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Off Topic / Re: $10 this turns in a full scale argument very soon.

« on: December 04, 2014, 12:56:13 AM »

If it doesn't turn into an argument, will you pay all of us $10?

i owe blockland forums like $200 now, right?

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Off Topic / Re: $10 this turns in a full scale argument very soon.

« on: December 03, 2014, 02:07:47 PM »

also what happened is that apparently soccermoms in australia signed a petition enough that target decided not to carry the game in stores anymore

First they ban bitcoin because "IT WAS LEADING KIDZZ 2 DRUHGZ!"

Now they loving ban GTA V (in one store) because they're too handicapped to take responsibility for their own children?

forget this country, man.

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Off Topic / Re: $10 this turns in a full scale argument very soon.

« on: December 03, 2014, 01:59:46 PM »

"GTA V franchise"

Goddam, I forgeted it up.

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Games / Re: Grand Theft Auto Megathread - OP 3.0

« on: December 03, 2014, 01:55:30 PM »

not to detract from how lame the PC port was, but aren't these all issues that the game had regardless of the platform?

The cutscenes-zoomed-issue is PC only, I think, but I think I remember having the other problems when I first played on Xbox 360.

At least the consoles didn't have to deal with GFWL...

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Off Topic / $10 this turns in a full scale argument very soon.

« on: December 03, 2014, 01:49:49 PM »

(Red is a good friend I've worked with before, blue is some chick, green is a guy and then yellow is obviously me)

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Games / Re: Grand Theft Auto Megathread - OP 3.0

« on: December 03, 2014, 05:11:59 AM »

if you're playing PC, it's because the port was a joke and part of the reason people are so on rockstar's ass about this one with how slipshod a job they did last time.

So much this.

What's worse is that it's not just limited to performance issues.

The best AA available is ENB's AA, which looks like utter stuff unless you spend hours setting it up. Furthermore, all the cutscenes are zoomed in, so you occasionally get a really ugly close-up of Niko's horrifying teeth. Don't get me started on what they did the car handling...

If they butcher GTA V as bad as they've done to IV, it'll probably start some kind of cyber stufffest unlike any ever.

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Off Topic / Re: Illegal Emimigration

« on: December 02, 2014, 08:10:38 AM »

Warning: We're about to go down under for a bit.

Tony Abbot's obsession with "stopping the boats" demonstrates what a hypocritical cunt he is.

Considering he was born in England, his boat should have been stopped and his plague should have never been unleashed on this country. I, born in Australia, should have more right than he, some rich prick from the motherland, has to lead us.

Anyways, as far as my country goes, I don't have a problem with it provided that they have adequate cause; if the conditions of their home country are stuff, and they've battled hard to come to somewhere safer, then we should give them a fair shake of the sauce bottle. Of course, quarantine would be EXTREMELY crucial as far as diseases and pests go.

If I was leader, I'd set it up so all illegal immigrants would have to spend a mandatory few years building new communities in more regional areas of Australia, growing new food crops and raising animals etc etc. There's probably an economical goldmine that benefits both Australia and these immigrants that hasn't been utilised yet.

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Drama / Re: "message to all you haters on blockland"

« on: December 02, 2014, 07:23:17 AM »

What the forget.

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Off Topic / Re: White Privelege

« on: December 02, 2014, 12:21:34 AM »

But there are solutions to pretty obvious problems like profiling by police that could be expanded upon in order to find some common solution.

Please explain how profiling is supposed to work in this situation.

but everyone is trying to explain stuff that literally everyone knows, thinking that they are some kind of messiah of a new age where racism could stop existing if everyone stopped being tribal (no brainer).

And so you have to rain down on people telling them off because they simply wanted to make a 20 second comment on the Internet?

This isn't some essay writing class where we're handing in our final thesis on social justice. It's a loving Internet forum, mostly filled with young kids still getting their heads around how the world works.

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Off Topic / Re: White Privelege

« on: December 02, 2014, 12:18:33 AM »

as for the problem of racism, it's definitely not an unsolvable issue.

Not without either killing individuals or removing free will, of which I'm a fan of neither.

it has a lot of factors, but it's not natural.

Did you miss the part where I mentioned pattern theory and stereotypes? People associate specific features of a race with people they don't trust and don't like, and so they continually treat all people with those features just the same. It's the brain trying to protect the person from a perceived threat.

It is completely natural. How do you think we learnt to avoid being eaten by lions and rhinos? It may seem like it's adapted itself in a very strange, mundane and stupid way, but this human defense mechanism still lives on and we cannot remove it with a snap of our fingers.

people are naturally weary of unfamiliarity, not races.

Thus demonstrating my point.

people learn to be tribal. people also learn that race is really insignificant.

The learning process is not an easy thing master, and there are some people whose brains are wired in a stubborn enough way to falsify facts and logic in order to prove itself "correct".

The brain will go with the path of least resistance, just the same as every force on Earth. Unfortunately, for most people, the path of least resistance is to be "ignorant" (aka, the boredom brain self defense mechanism).

If you want to solve racism, you first have to defeat boredom.

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Off Topic / Re: White Privelege

« on: December 02, 2014, 12:06:14 AM »

Okay but how does acknowledging a problem give people a way to solve it?

Are you so dense as to not listen to my point?

There is no proper solution. There are only stop-gap fixes. The best we can do is help a few people here and there.

but how does choosing not to acknowledge race issues help those who aren't as advantaged as you make a difference.

Thank you for trying to pin me down as the bad guy.

I never said "don't acknowledge issues exist". I said that there's no 100% accurate solution. At the end of the day, somebody is getting screwed over. I'm confident that I'm not going to be the one doing the screwing, but that's the most I can do without forcing people to follow my ideology to the letter, which I don't agree with.

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Off Topic / Re: White Privelege

« on: December 01, 2014, 11:49:01 PM »

How else is anyone going to interpret
other than some cry for equality with no plan?

Exactly as it is; a simplified explanation of my belief that people should be wary that we are all to some degree the same, and that judgement can't be based on one specific and unimportant factor like skin colour.

There are three truths of this world:

A) There can never be true peace or a perfect solution to the world's problems
B) There are no morals; only emotions and brain connections (logic)
C) We are all built to survive to varying degrees

Hopefully (A) explains myself a bit better. There is no possible solution. Africa is forgeted, sorry to say. There will always be tossers. That's why I don't want to plan towards a "perfect solution"; I want to find means to help the small percentage who I can.

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Off Topic / Re: White Privelege

« on: December 01, 2014, 11:35:26 PM »

But you don't get rid of issues by saying "let's just all be friends"

That's a goal, not a process.

I like that you simplified my response in completely the wrong way.

People are naturally going to dislike and hate others, and they're going to stereotype people with specific features into groups that they also dislike and hate. That's all human nature (See: My 34 rants on pattern theory).

What I'm suggesting is that people build up a bit of a tolerance towards violent actions and dangerous behaviour, so that we can at least minimise the impact of racism. Simply "being friends" is not the solution I'm after, and in my view, a perfect solution is not at all possible. We must instead try to alleviate the impact and do our best to work towards a minimum of tolerance.

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Off Topic / Re: White Privelege

« on: December 01, 2014, 11:27:29 PM »

a pretentious idea

I've seen clumsy uses of that word, but goddam...

brings forth no sort of equality or peace.

Let's just pretend this makes total sense and is not completely mixing up what I just said.

IMO, at the very least, if people did their best to try and cooperate, it might lessen racial-violence and other big issues. I'm not asking people to be love-buddies, it'd just be nice if we'd stop loving each other over based on our race and instead forget each other over based on monetary status or other meaningless values  

People would sooner sweep everything under a rug than admit that there is a problem.

Even though that's partially true, where I live it's absolutely the opposite. People love to admit there's a problem, but they don't like to admit they're the problem.

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Creativity / Re: BROCKRAND COMICS

« on: December 01, 2014, 11:22:59 PM »

I didn't realise that handicapation was a requirement for creating the works of art shown in this thread.