“One of the shooters, while aiming down his sights and firing, was disarmed by a 43-year-old male bystander, later identified as a local fruit-shop owner named Ahmed al-Ahmed.”
Absolutely horrific this happened to people just trying to celebrate a holiday. Add to it that it happened in Australia where this is far from the norm and is now their second largest mass shooting ever recorded.
Yeah, Asmon sucks. Guess what though, Hasan f**king sucks too lol.
Please God learn about politics and have your opinions formed beyond twitch streamers who site twitter. Bonus points if they don’t abuse dogs and/or clean their homes.
By all means bitch about the Waco dude harder, you can even add some flavor to it by learning that Waco is INCREDIBLY Bible Belt to almost cult like levels with Baylor university being there and every other billboard being some mash up of “repent now or burn in eternal damnation”. Fuck Hoffman and I hope he and those like him get Brock Turner treatment from the public forever. Disgusting that sex criminals can and do face so little time.
However, this is disingenuous. The “protesters” shot a police officer in the neck, dude.
2012 for me, fairly positive I was Kazakhstan. While screen sharing torn on a run through of how elims works for the noobs this year I once hovered when I went through the merits to be earned and had a little chuckle, that tutorial had me telling the babies who hung around after about torncity.
I personally really liked the Zombie event.
I’ll spare everyone from my rant about how country flags shouldn’t be name/merit banners because WW is dead, but know that it’s locked and fucking loaded.
I (hopefully kindly) told you privately my reservations about you taking the captain spot at the start - and was really team "did we fuck around? let's find out" while also trying to make this as enjoyable for the noobs as possible. I fought against all of the vocal dissenters and morale killers on the babies' behalf in case you could do it. Once we got to the "real eliminations" I was totally bought in and proud of another noob, this one just so happening to be my captain lol. It truly looked like for a minute there you/we could pull it off and really give us a viable chance at the big shabang.
Am I happy with a 4th place? Nah it's like the shittiest loss position. Am I happy with a 4th place with this team specifically? Absolutely.
If you decide to be a masochist next year and go against your own feelings now, I'll know to keep a look out for you/your team. Reptilians forever, get Zuckerberg'd bozos.
Yeah I reported/blocked/deleted one of the messages so I can't see it, the second is showing this after report:
That was my only notable eliminations drama, and while sexual harassment blows at least it was pretty contained. A few of my frens got to go through the waves of disgust and hilarity (their wiens and being pathetic) of the situation, so fuck it we ball.
Have MeanMike and Nightwing kissed yet? That's what I'm really keyed into this year.
Well, I broke a record I was never after. I brought torn back to 2001 2013 this eliminations by receiving not one, but two wieners with my account name written on them.
A staff member(s) checked the discord IDs they were sent from and of course neither account were torn verified in any way, but the second wiener was from a 9 year old discord account as opposed to the 1 day old original wiener. I can very much assume the first wien was from my elims team where some people (and even the newsy) kept sexualizing me and my voice for some reason, the second one? Who knows, could have been someone from here but I guess props to them for having written out all of KillerCareBear and not just KCB.
"The Dickening" happened years ago and I'm not trying to steal clout or get my account banned so only the dick detectives and myself got to see them in all of their glory shame. The first one was likely from a dude in the UK, and the second was very likely from an American. Both written in marker, hopefully sharpie, and the second wiener I hope had to explain it to the woman he very clearly shares a bedroom with if he couldn't get it off in time.
My discord account is back under lockdown. Thanks for the memories, I guess??
Y'all are gross and while I'm not a size queen - know that absolutely nobody was impressed :)
Joke (kind of) aside I came back a year ago and it was pretty easy to get back into it. It’s wildly different for me, I had to learn what a ranked weapon or termed war was and I was too scared to take a Xanax but I think it’d easier to back into now then it would have been then. Quit your bitching and just join a faction, they’ll get you up to speed.
Sorry I reserved for this - immediately fell asleep after getting knocked out and now it's kind of late and awkward for the edit lol.
This year's elim was a shit show from the beginning with morale absolutely being dumpstered during captain election resulting in me pretty quickly backing out of anything leadership in any capacity. It continued to be a super shit show in the beginning but once we duct taped and bubbled gummed our discord back together I guess is when I realized just how many 4b+ IDs were rearing to go. I didn't want any babies or returners to torn to feel it was doomed so I volunteered my time to show whoever wanted to give it their all how to give it their all and tried to build up excitement.
Vibes were so good I did TWENTY ONE more tutorials and then fell pretty quickly into the role of momma bear to the babies. I did more work than I can imagine I would have done in the leadership role I could have had, and I absolutely tanked my net worth and sleep schedule but fuck it we ball.
I have a bunch of nice things I can say about the leadership of our team and how psyched I am that we kept being told we were "next out" just to continue to pull off what seemed impossible but I'll forget someone or something and others have already mentioned that ad nauseum in this thread.
What I kept screeching and cheerleading for was the babies, though. I don't want to give any specific mentions because I really don't want to forget one of my children, but y'all absolutely dominated this eliminations and the unbelievable vast majority of you were the best soldiers we had both with keeping the morale and hunger up, as well as the attacks made. If you guys are the future of the torn player base, the old accounts should be shaking in their boots. The amount of mentions and DMs I got was daunting and overwhelming but I'm so happy you guys wanted the knowledge and applied it in a way none of us were expecting. I'm super excited to see y'all continue to grow, and I'll be a bit ass pained if I'm against some of you guys next year.
Fuck it we ball, BEANS ON TOAST, Ignore Vanessa, Croc titties, APE TOGETHER STRONG, dragon deez nuts, MY WOMB, Blame Belle, Kwack is British and most importantly:
Rocket Scientists is genuinely the most fun team I've ever witnessed in elims. I hope y'all are having an absolute blast, real life Monty Python Black Knights over there.
Just got a picture of a male's anatomy with "KCB" (KillerCareBear too long) written on it in sharpie(?) sent to my discord with no torn account/server attached. Back to tightening up security settings and hopefully all the new people with questions have long had them answered.
Gross but like.. are we so fucking back? Nah, mainly gross.
edit: Just checked, account was made today because of course it was.
I'm "in charge of" Reptilians' noobs and I mean.. if anyone were to look at the top 5% or even 10% of our hitters you'd know that I wish more than one could be nominated for our team. Thanks community for looking out for and recognizing our newer accounts. They're absolutely killing it this year. Absolutely love this initiative.
Someone (a man) thinking referring to women as “females” is cringe and dehumanizing is “pussifying men”? You didn’t even say “pussifying males” lol.
Schrodinger’s victim. Maybe a lot of y’all are actually just pussies.
Calling me or other women females will make me (us) drier than the Sahara desert. Might as well just call me a “foid” because it’s as much of a social killer. Nadbash could legitimately be trying to help right now because if I’m called a female in regular conversation I’ll immediately think you live with your mother, have a porn addiction, and have no platonic or romantic relationships with women.
I have female anatomy, but I’m a woman/lady/ma’am/girl.
You have male pattern baldness, but you are a man/guy/sir/boy.
Thanks for thinking I’m a cutie, I offset being attractive with my shitty personality dw.
Obviously the world is skewed by the lenses I view it through, but I think what I look like makes little difference for anything that I’ve said. If anything I think I get to witness men being delusional at a higher rate because I’m decent looking and I’m often in spaces where there aren’t many women, much less women that men might find attractive. I probably get more men approaching me on average and they are doing it in all of the wrong ways. I get to see the delusion and I see the attempts first hand.
We (women) don’t want men to be pussified, we don’t want men to have no confidence, we just want men to be realistic and view us as a counterpart, not as a sex object or something to be conquered. We want men to not be scary or feel entitled to us.
Thinking porn boosts confidence is a new one to me. I actually don’t know how to respond to that as I can’t even steelman that argument. Just know that KCB and psychologists disagree with that. Educational porn I guess exists, but you’d have to actively seek it out, and it’s not what people are consuming en masse. You’re watching actors act out pleasure.
I’m sorry you’ve come across asshole women. Women come across scary asshole men regularly. Show me a lady being an asshole and I’ll call her an asshole no problem, women show men being assholes and we’re told we don’t want men to be men anymore.
The “women want bad boys with tattoos and felonies” trope is such a meme and so incorrect. Some women do, sure. Some men want women who fall into the same camp. “Nice guys” that complain that the women they’re nice to leave them in the dust and only want them once they’re (the women) are worthless were never nice to begin with because they’re being “nice” in hopes that we’ll fuck them.
I’m happy for you that you’re more confident and happy now. I left my first husband because he decided to become a scary lying asshole and was able to introduce myself to a man I found incredibly attractive by just asking him what brought him to the hotel and now that same attractive guy and I are planning a wedding. Hell, torn players were even witness to it all happening as it happened at torncon (but with a non-torn player). I might even invite Ched so he inevitably doesn’t go but gifts me torn tampons as a wedding present.
It really can be as simple as just going and talking to someone like a normal human because you want to talk to them. That’s it. That’s all it has to take sometimes.
It was pretty expected for me to end up like this. I have incredibly close girlfriends, but I’m social friends with more men than women in volume. I get to “???” pretty often because I’m in the boy’s inner sanctum a lot, regardless of the type of boy(s) lol. I have more nerdy guy friends than not, but that’s just because my nerd shit is team based so I quite literally have to talk to them and I just continue to talk with the guys that treat me like another gamer and not specific a woman.
Pretty privilege is absolutely a thing, but attractive men are also lonely. Genuinely the least lonely people you’ll meet are like.. the homies at renaissance festivals, fur cons, or local theatre. They’re drowning in genitals and relationships because for whatever reason they’re more honest about who they can reasonably woo and are in dating/sex positive communities. I don’t think most would say those people are societies’ most attractive (I go to ren faires) but they’re not exactly having issues meeting people of their attracted sex.
Also I might be shadow boxing here, but nerdy people and porn obsessed gooners can be attractive. The days of “give him a swirlie” coke bottle glasses geekdom are pretty over. Men not taking pride in themselves or not practicing hygiene isn’t just relegated to those with a steam account or PVP rating. Men only watching porn because they can’t get sex has never really been a thing, much less now when porn is pushed everywhere and to everyone.
My main LoL duo and my CS awper are both notably attractive guys.
I don’t hang out in many geeky spaces anymore, though I have many geeky hobbies. I used to be a “pro” gamer and then I was a full time streamer for a few years but absolutely nothing is more bleak than a convention or LGS.
I hang out around more douchey/stereotypical frat boy type spaces because they don’t smell as bad and my love for yelling at a field or tv screen is pretty 1 to 1 for my love of yelling at cardboard or a computer monitor.
Just more catered my post to nerds given we’re on torn, though I threw in general aches and pains of your standard heterosexual woman.