So it turns out that Chinese hackers broke into another monstrous USGov database and stole millions more records about people in the military and people working for the CIA and so on.

What I'm wondering is whether anyone's checked to see if the IRS records are secure? Have Chinese hackers broken into that, too?

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As of today we have yet another strange term: "Wrongskin". It means "I was born white but deep inside I feel like a black person."

Or something like that. Reminds me of "otherkin", people who believe that they are actually mythical creatures, rather than human.

I wonder if anyone would believe me if I said that deep down I was a Ferrari? (Or maybe a Yugo?) This is almost enough to convince me to open a Twitter account, just so I can respond to this hashtag.

I think that with this step we're close to having this whole house of cards collapse from sheer idiocy and ridicule. Sure hope so.

UPDATE: By the way, "Godfrey Elfwick" is a world-class troll, and that post really skewered the whole thing beautifully.

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Traditionally the "three big lies" were:

1. It's just a cold sore.
2. Of course I'll respect you in the morning!
3. We're from the government and we're here to help you.

In 2015, it's beginning to seem like there's now a fourth:

4. I won't change my mind later and claim you raped me!

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Which means the next time he decides to visit he doesn't have to enter through the gaijin-gate at Narita.

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1 Of course the linked article had to dig at US immigration policy:

"That awkward moment when its easier for fictional monsters to get citizenship than migrants in US"

To some degree, *my* special relationship with Britain is "sod off, swampy."  The one and only time that I visited made me understand why so many of them left to go somewhere else.

I must, however, acknowledge David Thompson (http://davidthompson.typepad.com/) as one of those who could make Britain a sane place to live, assuming that he could neutralize a seemingly large segment of the remaining population.

On a non-"get off my lawn" note, my wife and I have visited Japan several times and we spent a couple of those times based out of the Shinjuku area.  I'm now able to recognize the Shinjuku train station in Japanese movies. 

Posted by: Mark A. Flacy at June 06, 2015 02:35 PM (PClZt)

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Given that the British were not interested in giving British passports to Hong Kong residents who did not want to live under a government imposed by the PRC, following the former Crown Colony's reunion with the Mainland Commies - I think the BBC might want to remember the old adage about stones and glass houses.

For that matter, what is the BBC's view of the UK denying residents of Gibraltar and the Falklands British citizenship?

Posted by: cxt217 at June 06, 2015 04:22 PM (dzsuJ)

3 This is rather drifty in the topic area, guys.

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I had a dream last night about a new computer game called "Social Justice Warrior Hunt". It was a shooting gallery game and the targets were ugly fat women with long straggly black hair and protest signs. They fired irate tweets at you. Every time they hit you, the screen got a little darker. Every time you got one of them, the screen brightened up again. The game ended when the screen went completely black and you lost the game.

Ye Gods, is my subconscious trying to get me strung up? I can hear the lynch mobs forming already!

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Every time out there I see someone say "Shorter XYZ" it always gives me a strange feeling. Because I was the first person that was used for, back in 2003.

It's interesting that my most important and longest lasting contribution to the web could be due to being the target of a sarcastic insult. Not exactly what I would have hoped for, but... well... it's something. A form of immortality, I guess.

Even if no one remembers my involvement in it.

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How's this for a name for a computer game? Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed

Well, you can find out what it's about next Tuesday, because it's coming to Steam. (Lots of sample images and a couple of videos at that link.)

UPDATE:

In AKIBA'S TRIP: Undead & Undressed, players work to repel a brooding malevolence that has suffused Tokyo's popular electronics district, Akihabara (Akiba for short), which has been painstakingly remodeled in the game to resemble its real life counterpart. Akiba has been invaded by creatures known as "Synthisters” who prey on the otaku patrons of Akihabara like vampires, but feast on their will to live and energy to socialize rather than their blood.

"Will to live and energy to socialize"? Rather thin hunting there, I would think...

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1 MCSA'ing guys? That's not right.
-j

Posted by: J Greely at May 22, 2015 09:07 AM (ZlYZd)

2 And the guys only have boxers? Surely they are missing half their potential market by not adding in optional banana hammocks.

Posted by: Boviate at May 22, 2015 10:45 AM (iiTgy)

3 Boviate, it's in the rules: guys who get stripped invariably are wearing boxer shorts.

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I agree.  Sub-boxer-level stuff is reserved for intentional (by the wearer) stripping.  ex: Denki-Gai's speedos, Asu no Yoichi's lead's fundoshi.

Any guy stripped by someone else (MCSA'ed especially) has to be wearing boxers, as he's supposed to be ashamed of his unplanned nudity.  Anyone wearing a "banana hammock" under his clothes wouldn't be ashamed to show it off.

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I think we're doomed.

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We just had another amber alert. The sound my phone makes for those is really rather shocking; it sounds like a klaxon.

Anyway, a non-custodial mother just stole her four year old daughter from the father over in North Bend, which is on the coast. I assume she won't get far; they've put out an All Points Bulletin on her car.

The vast majority of child kidnappings are by relatives, it turns out. Anyway, I hope this one gets resolved soon.

And I'm frustrated; I can't remember how to call it up from my phone's memory. I thought it was with the SMS stuff, but it isn't. I wonder if I inadvertantly deleted it when I turned off the alarm?

UPDATE: They got her, and the child is safe.

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They released a figurine representing a female character from Metal Gear Solid, and made it so that her breasts are someone soft and can be squeezed.

As you might imagine, the SJW's are having a cow.

But... figurine makers have been doing that for a long time. I have a figurine of Sonsaku Hakufu I bought years ago which is like that. It's in storage now because I don't have enough room on my shelf for all the figurines I've bought. (Not that I have all that many, I just don't have very much shelf space.)

Anyway, there isn't anything new about this. But the SJW's only just now noticed, and also because it's another atrocity by OMG Gamers!!!

No one cares about otaku atrocities because so far the SJW's haven't noticed us. Just wait, though; they'll be after us soon enough unless they get slaughtered trying to take the Gamer hill. We're the hill just after that.

UPDATE: I don't really have that many figurines, but if SJW's saw the ones I do have, I think there would be a run on fainting couches...

And I am grateful to Robert/Bob for making it possible for me to be so politically incorrect without having to spend appalling amounts of money and without having to break any laws.

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