http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262 Just another bbPress community en-US Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:27:32 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.vg247.com/forum/search.php http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=8#post-36654 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:09:13 +0000 ManuOtaku 36654@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Now i think we might got the chance to surpass the nintendo thread 350+, is not that far away, really </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=8#post-36653 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:05:35 +0000 Da Man 36653@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Chippy, my sarcasm was lost between your 'consciousness' and angst.</p> <p>Tragically comical you say? Indeed your useless ramblings are.</p> <p>(in a tragically comical tone):<br /> - You you you. Oh, you c- c-... communist. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=8#post-36652 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:05:17 +0000 ManuOtaku 36652@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Orbit, we cover pretty much all topics,we have a broad appeal, and they say videogames are a waste of time :)<br /> p.s as for the insults, is really hard to keep away from insults, when the first insult was thrown, we need to constrain ourselves a little more in that reagard, so we wont get to the point you suck, No you suck, like you put it. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=8#post-36651 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:02:06 +0000 DSB 36651@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Gawd bless you OrbitMonkey :D </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=8#post-36650 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:58:51 +0000 Deacon 36650@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Da Man, still trolling 5 pages later. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=8#post-36649 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:58:50 +0000 OrbitMonkey 36649@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>So you start with a *discussion* about videogames, it evolves into a *debate* that encompasses socioeconomic musing, religious ideologies, political power models and philosophical ideals....</p> <p>But still, as always, boils down to "You suck!! No YOU suck!!".</p> <p>:-D </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=8#post-36648 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:56:02 +0000 G1GAHURTZ 36648@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Here comes the foul language.</p> <p>Next will come rage, followed by denial of rage. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=8#post-36647 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:50:46 +0000 DSB 36647@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Not as sad as "English teachers" who can't read a dictionary.</p> <p>As for Da Man...</p> <p>It seems you've gone from tragicomical schoolyard bully, to grammar nazi. You really do embody all the shades of cunt, dontcha?</p> <p>Anyway, thanks for the pointers :)</p> <p>*edited for grammatical correctness* </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=8#post-36646 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:47:30 +0000 ManuOtaku 36646@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>In my point of view communists, fascists, and socialists leaders are the same, they criticize capatalism and consumism in order to control their people given a false idea of equality, and that all the individuals should and would possess the same no more no less, while at the same time, and in reality, they have or practice for themselves and those around power, the capatalistic pragmatism, they live a very consumistic way of life, therefore the are contributing with the global implemented system, altough in a external look, they state quite the opposite, and seem to act different, but they are all the same, just they use pretty and noble ideas to hold control, because the individuals at the lack of a better society, more often that not they feel the appeal to go with those styles of government (communism, fascism, and socialism), because consumism and money talks is the system that didnt resolve their humanistic problems and neither the society problems, and for that is not the answer for them neither, so is quite a conundrum we have as a society, because in the end all sums to that, money and consumism in all type of idelogies known to man. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=8#post-36645 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:45:55 +0000 G1GAHURTZ 36645@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Desperate squirming around is so sad.</p> <p>Here comes some more... </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=8#post-36644 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:44:50 +0000 Da Man 36644@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Okay, let's say that's why you did it.</p> <p>Suggest using a transitioning sentence and/or the following useful idiom:</p> <p>"as for"<br /> 1. considering or speaking about I am still working, and as for my health, it is very good.<br /> 2. (slightly formal) and in the same way for For Hawthorne, as for Borges, his writing was a reaction to his cultural situation.</p> <p>Usage notes: often used to start a sentence that changes or adds to the subject of the last sentence: My wife and I are well. As for our work, it is not going well.</p> <p>Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003. Reproduced with permission.<br /> ^ I copy pasted that. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=8#post-36642 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:33:50 +0000 DSB 36642@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>I felt kinda stereotyped as one of those people, between angsty callow dickheads, and people who paraphrase Nietzsche whenever it's convenient.</p> <p>Sounds like a "nihilist" (read: person who calls himself a nihilist) to me.</p> <p>I was just stating that I hate those guys just as much as you do.</p> <p>Well, maybe not quite as much. I had a happy childhood. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=8#post-36641 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:30:14 +0000 Da Man 36641@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Cool story, bro. I've heard all that, didn't even have internet then. You'r even right sometimes, when paraphrasing right people.</p> <p>So what did it have to do with the err, topic (if there was any) at that moment? </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=8#post-36640 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:24:12 +0000 DSB 36640@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>It can't be harder than making G1GAHURTZ read a dictionary.</p> <p>I guess I wasn't clear enough.</p> <p>I defined nihilism in the context of those who claim to be nihilist. The actual ideology itself had no bearing on what we were talking about.</p> <p>Those who call themselves nihilists, belong to the very same group as those who call themselves communists and fascists, who can make such a claim quite comfortably, as long as they're living a life where they don't have to suffer any of the actual consequences of those ideologies.</p> <p>It's easy enough to call yourself a nihilist as long as there's no risk that you'd ever have to live like one.</p> <p>People tend to be quite happy to support a communist uprising, right up until the point where they actually find themselves living in a communist society. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=8#post-36638 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:06:46 +0000 G1GAHURTZ 36638@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>You'll never get the inherently dishonest to own up to their blatant failings, Da Man.</p> <p>Even when it's in black and white, right in front of their eyes. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=8#post-36637 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:01:20 +0000 Da Man 36637@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>You followed your description of him by defining 'nihilism', right after, as something which seems like a continuation of the previous sentence. </p> <p>As I said, let's pretend I got lost in your writing. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=7#post-36636 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:55:02 +0000 DSB 36636@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>So, where's the sentence where I call Nietzsche a nihilist again? I know what I wrote, but I don't see that sentence anywhere.</p> <p>Is it only in your head, maybe? </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=7#post-36635 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:50:02 +0000 Da Man 36635@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Cool story, bro. Never try and read Camus. Not with your srs bsns attitude and 'consciousness'.</p> <p>As for calling Nietzsche one, how exactly am I supposed to interpret</p> <p>&gt;<br /> I think the only person truly capable of using Nietzsche as the basis of their own personal ethics, was Nietzsche himself, and ironically he managed to prove just how hard that is when you're struck down by syphillis.</p> <p>I think that's also why he's so interesting to read. The man truly believes in something.</p> <p>Nihilism, much like communism or fascism, is an ideology of convenience. most of the people who claim to beleive so strongly in it, tend to be enjoying quite a different society.<br /> &gt;<br /> Try and make some kind of a transition between the erm, sub -topics then. Let's actually pretend you didn't call him that this time. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=7#post-36634 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:41:48 +0000 DSB 36634@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>I can't tell if you're drunk, over excited or mentally handicapped, but what you're writing barely makes any sense.</p> <p>I also never tried to paint you as a nihilist at any point... Boy, it just keeps getting better and better :p</p> <p>"You did this, you did that". Fair enough champ, where did I call Nietzsche a nihilist? Why not cop to the fact that you simply chose to read what you wanted to read.</p> <p>I actually considered putting a caveat in there to underline the fact that I *didn't* mean to say that Nietszche was a nihilist, but honestly I didn't think you were stupid enough, or so eager to "get me", that you'd choose to read it that way. My bad.</p> <p>I'll own the Gamespot thing. I mean, I can certainly never claim to have had as positive and influence as you on this site, but then really, who can? You're such a charming little bundle of joy :) </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=7#post-36633 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:30:54 +0000 Da Man 36633@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>To call anything Camus related as pragmatic or being common sense in any way means you either read zero of his works, or aren't really able to read anything he wrote (which I don't doubt with your 'consiousness'). You putting words into others' mouth barely change any of that.</p> <p>It's quite obvious, D-Sub, that at the very most you read biography and quick start guides of topics mentioned in each and every of your 'debate'. It's just amazingly funny how you come up with new and new excuses and morph your previous posts to try and argue further about Camus controlling Nietzshes with Artificial Intelligence while fighting against homophobia in a videogame factually played by the most.... </p> <p>No idea why you 're trying to paint me as a nihilist now (lmao) when you 've come up with the advice to read Nietzsche, who as opposed to being one, rather called for reevaluation of things.. called him a nihilist, then denied doing that and proceeded to argue whatever useless point you're currently trying to convey..</p> <p>It's like some kind of Alice in Wonderland on the internet.</p> <p>.. Wanted to become a lawyer but failed finishing high school and now play a lawyer on forums?</p> <p>Anyway..</p> <p>Like I said before, thank you for turning this website into another Gamespot. Certainly ultimately quite frankly incidentally. Run along now and enlighten some 13 year olds with your education.</p> <p>I don't have to bully you, buddy. You bully yourself with your inane time killing at the office. Anyone with a minimal knowledge of the subject can see you for what you are. What I find the most pathetic of people like you though, is how you paraphrase and copy paste content from those who do enlighten you to argue with the new 'opponents'.</p> <p>Keep on conquering internet, chippy. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=7#post-36632 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:29:57 +0000 DSB 36632@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>It also attracts clueless cheerleaders, apparently. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=7#post-36631 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:24:25 +0000 G1GAHURTZ 36631@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Pseudo-intellectual gaffes often require claims of crossed wires.</p> <p>Followed by desperate backtracking. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=7#post-36630 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:56:56 +0000 DSB 36630@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>I think you're so busy being a bad cliché of a schoolyard bully, that you're failing to consider any context to what I'm saying, however obvious it might be.</p> <p>Of course, unless you yourself actually got all of that off google searches, which offered you none.</p> <p>Camus never owned absurdism, he just contributed with the most pragmatic and common sense approach to it.</p> <p>I also never described Nietzsche as a nihilist. The only people who describe Nietzsche as a nihilist, tend to be the "nihilists" themselves, which were in fact the very nutters I was referring to.</p> <p>It's just as easy to call yourself a nihilist when you're enjoying a meaningful relationship and gainful employment, as it is to call yourself a communist, when you have western currency in your pocket, and food in your belly.</p> <p>Don't read so fast, champ. You're not quite following. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=7#post-36629 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:12:10 +0000 G1GAHURTZ 36629@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-cidmbn4unhYuJ/blazing_saddles_1974_town_council/" rel="nofollow">http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-cidmbn4unhYuJ/blazing_saddles_1974_town_council/</a> </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=7#post-36627 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:11:36 +0000 Da Man 36627@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>I don't know what's more funny - you calling absurdism 'pragmatic' and 'common sense', namedropping something you came across in search engines while bored at work, describing Nietzsche as an 'arsehole', describing Nietzsche as a 'nihilist', or just your internet addiction masquerading as chit chat.</p> <p>All of that probably, equally. </p> <p>Quite a few of what Nietzsche said he actually did mean in the literal sense. Contrary to what some people today want to think. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=7#post-36625 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:38:20 +0000 DSB 36625@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Fan of hebrews? I don't even watch baseball!</p> <p>I wouldn't say 80%, I'd say 50%. I think the only person truly capable of using Nietzsche as the basis of their own personal ethics, was Nietzsche himself, and ironically he managed to prove just how hard that is when you're struck down by syphillis.</p> <p>I think that's also why he's so interesting to read. The man truly believes in something.</p> <p>Nihilism, much like communism or fascism, is an ideology of convenience. most of the people who claim to beleive so strongly in it, tend to be enjoying quite a different society.</p> <p>The reason why Nietzsche tends to be a part of any philosophy 101, is simply because unlike Camus, you pretty much have to come out for or against him. Camus was very pragmatic and common sense, but that also serves to make him harmless, which isn't very challenging.</p> <p>I reckon that's also why Camus is so popular to namedrop among any first year hipster. There's not a lot to disagree with.</p> <p>Not that Nietzsche isn't exploited in a million different ways. Even before he was dead, people were twisting his concepts far beyond anything he ever intended. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=7#post-36624 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:57:34 +0000 OrbitMonkey 36624@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>200! </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=7#post-36623 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:55:25 +0000 OrbitMonkey 36623@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>A female elephant is walking through the jungle when she steps on a thorn, it's very painfully, but she just can't get it out.</p> <p>Just then a mouse turns up, "I'll take out that thorn, if I can have sex with you" he leers. Grudgingly the elephant agrees and quick as you like, the mouse pulls out the thorn, scurries up the elephants leg and begins humping the completely unimpressed elephant.</p> <p>A monkey watching the drama, is laughing so hard, he knocks a coconut from the tree and it hits the elephant square on the head, "Ow" she squeals....</p> <p>"That's right bitch, take it" grunts the mouse. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=7#post-36622 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:45:51 +0000 OrbitMonkey 36622@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>2 lunatics are attempting to break out of the asylum, they get to a open window, but it's 3 storeys up. The first lunatic pulls out a torch and says to the second "I'll shine the light down to the ground, you walk down and make sure the coast is clear".</p> <p>"You must think I'm mad!" laughs the second loon, "I'll be halfway down and you'll turn it off!". </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6262&page=7#post-36621 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:38:53 +0000 OrbitMonkey 36621@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Fan of Hebrews? Doesn't sound kosher... </p>