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Dandel Ion

Austria17960 Posts

February 19 2014 17:44 GMT

#24201

the problem is that cheep (and roffles) thinks it's cool to be proud of shitposting

Being proud of idiotic things is a problem of society at whole.
People act proud about the most retarded stuff and since political correctness is drilled into everybody hardcore, nobody will ever say anything about it, reinforcing the idea that whatever retarded thing one is proud of is actually something to be proud of.

It's fine to DO shitposting, but it's fucking annoying when the posts sound like you masturbate while you're looking in the mirror.
And that is why cheep is cancer.

Slayer91

Ireland23465 Posts

February 19 2014 17:45 GMT

#24202

thing is roffles and csheep post more intelligently than 99% of people here
its just they toss around words like cancer and toxic and are really ad hominem which is unnecessary but entertaining

anyway that post is pretty old man speak of "back in my day..."

it has always been the way that 99% of people are delusional and suck at pretty much everything but can live normal lives. Nothing has really changed in that respect.

before you still had people talking about shit that you didn't care about but they either got the alaric treatment or they were a girl you were trying to bang so you tried to listen

WaveofShadow

Canada31495 Posts

February 19 2014 17:46 GMT

#24203

On February 20 2014 02:38 Crusnik wrote:
Wave, did you have to download that flight sim thing to get GFWL to recognize Dark Souls? I have been avoiding it out of principle, but I'm about to cave just to play some Dark Souls...Would stream it as well, so if you guys have requests for things to try, I'm willing to do them. Was thinking either Dex/Faith or Strength/Faith, maybe Dex/INT but soul sorceries are terribad outside of PvP....

Slayer, I love you. We think the same, if I don't know you that well, I'm nice and polite, but to my friends I'm constantly called either a dick or a douche or something along those lines

Nope no Flight sim here...

Also wtf has this thread turned into today?
Quick somebody talk about TPP.

Zergneedsfood

United States10671 Posts

February 19 2014 17:47 GMT

#24204

On February 20 2014 02:44 Dandel Ion wrote:
the problem is that cheep (and roffles) thinks it's cool to be proud of shitposting

Being proud of idiotic things is a problem of society at whole.
People act proud about the most retarded stuff and since political correctness is drilled into everybody hardcore, nobody will ever say anything about it, reinforcing the idea that whatever retarded thing one is proud of is actually something to be proud of.

It's fine to DO shitposting, but it's fucking annoying when the posts sound like you masturbate while you're looking in the mirror.
And that is why cheep is cancer.

No....I think they just want you to post this kind of stuff so they can laugh about it later. >____>

On February 20 2014 02:43 wei2coolman wrote:

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On February 20 2014 02:40 Zergneedsfood wrote:

On February 20 2014 02:33 wei2coolman wrote:
I was reading that article earlier, I'm not sure that I agree. I think a minority and press shines a light on a lot of the "wussy" parts of our generation, but for the most part our generation is mostly numb to shit. We're so far detached from the realities of what is. War is just something we see on TV now, IED's taking lives is a normal occurrence, and starving children charity ads are scoffed at. I don't think this generation is wussy, so much as it's indifferent to the true nature of things, and just feeds on tumblr-tier progressive views.

That's not what the article is about. The article doesn't describe how numb/indifferent/apathetic we are to world events. It describes how we can't take criticism, how we can't be blunt/honest to other people without them feeling like they're super offended. Hence quotes like:

You have to understand that I’m coming to these things as a member of the most pessimistic and ironic generation that has ever roamed the earth. When I hear millennials getting hurt by "cyber bullying," or it being a gateway to suicide, it’s difficult for me to process. A little less so for my boyfriend, who happens to be a millennial of that age, but even he somewhat agrees with the sensitivity of Generation Wuss. It’s very difficult for them to take criticism, and because of that a lot of the content produced is kind of shitty. And when someone is criticized for their content, they seem to collapse, or the person criticizing them is called a hater, a contrarian, a troll.

We therefore force the opinions of others away, deeming them trolls, hipster elitists, pretentious assholes, etc. This may be partially because they are trolls, hipster elitists, or pretentious assholes (all three?) but it may also heavily be because we don't like to admit that we're wrong, or don't like to face the facts that other people have a much better presented argument. I believe the latter to be very true.

Like this quote:

In a way it’s down to the generation that raised them, who cocooned them in praise—four stars for showing up, you know? But eventually everyone has to hit the dark side of life; someone doesn’t like you, someone doesn’t like your work, someone doesn’t love you back… people die. What we have is a generation who are super-confident and super-positive about things, but when the least bit of darkness enters their lives, they’re paralyzed.

Or this quote:

But it all ties into Generation Wuss and its wussy influence on social media to a degree; if you have a snarky opinion about anything, you’re a douche. To me, that’s problematic. It limits discourse. If you just like everything, what are we going to talk about? How great everything is? How often I’ve pushed the Like button on my Facebook page?

Is it BuzzFeed who said they’re not going to run any negative reviews any more? Really, guys? What’s going to happen to culture then? What’s going to happen to conversation? It’s going to die.

But, I'm saying we aren't wusses because we're desensitized for the most part.

Those are two completely different things.

Being indifferent to world events, horrible atrocities, and tragedies portrayed by sensationalist journalism articles is not the same thing as being indifferent to people saying that your taste, your opinions, and your beliefs about the world are misguided, bad, shit, misdirected, awful, horrible, toxic, cancer and all sorts of other negative opinions.

On February 20 2014 02:45 Slayer91 wrote:
thing is roffles and csheep post more intelligently than 99% of people here
its just they toss around words like cancer and toxic and are really ad hominem which is unnecessary but entertaining

anyway that post is pretty old man speak of "back in my day..."

it has always been the way that 99% of people are delusional and suck at pretty much everything but can live normal lives. Nothing has really changed in that respect.

#truth

Cixah

United States11285 Posts

February 19 2014 17:48 GMT

#24205

I just post a lot here to keep my mind off doing work. I'm not proud that ~80% of my posts are basically off topic crap, but hey I'm not here to edumacte the smarts. I'm hear to read your smarts

Zergneedsfood

United States10671 Posts

February 19 2014 17:49 GMT

#24206

^ I usually do the same. I'm not a very smart person. >__>

Alzadar

Canada5009 Posts

February 19 2014 17:50 GMT

#24207

Yo Teut enlighten me, what's up the Olympic team being called Great Britain and not United Kingdom? Doesn't that exclude Northern Ireland? What's the deal?

Slayer91

Ireland23465 Posts

February 19 2014 17:51 GMT

#24208

i think they are pretty much the same but its just outdated to call it great britain

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21248 Posts

February 19 2014 17:54 GMT

#24209

On February 20 2014 02:50 Alzadar wrote:
Yo Teut enlighten me, what's up the Olympic team being called Great Britain and not United Kingdom? Doesn't that exclude Northern Ireland? What's the deal?

"While the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and BOA both refer to the team as 'Great Britain' and the team uses the brand name Team GB, the BOA explains that it is the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team."

TY based Wikipedia.

Gahlo

United States35174 Posts

February 19 2014 17:56 GMT

#24210

On February 20 2014 02:27 wei2coolman wrote:

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“If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you”

"and then quickly look away because it gets embarrassed by eye contact."

On February 20 2014 02:33 Requizen wrote:

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I mean, there is a distinction between discussing something you don't agree with passionately and being a dick, but I don't know if anyone who is a regular has ever actually been offended by this board.

You wound me, Reqipoo.

On February 20 2014 02:54 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:

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Good thing the snakes are keeping this shit straight.

Alzadar

Canada5009 Posts

February 19 2014 17:58 GMT

#24211

On February 20 2014 02:54 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:

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Seems a bit tricksy. We should try that, call our team "Team Ontario & Quebec" and see how all the expansion pack provinces like that.

Zess

Adun Toridas!9144 Posts

February 19 2014 17:59 GMT

#24212

On February 20 2014 02:43 wei2coolman wrote:

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On February 20 2014 02:40 Zergneedsfood wrote:

Or this quote:

But, I'm saying we aren't wusses because we're desensitized for the most part.

In the cancerverse, there are cancers, and there are those crippled by fear of cancer

But the cancer is inevitable; it is the ultimate expression of life

wei2coolman

United States60033 Posts

February 19 2014 18:09 GMT

#24213

On February 20 2014 02:54 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:

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It's Great Britain when they win. It's UK if they lose. amirite?

Gahlo

United States35174 Posts

February 19 2014 18:09 GMT

#24214

On February 20 2014 02:58 Alzadar wrote:

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Seems a bit tricksy. We should try that, call our team "Team Ontario & Quebec" and see how all the expansion pack provinces like that.

Just as long as the ported over versions of Canada still have the expansions so I can get the full maple syrup experience.

Still mad about that Zelda collection thing.

mordek

United States12705 Posts

February 19 2014 18:10 GMT

#24215

On February 20 2014 00:08 WaveofShadow wrote:

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Doing that as we speak lol

lol Alaric do you even Canada? Sunbathing in the snow and -8

I pictured that as a shriveled penis sunbathing out in the cold.

Alzadar

Canada5009 Posts

February 19 2014 18:14 GMT

#24216

On February 20 2014 03:09 Gahlo wrote:

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Just as long as the ported over versions of Canada still have the expansions so I can get the full maple syrup experience.

Still mad about that Zelda collection thing.

Zelda collection thing?

Also as a rule Quebec has by far the best maple syrup. I just looked it up and surprisingly the second biggest producer of maple syrup is Vermont, beating Ontario by a fair bit.

jcarlsoniv

United States27922 Posts

February 19 2014 18:16 GMT

#24217

My general rule - don't be an asshole. I try to be generally nice to people I meet just because it takes very little effort and it tends to have a ripple effect. Just because I hate people as a general rule, doesn't mean they have to know it.

That said, I will always make fun of friends. It's always in jest, never for actual malicious purposes. I think racist jokes are hilarious, but I'm not racist. I love the word "faggot", but I believe that a persons sexuality has literally no effect on anything other than their sexual identity. I'm just a reasonable human being who is capable of distinguishing between real assholery and entertainment. Political correctness is just retarded.

I'm sure most of the people here are exactly the same. It's been displayed several times in this thread that we're pretty nice people, especially when someone is going through a particular hardship (Req/myself/coma/today with 6ah/etc).

@Wei: Our generation (and the ones following), as a whole, has been shielded from loss. Think of kids all getting a consolation prize, even if they didn't win. The generation raising us, for some reason, has tried to prevent us from experiencing loss and feeling like we aren't special. This is straight bullshit.

I never really experienced this shielding because growing up I was in gymnastics, and only the people who did well received awards at the end of the meet. Also, my dad was always a hard ass. I'm not afraid of being wrong or making a mistake as a result. It happens, and I try to grow from it. Pretending like everyone is their own special flower and deserves praise is just tossing a blanket of naivety over the eyes of the youth.

Gahlo

United States35174 Posts

February 19 2014 18:24 GMT

#24218

On February 20 2014 03:14 Alzadar wrote:

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This: http://www.gamestop.com/gc/games/the-legend-of-zelda-collectors-disc/31121
It has the first 2 Zelda's, OOT and Majora's Mask. I bought it specifically so I could play Majora's Mask, since I sold my copy and N64 a long time ago. However, the emulator that Nintendo used for the N64 games didn't emulate the RAM expansion pack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64_accessories#Expansion_Pak). Because of this, you couldn't save or leave the main town in the game.

jcarlsoniv

United States27922 Posts

February 19 2014 18:26 GMT

#24219

uhhhhh really?

I have that disc and, while I haven't touched it in yeeeaaaaarrrrssss, as far as I remember, MM worked fine.