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Where has allstone gone?

I swear, he just vanished one day.


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HK is pretty much the last person I'd trust with a baby on the planet.

OK, BABY, I'M GOING TO ROLL A DICE. IF IT'S A 5, YOU GET SOME MILK. IF IT'S A 1, I LOCK YOU IN A ROOM FOR A WEEK.


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caekdaemon wrote:
Where has allstone gone?

He's still around, just busy last I knew.

Roast Veg wrote:
OK, BABY, I'M GOING TO ROLL A DICE.

If it gets a 6, he feeds it, but doesn't change it's diaper when it poops next.


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or it gets fed until it has a stomachache and cries uncontrollably


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I see it the other way around, it's ridiculous to judge an entire group by its extremists when there are clearly a large number of far more reasonable individuals who also identify with the group. This has been true for literally every large group of people I have ever seen, be it Furries, people who like MLP, people who like Homestuck, people who read Twilight, people who play WoW, people with religion, gay people, whatever you like.

The word Furry is a word that has no meaning. Everyone has their own personal definition and a staggeringly large number of them have no interest in sex with animals at all, as I am sort of astonished to learn that you aren't already aware of. And there is no standard definition. A Furry can be anyone who is even marginally interested in anthromorphic animals and will or will not describe himself as one depending on his own personal definition of the word. This is also true for many fandoms! Some people use the word Brony to only refer to the parts of the MLP fandom that they don't like, and other people use it to refer to all of them who are above the expected target audience, and more use it to refer to everyone who watches MLP.
You are taking your own personal, non-official definition of the word and trying to apply it to everyone, which doesn't work! Just because that is what the person who wrote the KYM page thought does not make it true, because it is not a standard dictionary word and there is no definition. The boundaries are incredibly murky.

Now I am not saying that generalisation is directly comparable to racism. Racism was a terrible thing that caused great pain to many people for many years whereas internet fandom generalisation just cause pointless whining on message board and cyber bullying, but the philosophy behind them is pretty similar. People in the olden days (and sadly, some still today) viewed a large group of people as inherently bad and inferior because of one tiny and insignificant difference in their appearance and used that to justify treating them like ♥♥♥♥. You are doing pretty much the same thing here, except using the fact that they like a TV show that you don't as justification to hurl insults at them. This is inherently much less hurtful but it is still a right ♥♥♥♥ move, though you might not realise it is what you are doing. You are imagining this group of fans as some great amorphous, hive-minded mass who all share identical opinions and tastes which could not be further from the truth. In reality, just like not all black people have comically huge lips and crave chicken and watermelons but are actually individual people with their own tastes and feelings, people who like MLP do not all like it to the same degree, do not all like the same aspects, do not necessarily share any other tastes other than that singular show and certainly don't have anywhere near the same average intelligence.
And yet you seem to believe that you are justified in saying they do? That's not something I am really ok with letting go by, even if I'm not part of the group you are being (probably subconciously) prejudiced against.

I don't even like MLP myself, or at least I've never watched it and thus don't trust myself to have a fair opinion, I just have an even greater dislike of bigots.
It is really easy to think people are stupid just because they like something you don't, it's ok. I do it myself sometimes, and it is a difficult habit to get out of. What you need to do your best to remember though is that such a belief is never ever true because there is not one single large group of people who can all be fairly tarred with the same brush anywhere in the world. Learn to recognise your biases and move past them (everyone has biases, even the best people) and you will become a better person for it.

Feel free to attack the work itself, nobody is saying you have to like MLP, but when you make a blanket statement about every single one of its fans then that's just ridiculous.

PS: you seemed to have missed the inherent joke in my first comment anyway, "all generalisations are stupid" is a generalisation :)


So you're telling me to not identify them with my own definitions because they define themselves (and a lot of the time other people in their group) with their definitions. This is a paradox.

And at the generalization joke, should I just assume you're trolling 24/7 and report all of your posts?


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I try to kill boredom by trying new things. That always helps.
In my case. New video games.


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I didn't think that making self-referential humour was an infractable offence, but if I was misinformed then feel free to report my posts next time I decide to insult myself


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The last part was a joke. I was just saying I can't tell if someone on this site is trolling/joking or not since Rag posted in the Dark Souls thread. Apparently he wasn't trolling.


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Well, Star Trek Online goes free to play on the 17th. It's already free to play though if you had a subscription in the past. I recommend joining up and playing. It is actually pretty damn good, and the micro transactions give no real advantage. I have not paid for a single item in game and I can carve my way through people who have.

Here is my character.

And if you want to sign up, give me a message, and I can send you a invite to the guild I'm in if you want. I'll also throw you some cash or a item if you want - I am very, very, very rich in game.


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I might, but first, are there alot of big spaceship battles? and how much ship customisation can you do in free to play?


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Fail Flail wrote:
I might, but first, are there alot of big spaceship battles? and how much ship customisation can you do in free to play?

I'm currently in free to play myself, and you can do as much customisation as you want. You can Frankenstein together parts from different classes to get something that you feel like flying. You can mix and match the parts, change the colour of the hull material and put on some custom paint and symbols.

And there are definitely big space ship battles. And ground ones, for when you go down with your away team.


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Awesome, already downloading. Tried EVE but there was too much mining, and X3 was depressingly like an MMO.


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Hmmm. I'm going to attempt to DOS attack myself. I wonder if it is even possible.

I shall return soon.


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why would you do this


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metal chao wrote:
why would you do this

A excellent question.

Such a good question I don't know the answer to myself.

It's even more funny because I can't tell if I have succeeded unless I stop the DoS, because it eats up 100% of my CPU power.

EDIT : Hmmm. It appears I just might not have the cpu power to DoS attack my self.

EDIT EDIT : Or maybe not. Hmmm.


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