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by the_af 10mo ago
But where does this self-indulgent excuse ends? You can argue BLM itself got radicalized into extreme positions by the radicalized mistreatment of black people, and so on. At some point, if Scott Adams behaved like a bigot, we should stop m
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by the_af 10mo ago
Your overall opinion might be true, but it's also unfair to competent people who treat it like their day job, and do it competently (but maybe without being amazing). There is a place for this kind of people, among which I count myself
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by the_af 10mo ago
Were there early signs? I don't know of them, but to be honest, I mostly "knew" him through Dilbert. When he turned out to be a bigot it was a disappointing surprise to me.
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by the_af 10mo ago
What did you hate, the act of traveling or the rest of the world? I'm not being facetious: I really enjoy being other places, but the physical act of traveling, preparing luggage, etc, feels stressful to me. I hate airplane travel, as
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by the_af 10mo ago
The original Wing Commander brings back memories! I remember being amazed by the graphics and the story. These days I cannot stand games with cliched storyline and tend to skip the cutscenes, but back then it all seemed so amazing... like a
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by the_af 10mo ago
Also, some DOS games were coded so that they ran correctly no matter the speed of the hardware, like Alley Cat :)
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by the_af 10mo ago
> they didn’t build a timing loop onto the animation Wow. 1984 (!!!) IBM PC (DOS) port of the game Alley Cat had timings built it. They actually used the system clock if I remember correctly, so it would always run at the correct pace
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by the_af 10mo ago
> To weigh up the facts and realise that there's all the evolutionary evidence to show that we did just evolve from fish is a bit more boring. Your definition of boring is different than mine. I find the reality of what evidence p
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by the_af 10mo ago
I think the article, even though the author protests it's not that, looks at knowledge and experience as merely an accumulation of things. With this mindset, seeing a photo on the internet and seeing the real thing with your eyes, afte
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by the_af 10mo ago
Mount Doom is magical/mythic in nature, the birthplace of the One Ring, while the Dwarven forges aren't. Quoting Elrond during the Council at Rivendell: > “It has been said that Dragon-fire might melt and consume the Rings of
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by the_af 10mo ago
That's reading too much into my comment. No, it's not about bragging, wearing gold bracelets or driving expensive cars. It's about not being a shut-in and understanding there's more to life than what you can see on your
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by the_af 10mo ago
Note I wasn't really trying to go into the argument, just pointing out these are well-known and very debated topics in Tolkien fandom. My own opinion is that debating this is missing the point. Tolkien was about the hero's journey
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by the_af 10mo ago
I agree. To be honest, this kind of justification (TFA) is often written by people who don't enjoy travelling. I have a family member like this, they claim they don't need to go abroad (or anywhere outside their city, really) beca
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by the_af 10mo ago
> For an actually interesting take on "hey what if the orcs are actually intelligent people" there is The Last Ringbearer by a Russian author, presenting LOTR from the perspective of Mordor(it's not a good book, but was a
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by the_af 10mo ago
> It's a fantasy novel written primarily for entertainment On one hand, you're right. On the other, it's unfair to Tolkien and to the scholars who study his work. He spent a lot of his life and effort towards developing
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by the_af 10mo ago
Your criticism of Catholicism is valid, but regardless: this dilemma of Tolkien is real, and well-documented (e.g. in his letters, etc). He really did struggle with this, re: the origin of the Orcs, whether they had souls, whether it was ok
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by the_af 10mo ago
Like the sibling comment remarks, Tolkien never fully embarked on this path. He had a problem: as a Catholic [1], he thought every creature deserved pity and second chances (you can see this when Gandalf rebukes Frodo when he says "it&
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by the_af 10mo ago
I don't think this is a debate anymore. Goodbye.
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by the_af 10mo ago
Thankfully we have those other animals, "human puppies", to counteract this :P
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by the_af 10mo ago
> Nope. I prefer to read not so close and just reply anyway. It shows. Maybe you should read closer so as to debate the actual statements and not something you imagined. I had typed a longer answer but then realized it's pointless
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by the_af 10mo ago
> Ok. I don't understand I guess. Whatever :) Well, better read more closely then before replying :) > I'm here for a broader audience to read. Do you care about my opinion? If I didn't care about your opinion, I wo
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by the_af 10mo ago
> I don't know what you're talking about anymore with this. Can you elaborate? Yes you do. I explained it multiple times already. If you don't, I suggest you pay more attention instead of replying to comments you admit y
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by the_af 10mo ago
> made America respected Did he? Or did you mean "feared"? So "respect" in the Machiavellian sense of the word? A lot of people now dealing with Trump, even his allies, seem to be walking on egg shells, trying not t
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by the_af 10mo ago
> Maduro wasn't the leader of a country Maduro was the leader of the country. Leadership is a practical matter, it doesn't depend on elections or democracy. Stalin wasn't elected either, and nobody says "he wasn&#x2
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by the_af 10mo ago
> But we are talking about World War II, and a war in which the United States and Japan fought, with millions of casualties. Pardon me if I'm not particularly interested in what someone from South America thinks about saving Americ
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by the_af 10mo ago
> Is trump operating a cartel to supply illegal drugs across the Mexican border? Maybe, who knows! Let's send a commando raid into the US, send Trump to DF to be indicted. Then we'll find out. This won't happen simply be
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by the_af 10mo ago
> Not in itself, but the trafficking of drugs into the US is a US issue. They are already backtracking on the "Cartel de los Soles" accusation, after finally realizing there's no such organization, but it was always a sl
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by the_af 10mo ago
> Is your position that if someone commits a coup, some other country or the international community can't go in and uninstall that person from power? I find the assumptions behind your question fascinating. Where did I say anythi
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by the_af 10mo ago
> Well, I'm certain Maduro considered it an act of war. But he's not president any more. It doesn't matter what Maduro thinks. It doesn't matter whether he's a bad guy or a dictator. The situation after the fa
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by the_af 10mo ago
> I am not following this rationale at all. It was pretty simple: you said "they’re our people and their lives matter more" and I explained that they are not "our" people because you're not talking to an US Ame

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