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Started by Suu, May 02, 2011, 03:55:33 AM

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The Good Reverend Roger

#405
May 07, 2011, 05:58:41 AM
Quote from: postvex™ on May 07, 2011, 05:57:04 AM
The administration is aware of what a huge deal the death of bin Laden is, so you'd expect the cleanest public-facing disclosure of facts associated with it. You'd expect all the press releases and post-operation media appearances, as well as everything they were willing to disclose or even discuss, would have been scripted down to the facial expressions well ahead of time. Obama's speech would have been written before the operation even got underway, maybe multiple speeches to allow for various outcomes. Given that the operation itself was so highly coordinated and tightly sealed  so successfully, why is it being so sloppily handled afterward?

Because the American public doesn't give a shit, and Obama's crew knows it.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#406
May 07, 2011, 06:05:26 AM
Seriously, it's become a nitpicker's paradise.  Obama's crew aren't fools, they knew that this was coming.

Why bother putting anything into it?  Job got done, fuck trying to please the zealots on either side, right?
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

tyrannosaurus vex

#407
May 07, 2011, 06:18:58 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 07, 2011, 06:05:26 AM
Seriously, it's become a nitpicker's paradise.  Obama's crew aren't fools, they knew that this was coming.

Why bother putting anything into it?  Job got done, fuck trying to please the zealots on either side, right?

You're probably right. It isn't feeding my inner conspiracy nut, but reality hardly ever does.
Evil and Unfeeling Arse-Flenser From The City of the Damned.

The Good Reverend Roger

#408
May 07, 2011, 06:23:20 AM
Quote from: postvex™ on May 07, 2011, 06:18:58 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 07, 2011, 06:05:26 AM
Seriously, it's become a nitpicker's paradise.  Obama's crew aren't fools, they knew that this was coming.

Why bother putting anything into it?  Job got done, fuck trying to please the zealots on either side, right?

You're probably right. It isn't feeding my inner conspiracy nut, but reality hardly ever does.

Oh, there's plenty of actual conspiracies (see ECH's thread in aneristic illusions), but what this is, I think, is a president and a cabinet that have realized what vapid cunts this country is made up of, and who won't give the people their corpse porn, because they can't be bothered with a public that is whining because they can't see OBL's exploded head.  Or the people who have spent 5 days furiously trying to make OBL's death a bad thing because Obama is a Black man who somehow got into the oval office.

I mean, fuck, would YOU be bothered?  Me, I'd be fucking with the American public on purpose, because they're a collection of fat bozos who can't be made happy.

Don't get me wrong:  I think Obama is another 4 years of Bush, and I hate his guts.  I just hate America as a whole more, for the reasons listed above.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Commander

#409
May 07, 2011, 11:16:07 PM
Quote from: Luna on May 07, 2011, 02:37:32 AM
East.   :)

Cool.  I'm currently in Atlantia, but haven't played since we moved down here from Aethelmearc.  Adding a bambina to the mix has made it difficult to make time to get involved.
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DIA
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Luna

#410
May 08, 2011, 12:07:02 AM
Quote from: The Commander on May 07, 2011, 11:16:07 PM
Quote from: Luna on May 07, 2011, 02:37:32 AM
East.   :)

Cool.  I'm currently in Atlantia, but haven't played since we moved down here from Aethelmearc.  Adding a bambina to the mix has made it difficult to make time to get involved.

Let us know if you'll be at Pennsic.  There will be booze (just none for the bambina).
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"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Quote from: The Payne on November 16, 2011, 07:08:55 PM
If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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The Commander

#411
May 08, 2011, 12:34:36 AM
Quote from: Luna on May 08, 2011, 12:07:02 AM
Quote from: The Commander on May 07, 2011, 11:16:07 PM
Quote from: Luna on May 07, 2011, 02:37:32 AM
East.   :)

Cool.  I'm currently in Atlantia, but haven't played since we moved down here from Aethelmearc.  Adding a bambina to the mix has made it difficult to make time to get involved.

Let us know if you'll be at Pennsic.  There will be booze (just none for the bambina).

Good to know Discordians are representing at the War...but unfortunately we will not be attending anytime soon.  If I can ever manage to get a job back in Pittsburgh it might be a possibility, but chances are remote.  Where do you normally camp?
The Commander
DIA
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Luna

#412
May 08, 2011, 01:09:45 AM
Quote from: The Commander on May 08, 2011, 12:34:36 AM
Quote from: Luna on May 08, 2011, 12:07:02 AM
Quote from: The Commander on May 07, 2011, 11:16:07 PM
Quote from: Luna on May 07, 2011, 02:37:32 AM
East.   :)

Cool.  I'm currently in Atlantia, but haven't played since we moved down here from Aethelmearc.  Adding a bambina to the mix has made it difficult to make time to get involved.

Let us know if you'll be at Pennsic.  There will be booze (just none for the bambina).

Good to know Discordians are representing at the War...but unfortunately we will not be attending anytime soon.  If I can ever manage to get a job back in Pittsburgh it might be a possibility, but chances are remote.  Where do you normally camp?

Right at North Gate.
Death-dealing hormone freak of deliciousness
Pagan-Stomping Valkyrie of the Interbutts™
Rampaging Slayer of Shit-Fountain Habitues

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Quote from: The Payne on November 16, 2011, 07:08:55 PM
If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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"Stop talking to yourself.  You don't like you any better than anyone else who knows you."

Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ

#413
May 08, 2011, 01:20:19 AM
NO MOAR SCA THREADJACKING.

Suu

#415
May 08, 2011, 05:11:30 AM
Quote from: Bebek Sincap Ratatosk on May 06, 2011, 10:04:31 PM
Quote from: Luna on May 06, 2011, 03:51:26 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 06, 2011, 03:49:13 PM
Quote from: Luna on May 06, 2011, 03:48:11 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 06, 2011, 03:46:37 PM
To be fair, even with streaming video and updates, they probably had no idea what was going on, because even the guys on the ground had almost no idea what was happening.

Things get confusing when people start throwing lead around.

Also, quite likely that it was hard to tell who was who when the bullets were flying around, with what was probably an iffy video feed.

It's hard to tell when you're there in person, which is why friendly fire is such a bitch.

I'll certainly take your word for that. 

SCA combat's a far cry from the real thing, but I've caught a spear to the kidney from a teammate that was "friendly fire."

During the merchants vs pirates event, one of my friends and I ran across the cleared gangplank to the Pirate side... there was some poor guy there and my friend shouts, "MErchat or Pirate? Merchant or Pirate?" to which the stunned fighter says "Huh?" and William says "Pirate!" and takes him down...

He was a merchant, like us. :lulz:

What if...The Republic of Venice says I'm a merchant, but the Kingdom of Naples says I'm a pirate as mandated by the Spanish Crown?!

WHAT SIDE DO I PLAY?!
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The Good Reverend Roger

#416
May 08, 2011, 05:17:21 AM
Quote from: The Fred ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on May 08, 2011, 01:20:19 AM
NO MOAR SCA THREADJACKING.

I think it's too late, Fred.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#417
May 08, 2011, 05:22:27 AM
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#418
May 08, 2011, 05:23:08 AM
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#419
May 08, 2011, 05:27:08 AM
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

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