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Thomamelas
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So in the 80's there was a gay sailor named Mel Dahl. He told the US Navy when he enlisted that he was gay. They didn't prevent him from enlisting because the Navy's policy was as long as you aren't engaging in actual gay sex then being gay was okay. Later on they went to do a security check before sending him to Cryptography school. And during the interview for the security clearance, he again informed the Navy he was gay. During the period between his enlistment and his background check, the Navy had toughened it's stance on being gay, from being gay is okay to being gay makes you worse than being a Commie. The Navy decides to discharge him and he appeals. It's the 80's and the military so it goes like you'd expect. However, during his appeal, he told a local reporter that there were in fact many gays serving on the base.
The Navel Intelligence Service took this to mean that there was a massive organized ring of homosexuals in the Great Lakes area. Because in their mind, gays were subversive and every possible subversive is clearly organized. This is one of those dangers about taking assumptions from your job and applying them where you shouldn't. While investigating this, they learned of the code phrase, Friends of Dorothy. Friends of Dorothy is an old code phrase like Confirmed Bachelor that generally indicated you were talking about a gay man. Dorothy being a reference to the Wizard of Oz. And if you look at the Oz books with an LGBT reading...well there is a lot of gay there. And the whole Judy Garland thing depending on which answer you like. Not understanding the historical context, the NIS assumed this meant that this ring of subversive homosexuals was clearly run by someone named Dorothy. And they started going undercover in various gay bars looking for Dorothy. Questioning sailors about their friends, and subtly trying to see if they could find Dorothy. And apparently spent several months fruitlessly not finding her.
The Navel Intelligence Service took this to mean that there was a massive organized ring of homosexuals in the Great Lakes area. Because in their mind, gays were subversive and every possible subversive is clearly organized. This is one of those dangers about taking assumptions from your job and applying them where you shouldn't. While investigating this, they learned of the code phrase, Friends of Dorothy. Friends of Dorothy is an old code phrase like Confirmed Bachelor that generally indicated you were talking about a gay man. Dorothy being a reference to the Wizard of Oz. And if you look at the Oz books with an LGBT reading...well there is a lot of gay there. And the whole Judy Garland thing depending on which answer you like. Not understanding the historical context, the NIS assumed this meant that this ring of subversive homosexuals was clearly run by someone named Dorothy. And they started going undercover in various gay bars looking for Dorothy. Questioning sailors about their friends, and subtly trying to see if they could find Dorothy. And apparently spent several months fruitlessly not finding her.
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Why do you gotta do this JakeThom? whyyyyyyyy?
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Morning.
When you are about 18 every problem is the biggest problem anyone has ever had.
And it's important that as many people as possible get to know you are having the problem.
Ruby Slippers OP pls nerf
Actually the kids haven't been sick so now I have to play the game of not coughing or sneezing on them. Which makes work hard since helping to care for them is my job. Maybe I can get a bio suit to insulate myself in.
All you need is the Resident Evil Laser Grid
This solves most problems
This is more boring than the exploding submarine you promised
Wasn't it Thom that posted this?
Ugh yeah.
Im tired and half sleep here
I need to go to bed right now but I'm actually dreading it because I know when I wake up I'm just time traveling into feeling worse.
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I don't want the government to think I punched government property.
Everyone knows this forum is just a front for the government. A honeypot of insanity, attracting lunatics from across the US and harvesting our opinions to feed Gelgamech the Destroyer whom the US government has a secret treaty with.
I thought we were more about dealing with eldritch horrors directly like the Ｃｏｌｏｓｓａｌ Ｐｉｌｌａｒ ｏｆ Ｗａｓｐ Ｅｇｇｓ
Insert old frontpage post from Jerry on why they keep the forums running here.
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I should probably still be using it for exercise and stuff, but I wanted to play a game tonight and I guess I should just switch over to my regular library. Boo.
Or maybe I should see what's up with ReVive.
gotta just stand on random ledges for minutes at a time waiting for rain to pass
there's probably better climbing gear but I don't have it yet
This weeks Giant Bombcast had a great segment on this with friend of the site Will Smith of FOO VR
The TL DR was with only 2m-ish VR headsets out there across all 3 setups without a serious financial backer (they don't mention but I assume they mean like Sony/Capcom with RE7) there is too much risk/ not enough capital to make these kinds of VR games. Will says he expects to see games start shipping sooner that have had full 3 year devcycles since the announcement/reveal of this stuff.
Buffer overflow, you are super straight
Yeah, I figure it's just a matter of time. Valve claims they're working on three games for the Vive, for example. Plus there are some good ones out for the Rift that I can play using ReVive if I get it working.
Mostly I'm kind of annoyed I didn't do more research on this earlier. I'd probably be happier with a PS4 and PSVR, because then at least I could play regular PS4 games.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
"Where are Thomas the Tank Engine's sheds located on the Island of Sodor?"
Destiny filled me as I decisively snatched the pen from our designated scribe and put the sacred mark upon it
Mother
Fucking
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(I may not have written the first two words)
This was awhile ago, so I'm going to forget some details, but basically the format was several questions on one theme, and then one final question where whoever got the closest won the points. So like, a few questions on the Civil War, and then the last one might be "How many people died at Gettysburg" or "In what year did something something happen".
In this particular round, the questions were about nerdy stuff, and the last regular question was "Who created Dungeons and Dragons?" I obviously knew that was Gary Gygax, we wrote down the answer, and turned it in.
While they were recording the answers, I deduced that the next question was probably going to be "In what year did the first edition of D&D come out?" So I looked it up on my phone just in case. It turned out, I was right! I wrote down the exact year and we won the points for that question.
So my question is, is that cheating? Assume that there were no explicit rules about general cell phone usage during the entirety of the trivia contest.
They're two, they're four, they're six, they're eight...
Yes.
If you were wrong and updated your answer, that would be cheating
Since you answered before you were sure it's all good
EDIT: Whoops, misread the order of events. Yeah that's Cheaty McCheatface
Yeah I think that it's not a bad film, it's just that it started out with so much potential and I'd like to see the film it was promising to be in the beginning.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
None of that lyrical nonsense. 80s or bust