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Unread postby icycalm » 18 Oct 2009 18:03

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Unread postby icycalm » 21 Oct 2009 00:58

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread. ... ost7641212

Da Gam Da Gee wrote:One time I had a particularly horrible match against a claw player (I was Blanka, and yes, you can laugh at my nubness). This guy said that I suck and this is why he doesn't have a 360, so he doesn't have to play with "the rabble" and that rich PS3 owners (which apparently he is) are the only skilled players (lol). Then he proceeded to challenge me to strip SFIV and told me that if I lost, I had to send pictures of my dick to him. Then he proceeded to ramble about philosophy and tell me about this Alex Kierkegaard chap over at insomnia.ac. I lol'd.


That is the kind of effect I have on people, lol.
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Unread postby icycalm » 25 Oct 2009 13:46

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Unread postby icycalm » 25 Oct 2009 23:27

http://www.alexa.com/reviews/insomnia.ac

Simply the best by James Punshon Oct 09, 2009
Insomnia.ac is the absolute best video game website. The writing on the site is highly philosophical in nature which can be intimidating, but through persistent reading and studying you will learn not only the correct way to look at and study video games, but also how to think properly in general.

The quality of the site and its forums is largely due to the mammoth intellect and strict moderation of its owner and chief writer, "icycalm". This forum handle is something of a misnomer, as he is rarely ever calm. Indeed, he is enraged by the incompetence which permeates much of the writing on games. Justifiably so, as his website is the only one I have found which tackles games in such a vigorous, logical manner. Thus, if you have any interest in the proper discussion of video games, there is nowhere else to go.


Couldn't have said it better myself. Or rather, I probably could have, but it's still nice to see someone else say it.

I guess I can now expect some negative reviews from the people who hate me and who have nothing better to do with their miserable lives than monitor this thread religiously. So give it your best, haters! Don't let me down!
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Unread postby icycalm » 26 Oct 2009 19:05

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Unread postby icycalm » 01 Nov 2009 01:20

Friedrich Nietzsche wrote:Do not forget! -- The higher we soar, the smaller we seem to those who cannot fly.
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Unread postby icycalm » 15 Nov 2009 22:59

http://www.hearustalk.com/forum/viewtop ... &view=next
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Leander-T ... 0312470827
http://www.eegra.com/forum/showthread.php?p=20283

shMerker wrote:Except the thing is, it isn't the New York Times. And maybe it's worth noting that the Times has a staff of editors whose job is to make sure that the articles meet a minimum standard of quality.

When you set up your website so that anyone with an opinion can post to it you are opening a net that collect everything. That includes people too immature and too ignorant to post anything useful. Note that both groups could become contributing members at some point, given enough time and education. In the meantime, they don't know that they're immature or ignorant. Those are the two things that immature, ignorant people never know about themselves. When you say "you must be at least this tall" to someone who doesn't have a measuring stick, there's a good chance he'll just walk in anyway. And while he's the one disobeying the sign and trespassing, you're the one who should've just locked the gate in the first place.


I can't lock it "in the first place" because if I did so no one would be able to sign up -- not even smart people. I have to lock it AFTER THE FACT. In other words, I have to let everyone in and do the selection afterwards -- which is what I am doing. The raging and the histrionics are just an additional selection tool. Apart from being an involuntary reaction to retardation, a method for venting some steam, they also help discourage people from joining. It is a sort of self-pruning method. The more people get discouraged the better. Those kinds of people are not worth anything anyway.

The only other method would be requiring people to take some sort of IQ test before being allowed to join, or having them send me an essay or a game review or some shit. This I have considered, and I may end up doing it in the end. The only reason I am holding back is because I think it will require a greater time investment on my part (to read the essays/reviews/etc. and correspond with applicants), without any significant improvement in the end result.

I think the current method has proven effective, and will become even more so as the forum's reputation for intolerance keeps spreading.

As for this:

shMerker wrote:When you set up your website so that anyone with an opinion can post to it you are opening a net that collect everything. That includes people too immature and too ignorant to post anything useful. Note that both groups could become contributing members at some point, given enough time and education.


I am not denying that most people, perhaps even everyone, could improve at least a little bit in intelligence and knowledge if someone was patient enough and had enough time and energy to take them by the hand and slowly introduce them to the wonders of this world. In fact I think that there are special schools for this kind of thing. The problem is that I am too busy playing sports and videogames, reading and writing, traveling and generally enjoying myself to have any time left over to become a teacher to special people. I would not do this job even if someone paid me to -- let alone for free.
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Unread postby icycalm » 18 Nov 2009 17:06

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Unread postby icycalm » 23 Nov 2009 01:08

So yeah, I am officially giving up on this thread. There's just no point any more -- all I seem to get is shit like this:

http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=848531

Children in forums basically whining because they are too fucking stupid and uneducated to understand what the fuck I am saying to them. In this respect at least, the thread has served its purpose -- I consider this thread resounding proof that no one ON THIS PLANET is capable of challenging even the most insignificant of my claims.

If this changes one day, well -- the thread will always be here.

In the meantime, I might still post the occasional link for the sake of lols, but I am giving up vacuuming everything I come across. I am even getting tired of checking my stat reports -- there just doesn't seem to be a point any more.
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Unread postby icycalm » 26 Nov 2009 19:22

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/blizz ... ent1366952

Remy wrote:"Some WoW players still seem to (incorrectly) equate complexity with depth"

I'm wondering what you mean by that.
Have a read of this: http://insomnia.ac/commentary/on_comple ... and_skill/

I'm actually writing a counter-piece right now as I don't entirely agree with it, be interested to hear other views.


"Counter-piece" lol. As if there's anything in that article that can be countered.

A: "1+1=2"

B: "I am writing a counter-piece to that."

At least he's trying, lol. I wouldn't mind reading this "counter-piece" when it's done and having a good lol at it.


EDIT: Here is the retarded "counter-piece" and the lols:

http://forum.insomnia.ac/viewtopic.php?p=12016#12016
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Unread postby icycalm » 29 Dec 2009 21:28

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthr ... ost1645451
http://moesucks.wordpress.com/2009/11/2 ... omment-473
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthr ... post981117
http://www.zonawarp.com/2009/11/el-game ... xiste.html
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthre ... ost9620192
http://www.sonicbands.it/console/253824 ... nsole.html
http://forum.game-central.org/viewtopic ... 759#p54371
http://dsultimate.net/Board/upload/blog.php?b=1250
http://forums.klov.com/showthread.php?s ... post981117
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthr ... post988285
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.p ... ost9017465
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?& ... #msg298320
http://forums.encyclopediadramatica.com ... php?t=3991
http://ask.metafilter.com/139522/Best-v ... gs#1996280
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?to ... 1626384299
http://forum.starmen.net/forum/General/ ... ost1474804
http://etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-2650/
http://forum.starmen.net/forum/General/ ... ost1478908
http://terminal-boredom.com/forums/inde ... #msg419504
http://terminal-boredom.com/forums/inde ... #msg427889
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?t ... #msg305770
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?t ... #msg101803
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?t ... #msg282628
http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic ... e53#992099
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/ ... =2#4165063
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/75/vi ... st11102376
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/show ... 1064439094
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?to ... 8&sid=3000
http://www.rpgcodex.net/phpBB/viewtopic ... 574#993574
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.p ... #msg152323
http://www.soundtrackcentral.com/forums ... 276#p55276

I'll be doing this only once every couple of weeks from now on. Then maybe once a month, etc., until I manage to fully wean myself off it. I really do not advise anyone to click on any of these links. Go do something more worthwhile instead.
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Unread postby Pegote » 29 Dec 2009 23:16

Shit, I wish I'd taken your advice seriously.
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Unread postby Confucius Rex » 02 Jan 2010 08:58

icycalm wrote:http://remod.cakearmy.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&p=232499 (I can't see this one because I don't have an account)


What are the odds, I actual post on this little forum. The guy who posts the link says you're a "moron" with "thickheaded opinions" who "[spews] B-B-B-BUT BAUDRILLARD." Then the next guy says the website is the absolute best video games review and commentary website on the Internet.
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Unread postby icycalm » 22 Jan 2010 22:01

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/ ... =2#4298099
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/ ... 68#4344562
http://screwattack.com/forums/thread/Th ... AKA-titles
http://www.generalforum.com/general-gam ... 53008.html
http://blattdorf.wordpress.com/2010/01/ ... %E2%80%9D/
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthre ... st13074364
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/ ... 94#4410278
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... id=3251254
http://www.psychochild.org/?p=887#comment-411560
http://commonsensegamer.com/?p=1588#comment-11181
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/ ... 59#4431071
http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=25595
http://www.mundialgamer.com/mensaje46957.html#p46957
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthre ... st13137321
http://ga-ie.facebook.com/note.php?note ... 1056570022
http://ga-ie.facebook.com/note.php?note ... 1056570022
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showth ... t370638344
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/sh ... d=27155929
http://forums.tidemedia.co.za/nag/showt ... p?p=256997
http://darkrelic.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... =162&p=428
http://paperclipchains.livejournal.com/ ... 31#t183531
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread. ... ost3538714
http://forum.fomportal.com/showthread.p ... post391282
http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopi ... 986#681986
http://www.commiecatgirl.com/forum/view ... 405&p=5989
http://chairtax.blogspot.com/2010/01/insomnia.html
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/sh ... d=27160120
http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/201 ... 1760076532
http://vgc.zachwhalen.net/content/spacewar-7
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Unread postby icycalm » 25 Jan 2010 15:34

http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread. ... ost2882865

WanderingKnight wrote:Then you've heard most of what I have to say. Honestly there's not much to say about it, and I have a feeling it would end up going in circles. If you want to know more or less how I feel on the subject, you can probably read some of this guy's writing. The guy is a complete douchebag who gets a boner from reading Baudellaire and has an overblown ego and a sense of elitism that is hard to stomach, but if you look past behind that, he does raise some good points from time to time, and most of those points are similar to mine.


"Similar" to his, lol.

Just banned this fucker -- he has an account here.

"Baudellaire", lol. Well, they are both French, their names start with a b, so what the hell. As far as animu fags are concerned they are all the same.
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Unread postby Strifer » 25 Jan 2010 23:19



This a translation of your On "value" for "money" essay into Polish. I did this translation way back in 2009, but, even though the rest of the translation was, and is, fine, I could never settle for a title, and it bugged me to no end. Eventually, I decided to just post the damn thing and fish for suggestions.
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Unread postby icycalm » 14 Feb 2010 15:38

http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=26075

Shrugged, Atlas wrote:I just stumbled across his website. I remember seeing a few of his posts at actionbutton.net and I see a lot of familiar user-names on his site so I'm sure a lot of you are fully-aware of what kind of monster this person is. I'm positively blown away by the spectacle of it all.

He rules his website with an iron fist, demeaning anyone and everyone who comes across it. He critiques each little caveat he has with each post before insulting that poster before finally banning them. There's a subforum for submitting reviews, too. He'll tear your writing apart, insult you for wasting his time, insult you again for wasting his time rewriting your review so he can post it on his site, then ban you. I can't tell if the guy's serious or if he's another one of those post-postmodern master trolls. That little kid with toys avatar of his lends evidence to that - it's so fitting of his online persona. But I don't think that's the case. There's no humor here. This guy is really an egomaniac. This is extreme Comic Book Guy levels of delusion.

This man is the abyss the very Nietsche he parrots warned us about.


Typical fagot fasification. Drops around famous names (spelling errors included) without having a clue what these people really did or say -- and why should he, when he can just make shit up! All the people he is talking to are also fagots anyway, so no one will be able to tell the difference.

As for this particular instance of falsification, "Nietsche" did not "warn" about any abyss: he PROPHESIED it. Not only did he not warn against people like me -- he was to a significant extent RESPONSIBLE FOR BRINGING ME INTO EXISTENCE.
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Unread postby icycalm » 14 Feb 2010 19:52

And how can you say that "there's no humor" in this:

Shrugged, Atlas wrote:There's a subforum for submitting reviews, too. He'll tear your writing apart, insult you for wasting his time, insult you again for wasting his time rewriting your review so he can post it on his site, then ban you.


It's fucking hilarious!

But, again, this is "the way of the fagot". Mirthless little abortions, all of them.
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Unread postby NighAligned » 14 Feb 2010 19:59

I think that guy was referring to Beyond Good and Evil §146, which is one of the most quoted Nietzsche lines I've seen.

Nietzsche wrote:Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.


The funny thing is that, every time I've seen this quote used, it is employed in the very naive sense of "good versus evil" that the whole book was going beyond -- that is, interpreting the passage as Nietzsche warning people battling evil to watch that they don't become evil themselves. Either that, or in an extremely mundane sense as if what Nietzsche meant was that an "abyss" is taking a cane to some idiots on a message board.

The way I understand it, this aphorism doesn't apply to the vast majority of people reading it; Nietzsche is only addressing men like him, whose danger lies in the labyrinth of knowledge, or in being too "deep". He is warning them to be careful that they leave some room for superficiality ("Whatever is profound loves masks") in their lives, or else they will perish too early.
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Unread postby icycalm » 14 Feb 2010 20:15

lol. Here's a line from my Manufactured Realities:

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that he becomes a bigger monster.

NighAligned wrote:The way I understand it, this aphorism doesn't apply to the vast majority of people reading it


This goes pretty much for everything Nietzsche (and Heraclitus, and Baudrillard) ever wrote. "Sheep's hooves ought not to grasp for them", in Zarathustra's words.

And when they do try to grasp them they totally misinterpret them. "Misunderstanding between above and below is absolutely unavoidable", Nietzsche says somewhere in his notebooks.
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