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I think it is pretty awful what we're doing to gorillas, orangutans, chimps, and bonobos. They are incredibly smart, maybe like early humans, and we still cage them, or do worse, like make bushmeat out of them.
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I think people were already stupid, social media highlights it, but also deepens it.
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"My cat is a being a cat".

FO' REAL?!
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MICHALECOLE posted...
Thats because scallops overcook so quickly, why the fuck would you fry a scallop? Ive never had a better scallop than one Ive made myself because you can pay attention to what youre doing and have them be perfect

The Seattle Roll I get is baked scallops, with all the mayos and sauces and what not, with little crunchy bits on it. So fucking good.
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My favorite is salmon nigiri. I like spicy tuna though. And you know, ever restaurant has their own special things, the one I go to has one called the Seattle Roll, which is like baked scallops with Japanese mayo and other tasty sauces.
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"Right wingers make the worst music".

It is called "country music", hoss.
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Because the story is called "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". People remember the name "Goldilocks". "Baby bear" is comparatively too generic, there are lots of "Baby Bears" across media.
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Yes, the game was amazing. And Lisa Trevor was disturbing.
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ClayGuida posted...
Trump Reagan and Bush essentially changed American politics considerably. It used to be policy over personality, but ever since people wanted to have a beer with Bush, politics has changed. Sadly Dems haven't changed all that much at all in terms of that. Republicans have no problem worshipping celebrity and I personally wouldn't give a shit if Dems started embracing that too. Charisma is now a key factor in winning elections. If you're boring and have none, you don't have a chance at winning anymore. Doesn't matter what your policy is, you could be the GOAT president on paper, if you're boring, nobody gives a shit.

Newt Gingrich bears some responsibility. He said "... I think that one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the camp fire, but are lousy in politics."

He very much pushed the party to be nasty and hateful because it was good politics to do so, and it was a winning strategy.
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Maybe you don't actually have tinnitus, and the universe just has an ambient ringing noise most of the time.
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Do I think Kamala Harris is a better candidate than Joe Biden? Yes I do. She's younger, she's more energetic, and her cognitive ability doesn't seem to be noticeably waning. That alone undercuts the Republican strategy of attacking Biden's age and cognitive ability.

Do I think she's going to be the next President? That I'm less positive about. The Democrat candidates aren't exciting. They never are. At least in comparison to who they are running against. Because when you're an average, normal person, how the hell are you supposed to seem exciting in comparison to a psychopath screaming insane ideas? "Make guns less accessible" doesn't sound anywhere as exciting as "ARM CHILDREN AND TEACHERS AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS!"

The whole thing is always so frustrating. Largely in part to the fact that Republicans are so full of shit, and like to be coy about it. They can't attack Kamala for being old, and they want so badly to call her racial slurs, but they can't do that, so they just settle for "DEI hire", which is their racist/misogynist dog-whistle, but the will lie right to your face and tell you it isn't one.
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Of course GBA is better than the NES. It is a technically more capable system with more coherent, better designed games.

Metroid Zero Mission is a better game than the NES original Metroid.

Every single Zelda game on the GBA is a more enjoyable experience than the Zelda titles on the NES.

Every Castlevania title on the GBA is better than the NES Castlevania games.

There really isn't a lot to argue here.
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An alternative title for this topic could be:

"Olympics under fire from selfish hicks that think the world revolves around their world view"
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JixHedgehog posted...
I mean kudos to the Dems for ending the re-election campaign. His actions over the past year or so easily justify pulling him out opposed to getting smoked in November.
But they can do one better and stop pretending he has the ability to run things for the next 4 months. Why won't they do it? Because they're not confident in Harris and are most likely looking into figuring out on how to get someone else on the ticket.

If he doesn't have the ability to run things for the last 4 months, then he didn't have the ability to run things this month, or last month. Yet things are still being run. So the next 4 months don't seem to be a problem.
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hungrymike posted...
Highest in 40 years. Spending money we don't have and sending it overseas worsens inflation. When u artificially increase the money supply, the value goes down.

Trump spent more than Biden. Trump approved 8.4 trillion in 10 year debt, Biden only approved 4.3 trillion. Biden reduced the deficit.

Sure blame the last guy

Blame the guy who is to blame. In the case of Afghanistan, pushing up timetable for us to leave left less time to pull out appropriately, especially when the Afghan government collapsed right beforehand. US military personnel had already been drawn down over time, expecting the remaining personnel to get everyone out safely, plus round up all the leftover equipment... would you like to explain the logistics of how you think that works? And why US military personnel should risk their lives for some trucks and guns?

Look at what biden did day 1 with trumps border policy. Should have just left it alone.

Trump's border policy involved firing a ton of immigration judges, which caused the system to become severely backed up. Also, his expensive little segment of wall didn't work, immigrants didn't even have to go around it, they figured out they could just saw through it.
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Count_Drachma posted...
You left out widescale protests, including the takeover of universities where police wound up having to get involved. Hell, just the other month, police in RIOT GEAR were at UPenn.

Honestly, if anybody thinks the last four years were "largely uneventful," they haven't been paying any attention to the news, let alone politics. There's a reason why Biden is less popular than Nixon, a guy whose administration ended in a resignation.

https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/biden-least-popular-president-in-70-years-below-nixon-carter-gallup-poll/

Nixon's administration ended in resignation because he was about to face impeachment for Watergate. An act that Trump's Supreme Court just ruled was perfectly okie-dokie. So his administration ending in resignation means absolutely nothing now.
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hungrymike posted...
If u don't count record high inflation, soaring housing prices, a botched Afghanistan withdrawal, billions of unaccounted for dollars sent overseas for foreign wars while our own illegal border crossings are at record levels etc...

We don't have record high inflation. Both Carter and Ford had higher inflation. Although that being said, the president doesn't control inflation, as evident by the fact it is happening in other countries that our president isn't in charge of.

Housing prices are soaring in part because we don't have enough new homes being built.

The Afghanistan withdrawal was the result of Trump pushing up the timeline. Biden had to be out by the date that Trump set. And equipment that was supposed to be left for the Afghan government was still left behind, it isn't the US's fault that the Afghan government collapsed right before.

The border crossings are what they are. Outside of the president ordering the military to stand at the border and shoot civilians, there's not a lot that can be done that doesn't involve endangering citizens of another country, or assisting countries in fixing the issues that are driving their citizens to want to leave in the first place.
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Count_Drachma posted...
For starters, because she'd be introduced as "President Harris" during the debates and would be discussed as President Harris... Hearing that said normalizes it.

But I mean, seriously, fucking common sense, dude.

Technically, her history is a bigger problem because she's a legit horrible person who did awful things while with California's justice system. But if she was more charismatic, people would have an easier time overlooking that.

Keep in mind her office blocked early releases for prisoners because "it would deplete the prison labor supply"

lolwut? No. This is the party of stuff like the Green New Deal and other monstrously impractical policies designed to court far-left voters. iirc, during the 2020 primaries, Biden was one of only two or three candidates on a very large stage who opposed a wealth tax, a liberal policy so extreme that even SWEDEN repealed it.

We technically already have laws that go a lot further than reasonable gun control. Democrats increasingly push for extreme gun control measures to promote an insincere "let's meet in the middle" approach where the country repeatedly has "met in the middle" pushing it further and further into extremes.

If Democrats pursued alcohol enforcement with a fraction of the zeal they've pursued control control, our nation's violent crime rate might fall by half, something you wouldn't even get with a complete gun ban.

Alright man, whatever you say.
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hungrymike posted...
To anyone paying attention, this seems to be the case. Its been the case the last four years.

The country has been largely uneventful for the past 4 years. Seems like he was up for doing an okay job as president. The first smart thing he did was surround himself with capable people that could help him out, as opposed to surrounding himself with people that exist just to obey him blindly. That's reasonable leadership.
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OhhhJa posted...
Let's be real. Him dropping out of the race is an implicit admission that he's not qualified to be president right now considering that's the whole reason he's dropping out of the race

I mean, yeah, sort of. But also sort of not. Not being able to do something another 4 years doesn't mean not being able to do something right now.
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Count_Drachma posted...
Him stepping down as president would allow Kamala to run as an incumbent president, which -- even under the circumstances -- gives her a slight advantage.

How do you know it would give her a slight advantage? Perhaps the American people would find it rather disingenuous for someone that was handed the presidency for four months to call themselves an experienced incumbent.
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faramir77 posted...
Kamala would lose, too. They need someone with charisma.

Is charisma the problem? The problem to me seems to be that Democrats are fairly common sense, unexcited, business-as-usual in their policies. It is hard to seem exciting when you've got one side saying stuff like "Let's have reasonable gun control", and the other side is like "Let's give guns to toddlers and see what happens." Normalcy is always going to sound less exciting that total fucking insanity.
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JixHedgehog posted...
Whoa, Parks & Recreation star Joe Biden drops out

Him not resigning shows how much faith the Dems have in Kamala.. but there's still 4 months to go

It wouldn't make sense for him to resign. His term is almost up. Dropping out of the race signals he's not up for being president in the future, resigning would send the message that he's not up for being president NOW. That's something the democrats don't want to do. Also, resigning now would put Kamala in the hot seat immediately, while she's trying to run an election campaign now. Why make her run the election campaign while dealing with the issues of being president, when Biden can do all the presidential stuff, and she can just focus on campaigning?
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Venixon posted...
Does drinking it with my cereal count

Only if you're a normal human being and do cereal first, then pour the milk.
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VioletZer0 posted...
Doom Eternal is a fantastic game, but it's a very different one that fans were not expecting.

I liken the game to being like a hack n' slash FPS and not just because of the glory kills. It's very similarly designed to God of War 1, 2 and 3.

I thought 2016 was a really neat hybrid of hack n slash and FPS while Eternal leaned entirely in favor of the hack n slash aspect.

Doom 2016 felt like Doom.

As a sequel to Doom 2016, Doom Eternal should have felt like it. And it kind of does, at least in terms of gameplay. But in terms of story and atmosphere, it felt like a parody of Doom 2016, not a sequel.
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KingInBlack posted...
Humans are also the only animal on the planet actively destroying it,

I think that's debatable. There are other animals that will absolutely destroy an ecosystem. Beavers rip down trees and build dams, damaging waterways with no regard for the aquatic life. A swarm of locusts will destroy crops. Of course, when the beavers and locusts then move on to find other resources, any animals that can survive what they left behind will move in and start things anew. It isn't any different with humans. We ravage something, walk away from it, and something else moves in to keep the cycle going.

and all we need to do to stop is quit using fossil fuels and get all our energy FROM THE BIG BALL OF FUSION ENERGY IN THE SKY, but we don't.

You make it sound easy, as if constructing the devices needed to harness solar energy don't require strip mining the hell out of resources. Photovoltaic panels don't grow on trees. And the machines that strip mine the resources have to run on some sort of fuel source as well.

We're also the only animal to give value to pieces of paper that have numbers written on them. We're also the only animal to stress out if we don't have said pieces of paper. We're also the only animal that fucking needs said pieces of paper to LIVE.

Humans don't NEED those pieces of paper to live. You could just fight other humans to claim their resources. That's what other animals do, which is why they don't need the paper.

See how it totally backfires on you? No adult human should be drinking milk.

I don't see how it backfires at all, because nothing you said does anything to prove adult humans shouldn't be drinking milk.

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agesboy posted...
didn't doom do some impressive hacky shit to make it look like you could have multiple floors layered on top of each other

I could be mistaken, but I don't believe that is the case. It may have seemed like it in the moment, but I don't think Doom or Doom 2 ever had geometry that layered over other geometry.
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Zareth posted...
He said he enjoyed Wolfenstein 3D but wasn't interested in DOOM

Oh, yeah, that's a pretty bizarre take. Wolfenstein 3D is dogshit compared to Doom. The floors and ceilings couldn't even be different heights, they were uniform throughout the entire game.
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Zareth posted...
Such a PO move to like a game but not the spiritual successor that improved upon it in every way

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Cruddy_horse posted...
Huh, Looked at thier game list and ID has developed shockingly little games over the years.

I guess OG DOOM.

I'd say they've developed a respectable amount of games. Not a ton of them, they have more games than what's on this poll. Part of their business was licensing their engine out to other developers, so it isn't like they needed to make 5 games a year every year or something.
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slacker03150 posted...
Some say it is odd for adults to still be drinking milk. But it tastes so good.

I always hear vegans say silly shit like "humans are the only animal that drinks milk after they are grown, and from other animals!" Like, okay, and? Humans are also the only animal that constructs electrified structures with AC so they can live comfortably, anyone want to give that up?
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ReturnOfFa posted...
I get your point. The thing is, Hitler was killed in a different way than an assassination during a speech.

Yes, Hitler killed himself. And at the point that he killed himself, he had entire societies trying to kill him.

I don't like encouraging violence against Trump because I think the Republicans are radical enough for that to simply bolster them. If we were literally at war, then it's a bit more fair game. If someone randomly offed Hitler during a speech in '41, I doubt it would've stopped the Nazis in their tracks.

Oh yeah, I don't think it would have helped much, outside of disallowing him to take the oath of office again. Which I imagine was probably the goal for dude climbing onto the roof.

Edit: In regards to the Republicans being bolstered by it, yes. There is no scenario you could have had last week in which the Democrats wouldn't be blamed for it.
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BlackScythe0 posted...
Everyone? Jack Black did what he had to do to protect himself.

Right, because he'll be cancelled by people that agree privately, but won't air it publicly.

As for anyone else you want them to get banned or whatever?

Same as above.

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinsons who said some people need to be murdered got invited to give a speech at the RNC.

Because the Republican platform has become a platform that rewards hate. Trump helped really push that. But of course, we're all nice on the left, and certainly want to make sure he's nice and healthy so he can keep pushing that. At least, that's what we apparently tell each other to express, lest we get cancelled.

You're a hypocrite. "Liberals" don't get support when they do fucked up shit. Conservatives do. It's consistent. Liberals who do fucked up shit always get shut down. Conservatives always get support for fucked up shit. ITS CONSISTENT!

Who is shutting down the liberals? The conservatives? Or other liberals?
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BlackScythe0 posted...
You seem to be having some pretty severe misunderstandings of what is happening. Given you're supporting Trump I can't say I'm surprised.

I absolutely don't support Trump, so it seems like you're the one with pretty severe misunderstandings of what is happening.

What I do support is consistency, and I think a lot of people on the left are deeply inconsistent and presently eating their own to avoid cancelling themselves.
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Doom 2016.
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Metalsonic66 posted...
It was a dumb thing to say out loud

Is it though? People on the left have been saying for about 8 years that Trump is "basically Hitler". If he's "basically Hitler", then what's the position on shooting Hitler? People are apparently against that now? At least when it comes to not getting themselves cancelled. Or maybe Trump was never "basically Hitler"?

I'm not advocating for shooting someone. I'm advocating for consistency. Don't say someone is "basically Hitler", then act outraged that someone would try to assassinate "basically Hitler". Either own up to that level of disdain for the man, or don't express that level of disdain.
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MechaKirby posted...
Guitar is here!

https://imgur.com/a/XfDQAFK

https://imgur.com/a/75AHGnK

Well... that checks out... I mean, it certainly LOOKS like a guitar. But I'm still reserving judgement that you may be up to something...
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I got warned one time for quoting another user's post and asking how they reached the conclusion that they did.
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Whether he survived the assassination attempt or not, the country is already cooked.

Half the population is going to keep thinking any news that doesn't agree with them is fake, any information that isn't good for them is a lie, and anyone that doesn't think like them is trying to destroy the country. There is no way to fix this. There is no way to fix the US. People are never going to unite.

I mean, look at it this way: if the tables were flipped, and we were talking about a registered Democrat trying to off a Democratic leader, what would the response from Republicans be? That it is perpetuated by the Democrats. And if the assassin were a registered Republican? They'd still say it was perpetuated by the Democrats. And what are they saying of the actual attempted yesterday? That is was perpetuated by the Democrats. And what would they say if the shooter yesterday had been a registered Democrat? That it was perpetuated by the Democrats. The Republicans would always blame the Democrats no matter what, no matter the scenario, no matter the combination of factors. Truth doesn't matter, just the narrative. So the US can never heal, because one side is always going to be purposefully obtuse and reject reality for whatever fits their narrative.
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Thinking even more about this, Mega Drive is an even worse name than I already thought it was. Where exactly is the drive on the hardware? It doesn't have a drive, it has a cartridge slot, which I don't know anyone that would call a cartridge slot a "drive".
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Genesis is way better. It sounds mythical or something. Mega Drive just sounds like a 1990s "XTREME MARKETING" version of a floppy disk drive.
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Is anyone else somewhat baffled by how the names seem backwards? Like... Rise of the Planet of the Apes is first one, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is the second one. It seems like a reality in which apes run a planet would need to dawn before the apes themselves rise.
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ai123 posted...
You're argument is that a trans woman choses to forfeit her masculinity, and therefore cannot complain if men are less masculine?

There's a whole festering heap of transphobia and ignorance right there.

Sort yourself out.

My argument is if someone is going to complain about declining masculinity, they shouldn't be the poster child for it. If we're going to talk about "declining masculinity", then we're talking about traditional gender roles, which would be applicable to this individual as well.
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Waxitron_Gazer posted...
jesus dude did you take time off protesting planned parenthood to make this post?

I'm sure your comment made sense to you at least.
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cuttin_in_farm posted...
I like how body shaming and criticizing how someone looks is immediately okay so long as youre saying something you dont like.

Did the irony just completely blow past you that the person whining about the "decline of masculinity" is someone who was born a male and is so thoroughly bereft in masculinity themselves that they identify as a woman, while also being morbidly out of shape? If the term "the pot calling the kettle black" needed a supporting description, this would be it.
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Mothman Prophecies. Boring as shit.
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When you only have one life to live and then your consciousness is erased from existence, it seems pretty weak to off yourself for chronic fatigue of all things.
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ArsGoetia posted...
i did
and i dont wanna bang manlets (or pies)

Are you looking for a large man to bang?
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ArsGoetia posted...
im not tryna to bang a college campus
food can be hot but you dont wanna put your wang in it

Who said anything about banging? That wasn't the question.
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1337toothbrush posted...
I remember when people were demanding $15/hour as a *minimum* wage over a decade ago. It ain't worth shit now.

$15 as a minimum wage would be fine. A high schooler looking for their first part-time, entry-level job getting $15 an hour is fine. We're talking about managers though in this topic. $15 for a managerial position is not fine.
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