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Off Topic / Robert Mueller charges 13 Russians with interfering in US election to help Annoying Orange

« on: February 16, 2018, 04:11:57 PM »

The Chicago Tribune - 13 Russians charged with elaborate plot to interfere in 2016 presidential election
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-russia-election-meddling-indictments-20180216-story.html

The Guardian - Robert Mueller charges 13 Russians with interfering in US election to help Annoying Orange
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/16/robert-mueller-russians-charged-election

Thirteen Russians have been criminally charged for interfering in the 2016 US election to help Donald Annoying Orange, the office of Robert Mueller, the special counsel, announced on Friday.

Mueller’s office said 13 Russians and three Russian entities, including the notorious state-backed “troll farm” the Internet Research Agency, had been indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington DC.

A 37-page indictment alleged that the Russians’ operations “included supporting the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald J Annoying Orange ... and disparaging Hillary Clinton,” his Democratic opponent.

Mueller alleged that Russian operatives “communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Annoying Orange campaign”, but the indictment did not address the question of whether anyone else in Annoying Orange’s team had knowingly colluded.

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Games / Anyone want to make a Rainbow Six ranked team?

« on: February 10, 2018, 12:42:29 PM »

Playing ranked on Rainbow Six is nearly impossible because almost every round someone will immediately drop to de-rank and usually someone else will leave too because they feel like we aren't winning. Also someone usually goes nuts and TK's half the team (often leading to even more tking in retaliation).

Anyone with Rainbow Six want to play ranked? I'd like to try playing with an actual team.

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Off Topic / -snipped lol-

« on: December 14, 2017, 03:14:32 PM »

-snipped for privacy-

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Off Topic / The Return

« on: December 01, 2017, 03:08:50 PM »

PC has been broken. Initially went down on Oct 1st and went down for good Oct 22. I just got my new one (it's so nice) today and I set it up around an hour ago. I split the cost of the new one between myself and my parents for my birthday. I only made 3 posts in that time period so you might have wondered why everything was so peaceful.

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Off Topic / I need PC suggestions

« on: November 06, 2017, 04:26:19 PM »

My Digital Storm Vanquish 1 (Level 4) died three weeks ago--you might have noticed I stopped posting. The water cooling system leaked and fried the GPU and a few other components, so instead of bothering to identify and replace the damage I'm just getting a new one.

I don't do a lot of extremely demanding gaming. Most grand-strategy games and RPGs. My 3 favorite games are Mount & Blade: Warband, Skyrim, and Crusader Kings 2. Of course, I still want to be able to run pretty much anything (at least at lower settings) so that I can play new games.

Price range is $800 - $2000. Planning to split the price 3-way between myself and each of my parents as a gift (as my 18th birthday is pretty soon).

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Off Topic / Blade Runner 2049 thoughts

« on: October 08, 2017, 10:49:50 PM »

My post doesn't have any spoilers, but the comments might.

Anyone seen it? I saw it tonight and loved it. Really slow pacing but it wasn't boring at all. The shots were beautiful and it might honestly be the best looking live-action film I've ever seen. The atmosphere was incredible, from the apartments to the cityscapes to the giant solar farms and ruins of Las Vegas, the entire movie felt incredibly real and chilling. Just the vast scale of every shot really blew me away. The city-sized landfill was incredible and the inclusion of LA and LV landmarks scattered throughout the background were clever nods.

Anyway I loved the plot. K's development was incredible and I'm really glad they didn't go with the obvious 'twist' (highlight for spoilers) [ (K being Decker's son) ] and instead flipped what I expected on it's head. The ending was really satisfying and all of the performances were incredible. My favorite scenes were those of him exploring the city (like talking to the giant naked pink girl and thinking about whether Joi is real or not) and visiting that crazy glass-wall brothel. The love scene with the women merging together was crazy and the awkward performances really made it feel genuine.

Only think I didn't understand was (highlight for spoilers) [ (why did Stelline implant K with her memories? Was it to make him find her father or to give the Replicants human emotions [because we learned real memories cause synths to develop emotions, thus why they are illegal]) ] but there are so many possible explanations and the movie was so consistently brilliant that I assume it must have been explained somewhere. Anyway, it's rare that a sequel lives up to the original, and even rarer that it exceeds it.

This movie is more emotional, less boring, and more visually appealing than the original Blade Runner. They took everything the original did and somehow made it more generally appealing while still being brilliant and faithful. Anyway, phenomenal film. 9/10 overall, 10/10 visuals.

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Off Topic / XCOM 2: War of the Blockheads ~ ENLIST TODAY

« on: September 23, 2017, 10:29:34 AM »

So since XCOM (a series I play excessively) has come out with a major expansion, I've decided to do a BLF playthrough. This is not a forum game--you just get a soldier named after you and get to see what they do and how they die. I've done this three times before before with XCOM: Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2 and XCOM 2: Long War. I typically savescum my games but I've decided to play this (like my other BLF games) on Ironman, so expect a whole lot of deaths.

WOTC adds gay romances called 'bonding' so you'll get paired up with another user at random.
WOTC and Alien Hunters add in a total of 6 alien leaders that will stalk XCOM and attempt to capture or kill units. I've named them after prominent BLF users:

Assassin: King Tøny
Hunter: PhantOS
Warlock: Master Matthew
Berserker Queen: Insert Name Here
Archon King: Tezuni
Viper Queen: DestroyerOfBlocks



THIS IS NOT A REQUEST, ROOKIE.

Everyone capable of joining should say so below. It's going to be first-come, first-serve, and nearly all perhaps a third of you will die.

The Living:
CP Jairo ~ Ranger
CP Decepticon ~ Grenadier
CP SeventhSandwich ~ Specialist
SQ Nonnel ~ Sharpshooter
SQ Drydess
RK MoltenKitten
RK Gr8dayseth

The Dead:

The Captured:

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Off Topic / Any BLFers like Metal?

« on: August 29, 2017, 11:14:24 PM »

Anyone here listen to metal? I listen to a lot, mostly Power/Thrash/Death. Only one I know here who listens also is VerticalHorizon and I don't even really talk to her. Any of you like metal? What bands/songs/albums?

My favorite bands are Sabaton, Amon Amarth, Metallica, and Ensiferum. Any matches?

Favorite songs are Nightfall (Blind Guardian), Creeping Death (Metallica), Twilight of the Thunder God (Amon Amarth), Victory Song (Ensiferum) and Through The Fire & Flames (Dragonforce). Also love Swedish Pagans & Shiroyama (Sabaton) which are some of the best intro songs to people who don't really like metal but like EDM/trap stuff.

Favorite albums are Carolus Rex (Sabaton), Nightfall in Middle Earth (Blind Guardian), From Afar (Ensiferum) Twilight of the Thunder God (Amon Amarth) and Ride the Lightning (Metallica).

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Games / Anyone up for TerraFirmaCraft?

« on: August 25, 2017, 05:42:14 PM »

I've been running a TerraFirmaCraft game with a friend for a while, and it would be pretty cool if more people got in on it. For those who don't know, TFC is a total overhaul for Minecraft that re-writes Survival in a much more difficult 'realistic mode' in which you have to keep in mind a lot more factors such as season, food decay, gravity (houses & caves can collapse), smelting conditions and a lot more.

I won't post the IP or anything because I don't want random people or griefers joining, but anyone who wants to try it should post below or add me on Steam (under McZealot).

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Drama / A message to Beachbum, and some others

« on: August 14, 2017, 02:20:03 AM »

I want this out there. Please read the entire post if you engage at all. This is very important to me.

In the Rick & Morty thread and several others, Beachbum has called me a child predater alongside images of my proffesional portrait that appear on resumes and applications sent to people that could seriously affect my life, employment, and academic progress. I am terrified that one reverse image search could start a scandal I will never get rid of.

A lot of people that I know in reality both use and have browsed the BLF. Especially when combined with my personal information and photographs, this can be extremely serious and negatively affect my life in a major way.

Beachbum and everyone else--please read this entire post. It is very serious and could genuinely impact my life dramatically.

Red Spy, you're not only smarter than Beachbum, you're genuinely a better person. I know we argue a lot over trivial politics but please don't go along with genuinely life-destroying claims just because its easy to go with the flow and rail on someone that personally gets on your nerves. I really think that even though you irritate me a lot you're probably a pretty nice dude and I'd ask that you please not compare me to genuine child rapists. I know it's the Internet, but a lot of people I personally know are on the BLF and that sort of stuff can really get out of hand.

I'm not going to engage Beachbum unless he's willing to directly talk to me over Steam or VoIP because I don't want him to be able to squirm away from the truth like a little stuff.


In response to Hilkill, who seems genuinely good-willed and rightfully concerned, I don't really want to talk about this because it's none of this starfish's business, but my parents have literally defended and condemned child predators as courtroom attorneys. Of course I'm going to talk about them and my experiences when I am directly asked if Lolicon correlates to literal child rapists. I've talked about my personal experiences with these people (two of my old teachers raped children, one of whom personally harassed me) and to be compared to them even on a joking level is truly sickening. I have a feeling that Beachbum has never met a victim of childhood loveual abuse, because he wouldn't treat those claims so spuriously.


Beachbum doesn't understand that saying stupid stuff like that could actually affect my life. I'm very open with my information and many people I really know and see on a daily basis have seen or even used the BLF. I'm not personally a fan of drawn women really of any kind and in fact I prefer women older than myself in general. I was jokingly referring to Kim because she was an example of a loveualized underage character. The concept I had in mind--and understand that I was playing devils advocate in a debate thread about Loli and creephilia--is that unlike a real child, artwork has no age and while many adults look like children, many children also look like adults. So where are you gonna draw the line if an underaged character has loveualized traits that resemble an adult? Is it actually creepphilic to find them attractive if they look the sane as any other anime figure but have a story-age younger than 18? I think it's really a topic that's up for debate and while SeventhSandwich made a really good case for why it is creepphilic (one that has actually changed my mind on the issue) Beachbum called me a child enthusiast and started posting real images of a proffesional portrait I had used next to captions implying I'm a loveual predator who preys on children. I genuinely cannot use that photo anymore because I am terrified that my employer or academic sponsor could reverse-image search it while checking my resume and find claims that I am a child enthusiast. Not only is this harassment extemely repulsive but it's genuine slander and while I honestly don't believe i have the power to do anything about it he should know that when he combines those disgusting claims with my personal information it becomes genuine slander that could be taken to court.

I really don't like Beachbum for obvious reasons. I argue with a lot of forumers, but none have ever genuinely threatened my life in the way that he has. I would never lower myself to accusing him of actually being the sort of person to rape and terrorize the most innocent people that I know.

Beachbum is comparing me--someone who has personally known and seen the impact of child predators--to genuine rapists who prey on the most defenseless members of our society. You should be loving ashamed for the way you speak.

This is all I'm going to say on the matter because I seriously want to reduce the chances of anyone I know ever seeing his disgusting claims.

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Off Topic / Adult Swim are starfishs

« on: August 14, 2017, 01:05:26 AM »

I know Beachbum considers Rick and Morty an unfunny show which only appeals to the lowest denominators, but I've never shoved a stick ten feet up my ass and personally enjoy the show as a very casual viewer (though season 3 has been subpar). Recently, Adult Swim has been airing new episodes on their website via stream, and it's been pretty great. It's way more convienent than trying to catch it live or setting my TV to record.

Anyway, without announcement they read the script aloud instead of airing the show today, and a bunch of fans are pissed. It's ridiculous to expect every show to be streamed, but the way they handled it was extremely poor and they ended up looking like starfishs. I personally thought it was hilarious before I realized that they are going to read the entire script and not even air the episode. I thought it was going to be a joke before the real episode began, but it just kept going. Once I had watched a few minutes and realized that it was going to be cable-only I had A: had the first third of the ep spoiled for me and B: not recorded the ep to watch the way they intended through my TV. They then proceeded to call the stream viewers 'freeloading starfishs' despite the fact that they run in-stream ads as well as several on the page beside the video.

I'm already paying for their channel. I'm already watching ads and tuning in on the site where you've been uploading content--I assume hoping for people to watch? I stayed up until after I would've normally slept only to be the subject of an unfunny joke which not only spoils an episode but prevents me from watching it on TV or Internet. Then they call me an starfish. I dunno, the whole thing left a pretty bad taste in my mouth and I probably won't be tuning into their shows very much after this. It's hard to appreciate their work after they treat fans so rudely.

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Off Topic / [Real News] Obamacare Repeal Fails

« on: July 28, 2017, 03:41:56 AM »

This broke a few hours ago on NPR. Really surprised that John McCain was the deciding vote to kill the bill. This is really good news for a lot of people I know personally (and a few on this forum).

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-gop-effort-repeal-obamacare-fails-n787311
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/28/skinny-repeal-obamacare-fails-in-senate-as-3-republicans-vote-no.html

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Off Topic / Valerian is garbage

« on: July 22, 2017, 04:25:26 PM »

I went to see it on opening night. It was so loving bad I was actually cringing in my seat. The actors are terrible. The guy talks like Christian Bale's Batman and the girl is really irritating and bitchy. Meanwhile the romance is kinda forgetin creepy. This weird-ass 14 year old-looking dude with the worlds most unfitting voice keeps hitting on his (honestly not that attractive) coworker and asking to 'add her to the playlist' or something. Super-douchey and irritating. There's literally a scene where he goes to a loving stripclub while his partner is getting murdered and watches Rihanna poledance for about 50 goddamn minutes. I kept thinking the uncomfortable striptease was leading up to a stuffty joke but it just kept going and going. It was like a couple full minutes of Rihanna stripping.

Also for a movie called 'The City of 1000 Planets' we barely spend any time at all in the alien biomes. They do a Zootopia-style intro to the city where they talk about all the alien environments--none of which they will ever visit. The plot doesn't make any goddamn sense--the 'conspiracy' is ridiculous and cheesy, though I won't spoil it. Everyone figures it out literally a third of the way through the film and after that you're just waiting for the idiots on-screen to catch up. The dialogue is straight up some of the worst I've ever seen. It's actually worse than Self Delete Squad (and leagues worse than Ghostbusters).

The visual effects are really bad. The first alien planet we visit is entirely CGI with CGI aliens, and the 'uncanny valley' effect is overwhelming. The textures and visuals look like a weird 2016 video-game cutscene. Also, it's really REALLY boring. The film literally ends with a moral dilemma of whether or not they have to return some stolen government equipment--which they somehow elevate to being a critical facet of Valerian's personality, despite him stealing and frankly murdering people without hesitation for the first 90 minutes. She basically tells him 'If you want any of this pusillanimous individual, you better not return the property.' And he flips like a switch. He does it. The movie ends with the terrible like 'I only want you on my playlist' as Valerian creepily forces himself upon Laureline while trapped in a small space-pod for the night.

Also, it's based on a series called 'Valerian and Laureline'--which I've read before--and was a major influence on Star Wars. I can't help but notice they kicked Laureline out of the title altogether and while they struggled to piece Valerian's character together for this terrible film, Laureline was nothing like her comic counterpart and far more bland. It's clear they hired the actor for her looks--and actually kept her in a skimpy bikini for the first half of the film. When leaving the ship, she puts a transparent sheet over her bikini that covers nothing. When told she's dressed inappropriately--she changes into another bikini. Eventually she changes into a suit of armor which is literally contoured to emphasize her gigantic steel breasts. Really loveist portrayal of the character, to be completely honest. They took a character with actual personality and not only drained the life out of them with a bad script and terrible actor but also exploited them by dressing them in a ridiculously and unrealistically skimpy outfit for the entirety of the film.

The death scene that marked the second act was so contrived the people I was with were actually laughing. They fell down a hole and as everyone was picking themselves back up--completely fine--a random character has been fatally wounded in a way that is not seen nor described. They seem to realize that this light tumble has sealed their fate and begin a slow death monologue that might be touching if they didn't shoe-horn in a celebrity cameo literally in the second of their death. Also, there are some greedy long-nosed creatures that are desperate for money and (while not as bad as Watto) appear to literally be socially acceptable Jew caricatures. Classy.

I give this film a 2/10. It's literally worse than The Phantom Menace.

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Off Topic / Weird-Ass Teen Pregnancy Awareness Ad

« on: May 31, 2017, 01:39:34 PM »

https://youtu.be/4v3O2uP9B70

I saw a HuffPost article (reading it ironically) about this video and ended up watching it from the article. Hilariously, it has just 25 views, which brings to question how many people actually read HuffPost to begin with.

This stuff is so weird. What does it even mean? Is it supposed to be clever that the stuffty child actor finds a pregnancy test in her doll? What the hell?! "Girls can have babies?!" Are you ten or two? Jesus.

Meanwhile HuffPost does a huge article on this 'deep and insightful' video.

Why This Girl Opened A New Toy — And Found A Pregnancy Test Instead

A new video from Save The Children is bringing attention to the alarming reality of underage pregnancy worldwide.

Released on Wednesday, the video features a young girl unboxing what she thinks is a new doll ― and finding a pregnancy test instead.

“I don’t know what this is,” the girl says, pulling out the test. “It says pregnant, not pregnant.”

“Every two seconds, a girl around the world gives birth,” she reads off a card in the box.

“Girls can have babies?” she asks.

The girl’s reaction in the video was not staged, according to the group.

"The girls reactions were not staged" bulllllllllstuff lol. And why DID she find a pregnancy test?! Wtf is the point? Are they calling this ten year old a slut? Does she need to take a pregnancy test? Who's idea was this?

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Off Topic / [FAKE NEWS] 'You were my guy,' Annoying Orange told Macron, French official says

« on: May 26, 2017, 04:29:42 PM »

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-Annoying Orange-macron-campaign-idUSKBN18L2IY

U.S. President Donald Annoying Orange told Emmanuel Macron on Thursday that he had been his favorite to win the French presidential election and media reports that he was backing far-right leader Marine Le Pen were wrong, a French official said.

lol