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Mand'alor Dash

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  1. The two fairies she keeps chained to a radiator in her basement.
  2. I don't know how I used to use energy drinks. One cup of home made ice coffee and I'm set.

  3. Feel the Clint... on

  4. You think Twilight has it bad? Just imagine Spike's rude awakening when he finds out what was in his dog food.
  5. Channel Awesome's almost nothing like I remember. Linkara's really the only originator still doing the same kind of content. Everyone else either left, focused on other products, or just lost their edge. Got to hand it to him for that.

  6. Two and a half years making sigs, and counting. That's impressive no matter how you slice it. If you're still taking sig requests, I was wondering if anything could be done with this. No specific ideas in mind, just try and make it look cool and non-donor sized. Thanks in advance.
  7. (For your debating pleasure, I never delete comments. The staff still does, though; and I can't do anything about that. Please post responsibly.) A few days ago, I declared myself to be amoral. What did I mean by this? I meant that I'm done with the idea that certain deeds are inherently wrong or right simply because they are. I'm done with the insistence that certain ideas are above logic or reason simply because one path is "moral." I'm done with buzzwords and thought-killing cliches being used to replace rational thought, and discourage dissent. I'm fucking done. The abortion debate is one such issue where morality has gone batshit insane. We have reached a point where neither camp wishes to confront the cold hard truth of what they advocate, and hides behind buzz-phrases to "encode" it behind a layer of illusory morality. "Pro-abortion" doesn't sound buzzy and moral enough. You don't want the world to think you're in love with the idea of little babies being ripped from the womb and given the Freddy Krueger treatment, so if anyone asks, you aren't "pro-abortion," you're "pro-choice." Oh, so does that mean you support school choice? Or the choice to refuse service when you own a business, or for an individual to choose what goes into their own bodies? No? Then you aren't pro-choice, you're pro-abortion, and you're trying to hide behind morality. If you believe that life begins at birth, you are expected to make a biological argument to support this position, not call your opponents "misogynists" who just want to turn women into baby-slaves. And don't walk away smug, "pro-lifers." Are you anti-war? Anti-death penalty? You think we should take an honest look at police brutality? Do you believe that the one and only good reason to kill another human being is that they pose a direct threat to another human being? No? You're not "pro-life," you are simply "anti-abortion," and wish to manufacture a false moral high-ground when asked about women who stand to lose 9 months of their lives due to being raped. If you believe that life begins at conception, you too are required to provide a biological argument for why you believe this. Morality, or more specifically, the politicization of morality, is something that I will no longer support. The root of the problem is that as a human construct, a majority of moral decisions are completely subjective, and we are attempting to find reasons for why our own personal morality must be forced upon everyone else. We build hypocritical walls of morality designed to shield ourselves from responsibility, while simultaneously casting stones upon anybody else. "Greed" is my favorite example of this giant glass house. Once you begin under the false premise that putting one's self and one's family over strangers is, by itself, morally wrong, how easy it becomes to cast blame. I'm a semi-regular gamer. I've avidly followed the Mass Effect series since the very first game, and I have yet to regret any of my purchases. I think the series is of exceptional quality, but I also realize that BioWare and EA aren't making it out of the goodness of their hearts. A new game costs $60 US, and the DLC costs about $15 a piece. It's steep, but there's no trickery. In the digital age, there's no excuse for not knowing exactly what you are paying for. A business needs to make money. If you feel like their goods are not worth the asking price, then nobody is making you buy them. I haven't bought most of the DLC myself, because it really is pretty steep. But there is nothing more entitled than to disregard the reality of the world, and demand that you have a moral right to a product that you have not paid for. There is no trickery at foot. In any store, the game and its expansions are clearly listed as two separate items. If you only buy the one, do not feign outrage at not being offered the other one as lagniappe. But of course, you're right because greed. A private company with a responsibility to its shareholders is selling its goods on an honest market. This is greed. A consumer sees the prices for the goods offered, has the ability to look up every fact behind these goods at the swipe of a fingertip, and still demands that he receive goods for free because he bought another good. In some cases, the individual in question even steals the goods they want, rather than pay for any of it at all. This is not greed. There is a presidential candidate currently in the top three, who runs on a platform of taking people's money by force and giving it to his voters. Guess who the greedy party is. I'm greedy. And this is no rhetorical device. I am greedy by my own admission. I'd love to be successful, and I would put my own good over that of somebody I don't know, and I would expect them to do the same. Most systems of morality do not consider this to be a righteous action. I don't care. But what of those moral principles rooted in sound logic? Surely, there must be merit to those, right? Take the case of racism. Obviously, racism must be a grand moral principle because it is illogical to judge somebody on skin color instead of merit. How can this be an issue? Well, way back in the year IDFK A.D., some logical man looked at how his neighbors were mistreating and prejudging people based on superficial properties without any attempt to get to know them, and decided that it didn't make a lick of sense. Racial prejudice was (rightfully) considered illogical, and the term "racism" was coined as a shorthand for this phenomenon. Then, thanks to a whole bunch of centuries where racism got out of hand, and committed many grievous wrongs, it was adopted to become a moral issue. I won't deny that the good guys won a couple of important wars thanks to this, but as soon as you fast forward to the 21st century... Even when morality adopts a principle from logic, it manages to pervert the premise beyond recognition. But it gets better. The third image is a tweet from SJW activist Suey Park, infamous for pioneering the "cancel Colbert" campaign after comedian and left-leaning commentator Stephen Colbert made a joke about Asians. I like Colbert. I think he's a very funny man. I don't really agree with him on politics, but he's a likable enough sort that that never really becomes an issue. This sentiment was not shared by conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, whose politics were the occasional subject of jabbery on Colbert's behalf. #CancelColbert happened at a time when I was a somewhat stereotypical moralistic conservative, and I held a great deal of respect for Ms. Malkin. She managed to flush away every single last bit of it with only one tweet. Above, you see a conservative activist joining an SJW censorship movement out of immediate political convenience, and hiding it all behind the false guise of morality. I'm fucking done. I was inspired to write this after having just read Watchmen. 30 years late; I'm aware. While I was reading, I found something of a bond with Rorschach, of all people. Mind you, I don't share quite the extent of his misanthropy, or his "New Frontiersman" politics, but there were moments where his sheer cynicism echoed through my brain like a scream in a cave. In particular, one relatively minor moment from the oh-so eventful chapter 6: (This actually is a spoiler. Do not open unless you have read the book.) Morality is a disguise. Worn by ideologues to silence dissent, by consumers to cast blame, by leftists to line their pockets, by SJWs to bully their fellow man, by evangelicals to enforce holy law, by Michelle Malkin to censor detractors. Logic was born when man looked upon the world, and judged it in his own eyes. Morality was born when he declared his interpretation to be the only one. I'm fucking done. I am amoral.
  8. Get two people of the same political affiliation to discuss the other side. Next to 100% of their observations will be false.

  9. As I mentioned in another thread, I'm a small time film critic IRL, and I need to write about the movie anyway. I'll have it ready the Wednesday after the film is released, and if there's enough interest, I can post it here after it airs on Friday.
  10. I can get why you'd dislike an episode (although I'm well past the point of having strong feelings about FiM episodes), but we unfortunately live in a world where people get offended by My Little Pony cartoons. And repeatedly, at that. Perhaps it's best if we just drop the bomb and end civilization. I know we've had our moments as a species, like all those times we've gone to the moon and back, but our age is clearly over. I bet the dinosaurs are glad they went extinct before they sank this low. Just leave a badass memorial for aliens to find in a thousand years, and gracefully fall on our sword. Nobody has to know that the dominant species of planet Earth was once offended by My Little Pony.
  11. Go to Google image search, type in your first name, and add "the Hedgehog." Press enter. Bleach your eyes.
  12. Watchmen. Chapter 6. Pages 19 and 20. I don't even have to say it.
  13. Be especially careful of double negatives.

  14. Reading comprehension: Not always easy, always important.

  15. The world would be a better place if every game had a story mode. That said, Overwatch's arena shooter design kinda makes me wonder how such a thing might work. How would the support or defensive characters be fun to play in PVE? Would there be co-op compatibility to offset this? What about a party of characters like you see in RPGs? Is it even cost effective to develop such a mode? I'm already considering getting Overwatch, even though I'm not normally into multiplayer games. A story mode would cinch it, but I'm not holding out any hope.
  16. Finally put something in that "about me" page after three years.

  17. Most crossovers in general are a terrible idea, unless you already have a shared continuity in place. MLP and Sonic already have distinctly and unavoidably separate universes. In Equestria, candy-colored ponies and other talking quadrupeds live in a high-fantasy, technologically confused adventure land. In whateverthefuckthesonicuniverseiscalled land: humans, robots, and edgelord furries repeatedly gather and misplace the same seven rubies in their quest to appease their one-dimensional character goals. This would only piss off both fanbases. Terrible as it was, it actually sold its way into becoming a "platinum hit" on Xbox.
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