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tastyspleen.net / Re: Clemency for the banned?

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I don't think what ultimately happened to Laura was unfair.

  Yes. Thank you.

For the zillionth time, (but for the benefit of anyone reading THIS thread and not one of the numerous others rehashing this same issue),...

the truth is: EVERYONE around here genuinely wanted to be her friend. I was her friend for as long as she would allow it. When she first showed up, I was one of the first friends she made around here. I recruited her into EoM. Unfortunately, her conception of a "Quake2 clan" was informed by watching how CRU (Campers-R-Us) would team up against people on the Vanilla and DM servers. While playing on a server with her... I fragged her, and she got upset and quit the clan on the spot. I later explained to her that "normal" Q2 clans do not team against others on an FFA server because it is considered poor sportsmanship. We remained friends, she rejoined EoM. A day or two later, I ran into her again on Vanilla, I shot her, and AGAIN she got upset and left the clan on the spot. This time I did not attempt to talk her into rejoining again, as clearly she would've been happier in a clan like CRU. And so... she joined CRU. Before long, she got upset with them over something silly and gameplay related and left that clan too. She began making overrides for xatrix mod. Quadz and others gave her lots of help figuring out how to do it properly. She even started her own clan. But for some reason... (I'm not aware of the particulars) she got upset at people in her clan, and kicked EVERYONE out of the clan. The people she kicked out of her clan wanted to continue playing Xatrix and her overrides. At some point, she began threatening to sue Quadz over the usage of her overrides. Long story short, she became too much of a potential liability for Quadz, so she was banned. I'm not sure how it works, but they came to an agreement with some sort of license that would allow Tastyspleen to legally use the content that she "created". (It was not original content - she never made any maps, she converted maps to the Q2 format and then made overrides for item placement, that is all.) It was a perpetually repeating trend - she'd find a reason to get upset with EVERYONE she came into contact with.

Anyone attempting to tell this story any other way was never her friend and never had any contact with her. If they ever did become her friend, inevitably that friendship would've ended with her manifesting a reason to become upset and add them to her ever-growing list of enemies.

Can I sympathize? Sure. It's gotta suck going through life not being able to maintain any stable relationships with anyone.

But I'm not going to patronize someone with a mental malfunction by treating them any differently than anyone else. It's not that I don't "respect" everyone... which I don't, because respect is EARNED. Courtesy, on the other hand, should be given freely to all until they refuse to give it back. I don't care what condition you have, no one is above anyone else in this life - Sam fuckin' Colt made sure of it.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Who is Pasta Sempa??

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/dev/random / Re: Wrestling

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what surprised me more is his age vs his CoD.. seems young to have such heart problems. Dunno if he is into steroids. His physique aint like most of his colleagues that you can immediately suspect.  I kinda like his WWE persona with the rest of WYATTs.. Guess he was one of those last acts that I really enjoyed and await before I quit avidly watching wrestling.

He's always been kinda overweight. In fact I think I was reading on wiki about him one time that back in his NXT or pre-NXT days, he was known as "Husky Harris", lol. He kinda had that classic beer-belly strongman physique, like Vader (r.i.p.), Bam Bam Bigelow (also r.i.p.) and most of the guys you ever see competing in the reruns of strongman competitions on ESPN2 late at night.

Bray wasn't even the biggest (aka ROUNDEST) guy WWE had.

Meet Otis. He can't even put his arms all the way down at his sides.



He's sorta funny. I still think Bo Dallas was a better character. And now that I think about it, perhaps Elias was funnier, although he was more in the love-to-hate-him "heel" category than Bo Dallas was.

But NOBODY was a better heel than Rowdy Roddy Piper. LOVED Piper. If you have Peacock Premium, I think WWE Network comes with it. Check out some of the old collections of episodes when he did his little "Piper's Pit" skits. It's hilarious! He almost killed a guy bashing a real coconut over his head in one of the skits.

edit: Haha, found the clip on youtube:


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

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/dev/random / Re: Wrestling

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https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66613784

Bray Wyatt: WWE champion dies aged 36

That sucks. I hadn't heard of him until he moved up from NXT to WWE. I sort of liked him when he first showed up with the hillbilly Manson-esque "Wyatt Family"... and their family became even more interesting when they added the big man Braun Strowman to the roster. But after the Wyatt Family broke apart and Bray started doing his own thing as "The Fiend", it got to be too theatrical and over the top for me. I was kinda hoping he'd get shit together and work out a good direction for his character, kinda like Cody Rhodes did during his time away from WWE. Bray Wyatt was one of the only wrestlers they had who might've been capable of having a scary character rising to the same level as Undertaker to fill that role, but... not anymore.

Didn't realize it before now, but old 90's WWE wrestler Irwin Roy Schyster (aka IRS) was his father, and ex-WWE wrestler Bo Dallas was his little brother. I miss Bo Dallas, he was a good comic relief kinda wrestler.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZfq7XUBBXA

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tastyspleen.net / Re: IRON-FISTED DRACONIAN FORUM POSTING RULES

Demonstrates Exceptional Knowlege of the Game

That amounts to "Fuck around and find out... but know that we are forgiving."

Works for me.

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/dev/random / Re: UFO SPACECRAFT CONFIRMED BY USA

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Well, that's a different discussion. That's well-established historical fact, not modern news where biased sources omit coverage of inconvenient truth.

When you get right down to it, the invasion of Poland was partly the european allies fault. Sure, Germany was the egregious asshole who invaded it's neighbor, but again, there's this thing called "culpability", and if you have every reason to be expected to stop something and you DON'T... you are culpable.

As a stipulation of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was not to be allowed to rebuild it's military. But they all watched like the procrastinating shivering little weaklings that they were as Germany slowly but surely amassed the military power to eventually prevent any foreign military intervention within their borders. Later when Hitler started making moves, British PM Chamberlain accepted Hitler at his word that he wouldn't make any further moves... meanwhile he's documented in the German parliament making statements disparaging the British as weak and incompetent. Hint hint, Chamberlain. The allies DAMN WELL KNEW months before the invasion that Germany was building up on the Polish border. They did nothing. They offered stern warnings. Even after the invasion began, they did NOTHING. Then shortly thereafter he bypassed the Maginot Line through Belgium on his way to France,... and FINALLY people got the fuck up off their hands and started to do something. By then, it was already too late. Virtually the whole of western europe was under German occupation.

They saw it coming, they were too busy still being terrified of the memories of WW1, they did nothing. The end result was a war with a death toll that dwarfed WW1 many times over.

Today, in light of what happened in WW2... Do you think that the Polish accept the French or British at their word when they say they will come and help defend them if something happens? HELL NO, THEY DON'T. They don't trust ANYONE. They damn well know they are on their own. They do not forget how the French promised to help them and then did NOTHING. In their minds, the French and British are... CULPABLE.

Yes, RUSSIA INVADED. That is not the point. It's not a black and white question of WHAT FLAG INVADED. You said...

Bombing Ukraine for no good reason - also evil. (even though I know people who think it is USA's fault)

I mean what's the real argument there? Is this person arguing that "No, it wasn't Russia, it was AMERICANS WEARING RUSSIAN UNIFORMS that invaded!" No. They are referring to "culpability".

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/dev/random / Re: UFO SPACECRAFT CONFIRMED BY USA

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You libtards are really weird.

We completely fucking agree.

And now that we do, I'm done with this pointless time consuming bullshit. This is the exact same argument I've had with 50 other ignorant fuckin people, where I'm making the same points, and I'm getting the same non-answers and strawman arguments in response.

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Quake / Re: M. the big liar

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I think what they're saying is it's probably time to drop it already.

I don't understand what's with you lately. So obsessed about certain people cheating. Stop worrying and just have fun.

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/dev/random / Re: What games are you playing ?

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one question, can you use quake RTX while playing regular online quake?  whatabout if there are new maps?

Actually,... maybe not, I'm not sure. I'm looking at it on steam, and it only mentions "single-player" on the page. Nothing really explains it that well other than a brief video showing the lighting effects. Apparently it's just a free add-on that still requires the full game. I dunno man, I guess try it out. If it works, it works.

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/dev/random / Re: What games are you playing ?

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one question, can you use quake RTX while playing regular online quake?  whatabout if there are new maps?

I think so. I don't have an RTX card myself - my mobo is kinda older and the PCIe slot is 3.0 not the faster 4.0 you need for newer cards like the RTX ones. This GTX 1660 super I'm using is probably just about the fastest and best thing I can possibly use with this system.

I've seen plenty of other people on discord commenting on how great Q2rtx is though. Pretty sure I've heard them talk about doing multiplayer with it too, so it's probably possible. Not sure how consistent and smooth it would be in a crowded game with lots of explosions and effects going off all over the place.