Everything posted by Gorgon
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Terror attack in Manchester...
I reiterate : the dispassionate analysis.
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Terror attack in Manchester...
Although this is genuinely terrifying, the amount of people who get hurt or killed by terrorist attacks is really quite minuscule. As they say, doing nothing is the same as doing something. The dispassionate analysis really calls for doing nothing that is not already being done.
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Terror attack in Manchester...
What are 3 generations forth, People who haven't been born yet ?
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What's so Funny?
http://i.imgur.com/y1yTLvz.mp4
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Bill Nye the Degeneracy Guy
mmm... Just another entry into the already overpopulated culturewar™ videos on youtube. He lost me when he started to go 'the left is such and such and so on'. Meaningless dribble. The left has co-opted science because of climate change deniers and creationists on the right. There is something to be said for insisting on empiricism, and if you have found people on the left who are not consistent, well then you can trump card them - But with science, not with a stupid youtube video.
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Netflix to produce live-action The Witcher series
It's gets annoying when it's a checklist. Remember that uproar about Moses and white actors. It doesn't matter. Get the best actors. If Morgan Freeman wants to play Vesemir, whatever. As long as he does a good job.
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The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread
I kinda get why they would do that though. Imagine Jennifer Lopez is sponsored by a beauty brand of some sort. She is payed to promote it on social media. The brand becomes commonly associated with her. Now whatever appearance she makes, the late show, Jimmy Kimmel, whatever. Those broadcasting companies are now actively promoting Jennifer Lopez's beauty brand because of the heavy association between the two. That's why you need disclosure.
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The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread
A conflict of interest in the life or death decision of choosing the right moisturizer ?
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Movies You've Seen Recently
Alien Covenant. It's like one of the old TNG Data vs Lore episodes. It's great. Great to see HR Giger concept art revived. Same problem as Prometheus though. The movie doesn't spend the time to introduce the crew so when they start dying off one by one you don't really care. The Wagner was a bit too on the nose. A genius with a hatred for a race of people and so on.
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Total War: Warhammer
I was 10. They were all Slann to me.
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Politics 2017 Act 6
The term 'mainstream media' doesn't mean much anymore. Isn't it largely cable TV news outlets struggling for relevance, they are not quite competent enough to survive purely on the quality of their journalism, that's a rarity now surely, and they are not quite interesting enough on their own merits. So they create the story if it doesn't exist already. Lots of feigned outrage, that'll surely get them talking. News reporting is supposed to be dispassionate and accurate before it is anything else. The whole Russia thing only exists because it's such an obvious Republican weak spot. There is a lot to be gained from a Democrat position in steadily poking at that scab whenever the opportunity arises.
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Total War: Warhammer
Slaan. Cool. I painted a Slann skirmisher troop armed with blowpipes when I was like 10.
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Netflix to produce live-action The Witcher series
There should be lots of middle eastern roles right. I've always thought it rather ridiculous the way people focus on the race of the actor. I mean they are actors, they can pretend, so can the audience. The play is the thing and all that. Can a white man play Malcom X. Well, no. Probably not. Is race at the forefront of the Witcher material, yes, but it's non human vs human. that is the divide. You could throw in any race to play human parts. It wouldn't matter.
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Netflix to produce live-action The Witcher series
Fantasy stuff with elves and Dwarves and such has never been done well on TV. I'm eager to see the attempt tho.
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Politics 2017 Act 6
Iirc my father had to wait two months to get his cataract surgery, my mother got her chemo for arthritis pretty quickly aswell. Also http://vantetider.se/Kontaktkort/Sveriges/SpecialiseradOperation/ Specialist surgery (Section "Hur länge har man väntat"=How long did they wait; Dagar=Days) http://vantetider.se/Kontaktkort/Sveriges/SpecialiseradBesok/ Specialist treatment The problem is that in the US there are too many people with their hands in the tin, people who have to find profit margins. Hospitals, insurance carriers, doctors, pharma companies. If you remove the profit incentive from hospitals and eliminate insurance carriers altogether there is just no way that the invisible hand of the market could manage anything like that effect. It's very common everywhere to suggest that government is hopelessly ineffective compared to how things are run by private businesses, and I'm sure that's true, but that can't make up for having a parasite in the system, namely the insurance industry. Think of all the payments that just go to line their pockets and buy no healthcare for anyone.
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Battletech
When is that new Mechwarrior thing coming out.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
Trying to figure out how many percent exposed constitutes a nipple made it go away.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
People kept reporting too much **** and ass. That was all on ya'll.
- Mass Effect Franchise Put on Ice, BioWare New IP Delayed, Montreal Studio Downsized
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What's so Funny?
it's "bait", not "bate". "Bate" isn't a word.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
I thought the Thief 3 storyline with the witch was very well presented. Especially reading about the witch hunter who was after her. It's one of the few times ever I remember books and notes in a game done well, and it's not even an RPG. I got to the final boss fight in one of my playthroughs and was killed. I just went, well ok, that's a result. I lost. So I never beat the game.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
Thief 3 is underrated. Sure the maps are a bit smaller but. The Shalebridge Cradle. nuff said.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
This is just the kind of ridiculous crap that could ride the nostalgia wave.
- What you did today
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What's so Funny?
This has gotta be my favorite meme of all time. http://imgur.com/gallery/clRHG