O'Malley

If only I could...

Aaaaaand guess what the first thing in my Facebook feed was? Fuck it, I should just delete Facebook.

If that's true, this whole thing is so fucked up. I'mma thinkin' I'm just going to ignore everything to do with it as best I can from now on.

She had being bullied to the point of suicide coming? People literally whore themselves out all the time; if it comes around and bites them on the ass, sure whatever. But there is a point where people should just stop. Do you actually believe that the punishment for stripping on a webcam should be teased-until-you-die. If a mass murderer gets the death sentence, he had it coming. If a pedophile gets his dick bit off by a six year old boy, he had it coming. Sure Amanda Todd did something dumb and stupid, but did she really have it coming? She wasn't teased-to-the-point-of-never-stripping-again. She wasn't teased-to-the-point-of-redeeming-herself. She was teased to the point of suicide. The perpertrators literally got her to kill herself. They could have ended the harassment. They could have said enough is enough. But they never did, and now some silly young kid is dead. Did Amanda Todd do some dumb-ass shit? Yes. Did she deserve what she recieved? God no. Saying that she got what was coming, that she deserved what she got, is just giving fuckheads free-reign to literally destroy lives. On one hand you have a young slutty girl who made some dumbshit decisions on the internet. On the other hand you have a group of people who literally drove a girl to suicide. Now look where the hate is directed? (Admittingly, this forum is far more moderate than what I've seen in other areas, including Facebook. People thinking that she shouldn't be matryed are within their right. Those saying suicide is a dumb/easy way out are alright depending on how its phrased.) Holy crap that is wild. Though the best I've heard is from a friend in France where a group of seven or so boys were all expelled for having an actual circle-jerk in the play ground. Lulz.

Yeah, it's no doubt not the most common occurence, but it's hardly unbelievable. Sorry, that wasn't meant to be about anyone specifically in this thread. It's just a general feel I get from a lot of this whole Amanda Todd crap, which involves singlehandedly beating down every single bully despite their number or age. Ignoring bullies is a good first strategy, and does work a lot of the time, but not always. The fact that a few people at my old highschool had to move towns because of bullying despite trying to ignore it, depsite telling teachers, and in one case depsite notifying the police shows that sometimes these basic strategies just don't work. In Amanda Todd's case, even moving towns wasn't enough. Some people say they should 'just get over it'. That's also a pretty valid idea. Little primary schoolers who get called 'smelly' should just get over it. I myself 'just got over it' with the help of the prospect of leaving said country town and those people behind forever. To go back to what Gigolo said a while back: Shit like this could work. We should show people that suicide is a stupid way to go about things. But it is being taken too far. If it was simply "Amanda Todd shouldn't have committed suicide, it is dumb and stopped any chance of her life getting better when it surely would have" it would probably help. But a line has to be drawn at some point, if the answer to everyone getting bullied is "get over it" its just going to stop people from wanting to ever speak up and get help. Imagine if you were suffering from depression from being bullied, and you see all these people tearing into Amanda Todd. If you were contemplating suicide, would you go to that person for advice? Would that inspire you to call the Kids Helpline? It would hopefully slap some sense into these people, but I would be more than willing to bet that it would just cement the 'no one understands me' mindset.

The scenario I posted is hardly unbelievable: small, rural Australian school, primarily made up of farm kids and football players, pick on the new gay kid who moved there. The extent of the bullying doesn't warrant explusion, but it is constant and from a large group of people. I agree, everyone needs to find their own way to deal. If carrying weapons at school works for you, go for it. Don't expect it to work for everyone though. A few people feel so trapped that the only way to make it stop is through suicide. That is bad. If the hate directed towards Amanda Todd came across as more of "Suicide is a terrible way out, kids, look at Amanda Todd" than I wouldn't find it as bad, but instead it just seems like "Lol, what a retarded weakling; if I were bullied I would do [fantastic scenario here]". It's completely lacking empathy for a large amount of people who are bullied and do feel helpless.

And Y2K was actually a real problem, so you should be set.

It's not like he was seriously beaten up, just a bit of 'rough housing' you know. Enough to piss a person off, make them feel a bit of pain but not have bruises or scars or anything. This was a school of 250 people. Yes, every fucking person was the best friend of the bully. Okay, that's an exaggeration. There were the 'ferals' which were all the bullied kids and get picked on by pretty much everyone else. It wasn't some large school where you could just ignore them, the designated area for Year 8 or 9 at lunch/recess was a single bench. This sorta crap would be maybe a week on in-school suspension. Assignments would just be done normally, if it was an in class test they'd do it some other time. Making much harsher rules against bullies would either 1) stop the problem as much 2) Make the bullies and his friends even more pissed and they would start harassing you outside of school hours. Again, small country town where most kids are now years on still working at the killing centre and playing football. It was a football town where the 'cool' kids were the bullies. Seriously, in my Year 10 class of 30 or so people, he would have instantly have been alienated from all the girls except for two (one who was sent home one time for smelling so bad; and the other was the sort of girl who got pregnant, needed an abortion and tried to kill herself) and all the guys except for three of us. One being me, who didn't really want to fall down the social ladder from "Oh, that's O'Malley, lets ignore him" to "Lulz, lets steal all of O'Malleys shit and throw it on the roof!" I don't know, American school are most likely different, but in a rural Australian school there was no simple solution to bullying. You couldn't just tell the school, you couldn't just tell the police (which one guy in Year 7 did and ended up having to move towns), you can't ignore them, chances are if you're getting picked on in the first place you're not strong enough to fight back. On the original topic, none of this is meant to defend Amanda Todd, I'm just saying that bullying can be a very real problem.

Oh noes! The boys get a few days of in-school detention and you'll never make friend at highschool for the next five years. There is no simple solution to bullying. But killing yourself or killing other classmates with a shotgun are probably the worst solutions to try. I'm getting sick of Anonymous and the like harassing people in stupid little hypocritical vendettas. Sure they might have done some good, but they've done plenty more fucked up things.

At the school I went to a similar thing happened to a kid... but he was labelled a loon, ostracised and picked on much harder by everyone else in the school. We also had a gay kid who was beat up so much he had to leave town; and don't think that some weedy little gay fourteen year old can 'fight back' against half a football team three years older than him. There is way too much emphasis on cyber-bullying in my opinion. You can delete that, you can screencap it and show it to parents/teachers/police, you can flat out ignore it just by clicking 'exit', you can easily defuse situations by posting something like "lulz" even if in reality it really hurt your feelings. None of that crap can be done in real life. Most of the cyber bullying I see is between people who are friends on facebook. Why not just unfriend them and never have to deal with it again? "Because they'll shit talk behind my back!" Who the fuck cares if they bitch behind your back; having it said to your face as well isn't going to make it magically disappear.

Annoying people by doorknocking for Heart Foundation and Red Cross. But instead of making me feel or warm and fuzzy on the inside it made me feel awkward, embarrassed and berated.

I'm not sure, but isn't it illegal, at least in some countries? I'm pretty sure taking pictures of people at the beach is iffy. I know in Australia there was a big push for making sure mobile phones had loud, audible camera 'click' noises so you couldn't subtly take pictures. Stuff like that would probably infringe US liberties or some shit though.

So all weapons with +damage are pretty much insta-kill then? Bit of shame in my opinion, but still very lulz-worthy.

Quick question, is health multiplied to? If not, doesn't everyone just die straight away?

Yeah, that was meant to be an absolute extreme which by definition doesn't really fit, so hence this bit: Let's just say, for the sake of argument, PornHub got a substantial amount of publicity and ad revenue from this campaign. If you, as an organisation, are opposed to porn, you wouldn't want to endorse such a thing. Because it is helping the porn industry if you accept their money. Don't think about it in terms of relative gains, just think absolutely. Sure you get money, but they also get a pro-porn endorsement. You don't want that. Even if the campaign came out to be a net-loss for PornHub, it still may portray a poor image of the charity. If the US government and al-Qaeda got together to pick up litter at Ground Zero, they're actually doing a nice, good thing. Doesn't mean its not widely inappropriate. Sure in a perfectly logical world, people might be fine with it. But our world has a shit tonne of emotion in it, and whether we like it or not, you need to factor that stuff into decisions. I personally think they should have just accepted the money. But if they found it highly insensitive or from an immoral source, they should be able to refuse it without people jumping down their throats.

The problem is, by accepting the money, you are more or less saying what he did was fine and can continue doing that. It is very hard to take the money but still denounce the methods of making money without appearing hypocritical. Just to take things to an absolute extreme, say in your local neo-Nazi Walmart you could buy some fresh Jew-meat for a nice low $5/kg. The Jew is already dead, why not buy and eat it? By doing so your just creating a market for more Jew-meat to be butchered up. If the charity had accepted the money from PornHub, it can then go "hey, this worked- we got some good publicity and ad revenue" and go and do it again. If it is something you don't want to happen again you shouldn't condone it initially. I also imagine if PornHub had promised the proceeds to go to charity they wouldn't be able to keep them? I'm not sure about how legal shit like that works though. I'm sort of surprised PornHub didn't talk about this to the charity in the first place though, and see their views on the matter. But anyway, I'm sure some other cancer charity would be more than willing to accept the cash.

What if Hitler got the money by using Jewish forced-labour, and by accepting the money you are thus condoning his behaviour? I'm not saying they shouldn't have accepted the money, but I can kind of see how a female-centric charity doesn't want to accept money from a business they view as more-or-less objectifying and exploiting women. PornHub should just donate it to another charity.

It's the (sometimes horrific) the animals live through when farmed that many vegetarians are against. As a kid from rural Australia I can assure you that some pretty cruel things are done to animals. I have no problem with eating meat (I do all the time), but I also understand where vegetarians are coming from. As long as they don't get all self-righteous and preachy about it, I say good on them for supporting a cause.

North Korea is completely Orwellian. Back in the 90s when it was really bad (kids were literally starving to death in classrooms), people would cross the border to China to find food and would realise that the dog food in China was better than what they had back home. Still, many of them would have returned home to their glorious nation. Recently there were 'protests' by people about the poor conditions, but they were merely trying to alert their magnificent leader so he could fix them. No calls for regime change, no calls for reforms or anything. North Korea is a pretty sad story. I mean, Russia went from Feudalism to Industrialisation through the massive cost of human life. China had a similar story. Cambodia went from an alright nation to feudalism under the Khmer Regime (they wanted to get rid of everything 'new', from city workers to teachers.) Africa has pretty much already been fucked. North Korea was actually going well though. It had factories. It had cinemas. It was on the same path as South Korea. Then it was completely ripped from development and plunged back into the dark ages. I know of one story of a 27 or so year old school teacher who didn't know where babies came from. The only thing that seems to really compare to North Korea in my mind is maybe Afghanistan after the Taliban got into power- but even they weren't mass starving to death.

Hasn't he heard of Glasnost!? What about Abertura!? Today women wear pants, tomorrow they'll want a liberal democracy!

We don't have a general politics thread, and this didn't seem deserving of its own topic, so I'll just post it here: World of Warcraft hobby sparks US political row Pretty much a democrat woman vying for the senate is being slandered for living a 'bizarre double life' through playing World of Warcraft. I know republicans have a stereotype about them about being boring old white males who are out of touch with 'this' generation, but they don't need to try and reaffirm that stereotype as much as possible. What, some 60 million people have played WoW, and tens of millions more play video games. It's hardly a fringe demographic nowadays.

It really has come along way since Game Maker 5, especially the price tag. :O

DualJay just gets weirder and weirder with each passing day. And hey, I'm not the one who wrote about the masturbation chair. Okay maybe I am. Um. Okay. I'm not the one who initially wrote about masturbation chairs. I just spread the word by blogging about z-grade quality erotic novels.

Gungame is a mod, usually played in very simple 'arena' style maps. Instead of purchasing weapons and completing objectives, you are given a weapon. With each kill you get a new weapon. Generally, you start with 'good' weapons like the AWP and machine guns and work your way down to pistols, then the HE grenade and eventually the knife. Once someone gets a knife kill, they win and the match is over. Most gun game servers have respawns on, so its a very general deathmatch. But even those without, the rounds are very quick and there is very little pressure on actually trying to win. Because its so casual you won't have a competitive tryhard berate you over the internet for failing to defuse the bomb, for example. I found gungame good because even if you suck at the game, you won't spend the majority of your time playing waiting to respawn. It also lets you learn the recoil of each weapon and find one you like. It also greatly improves your aim and reflexes if your not use to playing FPSs. In a few hours between it and offline bot matches you're pretty much set to play online. You were enticed by my sexy, sexy blog? Who doesn't want to read about smexy masturbation chairs?

Rammite, are you going off 1.6 values? I think they're slightly different. CS:S does have pistol being same as knife I think. The Scout sniper rifle is still the fastest however (not in CS:GO). I'm also pretty sure Source doesn't have knife head hitboxes. I could easily be wrong though. As a basic reference, the standard weapons all competitive players use are the M4, AK, AWP and Deagle. Perhaps the mp5 if money is tight. The M4 and AK are considered the most well rounded weapons for their price, and so are usually the best to go with. The AK is a one hit kill on headshots regardless of armour or helmet. Silencers do not remove you from the radar as far as I can remember (Haven't played Source in a while, been jumping between 1.6 and CS:GO). A silenced M4 has slightly different recoil to an unsilenced one. If I remember correctly, the first few shots are more accurate but spraying is less accurate with the silencer on. I generally find myself more succesful with the silencer, but I think it largely comes down to preference. The Deagle is the go-to pistol, being a one hit kill on headshots regardless of helmet/kevlar. The AWP is a one hit kill anywhere on the body except for the legs. It is often considered OP in pubs, but balances itself out at higher levels of play. Despite me just mentioning three one-hit-kill weapons, I would suggest always buying kevlar/helmet if you can afford it. You will go down fast without it. Um, other things to remember... Recoil is quite hard and there is lots of it. It is, however, possible to master and is rather predictable. Trying to learn the recoil is vital to become decent at the game. Remember to use your grenades. Smokes at a couple hundred dollars are a very hard counter to the very expensive awp, making it a very cost effective investment. Becareful with flashbangs not to flash your own team. I always found HE grenades in source pretty useless, but having one there just in case can be very useful. Wallbanging/Spamming. In CS:S you can shoot through some surfaces. This is a lot lower than what you can shoot through in 1.6 and even GO, but knowing what you can shoot through can be very useful. Maybe play some Gungame/Deathmatch servers to begin with. Not only does it give you many weapons to get the feel of without the worry of money, it is also a lot less daunting due to respawn. Being a complete newbie, being the last one on your team and having 11 other people watch your every move can be rather daunting.