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2r1aqueroso posted...
I was trying to figure out what TvS was but I think you meant Tatsunoko vs Capcom (TvC)

Yeah, that's what I meant since it's from the same developer.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Maximilian Dood watched some footage and I think I ultimately agree with his assessment that it looks like a good $20 "single A" fighter that feels like TvS if it was an upscaled PSP port.
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Antifar posted...
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2024/04/meta-ai-falsely-claims-lawmakers-were-accused-sexual-harassment/396121/

Tech geniuses are going all in on a product that can't be left alone without doing crimes.

I may be reading too much into the story, but if this chatbot didn't used to do this, still doesn't do it for most politicians, and the ones that it does do it for are the ones specifically sitting on committees looking to regulate AI... that reads less like tech bros throwing out unproven technology and more somebody with a grudge tweaking the model on the back end.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Tell us, when this forum shuts down... we'll know where you came from, but where will you go?
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If they DO shut down CE, spread this topic's content to the other boards and if you really want fandom to have it, give it to the banned folks too:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80753122
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Bumping in case the rumors about CE going away soon are true. I encourage every user to take the content of this thread and spread it to every other board. And if CE gets shut down today... give it to tails.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Don't worry toast will be here soon to pretend he saved CE somehow.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Asherlee10 posted...
I feel personally attacked

If you were looking for a sign that it's time to get rid of that old comforter you have in a plastic bin shoved back into the deepest recesses of your closet that you keep around because you might one day go back to that old color scheme, this is it. It's time to let it go.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
BBC News posted an article about her like today. She still doing stand-up and has a new tour leading up to a new Netflix special.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89zy07x40no
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Could you be a bit more specific? If you're talking something like an artist that works for an advertisement company that makes and sells billboard space that's one thing. If you're talking about someone on social media who is constantly posting videos that are effectively product advertisements for the free things they get shipped to their house that's another. Or are you talking about people in a sales position that more or less only make money on commissions?
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
No. Those platforms get used by those folks, it doesn't create those folks. Before tiktok these were the same people that would try and get free food by claiming that they were an Instagram model or professional Yelp reviewer.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Millennials are also on track to inherit more money than any generation that has ever existed.

Edit:
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pittsburgh/news/new-data-millennials-richest-generation-by-2044/
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Millennials could become the richest generation ever by the year 2044.

That's according to The Wealth Report by global property consultant Knight Frank.

The research says that generation is expected to inherit roughly $90 trillion worth of assets over the next 20 years. There is an obvious catch: these millennials have to come from families with healthy financial portfolios.

"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
What would be the industry standard? I assume console sales go down in general this many years into a console's life cycle. I just don't know what a healthy rate would be.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Asherlee10 posted...
I want to use this topic as a platform to also complain about houses and storage. Why is that so many homes just simply do not build storage? In my neighborhood I would say that probably 90% park in the driveway because the garage has to be used for storage.

That probably just comes down to buyer preference without consideration for the long-term impact. Like, if you put down two floor plans in front of a buyer and told them that one had more storage but in exchange all the bedrooms were smaller, they'll probably pick the ones with the bigger bedroom.

Then again, I'm also of the opinion that your average homeowner has entirely too much crap and the issue is less a lack of storage space and more an excess of stuff in storage that they're not going to touch or look at for the next decade.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
They turned into vines which turned into Snapchat which turned into TikTok and YouTube shorts.
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Sufferedphoenix posted...
Which spider man though. It would be a crime to not have Deadpool not pull some homowrotic moments for a cheap laugh. I prefer Tom Holland but while I understand he's an adult he doesn't look it and none of them portray an adult Peter do they?

For a Deadpool movie I feel like the best choice would be Andrew Garfield. Both to make fun of him for being the least popular one, but also to redeem him a little bit because I think no way home caused a lot of people to reevaluate his performance and come back way more positive then they did when his movies came out.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
The game gear Sonic games were great except for the one massive flaw that was having the boss stage be its own thing with no rings. As a kid some of those later bosses felt impossible.

Also, maybe it's just nostalgia but I kind of wish they brought the hang glider sections back in some form in the later games.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
As a kid playing through red the first time I ended up using my master ball on Zapdos because I had no idea what was in the game and didn't know that Mewtwo was a secret super boss. I eventually caught him without the master ball but holy crap was that an ordeal.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Casual reminder that US Congress passed a law in 1995 saying that they were going to do all of that and then a special 6-month waiver was signed by the president, and every president since, every 6 months to delay the enactment. Even Trump sign the waiver until the Senate voted 90 to 0 to recognize the act, and then only after that was the embassy moved.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Embassy_Act
The Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995[1] is a public law of the United States passed by the 104th Congress on October 23, 1995. The proposed law was adopted by the Senate (935),[2] and the House (37437).[3] The Act became law without a presidential signature on November 8, 1995.

The Act recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel and called for Jerusalem to remain an undivided city. Its purpose was to set aside funds for the relocation of the Embassy of the United States in Israel from its location in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, by May 31, 1999. For this purpose, it withheld 50% of the funds appropriated to the State Department specifically for "Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings Abroad" as allocated in fiscal year 1999 until the United States Embassy in Jerusalem had officially opened.[4]

Despite passage, the law allowed the President to invoke a six-month waiver of the application of the law, and reissue the waiver every six months on "national security" grounds. The waiver was repeatedly renewed by Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama.[5] President Donald Trump signed a waiver in June 2017. On June 5, 2017, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution commemorating the 50th anniversary of reunification of Jerusalem by 900. The resolution reaffirmed the Jerusalem Embassy Act and called upon the President and all United States officials to abide by its provisions.[6] On December 6, 2017, Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital,[7] and ordered the planning of the relocation of the embassy.[8][9] However, following the announcement, Trump signed an embassy waiver again, delaying the move, as mandated by the Act, by at least six months.[10][11] Legally, however, the U.S. embassy can be moved at any time without reliance on the Act.

On February 23, 2018, President Trump announced that the US Embassy in Israel would reopen at the Arnona consular services site of the then US Consulate-General in Jerusalem. The United States Embassy officially relocated to Jerusalem on May 14, 2018, to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.[12][13]
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Because TikTok has also proven to openly lie to Congress about their data collection:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64797355
Since 2020, TikTok executives have repeatedly tried to reassure people that Chinese staff cannot access the data of non-Chinese users.

But in 2022, ByteDance admitted that several of its Beijing-based employees did access the data of at least two journalists in the US and UK to track their locations and check whether they were meeting TikTok employees suspected of leaking information to the media.

"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
you're just going to end up with a list of emo bands from the early 2000s.
Brand New
Jimmy Eat World
My Chemical Romance
Yellowcard
Dashboard Confessional
Fall Out Boy
Ben Folds Five
etc
etc

"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Doe posted...
The US Chamber of Commerce is not the government, it is a big business lobbying group.

Oh duh, good point. They come up so often in stories I just completely forgot they weren't just another government agency.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
The government sues itself all the time. Usually it's state-to-federal or vice-versa, but in this instance it seems the actual issue is one of jurisdiction. The chamber of commerce believes the FTC is stepping on their territory and is asking the courts to determine who actually has the power to make these types of rules.
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Doe posted...
I think this logic sort of treats the problem as being giving the game an overall score when that's just not the issue. The issue is that gamers have such an unhealthy relationship with their product of choice that they stake their own pride and mental wellbeing on whether the game they want is recognized as being good by others. And they already decide the game is good from the trailers or series name, so if a review contradicts their expectation at all then it becomes a personal insult against that gamer. And that's even putting aside when the culture war angle flares up like with this one.

The only meaning any kind of score has to these people is as either validation for their constructed reality or an assault on their values/childhood/beliefs. Breaking it down into smaller scores won't change how the gamers who get mad about them interpret them.

It won't change their opinion, but it does change the conversation. It makes it much harder for them to point at a holistic review and find some sentence that they think proves the writer is against them or something. It changes the conversation from "this game is a nine not a seven" to "gameplay should have gotten a 5 instead of a 4." It's also much easier to discuss in an objective fashion the pros and cons of something like gameplay or graphics when you've isolated that piece of the overall picture instead of blending it all together.

But maybe I'm just being optimistic here.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
I'm still on the note 9 and it works flawlessly. I feel like cell phone processing power has grossly outstripped demand on the software side and we could all probably work just fine with a phone two or three generations back from latest without noticing a single performance hit.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Doe posted...
Gamer review culture is a dumpster fire.

Game reviews just need to go back to having separate scores for graphics, sound, gameplay, controls, etc. if they need to add a special extra number for the writer's personal preferences they can add that to make them feel better, fine.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
I can't say it's a good idea, but the protesters have now formally issued demands to the university in exchange for them leaving, and the demands have now spread to beyond just the Israel Gaza conflict:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68886727
Since last week, protesters at Columbia - partly organised by a group called Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) - have called on the university to fully divest its finances, including its endowment, from companies and institutions it claims profit from Israel's "occupation" of Palestinians.

A committee that advises the university on socially responsible investing rejected these demands earlier this year, saying there was a lack of consensus in the Columbia community over the issue.

CUAD also calls on the university to cut links with Israeli institutions such as Tel Aviv University, to formally call for a ceasefire in Gaza, to end policing on campus and to "sever ties" with New York police.

In the wake of last week's arrests, another demand was added: amnesty for protesters who are facing disciplinary action from the university. Some have lost their meal plans and housing, forcing them to find alternative accommodation.

"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
CARRRNE_ASADA posted...
Also its a somewhat frequent thing with short term rentals like Airbnb where people book for weeks and never leave, cause now the time they spent in the house qualifies them for squatter rights.

This too. The people you read in squatters stories aren't homeless people just finding a place to stay warm. They're scammers and con artists abusing the system. It's like when there was the eviction moratorium over covid and some renters (an extremely small percentage, I'm sure) decided that since they couldn't be evicted they would just stop paying and save up like a year's worth of rent to go somewhere else.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
R_Jackal posted...
Always wondered about the squatter problem, assumed it was just renting issues, but laws actually protected people who, without permission, just took up shop in someone's property? That's kinda nuts.

As someone who was homeless, I can understand desperately wanting a place to stay.. but that sure as hell isn't the way to go about it. Damn.

Generally the problem with squatters isn't that they can't be evicted. Generally the problem is that people will discover squatters and have to spend tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees spending months fighting them in courts all the meanwhile they continue to trash the home and pay no money. Then the people who get their homes back at the end are left with a ruined house and months of bills stacked up that are now their responsibility.

It can also be used as the basis for a scam. One of the recent stories somebody posted on ce had the guy who was squatting tell the owner that he had put a few thousand dollars of work into the home and that he would move out if she just gave him the money. So there's definitely a financial incentive to effectively hold people's property hostage knowing that they're two options are either pay you to leave or spend half a year forcing you out while you trash the place.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Even if he was crucified, the method was likely different. Crucifixion is about asphyxiation and Romans didn't make a habit of nailing people to the crosses. Having your arms tied up like that collapses your lungs and makes it hard to breathe, forcing you to push up against the little stand you're on to catch your breath and sometimes it can take days for people to die. They most likely would not have taken this one individual, put a crown of thorns on his head, and then nail him to his cross. That makes sense from a Christian perspective, but from a Roman perspective he was just another guy sentenced to die. There would be no reason for them to give him any sort of special treatment.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Jiek_Fafn posted...
tl; dr
Sum it up for me, pls. Also explain it to me like I'm 7

If you live in EU or california, fandom is legally required to respond to a request at no cost to you explaining exactly how all of your data is being used. They are also legally required to delete any personal information from their system should you choose to quit. The other bits are just about disabling cookies and turning off settings that are on by default that gives fandom permission to collect information about your browsing habits that they then can sell for a profit.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
legendary_zell posted...
Whether this stands will depend on why Obama's rule was struck down and whether there's been enough technical changes to this rule to let it stand. This is genuinely good, but I don't see why there should be an income cap on it. People who work over 40 hours should be paid overtime, regardless of if they're hourly or salaried, low income or medium income.

The article says why:
The Labor Department in 2016 doubled the salary threshold to about $47,000. A federal judge in Texas the following year said that ceiling was so high that it could sweep in some management workers who are exempt from overtime pay protections, and struck it down.

The new rule is likely to face legal challenges arguing that like the Obama administration rule, it violates federal wage law by including many lower-paid supervisors and professionals who typically would not be eligible for overtime.

Given that this new salary cap is even higher than the Obama one, I expect the same arguments to come into play. Basically, if they set the cap high enough that managers who aren't eligible for overtime fall under it, it creates a legal contradiction.
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IIRC they cut a deal with the government of Rwanda to take refugees in exchange for payments or something like that. I think they're technically designated as a safe third country so it would otherwise be a valid place for them to request refugee status.
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CE is constantly talking about how the right falls in line and the left is constantly infighting, so this standup joke at least lines up with my observations on what CE in general thinks.
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It's like when Google maps offers you an alternate route that's like 2 hours longer.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
There was a good long period of maybe a decade where GameStop was going so hard on pre-orders that they would intentionally under stock new games so that if you tried to buy it on release day they would tell everyone they were sold out and they should have pre-ordered.

Beyond artificial scarcity though, you do get the occasional nonsense like that one Arkham games where an entire side story was a pre-order bonus.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
I'm going to put the critical reception at around a 7 out of 10 and the fan reception at around an 8.7.
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Nemu posted...
Curious how itll work for people with heavy accents. I could imagine that being a very terrible time.

Possibly, but on the flip side multilingual chat bots are pretty close to being a solved problem, meeting in the future you could pull up to a Wendy's and order in whatever language you want and it would be able to understand and respond. So the people with thick accents could just speak in their native tongue.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
TMOG posted...
Pathfinder 1e was actually a direct response to Wizards not using the OGL for 4e and instead using the far more restrictive GSL.

Sure, but 4E being 4E was also a significant driver for them putting in the effort.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Pathfinder was originally built by people who didn't like the more streamlined direction that d&d was going in. So if you played baldur's gate and thought that the game could use more options and added complexity, Pathfinder's the direction you'll go in. If you found the systems already too complex or annoying to internalize and manage, modern d&d has that taken care of for you.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
PowerMan5000000 posted...
I love overtime pay, hard to believe its not a thing for every hourly job.

This rule only affects salaried work. It would have no impact on hourly jobs.

The article also said that this is basically identical to an executive order Obama passed that was shot down in courts, only this one has an even higher salary cap, so odds are this is more of a performative election year thing and less something that will actually stick around once it's been challenged in courts.
"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
discodancer77 posted...
Cool Ill look into those. Are there any movies that are considered essential reading that are really formative for the genre? That get a lot of callbacks and stuff?

I can't name which movies, but at least with Godzilla you'll want to be familiar with mothra, Ghidorah, and Mecha Godzilla as those are the most "lore relevant" Godzilla monsters.
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Cloverfield
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projectpat72988 posted...
This is probably a dumb question but.

When the boxes are "grey" does that mean those are turned OFF?

I just found it odd they were all selected grey by default. Usually, they would have them all on by default and hope you don't bother with it.

Grey (white circle on the left side) is OFF.

When the EU first rolled out these requirements a lot of sites did a pop-up and once you selected it remembers those preferences but a lot of people just clicked "accept all" and never learned how to turn them off manually.
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