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Posted by LookAPokieball on Jul-22-2016 01:56:

Damn

anyway i got GTX 1080 Card for my PC yesterday and it took me forever to install, the youtube video left out minor details that had me guesssing wtf.



I also received the Occolus rift but i haven't been able to try it cuz i'm mising an adapter cable cuz my grpahics card(gtx1080) only has one hdmi port


Posted by ViceroySF on Jul-22-2016 15:21:

Fun fact, I Made my husband cum without touching his dick when I fucked him the first time. I've never been able to do that while getting fucked, I mean I can jerk off while getting fucked and cum, which is great, but not hands free no


Posted by Silky Johnson on Jul-22-2016 15:22:

Ugh, shut the fuck up or fuck the fuck off. Jesus.


Posted by ViceroySF on Jul-22-2016 15:37:

I have rights bitch, freedom of speech. Stupid Canuck peasant.

How's that flabby moist fish scented pussy?

Didn't you hear Ma president last night? he be protecting mah Elle Gee EBET Queue Raghts....that's right bitch.

I might get fucked, but I ain't loose in the kabooz like you. Biatch!! Okkkrrr, puh-lease


Posted by Lews on Jul-22-2016 15:41:

Can we ban this guy for general NSFW-ness?


Posted by on Jul-22-2016 18:31:

quote:
Originally posted by Lews
Can we ban this guy for general NSFW-ness?

Lira should had given him two weeks for that rant he made but Lira gets teary eyed if he inadvertently steps on an ant. Beside the second he was banned he'd be back with an alt.we just need to come up with a plan to run him off the board. I'm open to any ideas.


Posted by Lira on Jul-22-2016 18:49:

quote:
Originally posted by ViceroySF
I have rights bitch, freedom of speech.

You don't have "freedom of speech" here, Viceroy. You're allowed to speak insofar as you don't step out of TA's rules.

Your first amendment is irrelevant here.
quote:
quote:
Originally posted by Lews
Can we ban this guy for general NSFW-ness?
quote:
Originally posted by Jon_Snow
Lira should had given him two weeks for that rant he made but Lira gets teary eyed if he inadvertently steps on an ant. Beside the second he was banned he'd be back with an alt.we just need to come up with a plan to run him off the board. I'm open to any ideas.

Unfortunately, we can't ban him for being obnoxious

It's a decision we've held for years now. If someone posts dick pics, or shit pics involving actual faecal matter, then yeah, that's a bit too NSFW for TA. File sharing? That'll get you das boot too. But, if someone's downright annoying and you'd rather be stabbed by a swarm of wasps than read yet another word by this person, then the best we can do is tell you to add them to your ignore list.

And, yeah, I do get teary-eyed if I step on an ant. Ants are people too!


Posted by on Jul-22-2016 19:16:

That's why in hockey they have an "enforcer" to deal with gray area bullshit like this. Where's Eric when you need him.


Posted by Lira on Jul-22-2016 20:20:

quote:
Originally posted by Jon_Snow
That's why in hockey they have an "enforcer" to deal with gray area bullshit like this. Where's Eric when you need him.

I'd have no quarrels with that as long as the enforcer himself doesn't overdo it.


Posted by CrackOfASnorlax on Jul-24-2016 01:49:

Didn't he just herassed you for banning him and get away with it? like I did with wicked neo with pms and got permabanned for it.


Posted by Lira on Jul-24-2016 03:28:

quote:
Originally posted by CrackOfASnorlax
Didn't he just herassed you for banning him and get away with it? like I did with wicked neo with pms and got permabanned for it.

The circumstances were quite different though, I don't think you can compare the two cases.

I don't even know if I suspended him or not when I mistook him for a bot, I just asked Chinamon to make sure he wasn't suspended after he flew off the handle, but I don't know if he was really suspended or if he was just shocked by the idea I could've suspended him. Speaking of which, yeah, you're permabanned. Sorry, I'll have to suspend this account as well.


Posted by wotyzoid on Jul-29-2016 15:26:



trainwrecks!


Posted by wotyzoid on Jul-30-2016 00:31:

Nobody? Fucking traitors


Posted by Lira on Jul-30-2016 00:43:

quote:
Originally posted by wotyzoid
Nobody? Fucking traitors

In my defence, I'm thinking of something wittier and more masculine than "I love your hair!"


Posted by wotyzoid on Jul-30-2016 01:35:

Could have heard while you thought


Posted by Lira on Jul-30-2016 05:19:

Office hours from 3:00 to 6:30 Eastern time this week (assuming it's one hour behind Brasilia/Belo Horizonte time)

Is it on Soundcoud?


Posted by Mr.Mystery on Jul-30-2016 17:03:

Damn. Whatever happened to Dumonde?


Posted by Redd on Jul-30-2016 17:34:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Damn. Whatever happened to Dumonde?


kek


Posted by Lira on Jul-31-2016 08:13:

Didn't Dumonde end a few years ago? And by a few years, I mean nearly a decade.


Posted by Vector A on Jul-31-2016 18:18:

Il faut que j'aille au bout du monde pour savoir si la terre est ronde.


Posted by Spacey Orange on Aug-01-2016 21:55:

Why was Brazil awarded the Olympics? Everything I read in the media makes me think its quite the shithole. From pervasive crime, corruption, miserable economy, political instability, the Zika virus, pollution, labor unrest to class divide.


Posted by Silky Johnson on Aug-02-2016 01:42:

Yeah, my husband and I had the same conversation today.


Posted by Lira on Aug-02-2016 04:33:

quote:
Originally posted by Spacey Orange
Why was Brazil awarded the Olympics?

Long Answer:

In 2007, Brazil was South America's rising star. The economy was booming, peaking in 2008 when we reached China-like growth rates. Millions were lifted out of poverty, and hunger became a thing of the past. I can proudly say the country where I was born is not the same country where I celebrated my 30th birthday (I'm 33 now, bear with me).

Olympic Games are are often awarded to newcomers at the world stage. Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, and Beijing all hosted the games as a way to show their new face to the world. It was our turn. The future looked bright. The Economist would tell how awesome we were. UNPD held us as an example (here's a PDF showing how much the country changed). BRICS became a thing, and there we were - the first letter of the acronym. We'd host both the Olympic Games AND the World Cup, all in a 2-year interval.

And that's when things got weird.

In June 2013, it all changed. The end of the commodities boom and the slowdown in the Chinese economy, helped bring our economy to a halt. Having an unpopular technocrat as president didn't really help either, and our government is a "closetted parliamentary system" who pretends to be like the US but has too many political parties for the comparison to work. The conservative elites had always been hostile towards the centre-of-left government which, after a while, became too cosy in power - angering our Fox News and our Rupert Murdoch. So, as soon as the eyes were on Brazil for the World Cup, we made sure we'd pull a tantrum of epic proportions.

The foreign press was befuddled. Why was a country that looked so good suddenly rioting? We couldn't answer either. Some would say it's because we should've spent the money on hospitals and schools, some complained about high taxes, and other causes were lost in the cacophony that ensued. But this was enough for approval ratings to plummet, and the government became increasingly weaker. We then held the most polarised presidential elections of my lifetime. The president won by the smallest of margins.

Dilma, now a lame duck by all accounts, made more and more enemies by the day, as the opposition smelt blood and our Tea Party wanted her impeached from day 1. Corruption charges against the ruling coalition didn't really help, so the junior party of the coalition jumped ship. Impeachment proceedings began, and we've yet to see what will happen. And by impeachment proceedings, I mean a no-confidence vote (government supporters would rather call it a coup). The whole thing is so confusing the foreign media doesn't seem what to make of it even when they interview our former presidents.

That's why it made perfect sense to award us the Olympics at the time, and why things aren't exactly going swimmingly well for the last couple of years.

Short Answer:

The bidding process happened before the World Cup.
quote:
Originally posted by Spacey Orange
Everything I read in the media makes me think its quite the shithole. From pervasive crime, corruption, miserable economy, political instability, the Zika virus, pollution, labor unrest to class divide.

Pre-games hysteria has always been a thing (remember the Tottenham riots and terrorist attacks in London, the fog and corruption in Beijing, and so on?) - add that to a strange tendency among Brazilian upper classes to revel in a sense of inferiority and the growth pangs I described in the previous post (so that things are not exactly super right now) and you're bound to get the headlines we're seeing right now.

Homicide rates in Rio, however, have actually halved in the last 10 years (see the graph on the right), Zika (or Dengue) is not a problem in the dry season, and I really don't know what you mean by labour unrest - Paris has seen a general strike before the Euro Cup, not Rio.


Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Aug-02-2016 09:21:

thanks for the post, lira. it's good to see you waffling about something interesting


Posted by Singularity55 on Aug-02-2016 11:05:

That moment when you're looking for a moderately suggestive but not too suggestive gif of either a frog or a goat licking the air on your phone.

I've had it with modern dating & flirting


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