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So far most of these are other people's stuff, so try to at least keep their names attached as you run around with them.

Also there's an awful lot more habitable landmass north of the equator, so odds are pretty good any dominant culture would have started out from that half of the planet.

But that just makes the world top-heavy and unstable.

Nah, it's like a table. Africa and South America hold it up.

Fuck Pluto.

RULE 34

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These are all the nicest things that anyone has every said about me.

We'll fix that.

By saying nicer things?

These are all the nicest things that anyone has every said about me.

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There is still an implication here that any artist that is considered "mainstream" is part of the problem and needs to be punished.  Just to put that into perspective, that would mean a band like Sonic Youth, who have been a major label recording artist.  Now, anyone who knows anything about Thurston Moore and the Youth would know that they don't exactly fit into the same mold as a band like Metallica that's bitched and moaned about Napster, et al.  But they signed with a major label, in part, to cast a wider net with their music and get more people into what the art they are producing. 

I dunno, this seems rather akin to an idea of being pissed off about the War in Iraq and spitting on the soldiers to punish the lawmakers that put them in the dessert.  Entertainers deserve to be paid and supported like any other person working and creating a product in the USA.  "Destroying Hollywood" isn't going to accomplish what you think it will accomplish, and you'll be taking out a whole host of hard-working Americans while the Fat Cats remain fat.

Whether a band deserves to be compensated for their artistic efforts or not I think is pretty well agreed upon ITT (yes, they fucking do). Choosing not to purchase from any label would just be the most intellectually sound way of trying to get at what the original goal here kind of was (to punish the machine that is distributing content and also being dickholes). While that in theory could hurt some artists who are already on labels, that does not prevent artists from leaving labels to go the independent distribution route, nor does it constitute theft in any meaningful sense (unless you are then pirating their music instead of doing without).
Alternatively, I could see trying to convince people to pirate everything and then mail $20 to the artists directly, but a) people are dicks and wouldn't mail it in and b) that's a shitty way of doing things to begin with.

Maybe you didn't think this through too much...

How many hobos do I need to murder to have you as a GM?

Also there's an awful lot more habitable landmass north of the equator, so odds are pretty good any dominant culture would have started out from that half of the planet.

I think that everyone is a Discordian in some sense (via POEE if nothing else). However, every cabal may have a completely different concept of what being a Discordian is for them. Some cabals are full of clowns, some are full of philosophers, some are full of scientists... all of them are full of Shit.

Maybe thats it... you're not a Discordian (for some definitions of the word), if you don't realize that you're full of shit.

Hail Eris! 

I like this one.

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I'd love to see more! I'm still trying to sift though the rants here, there's a lot of good stuff.

Yay fictional settings.

Specifically in this case, the circle got banned for being a bunch of fucking retards who were planning a massive act of grand theft against the US government to enact a ridiculous scheme that would never work, and the last bit is them (over)reacting to the ban.

Lookout, Roger, that's a trained internet ghost you're mocking.

You would get a better response if your answer was "boycott artists that are represented by a major label" or "only purchase music and other forms of entertainment directly from the artists." Which still doesn't cover the issue that larger productions still require up front money, and the people who provide that money are entitled to make some profit off of it.

Fuck Pluto.