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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #117690 on: February 03, 2017, 08:51:18 pm »

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« Reply #117691 on: February 03, 2017, 08:52:31 pm »

You're unlocking it this soon?

(also shit I can't edit it anymore, I want to delete the "go die" portion but I can't shit I'm gonna get banned)

It's unlocked now.

I did report my own post asking for help, but then after I facepalmed, I used it again to say NVM, sorry.
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« Reply #117692 on: February 03, 2017, 10:59:39 pm »

Were Stalin and Mao worse than hitler?
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« Reply #117693 on: February 03, 2017, 11:10:21 pm »

No please don't lock the WTF thread.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #117694 on: February 04, 2017, 12:25:13 am »

Were Stalin and Mao worse than hitler?
Depends on your metric. In some ways, sure. In others, maybe not. On the net... eh.  I'unno. Probably put the net rank as something like Mao>=Stalin>Hitler, but with fairly marginal differences so far as metaphorical score goes. Certainly if you made some kind of horrifying mutant Maolin the combined theoretical damnation earned would notably surpass a single Hitler.

Or to put it differently, after a point there's only so much point in ranking relative malignancy. They're all well past any threshold sanity would set for ethical behavior. Whether one wins out, to the extent anything can be "won", here, doesn't really make a functional difference.
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« Reply #117695 on: February 04, 2017, 12:34:23 am »

But the REAL question is...

Could Mao, Stalin, and Hitler in the same room... Defeat Captain Planet?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #117696 on: February 04, 2017, 12:36:23 am »

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #117697 on: February 04, 2017, 12:37:15 am »

Maolin monks.

That is all.
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« Reply #117698 on: February 04, 2017, 02:09:24 am »

Maolin monks.

That is all.
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« Reply #117699 on: February 04, 2017, 02:21:08 am »

Reminds me of the Maoist party in Nepal. I was following the coverage in BBC news for a couple of years, they were constantly talking about how bad the Maoists were, how everyone hated and feared the Maoists. Then, there were the first free elections, and the Maoists won with a landslide victory.

Basically from that day onward, there was a near-silence from the BBC about the Maoists even existing. That ended about 5 years later when the Maoists started slipping in the polls, the BBC discovered an interest in reporting on Nepal again, with the headline "Why Nepal Rejected The Maoists" with barely a Nepal story printed in between their victory and that point in time.

But while it's true that Nepal rejected the "Communist Party (Maoist Centre)" in 2013, who got only 80 seats, the "Communist Party (Unified Marxist–Leninist)" picked up 175 seats, and there's also the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) with 5 seats, Communist Party of Nepal (United) with 3 seats, Federal Socialist Forum Nepal (15 seats), Nepal Workers Peasants Party (4 seats), National Madhesh Socialist Party (3 seats), Socialist People's Party (1 seat), Rastriya Janamorcha (front face for Communist Party of Nepal (Masal)) with 3 seats, and an additional 20 seats or so held by a cluster of center-left parties.

So when they say one Communist party lost, that's completely misleading, since there are about a dozen communist/socialist/left parties there with seats in parliament. BBC presented it without context as if it's a two-party system, which it definitely is not.

BBC =/= impartial purveyor of world news.
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« Reply #117700 on: February 04, 2017, 03:04:14 am »

You know... a huge trend in bad horror games is that they all feature a gun as the ultimate weapon at around the end of the game.

But now I am seriously noticing how many horror games (and non-sandbox survival games) end basically on an action note... Where all of a sudden items are just thrown at you for the final section.
Catharsis.

Good horror games know that catharsis is for losers and people who beat their games should still feel a sense of dread.
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« Reply #117701 on: February 04, 2017, 03:29:55 am »

You know... a huge trend in bad horror games is that they all feature a gun as the ultimate weapon at around the end of the game.

But now I am seriously noticing how many horror games (and non-sandbox survival games) end basically on an action note... Where all of a sudden items are just thrown at you for the final section.
Catharsis.

Good horror games know that catharsis is for losers and people who beat their games should still feel a sense of dread.

This is why the ending of RE7 is so disappointing.

That and the "but thou must!"-esque choice shortly beforehand.
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« Reply #117702 on: February 04, 2017, 03:31:12 am »

I wouldn't call RE7 horror. I'd call it action that tries too hard to be horror.
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« Reply #117703 on: February 04, 2017, 03:35:50 am »

It's more horror than 4, 5, and 6.

It gets more action-like the further into the game, it seems, but it starts out pretty solidly in a horror kinda place. Not that that says much, seeing as you don't have anything at the start of the game, so the more you get, the more comfortable you feel defending yourself instead of running away, I guess.

Perhaps a microcosm of the RE series as a whole.
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« Reply #117704 on: February 04, 2017, 10:26:49 am »

I don't want to post in any politics threads and have them on my "unreads" because it's usually uninteresting to me, but australamerican relations have gotten a little shaky recently because of a massive media blowout about Trump getting annoyed at Turnbull.

The reason I care is because we had a secession referendum on the horizon and with ANZUS possibly being less firm  in the future (ignoring all the crap the Obama admin did to bring NZ back into the fold) I can see it having some pretty drastic effects on the voting majority on said referendum.


Not that I really mind, I'm a colonialist through and through. It's just amusing, if confusing, timing.
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