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  1. PlunderSteed
    Such is life. I think I'm done here. I hope somebody learns something from this...discussion.
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    This thread has an interesting trend. During the debate between @@TheMarkz0ne and @@Nine, not a single person brohoofed anything TM0 had to say. On the other hand, Nine got more than a dozen "brohoofs". Granted, the popularity of an idea does not mean it is justifiable, sustainable or even logical. However, TM0 you really might benefit from digging deep and asking why it is that so few of your ideas are given credence, even among the more-tolerant-than-most Brony community, especially considering that nobody here has anything to financially gain or lose by the proving or disproving the ideas you've brought up.
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    Conventions are a weird mix of amazing fun and agonizing stress. Over the years I've been to... - E3 (Los Angeles) as a press intern/guest for GameSpy. I got to meet Vin Diesel, Tom Clancy and Will.I.Am. I also had to wrestle with various IT and scheduling crap that made it a huge headache. - The Grande Masquerade (New Orleans) as an attendee to CCP's short-lived World of Darkness fanfest. It narrowly beat out BronyCon as the best convention experience I've had, and was fairly painless. It wasn't cheap, though...tickets were $700. - Comicon (Philadelphia) as an attendee. I cosplayed as Agent 47. It was hot and crowded, but not bad. - Bronycon '13 as an attendee. The Bar Trot and Bronypalooza were definitely the most fun parts. I cosplayed as Magnum (Rarity's dad) and a Shadowbolt. The horrifying 3 hour registration line was the opposite of fun. They better fix that shit this year.
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    If you act the same way IRL that you do online, then I can't say I'm surprised. In all likelihood, you have a lot of behavior quirks that you are unaware of, but other people notice quickly. From their perspective, they saw a nervous looking guy walking weird, breathing heavily and wearing a cartoon pony t-shirt. They might have been thinking "classic autistic neckbeard basement dweller." And they laughed. There's only so much you can do about it, but understanding why people think you're weird/laughable can help (even if it's not something you want to hear).
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    I'm in a Skype group with a few writers, and the running joke is coming up with the most idiotic OCs imaginable. Things like "the black and red Double Alicorn (she has two horns and two tails!) who is a brave survivor of severe autism." Mine is named Epony D'arkness De-mane-Tia Raven Neigh, a ponified rip off of Ebony D'arkness Dementia Raven Way of the infamously shitty "My Immortal" Harry Potter fanfic.
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    Who gives a shit? This is kind of a dumb question about a dumb organization that nobody outside of it cares about in the slightest.
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    Easy to get along with and (usually) easy to work with, but a bit distant or aloof at times. I don't generally get emotionally invested with most of my friends or coworkers, and I think this makes my friendliness come across as insincere...which is technically true, but more as an effort to "fake it to fit in" than any kind of maliciousness or distrust. In the case of coworkers, I obviously trust them with my life (or else we wouldn't be working together); I just don't show it very well. I like people well enough, and I get lonely when I spend a lot of time by myself. I'm just not willing to get very close to very many, and people pick up on that eventually.
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    mega thread Metal Thread

    PlunderSteed replied to Crispy's topic in Media Discussion

    I love the frantic, raw, murcurial quality of Converge's music. I first heard their work when I went to a show in Austin in 2009 when they were touring with Dethklok. Anyways, props to Epitaph Records for freely publishing most of their full albums in high quality on YouTube. Still, if I like 'em, I buy 'em...if you don't support the music you love, it dies. Lately I've been playing the hell out of their 2012 record "All We Love We Leave Behind." Its title track hits close to home for me. Its video is especially gut-wrenching, mostly for its stark simplicity that only hints at thematic elements, rather than spelling them out visually.
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    You mean...someone who hates a group of nerds, and goes out of his way to infiltrate said group of nerds with the specific intent of rooting out more reasons to make fun of them? That just seems twice as sad as the saddest thing any Brony has ever done. And Bronies have done some sad shit.
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    The Smashing Pumpkins' fourth album "Adore" was a lot more stark than anything else they had done before (or since). Towards the end, it just kind of wanders off into a smattering of eerie, disjointed songs.
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    @@PE Brony and @, you guys brought up some good points about religious affiliation in the general population. There are also a couple other things worth considering... - Many people in the US are often hesitant to identify themselves as atheists because of the long-standing (and silly) notion that atheist = communist = anti-American. So even if their attitudes, beliefs and perspectives are in fact atheistic, they won't label themselves as such. - There's plenty of room "in the middle" between outright agnostic/atheist and traditionally religious. For instance, almost 9% of the members here identified as "Equestreism (or don't care)". If taken at face value, this group seems to be composed of people who have either put no serious thought into religion and/or simply don't care about it one way or another. This group does in fact represent a sizable portion of many Western nations, even the US. In real life (rather than an internet forum), many agnostics/atheists might find it easier to cast their vote in a joke category, rather than be affiliated with the stigma of real-life atheists or outright lie and identify with a religion they don't believe in. Under the anonymity of the internet, many of these people switch to the more descriptive, accurate labels of agnosticism or atheism.
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    I'm pretty sure you're thinking Judas, not Lucifer. Maybe you were referring to something different. If so, I'd like to hear more about it. I haven't seen anything that specifically indicates a link between Bronies and atheism. It probably has more to do with the fact(?) that younger people are more likely to be atheist than older people, and Bronies are more likely to be young people.
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    I'm glad you brought this up. I support the practice, and am willing to do it myself. However, I need to look into my eligibility. The ICRC won't take my blood, and I've been turned down for bone marrow donations because I've spent too much time in "high risk" places like Niger and the West Bank. Maybe the rules are different for other donation purposes...I won't know until I look it up.
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    That might work for certain parts of certain sectors. However, you have to take into consideration the cost of training employees up to the standards necessary to perform their job. For instance, my employer spends 3 years and about a million dollars to train each person that does my particular job. With that kind of investment, it's far more cost effective to have 5 people working 60 hours/week, rather than 10 people working 30 hours/week. Also, we're salary, which makes the existing approach even more desirable for the organization's bottom line: there's no "overtime" and no quitting (per contract).
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    I haven't read much about Quakers. Who's the guy you referred to? Apparently that question wasn't adequately long-winded enough (character minimum), so I guess I'll add that I'm also curious about how you came to identify with that particular group's ideology.
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    I saw when you refuted his scripture reference by claiming he was using the wrong version. However, did you ever provide a better version of those same verses? Versions that might cast those passages in a less rapey, genocidal light? If you did, I must have missed it. I'd like to see an alternate (but still mainstream) version that can justify what appears to be a very ugly portrayal of God.
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    As I said months ago, verbal ridicule is not persecution. Persecution implies a loss of rights. American Christians have not lost any rights as a result of our online discussions. If your beliefs are ridiculed verbally and logically, you are free to defend them verbally and logically. Or you can ignore them. It's up to you. It's always been up to you. You're right about there being a lot of buttheads out there (but be careful, lest the over-zealous mods on this site punish you for justifiably calling buttheads out on being buttheads). As for the people who claimed that "God is evil" or "God condones rape, murder and slavery"...their claims are understandable. Rather than complain about them making those claims, you should look into those claims to determine their validity, then refute them directly. If you can.
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    ...what the hell did I just read? I was hoping there would be a point at the end of that mountain of text, but there kind of wasn't. Also, this article feels very 2011. Am I missing something? I doubt this thread will generate much in the way of debate in any case.
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    The Ocean House Hotel segment of Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrGmuInMc0o
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    I don't have as much free time now as I did over the past several months, but I'm happy to help out in the area of writing lyrics and vocal melodies/harmonies, as well as recording them. These two songs were instrumentals initially, and we added vocals. Metal: in this one I wrote the vocals and lyrics, and performed for the recording. Electronic: in this one I wrote the melodic vocal chorus, @@Gaz wrote the lyrics, and she performed the vocals for recording.
  21. PlunderSteed
    Probably not this guy. I've racked up something in the neighborhood of 500 warning points for being less than nice around here.
  22. PlunderSteed
    Last summer I got a phone call from my brother. I had a bad feeling, because it was 9am on a Saturday, and he never calls that early. He was calling to tell me Dad had died the night before.
  23. PlunderSteed
    If a person wants to see a connection among various unrelated things, he will probably see a connection where none exists. If you add money to the mix, your ego requires that it be justifiable. Nobody wants to be faced with the prospect that they were duped, so it is a very common subconscious reaction to rationalize the outcome into something pleasant.
  24. PlunderSteed
    Sounds like you're agnostic. And don't ever think that "I don't know, but maybe" is a bad stance. It is the rational DEFAULT stance that everybody has on everything philosophical, until/unless something convinces them otherwise. Generally, if you're encouraged to "pick a side", that person is telling you to stop asking questions.
  25. PlunderSteed
    Haven't been to Sweden. Japan was awesome, though. So far my favorite overall is Italy. To visit, not to live, I should clarify.
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