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[Tawa]

Oh yeah, I forgot about the bonds thing. That was surprisingly ethical of them, considering all the microtransaction crap they pulled right before the RS3 transition :v

That community though, you are spot on about the 90% sweaty neckbeards thing. I distinctly remember hearing about how a few months back there was a pretty small gay pride event one of the developers wanted to throw in, where you'd visit a few spots around the world and when you finished you got a free rainbow-colored scarf. Before the event even started, the userbase threw a bloody fit over it; people were holding mock KKK rallies and shit in Falador and Varrock, spouting all kinds of terrible stuff.

[Trekkin]

Coming off the terrified thread, and the surprisingly tame description of fluoride that bloop_bleep made up, I went and re-read this about one of the more energetic compounds you can make out of it:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja00893a004

Some men just want to watch the world burn. And record how hot it got. And then do it again, but more slowly.

[bloop_bleep]

I remember there was a Sci-Show YouTube video about the world's most dangerous chemicals, including "chlorine trifluoride," which apparently even the Nazis dismissed as too crazy. It's even worse than the chemical you linked.

[Egan_BW]

ClF3~

[Trekkin]

I remember there was a Sci-Show YouTube video about the world's most dangerous chemicals, including "chlorine trifluoride," which apparently even the Nazis dismissed as too crazy. It's even worse than the chemical you linked.

Not necessarily, although if you actually want to have this argument you're going to have to define "worse" in chemically meaningful terms rather than a bunch of popsci factoids. Chlorine trifluoride can be handled at room temperature. Dihydrogen difluoride cannot; if you read the paper I linked, the long series of vigorous explosions all occurred at cryogenic temperatures. You can read in that link a report of a one-ton spill of ClF3; there has never been one ton of FOOF in existence at any one time. 

[Flying Dice]

Oh yeah, I forgot about the bonds thing. That was surprisingly ethical of them, considering all the microtransaction crap they pulled right before the RS3 transition :v

That community though, you are spot on about the 90% sweaty neckbeards thing. I distinctly remember hearing about how a few months back there was a pretty small gay pride event one of the developers wanted to throw in, where you'd visit a few spots around the world and when you finished you got a free rainbow-colored scarf. Before the event even started, the userbase threw a bloody fit over it; people were holding mock KKK rallies and shit in Falador and Varrock, spouting all kinds of terrible stuff.

Not even that so much as the efficiencyscape types, the ones who constantly vote for new shallow and OP content so that they can mindlessly grind to 200m exp in everything even faster. The ones who voted to make the d kite and d plate require d sq and d chain to smith, but to not have any quest requirements to equip (never mind that the d sq itself does). There's ~15-20% of us who are in favor of a game that actually feels like pre-'07 RS, but with the way polling works it's just an endless stream of crappy content to make the leaderboard chasers and merchers happy.

I only restarted a couple weeks ago, so all I heard about that thing with the gay pride thing was people on the subreddit making fun of the rioters for being morons and the jmod for being dumb enough to try to insert currentyear social politics into a game with this sort of demographic spread.

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That aside, I think I'm going to keep my character female, 'cause it's really fucking funny. Some guy ran up while I was doing a blue drag task in the Heroes Guild basement, and instead of hopping like normal to look for an empty world, he tried to strike up a conversation. I said "yo" back, he says "speak english pls". So I say "no habla ingles" and start insulting him in broken Spanish--and mind, mutual piss-taking is basically the universal language at grind spots, that's how I've made half my friends. Instead of shooting back, he tries to be nice to me in Spanish about as bad as mine. I messed with him for a while longer until he gave up and hopped.

It was one thing when most of the players were in the 8-15 age bracket, but this is something else. Another point on the list pointing to a playerbase full of sweaty neckbeard manchildren? :V

[Reelya]

To be honest, I'm not down with devs of a game forcing their politics into the game, even if it's politics I agree with. I'm all down with gay rights, and just voted yes in the gay marriage plebicite in Australia. But I'm not down with injecting the activist messaging into every media. Supporting the activist messaging isn't the same thing as supporting the people the activists claimn to represent. The "gay pride movement" is a specific political movement, it's not "gay people" themselves. e.g. you can say you don't like their tactics or their messaging is intrusive, and that does not imply you "hate gay people". It's not really that far off from a "but think of the children" argument.

It doesn't matter if it's a "small event". e.g. you could have an event where you beat up women and get the wife-beater badge. That wouldn't be any less intrusive into the game if it was a "small event" at a "a few spots". And the thing is, gay pride events are ok because they're coded as "moral". But there's no agreement on what "moral" means. If there was a Christian dev who tried to shoe-horn an explicit Jesus parable into the game then there would be an equal outpouring. And the Christian dev certainly believed they were just promoting moral truth.

I also know at least one gay person who's confided to me that they absolutely hate the whole gay pride march thing because of the public image it represents of what gay people are all about. This guy was more of a mainstream type. Why should we assume that the radical left activist gays are the only gays and that they "own" the issue, by fiat? Your position on the political spectrum is actually highly correlated with what neuroscience knows about brain chemistry, and it's definitely possible that gays aren't in fact any more innately likely to be liberals than anyone else. Perhaps the bulk of the gay population aren't being adequately represented by the current gay pride movement.

[Flying Dice]

I'd say we have ample evidence that gayness doesn't correspond to "leftism", given the number of conservative Christian politicians who've been caught soliciting gay sex, hiring rentboys, &c. alone.

Though frankly this is part of why the authoritarian-libertarian + economic left-right plane is a better metric than the fairly arbitrary and issue-oriented "left" and "right" descriptors.

[BlackHeartKabal]

I also know at least one gay person who's confided to me that they absolutely hate the whole gay pride march thing because of the public image it represents of what gay people are all about. This guy was more of a mainstream type. Why should we assume that the radical left activist gays are the only gays and that they "own" the issue, by fiat? Your position on the political spectrum is actually highly correlated with what neuroscience knows about brain chemistry, and it's definitely possible that gays aren't in fact any more innately likely to be liberals than anyone else. Perhaps the bulk of the gay population aren't being adequately represented by the current gay pride movement.

I'm pretty sure there's an image online that brings up why it's flawed. Crudely, but accurate, I guess.

[Rolan7]

Please not in the laugh thread

Though really what you're missing is...

Edit:
Tofu Ostrich Egg is not what you think.

[BlackHeartKabal]

Please not in the laugh thread

Though really what you're missing is...

Edit:
Tofu Ostrich Egg is not what you think.

Wait, I'm in the laugh thread?

[Rolan7]

...You made me check like 2 more times to be sure!
My request wasn't aimed at anyone in particular BTW.

Oh uh to stay on-topic myself, random bit someone posted on DND night:

> I asked a guest at my table to build a character before he arrived at my house. The only stipulation I gave him was that it was a low magic setting and he shouldn't bring a caster. He brought a warlock who used a fidget spinner as a casting implement and claimed the character was using tech to create magical effects (which would be an acceptable refluff if he did it appropriately). First time he cast Fireball he described it as "gears appear in midair and shoot a fireball at [enemy]."

[Reelya]

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/american-man-tries-to-kill-spiders-with-blow-torch-and-burns-his-house-to-the-ground/news-story/0ae506f11ae9da0e24985e3d848d3e90

"American man tries to kill spiders with blow torch, and burns his house to the ground"

[Egan_BW]

America man!

[Eric Blank]

Somebody takes internet comments way too seriously...