thread of bad

Bamyasi · October 6, 2015 12:01 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5U_XD4kDJ4

valiums · October 6, 2015 08:02 PM

http://hailey-flower.tumblr.com/

Bamyasi · October 7, 2015 03:51 AM

I'm sorry (not sorry) but the last thing I posted is worse than everything else in this thread.

Sure bad art isn't fun to look at but it's never killed anybody.

There is actual blood on old media's hands.

Seriously the only rational explanation I can come up with for them broadcasting this shit is that we feel some collective societal catharsis from hearing about it. Mass shootings have become the modern, sanitized version of human sacrifice, with guns and media circuses assuming the role of knife and boulder.

valiums · October 7, 2015 04:20 AM

I don't agree that it's some terrible thing to post a criminal's name. I think it's kind of absurd how we act like if we just don't mention They-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, they'll stop storming Hogwarts. He doesn't "deserve" the credit for killing those people? He absolutely does. He did it, he, himself, and no one else. If the news actually gave a shit, they wouldn't *not* mention any names, they'd mention every victim's name *before* the killer's.

This guy needed attention long before anyone started blabbering about him on the tube, but it's not like a lack of raw attention is the ONLY problem this guy had. But rather than getting to the root of the problem in this lame-ass community-dearthed society of emotional katawas, we opt for the infinitely easier act of tut-tutting people not even related to the event. Which makes some sad sense because it is literally that much easier.

Quote from: Des Esseintes on October 7, 2015 03:51 AM
There is actual blood on old media's hands.

"Old media" never killed anybody. "Old media" doesn't "exist". That guy exists. That guy killed people. The worst part of this thread is when he killed those people.

Post gore to win thread.

Bamyasi · October 7, 2015 07:28 AM

I'm not decrying the fact that they mentioned his name, that would be an oversimplification, but rather how they reported his actions (or any other spree killer's). It's obvious the guy wanted a platform to spread his ideology, and network news gave him that platform, and in doing so have allowed mass shootings to become a new breed of mass communication.

It's been iterated time and time again by forensic psychologists like Park Dietz that the best way to prevent mass shootings is to keep the coverage as localized, or at the very least fact-based and dry, as possible, and not to make the death toll a headline (this is where jokes about "getting the high-score" come from, but they're not always jokes to the killers themselves). Doing so would at the very least, they speculate, not encourage copycat attempts, the likes of which we've already seen in the the time since the shooting in Oregon.

I think another big issue is that Americans no longer understand symbolic gestures. The guy didn't just kill innocent people to sate his "thirst for blood" or whatever, but rather to express something. It's the same with 9/11. It's easier to see events like that as "terrorists want to kill all of us because they hate our way of life!" rather than an attack on, drum roll please: world trade and globalization (which, to them, are synonymous with our way of life).

I also disagree that that guy exists any more than old media. They're both ideas. But I do agree that he probably needed more hugs and less of the medication he was probably on. But just like with terrorism, it's easier to blame the gun, or the mental illness, or the masculinity, or the Islam, or the videogames. Those things may of course contribute to our culture of violence (except videogames), but the fact that the media points the finger every which way but at themselves I think is cause enough for suspicion.

TL;DR: I wasn't pointing out the irony that CNN aired a press conference wherein the sheriff refused to name the killer, and then themselves named him. I was pointing out the irony that they showed this excerpt from his manifesto:

QuoteOn an interesting note, I have noticed that so many people like him are all alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are. A man who was known by no one, is now known by everyone. His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all in the course of one day. Seems the more people you kill, the more your're in the limelight.

And then proceeded to lionize him as a side-effect of their coverage.

I didn't post gore and I wasn't trying to "win the thread," so I don't know why you would insinuate that. It kind of hurts my feelings. I'm just upset that there isn't more outrage over the way mass shootings are presented. That said, this probably belongs in World news general.

valiums · October 7, 2015 08:50 AM

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TL;DR: I wasn't pointing out the irony that CNN aired a press conference wherein the sheriff refused to name the killer, and then themselves named him. I was pointing out the irony that they showed this excerpt from his manifesto[, and] then proceeded to lionize him as a side-effect of their coverage.

Yeah, I noticed that. I thought it was kind of hilarious.

I was apparently being argumentative about a point that you weren't even aiming to debate, so, sorry about that.

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I didn't post gore and I wasn't trying to "win the thread," so I don't know why you would insinuate that. It kind of hurts my feelings. I'm just upset that there isn't more outrage over the way mass shootings are presented. That said, this probably belongs in World news general.

I wasn't insinuating that, I was ending my post with a(n insensitive) joke because I consider this a more light/comedic thread. 99% of everything I post is a joke. I am a joke. Sorry.

Now somebody post a cringe video fast.

Bamyasi · October 7, 2015 09:22 AM

Well I posted an entire cited textwall to argue a point that you weren't arguing to a point I wasn't making, so who looks stupid now!

Will anyone ever stop you valerie.

[spoiler]Have the best cringe video ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5lz2CYNR4[/spoiler]

rtil · October 7, 2015 10:36 AM

tfw the anime convention of your hometown is the origin of girugamesh

AND GAYMEN!

crackers · October 7, 2015 11:57 AM

Quote from: valiums on October 6, 2015 08:02 PM
http://hailey-flower.tumblr.com/

absolute gold

valiums · October 7, 2015 06:38 PM

OH GOD THAT'S THAT IMAGE
NOW I KNOW HIS NAME
GI RU GA MESH

michaell · October 10, 2015 06:24 PM

just a heads up - this is about me

sent to my fiancee/girlfriend/whatever the fuck she is

rtil · October 10, 2015 09:49 PM

what the fuck

michaell · October 10, 2015 10:17 PM

i left a scathing comment on a feminist page and for some reason i was labelled a rapist

Gladius · October 11, 2015 12:03 AM

Quote from: michaell on October 10, 2015 06:24 PM
just a heads up - this is about me

sent to my fiancee/girlfriend/whatever the fuck she is

these social justice ppl ought to relinquish their life privilege

(i can help them there)

(with my browning bolt action)

d-floe · October 13, 2015 01:53 AM

Me Binary and BluPhoenix were playing a game of CS:GO in which I repeated "G A B E N" the entire time.
This kid named Silver X added me and sent me this http://prntscr.com/8qoqg6

This is his art:

Quote--Me and Axie-- http://i.imgur.com/OLmJIuJ.png?1
--me and friends-- http://imgur.com/PsOj1BK
--me and derpy-- http://imgur.com/SWCf8wJ
--me and a cat-- http://imgur.com/eoSxlV6
--will she-- http://imgur.com/vUCWej8
--Me crying-- http://imgur.com/thQoo9F
--Me 20% cooler-- http://imgur.com/SPRxTde
--Me as a Ninja-- http://imgur.com/shizz7g
████░░████░
░█░░█░░█░░█░ put this
░████░░████░ on your page
░█░█░░░█░░░░ if you roleplay
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don't ask what the meaning of life is...you define it!

ffs

SrsSam77 · October 13, 2015 02:47 AM

dude you're going to get an equine dick in your butt now, what have you done

Bamyasi · October 13, 2015 07:29 PM

YOU FUCKERS DID THIS

Gladius · October 15, 2015 05:31 PM

lol fat anime fucks

d-floe · October 15, 2015 05:58 PM

Idk if this is thread of bad worthy, sure they're a bit fat but they're pretty talented artists and idk if they have very poor defining features other than the fact they're not very attractive.

Stu4U · October 15, 2015 09:18 PM

jaltoid is the stereotypical 'o im soft spoken and shy but look how cute me and my art is tho' group of people.

theres really nothing wrong with them imo.. but if you've seen one of their animation skits you've seen them all.