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« Reply #2340 on: April 05, 2018, 09:18:21 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/posts/6394811/

"inappropriate comment" is now banworthy. The mods also decided to hide the filthy, filthy remark behind a spoiler tag  :lol


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« Reply #2341 on: April 05, 2018, 09:20:01 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/posts/6388601/

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Rocky Horror Picture show is a bad movie

A bad musical

Bad all around

All that bullshit atmosphere at a live performance don't matter if your product is fucking shit

Fuck you lionpride, this is one step too far.  :maf

https://www.resetera.com/posts/6388395/

Is this an example of "code-switching"?  LP did not talk like this when he came here.  I mean, he sounds like a complete, unhinged distinguished mentally-challenged fellow on Era -- but seemed pretty reasonable here.
I didn't talk like that because I was in a good mood you fucking bozo

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« Reply #2342 on: April 05, 2018, 09:25:51 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/posts/6374477/

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We already have. It hasn't even been 10 years since Bush. He was way worse than Trump so far.


The fuck is this shit? Talk to me when Trump allows the worst attack ever on US soil, starts an illegal war under false pretenses that kills at least half a million civilians directly and destabilizes a region for generations and creates ISIS, then crashes the economy worse than anything since the depression.

" Talk to me when Trump allows the worst attack ever on US soil,"

Not to defend W. Bush (as I think he was a terrible president, not as bad as Trump though), but: IIRC the history, 9/11 is partly on Slick Willy's shoulders along with Dub-ya's. If I remember right, Clinton didn't inform Bush, or his administration/FBI under him didn't. It's been years, but I remember talk of it being an intelligence failure from the previous admin.

God of War games range from mediocre to absolute trash for me.

To each their own, but the gameplay sucks.

Exactly. I never got the fascination with them, as a Cuhrazy genre entry, they're absolute :paul

Now the reboot is apparently copying Dork Souls, which is :neogaf

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« Reply #2343 on: April 05, 2018, 09:28:28 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/posts/6394811/

"inappropriate comment" is now banworthy. The mods also decided to hide the filthy, filthy remark behind a spoiler tag  :lol


yet all the quotes of the comment are there to literally wrath-rape my innocent eyes

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« Reply #2344 on: April 05, 2018, 09:30:16 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/posts/6394811/

"inappropriate comment" is now banworthy. The mods also decided to hide the filthy, filthy remark behind a spoiler tag  :lol

Why the heck did they hide it and then there are 6 posts immediately following it that quote it which aren't hidden!

Plus everyone was talking about it anyway for the rest of the thread!
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« Reply #2345 on: April 05, 2018, 09:34:32 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/posts/6374477/

Quote from: KingK, post: 6374477, member: 10873
We already have. It hasn't even been 10 years since Bush. He was way worse than Trump so far.


The fuck is this shit? Talk to me when Trump allows the worst attack ever on US soil, starts an illegal war under false pretenses that kills at least half a million civilians directly and destabilizes a region for generations and creates ISIS, then crashes the economy worse than anything since the depression.

" Talk to me when Trump allows the worst attack ever on US soil,"

Not to defend W. Bush (as I think he was a terrible president, not as bad as Trump though), but: IIRC the history, 9/11 is partly on Slick Willy's shoulders along with Dub-ya's. If I remember right, Clinton didn't inform Bush, or his administration/FBI under him didn't. It's been years, but I remember talk of it being an intelligence failure from the previous admin.
No, he just knows if he states the truth, that Bush personally carried out 9/11, that the right-wing death squads that are the ResetERA mods will bring their Dirty War to his doorstep once the orders come down from their corporate masters. So he plays it cool by saying "allows" which leaves wiggle room but all those in the know he's really signaling us that he knows Bush knew before hand as proven by WTC7 and Congress secretly passing an amendment to thermodynamics laws to allow fire to melt steel beams.

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« Reply #2346 on: April 05, 2018, 09:38:18 PM »

Not to defend W. Bush (as I think he was a terrible president, not as bad as Trump though), but: IIRC the history, 9/11 is partly on Slick Willy's shoulders along with Dub-ya's. If I remember right, Clinton didn't inform Bush, or his administration/FBI under him didn't. It's been years, but I remember talk of it being an intelligence failure from the previous admin.


The failure was not killing Bin Laden when Clinton had the chance. He had the chance to bomb a house he was in and didn't.
Bin Laden was known to everyone, and George W and his entire team got a memo on possible attacks right after getting into office.

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« Reply #2347 on: April 05, 2018, 09:40:59 PM »
Radio dramas are probably the most cac thing I can recall.

Not that I would refuse to ever be a part of one.     Old timey sound effects.  :rejoice

I think they're pretty popular in Japan too.
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« Reply #2348 on: April 05, 2018, 09:44:44 PM »
had much better visual set pieces, incredible cast of characters and wonderfully absurd plot than gameplay

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« Reply #2349 on: April 05, 2018, 09:50:30 PM »
create an online sales tax for all online stores at the federal level.

No, fuck that. I buy digitally because I'm not tax'd.



Tax me on physical goods, ok, sure (but I'm ordering online, you could put that into the shipping cost I guess). But if I'm buying a game/software or TV show/music digitally? Fuck me paying taxes for something that I don't physically own.

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« Reply #2350 on: April 05, 2018, 10:02:00 PM »
Why doesn't the WWE get any static on Reset when Roseanne makes people go nuts?  If consuming "Trump friendly" or "pro conservative" Roseanne content is bad, then the WWE's far worse.

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« Reply #2351 on: April 05, 2018, 10:02:25 PM »
Good point, you really should continue to pay tax on the original purchase price as long as you hold the non-disposable license.

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« Reply #2352 on: April 05, 2018, 10:05:33 PM »
The mouth breathing pseudo-intellectuals here are almost as amazing as their little fan clubs that follow them around liking their posts.

I mean, you haven't made a good argument for why hurting Amazon would not have the implication of helping brick and mortar stores and malls.  You say, it would just hurt Amazon and help nobody else.   Why ought policy not recognize the need for local stores to succeed and for local communities to flourish, which will invariably happen if Amazon does less well?  Amazon has been dominating every semblance of every speck of every retail space in existence for the past 25 years, and only gets more and more leveraging power and an unparalleled ability to sell cheap goods efficiently over time.   It's not about sticking to the man -- it's sensible policy to ask Amazon to pay more for the privilege (and it is, privilege) that it enjoys.

Lmao why would you think Amazon failing would mean brick and mortars would somehow start thriving again "Gee, if we get rid of all these Hummers, horse and buggies will sure make a comeback" lmao

I mean if Amazon started to tax my digitally purchased-software (like Steam or PSN did if Federal level) I'd stop using them. Full-out, bring back physical PC games in that case.

If Amazon did have to raise prices, I do think a lot of non-Prime customers (like me, who uses Amazon like 1-4 times a year) would stop using it.

speaking of making people upset, another roseanne thread :doge

https://www.resetera.com/threads/‘roseanne’-revival-sets-more-ratings-records.34189/

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https://www.resetera.com/posts/6388601/

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Rocky Horror Picture show is a bad movie

A bad musical

Bad all around

All that bullshit atmosphere at a live performance don't matter if your product is fucking shit

Fuck you lionpride, this is one step too far.  :maf

Lionpride the type of nicca to not understand Rocky Horror.

Rhps is cac trash tbh :nothot

The lowest rungs of cac trash: theater nerds (and weeaboos)

I can agree with that.

Good point, you really should continue to pay tax on the original purchase price as long as you hold the non-disposable license.

I mean I'm all for taxes in regards to infrastructure improvements and tangible goods. But if it's not on a physical thing at point-of-purchase? It should be the MRSP at the very most since I do not have a back-up of the software/movie/music physically unless I physically create it.

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« Reply #2353 on: April 05, 2018, 10:06:22 PM »
Yeah, even Tim Curry in drag can't completely save RHPS.
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« Reply #2354 on: April 05, 2018, 10:06:37 PM »

Not to defend W. Bush (as I think he was a terrible president, not as bad as Trump though), but: IIRC the history, 9/11 is partly on Slick Willy's shoulders along with Dub-ya's. If I remember right, Clinton didn't inform Bush, or his administration/FBI under him didn't. It's been years, but I remember talk of it being an intelligence failure from the previous admin.


The failure was not killing Bin Laden when Clinton had the chance. He had the chance to bomb a house he was in and didn't.
Bin Laden was known to everyone, and George W and his entire team got a memo on possible attacks right after getting into office.

If you are referring to that governor's mansion incident, I'm pretty sure subsequent evidence conducted under Bush said he had left at the time it was scheduled. Meaning they probably just kill a bunch of innocents and create another international incident. Hindsight is always 20/20 though.

Either way, ultimately Bush got pretty explicit warning signs himself and ignored them. It is a stretch to blame Clinton when Bush was receiving intel about potential terrorists taking flight lessons in Florida.

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« Reply #2355 on: April 05, 2018, 10:18:07 PM »

Not to defend W. Bush (as I think he was a terrible president, not as bad as Trump though), but: IIRC the history, 9/11 is partly on Slick Willy's shoulders along with Dub-ya's. If I remember right, Clinton didn't inform Bush, or his administration/FBI under him didn't. It's been years, but I remember talk of it being an intelligence failure from the previous admin.


The failure was not killing Bin Laden when Clinton had the chance. He had the chance to bomb a house he was in and didn't.
Bin Laden was known to everyone, and George W and his entire team got a memo on possible attacks right after getting into office.

If you are referring to that governor's mansion incident, I'm pretty sure subsequent evidence conducted under Bush said he had left at the time it was scheduled. Meaning they probably just kill a bunch of innocents and create another international incident. Hindsight is always 20/20 though.

Either way, ultimately Bush got pretty explicit warning signs himself and ignored them. It is a stretch to blame Clinton when Bush was receiving intel about potential terrorists taking flight lessons in Florida.

Oh, I'm not blaming Clinton 100%. I'm saying it's 50-50 on their shoulders. Clinton could've "stopped it" (or at least told Bush "yo, security risks. You might want to keep that/them in mind"), and the whole response from Bush post-9/11 was so dumb. But that's getting into territory where I don't really want to go down.

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« Reply #2356 on: April 05, 2018, 10:19:14 PM »
The mouth breathing pseudo-intellectuals here are almost as amazing as their little fan clubs that follow them around liking their posts.

I mean, you haven't made a good argument for why hurting Amazon would not have the implication of helping brick and mortar stores and malls.  You say, it would just hurt Amazon and help nobody else.   Why ought policy not recognize the need for local stores to succeed and for local communities to flourish, which will invariably happen if Amazon does less well?  Amazon has been dominating every semblance of every speck of every retail space in existence for the past 25 years, and only gets more and more leveraging power and an unparalleled ability to sell cheap goods efficiently over time.   It's not about sticking to the man -- it's sensible policy to ask Amazon to pay more for the privilege (and it is, privilege) that it enjoys.

Lmao why would you think Amazon failing would mean brick and mortars would somehow start thriving again "Gee, if we get rid of all these Hummers, horse and buggies will sure make a comeback" lmao

Yeah, you know who likely benefits most from Trump's unhinged and rudderless attack on Amazon? Probably Wal Mart. You know, the old boogieman of retail that has been slowly trying to cut in on Amazon's online marketshare with aggressive pricing strategies, who similarly benefits from bulk shipping arrangements with the USPS, exploits low paid workers, abuses taxation loopholes, and is definitely still harming local small businesses.

If you want to reform something, reform it. But crying on Twitter about matters you aren't even informed about? Yeah, that's not good governance.

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« Reply #2357 on: April 05, 2018, 10:23:29 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/posts/6400203/

This forum is so weird lol.
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« Reply #2358 on: April 05, 2018, 10:26:22 PM »

Not to defend W. Bush (as I think he was a terrible president, not as bad as Trump though), but: IIRC the history, 9/11 is partly on Slick Willy's shoulders along with Dub-ya's. If I remember right, Clinton didn't inform Bush, or his administration/FBI under him didn't. It's been years, but I remember talk of it being an intelligence failure from the previous admin.


The failure was not killing Bin Laden when Clinton had the chance. He had the chance to bomb a house he was in and didn't.
Bin Laden was known to everyone, and George W and his entire team got a memo on possible attacks right after getting into office.

If you are referring to that governor's mansion incident, I'm pretty sure subsequent evidence conducted under Bush said he had left at the time it was scheduled. Meaning they probably just kill a bunch of innocents and create another international incident. Hindsight is always 20/20 though.

Either way, ultimately Bush got pretty explicit warning signs himself and ignored them. It is a stretch to blame Clinton when Bush was receiving intel about potential terrorists taking flight lessons in Florida.

Tbh I think the blame should be placed more on an institutional failure of the intelligence community over the course of several administrations than a single president. It's shocking how many times leading up to 9/11 agencies failed to share intelligence or hindered their own agents over essentially were dick swinging contests. John O'Neill is kind of tragically poetic example of that

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« Reply #2359 on: April 05, 2018, 10:29:30 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/posts/6400203/

This forum is so weird lol.

The mods have a power problem.

Say something to a mod; get a ban.

Say something to another user: "I really don't know what you're talking about."

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« Reply #2360 on: April 05, 2018, 10:29:41 PM »
Banned 1 day: Victim Blaming
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Banned 1 day: Victim Blaming


thank you mods :rejoice

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« Reply #2361 on: April 05, 2018, 10:31:49 PM »
Bonus reeeee:

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« Reply #2362 on: April 05, 2018, 10:32:03 PM »

Not to defend W. Bush (as I think he was a terrible president, not as bad as Trump though), but: IIRC the history, 9/11 is partly on Slick Willy's shoulders along with Dub-ya's. If I remember right, Clinton didn't inform Bush, or his administration/FBI under him didn't. It's been years, but I remember talk of it being an intelligence failure from the previous admin.


The failure was not killing Bin Laden when Clinton had the chance. He had the chance to bomb a house he was in and didn't.
Bin Laden was known to everyone, and George W and his entire team got a memo on possible attacks right after getting into office.

If you are referring to that governor's mansion incident, I'm pretty sure subsequent evidence conducted under Bush said he had left at the time it was scheduled. Meaning they probably just kill a bunch of innocents and create another international incident. Hindsight is always 20/20 though.

Either way, ultimately Bush got pretty explicit warning signs himself and ignored them. It is a stretch to blame Clinton when Bush was receiving intel about potential terrorists taking flight lessons in Florida.

Tbh I think the blame should be placed more on an institutional failure of the intelligence community over the course of several administration than a single president. It's shocking how many times leading up to 9/11 agencies failed to share intelligence or hindered their own agents over essentially were dick swinging contests. John O'Neill is kind of tragically poetic example of that

That is very true. Though a counter point would also be that such lack of coordination was also ultimately tied to leadership and congress to reform those institutions to be less adversarial and more cooperative. Which as I understand it had been an ongoing thing between branches and intelligence services going back to WWII. Mainly because of what a lot of things are about, ego, money, and obsessions with compartmentalization. Which unfortunately took 9/11 to somewhat reform that. Almost like we we're basically ripe for that sort of thing eventually.






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« Reply #2363 on: April 05, 2018, 10:36:40 PM »
https://www.resetera.com/posts/6400203/

This forum is so weird lol.

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Why the fuck do people still post there? christ.

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« Reply #2364 on: April 05, 2018, 10:36:54 PM »
Tbh I think the blame should be placed more on an institutional failure of the intelligence community over the course of several administrations than a single president. It's shocking how many times leading up to 9/11 agencies failed to share intelligence or hindered their own agents over essentially were dick swinging contests. John O'Neill is kind of tragically poetic example of that
French authorities began monitoring Moussaoui in 1996 when they observed him with Islamic extremists in London. In 1998, he attended the Khalden training camp in Afghanistan, allegedly returning the next year as well. In September 2000, he visited Malaysia and stayed in a condominium owned by Yazid Sufaat who, in October 2000, signed letters identifying Moussaoui as a representative of his company. Two of the September 11 hijackers lived in the same condominium in January 2000. Jemaah Islamiah leader Riduan Ismauddin sent cohort Yazid Sufaat to provide Moussaoui with $35,000 USD and travel documents in Malaysia in October.

From February 26 to May 29, 2001, Moussaoui attended flight training courses at Airman Flight School in Norman, Oklahoma. Despite 57 hours of flying lessons, he failed and left without ever having flown solo. This school was visited by Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, who piloted planes into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center.

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Moussaoui allegedly received US$14,000 in wire transfers from bin al-Shibh, originating from Düsseldorf and Hamburg, Germany, in early August. This money could have helped him pay for flight training about two weeks later at Pan-Am International Flight Academy in Eagan, Minnesota. On August 13, Moussaoui paid US$6,800 with US$100 bills to receive training in a 747-400 simulator.  ... Clarence Prevost, the flight instructor assigned to Moussaoui, began to have suspicions about his student. His behavior largely resembled that of other seemingly wealthy men who had come to the center in the past to receive jumbo jet training despite the fact that they'd probably never use it, but some characteristics were unusual. Prevost said later that in pre-simulator instruction, Moussaoui would ask questions that had the right jargon but were otherwise nonsensical. Moussaoui read through the 747 training manuals, but had a lack of understanding of the plane's systems. Prevost was confused as to why Moussaoui would seek simulator time if he lacked basic plane knowledge. After some convincing, his supervisors contacted the FBI, who came to meet with him.

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On August 16, 2001, Moussaoui was arrested by Harry Samit of the FBI and INS agents in Minnesota and charged with an immigration violation.[21] Materials itemized when he was arrested included a laptop computer, two knives, flight manuals pertaining to Boeing's 747 aircraft, a flight simulator computer program, fighting gloves and shin guards, and a computer disk with information about crop dusting.[21]

Some agents worried that his flight training had violent intentions, so the Minnesota bureau tried to get permission (sending over 70 emails in a week) to search his laptop, but they were turned down.[22] FBI agent Coleen Rowley made an explicit request for permission to search Moussaoui's personal rooms. This request was first denied by her superior, Deputy General Counsel Marion "Spike" Bowman, and later rejected based upon FISA regulations (amended after 9/11 by the USA Patriot Act). Several further search attempts similarly failed.
Samit became aware of Moussaoui because of Clancy Prevost,[1] a certified flight instructor at the Pan-Am International Flight Academy in Eagan, Minnesota. Moussaoui had enrolled for training in a 747-400 flight simulator at the school on August 13 but his behavior during instruction alarmed Prevost, who did not believe that Moussaoui was just a wealthy individual interested in flying jumbo jets. At Prevost's urging, the flight school contacted the Minneapolis FBI Field Office, and Samit was one of the special agents assigned to investigate Moussaoui.

Moussaoui was arrested by INS Special Agents for a visa violation on August 16 but, because the arrest was effected outside the Residence Inn where Moussaoui had been staying, Samit had no legal right to search the hotel room and its contents without Moussaoui's consent. Moussaoui denied consent, so Samit could only search Moussaoui and his car. Samit found a small knife in Moussaoui's left pocket and another knife in the car.[2]

As a certified private pilot himself, Samit was suspicious, suspecting that Moussaoui was plotting an act of international terrorism against the United States. He therefore sought permission to search Moussaoui's belongings which were known to include several bags and suitcases, and a laptop computer. The first application to obtain a criminal search warrant was denied by FBI Headquarters on the ground of insufficient evidence. A second application to search was made under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, but this was also denied. The FBI did obtain a search warrant for the belongings, but only after the September 11th attacks. The Minneapolis Field Office had received a report from Moussaoui's home government of France that linked him to Islamic terrorism, but the FBI Headquarters in Washington did not believe that evidence was sufficient to present to the FISA court for a search warrant. On the question of using foreign government intelligence to validate a request for a domestic search warrant through the FISA court, it is unclear if the Field Office could have appealed administratively to the White House National Security Council. Had the belongings been opened before September 11, knives, flight manuals, and other clues would have been found.[3] Whether these clues would have sparked a national emergency or simply been treated like the August 6 memo entitled Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US is subject to debate.

When FBI Headquarters denied both Samit's application for search powers, he initiated a process to notify the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of his suspicions of possible aircraft hijacking attempts, but FBI Headquarters censored the memo. Relying on personal contacts, Samit then met with a Minneapolis FAA official, but that official did not pursue Samit's leads.

"I am so desperate to get into his computer, I'll take anything,"[4] Samit wrote in an e-mail on September 10, 2001.

In March 2006, during Moussaoui's death sentence trial, Samit testified that he had spent the time between August 16 and September 11 trying to warn U.S. officials about the possibility of terrorist actions involving the hijacking of aircraft.
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« Reply #2365 on: April 05, 2018, 10:41:47 PM »
What a shitty situation. Thoughts and prayers to the 1 day bans.

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« Reply #2366 on: April 05, 2018, 10:44:04 PM »
Neither Administration really investigated the U.S.S. Cole bombing either. Lots of "wrap it up already, this looks bad" to that whole affair.

Ali Soufan being the most famous agent in the wake of that: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent

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« Reply #2367 on: April 05, 2018, 10:49:59 PM »
Tbh I think the blame should be placed more on an institutional failure of the intelligence community over the course of several administrations than a single president. It's shocking how many times leading up to 9/11 agencies failed to share intelligence or hindered their own agents over essentially were dick swinging contests. John O'Neill is kind of tragically poetic example of that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacarias_Moussaoui
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Samit
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Neither Administration really investigated the U.S.S. Cole bombing either. Lots of "wrap it up already, this looks bad" to that whole affair.

Ali Soufan being the most famous agent in the wake of that: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent
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« Reply #2368 on: April 05, 2018, 10:51:59 PM »
That is very true. Though a counter point would also be that such lack of coordination was also ultimately tied to leadership and congress to reform those institutions to be less adversarial and more cooperative. Which as I understand it had been an ongoing thing between branches and intelligence services going back to WWII. Mainly because of what a lot of things are about, ego, money, and obsessions with compartmentalization. Which unfortunately took 9/11 to somewhat reform that. Almost like we we're basically ripe for that sort of thing eventually.
If I had to point a finger, I'd definitely be more inclined to point in the direction of the dude who helped OBL get in the game in the first place, but like you said, the culture goes back ages and I'm not gonna attempt to untangle that. It's just so frustrating. In the immediate fallout of 9/11 intelligence agencies are getting blank checks to fulfill their anti-terror bucket lists, yet it in hindsight it seems like they really should have been able to prevent something like this with the resources already at their disposal. Like gee, maybe the two groups of people with knowledge of an imminent terror attack could choke down their egos enough to talk to each other?

As a sidenote, remember how fuckin' batshit the country went immediately after 9/11? The FBI got Mueller to sign off on draining a lake looking for a homemade underwater anthrax lab :lol

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« Reply #2369 on: April 05, 2018, 10:58:25 PM »
Neither Administration really investigated the U.S.S. Cole bombing either. Lots of "wrap it up already, this looks bad" to that whole affair.

Ali Soufan being the most famous agent in the wake of that: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/10/the-agent

He was the guy who O'Neill sent when the FBI cockblocked him, right?

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« Reply #2370 on: April 05, 2018, 10:59:45 PM »
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"I hate Sonic's sh*tty friends" - No, you really don't (or shouldn't) and here's why.

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If this is why you dislike Sonic's side-characters, then I've got news for you. You don't hate Sonic's "sh*tty friends", you hate stupid gimmicky alternate gameplay styles shoehorned into a platformer game.

When you look at these actual characters... like, they aren't even bad lol.

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most of Sonic's friends are pretty obnoxious.

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EDIT 2: Been thinking about it even more and decided that the title of this thread isn't true. I don't think you should be forced to love these characters; I can think of plenty of good reasons to hate them that have nothing to do with gameplay.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-hate-sonics-sh-tty-friends-no-you-really-dont-or-shouldnt-and-heres-why.34029/

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« Reply #2371 on: April 05, 2018, 11:06:35 PM »
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Been thinking about it even more and decided that the title of this thread isn't true. I don't think you should be forced to love these characters
victim blaming at its worst, not even in good faith

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« Reply #2372 on: April 05, 2018, 11:16:30 PM »
speaking of making people upset, another roseanne thread :doge

https://www.resetera.com/threads/‘roseanne’-revival-sets-more-ratings-records.34189/
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I have to say, though, I'm surprised at the restraint of Barr to not make this more pro-Trump.
this really raises a good question, why isn't Vox or Waypoint or someone respected like that not doing fact-checking of each episodes claims? they could even be live fact-checking it on twitter for the largest audience, that would ensure that everyone can shoot down the lies when your Roseanne loving dad you tried to cut out of your life entirely for wearing the wrong shirt sends you a youtube clip

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« Reply #2373 on: April 05, 2018, 11:24:53 PM »
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Ugh this scares me that companies will give a platform to conservatives if there's money in it. We dont need that.
Oh god. Just imagine if entire blocks of the week had sitcoms starring Tim Allen, Patrica Heaton, Jim Belushi, Kristie Alley and Kelsey Grammer on! It'd be so normalizing! And what if they got into action-adventures or dramas starring Kevin Sorbo, Angie Harmon, Chuck Norris or Gary Sinise?!?

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« Reply #2374 on: April 05, 2018, 11:32:56 PM »
I like how they seem to think Roseanne is regularly conservative and not just, you know, nuts.

What am I saying, they probably don't even remember (or know?) that Barr ran for President in 2012.

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With Cindy Sheehan. On the Peace and Freedom Party ticket.

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After losing to Soviet KGB Agent Jill Stein at the Green Party convention.
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« Reply #2375 on: April 05, 2018, 11:41:31 PM »
Ain't a damn thing to get about RHPS

I don't fuck with bad musicals

RHPS is very bad, fucking bad

Shitty ass musical

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« Reply #2376 on: April 05, 2018, 11:46:07 PM »
Beats RHCP though

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« Reply #2377 on: April 05, 2018, 11:55:20 PM »
album of tim curry doing pre-californication rhcp covers pls

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« Reply #2378 on: April 06, 2018, 12:19:14 AM »
Ain't a damn thing to get about RHPS

nicca, you're black. So I'm going to let this slide. It's a cac thing, you wouldn't understand.

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« Reply #2379 on: April 06, 2018, 12:22:39 AM »
Nillas round here don’t really fuck with RHPS like that.

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« Reply #2380 on: April 06, 2018, 01:20:53 AM »
So what's the origin and meaning of "cac" anyway?

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« Reply #2381 on: April 06, 2018, 01:28:35 AM »
I was asked to play Rocky at a showing but I got too "excited" before going on stage.  Apparently that's a thing in the show and they called me a "Rock Hard," and the understudy played the role.  I'm almost positive he used medical tape.

Ir was just a gay
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« Reply #2382 on: April 06, 2018, 01:43:05 AM »
You know what, maybe you're not the poster I'm thinking of. I get people on message boards mixed up a lot.

Optimus and Nintex though... those fuckers I'm 100% sure on.

Well what did you attribute to me?  lol, kinda curious

I've been a college intellectual longer than most of you have been alive.

I think I had you mixed up with clothedmac.

Sir, I got banned on NeoGAF for being a college intellectual.  And then permbanned by Bish for pointing out one of his darlings faults. 

And then perm banned again for "pushing the envelope."

I"m basically like if Jesus had to be killed three times.
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« Reply #2383 on: April 06, 2018, 02:12:55 AM »
So what's the origin and meaning of "cac" anyway?

It’s white peoples’ N-word.

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« Reply #2384 on: April 06, 2018, 02:26:01 AM »
cracker ass cracker

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« Reply #2385 on: April 06, 2018, 03:22:02 AM »
I'd eat an ass cracker.

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« Reply #2386 on: April 06, 2018, 03:22:21 AM »
So what's the origin and meaning of "cac" anyway?
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I think it's corny as hell but hey...people say what they wanna say

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« Reply #2387 on: April 06, 2018, 03:36:20 AM »
Anyone ever have a Naked Chicken Chalupa from TB? Shit was so fire.

Also just learned that there’s a whole Taco Bell community ala gaming with leaks and everything lmao

https://www.livingmas.com/single-post/2017/11/08/BIG-Taco-Bell-LEAK

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« Reply #2388 on: April 06, 2018, 03:37:43 AM »

I think it's corny as hell but hey...people say what they wanna say

Except when singing along to my favourite rap song.

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« Reply #2389 on: April 06, 2018, 03:51:20 AM »
https://www.resetera.com/posts/6388601/

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Rocky Horror Picture show is a bad movie

A bad musical

Bad all around

All that bullshit atmosphere at a live performance don't matter if your product is fucking shit

Fuck you lionpride, this is one step too far.  :maf

https://www.resetera.com/posts/6388395/

Is this an example of "code-switching"?  LP did not talk like this when he came here.  I mean, he sounds like a complete, unhinged distinguished mentally-challenged fellow on Era -- but seemed pretty reasonable here.
I didn't talk like that because I was in a good mood you fucking bozo

So why post on REE at all if it puts you in such a bad mood all the time? Sounds weird, man.

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« Reply #2390 on: April 06, 2018, 04:36:54 AM »
what all y'all on about?

it's not creepy ass cracker? :mindblown

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« Reply #2391 on: April 06, 2018, 04:37:26 AM »
LionPride, please stop appropriating cac culture

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« Reply #2392 on: April 06, 2018, 06:00:24 AM »
Ain't a damn thing to get about RHPS

nicca, you're black. So I'm going to let this slide. It's a cac thing, you wouldn't understand.
I’m a cac and it’s trash 👎🏻
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« Reply #2393 on: April 06, 2018, 06:01:19 AM »
So what's the origin and meaning of "cac" anyway?
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I think it's corny as hell but hey...people say what they wanna say
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« Reply #2394 on: April 06, 2018, 06:43:34 AM »
Oi Oi

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« Reply #2395 on: April 06, 2018, 07:55:32 AM »
So what's the origin and meaning of "cac" anyway?

It’s white peoples’ N-word.

Incorrect, we have nilla and sometime niggy

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« Reply #2396 on: April 06, 2018, 08:05:46 AM »
ni(b)(b)a
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« Reply #2397 on: April 06, 2018, 08:08:20 AM »
So what's the origin and meaning of "cac" anyway?

It’s white peoples’ N-word.

Incorrect, we have nilla and sometime niggy

i think "we" might be just you. i checked urban dictionary and the word was added by the user "Nilla" back in 2005 and has since garnered only 250 likes.

Compare that to the word "doshkaboob", which was added in 2017 and already has almost 600 likes, or the word "nicca" with nearly 70.000 likes.


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« Reply #2398 on: April 06, 2018, 09:04:26 AM »
So what's the origin and meaning of "cac" anyway?

It’s white peoples’ N-word.

Incorrect, we have nilla and sometime niggy

i think "we" might be just you. i checked urban dictionary and the word was added by the user "Nilla" back in 2005 and has since garnered only 250 likes.

Compare that to the word "doshkaboob", which was added in 2017 and already has almost 600 likes, or the word "nicca" with nearly 70.000 likes.

Only a racist piece of shit would like a divisive word like nilla in 2005, which is why the real nillas of this country are taking it back.

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« Reply #2399 on: April 06, 2018, 09:30:26 AM »
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Ugh this scares me that companies will give a platform to conservatives if there's money in it. We dont need that.
Oh god. Just imagine if entire blocks of the week had sitcoms starring Tim Allen, Patrica Heaton, Jim Belushi, Kristie Alley and Kelsey Grammer on! It'd be so normalizing! And what if they got into action-adventures or dramas starring Kevin Sorbo, Angie Harmon, Chuck Norris or Gary Sinise?!?

Reading that post this morning I found myself like "Are we the baddies?"

Dude's talking about deplatforming regular ass political opposition, or rather being scared that we aren't lmao

Anyone ever have a Naked Chicken Chalupa from TB? Shit was so fire.

Also just learned that there’s a whole Taco Bell community ala gaming with leaks and everything lmao

https://www.livingmas.com/single-post/2017/11/08/BIG-Taco-Bell-LEAK

No man the Naked Chicken Chalupa was straight butt I was so glad when they took that shit off the menu