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Boeing's getting more sneaky now. Infecting the 2nd whistleblower with super bacteria is less overt than straight up shooting the first one.
Evil fucking company needs to be broken up, sued into the fucking ground, and all executives in jail for life (or death penalty, if possible.... you know damn well if a normal person murdered hundreds of people, he'd get it).

MangaBroski posted...
FBI should be investigating this, but I doubt anything will happen even if they do. Didnt Boeing merge with some company that did military stuff? Id imagine itll take a lot more incidents, both for passengers and assassinated whistleblowers, for the USAs government not to look the other way. Like, probably enough incidents that the money Boeing needs to pay passenger victims will be more than they have to pay the government.
Boeing does military sales, and I'm sure did so before the merger.
Ryven posted...
Funny way of spelling Captain N and the Gamemasters.
Or Mortal Kombat Conquest
Wow, that's bs.
Definitely go to court for it. Hopefully the judge throws it out or reduces it, but even if not they might at least let you pay it w/o it going on your record, b/c speeding tickets can increase your insurance premiums, which will end up costing way more than $132

Yet another reason I guess dash cams are necessary. Could show up to court showing you were going the same speed as the rest of the traffic.

LoveLikeJazz posted...
On the first of the month?

I think the "month" can extend a day or 2 into the next one for the purposes of reaching the quota. I don't know, just what I've heard.
Huh, it's gone (for) now for me. Just as suddenly as it appeared. Hadn't done any additional efforts or even updated Ublock manually yet.
GiftedACIII posted...
Seems it only happens with Chrome. Isn't happening on my Edge browser. Of course Chrome would be the exception. At least you can use the element zapper to remove it.
I'm on Firefox and getting it

Mega_Mana posted...
Dang, you have it nice.

Here's me on mobile. On every page. Every refresh. The last 5-10 minutes.

Holy shit that sucks

nekrodev posted...
Just manually added all 3 elements of it to uBlock and it's gone. ez enough.
How do you do that? I tried element zapper and it got rid of it... until I went to a new page, then it returned.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/70877b7e.jpg

Suddenly appeared a min. ago and now hovers over anything I look at on the forums.
I have ad block on, and see no ads. I know a week ago we had to agree to cookies w/ a similar larger prompt, but now there's a permanent bar over my UI.
Beowulf (the 1999 movie starring Christopher Lambert w/ MK techno fight music and gratuitous backflips) is unironically one of my favorite movies of all time.

I think most people don't even know which Beowulf film I'm referring to, and those that do probably think it's a bad movie.
I don't know what Netflix paid for the rights to stream Madame Web, but I know whatever that figure is, they paid too much.
ConfusedTorchic posted...
anything electronic

it's going to just be a more expensive rebranded chinese thing that you can likely find on amazon itself under one of those random letter combination sellers for cheaper
I got a pack of Amazon Basic 9V batteries b/c they were cheap and had great reviews. They seem to work fine.
206 days of genocide, eh?

Let's plug 4/30/2024 into the Excel sheet and then subtract 206 from it. Wonder what that gets us? Oct. 7th, 2023. I'm like...so shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
Reese > Milky Way > Snickers > Twix > Kit Kat

(so Kit Kat has to go)
pinky0926 posted...
Sums up so many of my thoughts.
Glad someone enjoyed it

The problem is especially prevalent in EVs and companies seem to think "wants EV" = "loves as much technological bull shit shoved into the car as possible", which is one of the reasons I ended up passing on buying one.

I don't want smart homes. I don't want smart cars.
hell, if it wasn't literally cheaper than my old flip phone plan, I'd gladly give up my smart phone, too
On a similar note, Flanders burgers should not be considered acceptable for human consumption, either.
KFHEWUI posted...
Heckathorn was arrested and booked into the Douglas county jail on Tuesday for second-degree burglary, criminal trespass and criminal mischief.

He needs WAY MORE charges than this. WTF?!
Vile fucking scum of the earth, he should be in jail for life for that
pinky0926 posted...
https://www.finder.com/uk/savings-accounts/saving-statistics

Wow, that sure is a lot of information...
Ctrl+F: "median"; result: Phrase not found

Worthless data
I refuse to do any banking on my phone.

But banks and lots of other important websites require fucking 2FA now, so having my phone stolen would still be disastrous, all in the name of "my security" *barf*

Why did tying shit to your phone become the gold standard for security? I fucking hate it.
https://heavy.com/news/terry-clark-hughes-jr/

This was the main suspect they were arresting. Seems like he should have been in prison already. Not sure about the other 2 suspects.

4 officers have now died. RIP
https://www.wfla.com/top-videos/watch-driver-nearly-gets
-hit-by-large-chunk-of-tornado-debris/

Check out the video at the 0:43 second mark!
(had to break up the link b/c GFAQs auto-mod is fucking stupid)
Just announced, NHTSA requiring Automatic Emergency Braking on all cars in the next 5 years.
Going to be yet another stupid technology added to increase cost per car, and I don't like the possible negative unintended consequences, at all.
So you're in an AEB car and get a "false positive" (my first concern when I saw the news, and apparently it's not uncommon...see below) while driving at 60 fucking miles per hour. The car behind you is older and doesn't have AEB, and has no logical reason to think you're going to suddenly SLAM ON THE BRAKES on a perfectly clear road, so he's unable to stop in time and collides with you.
I wonder how much more this will make cars and insurance cost?

https://apnews.com/article/automatic-emergency-braking-requirement-stop-standards-366abf6958eaf4e48e7ca4737075071b

https://abc3340.com/news/local/drivers-complain-of-phantom-braking-on-some-newer-model-vehicles-nissan-honda-emergency-braking-aeb-automatic-braking

https://www.automotive-fleet.com/10196711/safety-systems-may-cause-phantom-braking

https://new.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/109oa9j/aeb_automated_emergency_braking_systems_dont_work/
I want to know what options there are for whole-home filtration systems that actually fucking work for removing PFAS from the water.
Because the most horrifying thing about those chemicals is that direct absorption thru the skin (like when showering) is even worse than drinking water w/ it in it. So you have to filter every fucking drop of water coming into your home system to be safe.

And yeah, gradually more and more % of our digested food in our stomachs will be microplastics. It would be nice if we did shit about it.
They're two different but related (abundance of plastics) problems, and neither gets even 1/10000 of the outrage it should.
lol, someone broke out their alt for that
Thanks for the bump, I guess?

Anyone know about the supposed India case, btw?

SubtletyRefuge posted...
Garbage social media corporate vs government overreach trying to play global police. A let them fight scenario if there ever was one.
Australia winning sets a really nasty precedent.
Protestor: "This is a democracy!"
Counter-protestor: "Actually..." *unpeels banana* "It's a Banana Republic." *puts on shades*
Debating what to do. Pretty much have to put the request in tonight if you want the current 6 month I Bond rate, a combined 5.27%. Which isn't much better than what some CDs and savings accounts offer, but it's state tax free, and includes a fixed 1.3% component for the life of the bond. Supposedly in May the total rate is expected to drop to around 4.3% and who knows what the fixed/variable parts will be.

Meanwhile, short term CDs are paying higher interest rates than 1 year ones, which in turn are paying more than multi-year ones. Because people expect rates to drop, so "locking in" higher rates for long term is considered worth the loss.

I have a savings account paying 5.05% right now w/o any commitment on my end, but by the same token, they can drop the rate any time they like.

So...trying to figure out what I should do w/ my savings. I might do the I Bonds just b/c it's capped at $10K per person per year so it's not like it's pretty limited how much can be put in anyway, and worst case scenario I remove it in 15 months, losing 3 months of trash interest and maybe the 2nd 6 months was lower than a CD would've paid, but still no state tax.

Capital One is offering a 10 month CD for 5.10%, which at least "locks in" for nearly a year if rates do come down, and I doubt there's any risk of them going up....

What is CE doing w/ their savings currently?
Why did it take so long?
A Shit Pie got it removed in Trump's first year.

On the subject of shit that's taking too long... Did Trump's horrible USPS pick get booted yet? I gave up asking after 2 years, but seriously.... is he gone, yet?
Games that just came out this week I recommend:

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (JRPG, Suikoden spiritual successor)
Stellar Blade (action game, like Nier Automata or Bayonetta)
Another Crab's Treasure (funny souls-like w/ a crab...it actually works well)
Sucker for Love: A Date to Die For (dating sim / horror / comedy ...romance Lovecraftian monsters)
Hard to say, so many great games I haven't even played/finished yet.

Like, just this week we got:
Eiyuden Chronicle
Stellar Blade
Sucker for Love: A Date to Die For
Another Crab's Treasure

And probably others I'm forgetting. Plus the great games that previously came out like Dragon's Dogma 2 and Unicorn Overlord
Supposedly the problem now is that people who'd be selling don't want to give up their super low interest rates b/c they inevitably have to buy a new place and get stuck w/ the current rates.
The Fed really fucked us over in so many ways. I don't think we can ever sustain "high" interest rates long term again or at least not w/o decades of weening back to them. They're gonna have to drop the rates by 1% or more within the next few years, if only to "stimulate" the housing market. May not go back to the 2% range, though. But that's their best option right now, see-saw between lower and higher rates and every cycle ratchet the floor and ceiling slightly higher so eventually people see a 6% rate as normal again and the 2% and 3% rates age out of the market.
Of course it's the Fed, so fat chance they'll do the best option. More likely will just keep doing giant rate cuts and raises to inflate and pop bubbles b/c the chaos makes rich stock-holders more money.

SkittyOnWailord posted...
I saw this posted recently. Seems relevent.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5e266937.jpg
Ok, for the house to increase over 4x in price in just 10 years is fucking insane, even in the hottest housing markets.
Must be the absolute most sought-after fast-growing area in the entire country (which couldn't have been high value before 2014 b/c it was only $185K back then). Like, even Sunbelt areas don't fit that bill (fast growing before then and didn't spike that much in a decade).
Something is missing or they're lying. Maybe the house was significantly renovated and such. Like the basement got finished, added a pool in the backyard, etc...
pretzelcoatl posted...
What I've heard is that it's because of number of car thefts in a given area, on top of car manufacturer. Kias and Hyundais are getting stolen and joyridden into accidents, used for robberies in my city like crazy. Ad a result, all our insurance has gone up, on top of Kias and Hyundais being insanely expensive to insure now.

https://www.marketwatch.com/guides/insurance-services/insuring-your-kia-or-hyundai/

"What? Throw the car thieves in jail and solve the problem? Nah, they're precious little angels who don't know any better! Let's just make life miserable for every Hyundai and Kia owner in America, and anyone else whose car gets crashed into by one of them when they're stolen. I'm allegedly a logical functioning adult!"

"Just get insurance, bro"

Yeah, this topic is just gonna be me griping about how bs this all is b/c I know nothing (lock the fuckers up!) is gonna ever be done. If stealing Kias, joy racing them, and murdering innocent pedestrians didn't get the DAs to do shit about it, nothing is going to.
I didn't want to make a topic just to post a video w/ most of my gripes about modern car design hilariously covered (plus a solid 1/2 of it dedicated just to shitting on the Cyber Truck), but since this topic now exists, enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S7GU9lDpq8
CoyoteTheGreat posted...
By all means, don't trust the polls (Though at this point, I think the polls are mostly bought up by Republicans to flood them with overly optimistic estimates to push the great lie about voter fraud for the next cycle). The thing is though, I think you are misunderstanding the conservative movement. It exists to grift money. RFK Jr. isn't trying to help Trump, he is trying to grift money from donors. And because of that, he isn't mysteriously dropping out the moment it has become clear to everyone that he is actually pulling more Republican voters than Democrats. Republicans will happily fuck each other over if it means the money comes to them. They are capitalists first and ideologues second. Like, you can see it down the line with every part of their party. Look at their megachurch pastors. They might actually believe the bullshit they are preaching, or they might not, but the one thing they definitely believe in is the gospel of prosperity.
I think you're misunderstanding what I said.
No doubt, RFK is a grifter.
I did not say he would drop out when that moment came. He is a self-interested entity and will try to grift as long as he can, hopefully eventually to Trump's detriment.

I said the moment that his campaign is suddenly losing all its major donors and cash is when you know he's reached that inflection point. Never said he'd drop out at the moment. He, like all Republicans -- self-labeled or secretive --, is greedy and not that bright. He'll probably try to keep the gravy train of small donors flowing at least, and I wouldn't dare try to predict the actions of a crazy person like him.
So I'm going with the thing that can be predicted and that will follow logic -- big money donors boosting his campaign pulling out -- as when you know his campaign is no longer useful.
Humble_Novice posted...
https://twitter.com/jurgen_nauditt/status/1784600782060376087
Why do they announce this shit?
US long ago said Crimea is not Russian territory, but Ukraine's.
US long ago greenlit our weapons being used against Russians w/in Ukraine.
And the ATACMS are known to be getting sent to Ukraine (another thing I wish people used fucking OPSEC for...every new capability sent to Ukraine should be "announced" via its first military use)

Why do we need to spell out the exact who what and how for an upcoming attack for Russia like this? The pieces were already all there waiting to be assembled unfortunately, but then you go and put the puzzle together for them, too.
I don't trust polls at all.

We know RFK's campaign exists solely to help Trump, his own campaign accidentally admitted it.
When his campaign abruptly gets scuppered of all financial support suddenly, that is when we know that Republican playmakers have determined that the topic title is true. No sooner than that.
In 3E, the only edition I care about...

It depends.

If all you care about is sheer damage and highest rate of fire, it's Fighter. Ranged Weapon Mastery, Weapon Supremacy, and Targetteer to get an extra Rapid Shot is just a monstrous volley. (arguably a Ranger could match/exceed it later on w/ Stalker of Kharash to get favored enemy against ALL evil foes and the Arrow Storm spell to shoot every enemy within 100 ft in a round, but that's pretty niche)

I'd say Ranger is the much better complete package, though. Much more skills and Spot in class so you can actually see targets 1000 ft away. And the spells help a ton. Arrow Mind alone lets you go all Legolas and shoot w/ impunity even while surrounded, Arrow Storm is an army slayer, Hunter's Mercy to auto-crit when you just need to snipe someone, Hunter's Eye to get sneak attack damage... all kinds of spells to help with stealth or scouting, etc....

Of course, why limit yourself to one or the other? Ranger 16 / Fighter 4 (1st level or so in ranger, then 4 level fighter dip, then back to ranger) gets you literally everything I mentioned in the Fighter paragraph (except Weapon Supremacy...but you'll probably never even play till level 18+ anyway) for the low cost of delaying Ranger stuff by 4 levels.
Yeah

He was one of my favorite comics before he had the show, so I watched it. I think I saw the first 8 seasons? and for some reason just kinda stopped watching eventually. Like about 1-2 years after Trevor Noah took over the Daily Show. Just kinda lost interest in regular tv in general at that point and mostly stuck to youtube and other online content.

I preferred his standup to the show, but it was still funny enough. The "Lightning Bolt!" web redemption was probably my favorite one and I never even knew of it before the episode. Just Tosh mocking furries and LARPing was so good. Oh, and the "extended" review of Human Centipede, which apparently has been lost? I tried looking it up again a while back and comedy central changed their site and I couldn't find it. If it's gone, that is a horrible loss to all humanity.
1st and last options
Chose last option b/c the hypocrisy is so fucking glaring

creativerealms posted...
You mean them toning down racist slang?
TC means at least one outfit became more covered up / less risque (possibly more that haven't been discovered yet). It was shown in trailers in the original form and physical copies ship w/ it. But a Day 1 Patch and all digital copies have it changed to the other outfit.

In any case, terrible precedent and what stops them from "patching" more outfit changes later? Sony already feels emboldened enough to bait and switch people on day 1.
It's unfortunate, but not unexpected. I hope Shift Up is working on the PC port right now so we can enjoy Stellar Blade w/o Sony having their clutches on it nor profiting from it.
GranTurismo posted...
You do it every week though?
every 2 weeks, which is already more often than I'd like

And I'm just letting it fucking grow while it's peak allergy season b/c I don't even want to be outside in general, let alone cutting grass.

I need a good groundcover that only grows a few inches and fucking STOPS....
Yes. It fucking sucks.
I'm allergic to cut grass, my yard has all kinds of damn contouring and slopes so doing straight lines is a pain in the ass, and there's bugs so I have to wear long sleeves and pants even when it's fucking hot out.
By the end, I'm running inside to wash my face and shower b/c my eyes are burning, even w/ goggles on.
Remember all those stories about car thefts (especially Kia Boys) and on a related note, retail theft?
How the glib left wing response was, "don't u have insurance, bro?"

Well, guess what happens when a shit load more people start making insurance claims!

And yeah, in the last 2 years my insurance has gone up 70% despite no accidents or claims. And because I have a Hyundai, I might not even be able to change insurance, b/c apparently a lot of them are refusing to cover them for new customers. Hurray!
Foppe posted...
Anybody know how the GameSpot and IGN forums are these days?

Wouldn't GameSpot also be owned by Fandom and thus be like fleeing from the sinking Lusitania onto the Titanic?
P4wn4g3 posted...
Forums are old internet now.
I know :(

But some still exist, so I was hoping there were still options.
-Crissaegrim- posted...
I think in this case the only thing you can do is to not let them win. You let them take Ukraine and get stronger and then in another decade or so they start moving in on the other former Soviet nations the same way. They won't stop. And everytime they end up in a better position to act on their threats.

You can't negotiate with them either because anyone who makes peace with them or surrenders after initially challenging them ends up dead somehow.

There's no other option to exhaust other than to totally fucking defeat them.

A decade is extremely optimistic. In this video, RLL lays out a much shorter timeline, if Trump wins this November:

  • Trump immediately ceases all aid to Ukraine and even worse, ends all the economic sanctions holding back their production. He also possibly throws wrenches into other efforts
  • Ukraine, facing an infinite number of hired bodies from poor countries around Russia (which they're already doing), has no choice but to accept a sham peace agreement that gives up their entire coastline, restricts their military to a paltry size, and inserts a puppet leader
  • A few years later (by 2027 or sooner), Russia moves to annex Moldova and (if Ukraine resists) the rest of Ukraine. Then conquers majority Russian towns along its border in the Baltic states, to test NATO's willingness to enact Article 5 "just to save a few towns", and w/ the Trump-led US emphatically doing nothing (Trump can technically meet the requirements of A5 by just sending them some helmets and med kits)
  • China, which due to aging population will be on the decline after 2027 and thus eager to act, will attack Taiwan in concert w/ Russia invading all of the Baltic states, to further split NATO's attention
That's the basic outline we're looking at if we don't stand up to Russia now and if we let Putin's favorite sock puppet back into office.
P4wn4g3 posted...
Are you a tails alt
Edit: no you couldn't be, you'd want gamefaqs to die.

I have no alts, nor have I ever.
I didn't want this site to die (as it existed before all this shit ...now I guess there's not much point left to it), and I'm pissed they closed Politics and all these other boards and instituted these stupid not-rules (rules would actually be posted).
Ok, apparently this site is being killed off even faster than I expected. Better get info now, while I can.

I know there's multiple Discord servers set up, but like...fucking hell do I hate Discord. Twitter is even worse. Reddit has a horrible layout but for now I guess is my next best option to discuss politics/social stuff.

My preference has always been forums. With threads/topics, separate boards, etc... It seems this style of "social media" is being actively killed off by tech companies b/c it makes them less money than all the horrible newer forms of social media.

I still peruse and post on Giant In The Playground and maybe I'll go back to EN World, but those are D&D boards and either don't allow politics discussion or severely restrict it. I also don't want a fucking echo chamber, whether left wing or right wing, which seems increasingly harder to find. As for moderation, the ideal for me was always strong CONSISTENT/FAIR moderation of clear abuses (death threats, doxing, fully "adult content", using racial slurs, unmarked spoilers, etc...) but otherwise pretty lax and free to say what you want. Obviously not moderation the style here, but options are limited and you have to make do...

So anyway, with that said... Any decent options still available? All I have seen is talk about Discord, Reddit, etc... So I made this topic specific looking for new options for a forum to use.
I need to find a new "home". :(
The censorship defenders on this site will often say, "you only care about fanservice" (even as they mock people for being upset about translation changes, most recently Eiyuden Chronicle) or "you only care when it affects stuff you watch/play/read" (even though many of us legit never did, it doesn't stop their gaslighting).
Or they like to try and pretend like it's not "censorship" unless a government mandates it, which is plainly bs.

Well, as someone who legit never once posted on the Sex, Hot Girls, or Religion boards... this is horrific and appalling censorship and fuck Fandom and anyone who defends this shit. Censorship is wrong, period.

God, I hope Fandom goes bankrupt.
I think live-streaming platforms like Kick or whatever it's called do way more towards platforming those losers.

"Remember to like, comment, and subscribe as I harass regular people just trying to go about their day for lulz, because I'm the main character!"
SAlYAN posted...
No, I'd say the ones in 1 were pretty fine with the arrangement
1 is the only one where maybe it doesn't count, yes

MASSIVE spoilers below, do not reveal if you don't want them:

XC1: Didn't "seek" a cure, but Meyneth, after living thru and being at least complicit (thru inaction) in Zanza destroying and recreating multiple civilizations, was pretty content to die. Again, I admit it's the one game where it maybe doesn't apply.

XCX: Lao is disgusted with the "Mims" (which since they're basically a mind upload to a machine effectively can be immortal) and how they're not even really human anymore and thinks humanity should've died out when Earth was destroyed.

XC2: Pyra/Mythra outright says she wanted to go to the World Tree and meet the Architect to ask him to die.

XC3: The entire mission of the City is to break the endless cycle of death and rebirth (a form of immortality) imposed by the Consuls so people can just grow old and die like mortals. Also even before that, the ultimate goal of Kevesi and Agnians was to make it to "graduation" and survive 10 years, which turns out to remove them from the cycle and thus perma-death. So literally the entire game is one form or another of wanting mortality.

So yeah, I think just saying the series as a whole is an example is pretty fair...
Basically the entire Xenoblade series
Antifar posted...
Columnist Maureen Dowd, for example, complained to colleagues that she stopped hearing from White House officials after a column on Hunter Biden.

"How dare Joe Biden be mad that the NYT went after his son, who isn't in politics!"

Another in the papers On Politics newsletter by the newly hired Jess Bidgood reacted to Arizonas reinstatement of a Civil War era law outlawing abortion by framing Biden and Trump as two imperfect messengers on the issue, a gross journalistic injustice, campaign officials said, given Trumps outsized role in appointing the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade.

In February, the campaign blasted the Times and other news organizations for focusing more on the presidents age than Trumps comment encouraging Russia to do whatever the hell they want to any NATO country not meeting defense spending benchmarks. If you read the New York Times this weekend, you might have missed it buried behind five separate opinion pieces about how the president is 81 year old something that has been true since his birthday in November and *zero* on this topic, Ducklo wrote.

Sounds like the Biden admin is 100% in the right on this, and screw the NYT

For many Times veterans, such actions suggest that the Trump era has warped many Democrats expectations of journalists.

"You're supposed to quietly take our blatantly unbalanced and biased reporting like spineless worms" being the expectations that Dems are supposed to have?

On the other side, the newspaper carries its own singular obsession with the president, aggrieved over his refusal to give the paper a sit-down interview that Publisher AG Sulzberger and other top editors believe to be its birthright.

Well, try having journalistic integrity?
As a huge fan of the Clock Tower franchise, I didn't have much hopes for the remake considering who was in charge of it. Maybe for the best if it never happens.
I never really interacted w/ him and on other boards like pro wrestling he seemed to troll a bit, but nowhere near as bad as a lot of others.
Sucks he got axed from the site due to the stupid fucking Orwellian "hornyposting" rules that are 1000x worse than the politics non-CE ban but people mostly seem to mock the implementation of rather than genuinely complain like w/ the politics.
Also I think he got hit by a car in a crosswalk a few months ago? Hope he's recovering from that.

*sigh* Fandom's killing this site, and the alternatives are shit like Discord. I like forums. Why is the internet killing them off?
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