If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

I vote small in scope, both in terms of rule complexity and content. This increases the odds of the project getting finished, and if like me you're entertaining dreams of this possibly making a splash and taking the piss out of real SJWs, accessible is better than crunchy. Also there's always the op...

Open a new thread, John. As someone who once oversaw numerous print runs, my suggestion is to not waste time & money or incur headaches by going to press. Just offer downloadable PDFs for donors, and let the bastards print & cut themselves. There's one here. John's been nominated for lead designer....

Seconded, assuming he'll accept the position. All in favor?

If everyone is settled on a game rather than stand alone cards, we'll need to elect a lead designer as soon as possible. I watched a bunch of Riddle of Steel fans try to build a successor RPG back in the day and you'd be amazed and how impossible it is for anything to cohere when it's a bunch of ind...

It’s distressing just how many of these stories I know about; just how many leaders in the secular movement I’ve heard these stories about.

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To repeat what I said in the undead thread, a game centered around the feeding frenzy mechanic sounds like a lot of fun. Collect dirt on your "allies" and jockey for position on the progressive stack while the clock ticks down toward sacrifice time. That said, game design is a lot of work and lowers...

That's one of the reasons I preferred the trading card idea. Not that I've done it professionally, but designing a game is a whole lot of work. Can I suggest someone sets up a thread for it somewhere else? I suspect that any good ideas will get diluted here, and difficult to follow. http://slymepit...

What it says on the tin. Thread for discussion of the SJW CCG/trading cards

That's one of the reasons I preferred the trading card idea. Not that I've done it professionally, but designing a game is a whole lot of work.

If we are going in the CCG direction I love the feeding frenzy idea and think that should be a central mechanic. You're actively stacking up ammunition to use against the other players while also jockeying for a better position in the progressive stack for your own defense. Eventually the outrage go...

Shatterface wrote:
jet_lagg wrote:I prefer the idea of trading cards to a CCG, and do agree there would be a market for it. You could even build scarcity into the system. How much would Sticky's ultra rare rookie card (this is pre-polyamory) go for?
I'd prefer a first person shooter.

This is literally murder.

I prefer the idea of trading cards to a CCG, and do agree there would be a market for it. You could even build scarcity into the system. How much would Sticky's ultra rare rookie card (this is pre-polyamory) go for?

MarcusAu wrote:
jet_lagg wrote:Another vote for SJW trading cards. I'd actually spend money on that.
If you've got the spoons - some stuff has already been done - as the saying goes Google That Shit.

I need more of a lead. "SJW trading cards" just brings up links to the video game, not actual SJWs.

Another vote for SJW trading cards. I'd actually spend money on that.

The Liverpool's Closed Saga was nuts. I was shouting at my wife while watching it unfold on twitter. It's- it's the fucking protagonist from Watch Dogs! This is real life right now!

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deLurch wrote:Season 7 of HWNDU has begun.

https://8ch.net/hwndu/index.html

I'm more hyped for this than anything on TV. Any other fans?

It's sad that anthropology would devolve so far, having been founded by serious scholars as an excuse for taking peyote and eating monkey brains with half-naked men. You forgot Margaret Mead pulling trains in Samoa and calling it 'field study''. Only for Derek Freeman to do some asking around after...

Even the sharks won't have her

Although it's very likely that the graffiti were made by bored Viking ("Varangian") mercenaries back when Istanbul was a christian city and Hagia Sophia was a christian church. Those Viking mercs were far more likely to have killed muslims rather than being muslims. I didn't want to overstep my bou...

Shatterface wrote:We need to bring back the dandy gangster.

Say what you want about the Krays but you'd never find them slobbing around in a hoodie.

Just watched Legend last night. Excellent performance (performances?) by Tom Hardy.

We're posting on a board called The Slymepit. What does that say about us? It says that moral entrepreneurs leading an online outrage mob put that label on us many years ago, in an attempt to dehumanize and other those who dared to question their ideology. Devil's Advocate: "The (extreme?) Left" ha...

George Clooney as well. It's a feeding frenzy.

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A devastating rebuttal to accusations of Islamic homophobia.

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Well I'm glad they're putting models on the air. Their voices have long been absent from our international discourse. What about the chimney sweeps though?

Wasn't the $20 a pity donation from someone here at the pit?

Context: Steersman proposes his completely fucking sincere idea for a rape prevention app.

https://i.imgur.com/ajqw0YW.png

See, this is why I can't stay angry for long when he commandeers the main thread for days at a time.

Every fucking time I don't use the preview button...

[quote='hjhornbeck"]Post-modernism should be embraced by skeptics on paper, but as it critiques some of the sacred cows of Skepticism they instead wind up strongly opposing it, sometimes with comic ineptitude.[/quote] I'm almost morbidly curious enough to make an account and ask him to clarify what ...

My favorite bit was when a mod insisted rape was worse than murder, and then banned someone for insisting that they'd much rather be raped than killed. Turns out that person had been raped before and was just happy to be alive. Oops. :lol: It's not even funny to me how groups like A+ or CON present...

My favorite bit was when a mod insisted rape was worse than murder, and then banned someone for insisting that they'd much rather be raped than killed. Turns out that person had been raped before and was just happy to be alive. Oops. :lol:

shoutinghorse wrote:
I've always had a preference for redheads myself and if they happen to be waring glasses all the better. ( shit what have I just said? :twatson: )

BLONDES .. I meant blondes. Honest I did. :oops:

I'm right there with yah.

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So, Martin Hughes thinks talking about broken homes in the black community is a non-starter because you can't force people to get married, but also thinks black women not being seen as desirable across race is a significant issue that can and should be rectified?

My question is how twitter sorts which responses to tweets are visible. You'll see the notification for 30 replies, but click on it and you can only read 5.

John D wrote: (I am an adult man).

And we're just supposed to take your word on that? A medical examination is in order.

Can someone help me work through this? We have Boy Scouts. We have Girl Scouts. Now girls are going to be admitted to Boy Scouts. But boys can't join Girl Scouts. What's the rationale? Boy Scouts to admit girls into programs The Boy Scouts of America will now allow girls to join the organization, t...

Dark Sky Legion by William Barton. You can pick it up on Amazon for under two bucks. https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Sky-Legion-William-Barton/dp/0553296167 Ignore the cover art, which makes it look like some steamy romance novel (to be fair, there's quite a bit of sex in it). It's a richly detailed, sa...

Everyone has their own story. Personally, it was sitting in the library reading that lead me to abandon the religion, not internet memes. That said, I've a friend who started questioning things after reading Anne Rice's oh so blasphemous Memnoch the Devil. I couldn't stop laughing when he told me, ...

A healthy balance of both tactics is in order. Really I don't see the point in disavowing someone unless they support physical violence/intimidation, messing with a person's livelihood, or doxxing. Maybe you find something distasteful and won't invite someone to the barbecue over it, but disavowal ...

I see it as some people needing the shock to rob social justice of the power it holds over them in the same way people who first come to atheism are usually insufferably offensive r/atheism types. Once that power is fully curbed they will naturally gravitate towards a more thoughtful critique of th...

I see it as some people needing the shock to rob social justice of the power it holds over them in the same way people who first come to atheism are usually insufferably offensive r/atheism types. Once that power is fully curbed they will naturally gravitate towards a more thoughtful critique of the...

MarcusAu wrote:I take it that you are OK with sock puppets though.

Socks are encouraged. I'm just bad at it because I advertise.

<snip> How you judge this depends on which approach you have about how to deal with the SocJus message. If you want people to gradually distance from the SocJus out of disgust, like Nugent successfully got people to desert PZ Myers, you'll probably see Sargon's tweet as counterproductive drama whic...

My condolences about your cat, FT. We had to put one of ours down a few years back, and it's not easy.

Lsuoma wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
Nothing, though, beats seeing a C-5 on final approach hang in the sky the same way a brick doesn't.
Again, I know what you mean - I see those things arriving at McChord (now JBLM) and the end of the runway is pretty close to I-5.

DeAndre Harris, who you may know as the dude who got beaten by white supremacists at Charlottesville, has been charged with a felony for his role in the altercation. Because hitting someone over the head with a maglite is illegal racism. http://www.theroot.com/deandre-harris-now-wanted-in-connection...

I've got a 900 acre fire 4 miles from me and a 7,000 acre one 12 miles to the other side and growing fast. I helped evacuate one friend's horses at 5 this morning, and another friend lost her house. Winds are expected to be high again tonight. How you all doin'? Sounds shitty. I assume you're prepa...

Scott Alexander has a post up absolutely savaging (by SSC standards anyway) an article in the Boston Review about futurism. You can read his critique if you want, but the article itself is the real gem. It has serious head scratchers like this: These futurists are ready and willing to install hardwa...

I can't be too offended if any Native Americans say 'Fuck Christopher Columbus' 'Cause he certainly fucked them. If Columbus didn't make first landfall it would have been John Cabot. If it wasn't John Cabot it would have been someone else. People mistake the avatar of the zeitgeist for the zeitgeis...

Its Columbus day? Do they celebrate that in Morris Minnesota? Because no one where I work mentioned it all day. Its almost like he just looks for random trivialities to be pissed off about. Also, where the fuck is there a monument to Christopher Columbus? It's a federal holiday, so our building is ...

I don't think there is a tougher guy on this planet than PZ Meyers. Man, I would hate to have been a bully in his high school, I bet he fucking pasted them when they tried that shit on him. https://i.imgur.com/oBVVxxy.png :lol: Seriously though, what's the chick smiling about? We conquered her peop...

He was unprepared and not very smart. It seems he would unmask this scoundrel in the first few minutes and then wing it for the rest of the interview. Before I gave up watching, Sarcod gave an OK response. Smith looked like he was kicked in the balls and was unable to respond. He tried to wing it a...

Chomsky catches a lot of grief around here, but he really has these people pegged. [Postmodernists] have tried to create one crazy thing after another to try to be exciting, each one more lunatic than the last, and this is one of them. It kind of gives the impression of being serious. Like you use b...

The concept of autoethnography…synthesizes both a postmodern ethnography, in which the realist conventions and objective observer position of standard ethnography have been called into question, and a postmodern autobiography, in which the notion of the coherent, individual self has been similarly ...

Who came up with the pretentious wank "autoethnographer"? That's my cunty nomination right there. That's as far up your own ass as you can get. That's full klein bottle.

Finally, there is the simple epistemic virtue of falsification. This is most pointed in the treatment of what was undoubtedly a benefit of colonialism: the abolition of slave-trading. Anti-colonial critics squirm and fidget over this issue because it puts the greatest strain on their ‘colonialism b...

Tigzy wrote:

Might as well have called it the Jessica Valenti headline thread.

Can confirm. Detrioit & Chicago are indeed shitholes. And yes, the Democratic party was the party of slavery & the far right for much of it's history. I'm not sure why righties think this is a compelling bit of info, though. The parties' identities have drifted a lot since they were formed & have a...

I thought Sargon's tweet was vulgar, but context is king. In the face of people who are using normal social concepts as political weapons the only response is to be deliberately offensive. It really isn't obvious how that follows. In a well-functioning democratic society, normal social concepts are...

Sargon started a twitter campaign against a (female) UK politician - Jess Phillips - who was arguing for Internet censorship and who was prepared to use her status as a rape victim to shut down opposition. (nb I have not verified this status - it may be only self reported - and in any case it's pro...

That's difficult to square with spending nationwide having risen over the decades without an accompanying rise in test performance, but could just mean the floor cost has been going up for some mysterious reason. Computers are a relatively recent big new permanent cost for all schools, and they nee...

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