If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

I'm annoyed as shit by the race angle as well, but I also really like comic book movies and have been excited about Ryan Coogler's talent ever since Fruit ale Station. I'll be in the theater this weekend. Maybe I should wear a sandwich sign threatening to punch anyone who brings up race. FRUITVALE ...

If you have kindle unlimited A River in Darkness is available at no cost right now. It's the story of a half Korean repatriated (as it was said, despite having been born and raised in Japan) to North Korea and the horror he endured there. In terms of depicting unrelenting hopelessness and human mise...

I'm annoyed as shit by the race angle as well, but I also really like comic book movies and have been excited about Ryan Coogler's talent ever since Fruit ale Station. I'll be in the theater this weekend. Maybe I should wear a sandwich sign threatening to punch anyone who brings up race.

RT scores will see a lot more variation than an average grade for the same reason rolling ten ten sided dice and adding them up will yield less tail end results than a single hundred sided die. A difference of a few percentage points means almost nothing.

Sunder beat me to it, but that does need to be repeated endlessly. Go to metacritic if you want the grade rather than the up vote percentage. The movie is doing very well there too. What I'm going to say will be controversial, but I think this is because MCU movies are really popular and Ryan Coogle...

The Bison thing......Well that goes back a couple of years when I was watching the The Revenant and discussing it here when I stated that I could have sworn I saw a scene where a meteor struck a buffalo. That... doesn't seem like the sort of thing you easily mistake from something else. At least wi...

This needs a lot more thought, but basically I envision splitting the Action Deck in 3 to bring the total up to four decks: a Crisis Deck which would consist of Reality Calls cards and Feeding Frenzy cards (leaning heavily toward the former), a Follower Deck which is as the name implies, an Oppressi...

The sjw game module is ready. Anyone who wants to help by playtesting email John D and he'll send you the file. To open it you'll need to download and install Vassal (it's free).

Dedicated thread is here.

viewtopic.php?f=29&t=527

I roped a friend in to be our third player this time. I'm posting the notes he took during the game below. Sentences inside brackets are clarifications I added. · Move Flavor Text on Reality Cards to the top · Reality cards should be re-labeled as “Harsh Reality” or “Reality Calls” “Reality Knocks”,...

I must have missed something. Why are people trying to ruin Baby It's Cold Outside again?

I finished the thing this weekend, but on going to test it out last night noticed that all the cards were jumbled. Turns out you can't just put the image files in different directories and expect Vassal to keep them separate. So, I need to rename all the image files and reattach them to the right ca...

I'm starting to think that there was a point to Atheism+ Both Mike Enoch and Richard Spencer are atheists (with Spencer even being a Hitchens fan). So there obviously needs to be a way to distinguish the progressive atheists from those in the alt-right (or those on the right in general, I suppose)....

In my experience the further left someone is the harder they go in for Whorfianism. The idea that they can change the word yet people's fundamental perceptions of reality will remain intact is bizarre and alien to them. They're exactly backwards about what causes what, but they're right that making ...

Alright. I'm free again. With some luck I'll be able to work on the module this weekend. Part of what's been keeping me busy was putting together a loft bed and moving the computers to the space underneath. I already cleared them from their old spot, but I'm still waiting on parts to assemble the ta...

Obviously anyone who answers yes to these is suffering from mental illness. :bjarte: No one believes that. If you believe that you are either really misinformed, really clueless or both. He specifically says people believe that, and that the problem is those people (professionals who ought to know ...

Obviously anyone who answers yes to these is suffering from mental illness. :bjarte: No one believes that. If you believe that you are either really misinformed, really clueless or both. He specifically says people believe that, and that the problem is those people (professionals who ought to know ...

There's still shit out there, but there's also a lot of good psychology now based solidly on brain science and behavior, with rigorous clinical evaluation to quantify effectiveness. Matt, I completely agreed with you until I read jet laggs post about how he has been reading about psychology for the...

Uhm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis According to a 2016 poll of 1,500 scientists reported in the journal Nature, 70% of them had failed to reproduce at least one other scientist's experiment (50% had failed to reproduce one of their own experiments). These numbers differ among d...

Just answering the question... yes... I think it is entirely possible that thousands and thousands of psychiatrists are completely wrong about this and many... many... many other topics. Actually, I think most headshrinkers are wrong about almost everything they say. The vast majority of the mental...

Steersman, why didn't you tell us your app was finished?

https://i.imgur.com/UDqDKw1.png

https://thenextweb.com/apps/2018/01/11/ ... -for-that/

Kirbmarc wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 12, 2018 10:37 am
It's not a stretch to assume that what Trump meant was "why are we letting in people from those specific ethnicities and not people who look like Norwegians?"

Well it's a reasonable question. I wish we had a president who could actually answer it. Something something, horses, steaks for dinner.

Can't say he's wrong about much of Africa... My thoughts as well. Is there anyone that disagrees with Trump on this point? Disagreements that go beyond offended sensibilities I mean. It's like when you have an uncle who is clearly an alcoholic, then one family member has the audacity to go ahead an...

There's a dedicated thread with some spitballing here. http://slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=527 If you DM John he'll email you the game files. We talked about doing some online playtesting with Vassal, but I'm booked solid for the next two weekends and won't be able to work on a module un...

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! This is my favorite new word since autoethnography.

There's a dedicated thread with some spitballing here. http://slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=527 If you DM John he'll email you the game files. We talked about doing some online playtesting with Vassal, but I'm booked solid for the next two weekends and won't be able to work on a module unt...

Ay! Glad to see you back. I'm booked pretty solid for the next two weeks though. After that I'll probably have time to make another Vassal module if Kirbmarc and Lsouma are still interested in doing an online playtest.

Vivec's comment on PZ's Pinker piece is hilarious. If you’re referring to the NCVS, there’s a pretty heavy skew in favor of recording the sorts of crimes that people of color are arrested for (ie illegal drug related offenses being grouped in under the ‘severe crime’ category) while completey cutti...

gurugeorge wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 11, 2018 1:12 am
Great thing about Russian compilations is you get that bizarre mixture of Darwin-award-level stupidity and wonderful improvisational ingenuity.

My favorite Russian Darwin award nominee (he survived).

John D wrote: ↑ I think that it was this scene from Lost In Space this deeply affected my sexuality.
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It was a different Penny Robinson for me. I have to say I like the net though.

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How would a person come to believe an avalanche was imminent (and so flee their tent)? I can't think of anything obvious and googling only reveals what to do in the seconds when you see/feel the fracture line appear and can move laterally quickly enough to get out of the path. The time frame you hav...

If you polled a group of self-described skeptics I'm certain you'd find most of them accept the existence of life elsewhere in the universe, but doubt alien visits. One seems inevitable unless advances in understanding of abiogenesis show it's insanely improbable. The other requires speculating abou...

[lamentations that people are not actually machine-readable arrays of data] I mean, seriously. Have you ever met a person (face-to-face) for the first time and come away from the encounter thinking "I really would have gotten to know that guy/gal better if one or both of us had some 8x12 glossies i...

He thinks girls are very adversely affected by the internet (especially constant use of smart phones and social networks) because they play out social status issues on-line. For example, telling 14,000 people that you, like, totally don't want to talk about this awful thing a man did to you? Seriou...

Linda Sarsour, for reasons to numerous to list. There are cunts, and there are cunts I really wish we could exile from the planet. Myers and Watson lifetime achievement awards. Nobody can say they didn't earn it. The Crown Prosecution Service, because I have a piss poor understanding of the United K...

Their strategy is better than ours (probably because ours consists of sticking our fucking heads in the sand), and we're going to get our asses kicked if we don't get ahead of the curve on this. Who is this "we" white man? (racial pun intended). Myself and anyone else opposed to the alt-right (whic...

And why do you think "the alt-right is wrong even if those differences exist"? Maybe because, as I've argued, many on the alt-right think that those differences apply to ALL members of the different races? That, for instance, all whites are more intelligent than all blacks? You catch a lot of shit ...

Why do we hesitate to call Disney films musicals? They obviously are, and being part of my childhood they're some of my favorites but I still felt they didn't match the category. Is it just that live action is more "serious" (as if a genre with spontaneous song and dance numbers could be called seri...

Singin' In the Rain, obviously, also Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. Oh, and South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. Only the classics will do. And oh yeah, Trey Parker's Cannibal! The Musical . MarcusAu mentioned Oh Brother, Where Art Thou, which establishes the precedent any movie with a song...

You really have to wonder about the Alt-Right and Race Realists because I am pretty certain that this behaviour isn't IQ related. If I point something even remotely gun shaped at my dog it has the intelligence to run and hide. I am really surprised that they are not talking about impulse control an...

I have a pretty large blu-ray collection by most standards (well over a thousand) but I have hardly any musicals. It's not that I don't enjoy them - I grew up watching them - but I've never gotten around to collecting them and I probably should start building up a library. What are the essentials I...

Very sorry to hear about the wife, John. Some time ago you mentioned having positive results with marijuana, and I see Michigan lists chronic pain as a qualifier for medicinal use. Maybe talk to your doctor about that? I wish I could offer a more qualified opinion.

Between NewsRadio and facilitating Alex Jone's weed-induced tangent about extradimensional pedophiles secretly pulling the strings of American politics I have endless love for Rogan. He's not someone I tune in to for analysis though. Maybe if I actually gave a damn about MMA.

I do fantasize about colonies or limited social experiments though. Maybe give BLM their own town somewhere. They could call it 'New Liberia' or so. Maybe someone who knows something about Liberia can explain why it's not another one of those alt-right talking points that makes a nice internet meme...

Why yes. It would have killed me to read 2 more posts down to see my question basically answered...

Civic nationalists out there may be interested in noting last years Cato report. Results indicated that in order to value that most basic of Western liberal values, free speech, one had to be in fact ...... Western. Amazing. http://i.imgur.com/FrTCS2j.jpg This place is heavy in irony, but you've be...

When Malcolm X Met the Nazis . I wasn't around for that one, obviously, but the Hotep alliance with the alt-right feels much more chummy to me. I don't know of any instances of Malcom X's crew saying the Nazi's were free to join up. It does make sense though. Both groups believe in self reliance an...

When Malcolm X Met the Nazis . I wasn't around for that one, obviously, but the Hotep alliance with the alt-right feels much more chummy to me. I don't know of any instances of Malcom X's crew saying the Nazi's were free to join up. It does make sense though. Both groups believe in self reliance an...

BLM will not acknowledge the black on black crime in the community while Hoteps do. 'We wuz kangs' or not, this automatically places the Hoteps on a higher plane of reasoning than BLM, if nothing else. That's not a very high bar. But yes, I like the Hotep's general attitude of confronting problems ...

Can anyone with two brain cells tell my one cell what the pretty dots mean? Apparently the race “debate” has been solved .... :lol: https://twitter.com/carolynemerick/status/948817242745135104 Oh God. Hotep Jesus follows her. He's the editor of http://hotepnation.com/ for those who aren't up to dat...

I'd be happy to strip the Rebecca Watson's of the world of their voting rights. Sorry no. as odious as even that vacuous cunt is, I would never take away her right to vote. Nor anyone else unless they were in prison. Yeah. With the horse on this one. Our democracies may be flawed, but they are broa...

I'm sympathetic to the Starship Troopers idea, as long as service isn't just in the military, but any kind of voluntary civic service. If you want a say in how your nation is ruled, do something for it, even if it's just many hours of cleaning streets or helping elderly people. Plenty of countries ...

A friend of mine was stopped and searched by the police in Brooklyn. They didn't say it was to maintain stats for whites. He'd accidentally flashed the mace on his keychain when reaching for his wallet to buy pizza. They did explicitly say they wouldn't have bothered except to maintain the appearanc...

Unless Obama's drones had a stun setting and he closed Gitmo in secret I haven't seen any evidence that the Democrats are any less brutal than the Republicans when it comes to foreign policy. To be fair, the use of drones in the wars that the USA, via Bush, had committed to meant that fewer US sold...

:nin: Bah

I wouldn’t be so quick to honor Lindsay with pitizenship. I believe I remember her stating that, while being horribly treated by these assholes, she actually agreed with them on the social justice issues (pronouns, etc), which is one reason she was shocked to have been attacked in such a manner. Ku...

TheMudbrooker wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 26, 2017 5:59 pm

Shatterface wrote: ↑ Also: Lifeforce. How exactly does a geostationary orbit above London work?
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Does it really matter?

I want the hearts back.

Fucking hell. We're surrounded by unbelievers. Jugheadnaut, I propose we put aside our differences to form unified front against this heresy.

But this was all thrown out. I'm not going to get into a nerdly back and forth over whether 'da Force did it' is a worthy explanation for Rey, but if you found it satisfying, great for you. I think you would concede, though, that this does not seem to be the case with the majority of the fanbase. "...

Shem the Penman, an insufferable Regressive Leftist cunt, now has its own Patheos blog. Referring to an exchange on another Patheos blog with another commenter (but no ID or links), goes off on how scientism is real and is bad, and how there are indeed 'other ways of knowing.' http://www.patheos.co...

deLurch wrote: ↑ Remember folks, your nominations mean very little without context. Knowing what they did, or their claim to fame means far more.

Presumably Naima Lowe dressed herself the day this was taken. That's worth a nomination, isn't it?

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