John Caveson

Caved and got a nintendo switch.
 
Now to think of which games to get....

Today's article is from Medic, and discusses the counter triangles (and more advanced rock-paper-scissors relationships) in Team Fortress 2!

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you're fucked bro but hope the battle is well fought
 

fantastic haul this year.

No, really. What in the shit.

what in the shit

This week’s SPUF of Legend is a lecture I gave at school about the development, gameplay, and legacy of Team Fortress Classic!

Don't mind him, Caveson. If you want to be in a polygamous relationship with several anime-themed Youtube personas, that's your business.

Thank God, that stupid Mozilla dinosaur thing looking at the map and scratching his head was starting to piss me off.

Happy new year all of you
 
No matter what you're doing witb your life, whether you're bettering the world squeezing moisture off leaves to feed starving African children or waking up to play videogames all day, just make sure you're happy to wake up every morning
 
Even if this forum is dead I wish you all the best and I mean it

Managed it before the new year!

Eh, someone's gotta support our local stores. Especially this time of year.

I think that's what makes Negan an interesting character, though. He truly believes that his actions are justified because he's rebuilding civilization, and he believes in certain standards that need to be upheld, while not being able to recognize how his abuse his power and sadism are also ruining what he's trying to accomplish. 
 
He claims to only kill was a means of controlling people through fear, and he enforces a "kill as few people as you can" rule with his underlings, but he clearly enjoys killing. He strictly enforces a "no rape" rule, but he has multiple wives that are arguably forced into a relationship with him because of the power dynamics of their society.  He's deeply fucked, but he's also managed to get results and create one of the most well organized, well protected societies we see on TWD. In a lot of ways his goals are the same as Rick's, which makes him a little more interesting than some tactlessly brutal nutjob like the Governor.

I don't know why it took me so long to do this...
 

"We vote red, you vote blue" is missing crucial context. "My family votes red even though we're in a solid blue state on the west coast, while your family votes blue in a solid red state on the east" is not saying "We vote red (because we are better), you vote blue (because you are worse)" it's simply going for the "we're both strangers/outcasts" theme, especially because the very next line is "A strange coincidence we have". If what you say is true and he is saying "we vote red because we're better and you vote blue because you're worse" then what the hell is the coincidence he mentions?

This type of discussion is, incidentally, why shitposts by people with anime avatars unironically have a greater rhetorical power in the realm of politics than actual discussion of the issues.

There's not enough common ground between people for them to come to any meaningful sort of consensus, and even if there were most people (even most intelligent people) aren't moved by dialectic argument anyway (as even Aristotle observed over 2000 years ago).

I'm disappointed, reading the responses I thought Cave's comment was going to be more like "If you make less than $100,000 per annum you should be thrown in the fucking electroshock chamber" or "I bottle the tears of poorfags and drink them with my caviar-encased filet mignon" instead of the extremely mild-mannered (and lame) "Most people can escape poverty if they really try and make good decisions, although some of course never can and I feel sympathy for those people." You can argue that he's clinging on to a relic of the past and that things have changed (which to a certain extent is true) but damn he's basically just being a well-meaning dad. And at any rate "You can escape poverty if you try" is monumentally better life advice than "Give up, you'll never make it."

Personally, I think that the current political framework of "liberty and equality" as opposed to "authority and duty" naturally leads to a form of ingrained sociopathy.  The only question is which form it takes.  More specifically, liberty and equality are incoherent notions on a grand political scale; absent an anarchy a government must always take some action which restricts someone's liberty (and even in an anarchy powerful thugs can do much the same thing), and perfect equality is neither obtainable nor desirable.  But if you have those goals as your basis for your political thought you can't admit this, and thus must pretend that things which would seem to be unliberal or unequal actually are liberal and equal.
 
Individuals will resolve the paradox by making unprincipled exceptions, but they will do so in different places.  And when people who have made disagreeing unprincipled exceptions encounter each other, they will not be able to interact beyond calling the other a monster or an asshole.  You can't have a pleasant conversation where you reason through positions that have buried logical inconsistencies, after all.

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