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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Joe Molotov on July 28, 2019, 03:13:51 PM

Title: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 28, 2019, 03:13:51 PM
Where did we screw things up so bad that we've ended up where we are now?

Cast your vote and provide reasoning ITT

Personally, I think we never should have come down out of the trees.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: CatsCatsCats on July 28, 2019, 03:15:13 PM
Never should have left the ocean

Conscious thought also a great folly
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: team filler on July 28, 2019, 03:20:26 PM
never should have banned etiolate
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: HardcoreRetro on July 28, 2019, 03:23:42 PM
Better to just kill yourself. And stream it for me to laugh at.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 28, 2019, 03:24:33 PM
Better to just kill yourself. And stream it for me to laugh at.

That's not very nice.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on July 28, 2019, 03:26:41 PM
I shit my self in Kindergarten.  Its all been downhill since then. 
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on July 28, 2019, 03:28:32 PM
O if you mean less personal, I think we went wrong when we normalized regicide. 
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: toku on July 28, 2019, 03:35:21 PM
The second man began to think he was separate from nature. 
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Nintex on July 28, 2019, 03:38:15 PM
Woodrow Wilson
There was a point when Germany and France were both at the end of their wits and ready to come to terms when the US stepped in and prolonged the war.
Which caused such a shift in the geopolitical balance on so many fronts that we're still dealing with the consequences of that decision today.

Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: team filler on July 28, 2019, 03:53:34 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/IkgBgWP.jpg)
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Dickie Dee on July 28, 2019, 03:53:44 PM
Thundercats was just a stalking horse for furrydom.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Oblivion on July 28, 2019, 04:00:59 PM
Woodrow Wilson
There was a point when Germany and France were both at the end of their wits and ready to come to terms when the US stepped in and prolonged the war.
Which caused such a shift in the geopolitical balance on so many fronts that we're still dealing with the consequences of that decision today.

my vote goes to lincoln, personally
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: agrajag on July 28, 2019, 04:01:53 PM
I shit my self in Kindergarten.  Its all been downhill since then.

I peed myself in elementary school. We had an asshole teacher that wouldn't let us go to use the restroom during class.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: headwalk on July 28, 2019, 04:10:16 PM
i do occasionally wonder if the entire baseline of modern civil discouse would be approximately twice as nuanced if twitter had doubled its character count from the start.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Nintex on July 28, 2019, 04:22:49 PM
Woodrow Wilson
There was a point when Germany and France were both at the end of their wits and ready to come to terms when the US stepped in and prolonged the war.
Which caused such a shift in the geopolitical balance on so many fronts that we're still dealing with the consequences of that decision today.

Have the opinion that preserving Nazi Germany was a good idea, brehs.  :doge
One could argue that one of the consequences of the US joining the European war in WW1 was the creation of Nazi Germany.
The US not joining that war might've prevented Nazi Germany from ever existing. It also would've prevented the UK and France to insist on Russia staying in the war (and Wilson paying the Russians to stay in the war)
thus the October Revolution which brought Lenin to power would've never happened.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: BisMarckie on July 28, 2019, 04:30:17 PM
Woodrow Wilson
There was a point when Germany and France were both at the end of their wits and ready to come to terms when the US stepped in and prolonged the war.
Which caused such a shift in the geopolitical balance on so many fronts that we're still dealing with the consequences of that decision today.

Have the opinion that preserving Nazi Germany was a good idea, brehs.  :doge

For the first time ever Nintex is kinda right in a sense (are these enough qualifiers?) Without the Treaty of Versailles Hitler probably wouldn‘t have risen to power.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: team filler on July 28, 2019, 04:34:13 PM
 :rejoice
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Kara on July 28, 2019, 04:35:02 PM
O if you mean less personal, I think we went wrong when we normalized regicide.

Everyone is playing Regicide in Warhammer 40K stories, that's true, but it's just the game of chess with some mild changes so that they can exercise intellectual property claims on it.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: BisMarckie on July 28, 2019, 04:35:42 PM
The obvious answer to the thread is when Jeff Gerstmann killed Franz Ferdinand of Austria btw.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on July 28, 2019, 04:43:13 PM
Nah, WW1 was ultimately a good thing. 
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: BisMarckie on July 28, 2019, 04:48:32 PM
Nah, WW1 was ultimately a good thing.

Second Polish Republic :rejoice
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Kara on July 28, 2019, 04:48:33 PM
I don't know about y'all, but I find it hard to believe that the state that did Polenausweisungen or the Herero and Nama genocides could have become fascist without the Treaty of Versailles or their dumb ass central bank paying off the damages contained therein by debasing their currency (literally the "it's free real estate" meme).
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: BisMarckie on July 28, 2019, 04:51:56 PM
I don't know about y'all, but I find it hard to believe that the state that did Polenausweisungen or the Herero and Nama genocides could have become fascist without the Treaty of Versailles or their dumb ass central bank paying off the damages contained therein by debasing their currency (literally the "it's free real estate" meme).

It would have had a Prussian monarchic tint though. :hmph
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: BisMarckie on July 28, 2019, 04:55:26 PM
Debasing the currency also had very tangible impact on the population, I would have never thought that you were such a structuralist :wag
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: EightBitNate on July 28, 2019, 05:07:32 PM
It was right around the time Burger King changed their chicken tenders
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Steve Contra on July 28, 2019, 05:48:09 PM
Fiat currency
When sasha grey quit porn
That scream parody the wayans brother did
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 28, 2019, 06:28:43 PM
It was right around the time Burger King changed their chicken tenders

They have tacos now though, so who's to say whether it was right or wrong?
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: mormapope on July 28, 2019, 06:30:08 PM
Thinking about living, existence, purpose, the main driving force for every living organism, intelligent or otherwise, is to live and survive. Bears, horses, dogs, once developed and born, don't choose death outright. Survival is ingrained in living organisms, and that to me is the greatest mystery. Why is survival an automatic function in living organisms.

The best answer to me, is existence as we know it, our universe, is some sort of simulation with that being a baseline attribute. We are a simulation created to solve problems, provide data for experiments or inquiries, all for the benefit for the creatures running the simulation.

Right or wrong is out of our control, we simply exist in the simulation. Its extra fun to think if our simulation doesn't have an afterlife, simply due to laziness or the lack of effort put in.

 :neogaf
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Uncle on July 28, 2019, 06:44:03 PM
the main problem was letting Rian Johnson both write and direct
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Nintex on July 28, 2019, 06:50:03 PM
Yeah, it's kinda weird how all humans are born pre-programmed in some way.
There are some attributes that all humans have or nearly all life on the planet has.

I have this idea that in the past this simulation was controlled in some way (by Pharaoh's in pyramids, gods or the arc of the covenant or whatever) and the beings that created the simulation have since gone extinct and this 'eco system' has gone rogue for millennia.
If you look at how fairly easy it is to build your own confined eco system, with a box, some plants and insects; it almost becomes crazy not to think we live on some sort of artificially created biological cycle.

The fact that everything runs on measurable data such as time is further evidence of this theory.

Plus humans are the most versatile and adaptable of all species. If you were in need for some sort of 'worker' in your simulation you would likely end up with a design much like a human.
The fact that we want to model our robots after ourselves again underlines this.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: toku on July 28, 2019, 07:47:10 PM
Hey Nintex, you ever try DMT?
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Atramental on July 28, 2019, 07:55:34 PM
Experienced pyschonauts have told me that they have seen the all seeing eye of “god” and it has very worried look when it sees our dimension.

But it doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things if we die off because there’s countless other civilizations in other dimensions that will get it right.

Probably not us though because our scientific know how evolved faster than our empathy.  :doge
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Tasty on July 28, 2019, 07:57:34 PM
Everything started sucking when Segata left.

But at least magoose got his gamergate thread :mike
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: nudemacusers on July 28, 2019, 08:02:24 PM
Fiat currency
When sasha grey quit porn
That scream parody the wayans brother did
Nail in the coffin for our current reality was this:
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ3NzAyMDUyOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDMzMDM5OA@@._V1_.jpg)

Gonna need some dark matter to step up and crush our baryonic existence into nothing
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: ToxicAdam on July 28, 2019, 09:38:06 PM
You’ll get a good laugh in 20 years when someone is reflecting on this time as “the good old days”. It never ends, this carousel we are on.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: toku on July 28, 2019, 09:49:06 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/GaNViEx.jpg)
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Tasty on July 28, 2019, 09:50:02 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/GaNViEx.jpg)

I was going to say: probably when Cain killed Abel. I mean like, Adam and Eve fucked up pretty bad, but at least it weren't murder.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on July 28, 2019, 10:18:46 PM
Your Dad not wearing a condom
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Tasty on July 28, 2019, 10:27:52 PM
That scream parody the wayans brother did
Scary Movie 1-4 were all good

4 was not good, but passable I suppose.

1-3 are solid, especially 2 and 3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJEKTFg8PM
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: eleuin on July 28, 2019, 10:38:34 PM
When Betty Crocker changed the recipe of the Scooby-Doo Fruit Flavoured Snacks  :'(
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Kara on July 28, 2019, 10:46:03 PM
Debasing the currency also had very tangible impact on the population, I would have never thought that you were such a structuralist :wag

*Economics 101 documentary narrator voice* 50,000,000,000,000 Papiermark notes can be exchanged for goods and services.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: team filler on July 28, 2019, 11:23:14 PM
Experienced pyschonauts have told me that they have seen the all seeing eye of “god” and it has very worried look when it sees our dimension.

But it doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things if we die off because there’s countless other civilizations in other dimensions that will get it right.

Probably not us though because our scientific know how evolved faster than our empathy.  :doge
need more of this stuff.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on July 29, 2019, 07:26:51 AM
It's the not about where you from it's about where you at.

Let's look what we can do better going forward instead of wallowing on mistakes of the past like giving Belgium independence.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 29, 2019, 09:25:40 AM
Well, I don't wanna blame it all on 9/11, but it probably didn't help.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Kara on July 29, 2019, 11:29:08 AM
It's the not about where you from it's about where you at.

Let's look what we can do better going forward instead of wallowing on mistakes of the past like giving Belgium independence.

Belgium: We need to be a separate country partly because we chafe under the yoke of Protestant oppression.

Also Belgium: We're going to invite a Protestant to be our king.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: BisMarckie on July 29, 2019, 11:32:54 AM
Not a lot of potential catholic kings available on the market those days. I am pretty sure they weren‘t a big fan of getting another Spanish ruler as well.

And let‘s be honest: Nobody likes the Habsburgs.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Kara on July 29, 2019, 11:59:43 AM
If you're telling me that the French Revolutionary Wars wiped out every inbred failson in the Bavarian nobility then I guess critical support for liberalism.

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Listen, strange taxpaying men over the age of 25 lyin' in Palais de la Nations distributin' popular monarchies is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical minority-rule ceremony!
[close]
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on July 29, 2019, 12:04:05 PM
Somedays all I can think about is how much better the world would be now if Philip V had not been made to renounce his succession to the French throne.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 29, 2019, 12:14:00 PM
It's the not about where you from it's about where you at.

Let's look what we can do better going forward instead of wallowing on mistakes of the past like giving Belgium independence.

Belgium: We need to be a separate country partly because we chafe under the yoke of Protestant oppression.

Also Belgium: We're going to invite a Protestant to be our king.

Both-siderism :maf
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Kara on July 29, 2019, 12:18:16 PM
Somedays all I can think about is how much better the world would be now if Philip V had not been made to renounce his succession to the French throne.

You would be a Legitimist.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Kara on July 29, 2019, 02:39:01 PM
Thread is pretty cac, been thinking of ones from actually relevant parts of the world.

-The assassination of Uthman by the coward Robert Ford
-The Battle of Karbala
-The success of the Abbasid Revolution

If this seems incoherently contradictory, I also studied Islamics in university. :smug

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Umayyads :donot :donot :donot
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Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on July 29, 2019, 02:45:05 PM
I don't know what those are?  You talking 40k again?
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: BisMarckie on July 29, 2019, 02:53:20 PM
A good candidate is the Constantinian shift.
Abrahamic religions :donot


#Julianwasright

Banking on those rare PD likes :smug
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Kara on July 29, 2019, 03:09:18 PM
I don't know what those are?  You talking 40k again?

"Slaughter Koorland: A Modern Day Abu Muslim Abd al-Rahman ibn Muslim al-Khurasani?" was my thesis.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: BisMarckie on July 29, 2019, 03:25:56 PM
If you're telling me that the French Revolutionary Wars wiped out every inbred failson in the Bavarian nobility then I guess critical support for liberalism.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Listen, strange taxpaying men over the age of 25 lyin' in Palais de la Nations distributin' popular monarchies is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical minority-rule ceremony!
[close]

The Bavarian Wittelsbach line died out in the late 18th century. I doubt they wanted an impostor propped up by Napoleon.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Kara on July 29, 2019, 04:01:56 PM
One of the early candidates was Napoleon's stepson. :rage
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: BisMarckie on July 29, 2019, 04:05:54 PM
I don‘t know how much you know about the Palatinate (I‘m an expert) but having a king from basically Germany‘s Arkansas would destroy any legitimacy of the Belgian state immediately.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: BisMarckie on July 29, 2019, 04:09:51 PM
Deep cut against Bill Clinton. :whew
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: kingv on July 29, 2019, 04:21:00 PM
Your Dad not wearing a condom

Makes me think there is mileage in a back to the future 4 when Marty goes back in time and pokes holes in his dads condom.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on July 29, 2019, 04:26:23 PM
I don't know what those are?  You talking 40k again?

"Slaughter Koorland: A Modern Day Abu Muslim Abd al-Rahman ibn Muslim al-Khurasani?" was my thesis.

Your thesis in tax accounting school? 
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Occam on July 29, 2019, 04:33:18 PM
When our level of technology surpassed our intellectual evolution.

Humans are simply too stupid to handle anything more than stone age tools without destroying the planet.

Most of us stupid fucks still believe in the Easter Bunny. Of course nothing that actually matters gets done.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: BisMarckie on July 29, 2019, 04:40:39 PM
FACT CHECK: The Easter Bunny was mentioned by Aurelius Ambrosius as a symbol of resurrection, a man far smarter than everyone here. :hmph
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Raist on July 29, 2019, 04:47:31 PM
Millenials.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Kara on July 29, 2019, 04:48:23 PM
I don‘t know how much you know about the Palatinate (I‘m an expert) but having a king from basically Germany‘s Arkansas would destroy any legitimacy of the Belgian state immediately.

Somehow I don't think legitimacy was on the mind of a constituent assembly elected by less than 5% of the population whose candidates for king had to be approved by foreign powers. :doge
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Kara on July 29, 2019, 04:51:07 PM
There's a luxury condo development in Irvine, California on Palatine street and I always make Germanic state jokes when I go by. America :usacry.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on July 30, 2019, 12:46:48 AM
Quote
I was just thinking about how multicellular organisms were a mistake. Societies of bacteria are perfectly capable of cooperating and thriving without enslaving themselves to a tyrannical "organism" regime ruled by a clueless decadent neural caste. I don't agree with all of its methods but cancer makes some good points imo

:drudge
IMPORTANT UPDATE
:drudge

While randomly reading some ecology related Wikipedia articles I ran across this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_hypothesis

Quote
The Medea hypothesis is a term coined by paleontologist Peter Ward[1] for the anti-Gaian hypothesis that multicellular life, understood as a superorganism, is suicidal. In this view, microbial-triggered mass extinctions are attempts to return the Earth to the microbial-dominated state it has been for most of its history.[2][3][4] The metaphor refers to the mythological Medea (representing the Earth), who kills her own children (multicellular life).
Past "suicide attempts" include:

Methane poisoning, 3.5 billion years ago

The oxygen catastrophe, 2.45 billion years ago

Snowball Earth, twice, 2.4-2.1 billion years ago and 790–630 million years ago

At least five putative hydrogen sulfide-induced mass extinctions, such as the Great Dying, 252.28 million years ago
The list does not include the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, since this was, at least partially, externally induced by a meteor impact.
Peter Ward also believes that the current man-made climate change and extinction event may also be considered to be the most recent Medean event, due to them both being caused by humans, concluding that Medean events are not necessarily caused by microbes, but also by intelligent life as well. He also believes that the final mass extinction of complex life, roughly about 500 million years in the future, will also be considered as a Medean event as well, as plant life that still exist by then will be forced to adapt to a warming and expanding Sun, causing them to remove even more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (which in turn will have already be due to the increasing heat from the Sun gradually speeding up the weathering process that removes them from the atmosphere), and ultimately accelerating the complete extinction of complex life by making carbon dioxide levels drop down to just 10 ppm, below which plants can no longer survive, much faster and sooner than anticipated.

Looks like there's a good chance our planet's biosphere will finally head back in the right direction. It's nice to see there are still some people with a positive vision of the future.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: BIONIC on July 30, 2019, 01:46:10 AM
There's a luxury condo development in Irvine, California on Palatine street and I always make Germanic state jokes when I go by. America :usacry.

The first house I lived in until I was 5?

On Palatine Ave.

Don't stay safe.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on August 08, 2019, 06:12:45 PM
Quote
I was just thinking about how multicellular organisms were a mistake. Societies of bacteria are perfectly capable of cooperating and thriving without enslaving themselves to a tyrannical "organism" regime ruled by a clueless decadent neural caste. I don't agree with all of its methods but cancer makes some good points imo

:drudge
IMPORTANT UPDATE
:drudge

While randomly reading some ecology related Wikipedia articles I ran across this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_hypothesis

Quote
The Medea hypothesis is a term coined by paleontologist Peter Ward[1] for the anti-Gaian hypothesis that multicellular life, understood as a superorganism, is suicidal. In this view, microbial-triggered mass extinctions are attempts to return the Earth to the microbial-dominated state it has been for most of its history.[2][3][4] The metaphor refers to the mythological Medea (representing the Earth), who kills her own children (multicellular life).
Past "suicide attempts" include:

Methane poisoning, 3.5 billion years ago

The oxygen catastrophe, 2.45 billion years ago

Snowball Earth, twice, 2.4-2.1 billion years ago and 790–630 million years ago

At least five putative hydrogen sulfide-induced mass extinctions, such as the Great Dying, 252.28 million years ago
The list does not include the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, since this was, at least partially, externally induced by a meteor impact.
Peter Ward also believes that the current man-made climate change and extinction event may also be considered to be the most recent Medean event, due to them both being caused by humans, concluding that Medean events are not necessarily caused by microbes, but also by intelligent life as well. He also believes that the final mass extinction of complex life, roughly about 500 million years in the future, will also be considered as a Medean event as well, as plant life that still exist by then will be forced to adapt to a warming and expanding Sun, causing them to remove even more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (which in turn will have already be due to the increasing heat from the Sun gradually speeding up the weathering process that removes them from the atmosphere), and ultimately accelerating the complete extinction of complex life by making carbon dioxide levels drop down to just 10 ppm, below which plants can no longer survive, much faster and sooner than anticipated.

Looks like there's a good chance our planet's biosphere will finally head back in the right direction. It's nice to see there are still some people with a positive vision of the future.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Himu on August 08, 2019, 06:33:59 PM
When God decided we should fart and poop :maf
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Yeti on August 08, 2019, 07:47:05 PM
When some asshole said “let there be light”
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on August 08, 2019, 08:10:34 PM
Agriculture allowed us to settle - Settling allowed the lucky to amass a surplus - the surplus lead to shortages - this lead to inequality.
In essence, with these upgrades we never stood a chance.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 08, 2019, 08:25:18 PM
In the beginning the Universe was created.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Himu on August 08, 2019, 08:36:11 PM
In the beginning the Universe was created.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Fuck off, Universe! :maf
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: thetylerrob on August 08, 2019, 08:47:20 PM
A lot of people will say that it was when Steve Carell left the show, but actually it was sometime in season 5 when the writer's strike happened.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Great Rumbler on August 08, 2019, 10:18:52 PM
Agriculture allowed us to settle - Settling allowed the lucky to amass a surplus - the surplus lead to shortages - this lead to inequality.
In essence, with these upgrades we never stood a chance.

Eh, even back before agriculture people who were stronger, better at fighting, and had better weapons lived more comfortably than everyone else in the tribe.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 08, 2019, 10:36:52 PM
When that monkey looked at the monolith and then picked up a femur, it was the beginning of the end.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 08, 2019, 10:44:18 PM
...but for real, it was when we sent Troy out for pizza. It is known.

(https://media3.giphy.com/media/zPOErRpLtHWbm/giphy.gif?cid=790b761106836c2a9031d7474f71b69d080374cfb81d974a&rid=giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on August 09, 2019, 05:01:25 PM
In the beginning the Universe was created.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Fuck off, Universe! :maf

Surely the beginning deserves some of the blame for housing the creation of the universe in the first place?
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Zeliard on August 10, 2019, 12:15:48 AM
Sorry Joe but I have to hijack this thread to respond to this shit since the topic is closed, and someone brought it to my attention:

On which mod is more likely to be a spree killer -

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45102.msg2311705#msg2311705 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45102.msg2311705#msg2311705)

"I am firmly of the belief that online personality does not effectively indicate that someone is a terrible (or good) person in real life, so I'm hesitant to answer this question. But if we can agree this is a superficial question that has little bearing on actual life, I'd answer Zeliard. Pre-arrest, I would not have answered Amirox. Because he was so open about his illicit drug use, he seemed like someone willing to be rather open about illegal activity."

I dunno. Statistically, Opiate is a white guy with the empathy of walnut, so he's far more likely to be a spree killer than I am. It's actually pretty ironic to ask this question out of Opiate of all people. If a news story came out that said Opiate was arrested and it was discovered he fashions lampshades in his home out of human skin, would anyone honestly be surprised?

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45102.msg2311769#msg2311769 (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=45102.msg2311769#msg2311769)

"This is actually precisely why I picked him: he seems like the sort of guy that would just go unnoticed in a room of 3 people, and that was true even on the Moderator channel. After some thought, I decided this was a particularly important skill for a spree shooter."

I've made some lasting friends out of the gaf mods, largely from irccloud chats. If Opiate thinks he was somehow popular in the mod chan, he should have been a fly on the wall after he was demodded (what was that for again, btw?). The relief was palpable, as was the cringing whenever he posted one of his sociopathic "thought experiments": https://www.neogaf.com/threads/declawing-cats.622606/post-70238536 (https://www.neogaf.com/threads/declawing-cats.622606/post-70238536). Isn't it much better to adopt a cat that you declaw rather than not adopt a cat at all? No Opiate, it isn't okay to adopt animals just to torture them.

I'm also apparently so forgettable that this turd mentions me in an other forum 2 years after he was banned, and I think we've spoken to each probably no more than 5 times. It would be funny if it weren't so sad. I must have called him a robot one too many times.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: team filler on August 10, 2019, 12:48:50 AM
 :curious
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: team filler on August 10, 2019, 01:08:34 AM
why did you cover up amirox being a pedo, zeliard?  :curious
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Zeliard on August 10, 2019, 01:11:32 AM
Amir0x was demodded before I became mod, so I never really interacted with him nor saw him chatting in the mod channel. I didn't know the guy at all.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: samir on August 10, 2019, 01:16:40 AM
Amir0x was demodded before I became mod, so I never really interacted with him nor saw him chatting in the mod channel. I didn't know the guy at all.

Yet you willingly became a mod on a forum that housed known pedophile Amirox, and Dennis.  :curious
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Zeliard on August 10, 2019, 01:31:42 AM
True.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Rufus on August 10, 2019, 02:02:02 AM
Planescape: Torment faithful, unite! 🙌
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: OnlyRegret on August 10, 2019, 02:14:25 AM

I'm also apparently so forgettable

oh hey, it's you, yeah you weren't the most memorable mod but I wouldn't feel bad
the most memorable ones were the fuck-ups or some flavour of bad

so that actually means you were cool



Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Zeliard on August 10, 2019, 02:27:41 AM

I'm also apparently so forgettable

oh hey, it's you, yeah you weren't the most memorable mod but I wouldn't feel bad
the most memorable ones were the fuck-ups or some flavour of bad

so that actually means you were cool

Thx bby. I also wasn't around and online much after mid-2015 or so. When I came back the Evilore stuff was a couple weeks old and I had no idea about it, but a lot of shit went down in the slack chan that I missed.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: Himu on August 10, 2019, 03:14:56 AM
Zeliard is cool.
Title: Re: Where did it all go wrong?
Post by: OnlyRegret on August 10, 2019, 02:25:47 PM
I didn't mind Opiate that much, then again, I figured it was obvious he had Aspergers or something of the sort and adjusted expectations accordingly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_and_cultural_aspects_of_autism#Asperger_syndrome_and_interpersonal_relationships