Posts made by Thenomain

It's also possible that anyone who wants to talk about a game outside of its advertising thread can start a thread in the Constructive forum for it. Or in Hog Pit. It's all good.

@ortallus said in Good TV:

@thenomain said in Good TV:

@theonceler said in Good TV:it's not set up to do anything that pushes the comfort level of the audience.

Are you suggesting that doing so is inherently bad?

No.

I can think of several shows that are all about that, and are quite popular.

So can I.

@theonceler said in Good TV:

@thenomain said in Good TV:

The Good Place is still that good. I like any show that doesn’t back down from a challenging plot, even if that plot isn’t trying to push boundaries or rip from the headlines.

Depends on what you mean by 'push boundaries'. The Good Place is probably the most educational show on broadcast TV.

I learn more from Colbert and Meyers, but I mean that it's not set up to do anything that pushes the comfort level of the audience. It may do so anyhow, but it's a bit late to be complaining on how edgy Philippa Foot's thought-experiments are.

@ortallus said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

@thenomain

Do you understand English? By your own fucking definition, you're asking them to "justify" their actions.

That supposes that their actions are wrong.

I am asked to justify my correct actions to put people at ease that they were the correct action.

What should the officers have done differently? You still haven't answered that, and until you can, your arguments hold no sway over me.

I don't care what you think. You care what I think. Why, I have no idea.

Is that because of any action taken by the police that was out of line, unjustified, or against policy?

Not as has been reported by any media that I've been exposed to.

So you are calling me names based on your limited experience?

Uhhuh.

So you're challenging me to do the police's jobs, when you are not qualified to do the same?

Uhhuh.

The word we're looking for here is "hypocrite".

The guilty party is the angry caller who created the situation and gave the police the false information. Period.

Presumes that there is only one guilty party. This is not evident by what little either of us know. You are putting someone in the clear with too little information, while I am asking for proof of responsibility.

YOU STUPID ARROGANT FUCKING CUNT. THAT IS A DIRECT QUOTE FROM YOUR OWN GODDAMN POST. ITS NOT PUTTING WORDS IN YOUR MOUTH IF YOU FUCKING TYPED IT YOU SHITHEAD BITCH.

Um... @Ganymede? Someone?

@ortallus said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

@thenomain You want accountability for the death of an innocent bystander, then hold accountable those that are guilty.

My turn: Have you even read my posts? I'm accusing you of being too emotionally involved to make rational responses defending your position.

If you can't give any examples of what the police did wrong

They killed an innocent, unarmed bystander.

You can say that there should be an investigation, but holding someone accountable pre-supposes guilt.

Does it?

ac·count·a·ble
əˈkoun(t)əb(ə)l
adjective

1. (of a person, organization, or institution) required or expected to justify actions or decisions; responsible.

No, it pretty much doesn't.

@ortallus said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

@thenomain Okay, but did you read THE WHOLE post?

Yes. I am slightly insulted that you feel this statement constitutes an argument.

I'd like to see what you think should have been done different given the actual information and situation they had, as I described it.

I am not a policeman. I am not a lawyer. I am not a judge. I am not a lawmaker. I am a citizen, and as a citizen I would like to see accountability for the death of an innocent bystander.

This is something I said, and I will say it one more time because you are taking it as a challenge that everyone should be able to come to the same conclusion as you have.

I even handed you the benefit of the doubt that the courts may say no harm no foul. I am not answering your question in any other manner, in part because I've already answered your question twice. I am not the judge. I am not the jury. I am not even the man on the scene, who I'm sure made a very tough decision but making tough decisions is part of his job. Everyone who has a job where they make tough decisions is held accountable for them. I don't see the death of an innocent to be any different.

@ortallus said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

So why the fuck would you blame the police, over the caller?

I would not.

Both are to blame.

The caller for filing false claims to the police.

The police are wrong for shooting an unarmed man.

Both must be held accountable.

What "accountable" is doesn't have to be the same. I am happy to let the courts decide what action deserves what punishment; this is a lot of their job. I believe both require punishment, and strongly believe both should be done so publicly, in the brightest light possible, to maintain or re-gain public trust.

@cupcake said in Cupcake Dream Project - Feedback Wanted.:

I've been considering podcasts in lieu of blogs, but my concern would be...what do I talk about? If it's too random, it won't hold anyone's interest.

Talk about what it is to realize this project, talk about the trip both literal and even getting there, talk about your mother, talk about what it is to be Jewish. Hell, talk politics if you want, because being religious in these days is to be political.

You have your focus, just stay around that topic and you should be fine.

You can't make anyone listen, but you can pay attention to what feedback you get. Where that feedback and your interests intersect, that's the feedback to act upon.

@theonceler

Pinging @mudrammer just in case. He does very occasionally check in here, tho it'd probably be easier to get ahold of him via his developer site.

@ganymede

I didn’t mention that I hope like hell that the police get their pants sued off for shooting an entirely innocent kid, because I was trying to keep it to the original topic, but as we are here I hope that the police get their their pants sued off for shooting and killing an entirely innocent kid. I hope the policeman who did the shooting gets demoted at least.

As for why nobody is saying this is probably because most of us don’t know what the police are allowed to and supposed to do. The police up until very recent years have been very good at dodging responsibility for shootings all across America, and if you can’t trust the cops and lawyers and lawmakers, then who can you trust?

Five second review of The Post: Not bad but not very good, stars Meryl Streep as amazing and for some reason Tom Hanks’ close-ups. (Insert dramatic sting here.)

@arkandel

You are asking us to potentially ignore someone and miss out on posts like that. Let me ask you: How can you ask us to choose between our fragile egos and Superman in a sombrero?!

I think the answer is simple: You’ve just convinced us to not ignore anyone, ever.

The Good Place is still that good. I like any show that doesn’t back down from a challenging plot, even if that plot isn’t trying to push boundaries or rip from the headlines.

You people as a group are nicer than any community theatre I’ve ever been involved in.

Thank you for that.

@surreality said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

@ortallus I completely agree that this should be a wakeup call for these idiots.

I hope it is.

The person who did a recent swatting says he didn't do anything wrong because it's not his fault that the police shot first.

So no, no it is not. People will live in the bubble they want to live within.

This is never going to stop being true:

I personally think that removed from the social interaction and social ostracism of a group of people you know, or want to know, that there is a far lesser reason to take care of what you say or do. Our culture as a whole is just now understanding the deeper consequences of the online community, even though we started to get the hang of it the year the first kids who grew up not knowing a world without Facebook went to college or started applying for jobs outside of it. They discovered how what they do matters.

We also live in an age where personal responsibility has been hand-waved by people in authority, and I don't mean that to start a political rant about cops or the president, but a lot of you grew up with parents who screamed at teachers and schools for not properly raising their own kids. Hell, I think the (erroneous, IMO) viewpoint of hipsters being lazy and having no sense of the future was taught to them, an act of supreme irony from the 'Me Generation'.

It is hard, in a hobby of games, to find people who believe that holding someone else accountable goes anywhere past banning them from their game. This has always been a valid response; we are nobody's parents but our own children. It would be nice if we held each other more accountable in a 'punish in a way to teach' manner, but I can't fault anyone who doesn't want to.

@tnp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Maybe we won. But was it really winning?

I'd call it a Pyrrhic victory at best.

We can make Pyrrhic pretty deviant, too.

That's it, @Admiral said it's over, so it's over. Turn the lights off and go home.

:eyeroll:

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I referenced goatse today when 'weird internet shit' came up at work. (The younger guys were talking about when they were first shown 2girls1cup.)

A coworker said 'I don't want to know about that crazy shit from back in your day.'

You know what this means?

That the Internet is as deviant as it can ever get. We made it to the top of that hill before anyone else. Everyone after our generation will be following in our footsteps.

We won.

@surreality

Here's your honorary Kids These Days pin. You are officially old.