Nerds. Nerds EVERYWHERE...

[JackSkeptic]

Asterix and Obelisk or Manwell.

[Tony Parsehole]

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5606/150 ... 0dd2_o.jpg

[Badger3k]

Speaking of Nanny McPheePhee - she also is getting' plenty tired of all them folk sayin' she has gone all po-mo (direct link, can't get a wayback archive link made) :

Tried to go there again, from the link in my feed, but now I get a website is offline 502 error. Odd.

This idea that I’ve done a 180 on postmodernism? Complete bullshit. I don’t know where you get this stuff, unless it’s just a turd drawn up from the bottomless well of loathing. I’ve moved on to other subjects most of the time now, but I haven’t in the least changed my mind. I don’t suddenly disagree with anything I wrote in Why Truth Matters.
Are you thinking that feminism is somehow postmodernist? Again, complete bullshit. There are postmodernism-flavored brands of feminism, but I’m no more a fan of them than I ever was. I haven’t morphed into a fan of Sandra Harding or “women’s ways of knowing.”

You don’t know what you’re talking about.

This was the whole of it, from my feed. I don't know, maybe the "watchers" have been reading what you write and copypasta? Maybe they can put two and two together and form coherent thoughts, which reveal the pomo bs underlying your writing and beliefs? Just a thought.

Didn't "Little Paulie" PZ Myers, tentacle-rape enthusiast write a while back that all good scientists are PoMo?

Yeah, something about how all science is actually postmodern, when he just meant that scientists have to be aware of their own biases. Bit of a stretch from there to postmodernism, but that's how he justifies it to himself, I guess.

[Badger3k]

As I remember it, Opheliar stated in her book/old blogs that she was disappointed with her former stance on 'identity politics' NOT 'pomo'. She's 100% caught up in identity politics at the moment.

Good point. But if your identity politics makes you buy into, or at least agree with, pomo nonsense, what is the difference? Is she one of those who follow the "standard you walk past" line of .... "reasoning"?

[JackSkeptic]

Identity Politics is required to make PoMo work. Without it the axis of oppression fails. PoMo states that logic and reason are inherently flawed and the way to truth is through feelings and identifying the axis of oppression. You therefore also identify the privileged which must be attacked because they are the ONLY cause of that oppression. So unless a person continuously atones for their privilege they are to be shunned and attacked. So silly people like Myers make statements now and again about their wings of privilege. It's childish but they really believe this crap because, like most things, there is an element of truth in it but at a much deeper level of nuance than they can grasp.

PoMo is a Cultural Marxist view of the world which feeds into everything they think and do and identity politics is at the core of it. It is a very simplistic world view which is why it is so attractive to so many people, including old fashion prudes, attention seekers, the mentally brittle and submissive personalities. It is also highly attractive to those who wish to exploit others for their own gain (Zvan) as there are numerous submissives and the rhetoric is vicious enough to keep people in line.

The reasons why they:

1. Lie

2. Shut down and block conversation

3. Often speak with a supercilious air of superiority

4. Are so hateful and have no moral or ethical code when it comes to those they deem enemies

5. Infiltrate and destroy, never build

Is that the only way to achieve their objectives they must attack and destroy everything that does not comply with their wishes no matter what it takes to do so or who gets hurt in the process. They are absolutely certain they are right and feel they have the true knowledge, so they act superior and feel there is no need to have any discussion about it.

It's just another religion. As a religion it is very close to Scientology. If anyone is aware of the basics of Scientology they will know the mindset of the average SJW, including Benson.

It also follows that the SJW form of Feminism is derived from Cultural Marxist principles and owes nothing to the previous forms of feminism including the opinions of many Feminists today. Feminism has itself been hijacked.

[windy]

TL;DR version, a relatively prominent Canadian Public Radio presenter/personality was fired apparently for his BSDM lifestyle. It involves an ex who started dropping information about their sex life after they broke up, painting him as abusive. Potentially this could be a messy situation, dealing with sex positivity and "believing the victim (woman). On top of that, of course is this guy seems to be a bit of a hipster darling, making it a tricky situation for them to navigate.

Also a bit of a 'Pit darling:
viewtopic.php?p=137123#p137123

from the FB post:

The writer boldly started contacting my friends, acquaintances and even work colleagues – all of whom came to me to tell me this was happening and all of whom recognized it as a trumped up way to attack me and undermine my reputation. Everyone contacted would ask the same question, if I had engaged in non-consensual behavior why was the place to address this the media?

Because something something rape culture, I presume.

[Tribble]

Badger, I'm playing the pre-sequel right now as the CL4PTRP Fragtrap thingy. He's funny. :)

Yeah, started coop game this weekend. The questions you get when you choose him are funny, as are his comments. The first boss was a pain in the ass, especially on the split screen.

In related news, Ophelia butts in with yet another thing she is completely unaware of, yet has to push the ideology. This one on another desperate attempt to keep advertisers on the corrupt and crappy sites (archive here. This line stuck out (among others):

We stand against these bully-tactics and lend advertisers and media outlets our support. We stand with journalists, reviewers, and editorial writers in hopes that they can continue to express their views and participate in much-needed conversations within our community free of coercion and intimidation.

Completely misses out on all the bullying, intimidation, doxxing, ruining lives and game development (bragging about preventing people, esp women, becoming developers, for example), conflict of interest, payola, incestuous relationships with those "journalists" who probably have a gender studies degree as opposed to anything journalism related...etc, etc. etc. All the people pushing for ethics (i.e., the gamergate side) have had to do is point the advertisers to the tweets and comments from these very same "journalists" that Ophelia wants to side with. It also hypocritically ignores the blatant banning and deleting of any conversation regarding the issue on quite a few sites...but it's all par for the course with these people. What the petition means is "we, the privileged white women and men who think we know best want to control everything and keep promoting our ideology without anyone questioning it or interfering with us". Kinda like Sarkys boy toy - the one whiter than wonder bread - criticizing others as being white and telling people what to do.

For those who don't know, what's going on in Gamergate has been going on for at least SEVEN YEARS.

In 2007 Jim Gerstmann was fired from GameSpot because he gave Kane & Lynch: Dead Men a bad review. I think it was a 6. Which wasn't exactly as bad as some, but it wasn't great obviously. (The average Metacritic is 6.4.)

Edios reacted by pulling a lot of advertising dollars from GameSpot:

"After Gerstmann's savage flogging of Kane & Lynch, a game whose marketing investment on Gamespot alone reached into the hundreds of thousands, Eidos (we are told) pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of future advertising from the site," Penny Arcade reported.

And this report was, effectively, confirmed as all the Kane & Lynch advertising was pulled from GameSpot. Anyway, it was quite a scandle. Other scandles include 'Dorito Gate' where there were paid product placements in video game reviews. There was 'swag gate' when it was found out that the Publishers were dropping serious money and perks onto reviewers including Jennifer Chobot getting written INTO Mass Effect 3 by BioWare.

Forbes has done some decent work on the subject since the video games guy there works for a company that isn't beholden to game-developer advertising dollars. (FWIW, EA spends as much money marketing as they do writing game software.)


http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/20 ... ve-review/

Of course, the real problem isn’t that any one gift or trip will influence a specific journalist, it’s that the culture created by all this chuminess can become itself a systemic problem.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/20 ... the-rails/

Almost a throw-away sentence, that's the problem. They are just too incestuous and chummy.

BTW, another scandle before GamerGate -- the BF3 review scandal:

Recently, it was revealed by Norwegian news site NRK (an English write-up is available at BF3Blog) that Electronic Arts had been manipulating reviews of Battlefield 3 in that region, largely by withholding review copies from sites that had been critical of Battlefield in the past, and in extreme cases, making sites who wanted review copies of the game fill out a question form asking them how much promotion they’ve done of Battlefield, if the reviewer was a Call of Duty fan, and other questions to weed out anyone who might even think a bad score of 8.5 to a game. In short, it was a cynical ploy from a company that’s done everything short of spray graffiti on Activision’s offices in marketing their game.

http://www.gamingbus.com/2011/10/22/gam ... ntil-2012/


Anyway, the point is this crap has been a problem for years. GamerGate has nothing to do with Zoe Quinn's vagina and who she fucked, but how her actions (5 Gusy) is part-and-parcel of the systemic corruption of the Gaming Press.

[Konrad_Cruze]

So I am going to take a wild guess and say it is Cartman.

Wrong. I'm Cartman.

Oh, I didn't know you had Asperger's as well.

I'm lost. Who's trolling who here?

[Tribble]

Didn't "Little Paulie" PZ Myers, tentacle-rape enthusiast write a while back that all good scientists are PoMo?

Yes. Because he doesn't understand post-modernism. Under post-modernism, the Theory of Evolution (the corner stone of developmental biology) has no validity and is an ideology based on subjective 'truths' handed down by the white man and is subject to re-interpretation via 'personal knowledge' and 'beliefs.'

[Cliché Guevara]

PoMo is a Cultural Marxist view of the world which feeds into everything they think and do and identity politics is at the core of it.

While there are superficial similarities, I would argue that their lineage is different enough to be significant. Foucault, for example, who is probably the wellspring of the kind of pomo we're talking about, was not a Marxist at all. If anything, he considered himself a Nietzschean (and Nietzsche was of course as far from a left-wing socialist as one can get).

To oversimplify for the sake of hopeful clarity: Marxists, whether of the traditional or cultural variety, still harbored the basic Enlightenment belief that society could be rationally improved for the better. Nietzsche, Foucault and pomo in general had undermined even that, seeing the Enlightenment as just one more system of power (or, as Foucault put it, power/knowledge), not inherently better or worse than any other. For Foucault, there was no real direction or progress involved as one system challenged and replaced another, hence his infamous celebration of the Iranian revolution, which would have made no sense to a more orthodox Marxist thinker.

An academic friend of mine once summarized it like this to me in an email:

Foucault, with his gnostic paranoia about "discursive practices" enforcing social control through knowledge-as-power (Power/Knowledge, in his graceful formulation) gave academics a post-Marxist rhetorical package complete with hints at political activism and revolution, none of which actually implied any need to rise from one's arm-chair.

Foucault says, "We must think of power without the king." So even when you're not being oppressed you're being oppressed. There's no ruling class as such (so much for Marxism), but we're generally all rather uneasy that somebody or something(s) somewhere is doing bad things to us, systematically. So you need the self-excluding gnostic insight of Foucault to see through it all, magically. Become his disciple.

I've heard that from other sources, too, the idea that Foucault was especially appealing to academics who had become dissatisfied with Marxism because he promoted a stance which had the cool, chic appearance of being dangerous and revolutionary without any of that burdensome political activism.

[Cliché Guevara]

Edward O. Wilson, in his book Consilience, had an excellent summary of postmodernism. You can read it here in PDF form. Starts at the bottom of page 43 in the book. Maybe someone with more patience than me can capture the relevant pages in image form.

[Cliché Guevara]

And yes, the Pit is slower than sloth shit for me lately. Lots of 503 messages.

[Aneris]

Keep in mind that some ideas that often seen as postmodernist are viable and were viable before. There's semiotics and semantics which has been seized by postmodernists, for example. And here is a succinct passage from someone unsuspicious of postmodern views.

For all its directness, classic style remains a pretense, an imposture, a stance. Even scientists, with their commitment to seeing the world as it is, are a bit postmodern. They recognize that it’s hard to know the truth, that the world doesn’t just reveal itself to us, that we understand the world through our theories and constructs, which are not pictures but abstract propositions, and that our ways of understanding the world must constantly be scrutinized for hidden biases. It’s just that good writers don’t flaunt that anxiety in every passage they write; they artfully conceal it for clarity’s sake.

Excellent article, by the way.

[screwtape]

https://www.facebook.com/jianghomeshi/p ... 7063881750

Bah, there's the proper link.

And the plot thickens. I take this to mean he's a favorite son of the SJL, who is now also a victim of "false" sexual allegations? My head is about to explode trying to formulate how this is going to be twisted to fit the SJW narrative. It's Shermer meets Oggie. I just can't even...

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c144/ ... f66d8f.png

I think he is just stirring up Marcotte La Cruise because of the similarity of the name to Eron Gjoni (for those who are easily confused I suppose). And I imagine you know what 'playing lacrosse' means in Quebecois slang?

[John D]

https://www.facebook.com/jianghomeshi/p ... 7063881750

Bah, there's the proper link.

And the plot thickens. I take this to mean he's a favorite son of the SJL, who is now also a victim of "false" sexual allegations? My head is about to explode trying to formulate how this is going to be twisted to fit the SJW narrative. It's Shermer meets Oggie. I just can't even...

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c144/ ... f66d8f.png

Wow! Jian is the most pro-feminist progressive liberal guy on Public Radio (well maybe not more than Democracy Now). It does seem kind of odd that he is a kinky beast. He obviously has a bit of a double life. I don't give a shit about anyone's sex life so I don't think he should get fired for it. Still, if you have ever listened to his show you could tell that his audience would hate the idea of him enjoying a bit of BDSM. He is spoiled meat now. Maybe he needs to do a sex show!

[Service Dog]

Sneering at pro-wrestling is so middlebrow, so philistine.
That's like not watching Fellini movies-- or Charlie Chaplin-- because you 'don't like clowns'.

Get some culture:
[youtube]3_PFJMRn72I[/youtube]

[Konrad_Cruze]

Right guys advice needed. Of late I have been painting an English civil War army. Due to the scale of the project I need a fucking break. I'm going back to warhammer fantasy. I am going to expand my Dark Elves and start a new army. Unfortunately those complete bastards dont seem to be doing anything to the Bretonians which I want to do. My other Idea is Night Goblins. Mainly because I want to play with fanatics again.

I know I will lose with them but Fanatics are so funny and unpredictable I will have a great time losing.

Should I do it?

[Matt Cavanaugh]

I'm just waiting to see how long it will take one of you to get the "¿qué?" connotation.

I don't get it.

Me neither. I don't speak ukrainian.

[Karmakin]

https://www.facebook.com/jianghomeshi/p ... 7063881750

Bah, there's the proper link.

And the plot thickens. I take this to mean he's a favorite son of the SJL, who is now also a victim of "false" sexual allegations? My head is about to explode trying to formulate how this is going to be twisted to fit the SJW narrative. It's Shermer meets Oggie. I just can't even...

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c144/ ... f66d8f.png

Wow! Jian is the most pro-feminist progressive liberal guy on Public Radio (well maybe not more than Democracy Now). It does seem kind of odd that he is a kinky beast. He obviously has a bit of a double life. I don't give a shit about anyone's sex life so I don't think he should get fired for it. Still, if you have ever listened to his show you could tell that his audience would hate the idea of him enjoying a bit of BDSM. He is spoiled meat now. Maybe he needs to do a sex show!

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014 ... tions.html

It's a little more than one's private sex life apparently. Personally I think the multiple allegations are pretty convincing. Also, I don't see it as a "double life" of sorts. Projection is a very real thing, and it looks like he's been projecting his personal misogyny onto men as a whole. Surprise surprise. Not. I mean really. We shouldn't be shocked by this sort of thing anymore.

Also, if you read alllll the way to the bottom, apparently he's got his own little "harassment squad" that comes out against anything people say about him. So it's obvious we need a very real conversation about misogyny in the hipster feminist community, right?

[Karmakin]

Right guys advice needed. Of late I have been painting an English civil War army. Due to the scale of the project I need a fucking break. I'm going back to warhammer fantasy. I am going to expand my Dark Elves and start a new army. Unfortunately those complete bastards dont seem to be doing anything to the Bretonians which I want to do. My other Idea is Night Goblins. Mainly because I want to play with fanatics again.

I know I will lose with them but Fanatics are so funny and unpredictable I will have a great time losing.

Should I do it?

Don't. Games Workshop is worse than FTB.

[Nec_V20]

I'm just waiting to see how long it will take one of you to get the "¿qué?" connotation.

I don't get it.

Me neither. I don't speak ukrainian.

Don't worry Matt, I will reveal it anon.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

Keep in mind that some ideas that often seen as postmodernist are viable and were viable before. There's semiotics and semantics which has been seized by postmodernists, for example. And here is a succinct passage from someone unsuspicious of postmodern views.

For all its directness, classic style remains a pretense, an imposture, a stance. Even scientists, with their commitment to seeing the world as it is, are a bit postmodern. They recognize that it’s hard to know the truth, that the world doesn’t just reveal itself to us, that we understand the world through our theories and constructs, which are not pictures but abstract propositions, and that our ways of understanding the world must constantly be scrutinized for hidden biases. It’s just that good writers don’t flaunt that anxiety in every passage they write; they artfully conceal it for clarity’s sake.

Excellent article, by the way.

Sure. But it's a huge leap from acknowledging that the Bohr Model is not exactly how atoms really are, to claiming that atoms don't really exist.

[jimthepleb]

And yes, the Pit is slower than sloth shit for me lately. Lots of 503 messages.

Yup me too.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

Right guys advice needed. Of late I have been painting an English civil War army. Due to the scale of the project I need a fucking break. I'm going back to warhammer fantasy. I am going to expand my Dark Elves and start a new army. Unfortunately those complete bastards dont seem to be doing anything to the Bretonians which I want to do. My other Idea is Night Goblins. Mainly because I want to play with fanatics again.

I know I will lose with them but Fanatics are so funny and unpredictable I will have a great time losing.

Should I do it?

Not if it interferes with your lifts, brah.

[screwtape]

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014 ... tions.html

It's a little more than one's private sex life apparently. Personally I think the multiple allegations are pretty convincing. Also, I don't see it as a "double life" of sorts. Projection is a very real thing, and it looks like he's been projecting his personal misogyny onto men as a whole. Surprise surprise. Not. I mean really. We shouldn't be shocked by this sort of thing anymore.

Also, if you read alllll the way to the bottom, apparently he's got his own little "harassment squad" that comes out against anything people say about him. So it's obvious we need a very real conversation about misogyny in the hipster feminist community, right?

I had only read the Globe this morning, and came away with the thought that the CBC should have declared it none of their business, but the Star article casts it all in a very different light. Makes "Famous Skeptic" look completely benign.

[Konrad_Cruze]

Right guys advice needed. Of late I have been painting an English civil War army. Due to the scale of the project I need a fucking break. I'm going back to warhammer fantasy. I am going to expand my Dark Elves and start a new army. Unfortunately those complete bastards dont seem to be doing anything to the Bretonians which I want to do. My other Idea is Night Goblins. Mainly because I want to play with fanatics again.

I know I will lose with them but Fanatics are so funny and unpredictable I will have a great time losing.

Should I do it?

Don't. Games Workshop is worse than FTB.

I need a break though. I love the civil war and I love warlord games but......Parliament infantry and Royalist infantry are exactly the fucking same. I need something new for a little while.

Games workshop aint that bad to be honest. The models are good quality. The paints are pretty good. Main problem is price. They are far more expensive than other wargaming companies. 10 Dark Elf bleakswords are £20 warlord do 40 ECW infantry for £22. I don't think you get value for money. I don't think the dark elves are 4x as good.

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Dar ... leakswords
http://store.warlordgames.com/collectio ... miniatures

[Matt Cavanaugh]

Edward O. Wilson, in his book Consilience, had an excellent summary of postmodernism. You can read it here in PDF form. Starts at the bottom of page 43 in the book. Maybe someone with more patience than me can capture the relevant pages in image form.

Brilliant book! Also contains a succinct summary of the scientific method. WIlson is a wonderful writer -- so long as he avoids group selection.

(Cue Steersmann "apropos of ...")

[Konrad_Cruze]

Right guys advice needed. Of late I have been painting an English civil War army. Due to the scale of the project I need a fucking break. I'm going back to warhammer fantasy. I am going to expand my Dark Elves and start a new army. Unfortunately those complete bastards dont seem to be doing anything to the Bretonians which I want to do. My other Idea is Night Goblins. Mainly because I want to play with fanatics again.

I know I will lose with them but Fanatics are so funny and unpredictable I will have a great time losing.

Should I do it?

Not if it interferes with your lifts, brah.

Have you seen a fanatic. That is some serious lifting right there

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[Guestus Aurelius]

Didn't "Little Paulie" PZ Myers, tentacle-rape enthusiast write a while back that all good scientists are PoMo?

Yes. Because he doesn't understand post-modernism. Under post-modernism, the Theory of Evolution (the corner stone of developmental biology) has no validity and is an ideology based on subjective 'truths' handed down by the white man and is subject to re-interpretation via 'personal knowledge' and 'beliefs.'

You're quite right, but—frustratingly—a typical postmodernist would reply that of course they believe in evolution, and of course they believe the Holocaust happened, etc., and you're just not understanding what they really mean when they say that knowledge and truth are ultimately subjective social constructs, because all they really mean is that we can never be 100% sure about anything.

Yes, when faced with a reductio ad absurdum, the typical postmodernist suddenly sounds a lot like a scientist. But look away for a moment and they're back to other ways of knowing and no set of truth claims is better than any other since everything is subjective.

Teasing out a postmodernist's worldview is like trying to grasp a wet bar of soap: you see it clearly right there at arm's length, and you can even reach out and handle it if you're gentle, but as soon as you apply pressure it starts to slip away.

That's the type of postmodernist that worries me—the equivocator who probably doesn't even realize they're equivocating, the educated ignoramus who doesn't know anything about the scientific worldview but is sure they're competent to critique it as naive. I'm not so worried about the bolder (and harder-to-find) postmodernists who will simply say, "Yes, believing in evolution is no more valid than not believing in it, and yes, accepting that the Holocaust happened is no more valid than denying it." I'm not so worried about them because only an idiot would buy what they're selling. But the other type? Pernicious.

[Lsuoma]

https://www.facebook.com/jianghomeshi/p ... 7063881750

Bah, there's the proper link.

And the plot thickens. I take this to mean he's a favorite son of the SJL, who is now also a victim of "false" sexual allegations? My head is about to explode trying to formulate how this is going to be twisted to fit the SJW narrative. It's Shermer meets Oggie. I just can't even...

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c144/ ... f66d8f.png

Wow! Jian is the most pro-feminist progressive liberal guy on Public Radio (well maybe not more than Democracy Now). It does seem kind of odd that he is a kinky beast. He obviously has a bit of a double life. I don't give a shit about anyone's sex life so I don't think he should get fired for it. Still, if you have ever listened to his show you could tell that his audience would hate the idea of him enjoying a bit of BDSM. He is spoiled meat now. Maybe he needs to do a sex show!

Jian Ghomeshi was in a Tronna cand called Moxy Fruvous in the late '90s/early 2000s. They were really great: witty, inventive a quirky. You can listen to aroud 50 or so of their live shows on archive.org. Well worth checking out...

[Random Lurker]

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Games workshop aint that bad to be honest. The models are good quality. The paints are pretty good. Main problem is price. They are far more expensive than other wargaming companies. 10 Dark Elf bleakswords are £20 warlord do 40 ECW infantry for £22. I don't think you get value for money. I don't think the dark elves are 4x as good.

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Dar ... leakswords
http://store.warlordgames.com/collectio ... miniatures

I played Warhammer (and to a lesser extent 40k) off and on for years. What made me stop was not being able to keep up with the constant changes. Seemed like every 3 weeks they'd revise an army's rulebook and conveniently change the models. So they choices were either fork over more cash or find a group of players not hung up on the whole "NOT USING THE CURRENT MODELS!!!" thing.

I agree they're mostly great quality items, but it also puts you on a treadmill if you want to keep playing. For me in the end it wound up being :

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[Nec_V20]

Identity Politics is required to make PoMo work. Without it the axis of oppression fails. PoMo states that logic and reason are inherently flawed and the way to truth is through feelings and identifying the axis of oppression. You therefore also identify the privileged which must be attacked because they are the ONLY cause of that oppression. So unless a person continuously atones for their privilege they are to be shunned and attacked. So silly people like Myers make statements now and again about their wings of privilege. It's childish but they really believe this crap because, like most things, there is an element of truth in it but at a much deeper level of nuance than they can grasp.

PoMo is a Cultural Marxist view of the world which feeds into everything they think and do and identity politics is at the core of it. It is a very simplistic world view which is why it is so attractive to so many people, including old fashion prudes, attention seekers, the mentally brittle and submissive personalities. It is also highly attractive to those who wish to exploit others for their own gain (Zvan) as there are numerous submissives and the rhetoric is vicious enough to keep people in line.

The reasons why they:

1. Lie

2. Shut down and block conversation

3. Often speak with a supercilious air of superiority

4. Are so hateful and have no moral or ethical code when it comes to those they deem enemies

5. Infiltrate and destroy, never build

Is that the only way to achieve their objectives they must attack and destroy everything that does not comply with their wishes no matter what it takes to do so or who gets hurt in the process. They are absolutely certain they are right and feel they have the true knowledge, so they act superior and feel there is no need to have any discussion about it.

It's just another religion. As a religion it is very close to Scientology. If anyone is aware of the basics of Scientology they will know the mindset of the average SJW, including Benson.

It also follows that the SJW form of Feminism is derived from Cultural Marxist principles and owes nothing to the previous forms of feminism including the opinions of many Feminists today. Feminism has itself been hijacked.

With phrases like "Identity Politics" or Post Modernism" I always find that getting a definition or even intelligible description of what they mean by those terms to be like tying to nail jello to a wall (or hanging up mince on a hook). I will honestly admit that I don't have a fucking clue what those terms are meant to mean because there seems to be as many meanings as the amount of people spouting the phrases.

A similar thing holds true for something like "Cultural Marxism". Whenever I hear anyone who calls themselves a "Marxist" and I ask them whether or not they have read "Das Kapital" and when they say, "Yes", I ask again, "Are you sure you have read it?". The reason I do this is because "Das Kapital" comprises of four individual and distinct works. The little pamphlet, "The Communist Manifesto" which was written for a bunch of Jewish tailors in London I read and I comprehended it. With "Das Kapital" whether it be Volume I, Volume II, or Volume III (I didn't even bother about Volume IV), even though I am a native speaker of German I could not make heads nor tails of it.

I will admit that my mind doesn't work that way, and just like creating art, or music, or even axiomatic programming is a closed book to me I might well just not have the prerequisites to look at the works of Marx and do them intellectual justice. Any time however that I have ever spoken to someone who professes to know about "Marxist Theory" about what it actually is, all I get is evasive waffle.

I studied Psychology at Bonn University and the only place that Freud was taught there was in Germanistik. His writings as regards Psychology were a load of crap, but they were nonetheless really well written as an example of German prose.

Don't even get me started on the bullshit of "Supply Side Economics" which I criticised as a load of garbage when I was introduced to it in Political Economy lectures at Glasgow University in 1978. I might not understand Marx but I do know short-term short-sighted lunacy when it is presented to me.

Let me ask you a question, what do you think that the Darwin/Wallace hypothesis on the origin of species has in common with Eugenics? And what I mean by that is both diametrically opposed versions of Eugenics (I wrote about that here: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=422).

The answer is of course ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

Yet I see so-called "debates" between "Darwinists" (like such a thing actually exists) and Creationists, where the "Darwinist" will let the Creationist get away with conflating the two.

The Darwin/Wallace hypothesis involves random replication and non random survival. Eugenics involves NON-RANDOM REPLICATION, in fact it is (for both versions of Eugenics) an interventionary undertaking with a targeted result.

The Darwin/Wallace hypothesis stated that there was no result which was being envisaged but rather that the outcome was the plasticity of the species with regard to the environment.

Thus Eugenics and the Darwin/Wallace hypothesis have no common denominator whatsoever.

Now if something as open and shut as this festers even in "intellectual" debates between opposing sides ("Darwinism" vs. Creationism), then I really do not trust "label" arguments where the antecedents of those arguments is not even remotely as clearly defined as the Darwin/Wallace hypothesis not having anything, in any way shape or form, in common with Eugenics.

[Karmakin]

<...>

Games workshop aint that bad to be honest. The models are good quality. The paints are pretty good. Main problem is price. They are far more expensive than other wargaming companies. 10 Dark Elf bleakswords are £20 warlord do 40 ECW infantry for £22. I don't think you get value for money. I don't think the dark elves are 4x as good.

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Dar ... leakswords
http://store.warlordgames.com/collectio ... miniatures

I played Warhammer (and to a lesser extent 40k) off and on for years. What made me stop was not being able to keep up with the constant changes. Seemed like every 3 weeks they'd revise an army's rulebook and conveniently change the models. So they choices were either fork over more cash or find a group of players not hung up on the whole "NOT USING THE CURRENT MODELS!!!" thing.

I agree they're mostly great quality items, but it also puts you on a treadmill if you want to keep playing. For me in the end it wound up being :

5de8ee8dbfa91577220adcf1f60419b0.jpg

I know that at the LGS I frequent, WH40k interest went south very quickly because of the new rules revisions.

[comhcinc]

Personally I think the multiple allegations are pretty convincing.

If the police were involved and those multiple allegations turned into multiple charges then I would be right with you. As it stands now it's just career destroying rumor and I can't in anyway support that.

[Konrad_Cruze]

<...>

Games workshop aint that bad to be honest. The models are good quality. The paints are pretty good. Main problem is price. They are far more expensive than other wargaming companies. 10 Dark Elf bleakswords are £20 warlord do 40 ECW infantry for £22. I don't think you get value for money. I don't think the dark elves are 4x as good.

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Dar ... leakswords
http://store.warlordgames.com/collectio ... miniatures

I played Warhammer (and to a lesser extent 40k) off and on for years. What made me stop was not being able to keep up with the constant changes. Seemed like every 3 weeks they'd revise an army's rulebook and conveniently change the models. So they choices were either fork over more cash or find a group of players not hung up on the whole "NOT USING THE CURRENT MODELS!!!" thing.

I agree they're mostly great quality items, but it also puts you on a treadmill if you want to keep playing. For me in the end it wound up being :

5de8ee8dbfa91577220adcf1f60419b0.jpg

Aye I know what you mean. For me its the painting so I'm not overly concerned by rule changes. But they are quite annoying. For me the most annoying thing is every time there is a change to the models the price goes up until I don't think its good value. I would still say they are the best models on the market but they are not quite worthy what they cost. I remember when a pack of space marines cost £10 they are now £25. That's £2.50 per model. I painted the full 5th anglo hanavarian brigade from 1815 for just over £100 from essex minitures. Its getting more and more frustrating. I like warhammer, I want to do it but I cant justify the cost>

[Karmakin]

With phrases like "Identity Politics" or Post Modernism" I always find that getting a definition or even intelligible description of what they mean by those terms to be like tying to nail jello to a wall (or hanging up mince on a hook). I will honestly admit that I don't have a fucking clue what those terms are meant to mean because there seems to be as many meanings as the amount of people spouting the phrases.

A similar thing holds true for something like "Cultural Marxism". Whenever I hear anyone who calls themselves a "Marxist" and I ask them whether or not they have read "Das Kapital" and when they say, "Yes", I ask again, "Are you sure you have read it?". The reason I do this is because "Das Kapital" comprises of four individual and distinct works. The little pamphlet, "The Communist Manifesto" which was written for a bunch of Jewish tailors in London I read and I comprehended it. With "Das Kapital" whether it be Volume I, Volume II, or Volume III (I didn't even bother about Volume IV), even though I am a native speaker of German I could not make heads nor tails of it.

I will admit that my mind doesn't work that way, and just like creating art, or music, or even axiomatic programming is a closed book to me I might well just not have the prerequisites to look at the works of Marx and do them intellectual justice. Any time however that I have ever spoken to someone who professes to know about "Marxist Theory" about what it actually is, all I get is evasive waffle.

I studied Psychology at Bonn University and the only place that Freud was taught there was in Germanistik. His writings as regards Psychology were a load of crap, but they were nonetheless really well written as an example of German prose.

Don't even get me started on the bullshit of "Supply Side Economics" which I criticised as a load of garbage when I was introduced to it in Political Economy lectures at Glasgow University in 1978. I might not understand Marx but I do know short-term short-sighted lunacy when it is presented to me.

Let me ask you a question, what do you think that the Darwin/Wallace hypothesis on the origin of species has in common with Eugenics? And what I mean by that is both diametrically opposed versions of Eugenics (I wrote about that here: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=422).

The answer is of course ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

Yet I see so-called "debates" between "Darwinists" (like such a thing actually exists) and Creationists, where the "Darwinist" will let the Creationist get away with conflating the two.

The Darwin/Wallace hypothesis involves random replication and non random survival. Eugenics involves NON-RANDOM REPLICATION, in fact it is (for both versions of Eugenics) an interventionary undertaking with a targeted result.

The Darwin/Wallace hypothesis stated that there was no result which was being envisaged but rather that the outcome was the plasticity of the species with regard to the environment.

Thus Eugenics and the Darwin/Wallace hypothesis have no common denominator whatsoever.

Now if something as open and shut as this festers even in "intellectual" debates between opposing sides ("Darwinism" vs. Creationism), then I really do not trust "label" arguments where the antecedents of those arguments is not even remotely as clearly defined as the Darwin/Wallace hypothesis not having anything, in any way shape or form, in common with Eugenics.

I'm just going to comment on a whole bunch of things in turn.

Re: Identity politics. The conflict here is between identity politics and individualism. That is, is the goal to reach "parity" or is the goal to maximize freedom/choices for individuals. The Identitarian concept, is that it's impossible to avoid group designations and truly look at people as being individuals, and as such we have to ensure (force) even representation to balance that out. The egalitarian/individualistic model says that we can do that, or at the very least we can create systems and structures that do that. And that quite frankly, different people make different choices, and that must be respected, even if that results in a non-even distribution. Actually to go a step further, I (and others) would argue that looking at this from a class-analysis point of view actually serves to reinforce existing gender roles. For example, in terms of the wage gap as an issue, it puts a focus on working lots of hours to get higher raises as being an optimal strategy. The trade-off of working less (and lower pay) but spending more time with friends and family is degraded.

What has to be realized is people have no fucking clue what they're talking about...modern neofeminism isn't Marxist in the slightest. I think the world they envision is one where they are rewarded and other people are punished economically...far from a Marxist ideal. The one thing that came up watching a news show, again talking about the wage gap (as the primary economic driver of gender politics it's not odd for this issue to come up frequently) where the issue was people with different academic attainment were not making the same amount. That is not Marxist. That's something entirely different.

Re: Supply-Side economics, actually, there IS a place for supply-side economics...namely when demand outstrips supply. At that case, finding ways to increase supply can actually build the economy faster. The US had such an economy from say the 50's up to the 70's. So it's not unheard of. Imagine a world where say it was frequent where you went into a business and they were sold out of what you want. In fact, this happened quite frequently. Most of Economics 101 is based around supply-side assumptions.

We live in a very weighted demand side economy. That is, shortages are rare...the shortages are in terms of who can afford said products. What happens to the field of economics...which is the sturdy of the allocation of scarce resources, when resources are less and less scarce? Especially in terms of the service economy and digital goods? That's the question we should be asking.

[comhcinc]

Students spring into opposition after Bill Maher announced as keynote speaker

http://www.dailycal.org/2014/10/26/stud ... e-speaker/

In response to an announcement last week that comedian Bill Maher would speak at UC Berkeley’s fall commencement, an online petition started circulating Thursday that demanded that the campus rescind its invitation.....

My favorite part of the article is this quote.

“(Jon) Stewart and (Stephen) Colbert are critical of religion, too, but Bill Maher has, on several occasions, said to rise up against religious people and religious institutions and take action,” Ahmed said.

[Nec_V20]

Re: Supply-Side economics, actually, there IS a place for supply-side economics...namely when demand outstrips supply. At that case, finding ways to increase supply can actually build the economy faster. The US had such an economy from say the 50's up to the 70's. So it's not unheard of. Imagine a world where say it was frequent where you went into a business and they were sold out of what you want. In fact, this happened quite frequently. Most of Economics 101 is based around supply-side assumptions.

The US from the mid 1940's to the mid 1960's had a quasi monopoly on supply as it was the only "First World" (aside from Canada and Australia) country to come out of WWII essentially unscathed.

American corporations (such as GM) successfully sued the US government for damage inflicted on their property by the bombing of Germany (Opel) that constituted a massive government subsidy of US industry after WWII.

Supply side economics was the hypothesis that, by the increase of productivity and rationalisation of the workforce profitability would be increased. This is true as long as it benefits some, if however EVERYBODY does it then it breaks down catastrophically because in the process you are eliminating the consumer base you depend on to actually - you know - consume.

The writing on the wall for a meltdown of the US economy was written in the Financial times in mid 2005 when it was revealed that net US savings had reached a negative for the first time in history.

The criminality of the banking industry exacerbated this indicator and this is the main reason why the recovery since 2008 has been so painfully slow.

The manufacturing base which was the reason for the success of the 1940's to the 1970's you alluded to has been decimated by the supply-side disciples and now resides almost wholly outside the US - all in the name of "rationalisation" and "cost-effectiveness".

Anyone back then when I was first introduced to the concept in 1978 who could not see something like this coming has to be a complete moron.

[Lsuoma]

Apologies for recent slowness - nasty people slamming the DB with connections.

[Random Lurker]

<...>

Games workshop aint that bad to be honest. The models are good quality. The paints are pretty good. Main problem is price. They are far more expensive than other wargaming companies. 10 Dark Elf bleakswords are £20 warlord do 40 ECW infantry for £22. I don't think you get value for money. I don't think the dark elves are 4x as good.

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Dar ... leakswords
http://store.warlordgames.com/collectio ... miniatures

I played Warhammer (and to a lesser extent 40k) off and on for years. What made me stop was not being able to keep up with the constant changes. Seemed like every 3 weeks they'd revise an army's rulebook and conveniently change the models. So they choices were either fork over more cash or find a group of players not hung up on the whole "NOT USING THE CURRENT MODELS!!!" thing.

I agree they're mostly great quality items, but it also puts you on a treadmill if you want to keep playing. For me in the end it wound up being :

5de8ee8dbfa91577220adcf1f60419b0.jpg

Aye I know what you mean. For me its the painting so I'm not overly concerned by rule changes. But they are quite annoying. For me the most annoying thing is every time there is a change to the models the price goes up until I don't think its good value. I would still say they are the best models on the market but they are not quite worthy what they cost. I remember when a pack of space marines cost £10 they are now £25. That's £2.50 per model. I painted the full 5th anglo hanavarian brigade from 1815 for just over £100 from essex minitures. Its getting more and more frustrating. I like warhammer, I want to do it but I cant justify the cost>

On a whim I popped over to the GW site to see what all has changed for my old standby army, Vampire Counts. Holy shit. Some new "End Times" event, meaning new army books and loads and loads of new models. And pricing has ramped up. For example : http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/The ... -of-Nagash . $822.00 USD for what looks like a 3,000 to 3,500 point army. Army book is $45.50 USD, and a single 20-pack of a core unit (Zombies) is $35.00.

Fuck.
That.

[windy]

Let me ask you a question, what do you think that the Darwin/Wallace hypothesis on the origin of species has in common with Eugenics? And what I mean by that is both diametrically opposed versions of Eugenics (I wrote about that here: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=422).

The answer is of course ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

The same Darwin who devoted the first chapter of Origin of Species to the results of artificial selection? Bit of a strange thing to do if selective breeding had nothing to do with his hypothesis :doh:

The Darwin/Wallace hypothesis involves random replication and non random survival. Eugenics involves NON-RANDOM REPLICATION, in fact it is (for both versions of Eugenics) an interventionary undertaking with a targeted result.

This is confused. Non-random replication (differences in reproductive rates) was part of Darwin's hypothesis from the start, in the form of sexual selection.

http://wallacefund.info/the-1858-darwin-wallace-paper

Besides this natural means of selection, by which those individuals are preserved, whether in their egg, or larval, or mature state, which are best adapted to the place they fill in nature, there is a second agency at work in most unisexual animals, tending to produce the same effect, namely, the struggle of the males for the females. These struggles are generally decided by the law of battle, but in the case of birds, apparently, by the charms of their song, by their beauty or their power of courtship, as in the dancing rock-thrush of Guiana. The most vigorous and healthy males, implying perfect adaptation, must generally gain the victory in their contests. This kind of selection, however, is less rigorous than the other; it does not require the death of the less successful, but gives to them fewer descendants.

The crucial difference between this - or any other evolutionary hypothesis - and eugenics is simply that the former is descriptive, not prescriptive. Trying to deny that they have anything in common usually ends up as protesting too much.

[John D]

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I played Warhammer (and to a lesser extent 40k) off and on for years. What made me stop was not being able to keep up with the constant changes. Seemed like every 3 weeks they'd revise an army's rulebook and conveniently change the models. So they choices were either fork over more cash or find a group of players not hung up on the whole "NOT USING THE CURRENT MODELS!!!" thing.

I agree they're mostly great quality items, but it also puts you on a treadmill if you want to keep playing. For me in the end it wound up being :

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Aye I know what you mean. For me its the painting so I'm not overly concerned by rule changes. But they are quite annoying. For me the most annoying thing is every time there is a change to the models the price goes up until I don't think its good value. I would still say they are the best models on the market but they are not quite worthy what they cost. I remember when a pack of space marines cost £10 they are now £25. That's £2.50 per model. I painted the full 5th anglo hanavarian brigade from 1815 for just over £100 from essex minitures. Its getting more and more frustrating. I like warhammer, I want to do it but I cant justify the cost>

On a whim I popped over to the GW site to see what all has changed for my old standby army, Vampire Counts. Holy shit. Some new "End Times" event, meaning new army books and loads and loads of new models. And pricing has ramped up. For example : http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/The ... -of-Nagash . $822.00 USD for what looks like a 3,000 to 3,500 point army. Army book is $45.50 USD, and a single 20-pack of a core unit (Zombies) is $35.00.

Fuck.
That.

I call them GamesWhoreShop rather than GamesWorkShop. The treadmill of purchasing is an obvious and annoying feature of all their games. If you want to try something different we have a nice little game with rocket ships that are super fun to paint (yes.... this is an obvious plug).
http://shop.hydraminiatures.com/index.p ... 887d9a47fa

[blitzem]

Wow! Jian is the most pro-feminist progressive liberal guy on Public Radio (well maybe not more than Democracy Now). It does seem kind of odd that he is a kinky beast. He obviously has a bit of a double life. I don't give a shit about anyone's sex life so I don't think he should get fired for it. Still, if you have ever listened to his show you could tell that his audience would hate the idea of him enjoying a bit of BDSM. He is spoiled meat now. Maybe he needs to do a sex show!

Jian Ghomeshi was in a Tronna cand called Moxy Fruvous in the late '90s/early 2000s. They were really great: witty, inventive a quirky. You can listen to aroud 50 or so of their live shows on archive.org. Well worth checking out...

Yeah, I am pretty disappointed in all of this. I really enjoyed MF and saw them once in Toronto at some club downtown. Not to mention that I enjoyed Q as he always seemed to ask good questions and really drew the interviewees out. His interview with Robert Plant is a good example of this.

Oh well. Shenanigans at the CBC. What a surprise.

[Matt Cavanaugh]

I'm just waiting to see how long it will take one of you to get the "¿qué?" connotation.

I don't get it.

Don't worry Matt, I will reveal it anon.

That's what worries me.

[Nec_V20]

I'm just waiting to see how long it will take one of you to get the "¿qué?" connotation.

I don't get it.

Don't worry Matt, I will reveal it anon.

That's what worries me.

Matt, there is one thing I can guarantee you, you will like the revelation.

[Guest]

:lol:
That was a fantastic rant and a very kickass first post.
You just fuck right the hell off with that after you grab a pile of links.

http://static1.businessinsider.com/imag ... -links.jpg

Did you keep the receipt when you bought that basket of links. It looks like the rascal sold you a dish of Ebola virus.

[Garlix]

Apparently, it's not the first time that Jian Ghomeshi is hit with allegations of improper behavior.

http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/non-date

[comhcinc]

Don't worry Matt, I will reveal it anon.

That's what worries me.

Matt, there is one thing I can guarantee you, you will like the revelation.

Run Matt, run fast and hard and what ever you do, don't look back!

[comhcinc]

Apparently, it's not the first time that Jian Ghomeshi is hit with allegations of improper behavior.

http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/non-date

There is no named person in that story. If the author wants to name the person then they should. I hate this bullshit where ever I see it.

[tina]

Looks like Latsot has surpassed his previous idiot record judging by Michael's latest.

[deLurch]

My other Idea is Night Goblins. Mainly because I want to play with fanatics again.

I know I will lose with them but Fanatics are so funny and unpredictable I will have a great time losing.

Should I do it?

No. The pit under no circumstances endorses people having fun.

[Badger3k]

<...>

Games workshop aint that bad to be honest. The models are good quality. The paints are pretty good. Main problem is price. They are far more expensive than other wargaming companies. 10 Dark Elf bleakswords are £20 warlord do 40 ECW infantry for £22. I don't think you get value for money. I don't think the dark elves are 4x as good.

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Dar ... leakswords
http://store.warlordgames.com/collectio ... miniatures

I played Warhammer (and to a lesser extent 40k) off and on for years. What made me stop was not being able to keep up with the constant changes. Seemed like every 3 weeks they'd revise an army's rulebook and conveniently change the models. So they choices were either fork over more cash or find a group of players not hung up on the whole "NOT USING THE CURRENT MODELS!!!" thing.

I agree they're mostly great quality items, but it also puts you on a treadmill if you want to keep playing. For me in the end it wound up being :

5de8ee8dbfa91577220adcf1f60419b0.jpg

I blame the Patriarchy! Won't someone think of the women and minorities?

[John D]

Apparently, it's not the first time that Jian Ghomeshi is hit with allegations of improper behavior.

http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/non-date

Haha.... yeah... it's really hard to try to use your looks and youth to be a groupie, and not also have sex with ugly guys. Pretty girlz have it really tough. Afterall... she didn't want to be rude to the asshole prick she just ran from.... I have no sympathy.

The author writes: “Get outta there,” my sister said. I wanted to. Desperately. Running down the stairs had given me a taste of the freedom that could so easily be mine if I just ran outside and never looked back. But I didn’t want to be rude, and I thought it best to leave on good terms.

[bhoytony]

Right guys advice needed. Of late I have been painting an English civil War army. Due to the scale of the project I need a fucking break. I'm going back to warhammer fantasy. I am going to expand my Dark Elves and start a new army. Unfortunately those complete bastards dont seem to be doing anything to the Bretonians which I want to do. My other Idea is Night Goblins. Mainly because I want to play with fanatics again.

I know I will lose with them but Fanatics are so funny and unpredictable I will have a great time losing.

Should I do it?

What the fuck am I doing here?

[deLurch]

Wow! Jian is the most pro-feminist progressive liberal guy on Public Radio (well maybe not more than Democracy Now). It does seem kind of odd that he is a kinky beast. He obviously has a bit of a double life. I don't give a shit about anyone's sex life so I don't think he should get fired for it. Still, if you have ever listened to his show you could tell that his audience would hate the idea of him enjoying a bit of BDSM. He is spoiled meat now. Maybe he needs to do a sex show!

http://i.imgur.com/p9GeTBe.jpg

[Brive1987]

Right guys advice needed. Of late I have been painting an English civil War army. Due to the scale of the project I need a fucking break. I'm going back to warhammer fantasy. I am going to expand my Dark Elves and start a new army. Unfortunately those complete bastards dont seem to be doing anything to the Bretonians which I want to do. My other Idea is Night Goblins. Mainly because I want to play with fanatics again.

I know I will lose with them but Fanatics are so funny and unpredictable I will have a great time losing.

Should I do it?

What the fuck am I doing here?

You have options, beyond repeatedly asking the same rhetorical question.

[another lurker]

Right guys advice needed. Of late I have been painting an English civil War army. Due to the scale of the project I need a fucking break. I'm going back to warhammer fantasy. I am going to expand my Dark Elves and start a new army. Unfortunately those complete bastards dont seem to be doing anything to the Bretonians which I want to do. My other Idea is Night Goblins. Mainly because I want to play with fanatics again.

I know I will lose with them but Fanatics are so funny and unpredictable I will have a great time losing.

Should I do it?

What the fuck am I doing here?

Well, I am going outside right now to uh, chop some wood, and then, yes, lift it.

*gloat*

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

Right guys advice needed. Of late I have been painting an English civil War army. Due to the scale of the project I need a fucking break. I'm going back to warhammer fantasy. I am going to expand my Dark Elves and start a new army. Unfortunately those complete bastards dont seem to be doing anything to the Bretonians which I want to do. My other Idea is Night Goblins. Mainly because I want to play with fanatics again.

I know I will lose with them but Fanatics are so funny and unpredictable I will have a great time losing.

Should I do it?

What the fuck am I doing here?

You have options, beyond repeatedly asking the same rhetorical question.

I'm on Bhoytony's side here. Because fuck you, that's why.

Also:

Anal plug for sale, barely used.

[Nec_V20]

Right guys advice needed. Of late I have been painting an English civil War army. Due to the scale of the project I need a fucking break. I'm going back to warhammer fantasy. I am going to expand my Dark Elves and start a new army. Unfortunately those complete bastards dont seem to be doing anything to the Bretonians which I want to do. My other Idea is Night Goblins. Mainly because I want to play with fanatics again.

I know I will lose with them but Fanatics are so funny and unpredictable I will have a great time losing.

Should I do it?

What the fuck am I doing here?

You have options, beyond repeatedly asking the same rhetorical question.

I'm on Bhoytony's side here. Because fuck you, that's why.

Also:

Anal plug for sale, barely used.

I am reminded of the joke of a trainee nurse who takes a thermometer out of a patient's mouth and after looking at it says to the head nurse, "What does rectal mean?"

[bhoytony]

What the fuck am I doing here?

You have options, beyond repeatedly asking the same rhetorical question.

Yeah, I think I might just spend 24 hours a day seven days a week obsessing over Radford/Stollznow and drawing up elaborate diagrams to illustrate it. I might also try doing important work in real life.