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@Athias
In your utopia there'd still be an age of consent, no doubt. It would be enforced by the local Mafia.
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@thett3
Just go hire a prostitute ffs
WARNING SOMEWHAT GRAPHIC CONTENT FOLLOWS
I think that bestiality is very, very rarely an actual attraction to animals (I accept this severe minority of genuine furries exist).
Normally, the act is much more akin to prison rape on a man by a man who isn't gay at all, or woman who wasn't all that into women before doing it in prison with a broomstick or fist etc.
The thing is it's abuse indeed, as you said it was. That abuse, the sheer inability of the victim to resist and guarantee it can't run and tell is the ecstasy for the sociopathic type who does it.
As I said, there is a very slight minority who really are attracted to the animal, for them I think it's more loneliness driven as they experienced nothing but pain and rejection from humanity but that's another thing to delve into.
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I'm not here to advocate pedophilia, but
Why is it that you always start your most racist threads with 'I'm not here to be racist but' as well?
One wonders.
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@EtrnlVw
having the issue with posting at times, seems to be a server issue.
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@TheUnderdog
So does that mean if a 19 year old has sex with a 17 year old, that's pedophilia? Because the law says no.
In some states that's a no in others that's a yes.
The problem is a confusion between several legal vs ethical vs psychosexual terms.
A 19 with 17 is not psychosexually pedophilic at all unless the 17 is significantly young looking for their age and underdeveloped (or worse, underdeveloped intellectually and the naivety is what's being preyed on). It also would not entirely be correct to deem it hebophilia since a 19 year old male has only just outgrown being insufficiently finished in puberty themselves (females who are 19 have finished puberty fully already at 16 normally, males tend to kind of 'wane out' their puberty some guys only really finish it at around 22, this includes facial hair development, muscles going from flexible to tough etc).
As for the law, the term is statutory rape and it is very important for you to know that even if your particular state legalises that as long as the 17 year old admits in court they consented, it is a very grey area and flat out illegal in other states. 17 is the bare minimum across US for the more lenient states, usually.
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@TheUnderdog
Currently, the age of consent in the US is 16.
It's 18 federally but some states have laws that are lenient when it's 17 and someone who is within a certain upward range of their age and not in any position of power or teaching towards them. Some do go to 16 but you said 'US' and those that go to 16 with those conditions are rare.
An age of consent is the unconditional minimum, not the conditional one. In US that is 18, not 16.
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In my opinion these 2 games are phenomenal in their own ways and in fact have many similarities to one another.
It is also interesting because the 'ability to thrive with not spending hundreds and instead spending time' applies to both.
I have been spending a huge chunk of all spare time in my life the past few weeks on these types of mobile games, in fact one of the motives to do so as that I found an app that pays you to play games it recommends and it happened to recommend clan war games to me, getting me into RoK, to raise funds for my Mafia City gaming and that made me appreciate RoK.
In case you think I'd love all games of this type and this is just a cringey post, let me elaborate on two fundamental reasons why these two thwart other games:
1) The proportionality of 'have to pay' in both is significantly minimised by different variations of safety net for players. Mafia City is objectively the best game of all clan war games I have ever come across in terms of the raw actual safety that it gives a player. It doesn't matter what the hell the powerful players do to you, you can cope because of safe and protected resources as well as a wounded capacity that increases almost exponentially (and when it its maximum is lower than what you have and need, you should be powerful and aware of enough to last/thrive, if not that's your own fault to be frank). With RoK the safety net isn't as much a net as a bouncy castle. Everything about the game is much more about bursts of doing things, you gather in bursts, fight in bursts, rebuild troops after losing them in bursts, etc. If you master the ways to balance out each and properly stratify your time and effort, as well as choosing a city that suits a more survivalist type of statistics build, you will go very far in the game no matter how hard you get hit. It comes down to intelligence, awareness and ability. You can't properly survive big and bad hits in RoK if you're an unaware and low-ability player, unless you want to spend alot. This is why I actually like Mafia City even though RoK would be the easier one for me to stay loyal to for a variety of reasons (since I didn't have it already installed, the other app that pays you to play it gets credit for making me install the game and I get a very fast rate of rewards for playing it).
2) The sheer effort into the artwork and events hosted is phenomenal! In games like Clash of Clans, State of Survival (though that's not necessarily clan war it kind of fits the genre due to many resource-management and troop management similarities), King of Avalon and such variations of clan war games, you often find yourself in a very generic type of pattern after a while. I just named three extremely high grossing games, two of which are often ranked above Mafia City but I don't agree with this ranking at all. These games are stale. In fact, King of Avalon practically stole its entire artwork and stuff from GoT, it probably paid them royalty. Mafia City and RoK if anything stole from each other and improved. They host events in servers that massively benefit you as a free or cheap playing player. The artwork put into both games is simply so high effort and amazing, I don't know what else to say. RoK definitely has superior audio though but I think the production team of Mafia City don't know much English and struggle to sufficiently word things grammatically correct in English so even though the vocals are good acting in tone, a lot of what they say in the catch-phrases or plots for the cut scenes don't entirely make sense.
These two factors may seem small but imagine that these games are things where you spend your life playing it passionately. They are practically a fusion of MMORPG and action fused into one game format. It is just so ridiculously fun to play.
I would say that RoK will end up superior to Mafia City in raw grossing, consistently due to the fact that it markets smarter (it literally pays some streamers to dedicate to it, even making YT vids with tips and tricks, whereas Mafia City relies on content creators genuinely liking it, not that the RoK ones don't like RoK) and it's more kid friendly by a mile. I would say Mafia City is a solid 15+ game, it's actually rated 17+. There's genuine violence and raunchy artwork and scenes in it, the only child-friendly aspect of it is just how 'loser-proof' the mechanics of resources and wounded capacity are. RoK is very careful to have its animations and speech of characters be very sterile and friendly, despite 'wars' happening within the game.
Another thing I really appreciate in RoK is that it actually went through the effort of accurately depicting certain warlords of the past including my favorite Sun Tzu. On the other hand, Mafia City very accurately depicts certain aspects of mafia life and its mentality and makes you experience first-hand how psychologically it is to be part of the Mafia, I feel. I also think that the mechanics of migration in Mafia City are much fairer than in RoK. RoK anyone can migrate to a very new server... Imagine the kind of stomping going on for newer players... That said, as a newer player you get an immunity shield for many real life days there, whereas in Mafia City said truce/shield doesn't last as long.
Price-wise, you can't truly thrive in either game if you never want to pay money and that may disgust people who want games where only pure ability determines the winner. I would say that ability turns your five dollars into what a less able and dedicated players turns their $40 into (literally 1:8 ratio I would say is accurate) and that this is fair enough in my eyes.
The only issue with these games is they're so addictive because you can't stop playing them just 'like that', you need to constantly be active or your alliance/clan kicks you out and you wither away real quick and even MC's better safeguards against how much you wither won't matter because you'll be so behind the curve of progress of players within your city ('city' is a very different word in RoK, City in RoK is Turf in MC and City in MC is Kingdom in RoK).
There is one thing that's absolutely fantastic by RoK that MC really should take note of. Everything about the game guides a brand new player a little better on what to do and when. MC tries this and does a decent job of it but starts really suddenly throwing you in the deep end in terms of what to do. In MC you need to create new email addresses to make farm accounts (accounts that are never trying to 'win' they build weaker troops and solely use their levelling etc to gather resources faster, in MC it is common practise for these accounts to be attacked by the main account, willingly let it attack them without troops being on their turf whereas in RoK it's more common to have them join the alliance/clan of the main account and send resources, the cause of this is twofold and is correct for both game formats in terms of being superior to the other as a normal practise in resource-efficiency of transfer.
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@TheUnderdog
You have spelled corrupt as curropt eight times in this thread, is it intentional?
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I agree, I also got annoyed with the 2day alteration of default duration.
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I answered the question asked, the rest are busy convincing you of their agenda.
Scientists tend to think in terms of logical tradeoffs and net-stastistical benefit. Both of these thinking patterns favour left-wing approaches to dilemmas.
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At best utilities just create economies of scale, so things can become cheaper
No they don't, not in laissez faire capitalism. A mere glimpse as India and most of Africa will show you what happens to the poor's ability to access/afford basic utilities when it's left to the free market.
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@TheUnderdog
You made the thread, nobody else on the entire website was flaunting their SAT scores until you made this thread.
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@thett3
It did, they wanted it and enjoyed the start of it.
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The regional monopoly on utilities protects the people, since it is government-ensured to not overcharge for the rates. I'm not sure I follow how you are comparing that to monopolies in general capitalistic sense, which is a different type of thing altogether.
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@thett3
Actually, just so we don't get confused and pool the whole middle east together, Afghanistan was indeed the single most open of all Islamic nations to the idea of democratic elections, scientific development (including biology which would entail evolution being admitted), economic welfare benefits for the poor and many other ideals of the western world but what happened was that exactly as the nation became open to it, it has nonstop fallen victim to Jihadists of a variety of kinds. It is truly saddening what the Islamic extremists have done to Afghan culture. It was not a brutal Sharia nation until Al Qaeda got involved.
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@drlebronski
I said party wing, not party
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@Intelligence_06
since absolute objectivity cannot be perceived, there is no way to prove that those experiences yield objective truths.
The default assumption is that what you're perceiving is real, not the opposite.
If I have a dragon in my garage who is invisible, roars inaudible noise and breathes invisible and garage-temperature fire, then what is the difference between having it or not having it?
Define 'have' and there is the answer. As for this scenario, that clearly isn't yours to have, you can't care for ot as you don't know how to interact with it. By the way, how do you know the dragon is there, in this scenario?
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Because it's the party wing that understands that for the world and our species to truly flourish sometimes those 'ahead' of the curve need to help the rest for the greater good.
Even if it's not nepotism, even if they really worked smarter for every cent, it still benefits the world and humanity more if they help than if they don't.
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@dfss9788
It already is and in their minds this is a liberal echo chamber.
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@dfss9788
Firstly, that is blatantly false. Secondly, I'm here primarily to seek truth and chat, not necessarily spread it, though that does come with the site somewhat.
Engaging with most of the right-wing trolls here isn't worth my time and effort, I even tried it to see.
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@SkepticalOne
This political subforum is basically a right-wing disinformation shitshow at this point. I'm just gonna be avoiding it for the time being.
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laissez faire competition doesn't free up the ability to 'take out the top dog' it frees the top dog(s) to snowball their advantage without anything at all holding them back.
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You ever notice in America how regional utility companies, hold monopolies. Those monopolies were created by regulations, not by a free market.
Objectively wrong. Rockefeller and the likes of such dynasties formed entirely due to free market without any regulations at all.
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Anyone with a 3 digit IQ, should know that more ability to compete by removing unnecessary regulations, means more competition.
At first, perhaps, however see above.
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Rm, history has proven you wrong. Laissefaire allows anyone to compete.
At first, perhaps. After a few years into dynasties and monopolies forming, it's only 1-2 generations away from nepotism and snowballed brutal advantage leading to inescapable disparity between the elite and upper class and the bottom of the spectrum in terms of what they even can possibly achieve in their lifespan given the tools, nutrition, healthcare, education etc that they have their entire childhood and adolescence.
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@949havoc
Start by living your A.C.T.
The C stands for confront, not civil, so I have no idea why you even mentioned that.
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As long as your email is able to be logged into, just click forgot password I think.
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You are the one coming to my thread, trying to sidetrack everything with a nonsensical notion that racism isn't real because everything inside 'racism' is real. Absolutely ridiculous, I am done even replying to you for this thread at least.
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That is nice. Then you are not a troll, you are a genuine unabashed far-right propaganda tool.
That must feel so good to be called.
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I did dismantle it, quite calmly and simply across the past posts I made that mentioned you.
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Do totalitarians want control over the economy or Laisse Faire capitalism?
When they're the rich elite, they want the latter.
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@oromagi
I don't always like your rants but that had the right mix of sass and quality information to debunk Wylted's propaganda
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@zedvictor4
I watched that press conference franchise. If anyone came away thinking that he was recommending drinking bleach, they are very dumb and should do it anyway
- Wylted
I know.But
- zedvictor
That's right, that's right. He didn't recommend drinking it, he recommended injecting it into the bloodstream.
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@Intelligence_06
@949havoc
See above, I forgot to tag
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Erm... in terms of the 'streets' some of the best countries at handling covid never ever had this as a law. Specifically it was applied to enclosed spaces like restaurants, shops, public transport, workplaces etc
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I'd back my definition any day but I'm not going to take the bait and argue against people who loathe racism, about racism. All anti-racists are closer to each other, in practise as opposed to theory, than all racists. Whether CRT or personal hate crime/bullying or affirmative action or anything else. I will not fight the others for your benefit.
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Mesmer, I don't care about your threads nor proving to a seemingly devout right-wing racist the flaws in his/her own thinking. I pointed it out here referring to you in third person entirely intentionally. You are just a right-wing troll posting for sensationalism and attention, just like Wylted but less irrationally than him (you have some level of internal logic to your outlook).
I am not going to gain anything by giving you undue attention or helping your twisted threads stay active; neither is the website but others don't see that yet. I'll debate you here because I don't mind my own thread staying active but even here, my motive is to show others that your thinking is toxic and wrong, as opposed you your devout self (some of the things you post are so outlandish and offensive I sometimes hope it's just trolling, for my own sanity).
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@949havoc
the fact you had to resort to such trolling tactics means I won this debate, thanks and goodbye.
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@949havoc
na you're the one acting high and mighty while feigning civility when you're making the thread to criticise us.
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@949havoc
Well, unlike your marketing, this is not our profession so how about you fuck off judging what we do for fun? If you have a better way to debate and market said debates, go ahead and do it.
"Be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi.
This will get Mesmer to preach to me about Gandhi.
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@949havoc
In fact, you are highlighting a beautiful Kritik to Mesmer's absolutely nonsensical dismantling of 'racism' as a concept and term.
Racism, in fact, encompasses both the racial hatred (especially this) and racial bias in perhaps hiring or criminal investigating type things (though, when it comes to the detective side of crime, sometimes simply due to where and how the crime took place and who the victim was, sometimes yes race is something you can narrow down the scope of like gender and body height+weight, but on the further side of things, such as how they carry out the interrogation and how the courts handle proceedings, there should be no racial bias at all). Furthermore, there's levels/grades of racism within those two branches. I would say a third branch of racism lies in neither directly hating nor directly having bias but sadistically mocking and bullying a race, which my OP in fact focuses on.
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Even Steven Crowder doesn't believe climate change is a hoax. This is a lame imitation.
He believes it's real but is skeptical how much of it is humankind's fault.
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Wylted, idgaf about your conspiracy shit but don't ever dare to say that the nurses and doctors weren't heroes in this.
This was biological warfare from China and the medical staff have been working when everyone was starting to get time off, day in and day out to make sure as few as possible died and suffered.
That said none of them will outright say they were heroes, it's called humility and getting the job done.
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@3RU7AL
It is actually complex and requires testing to see which race their organs and blood behave closest to, out of their mix.
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Even within labrador and german shepherd (also known as Alsatian), there are different sub-breeds or race of the breed of dog.
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@949havoc
Labrador and german shepherd are both breeds of the same species, dog.
Race is the term used for 'breed' specific for the human species. It's merely a semantic thing but race is indeed real, anyone who designs different medicines for different races regarding diabetes and blood pressure amongst other things knows that, as do foundation and lipstick makeup companies.
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@3RU7AL
Yeah, I didn't like the song that everyone knows IT for, I felt it went too far for no real reason but his more politically geared stuff (as opposed to 'violent for the sake of it' stuff) I do respect.
One problem is just musically, I'm not a fan of his delivery and melodies.
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You sound very cool and intimidating swearing like that.
And you sound real edgy and creative with the ways you can avoid admitting racism is a real thing and that those that act on it, as well as advocate for it, are toxic to society.
Go Mesmer, go mesmer go.
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