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[coyotecraft]

Funny story. My parents went to Yellow Stone National Park a few months back and my Mom bought back coloring books for my niece and nephew who are 6. Luckily she keeps forgetting to give it to them, because she only recently read the cover and looked at the pages inside.

It was like Warning: For Mature Coloriest only. Graphic Scenes, violence, and disembowelment.
To be fair, it's a really cartoony artstyle and at a glace the cover looks innocent enough.
When my mom told me about it I was thinking, ok, it's probably got a skeleton or something to illustrate how hot gysers are or wolves eating a deer. And it did. But it also bear maulings. A girl roasting a marshmallow getting gored by bison from behind. Intestines flying out. A boy who fell down a cliff with goats, in an advanced state of decay with his brains out.

Turning the pages I was like. Ah. AHH. AHHH. MOM! How did you not see this! What if he took it to school or something. Yeesh.

 

[Nathaniel3W]

Wow! That's crazy. I'm kind of surprised that Yellowstone would have stuff like that.

 

[Xilef]

The app I released this morning has more Android users with crashes than it does iPhone users (with and without crashes).

 

[ZenVirZan]

what app mydude

 

[Xilef]

it's a British football club app for Swansea City AFC, available on iOS and Android.

The first bug fix update reduced the crash rate for Android from 33% of users to 0.35% of users (so far). Pretty amazing how crappy Android as a platform is, all these devices crash in very bizarre areas of the app that logically shouldn't have problems, but on random devices problems occur.

Edit: and as soon as the match starts it became the crashiest app ever. 80% of users crashed.

 

[Spoo]

Can't remember if I've asked already, but is anyone going to PAX West this year? I'll be in Seattle from 8/31 to 9/4.

 

[coyotecraft]

Didn't time my day right. Now I got an hour to kill before my interview.

 

[Fayte]

so... they're planning a neo-nazi gathering in my town this saturday. that's cool.

 

[Ellie]

We just had one in mine -.-

 

[Xilef]

Is Britain First Neo-Nazi? The ones in America literally parade around with Hitler quotes, swastikas and Nazi-salutes, Britain First (from their Facebook posts) tend to go on and on about British troops and having the WW2 spirit with defeating Germans for England's freedom and all that shit. I don't think Neo-Nazi is the correct description.

Not going to make excuses though; all these people are morons with absolutely piss-poor levels of education. They feel their voice has been ignored for years and years, but now that Trump rules America and UK voted Brexit they think their voices are the ones being championed so feel they finally have the power to speak their really badly-thought, ill-conceived opinions about matters they really have zero expertise on.

I'm not a fan of the current "always good to punch/kill a Nazi" crap that's being posted around my far-left Twitter feed at the moment. I don't think the solution is to beat the crap out of these idiots, the solution is to arrest them and get them doing community service for minority & diverse groups so they can actually communicate and learn something about the people who they have such strong, baseless opinions about. But that kind of specialist treatment from a judicial system would be very expensive, so would never happen, and the current hate-speech crimes don't warrant an arrest and mandatory relocation + community service to be able to enact this idea of mine.

 

[Fayte]

they might stab a minority with a shovel. nazi's are sick and twisted in the head. just deport them back to their country.

 

[Xilef]

This Tweet here; https://twitter.com/DerrickQLewis/statu ... 7485901825
I think the people who kicked the statue so aggressively are not good people. I'm on the side of the people who pulled it down, not the people who then decided the appropriate reaction is to kick it and express such extreme hatred.

It is my personal belief that hatred is a cycle of ignorance and lack of free-thinking leading to more hatred. The real smart ones turned their back on it the moment the statue fell and celebrated what they actually have with each other.

Also; stamping on a metal statue looks really dumb. The few that did that look like people who are very easily influenced by the crowd around them and gets caught up in the moment - rather than actually think freely for themselves.

EDIT: I think statues like this should go into museums that educate future generations about the acts of these people, I'm not comfortable with the idea of erasing history and pretending everyone is on the same page when there's still a lot of education that's needed so people understand more.
Unfortunately, I don't think these local governments would want to do this any time soon, so tearing it down is probably the best thing that people can do to address the issues that are being discussed.

 

[Spoo]

What's happening to Southerners right now is deplorable. This shit right here is why I hate the left in it's current state -- these protests don't prove anything new; they're just riling up the same neo-nazi racist fucktards that have been around forever and using them to paint the entire population of a geographical region -- or political leaning, I guess -- with a broad brush.

 

[Fayte]

haha that's awesome! it does look silly to kick a statue but I don't look at them any differently than the rest. I think they just got caught up in the moment. I've been removed from school for a long time now, but I know when I was going they didn't teach us how this country was founded on so much violence and slaughter. Hopefully their telling kids the truth about the history of this great country. "The land of the free"

 

[Fayte]

Finally got Opus 3 here in Canada

Whoa you guys are just now getting opus 3? I thought America was behind.

 

[Mega Flare]

Yeah it got deyaled till aug 4th. And then got delayed again lol.

 

[Ellie]

GW2: Path of Fire :

 

[Fayte]

Yeah it got deyaled till aug 4th. And then got delayed again lol.

Still running mono fire?

 

[bacon]

What's happening to Southerners right now is deplorable. This shit right here is why I hate the left in it's current state -- these protests don't prove anything new; they're just riling up the same neo-nazi racist fucktards that have been around forever and using them to paint the entire population of a geographical region -- or political leaning, I guess -- with a broad brush.

I wouldnt blame "the left", they arent the ones telling these newscasters exactly what they air. You should be blaming the "right" for allowing this shitshow to happen and get worse and worse

Also its not the same old fucks. A lot of those men were our age

 

[bacon]

Also i understand not everyone is a racist in the south, but ive met plenty of "non-racists" who are actually racist.
Furthermore, even if all southerners are not racist, that is a series of very racist states with racist politicians making racist laws to oppress peeps. The shit they pull is ridiculous.
Also if you think southerners are being stereotyped, i want you to look back at how other groups of people have been stereotyped over the years of america. I think their plight and message is way more valid.