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poetry / essays / short stories? / Re: Quotes

« on: August 18, 2023, 04:20:24 AM »

I've heard this quote or some form of it from some of the folks in this community (ie ex):

"The 2nd Amendment means a militia, like the National Guard."

Nope.

It's not like there isn't plenty of additional contextual information available, because there is. There's TONS of it. Pretty much everyone who signed the Declaration of Independence is recorded elsewhere at some point (either in published writings or in personal correspondence to others) discussing the importance of a free citizenry to be armed.

Here's an interesting collection of historical quotes on the importance of an armed people:
https://ammo.com/articles/founding-fathers-quotes-second-amendment-guns-keep-and-bear-arms

Here's another quote our former vice president has erroneously stated lately:

"You couldn't buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed, ... and, remember, the Constitution, the Second Amendment was never absolute." -Joe Biden (reference here)

Was never absolute? Well if he's talking about slaves not having any of the rights listed in the Bill of Rights, then... sure. But considering that the 13th Amendment abolished slavery, I guess congress should get to work repealing it in order to reinstate the slave class and deny people their rights.

And I got news for Joe and any of the rest of you anti-2A british loyalist wankers - Cannons were 100% legal to own, and STILL ARE. (reference here) (and here)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CquUBWHU2_s

Note that at 2:36, he talks about President Madison signing a letter of marque and reprisal, authorizing PRIVATE CITIZENS to engage in piracy with cannons that they privately purchased as individuals/citizens.

Some further important info... it should be noted that it was the British Crown who prohibited all colonists under the King's rule from producing cannons. Just one of the many things the King did to keep us firmly pinned under his thumb.

Dunno who this quote is from, but it's a good one:

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poetry / essays / short stories? / Re: Quotes

« on: August 18, 2023, 03:06:39 AM »

"Seek first to understand, then to be understood"

If I don't understand you, does that mean we're both wrong? 

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?

« on: August 17, 2023, 07:30:32 AM »

AI music. 

Dunno how to feel about this. I love Hank Williams Sr. I think he was one of the greatest songwriters and lyricists of all time. I've seen how there are... what I guess are like virtual instrument plugins for modern DAW's (kinda like the Arturia keyboard software I use, and other VST's like that) but are synthetic voices of famous singers like Ozzy Osbourne. The Ozzy one I saw was far from perfect as it took lots of manual editing to get the vibrato and "sliding" notes just right. Doesn't seem like that's what this is though. This one seems to take an existing isolated vocal track and modulate it to sound like Hank Williams Sr. Some of these on this guys channel (he's got several) are from original recordings done by his son Hank Williams Jr, and I suppose the fact that they are so closely related makes it easier to make him sound like his old man. And when you compare the two... you couldn't really hear it before, but suddenly you notice how similar their voices actually are.

Anyway, I don't really like the idea of "fake" music like this, but it's still interesting to hear Hank Sr with a more modern sounding band since 99.99% of his known recordings were done with pretty low quality production (fuzzy sounding drums etc) and no electric instruments other than a lap steel.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wi_zH1zA_Q

edit:

More AI wankery... System of a Down with a fake-as-shit Kurt Cobain. This one sounds broken as hell.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIWvtcuNym4

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Religion, and the Changing Moral Zeitgeist / Re: But seriously folks...

« on: August 16, 2023, 04:28:09 AM »

you and I have rarely seen eye to eye on politics

Well if you'd like to start being RIGHT, start agreeing with me.

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dm / Re: Possible Impersonation?

« on: August 16, 2023, 04:12:38 AM »

Either he's been drankin'... or "2d" borrowing his name maybe.

Then again, there are few total nobodies around here who seem to get off on using other people's names. One of them used to spoof |iR|Joe (aka "Poopoppa" from the Monsterkill days) until he finally hooked up with Beaver and joined his iteration of {KEA} which seemed to finally give him a reason to find his own damned identity and stick to it. Not to mention the couple of other fruit loops around here who I can't even really fuckin' NAME... because they haven't used ANY one name long enough to be known by it.

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Jokes / Re: The Dick Movie Title Game

« on: August 13, 2023, 01:17:47 AM »

Dick Hard with a Vengeance
My Big Fat Greek Dick
Schindler's Dick
It's A Wonderful Dick
The Hand that Rocks the Dick
The Neverending Dick
No Dick For Old Men
The Thin Red Dick

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/dev/random / The Good Old Days thread

« on: August 13, 2023, 12:52:44 AM »

A place to remember the good old days.

Like porn in the 1980's. Is that her boob? Is that her knee? It's whatever you want it to be!

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poetry / essays / short stories? / Dr. Seuss

« on: July 23, 2023, 01:59:49 AM »

god vaevictis's stories couldn't make less sense if they were written by Dr. Suess.

it's like he lives in a different reality where he doesn't suck and doesn't throw 3 year old tantrums.   definitely not.

Hey now! Don't knock the Doc! Dr. Seuss is the shit! When tweedle beetles battle with their paddles on a poodle in a puddle, it's a tweedle beetle poodle puddle paddle battle.

Hehe, thought I had posted something about this around here before.

Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss. One of my my favorite books when I was a kid... and still is today. The part about the Tweedle Beetles was my favorite.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S82jwZ0pD1k

Basically, there's this blue furry dog looking character (dunno really what he is, it's Dr. Seuss after all) named Mr Knox, and a crazy red fox wearing blue socks. The Fox tries to teach Mr. Knox tongue twisters. Mr. Knox sucks at it apparently. In the end, Mr Knox gets pissed off and shoves fox into the bottle with the Tweedle Beetles. Yeah, it's silly, that's why I love it.

Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss
-------------------------

Fox
Socks
Box
Knox

Knox in box.
Fox in socks.

Knox on fox in socks in box.

Socks on Knox and Knox in box.

Fox in socks on box on Knox.

Chicks with bricks come.
Chicks with blocks come.
Chicks with bricks and blocks and clocks come.

Look, sir.  Look, sir.  Mr. Knox, sir.
Let's do tricks with bricks and blocks, sir.
Let's do tricks with chicks and clocks, sir.

First, I'll make a quick trick brick stack.
Then I'll make a quick trick block stack.

You can make a quick trick chick stack.
You can make a quick trick clock stack.

And here's a new trick, Mr. Knox....
Socks on chicks and chicks on fox.
Fox on clocks on bricks and blocks.
Bricks and blocks on Knox on box.

Now we come to ticks and tocks, sir.
Try to say this Mr. Knox, sir....

Clocks on fox tick.
Clocks on Knox tock.
Six sick bricks tick.
Six sick chicks tock.

Please, sir.  I don't like this trick, sir.
My tongue isn't quick or slick, sir.
I get all those ticks and clocks, sir,
mixed up with the chicks and tocks, sir.
I can't do it, Mr. Fox, sir.

I'm so sorry, Mr. Knox, sir.

Here's an easy game to play.
Here's an easy thing to say....

New socks.
Two socks.
Whose socks?
Sue's socks.

Who sews whose socks?
Sue sews Sue's socks.

Who sees who sew whose new socks, sir?
You see Sue sew Sue's new socks, sir.

That's not easy, Mr. Fox, sir.

Who comes? ...
Crow comes.
Slow Joe Crow comes.

Who sews crow's clothes?
Sue sews crow's clothes.
Slow Joe Crow sews whose clothes?
Sue's clothes.

Sue sews socks of fox in socks now.

Slow Joe Crow sews Knox in box now.

Sue sews rose on Slow Joe Crow's clothes.
Fox sews hose on Slow Joe Crow's nose.

Hose goes.
Rose grows.
Nose hose goes some.
Crow's rose grows some.

Mr. Fox!
I hate this game, sir.
This game makes my tongue quite lame, sir.

Mr. Knox, sir, what a shame, sir.

We'll find something new to do now.
Here is lots of new blue goo now.
New goo.  Blue goo.
Gooey.  Gooey.
Blue goo.  New goo.
Gluey. Gluey.

Gooey goo for chewy chewing!
That's what that Goo-Goose is doing.
Do you choose to chew goo, too, sir?
If, sir, you, sir, choose to chew, sir,
with the Goo-Goose, chew, sir.
Do, sir.

Mr. Fox, sir,
I won't do it. 
I can't say. 
I won't chew it.

Very well, sir.
Step this way.
We'll find another game to play.

Bim comes.
Ben comes.
Bim brings Ben broom.
Ben brings Bim broom.

Ben bends Bim's broom.
Bim bends Ben's broom.
Bim's bends.
Ben's bends.
Ben's bent broom breaks.
Bim's bent broom breaks.

Ben's band.  Bim's band.
Big bands.  Pig bands.

Bim and Ben lead bands with brooms.
Ben's band bangs and Bim's band booms.

Pig band!  Boom band!
Big band!  Broom band!
My poor mouth can't say that.  No, sir.
My poor mouth is much too slow, sir.

Well then... bring your mouth this way.
I'll find it something it can say.

Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luck's duck licks lakes.

Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

I can't blab such blibber blubber!
My tongue isn't make of rubber.

Mr. Knox.  Now come now.  Come now.
You don't have to be so dumb now....

Try to say this, Mr. Knox, please....

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

Stop it!  Stop it!
That's enough, sir.
I can't say such silly stuff, sir.

Very well, then, Mr. Knox, sir.

Let's have a little talk about tweetle beetles....

What do you know about tweetle beetles?  Well...

When tweetle beetles fight,
it's called a tweetle beetle battle.

And when they battle in a puddle,
it's a tweetle beetle puddle battle.

AND when tweetle beetles battle with paddles in a puddle,
they call it a tweetle beetle puddle paddle battle.

AND...

When beetles battle beetles in a puddle paddle battle
and the beetle battle puddle is a puddle in a bottle...
...they call this a tweetle beetle bottle puddle paddle battle muddle.

AND...

When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.

AND...

Now wait a minute, Mr. Socks Fox!

When a fox is in the bottle where the tweetle beetles battle
with their paddles in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle,
THIS is what they call...

...a tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled paddled
muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks, sir!

Fox in socks, our game is done, sir.
Thank you for a lot of fun, sir.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Whatcha do?

« on: July 12, 2023, 01:32:59 PM »

I work tirelessly every day to build a cloned community of Tastyspleen so that I can get back at everyone who ever said a mean thing to me on the internets. THEN I WILL HAVE THE POWER!

No wait, that's someone else.

PS, just saw the name "anal samurai" in the weekly frags ticker. That's an... interesting job description.

Perhaps a combo of old SNL characters: the anal retentive chef as played by Phil Hartman, and the samurai played by John Belushi.

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/dev/random / Re: Wrestling

« on: July 11, 2023, 07:24:48 PM »

Wasn't the WWF (now WWE?)

Yeah, I forget the exact details of the story, but apparently when the "World Wrestling Federation" began using the abbreviation WWF, it was already trademarked by the World Wildlife Foundation. I think there was a legal battle over it, and McMahon lost. In the ruling, it was acknowledged that the World Wrestling Federation had been using the abbreviation long enough that an abrupt change might've been detrimental to their business, so they were given a certain period of time before they were forced to make the change. They continued to try to find a way to keep the WWF abbreviation, but couldn't. So eventually, they decided to go with WWE, they kept the familiar stacked W's logo, but shaved off the part that formed the F.

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/dev/random / Re: Wrestling

« on: July 11, 2023, 04:13:09 PM »

Can't speak to what happens in other wrestling orgs, but WWE has become largely predictable due to how they seem to be showing favoritism to anyone who has started in and stayed with WWE. For example, I was watching the last PPV they did from Saudi Arabia, WWE Night of Champions (from May 27). They had a big match between Seth Rollins and AJ Styles for the newly created "world heavyweight title", whatever the hell that's supposed to mean (they already had a heavyweight title I thought).

Seth Rollins originally started in several independent orgs before joining Ring of Honor. But the whole time, he was never really a big character until he signed with WWE and worked his way up through FCW and NXT, earning his spot within WWE itself. So basically he's thought of as a WWE original.

AJ Styles on the other hand... he started with NWA out of Georgia (he's originally from Gainesville GA, near me). Early 2000's before they went out of business, he was part of WCW. Mmm hmmm. If you came from WCW especially, you ain't gonna get to win as much vs WWE originals. The McMahon's seem to still have a bug up their ass about the old WWE/WCW rivalry. They also seem to reward loyalty by making it to where the WWE original wrestler comes out on top usually. Anyway, throughout the 2000's he wrestled for several companies, Ring of Honor, NWA, Impact, TNA, etc, before moving on to Japanese companies (around 2013 I think), and then finally WWE (2016-present).

Knowing this... I predicted Rollins to win. Aaaaand of course he did.

Use this same method to figure out who will win any given PPV match. I'd estimate it's about 95% effective.

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/dev/random / Re: Wrestling

« on: July 10, 2023, 06:10:40 PM »

I don't watch AEW wrestling - the weekly shows or the PPV's (if they have any, I dunno). I don't watch the WWE weekly shows either, but I do still try to catch the PPV's when I can. It's not like the old days anymore. When I was growing up, you could tune into the weekly shows and see actual title matches, etc. Seems like the weekly shows these days are all bullshit talking skits and "filler" matches, with only the important shit ever happening on PPV's.

Seems like most of the old WWE wrestlers have taken enough bullshit from McMahon and left for AEW. Cody Rhodes left WWE years ago, reinvented himself, and finally came back to WWE as a big time face with his American Nightmare persona (a nod to his famous dads American Dream persona). But he's the ONLY one who's actually come back that I can recall. Everyone else seems happier to be the fuck out from under WWE.

Sting, former WCW favorite... current "probably too fuckin' old to still be doin' it" wrestler... came close to an "involuntary retirement." He did a frog-splash move from the middle rungs of a ladder setup in the ring down to a man laying on a folding table sitting in the announcers area. The table the man was laying on broke, the second table beside it DID NOT. Stings face hit the edge of the table. Apparently he busted some teeth out, possibly concussed. Yikes.

Timestamped to start at about 2:00. If it doesn't just FFW to the 2min mark to see the whole thing unfold.


https://youtu.be/BAJKk8aCeoc?t=122

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Quake / Re: Quadz, the Loquaciously Multiloquent Member

« on: July 04, 2023, 01:58:47 AM »

Yep. Miss the hell outta Q. I miss talking politics, music, - pretty much ANY topic was interesting to talk about with someone like him - smart, kind, intuitive, logical. To me, he wasn't weird. Rare, for sure. The rest of us are the weirdo's and crazies, and we're lucky if we have people like him in our lives who are like a compass always pointing true north so we don't forget where it is we're supposed to be going and who it is were supposed to be trying to be. Dude was muh hero!

To Quadz the great!

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tastyspleen.net / Re: remove dm5

« on: June 30, 2023, 04:54:38 AM »

and BTW why is tltf STILL in my map?

tltf.bsp is clearly a long range rail-heavy map, favoring lower latency players. Higher latency players are going to be disadvantaged. 

I haven't played in many months, but when I did, I would attempt to go for the rail, but too many other people would be obsessed with it, often pitching themselves a tent on the rail platform and railing everyone as they're coming in. I found it much more effective to focus on using the chaingun to chew up the people in midair bouncing in predictable flight-paths from the 2nd tier to the 3rd tier.

Haha I just signed up for uber for a second job. What am I getting myself into?

Possibly a robbery. Head on a swivel and watch yer ass, dude. People are animals these days.

I really don't care, i'd be playing if i did.

 

You'd be replying if you did. Because you do.

Like you said...

You let yourself down there - if you're happy with your position on all of this then you shouldn't have bothered arguing it.

If everything and everyone here is so beneath you, then why linger like a fart?

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art, music, etc. / Re: The actual Death Star prop in a house entry room

« on: June 30, 2023, 04:45:57 AM »

Kinda strange coincidence... but when you posted that (or not long afterwards), I was watching a stream of an online auction on Rumble and they were auctioning off a bunch of movie used stuff, including some stuff from the Mel Brooks movie Spaceballs. A big round white Spaceballs Trooper helmet and Spaceballs trooper laser rifle (together) went for about $27,500.