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@SeraphimDawn  
I remember trying to prove to my classmates at early highschool that Velociraptors have feathers. Then I bought an issue of Nat Geo magazine that has that particular article. I showed it to them.
 
“Ha! Eat it!”

@SeraphimDawn  

 
NO!  
Dinosaurs had feathers and velociraptors were the size of chickens.

@Albus Fahrenheits  
But are they accurate depictions?

@uc9  
Depending on which aboriginals atalarikt is referring to.

@uc9  
Dinosaurs are all gone and we still see media depictions of them.
 
Heh.

@atalarikt  

 
Weren’t the aborigine people almost wiped out though?

We need more depictions of aboriginal people on comics.

@Solitude  

Spam is underappreciated.

@Whatevs  
Eh, don’t worry about it. I’ll find you again eventually. Probably when I’m not even looking for you.

@Solitude  
You lost me.  

@Whatevs  
I know. But he’s seventeen. You know what kids that age are like. I remember back when both my brothers were younger and they were all “South Park! South Park!” because it had swearing and death and all that stuff kids that age think is “awesome” and “cool” and “gnarly” and whatnot. I’ve never cared for SP. Nor Family Guy, American Dad or anything that goes for vulgar/toilet humor as it’s mainstay.
 
@SeraphimDawn  
Preaching to the choir, amigo.

Unpopular opinion:  
The door to internet outrage machine swings both ways and if you swing it too hard it’ll smack you back in the face.
 
 
What I mean by this is that political groups have gotten too accustomed to the idea of that the internet is constantly fighting and are trying to swing the drama door in their favor. The problem with trying intentionally try to take advantage of it is that the internet isn’t a hivemind, it’s more of a mindhive. Let’s say theoretically you’re a part of a political extremist group; you try to intentionally start a shitstorm on the internet, there’s a 99% probability the door is just going to smack you back in the face so hard that it’ll break your nose.
 
To use a non-political example; a couple of weeks ago there was offered paid modding for Skyrim. The makers of skyrim obviously knew that there was going to be a shitstorm over it, but the problem is that they thought the shitstorm would be in their favor and that it would drive sales upwards. . . needless to say the backlash was so hard that it knocked them off their feet and made them smash their head into the concrete and give them a broken nose and a concussion.
 
 
Essentially what I’m getting at is: too many politically motivated groups and companies are assuming that 100% if there is a internet drama shitstorm that it will be in their favor, when in reality it drastically depends on context of the situation. There are situations where shitstorms have worked for groups but for every one occasion of this working out there’s twenty where the political group got their skull smashed in.
 
Tl:dr; if you’re a company of political group don’t assume internet shitstorms will be in your economic favor.

@Dr Outback  

 
Good for you.

@Dr Outback  
Folks don’t like it? I thought it was good. Although, Tom Sawyer as an American secret agent?

@Albus Fahrenheits  
The film.

@Dr Outback  
The comic series or the film? The film was absolutely wonderful though.

I liked League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

@Solitude  
Humans are just weird creatures.

@atalarikt
 
The Sega Saturn I can believe, but Jaguar?

Sega Saturn and Atari Jaguar are actually pretty good.

I don’t like Bill Gates.  
He pushed common core and a lot of his other actions strike me as social engineering nonsense.
 
I am also starting to wane on my libertarianism. I am not going to say my room mate experiences are not partly responsible (weed mang) but I think it takes a high trust society for granted.  
This is more a disagreement on broader macro structure and not economic policy.

@Solitude  
Your brother has mainstream pleb tastes.
 
 
So whigs and quakers were completely wrong right?

@Jarkes  
I’ll never understand the appeal of a lot of videos on Youtube. My youngest brother for example is a fan of this series where a bunch of dudes mix a bunch of different foodstuff, eat it and eventually end up puking because of all the stuff they put in there. Apparently it’s fairly popular but I’m just “What the hell? Why would you do that?”.

@Jarkes  
They’re good for people who either cannot afford to buy said things or haven’t bought them yet want to know what’s inside. I sometimes like to watch them, and think of making at least one.