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The Black Culture Thread |OT11| In This Salon, Everyone Gets A Perm

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Village

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Shiny dragonair.

For real, Dragonair like Wartortle upset me because their final evolution goes in a completly different direction that's rather disappointing. You go from two neat water dragon looking things to an orange barney looking dude. And two very organic flowey air turtle water turtle type pokemon to a very inorganic mechanical looking turtle with giant cannons. I never liked that.

I like lucario

he can talk to you and do hadokens.
 

Jackben

bitch I'm taking calls.
Any other industry folks would kill for that. You can be hard and not be an asshole. John Stewart does it all the time.

I don't know much about journalism, but I do know one rule that gets thrown around "if the story becomes about you, then you have failed". A lot of gaming journalist fails on that.

Whats Molyneux biggest sin? Promising the moon and delivering a mediocre game? Folks act like he sold baby food with lead in it or defective brakes. People take games too personal. Devs and Pubs are not your friend
Perfect summary right there. The guy might be a charlatan in the eyes of gaming consumers but that doesn't mean he deserves harassment, threats, and outright hostility. Whoever conducted that interview with RPS went guns blazing from jump. Gaming press reducing itself to the shock value and mob mentality promoted by many of its readers is extremely disappointing.

But I'm not surprised. This is just another reason why the game industry continues to rot in its own immaturity by a refusal to evolve discourse and be respectful.
 

Malyse

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For real, Dragonair like Wartortle upset me because their final evolution goes in a completly different direction that's rather disappointing. You go from two neat water dragon looking things to an orange barney looking dude. And two very organic flowey air turtle water turtle type pokemon to a very inorganic mechanical looking turtle with giant cannons. I never liked that.

I like lucario

he can talk to you and do hadokens.
Dragonair should have evolved to Milotic.
 

Gorillaz

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I joined here around OT2 it definitely feels like alot has changed in terms of personalities and talking about certain subjects.

Property Value of the thread is lower then a house in Detroit right now. But it's like, fuck, let's see how far it can go at this point.




With that said

what about black on black crime?
 

Jackben

bitch I'm taking calls.
Looking at OT1, man the difference is night and day between then and now.
I definitely think we have the fuckery quota maxed out. But it's all fun, I know I can get a good laugh or some empathy about a situation browsing/posting here and that's usually enough for me.
 
GAF as a whole has changed, not just BCT. Some of the shit that was going on during even BCT2's time on GAF would make the average poster's hair stand up on end.
 
It's like when they killed Cornbread..

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Furyous

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This discussion has described my life over the past seven years.



As a 2008 journalism graduate I can attest. I got a few freelance things here and there and I'm trying to pitch stories now, but I've never had anything full-time. Ever.

And I'm still trying to march down that path because to be honest, I have shit else to put on my resume. I'm getting edged out in experience on applications to retail jobs.

Yea, I graduated and watched as former classmates and professors badmouthed me to anyone who would listen. After that I decided three degrees wasn't enough so I aimed for Masters degrees. The journalism struggle is a never-ending grind. Knew one person that quit out of frustration due to lack of money in the field. They work in insurance now and have a great husband, child, house, and dog.

Martin Luther King JR would be disappoint you.

I had... well not me but a friend had a young woman say this to him during BHM and he threw a drink in her face. For the record, I don't condone such actions because reread the slogan.
 

Slayven

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AC/Heating folks are no joke. 90 bucks minium just to come and look at the thing. Going to go the Yelp Hood edition to see who I can pay in sixpacks.
 
For real, Dragonair like Wartortle upset me because their final evolution goes in a completly different direction that's rather disappointing. You go from two neat water dragon looking things to an orange barney looking dude. And two very organic flowey air turtle water turtle type pokemon to a very inorganic mechanical looking turtle with giant cannons. I never liked that.

I like lucario

he can talk to you and do hadokens.

Oh so we shitting on Dragonite....ok..I feel you
 

DY_nasty

NeoGAF's official "was this shooting justified" consultant
angelus wasn't joking. gon really does say shit that makes goku come off like a buster

dude just walked out of a battle and said shit that translated to "0-100, real quick"
 

Booshka

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Where you're from -South Bay LA, born in Harbor City, grew up in San Pedro, Lomita and Torrance

Where you live -Torrance, don't go to Court here.

What is your age? -27

Your cultural heritage, lineage and genealogy -Mostly Caucasian, dad's mother's side of the family is Colombian, Grandmother immigrated here in the 50's. So 25% Colombian, 75% white dude.

Do you know your roots -Sorta, should probably ask my Mom more about her ancestry, she's looked into it.

Favorite musical genre -Fusion Jazz, Return to Forever, Miles Davis, Weather Report, etc.

Your profession/major/career interest -Game design and wildlife and habitats, mostly volunteer here and there with the animal and habitat restoration stuff, broke and working on independent game with some friends, but doing mostly software test, video recording and level/game design by committee with the programmers.

Your religious affiliation -None

Hobbies -Gaming, Twitch, GAF, music, sports, reading, movies, cycling, hiking, swimming (love the Ocean), comedy, some more stuff.

KFC, Popeye's, Churches, or Bojangles? -Gotta say Popeye's, but their biscuits are way too salty.
 
Where you're from -South Bay LA, born in Harbor City, grew up in San Pedro, Lomita and Torrance

Where you live -Torrance, don't go to Court here.

What is your age? -27

Your cultural heritage, lineage and genealogy -Mostly Caucasian, dad's mother's side of the family is Colombian, Grandmother immigrated here in the 50's. So 25% Colombian, 75% white dude.

Do you know your roots -Sorta, should probably ask my Mom more about her ancestry, she's looked into it.

Favorite musical genre -Fusion Jazz, Return to Forever, Miles Davis, Weather Report, etc.

Your profession/major/career interest -Game design and wildlife and habitats, mostly volunteer here and there with the animal and habitat restoration stuff, broke and working on independent game with some friends, but doing mostly software test, video recording and level/game design by committee with the programmers.

Your religious affiliation -None

Hobbies -Gaming, Twitch, GAF, music, sports, reading, movies, cycling, hiking, swimming (love the Ocean), comedy, some more stuff.

KFC, Popeye's, Churches, or Bojangles? -Gotta say Popeye's, but their biscuits are way too salty.

Welcome.
 

dskillzhtown

keep your strippers out of my American football
What music app/site are you dudes using these days? I am on the Google Play and Dash Radio combo.

Google Play allows me to stream my library from anywhere and Dash Radio is live radio with variety and no commercials.
 
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