Doctor Who Mafia 2 - Page 5

On March 31 2014 04:43 raynpelikoneet wrote:
The irony is you are attacking townies so maybe you should just stop. All your arguments are "they try to lynch me boohoo". Well maybe you should have thought twice before claiming survivor.. There is a part of that post that pretty much proves Djodref is town.

On March 31 2014 05:56 thrawn2112 wrote:
hey guys what's up

On March 30 2014 13:49 Introvert wrote:


What counts is giving to those in need. There are a plethora of charities devoted to helping people for free, they make no statements about "deserving." Apparently unlike the average liberal, they can separate personal action and charity from government coercion. That's because Christianity has always had the view that people are responsible for their own actions but that one is to be generous to those in need. it doesn't say a word about government redistribution, or capitalism. That was my criticism.

There is evidence, if you want to find it. it's complicated though, because while churches do pay their pastors and staff, they also use a large sum of tithes to either improve the community or give to good causes. Never mind the man hours that church people put into helping charities.




Actually, you could. When you realize that government does a really bad job of redistribution, it makes perfect sense to have a religious and moral society that gives of it's own free will, instead of through the inefficient mechanisms of government. I also like the underlying assumption: that everyone who votes Republican "knows" they are screwing the poor over. Like I said, Christianity emphasizes personal giving and charity as well as "give to Caesar what is Caesar's"



It's not as simple as "Jesus hated wealth and rich people." He advocated that people GIVE their money. But yes, the Church had many laws dating from some of the Bible's teachings related to charging interest on other Christians. Though I'm not sure how that's relevant.




As they say, church is for sinners, not for saints


The point is that if you want to argue that Jesus was anti-wealth, you also need to propose a workable alternative, not the massive government failure we have now. Just saying "they are hypocrites!" doesn't help anyone. Nevermind how many people actually do make something of themselves under this system.

On March 31 2014 09:22 scott31337 wrote:
That ETT Ban was awesome and made my day...

On March 29 2014 08:21 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:
My sixth toilet tale experience happened last night although this time it was a little different. It wasn't in a public bathroom, and I think it ended up being more a proud memory than a shameful one.

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I'd just like to say that one of my few true regrets in life is not signing up for FBLA sooner. Freshman year I had plans to join the military and do JROTC in highschool/ROTC in college, but I fell out two years later and dropped it at the end of the 11th grade. The military wasn't for me, and I wanted to grow out my hair.

This year I've been doing FBLA; it's a really practical organization that goes a long way to answering the age-old question you hear bored algebra students asking - "When are we going to learn something that matters?" You basically learn a wide variety of business-related subjects, anything from public speaking; to a hands-on, step-by-step guide to dressing for an interview; to selling a product.

The real main attraction was the state and national conferences, where you spend 2 and 3 days, respectively, in a hotel room and do presentations on a subject you like, and spend the rest of your time doing fuck-all. It seemed like a whole lot of fun based on the testimonies of my friends in the organization, and now that I've been through States (and qualified for nationals! Anyone else already in or going to Nashville this July?) I have to say it met and exceeded the huge amount of hype they built up for it.

But States is another matter - one that would take me more than the 100,000 character limit of a Team Liquid post to describe in its full excitement and horrors. So.... back to the shitting.

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Our story begins on Day One of States - last night. Now it isn't a public bathroom, but we still have about 10 people in our room either playing or watching poker. I'm in the toilet taking a shit, which goes normally in all ways up until I attempt to pull the flush.

Now I have a problem with clogging toilets. Public toilets for some reason are very low to the ground and have small exits, which are an inconvenience for my man shits. I eat a lot, and I shit a lot as a result.

So this toilet is firmly clogged. Nothing goes down the drain, nothing goes up. Except the water - that's going to creep up. Usually the blockage isn't 100% blocking the cross-section, and after a flush the water drains out through the gaps. So my usual strategy to deal with this when a plunger isn't available is to wait 5-10 minutes for the water to reset and try again.

Except the hotel toilet doesn't stop very quickly. The water keeps rising, slowly but surely, and I stand frozen in fear as the water eclipses the lip of the toilet bowl, and begins to drain out. I breathe a sigh of relief as the water recedes a little bit on the right, hoping it'll go down, but then realize that's only because it's all waterfalling out the left side.

The shit is still stuck in the drain. The water is pretty clean.

So my first plan is to wait out the flood and then deal with it, thinking it'll stop soon enough. But as the water covers more and more surface area and approaches my dress shoes, I do then only thing I can think of. I open the top off (thank god it's not one of those toilets where the tank is behind the wall), and quickly inspect the flushing mechanism. Looking for a solution, I shove my hand into the icy toilet tank water, jam the round piece the flushing chain is connected to, and seal a pipe of some sort by doing so. A few seconds later, the water finally slows and then stops flowing out. Success!

Of some sort, anyway. Half of the bathroom floor is covered in water, and it's a centimeter deep at its lowest point in the back left corner. The toilet is full to the brim, and only surface tension prevents a second waterfall from occurring.

How do I clean this up without alerting the other 10 occupants? With a towel, of course!

Our room sleeps 4, but I brought a towel of my own from home which meant we only needed 3 for showering. I grab the spare hotel towel (fuck no, not using my own, even if I deserve it) and soak it in the water. Icy water with a small hint of Type 3 shit instantly fills the whole towel, and the water recedes maybe two inches, with 4 feet to go. It's a start. Gives me some more space to stand.

Having no other practical way of getting rid of the water (there is no way I'm admitting to room service that I single-handedly flooded half a bathroom), I decide to do the only thing I can, which is to wring the towel into the bathtub and repeat. So I spend a good half-hour wringing out the water ounce by ounce. Slowly, the blockage collapses in the water, and the toilet starts returning to its normal, albeit still clogged state. The water levels return to normal, that is.

Finally I manage, using a second towel in conjuction with the first to wall off the water in the 1cm-corner and then wring my way to salvation, to return the toilet to its normal state. The only thing left is the occasional strip of water which couldn't be wiped up with a wet towel.

I wash the floor and my hands, and repeat the flush, carefully watching the tank mechanism to be ready to close the pipe at a moment's notice. When I look back I realize that the toilet is back to normal, and my shit is finally finding its way to the ocean.

Hopefully the toilets are bigger in Nashville.

On March 31 2014 09:08 Megapenthes wrote:
Has anyone ever tried, or made it work to any extent? I really enjoy playing DK and although I'm pretty casual I feel like he has some potential... His dair is a great spike once you get used to using it, his neutral b can be really powerful if timed when your opponent is vulnerable... I feel like he seems to have a lot of the strengths that make Ganon somewhat viable.
tl;dr is DK borderline competitive viable? What glaring issues am I missing? Are there examples of DK at competitive tournaments or high level play that I could watch?

On May 05 2012 05:54 Coagulation wrote:
... im living on borrowed time around here. I pretty much have since the day i signed up like 8 years ago..(even I cant help but wonder HOW am I not perma banned yet??? as I sit back and watch vets like charlie fall swiftly to the banhammers of justice.) Anyway I Have pretty much come to the conclusion that If I have any desire of self preservation around these parts it would be in my best interest to retire this account and nod out now before its too late.

to give you guys an idea of what im talking about I have taken the liberty of compiling the majority of my bans/warnings in chronological order.. Its a pretty long read so I cut out all the generic message warnings and bans that I dont understand where they came from or what they are for or who they are from.

My first ban. from back in early 06 Beyonder popped my cherry gently but firmly.. ushering in my newfound higher standard of posting.
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Next I have a couple warnings from multiple concerned mods about this gem of a thread.
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My second ban was from rekrul for this whopper of a fail thread.. it pains me to look back on this and see how bad I have failed beyonder in upping my post quality ( and even more so today). good luck trying to figure out what exactly I was doing cause I dont even remember. I think this was back when I could still edit my posts when I was banned so I kept posting in it till it got closed.
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and shortly after the introduction of the snazzy new automated ban and warning system I got my first real warning from the man himself.
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my next warning was unfortunately not signed by a mod/admin so I have no idea who gave it to me or what it was about..
"shrug"
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My next warning was a warning from a mod warning me not to warn the mods. unfortunatly I rather not disclose the circumstances on that one as there is security sensitive information related. Needless to say it was a joke but +1 regardless

The next warning (im gonna assume it was from plexa i dont know it wasnt signed ) was a pretty unreasonable one imo but w/e Its not my place to judge. I think kangaroos can add positive discussion to ANY topic.
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my next warning was from intrigue for an accidental repost. I worded my post pretty poorly so I prolly deserved it.
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this next post was so bad that apparently mods felt inclined to stack warnings. some kind of warning 2.0 system.
Looking back on it I probably deserved a perma ban.
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My next warning comes from a bad habit I have of seeking out really bad posts as soon as they pop up in general and posting something completely offtopic and probably offensive as the first reply. I have no idea who warned me

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My next warning is from manifesto and pretty self explanatory

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next up is a warning from nyovne. apparently he interperated my post as flame bait. maybe hes right but I dont think that was my intentions at the time.
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first temp ban in a while.. just a friendly reminder that I suck and should take a week to think about it...

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My next temp ban is 2 days compliments of

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My next warning came from this thread when I defended someone who got perm banned for a really piss poor reason imo. I dont know if people remember the maji guy who posted in general about being an alien and preparing for the coming invasion etc. I personally thought it was funny as fuck but admins banned him and I got a warning for asking why in thread. wich had lead to this exchange of PM with mods.

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My next temp ban is 1 week for taking hostages. (to be fair it only lasted 2 days)
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Another warning here for I have no idea what the problem here is but... no idea who its from but they apparently have warned me before. Looking back at it I think the person who warned me over reacted alot. I dont see any insulting or anything of that nature in my post but maybe it was a case of multiple posts on that day.. anyway If in doubt its prolly my fault.
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next ban up is a two weeker. pretty much 100% deserved. probably should be a perm level post.
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Next up a warning that im honestly not sure what I did or why it was such a big deal but this ones a pretty mean one.

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Next up a warning for using red text.. in a post. pretty lame.
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a warning from {CC}StealthBlue probably for all caps more than my idiotic post content.
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A warning from p4NDemik.. It was a joke im thinking he misunderstood. w/e.

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A warning from ToKoreaWithLove for being a little too blunt about the mishaps in mafia.
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I win my next temp ban in the ABL
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This one is one of my favorite also most recent and what prompted me to make this post and make an effort to save my account from my own self inflicted bad posting.
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Hopefully If anyone is to walk away from reading all these warnings/bans stupidity on my part etc with having learned something I would hope it would be this.

Teamliquid as strict as it may be is not some super evil entity out to ban and wipe out anyone that they dont agree with.
I am living walking proof of this. TL.net has given me more chances than I honestly ever deserved because at the end of the day they just want to make me and you a better person. to make their home a better place.

Anyway Im going to retire this account. I would like to apologize to TL mods for being a twat over the years and thank them for putting up with me.

hopefully some day I will come back.. maybe 10 years down the road.. when the mods have all forgotten how bad of a poster I really am and its safe for me to come out again.. but for now.. for now as much as it sucks I have a couple tiny bits of unfinished business with the mafia ban list but after that I must say goodbye.

On April 06 2013 10:48 Coagulation wrote:
this is why you should worship satan. The prince of darkness never makes you do lame shit like suck on baby weewees.

On August 27 2010 21:04 Mora wrote:
LGBT and friends IRC channel: #gteamliquid

LGBT SC2 and friends chat channel: GTL

Hi. My name is Mora. I am the local queer Starcraft player, and i write this post with the intentions of allowing other gay Starcraft players to find each other.

Possibly You: What does sexuality have to do with Video Games? I don't care if someone is gay or not, it just shouldn't be on an SC2 forum.

Well, no.

It's so difficult to start somewhere in this explanation. blarhg

When you're gay you don't know if you belong anywhere. You're taught, culturally, that it's disgusting and wrong. It's cool to be cool with people who are gay, but it's disgusting to want to have a dick in your mouth.

You ask questions like: If i talk, will everyone know that i'm gay? Will my friends still be my friends if they knew? Will my family still love me? Am i less of a man because i like other men? Am i male enough to hang out with heterosexual men?

This kind of minority is tricky. Before you have a chance to gain experience in gay culture, you don't have the tools to indentify who is gay and who isn't. The only people who are gay are the flamboyant guys on your TV screen and the faggot who gets beat up at lunch time because he likes to wear pink jeans (though in bigger cities this is less the case). We don't have any way to indentify each other. We can't see the only other asian/white kid/wheelchair/fatty in our school and go "hey, we can join forces against haters and be without hate".

And the hate is a different kind too. Being gay is about what you're aroused by. It's a deviation in carnal human behaviour. When someone hates you for that deviation, you feel that you can't argue with them. That It's not wrong to hate something disgusting. You understand that disgust because you’ve experienced it in the other direction – that the thought of sticking my tongue inside a dank vagina made me want to puke. That when i would watch straight porn, and see the tits bouncing around, i would lose my erection.

You sympathize with the disgust.

That's fucked.

So then many of us tend towards a hobby or a lifestyle that will be inclined to bring us in contact with other gays. We shy away from sports, we befriend more women than men, we learn to like fashion; we become masters at gossip.

But i like sports. I didn't get the fashion gene. I like to have conversations about things that are interesting, not trivialities regarding who said hi to whom.

I like strategy games.

So where do i find another guy that has the same interests?

Imagine if the only place you could meet girls was an internet forum called "Heterosexuality". You've never seen them in class. You've not seen them on the street. You've never had a conversation with one, you've never even made contact. Man, that would suck.

It does suck.

So i've created this thread for a few reasons.
1) For gays to find other gays that actually have something in common, other than their seuxality.
2) For gays to ask questions. I have a lot of experience with sexuality and gender psychology.
3) For everyone else to ask questions. Want to know if gaydar really exists? Want to know how gays figure out who gets to be on top or the bottom? Why do gays talk with a lisp anyway? Does Mora really have a crush on Incontrol?

Go!

edit - If you're question is more personal and you do not want it broadcasted on tl.net, feel free to send me a private message.

On March 31 2014 11:11 kitaman27 wrote:
Umm......well ok.

I don't suppose anyone has a time machine that can bring us to day two?

On March 31 2014 07:11 Xatalos wrote:

Not Voting ("6") - austinmcc, Hopeless1der, thrawn2112, JarJarDrinks, Vivax, gumshoe