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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 13003324 times)

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #148590 on: November 13, 2019, 10:17:00 pm »

I think he means the IRA.  That's a tried and true British tradition.
Dude... I'm pretty sure that's a touchy subject for poor Dwarfy. 
Might be a good idea to start paying one of the neighbourhood children to start your car in the mornings for a while. >.>   
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #148591 on: November 13, 2019, 10:27:23 pm »

My country men reporting the satellites as OVNIS and packinicng over it. A war of the worlds lite situation.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #148592 on: November 13, 2019, 10:34:13 pm »

OVNIS?
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« Reply #148593 on: November 13, 2019, 11:24:50 pm »

UFOS. Sorry for the spanglish. I guess thats a wtf for you guys.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #148594 on: November 13, 2019, 11:36:12 pm »

So what does Kitfox actually have to do with Dwarf Fortress?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #148595 on: November 14, 2019, 12:17:23 am »

They are a partner, and are doing all the promotion, marketing, and junk.
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« Reply #148596 on: November 14, 2019, 04:18:50 am »

Yeah, nah, I got attacked for saying that I disagreed with the Yale student association that said there should be separate and isolated areas for every minority on campus... Because apartheid is apparently the solution to discrimination.
My experience with Bay12 off site communities, including some DF communities, has been this nearly every single time. Not this opinion specifically, but the attitude towards people who don't agree. It seems as though they either start out formed by people who can't handle having their opinions contested, or they gradually become more and more cult-like in accepted opinions and scare off the decent users.

I don't know why Bay12 specifically attracts people like this, seeing it has mostly been fairly live and let live and relaxed, except for certain lower board drama threads.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #148597 on: November 14, 2019, 04:41:38 am »

Actually, what I strongly suspect about the situation Kagus described at Yale, is that those particular subset of students get all their perceived power by being at the head of an "outrage machine". They need to constantly be generating outrage to justify their existence and their moral authority over the rest of campus.

The college administration probably already implemented all their sensible demands, so there's mandatory racial sensistivity training, consent training, safe spaces for gay students, a well-funded feminist / women's space. And a zillion other pro-diversity initiatives well supported by the faculty and administration. They've banned books that might upset anyone, and put trigger warnings / content warnings at the start of every course. etc etc.

So, how to the little outrage assholes get their kicks now? they need to come up with something supposedly "social justic-y" but so far outside what can actually be implemented to finally get a "no we can't do that" from the administration, then that particular group of students can jump up and down about how they've proven that the administration are Nazis, despite pretty much every other demand they've ever had being met.

it's like a nation who want a Casus Belli, so they issue an ultimatum, but they have to include something completely ridiculous in it to ensure the enemy doesn't inadvertently agree to the demands, thus derailing the war efforts.
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« Reply #148598 on: November 14, 2019, 05:58:20 am »

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« Reply #148599 on: November 14, 2019, 06:03:19 am »

Mild upset and WTF over the sound chipset I had misidentified (somehow?) in this ancient Fujitsu Lifebook e2010.

Thought it was ESS technologies based audio.  Really SigmaTel AC'97 audio.  Furious looking for win9X drivers for it, since I want to do real retrogaming on real hardware with it.


Sound hardware from 2000 - 2001 era computer, no realmode support.  WTF.
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« Reply #148600 on: November 14, 2019, 07:58:29 am »

So apparently putting a sign on your franchise restaurant door saying children should behave or risk removal, where behave is defined as "keep food on trays and butts in chairs", is deemed so offensive that the corporate office issues a public apology and reprimanded the store manager.

Holy crap, asking people to be civil in a restaurant is now offensive? I mean I guess how I can see how that sign would be a little over the top, since kids can be pretty unruly, but not offensive.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #148601 on: November 14, 2019, 08:23:37 am »

Yeah, nah, I got attacked for saying that I disagreed with the Yale student association that said there should be separate and isolated areas for every minority on campus... Because apartheid is apparently the solution to discrimination.
My experience with Bay12 off site communities, including some DF communities, has been this nearly every single time.

I eventually had a falling out with the same irc after we had a fight over me wanting them to stop overtly wishing death and beatups on polito-trolls (the person in question was that gay conservative with I think a greek- or Italian-sounding name, can't remember what it was exactly, who used to go around campuses harassing trans people (the one who was very quickly dropped by the media when it turned out he was a paedophile or something) so I get that they were angry, it was just the level of hatred that made me uncomfortable) and it was made clear to me afterwards that I wasn't welcome there any more.

It's kind of ironic, this were the same clique of people that would straight up bully a guy for being a furry every time he came on until I repeatedly told them to stop. Several off them had nothing to do with DF or the DF forums any longer, and as I recall it one or two were banned from here in the first place. In hindsight, it was a group of pretty awful people.
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« Reply #148602 on: November 14, 2019, 08:30:34 am »

All this talk of other sites and how they each suck in their own special way, just further enforces my thoughts that I want nothing to do with them and I'll only do my internet posting on the Bay 12.

Also Discord seems to much like social media and I want nothing to do with anything like that.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #148603 on: November 14, 2019, 08:31:50 am »

I eventually had a falling out with the same irc after we had a fight over me wanting them to stop overtly wishing death and beatups on polito-trolls (the person in question was that gay conservative with I think a greek- or Italian-sounding name, can't remember what it was exactly, who used to go around campuses harassing trans people (the one who was very quickly dropped by the media when it turned out he was a paedophile or something)

You're talking about Milo Yiannopoulos. I don't think he's actually a pedo or anything.
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He was talking about gay teens who have sex with older men, but the specific context was that he was talking about himself as a teenager. People found that squicky basically, but saying that the context is that he is a pedo is a slight stretch.
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« Reply #148604 on: November 14, 2019, 08:44:26 am »

Maybe, I never cared about him in the first place and don't know any specifics, I only know him by what I've heard others say of him. If I'm going to be honest I think it makes him sound like a pretty awful dude regardless. Old men preying on young men should be shamed much in the same way old men preying on young women is. We call it gubbsjuka, "old man sickness", in Swedish.

But regardless I don't want people wishing death and unfortune on people in places I come to socialise and relax. It stressed me the fuck out.
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