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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Gamergate!
« on: July 21, 2018, 10:09:30 AM »
What happened to Saddam?
He martyr'd himself in the name of Gamergate.

Oh, I'm sorry I missed that. I imagine it was quite a moving spectacle.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Gamergate!
« on: July 20, 2018, 10:02:13 PM »
What happened to Saddam?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing (the Video Game Version)
« on: July 08, 2016, 12:54:41 PM »
The nice thing about Mass Effect 2 is that if you don't like any of your companions, you can always try to get them killed in the final mission.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing (the Video Game Version)
« on: July 07, 2016, 09:50:08 PM »
I'm playing Terraria at the minute. I'm going to build a real big ice tower to live in.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Brexit!
« on: July 05, 2016, 02:24:04 PM »
Farage hasn't really got a role to play now. The Brexit will be negotiated by the Conservatives, they're obviously not going to involve him in the process. UKIP got what they wanted and they were starting to turn against him anyway. They'll probably turn to their next priority, stopping gay marriages from causing flooding.

Farage achieved what he set out to do, so why not step back and take a break.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Game of Thrones
« on: June 28, 2016, 10:02:36 AM »
There seemed to be a pretty strong feminist message in the finale, with Cersei taking the throne, the Daenerys, Olenna Tyrell, Sandsnakes and Yara Greyjoy alliance emerging, and characters like Theon and Tyrion going a bit wimpy and subservient. I guess Benioff and Weiss have been stung by the criticism of all the rapey stuff in the past couple of seasons.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Brexit!
« on: June 25, 2016, 03:51:10 PM »
he's not a big fan of the EU
That's my suspicion, too. But that makes him pretty much the opposite of what the Labour electorate wants. Ergo, a leadership challenge. Regardless of whether or not he's a good politician, he's not a Labour politician - he's some sort of socialist-protectionist who should probably join TUSC.

The problem is the Labour electorate is split. I know plenty of Labour supporters who voted to Leave - I live in the North East which voted 58% leave, and which is generally a Labour stronghold. But you also have London, also a Labour stronghold which voted heavily to remain. Corbyn couldn't satisfy both sides, so maybe keeping a relatively low profile was the way to go.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Brexit!
« on: June 25, 2016, 03:22:53 PM »
Labour MPs are idiots. They've clearly lost touch with their working class supporters, judging by the last election and this referendum. And now they're trying to get rid of a leader who seems to have reached these alienated supporters and won a landslide victory in the leadership contest.
Eh, it goes both ways. Many "common" Labour supporters are very upset about how little Corbyn did to support the Remain campaign (I mean, Cameron really shouldn't have been the face of Remain - Labour was the obvious choice). If he survives a leadership contest, fair enough, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if he got ousted.

I don't think he could though, it's pretty obvious that he's not a big fan of the EU and saw the vote to Remain as the best of two bad options. He seems a pretty honest guy, so I don't think he could have effectively led the Remain campaign without fully supporting it. The Blairites will take any opportunity to try to get rid of him anyway.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Brexit!
« on: June 24, 2016, 03:54:01 PM »
I dunno why people take what Farage says seriously anyway. He's in no position to make any promises. He's not in the government, he's not even an MP.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Brexit!
« on: June 24, 2016, 01:55:27 PM »
Also, Corbyn might be facing a motion of no confidence.

Labour MPs are idiots. They've clearly lost touch with their working class supporters, judging by the last election and this referendum. And now they're trying to get rid of a leader who seems to have reached these alienated supporters and won a landslide victory in the leadership contest.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Brexit!
« on: June 23, 2016, 08:40:40 PM »
I finally decided to vote remain. I don't trust the conservatives to sort through all the legal ramifications for workers, they'd probably find some way to bring back serfdom.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Game of Thrones
« on: June 21, 2016, 05:13:26 PM »
Succeeds at everything? Did you forget she had to run from her homeland, her family was murdered, she had a twisted cruel brother, moved from place to place, was forced into marriage, lost her child, lost her husband, her loyal friends were murdered, and had to deal with the Sons of the Harpy constantly trying to undermine everything she's done in Meereen?

The only thing she's "succeeded" at is hatching dragons and has only NOW finally gotten her army and ships.
She's a fucking Targaryen. The mother of dragons. She's a total badass that keeps fighting for what she knows is right: freeing slaves and taking Westeros.
She's made a lot of mistakes, so definitely not a Mary Sue. But she can ride dragons which is a huge advantage, I spose people hate her for that.  ::)

She somehow learned how to do blood magic to hatch the dragons, she somehow learned how to be immune to fire, she somehow learned how to control the dragons which previously seemed out of control. Everybody is insanely loyal to her, in a series where all of the other characters seem to stab each other in the back. Her only strategy seems to be identify an authority figure and then set them on fire, and then all of their supporters will automatically follow her without question. She doesn't even have any friends, just people to kiss her arse, and if some of them die, she just gets more.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Brexit!
« on: June 21, 2016, 04:52:43 PM »
Obama said he wanted the UK to stay in the EU and we would be "at the back of the queue" for a trade deal if we left. There was some suspicion that he was reading from a script since apparently Americans don't use the word queue?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Brexit!
« on: June 21, 2016, 04:42:29 PM »
So the referendum is on Thursday, and I'm still undecided on whether to vote to remain in the EU or leave.

If you are British, how are you going to vote?

If you are in the EU, are you going to seek vengeance if we do leave?

If you are American, are you really going to turn your back on your old comrades from such conflicts as Afghanistan and Iraq, and refuse to trade with us?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Game of Thrones
« on: June 21, 2016, 03:52:20 PM »
Book Dany intended to invade Westeros with her army of  village burning slave taking rapists from the moment she asserted her independence from Viseris. And the dragons from the moment they hatched. Honestly I'm not seeing the distinction between Book Dany and Show Dany's plans that you seem to be drawing.

I don't like book Dany that much either, really. At least she seems more human and fallible though. Show Dany is more of a Mary Sue character who seems to succeed at everything. The books are also far more subjective, you only read about Dany from her own perspective, so there's always the possibility that she might not be the great leader that she thinks she is, and her perception of events are biased. The TV show loses that aspect of the narrative.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Game of Thrones
« on: June 21, 2016, 01:01:35 PM »
Tyrion has turned into a total wimp. Dany was giving him shit over Meereen being attacked after she'd buggered off on the back of a dragon, leaving the city in anarchy and Tyrion to pick up the pieces. He should have told her to fuck right off. Especially since her plan to sort things out was just to set fire to everything with her dragons, same as always.

Also why does anybody follow Jon Snow? He didn't even bother issuing any orders in the battle, he just raced off in the direction of the enemy. He's a complete idiot.
So.. you wanted Tyrion to tell Dany to fuck off? The one person he believes to be a decent ruler and has placed all his hope in? Yeah, aight. He's there to advise, which he did and since she is actually a reasonable person, she listened.

Yep, Jon Snow is fucking retarded and I hate him. I don't even like Sansa at all anymore tbh. I'm still so angry they changed her character from conniving, charismatic, woman to a bitter and cold hardass. Everything she's done has been so generic and predictable.

Yeah, I really don't like TV Dany. She's surrounded by sycophants, she keeps going on about her dragons all the time, most of her dialogue is either "do you know who I am?" moments or threatening to destroy anybody who doesn't kiss her arse, and her long term plan is to invade Westeros with dragons and an army of village burning slave taking rapists. She's a monster. If Tyrion had any integrity he would shoot her while she's on the toilet.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Game of Thrones
« on: June 21, 2016, 12:09:05 AM »
Tyrion has turned into a total wimp. Dany was giving him shit over Meereen being attacked after she'd buggered off on the back of a dragon, leaving the city in anarchy and Tyrion to pick up the pieces. He should have told her to fuck right off. Especially since her plan to sort things out was just to set fire to everything with her dragons, same as always.

Also why does anybody follow Jon Snow? He didn't even bother issuing any orders in the battle, he just raced off in the direction of the enemy. He's a complete idiot.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: FES Book Club
« on: June 08, 2016, 12:09:28 AM »
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign of Four

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Game of Thrones
« on: June 08, 2016, 12:04:30 AM »
Yeah, but we're supposed to know that Arya is also a pretty badass almost Faceless Man. If they could kill her as easily as anyone else then all that training would have been absolutely worthless.

I think all the training is already absolutely worthless. She seemed to learn nothing from them. Maybe a little bit of stick-fighting, but surely not nearly as good as the Waif. Everything she learned could have been attributed to what Syrio or the Hound taught her. She didn't learn how to change faces or anything supernatural, at best she picked up a bit more combat skills? Worthless, I say!

Arya did learn how to wash dead bodies though. There'll be plenty of dead bodies to wash back in Westeros, so perhaps she could start her own business.

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1. John Stuart Mill
2. The Epicurists
3. Immanuel Kant

I guess it's all about the reason and pleasure and self improvement and shit

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