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Post by machsabre on Apr 3, 2018 12:29:20 GMT -5
Oh god, that poor girl! HA!
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Post by iacon45 on Apr 3, 2018 23:50:23 GMT -5
In case you haven't picked up on it, serious discussions tend to get derailed quickly around here. You should've seen what happened when our previous forum hosts tried to nominate us for an award. All moved out, blew our deposit over there, and yet, I bet we'll still get another nomination.
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Post by Matrix Dragon on Apr 4, 2018 0:54:37 GMT -5
In case you haven't picked up on it, serious discussions tend to get derailed quickly around here. You should've seen what happened when our previous forum hosts tried to nominate us for an award. Hey, we warned them we'd be silly about it! And to be fair, I was treating the diversion somewhat seriously. I mean, there's definitely some Modern American Nazi elements to Kylo, especially in Last Jedi. At least Nazis don't have Sugar Daddys with mind control powers to influence girls into liking them...
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Post by Greatshot on Apr 4, 2018 19:30:00 GMT -5
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Post by machsabre on Apr 5, 2018 1:12:24 GMT -5
Uh yeah... Talira... If you haven't guessed it by now... We're sorta anarchists here. It's not that we don't have any reverence to a serious subject matter... To the contrary, we absolutely do. But you have to understand that this comes from our origins. We're a group of people who's been around for... Jesus Christ guys, has it been over 15 years? Our group was forged in the wake of an old site that was ran by a bunch of hypocritical people who demanded that we take everything so damn seriously... Despite the fact that we're a bunch of toy collecting, cartoon watching, dinosaur and kaiju loving old dorks. (The youngest of us is in our 30s. I'm 42.) And every single one of us has dealt with some serious shit in our lives. This is our escape from the real world. We don't usually bring up serious subjects here, because quite frankly... We don't need to. I can tell you with almost 100% certainty what every single person in this group here thinks about certain subjects. You know that Neo-Nazi bullshit that went down in Charlottesville last summer? We didn't talk about it, but I guarantee you that every single one of us looked at that whole mess, shook our heads and thought "What a bunch of fascist assholes."
You mentioned staying on topic, but you got to understand... Like I said in the very second post, we're all very well read in the tragedy and more importantly, we have been for many years. Anne Frank? For most of us, that was required reading in high school. My own late grandfather was one of the shrinks who had to treat the survivors in Bergen-Belsen, which didn't have gas chambers. So take a wild guess how they killed over 70,000 inmates. Which by the way, guess where the corpses of Anne and Margo Frank were? Bergen-Belsen.
But there's really nothing else to say. It's like saying that the Native Americans got boned over by the US Government, or that the sky is blue or that Roseanne was never funny. We know and agree. It sucked and it was horrible and we REALLY don't want it to happen ever again.
And that's all there is to say.
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Post by Matrix Dragon on Apr 5, 2018 2:08:53 GMT -5
Jesus Christ guys, has it been over 15 years? 2002... What the fuck? And to think, all that time and you've still never admitted your love of Optimal Megatron.
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Post by SporkBot on Apr 5, 2018 9:03:54 GMT -5
Yeah, it's more or less what Mach said. It's one of those things that's just so all encompassing around here that it would just be one person posting this: and the reply to that would be this: And it might be a few posts of something in that vein before we moved on. I mean, over on another forum, I've frequently complained about the treatment of one of my favorite characters in 2-year old story. Yet there are those that disagree with me, so some discourse is bound to occur. The discussion lies in an exchange of different perspectives and attitudes. But for this subject? These deluded wantwits looking to shirk all their problems and misfortunes on completely unrelated people to assuage their egos, based on the ramblings of an unstable schmuck that stole Charlie Chaplin's mustache? Not going to be a lot of differing opinions on that. It's not that we don't care or wouldn't prefer them all to either get smarter or just crawl under a rock on an uncharted island...it's just that this is part of how we deal. Their ideology is only worth mockery in its weak foundations and abandonment of reason and rational thought. And really, that's all most of us can do, since we've neither superpowers nor Batman-level skills to actively dismantle them in real life like we'd prefer. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to make sure that everyone agrees with me that James Tynion IV was the worst thing to happen to Cassie Cain since her editorially/executive-mandated turn to evil...
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Post by machsabre on Apr 5, 2018 12:06:05 GMT -5
Jesus Christ guys, has it been over 15 years? 2002... What the fuck? And to think, all that time and you've still never admitted your love of Optimal Megatron.
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Post by triumshockwave on Apr 5, 2018 16:20:26 GMT -5
Our group was forged in the wake of an old site that was ran by a bunch of hypocritical people who demanded that we take everything so damn seriously... Despite the fact that we're a bunch of toy collecting, cartoon watching, dinosaur and kaiju loving old dorks. Speaking of which, this whole Channel Awesome debacle seems strangely familiar
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Post by machsabre on Apr 5, 2018 21:49:37 GMT -5
Our group was forged in the wake of an old site that was ran by a bunch of hypocritical people who demanded that we take everything so damn seriously... Despite the fact that we're a bunch of toy collecting, cartoon watching, dinosaur and kaiju loving old dorks. Speaking of which, this whole Channel Awesome debacle seems strangely familiar You know, that's what was going through in my head when I was listening to them read the list of shit they did. Should we make a new thread to talk about that in detail or just continue to derail this one?
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