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News Comments > Op Ed

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Re: Op Ed

Mar 19, 2013, 10:55

RollinThundr

Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Mar 19, 2013, 09:41: Azusa wrote on Mar 19, 2013, 02:50: Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Mar 19, 2013, 02:21: I won't engage in a discussion of 'civil applications'. The 2nd amendment isn't about civil applications, it's about resisting a militia/army that has usurped government from the people. Nothing civil about it. Fair enough about moving the goal posts, but I could likewise charge that you're splitting hairs: the point is that there is a whole hell of a lot of military hardware, hardware that would be ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL to resisting a tyrannical government/military, that you cannot get and will never get. As such, the second Amendment's ability to actually protect citizens from tyranny is extremely limited -- the technology of war has become so complex and so expensive, that the best that a man with only a rifle in his hand and an idea in his head can do is hide in the hills and be a gadfly by occasionally detonating a car bomb. I'm not against freedom: I think gun laws should be as lax as is conducive to the public good. But I am not convinced that assault rifles serve a civilian purpose, and thus I think the net utility of assault rifles is to the detriment of the public good. Whether banning them is constitutional, I cannot say for certain -- although we did have such a ban for over a decade and the Supreme Court never, to my knowledge, struck it down -- but purely on the basis of public policy, separate from constitutional law, I think we lose more than we gain by having assault rifles, sub-machine guns, machine guns, et al. freely available. So what do you suggest? People just cave into what the left wants and remove rights in line of "feeling good'? When you really break down the incidents that have happened recently, it ties far more into mental state of the nutbags performing these heinous acts than anything else. Yet there isn't a major outcry to look at ways to improve mental heath treatment so that these types of people don't continue to snap in the first place. Why is that? Is it because it's a far more complicated issue than just passing feel good happy bans on semi automatic guns?

News Comments > Op Ed

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Re: Op Ed

Mar 19, 2013, 08:43

RollinThundr

Quboid wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 18:37: RollinThundr wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 14:22: Cutter wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 13:49: RollinThundr wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 13:06: Creston wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 10:44: What is this logic you're spewing, Seattle Times. The gun lobby and its bought-and-paid-for ~~assholes~~ Representatives have no time for this kind of prattle! Creston Must suck to hate the constitution and to be afraid of tools that do nothing on their own unless a person is using them. Not as much as it sucks to be a paranoid tin-foil hat wearing bigot and racist though. Oh Cutter and your strawmen adhom bullshit. At least sweetheart try and be original in the future. I know I know, if you believe in fiscal conservatism and the US constitution, you're clearly racist, a bigot, and insensitive to the awesome benefits of "progress' and cultural Marxism that the left is so fond of. blah blah blah Same ol liberal rhetoric. Guns don't kill people by themselves, someone has to pull the trigger to shoot. That's fact, you can blame video games, the NRA, whatever, at the end of the day the person using the gun decides to pull the trigger, therefore said person is responsible. There's that big R word that folks like you hate Cutter, Responsibility. Ahahahahaha! Great work, the subtle blending of accusation of strawman leading into a massive strawman argument of your own is trolling of the highest quality. Kudos on your satirical impression of a Fox News talking head. Nice use of "comrade" too, slipping in such finely crafted nonsense isn't as easy as you make it look. And to top it off, Godwin's law! Brilliant! Drop the fox news stuff, the funny thing is there was a recent study done that rated news content vs opinion content on all 3 major cable news channels. CNN, MSNBC, and Fox, guess which news station was rated to be more opinion than news out of all 3 of the cable news channels? I'll give you two hints, it wasn't CNN or Fox. http://tinyurl.com/bqrj73a This comment was edited on Mar 19, 2013, 08:49.

News Comments > Op Ed

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Re: Op Ed

Mar 18, 2013, 17:58

RollinThundr

Beamer wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 17:48: I wonder if people used the Hitler and Mao argument when the government took away the only weapons that would actually stop them from doing anything - automatic weapons. They took it away when most of this board was alive. No one ever seems to bring that up. I do, repeatedly. That's when RollinThundr usually exits a gun discussion. And banning automatics won't do shit either but hey, have at it, that isn't the end goal however and you and I both know it. All it is is knee jerk feel good bullshit.

News Comments > Op Ed

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Re: Op Ed

Mar 18, 2013, 17:35

RollinThundr

Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 16:32: RollinThundr wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 14:56: snip RollinThundr, meet Strawman. Strawman, meet Rollinthundr. Unsurprising that you resort to wild misrepresentation of opposing positions, when your opening gambit in this little tiff was that someone, who thinks blaming video games for gun violence is stupid, must hate the Constitution. Oh wise and wonderful Constitution lover, wherefore the illegality of you owning a Multiple Launch Rocket System if your right to bear arms is sacrosanct? Wherefore a ban on child pornography if your freedom of speech and expression is similarly sacrosanct? Wherefore Christmas as a national holiday if "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"? Wherefore the capacity to amend the Constitution if it is as infallible as the word of God? Could it possibly be that there are reasonable limits to freedoms, even those guaranteed by the Bill of Rights? Could it possibly be that the Constitution was written by mortal men, who are prone to error and misjudgement? Could it possibly be that, although the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, there is not just one way to interpret and implement its provisions? I was merely doing what Cutter does every time he can't debate something or doesn't have the chops to actually debate. Play the race card, except in this instance really those points aren't too far off. Liberals think government is going to take care of them and they need to control everything to make this happen. When government has proven time and time again how inept and inefficient they are at pretty much everything. But hey lets "amend" the 2nd, and remove the right to bare arms. That worked oh so well for the people when Hitler took all the guns away, Or Stalin or Mao. Don't worry! The government will protect you! They then killed millions of defenseless innocent people. If you think for half a minute that it couldn't happen in the US with the right combination of people in office, and hey Obama seems pretty totalitarian what with all his Czars and his severe case of narcissism that he has going on. Sure there's limits and not all laws are bad, no one is asking for anarchy btw, just stop spending us into bankruptcy.

News Comments > John Riccitiello Leaving EA

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Re: John Riccitiello Leaving EA

Mar 18, 2013, 17:23

RollinThundr

Beamer wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 17:03: Darks wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 16:55: This is a Ruse; EA thinks that if they get this guy to step down, people will lay the blame solely on this guy for all of EAS short coming in the past few years. This nothing but a move to try and get people to have that happy feel good feeling. Sorry EA your Jedi Mind tricks don’t work on me. Jedi Mind trick? You'd need a mind for that one, eh? A guy is stepping down from a job he loves and makes millions in. Yeah, there's likely a golden parachute, but when you already have millions more millions don't really help you sleep better after admitting to the entire world that you failed at your job. There is no Jedi Mind trick here. A CEO just admitted failure. That's not some kind of "feel-good" thing, that's a major admission that the entire company is moving in a bad direction. Though, I'd argue, a smarter direction than it did under Probst, who was CEO from like '97-07. Riccitiello ruined approximately 0 studios you love (well, I dunno, jury is still out, I guess, on BioWare.) Probst ruined, like, all of them. Riccitiello had a more careful, delicate hand with studios. I still think in the case of Bioware it was going that way anyway. Look at their history of games, they're all essentially the same plot, change a character here or there. Bingo Standard Bioware RPG. EA buying them didn't change that philosophy much.

News Comments > John Riccitiello Leaving EA

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Re: John Riccitiello Leaving EA

Mar 18, 2013, 17:20

RollinThundr

Prolly the best thing that could happen to EA going forward. It's a shame they can't entice Trip to come back and turn EA back into what it originally was, rather than the hated publisher they've become.

News Comments > Op Ed

Re: Op Ed

Mar 18, 2013, 14:56

RollinThundr

Since this is so generic, with no examples, it’s pure pointless trolling. But I’ll use it to expound on liberal thinking: 1. Liberals think if we ban abortion, next we’ll ban women working outside the home and probably take away their right to vote. 2. Liberals think we want to police private homes and make sure that sex is ONLY between married, heterosexual couples, just because we don’t want to change the definition of the word marriage. Those we catch having sex outside of marriage they think we want to put a big red A on. 3. Liberals think we want guns and self defense laws, as libfreeordie put it in a Zimmerman thread, “to kill young colored people.” even though we want to protect ourselves from ALL threats. Conservatives say we want to change government programs to safety nets instead of permanent support and liberals respond “you want to kill the poor!” An emotional, indefensible, changing the subject response. No, we want a system that encourages the poor to pick themselves up. Conservatives want to restructure Medicare to be a safety net for the poor while giving the option to shop for the coverage right for them, and we’re trying “take away old people’s healthcare!” They can’t argue against the logic that some old people are healthy enough to just need preventative care and others need more. They don’t want to face the fact that Medicare is struggling even though it pays so little most doctors won’t accept Medicare patients any more. Therefore, they can only win by challenging our motives in the hope of getting people to not even listen to us. What it comes down to is that liberals believe the government is superior to private charity and free markets because those markets have been “unfair” to them. Hey, after all their degree in Womens Studies should make them as much money as the guy with the MBA in the Vice Presidency of a Corporation. They don’t believe private charity works. In the case of rich liberals, they are too lazy or too busy making money to take the time to research and give to charities, so they want the government to just take their money and figure it out. Only, the rich liberals don’t want to voluntarily do that on the IRS website, they want it “fair” by forcing everybody who makes what they do to give “equally” to the government, especially when their “charity”, government, can’t afford to do what they do any more. How do you know you’re winning a political debate? The liberal starts calling you names or disparaging your intent.

News Comments > Op Ed

Re: Op Ed

Mar 18, 2013, 14:50

RollinThundr

Beamer wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 14:28: RollinThundr wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 14:22: Cutter wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 13:49: RollinThundr wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 13:06: Creston wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 10:44: What is this logic you're spewing, Seattle Times. The gun lobby and its bought-and-paid-for ~~assholes~~ Representatives have no time for this kind of prattle! Creston Must suck to hate the constitution and to be afraid of tools that do nothing on their own unless a person is using them. Not as much as it sucks to be a paranoid tin-foil hat wearing bigot and racist though. Oh Cutter and your strawmen adhom bullshit. At least sweetheart try and be original in the future. I know I know, if you believe in fiscal conservatism and the US constitution, you're clearly racist, a bigot, and insensitive to the awesome benefits of "progress' and cultural Marxism that the left is so fond of. blah blah blah Same ol liberal rhetoric. Guns don't kill people by themselves, someone has to pull the trigger to shoot. That's fact, you can blame video games, the NRA, whatever, at the end of the day the person using the gun decides to pull the trigger, therefore said person is responsible. There's that big R word that folks like you hate Cutter, Responsibility. I love that you whine about everyone thinking a fiscal conservative is racist then turn it into everyone thinking you personally, who has made some bigoted posts on this board, is racist, means they're a cultural marxist. And I love that you always bring it back to "responsibility," but never put it on anyone but the person doing the action. Which is great, let's prosecute all those school shooters to the fullest extent the law allows you to prosecute someone that went on a suicide mission and succeeded. Wait, he's dead? Fuck, well, let's keep, uh... talking about how only he's responsible because that will make sure these things never happen again... Let's also get rid of all government protections, ever. If you drink malk that's your fault! You are personally responsible for what you drink! If you die playing Jarts that's your fault! if your kid is shot by a classmate at school that's your fault for not sending them to a better school, or hell, the kid's fault for not being sick that day! 99.9% of your post and cutter's post are verbatim from the DNC playbook. Someone says something that challenges your narrow lib opinion and right to the racecard/intolerant card you guys go. Every single time like clockwork. It's like watching a bad episode of Comrade Maddow on MSNBC. If someone decides to personally shoot and kill someone how is it on anyone else but them? Are you going to blame the gun manufacturers for that? Seriously? You guys aren't going to succeed in removing the 2nd amendment. You know, that document that Obama swore to uphold? Stop fucking trying! Lets look at places in the US with the toughest gun laws already, The Shitcagos and Detroits that are pretty much festering shitholes after 40 years of liberal policies. They've actually brought in outside help in regards to Detroit to handle the fact that the city is fucking bankrupt after years of being run by corruption. Obama should be familiar with all this, being Chicago is his home district. I'd rather be personally responsible for what I drink of course, if I wanted to buy a large coke for example in NY NY, the bastion of freedom! Mayor Bloomberg shouldn't be able to tell me I'm too fat to have the right to buy a bottle of coca cola.

News Comments > Op Ed

Re: Op Ed

Mar 18, 2013, 14:22

RollinThundr

Cutter wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 13:49: RollinThundr wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 13:06: Creston wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 10:44: What is this logic you're spewing, Seattle Times. The gun lobby and its bought-and-paid-for ~~assholes~~ Representatives have no time for this kind of prattle! Creston Must suck to hate the constitution and to be afraid of tools that do nothing on their own unless a person is using them. Not as much as it sucks to be a paranoid tin-foil hat wearing bigot and racist though. Oh Cutter and your strawmen adhom bullshit. At least sweetheart try and be original in the future. I know I know, if you believe in fiscal conservatism and the US constitution, you're clearly racist, a bigot, and insensitive to the awesome benefits of "progress' and cultural Marxism that the left is so fond of. blah blah blah Same ol liberal rhetoric. Guns don't kill people by themselves, someone has to pull the trigger to shoot. That's fact, you can blame video games, the NRA, whatever, at the end of the day the person using the gun decides to pull the trigger, therefore said person is responsible. There's that big R word that folks like you hate Cutter, Responsibility.

News Comments > SimCity Compensatory Games Revealed

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Re: SimCity Compensatory Games Revealed

Mar 18, 2013, 14:12

RollinThundr

jdreyer wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 13:22: I'll credit them with compensating with some top notch stuff. Nice nod for them to add SC4. Still, by not including DLC, you can tell they view this as an opportunity to grab more cash. Fucking called it! Thanks BN for never disappointing. RollinThundr wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 12:57 Can't wait to hear the complaining about the freebies not being GOTY editions. [/quote:

News Comments > Op Ed

Re: Op Ed

Mar 18, 2013, 13:06

RollinThundr

Creston wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 10:44: What is this logic you're spewing, Seattle Times. The gun lobby and its bought-and-paid-for ~~assholes~~ Representatives have no time for this kind of prattle! Creston Must suck to hate the constitution and to be afraid of tools that do nothing on their own unless a person is using them.

News Comments > SimCity 20 Minute Online Timeout Hard-Coded?

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Re: SimCity 20 Minute Online Timeout Hard-Coded?

Mar 18, 2013, 12:57

RollinThundr

Angrius Maximis wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 12:30: The list of free games for Simcity owners has been announced Here is the list of games that you will be able to choose from once you are able to redeem. It’s a great list of games across the whole EA portfolio, so pick one and add it to your Origin library on us! Battlefield 3 (Standard Edition) Bejeweled 3 Dead Space 3 (Standard Edition) Mass Effect 3 (Standard Edition) Medal of Honor Warfighter (Standard Edition) Need For Speed Most Wanted (Standard Edition) Plants vs. Zombies SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition Can't wait to hear the complaining about the freebies not being GOTY editions. At any rate, glad I didn't buy this.

News Comments > Out of the Blue

Re: Out of the Blue

Mar 18, 2013, 10:53

RollinThundr

Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 18, 2013, 09:28: Rarely do you have a practical exam here in the US. The last time I had an actual on the road driving test was when I got my license at 17. That was more than three decades ago... It's been about 20 years since I first got mine and honestly, I don't remember a written test at all.

News Comments > Morning Consolidation

Re: Morning Consolidation

Mar 15, 2013, 10:34

RollinThundr

Verno wrote on Mar 13, 2013, 10:04: If they make a bundle without the tablet controller I'd consider it. I looked at a parts estimate on it and I just wouldn't get any use out of it for the cost it adds. Give me a classic controller, some decent exclusives and I'm there. That new Xenoblade game, a few cool JRPGs and get Donkey Kong Country out of licensing hell, thats one platformer begging for a modern overhaul. I've always been a sucker for Nintendo they're a great gaming company. They don't make cell phones, operating systems, televisions, social media, VoIP or etc, they just make games and there's something to be said for that kind of focus. Yeah they make the same 3 or 4 games. Over and over for 20 years straight now. Mario, Zelda, Mariocart, Smash bros.

News Comments > SimCity: Maxis Working on Traffic Jams; Deleting "Hack" Posts

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Mar 15, 2013, 10:11

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News Comments > SimCity Hacked to Play Offline?

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