1,000+ Pages of NeoGAF: The Story of Wasted Lives and Hardcore Salt

[Momo]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=872423

these kids need an arcade, they just dont know it

[Stoney Mason]

I'm okay with people having favorites. Even being stupid about it. It's pots going on witch hunts after kettles that doesn't sit well with me.

The problem isn't people having favorite per se. It's people taking those favorites and then shitting up every single thread with it with stealth or not so stealth agenda posting.

It's why GAF is mostly unreadable. And its why Lager got very annoying pre-and post launch of the consoles.

Leave all that shit in one or two shit flinging threads instead of infecting every thread with it.

[Squiddy]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=124857242#post124857242

[StealthFan]

New COD looks like...Halo.

Time is a flat circle.

[FStop7]

New COD looks like...Halo.

Time is a flat circle.

You're in Cortana, now.

[thisismyusername]

^ When hasn't he been shitting up threads?  Seriously, he's one of the worst posters in GAF.

(I see, you stealth editing  )

[Tasty]

Halo 4 trying to be CoD, CoD 11 trying to be Halo, we moving to some kind of samey shooter singularity.

[Himu]

Cod11 doesn't remind me of Halo at all

[Phoenix Dark]

the biggest similarity is that both look like trash

[Stoney Mason]

Cod11 doesn't remind me of Halo at all

It's much more similar to Crysis or Titanfall minus the mechs and even those don't feel like Halo really.

[StealthFan]

It looks like Halo Reach with jet pack shit.

[Kara]

But Reach had a jet pack?

Or am I... reaching with that one.

[StealthFan]

That was terrible.

And I am saying that it is like Reach with that jetpack shit. It doesn't look as whack as Reach's jetpacks tho.

[Rahxephon91]

Yeah the new CoD looks nothing like Halo.

Halo 4 also in the end did'nt play much like CoD and it certainly did'nt look like cod.

[Kara]

Halo early onset 3/8ths life crisis.

[Himu]

Cod11 doesn't remind me of Halo at all

It's much more similar to Crysis or Titanfall minus the mechs and even those don't feel like Halo really.

It look like what halo should have evolved into years ago but never did. Titanfall without mechs sounds about right

[FStop7]

^ When hasn't he been shitting up threads?  Seriously, he's one of the worst posters in GAF.

(I see, you stealth editing  )

Yeah, I decided to pull back on Yoshi.  I am trying to be Kinder and Gentler.  But he was raging so hard in the Hearthstone thread, lol.


About CODAW, it does remind me of the on-foot combat in TitanFall.  I'll give it a shot.

[Squiddy]

Yeah the new CoD looks nothing like Halo.

Halo 4 also in the end did'nt play much like CoD and it certainly did'nt look like cod.

[Himu]

Conversial opinion: Malcolm X was right.

[Shaka Khan]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=124829972#post124829972



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Damn.

[Joe Molotov]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=124829972#post124829972



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[Kara]

Now that's an honest answer.

[Rufus]

The argument that riots provide a convenient way to dismiss the problem by whites and therefore it's the fault of the rioters that no progress has been made is as stupid as the argument that feminism blocks progress in equal rights because the name is too excluding.

[doctavius bonbon]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=124829972#post124829972



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straight channeling that frustration of his ancestors through his finger tips.

 

[Squiddy]

Dax is in the process of explaining male ball busting culture. She knows about this because she was treated as a male for some time.

[brob]

Why is 'What Would MLK Think' ever brought up in these sorts of situations? Don't they teach MLK in schools? The man was pretty specific in what he thought of this kind of stuff

  [...]the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."

Do American schools just memorize I have a dream and that's it?

[doctavius bonbon]

Why is 'What Would MLK Think' ever brought up in these sorts of situations? Don't they teach MLK in schools? The man was pretty specific in what he thought of this kind of stuff

  [...]the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."

Do American schools just memorize I have a dream and that's it?

yes

[Himu]

Why is 'What Would MLK Think' ever brought up in these sorts of situations? Don't they teach MLK in schools? The man was pretty specific in what he thought of this kind of stuff

  [...]the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."

Do American schools just memorize I have a dream and that's it?

American schools don't teach shit about this.

[Himu]

America has washed over a lot of aspects of the things MLK emphasized, they make him seem like 100% racial kumbaya

Our upbringing completely ignores a lot of the things  MLK had to say about reproductive rights, capitalism etc

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But he's Glenn Beck's hero!!!

[Phoenix Dark]

Why is 'What Would MLK Think' ever brought up in these sorts of situations? Don't they teach MLK in schools? The man was pretty specific in what he thought of this kind of stuff

  [...]the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."

Do American schools just memorize I have a dream and that's it?

that being said, MLK didn't advocate violence, ie rioting. I think we can simultaneously understand the feelings of hopelessness and the lack of justice which sparks riots while also rejecting the tactic. They burned down places of employment in their own neighborhood (including black businesses), and those businesses aren't coming back. The business owners will get insurance checks and be fine.

And it's also worth noting that the majority of protestors were peaceful, and those who rioted used the situation as an excuse to do dumb shit.

[Himu]

Why is 'What Would MLK Think' ever brought up in these sorts of situations? Don't they teach MLK in schools? The man was pretty specific in what he thought of this kind of stuff

  [...]the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."

Do American schools just memorize I have a dream and that's it?

that being said, MLK didn't advocate violence, ie rioting. I think we can simultaneously understand the feelings of hopelessness and the lack of justice which sparks riots while also rejecting the tactic. They burned down places of employment in their own neighborhood (including black businesses), and those businesses aren't coming back. The business owners will get insurance checks and be fine.

And it's also worth noting that the majority of protestors were peaceful, and those who rioted used the situation as an excuse to do dumb shit.

On the other hand: look where peaceful protest has gotten us, Maurice. If not rioting, we should get organized. This shit will test our generation and we need to make the sacrifices we need to make to provide for our future.

[brob]

PD, I just saying people are invoking MLK's name while acting exactly like the kind of garbage he spoke against

[Kara]

Why is 'What Would MLK Think' ever brought up in these sorts of situations? Don't they teach MLK in schools?

I went to religious schools from age 11 through high school and aside from reading Black Boy in freshman English, which tbh I have no idea how that got in the curriculum, I had no exposure whatsoever to anything Civil Rights related.

19th century American history was preoccupied with the Sisyphean deal making in D.C., we just skipped over the Civil War--I distinctly remember my teacher saying, "I'm not going to teach this, you should all know it already," and by the time we even got to the 20th century (thanks to stewing on Colonial America for months longer than necessary) we just touched on some Cold War bullshit and the school year was over.

Even the compromise of 1877--a deal that consigned anything resembling free and fair elections (for people of color) to the trash for around a hundred years--was presented as back room power broker bullshit instead of what it was, trading the freedom of others for a 1 term presidency.

I should re-read Black Boy.

[Himu]

Everything I learned about my own peoples history was outside of school.

No time for black American history when you need to cover the alamo for the 100th time

[brob]

This is like when I found out there was a internet sensation musician who called herself Lorde, who turned out to be a white suburbanite from New Zealand.

In retrospect it's obvious, but it's still

[Himu]

Ps: the alamo is shit.

[Phoenix Dark]

Why is 'What Would MLK Think' ever brought up in these sorts of situations? Don't they teach MLK in schools? The man was pretty specific in what he thought of this kind of stuff

  [...]the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."

Do American schools just memorize I have a dream and that's it?

that being said, MLK didn't advocate violence, ie rioting. I think we can simultaneously understand the feelings of hopelessness and the lack of justice which sparks riots while also rejecting the tactic. They burned down places of employment in their own neighborhood (including black businesses), and those businesses aren't coming back. The business owners will get insurance checks and be fine.

And it's also worth noting that the majority of protestors were peaceful, and those who rioted used the situation as an excuse to do dumb shit.

On the other hand: look where peaceful protest has gotten us, Maurice. If not rioting, we should get organized. This shit will test our generation and we need to make the sacrifices we need to make to provide for our future.

I hate this argument because the idea that rioting would get you farther is ridiculous.

You can't effectively organize until you rebuild communities block by block. And it's hard to rebuild communities when 60%+ of children are being born out of wedlock, HS graduation rates aren't where they need to be, etc. Not blaming the victim, I understand the circumstances of people like those in Ferguson. But there are things "we" could be doing for ourselves, and they aren't being done in a lot of areas.

Also: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/california-police-body-cameras-cuts-violence-complaints-rialto

Every state legislature should be working toward that, and any politician who doesn't support it should be shitcanned.

[Himu]

So what do we do? Do we just ALLOW the police and other people to keep killing our children because of our skin color? I want children. Why the fuck would I want them to live in a country that will kill them because they have melted snickers bars? It's brewing, and it's starting to boil to a head. Enough is about to be enough. Pretty soon it will become do or die.

[Kara]

the funniest part of the american school system is when they teach you about the Native Americans and gloss over the actual genocide and conquering as much as possible (Image removed from quote.)

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oh wait that's not funny it's alarming and incredibly depressing

[close]

You'd learn more about the occupation of the Philippines from watching Boardwalk Empire than you would in an American classroom.

[FStop7]

MLK advocated non-violent resistance, but he still advocated resistance.  Right now there's just too much acceptance.  Too many people shrugging this off with "a few bad apples" and "isolated incidents" excuses. 

[Himu]

MLK advocated non-violent resistance, but he still advocated resistance.  Right now there's just too much acceptance.  Too many people shrugging this off with "a few bad apples" and "isolated incidents" excuses.

Breh this is happening more and more. And people - epsecially black people -are starting to notice. It feels like one of these incidents is going to spark something.

[Joe Molotov]

the funniest part of the american school system is when they teach you about the Native Americans and gloss over the actual genocide and conquering as much as possible (Image removed from quote.)

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oh wait that's not funny it's alarming and incredibly depressing

[close]

Being from Oklahoma, I remember spending a decent amount of class time on the Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears. We also didn't get Columbus Day off. 

[Himu]

Tejanos spent time on trail of tears as well

[Phoenix Dark]

So what do we do? Do we just ALLOW the police and other people to keep killing our children because of our skin color? I want children. Why the fuck would I want them to live in a country that will kill them because they have melted snickers bars? It's brewing, and it's starting to boil to a head. Enough is about to be enough. Pretty soon it will become do or die.

There's nothing you can do but teach your kids how not to get killed, work to better your community, and take control of your local political system from the school board up. Really don't care what people think about that - it's reality. I don't even go to CVS anymore unless I'm wearing my work clothes, and I still get stares.

Outside of that, I guess just wait out the demographic game and be ready to capitalize when the white vote loses power.

[Himu]

"There's nothing you can do" fuck THAT.

[Tasty]

MLK advocated non-violent resistance, but he still advocated resistance.  Right now there's just too much acceptance.  Too many people shrugging this off with "a few bad apples" and "isolated incidents" excuses.

Breh this is happening more and more. And people - epsecially black people -are starting to notice. It feels like one of these incidents is going to spark something.

This isn't my purview but I feel like the most this is gonna spark is a trendy hashtag and slacktivism like Occupy Wall Street. There just aren't courageous and charismatic leaders anymore, and mainstream news is so homogenous it'd never report on something earnestly let it cause even more growth.

Like I said, just how I feel, not how I think things should be.

[Himu]

You may be right

[Tasty]

Corporatist.

Didn't even know that was a word.

[Himu]

Corporatist.

Didn't even know that was a word.

It's pretty common

[Tasty]

I'm not really that political.

[Tasty]

Staunch republican.

[brob]

always figured tasty was more of a technocrat libertarian

[Tasty]

"Technocrat"

Libertarian

always figured tasty was more of a technocrat libertarian

I can't wait for the late 20s tasty meat silicon valley yuppie stage

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[close]

You're four years too late.

[thisismyusername]

i've always thought of him as a tiny doggie wearing a cardigan

So, basically when he gets out of line you do what Tommy Lee Jones does in this scene:



Yeah?

[Himu]

I'm not drunk anymore. need to get drunk again. This time with gin.

[Tasty]

I'm not drunk anymore. need to get drunk again. This time with gin.

That didn't last long. Damn you can put it away.

[Tasty]

I'd drink you under the table, Wrath.

[Tasty]

the guy who wasn't allowed to drink till he left his native country versus the guy who started drinking at age 23

Rumble in the Jungle Part II

I started drinking on my 21st birthday.






Oh wait fuck, totally just self-L'd

[Tasty]

Bitch can't even drink beer, I'll show you how twinkish you truly are, bitch.

I shotgun beers all the time now. Did they even sell beer where you lived or is it all fermented goat milk?

[Kara]

the guy who wasn't allowed to drink till he left his native country versus the guy who started drinking at age 23

Rumble in the Jungle Part II

My old fighting weight was a liter of liquor a day, should I start my training montage so I can show you scrubs how it's done?

When H started drinking I'd been drinking for a decade.