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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: February 08, 2013, 10:05:42 pm »
Quote from: Flying Dice on February 08, 2013, 09:43:26 pm
Don't you see? He tore those poor beards away from their homes and families, causing them great distress before they finally died, blowing apart in the cold wind. No sentence would be too great for a many who brought terror to so many innocent beards!
You're right. What was I thinking? My beard just shed a tear in shame.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: February 08, 2013, 09:37:21 pm »
Quote from: Flying Dice on February 08, 2013, 09:04:04 pm
Also, justice is served. They were cut down in the prime of life, but now they have been avenged.
15 years? I mean yeah, what he did was wrong, but 15 years?

Well I guess that's better than the life the prosecution was asking for.

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General Discussion / Re: Ex-LA Cop Goes On Rampage
« on: February 08, 2013, 08:59:16 pm »
Quote from: SalmonGod on February 08, 2013, 07:42:21 pm
Would the 4 days of rioting in Anaheim about half a year ago count?  Sparked by police shooting and killing 6 people in a rather short period of time that most people didn't think deserved to be shot.
Yeah the Anaheim rioting is a much better example. And while I'm not sure any of the officers involved ever faced any punishment, that might have had some positive effects. It's too early to say but the Anaheim PD surely got some kind of message. It's a good start, but its still not enough to say "Ok, time to give up, let's resort to violence."

Quote from: mcclay on February 08, 2013, 08:22:03 pm
This incident will cause people to look at the LAPD and other departments with more scrutinty, which will hopefully bring about change and reform because of social outcry. All this guy really has to do is to stay hidden and keep this in the public eye and the police maybe reformed all on its own.
Or people will dismiss everything he said because he clearly went crazy and was maybe always crazy and the LAPD will become paranoid because they feel obviously targeted. If anything's going to put scrutiny on the LAPD its shit like opening fire on vehicles because they looked like the suspect's and not really anything Dorner himself did.

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General Discussion / Re: Ex-LA Cop Goes On Rampage
« on: February 08, 2013, 03:25:35 pm »
Well of course there are protests against police brutality. But where are the ones against the LAPD? And look at how small those protests were, 100 people, group of university students, 50 people, 22 people. The only one of any size was the Occupy Wall Street and they were protesting police brutality against Occupy Wall Street. And while OWS did do a good job of showcasing police going to far, they never seemed to have much credibility with the populace and anything they might have done on that front was overshadowed by criticism that they weren't actually doing anything and controversies over cities trying to stop them.

Seriously though if you're going to effect change of something as deeply rooted as corruption in the LAPD it's going to require a protest of more than a hundred people. And if someone's going to advocate escalation to violence, I don't really find that a sufficient attempt.

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General Discussion / Re: Ex-LA Cop Goes On Rampage
« on: February 08, 2013, 01:58:47 pm »
Quote from: SalmonGod on February 08, 2013, 01:15:35 pm
And taking it one step further, perhaps reaching too far at this point, but I'll throw it out there anyway...  What if there is a deadline?  What if the environment is collapsing, with a point of no return in sight, and police corruption is one of the obstacles that must be overcome before anything will be done about it?
I'm bypassing any questions of plausibility and assuming here that environmental collapse is a clear and immediate danger. In that situation they would present a direct threat to a huge number of lives. But they aren't presenting that kind of threat here. Don't get me wrong, I think the LAPD is fucked up, but going straight from doing nothing to vigilante murder is too far. Where have the protests been? The appeals to the government? I don't think violence would be justified in any situation where people's lives weren't in immediate danger, but it certainly isn't if we haven't given recourse to other options.

Saying it's not going to work (and it might very well not) doesn't absolve you of at least trying.

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General Discussion / Re: MSPA Homestuck
« on: February 08, 2013, 12:54:16 pm »
Trickster mode was the buildup. That's why Hussie compared it to the Mario cheat star, because it took them from 0 to god tier in .8 seconds. Getting them onto their quest slabs was really the only substantial effect that interlude had on the plot.

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General Discussion / Re: Ex-LA Cop Goes On Rampage
« on: February 08, 2013, 12:34:15 pm »
Yeah, that assistant basketball coach? She was actually filling those basketballs with cocaine and feeding the team steroid-enhanced rats in hopes that they would become 7 foot tall Speedy Gonzalezes who would then go on to humiliate a string of Chinese basketball teams, sparking World War 3. Thank god somebody stopped her.

Honestly though, I think, if anything, this will only encourage the LAPD to be more corrupt.

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General Discussion / Re: Ex-LA Cop Goes On Rampage
« on: February 08, 2013, 10:30:16 am »
Even if he were restricting his murder to "guilty" people, kicking a suspect should not be an offense punishable by death. Neither should racism or firing a man for reporting police brutality. All those things are wrong, but just because they're wrong doesn't justify taking someone's life over it.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Rate the avatar of the person above you!
« on: February 08, 2013, 08:37:55 am »
Image itself is 10/10

7/10 as an avatar as it's hard to make out at that size.

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General Discussion / Re: Ex-LA Cop Goes On Rampage
« on: February 08, 2013, 08:02:43 am »
Quote from: Lich180 on February 08, 2013, 07:58:00 am
Not to mention the fact that there are about as many guns as people in America, and there is no way in hell those will ALL be given up or forcibly seized, OR the fact that criminals will STILL have them regardless.
And that is exactly why disarmament won't happen.

Can we not turn this into yet another gun control debate?

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: February 08, 2013, 04:52:26 am »
Quote from: DrPoo on February 08, 2013, 04:18:21 am
Hurr durr. This guy sounds like a stereotypical redneck.
...the stereotypical redneck does not believe he knows how to astral project.

That said, despite being an idiot he is right about one thing. The way to get better at thinking is to think and the way to get better at not thinking is to not think. Both of these skills are important.

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General Discussion / Re: Ex-LA Cop Goes On Rampage
« on: February 07, 2013, 11:54:59 pm »
It was the daughter of an officer who was involved in his review and her fiance. So people not at all involved in his grievances.

The guy is clearly insane, and I hope they stop him before anyone else gets hurt.

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General Discussion / Re: [Tomoko~] Because I'm not popular, Ill have an emotion thread (Happy Thread)
« on: February 07, 2013, 11:06:41 pm »
Well there's a new faction, some new items, better AI, the ability to start your own faction, the ability to enfeoff your companions, a bunch of new mods (Diplomacy is my favorite), an expansion pack with guns, and obviously, multiplayer.

Always seemed well worth it to me.

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General Discussion / Re: Maryland Exists
« on: February 07, 2013, 10:22:31 pm »
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on February 07, 2013, 08:22:48 pm
You can't fool me mister government agent. You're just part of the coverup.
As a Nebraskan I counter with this:

What possible reason could anyone have for pretending Nebraska exists? "Yknow Clyde, I don't think we have enough imaginary soy farms."

Maryland on the other hand. What's a Maryland even? And I'm pretty sure if it actually existed it'd be in Israel anyway.

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Other Games / Re: Sony PS4 DRM?
« on: February 07, 2013, 03:31:26 pm »
Online codes aren't going to discourage collectors though because by the time people are collecting games there isn't likely to be anyone playing online, and besides you can always just buy a new code, whereas eventually unplayed discs are going to go for exorbitant prices. Similarly, the problem would be solved with reactivation codes, although I imagine more people would balk at those since it's not like they have servers to maintain in that case.

As for PC games, I can't think of a PC game released in the last five years that wasn't also digitally distributed if not primarily so. As I said, if Sony is going to do this they'd better make sure that every game they release is also available over PSN to prevent consumers from getting screwed by low print runs.

I didn't say anything about favoring PC games.

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