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You'd figure the coorspondants (and Colbert) would be recognized in the "do NOT answer their questions seriously" kind of way.
the people they ask those questions of are generally not the people who watch TDS or TCR
I'm really starting to like Indecision Forever.
I thought at first that they'd made references in the show. Those images are okay, but not necessarily anything to write home about.
Or write on a blog about.
I was going to change that to "write to Facebook about," but then I realized it was just my early-morning dementia that made that seem like a good idea.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/catholic-league-threatens-boycott-daily-show-jon-stewart-article-1.1064508
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WHAT!?
This is the kind of thing large, stereotypical Italian men say to you right before they break your kneecaps. Well, I guess they are Catholic...
Abortion-clinic-style bombing?
Good luck with that.
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I wasn't aware the clip existed until you posted the link to the raging Catholics. Now I've seen the clip and had a chuckle.
In show business, there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Please Jon, it'll be fun. You love shouting ROLL TWO TWELVE, and we love when you do it.
They just need to get Catholics (or whoever) to stop supporting anyone who sponsors Jon's show. The sponsors will feel the pressure then, it doesn't have to be Jon's demographics.
Yeah but I doubt even most Catholics take these guys seriously.
But nobody is going to bother.
It worked with Rush because there was actual controversy. A large group of people who really, truly felt victimized.
Nobody is going to give that much shit about Jon's thing.
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nightmarenny is right, there aren't going to be enough people who felt victimized to make this work even if a sizable chunk of Steward's viewers gave a shit about what they had to say and they actually were competent at the whole boycott thing.
EDIT: Whoops, missed a page.
Yeah, okay. Christians working with Muslims? Suuuuurrre. If you say so, pal.
If he acknowledges it at all, he will side with the Catholics in such a way that he exposes their argument for what it is.
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How's Rush doing these days anyway?
I love the notion that somehow the manger scene is anywhere on par with the actual scriptures used by these major religions.
As a Mormon I laughed hard at the image. My wife didn't think it was as funny, maybe a bit sacrilegious; but its not worse than so many other things the Daily Show does and it didn't cause her to want to start a protest; and she's much more "mainline" mormon than I am by a long shot.
I would imagine many Muslims and Jews would just roll their eyes at the idea that we're supposed to get up in arms about some random image of satire regarding their religion. One of those religions has had their religion be the target of satire throughout history. The other one has had such scrutiny on their religion lately that the idea of caring about a manger covering a vagina would probably feel excessively trite.
Also it's telling that we haven't heard anything about this, really, since then in the media or from any of these people who are supposedly trying to teach Stewart a lesson.
And because it would just be funnier than him siding with Jon.
Ok this made me laugh.
Yes I'm sure you, the Catholic League, are going to have a ton of pull with Protestants, Jews, Mormons and Muslims. Lots of pull. All the pull.
Manger -> Baby Jesus -> Baby being born -> vagina.
Jesus came from a vagina and it is offensive and how dare he remind us of that!
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It was creative bankruptcy. We're out of Romney material, is there any way we can reintroduce and somehow make relevant a more interesting candidate from last year, even though Colbert has done this same joke about 4 times now, and even had a (lightly attended) Cain rally in South Carolina? I've got it!
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It cannot be emphasized enough how powerful Don McLeroy was and to some extent continues to be.
The chain goes something like this:
McLeroy influences TEA (the Texas Education Agency) --> TEA promulgates publishing guidelines to groups like Pearson stipulating that a history textbook treat Thomas Jefferson's contributions dismissively since he was a theist and not a true Christian --> that textbook is adopted not just in Texas but nationwide, because Texas sets those standards --> A whole generation of kids goes on to think that Thomas Jefferson was somehow history's biggest asshole, when in fact Don McLeroy was history's biggest asshole all along.
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Very rarely can or will Colbert completely embarrass a conservative guest just by showing a clip of them speaking the words they spoke, and asking them direct questions about their personal beliefs, but that's what happened last night.
He ramps up the tongue in cheek Colbertness and starts agreeing with every unfathomably dumb thing the person has to say, because what is being said is just too incredible for satire to adequately belie it.
Well, he tried the "out ridiculous" approach with Orly Taitz a while back but that failed miserably when everything he said about Obama (iirc the terms satan, anticrist, worse than Hitler and Stalin combined being part of it) she was seriously agreeing with word for word.
Sometimes just letting them open their trap and the the insanity spew is the right course.
Good speech though. I'd have risen up to crush some fucking tentacle-heads.
After the first video clip, I just had to turn it off in disgust. It's like High Definition Poe's Law. It's exactly the kind of shit Colbert would say to sound ridiculous and this guy is saying it dead seriously.