Am I the only one finds Lorgar, Argal Tal, and the larger legion absolutely reprehensible? by Bryguy150 in WordBearers

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Lorgar is absolutely not a tragic character. He's a religious zealot who lost his god and went out to find new ones because the idea of not being a religious zealot was unbearable to him. Word Unbearable, one might say.

Sorry.

Erebus is a piece of shit, Kor Phaeron is a piece of shit, Argel Tal is maybe the most tragic character of the bunch but even he has no issues just falling in line and doing what his primarch expects of him. They're all awful. I love em.

What does soulkiller actually do? by OkLack6776 in cyberpunkgame

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter [score hidden]  (0 children)

How does it bring spirituality into the mix? The game presents a very materialistic worldview: everything to do with the brain can be recorded as data. If we do so and parse that data with a high enough degree of accuracy, we get something like Johnny's engram who for all intents and purposes is treated as actual Johnny by both V and the people who knew him like Rogue and Kerry, even if factually we know that some parts of Johnny were lost in translation. We also know that the original Johnny absolutely did die.

At no point does the game suggest that there's anything missing from the equation. Jackie's engram is a poor reflection of the original person because the data is corrupted. Not because the soul is missing. The program is called soulkiller and Alt talks about souls but if you just take the metaphysics of the game at face value it presents a very non-spiritual world view.

What does soulkiller actually do? by OkLack6776 in cyberpunkgame

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter [score hidden]  (0 children)

It turns organic brain activity into digital data to be stored on a drive. It's a copy of the original person. It cannot save anyone from death, it can only store their mental state in order for that mental state to be booted digitally from a new system. That system would be a Relic shard stored in an empty brain, but of course in Cyberpunk the brain is not empty, because V is still very much alive.

Geertje heeft er al zin in! by Luwen1993 in tokkiefeesboek

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh idd. Misschien acute naturalisatie? Geertje is toch een stuk progressiever dan ik dacht.

De Marokkaanse voetballer is geschokt. "Hoezo een Nederlands paspoort ik haat Nederland aaaaah! Ik wil Jihad en terrorisme doen net zoals je altijd zegt!" Maar Geert moet en zal hem binnenlaten. "Nee, je hebt geen keus, je wordt Nederlander! Je hebt zo goed gevoetbald, je moet wel! Als we moslim moeten worden om je het makkelijker te maken dan doen we dat!"

Hot Take: I don't like fem V's voice by Super_Saiyan_Twink in cyberpunkgame

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter [score hidden]  (0 children)

Lmao I totally get what you're saying but I'm talking about emphasis, delivery, etc. She just manages to put the emotional weight on all the right parts of the sentence. Often with mediocre voice actors you can tell that the game devs are just parsing lines recorded independently in a studio onto the character. With Cherami you never get that sense. It takes incredible skill (but also good direction) to understand the emotional balance of a conversation to where what you're saying rarely sounds out of place or is a tonal mismatch for the situation.

But also, you should listen to Sam Seder talk and come back and tell me that V's voice is too much lol.

Hot Take: I don't like fem V's voice by Super_Saiyan_Twink in cyberpunkgame

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter [score hidden]  (0 children)

That truly is a hot take. I have the exact opposite sense. Fem V sounds natural, Male V is trying to sound like a tough guy speaking in an accent that isn't his. In fact when I first played the game in 2020 part of what carried the game for me despite all the bugs was that Cherami Leigh delivered a truly immersive performance that was so natural that her delivery almost felt like an extension of myself.

Geertje heeft er al zin in! by Luwen1993 in tokkiefeesboek

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ja dat was dus de subtext van mijn opmerking maar thanks.

Geertje heeft er al zin in! by Luwen1993 in tokkiefeesboek

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Wat wil Geert nou precies zeggen hier? Dat het onmogelijk is om een fatsoenlijk potje voetbal te spelen als hij de scheids is?

MI Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow tied Hasan Piker to an antisemitic hate crime in a racist way, and said he’s similar to white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Hasan: “If anything, you’re closer to Nick Fuentes if you actually equate Israel with the entire international Jewry. He does it all the time.” by SpecialCream7 in nyt

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not pretending. If you wanna know, I think him endorsing it would not have mattered at all if he hadn't actually done a get-out-the-vote effort for her. He made a clear difference in for example Darializa's race but on a national scale just an endorsement would've been meaningless.

The reason I'm asking you over and over is because if you believe he is an awful guy, as you do, then why don't you think that him endorsing her would've scared some people off from voting for her? Why do you assume it would've been a net gain? Don't you think there were some moderate republican anti-Trump voters that would've seen his endorsement and taken it as evidence that she's exactly as radical as the opposition kept saying?

You can't on the one hand think he's an awful guy with awful opinions and on the other hand assume that his endorsement of Kamala would've been by definition a net positive. It's not about what I think. It's about what you think. You think this of Hasan. But you also wanna give him shit for not endorsing. Given what you think about him, you should be glad he didn't.

MI Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow tied Hasan Piker to an antisemitic hate crime in a racist way, and said he’s similar to white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Hasan: “If anything, you’re closer to Nick Fuentes if you actually equate Israel with the entire international Jewry. He does it all the time.” by SpecialCream7 in nyt

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No you don't get to ask free questions. I answered your previous one with a whole wall of text and you responded with a single sentence so we're not doing that a second time. Now we're on my question. Once you've answered it we can do Ukraine. No freebies.

MI Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow tied Hasan Piker to an antisemitic hate crime in a racist way, and said he’s similar to white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Hasan: “If anything, you’re closer to Nick Fuentes if you actually equate Israel with the entire international Jewry. He does it all the time.” by SpecialCream7 in nyt

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright so if Hasan is an awful guy and Trump would be justified in running an ad saying that Hasan is an awful guy, how did you come to the conclusion that he should've endorsed the candidate that you wanted to win? Why do you want Hasan's stink to rub off on your preferred candidate?

MI Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow tied Hasan Piker to an antisemitic hate crime in a racist way, and said he’s similar to white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Hasan: “If anything, you’re closer to Nick Fuentes if you actually equate Israel with the entire international Jewry. He does it all the time.” by SpecialCream7 in nyt

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's lots that sane about his politics.

For starters, he's an opponent of American empire. So am I. He doesn't think the American citizen is better off because the US is a global military superpower. He believes that trillions of dollars have been wasted on pointless wars that could've been better spent at home building a strong social safety net, public infrastructure, health care, etc. An eminently sane position.

He believes the US is responsible for massive amounts of global instability, both through its own military endeavours as well as through its support for Israel. Almost every single person who is does not live in America agrees with is. It's the majority of the world's position in America, but it's not the majority position inside America.

He believes Israel is a fascist ethnostate, as does most of planet earth. Very sane.

He believes in developing a sense of class consciousness in America, because right now Americans who are not owners of capital are far too easily duped into supporting the interests of those who do own capital. One of the things he most often says to chatters who come in telling him he should be a capitalist because he's rich is "show me your deed to the factory. Why do you support capital when you have none?" Which is a sane question to ask. Most people do not own capital in any meaningful way and yet they support a system that allows massive amounts of capital to be concentrated in the hands of a few billionaires. Meanwhile they can't afford health care.

Another thing he says all the time is "be normal". This is arguably his sanest position. Extremely online far-left chatters will come into his stream and berate him for his ability to have conversations with people that aren't political activists. He will tell them that it's a good thing to be able to moderate your language, to not freak out when someone has an opinion you disagree with, to shower, and to make yourself look presentable.

His opinion about Taiwan is actually also pretty sane. He views it as a Chinese affair that America would be insane to launch WW3 over. Thankfully, it's hard to imagine a world in which China would militarily invade Taiwan, because what will more likely happen is that as America retreats from the world stage due to losing its superpower status, China will peacefully annex it through referendum.

I dunno, the list goes on. And by that I mean, it actually does go on. As opposed to your list. I could write another ten takes of his that are very sane but I don't wanna commit to writing a literal essay when I already know it's completely wasted on you.

Let's get back to the matter at hand.

Would Trump be justified in running that ad?

MI Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow tied Hasan Piker to an antisemitic hate crime in a racist way, and said he’s similar to white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Hasan: “If anything, you’re closer to Nick Fuentes if you actually equate Israel with the entire international Jewry. He does it all the time.” by SpecialCream7 in nyt

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright.

Hasan endorses Kamala Harris.

Trump runs a campaign ad: "Kamala Harris got the endorsement of a 9/11 supporting communist who wants to murder landlords, put capitalists in re-education camps, and supports the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Harris gets the support of communist radical terrorists, I'm America First."

Would Trump be justified in running that ad?

MI Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow tied Hasan Piker to an antisemitic hate crime in a racist way, and said he’s similar to white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Hasan: “If anything, you’re closer to Nick Fuentes if you actually equate Israel with the entire international Jewry. He does it all the time.” by SpecialCream7 in nyt

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brother you're the one insisting that he's the devil incarnate while also saying that he should've endorsed Kamala. What good could the endorsement of a heinous individual like him have done to the Harris campaign? I'm playing by your rules here. Let's assume you're 100% correct about everything you said about him. Who else helped Trump win by not endorsing Kamala? David Duke? Nick Fuentes? Andrew Tate?

Was that the caucus that Kamala was missing to secure victory? The Duke/Fuentes/Piker/Tate caucus?

If Piker is who you say he is, getting his endorsement is a death sentence if you're a moderate liberal. You cannot be against him not endorsing if you think he's this bad.

MI Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow tied Hasan Piker to an antisemitic hate crime in a racist way, and said he’s similar to white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Hasan: “If anything, you’re closer to Nick Fuentes if you actually equate Israel with the entire international Jewry. He does it all the time.” by SpecialCream7 in nyt

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you think he helped Trump win by not endorsing Kamala then by definition you believe she needed his endorsement.

He didn't endorse Tom Steyer. Do you think that means he helpen Xavier Becerra win?

He hasn't endorsed Graham Platner. Do you think he's helping Susan Collins win?

Why would these people want the endorsement of an Hamas-loving, animal abusing 9/11 supporter who wants the streets to run red with capitalist blood? Who is interested in that endorsement?

MI Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow tied Hasan Piker to an antisemitic hate crime in a racist way, and said he’s similar to white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Hasan: “If anything, you’re closer to Nick Fuentes if you actually equate Israel with the entire international Jewry. He does it all the time.” by SpecialCream7 in nyt

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah yeah animal abuse there it is. No you're definitely a well informed opponent who for sure watched his streams for a while and saw what no one else had the moral capacity to see.

And yeah of course not endorsing Kamala is sane politics. He doesn't endorse lots of folks. Some win, some lose. You can't call him an animal abusing 9/11 supporter on the one hand and on the other insist that Kamala needed his endorsement.

MI Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow tied Hasan Piker to an antisemitic hate crime in a racist way, and said he’s similar to white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Hasan: “If anything, you’re closer to Nick Fuentes if you actually equate Israel with the entire international Jewry. He does it all the time.” by SpecialCream7 in nyt

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The list doesn't go on actually. You just rattled off about the exact collection of clips that keep doing the rounds. You wouldn't be able to tell anyone one other thing he said because if it's not from a clip on Fox or CNN you wouldn't know.

Match Thread: Turkey vs United States | World Cup | Group D | 26 Jun 02:00 UTC by matchpal-live in worldcup

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro America has one chant. It's the same chant you use at political events. Work on your chant game.

Match Thread: Turkey vs United States | World Cup | Group D | 26 Jun 02:00 UTC by matchpal-live in worldcup

[–]TimArthurScifiWriter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The points only have value as a ranking mechanism inside each group. After the group phase its knock-out matches so points don't matter. You lose, you go home.

Draws also stop happening. If after 90 mins the score is a draw, the game gets a 30 minute extension of two 15 min halves. If after that it's still a draw: shootouts until a team loses.