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#691
Chit Chat / Re: The Life Thread
October 24, 2018, 02:54:45 PM
More the involuntary aspect of getting away from undesirables. Like, before, if I was a kid who hung around people like that, and then I went off to college or something in another city, state, whatever, I mean, maybe I'm writing letters or calling those guys back home, but most likely I'm losing touch with them or checking in like, once or twice a year maybe. And plus, while I'm away from them, I'm theoretically not around like-minded people or, at the very least, to your point, they're not voicing those opinions in public, so I either have to pretend to NOT be one of those types of people, or, now that I'm away from those people and they're validation/reinforcement, I'm more likely to distance myself from those beliefs as I leave that bubble and enter the "real world," if you will.

Versus now, you have 24/7 contact with those people. Instead of "I got challenged at school today and I need to consider things," you get to go to your Facebook page or forum or Twitter or whatever and say "These effing SJWs etc etc etc" and everyone there will be like "You're right, eff those SJWs" and it just continues the cycle of hate.
#692
Chit Chat / Re: The Life Thread
October 24, 2018, 12:58:07 PM
I may very possibly be speaking from ignorance here but, I wonder, in the past, pre-Internet days, if you had a group of friends you hung out with who were "bad news" or just had "bad ideas," there were plenty of ways to either remove yourself from them or even to be removed from them involuntarily. I don't mean anything excessive, it's just, if you lived in, say, South Carolina and you and your group of friends had a certain type of view, it was still more likely that you'd, say, move from either your town or your state to go to college, even if you went to college in your own town, any of those friends might leave for those same reasons, or, the simple fact is, eventually you age and transfer for a job or for a loved one. There's many things that could break you apart from those people, and put you in a place where, perhaps, you can rethink some of those ideals or beliefs, especially the toxic, hateful ones, and have a chance to mature and be wiser.

I wonder then if perhaps the internet is to blame for this sort of man-child behavior we see these days (haha, "if"). It'd be one thing if, pre-internet, I had a group of friends who thought like these Gamergaters, or the Last Jedi people who threaten and insult the people who worked on the movie (we're talking the extreme ones here). Again, we may grow apart, grow distant in time, it's possible to be removed from that toxic ideology and advance past it.

Now, whatever age you are when you get sucked in by that, you can stay a part of it forever. You can move around the country, go wherever you like, and if people in real life challenge those toxic thoughts or ideals, you can retreat to your "friends" on the internet who will lift you up for your toxic ideology. Now, I know, there's always been toxic, hateful people, that's why we have the KKK and other extremist groups in America even before the internet. This, though, what's been going on these days, doesn't really have a name. We call it "Gamergate" and "Comicsgate" and that kind of stuff, but it's just shitty, horrible people being shitty and horrible together and encouraging others to be shitty and horrible, at which point they will be praised. It seems like the internet would make it much harder for someone to WANT to break away from that, when they're getting that feeling of satisfaction and validation from these types of groups.

I don't know, maybe I'm just pissing in the wind again or maybe this is a real thing, but does that make sense to anyone else?
#693
Political Ranting / Re: Straight ticket
October 23, 2018, 01:41:08 PM
I mean, in the context of our current reality, I'm all for a straight ticket. If we had two (or more) actually competent political parties, that may be one thing, but in this time we have a party that wants to strip rights from its citizens and turn the US into a 1950s prison state, and then the other guys. So I'd rather vote entirely for the other guys.
#694
Chit Chat / Re: The TV thread
October 23, 2018, 01:05:41 PM
Quote from: TheNorm on October 23, 2018, 12:38:23 PM
Anyone check out the new Doctor Who yet? Really enjoying Jodie Whittaker so far.

Fiance and I have been watching it. I'm not a huge Who fan, I don't get into a lot of that BBC stuff, but I've seen some Matt Smith episodes and a lot of Capaldi, and even I can already tell the writing this season has been extraordinarily sharp. And yes, Whittaker is great as the Doctor.
#695
Political Ranting / Re: Straight ticket
October 23, 2018, 12:57:09 PM
Quote from: Crewe on October 23, 2018, 12:43:41 PM
The point here? Please research the candidates on your ballot with as much as an open mind as you can muster because it matters.
Its painstaking and monotonous but its necessary.

I think this is the key. The fact is, a true, free democracy can't function without educated citizens (and I don't mean everyone has to have an Ivy League degree). There's a LOT of misinformation out there, it's important to have the facts straight.

I'd also say, what you're feeling (it feels wrong to go straight ticket, isn't it wrong to just not vote) is VERY similar to how people approached the 2016 election (both candidates are the same, I'm voting third party as a protest vote, Bernie didn't win the primary so I'm sitting out the general) and we saw how well that worked. There's a LOT of issues in our country right now, whatever side of those issues you're on, and the only way to start to fix those is to vote, period. I know it's exhausting, I know we're all tired, but we gotta do it. An informed populace that hits the polls in massive numbers will always be better than the alternative.
#696
Week Nine (Earliest game Saturday 10/27 @ 3:30pm ET)

NCAA
#18 Iowa @ #17 Penn State
#14 Washington State @ #24 Stanford
#16 Texas A&M @ Mississippi State
#6 Texas @ Oklahoma State
Spotlight Game: #9 Florida @ #7 Georgia

NFL
Washington @ NY Giants
Seattle @ Detroit
Baltimore @ Carolina
San Francisco @ Arizona
New Orleans @ Minnesota
#697
Chit Chat / Re: The Movies Thread
October 19, 2018, 05:24:33 PM
Quote from: Crewe on October 19, 2018, 04:44:24 PM
I dont go to the theatre much but am really considering this and Halloween

I've got the AMC Stubs A-List, so I pay $20 a month and can see 3 movies a week for free (and, unlike the dying MoviePass, which I loved, this lets me order my seats online and see Dolby or IMAX at no extra cost). Saw First Man and El Royale last week, seeing The Hate U Give today, Old Man and the Gun tomorrow and Halloween on Sunday.

Haven't heard great things about Halloween, but, oh well. The soundtrack is enough for me to enjoy it as a whole, haha.
#698
Chit Chat / Re: The Movies Thread
October 19, 2018, 02:04:19 PM
Everybody, do me a favor and go see Bad Night at the El Royale, because it is AMAZING, but it's an indie, and it's not a superhero movie or an established franchise, so it's not making any money and that's unfortunate. This is why we don't get original movies when people complain Hollywood doesn't make original movies anymore.

Bring friends!
#699
Chit Chat / Re: The Top 5 Thread
October 18, 2018, 11:24:32 AM
Quote from: TheNorm on October 18, 2018, 05:18:55 AM
Slightly different take on the Top 5 Thread but:

Describe your musical tastes in five bands...or less:

Have some fun with it.  :popcorn:

1. Marilyn Manson
2. Kanye West
3. Catfish and the Bottlemen
4. The Front Bottoms
5. The National
#700
Baseball / Re: 2018 Off-Season/Season
October 17, 2018, 10:59:18 AM
Quote from: Crewe on October 17, 2018, 10:36:34 AM
yea Astros just looked run down. Of course beaning a run in and a granny doesn't help the mood.

I mean, they were down 3-2 but they were still in it until Osuna imploded.
#701
Chit Chat / Re: The Top 5 Thread
October 16, 2018, 02:07:01 PM
Quote from: TheNorm on October 16, 2018, 01:29:36 PM
Lol, they're both two East Coast teams with annoying accents and douchebag fans  ;)

Jokes on you: I have no accent :P
#702
Baseball / Re: 2018 Off-Season/Season
October 16, 2018, 12:23:33 PM
Quote from: TheNorm on October 16, 2018, 10:39:25 AM
This is a pretty good read...a look at Kirk Gibson's HR for the Dodgers in 1988.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24974235/mlb-kirk-gibson-world-series-home-run-30-years-later

Read the whole thing and re-watched the at bat. Thanks for this, Norm. That was incredible.
#703
Chit Chat / Re: The Top 5 Thread
October 16, 2018, 10:50:45 AM
Alright, I'll finish it up then with another Boston team (this would've been funnier had Norm gone with the Celtics. Just...Boston can burn, basically).

5. Boston Red Sox

For years, they whined about the Yankees, how they always won, how they "bought their championships," all of that nonsense, and for what? What was Aaron Boone's salary, exactly, when he sent them home in the ALCS? What were the Yankees paying Grady Little and Pedro Martinez, when the one left the other in the game too long in 2003? Hell, what were the Yankees paying Buckner when he missed the play at first?

And, how did they overcome all this? Well, by bloating up their payroll too, signing big name free agents and basically abandoning their farm system, much as the Yankees had done for so long too. If you can't beat them, copy their gameplan to victory, I guess. Everyone's tired of the Red Sox, though. East coast bias for the underdogs, perpetual runners-up. Yeah, I know, they came back in '04 from 3-0 down, that was really impressive, cool story man. If you're going to keep comparing your team to the Yankees, though, because you want to feel all big, bad and important, I'm going to need you to get at least 20 World Series championships and a legacy of hitters and pitchers nearly as prolific. It's cute they think they matter, though.

Fenway is pretty cool, though. Too bad it's located where it is with all it's "hella" douchebag asshole fans.
#704
Week Eight (earliest game is Saturday 10/20 @ 12pm ET)

NCAA
#6 Michigan @ #24 Michigan State
Minnesota @ Nebraska
#1 Alabama @ Tennessee
#22 Mississippi State @ #5 LSU
#12 Oregon @ #25 Washington State

NFL
Cleveland @ Tampa Bay
Detroit @ Miami
New England @ Chicago
New Orleans @ Baltimore
Spotlight Game: Dallas @ Washington
#705
College Ball / Re: 2018 College Football Thread
October 15, 2018, 05:01:15 PM
Quote from: rollntider on October 15, 2018, 04:52:47 PM
Quote from: Crewe on October 13, 2018, 10:58:35 PM
I always bet on LSU to choke and usually it works out, but what the hell Georgia? Are they really a fragile #1 or is LSU that good?

LSU is the same LSU, UGA lost a lot from from their team last year and they faced no one on their schedule yet(before LSU). UGA will lose 1 or 2 more before the season is over. SEC east is weak, A&M would win the east this year. LSU has about 2 more losses ahead for them I feel. Bama and A&M.  I am curious if Miss State will give them a game. not sold on state either.


From this point forward I'll be cheating off of Tider for the college games.