[ SECRET POST #2341 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2341 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[David Mitchell]


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02.
[Carry On]


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03.
[Jay and Silent Bob]


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04.
[Simcity Societies]


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06.
[Game of Thrones]


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07.
[Game of Thrones]


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08.
[Noel Fielding]


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09.
[Once Upon a Time]


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10.
[Doraemon]


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11.
[Uninhabited Planet SURVIVE]


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12. [SPOILERS for Star Trek: Into Darkness]



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13. [SPOILERS for Arrow]



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14. [SPOILERS for Naruto]



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15. [WARNING for pedohpilia]

[Neon Genesis Evangelion]


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16. [WARNING for ]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #334.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

04. http://oi39.tinypic.com/2ryk7t4.jpg
[Simcity Societies]

[insanenoodlyguy]

Stay the fuck away from politics or management irl and you should be fine. No game where you can play god isn't going to have folks who want to be the bad ones.

[iceyred]

This game sounds awesome and I want to play it now.

[(Anonymous)]

As long as you use it for your anger management, instead of taking your anger out in RL, I don't see the problem at all. And I agree with the bit about not having sympathy for the hippies/anarchists. IDK, maybe it's just where I grew up, but a lot of them congregated in our downtown area (mostly hippies), and they just make it really hard to have a decent downtown. They were all about "down with the government", ignoring that the government was forced to intervene because of the hippies/anarchists on actions.

I don't know if that makes any sense, so have an example of an Actual Thing That Happened.

They were congregating by the bus station in large enough numbers, and smoking, so that people couldn't cross the street to get to the library, and everyone was forced to inhale second hand smoke (and marijuana) if they tried. So the city government marked off a "no loitering" zone (not the whole bus station, just enough room so people could actually walk down the side walk & cross the street safely) so that people could cross the street without having to fight through a crowd of people. The hippies/anarchists complained, even though they were the ones that made the rule necessary in the first place.

Yeah, I don't have a lot of sympathy either.

[(Anonymous)]

Hippies & anarchists, the engaged ones anyway, do a lot of good with successful actions, interventions, awareness raising, boycotts and community work. It's easy to dismiss idealistic people as imperfect when you're sitting on your arse - solutions are difficult. Sure, there's a lot of posing and lifestyle mob thinking which goes along with feeling pretty disconnected from society and having each other as role models instead of celebs and shit, and there are some real wankers and immaturity.

It wasn't idle posing that led me to link arms with trade unionists and anarchist queers in the face of police charging - but instead they beat up the hippies sitting on the fucking ground at the next gate. Easier target. Batons on heads. Permanent damage. Media said they started it, etc. A policeman aimed a baton at my girlfriend's vital organs as she was standing still, very deliberately. Another friend, a dude in a dress, got kidnapped and beaten for 15 minutes in the car. That sort of thing shocks you more than just reading about state corruption, because they viscerally got away with it.

[(Anonymous)]

*The state's leader held a barbeque for the police for a job well done. A policewoman friend of friend said only the ones who wanted to "beat up hippies" were offered that job at the blockade. (There are nicer police out there.)

[(Anonymous)]

Rorschach has a computer?

[(Anonymous)]

mte

"anarchists and hippies" is more like something i'd expect to see fedora-libertarians and yahoo! comments complain about

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, Actually I'm pretty far from whatever stereotype you're referring to. Just to clarify things: I happen to live in Brazil. Have you ever visited Brazil? Have ever Lived in Brazil? So by all means, don't think I'm just trying to sound intellectual for expressing my frustration.

Plus I'm not even complaining about these two groups, I'm complaining about ambivalence

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Well, if wish for me to elaborate: bureaucracy is pretty hard to deal anywhere in the world, but Brazil seems to to be compelled in abusing it, not even necessarily governamental in nature; everything takes too long to be done and sometimes things that could otherwise be solved simply are made complicated for.... Whatever reason. One example I can think of from the back of my head would be what happened with my mother recently. See, she works at a supermarket as a cashier, and they allowed people at the queue to pay their bills (I'm not sure if that's the correct translation) along with their grocery. That is, until the manager decided to change it so now people will have to go to the queue (the very long queues, note) twice if they want to do so, and when questioned why they couldn't keep doing all the paying in one sitting. They answered it would "crash the system". Fortunately, my mom knew better than that and went "fuck it", and would allow people in the queue to pay their bills too. To no one's surprise, there were no system crashing at all.

As for "alienated" people, what I mean is that, unfortunately, Brazil still lives with the effects of the previous military dictatorship, which implanted whatever mechanism they could to incite people to think in anything other than politics or knowledge, so unfortunately a vast majority of the population is content with their condition as long as they can watch soccer and Big Brother on TV and hear Funk on the loudest volume possible (I'm not kidding, don't ever live anywhere near a club-house). I'm not saying everyone who lives here is like that, of course, but it's hard to ignore the ones who are.

And about "anarchists and hippies", I don't hate them, I just don't feel like their way of protest is how things are meant to be done, I don't think the government is inherently bad (when done correctly that is), there must have some kind of order in a society; also, I'm really avert of the idea one needs drugs to free themselves or something. Putting your life on the line shouldn't be the way to solve things, heroic sacrifices aren't pretty and means little if in the end of the day you won't wake up another day to fight.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

... wow you sound so naive.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

and you sound so vague...

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure I'm heading to disappointment, but care to elaborate more so that I don't jump to the conclusion you're just a troll who gets off by belittling some random anon?

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I don't live in Brazil but I live in another South American country and the situation is very similar, so I get what you mean.

I guess some people don't understand how bad it's mostly because they try to relate everything to their own experience and think that because there are some similarities but it isn't as bad, then it means in other countries it also isn't such a big deal and it can't be such a extreme issue.

[quantumreality]

I've made every society I can think of in that game. I have to admit it's a guilty pleasure making an Authoritarian one.

[(Anonymous)]

OP, I don't live the same place you do, but I *do* live in a place where there's a fair amount of political apathy and a pretty good amount of distrust for the government [for very good reason in some cases]...and I think I get the type of thing you're talking about. It sucks, and it's frustrating and makes one feel helpless. At least, it makes me feel helpless sometimes.

Anyways, who cares? As long as it makes you feel better it's no one else's business and you aren't hurting anyone it's no one else's business.

[chardmonster]

how rare honest, thoughtful and good people are

Gee, it must be hard being one of the only worthwhile people you know.

You must take up the Smart Kid's Burden.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, because I'm a super saint and everyone is inferior to me.

Please don't talk shit. I don't go out judging people on the streets and label them as crap because I'm miserable or something. Good people ARE rare, and I value the ones I know. They might not be perfect, but I know they won't try to screw me over.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Please don't talk shit.

It's kind of what she does. Don't take it personally.

[ariakas]

This... seems like a contradiction. You hate bureaucracy (aka, ineffecient and overreaching government authority) so you want to beat up anarchists and hippies.

Hmm. That sounds like it makes about as much sense as despising the UN and unleashing bed bugs at an NRA convention to do something about it.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Actually in-game "subversives" can be anything from criminals to slackers to mimes, Authoritarian cities take no distinction to them. Which is a pitty because I like the bonuses artists give to the buildings.

[(Anonymous)]

It's fine if that's what works for you but it seems really weird to me that you would indulge in seemingly exactly what you claim to hate. An authoritarian government is exactly the kind that would be rife with internal corruption and lack of concern for the people. That's the kind of society that would be full of stupid, disaffected citizens (easier to control), and where good and honest people would be rare and have sucky lives.

Also, as pointed out, there seems to be a contradiction in your secret. The first half is all about how much you hate your government, and then you start talking about not being able to relate to hippies and anarchists.

[(Anonymous)]

hey OP, I live in a South American country too, and I get your secret. If this helps you vent your anger, then I think it's ok. We all have our ways.