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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 03, 2017, 03:34:58 pm »
The old Zukah Blyi'jad (As featured on Counter StrikeTM) could do as a start, I imagine, but I rather like the idea of collecting a harvest of more imaginative swears. A good initiative!

I kept recieving strange scam calls myself, recently. They were from India, however, and terribly rude. Of course, I was rather upset the third time they woke me in the middle of the night, and said something dreadfully rude back at them. I do not know if that was what settled the matter, but I have been left alone since.

Quote from: Egan_BW on April 03, 2017, 03:28:15 pm
Quote from: Silverthrone on April 03, 2017, 03:05:06 pm
That picture is marvellous, however. It is the look on the poor man's face that makes it complete. It is a picture of the future. If you want to see the future, picture a man about to start crying while a hipster injects the latest gimmicks into his skin. Forever.
That does sound very cyberpunk.

It does, now that you say it. No wonder why the cyberpunk population are always so forlorn and grumpy...

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 03, 2017, 03:05:06 pm »
Quote from: Baffler on April 03, 2017, 12:18:50 pm
SWEDEN YES
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31042477

ITS THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE

ALDRIG!

You can impose the future, Epicenter, when you have pried the past from my cold, dead hands. Along with my pass card.

That picture is marvellous, however. It is the look on the poor man's face that makes it complete. It is a picture of the future. If you want to see the future, picture a man about to start crying while a hipster injects the latest gimmicks into his skin. Forever.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: April 02, 2017, 05:44:10 pm »
Quote from: Neonivek on April 02, 2017, 05:21:23 pm
Quote from: Frumple on April 02, 2017, 05:19:49 pm
Ah. Well, that makes the answer relatively easy. We'd either be extinct or monoethnic.

Well yeah... But for the sake of argument... We are assuming that a cultural appropriation ban was put into place like... 20 years ago...

And any words that existed 100 years ago in English are acceptable (because... well... English has VERY few of its own words)

Of course, it is important to remember that 'Cultural Appropriation' in practice tends to mean 'Whitey no touch!'. The long-term effects of a hypothetical global Cultural Appropriation ban would be largely influenced on what sort of ban it is.

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General Discussion / Re: Drunk Thread -(Awesome Thread)-
« on: April 01, 2017, 05:32:34 pm »
Right. So. The Swedish football season has begun. My team (well, not mine, strictly speaking, but also mine, for I have chosen it, so Glory, glory Hallejua, här kommer Änglarna!, wanker) did fairly well. Naturally, cause for celebration. Lovely night out. Cannot feel my fingers, and I cannot truthfully say that I know that I am concious; I could be sprawled on the kitchen floor, imagining this, while the cats lick my fingers and headbutt my face. Still. Lovely night out. Spring is in the air, for if I fell asleep outside, I would not freeze to death over night.


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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 30, 2017, 01:13:15 pm »
In my mind, design by committee is a much more detached method than design by team. The team have (or jolly well should have) a clear, united idea of where the project is heading, and what needs to be done to accomplish its goals, et cetera. A united group with a goal and with a very clear understanding of the game they are making and want to make.

A design committee, on the other hand, is the sort of detached entity that could insist on jamming in, say, Co-Op into a project, because some equally detached focus group result says it will sell better. Or shovel in micro-transaction, or demand stream-lining, or demanding a longer campaign, or a genre shift, or all other sorts of devilry that might look very sensible on paper in a distant board-room. A board-room where people not closely connected to the game might meet up once per month or so, and discuss a game they know rather little of. Bonus points if it is exclusively staffed by marketers and general producers with no real insight or experience in game design.

That is, at least, my understanding of the two.


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General Discussion / Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« on: March 30, 2017, 11:55:28 am »
This just in on KebabWatch:

Three men and a girl from Kosovo has been detained in Venice, on suspicion of planning a terror attack in the city.

They have been under surveillance for several months, as they have been planning to travel to Syria and join the Islamic State. All four held Italian residency permits. Luckily, they were caught while their attack was very much on the planning stage. Targets include the Rialto bridge, but they had not yet been able to build an explosive before they were arrested.

Jolly well done. Hopefully, they can be squeezed for some useful information, as well.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39442210

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 30, 2017, 11:23:49 am »
I believe she is called Aurora in the börk edition, as well. I seem to recall so, at least. I did have the blasted thing on video tape. I think her parents named her Aurora, and then the fairy social workers renamed her Törnrosa when they took her to their witness protection safehouse cottage in the woods.

I cannot say that I was very thrilled to find that movie in my christmas sock, but I did rather warm to it. I remember the drunken bard very clearly.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 28, 2017, 12:23:06 pm »
Less so in the Nordics, generally. It is considered quite old-fashioned, and probably rather posh. Which is perfect for my purposes. It is one of those names that a lot of people have heard, but it is very uncommon as a first name.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 28, 2017, 12:13:58 pm »
Quote from: Hanslanda on March 28, 2017, 11:40:34 am
How do you pronounce that? Soon or Sue-nay/ney?

Su, as in Sumo wrestler. Ne, as in Knell. That would be about right.

I would like to name a child of mine Gideon. He would never hear the end of it in school, but my general plan is that it would teach him that the opinion of some people is worthless. It is, on the whole, the same idea as featured in A Boy Named Sue. Hopefully, with a different result.

A country pub. Old Man Silver at the bar, Silver Jr. steps in.

"Why, good evening, father... There are some things that I would like to talk about."
He smashes a bottle against the wall, and advances with the broken end lifted high.
"Ah. Well, my boy. Do what you must. En garde."
A second bottle, handed by the bartender with his mobile in the other hand, is smashed against the bar, and a fighting ring is cleared for the two combatants.

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General Discussion / Re: Religion discussion: The church of Bay12
« on: March 26, 2017, 12:44:49 pm »
Quote from: Egan_BW on March 26, 2017, 02:12:18 am
My phone alway autocorrects god to God, and it annoys me. I think it might also try to correct gods to God.

I wish my telephone was that pious. Mine insisted on correcting the Lord (Herren) into Hernando. Hernando's will be done, A grace of Hernando... This Hernando seem to enjoy quite the esteem amongst telephones.
I swiftly put a stop to it. I cannot spell to save my life (as you might have noticed), but I would rather that be my own fault.

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General Discussion / Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« on: March 24, 2017, 12:16:58 pm »
Quote from: Loud Whispers on March 23, 2017, 10:02:51 pm

Quote from: Silverthrone on March 23, 2017, 09:31:30 pm
You are probably right, on the whole, and particularly regarding my scissor-scheme.
I imagine you would make a rather terrifying candidate for Home Secretary xD

Well, quite. They could frighten children with me. It would be a very heavy-handed (and no doubt very brief) rule. Bewildering, terrifying and terribly amusing.

As a special treat:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

He is cruel, but he is... No, he is not particularly fair either, really.

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General Discussion / Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« on: March 23, 2017, 09:31:30 pm »
(In response to LoudWhispers)

Oh. Oh, that is very true. Servitors, are they? I thought I remembered it from somewhere. I am not that kind of Emperor. Honest!

You are probably right, on the whole, and particularly regarding my scissor-scheme. It would be rather too morbid a solution, when the problem could be better approached with tried and true bars, headsmen and leadership worthy of the name. The situation is screaming out for firmness; but Ken-ification might be, on the whole, too firm to consider, for the time being. Perhaps for a particularly rainy day, when old man Konstantin is the man with the plan, and on the whole, I do hope it does not come.
I do tend to forget that the strength and the skill to handle this, and to re-introduce the law, is not missing as much as it is not being used as it should, or given the elbow room that it would need.

The downstairs confiscation scheme would better wait in the drawer for the time being. If the modern nation-state does not re-assert itself, if old and universal values are indeed as dead as they have been left for, if the necessary strength and skill of society and its officials and servants is indeed gone, rather than bundled up and constricted, and if this sort of crude violence is the only tool that remains for the state, then perhaps.
You are right, however, it is better to start at the beginning, and improve and re-build the societal structure we do have. It will be quite the difficult raking, picking and planting to sort out that horrid mess, but it is certainly time and efforts spent better than on the knob-gathering regime I just dreamed up.

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General Discussion / Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« on: March 23, 2017, 08:22:39 pm »
Quote from: smjjames on March 23, 2017, 08:12:17 pm
Quote from: Silverthrone on March 23, 2017, 08:09:45 pm
Quote from: smjjames on March 23, 2017, 07:49:48 pm
I need to stop giving you ideas don't I? lol.

Well, true, it would likely be best. Still, where I made Emperor of Europe, I would like you to be in my council of advisors.

Citizen of Yurp! Cast your lot with Emperor Silverthrone! It is not as if it would be worse...

I'm American though. :)

Why, excellent! An American perspective would be very useful. American advisors tend to be exported quite generously, but I would like the opportunity to choose them, myself.

You will also be well-clear of the blast radius, if my reign goes particularly poor.

Quote from: Baffler on March 23, 2017, 08:17:01 pm
Quote from: Silverthrone on March 23, 2017, 08:09:45 pm
-snip-

You can pretty much have people be able to perform basic tasks, or you can have them lobotomized. As I recall the procedure is considered fundamentally flawed by pretty much everyone with even a shred of credibility.

Ah, I see. Not a very useful procedure for penal labour purposes, then. I would call it a shame, but it is probably for the best that such a scheme would not work.

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General Discussion / Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« on: March 23, 2017, 08:09:45 pm »
Quote from: smjjames on March 23, 2017, 07:49:48 pm
I need to stop giving you ideas don't I? lol.

Well, true, it would likely be best. Still, where I made Emperor of Europe, I would like you to be in my council of advisors.

Citizen of Yurp! Cast your lot with Emperor Silverthrone! It is not as if it would be worse...

Quote from: Covenant on March 23, 2017, 07:51:41 pm
Not a fan of the lobotomy idea - don't particularly want my tax money going toward paying for drooling rapists to be babysat all day.

Quote from: Silverthrone on March 23, 2017, 07:45:22 pm
As for Covenant: I do agree, I'd sooner have the guillotine back

Mme Guillotine, she thirsts.

That is also true, I do not quite know how 'precise' a lobotomy could be. If they could be made harmless and witless, without being reduced too far as to become vegetables that cannot do more basic tasks. Perhaps it could be an idea for the future, if technology advances to the degree that a computer could interface with a warm body, and make it useful. Perhaps as a form of bio-robot. Rather intriguing idea, I must say... But I should probably speculate about it on my own time.

Still, for Mme Guillotine. She is still the best solution available, for many cases. Very dependable.

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General Discussion / Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« on: March 23, 2017, 07:45:22 pm »
Yes, but I imagined the whole package being removed; the offender effectively being Ken-ified. More than merely a castration. It is not guarantee, but I imagine that such a dire punishment waiting for repeat offenders might have some effect. It would, or ought to be, rather the deterrant, as well as a message. I understand that it is a rather knotty issue of forced sterilisation, but since the offender would have to qualify himself by deliberate actions, it is a rather different thing to, say, forced sterilisation in the service of eugenics. Of course, the statistics of executed penal Ken-procedures would no doubt become uncomfortable at some point, but since it would reflect individual choices and actions, not much can be done about it.

Now, lobotomy is an opportunity I have not thought of, actually. Perhaps it would be better, particularly for severe cases that are unrepentant, and that will do harm again if given half a chance. It would likely be a more simple procedure, as well. It does lack the threatening loud-and-clear nature of saying "don't try it, sonnyboy, or we'll cut yer cock-n-bollocks off", however.

As for Covenant: I do agree, I'd sooner have the guillotine back than my scissor-scheme. Or, dare we dream, perhaps both? Certain individuals would likely be better disposed off as a whole, rather than bit by bit, but I believe that being prepared to take someone's privates away when they make it very clear they have no intention to behave would send an appropriate message, and an appropriate response.

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