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The Black Culture Thread |OT11| In This Salon, Everyone Gets A Perm
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Angelus Errare
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Read it a few years back. I liked it well enough.
MHWilliams
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I love Sanderson. The sequel, Firefight, came out this year. Also a great read.
You might also want to try Contractor by Andrew Bell.
I just finished Fireflight last night. One of the few times where the ending blew my mind. I still need to read the Mist books.
Saw that a while ago. I think I want to use the end as a link I just bring up whenever the discussion arises.
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
That Raven thread was about to get me banned. I took a deep breath and edited the hell out of my post.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=156460609&postcount=115
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=156460609&postcount=115
you serious? i stuck with it during the shitty land period
the moment I start dreaming about a forum, is the day I hang up the gloves Lol
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
"I'm just saying certain people look like a monkey, what's the big deal :3"
Don't get suckered in.
I just. In ever racial thread on gaf it always surprises me. It's like everytime one racist poster is banned two replace them.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
It's a rainy day here so I'm listening to some chill out tracks. What are your favorite songs to kick back to?
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
I can find the youtube link right now as I am at work but "Jungle Brothers - Brain" is a good one. Especially the instrumental if you can find it.
Well shit.
I feel like Samurai Champloo was a last of an era.
User 73706
Banned
best rainy day tracks are Halo 3: ODST tracks
http://justice.gawker.com/there-are...t-university-of-virgina-s-1692200174/+jparham
I like how we get our asses kicked for doing shit white folk do every weekend.
I like how we get our asses kicked for doing shit white folk do every weekend.
TheBlackMarvel
Member
There is a god.
Now just get Ellis writing her again...
I will check it out.
All I can say is wow. WTF!!!!!
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Jesus Christ at that picture in the gawker article. His face is fucking covered in blood. All because he had a fake ID? How is this defensible in any way? (Don't answer that).
Thanks for the recommendations, fellas. Brain instrumental in particular was excellent.
Mix Master
Member
the last 1/2 of skyline is god tier.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Heard people recommend Contractor but never pulled it. Might have to check it out since I see even BCT members are recommending it.
I liked Firefight more than Steelheart, not that I thought Steelhart was bad. It's just I found Firefight had more moments where I didn't want to put it down compared to Steelhart.
NipplesAndToes23
Member
That shit is fucked up. I was just riding through Charlotesville the other day too.
ChamplooJones
Formerly Momotaro
Ain't even lying.
Angelus Errare
Banned
A vision of the reporting of this story has appeared in my head.
"In fact, we have reports that he was on the Honor Committee at UVA, and the only African American one."
"I guess with that fake I.D. he wasn't too HONOURABLE after all, right Barbara?"
"..."
My buddy got caught with a fake one time and they just cut it up in front of him. This guy gets the shit kicked out of him. Talk about a discrepancy.
Don't give them any ideas.
I hope this kid goes on to become a massive success in everything he does, it's best way to get back at these cunts. (apart from them being prosecuted, of course.)
Too real
Angelus Errare
Banned
Random thought. If the US adopted the Sybil system tomorrow what do you think would be the most obvious of changes?
EdibleKnife
Member
A lot of politicians would be arrested, hopefully
User 73706
Banned
wealthy far right would be funding literal think tanks to ensure Quaker-era "red-blooded american purity" correlated to an acceptable Hue and any deviations, particularly liberals, would have Crime Coefficients through the roof
andthebeatgoeson
Junior Member
Damn, that UVA picture. First that, now Starbury getting dunked on. Racism won today.
Angelus Errare
Banned
We're going to pretend this Sybil system can't be tampered with that easily and certainly not with money. We're talking about a system that absolutely doesn't discriminate on any basis, it just hands out justice regardless of socioeconomic or racial background.
In fact let's pretend that even trying to fund something like that registers as a major shift in hue.
User 73706
Banned
If we're talking about a system that actually measures right and wrong, then I have to imagine one big change would be the dissemination of institutionalized racism and whatnot in favor of a social structure based more on the hues themselves. Considering they never really clarified on the actual, y'know, hue values, other than muddied / clouded colors being bad, there'd probably be groups like "reds," "blues," etc.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Word. But doesn't Sybil also dictate your role in society? Like it picks their job and everything else? I might be conflating it with another anime/manga...shits start to run together. I need to watch PP again.
User 73706
Banned
iirc it was a vaguely Orwellian / The Giver sort of setup where the Sybil system was used in conjunction with diagnostic testing, at which point it would provide you with possible job options depending on the qualities you scored the highest in. So, it's not necessarily "born into the agricultural caste" or anything, it really just boils down to what you're good at personally. It's almost a Pokemon sort of setup where standard of living in general is so high that there isn't a huge focus on making ends meet and the American Dream(tm) and whatnot so much as it is just people being themselves and actually taking pride in their trades.
That being said, if I'm remembering right I think one or two of the main girl's friends were pretty airheaded and their test results gave them jobs that basically amounted to cashiering at Target. I have to wonder if the Sybil system actually allows people to re-take tests and move into different fields depending on whether or not they show promise, or if you're actually locked into that job for the rest of your life. Tenure's probably pretty easy to come by, though.
MHWilliams
Member
A sign the respectability is never enough.
So again, fuck you Charles Barkley.
You're about right. Adaptations, moe, card-fighters, and the occasional great show.
So again, fuck you Charles Barkley.
You're about right. Adaptations, moe, card-fighters, and the occasional great show.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Word, it's been a while since I watched didn't really care when I did.
A sign the respectability is never enough.
So again, fuck you Charles Barkley.
You're about right. Adaptations, moe, card-fighters, and the occasional great show.
Dude even had bowties. Damn
I like a good Card Fighter, I am just mad they just now started bringing them over. They looked so cool coming on just before Superhero Time.
Don't let the trolls win. If it's an obvious troll then just hit backspace and discuss it elsewhere. People are blatant to the point of annoyance with their exercise of freedom of speech aka blatant attempts to goad other people into bans. Don't fall for the sugar in the gas tank.
but, but, but, respectability politics. If black people would just stop doing things every white kid does everyday then police would stop harassing them.
User 73706
Banned
Only reasonable reply is "This honkey come up to the press conference speaking American and shit."
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