Nov 14, 2015, 8:31 PM
Reinstalling SWTOR might be dangerous for my MUing habit. 
I forgot how much I really enjoyed this game, and it's super nice stress relief, which I very VERY much need right now. Simple pleasures!
RL Anger
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I have a friend in Ireland who is playing Fallout 4 right now.
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@Insomnia said:
I have a friend in Ireland who is playing Fallout 4 right now.
Fuck that dude. Fuck him all the way around. >:/
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Apparently it's going to take 572 days to unpack Fallout 4.
Also grr that my timezone isn't apparently a part of North America, and all things revolve around EST.
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Aw, it's so CUTE when Americans are given a taste of their own treatment of the rest of the world!
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I'm Canadian. Atlantic isn't a timezone, according to Steam.
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I apologize, then. I assumed you were one of the west coasters whining about EST-centrism.
You want fun? Enter CST into the time zone field. It appears some twats somewhere think CST is GMT-6 instead of the proper GMT+8.
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Central siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide.
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@WTFE Is that a year round thing, or just a around now and spring sort of thing with all the time changes? I know Canada and the US change times at the same time, but the rest of the world is different. So sometimes there were 3 hours between dad and I, and sometimes there were 5 for a few weeks.
That was fun!
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@WTFE said:
You want fun? Enter CST into the time zone field. It appears some twats somewhere think CST is GMT-6 instead of the proper GMT+8.
Try entering εδΊ¬ζΆι΄ instead.
Unfortunately time zone names are not standardized. They create and remove ones almost every year. And trying to maintain time modules between multiple operating systems is a major pain in the ass. -
Reinstalling SWTOR might be dangerous for my MUing habit.
I forgot how much I really enjoyed this game, and it's super nice stress relief, which I very VERY much need right now. Simple pleasures! -
If anyone I know from online is trying to friend me in Skype, at least tell me who I would know you as or I'm going to deny it. Because dang, I have no idea why I'm getting one request a day from all different people. Bots, probably.
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I really hate how tragedies like what happened in Paris brings out the stupid in people who make fucking stupid, inappropriate comments.
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@Apu
I hate it that my country hasn't gotten through its thick skull that the current foreign policy that we have been implementing isn't beneficial and that we are responsible for ISIS/Da'esh. It isn't just a Bush or Obama/Democrat or Republican thing. They all have had a hand in it because we are afraid to tell Israelis "no" and tell the Gulf States, "Oh, to hell with you all."
I'm going to say something very un-PC. Might hurt some feelings. But last night I was watching the news and the British Prime Minister David Cameron mentioned in a speech that he was "shocked" that this terrorist attack happened. Hmm. Shocking is usually used to convey a feeling of dismay or unbelief. I don't find it shocking and neither do my friends (both Christians and Muslims) in Syria and Lebanon. Do we ever go a day in the world without an "Allahu Akbar kaboom!" ? So I don't see how it could be shocking. Now it would be shocking if there was a coordinated terrorist attack and it was done by Quakers or Baha'is.
Ya'll remember Star Trek: Voyager? There was an episode (Scorpion) when Janeway wanted to go through Borg space and so she starts negotiating with them for an alliance. Chakotay warns her that the Borg will eventually turn on her. He tells her the story of Scorpion and Fox.
A scorpion was walking along the bank of a river, wondering how to get to the other side. Suddenly, he saw a fox. He asked the fox to take him on his back across the river.
The fox said, "No. If I do that, you'll sting me, and I'll drown."
The scorpion assured him, "If I do that, we'll both drown."
The fox thought about it and finally agreed. So the scorpion climbed up on his back, and the fox began to swim. But halfway across the river, the scorpion stung him. As poison filled his veins, the fox turned to the scorpion and said, "Why did you do that? Now you'll drown, too."
"I couldn't help it," said the scorpion. "It's my nature."
But the majority of the Western world isn't living in reality right now, Apu. We lack convictions (at least, my nation does). The majority of the Western world is worried about living comfortably, jerking off to porn, and playing Fallout IV. We will probably just get together, change our Facebook profile pictures to French flag, and vocally condemn these naughty, naughty terrorists. Meanwhile, the explosions will continue.
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On agreeing with @BigDaddyAmin ::
Western World concerning the Eastern World, "Let them eat cake."
Hey, Marie, they can't afford cake. They are not like you and never will be. Using them for their labor (in the analogy, really the land and oil) is the problem.
This cake that you want them to eat, you cannot also have this cake at the same time.
(Mixing metaphors is my specialty.)
βIf you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.β
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@BigDaddyAmin said:
But the majority of the Western world isn't living in reality right now, Apu. We lack convictions (at least, my nation does). The majority of the Western world is worried about living comfortably, jerking off to porn, and playing Fallout IV. We will probably just get together, change our Facebook profile pictures to French flag, and vocally condemn these naughty, naughty terrorists. Meanwhile, the explosions will continue.
You might say that the greatest sin is to have convictions.
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@Thenomain said:
On agreeing with @BigDaddyAmin ::
Western World concerning the Eastern World, "Let them eat cake."
Hey, Marie, they can't afford cake. They are not like you and never will be. Using them for their labor (in the analogy, really the land and oil) is the problem.
This cake that you want them to eat, you cannot also have this cake at the same time.
(Mixing metaphors is my specialty.)
I think Marie Antoinette never said that. It is a quote by Rousseau who said "a great princess" said this. Later, with the famines breaking out in Paris, it was attributed to her. But anyway, your point is well said.
As someone who has been to Arab countries, lived amongst Arabs, speaking their language, eating their food, and observed their culture, I have come to realize it is an ademocratic culture. They respect authority. They honor strength. They are tribal. Individual rights generally aren't respected. This is why Bashar al-Assad is, despite what Western media portrays, is overwhelmingly popular in Syria. This is why his dad's face painted on the side of vehicles and his portrait is framed in living rooms. Hafez drug Syria into the 20th Century kicking and screaming, and whoever was in his way got fucked up.
This isn't a bad thing. It makes them different. It is kind of like expecting Klingons to be feminist Green Party anarcho collectivists. It isn't going to happen.
That seems to be the goal of the Western world right now. To quote Homer Simpson, the way to happiness is to "never try."
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I've been sitting here, trying to formulate a response to what has been said since my first post but I find myself unable to. I don't know much about the Middle East or its culture, what little I do know being Americanized news reports on ISIS and other similar groups and all that, which makes me pretty damn ignorant. So I think I'll just sit here and nod while wishing all of it all would just stop.
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Unfortunately, it won't. This is a clash of cultures, to be honest. The Byzantines faced it and they died out in 1453. At least they took a stand. We won't because we are stupid enough to fight wars for other people who don't have our vested interests at heart but instead keep us supplied with cheap oil to fuel our cars, iPhones, porn, and Fallout 4. Kind of makes Aldous Huxley's "scent organs"and "feelies" look like Family Circus, huh?
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@BigDaddyAmin said:
As someone who has been to Arab countries, lived amongst Arabs, speaking their language, eating their food, and observed their culture, I have come to realize it is an ademocratic culture. They respect authority. They honor strength. They are tribal. Individual rights generally aren't respected.
Which is why toppling their strong leaders threw the region into chaos, destabilizing and crippling it. Which is why I rolled my eyes at all the cheering for the "Arab Spring," because I knew exactly what would happen, and it did. I would bet it was intentionally caused.
The thing to take very seriously is that their culture is alien to us. There's an intrinsic human tendency to perceive things through the prism of our own culture, and it makes people interpret theirs as if it were the same, only a bit charmingly backward. That is a foolish mistake.
There are no good solutions here. There will be serious wars eventually. Solutions which would let the Western world remain the "good guys" in their own eyes, and maintain their efforts for tolerance, are doomed to fail.
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Which is why we should have left he Husseins alone in the first place. Yeah. Uday was a monster. But he was a monster in the sense that Joffrey is a monster. Joffrey might be slapping Sansa with a bumpaddle while jerking off, but generally he's going to leave a peasant alone in peace.
And in general culture clash.
One of the shocks that several people I traveled with had when we were visiting Syria five years ago (yes, I have visited Syria) was when we were visiting Ma'aloula, which is a Christian monastery (now blown up by Daesh. Yay!) for women and a girls orphanage. We were traveling with a girl who was a recovering anorexic and every dinner was a nightmare for her since Arabs tend to go all out for visitors. She refused to eat some dish the nuns served and I could overhear the abbess shouting at the nun who had cooked the food. When the girl asked me why the abbess was scolding the other nun, I said, "Because you won't eat. The abbess says you won't eat because she thinks something is wrong with the food." It was then I said what Indiana Jones said to Willie Scott in the Temple of Doom: "You are insulting them and embarrassing us all. Eat." To quote Lewis Black, "they...are not....of us."