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Now you are beginning to understand. However, my last post, IS FAR LASTIER THAN YOURS

I'm a student studying communications at UW here in Warsaw. I started my Freshman year recently and I'm currently in a class on digital media where one of my projects is to research and do a write-up on a particular online content creator. Well somebody in my class mentioned this local YouTube group called Accursed Farms, but he decided to do the project on something else, so I decided to do it on AF. I had actually never heard of them before, but I really liked their work, and I got lucky enough to meet Ross to give an interview. That student later on told me about this website and mentioned that you guys like Freeman's Mind so I figured I'd lurk and give you the details. Well it was pretty interesting. I shot Ross an e-mail pretty late at night, like 2:30 in the morning or so. I had been up studying, but I figured I should shoot them an e-mail since I had just been thinking about it and didn't want to forget. Well lo-and-behold, I get a message back from Ross himself, who said he would love to meet me and gave me an address, which I would later learn was his home address. The weird part about it was that I got the reply only 2 minutes after I sent the original E-Mail, almost like he was just sitting there waiting for me or something. Anyway, when I got there it was a pretty nice house, I guess. The cool part about it was, and I don't think many fans know this, but Ross is a HUGE puzzle game buff, and I mean he is REALLY into it. Especially 90s-era Sierra stuff. He had Sierra flags and photos of figures from the time hanging up all over his walls. I even noticed when I went to the bathroom and peeked into his closet (I know it was wrong of me, but I just couldn't stop myself,) that there was a King's Quest cosplay outfit! It was so interesting. The odd part about it was that it smelled really damp and sweaty, like somebody had worn it very recently, but I figured it had just been stored improperly at some point. Actually, something else interesting. Ross is SUPER religious, which is weird since he doesn't seem the type. In his closet next to that cosplay, he also had a lot of long red robes, so I know for sure he wants to be a cardinal, or is already. He also had a huge bible laying around. I could tell it was old because it was made from really drafty leather and I couldn't place the language it was written in, but I assumed it was some archaic form of Yiddish. I wish I had more to say about our conversation, but it was actually pretty uninteresting and really unhelpful. I wanted to record our conversation but he said he couldn't. When I asked him why he said because then THEY'LL hear it, and he really emphasized that word. I asked him what he meant by that and he said "Oh you know, the ones with the," and he pointed to a garden gnome ornament he had by the couch. I still have no fucking clue what he meant. I asked him a lot of questions about the history of Accursed Farms, how he created the videos, what kind of editors and soundmixers he used, etc. The problem is he would keep giving me half-answers, and it kept seeming like all he wanted to talk about was missing persons statistics in the American Midwest all the time. He also kept mentioning something called "The Necronomicon," I figured it must be a book or something. At one point during our conversation something happened that really startled me. The whole time we had been talking I had heard what sounded like old Scottish sea shanties faintly in the background, but I thought his neighbor was having a drinking party. Well, it turns out that somebody else was in the house with us. The small stature immediately struck me as a child, but then I saw that they had a long wispy gray beard. At first I thought he was crying because he had red eyes, but then I noticed that he was laughing and getting bags of snacks out of the pantry. I also saw smoke coming from the room he was in, which scared me at first because I thought there was a fire, but then I noticed that one of the bags of snacks he was carrying were marshmallows, so I figured he was just making s'mores inside and the fumes irritated his eyes. I don't know how he manages to keep a flame safely in there when the room is so dark except for the blacklights, but I digress. So after not much help, I finally had to leave. I shook Ross's hand and thanked him, even though he told me practically no new information, and left. He stared at me going to my car and driving away the whole time, which I thought was weird, but hey, I guess he was being polite. I ended up getting a 3 on the project(equivalent of a C).

Heh, they made it free but with my old game expediences, I bet it will take at least an hour to get them working on a modern OS. That's an hour I could spend working which is about $65 before taxes. Decisions, decisions.

You got me in the first 25%. But anti-racism isn't a threat to it, politically correct zealotry is. Some "non-racist" comedy is better, some of it is not. When comedy is done for the sake of comedy, you can't attach any performance metric to it other than how many people enjoy it. I don't know, Ironically enough I think that it's a difference of open-mindedness. If intention doesn't matter, what differentiates something like Starship Troopers from actual fascist propaganda?

Recently got laid off due to a bankruptcy. Waiting on an rtx 2080ti workstation to fall off the back of truck, should be in a month or so. It's no 3000 series, but it will do for now

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Fine, here is something more recent. Comedy is in the eye of the beholder. But if a comedy is popular then you can make the argument that it is also 'good', so I'm making that argument. Minstrel shows were stage productions and The Poisonous Mushroom *was* a children's book. But they had obvious ulterior motives that comedies for the sake of comedy don't.

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The bigger the company the bigger the rulebook. Maybe BTG works out of an Alaskan fishing trawler with a bunch of tightly knit Captain Ahabs in yellow raincoats.

https://www.eeoc.gov/sexual-harassment Doesn't look like it falls under the common case, unless they are talking about having sex with YOU specifically. I'm not a lawyer, but it looks like it only counts as sexual harassment if it's recurring and makes a "hostile work environment" like you said. It can be both? A square is a rectangle, but not all rectangles are squares.

Do you mean on here or in general? You said make case. This is what you may call an exhibit. Also I don't know where this notion of me being worried about people saying racism is bad came from. Wasn't this about casual racism used in comedy?

I don't recall saying anything racist here

I make a lot less than he does, so I understand.

I don't know, Dave Chappelle made a whole career out of it.

Except that racism won't end and comedy will just be all the poorer for it.

The world of comedy will feel a lot emptier if you no one pokes fun at racial stereotypes, or deliberately avoids some in favor of others.

I never said it was just them, and this is just pertaining to this one "issue" in particular. I generally disagree with a lot of their stances, but it seems like everyone has a list of stupid hills to die on, including myself.

As part of the people, I have a vote in what constitutes as a racism, and I'm torpedoing your amendment on "racial humor". I think it's a creatively stifling bridge too far, for now anyway. My ingroup and immediate family agrees with me for the most part too, so I won't be ostracized by society anytime soon.

I disagree with a lot of what you said here, but the zones of contention are growing out of control. I think casual racism will eventually be phased out naturally. I just don't trust in grassroots Idealism over gradual compromises- it's too open for hijacking by ulterior motives and can a lot more divisive than needed. At this point it's like sieving through flyshit in boxing gloves while a your house burns down. You don't seem that angry. Are you holding out on us? I doubt anyone here(as in the frequent flyers) will take it personally. We're just talking shop

"you want me to compose WHAT?"/10

I'm pretty sure he meant something like talking about your sexual escapeds with a coworker. It's risky and might be slimy, but it's not the same as slapping someone's ass at the copier and you know it.