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

In 1993, Linda Baker, a dental hygienist in Los Angeles, decided she was sick and tired of "waiting for the chain of events that lead up to feasting on [a] wedding cake." Taking matters into her own hands, she invited seventy-five of her closest friends to watch her walk down a makeshift aisle that...

FGTOW?

How would you pronounce that I wonder...

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/ ... s-sologamy

The transgender genetics expert has finally produced xir evidence that there are 2^1600 genders: The landscape of sex-differential transcriptome and its consequent selection in human adults Moran Gershoni and Shmuel Pietrokovski https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-017-0352-z U...

So if the majority of people polled agree that ghosts are the souls of dead people and their brain scans say they definitely believe it, then that is objective proof that the opposite option is "objectively wrong"? It's objective proof that they believe it, that they experience what they say they e...

So could we figure out what the best art is by taking a vote? After all, if appealing to humans is the test, we should be able to just ask them, right? Well, not quite. For products of nature that might work. I'd be willing to eat the apple the world's population had voted most delicious, and I'd p...

People are free to their opinions of course. I take the hardline stance mostly to anger post modernists like Ira Wells, but I do think romanticism is better than abstract expressionism in an objective sense like Mozart being a better musician than I am. It's just a question of degree. In practice y...

I'm not going to get dramatic over anyone's art. This includes "art" like dropping shit out of your vagina onto a canvas. I am perfectly happy calling out work that is pretentious wank though. If someone thinks abstract expressionism is better than romanticism, it's because their opinion is wrong. ...

The Vassal tutorial for card games leaves a bit to be desired. I think I have the gist of it now though and should be able to get the game working inside a couple of hours. I'll email John the module files and basic instructions sometime on Saturday, and he can distribute them to anyone who wants to...

I'm not going to get dramatic over anyone's art. This includes "art" like dropping shit out of your vagina onto a canvas. I am perfectly happy calling out work that is pretentious wank though. If someone thinks abstract expressionism is better than romanticism, it's because their opinion is wrong. O...

I'm not sure if the anger is about my choice in paintings or if the entire romantic era is now tarred by association with the N-C Hypothesis.

Much art that we now deem canonical—Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings, for instance—would have struck nineteenth-century art patrons as incomprehensible garbage. Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings, always have been, and always will be, incomprehensible garbage https://ka-perseus-images.s3.amazonaws.co...

Holy shit. This Ira Wells cunt is an assistant professor in the drama department nitpicking Peterson's credentials in psychology?

A very good article on the rise of the SocJus and the "Cold Civil War". It was good but apparently the author thinks the best way to fight obscurant heavy academic jargon is with obscurant heavy academic jargon. I did giggle when he used the word rebarbative in a sentence intended to criticize "den...

This is the other one that comes up in discussion a lot if you're lurking on gaming forums. I've played a couple games of X-wing with it before at it's easy enough to use. Never tried designing my own module. Kirbmarc, if you're still interested I'll look in to it.

http://www.vassalengine.org/

Kekistanis catching up with the britbongs. How does it feel to be demographically replaced?

I was bored and trawling Encyclopedia Dramatica for laughs when I wondered if the pit gets any love. Only one throwaway mention as the atheist hub for MRAs. Small potatoes indeed.

https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Men%27 ... s_Activist

That was just the first hit in google. There are other tabletop simulators that don't require anything like that. Playing over skype would be next to impossible as you can't really sync decks in two different physical locations.

I've followed it more closely than most, and that's what I saw as well. For every 9 self-described alt-righters who get offended when the media reports they want to forcefully expel jews and other minorities there's 1 who nods and says it's true, that anyone who disagrees is an alt-lite civic nation...

VickyCaramel wrote: ↑
Mon Nov 27, 2017 12:46 pm
okay, second attempt without tweet tages...

I think this is more in line with the pit's values.

The universal outrage in response to that New York Times Nazi piece has been eye opening. I knew I'd drifted far from mainstream opinion the past 5 years or so, but I didn't realize just how ridiculously far. I saw exactly one response out of hundreds that agreed with me. The article doesn't normali...

Using software like tabletopia you could get a game going with just voice chat. You wouldn't need cameras. I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to code in the cards.

https://tabletopia.com/

I didn't pay attention, but 20 to 30 minutes a game sounds like the right mark. We played another one last night and it ran closer to the 20 side because neither of us were trying to drag the other down using follower discard effects. I'll see about getting another player. My go to friend for this s...

Ho ho ho! Twatter blocks NYT: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42137937 Ha! The newspaper had been embroiled in controversy the same day after profiling a Nazi sympathiser - leading to complaints it had "normalised" the views of a white nationalist. However, Twitter has not indicated that the two...

From the wiki:

Cos some people that were racist thought they had license to say nigger. So, I'm done with that routine.

See, this is why we can't have nice things.

I'm going to actually go all in and say that reforming the math curriculum to teach more statistics would be a net good for politics. Absolutely. The math taught in American schools won't be used by 95% of the students. I'm reminded of the SMBC comic. "Will we ever use any of this algebra?" "You wo...

Lsuoma wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 26, 2017 6:32 pm
Hope people are enjoying the faster, more featureful Pit!

Loving it. It's got that new pit smell.

Of course "tend to" is the expression of a stastical difference and there are women who are interested in STEM or economics and men who are interested in education or personal care, just like men tend to be taller than women but there are tall women and short men. The SocJus and the TradLife online...

Nobody except Tommy Sotomayor is trying to shame the black community into getting their shit together. I'm mostly on board, but this is demonstrably false. There's a certain massively popular Chris Rock sketch that comes to mind (please do not take that as an invitation Steersman). The sad fact is ...

We tried another round last night, and my positions are a little more nuanced now. I'm not retracting any of the broad conclusions I reached earlier though. I still think the central mechanics, the spoons and the reality deck, need to be redesigned. What didn't change: As predicted, my wife picked u...

I ran a playtest of the SJW game last night and have my thoughts up in the other thread.

I reach some broad conclusions in the following and have recommendations on how to proceed. If there are others planning to chime in with their game experiences and potentially challenge said conclusions and recommendations, please speak up soon. Anyway, I played a game with my wife last night, and ...

Steersman wrote:
feathers wrote:
Shatterface wrote:'Hipster racism' is a thing:
<snip>
But 'nigger' isn't really insulting, is it?

*takes cover*
:) You called? ;-)

God. Fucking. Dammit, Feathers.

We'd only just put ours in when a fire truck blasted past the house. 20 bucks says someone didn't measure their oil properly. Hopefully they at least did it outside.

PZ has a "punchin' arm", and it's getting mighty tired just imagining all those evil nazis it could be swinging at: https://i.imgur.com/8FdWxs8.png That might be the most pathetic thing I've ever read. Anyway, I'm thankful to our illustrious host and to everyone who provided all the laughs over the...

Also he believes people went to Reason Rally to hear Richard Dawkins, Penn Jillette, and... Greta Christina

Whatever your thoughts on flat earthers, you have to admire this guy's dedication.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/spe ... 03e168a5e7

Jesus. It really is contagious, isn't it?

Read the #DisabledAndCute hashtag if you want to mine a motherlode of aesthetic Dunning-Kruger. It's amazing how many of them have extra conditions that are "undiagnosed". . https://twitter.com/Igbtpearl/status/927231411194683392 https://twitter.com/Igbtpearl/status/927231411194683392 :lol:

So when we object to laws that say that if a man and a woman both get drunk and both willingly have sex together, he's a rapist and she's a victim, the regressives genuinely can't grasp that point of view, because they're thinking religiously, not rationally. I'm still more inclined to the EP expla...

The only new classification with any use whatsoever was pansexual, which just signals you're down to bang a tranny. The rest is the sort of self-obsessed horseshit we've come to expect from these circles.

I don't remember things being quite this way when i was at school, maybe because we didn't have any hot male teachers, but I can certainly tell you stories of 14 year old girls throwing themselves at men more than twice their age. A girl I dated in high school actually had the highest sex drive of ...

Holy shit! Dunham just straight out admits her tribalism trumps her principles. She even tries to make it aspirational!

I recognize most of the venting that goes on here is in the spirit of holding certain awful people to their own impossible standards, but after getting that out of your system is there anyone here who believes in their heart of hearts that a highschool teacher fucking her student is rape? As in, it...

Hmmm.... the word rape has had a lot of meanings over the years. Having sex, even consentual, with a minor has been called "statutory rape" since I can remember.... at least as far back is the 1970s. But... this is not very precise language.... I agree. I think that a teacher having sex with a pers...

You are making a false comparison. Obviously... slipping a roofie rape is one thing and fucking your student may be another. Archie is a high school kid and his teacher fucks him in the summer before his Senior year... She is a fucking rapist and needs to go to jail! Tell me what I'm missing here :...

I recognize most of the venting that goes on here is in the spirit of holding certain awful people to their own impossible standards, but after getting that out of your system is there anyone here who believes in their heart of hearts that a highschool teacher fucking her student is rape? As in, it'...

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: SJW - the card game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have completed a very rough version of our card game! I have played a few games on my own and I think it is ready to get more opinions. Below are a few points: 1) If you want to get the rules and Powerpoint versions of the cards pl...

I've been assured that consent is sexy and asking a girl for permission to kiss her will in no way make her vagina drier than the Mojave.

I keep hearing the sentence "kissed without [X's] consent". Isn't it better to use "forcefully kissed"? Because I suppose most people haven't explicitly asked for consent before kissing someone else. Forcing a kiss isn't the same thing as kissing someone without asking them first. It's a good idea ...

I don't think this is about anal sex. I think the feeling that gay sex is disgusting is mostly just based behaviorally norms and history. For example, most people are okay with watching a man and woman kiss passionately in a movie. But... a large number of people get very uncomfortable watching two...

:nin: by Brive I see

I can't get my head around the objections to gay marriage. It costs straight people nothing. Nobody woke up the day they legalised gay marriage and discovered they were less married as a result. The objections boils down to these: 1) If you extend marriage to homosexuals then you open the door to p...

There have been several occasions where I blithely suggest that my wife just do some particular thing, and she looks at me like I’m insane, and explains that I can’t possibly expect her to walk alone in that dark parking garage late at night. There are many behaviors I take for granted as normal an...

Cards on the table, for a long time I thought Alex Gabriel was wearing one of those Groucho Marx disguises and you guys were just being stupid making fun of him for it.

Ape+lust wrote:Let Madame Stephanie bring messages from your loved ones in the Great Beyond.

https://imgur.com/75E1QPR.png

Jokes aside. What is that supposed to mean?

These cunts are going to make me compare Blaire White to MLK, aren't they? As Sarson predicted, it was bad — probably because the pair conveniently wandered onto the Boulevard donning their Trump hats at a time when there was an anti-Trump protest underway, claiming they didn’t know the event was sc...

I'm convinced that the call-out culture of the SocJus has alienated far more people than it has persuaded. The damage done is incalculable. It's going to be another decade before we can even broach the subject of diversity without starting a shitstorm. I expect the alt-right and alt-right adjacent ...

... A black American ethno-state of millions of people, many of whom left with far less job opportunities, would collapse into bankruptcy and infighting even more quickly than a white ethno-state, if only because black are on average already poorer than whites. ... Liberia seemed to be doing relati...

It makes a perverse kind of sense. If you're an especially aggrieved black person who feels white people are the source of all your woes, you'll find no shortage white people willing to solve "your" problem by setting up neat little borders with whites on one side and blacks on the other. I think th...

"In other news, Mr. Richard Spencer has been invited by the New Orleans Black Lives Matter movement to give a lecture on how to address racism in the police force" (This is satire, in case you're not sure...) Stranger things have happened. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dpwamv/when-malcolm-x-me...

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