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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 14, 2015, 04:14:15 pm »
Not enough spiders for that, OW. Maybe we need to get H G Wells in here, write us a valley full of thread to fornicate with.
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I say "Lazy vocabulary building" because it's easy to just use fuck and other related words everywhere because they've grown to be so versatile.... y'know what might be kinda' neat? An automated system that handed out mutes (and eventually a ban) if the poster used the same bit of vulgarity twice in, say, their last hundred posts. That'd encourage some variation, if nothing else.
They even ban self-censorship of profanity, and that is INCREDIBLY stupid, in my opinion.The only thing stupid about banning self-censorship of profanity (assuming the goal is stopping or removing profanity on the forum, anyway) is the people that believe that "self-censorship" of profanity is actually censorship. F*ck is not censoring. Neither is F*($. Neither is #*($, though that's more a variable than explicit. The list just kind of goes on. That sort of vulgarity masking is a complete joke.
Because political double standards? Really though, the whole sex scandal and affair thing seems to be spread evenly between the two parties, it's not an exclusively one party or the other thing.Oh, the acts themselves are pretty ubiquitous, it's just that one of the parties is currently screaming in the streets (sometimes literally!) about family values and abstinence an' junk. Dems are a bit more chill on that front, so it ends up making their politicians look less hilariously hypocritical on the subject.
Ahh yes Shinji is definitely one. The entire point of his character is that he is someone who, in the normal world, would be carted for psychiatric help and wouldn't be anywhere near the battlefield.In the normal world, he probably never would have needed psychiatric help at all, even if he did end up on the battlefield. With his mom still around and his dad (both of which were incredibly high functioning individuals, and the latter in particular entirely capable of raising a healthy kid if he actually gave a damn regarding doing so) not trying to break existence in response to her dying, it's pretty damn likely he would have turned out healthy. Dude was a decent musician, by all appearances fairly intelligent and actually pretty capable of holding himself together, just more or less abused and neglected and then thrown into battle with eldritch abominations. Not really a loser for cracking under that kind of pressure... more just, y'know, normal. Human. He reacts better to his situation than most people would, really, it's just that the situation is pretty incredibly shitty.

What if we are the only sentient life?If there's none out there, we'll just have to make some on our own, simple as that. Rate that technology's going, by the time we're comfortably colonizing other planets, uplifting non-sophonts or custom building intelligent species from the ground up shouldn't really be that big of an issue, on the technical side of things.