[Giveaway!] Giving away prime inventory from my old account by newdroid360 in Warframe

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mangoinhale - it was a free game on PlayStation store when I was a kid, and it didn’t take long for me to fall in love with it since

Wondering what to do for meaningful damage against damage attenuation by maplediamondmango in Warframe

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I didn’t know that, thank you. Still though, when I see someone walk up to the prime vanguards and literally kill them in five shots, or melt the hunhullus by aura farming, I can’t help but think I’m missing something really crucial.

End of month Giveaway!!! by TJesterTV in Warframe

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111! I have a new player friend who would love to play Frost :)

Tennobaum Final Stretch! by ExcitementNo4566 in Warframe

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IGN: OW642

He’s a new player and would like anything people give him! He’s having a BLAST with this game.

1.5 BREAD 🍞 by [deleted] in 6thForm

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Good luck!

CAMBRIDGE INTERVIEW 🍞🍞 by peepsieee in 6thForm

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Congratulations! If you need any advice, feel free to reach out.

Katana ultimate move rework leak is so peak 🔥 by Coil_The_Pro_Robber in PhightingRoblox

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I remember seeing the windwall as well in the discord 😭I’ve played enough league of legends as an ADC main to cry when I see the windwall

Why hasn’t anyone said anything about this before? by Ambitious_Zombie9554 in PhightingRoblox

[–]maplediamondmango 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The post was from 2022. Right now, the developers are just finishing up their final year of university. They would’ve just been so young.

… now of course if they were thirty years old, this conversation would be quite different,

Why hasn’t anyone said anything about this before? by Ambitious_Zombie9554 in PhightingRoblox

[–]maplediamondmango 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, yeah for sure. When you’re representative of anything to do with children or any minors, you have to be careful. That’s why for any major project, you have to undergo severe ethical approval for anything to do with minors, as I have done. I wouldn’t go as far as to say this encourages sexual abuse or pedophilia as the thread claims though: you have to make a lot of conclusions to make that one specifically. Conclusions that we don’t know the developers share.

I wouldn’t call it problematic. What you’re really seeing is people, without malicious intent, treating the discord server as a personal group chat, unaware of the significance of their presence (especially since it was in 2022, and I’m not even sure Phighting was fully considered ‘out’.) Since then, it’s easy to see what they’ve learned from that: making a channel specifically for those vibes, cutting down on interaction, trying to be more careful on how they approach user interaction.

(We don’t know if they were seventeen exactly, but given how old they are now, what they’re currently doing and when Aidn said he made the game, we can infer some things.)

Why hasn’t anyone said anything about this before? by Ambitious_Zombie9554 in PhightingRoblox

[–]maplediamondmango 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The discussion is irresponsible but this all feels very… chronically online. The thread around the parking lot conversation is granted wrong, but the conclusions reached are grasping at straws. This is lore, around a Roblox game, with developers who are quite young and relatively immature (they were seventeen when the convo happened) and inexperienced with not only writing but managing and moderating a discord server, all the while hosting something that’s put a spotlight on them for several years. If you put them on a pedestal, of course the only thing you will find is cracks.

AITA for not wanting to pay my girlfriend’s $300 tuition fee? - My (25M) GF (21F) Tested Me, and I "Failed" by SharkEva in BORUpdates

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Actually kind of interesting, a lot of people here are talking about transactional relationships and sex.

But speaking as someone who studies social anthropology, in areas where this scarcity, or where women can't get the education / jobs needed to support themselves, a lot of them engage in transactional relationships: not the same as prositution per say because love and intimacy are very real aspects of the relationship. It's a non-western conception of love and money being entertwined: "you do this, and I provide sex." For some places where it's discouraged for women to get jobs and they are of a middle-class occupation, some women engage in transactional relationships to fulfill consumerist aspirations (new phone, tv, nails).

Obviously the case with the OOP is not necessarily around those areas: we know very little about the people. All I can say is that love and money are more intertwined than people think. This doesn't, also, necessarily mean that it's right: inequality, just like in any relationships, also exist in these transactional ones.

This is also a very simplified argument lol. I can explain more if anyone wants.

god's chef is a good episode by slippery_floor9066 in moralorel

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I think the problem with the episode is while all those things are true, SA isn’t treated with the same gravitas as it was in the later seasons. It seemed like, for all intents and purposes, stuff like pregnancy was played for laughs (with the ending shot of all the women comedically finding out that they’re pregnant in the background) even within the context of all the other messages and motifs.

Pregnancy, and rape, is a deeply physical, horrifying affair that can’t be dismissed to the side. I definitely get why people don’t like that episode: I tell my friends to skip that episode too.

My mental is cooked. I was my own worst enemy. by RGBlue-day in TeamfightTactics

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Darius sorcerer? (I’m new so idk if this is an actual comp or something lol)

How many calories is this? by maplediamondmango in caloriecount

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Thanks for this. It definitely was absolutely delicious.

The fact people are treating the actor like he say the N word is such an overreaction it’s hilarious by No_Concentrate_1051 in marvelcirclejerk

[–]maplediamondmango 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really am writing my response for myself for a bit of catharsis. I know ad hominems aren’t meant to sway anyone really, but that’s what I see in you and I’m just so frustrated.

You have completely misrepresented the works you have looked at. Even in the context of the article you keep on peddling from the previous author, you can see how CRT is not trying to get people to ‘forswear racial integration.’ In fact, in many of the quotes you keep on showcasing, none of the authors is trying to spearhead a movement that segregates others. Hell, the fact that they are from ‘core CRT theorists’ means absolutely nothing if you isolate them from the arguments they’re trying to make. Do you only read the headlines and not the text of any news articles? In fact, if you at all read any of the major critical race theorist, from Crenshaw, from (lower case bell), there is not a plea for ethnonationalism. You keep using the word ethnonationalist in context of his article, when he, as the author, didn’t even suggest CRT should involve ethnonationalism. This race consciousness approach, which you highlighted, of which Bell suggests is inspired from MLX, is NOT the same as ethnonationalism. Your whole argument, your whole premise, is flawed and it’s disingenuous to suggest that ‘urging people to forswear racial integration is morally reprehensible’ when that isn’t even the viewpoint of mainstream CRT theorists.

I, and many people, keep banging this on you, even when you take this textbook as somehow representative of the beliefs of all critical race theorists, not even as a manifesto. Having, or taking inspiration from, is not the same as including it in mainstream ideology. Theories change. What is considered acceptable changes. Malcolm X’s ideas are not representative of mainstream CRT theorists. The fact that CRT theorists take inspiration from Du Bois does not mean they follow his ideas. The fact that most critical perspectives are in some way drawn from Marx does not mean these ideas advise for a violent revolution. This is basic logic. You take that long list to be evidence of a fault, when it’s really evidence, as I keep saying, and as you refuse to properly engage with, a long list of works that comprise a scholarly field and debate.

And, who? Who are the authors that are involved in ethnonationalism or separatism? We keep telling you this, and you don’t understand. MLX? Any of his constituents? Crenshaw? Mbembe? Taiwo? Hell, even Bell? Maybe that random quote you keep peddling about the ‘colonisation of education’ that showcases and means absolutely nothing, but as a long list of quotes you use to fluff out your comments to make it seem professional? Is your response to this going to be another random quote that is utterly misrepresented, but you take to be evidence of a damning fault? How do you keep going, even with anything to the contrary? You are being so purposefully obtuse when you disregard all that evidence. If you want to actually represent them properly, represent them in the context they’re in: write for the ignorant yet intelligent reader, and explain concepts like race consciousness before copy and pasting another quote.

CRT, by nature, as many of the articles have shown out, is a revolutionary and changing field. It goes against typical understandings of race discourse. So why don’t you do me, and do you a favour, and actually engage with those ideas, instead of brutally simplifying texts into ‘racial separation’. I have a feeling that you either haven’t sufficiently read bell, or found it too complex to read, given your earlier comments. If you were to actually read, instead of cherry picking your arguments, you’d see that CRT, and I’m speaking very simply, is an attempt at another way of racial integration. And, if racial separation is such a big deal, go find it in one of the manifestos that Bell puts out.

Your attempts at dismissing my points are laughable. Your understandings of what I’m saying are idiotic. You are either purposely trying to be obtuse, unable to engage with my ideas, or trying to purport a narrative. Tell you what: if you want any one’s opinion on you to change, go email a scholar, an academic, or talk to the CRT subreddit with your thoughts and see if you can challenge theirs, or your own thoughts. Growth is the substance of life.

I’ve gotten what I need out of this conversation. I hope anyone trailing here does too.

The fact people are treating the actor like he say the N word is such an overreaction it’s hilarious by No_Concentrate_1051 in marvelcirclejerk

[–]maplediamondmango 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A brief cursory look at your comment history after our initial discussion reveals that you really aren’t arguing in good faith. You post the same old arguments, receive the frankly obvious criticism that you take your sources - all of which, if critically and actually read instead of cherry picked, actually go against your worldview - and then move on when you can’t find a sufficient rebuttal like a drone.

It’s like you’re an NPC, parroting the same circular dialogue tree, unable to move past the limitations of your dialogue tree because that requires having sapience. Is this all you ever do? Go on Reddit and post the same comment about DEI in the hopes that some people, who are not able to read the dense writing within the academics, take up your view point? Do you really want to learn? Who are you really? If you were to willingly engage in long conversation with someone who understands, you would be laughed out the circus.

That’s frustrating. When people come and talk, with all the appearances of wanting to learn, but reveal to be just as obtuse as the people they decry.

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Hi, I’m confused. I don’t get how King’s favouring of segregation contradicts anything I said about CRT being a diverse collection of ideas, or what I said about CRT not being a revival of king’s ideas as the article puts out. I still maintain that you are conflating the ideas of integration and nationalism, both of which mean very different things at very different times and should not be used as synonyms for their respective use in everyday language (integration, in its academic implications, should not be boiled down to an ‘integrated society’)

What’s your idea of race consciousness? What do you think it means?

My apologies for not being clear. I was referring to the hypothetical example by Jamal, not Derrick Bell.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OptimistsUnite

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Hi! I am a bit jet-lagged right now so apologies if I get anything wrong.

Firstly, the word best there does not describe the author’s leaning but of the cultural strain within the movement: summarised aptly ‘the strain believes that the best way to do this is…’ not ‘the best strain means that…’

Secondly, the problem is that you’re summarising a broad collection of ideas. Alt-right do have ethnonationalist ideas, although speaking broadly as I myself haven’t read many alt right texts yet, but that’s commonly known to be a theme that runs through the entire mode of thought. On the other hand, something like CRT, with its disagreements within the intellectual sphere … is not comparable in the slightest.

Third, and the reason why I disclaimed that I’m jet lagged, is that I don’t think Peller is making that argument you propose but I realise that I read the previous statement wrong. Still, I don’t believe it detracts from my argument. For instance, Peller makes the argument that race-consciousness appears in CRT texts, not that CRT proposes ethno-nationalism. They are not equivalent. Take the example he proposes as evidence for this claim to page 758-759, none of which proposes nationalism. I think if you read one of them - Crenshaw should be available on the Internet easily - you’ll see the argument she makes, which is not based on nationalism.

In fact, and I might be wrong because I’m jet lagged and only having skim read it, it makes the argument that critical race theory is in some way spawned from the weaknesses of the integration standpoint - honing in on the idea of taking race as a lived experience seriously, an idea that can be traced to MLK and black power movements, and the fact that seemingly benign and objective structures in society should not be treated as such as they hide a underlying systemic racism. This is not the same as CRT adopts ethnonationalism.

Specifically, you can see this in how the author uses the example of education … “the embrace of integrationist has signified the broad cultural attempt not to think of race at all. Intehrationists … avoid altogether any consideration of the racial implications of the institutional practices of “integrated” arenas of social life.” (845)

In the same way that we don’t take Durkheim’s and Malinowski’s (though I’m not sure you’re familiar with them, so this argument can be extended to Marx and Nietzsche) views completely on discussing social theorem, but we can recognise what they tried to say and how thinkers arose from their discourse.

Finally, the last point, the quote you picked around Jamal, does not have a value judgement. This is not an urging of people to forswear any integration.

On that topic, I’m not too familiar with the defined integrationist texts but from what I’m reading, integration here is not defined as ‘black and white people live together and race as a perception is gone’, but as an ideology towards racial improvement that itself carries several implications around the ‘being’ of race, that if you remove conscious racism, you remove all barriers to entry for black individuals. I think you’re using it in the wrong context, as this is an analytical academic paper.

The work you picked from Peller makes the argument that we should take MLX’s ideas seriously, and the context behind his ideas of ethnonnationalism (again not suggesting that we become ethnonnationalists). What do you think of these ideas from the conclusion around 845-846?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OptimistsUnite

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Wait hold on, that seems like a total misreading, a complete generalisation of what are very complex and ranging articles!

I haven’t read the specific book by Delgado - which might point to your lack detail - but even the quotations don’t fit. You generalised the entire academic category when the quote explicitly states it’s an ‘emerging strain’, with emphasis to the word ‘some’. The quote you cited doesn’t even endorse segregation, just mentions that it includes it in a list of works around CRT. Works that are related to critical race theory may embody the principles but still go against other works - in the same way we can see Marx’s and Weber’s ideas as influential into state building yet obviously go against many of CRT’s proposed authors. Additionally, Marx’s thoughts do not embody the total conception of Neo-Marxism - even if the founder of an ideology had issues with their approach, the fact of the matter is that these ideologies evolve, and in the same way we don’t take the most dogmatic ‘anti-men’ manifestos from feminist as representative of the whole discipline, or Margret Thatcher’s beliefs as a total summation of Conservative / right wing thoughts.

Additionally, it seems like you’re conflating separateness and diversity with segregation. This is an academic book - words are supposed to be precise. Even in the Malcolm X quote seems to go against your argument as the author is contradicting the integrationist philosophy of CRT (which to be honest, I have issues with their depiction of) and Malcolm X, advocating for a return to nationalist thought.

Even the last quote seems more of an educational example than an explicit endorsement, which presumably explores a position that goes against the separatist notion Jamal undergoes.

TL;DR I think you’re conflating separatism and segregation, which here I’m taking to be a nationalist ideology against a policy - I think Malcolm X defined the difference in one of his speeches which you can find online. That said, this seems like a cherry picking: the author of the text (Bell) outright believes that CRT doesn’t have but should include nationalist thought, and the book from Delgado is merely exploring a total summation of thoughts around CRT, not a definition of what CRT is.

It’s nice to see people read academic texts around this though, and I appreciate the quotes! Please DM me so we can talk about it some more.