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On May 02 2015 13:38 Djzapz wrote:Show nested quote +On May 02 2015 13:23 GreenHorizons wrote:On May 02 2015 13:12 Djzapz wrote:+ Show Spoiler +Survivorman is a show made by Les Stroud, a middle aged Canadian badass who, for the show, showed us how to survive for like 5-7 days in the wild in various countries, alone (unlike Bear Grylls), carrying his camera gear. It's pretty amazing, and it's perhaps more useful than Man vs. Wild which is like "IN THIS CASE YOU WANT TO CLIMB THAT MOUNTAIN REALLY FAST WITHOUT ANY SAFETY GEAR". Yeah Bear, right away.
Anyway survivorman has been both informative and entertaining, but I found out just now that his current season is basically all about the "Sasquatch" and "Bigfoot". It's essentially a big farce where Les Stroud shows us what confirmation bias is. The highest, most obvious form of confirmation bias. It's painful to see.
+ Show Spoiler +That sucks. We are of the same mind on what set him apart from the crap that came after him. But hey can you really blame him? My guess is that's what will get ratings and will pay for him to do what he loves.
If it's any consolation Jane Goodall says she believes in some sort of Big Foot. (could be the same issue). + Show Spoiler +Plenty of smart people believe the silliest things. Or alternatively, there is some sort of large primate that zoologists have not properly gotten to, which is an interesting thing to posit and perhaps such a rare animal does exist.
Yet the last two episodes of a previous season were dedicated to bigfoot, and Les followed a guide around and he's show him signs of the bigfoot. Branches bent in such and such ways, trees forming certain semi-complex structures that could easily be human made. The guide was obviously a stakeholder who could have constructed the whole thing, and Les's pessimism was extremely limited. He just agreed with almost everything the guide said and cruised along the tour.
At the end of the show he was pretty much 100% convinced that there is a bigfoot despite having gathered extremely circumstantial evidence in an area that is clearly well known and possibly rigged by the people who happen to run the bigfoot gift shop at the bottom of the trail. You can't do this to me, Les.
+ Show Spoiler +Yeah I haven't watched the new ones just used to love the show. That's sad to hear he's just straight shilling. FUCK that shit. (felt that makes this more appropriate)
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+ Show Spoiler +THE OP DOESN"T SHOW HOW TO USE SPOILER QUOTES. I had to do trial and error using the "Preview" function to see if I ever got them to work right.
My actual rant was about everyone not watching The Wire
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Canada10681 Posts
On May 02 2015 14:17 Inspector Javert wrote:Show nested quote +On May 02 2015 13:38 Djzapz wrote:On May 02 2015 13:23 GreenHorizons wrote:On May 02 2015 13:12 Djzapz wrote:+ Show Spoiler +Survivorman is a show made by Les Stroud, a middle aged Canadian badass who, for the show, showed us how to survive for like 5-7 days in the wild in various countries, alone (unlike Bear Grylls), carrying his camera gear. It's pretty amazing, and it's perhaps more useful than Man vs. Wild which is like "IN THIS CASE YOU WANT TO CLIMB THAT MOUNTAIN REALLY FAST WITHOUT ANY SAFETY GEAR". Yeah Bear, right away.
Anyway survivorman has been both informative and entertaining, but I found out just now that his current season is basically all about the "Sasquatch" and "Bigfoot". It's essentially a big farce where Les Stroud shows us what confirmation bias is. The highest, most obvious form of confirmation bias. It's painful to see.
+ Show Spoiler +That sucks. We are of the same mind on what set him apart from the crap that came after him. But hey can you really blame him? My guess is that's what will get ratings and will pay for him to do what he loves.
If it's any consolation Jane Goodall says she believes in some sort of Big Foot. (could be the same issue). + Show Spoiler +Plenty of smart people believe the silliest things. Or alternatively, there is some sort of large primate that zoologists have not properly gotten to, which is an interesting thing to posit and perhaps such a rare animal does exist.
Yet the last two episodes of a previous season were dedicated to bigfoot, and Les followed a guide around and he's show him signs of the bigfoot. Branches bent in such and such ways, trees forming certain semi-complex structures that could easily be human made. The guide was obviously a stakeholder who could have constructed the whole thing, and Les's pessimism was extremely limited. He just agreed with almost everything the guide said and cruised along the tour.
At the end of the show he was pretty much 100% convinced that there is a bigfoot despite having gathered extremely circumstantial evidence in an area that is clearly well known and possibly rigged by the people who happen to run the bigfoot gift shop at the bottom of the trail. You can't do this to me, Les. + Show Spoiler +Have you seen the interviews with Les about his bigfoot experience in Alaska?
+ Show Spoiler +I have not. First hand experience? Nonetheless, I don't think it makes for the best television, at least to me. I don't believe that whatever he's seen was bigfoot, and if it was, the episodes he made about it didn't convince me. I'll just watch the new ones for the hell of it and see what he comes up with.
On May 02 2015 14:36 GreenHorizons wrote:Show nested quote +On May 02 2015 13:38 Djzapz wrote:On May 02 2015 13:23 GreenHorizons wrote:On May 02 2015 13:12 Djzapz wrote:+ Show Spoiler +Survivorman is a show made by Les Stroud, a middle aged Canadian badass who, for the show, showed us how to survive for like 5-7 days in the wild in various countries, alone (unlike Bear Grylls), carrying his camera gear. It's pretty amazing, and it's perhaps more useful than Man vs. Wild which is like "IN THIS CASE YOU WANT TO CLIMB THAT MOUNTAIN REALLY FAST WITHOUT ANY SAFETY GEAR". Yeah Bear, right away.
Anyway survivorman has been both informative and entertaining, but I found out just now that his current season is basically all about the "Sasquatch" and "Bigfoot". It's essentially a big farce where Les Stroud shows us what confirmation bias is. The highest, most obvious form of confirmation bias. It's painful to see.
+ Show Spoiler +That sucks. We are of the same mind on what set him apart from the crap that came after him. But hey can you really blame him? My guess is that's what will get ratings and will pay for him to do what he loves.
If it's any consolation Jane Goodall says she believes in some sort of Big Foot. (could be the same issue). + Show Spoiler +Plenty of smart people believe the silliest things. Or alternatively, there is some sort of large primate that zoologists have not properly gotten to, which is an interesting thing to posit and perhaps such a rare animal does exist.
Yet the last two episodes of a previous season were dedicated to bigfoot, and Les followed a guide around and he's show him signs of the bigfoot. Branches bent in such and such ways, trees forming certain semi-complex structures that could easily be human made. The guide was obviously a stakeholder who could have constructed the whole thing, and Les's pessimism was extremely limited. He just agreed with almost everything the guide said and cruised along the tour.
At the end of the show he was pretty much 100% convinced that there is a bigfoot despite having gathered extremely circumstantial evidence in an area that is clearly well known and possibly rigged by the people who happen to run the bigfoot gift shop at the bottom of the trail. You can't do this to me, Les. + Show Spoiler +Yeah I haven't watched the new ones just used to love the show. That's sad to hear he's just straight shilling. FUCK that shit. (felt that makes this more appropriate)
+ Show Spoiler +I lolled 
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+ Show Spoiler +Female student protesters in Montreal, when you yell stuff, it's the equivalent of the vuvuzela
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+ Show Spoiler +It's not often, but anytime at work when I hear one of those country songs about someone falling in love with their car, their truck, and/or their lawnmower, I harbor an irrational hatred of the world that spawned such terrible music.
Today was one of those days...
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+ Show Spoiler +i fucking hate stupid ass college teachers who think they are all that cuz they teach a class. I've been going to this school for like 10 years and see how these teachers work. some of them are actually really good people who care about the student. the other half are arrogant full of themselves bastards who dont think twice to fail a student from a $2,500 class cuz they think they dont care about it. EXCUSE FUCKING ME for having a chill attituda about stuff and not being a freak like other crazy people in my class. EXCUSE ME for taking classes in stride. I STILL DID THE FUCKING WORK, I STILL WENT TO FUCKING CLASS FUCK YOU DIMITRI KOZYREV, FUCK YOU BROOKE GRUCELLA, FUCK YOU LARRY GIPE, FUCK YOU IN YOUR BIG STUPID ASSES I HOPE YOU ALL GET IN CAR WRECKS
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+ Show Spoiler +Being a cop is hard. You're consistently putting your life in danger to protect the public. You need to make split-second decisions that are literally life-and-death situations. As a public servant, you also get very little respect and your job is frequently trivialized (see: Dunkin Donuts, speed traps, Super Troopers, etc.). Law enforcement is tough, and so you receive necessary training and weapons.
Now, as both the famous Voltaire and the even more famous Spiderman will tell you, with great power comes great responsibility. As with any job, police officers can be corrupt or biased or hateful, which can taint the otherwise noble profession of law enforcement. Obviously, most cops deserve the utmost respect for their profession.
At this point, I'd like to announce a spoiler alert: Racism exists, and it's not just your senile, 100 year old great-aunt who unjustifiably hates "those coloreds" because that's what she was taught. Bigotry in general is a systemic and systematic issue that permeates all corners and communities and microcosms of society. Even worse- it's normalized- and often goes unnoticed unless you're the person being discriminated against.
And over time, people grow weary of being persecuted for no legitimate reason, so they speak up. And nothing happens. And then they civilly disobey. And nothing happens. So they protest peacefully. Nothing happens yet again. So they fucking riot and break shit to get your goddamned attention.
The reason why these riots are occurring is because historically- and especially over the past few years- blacks have been disproportionately arrested and incarcerated and killed by cops, even when they haven't broken the law, let alone been armed with a deadly weapon and posing a reasonable threat to an officer's life.
Now of course, not every black criminal is innocent, but then again it apparently needs to be stated that not every black person is a criminal. And no one deserves to be punished, attacked, or killed by a vigilante cop who just feels like hurting innocent people. So when we see injustice and prejudice again and again and again, we need to be not only having a conversation but also taking action. No one thinks that rioting is the best course of action, but people are running out of options and feeling really exasperated.
So what the hell do you really expect from a unified community when one of their own just becomes another tragic statistic of police brutality or discrimination or murder, and are you speaking from a privileged position or one of personal experience with prejudice? Because I can't imagine what minorities have to go through on a daily basis, but at least I recognize there's a problem... And it's not "Riots are dangerous". Prejudice is far more deadly.
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+ Show Spoiler +Great, ZvZ makes even less fucking sense in lotv
also why the fuck is the game so unoptimized
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+ Show Spoiler +I just threw the easiest fucking game against jonsnow, holy fucking shit i feel like killing myself... had him contained to 2 bases in ZvZ with a muta opening until the fucking 19 min mark, and i just sit there jerking off and making roach bane while i watch him getting roach hydra infestor off of 2 bases... i dont even have the fucking brain to engage him outside his own base so i have time to remax, i just sit there fucking jerking off i hate myself
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+ Show Spoiler +AND NOW IM SEEING JONSNOW PLAY AGAINST TLO ON TLO'S STREAM... I PRETTY MUCH HAD JONSNOW BEAT, THAT COULD BE ME PLAYING AGAINST TLO FUUUUUUUCK
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+ Show Spoiler +John Oliver absolutely nails it here. As an educator, educational researcher, and tutor, standardized tests drive me absolutely crazy x.x
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GTA 5 online is a brilliant game. It really is amazing fun.
But the fucking retarded brain damaged bubbles of sputum that infest this game make it a fucking nightmare to play.
For example:
You have heists you have to progress through, each requires a few 'setup' stages, do this get that, kill them etc. These are done in groups of 4. So when setting up the heist, you have to invite others (the matchmaking system sucks terribly by the way). What happens? You wait 5 mins, a guy joins, he'll wait 1-2mins then quit.. This just happened to me SEVEN times in a row, people join, get bored, and quit, one guy even joined twice then left. Fuck me sideways. No patience.
So after waiting god knows how long to get my group of 4, we go in for "pacific bank heist - hack stage". Go get a van, drive the van to some place, and kill the baddies, swap some tech between the two vans. Simple in principle right? Fuck no, you can die faster in GTA online than in CS: GO, you have to do it together. Now this makes it hard even on normal setting. But after the very first heist you can buy a nice little armoured car, this baby is the dogs bollox, gun fire cant touch you (mostly), you can sit in the car and just kill stuff. Kinda easy mode WITH AN ARMOURED CAR.
So we get the van, go to the set up point, and I clearly __and politely__ ask the guys to not die, I'll head back and get the armoured car, and it'll be about a billion times simpler, faster, and we all get some money and move on.
THREE different groups I try this with, "guys just wait please, hang back, don't die, I'll go get the armoured". IS THAT IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM FUCKING COMPLICATED?
Clearly for the population of gta 5 it is akin to quantum string theory. Too hard to fucking achieve. Like trying to stick your dick in a wall, just not gonna fucking happen.
THREE times, THREE different groups. And all after waiting 20-30 odd minutes for all the flyby joiners/quitters to come and go.
So now I come here, throw the toys out the pram and vent. So I might regain a semblance of sanity, before once again trying to get this set up stage done. A stage which could be fast, simple and easily achieved. If only...
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Terran so hard race lolololo 1amove + hit T key, so hard, lolololo!
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I'm tapping out. I am so fucking done with my life. Where you ever seriously dissatisfied with your life? I am not talking about feeling sad, I am talking about your life being utter shit. Could be worse of course, but at this point I am not in the mood for a challenge. So you realized that you are dissatisfied with your life and then decide to write down all the stuff to show yourself that it is not that bad. Suddenly it is 4am, you hold 14 pages in your hand, that just say "your life sucks" and havent even covered half the shit thats going on/was going on. You decide that your propably just in a bad mood and go to bed. Next day, you check your little essay and realize that it has a lot of good points. Its disturbingly well formulated and the arguments are spot on, there seems no real flaw in it, besides that nothing of it is new to you. So why does this shit bother me now, when it hastn for the past 10+years that it was going on? Because I came close to making a change for the better, I was hoping rather than just apathetically living with it and just going on. Because I actually had some good feelings that werent just temporary, that reached deep down. Just because I experienced those feelings some time ago, I am now able to miss them, at least I believe thats the difference to my former self.
I was happy once and then, over the course of 3 month, my relationship of 6 years which I had worked so hard for and investet so much energy in broke down in a very unpleasant manner, I realized that my future job wont make me happy because of reasons that lie outside of the profession itself, so I wasted the last 3 years. And now I will do something instead that while it interests me and even will earn me more money, doesnt really benefit to society itself/its very unlikely that it does with also botheres me greatly for some reason - and it means a few years of university again. Oh and there was this thing where I hold the hand of my best friend as he died. Which would be close friend number 3 that died and the second one on which side I was when it happened (kind of self-centered to complain about that, since I am the one who still lives, but fuck it).
I am so done with all this shit flying around and besides a few cases, I am not even really responsible for it. Just random stuff that was impossible to foresee or set in motion by someone else and unable to avoid. Iam donw with people constantly ignoring what I did all theese years, acting like it never happened or that it doesnt matter. I am fucking done. I dont expect anything for trying to act "good", I do so because I believe it is right, but not getting punished for it and at least get shit thats about average to what everyone else at my age has/had to deal with would be nice. From no one its whatever though. I am just done with trying, hoping and whatever. I will just try to accept that I seem to be one of the persons that life likes to royally fuck over, I will just try to continue on my road to whatever and try not to care about the destination anymore.
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+ Show Spoiler +This is in no way a humble brag, but a legitimate issue: I have the worst fucking case of blue balls I've ever had in my life. The sensation is fucking awful.
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+ Show Spoiler + I have almost 5k posts on this forum and every single time I open it I read something that makes me want to shoot myself or others. I use this forum basically in the same way I use youtube comment section; read, read, rage about what I read, answer something, rage, read, come back
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On May 08 2015 01:12 Nebuchad wrote:+ Show Spoiler + I have almost 5k posts on this forum and every single time I open it I read something that makes me want to shoot myself or others. I use this forum basically in the same way I use youtube comment section; read, read, rage about what I read, answer something, rage, read, come back
+ Show Spoiler +I'd like to think that some of the TLers aren't as brain dead as YT commenters x.x
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On May 07 2015 14:04 jeeeeohn wrote:+ Show Spoiler +This is in no way a humble brag, but a legitimate issue: I have the worst fucking case of blue balls I've ever had in my life. The sensation is fucking awful.
+ Show Spoiler +Yeah I don't know why anyone would think you're bragging x.x Go out to a club or something?
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+ Show Spoiler +HOW THE FUCK DO I BEAT PROTOSS
IT IS LITERALLY FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO CONSISTENTLY BEAT PROTOSS IN MACRO GAMES, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG
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+ Show Spoiler +I was on an emotional high after a good SC2 finals and feeling okay about the game... then I made the horrible mistake of looking at the front page of twitch and seeing that LoL has 500000 right now... for a goddamn invitational. THEY HAVE 12.5X THE VIEWERS WE HAVE FOR A PREMIER FINALS FOR A GODDAMN MEAN NOTHING INVITATIONAL. I have to wonder why fucking any tournament bothers with SC2 anymore when our peak viewership is a fucking joke goddamn it. In one years time no major tournament will have sc2 anymore and will laugh at the idea of keeping it around. fuck this dead game
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