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The NFL Thread: Manning channels Brett Favre to give WHO DAT Nation one last gift
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Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
Bunch of over-sauced, over-cheesed garbage. My buddy threw the party this year as he was excited about his new TV but he and girl cater like they're making food for a bunch of 5th graders. My roommate and I are gonna show them how it's done for the NCAA Basketball championship. His curry wings are fucking amazing.
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When are you two getting married?
meanwhile 120 miles away from Miami, Haiti is hosting season 1 of "most dangerous game"
What does Haiti have to do with The Super Bowl? Or is it more of a Katrina was nothing, look at Haiti kinda thing?
I don't know what you're trying to say.
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Can't in Ohio.
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As far as Haiti is concerned. It has been a professional objective of America to fuck with them for the last two decades and now we get to send over the token relief when things fall apart. (Maybe things would have worked out better if we didn't overthrow their democratically elected government) My favorite was that commercial with Wyclef where he is using his neat little portable TV to watch footage of sports events and newsreels of the haiti earthquake. Awesome.
Basically, I am saying the superbowl is a commercial claptrap that represented American hypocrisy especially well this year.
Before I say something here, would you kindly explain this post? Is is a bad joke, snarky, misinformed, or is it somehow wrong for New Orleans to celebrate a Superbowl win and say it's for all the hardships due to Katrina while another country had a different kind of disaster?
Also you know this a football thread, right?
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Wait...how does America fuck with Haiti? We have no control, nor any interest in Haiti. It has no strategic value, no natural resource we want or need, and it's full of people we don't want to take care of.
If the earthquake had hit Cuba I could see your point, but for as much as I feel sorry for the people of Haiti it's not my fault or the US's fault their country experienced a natural disaster.
I wish the attention given to this superbowl team had been repaid twicefold in funding/volunteerism in the last 5 years.
Haiti is another story.
(and another thread, actually one I may start in D&D at some point)
The world sucks, etc etc... everyone is stupid but me!
cry some more
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New Orleans is an American city, and the super bowl is an American sporting event. Hence the interest.
Haiti is a little POS island country with nothing we want or need. Again, while I feel sorry for what they're experiencing over there due to a natural disaster, Americans should feel no more regret or feelings of 'failing the Haitian people' then any other first world nation.
I hear this all the time but apparently we have cared enough about Haiti to overthrow Aristide twice. Its the same story with Nicaragua. We denied Haiti stability, stability that could have better prepared them for the disaster they currently have on their hands. Its akin to giving them a gunshot and then following it with a band-aid.
football should not be expected to take an interest in every disaster around the world
nor should everyone be expected to care about every disaster around the world
buildings out of jello
duh
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Overthrowing their government created the fault lines which George Bush exploited with our tectonic weaponry.
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Fuck Tom Petty.
It is, but the damage would have been mitigated by "building codes" "disaster response" and "paved inland roads"
These things are not necessarily exclusive to first-world countries. I feel like there is a bit of ethnocentrism at play when we try to downplay what the Haitian people might be capable of handling given the resources. I liken it to the mindset many non-NOLA residents had during Katrina "Why didn't these people just evacuate!" (Its because they are poor)
Basically, you sound like you are just bitching for the sake of being a bitch.
Are you a bitch?
I am so tempted to go to New Orleans this weekend.
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Having one doesn't mean you've got the other.
No he's right. I'm gonna ask panamericanrelief.org for my money back. I don't deserve to donate and the victims probably don't even want my American blood money.
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come on
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
Too bad. It's a welfare country now.
So you're saying Aristide would have supplied a stable platform for Haiti to properly handle and recover from a natural disaster.
Also, it was a coup that ousted Aristide. Hell, the first time he was tossed out of Haiti part of his time in exile was spent in the US. As for fucking their economy, it was a UN trade embargo after the first coup, not a US only embargo.
The second time he was forced out of his country was again a violent coup. The US and France negotiated his exile to South Africa. Sure he claims the US kidnapped him and blah blah blah. The guy is a fucking nut, his country is a shithole due to his design, the UN placed the embargo that supposedly ruined their economy, and the US still isn't responsible for the country nor do we have an earthquake cannon.
Also, none of this is in any way, shape, or form tied to New Orleans feeling happy for winning a Super Bowl and having the team dedicate it to the fans and people of the city after undergoing a huge recovery from their own natural disaster 4 years ago.
Political Stability from the ground up creates structural stability.
The American idea of Political Stability in Iraq is to create an elite cadre that we find workable to our policy goals, and then throw the citizens a token "vote" that means nothing to their determinism.
I always wondered about this. Are these like super rare collector's items at some point?
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