Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
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Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
12d ago
If you are confused that calling someone (including a mod) a fucking asshole will earn a ban, then I am not sure what your expectations were.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
12d ago
None of it had anything to do with being Indian you fucking asshole
I don't know what kind of a crash-out this is, since you posted something so obviously cruising for a ban and then reported yourself, but wish granted. If you're have a bad week, you need to take it out on someone else.
3-day ban. You can complain about the modding, but not like this.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
12d ago
I agree with hydro that this looks very much like a "Just Asking Questions" post, but I'm sure SS will be by soon to dump his oft-refuted lore on you. You might as well have just pinged him if you want the "strong" (meaning walls of text that take tedious repetitive effort to debunk) Holocaust denier arguments.
It's hard to assume charitable intent when this appears to be covering absolutely zero new ground, and you're not new here.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
12d ago
What do you want? To improve your fitness? To learn self-defense? To have something to do as a physical hobby?
I used to do jujutsu (earned a black belt, almost made it to nidan before Covid basically killed our dojo), though our style was traditional Japanese, not BJJ. It's very practical self-defense oriented (BJJ is much more focused on ground fighting). Then I did judo for a while before I had to admit I'm too old to feel comfortable rolling with much younger (undisciplined) guys and hitting the mat.
Long ago, I did karate and kendo. (Kendo is a sport, not a real martial art, but it has a lot of the same aspects.)
So anyway - if you want intense workouts and a sense of achievement, BJJ really cultivates that mindset, and it's pretty good as far as self-defense goes. Krav Maga is supposed to be very good for focusing on the self-defense aspects, though I have never taken a krava maga class. Karate and kung fu and other striking arts - well, it really depends on the dojo. Some are just pretty aerobics pretending to be fighting styles, others are more practical, but those rely on the intense sparring that you say are a problem for you. It should be noted that any good BJJ school will totally gas you after a good randori and it also involves getting slammed on the mat and having your limbs bent a lot and occasional elbows to the face and ribs and knees in the groin and heels crushing your toes, so, no "real" martial art doesn't come without the possibility of injury.
Kendo is fun if you like very formal, traditional martial arts, but obviously it is not of much practical benefit. And it's a hell of a cardio workout. You still get hit in the head, though.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
12d ago
Fine, we mods had a talk and agreed that @self_made_human should have posted this in the fun thread. He is duly chastened.
We also agreed you're being kind of an ass about this, and not just because you apparently think all Indians are the same.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
13d ago
Under no circumstances should you put in writing anything that looks like "I'm sorry I sexually assaulted you."
Obviously, you did no such thing, and obviously, she is at best unstable and best avoided, at worst actively malicious. Ghost and avoid in the future.
If she blows up your social circle, well, that will suck and I'm sorry. But honestly I wouldn't want my social life to depend on a group that will summarily eject me on the word of a crazy chick.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
13d ago
Pretty clearly it was, and I have addressed that.
Now for you: you don't do yourself any favors by complaining that people are correctly diagnosing your heated culture warring in an unkind manner. People are not allowed to gratuitously insult you, but knock it off with the defensiveness after what you originally posted. After a rant about blacks and "pajeets" (which you edited out) you should really refrain from whining that people called that out.
This is one of the worst threads we've had recently, because your post was basically terrible in every way. Even the Holocaust deniers at least do some editing and organizing of their thesis and then don't blame the holes in their screeds on "I was tired."
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
13d ago
Speaking of keeping it real:
You are just repeating what many other people have already said but adding extra heat, which is completely unnecessary. Stop being a jerk just because you want to be. Your very long history of warnings and temp-bans all pretty much say the same thing: every time you have a choice of saying something true, or saying something true with extra nastiness, you choose to add the extra nastiness and say it's because you just can't not be you.
You're a long-time contributor with a number of AAQCs, but you're also persistently and unnecessarily belligerent. Next time you get a ban.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
14d ago
This post is barely coherent and seems like a pretext to wedge a lot of unrelated viral ragebait into a general 'Can you believe what Those People did this week?' rant.
I guess you could make some kind of culture war point about the wrestling incident, though it would be nice if your point was broader than "Look what this black guy did to a white guy, black people suck." But that seems to be the only point, and the Indian truck driver has no relevance at all other than being a member of another ethic group you despise.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
16d ago
A noble effort. But hopeless. The first thread already demonstrated that priors were set by who you hated most: (1) females; (2) young hoodlums who bullied you; (3) brown people.
This thread will not shift any priors.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
16d ago
Most ancient societies had rigidly (lethally) enforced rules about who was allowed to carry weapons.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
19d ago
I agree and disagree. I think Trek's fandom has always been predominantly male, with a substantial distaff side. The boys like geeking about the Warp specifications and photon torpedo load-outs of the various versions of the Enterprise and playing Starfleet Battles -- the girls like cosplaying as Orions and shipping Kirk and Spock.
The quasi-military structure of Starfleet was always a bit of thematic dissonance; Roddenberry was really envisioning a post-religious, post-military, globalist society, but framing a crew of explorers who also sometimes have to fight Klingons (Chinese/Soviet analogs) as anything other than a military vessel would not have made sense to a 60s audience. Making them a space navy was an easy way to get the normie audience oriented, but the show itself was, as has often been noted, actually Wagon Train in space.
You'll notice the officer/enlisted distinction in Starfleet is practically non-existent and getting promoted rarely has much to do with command as opposed to just being good at your job (like in a civilian job).
I think this cognitive dissonance has continued through various iterations of Trek; sometimes they try to lean away from the military themes and more into political or social ones, and sometimes they lean into it and tell a war story (DS9, the best Trek), but lately, it's just kind of incoherent as Trek parodies itself. That said, Trek has also always been a commentary on contemporary issues, told through the medium of sci-fi, so it's not surprising that as woke spread, Trek became more woke.
The fundamental problem with Trek is largely the same one as Star Wars (and to a lesser extent the MCU) - it's running on fumes. It's got a huge fanbase of aging nerds who loved it when they were 12, but a franchise can only live so long on nostalgia, and both Trek and Star Wars are having trouble pulling in the next generation. I think this is something we are starting to see with cape movies as well. How many Zoomers are invested in 60 years of Superman or X-Men lore? Will alphas even read comic books at all?
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
20d ago
I also read the entire Wrinkle in Time series as a kid. Great books (and while not explicitly Christian, very Christian-influenced).
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
20d ago
Interestingly, also seems to be a Kickstarter in progress right now.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
20d ago
I can't really say; it just didn't grab me. Part of it is that frankly, the Napoleonic era is just not a setting that has ever interested me much.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
20d ago
John C. Wright is a former atheist who did a hard-right turn into Catholicism. He's written space operas pre- and post-conversion.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
20d ago
((That said, I'm one of probably thirty people on the planet who liked Darkship Thieves, so my taste is... not very refined.))
I liked it okay, for what was basically Heinlein fan-fiction with a self-insert Mary Sue.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
20d ago
And why do you care about status effects like being published considering the fallen state of these "institutions"?
No matter how much you may despise "the institutions," I don't think anyone who wants to be a writer could deny, down deep, that seeing your name on a book in an actual bookstore, published by a real publishing house, is a milestone we all aspire to.
Man, I didn't think anyone else but me has read those. Yes, this was my absolute favorite series when I was a kid.
(And Over Sea, Under Stone is a bit dull compared to the rest of the series, but don't skip it.)
Do skip the movie, though. Hollywood made a movie (supposedly) based on the first book called The Seeker that pissed off Susan Cooper so much she was kicked off the set. With good reason- it is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
We did not call him a racist. We both thought it was odd that he grouped the two Indian posters together like that in such an unrelated fashion. But he wasn't modded for that.
There is almost no situation in which calling someone a fucking asshole is going to be considered a reasonable or acceptable reaction.
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