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1 Indy GOP Refugee  Oct 30, 2014 9:15:18pm

Thud.

Okay nice finish. But the whole thing is just too fugly to examine closely.

2 teleskiguy  Oct 30, 2014 9:29:30pm

My younger sister is a COSplayer and loves her some video games. I’ve been paying attention on a cursory level to this GamerGate bullshit. I mean, loved ones are involved, y’know.

It’s a stupid fucking thing that in the end is highlighting some hardcore misogyny that’s been going on a long time in those circles.

This’ll be my one and only comment on the matter, because I truly don’t give a shit one way or another. And my sister is fine, she grew up in the mountains and knows how to use a knife.

3 teleskiguy  Oct 30, 2014 9:31:49pm

Whoops. Shouldn’t have used the GamerGate hashtag, my Notifications just blew the fuck up with trolls.

Oy!

4 allegro  Oct 30, 2014 9:47:56pm

In a goofy kind of way, this is like a validation of what women have been experiencing forever. Those experiences that are mostly blown off as no big deal, whaddya whining about? I mean, it’s just games. Right? Except to a segment of menfolk whose very identities seem threatened by the merest hint of estrogen bespoiling their manspace. That’s an actual thing now in real estate, men gotta have their man caves free of girl cooties, presumably. Like “No Girls Alowed” treehouses in the days of the Little Rascals.

GamerGate is so nothing new to women. That it seems so surprising to many men is at once heartening and sad,

5 klystron  Oct 30, 2014 9:54:52pm

re: #4 allegro

In a goofy kind of way, this is like a validation of what women have been experiencing forever. Those experiences that are mostly blown off as no big deal, whaddya whining about? I mean, it’s just games. Right? Except to a segment of menfolk whose very identities seem threatened by the merest hint of estrogen bespoiling their manspace. That’s an actual thing now in real estate, men gotta have their man caves free of girl cooties, presumably. Like “No Girls Alowed” treehouses in the days of the Little Rascals.

GamerGate is so nothing new to women. That it seems so surprising to many men is at once heartening and sad,

I’ve been a gamer for years and years and years, and …really, it’s not surprising at all.

I don’t discuss this on Twitter at all because I absolutely don’t want to deal with the trolls, as teleskiguy found out.

6 teleskiguy  Oct 30, 2014 10:01:06pm

re: #5 klystron

I’ve been a gamer for years and years and years, and …really, it’s not surprising at all.

I don’t discuss this on Twitter at all because I absolutely don’t want to deal with the trolls, as teleskiguy found out.

It’s calmed down after like 6 or so responses. It’s pitiful, really. All of them were along the lines of “Well, if you don’t call yourself a gamer then who’re you to judge?”

I used to be a gamer. Last system I had was a PS2 and about 50 or so games. Sold it all years ago and haven’t looked back.

Grand Theft Auto was my crux, the apex, it could not be better. And after San Andreas I walked away from gaming.

7 Varek Raith  Oct 30, 2014 10:01:11pm

re: #3 teleskiguy

Whoops. Shouldn’t have used the GamerGate hashtag, my Notifications just blew the fuck up with trolls.

Oy!

Yep. Same happened to me.

8 klystron  Oct 30, 2014 10:03:35pm

re: #6 teleskiguy

It’s calmed down after like 6 or so responses. It’s pitiful, really. All of them were along the lines of “Well, if you don’t call yourself a gamer then who’re you to judge?”

I used to be a gamer. Last system I had was a PS2 and about 50 or so games. Sold it all years ago and haven’t looked back.

Grand Theft Auto was my crux, the apex, it could not be better. And after San Andreas I walked away from gaming.

I’m an RPG girl. Like I said, I met the husband playing World of Warcraft. I confess that I am eagerly awaiting the new Pokemon release next month.

But it’s not like they would listen to me either, and I run (as a woman) too high of a risk of seeing more backlash than I want to handle.

9 teleskiguy  Oct 30, 2014 10:06:38pm

re: #8 klystron

I’m an RPG girl.

My favorite game - and if you sat me in front of it I could probably finish it in one sit - Legend of Zelda A Link To The Past for Super Nintendo. Alas, my sister has possession of all the old stuff. She’s the gamer, after all.

10 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 30, 2014 10:07:59pm

Most modern games are not even worth putting up with the crap. Very little I’ll bother with anymore.

New pokemon? Guess I know what to get my son for Christmas. :)

11 klystron  Oct 30, 2014 10:10:20pm

re: #10 William Barnett-Lewis

Most modern games are not even worth putting up with the crap. Very little I’ll bother with anymore.

New pokemon? Guess I know what to get my son for Christmas. :)

For the 3DS, remakes of the ones I started with on the GBA in high school.

There are still good games out there. But yeah, I know what you mean.

12 allegro  Oct 30, 2014 10:10:34pm

I’m wishing I still had River Raid. Best game ever.

13 Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 30, 2014 10:11:41pm

I am a gamer but oddly enough I love games with strong female protagonists. I’m a huge Metroid fan and I love some of the classic Final Fantasy series.

14 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 30, 2014 10:17:59pm

re: #11 klystron

For the 3DS, remakes of the ones I started with on the GBA in high school.

There are still good games out there. But yeah, I know what you mean.

He has a 2DS so they’ll work. Only things I’ve done lately are torchlight and the baldur’s gate remake. torchlight was worth it, the jury is still out on BG.

15 klystron  Oct 30, 2014 10:19:44pm

re: #14 William Barnett-Lewis

He has a 2DS so they’ll work. Only things I’ve done lately are torchlight and the baldur’s gate remake. torchlight was worth it, the jury is still out on BG.

I liked Torchlight II except for the part where it would hard crash my computer and the devs didn’t give a shit (and I was not the only one).

Lately I have sunk time into Diablo III (improved mightly from release), WoW, and a little bit of Beyond Earth. I have a giant pile waiting for attention. Hah. At some point.

16 Targetpractice  Oct 30, 2014 10:19:56pm

Not to worry, this time next week, too many of the cavemen on #Gamergate will be busy playing the latest map pack for Call of Duty and arguing with Battlefield fans about which series sucks less these days.

17 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 30, 2014 10:20:21pm

re: #13 Eclectic Cyborg

I am a gamer but oddly enough I love games with strong female protagonists. I’m a huge Metroid fan and I love some of the classic Final Fantasy series.

Final Fantasy is why I have a DS :) especially FF 3 & 4

18 klystron  Oct 30, 2014 10:21:31pm

re: #17 William Barnett-Lewis

Final Fantasy is why I have a DOS :) especially FF 3 & 4

They have re-released on Android.

Maybe the Christmas Lizard could send one or two your way.

>.>

19 goddamnedfrank  Oct 30, 2014 10:48:02pm

CCJ comes out in favor of skeezing.

Ya hear that ladies, Chuck just wants to enjoy your hot bodies and talk to you in public about how horny that makes him feel. So calm your hysterical humors and let the man get his creep on.

20 klystron  Oct 30, 2014 10:49:57pm

Rather than comment on Upchuck’s appalling lack of grammar:

21 Floral Giraffe  Oct 30, 2014 10:51:31pm

re: #19 goddamnedfrank

I bet he never talks to women. Seriously, can you see this creeper offering to buy a woman a drink in a bar? He’s WAY too self absorbed.

22 teleskiguy  Oct 30, 2014 10:55:11pm

It’s Halloween.

23 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 30, 2014 10:56:26pm

re: #21 Floral Giraffe

I would not be surprised if his wife knows to the day how long they have to stay married for INS to not have a fit…

24 KiTA  Oct 30, 2014 10:56:42pm

Yeah, I suppose this is where I try to interject one of the Gamergate side of things with a few paragraphs of history and links to back it all up, only to be called “less than a shitstain” again and bow out in frustration. Or I could correct some meme (such as this all being sparked by a false “sex for reviews” scandal — not true) and be called a “mysgonistic dudebro neckbeard” like over on the Kos.

It’s been a frustrating few weeks.

Really this is reminding me of trying to debate religion or some of the false realities of the tea-party — people pick one of the two sides and refuse to see anything but black and white, and good luck trying to change anyone’s minds. Of course, this is exactly what a political scientist pointed out would happen when this all started, so…

Well, anyway. I would like to share these wonderful interviews with everyone if they are interested.

David Pakman, an independent progressive liberal reporter who has his own show on the AM dial, has been covering this with 4 (so far) really good interviews.

(Pakman, some of you may remember, was the guy who had the Jewish center shooter on his show before the shooting (where the shooter had an absolute meltdown), as well as the guy who had a representative of Fred Phelps clan on who antagonized a member of anonymous on the air — who hacked their website in real time out of spite. He’s made a name for himself for surprisingly hard hitting interviews and doing a significant amount of research about subjects before they come on his show.

Anyway, he has 4 interviews so far about this. First up with professional grifter Brianna Wu:
Youtube Video

Next up with Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos (who Mrs. Wu attempted to throw under the bus on the previous interview), who has been covering this for the far right:
Youtube Video

Next up being an interview with (if you believe the anti-gamergate side) a nonexistant female Gamergate supporter, Jennie Bharaj:
Youtube Video

Disclosure: Haven’t watched the Jennie one, and apparently she did not come across very prepared.

And finally, today’s interview, John “TotalBiscuit” Bain, an independent games journalist who has some really fascinating insight:
Youtube Video

25 teleskiguy  Oct 30, 2014 11:01:51pm
26 teleskiguy  Oct 30, 2014 11:03:10pm

Hey, some good things happened on Halloween too, like this:

27 klystron  Oct 30, 2014 11:03:42pm

Three responses deleted so far, I’ll just go with LOL.

I’m sure there are women support that mess. That doesn’t change the sequence of events that led to the hashtag, that are directly relevant to that sex for reviews non-scandal that you think is irrelevant. Also, your descriptions could use some work. Brianna Wu has released a game from her studio, even if you think she is a “professional grifter.”

Anyway, like I’ve said before, we just don’t agree and you’re pretty invested in this. So. Well. Have a nice night.

28 EPR-radar  Oct 30, 2014 11:14:35pm

re: #24 KiTA

Gamergate is very much like the Republican party. The extremists and jackasses own the message/party, so there needs to be visible and non-trivial efforts made to drain the relevant swamps before it can be anything other than a target for derision.

As in the case of the Republican party, a mass exodus of decent people is probably the realistic path forward.

29 EPR-radar  Oct 30, 2014 11:17:54pm

re: #8 klystron

I’m an RPG girl. Like I said, I met the husband playing World of Warcraft. I confess that I am eagerly awaiting the new Pokemon release next month.

But it’s not like they would listen to me either, and I run (as a woman) too high of a risk of seeing more backlash than I want to handle.

Most fortunately for me, I discovered video games shortly after I got out of grad school (so that the games did not interfere with graduation).

Oddly enough, it was one of the few times in my life I bit on a massive advertising campaign (FF7 was being advertised absolutely everywhere).

30 KiTA  Oct 30, 2014 11:21:00pm

If you guys like games, especially a nice casual experience, “Fantasy Life” on the 3DS is amazingly charming. The best way I can describe it is “Skyrim as made by the team that made Dragon Quest 9”. It’s got elements of Skyrim, Animal Crossing, and Monster Hunter in it. It’s very slow paced and casual, great for popping open for a little bit on the bus.

I started off as an Alchemist and the gameplay has been mostly “go out into the forests and find water and herbs, come back and make potions, chat with the explosives obsessed guild leader, head out into town and see what medicines people want…”

Really charming.

31 EPR-radar  Oct 30, 2014 11:25:43pm

re: #30 KiTA

Some heavy hitters were involved in the development of this —- per wikipedia, the music is by Nobuo Uematsu and the image illustration is by Yoshitaka Amano.

32 klystron  Oct 30, 2014 11:27:33pm

I feel like I shouldn’t post this, but at the same time, fuck this whole issue and I feel like it’s important for the non-gamers who read here to understand why this matters.

From my own experiences, I keep very quiet about my gender when playing multiplayer games. That means that all forms of voice chat are out unless I know and trust the people I am playing with.

You can’t sit and listen to trade chat in World of Warcraft to this day without being aware that there is a strong misogynist aspect to the gaming community. (Please note: I am aware this is not all gamers. I am aware this may not even be the majority of gamers. But much like this mess, the extremists are vocal and dominate the conversation - and that’s before you take into account online reputation with other players - and this is one of the primary interactions I see with other people in the game, outside of people I know.) Yesterday’s conversations that I observed included a request for someone to “show me your tatas” - and I was in trade for all of five minutes.

So now we have women who make games (which is an even more male-dominated segment than the normal techie world) being harassed in the name of …”ethics in gaming journalism”… and I am supposed to believe this is an accurate description of what is driving the movement? (And this is, of course, assuming that I haven’t been aware of what’s going on since relatively close to the start …which would be a bad assumption, but, you know.)

I don’t buy bridges, or waterfront property in Arizona.

And now I really am going to go pet cats and stitch.

33 Kragar  Oct 30, 2014 11:29:32pm

One of the older games I miss was the Deception series on PlayStation. The basic premise was NPCs would attempt to find out the secrets in a haunted castle/mansion. The reason the castle was haunted was because the player was setting up different series of traps and was luring adventurers to their doom. You unlocked various lures and traps to set up in the game, and you had to be the bait. You had no attacks you could use against the enemies. It was all your trap prep.

34 KiTA  Oct 30, 2014 11:30:12pm

re: #31 EPR-radar

Some heavy hitters were involved in the development of this —- per wikipedia, the music is by Nobuo Uematsu and the image illustration is by Yoshitaka Amano.

Oh yes, it’s probably the biggest collection or JRPG names I’ve seen work on a single game since Chrono Trigger.

Another good one if you have a mobile or tablet is Terra Battle. It’s by the guy who made the original Final Fantasy (Mistwalker) and while it’s a free to play game — so it has the stamina bar and all that — they’re openly hostile to the traditional pay to win model.

Honestly it (Terra Battle) feels like a demo for a console Final Fantasy Tactics style game that they are working on — using the mobile game to build up hype and start making art assetts et all. Plus it has freaking amazing Uematsu music, hoooly-cow. I need the OST.

35 goddamnedfrank  Oct 30, 2014 11:41:16pm

The only new game coming out that I’m actually excited about is Elite: Dangerous, because Newtonian physics. I loved Elite, Elite II and Terminus.

36 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 30, 2014 11:42:30pm

re: #35 goddamnedfrank

The only new game coming out that I’m actually excited about is Elite: Dangerous, because Newtonian physics. I loved Elite, Elite II and Terminus.

Quite a jump from Elite 1, eh?

37 Velvet Elvis  Oct 30, 2014 11:42:48pm

Really good in depth writeup of GG and why it sucks:

aceofgeeks.blogspot.co.uk

I have the utmost of respect for AS.

38 Shvaughn  Oct 30, 2014 11:43:29pm

The fact that one of the most vocal champions of GamerGate is a guy at Breitbart of all places should tip you off to the fact that this isn’t really about “ethics in journalism.”

39 teleskiguy  Oct 30, 2014 11:43:58pm

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40 Velvet Elvis  Oct 30, 2014 11:44:28pm

According to Steam I’ve put over 2000 hours into Civ V and have played every Paradox Interactive grand strategy title. Apparently I’m not a real gamer because I don’t like FPSs.

41 Velvet Elvis  Oct 30, 2014 11:47:41pm

Hitler responds to the failure of GamerGate:

Youtube Video

42 teleskiguy  Oct 30, 2014 11:49:32pm

It’s been almost a hundred years since the last successful cavalry charge in war.

43 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 30, 2014 11:53:29pm

re: #42 teleskiguy

It’s been almost a hundred years since the last successful cavalry charge in war.

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Good sequence in The Lighthorsemen on that charge. It only succeeded because they were expected to fight dismounted not carry through their charge like real cavalry.

44 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 30, 2014 11:55:44pm

re: #42 teleskiguy

It’s been almost a hundred years since the last successful cavalry charge in war.

WWI battle tactics are a prime example of the drawbacks of conservative thought. Despite their cavalry — and infantry — being repeatedly shot to pieces by German machine gun fire, most of the French and German generals continued to send their men and horses to the slaughter, all because “it was always done that way.”

45 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 30, 2014 11:57:24pm

Oh, joy. I get to update Flash Player again.

46 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 12:41:08am

Emblemata of Zinne-werck

dbnl.org

47 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 31, 2014 12:53:12am

re: #46 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

What is this? I can’t read Dutch.

48 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 12:54:49am

re: #47 wheat-dogghazi-bola

en.wikipedia.org

I just like the pictures.

49 teleskiguy  Oct 31, 2014 12:59:42am

Youtube Video

50 Kragar  Oct 31, 2014 1:02:57am

re: #42 teleskiguy

It’s been almost a hundred years since the last successful cavalry charge in war.

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Technically performed by mounted infantry, as opposed to cavalry

Check out the movie “The Lighthorsemen”

Youtube Video

51 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 1:03:23am

52 teleskiguy  Oct 31, 2014 1:12:58am

53 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 31, 2014 1:13:37am

re: #51 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Is the date AH1912? So the book’s about 24 years old? Where from?

54 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 31, 2014 1:15:11am

re: #48 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

en.wikipedia.org

I just like the pictures.

They have a Hieronymus Bosch feel to them.

55 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 1:22:22am

re: #53 wheat-dogghazi-bola

Is the date AH1912? So the book’s about 24 years old? Where from?

Look at the bottom - 29.11.84. Egypt.

56 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 1:25:54am

I always knew Mickey was a secret Jihadist.

57 teleskiguy  Oct 31, 2014 1:30:45am

[deleted]

SEE #59

58 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 1:32:58am

Shaltay Boltay (Humpty Dumpty), the blog that has been blocked in Russia for publishing hacked emails of highest-level officials strikes again.

b0ltai.org

Now the alleged emails include internal reports about the critical situation in the Russian banking sector in the wake of the sanctions.

59 teleskiguy  Oct 31, 2014 1:35:20am

re: #49 teleskiguy

Youtube Video

60 Lancelot Link  Oct 31, 2014 1:37:30am

re: #24 KiTA

Next up with Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos (who Mrs. Wu attempted to throw under the bus on the previous interview),

Really? Milo Yiannopoulos?

61 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 1:37:30am

re: #59 teleskiguy

Agree, all the same.
;)

62 teleskiguy  Oct 31, 2014 1:43:11am

re: #61 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Agree, all the same.
;)

round and round and round and round and round and round and round

63 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 1:43:36am

re: #58 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

S.B. is what wikileaks would have looked like if it weren’t an apparently corrupt org that employed an antisemitic Putinist neo-fascist Israel Shamir. Once upon a time Assange promised some leaks about the Russian corruption. Still waiting…

64 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 31, 2014 1:45:16am

re: #32 klystron

From my own experiences, I keep very quiet about my gender when playing multiplayer games. That means that all forms of voice chat are out unless I know and trust the people I am playing with.

Well I guess we are dealing with a subculture of young men who spend the bulk of their free time playing games, develop no viable social skills and neglect basic grooming. They grow terribly frustrated because attractive women do not fall for them spontaneously without any major effort on their own part.

It must be the women’s fault.

65 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 1:46:56am

E.g. here is the schedule from that semi-secret meeting in which the now dead de Margerie took part:

b0ltai.org

You don’t need to know Russian to recognize all the brand names in Latin script in the text.

66 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 31, 2014 1:46:57am

re: #44 wheat-dogghazi-bola

WWI battle tactics are a prime example of the drawbacks of conservative thought. Despite their cavalry — and infantry — being repeatedly shot to pieces by German machine gun fire, most of the French and German generals continued to send their men and horses to the slaughter, all because “it was always done that way.”

Also because the soldiers were regarded as little more than killer sheep. They were expected to stay in a tight formation to maintain morale and discipline. It was neither desired nor expected that they show any individual initiative.

67 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 31, 2014 1:54:05am

re: #66 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Also because the soldiers were regarded as little more than killer sheep. They were expected to stay in a tight formation to maintain morale and discipline. It was neither desired nor expected that they show any individual initiative.

Reading WWI history recently tells me Petain was well respected among his troops because he spent time with them near the front. Most of the other commanders were off in some cushy villa coming up with battle plans hundreds of miles from the battles.

68 teleskiguy  Oct 31, 2014 2:00:37am
69 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 2:06:29am

“Power suit” is such a dumb concept.

70 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 31, 2014 2:07:13am

re: #69 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

“Power suit” is such a dumb concept.

What else do you wear to a power lunch?

71 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 2:08:55am

re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

What else do you wear to a power lunch?

And when consuming a power burger with a power milkshake.

72 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 31, 2014 2:11:27am

The concept of a “power suit” has certainly existed almost ever since we started stitching hides together to cover our bodies. It is only recently that they applied that particular name to it.

73 Decatur Deb  Oct 31, 2014 2:52:53am

If Charles is awake, he should know that the sidebar ads here (“From the Web”) include a climate change denial offering. Don’t know if it’s one he can control.

‘Morning, all.

74 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 2:54:16am

re: #73 Decatur Deb

If Charles is awake, he should know that the sidebar ads here (“From the Web”) include a climate change denial offering. Don’t know if it’s one he can control.

‘Morning, all.

Morning, Chief Ad Inspector Deb. ;)

75 Decatur Deb  Oct 31, 2014 3:10:20am

re: #74 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

They’ve definitely fallen down the aesthetics scale in the last couple months.

76 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 3:53:38am

Ooh, Bing has a nice Halloween theme.

77 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 4:21:52am

I has a sad. My Amaretto Cake got stuck to the sides of the bundt pan and had to be extracted in chunks.

SAD CAKE FAIL :(

78 freetoken  Oct 31, 2014 4:23:05am

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79 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 4:24:27am

I’ll serve it with whipped cream, ice cream and MOAR AMARETTO.

80 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 4:24:51am

Cthulhu fruit
Smells like lemon and souls of the damned

81 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 31, 2014 4:27:43am

I remember asking a long time ago when our TVs would start being turned into telescreens:

I’m terrified of my new TV: Why I’m scared to turn this thing on — and you’d be, too

…and the best part of it is tat it is all ENTIRELY VOLUNTARY!!!

82 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 4:33:53am

re: #81 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Fuck that shit.

83 KiTA  Oct 31, 2014 4:36:20am

re: #80 Vicious Piebola

Huh, aren’t those called Buddha’s Hand or something like that?

84 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 31, 2014 4:38:44am

re: #81 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

TV? What is this TV you speak of? ///
Haven’t had one since the digital cut over and never intend to get another.

85 Eventual Carrion  Oct 31, 2014 4:39:07am

re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

What else do you wear to a power lunch?

It’s what I wear when I’m power lifting.

86 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 31, 2014 4:39:14am

re: #82 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Fuck that shit.

I have a completely stupid TV, it is not even connected to an antenna, I just use it as a monitor for the DVD.

87 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 4:39:26am

re: #83 KiTA

Huh, aren’t those called Buddha’s Hand or something like that?

That’s what they’re called, but “Cthulhu fruit” is so much MOAR KEWL

88 freetoken  Oct 31, 2014 4:39:32am

re: #83 KiTA

Huh, aren’t those called Buddha’s Hand or something like that?

Cthulhu is the 3rd incarnation of the Buddha.

89 Eventual Carrion  Oct 31, 2014 4:40:56am

re: #77 Vicious Piebola

I has a sad. My Amaretto Cake got stuck to the sides of the bundt pan and had to be extracted in chunks.

SAD CAKE FAIL :(

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Make double icing and cover it up.

90 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 4:40:56am

The Transmission Group (which won last year’s Halloween contest with their “Duck Dynasty” display) has transformed their cubicles into “1914 Highland Park Assembly Line” complete with cardboard Model T’s.

91 Timothy Watson  Oct 31, 2014 4:41:17am

re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I have a completely stupid TV, it is not even connected to an antenna, I just use it as a monitor for the DVD.

Almost everything I watch on my TV is either Blu-Rays or stuff on my media server which I either get from iTunes or *cough*other means*cough* (the stuff from other means gets deleted after the box set of Blu-Rays gets released and purchased).

92 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 4:45:43am

There’s a complicated method of using hot wet towels to “steam” a cake out of the bundt pan. Well it’s already been extracted in chunks, so there’s nothing to to except whipped cream and very liberal soaking in Amaretto.

93 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 31, 2014 4:46:45am

re: #92 Vicious Piebola

There’s a complicated method of using hot wet towels to “steam” a cake out of the bundt pan. Well it’s already been extracted in chunks, so there’s nothing to to except whipped cream and very liberal soaking in Amaretto.

do you refer to the cake or the chef?

94 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 31, 2014 4:46:54am

re: #90 Vicious Piebola

That’s pretty awesome. Think you can get a picture of it?

95 FemNaziBitch  Oct 31, 2014 4:53:21am

It’s Morning

It’s Friday

It’s Halloween

You?

96 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 4:57:06am

re: #94 William Barnett-Lewis

That’s pretty awesome. Think you can get a picture of it?

97 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 4:58:32am

I took a picture on my phone but I’m having a hard time resizing it.

98 FemNaziBitch  Oct 31, 2014 4:59:24am

re: #90 Vicious Piebola

The Transmission Group (which won last year’s Halloween contest with their “Duck Dynasty” display) has transformed their cubicles into “1914 Highland Park Assembly Line” complete with cardboard Model T’s.

Engineers are very strange bunch.

I know, my Dear Ole Dad was an Automotive Engineer.

99 FemNaziBitch  Oct 31, 2014 5:02:57am

I stumbled upon a nice little series of who-dunnit novels set in Laos. Dr. Siri (pronounced Silly) and his boss Judge Heng.

I love this author.

100 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 31, 2014 5:04:57am

re: #98 FemNaziBitch

Engineers are very strange bunch.

Yes, all that energy that others channel into socialization finds a strange outlet…

101 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 5:08:19am

Here’s a photo of the original assembly plant:

102 FemNaziBitch  Oct 31, 2014 5:10:23am

Regarding the previous thread —Is Matt Taibbi going back to Rolling Stone?

103 FemNaziBitch  Oct 31, 2014 5:11:20am

re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Yes, all that energy that others channel into socialization finds a strange outlet…

I also went to Purdue.

Engineering Students are a special breed

“We are on an elevator, if we all cause the cab to sway side to side in unison, what will happen?”

104 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 5:22:52am

My co-worker just showed up as the 11th Dr. Who

105 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 5:30:09am

Gas Engine group is Pirates of the Caribbean
Diesel group is Mirkwood Forest
Interior/Exterior Trim is Haunted Cornfield

106 darthstar  Oct 31, 2014 5:33:25am
107 darthstar  Oct 31, 2014 5:35:09am
108 Eventual Carrion  Oct 31, 2014 5:35:12am

re: #103 FemNaziBitch

I also went to Purdue.

Engineering Students are a special breed

“We are on an elevator, if we all cause the cab to sway side to side in unison, what will happen?”

My wife’s mothers’ husband is a Purdue grad engineer. Quite right, they are a strange breed. He is a nice guy and all, but different in a way I can’t put my finger on and I have known him for 16 years. But I am a code jockey and they say the same about us.

109 Eventual Carrion  Oct 31, 2014 5:36:31am

re: #106 darthstar

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Flavel Flav!

110 darthstar  Oct 31, 2014 5:43:52am

Well, the GOP candidate for governor in MA sure stepped in it. After getting the papers to say “game changer!” for his tearful story during a debate, it turns out he would have been better off talking about the time he hoisted Rudy onto his shoulders after a football game.

111 darthstar  Oct 31, 2014 5:47:42am
112 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 31, 2014 5:51:10am

Good morning lizards.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween Dog

113 Belafon  Oct 31, 2014 5:53:10am

re: #104 Vicious Piebola

My youngest won a costume contest as a tornado. The 11th doctor came in second. About three years ago I dressed as the 11th and few knew who I was.

114 darthstar  Oct 31, 2014 5:54:30am
115 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 31, 2014 5:55:09am

re: #113 Belafon

My youngest won a costume contest as a tornado. The 11th doctor came in second. About three years ago I dressed as the 11th and few knew who I was.

I’d rather dress as the 9th Doctor. Helps that my preferred hair cut is appropriate ;)

116 Belafon  Oct 31, 2014 5:55:25am

The Borderland games have some strong female characters both player characters and NPCs.

117 Franklin  Oct 31, 2014 5:58:50am

re: #110 darthstar

Baker the Faker. Good Globe article from Joan Vennochi:

Charlie Baker’s fisherman story should cause him anger, not tears

Could be behind paywall, if so, Google the headline and go in that way, heard that works.

118 Timothy Watson  Oct 31, 2014 5:59:38am

Am I the only person that thinks this season of “The Blacklist” has sucked? Something that is blatantly obvious isn’t a “secret” that needs to be teased.

119 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 31, 2014 6:00:10am
120 Decatur Deb  Oct 31, 2014 6:01:14am

Wife/daughter are discussing why the 4 yr old said “I love grandad more than I love you”. He’s visiting next week.

Here’s a hint: she’s taking him to the Botanical Gardens to see the scarecrow exhibit. I’m taking him to the airport to crawl through a B17.

121 Franklin  Oct 31, 2014 6:03:10am

re: #118 Timothy Watson

Am I the only person that thinks this season of “The Blacklist” has sucked? Something that is blatantly obvious isn’t a “secret” that needs to be teased.

I hear that. I binge watched season 1 when it dropped on Netflix so (for me) it may suck by comparison since I have to watch it weekly now.

122 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 6:04:10am
123 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 6:04:45am

Sign says DAYS SINCE LAST DEATH = 12

124 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 31, 2014 6:07:08am

Oooh, “Witches BaBOOshka”. Very nifty turn of phrase there for Halloween.

125 lawhawk  Oct 31, 2014 6:07:51am

re: #107 darthstar

I’ve been saying much the same thing since the news came down that he was captured alive. Every police force in the country should learn something from this - that it is possible to bring even a cop killer in without even a shot fired.

But they wont. People will continue to die in a hail of gunfire, especially black men, because the cops know that they can claim justification for use of deadly force and prosecutors will usually back them up. It usually takes a DOJ investigation to prod even a civil rights case against a police officer, and even then it’s not a certainty.

Since it’s Friday, and the FPD chief has claimed that he isn’t being fired or resigning earlier in the week, watch for some action out of Ferguson around 4pm today (just a guess btw). Because that’s how they roll in the Shire Greater St. Louis area.

126 Timothy Watson  Oct 31, 2014 6:09:48am

re: #121 Franklin

I hear that. I binge watched season 1 when it dropped on Netflix so (for me) it may suck by comparison since I have to watch it weekly now.

I enjoyed the mystery and the slow-reveal of the mytharc and the suspense of the first season. This season is verging on monotonous and a lack of suspense you see in almost every police procedural.

127 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 6:11:11am

re: #97 Vicious Piebola

I took a picture on my phone but I’m having a hard time resizing it.

Post it in chunks.

128 Decatur Deb  Oct 31, 2014 6:11:24am

re: #123 Vicious Piebola

Sign says DAYS SINCE LAST DEATH = 12

During toilet training for above kid, Daughter had a very official workplace safety sign on her refrigerator:

“Days Since Last Accident…..”

129 FemNaziBitch  Oct 31, 2014 6:15:17am
130 lawhawk  Oct 31, 2014 6:15:32am

All the politicians pushing quarantines and separate state policies that create a patchwork of policies that aren’t even totally public (see New Jersey), is having a direct effect on the emergency response to Ebola in Africa - it’s making it even tougher than usual to get health workers to donate time and effort in Africa. DWB is already contemplating changes to accommodate the draconian quarantine proposals, by limiting the time people have in contact with Ebola patients so that they can avoid the quarantine stays.

And each day limiting treatment to patients means another day that the outbreak takes more lives in West Africa, patients get suboptimal care - even on African standards, and the chances that more stray cases end up outside the outbreak epicenter.

Meanwhile, other African countries should absolutely ashamed of their response to a crisis in their backyard. They promised 2,000 health workers to aid in the response. None have actually delivered. They’ve promised funds. They are short of what they promised.

These are the countries that are most likely to have an outbreak spread to their borders, and yet their attitude is to bury their heads in the sand.

131 FemNaziBitch  Oct 31, 2014 6:17:46am

re: #120 Decatur Deb

Wife/daughter are discussing why the 4 yr old said “I love grandad more than I love you”. He’s visiting next week.

Here’s a hint: she’s taking him to the Botanical Gardens to see the scarecrow exhibit. I’m taking him to the airport to crawl through a B17.

Isn’t that a song —Olivia Newton John?

132 Decatur Deb  Oct 31, 2014 6:19:56am

re: #131 FemNaziBitch

Isn’t that a song —Olivia Newton John?

Had to look it up—reference B17 on the jukebox listing.

Youtube Video

133 lawhawk  Oct 31, 2014 6:22:25am

Nationally, there’s about 200 people being monitored for Ebola - with about 100 in New Jersey.

None have shown any symptoms.

There is only one active case of a patient being treated for Ebola in the US. That’s Dr. Spencer at Bellevue in NYC.

That’s it.

Out of more than 300 million people in the US. 1 active case; a handful of survivors who got prompt treatment here, and 200 people being monitored for a couple of weeks.

Once Dr. Spencer hopefully makes his recovery and is Ebola-free, then it’s another 3 weeks until you can rule out any further Ebola cases (unless a new case comes into the US thereafter).

In that same time, how many people will die of influenza, heart disease, or other medical conditions, let alone firearms.

But politicians know that hyping the fear factor and pushing for quarantines makes them look like they’re doing something to deal with a public health crisis - that is in actually located on a completely different continent and which could be brought under control if more countries sent health care workers to swiftly improve treatment, along with the necessary hydration kits to improve the chances of recovering.

If people in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea see more people surviving the disease, they’ll come to get treatment sooner, rather than wait until it’s too late - infecting others along the way.

That’s how this outbreak ends.

Not with a quarantine, but with active treatment by health experts with the necessary gear at their disposal.

134 FemNaziBitch  Oct 31, 2014 6:22:31am

135 FemNaziBitch  Oct 31, 2014 6:24:38am

OK, 2014 as well.

136 FemNaziBitch  Oct 31, 2014 6:27:12am

137 FemNaziBitch  Oct 31, 2014 6:28:10am

So, I learned a bit about the Hmong, the CIA and heroin production.

Now, that is scary as shit.

138 ObserverArt  Oct 31, 2014 6:28:43am

Good Morning and Happy Halloween Little Green Footballers!

The Headless Horseman Posts Again!

I might do a some more of these throughout the day…

139 FemNaziBitch  Oct 31, 2014 6:30:35am
140 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 31, 2014 6:36:00am

re:
#138

Coolness

141 FemNaziBitch  Oct 31, 2014 6:49:43am
142 FemNaziBitch  Oct 31, 2014 6:51:08am

ooooh, Nasty!!!

143 FemNaziBitch  Oct 31, 2014 6:51:22am

have fun today all!

bbl

144 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 7:02:39am

OK, Dark World was good, now onto Winter Soldier.

145 Randall Gross  Oct 31, 2014 7:05:47am

Per Hatewatch the handcuffs they put on Frein when they captured him were ones used by one of the troopers he allegedly killed.
splcenter.org

146 darthstar  Oct 31, 2014 7:08:13am
147 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 31, 2014 7:08:16am

My wife made this last weekend. It’s good….very very sweet.

148 Belafon  Oct 31, 2014 7:08:49am

re: #144 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Winter Soldier is the best of the Marvel movies not called The Avengers

149 ObserverArt  Oct 31, 2014 7:12:26am

MuuuuWhaHaaaaHaaaa…

I have a very special Halloween ‘shop image for Charles all cooked up and ready to go. I’ll wait to when Charles is around a little later to post it.

It IS scary! It gave me the creeps while making it.

(That’s a tease…)

150 jamesfirecat  Oct 31, 2014 7:15:55am

re: #139 FemNaziBitch

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Republicans now control the Senate.

151 Randall Gross  Oct 31, 2014 7:16:39am

re: #148 Belafon

Winter Soldier is the best of the Marvel movies not called The Avengers

The public disagrees

boxofficemojo.com

152 Belafon  Oct 31, 2014 7:19:49am

re: #151 Randall Gross

I doubt the best movie of all time is Avatar?

153 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 31, 2014 7:20:20am

re:
#150

Republicans now control the Senate.

Now I won’t be able to sleep tonight.

154 lawhawk  Oct 31, 2014 7:21:23am

The coolest space photo I’ve seen in a long time - courtesy of Cassini. It’s of Saturn’s moon Titan, and it shows the sun glistening off a hydrocarbon sea.

photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov

155 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 31, 2014 7:21:33am

gaaaaahhhhhhh…

156 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 31, 2014 7:22:34am
157 lawhawk  Oct 31, 2014 7:22:41am

re: #151 Randall Gross

Box office should in no way indicate or equate with best movie.

Winter Soldier is probably a better story than The Avengers, but The Avengers got better box office.

Both are thoroughly enjoyable though.

158 ObserverArt  Oct 31, 2014 7:25:37am

re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth

gaaaaahhhhhhh…

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And I’d take college professors and community organizers over the current slime the GOP has in office or running these days!

By the way, is Mitch saying he is just a weed chewin’ country bumpkin backwoods Kentucky boy on the Koch Bros payroll?

159 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 31, 2014 7:30:54am

re: #158 ObserverArt

And I’d take college professors and community organizers over the current slime the GOP has in office or running these days!

By the way, is Mitch saying he is just a weed chewin’ country bumpkin backwoods Kentucky boy on the Koch Bros payroll?

Mitch did go to college, if I am not mistaken. So, he’s saying the president and the White House staff need to be less educated than he is?

160 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 7:32:33am

Gun fuckers calls facts “Nazi propaganda”

161 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 31, 2014 7:32:49am

I’m sure Mitch means we need moar bidness men in the WH. Like Mitch himself I’m sure. //

162 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 31, 2014 7:33:39am

re: #145 Randall Gross

Per Hatewatch the handcuffs they put on Frein when they captured him were ones used by one of the troopers he allegedly killed.
splcenter.org

“I’ll get you a fair trial and a fine hanging.”
~ Rooster Cogburn

163 Timothy Watson  Oct 31, 2014 7:34:38am

re: #159 wheat-dogghazi-bola

Mitch did go to college, if I am not mistaken. So, he’s saying the president and the White House staff need to be less educated than he is?

He was one of the overachievers in college it seems:

He graduated with honors from the University of Louisville with a B.A. in political science in 1964. McConnell was president of the Student Council of the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. He has maintained strong ties to his alma mater and “remains a rabid fan of its sports teams.”[7] Three years later, McConnell graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Law, where he was president of the Student Bar Association.

164 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 7:35:06am

re: #160 Vicious Piebola

Thank you for fighting the battle for accuracy, though it may never be won, not with the fanatical opponents refusing to even read.

165 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 31, 2014 7:37:02am

re: #160 Vicious Piebola

Gun fuckers calls facts “Nazi propaganda”

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It really POs them that it took the US Army, US industry, The Red Army & USSR industry (with the RAF as a big ass speed bump) all together to stop the Germans not a bunch of yahoos with small arms, no explosives & no resupply. Anything that interferes with that fantasy is too horrible to be believed, I guess.

166 wheat-dogghazi-bola  Oct 31, 2014 7:37:31am

re: #163 Timothy Watson

He was one of the overachievers in college it seems:

Yet he thought Duke players were UK Wildcats. Must have had a senior moment …

167 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 7:37:48am

re: #164 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Thank you for fighting the battle for accuracy, though it may never be won, not with the fanatical opponents refusing to even read.

It’s a small part of your ongoing war against Holocaust denial. This gun-fucking meme is a part of Holocaust denial. The gun-fuckers want to co-opt the Holocaust for themselves so they make is about gun control.

A bunch of random gun-owning civilians could NOT HAVE STOPPED the Holocaust by themselves.

168 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 7:38:24am
169 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 7:38:43am
170 lawhawk  Oct 31, 2014 7:40:31am

Random video of the morning - with tons of pop culture references:

Youtube Video

171 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 31, 2014 7:43:27am

re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth

McConnell would prefer a Republican hopeful to a college professor or a community organizer. That preference would include a job destroying vulture capitalist, a couple of Bible humpers, a ruthlessly self-seeking smoothboy, a pants-wetting alarmist, a member of a political dynasty with a solid record of FAIL, and anyone else who will grind the faces of the poor into the dust.

172 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 7:47:01am

test

173 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 7:49:36am

Speaking of revisionism.

Russians Re-write History to Slur Ukraine Over War

174 Resident of The United States of Jesus  Oct 31, 2014 7:50:00am

I lol’d

175 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 7:51:59am

re: #174 Stanley Seabola

It’s prolly a bit too gruesome. Though sweet.

176 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 7:56:21am

Putin whines about the West using various “power levers” in order to upset the “strategic balance” in the world. Pfft. As usual, he ascribes to others what he does himself. Imagine a slightly smarter Chucky “The Stalker” Johnson as a head of a state. You get VVP.

177 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 31, 2014 7:57:41am
178 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 31, 2014 7:58:30am

re: #176 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Putin whines about the West using various “power levers” in order to upset the “strategic balance” in the world. Pfft. As usual, he ascribes to others what he does himself. Imagine a slightly smarter Chucky “The Stalker” Johnson as a head of a state. You get VVP.

Heh. I know it’s overly simplistic (to put it mildly) but I’ve enjoyed messing with some Putin fans with this:

179 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 7:58:30am

re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth

Fast or slow zombies?

180 Resident of The United States of Jesus  Oct 31, 2014 7:59:01am

I came to work, and there is no work to do. Oh well.

181 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 7:59:17am

re: #178 William Barnett-Lewis

Where’s “Yelts”? ;)

182 Ace-o-aces  Oct 31, 2014 8:01:19am
183 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 8:01:20am

re: #146 darthstar

Wait, Justice Ginsberg is not a monster, quite the opposite. I’ll wait for baby Scalia.

184 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 31, 2014 8:02:22am
185 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 31, 2014 8:05:24am

re: #167 Vicious Piebola

It’s a small part of your ongoing war against Holocaust denial. This gun-fucking meme is a part of Holocaust denial. The gun-fuckers want to co-opt the Holocaust for themselves so they make is about gun control.

A bunch of random gun-owning civilians could NOT HAVE STOPPED the Holocaust by themselves.

Seems to me that the gun nuts are suffering from severe future shock. They find this world incomprehensible and therefore threatening. Because nearly all of them come from the same cadre that denigrates history and science they lack the tools to assuage their discomfort so they turn to the one means that they feel will enable them to assert control: guns. Anything that in any way implies that guns won’t endow them with complete control is reflexively hated and vilified. They are, as a group, the most continuously frightened Americans that I’ve seen in my 66 years.

186 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 31, 2014 8:09:01am

I think I’ll be checking my kid’s candy baskets tonight.

187 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 31, 2014 8:10:56am

re: #181 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Where’s “Yelts”? ;)

Oh, hoot! If I were good enough at PS I’d add him to that.

188 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 31, 2014 8:24:54am
189 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 31, 2014 8:26:14am

Hooray to Magneto for saving the thread.

190 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 31, 2014 8:27:02am
191 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 31, 2014 8:27:58am

re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth

It is a delightful universe that has Magneto and Gandalf wrapped up in the same face… ;)

192 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 31, 2014 8:28:34am

re: #190 NJDhockeyfan

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Meh, it’s just their governor with indigestion… /////

193 lawhawk  Oct 31, 2014 8:29:19am

re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth

But…. but … Galdalf? Why?! /LOTR fanboy

Sure, whatever you say Eric /Charles Xavier

Now, how do I top that? /Sir Patrick Stewart

194 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 31, 2014 8:31:30am

re: #192 William Barnett-Lewis

Meh, it’s just their governor with indigestion… /////

I was going to suggest something more scatological.

195 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 31, 2014 8:35:25am
196 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 31, 2014 8:39:41am

re: #195 NJDhockeyfan

FORT KENT, Maine (AP) — Maine health officials obtained a 24-hour court order restricting Kaci Hickox’s movement after the nurse repeatedly defied the state’s quarantine for medical workers who have…

IOW: if you can’t be as frightened and stupid as we are we’ll make sure that the law compels you to act as if you were.

197 HappyWarrior  Oct 31, 2014 8:41:42am

Agh sick of the scare tactics. Work on an actual solution not a bunch of tired old scare tactics.

198 ObserverArt  Oct 31, 2014 8:45:27am

Kaci sure looks like an Ebola diseased bike rider in that photo.

I seem to remember a doctor very familiar with the disease saying if you are at the point where it is confirmed you are infected and contagious, you will also be so sick you won’t be going anywhere.

I guess that has nothing to do with riding a bike though.

And is Maine worried about all those media types that were running around her when she was on the bike ride?

She could be sweating. Quarantine them all…quarantine the entire state!!!11ty!!!Breaking!!!

199 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Oct 31, 2014 8:50:13am

I’m a gamer, hell I am currently in costume as Connor from Assassin’s Creed 3. While I do sympathize with the feminist take on this one of the things Colbert highlighted was a scene from Dragon Age with regard to “Whores”. Given the setting of Dragon Age having “whores” would be perfectly legitimate to the setting, as would a level of Mysogyny, we are, after all, talking about a Medieval setting. I played the original Dragon Age and there were plenty of strong female characters that didn’t necessarily fit the stereotype so often seen in video games.

Now when it comes to Grand Theft Auto, sure there is plenty of violence towards women in the game but then again the game is violent towards everyone. It’s parody bordering on farce that pokes fun at so many stereotypes it’s hard to take seriously.

Yeah there is a lot of mysogyny in video games and it should be addressed but at the same time there are plenty of instances where female characters play a strong and prominent role in those games.

I think the real thing that needs to be addressed is the rancid underbelly of gaming with regard to boys (I won’t call them men) and how they treat women who play games and treat others in general. I’ve been sucked back into World Of Tanks and seeing some of the shit in chat is at some points hysterical, at others a complete and utter disgrace to my gender and at times race.

200 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 8:54:07am

IT’S CALLED THE LAW

201 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Oct 31, 2014 8:54:35am

As an Addendum to the above post one of the MSNBC shows had Gloria Steinem on yesterday who made the same, tired generalization about gamers that we’re all somehow white males under 25. She obviously hasn’t got with the times. The average age of my clan mates in WoT is 35, with only a few teenagers and our oldest member is a retiree.

In my old Age Of Conan guild the majority of the guild was over 25 and some were in there 50’s. The group I worked with on a Neverwinter Nights perpetual world were all in their 30’s and up (and that was years ago). The average age, look and makeup of gamers is not what it once was.

202 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 8:58:36am

My co-worker is playing TARDIS sounds on a nonstop loop from his speakers. It’s beginning to annoy me.

203 Dr. Matt  Oct 31, 2014 8:58:47am

re: #200 Vicious Piebola

So, he’s comparing the United States judicial system to rape. Gotcha. Run with with that.

204 Dr. Matt  Oct 31, 2014 8:59:44am

re: #190 NJDhockeyfan

Mysterious vibration and boom rocks south New Jersey shore town t.co
— The Raw Story (@therawstory) October 31, 2014

Did their governor pass gas?

205 GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 31, 2014 9:00:31am

re: #119 NJDhockeyfan

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So far, just cold in the north burbs. I hope it gets worse. I want all the candy for myself.

206 lawhawk  Oct 31, 2014 9:00:41am

re: #202 Vicious Piebola

Return the favor with EX TERM I NATE!!!!

Youtube Video

207 GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 31, 2014 9:02:26am

re: #200 Vicious Piebola

IT’S CALLED THE LAW

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Helpless citizens? Gee. It’s not like we can’t vote or anything.

208 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 31, 2014 9:02:46am

re: #200 Vicious Piebola

IT’S CALLED THE LAW

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amen.

209 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 31, 2014 9:05:03am
210 Timothy Watson  Oct 31, 2014 9:05:29am

re: #199 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

I’m a gamer, hell I am currently in costume as Connor from Assassin’s Creed 3. While I do sympathize with the feminist take on this one of the things Colbert highlighted was a scene from Dragon Age with regard to “Whores”. Given the setting of Dragon Age having “whores” would be perfectly legitimate to the setting, as would a level of Mysogyny, we are, after all, talking about a Medieval setting. I played the original Dragon Age and there were plenty of strong female characters that didn’t necessarily fit the stereotype so often seen in video games.

Now when it comes to Grand Theft Auto, sure there is plenty of violence towards women in the game but then again the game is violent towards everyone. It’s parody bordering on farce that pokes fun at so many stereotypes it’s hard to take seriously.

Yeah there is a lot of mysogyny in video games and it should be addressed but at the same time there are plenty of instances where female characters play a strong and prominent role in those games.

I think the real thing that needs to be addressed is the rancid underbelly of gaming with regard to boys (I won’t call them men) and how they treat women who play games and treat others in general. I’ve been sucked back into World Of Tanks and seeing some of the shit in chat is at some points hysterical, at others a complete and utter disgrace to my gender and at times race.

Dragon Age: Origins suffered from several cases of the RapeAsBackstory trope, the scene in the Colbert’s video is probably one of the least objectionable of the ones in that particular sequence if I recall correctly.

It’s the same thing as the “Women in Refrigerators” website about comics, but I don’t recall the woman who created that site getting rape/death threats.

211 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 31, 2014 9:05:47am
212 ObserverArt  Oct 31, 2014 9:09:05am

re: #208 William Barnett-Lewis

amen.

Hey William?! Any snow up your way yet? We might get some flurries around Columbus later tonight.

I understand Vicious Piebola might get some in the Detroit area.

Winter’s coming…just hope not too much too soon. I can wait until Christmas.

213 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 31, 2014 9:10:39am
214 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 9:11:23am

re: #212 ObserverArt

Hey William?! Any snow up your way yet? We might get some flurries around Columbus later tonight.

I understand Vicious Piebola might get some in the Detroit area.

Winter’s coming…just hope hot too much too soon. I can wait until Christmas.

They were predicting snow for tonight but I think it will just be rain.

This reminds me of last year when my son & DIL were here from Florida. My DIL is from Australia and when she saw the snow on the ground she was all like OMG WE ALL GONNA DIE!!!1!!!!

215 dog philosopher  Oct 31, 2014 9:12:03am

10 Hottest Cleavage’s That Will Make You Feel Like A Total Clickbait Sucker

hey - everybody likes ice cream

216 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Oct 31, 2014 9:12:16am

re: #210 Timothy Watson

Dragon Age: Origins suffered from several cases of the RapeAsBackstory trope, the scene in the Colbert’s video is probably one of the least objectionable of the ones in that particular sequence if I recall correctly.

It’s the same thing as the “Women in Refrigerators” website about comics, but I don’t recall the woman who created that site getting rape/death threats.

It’s been a long time since I’ve played Dragon Age. I honestly don’t remember the “rape as backstory” being used in the game.

217 Timothy Watson  Oct 31, 2014 9:16:01am

re: #216 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

It’s been a long time since I’ve played Dragon Age. I honestly don’t remember the “rape as backstory” being used in the game.

City Elf Origin? Leliana (heavily implied)?

218 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 31, 2014 9:18:08am

re: #212 ObserverArt

Hey William?! Any snow up your way yet? We might get some flurries around Columbus later tonight.

I understand Vicious Piebola might get some in the Detroit area.

Winter’s coming…just hope not too much too soon. I can wait until Christmas.

Some flurries overnight.

My idea of winter is a 1/2” the day before deer season (for tracking) with it melting away 2 weeks later… Alas, the world doesn’t work that way.

I confused some lady walking by this morning when I got out of my van at the post office, looked up at the sky & said “God, please turn the thermostat up a bit”…

219 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 31, 2014 9:18:46am
220 dog philosopher  Oct 31, 2014 9:20:18am

the only impression i have of gaming is not from role playing second life games but watching two teenage boys thumb activate and psychically inhabit two scantily clad bodacious female fighting animations

221 dog philosopher  Oct 31, 2014 9:21:51am

re: #218 William Barnett-Lewis

Some flurries overnight.

My idea of winter is a 1/2” the day before deer season (for tracking) with it melting away 2 weeks later… Alas, the world doesn’t work that way.

I confused some lady walking by this morning when I got out of my van at the post office, looked up at the sky & said “God, please turn the thermostat up a bit”…

i tell californians that what they call winter back where i came from we call october

222 Romantic Heretic  Oct 31, 2014 9:24:49am

re: #116 Belafon

The Borderland games have some strong female characters both player characters and NPCs.

I’m not sure ‘strong’ is the right word for Tiny Tina.

Youtube Video

223 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 31, 2014 9:24:53am
224 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Oct 31, 2014 9:25:28am

re: #217 Timothy Watson

City Elf Origin? Leliana (heavy implied)?

That explains it. Don’t think I ever played the city elf origin. I did, however, have fun having my wood elf engage in the gay romance.

I do remember how the city elves were treated (and elves in general) so it wouldn’t surprise me if it was used there.

225 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 31, 2014 9:27:31am

re:
#200

When males impose their will on helpless females, it’s rape. So what is it when judges impose their will on helpless citizens?

So Bryan Fischer doesn’t like Citizens United either, huh?

//

226 Vicious Piebola  Oct 31, 2014 9:29:40am

GUN FUCKER HISTORY DENIAL

227 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 31, 2014 9:29:54am

re: #223 NJDhockeyfan

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I’m sure that touching the toliet seat^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hcomputer will cause you to catch whatever. (Knew a guy while on active duty who claimed that about catching the crabs. I doubt he understood how much we all laughed at him).

229 Resident of The United States of Jesus  Oct 31, 2014 9:33:41am
230 blueraven  Oct 31, 2014 9:36:06am

re: #209 NJDhockeyfan


Did she tell them to shut-up and sit down?

231 Coracle  Oct 31, 2014 9:36:31am

re: #24 KiTA

(such as this all being sparked by a false “sex for reviews” scandal — not true)

You’re right. It was sparked by a vindictive ex-boyfriend’s screed that turned into a false sex for reviews scandal, and then morphed into “but let’s talk about ethics in game journalism” punctuated liberally by comments about “that whore Wu/Sarkeesian/Quinn”.

“Ethics in game journalism.” What a war banner.

GamerGate, while it may have some actually noble/honest actors is a tree rooted in a poison swamp. Any fruit you care to bite has a nonzero chance of sickening you. It uses “no true Scotsman” arguments religiously to disavow the bile spewed by some of its members and tu quoque all over the place when people use similar methods against them.

232 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 9:37:35am

re: #223 NJDhockeyfan

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Milonov and Fischer should gay marry and live happily ever after, never to be heard from again.

233 Charles Johnson  Oct 31, 2014 9:39:32am

12. Conservative blogger Charles C. Johnson

Why he’s scary: This wee, red-haired right-wing Hobbit is no longer content to try and insert himself into every breaking news story in the most obnoxious way possible. The man who outed nurse Nina Pham as testing positive for Ebola and published her address online has now decided to make some news of his own by stalking his biggest online critic, Charles Johnson of the blog Little Green Footballs, albeit at an address the latter Johnson occupied more than a decade ago.
Our tribute: Getting banned from Twitter, then reinstated, then banned again. Filing random class action suits.

234 HappyWarrior  Oct 31, 2014 9:39:44am

re: #232 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

Milonov and Fischer should gay marry, live happily ever after, never to be heard from again.

Yeah they should set up a B&B together in Siberia or some place far out there.

235 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 31, 2014 9:40:41am
236 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 31, 2014 9:41:57am

This is my parrot’s Halloween costume.

237 Resident of The United States of Jesus  Oct 31, 2014 9:42:53am
238 Eventual Carrion  Oct 31, 2014 9:43:38am

re: #200 Vicious Piebola

IT’S CALLED THE LAW

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So if I run into Bryan I can beat the living shit out of him. Good to know.

239 blueraven  Oct 31, 2014 9:44:17am

re: #237 Stanley Seabola

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Boo!

240 HappyWarrior  Oct 31, 2014 9:44:19am

re: #235 NJDhockeyfan

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His big fuck up is saying he’s never been a white supremacist. Really dude you were an actual neo-Nazi? That’s pretty much textbook white supremacy..

241 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Oct 31, 2014 9:45:55am

re: #237 Stanley Seabola

This proves not all babies are cute.

242 Resident of The United States of Jesus  Oct 31, 2014 9:46:35am
243 Charles Johnson  Oct 31, 2014 9:47:35am
244 CriticalDragon1177  Oct 31, 2014 9:48:21am

Charles Johnson,

I like that “In Watergate a mysterious group known as the plumbers broke into the Watergate Hotel, but in Gamergate we know who the plumbers are.”

245 Kragar  Oct 31, 2014 9:48:47am
246 CriticalDragon1177  Oct 31, 2014 9:49:40am

re: #180 Stanley Seabola

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I came to work, and there is no work to do. Oh well.

The Sims porn in real life! I love those pixels! LOL!

247 HappyWarrior  Oct 31, 2014 9:51:14am

re: #245 Kragar

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Sad thing is that posing with that guy will probably help Abbott in many circles rather than hurt him.

248 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 31, 2014 9:51:19am

re: #231 Coracle

GamerGate, while it may have some actually noble/honest actors is a tree rooted in a poison swamp.

^^^^This. There comes a time when you just have to let go.

Sartre put it well in “No Exit”:

GARCIN: You won’t catch anything. We’re chasing after each other, round and round in a vicious circle, like the horses on a roundabout. That’s part of their plan, of course… . Drop it, Inez. Open your hands and let go of everything. Or else you’ll bring disaster on all three of us.

I tend to prefer Camus out of the French existentialists but this was Sartre’s finest moment…

249 lawhawk  Oct 31, 2014 9:51:23am

Best courtroom scene. Ever.

Youtube Video

250 Dr. Matt  Oct 31, 2014 9:54:31am

re: #249 Vogon Poetry

Sounds slightly plagiarized. //

251 lawhawk  Oct 31, 2014 9:54:45am
252 Resident of The United States of Jesus  Oct 31, 2014 9:54:54am
253 lawhawk  Oct 31, 2014 9:55:21am

re: #250 Dr. Matt

You must have been thinking of the original version in Klingon. ///

254 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 31, 2014 9:57:54am

re: #240 HappyWarrior

His big fuck up is saying he’s never been a white supremacist. Really dude you were an actual neo-Nazi? That’s pretty much textbook white supremacy..

Well he did say he was sorry.

///

255 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 31, 2014 9:58:34am

re: #245 Kragar

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256 calochortus  Oct 31, 2014 9:58:47am

re: #252 Stanley Seabola

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At least it wasn’t one of their self-driving cars.
O_o

257 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 31, 2014 10:02:07am

re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth

Do we want a TXGOV who supports Domestic Terrorists at our Border who carry Ammonium Nitrate?!

There are likely to be plenty of Texas voters who have no problem with that.

258 BeachDem  Oct 31, 2014 10:02:31am

re: #251 Vogon Poetry

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And then there’s Paul LePage, the human bowling-jacket governor of Maine, who is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier on his best days, and who doesn’t have a lot of best days. Hickox and her bicycle are driving him crazy — less a drive, actually, than an easy seven-iron.

esquire.com

259 Charles Johnson  Oct 31, 2014 10:03:41am

re: #251 Vogon Poetry

I think that tweet is mistaken. Actually, the judge ordered the opposite: Maine Judge Orders Ebola Quarantine for Nurse.

260 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 31, 2014 10:04:34am

re: #258 BeachDem

Bad link.

261 Timothy Watson  Oct 31, 2014 10:06:19am

re: #259 Charles Johnson

I think that tweet is mistaken. Actually, the judge ordered the opposite: Maine Judge Orders Ebola Quarantine for Nurse.

Not sure:
news.yahoo.com

Did he reverse himself or grant the 24-hour order than decide it wasn’t necessary after a full hearing, or what?

262 Dr. Matt  Oct 31, 2014 10:08:05am

RWNJs spend every waking whining about government overreach and how everyone should ignore”unconstitutional” laws; yet now they support a mandatory quarantine based on their ignorance of science.

263 Charles Johnson  Oct 31, 2014 10:08:41am

re: #261 Timothy Watson

Wow. Two completely contradictory reports. I love it when that happens.

264 Targetpractice  Oct 31, 2014 10:08:56am

re: #261 Timothy Watson

Not sure:
news.yahoo.com

Did he reverse himself or grant the 24-hour order than decide it wasn’t necessary after a full hearing, or what?

*sigh* I got stupid again and tried to read the comments.

265 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 31, 2014 10:10:36am

re:
#262

Any minute now I expect the Tea Party Patriot people to show up with their Don’t Tread on Me! t-shirts and their 1776 muskets to demand Moar Freedumb.

266 freetoken  Oct 31, 2014 10:11:09am

re: #263 Charles Johnson

Wow. Two completely contradictory reports. I love it when that happens.

Heisenberg.

267 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 31, 2014 10:11:42am
268 Resident of The United States of Jesus  Oct 31, 2014 10:12:34am

re: #263 Charles Johnson

Wow. Two completely contradictory reports. I love it when that happens.

How it flowed on twitter it seemed like there were 2 rulings, one to quarantine her & another that reversed it?

Not sure.

269 lawhawk  Oct 31, 2014 10:13:23am

re: #263 Charles Johnson

Wow. Two completely contradictory reports. I love it when that happens.

CNN: The judge reversed himself.

(CNN) — [Breaking news update, posted at 12:57 p.m. ET]
A Maine judge on Friday ruled that state health officials failed to prove the need for an order enforcing an Ebola quarantine for a nurse who defied the quarantine in a tense standoff with state authorities. District Court Chief Judge Charles LaVerdiere ordered nurse Kaci Hickox, who recently returned to the United States after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, to submit to “direct active monitoring,” coordinate travel with public health officials and immediately notify health authorities should symptoms appear. Her attorney, Norman Siegel, called the decision a victory. On Thursday, the judge had ordered stricter limits on Hickox.

[Previous story, posted at 12:35 p.m. ET]
A Maine judge has ordered a quarantine for nurse Kaci Hickox, who defied her Ebola quarantine in a tense standoff with state authorities.
District Court Chief Judge Charles LaVerdiere ordered Hickox, who recently returned to the United States after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, to submit to “direct active monitoring” and “not to be present in public places,” such as shopping centers or movie theaters, except to receive necessary health care.

270 BeachDem  Oct 31, 2014 10:14:16am

re: #260 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Fixed—thanks.

271 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 31, 2014 10:15:16am

Heh

272 Dr. Matt  Oct 31, 2014 10:17:05am

re: #267 NJDhockeyfan

Youtube Video

273 Kragar  Oct 31, 2014 10:19:21am
274 Resident of The United States of Jesus  Oct 31, 2014 10:20:55am

re: #273 Kragar

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No words.

275 William Barnett-Lewis  Oct 31, 2014 10:23:37am

Anyone who want’s a good Halloween story, please go here:
maryrobinettekowal.com

276 Eventual Carrion  Oct 31, 2014 10:24:25am

re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth

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What exactly was used to blow up the federal building in OK city?

277 lawhawk  Oct 31, 2014 10:24:39am

Well, of course there is:

And of course the same people warning that Obama would set up FEMA camps are all up in arms because the Obama Administration isn’t setting up camps to quarantine people who worked with Ebola patients, or who might have come from countries where Ebola is currently epidemic.

Lest we forget - there’s one current active case of Ebola in the US. No one else is currently symptomatic other than Dr. Spencer. Since the mishandling of Mr. Duncan and subsequent two infections, it looks like Dallas Presbyterian is in the clear with no new infections.

We’ll have to wait a few weeks more - beyond the all clear on Dr. Spencer’s Ebola-free tests to give the all clear in NY, but we’re another 2 weeks before it’s definitive that Dr. Spencer didn’t pass on the disease to anyone he came into contact before being hospitalized. With each passing day that doesn’t result in a confirmed infection, the less likely it is that he passed it on to someone with direct contact.

Same with Nurse Hickox.

And let’s not forget, the judge found that the state didn’t meet its burdens.

278 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 31, 2014 10:25:18am

re:
#273

There is nothing Happy about Halloween. Many babies and children will be sacrificed in rituals. Just ask the police departments.

“Source?”

Google urself I dont have time to du your research for U!!!!!!!111

279 lawhawk  Oct 31, 2014 10:26:01am

re: #276 Eventual Carrion

Ammonium nitrate, with some other chemicals.

280 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 31, 2014 10:27:10am

re:
#277

And of course the same people warning that Obama would set up FEMA camps are all up in arms because the Obama Administration isn’t setting up camps to quarantine people who worked with Ebola patients, or who might have come from countries where Ebola is currently epidemic.

Irony. How does it work?


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