This country needs a big heaping dose of "mind your own business" and that applies to both ends of the political spectrum and both sides of the culture wars.

If you're hurting or preying upon others, that's a problem. Otherwise live your life and let others live theirs.

Quote from: Aglondir on April 16, 2023, 10:11:27 PM
In this game, you play a Hammerhead, an elite agent fighting global warming:

Quote from: HammerheadsRegardless of what some politicians and corporate interests want you to believe, the world's climate is damaged. Over the last hundred years, human activity has altered weather patterns; and in the world of Hammerheads this continues to worsen. Floods and erosion from rising sea levels, polar ice shelves dropping tons of ice into the ocean and creating tsunamis, widescale firestorms and heat waves, and monstrous hurricanes and ice storms are all symptoms of this shift. Isolated extinction events have begun to hit every continent on the planet, and the race to respond to these long-term problems has consumed world governments even as they are stymied by opposition.

https://www.cortexrpg.com/compendium/hammerheads-spotlight/

Ah. A game based on fairy tales.

Quote from: Ratman_tf on April 17, 2023, 12:37:27 AM

Quote from: Aglondir on April 16, 2023, 10:11:27 PM
In this game, you play a Hammerhead, an elite agent fighting global warming:

Quote from: HammerheadsRegardless of what some politicians and corporate interests want you to believe, the world's climate is damaged. Over the last hundred years, human activity has altered weather patterns; and in the world of Hammerheads this continues to worsen. Floods and erosion from rising sea levels, polar ice shelves dropping tons of ice into the ocean and creating tsunamis, widescale firestorms and heat waves, and monstrous hurricanes and ice storms are all symptoms of this shift. Isolated extinction events have begun to hit every continent on the planet, and the race to respond to these long-term problems has consumed world governments even as they are stymied by opposition.

https://www.cortexrpg.com/compendium/hammerheads-spotlight/

Ah. A game based on fairy tales.

Yes, but they are the SJW Approved fairy tales!

Quote from: Festus on April 17, 2023, 12:33:10 AM
This country needs a big heaping dose of "mind your own business" and that applies to both ends of the political spectrum and both sides of the culture wars.

If you're hurting or preying upon others, that's a problem. Otherwise live your life and let others live theirs.

Because both sides are equally bad, and if you're passive and nice, the other side will be too. There certainly aren't people who will build a power base while you sit on the fence, then take away your fence.

Quote from: Grognard GM on April 17, 2023, 01:02:35 AM

Quote from: Festus on April 17, 2023, 12:33:10 AM
This country needs a big heaping dose of "mind your own business" and that applies to both ends of the political spectrum and both sides of the culture wars.

If you're hurting or preying upon others, that's a problem. Otherwise live your life and let others live theirs.

Because both sides are equally bad, and if you're passive and nice, the other side will be too. There certainly aren't people who will build a power base while you sit on the fence, then take away your fence.

Greetings!

I just love all of the happy, blissful idealists in our society. Our country is rapidly falling into an abyss of sewage because far too many people refused to fight and stomp the Woke Libtards into the ground, instead vociferously proclaiming that everyone needs to remain sweet, kind, reasonable, and tolerant.

That program has done so well for America, hasn't it?

Of course, the deep, bitter truth is that it is almost too late now. All the weak, trusting cows waited too long. A few people are starting to wake the fuck up recently, but it is simply too late. The rot, the depravity, the corruption, is too deep. I'm afraid that our once-glorious country is doomed. Either outright collapse, civil war, foreign invasion, or the best case, is somehow a strangled mayonnaise-like decline into a third-world shithole level of mediocrity.

It's grim. All of the cultural foundational indicators are in severe decline, and historically, societies that become as corrupt and depraved as we have become, simply do not recover. They just don't. They either implode, get conquered and enslaved, or go through a mayonnaise-sewer phase, where some new kind of tyrant culture arises to cleanse them, and the culture is entirely reinvented. Either way, the original culture is destroyed and gone forever.

Glimpses of the rot, the corruption, the mobs of degenerate animals, can be seen online, like with the whole Zak thing. Zak is old history, and the internet and the depraved mobs of animals have only gotten *worse*, not better.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Quote from: Elfdart on April 16, 2023, 10:15:49 PMI think not. Truth is an absolute defense in libel/slander/defamation cases everywhere in the English-speaking world. Don't want to get sued? Don't lie about people.

The issue is that the legal process is lengthy and complex at the best of times. My favourite example is the Christchurch mass shooter. He posted his intentions online in a manifesto, livestreamed his homicides, was immediately caught and confessed and pleaded guilty - and it was still a year and a half between his arrest and sentencing. And of course, many people were involved in the process and it cost millions of dollars.

Where matters of fact are in dispute, the process is even lengthier and more expensive, and is made lengthier and more expensive by having "top lawyers." If you have a KC in Australia, a defamation trial can be 5 years or more between the offending comments and the issued judgement, let alone allowing for any appeals adding another few years to it. Thus, in civil matters like defamation, victory tends to go to those with deeper pockets, unless those with deeper pockets simply can't be bothered with the whole thing and pay "fuck off money" to make the issue go away.

Having victory go to the wealthiest of the parties involved, or a settlement to make the issue go away, is not justice. Thus my comment that defamation laws are in need of serious reform.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron on April 17, 2023, 03:10:48 AM
Having victory go to the wealthiest of the parties involved, or a settlement to make the issue go away, is not justice. Thus my comment that defamation laws are in need of serious reform.

I successfully sued while evicted and on food stamps.

Three times in three countries.

Congratulations on defending your name, Zack S. I hear your public declaration, Cameron B.

It is sad it had to go through the courts to get here, but it is good that the courts exist to hold the line against harm. There are limits to all things, including "free speech," because lies, manipulation, and gossip can destroy just as direct force. It behooves us to remember temperance over our feelings, to retain judgment in the sweep of group passions, lest they lead to harm of others.

This area is probably being treated as a legal public notice space for the purpose of the settlement, that's why this topic is here.

Quote from: Opaopajr on April 17, 2023, 05:38:41 AM

This area is probably being treated as a legal public notice space for the purpose of the settlement, that's why this topic is here.

This site is a place where people have falsely accused me of abuse, harassment and other wrongdoing.

Misinformation should be corrected in the venue where it appears.

Quote from: Grognard GM on April 17, 2023, 01:02:35 AM

Quote from: Festus on April 17, 2023, 12:33:10 AM
This country needs a big heaping dose of "mind your own business" and that applies to both ends of the political spectrum and both sides of the culture wars.

If you're hurting or preying upon others, that's a problem. Otherwise live your life and let others live theirs.

Because both sides are equally bad, and if you're passive and nice, the other side will be too. There certainly aren't people who will build a power base while you sit on the fence, then take away your fence.

Yes, both sides can be trash heaps in annals history, and sometimes fence sitters can be assholes too. All of these things can be true at the same time, even if one "side" is arguably worse than the rest. I see nothing in Festus's post contradicting that, but I've definitely seen enough of both sides to see that both sides are shit, and not so much so-called "fence sitters" (those are usually OK, but usually shat on by shit filled people on either side hoping to drag them to the shitter with them), but politically uninitiated willfully ignorant normies can almost invariably be shit too.

We live in a shit world.

Quote from: Zak S on April 17, 2023, 05:07:06 AM

Quote from: Kyle Aaron on April 17, 2023, 03:10:48 AM
Having victory go to the wealthiest of the parties involved, or a settlement to make the issue go away, is not justice. Thus my comment that defamation laws are in need of serious reform.

I successfully sued while evicted and on food stamps.

Three times in three countries.

And you're an outlier going after nobodies. Most people have to content with their lives being ruined by lies, specially if those lies are propagated by the media or those with pockets deep enough to buy "justice".

Quote from: GnomeWorks on April 16, 2023, 05:30:54 PM

Quote from: Steven Mitchell on April 16, 2023, 05:22:07 PMApparently you do, enough to post about it.

This is a stupid thing to say, and you fucking know it.

This says more about you than it does about anyone else.  Which was a nicer way to put my initial post.  Consider that my last word on the topic as far as you are concerned, since you are at least correct in one minor aspect:  I've already wasted more time on the point than you deserve.

Quote from: Fheredin on April 16, 2023, 10:51:52 PM
To be frank, I have to thank Pundit for running a website where this conversation is still allowed. A cursory search of mine shows that Cam did post this to Twitter (where it has almost zero engagement), and EN World, where it immediately got locked. I imagine Cam also posted it to a few other places where moderators experienced a glitch in the matrix and immediately deleted it. This thread is very nearly the entirety of the internet's comments on this topic.

So don't diss it too much; this might be niche, but it's important that this conversation happen somewhere.
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Yup agreed. I went searching as well. Saw the cricket silent twatter post. I didn't see the everyone nerd world until now and that pusillanimous mod locked it tight....probably as a favor to Cam. And from what I can tell there's nada on TBP.....of course I'm banned so there's some subfora I can't get to.

Quote from: FingerRod on April 16, 2023, 09:57:53 PM
But this is bigger that him. I would have thought you'd recognize that.

If Hitler and Stalin had a duel to the death, who should I cheer for?

Quote from: Zak S on April 17, 2023, 05:07:06 AM

Quote from: Kyle Aaron on April 17, 2023, 03:10:48 AM
Having victory go to the wealthiest of the parties involved, or a settlement to make the issue go away, is not justice. Thus my comment that defamation laws are in need of serious reform.

I successfully sued while evicted and on food stamps.

Three times in three countries.

What is even more surprising than this apology is the fact that Zak was able to get food stamps as a single white male in America.  I thought this an unpossible achievement.

Quote from: Brad on April 17, 2023, 09:33:03 AM

Quote from: FingerRod on April 16, 2023, 09:57:53 PM
But this is bigger that him. I would have thought you'd recognize that.

If Hitler and Stalin had a duel to the death, who should I cheer for?

Godwin's law after only 3 pages. Lazy.