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Quake / Re: More Tastyspleen Servers! (other than Quake II)

« on: June 16, 2023, 02:38:22 PM »

I didn't pick up on this being Quake Live and not standard quake2.

QuakeLive is a completely different game from Quake2.

I can see how that might've been confusing. My bad.

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art, music, etc. / Re: Live Performances

« on: June 16, 2023, 02:12:38 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x6chChxzV0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOEo4svsWJ8

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

« on: June 16, 2023, 01:57:05 PM »

We're trying to strike a balance here. Quadz identifies the main problem within Rule #3.

...there is no sign of rule #3.  ... Are we seeing the problem here?

3. How free is free speech here?  Within the limits described above, we generally encourage and foster freedom of speech on the forums.  However we do have a history of disallowing racist speech or hate speech.  Unfortunately this is very hard to define in writing what's OK and what's not.  If someone is showing genuine humor, or is being light and ironic, it might be fine.  If someone is acting like an a$$hole, probably not.

p.s. - I can't help but wonder why "asshole" has dollar signs in it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SPum-Vd8oU

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

« on: June 16, 2023, 01:10:20 PM »

Just follow what the good book says and everything will be 

Or be a black guy who emits lightning.

FaderJOKE... I seem to remember a long drawn out post where you blamed this community for all the problems in your life and then ended it by saying you were leaving for good. 

 

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Quake / Re: More Tastyspleen Servers! (other than Quake II)

« on: June 16, 2023, 01:04:23 PM »

QuakeLive is a completely different game from Quake2. Therefore it's kinda like a different community.

Hell, if GTA5/GTAOnline had dedicated servers, Tastyspleen would probably have one.

Broaden your mind. Expand your horizons. Q2 isn't going anywhere.

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art, music, etc. / Re: Live Performances

« on: June 15, 2023, 09:13:43 PM »

Footage of Heart live from 1976, right after their debut album Dreamboat Annie, their best album in my opinion. Some stuff from 77's Little Queen in there too. Bands used to do that - they'd write something and try it several different ways live to see the reaction it got to judge what to do with the arrangement when recording it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp862e4vaug

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

« on: June 15, 2023, 09:01:24 PM »

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

« on: June 15, 2023, 08:22:45 PM »

Do your own research on this!  No wait, I will do the right thing and research it for everyone.

Wow. All of that must be totally illegal, huh. It's not like the DNC is clutching after any and every tiny little insignificant thing in an effort to derail his chances at running again. I wonder why they decided to use a few boxes of presidential records stored at his house (which ALSO isn't illegal) instead of all of that. Perhaps you should email the White House and tell Joe Biden what you've found. Yep, that's all sarcasm, mr. strawman. Go fish.

I looked at all the timelines and I didn't see anything about USA culpability or uniforms, for what it's worth.

Okay. Sure. Things happen in a fucking bubble, don't they? Nothing that took place at the end of WW1 had ANY BEARING AT ALL on the events that started WW2, did they? You should tell every fucking WW2 historian your theory, they'd get a kick out of it, Timmy. It's great that we can simplify history so that ignorant people can better understand it. It's much easier to say that Hitler did everything he did... just because he was a mean ole asshole, and then leave it that! Surely that explanation should be enough to satisfy all the people who really wonder WHAT TRULY MOTIVATED HIM to do all the heinous shit he did. The fact he wrote a very famous book expressing his opinions about the events of WW1, nope, none of that is relevant in this story at all, let's completely ignore it. Yep, that's more sarcasm again, mr. move-the-goalposts. Go fish.

For AT LEAST the 3rd fucking time now, I'd like to remind you that YOU started this point of discussion when you said this:

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

To re-emphasize: YOU started this point of discussion...

You ain't Rambo. If you were, I wouldn't see you coming with the same tired arguments I've had 50 other times with 50 other equally wrong people.

While I have no problem insulting you by calling you an idiot... just because that's what's going on here..., I still don't think you're stupid enough to actually believe that this person was referring to the US literally bombing Ukraine... right? You'll have to admit that this person you are referring to thinks there are extenuating circumstances here making the US somewhat responsible for what has occurred, right? Feel free to IGNORE THIS QUESTION AND NOT ANSWER IT like you've done several times already.

de-Nazified”, a baseless pretext

Baseless means there is NO EVIDENCE AT ALL. You're blissfully ignorant or willfully stupid. Here's some more of that inconvenient truth.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/world/europe/nazi-symbols-ukraine.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cohen-ukraine-commentary/commentary-ukraines-neo-nazi-problem-idUSKBN1GV2TY

https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/the-facts-on-de-nazifying-ukraine/

Even the last one tries to debunk it in pro-Democrat partisan warmongering fashion and FAILS.

“If they [Ukrainian citizens] value them, it is not because of any Nazi ideology,” (Focalor: they admit the Nazi ideology exists.)
...
“They value its patriotic stance. They value a group that fights an enemy that thinks their country has no right to exist.”
...
The Azov battalion, which has about 1,000 members, represents a small minority of the overall Ukrainian military. As the BBC reported, the Ukrainian armed forces number some 250,000, and the National Guard — of which Azov is a part — has around 50,000 members.

2% Nazi is still more than 0% Nazi. Just saying. So let's cut out the complete horseshit where you claim there are NO NAZI'S, because it's not just not the truth, it's a premeditated intentional LIE at this point. The purpose of this lie is to divert attention from and minimize the culpability of the US for precipitating this situation.

If an asshole like Putin wants to use that as pretext to justify it to all of Russia, he will, especially because it has the benefit of being true.

And if this is your way of playing the virtue signaling game... I'm winning, not that I even care to. One of us is willing to call Russia the bad guy for invading it's neighbor. The other one is willing to do the same... AND call out the US for ONCE AGAIN meddling in the affairs of a sovereign independent foreign nation... kinda like when the US invaded Iraq because of "weapons of mass destruction" and "ties to September 11th". Were we as evil as Russia for that? Or do the extenuating circumstances make Iraq culpable for what happened? It's fuckin' murky sometimes, ain't it?

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

« on: June 15, 2023, 12:55:00 PM »

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

« on: June 15, 2023, 12:18:26 PM »

I keep discovering that there are "new rules" which no one has been informed of in any kind of official capacity. No nazi symbols for any reason, no using the hip-hop culture "N-word-ending-in-an-A", no insults referring to same-sex lifestyles, no using the insult "kill yourself"...

It'd be nice to know what the rules really are well in advance of having administrative action taken against us for breaking them.

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

« on: June 15, 2023, 11:46:39 AM »

This pointless time consuming bullshit that is not related to the original subject of UFO spacecraft,  was started on reply #1, reply #41, and reply #58 (the first reply I noticed and I responded to, thinking I was only making a brief observation) by forum user |iR|Focalor, and these replies were completely unrelated to this thread's topic.

http://forum.tastyspleen.net/quake/index.php?topic=23167.msg233580#msg233580

http://forum.tastyspleen.net/quake/index.php?topic=23167.msg235586#msg235586

http://forum.tastyspleen.net/quake/index.php?topic=23167.msg237955#msg237955

Yeah, you are absolved from any responsibility in this interaction because I posted first.

Wrong.

Just like the US isn't absolved from responsibility just because another country decided to roll over a border with military assets in response to something they did .

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

« on: June 15, 2023, 11:43:42 AM »

Did you expect anything different from the dink? No you didn't.

 

Fuck you. Butthurt little bitch.

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

« on: June 14, 2023, 02:54:42 PM »

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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art, music, etc. / Re: Darth Trump - hilarious

« on: June 14, 2023, 02:14:10 PM »

Oh. THIS video. Yeah.

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

« on: June 14, 2023, 01:33:42 PM »

Who is "us people"?  I think there is some assuming going on here.

It's not an assumption. It's a well defined and well established pattern of behavior by a certain segment of the opinionated public on social media. "YOU PEOPLE" are everyone (like Punk-FAS who used to post here) who insist on discussing his personality traits rather than his track record as president. His personality largely sucks. He's an incredible asshole. Sometimes I find his asshole-ish statements to be humorous though, and it is easy for me to look past his assholery, primarily because his presidency has been beneficial to America. In fact, you even admitted this much, right before you proceeded to bash his media projected personality faults like the lemming that you are:

Yeah, it's positively insane to admit that China is fucking us hand over fist with their slave labor created imported goods that intentionally undercut American produced goods and then try to level the playing field to a degree.

I have no disagreement about the China thing.

And yet...

The America First thing is all fakery.

You don't disagree that balancing the scales with import tariffs on cheap near-slave-wage produced goods from overseas is a good thing... but America First is bullshit? If you're gonna have a position,... consistency is all I ask for.

He is laughing at the people that vote for him, smiling as he gets more money from his "base". Trump is an atheist democrat, grifting his voters for more money to fuel his lifestyle and gold plated toilet. It's a pretty effective scam actually.

When he became President, I didn't vote for him. In fact... when he got elected, I laughed sardonically at how stupid I thought half of America was for voting for him. But then people (like Quadz, which I think SAYS SOMETHING IMPORTANT) who actually pay attention to things discovered that he was not just another carpetbagging corrupt-o. Gas prices stabilized and we were energy independent, we began forcing Chinese and multinational corporations to COMPETE FAIRLY in the US market, drug prices came down, employment went up, purchasing power increased, we had no new wars, affairs in the middle east between Israel and Palestine were finally looking promising, and for the first time EVER a US President met face-to-face with the leader of North Korea. I expected him to be a terrible president. He proved me wrong.

"Grifting his voters for money." Let's examine that though. As far as I've seen, the only thing anyone's been able to possibly link him to is a couple of rather small sums of possible campaign funds given to a cum-guzzling porn star and one of the most notoriously slutty gutter trash Playboy Playmates of all time. Yeah, do you remember the shit with Clinton back in the day? I didn't much give a shit about that either. Pretty fucking irrelevant, dude. It's funny how democrat supporters can suddenly pretend like that kind of shit matters AT ALL only when it is politically advantageous to have a little bit of old-timey conservative morality. Understand that I'm not a bible-thumping loyal republican. If Trump's an atheist... so what, so am I! I HATED W. Bush (didn't vote for him the 2nd time, I abstained that year because I didn't like the Democrat option either). I'm entirely independent. If there is an actual "independent party", that is not what I mean. I mean NO PARTY. I may be a "Trump supporter", but I have a seething hatred for the "Republican party". I hate BOTH of the Bush's. Even Jeb, fuck him too. While I think Reagan did a few good things and he was the charismatic leader we NEEDED at that point in history, I'd still score him considerable lower than where others might. For all his talk about "Morning in America", it was the beginning of China undercutting the viability of American goods with their underpaid labor, and Reagan had plenty of time to address the obvious trend, and he DIDN'T.

Other than that, I've yet to see any of Trumps opposition produce any proof of financial "grifting." They dug HARD into his kids business dealings while he was president, going through everything with a fine tooth comb, looking for ANY hint of corruption. They didn't find jack shit.

As for the current president... various members of his family have received very large sums of money for undisclosed reasons from off-shore banking sources such as Cyprus that are notoriously used for laundering money. There is evidence of money laundering schemes on the notorious Hunter Biden laptop, which that same group of "YOU PEOPLE" insist only has a few dick pics on it. Uh... no. But it's not surprising that EVERYONE hasn't learned the full extent of the contents of the laptop... seeing as how mainstream media coordinated with social media at the behest of the FBI and Justice Dept to suppress the story.

And since we're on the topic of money... and YOU brought it up...

he played more golf in one term than Obama did in two terms.

Trump Golf Count: 298*
Cost to Taxpayer: About $144,000,000**

I'm sorry if I find it hard to give a shit about golf when the country is doing so well. Meanwhile the current administration has proposed to spend 9 TRILLION FUCKIN DOLLARS in addition to the billions of dollars sent to Ukraine that isn't being accounted for (which is significantly more than what Trump spent playing golf, but you don't seem to mind), in addition to the billions of dollars worth of equipment and CASH that was left behind in the reckless mad dash to exit Afghanistan just so that he could more easily justify the 9 TRILLION DOLLAR spending proposal to Congress.

Where is your "give a fuck" for this?