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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink Cult of Personality is a propaganda of holding a leader or figurehead as some kind of supreme being. This nigh-worship keeps them in power and keeps people happy to an extent. Doublethink prevents people from thinking otherwise. In the book 1984, Oceania is at war or allied with two other major world-nations called Eurasia and Eastasia. At a moments notice, the Party could declare that Oceania was at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia. Thus the populace would maintain "We've always been at war with Eurasia." Again, maybe even within hours, the Party could re-declare that they were at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. "We've always been at war with Eastasia." And the populace would hold these in absolute truth or absolute lie depending upon whether or not the Party said so. In this sense, it could be maintained by their Government that all protectorates and associates of United States are horrifically evil and despotic places and that North Korea is the best place in the world, and their status of happiness is higher than anyone else's. Since it is accepted as a society, there's not much that can be done in terms of internal unrest because the society doesn't know any different.
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The Presidential Election Poster Challenge Winners Announced
Blue replied to Blue's topic in Free-For-All
Yes, Alpha, that's a page for downloading Photoshop. If that's a poster, you fail at trying to make something that's shaped like itself. If you want you cn use GIMP or MSPaint or whatever, I don't really care. Unless you wish to not participate, in which case your party will automatically get 0 points in this challenge. (Which I will remind, has not actual direct bearing on the final Election) -
Did you know that designs existed for trains with more than 12 drive wheels? They were usually not built because steam would cool before it could reach the driving pistons, as well as having driving sets underneath tenders would mean tractive effort would progressively decrease as the train drove, because fuel would be consumed and therefore make the tenders lighter. Subtitle in a Belgian Engineering Textbook: "Calm yourselves. These locomotives are wholly imaginary, and not (I hope) serious projects." by S. Berliner III. In whyte notation, this locomotive would have the arrangement of a 4-8-8+4-8-8-4+8-8-4 or 4 trail wheels, two sets of 8 driving wheels, a Mallet-type articulation, 4 more trail wheels, two more sets of 8 driving wheels, 4 guide wheels, another mallet articulation and another two sets of 8 driving wheels and a final set of 4 guide wheels. Yo dawg, I heard you like wheels.
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Actually, according to a survey. It is the second happiest place on Earth. [idiot] No wonder, with all the hot-army-chicks there [/idiot] I can imagine a few people being happy there though, people don't need too much to be happy. There is a saying in the russian language: The less you know the better you sleep. There's a significant difference between "Ignorance is bliss" and "Incarnate Nineteen-Eighty-Four".
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The Presidential Election Poster Challenge Winners Announced
Blue replied to Blue's topic in Free-For-All
Still one week left in the challenge. I have yet to receive submissions from the Sons of Norton party or the Neo-Rhino Party. -
Did you know that Democracy is the opposite of Democracy?
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Show off/critique custom content!
Blue replied to Average Internet Guy's topic in Technical Source Engine Stuff
Gah 208,000 tries is a pain to texture. Just starting on the climb, we'll see how long it takes for me to reach the summit. -
Let it be known that Alphabetagamma thinks I committed treason. The Bold Blue Party supports trust!
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i will steal their coal and then i will be rich muwahahaha
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But then you just assume no one else noticed and think nothing of it.
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As far as I could tell there was little structure to what you wanted to do, Alphabetagamma, so I don't think I can really be blamed on "derpin' around" by being on the other team if there were some things you wanted to do that you didn't really voice well.
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I was hoping Alphabetagamma would have a mic. What a chipper time!
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Evasive maneuvers correspondence list: 1. Accelerate 2. Climb
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Electronic Counter-Counter-Measures. "Yo dawg". It's funny because the radar dish looks like a pie.
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1,3,7-trimethylxanthine Caffeine ensures you can stay up late and work on all the code that makes the website run. If you didn't stay up late, then the website may never have been finished. Or at least that's the tongue-in-cheek inference.
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The end of Civil Protection and Freeman's Mind?
Blue replied to gregorzoobs's topic in Misc. AF stuff
Music is covered, but the material Ross makes itself is permitted by the Terms of Service he agreed to when he bought his first Source Engine game as well as usage rights for SourceSDK. -
Super Mario World was the first video game that I ever actually played. Which is a good thing.
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However the terms of service that cover content made with the Source Engine and Unreal3 Engine permit the sort of thing that's discussed, which is why Machinima is still in business and not in a big legal battle.
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Hey Blightmare, I've got a spare Eternal Reward. You can have it if you want.
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Did you know that you can't handle the truth?
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Did you know that if you burn hydrogen it will explode and leave behind steam?
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There was once three tomatoes in Mexican-held territory which was located around the border of new new microwave. They planned a mission for invading Earth, suddenly a pirate starship, piloted by Captain Figunaye, appeared in the twisted transistor. "Photon cannons, ready?" Asked the captain, "Affirmative, cannons charged", said the spork. "Fire at Will!". A big explosion and an implosion never happened, it was a lie. The mysterious starship "Destroyeetyall" was approaching fast from the planet of the mint mouth washers- Tomatojoe's dream ended. Pissed off, he slapped some dude into face because he was yelling "Medic! Medic! MEDIC!!!" But medic never went to Detroit. He was on a plane to Okinawa and he had no time or money for meeting Henry Ford because he needed anything but a bad-ass animated crowbar that Gordon Freeman could use for brushing his teeth. He was professional when it came to dental hygiene, but never learned why crowbars were desinged by turkish Cyberdemons who were teleported to Australia. But every time he went to unclog his toilet a Cacodemon would intrude, requiring crowbars