Collective Foal

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Being unable to sleep when I need to be up for work in 5 hours. Also getting annoyed with people, but in a way that I can laugh at them rather than get pissed off.

My writing style tends to be on the descriptive side, so I usually have no problem explaining the significance of characters and what they mean to each other etc. My main point of advice is to make sure your characters are BELIEVABLE. And any instance of loss has to be expounded upon heavily to really drive home the weight of the situation. If you would like me to read and make suggestions for your work, I would be more than happy to. I love reviewing written pieces.

Now look who's maintaining the off-topic stuff... It ain't me is it. Actually I've been keeping to the topic by posting my own pictures, as the thread's title would imply I should do. OT: Honestly, I've always found work uniforms at food service places are flattering on girls, for whatever reason.

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My favorite part was the one where you completely ignored the "friendly fire" instances and pulled everything else apart. You're precious. And 4-7 instances is what I found in 5 minutes on Google. Like seriously, where are your sources BTG? Where are your sources EVER? And no, the satirical hypothetical quote of a typical gun-toting conservative hillbilly was not meant to make me look smart. It was actually a logical fallacy put to good use. I essentially built a straw man by composing this ridiculously stupid southern bimbo and making him vouch for the right to own guns in his idiotic manner of speaking. This then implements the idea that by association, people who support gun freedom are on the same level of thinking as this mentally challenged piece of white trash. While it has no actual backbone to it, it still serves as a humorous tidbit that amuses the reader and makes them more likely to find my argument the more sound of the two because firstly, it puts the reader in a good mood and, secondly, it writes off the opposing argument as stupid rambling garbage that takes likeness to an uneducated southern man.

Holy hell I have to spell this out. P-R-O-V-E M-E W-R-O-N-G Find the sources, actually get yourself an argument, and then you can MAYBE try to disprove me. Because this stupid begging the question crap you constantly serve up to the table gets really old, really fast. EDIT: And I really have to ask this question, BTG. What freedoms have you had removed??? I seem to recall you were unemployed for quite some time. I assume you collected unemployment, yes? And I'm pretty sure that's the government, WHO YOU REALLY DON'T WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN YOUR MONEY, giving you fucking money so you can live. I mean, you COULD have the system you seem to want where the government is itsy bitsy and can't control you, but then you'd probably be dead of hunger. But that's just my own thoughts.

I'm glad you can quote your friends on issues and have no actual sourcing for that. That's the problem with everything you say BTG. You don't have actual, valid sources, like ever. The most valid thing you've ever posted as a source that I've seen was a video of a gun nut talking about why he should be allowed to have guns. Sure, I could take you on your word that a 30 or so people you personally know (what a staggering number) think prejudice isn't a problem in our society, or I can just look at the newspapers and see that black men are on death row for killing police officers in no-knock raids while white men get away scot free http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/texas-no-knock-swat-raid And that in the US, 3 transgender individuals, all of whom were black, have been murdered in the past 23 days. http://www.whas11.com/story/news/crime/2015/01/09/fern-valley-shooting/21498755/ http://www.pghlesbian.com/2015/01/trans-woman-of-color-lamia-beard-murdered-in-norfolk/ http://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/01/28/transgender-woman-killed-texas/ If there's going to be a civil war, it's going to be caused by injustice to minority groups, as I said before. And also as I said before, I don't think that's likely, because as our generations pass through, we're becoming more and more on the right track with how we treat our fellow humans. Peaceful minds and virtues of love are becoming more prevalent everywhere, and that will help us achieve peace and good in the world and help to limit the number of wars we fight and lives we take.

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Sorry, I really should get my context, but I hate scrolling back through pages and reading paragraphs of things I tend not to agree with. I guess it just frustrates me. That's my bad. And, in actuality, the racist police is relevant to this thread because if we actually do have a civil war in the US, that will be the cause of it. There is no greater cause of civil unrest in the American people than that of minorities being wrongfully punished and abused by the court system as a whole. Otherwise, I really don't see any chance of the US revolting against itself. That's really far fetched.

1. Nice pic, you're quite pretty 2. I understand he was responding, but it's the way he has to add in that extra two cents saying "that's why a lot of people hate Obamacare" when it really wasn't necessary. 3. DON YOU HANDSOME MOTHERFUCKER

Dommed the Med which implies good work even before the vid. Nicely done. Work on that Scout v. Scout mge so you don't expend the whole clip trying for one kill lol. Sometimes it's best not to hold down the M1 button and aim when the shot is set to go off, but to time each shot individually so you can focus better on its accuracy. Here's my most recent frag video I threw together after a late night pub. deLj8mOIomQ

I often forget there were console ports of the Orange Box. Pretty cool. It looks horrible. It's also the easiest way to play TF2 as it was on release. Let's just talk about the number of bugs in Vanilla TF2 on consoles dear god it's awful.

How did this thread descend into paranoid rants about government conspiracies to conquer the freedom of the American people? The only problem we have with our freedom at this very moment in the United States is that which is caused by a racist police force and a misogynistic society.

By all means, BTG, clutter the thread with all the examples of the same exact thing. You listed one "weapon" in that entire wall of text, and that was "explosives." And yes, explosives can kill multiple people and no, we can't regulate every ounce of ammonium nitrate being shipped around the country. But what we can do is limit the number of ways people can murder each other by eliminating the weapons that hold the record for attendance at murder scenes. And by the fucking by, how can you even claim that you haven't seen an instance where accidents happen??? Like seriously, children and other innocent civilians are caught in the crossfire of violent shootouts ALL THE TIME. http://abc11.com/news/man-caught-in-crossfire-in-durham-shooting/495428/ http://fox4kc.com/2015/01/28/witnesses-teenage-girl-caught-in-crossfire-gets-struck-by-bullet-in-leg/ http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/7yearold-shot-after-getting-caught-in-crossfire/28059548 http://www.cbs46.com/story/27945550/mother-describes I just googled "caught in crossfire news" and found 4 instances just like that, 3 of which happened in the last fucking week. Seriously BTG, that was the biggest shrug-off on a question I've ever seen. Innocent lives are put in jeopardy and even taken every single hour of every single day because people are allowed to own and abuse firearms. Here, let's find some more instances, shall we??? This time I'm searching "Police friendly fire news" http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/police-friendly-fire-kills-cops-film-crew-member http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/15/us/boston-watertown-shootout/ http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_25866927/da-no-charges-will-be-filed-fatal-shooting OH AND LET'S TALK ABOUT ALL THE TIMES WHEN THE POLICE EXECUTE NO-KNOCK HOUSE RAIDS AND PEOPLE, THINKING THEY'RE DEFENDING THEIR HOMES FROM INTRUDERS, END UP KILLING POLICE OFFICERS OR GET THEMSELVES KILLED http://thefreethoughtproject.com/prosecutor-seeking-death-penalty-officer-killed-knock-raid/ http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/david-hooks-raid/ http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/jermaine-darden-swat-raid/ But gosh dang ain't dem guns da darn coooliest ah'd luv tuh tayk a buzzerd's hed awf wit mah twelv-gaej n shute sum o dem muderfukin islahms wen day trah tuh blow up mah hometauwn.

I'm really not concerned if I'm being rude or not. BTG blathers about this kind of crap at seemingly every possible opportunity and that's what aggravates me. In relevant threads, like the Serious Topics, it's his opinion and it's perfectly okay for him to express that opinion. But it's completely irrelevant and unneeded for him to go into that much detail about something like that and it's quite obvious he's just trying to fly his elephant flag around the thread. It's annoying and that's why I'm "being a little rude" about it. OT: It's dark outside

Hey Srake! Long time, no see. Season 5 is supposed to be rolling around this February, so you might wanna try a little more to get 4 in if you planned on watching this one as it releases. Otherwise, you do you, lol. Obligitory content stream because I'm inactive. These are a couple SFM artists I really enjoy. They're really good at making smooth and natural animation, so check 'em out! Nutrafin 0Clt9QMXrOo My personal fav, Ferexes: aADvvCxfBos

Hey BTG, you're trying to spread your stupid conservative agenda to a thread that's completely irrelevant. Try to find something else to talk about, eh? OT: I found a scarf the other day and thought it was super cute so I got it.

You have to take into account, however, the size of the Swiss population as well as how relatively high their standard of living is. The Swiss are a generally affluent nation and, as such, violent crimes are going to be much lower there than anywhere else. With not too many people and a lot of money to go around, nobody has any reason to kill anybody else, so they can all have firearms to go hunting in alpine forests and all that jazz. America has a ridiculous wealth disparity and a very large population. There is a lot of unhappiness in our country and that gets channeled into violence. Removing firearms from civilian hands other than what's necessary is crucial to lowering the murder rates in our country, and especially crucial to preventing mass killings. Give me a list of any other weapon you could potentially go on a killing spree with that isn't a semi-automatic or automatic firearm. Like seriously, give me one, because I can't think of any. A guy with a knife can be avoided and apprehended relatively easily compared to a guy with an AR-15. So unless you think we should train children, who have a poor sense of their own mortality and can often be overcome by emotion, to handle firearms so they can protect themselves when someone barges into the room with a military-grade weapon, I'd say you're shit out of luck on solving our mass shooting problem other than getting rid of the damned things all together.

What? Just...what? 1. Space exploration and advances in rocket technology were progressed as a result of technological advances in WW2. 2. "Swift destruction of the Soviet Union"? What is that supposed to mean? If you mean the Nazi attempt at destroying the USSR, that would only have furthered the cause of genocide on a scale that the world hadn't seen in it's entire history. If you mean the comments made by Patton near the end of the war, then there are two problems with that: A. Nobody wanted to fight the USSR. There wasn't any support for it in any of the Allied nations. B. The Space Race was spurred on and advanced largely as a result of Cold War "stay one step ahead of the enemy" policies. Otherwise, the rest of your post is sensible and reasonable. I'd rebuttal but it seems you jack and shit about the second World War and Jack left town. It would also be going off topic if I did. Good day. Actually everything he said about WWII was 100% accurate. The Soviets are the reason we got to the moon in 1969 and not 2000 because we HAD TO BEAT THEM TO PROVE THAT DEMOCRACY WAS GREATER THAN COMMUNISM IN EVERY FACET OF LIFE EVEN HOCKEY. A necessary war is one where it is apparent that unless war is declared and the problem is removed, the world will be off much worse. World War 2 was a necessary war, as appeasing Hitler was simply destroying the stability of the world and giving him a better and better platform to complete his desire for world domination. I personally feel that war with North Korea will save more lives than would waiting for the citizens to revolt. That is an opinion though because the situation is entirely hypothetical nd we can't know the outcomes.

What a smashing gent you are. This forum is full of beautiful people.

In the past several months, my views on gun control have changed. I personally believe in adopting Australia's gun control laws. Here's the thing. The Second Amendment was established so that civilians had the right to protect themselves against a young government that had the potential of being corrupted into an oppressive dictatorship. We're past that stage, and while things aren't perfect, I doubt there's any risk of Obama's boys knocking on our front doors and executing us for disagreeing with his welfare plans. All of our crazy personal opinions on firearms aside, let's look at how the argument has gone every single time I've seen it come up. Gun Control Advocate: "I think we should control guns as it would result in less homicides and mass shootings." Gun Advocate: "But if someone really wants a gun, they will always be able to find a way to get one anyways, so there's no point. The only way to be sure that gun-related homicides don't happen is by letting everyone carry a gun to kill the perp. Now, the person against gun control brings up what seems to be a VERY viable point. Black markets are incredibly hard to control. HOWEVER, if we look at factual, statistical evidence from the past twenty years, we find that the Gun Control Advocate's viewpoint is confirmed in several instances. Japan: Australia United Kingdom Canada So it's become quite apparent through statistical evidence and NOT hypothetical black market conspiracy that gun control reduces gun-related homicide. Here is my source, which lists the sources for its statistics as hyperlinks within the text of the article: http://www.businessinsider.com/canada-australia-japan-britain-gun-control-2013-1

War is sometimes a necessary evil to try to reduce the risk of violence in the future. In my opinion, going to war with North Korea and eradicating the Kim dynasty would be great. I only desire war when it is to eliminate those who seek out war. Otherwise, killing your fellow man is idiotic. The funniest thing is, I have a suspicion that every person here who is totally gung-ho about war has never enlisted for military service. Well, I tried my fucking hardest to get into the military simply because I believe in defending the country I live in and believe in. Unfortunately, due to me having been a teenager, I was Permanently Disqualified from serving in the armed forces. I am against going to war, but I am not against fighting in a war.

Well sorry, I need that piece of paper to give myself the best probability possible of making a 6 figure salary so I can move to California with my hopeful wife-to-be and pay for her gender affirming surgery and live happily ever after. My mindset isn't to constantly tell the system that it's stupid and live out my life being oppressed by the system I resent and living just above the poverty line. My goal is to do what the system wants and eventually be in a position to alter the system so it becomes better. I have aspirations. So anyways, I do live in the United States, I do not qualify for financial aid because my parents make too much money, and government-issued student loans only cover up to $30,000 or something like that. Hell even the loans might be need-based.

See - Dishonored. Steam punk sort of game that is borderline sci-fi. Probably Bioshock as well. That would probably qualify. Steampunk and Sci-fi often go hand in hand. It's like a version of Retro Futurism, but even more retro. Basically, the fashions and means by which technologies are operated is very primitive, but the technology itself is very advanced. Often certain kinds of technology are more advanced than others, kind of like if you're playing Civ 5 and you go hardcore on one specific technology string. I've had playthroughs where I had refrigeration and radios, but my soldiers were still fighting with swords. There's also very often a certain level of magic involved in these kinds of settings, which is where that fantasy element your friend was talking about comes in. Looking at Dishonored, they use whale oil to power everything, but they can power forcefields and vaporizing grids with it. Likewise, Corvo receives magical powers that allow him to disappear and run around undetected. Anyways, on topic, I'm gonna go follow up on a bunch of applications today.