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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14860770 times)

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #104040 on: June 12, 2016, 02:09:36 pm »

It's a fine sentiment, but if mass media published life story of every shooting victim, there would be no room on tv or in newspapers for anything else.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #104041 on: June 12, 2016, 02:09:59 pm »

Excellent opportunity to start pruning your friends list.
Wait wait wait. People actually add others to their friend lists in this forum?
Wait, Bay12 has a friend list?
The buddies list apparently "helps control PM traffic" whatever that means. I'm sure someone uses it.
Oh man, it really does have a friend list!

Well, it's not like it matters for me, since I don't have anyone to add to it :'(
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #104042 on: June 12, 2016, 02:12:30 pm »

If a guy killing or wounding 102 people is not newsworthy then what is?
Issues perhaps?
What's being done to stop the other thousand that'll probably (assuming 2014 numbers hold fairly steady, which they probably will) finish being killed by the end of the year, maybe? Several tens of, with wounding included. Can't read AT's mind, but that sounds like it might be a place to start.

It's a fine sentiment, but if mass media published life story of every shooting victim, there would be no room on tv or in newspapers for anything else.
... I'm not saying win/win, but maybe that'd count as lose/win? People would maybe start to really try to cut down on causes, if only so they could watch TV again...
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #104043 on: June 12, 2016, 02:13:24 pm »

It's a fine sentiment, but if mass media published life story of every shooting victim, there would be no room on tv or in newspapers for anything else.

They don't need to even do that though, just not focus so much in the attacker that they essentially become a celebrity. Even just a little piece on the victims to humanize them. But that doesn't sell, so it doesn't happen.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #104044 on: June 12, 2016, 02:14:23 pm »

Excellent opportunity to start pruning your friends list.
Wait wait wait. People actually add others to their friend lists in this forum?
Wait, Bay12 has a friend list?
The buddies list apparently "helps control PM traffic" whatever that means. I'm sure someone uses it.
Oh man, it really does have a friend list!

Well, it's not like it matters for me, since I don't have anyone to add to it :'(
Decided to add you to the friend list on a whim. Now we can never PM each other and barely interact, just like before!
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« Reply #104045 on: June 12, 2016, 02:22:12 pm »

... I can't tell if that was deeply, self-abasingly ironic, or just shows a total lack of self-awareness.
It's like a David Lynch film just without plot or true depth.
So it's pretty much like a Lynch film!

What's being done to stop the other thousand that'll probably (assuming 2014 numbers hold fairly steady, which they probably will) finish being killed by the end of the year, maybe? Several tens of, with wounding included.
What would you propose then?
Quite sure there will be a ruckus about gun law soon. Some idiots from the left will shout "ban all guns" followed by some cretins from the right shouting "Muh 4'th amendment" and it will end up nowhere just like after every major shooting.
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« Reply #104046 on: June 12, 2016, 02:37:05 pm »

Eh, I'd probably start with bumping up infrastructure and social safety net spending, maybe working out some education/workforce improvements and/or decriminalizing a fair amount the drug trade that's bloody rampant in Florida, so at least there's that much less of a reason for things to turn violent. Better mental health spending/outreach would probably help a fair bit, too. More work into actually reintroducing the criminal population into the normal workforce. Just as a non-exhaustive, off the top of the head list. Buncha' stuff we could be doing, really.
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« Reply #104047 on: June 12, 2016, 02:48:30 pm »

Better mental health spending/outreach would probably help a fair bit, too. More work into actually reintroducing the criminal population into the normal workforce.
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« Reply #104048 on: June 12, 2016, 02:53:55 pm »

Is that an actual thing in the game? Conclave stuff, per'aps?
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« Reply #104049 on: June 12, 2016, 02:55:51 pm »

It's apparently something that can pop up when your ruler has the lunatic trait. Other options are no pants for all, turnip currency, and mandated wall holes.
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« Reply #104050 on: June 12, 2016, 02:56:41 pm »

Welp, forgot remove that bit from an early version of that message. In fact, bit of a melodramatic and contradicting message even without it, I'll chalk it up as frustration with this variety of murderous nonsense.

No, I don't actually think these things shouldn't be reported on at all as that would require a fair bit of censorship and I doubt anyone would benefit from it. Just that numbers and such should probably not be as emphasized as they are in reports of these things, etc.
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« Reply #104051 on: June 12, 2016, 02:56:58 pm »

Is that an actual thing in the game? Conclave stuff, per'aps?
No. It's an event you can get if you are insane. There are others like it, such as fighting Cthulhu or being a "werewolf".
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« Reply #104052 on: June 12, 2016, 03:29:25 pm »

Cthulhu is kinda in even when you're not insane, with Way of Life.
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« Reply #104053 on: June 12, 2016, 05:05:53 pm »

It appears that the only reasonably "productive" activity that I can actually do without feeling like I'm dying, is writing the plot for that goddamned DBZ/Touhou crossover in my head.

Muses are fucking evil.
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« Reply #104054 on: June 12, 2016, 05:40:38 pm »

Do it.
I hate fanfiction but do it.

Why DragonballZ specifically tho?
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