step in Soviet subversion is... Trump.
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I agree with this view, however, getting the uninformed to know about Yuri Bezmenov is a win. It is a defeat for Communism which is why the left is freaking out.
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I agree with this view, however, getting the uninformed to know about Yuri Bezmenov is a win. It is a defeat for Communism which is why the left is freaking out.
Posted by: William Eaton at August 21, 2020 08:14 PM (cfkTP)
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#275 Thanks, buzzion. My mistake; I guess he's using a VPN to comment here and it's not the MUMR treatment. Cheers.
Cheers.Posted by: andycanuck at August 21, 2020 08:17 PM (an7Mv)
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The first computerized game I really fell in love with was Harpoon, which gave Tom Clancy a computer credit. That was an *awesome* simulation, especially for a DOS based system. I fought the battle of the North Atlantic over and over, my favorite simulation was the start of Gulf War 1, and you're in command of the USAF strike forces. I wondered if anybody else remembered that one.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2020 08:18 PM (V2Yro)
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I told them they'd be out of business in six months and they were.
(Their idea *might've* made sense from a business end, and probably would be an okay deal for the customer, but they didn't understand the nature of arcades -- people come and go. Might play 20 games, Or might play one game and leave.)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 21, 2020 08:09 PM (MFVpO)
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I'm surprised. There are two of those arcades not far from me and they're doing very well. They serve hot dogs, pizza and soft drinks, and also host kiddie birthday parties which is pretty popular too.
(Their idea *might've* made sense from a business end, and probably would be an okay deal for the customer, but they didn't understand the nature of arcades -- people come and go. Might play 20 games, Or might play one game and leave.)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 21, 2020 08:09 PM (MFVpO)
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I'm surprised. There are two of those arcades not far from me and they're doing very well. They serve hot dogs, pizza and soft drinks, and also host kiddie birthday parties which is pretty popular too.
Posted by: IrishEi at August 21, 2020 08:19 PM (sGotD)
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278 The first computerized game I really fell in love with was Harpoon, which gave Tom Clancy a computer credit. That was an *awesome* simulation, especially for a DOS based system. I fought the battle of the North Atlantic over and over, my favorite simulation was the start of Gulf War 1, and you're in command of the USAF strike forces. I wondered if anybody else remembered that one.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2020 08:18 PM (V2Yro)
I had that one. So bug ridden it was completely unplayable when it was first released. But after the patch it was really quite fun.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2020 08:18 PM (V2Yro)
I had that one. So bug ridden it was completely unplayable when it was first released. But after the patch it was really quite fun.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 21, 2020 08:20 PM (wGeit)
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There is an arcade machine at my club that has all the 70's and 80's arcade games on it including Defender. I usually play Moon Patrol or Missile Command.
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 08:01 PM (2DOZq)
Galaga!!! I still remember the music.
Xevious was awesome too.
But the best of all was Joust! You get to fly an Ostrich!
Posted by: Weaning is hard at August 21, 2020 08:01 PM (2DOZq)
Galaga!!! I still remember the music.
Xevious was awesome too.
But the best of all was Joust! You get to fly an Ostrich!
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2020 08:21 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 21, 2020 08:21 PM (5p7BC)
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282 My dog is named Tali
Vas Normandy?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 21, 2020 08:21 PM (5p7BC)
Joker's comment about beauty pagents is spot on here.
Vas Normandy?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 21, 2020 08:21 PM (5p7BC)
Joker's comment about beauty pagents is spot on here.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2020 08:23 PM (cI3Q7)
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I especially like the games out of the SF workshop Hardthruster. Gloryhole Hero and Call of PrEP are the best!
I especially like the games out of the SF workshop Hardthruster. Gloryhole Hero and Call of PrEP are the best!
Posted by: Barky Ofuckstick at August 21, 2020 08:33 PM (d6DSt)
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'Genuine double-rectified busthead.' Have a drink.
Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2020 08:38 PM (XhWtx)
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278 The first computerized game I really fell in love with was Harpoon, which gave Tom Clancy a computer credit. That was an *awesome* simulation, especially for a DOS based system. I fought the battle of the North Atlantic over and over, my favorite simulation was the start of Gulf War 1, and you're in command of the USAF strike forces. I wondered if anybody else remembered that one.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2020 08:18 PM (V2Yro)
I that one, too. A sister company of ours makes the great grandchild of that game.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2020 08:18 PM (V2Yro)
I that one, too. A sister company of ours makes the great grandchild of that game.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at August 21, 2020 08:43 PM (8C7+r)
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Okay, when "Greyhound" comes out, I'm in!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at August 21, 2020 09:13 PM (2LIfj)
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So someone is doing a scrub of their comments because nothing has been said that they're allowed back yet.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 08:14 PM (vMCab)
Ponder that. Who takes the damn time to do that. That ain't Ace. That's Dildo.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2020 08:14 PM (vMCab)
Ponder that. Who takes the damn time to do that. That ain't Ace. That's Dildo.
Posted by: Round and Round We Go at August 21, 2020 09:18 PM (Arprc)
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Video games are for children. Go climb a mountain. Go float the Snake. Go fly a plane. Go DO SOMETHING.
Posted by: Chick Maldonado at August 21, 2020 10:30 PM (+VHbd)
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