Latest update on what kickasfacts stole from r/todayilearned

Apr 8, 2016 10:16 PM

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That EVE one...Bankers do that shit irl all the time and there are zero fucking consequences. With enough money you can get off scot free

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#1 so you're saying there's a chance... YEAH!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#2 : Earth Boner

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's true.... most homophobics are gay

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I invented cruise control as a child, but didn't have the resources to persue it.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Same here with modern GPS. But I was 6 and my family was poor. I hated using Triptiks and thought "what if there was a car on it that moved"

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#9 *a HUNGRY mob

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I was at kanamara matsuri in Japan this year! I got a penis pop.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Wish they'd stop giving real-world-dollar equivalents in Eve Online things. Nobody pays for things like that and gives people the wrong idea

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#5 lololol "600 billion isk". Remember that guy who set up a Ponzi scheme and made TRILLIONS? Yuuuurp.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Damn Holland! Ya'll have no chill! (I know Holland/Netherlands/Dutch are different but it's close enough. Let it go you're ruining the joke)

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

What can I say? We Dutchies like our meat fresh.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I read we still have body some body parts stored in a museum, idk if true but here's a link, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_de_Witt

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

What about the married Miss America contestants?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lisa Lopes couldn't drive, apparently.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

Corporate espionage ftw! Also, how easy/hard would it be to get into eve this late in the games life?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Calling someone else out for theft, and then doing the exact same shit you accused them of doing... brilliant.

10 years ago | Likes 189 Dislikes 4

he stole them fake internet points

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I am very open about it

10 years ago | Likes 67 Dislikes 14

I can't help but notice you didn't add any citations, either. Pity.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Username checks out

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It is a falsum, much like "This is a lie" :)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dutch Treat!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Or maybe left-eye was just an alcoholic.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

#8, I watched movie; he barely "won" he got a fraction of what they offered to settle for as long as he kept his mouth shut.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

OP is definitely Pakistani

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

I bet there's just one gay Pakistani downloading gay porn by the teraloads, just to fuck with the stats.

10 years ago | Likes 71 Dislikes 4

Nah, Islam's extremely strict rules about sex outside marriage leads to a LOT of gay sex.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They're onto me

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Or it's Indians doing it with Pakistani IPs to make them look gay for the lulz. Or they just have a bunch of closeted, repressed gay people

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

All of these facts might be true!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

RIP Lisa Left Eye! Thanks for reminding me to stick to the rivers and the lakes that I'm used to.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

TIL Final Destination was a documentary

10 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Only when it's Fox only with no items.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

i c u mh

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#7 "despite"?

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Forbidden fruit is the sweetest

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

yeah, more like "because"

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My thought exactly.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#9 is 100% false

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

The closest thing I could think of was the execution of Balthasar Gerards in 1584, but he wasn't really eaten.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Forget my other comments, I did some research and found out that in 1672 2 brothers, both high up in the Dutch government were lynched 1/2

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

but not actually eaten, just severely mutilated by the angry mob. Neither of the brothers were primeminister by the way

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You are close, while the Netherlands were at war with Spain for 80 years a city of the Netherlands was under siege, Leiden, in 1574. 1/?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

During this siege a famine broke out, the mayor of Leiden allegedly said that if they were as hungry as they said they were they could 2/3

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

eat him instead of surrender. This however is just some myth but I think they might be referring to this incident 3/3

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#4: So $5,600 per car?

10 years ago | Likes 48 Dislikes 0

That's what the math says.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

It does say "most of" so that could be anything between 251 and 499

10 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

I thought it was 2.8 mil each car lol

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

lol that is the first thing i did was check the numbers when i saw it

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

this is true. it took him over 7 years to win his lawsuit with Ford and cost him his marriage. but he won.

10 years ago | Likes 215 Dislikes 2

Probably the only true one in this post.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

He didn't invent the wiper - just the intermittent part.

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

he won the battle but not the war

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

There's a movie about it too, not sure what it's called though

10 years ago | Likes 53 Dislikes 1

Wiped

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

wiper man blades of glory

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

we mached it in history. idk why tho

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

'Flash of Genius' my friend

10 years ago | Likes 59 Dislikes 0

I need to watch this movie

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He won, but he was not victorious

10 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 1

The word you're looking for is Pyrrhic victory.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Sure he was if he finalized the divorce before settling the other case

10 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 1

I don't think divorce is in anyone's winners bracket

10 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

Divorce is never a bad things. Good marriages don't end in divorce.

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 2

Tell that to people with crippling child support and alimony payments.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Depends, divorce could be a win after already losing by marrying them in the first place.

10 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

#5 that's also completely "legal" in EVE online to do. No account bans or anything like that. The game is vicious.

10 years ago | Likes 70 Dislikes 1

Sometimes I miss Perfect Randian Meritocracy in Space: The Game. Sometimes.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well, if you did it in real life, you wouldn't be killed for it. Isn't that how they rationalize that idea?

10 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

They can kill him all they want, he probably transferred the ISK to an undisclosed alt shortly thereafter. It's just a wild west universe.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The only real "rules" regard mostly harassment, bug exploitation, and game manipulation. Earn ISK any way you wish.

10 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

It's not only allowed, it's encouraged. EVE wants you to fuck up other players

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

It's a cold, dark, hostile world.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Huge wars going on atm in EVE Online.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

ha I'm in FCON and couldn't be happier because they are all shitlords anyway

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah I'm staying the fuck out of those zones.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If anyone is looking for an easy way into a big EVE group for this war, check out KarmaFleet. https://www.reddit.com/r/Karmafleet/

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I saw a news broadcast about it. That game has really become big. Never played and it seems to late to start. But good for its community.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Never too late, starting eve has became so much easier these days. But its still "here's your ship, fuck you"

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Was in some Spectre Fleets yesterday with 3-day old players. Didn't know his own ship name, but was supporting an 80 man fleet.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Which is why we love it.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Truth. I'm just getting started. Haven't lost my first ship yet. Scurred lol

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You'll get podded soon enough. I've lost a few. It blows. But that's EVE. I should get back in...

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That can be arranged.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Oh it's going to happen. I'm really enjoying exploration, but have to venture into low/nullsec to get loot worth doing. It's gunna happen.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

feel free to look up the Hell's Pirates alliance. we do about everything in null sec.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

first rule : dont fly anything you cant afford to loose ! and always insure t1 hulls !

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Be sure to insure your ships before going to LS or Nullie.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah I'm getting hella into exploration so I've got like four T1 frigs ready to go.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The EvE Online one is wrong. I remember when this happened, back then it was 22M in game currency to $1USD. $27,200, not $13,000

10 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 2

Source on the story?

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

And it was fucking awesome. Longest con ever.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Go big or go home. You gotta be in it for the long con.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There are other stories of several large scale battles/wars that cost roughly 60-70 thousand USD just in deaths of ships.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Battle of B-R

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That was my home for nearly a year. That system exactly. S2N for life.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The REAL question is if there's a way for him to exchange it for real-world currency, like USD??

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yes. Find someone trustworthy and sell it to them for paypal transfers. Duh.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, I guess that works. Haha.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In 2015? Yeah, nah. Try about 5 times that. PLEX haven't been under a bil each at Jita for years.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

i remember the story too and it was several years ago definitely not last year

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It didn't happen in 2015, not by a long shot. It was a few years ago, back when PLEX was between 330m and 360m.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

More like 270-300m

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No. 330m to 360m. I remember the pricing because I used to sell one of my friends ISK for video games on Steam at 22m/$1USD

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I was under the impression it happened back during those prices, guess I was wrong.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0