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

[benjipwns]

Had an N64 and access to Perfect Dark when I was 10. That game's rated M for MATURE. 911 happened in 5th grade bruh (Image removed from quote.)

Nintendo fucking aired this a year earlier:

Nintendo let Rare remake Conker into Bad Fur Day.

[Phoenix Dark]

Ariana Grande sucks.

fuk u binch

I'm not into pop hoes music but Ariana Grande's gotta be the worst I've heard in a long time.

dope ass song. that child can sing

[benjipwns]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1082765

So my question is this gaf, would it be strange to go to a buffet and eat alone?

[Kara]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1082765

So my question is this gaf, would it be strange to go to a buffet and eat alone?

You left out that OP wants to go alone because they can't think of anything better to do for 2 hours.

[benjipwns]

Not on purpose. 

[king of the internet]

Wouldn't want to look weird in front of the afternoon chinese buffet crowd

[thisismyusername]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1082765

So my question is this gaf, would it be strange to go to a buffet and eat alone?

You left out that OP wants to go alone because they can't think of anything better to do for 2 hours.

Well, I mean he can sit in the buffet and work on something on his laptop (provided the place doesn't care) and/or read a book while eating, or eat and then read outside or... But thisisneogafdude.gif, so expecting someone to think of that.

The buffet question alone is Social Anxiety of the highest order. Well, maybe not social anxiety speaking as someone with Social Anxiety. Maybe... just... dumbassery?

[benjipwns]

The weird part will be when all the Chinese employees start jabbering about you in Mandarin because you're such a loser. And fat. And lonely.

And then the cute waitress will take pity on you, and ask you to take a walk with her in a nearby park.

And then she'll pull out her Vita.

[thisismyusername]

And then she'll pull out her Vita.

Now see, this story was believable until you had the waitress with a Vita. Nobody but male pedophiles have a Vita.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

I own a Vita.

[close]

(Edited to sound less: )

[BrokenVerses]

Sometimes I wonder how some of these people even make it out of bed.

[thisismyusername]

Back when I jacked off to Britney Spears.

In the Zone was still hot fire.

R.I.P. in Peace Godney: 1997-2003.

Sometimes I wonder how some of these people even make it out of bed.

GAF I'm engulfed in flames. What do I do!?

"Feed yourself pizza."

[benjipwns]

Sometimes I wonder how some of these people even make it out of bed.

"GAF, my dorm roommates look at me when I get out of bed, am I doing it wrong?"

[Shadow Mod]

Eating is like the one of least likely things anyone gives a shit about socially.

It's shit people gotta do.

Who is gonna care you're doing it alone?

[thisismyusername]

Eating is like the one of least likely things anyone gives a shit about socially.

It's shit people gotta do.

Who is gonna care you're doing it alone?

But mommmmmmmmmm I'm doing it by myself in a "social" environment!  *panic*

It's one of those times where the "Who Gives a Shit" .gif is appropriate but probably still "banned."

[benjipwns]

Speaking of college lifestyle, it wasn't on GAF but another forum, there was a guy upset and talking about how insane his university was because people moving into the dorms had to provide their own in-room trash cans/bins/whatever like you'd have next to a desk/bed.

Got great use out of mocking that for a couple years.

[Shadow Mod]

Speaking of college lifestyle, it wasn't on GAF but another forum, there was a guy upset and talking about how insane his university was because people moving into the dorms had to provide their own in-room trash cans/bins/whatever like you'd have next to a desk/bed.

Got great use out of mocking that for a couple years.

They obviously need to patch that.

[Kara]

The only thing that sucks about dining alone is a lot of places will hurry you because your tab isn't going to be worthwhile. So in that sense people do give a shit.

[Shadow Mod]

The only thing that sucks about dining alone is a lot of places will hurry you because your tab isn't going to be worthwhile. So in that sense people do give a shit.

I just go to the bar section of a place if it has one. Even the breakfast places that are constantly busy in Portland have nice little one person seating at the counter so you're not using up a whole table.

[recursivelyenumerable]

what are your fave Portland breakfast places?

[Shadow Mod]

what are your fave Portland breakfast places?

Helser's
Pine State Biscuits
Tin Shed
Waffle Window
Petite Provence
Brunch Box

[Kara]

Counter sitting.

[king of the internet]

Counter sitting.

Tfw the table in the most remote corner is open

[Kara]

Brunch Box is really good.

[Kara]

Whose alt is this?

http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=172619276

[OnlyRegret]

#teamtaylor

Whose alt is this?

http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=172619276

Benji's. Ban him for altting pls Steve.

[Purrp Skirrp]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=172635842&postcount=106

I live in upstate NY and haven't seem any blatant racism at least not in Albany, NY.

Got a nicca hating neighbor who owns shotguns and does roids, another catching white flight fever, and the one black family in this neighborhood were a white fam who adopted my friend Murphy and his African sisters.

They made them do chores and hard work while their white biological children got off easy. Seriously, all in a 1 mile radius and there's more to go around.

In elementary school, enough kids made fun of a biracial girl that teachers had to intervene and shame an entire assembly of 4th graders.


It's not the South, but still, this area is kind of for non-whites.

Most I can do is call out shit-tier bros and continue to smoke blunts with black dudes @ parties.

When my privileged ass successfully empathizes with people of color:

[benjipwns]

Everyone's too distracted by how fucking ugly and totalitarian Empire State Plaza is to be racist.

[Purrp Skirrp]

UAlbany's oppressive dorms

[thisismyusername]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=172647077&postcount=23

Delusion. They name is Knitoe.

[Take My Breh Away]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=172647077&postcount=23

Delusion. They name is Knitoe.

Sidetalkin' was ahead of it's time, breh

[Tasty]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=172647077&postcount=23

Delusion. They name is Knitoe.

Sidetalkin' was ahead of it's time, breh

This site, holy shit.

[Yulwei]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=172483891&postcount=17

McD's shake: a sign of the american bourgeoisie

[studyguy]

A BigMac? No sir, I would not handle such plebeian fare! A Royale with Cheese my good man!

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Ban coming ASAP

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=172630319&postcount=217


Get in before delete ha ha.

[thisismyusername]

Ban coming ASAP

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=172630319&postcount=217


Get in before delete ha ha.

Not a conspiracy nor a theory...


Sony cap, definitively paid Sony shill.

Coincidence? I think not.

Not even subtle about it. Though I'm not surprised. The staff here have been spreading anti-Nintendo propaganda and tolerating berating them since the gaming age forum days.

Just in case Bish misses that post.

[Kara]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=172483891&postcount=17

McD's shake: a sign of the american bourgeoisie

In Bob Avakian's From Ike to Mao there's an anecdote about BA going to McDonald's.

[Phoenix Dark]

http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=172629625&postcount=448

[studyguy]

The Pinkprint ain't all that.
Nikki needs to just take an L and keep moving.

[qq more]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=172647077&postcount=23

Delusion. They name is Knitoe.

lmfao I can't even trust Nintendo with gaming phones.

[Mr. Nobody]

http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=172629625&postcount=448

Kendrick at this point feels like the token black guy they have to acknowledge because he's so progressive.

He might be onto something 

[Phoenix Dark]

It's amazing how releasing an album baptized in literally every form of black music has been spun into being "an album/artist for white people."

'scust

[Steve Contra]

Kendrick Lamar 

[studyguy]

I'm glad white guilt so heavily influenced Kendrick. Thanks white people, we couldn't have done it without you.

[Mr. Nobody]

Kendrick Lamar 

Seriously though, Kendrick/TDE don't know what to do right now.

Make an album practically opening the floodgates for socio political conversations and shun those questions in interviews brehs

[zomgee]

Kendrick Lamar 

Every time. That goddamn trash can slays me.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Don't forget the role internet wankpieces play in this.  Anytime there is some flare up between someone white and someone black on social media, there is a brain dead article from the Guardian or the Atlantic almost immediately after it happens.  It's almost like they have a template where they just plug n' chug to get something out there so they can start getting dem clickz.  Anyway these wankpieces serve to do nothing more than to dump fuel on the fire (or create a fire if none appears to be starting).  Special lols reserved for the idea that these cacpublications who see themselves as the pre-eminent rap experts.  Then you realize they don't give two shits about rap, they just want social justice clicks from hipsters and the perpetually outraged.  Fuck these people.

[studyguy]

Kendrick Lamar 

Seriously though, Kendrick/TDE don't know what to do right now.

Make an album practically opening the floodgates for socio political conversations and shun those questions in interviews brehs

TDE hasn't known what to do for ages now. This ain't anything new

[Himu]

Make an album practically opening the floodgates for socio political conversations and shun those questions in interviews brehs

Wait, for real? Love To Pimp A Butterfly.

[Himu]

This post is goat tier. Fuck color blind morons.

https://np.reddit.com/r/news/comments/3e2nbl/new_texas_textbooks_downplay_the_role_of_slavery/ctbmjl2

In my experience the people who are vehemently insisting that they are colorblind and that racism isn't an issue are always racist as fuck. They just don't want to admit it.

I'm going to clarify that I'm white here (You'll see why)

White Americans live in a constructed fantasy land. That might sound condescending, but it is absolutly the truth. Sure, everybody thinks racism is wrong. But that doesn't stop us from engaging in it constantly, whether in ways that are destructive to other people or just personally ignorant. Growing up, racism for me was always coded as something else. Welfare queens, crack heads, "thugs", whatever. I grew up in the suburbs and in a high school with some 5,000 students there was maybe 10 black kids. There was an obvious lack of color, so to speak.

Now, that might not sound significant, but it's emblematic of the kind of racial environment that exists in America. White people stay in one place, black people in another. The result is that the realities of racial inequality are shielded from us. The simple fact is that there has never been a time when racism didn't exist in America, and it never went away so much as changed it's shape. The angry southern preacher declaring that the black man is a heathen was replaced by talk radio saying they are taking your tax dollars. The segregationist stopped saying the N word and instead subtly pointed a finger at them the next neighborhood over.

Black people are depicted one of two ways to white America in our culture: either as criminal, or as paranoid angry person divorced from reality, complaining about racism that no longer exists.

See, the rhetoric has shifted, the means have shifted, but the result has not.

Separate but equal became "equal, but some are more equal then others". Go to an inner city school and see it yourself, for just one example. There's a similarly unequal application of the law, with the assumption that everyone is treated equally even though some are clearly more equal then others, to use that phrase again.

Behind all of this of course is a history of very much intentional racial marginalization and exploitation. It made itself more palatable to the post-60's racial environment, but it operates in much the same way.

As white people our biases are internalized and often encouraged. But when challenged on them the usual response is irrational anger, accusations of "race carding", saying black people are the real racists, and if all that fails trotting out some biased and out of context crime statistic and ironically falling right back into the kind of "yeah, well black people are savages" rhetoric slave owners used, though weirdly as a way of proving racism isn't an issue. "It's not racial, black people are just murderous barbarians who need to be brutally suppressed before they rape our churches and burn our women and eat watermelon in our preschools and smoke beer and play hippity hop in the park!"

I still don't know why this reaction happens exactly. "Racism" is easy but it goes deeper then that. For all of white conservatives' complaining about political correctness, they are some of the most easily offended and agitated people in existence. Mentioning the word "racism" to them will get you such a torrent of paranoid and insecure nonsense that it's hard to know how to respond. Some of the things I've heard from my friends when racism is brought up would make even the most in your face tumblrina seem downright reasonable.

My guess is there's a massive difference between what we've been told this country is like and what it is actually like (which is far less pretty). And of course if we're at the top of a social hierarchy, one that engenders extreme amounts of injustice, then naturally it follows we're sort of complicit in it. People don't like turning criticism towards themselves. Especially when an entire culture continually says they are right and that everybody else is just stupid and un-American.

Nobody wants to be the bad guy. Nobody wants to think that a lot of the things they say, or do, or believe are actually physically harmful to people, that they bolster not just a culture that offends people but that naturally leads to actual violence and repression, as you saw with Eric Garner or the Charleston massacre.

So of course, the natural response, the comfortable one, the easy to understand and non-confrontational option, is to pretend there isn't a problem, that you're not the slightest bit racist, and that Eric Garner was resisting arrest and therefore deserved it and that Dylan Roof was a psychotic outlier and not representative of anything.

The more you have this attitude thrown at you, the more it is reinforced. The more controlling over you it gets. People do indeed silence dissenting parts of their brains in favor of things that don't challenge them. And one thing about reddit that I've noticed, as the admins have increasingly turned a blind eye to hate speech and the kind of attitude I'm talking about, it's only gotten more prevalent. Not because more racists keep coming here, but because white kids reading this shit start to see it as the norm. Just like they see softer versions of it in real life and unconsciously accept that as the norm.

There is no post-racial society. I've seen that first hand. After Eric Garner's death I attended a few rallies and protests. Would it be shocking to the people reading this for me to say that some of the people there were legitimately crying at the news that this officer wasn't being charged? They felt betrayed by their country, and they had felt that way since the moment they were born. They wanted the smallest indication that their voices, that their problems and struggles, have meaning. They got told to fuck off. Again, for the millionth time in our history, we told the black population to go fuck itself and drag themselves back to the slums so we can pretend that nothing is wrong. It wasn't a fantasy that made these people feel that way, they told me flat out: they lived it every day

And then we repeat. Again and again.

Not because we don't know there is a problem, we do. We just don't want to care about it.

So into the fantasy land we go, where the system works, people only get what they deserve, and the police are the good guys.

And if a couple more bodies pile up then hey, they were probably selling crack or something.

[Phoenix Dark]

Make an album practically opening the floodgates for socio political conversations and shun those questions in interviews brehs

Wait, for real? Love To Pimp A Butterfly.

His management is demanding no political questions from reporters lol. Shit is pathetic. At this point he's big enough to make his own decisions, irregardless of management. The fact that he isn't checking his people is a bad look IMO. Drake, Cole, etc's management don't disrespect them like that.

He's still a great artist tho

[archie4208]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1083097

PD's thread of the year.   

[Himu]

Make an album practically opening the floodgates for socio political conversations and shun those questions in interviews brehs

Wait, for real? Love To Pimp A Butterfly.

His management is demanding no political questions from reporters lol. Shit is pathetic. At this point he's big enough to make his own decisions, irregardless of management. The fact that he isn't checking his people is a bad look IMO. Drake, Cole, etc's management don't disrespect them like that.

He's still a great artist tho

This makes Kdot look Downey soft

[Mr. Nobody]

Make an album practically opening the floodgates for socio political conversations and shun those questions in interviews brehs

Wait, for real? Love To Pimp A Butterfly.

His management is demanding no political questions from reporters lol. Shit is pathetic. At this point he's big enough to make his own decisions, irregardless of management. The fact that he isn't checking his people is a bad look IMO. Drake, Cole, etc's management don't disrespect them like that.

He's still a great artist tho

 

[zomgee]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1083083

I'm not sure whether your life is worth any sort of money (hell even just being a cop under the scrutiny and crazy tension nowadays) but police at the are very well compensated considering many can retire right on their 50th birthdays and get a lifetime pension.

 

Where did you hear that?

 

I've seen it on The Shield and mentioned in various cop shows.

 

[Shadow Mod]

Cops and firefighters have ridiculous pensions in many places.

[zomgee]

Cops and firefighters have ridiculous pensions in many places.

That's nice did you get that from Inspector Gadget?

[toku]

Kendrick Lamar is #teamnewblack

Summertime '06 in stores and available on itunes now.

[Himu]

How can you make an album like Pimp a Butterfly and be a new black?

[Shadow Mod]

Cops and firefighters have ridiculous pensions in many places.

That's nice did you get that from Inspector Gadget?

No, the newspaper since I pay attention to local issues and what my tax moneys are doin'. They get about 50-120 grand a year after retirement in the counties I've lived. You mad about something?

[Boogie]

Yeah, I have a sweet-ass pension, and I ain't even gonna apologize for it.  (Assuming the government doesn't claw it down sometime over the next 20 years....)

If I go at 25 years, it's 50% of the average salary of my best 5 years.

At 30 years, 60%, and at 35 years, 70%.

So, if I were a constable ready to retire today, my salary would be in the 92k range.

Based on myself, getting on at age 23, that would mean retiring at 48 with a 46k a year pension, at 53 with a 55k a year pension, or at 58 with a 64k a year pension.

My pension is based strictly on years of service.  Most other Canadian police services have a calculation for retirement combining years of service and your age.    Not sure how things tend to work in the states.