The "whatever's on your mind" thread

[GuruGuru214]

Originally Posted by Comrade Pants

Does it have obscure unreleased shit? Because not piracy has obscure, unreleased shit that copyright holders probably hate having public.

This isn't so much beating a dead horse anymore as it is beating a pile of horse pulp. Give it a rest already.

[Johro]

I liked the initial response better... The halo fell off, eh?

[GuruGuru214]

I kept flipping between posting as a mod telling him to knock it off or as a pissed off forumite tired of hearing about it.

[RetroVortex]

A man does not need a Halo to tell another man to "Stop Being a Dick!"

[coolsome]

No ones halo would fall off under Communism!

[Johro]

As long as there's bacon.

[Comrade Pants]

Originally Posted by RetroVortex

A man does not need a Halo to tell another man to "Stop Being a Dick!"

Piracy isn't dickery, though. It's essentially victimless if you only hit large faceless corporations. Hell, their backhanded dealing is practically begging for it from a karmic sense.

I guess I'll stop, though. My standard response whenever someone brings up Netflix or other such things is instantly to refer people to a better way of doing things, but I mustn't piss off the mods.

[RetroVortex]

Originally Posted by Comrade Pants

Piracy isn't dickery, though. It's essentially victimless if you only hit large faceless corporations. Hell, their backhanded dealing is practically begging for it from a karmic sense.

I guess I'll stop, though. My standard response whenever someone brings up Netflix or other such things is instantly to refer people to a better way of doing things, but I mustn't piss off the mods.

Yeah, I share similar views to you as well.
(Being all high and mighty would just be hippocritical)

But as long as their is a decent enough legitimate way, and I can afford it, I will go for it.

There is a lot the corporations need to do to achieve true progress, but to be fair, the small shoots of progress are to be seen all over the place now.
It just takes the right conditions, and a skillful horticulturer to make those plants grow, and grow strong!

SOPA and its supporters are the blight that threatens the garden, and we as a global community need to ensure that the weeds are not allowed to take root and wilt the great accomplishments that have been sowed so far!

[GuruGuru214]

Originally Posted by Comrade Pants

Piracy isn't dickery, though. It's essentially victimless if you only hit large faceless corporations. Hell, their backhanded dealing is practically begging for it from a karmic sense.

It's not the piracy that I'm calling you out on here (though yes, it's against forum policy, piracy being one of the few things the mods have been instructed to completely disallow discussion of), it's the relentless beating us over the head with it.

[Johro]

Originally Posted by GuruGuru214

... it's the relentless beating us over the head with it.

He's Tebowingᵇ.






def. ᵇ: To constantly bring up a topic or view point until everyone is sick of hearing about it( original context being "God").

[GuruGuru214]

Originally Posted by Comrade Pants

Fine. I'll take the horse pulp out of the blender and lay it to rest, already.

I was more trying to combine "beating a dead horse" with "beating to a pulp", but if you prefer the imagery of a horse in a blender, that's great.

[RetroVortex]

Wait... Horse pulp isn't a euthanism for Horse poop?

.... Uh oh....

[Comrade Pants]

Originally Posted by RetroVortex

Wait... Horse pulp isn't a euthanism for Horse poop?

.... Uh oh....

THESE FlELDS FERTILIZED WITH GROUND HORSE.

[Chyron8472]

What does piracy have to do with Netflix?

Are you trying to say that the entertainment industry is too fricken slow to adapt to, and frequently fights against, the introduction of new distribution technologies? (which, in fact, they are)

Or are you saying that anyone with half a brain should use GorillaVid or MegaVideo instead of Netflix because Netflix's library is not diverse enough? (which isn't Netflix's fault, per se)

or what?

[GaryCXJk]

Sometimes my brain adds an "off" when reading "beating a dead horse".

[Alcoremortis]

Originally Posted by Comrade Pants

Piracy isn't dickery, though. It's essentially victimless if you only hit large faceless corporations. Hell, their backhanded dealing is practically begging for it from a karmic sense.

Just a point here, but it's important to remember that at the bottom of a corporation are ordinary people, like you or me. And I mean ordinary. Because the stockholders are basically what makes a corporation. They OWN it.

And lots of corporations give out quarterly dividends to shareholders. Some of those shareholders, like my grandpa, have to LIVE on those dividends since the Social Security they receive for being retired isn't enough to pay for a decent place to live, medical care, and three meals a day. So I would say that corporations are not huge entities to be despised. Sometimes their actions are, but it's important to remember that there are people out there who depend on them just to get by.

[Secret Fawful]

Originally Posted by Comrade Pants

Giant robots.

Eureka Seven wins. It has giant sky surfing robots.

[Zeek]

I discovered that my subconscious representation of my Super-Ego is that of an Indian woman modeled after some deity I can't identify. My Ego is apparently dead, as my subconscious represented it as an urn on a coffee table.

And in case anyone is wondering how I came to this discovery, my most recent dream featured my Id and Super-Ego having a discussion detailing all my flaws as a person and how to fix them. Now if only I could remember the damn conversation...

[Chyron8472]

sometimes a dream is just a dream.

[DAISHI]

Originally Posted by Secret Fawful

Eureka Seven wins. It has giant sky surfing robots.

One of the few giant robot shows I can stand. It was actually, relatively feel good compared to the others, which got bogged down in their angst.