The CWAL Rubber Room

CWAL should purchase a Yule log this year. [NT] - Rotten 16:23:31 12018-11-20
- Perhaps you'll purchase a CWAL log this year instead. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 18:00:24 12018-11-20
  - ... [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 21:32:28 12018-11-20
  - Please do not expose the CWAL Log to open flames or unregulated heat sources. Do not inhale any fumes, vapours and/or smoke the CWAL Log may emit, exude or off-gas. Any damages caused by exposing a CWAL Log to a heat source are solely the responsibility of the bearer. Please do not expose the CWAL log to bears. Bears are considered an unregulated heat source. [NT] - CWAL Log Warning Label 20:12:45 12018-11-20
Hey, anyone want to chime in on a highly politically-sensitive economics topic?? - Dorg 12:01:03 12018-11-20
- I should submit myself to a warlord's harem, ahead of this financial apocalypse, just to be safe. [NT] - Paradox 20:17:55 12018-11-20
  - haha, now I'm imagining an area in the financially- and environmentally-desolate backcountry of Nevada full of violent financial apocalypse cultists [NT] - Dorg 22:37:42 12018-11-20
[VIDS] The Opinion Rhapsody - TheDeamon 00:40:39 12018-11-16
Goodnight sweet prince. You were truly the master of your universe. Excelsior. - Tssha 22:43:24 12018-11-12
- In his honour, I present three minutes of him being totally savage to Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld. - Tssha 22:48:04 12018-11-12
  - Yeah, I love just how continuously unimpressed he was. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 14:38:14 12018-11-18
I deleted my Rubber Room bookmark. - Ravil 21:09:09 12018-11-12
- I'm still alive, too. [NT] - Paradox 19:46:11 12018-11-13
  - Fungi is pretty tough to kill, unless Vector has his toys out. [NT] - TheDeamon 22:43:23 12018-11-15
  - I'm not even sure I believe me, let alone you. [NT] - Ravil 12:13:43 12018-11-14
    - That'aboy Ravil. Keep them eyes open. [NT] - Paradox 22:09:52 12018-11-14
      - #WokeAF [NT] - Ravil 01:45:22 12018-11-15
  - And we are thankful because yay doxy [NT] - Lothos 21:46:37 12018-11-13
    - And may we all give thanks to the Thanksgiving day gibbon. The ThanksGibbon. [NT] - Paradox 22:15:18 12018-11-14
      - i would celebrate the hell out of the thanksgibbon, not gonna lie [NT] - Lothos 03:32:58 12018-11-15
- I had just assumed you were busy because Baby! Also I'm glad to hear she's healthy and properly scary after the initial medical issues. [NT] - Fron 00:55:34 12018-11-13
  - Da. Made sense he was gone, glad he's here now. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 16:33:01 12018-11-13
  - Yep that was my thought too: baby = probably less internet shenanigans time [NT] - Lothos 15:57:06 12018-11-13
- Yeah, I'd noticed, but didn't say anything (and that was only because I wanted to run a video by you, about the Maginot Line...and I couldn't find a way to direct message you). In any case, you're not the only one that avoids places because of embarrassment and the fear that your absence has been noticed. But I can say for myself I'm just glad you're back. [NT] - Tssha 22:32:54 12018-11-12
- YAY YOU'RE ALIVE also thank you for awesome unexpected Internet Presents [NT] - Lothos 22:17:07 12018-11-12
[VIDS] The trailer for the new Pokemon movie looks amazing and I don't know how to deal with it. Ryan Reynolds is voicing a Pikachu. How did anyone convince Nintendo to sign off on this? - Fron 19:13:11 12018-11-12
- It's really thrown a lot of things into question for me. I can't process these emotions. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 16:35:44 12018-11-13
  - I MEAN PSYDUCK IS THERE TOO [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 16:36:35 12018-11-13
    - (See what I mean?) [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 16:37:18 12018-11-13
- I don't know, but it is amazing and I can't wait (even though I just found out, like, NOW). - Tssha 22:39:10 12018-11-12
  - Also, I played the Detective Pikachu game and I am not embarrassed to admit that. Love seeing it turned into something so awesome. [NT] - Tssha 22:53:35 12018-11-12
IT IS CWAL DAY. [NT] - Fron 00:33:15 12018-11-12
- I missed it! Noooo! [NT] - Frito 13:33:46 12018-11-13
- Legal in every way. [NT] - Ravage! 11:29:30 12018-11-13
- HAIL! HAIL! [NT] - Forks 23:30:06 12018-11-12
- Let us celebrate the only way we know how: With a song in our heart, and shoes on our hands. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 21:05:16 12018-11-12
- I am increasingly delighted and mindblown that we're still here. I wasn't convinced I'd be alive by now when CWAL started and it seems aeons ago. WHEE! [NT] - Lothos 14:40:39 12018-11-12
- NO MORE YEARS. NO MORE YEARS. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 11:45:48 12018-11-12
- WHAT IS DEAD MAY NEVER DIE [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 11:41:29 12018-11-12
- [carries garbage bin] Huh? No! [blam] [NT] - Mana 11:38:35 12018-11-12
[VIDS] If anyone's interested in a simple, well designed twin-stick shooter rogue-like THING, check out Overwhelm. It picks a clear target and then nails the implementation, and it has a distinctly Oppressive, Claustrophobic Vibe if people want that on top of just existing in 2018. - Lothos 15:19:16 12018-11-10
Re: Destiny 2: The one thing about this game that upsets me the most: [text inside] - Psycho Sam! 20:38:48 12018-11-09
- See, the issue is that they're trying to scrub, instead of just torching it all. - Legacy 13:48:04 12018-11-10
  - I'm sure a thermo-nuclear fire would do wonders on cleansing the area. [NT] - TheDeamon 18:58:59 12018-11-10
  - I feel like it would be very satisfying to go after it with a pickaxe, but there's just so much of it, it would get old very quickly. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 13:59:27 12018-11-10
- What if they use greasestrip? [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 09:00:13 12018-11-10
[LINK] Blizzard is remastering Warcraft 3 now. I'm more excited than I expected. - Fron 21:35:32 12018-11-02
- I was quite fond of multiplayer War3 even though I was never particularly good at it. Looking forward to losing at it again. [NT] - Arcturus 23:28:50 12018-11-04
  - I still think back fondly to when a bunch of us did four-player arranged team games, all under visually indistinguishable variants of the name FallenCwaler, and did the same ridiculous gimmick strategy every time. [NT] - Fron 16:59:43 12018-11-08
- I played the demo at BlizzCon. It was pretty fun but still needs some optimization. Can't tell you how many hours of my life I burned in those custom Lord of the Rings maps... [NT] - Mana 22:48:35 12018-11-03
  - so much wintermaul [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 16:55:12 12018-11-07
- ATVI has to get those numbers up! 56 cents a share is rookie numbers! [NT] - Dorg 19:07:38 12018-11-03
- Sweet [NT] - Legacy 19:03:58 12018-11-03
- So... mid-2019 Shortbus tournament? [NT] - Psycho Sam! 16:18:14 12018-11-03
- You know sometimes I wish that game companies would just reskin old games, make them prettier but keep the mechanics the same, rather than complicate them. [NT] - Rotten 11:43:49 12018-11-03
  - Ain’t that what they did with Starcraft? I... honestly don’t remember. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 11:53:59 12018-11-04
    - Yes. [NT] - Fron 12:00:23 12018-11-04
Oh, so apparently, Destiny 2 is free if you claim it before the 16th. At least, that's what my battle.net client says. [NT] - Tssha 16:20:38 12018-11-02
- Also I miss Dinklebot. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 11:34:50 12018-11-09
- They received *a lot* of backlash about removing content from people who didn't get the DLC (like making public events, loot, PVP, weekly/monthly events DLC owner only), and I think the base game is actually still playable, but I think if you want the big Forsaken DLC there's no "upgrade what I have" option, just "re-buy the base game, the two smaller DLCs, and Forsaken". - Psycho Sam! 11:41:42 12018-11-07
  - Ugh, and I can't import my PS4 character, so the game is treating me as a noob. Also I can't get her face quite right. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 11:49:01 12018-11-07
    - To be fair, that last one is likely Sony dicking you over. Crossplay is a dirty word to them, apparently... [NT] - Tssha 19:21:35 12018-11-07
      - Yeah. The same thing happened with Fortnite. [NT] - Legacy 10:04:34 12018-11-12
- Is it? It looks like they're just having a free weekend on the 11th to me. All I'm getting is the option to buy the Forsaken collection. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 12:33:14 12018-11-06
  - Never mind, it was in the "gifts" tab, where I never look because I don't really care about Hearthstone card backs and loot boxes. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 12:33:45 12018-11-06
- I grabbed it because I Have a Problem Turning Down Free Things. I will likely never get around to playing it? Still, hopefully folks who'd get good use from it now have easier access. [NT] - Lothos 17:44:04 12018-11-04
  - I'll probably wind up doing the same thing. [NT] - Tssha 20:51:12 12018-11-04
I'm moving to Chicago! - Snapper 23:51:50 12018-11-01
- Grats! [NT] - Legacy 10:56:10 12018-11-12
- graaaatz [NT] - Fron 19:06:52 12018-11-02
- Congrats! Enjoy the colder winters and superior rail transit infrastructure! [NT] - Arcturus 13:54:57 12018-11-02
  - Lake Effect snowfalls and the windchill are going to be the fun ones if he lives/works close enough to Lake Michigan. [NT] - TheDeamon 14:56:44 12018-11-02
- Gratz!!! Yer gonna be cold though. [NT] - Rotten 10:24:57 12018-11-02
- Chicago is fun. Go Purple Kitties! [NT] - Frito 08:50:54 12018-11-02
- Outstanding! Congratulations. [NT] - Lothos 00:51:51 12018-11-02
Does anyone remember Pathologic? The fever dream "plague simulator" out of Russia that got a ton of buzz and sort of propelled RPS into the mainstream with their coverage of it? They remastered and retranslated it in preparation of the remake, and it's genuinely exceptional, now. It's on for 90% on the Halloween sale, coming it a $1.39 CAD - Inconsequential Lurker 13:28:12 12018-10-30
- I'm reading through a let's play of this by (I think) a bilingual Russian, thus avoiding the game's translation problems, and it's still nearly incomprehensible. [NT] - Fron 12:55:33 12018-11-04
  - It's simple. The ground is meat. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 20:53:18 12018-11-04
    - Since I'm sure you have no intention of actually playing it and just want to marvel at how absolutely ridiculous the plot conceits are. THE FINAL EXPLANATION WITHIN. - Inconsequential Lurker 19:09:20 12018-11-08
- Thats one of the things I miss from the older generation of games, before studios realized they needed to put effort into localization: the almost dream-like quality of the dialogue from the older horor games, like the original Resident Evil, and Silent Hill. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 13:49:25 12018-10-30
  - I'll show you a real man's balls. [NT] - Original Translation Witcher Is Best Witcher 21:53:32 12018-11-01
Would the men in this forum be willing to join a group called "Ballsacks of North America"? [NT] - Rotten 10:01:34 12018-10-30
- BONA [NT] - Rotten 13:22:20 12018-10-30
  - All right, I gotta admit the acronym made me laugh. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 10:57:08 12018-11-01
I just had a dream about Vikings wrestling trees in hammy, over the top (and possibly fake) action. Then I dreamed about bringing this back to the world in the form of a long-lost, PnP RPG. Obviously, one of these ideas is extremely cool, but I can't tell which one. [NT] - Tssha 11:47:59 12018-10-29
Legal pot impressions: I don't have any impressions, just a vaguely pleasant haze wherein I purchased and consumed an entire cake before going comatose for 12 hours. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 13:35:49 12018-10-23
- I'm not sure this is good for your life. Not against legalized pot per se, just saying. - Rotten 10:57:36 12018-10-27
  - It's cool, I find the heroin kills my appetite so often that cake is the only nourishment I'll eat for days on end. It's about life balance. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 12:57:41 12018-10-27
- Sounds about right. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 21:18:23 12018-10-23
There exists a "My Little Pony" mod for Hearts of Iron 4 - Fron 00:41:18 12018-10-21
- It actually looks pretty cool. [NT] - Rotten 10:50:42 12018-10-30
- Friendship was a mistake. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 18:45:52 12018-10-21
  - Friendship... Friendship never changes. Since the dawn of Ponykind, when our ancestors first discovered the magic of friendship, kindness has spread, frosting stained, across Equestia. - Frito 11:50:13 12018-10-23
    - Party Favors of Mass Destruction are impressive ones indeed. [NT] - TheDeamon 20:51:02 12018-10-24
    - ❤ [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 21:10:28 12018-10-23
  - Clearly you weren't paying enough attention when you were warned about sticking around Rotten after he starts talking about how "Friendship is golden." [NT] - TheDeamon 22:51:03 12018-10-22
- aahahahahahah oh no resistance to paradox games falling [NT] - Lothos 17:22:53 12018-10-21
  - Honestly HoI4 might be my least favourite of them. That's personal preference but I think it's definitely the least accessible if you wanted to get into the company's work (and you should! they're great!) [NT] - Fron 21:25:53 12018-10-21
    - I have a great respect for Paradox games, and they sound awesome. The problem is that I currently don't have many occasions where I have both brains and time to throw at things like Into the Breach, where the levels are pretty short. Something like, say, Stellaris could *devour my life.* It'd be awesome, but yikes. [NT] - Lothos 01:18:11 12018-10-22
      - Considering I have 600+ hours in it...it could conceivably do that. Nonetheless, I regret nothing. - Tssha 00:20:48 12018-10-23
      - I want to play Stellaris so badly, but their DLC policy is just beyond reason and I refuse to encourage it. Two years old and to buy the game plus expansions is 122.49 CAD, 2/3rds of which is minor story content and trivial gameplay additions split into DLC after DLC. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 01:40:43 12018-10-22
        I take it you're a fan of The Sims then. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 07:50:29 12018-10-22
        fuck yeah sims 420 smoke inhalation fatalities every day [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 08:51:34 12018-10-22
        your sexy roommates all blocking the door with their inept screeching and flailing so the fire brigade can't get through to save your life [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 09:38:41 12018-10-22
        I find this an interesting perspective because the DLC policy is one of the things I like the most about Paradox. They actively develop their games for years and years, with constant free updates including enormous system redesigns, funded by the content DLC. - Fron 01:48:35 12018-10-22
        I'm not really averse to DLC per se. Even games I buy at launch to support the devs, I'll hold off till the DLC roadmap is done so I can experience it all in one fell swoop, but the content to dollar ratio of a lot of the DLC is... unbalanced. Fully half of it having mixed reviews warning they aren't worth the money doesn't disabuse me of the notion much. - Inconsequential Lurker 08:50:43 12018-10-22
  - jooooooin uuuuusss... [NT] - Tssha 17:51:28 12018-10-21
- Oh yeah, did I mention I'm working on that show now? [nt] - Kainoss 02:07:55 12018-10-21
  - A long time ago, in a... never mind. Doesn't make it less impressive though, particularly as you seem to still be there. [NT] - TheDeamon 17:12:51 12018-10-27
  - Awesome! [NT] - Frito 16:23:51 12018-10-22
  - You just got 20% cooler. [NT] - Tssha 17:49:45 12018-10-21
  - Nice! [NT] - Lothos 17:23:34 12018-10-21
  - So YOU'RE the one to blame! [NT] - Legacy 14:50:29 12018-10-21
[LINK] Guys, I really lost my cool on an important phone call, I think I'm in trouble now - Dorg 04:31:25 12018-10-20
- Why blockchain? Why not an honest rope? [NT] - Frito 09:11:09 12018-10-21
  - you straight up trippin' dawg [NT] - Tssha 17:52:06 12018-10-21
- Well, that certainly makes a 50DKP minus seem trivial by comparison. [NT] - TheDeamon 12:31:09 12018-10-20
- I know a guy who can sell you some heroin if you want. His name is Skew and he has pretty cool hand tattoos. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 12:30:59 12018-10-20
[LINK] follow this link to improve your life - Fron 00:31:09 12018-10-20
- that ludacris mashup tho [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 20:44:47 12018-10-20
- [VIDS] Not bad! - Rotten 01:00:47 12018-10-20
I'm going to the annual Ninny/Shade party as Thorkos, capital T, my CWALA alter ego/character that only has shades of me, but very different motivation. How stupidly self-indulgent is that. Also hello. [NT] - thorkos 23:41:50 12018-10-19
- Oh, and I got a job. I'm working for a private engineering firm, in the Structures division. It's hard. I'm three weeks in, and oh my god this is hard. I brought back 5 code books to study over the weekend. The amount of material (entendre) I have to know is insane. Wood, Masonry, Concrete, Steel, Soil. Priests only have to study 1 book. [NT] - thorkos 23:45:16 12018-10-19
  - Want me to buy you another WoW Expansion so I can ruin everything? [NT] - Ravage! 11:33:01 12018-11-13
[LINK] More in Common study, via The Atlantic: 80% of Americans find "political correctness to be problem" not to worry though, 82% also view "hate speech" as a problem too. - TheDeamon 12:04:17 12018-10-19
- [LINK] Related Cato study from 2017: 71% of Americans believe that "Political Correctness" has silenced discussions albumen needs to have. - TheDeamon 18:49:25 12018-10-19
BALLSACKS OF AMERICA UNITE!!!! [NT] - BALLSACKS OF AMERICA 09:53:08 12018-10-19
I just bought a gram of marijuana from the Government of Alberta for the express purpose of getting high. I haven't smoked pot in like ten years and will probably embarrass myself thoroughly, but it's a historical event, damn it. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 16:48:38 12018-10-18
- UPDATE: It turns out pot is pretty fun. This aligns well with my memories of pot being pretty fun. Please append this testimony to your cannabis knowledge base. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 18:35:54 12018-10-22
  - Appending this to cannibal knowledge base...wait...shit... [NT] - Tssha 23:21:51 12018-10-22
    - That does raise questions though. What would the impact of a Cannibal eating somebody who was high on Cannabis at the time be on the Cannibal? [NT] - TheDeamon 22:52:56 12018-10-28
- [VIDS] Embarass yourself...how? Just makes you sit around stupid. How is that embarrassing. Strangers will either think you're a simpleton, or know you're fucking high, and they probably are too, to celebrate the release of a mutual oppression. [Music and Positivity] Just for you, lurker. Writing this post made me think of this song, and how it applies to you, link herein. - thorkos 23:54:27 12018-10-19
- I am sad to report Lurker died from injecting too many marijuanas. The only safe marijuana is that which is found in a stout hemp rope. [NT] - Frito 09:44:31 12018-10-19
  - Not true! Those ropes are terrible tripping hazards. - Tssha 10:12:31 12018-10-19
    - Do not blame the rope. Rope is honest. Rope is useful. Your sinful shuffling gait is the cause of your fall. [NT] - Frito 11:43:22 12018-10-19
      - I want to like this post. I want to upvote it. I want to crying-from-laughter emoji at it. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 21:00:29 12018-10-20
        I mean, you can use emojis all you want at least 💯 [NT] - Fron 15:07:24 12018-10-21
        Can we expect Pusheen support in the future? [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 18:46:36 12018-10-21
      - You have to burn the rope. [NT] - Fron 22:44:22 12018-10-19
      - That doesn't explain the balls. Balls trip me up too. I be tripping on balls, y'all. [NT] - Tssha 18:21:39 12018-10-19
        Tripping over one's balls is a serious medical complaint, and I recommend going immediately to a hardware store or medical centre to ask for a grundle-windlass to help reel those rambunctious trouser-devils back in. Don't reel too far, though. No, not *too* far. That's important. [NT] - Lothos 20:14:27 12018-10-20
- I bought some pillows today. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 22:20:21 12018-10-18
- Cool. [NT] - Rotten 16:56:21 12018-10-18
  - I also bought like half a gram of heroin from some guy who calls himself "Skew". [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 17:09:28 12018-10-18
In case anyone forgot... - Fron (System Administrator) 20:32:31 12018-10-17
- Honestly, there's no other way to view the RR. [NT] - The V Man 20:23:24 12018-10-18
  - I honestly haven't found it too bad lately? More dead than anything. - Sassypants McJerkface 21:07:29 12018-10-20
- I feel personally attacked by this post. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 20:45:36 12018-10-17
  - What if I told you... I'd found a new "truth"? [NT] - Fron 23:51:48 12018-10-17
    - Wait, Andrew Garfield _was_ a Founding Father?! [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 12:27:04 12018-10-18
      - Lasagna has no meaning there. The president... has no teeth. [NT] - Dr Tolian Soran 14:20:36 12018-10-18
    - What? More cowbell is not always the answer? Heathen! [NT] - TheDeamon 12:17:03 12018-10-18
Interesting analysis of online fascists - Snapper 20:30:51 12018-10-11
- LOL I just loaded the RR without being logged in and saw TheDeamon's replies. Because, as Fron said, I have applied drastic measures to my index since July 2014. I'll keep it like that. Also, since I'm here, it appears TD is saying the piece is in error in calling Garfield is a founder. But clearly it's describing the contents of the Youtube video, not making claims about Garfield. [NT] - Snapper 23:15:25 12018-10-17
  - ??? I was more mocking the Nazi's for that one than anything else, although I'll admit to also mocking the author for failing to point out Garfield was not, as is not, "a founding father." [NT] - TheDeamon 04:59:43 12018-10-18
    - Oops, sorry about mistaking what you were saying. [NT] - Snapper 15:48:27 12018-10-18
- Decent enough write-up, but i lost the plot after encountering "the founding father, James Garfield." Exactly HOW is the 20th PotUS, born in 1831, a "founding father" and on what planet? [NT] - TheDeamon 18:06:07 12018-10-12
- People are generally pushed to the extremes online, especially in echo chambers. [NT] - Rotten 15:49:02 12018-10-12
  - Man, things have gotten real nasty out there.. Now you're either a Left Nazi or a Right Nazi, and you're either with us or you're with The Enemy - Dorg 09:24:41 12018-10-17
    - I'll lay a truth bomb on the so-called "red pill" community: My aversion to SJW's is well known on this forum, but my aversion to "red pill" types is less known, but the red pillers are just as toxic in a different, there is a lot of overlap between the "incel" and red pill community, they want to believe they every bit the victims the SJW's do. Two sides to the same coin. - Rotten 09:53:09 12018-10-18
      - Haha, yeah, that's a good point. Incels are so horrible, and I guess that it's a recent development that enough angsty teen boys could congregate in one virtual spot for them to reach a critical mass of teen angst and blow up like this. [NT] - Dorg 04:40:21 12018-10-19
      - The "Red Pill" specifically and the "Infowars" community in general is a bane to human existence. That said, something else I realized in Snapper's article in particular: Their examples were Liberal to Nazi transitions(often in only a couple years or less), where were the ones who started as Conservatives or Libertarians? [NT] - TheDeamon 11:21:59 12018-10-18
        I don't want to single out liberals as being the ones more prone to Nazism because they are statist. I have seen a lot of these alt righter/redpillers state that they were former leftists (or Obama voters). But a lot of Nazis/racists/extremists are former libertarians and conservatives too. Basically, social media is filling people up with hatred and they're just becoming more and more extreme, - Rotten 11:52:37 12018-10-18
        Agreed, and i have talked briefly with InfoWars/racist people in the past who started from the Conservative end, so i know they exist. Not sure any(that I spoke to) had reached full-on Nazi though, but i have no doubt they exist. - TheDeamon 12:11:09 12018-10-18
    - Uh, what? The only negative remarks were mine, and they weren't claiming that. The remarks were that it would be both used "in bad ways" and that certain other groups would reject it because of its structure. - TheDeamon 10:24:40 12018-10-17
      - Wow. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 13:08:53 12018-10-17
        "Academic studies" and "scientific research" have been getting used to bludgeon people for decades now, and activist groups(using studies they typically fund, of course) are really bad about that. A study that exclusively focuses on a specific side, regardless of how well intended, IS going to get caught up in that bullshit. - TheDeamon 18:09:18 12018-10-17
- [LINK] Weirdly enough I'm working on adjacent stuff to this at the moment, as is someone I work with. Here's a relevant link about Youtube's role in this kind of horror - Lothos 14:11:49 12018-10-12
  - I thought it might be close to you. I wasn't sure how much you stuck with interactive/gaming media. The normalization/mass distribution of this stuff is really a terrible development in our culture and its kind of weird how I think we all feel somewhat adjacent to it; having grown up on a gaming forum. [NT] - Snapper 23:00:18 12018-10-17
    - YES, you're right and it is extremely weird. I'm working on an article about online harassment and how it's structured by the design of social media as we speak. [NT] - Lothos 00:17:41 12018-10-18
  - One big concern looking at that... It focuses exclusively on "right-wing radicals" to the exclusion of the "left-wing" counterparts. - TheDeamon 18:20:40 12018-10-12
    - I'm confused: the article makes no claims that these people are the only extremists on Youtube; it identifies the role the platform plays for a particular, delineated network of extremists that in this case is right wing. If I'm writing a piece about the social/historical role of potatoes, do I have to talk about tomatoes too? [NT] - Lothos 22:20:55 12018-10-12
      - It depends on who the target audience is, and as it presumably is targeting academics for academic use, it's fine. For wider use, it will be ignored in many circles because it looks like "a hatchet job" because it focuses on the one side only. - TheDeamon 00:02:06 12018-10-13
        Yep, I think the conclusions the study reaches could apply to all kinds of networks on Youtube, and this study discusses a specific one. As far as "it makes it seem partisan" goes, there's a point past which a chunk of demographics around the world ignore fundamental facts as 'fake news' unless it matches what's convenient. Reworking studies to try and appease that... doesn't work. [NT] - Lothos 00:12:50 12018-10-14
        The pro-active part of the problem here is that those other groups which weren't studied, are then going to use those same studies to unironically "bludgeon 'the other side'" with. Which isn't going to help endear that side of things to those studies. Quite the opposite. - TheDeamon 11:58:37 12018-10-14
    - lol [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 18:35:17 12018-10-12
      - To stay on topic of the subject line: The concern is relevant because it makes the academic study seem partisan because of its focus on only one extreme while ignoring how their counterparts on the other end are using media for the same end. Unless you think Anti-Fa (for example) is as kosher as kosher can be? [NT] - TheDeamon 19:38:55 12018-10-12
        I know, I know. Very fine people on both sides. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 10:00:38 12018-10-14
        Is there really a difference between a student breaking a Starbucks window and organized attacks on immigrants in service of a white ethnostate, conducted with increasingly open approval by politicians and law enforcement? I mean, let's be rational for a moment. Sure, the proud boys might have attacked people this week while the police watched, but did you hear an antifa KNOCKED A HAT OFF ONE????? [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 14:20:09 12018-10-15
        antifa, of course being defined as "anyone under 30 who isn't registered republican", while we must all be intimately familiar with each and every faction and clique within right-wing groups while assigning blame so we don't go catching patriotic citizens up with a few bad apples [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 14:22:51 12018-10-15
        No, I'm talking about the avowed anarcho-socialists who are using/organizing Anti-Fa as a recruiting/breeding ground for themselves and to create chaos and instability because that's simply "part of the transition" as per various manifestos on the subject. But hey, whatever floats your boat. [NT] - TheDeamon 01:42:02 12018-10-16
        Your words are like someone put a Fox-news watching grandpa in a paint shaker and collected what frothed out. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 21:23:56 12018-10-16
        Which is funny because I haven't watched Fox in years. My primary news feed is here, one other forum, and my Kindle news feed via Bing... Which is mostly MSNBC? [NT] - TheDeamon 18:17:24 12018-10-17
        And yet the results. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 19:53:50 12018-10-17
        Now he just needs to namedrop George Soros and the transformation will be complete [NT] - Vektor 22:58:51 12018-10-16
        Did that years ago? He's old, he also isn't an Anarcho-Socialist, he seems more of an (socialist-)Oligarchy kind of guy, who has done a lot to create and shape the current proverbial battlefield, but he no longer controls it, although he still throws a lot of money around, kinda like the Koch Brothers. [NT] - TheDeamon 18:15:20 12018-10-17
        Shhh, TD. Shhh. You had me at "anarcho-socialists." [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 20:43:28 12018-10-16
      - I know, right. TD gonna TD. [NT] - Frito 18:37:50 12018-10-12
        Well, you do realize there is a little bit of a disconnect specifically with regards to anti-semitism in particular, when you the Republicans and Conservatives are some of the most rabid pro-Israel groups out there, yet their "more extreme form" is blatantly anti-Semitic? Does not compute. - TheDeamon 19:50:15 12018-10-12
        That's nearly as crazy as libertarians aligning with dominionists, and just as unlikely! [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 18:52:15 12018-10-14
        Depends on the type of "Dominion" in question. A Libertarian Monarchist would be weird, but not necessarily self-contradictory. Depends on the powers granted/held by the Crown, and the justification for it. [NT] - TheDeamon 10:32:42 12018-10-15
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_theology [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 12:43:18 12018-10-15
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion ..... Also, they're about 140 years slow, the Mormons are waaaay ahead of them, and far better organized. [NT] - TheDeamon 01:02:01 12018-10-16
        OMG! This is amazing! [NT] - Frito 19:56:47 12018-10-12
        Not new, and yes I understand how some of it happening, but why --so many-- people buy into it is baffling. - TheDeamon 20:33:47 12018-10-12
- Memes were a mistake. [NT] - Frito 10:25:54 12018-10-12
- Funny that when I saw this post, the random quote at the top was from Ishpeck: "Can't argue with democracy, man." [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 23:13:36 12018-10-11
[LINK] The Darkside Detective was a fun anthology adventure game bundle, and Season 2/The Sequel is kickstarting at the moment with about a day to go. I nearly missed it, so I mention it here in case anyone else had missed it and might have cared. - Lothos 15:31:31 12018-10-11
[LINK] I know not many of us were on G+, but I'm looking for alternatives now that Google has announced they're on the road to shutting it down. I'm trying out MeWe since it has something approximating privacy options, and I'm seeing if it might be a possible replacement for Twitter too. - Lothos 18:12:36 12018-10-08
- Also what's MeWe? It's not going to turn out to be another one of those new "We respect your privacy!" social networks that turns out to secretly be a Russian bot farm, is it? [NT] - Psycho Sam! 20:10:29 12018-10-10
  - Nyet, comrade Sam. [NT] - Tssha [IMP] 07:39:43 12018-10-11
- Yeah... I really wanted Google+ to be the new Facebook, way back when, but they went overboard on the limited rollout and nobody I knew used it until it was too late. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 20:07:40 12018-10-10
  - TBH after the initial rush wore off I didn't really see how it was any kind of improvement. They both had perfectly serviceable privacy controls in the "keep randos from seeing your shit" sense, and utterly awful ones in the sense of the service *itself* tracking every aspect of your life to target advertising. [NT] - Fron 20:55:24 12018-10-10
- The shareholders have been notified of your new social media choice. [NT] - Grand Duchess Paradox 02:43:26 12018-10-10
  - We will promptly be installing a fake version on your laptop to prevent you saying anything that will cost the shareholders millions of dollars in SEC fines. [NT] - Fron 19:26:03 12018-10-10
BRETT KAVANAUGH IS ABOUT TO MAKE YOU HIS BITCH. SUCK IT DOWN. [NT] - Rotten 19:43:26 12018-10-06
- It's actually kind of funny, the way the White House is saying Saudi Arabia is being framed just like Kavanaugh was framed. Makes Kavanaugh look real good. [NT] - Snapper 23:17:34 12018-10-17
  - Trump's stance on Khashoggi makes it really easy to take his word for it on Kavanaugh, huh? [NT] - Snapper 15:49:50 12018-10-18
    - Not that I'm any fan of Kavanaugh, but Trump defending someone doesn't really make my opinion of them significantly worse. Trump's statements have essentially no correlation to truth, positively or negatively. Everything that comes out of his mouth is entirely null information. [NT] - Fron 16:17:43 12018-10-18
  - Two separate issues, one that I agree with Trump on (Kavanaugh), one that Trump is dead wrong on (Khashoggi). [NT] - Rotten 11:53:44 12018-10-18
- But I've never had a beer, and don't intend to try any? So I have no idea if I like beer, and have no intention of finding out. [NT] - TheDeamon 20:31:36 12018-10-06
  - [PICS] re: But I've never had a beer, and don't intend to try any? So I have no idea if I like beer, and have no intention of finding out. [NT] - Rotten 07:33:30 12018-10-07
[LINK] Potential new post image - Lothos 20:38:40 12018-10-05
[LINK] From Bloomberg: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple - Rotten 17:02:52 12018-10-04
- This is why the US has tried to source it's DoD hardware inside the country. Much harder for foreign agents to insert themselves into the supply chain to make such additions, and part of why China is "scarier".than most people realize at present given how dominant they are in tech manufacturing/assembly. [NT] - TheDeamon 19:26:10 12018-10-06
- i used my micropensis to inflitrate your mom and she didn't notice that either [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 18:07:58 12018-10-04