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Re: The Official Psychoanalysis GAF Thread
« Reply #36780 on: January 15, 2013, 12:54:22 PM »
yeah once you're on perm watch you are pretty much fucked no matter what you do or say.  I called Britney Spears a whiny bitch and got perm'd

Wait, when were you perma'd? And why were you put on perma watch?

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« Reply #36781 on: January 15, 2013, 12:57:25 PM »
Valnen is the bottom of the barrel incarnate.  He's now migrated to the Giant Bomb thread to cry about the fact they gave Devil May Cry a 5 star review.

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« Reply #36782 on: January 15, 2013, 02:56:14 PM »
Valnen is the bottom of the barrel incarnate.  He's now migrated to the Giant Bomb thread to cry about the fact they gave Devil May Cry a 5 star review.


I'm honestly still trying to figure out what has happened in the past two days since I've been at work and mostly unplugged from the internet, but from what I can gather in the past few hours of trudging through some of the most inane, immature, pathetic whining I've seen on the web for the past few years is that apparently the new Devil May Cry game came out. Apparently it's a well developed product and apparently there is a large (or maybe not-so-large-but-loud) group of idiots and morons tripping across the internet who either refuse to believe that this is true, or some other bullshit about it not being a real DMC game, I'm not too sure on that last point. I think I read something about it a year ago.

Now, I would like to say that that would be totally cool if these people were arguing with just a touch of dignity, or at the very least holding themselves up online in a coherent and decipherable way, but after forcing my poor eyes to absorb some of most abhorrent comments about a fucking video game on a number of different platforms, GAF included, I've come to one conclusion: This article is 100% correct. The content is insulting and rude and in your face because in the face of all this bloody stupidity right now it has to be. To all of you idiots acting like you're on some higher plane of morality and that this article is "insulting to you as a gamer", bend over and pull the fucking stick out of your god damn ass and look at what she is actually saying. And to all these DMC "die hards" making numerous forums and news sites a difficult place to be on right now, please please please shut the fuck up, stop caring about this fucking game and go on with your bloody lives.


...said this disgruntled fellow:  http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46462926&postcount=115

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« Reply #36783 on: January 15, 2013, 03:48:29 PM »
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=508399

This has turned into something interesting. As usual, some of the new members have turned out to be particularly awful. That stop it guy is one of the bigger morons to emerge in awhile. Is he one of your alts?

Entertaining read, though.

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« Reply #36784 on: January 15, 2013, 03:50:08 PM »
I have a hard time caring about either side of the DMC stuff because it's not a series I've ever been into.  That said, I think I can relate to a degree because I am a mark for Mass Effect and the way ME3 ended up left me banging my head against the wall.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=508399

This has turned into something interesting. As usual, some of the new members have turned out to be particularly awful. That stop it guy is one of the bigger morons to emerge in awhile. Is he one of your alts?

Entertaining read, though.

How on Earth is that a parody of the Venus De Milo when it looks absolutely nothing like it save for the fact it's a (somewhat) female form?
« Last Edit: January 15, 2013, 04:01:33 PM by FStop7 »

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« Reply #36785 on: January 15, 2013, 05:10:06 PM »
a couple of mods, namely Mumei and Opiate really don't like when GAF turns into a boys club. That being said I dont think saying you wanna cum on a chicks tits is perm worthy, but Eggman is also an awful poster. Its like watching a cop wrongly beat someone I hate. Do i lament the lack of justice, or do i just sit back like (Image removed from quote.)

I fucking love this  :lol

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Re: The Official Psychoanalysis GAF Thread
« Reply #36786 on: January 15, 2013, 05:12:57 PM »
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=508399

This has turned into something interesting. As usual, some of the new members have turned out to be particularly awful. That stop it guy is one of the bigger morons to emerge in awhile. Is he one of your alts?

Entertaining read, though.

Why did people come up with the Venus de Milo spoof? Doesn't reference it at all. It's just a limbless and headless figure.

Someone said it's in the press release. Wow Devs are really fucking reaching these days.

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« Reply #36787 on: January 15, 2013, 07:58:28 PM »
Oh god :o The skinny guy in the Post Your Pics thread. I've never felt so conscious on my ribs before. I can feel them just sitting there... being ribs :yuck

I'm going to go eat a pop tart

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46464633&postcount=350

I thought he was kinda cute(I have a thing for curly hair) but then I scrolled down. :-\
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« Reply #36788 on: January 15, 2013, 08:01:51 PM »
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=508410

 :-\

Some people are seriously comparing pedophilia/sex with a child to homosexuality.

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Re: The Official Psychoanalysis GAF Thread
« Reply #36789 on: January 15, 2013, 08:36:35 PM »
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46464633&postcount=350

I thought he was kinda cute(I have a thing for curly hair) but then I scrolled down. :-\


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« Reply #36790 on: January 15, 2013, 08:50:24 PM »
Looks like one of the vampzombies from I Am Legend.

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« Reply #36791 on: January 15, 2013, 09:19:34 PM »
More like I Am Anorexic.
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« Reply #36792 on: January 15, 2013, 09:31:11 PM »
I'm still waiting for DmC's month sales before I declare myself pleasantly surprised. While I'm on the "hater" side I'm glad Ninja Theory at least delivered a competent action game (more so Capcom's help, I guess?) compared to Enslaved/H. Sword/previous outings. I had no hope they'd actually do that, and the demo didn't really wow but but it seems they've hit a spot with some of the casual action game players so good for them.

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« Reply #36793 on: January 15, 2013, 10:38:41 PM »

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« Reply #36794 on: January 15, 2013, 10:45:15 PM »
There should be a tax for starting new threads.

Also, this guy - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46446910&postcount=127

Just got absolutely shit on by this guy - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46447450&postcount=141

But of course since that guy wasn't farting out gun control hyperbole his well informed posts go largely ignored.  If it had been the other way around there would have been 50 pages of one word replies and animated GIFs of cats, ponies, idris elba, and pro wrestlers exclaiming shit in praise of teh sick burnz.

As much as people angrily deny it there's a lot of groupthink on GAF.
« Last Edit: January 15, 2013, 11:03:05 PM by FStop7 »

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« Reply #36795 on: January 15, 2013, 11:07:42 PM »
I can't even post there anymore. I read that thread about the CE disembodied statue for Dead Island and just got annoyed by everybody. I'm more annoyed these days at how devs think so little of gamers and enough gamers reinforce it so we're all forced to deal with the same derivative crap over and over. At this point it's not about objectification, sexualization or any of that shit, people just swallow awful games with awful story lines, awful characters and awful gameplay. If CEs are basically some fucking prize for someone who likes that kind of shit, (I realize they pulled it), people should just be insulted at the insinuation that they are nothing more than some 12 year old horny nerd.

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« Reply #36796 on: January 15, 2013, 11:22:53 PM »
devs think so little of themselves. gamers, the social turdbucket from whence devs are derived, also think very little of themselves. hence, GAMEZ.
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Re: The Official Psychoanalysis GAF Thread
« Reply #36797 on: January 15, 2013, 11:24:04 PM »
devs think so little of themselves. gamers, the social turdbucket from whence devs are derived, also think very little of themselves. hence, GAMEZ.

Vicious cycle of producing shit I guess.

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« Reply #36798 on: January 15, 2013, 11:31:59 PM »
i work with game devs all day. 20% of them are brilliant renaissance men and women with a strong desire to thoroughly explore and advance  their chosen field, both technically and philosophically, and who have astonishingly progressive and engaged views on life. the other 80% love anime tits and star wars.
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« Reply #36799 on: January 15, 2013, 11:32:01 PM »
I can't even post there anymore. I read that thread about the CE disembodied statue for Dead Island and just got annoyed by everybody. I'm more annoyed these days at how devs think so little of gamers and enough gamers reinforce it so we're all forced to deal with the same derivative crap over and over. At this point it's not about objectification, sexualization or any of that shit, people just swallow awful games with awful story lines, awful characters and awful gameplay. If CEs are basically some fucking prize for someone who likes that kind of shit, (I realize they pulled it), people should just be insulted at the insinuation that they are nothing more than some 12 year old horny nerd.
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« Reply #36800 on: January 15, 2013, 11:34:15 PM »
I can't even post there anymore. I read that thread about the CE disembodied statue for Dead Island and just got annoyed by everybody. I'm more annoyed these days at how devs think so little of gamers and enough gamers reinforce it so we're all forced to deal with the same derivative crap over and over. At this point it's not about objectification, sexualization or any of that shit, people just swallow awful games with awful story lines, awful characters and awful gameplay. If CEs are basically some fucking prize for someone who likes that kind of shit, (I realize they pulled it), people should just be insulted at the insinuation that they are nothing more than some 12 year old horny nerd.

Engaging in that topic is one of many mistakes I've made in my life.

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« Reply #36801 on: January 15, 2013, 11:36:40 PM »
ol' drohne (rip) said it best, once, when chastising moi for a moment of /unusual/ meanspiritedness: "geeks are cannibals of the lowest order.'
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« Reply #36802 on: January 15, 2013, 11:37:10 PM »
I don't even think they seriously intended on producing that statue thing.  I think it was meant to provoke an outcry and get people talking about the game.  I guess it worked in the same way that Gawker acting stupid keeps people talking about them.  I had a few hours of fun with Dead Island but unless Riptide is a big upgrade I'll wait until it's in the bargain bin or skip it entirely.

I rolled my eyes at the Cyberpunk 2077 CG trailer, too.  Starting off with a crotch shot of a robo babe isn't putting their best foot forward.  Then again, The Witcher 2 opened up with gratuitously nude Triss. 

Whenever people express distaste over that stuff people always say "WHY U SO OFFENDED BREH" - I don't even get that.  If I don't find something appealing does that mean I must be offended?  Like someone on GAF said - it's not that I feel 'outrage', it's more like I sigh in the way a dog's owner does when it shits on the carpet.  Then I mutter to myself and shuffle off to get some paper towels.
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« Reply #36803 on: January 15, 2013, 11:37:18 PM »
I like the Game devs that I've met, but having been around some game dev students, I can totally see the 4chan fuckwad element.

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« Reply #36804 on: January 15, 2013, 11:37:26 PM »
I can't even post there anymore. I read that thread about the CE disembodied statue for Dead Island and just got annoyed by everybody. I'm more annoyed these days at how devs think so little of gamers and enough gamers reinforce it so we're all forced to deal with the same derivative crap over and over. At this point it's not about objectification, sexualization or any of that shit, people just swallow awful games with awful story lines, awful characters and awful gameplay. If CEs are basically some fucking prize for someone who likes that kind of shit, (I realize they pulled it), people should just be insulted at the insinuation that they are nothing more than some 12 year old horny nerd.
You're just a woman tho

I love the assertions that someone's imaginary wife or girlfriend dug it so what's the problem. Even if they were real how does their opinion actually mean shit all when it comes to the problem. You mean you married someone who has the same infantile opinions as you? Holy fuck amazing.

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« Reply #36805 on: January 15, 2013, 11:39:36 PM »
that's the ol' misogynist concern troll variant: "well, *my* female friends don't see the problem..."
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« Reply #36806 on: January 15, 2013, 11:40:01 PM »
There should be a tax for starting new threads.

Also, this guy - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46446910&postcount=127

Just got absolutely shit on by this guy - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46447450&postcount=141

But of course since that guy wasn't farting out gun control hyperbole his well informed posts go largely ignored.  If it had been the other way around there would have been 50 pages of one word replies and animated GIFs of cats, ponies, idris elba, and pro wrestlers exclaiming shit in praise of teh sick burnz.

As much as people angrily deny it there's a lot of groupthink on GAF.

 :lol :lol

I gave him his props :)

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« Reply #36807 on: January 15, 2013, 11:40:57 PM »
I can't even post there anymore. I read that thread about the CE disembodied statue for Dead Island and just got annoyed by everybody. I'm more annoyed these days at how devs think so little of gamers and enough gamers reinforce it so we're all forced to deal with the same derivative crap over and over. At this point it's not about objectification, sexualization or any of that shit, people just swallow awful games with awful story lines, awful characters and awful gameplay. If CEs are basically some fucking prize for someone who likes that kind of shit, (I realize they pulled it), people should just be insulted at the insinuation that they are nothing more than some 12 year old horny nerd.
You're just a woman tho

I love the assertions that someone's imaginary wife or girlfriend dug it so what's the problem. Even if they were real how does their opinion actually mean shit all when it comes to the problem. You mean you married someone who has the same infantile opinions as you? Holy fuck amazing.
lol that is so funny and true... "congrats, you are dating/married to a moron"
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« Reply #36808 on: January 15, 2013, 11:43:31 PM »
lol that is so funny and true... "congrats, you are dating/married to a moron"

It's not like a good portion of these guys would actually date someone who challenges their worldview let's be honest.

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« Reply #36809 on: January 15, 2013, 11:47:04 PM »
those are Wii U exclusive

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« Reply #36810 on: January 15, 2013, 11:51:34 PM »
Whenever people express distaste over that stuff people always say "WHY U SO OFFENDED BREH" - I don't even get that.  If I don't find something appealing does that mean I must be offended?  Like someone on GAF said - it's not that I feel 'outrage', it's more like I sigh in the way a dog's owner does when it shits on the carpet.  Then I mutter to myself and shuffle off to get some paper towels.

You can't have a reasonable discussion on why something that exists is a problem over there. People actually got their ideas reinforced about some nefarious PC brigade so it's impossible to rationally talk about why something is thoroughly degrading without a bunch of drama.

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« Reply #36811 on: January 15, 2013, 11:55:22 PM »
Steve Youngblood has been killing them softly in the Dead Island CE thread. 

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« Reply #36812 on: January 16, 2013, 12:08:02 AM »
He did good but he really was arguing against fucking idiots.

You think "who the fuck are they marketing this crap to" and they always make themselves known.

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« Reply #36813 on: January 16, 2013, 12:13:15 AM »
I follow the principle of "you can't fix stupid". Seems to make my life less frustrating.

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« Reply #36814 on: January 16, 2013, 12:32:30 AM »
I feel like I'm teaching a basic media interpretation class in there. To cats.
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« Reply #36815 on: January 16, 2013, 12:34:53 AM »
I feel like I'm teaching a basic media interpretation class in there. To cats.

You're doing good too but they'll never understand the concept of "objectification" beyond it being some PC BRIGADE KEYWORD, so good luck carrying on that discussion.

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« Reply #36816 on: January 16, 2013, 12:40:09 AM »
It's always fun to see people come out and bemoan "censorship" in these kinds of threads. Do you want to champion freedom of expression or do you want to reach a broad audience so you can make a ton of money? Think fast!
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« Reply #36817 on: January 16, 2013, 01:25:39 AM »
What I find most offensive is that zombie games are still being made.
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« Reply #36818 on: January 16, 2013, 01:29:59 AM »
While their argument is stupid (variations of "well person of this type likes it/has no problem with it, so what's the beef"), I also don't think it's particularly helpful to assume their 'person of this type' is imaginary or stupid or something.  Very real chance their person of that type actually doesn't care.  Possibly they aren't in their 20s and thus have real problems to worry about, so when hubby points at some dumb plastic toy on the internet and says "does this upset you", they really and truly honestly answer "no".

Devo, I find you're more often than not fighting the good fight, but you do it in such a way that you leave a different but equal mess behind you.  Their argument is stupid on its own.  You don't need to doll it up by assuming they're cheeto-dusted neckbeards.  Stupid is sufficient.

Being indifferent isn't the same as constantly trying to drown out those with a different opinion, which are the kinds I'm obviously talking about. Sides there have been plenty of dudes on GAF who straight up lie about their gf/wife, just do some GiS on the post your significant other thread.

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« Reply #36819 on: January 16, 2013, 01:35:41 AM »
Yes, there are some people who make up girlfriends.  There are some people who dress up like clowns and molest children.  It's not helpful to any dialogue to assume things about the other party, especially assuming the worst.  You're assuming their SOs are either imaginary, helpless, or stupid, when it's just as likely they're completely indifferent, and it's their derpy forum-using spouse that uses that indifference as ammo.  Again, that's the stupid part, and that's really all you need to win the argument as much as you're ever going to win it.  The extra assumptions you make only hurt your side of things.

If they're indifferent they wouldn't be fodder for the argument. I'm sure some don't care but those aren't the examples being put forth. I don't really care either up to a point, especially since video games are becoming complete dust shelf material for me but I don't find it surprising that they married someone who is in lock step with their shitty opinions.

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« Reply #36820 on: January 16, 2013, 01:37:53 AM »
They might not even know they're being used as fodder for the argument.

Then they're married to someone who they're unaware is using them to justify their sexism. That would make them naive or idiots.

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« Reply #36821 on: January 16, 2013, 01:40:42 AM »
Alright, I give up.  I hope someday you realize that your assumptions and judgmental nature are at odds with what your overall goals seem to be.

I don't have any goals on that site, there is no point, it's completely futile to argue any such points about objectification when they put fingers in their ears and yell "pc brigade, pc brigade, pc brigade."

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« Reply #36822 on: January 16, 2013, 01:49:21 AM »
I thought it was the PC master race
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« Reply #36823 on: January 16, 2013, 02:46:02 AM »
What I find most offensive is that zombie games are still being made.
zombies are pretty much at their most popular point right now. It's actually a shame RE6 sucked. It could have been huge.

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« Reply #36824 on: January 16, 2013, 02:50:17 AM »
the other 80% love anime tits and star wars.

Do they really LOVE it though?

Whenever I meet real geeks it always strikes me they want to convince everyone they LOVEEEEEE it and thats all they need in life.

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« Reply #36825 on: January 16, 2013, 03:26:18 AM »
The Dead Island titgate doesnt bother me at all.

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« Reply #36826 on: January 16, 2013, 03:58:59 AM »
the other 80% love anime tits and star wars.

Do they really LOVE it though?

Whenever I meet real geeks it always strikes me they want to convince everyone they LOVEEEEEE it and thats all they need in life.

A circle-jerking mosh pit of forever-aloneness.

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« Reply #36827 on: January 16, 2013, 04:08:58 AM »
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=508510

Tax stuff I don't like or enjoy.
While there are certainly objections to some of the OP's suggestions, there is nothing inherently wrong with excise taxes to make people pay for the negative externalities of their behaviour/consumption. Someone driving a car is not paying the real costs of doing so if the fuel carries no fuel duty tax and there are no other taxes in place to account for the pollution produced. The same goes for most popular things to levy excise taxes on. On top of that are, in the case of driving a car at least, the costs of maintaining the infrastructure. The user pays principle should be the guiding principle in determining how to fund this, and that would be most practically met by an excise tax on fuel, especially given the low compliance costs involved compared to alternatives. On the other hand, a tax based on the number of passengers cars carry is of course nonsensical.

Oh, and on an entirely different subject. Who the fuck would want a fake bloody torso in their house? Let alone a Union Jack.
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« Reply #36828 on: January 16, 2013, 04:50:09 AM »
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=508510

Tax stuff I don't like or enjoy.
While there are certainly objections to some of the OP's suggestions, there is nothing inherently wrong with excise taxes to make people pay for the negative externalities of their behaviour/consumption. Someone driving a car is not paying the real costs of doing so if the fuel carries no fuel duty tax and there are no other taxes in place to account for the pollution produced. The same goes for most popular things to levy excise taxes on. On top of that are, in the case of driving a car at least, the costs of maintaining the infrastructure. The user pays principle should be the guiding principle in determining how to fund this, and that would be most practically met by an excise tax on fuel, especially given the low compliance costs involved compared to alternatives. On the other hand, a tax based on the number of passengers cars carry is of course nonsensical.

Oh, and on an entirely different subject. Who the fuck would want a fake bloody torso in their house? Let alone a Union Jack.

Or you could just force companies to build more fuel efficient vehicles instead of taxing the individual and making those cars available in the first fucking place.

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« Reply #36829 on: January 16, 2013, 04:56:21 AM »
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=508510

Tax stuff I don't like or enjoy.
While there are certainly objections to some of the OP's suggestions, there is nothing inherently wrong with excise taxes to make people pay for the negative externalities of their behaviour/consumption. Someone driving a car is not paying the real costs of doing so if the fuel carries no fuel duty tax and there are no other taxes in place to account for the pollution produced. The same goes for most popular things to levy excise taxes on. On top of that are, in the case of driving a car at least, the costs of maintaining the infrastructure. The user pays principle should be the guiding principle in determining how to fund this, and that would be most practically met by an excise tax on fuel, especially given the low compliance costs involved compared to alternatives. On the other hand, a tax based on the number of passengers cars carry is of course nonsensical.

Oh, and on an entirely different subject. Who the fuck would want a fake bloody torso in their house? Let alone a Union Jack.

Or you could just force companies to build more fuel efficient vehicles instead of taxing the individual and making those cars available in the first fucking place.

Well any measure you implement that interferes in the economic decision making process to achieve a goal should be the least disruptive possible that achieves that goal. Forcing a privately held company to take certain actions is considerably more invasive and disruptive than incentivizing the purchase of more efficient cars/carpooling/driving less through fuel duty taxes.

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Re: The Official Psychoanalysis GAF Thread
« Reply #36830 on: January 16, 2013, 08:56:34 AM »
In the USA, cars that don't meet a certain level of fuel efficiency have a "gas guzzler tax" added to the price.  That tax is collected up front, in full, whether or not the buyer drives that car 10,000 miles a year or 10 miles a year. 

In California you're paying 69 cents in taxes per gallon of gas. 
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Re: The Official Psychoanalysis GAF Thread
« Reply #36831 on: January 16, 2013, 09:11:16 AM »
I can't even post there anymore. I read that thread about the CE disembodied statue for Dead Island and just got annoyed by everybody. I'm more annoyed these days at how devs think so little of gamers and enough gamers reinforce it so we're all forced to deal with the same derivative crap over and over. At this point it's not about objectification, sexualization or any of that shit, people just swallow awful games with awful story lines, awful characters and awful gameplay. If CEs are basically some fucking prize for someone who likes that kind of shit, (I realize they pulled it), people should just be insulted at the insinuation that they are nothing more than some 12 year old horny nerd.

Engaging in that topic is one of many mistakes I've made in my life.

You must be a masochist or something. I can only make one or two posts in a thread like that before throwing up my hands and saying 'fuck it'. I can only see the same, moronic shit posted so many times before I give up. Fighting against it is more or less the equivalent of banging my head against a wall. There's so many people arguing against a non-existent point of view. "You people are PANICKING over a pair of boobs? Violence is okay, but a pair of female breasts makes you FREAK THE FUCK OUT? If it was a dude's ripped chest you wouldn't care, typical American double standards. That's GAF, always pretending to be outraged over nothing!"

I spent way to much time reading that thread, and I didn't see anyone "freak out" (even with internet hyperbole factored in). No one found it offensive because they find breasts offensive, because it's not just a pair of breasts devoid of context. No one called for a petition to ban it. And the whole argument about it being a non-issue if it was a male torso is missing the point entirely. Like FStop said, the general negative reaction was more along the lines of a disappointed sigh, rather than the state of panic that a lot of those dummies tried to depict. But why bother pointing that out when the next post will likely be some chump repeating that same dumb shit yet again?

Oh, and the worst argument has the be the one suggesting that the people supposedly outraged over the issue are also the same people who order loli anime figurines. That shit is just lazy.
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Re: The Official Psychoanalysis GAF Thread
« Reply #36832 on: January 16, 2013, 09:28:30 AM »
I can't even post there anymore. I read that thread about the CE disembodied statue for Dead Island and just got annoyed by everybody. I'm more annoyed these days at how devs think so little of gamers and enough gamers reinforce it so we're all forced to deal with the same derivative crap over and over. At this point it's not about objectification, sexualization or any of that shit, people just swallow awful games with awful story lines, awful characters and awful gameplay. If CEs are basically some fucking prize for someone who likes that kind of shit, (I realize they pulled it), people should just be insulted at the insinuation that they are nothing more than some 12 year old horny nerd.

Engaging in that topic is one of many mistakes I've made in my life.


See, stuff like this...

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Hmm... I think chopping up zombies is one of the key mechanics of the game. Completing tasks, traversing the island, all the while killing zombies is the gameplay. Whether or not we should examine the glorification of violence is perhaps something we should put on the table as well in terms of determining appropriateness of content, but I don't think objection to the statue automatically necessitates that conversation.

Anyway, back to the game. Yes, you kill zombies. Some of which may be women. Some of them may even be scantily clad. This is all true. But I don't think standing over the mutilated corpse of hot zombie girl -- outside of the existence of this statue -- is something necessarily brought to the forefront as something for you to take note of. I don't know how other people played. Maybe they'd kill the zombie with the nice rack and admire their kill, take a snapshot, and make it their desktop background. I don't know.


is where you lose the internet audience.  Bringing in your pesky logic to break this situation down past the point where it proves another guy's argument!

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Re: The Official Psychoanalysis GAF Thread
« Reply #36833 on: January 16, 2013, 12:11:39 PM »
Just got absolutely shit on by this guy - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46447450&postcount=141

Dammmmmmmmmmmmmmn.

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More kids will die this year from drunk driving than have ever been killed in random mass shootings involving semi-auto weapons, and a simple 'blow-n-go' device could easily be built into every car at a reasonable cost, but nobody's out there screaming for that to happen. Why? Because it's the drunk's fault, not everyone else's.

Preach, dude.

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Oh, and on an entirely different subject. Who the fuck would want a fake bloody torso in their house? Let alone a Union Jack.

This is the problem. It (IMO) isn't sexist or whatever they're going on about, it's just a stupid idea all around. Who wants a gory bloody torso in their house? I don't and I say that as someone that would play Dead Island.

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Re: The Official Psychoanalysis GAF Thread
« Reply #36834 on: January 16, 2013, 12:19:01 PM »
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More kids will die this year from drunk driving than have ever been killed in random mass shootings involving semi-auto weapons, and a simple 'blow-n-go' device could easily be built into every car at a reasonable cost, but nobody's out there screaming for that to happen. Why? Because it's the drunk's fault, not everyone else's.

Just wanna throw out a few stats here:

-181 children [age 14 and under] were killed in 2009 because of alcohol-related traffic accidents
-92 of those were occupants in the vehicle with the drunk driver
-Only 27 were outside of a vehicle entirely

http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-statistics.html
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Re: The Official Psychoanalysis GAF Thread
« Reply #36835 on: January 16, 2013, 12:30:45 PM »
Tzeentch is like the only sane person in the gun control threads (on what might be called the "pro gun" side.)

Edit - and Bodacious.

I don't think 'pro gun' is even right, Tzeentch is just smart enough to see the what the NRA's play is rather than just fly off the handle, insult people, and then backslap other posters with meme gifs.

Anyway, what some people don't seem to get is that when you boil it down to the purest, simplest, coldest truth - the President's spouse and children are a liability.  They are a national security risk.  They are a vector for attack, coercion, intimidation, etc.  Keeping them safe is critical because they can be used against the President to make him potentially do things that are not in the best interest of the country.  So yeah, guard the fuck out of them.


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Re: The Official Psychoanalysis GAF Thread
« Reply #36836 on: January 16, 2013, 01:59:28 PM »
There should be a tax for starting new threads.

Also, this guy - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46446910&postcount=127

Just got absolutely shit on by this guy - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46447450&postcount=141

But of course since that guy wasn't farting out gun control hyperbole his well informed posts go largely ignored.  If it had been the other way around there would have been 50 pages of one word replies and animated GIFs of cats, ponies, idris elba, and pro wrestlers exclaiming shit in praise of teh sick burnz.

As much as people angrily deny it there's a lot of groupthink on GAF.



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Re: The Official Psychoanalysis GAF Thread
« Reply #36837 on: January 16, 2013, 02:07:44 PM »
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46514540&postcount=233

VoxPop losing his mind in the S3 vs. iPhone thread.

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Re: The Official Psychoanalysis GAF Thread
« Reply #36838 on: January 16, 2013, 03:52:19 PM »
God I hate gaygaf
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Re: The Official Psychoanalysis GAF Thread
« Reply #36839 on: January 16, 2013, 03:56:20 PM »
Who said console warz is dead? They just all moved on to the phone threads.