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Muscles posted...

There's a lot of great things about America and cities aren't one of them, they have have some cool shit in some cities but mostly they suck. Like I love Chicago food, and you can't have sports teams without cities and you probably won't be getting any cool concerts near you without cities, etc. but they are also overly taxed, crime ridden cesspools that will try to take all your money, whether it's the politicians or the fellow people.

Try that in a small town.

It's not even just that he lost, they're protesting because they believe he should be above prosecution for crimes he's committed. They don't believe he's innocent, just that he shouldn't face any consequences that might interfere with his ability to act as their messiah.

Side note: Apparently there are 3.54 million truckers in the US. Even if every single one of them were on board with this (and they aren't), that's not very many millions. This is "one million moms" (actually about 10k) all over again.

TheGuiltySpark posted...

Is your problem with the "MAGA" part or the "boycott" part?

Because if you believe in boycotts, but only for people that think like you, then...

You can believe in boycotts as a concept while disagreeing with or disapproving of any particular boycott.

You can celebrate whatever you want however you want, so long as you aren't hurting anyone (or expressing an intent to do so). Just don't necessarily expect other people to celebrate with you or understand why you're celebrating if you aren't following some sort of established social norm.

Devil_May_Cry posted...

I never said criticism of Israel is antisemitic.

"Look at these poor Israeli diplomats that have to justify their genocide to the UN because those idiots at the UN don't know what their 'Never Again' badges mean."

At every turn since the most recent eruption of open war, you've been quite clear that you believe anyone critical of Israel's actions (actions which include wholesale slaughter of civilians, destruction of critical civilian infrastructure, deliberately engineering one of the worst refugee crises in recent memory while actively impeding efforts to provide humanitarian aid, and other blatant war crimes) is doing so because they're antisemitic, not because Israel's government (which is notably very distinct from Jews as an ethnic collective) is comprised of genocidal maniacs and people don't like that. You've been handwaving atrocities and digging as hard as you can for silver linings in an apparent effort to garner sympathy for Israel (who doesn't deserve it) and Jewish people (who do deserve it, but generally already have it among the circles where you're saying these things).

If that hasn't been your intent, consider this a wake-up call that you need to re-evaluate how you've worded things and how you interpret situations in which people are critical of Israel, because that is the position you've been communicating.

Devil_May_Cry posted...

Palestinians should have the right to happiness and all but Hamas is the problem.

Hamas isn't the one forcing Palestinians to line up for hours every morning to cross checkpoints to get to work. Hamas isn't the one expropriating Palestinian's homes and inviting Jewish immigrants to come take them. Hamas isn't the one forcing babies to be delivered in the mud at the side of the road because pregnant women in labour haven't been able to get through checkpoints fast enough to reach hospitals.

Hamas is *a* problem, absolutely, but they are not the only barrier to Palestinian happiness. Brutally oppressive apartheid policies that punish innocent civilians simply for being born the wrong race ensure that's not a readily attainable goal. Those policies are, in many ways, why Hamas exists: The dogmatic nature of the conflict in the Middle East and the grossly unfair way in which Israel was created mean there will likely always be antisemitic extremists one way or another, but it would be a lot harder for those extremists to gain traction against an Israeli government that treated Palestinians as equals than against an Israeli government that gives Palestinians a legitimate reason to hate them (hatred which, in turn, victimizes innocent Israeli citizens).

If I remember. I often don't, but that's not a deliberate snub.

Devil_May_Cry posted...

Strawman, I want happiness for all people. If you want my views on the war in the Middle East ask me in another topic

I don't really need to. You've already expressed such delightful views as (and these are near-direct quotes) "If Israel were bad they wouldn't have given Palestinians advance warning before they bombed their homes into oblivion" and "sometimes it's necessary to sacrifice civilians to fight evil." You've made it clear that your vision of "happiness for all people" in this context is for all Palestinians to find somewhere else to live and let Israel take over unimpeded and that you feel any suggestion to the contrary is "antisemitic."

streamofthesky posted...

t's a topic about the inventor of console gaming being Jewish and people start ranting about Israel.
That's pretty f***ing depraved to me.
Try that sort of unhinged racist s*** w/ literally any other ethnic minority and the mods would actually do something about it, but for some reason when it's Jews it's ok.

"I don't hate Jews, I just don't like what Israel is doing. Which is why I bring up Israel in any discussion about any Jewish person."

In a vacuum, that'd be the case, but based on TC's posting history you can read between the lines and know that when he says "antisemitism," he means being at all critical of Israel. He's got a pretty extensive history of not only making no distinction between being pro-Holocaust and being against nuking Gaza, but pushing back against efforts to do so. These responses are in response to that history, not to what's immediately at hand.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I refuse to vote in this poll out of principle.

No game beyond the second generation of video games (or third at most) should ever be called "old school".

The PS2 is now older than almost every game that was considered "retro" was when it was released (23 years in October, 23 years prior to its release was 1977). There are now many different "old schools," even if some are older than others.

Devil_May_Cry posted...

but I digress please dont derail my topic with depraved rants about Israel people.

"Genocide is bad stop doing it"="Depraved rants" now, I guess.

Bonus points where the central concept of the show revolves around perpetuating the idea that civilizations other than ours were primitive savages who couldn't possibly have figured out the things we have, which is an attitude that gets dangerously close to white supremacy at times.

If Hitler had a Nintendo I bet WWII would never have happened.

The real master race was Excitebike.

It's not impossible, but it would be so hideously expensive as to not be at all feasible. Weather carries a ton of energy, which means it would take a similar ton of energy to emulate it. Given that the more novel weather would be an experience not unlike watching a storm or volcano on TV (watching a sealed room from the safety of a viewing spot) and the more mundane stuff isn't that hard to just experience yourself with a bit of travel, I don't think there'd ever be enough demand to justify the cost.

In my experience, I much prefer to have somebody I can ask for help as needed than to get trained through a large info dump when I start that I have to remember. So long as you can achieve that goal of helping her feel comfortable asking questions, that's going to do more for her onboarding experience than any amount of better teaching might. Just take everything a step at a time, walking her through each process, and be available to answer questions if she needs help and you're probably good.

A house cat/dog seems like an obvious choice, except for the rather large number of domestic cats/dogs that end up on the streets, stuck indefinitely in shelters, or with owners that mistreat them. But then I guess a domestic animal's worst day is pretty typical for a wild animal, so that consideration is more recognizing that it might not work out wonderfully than thinking it'll be worse than being something wild.

If you're looking to individually render the kills, I don't think it's realistically possible. If every other pixel on a 1080p screen were an instantly-respawning enemy and you killed all of them once every second, that'd still only be about a million kills per second and reaching a billion would take you ~17 minutes of doing that continuously. That's doable, but that's a ridiculous extreme and would not make for a game that I'd even really call playable, let alone enjoyable, and anything less extreme (like 20-pixel enemies that you wipe every 5 seconds) than that is going to inflate that required time considerably (that example would take 144 hours).

If you do want to rack up a billion+ kills, you'll need some sort of abstraction in there, like a multikill mechanic for overkill (scaling damage non-linearly is easy enough) or destruction on a city/town scale instead of an individual one.

It looks like you tagged him properly on my end. I think you're good.

Used to do mornings, but my girlfriend prefers evenings, so I switched when we started living together.

I'm watching it, but it's not doing anything interesting.

MeatiestMeatus posted...

This sounds good af

It's great. Slice up a strawberry or two to go with it and you've got a delightfully decadent dessert.

rjsilverthorn posted...

I mean, there are already successful in-person gaming conventions so they aren't really doing anything special on that front.

Pretty much. The only "void" E3 left was the idea of having a single convention that was the definitive place for big announcements, and that idea had already died long before E3 itself actually did as companies realized that large press conferences were largely a waste of money. There's still interest in gong to in-person conventions, but that's largely satisfied by the others that have emerged, many of which had already emerged as more accessible alternatives to E3 while E3 was still going strong. A new one from IGN isn't going to magically become the "definitive" convention any more than those others have, especially where we're likely never going back to the days of large, in-person press conferences now that streamed announcements have done as well as they have.

It's been a long time since I've seen it, especially since the shift toward having more NKLs and notifications, but it happens.

TomNook posted...

Super is 2nd best

Maybe it's just that I only played it after playing 64 extensively, but I was never really a fan of Super. I respect it for what it accomplished on the SNES, certainly, but I just didn't like how it played in the little bit of experience I had with it. 64 built on it considerably, and even 64 I find hard to play after how much the overall driving physics evolved with Double Dash (which established the basic feel that the rest of the series has kept).

speedpunk posted...

Sounds delicious. Can you share the recipe?

https://www.food.com/recipe/flourless-chocolate-vanilla-marble-cake-245088

I recommend saving the recipe. It was an old Fine Cooking one, but their site is gone now that they've gone under (the wayback machine helps with that, but it's far from perfect for finding specific stuff). It has, however, popped up on a few different sites like this one, which is good.

Also, I used a 9-inch springform pan instead of a regular 9-inch pan like it calls for, because I couldn't be bothered flipping it around so much. It worked great, would recommend, but make sure you still use parchment because it's a very sticky cake. I also cut it into 12 and not 16.

Nothing in particular. I did make what's become our traditional Valentine's cake (flourless chocolate cake marbled with vanilla cheesecake) yesterday, since we've got a friend staying with us for the week and it made more sense to make it early with how the week's going to go, but that's about the extent of any plans we've got that could be called "Valentine's plans."

TBH, I haven't played Deluxe, since I've got the WiiU version for all my making-my-family-and-friends-hate-me needs, so I apologize for any errors in the finer mechanical points of its two-item system.

SilentSeph posted...

You guys are derailing my thread with your puns

You're looking to take on a professional responsibility to avoid doing your own derailments. I figure the least we can do is help fill that void.

I pull out my katana forged from superior Nippon steel folded over 1000 times and carry out a carefully planned seven-strike technique to disable the missile and sleep with the president's wife faster than his inferior gaijin brain can process.

As much fun as I had with Double Dash back in the day, I can recognize that the whole character-specific item system was a bit of a mess, balance-wise (and Mario Kart balance is already a hot mess). Pretty much every match with friends turned into a mad (double) dash to grab one each of Koopa/Paratroopa and baby Mario/Luigi because the triple shell/chain chomp pair was so good (one of the few items that's still useful in higher positions, and one of the best items for catching up while further behind), and whoever didn't get that pair was distinctly disadvantaged in a really annoying way. Other than that, 8 Deluxe offers the strategic considerations of being able to hold two items, so that isn't missing, it just doesn't have the aesthetic gimmick of having two characters. That means all the good aspects of the double-item system have been preserved and the main problems removed, which I'd say is a good thing.

I think DS remains my favourite for how the driving mechanics felt, but 8 is a close second (with the added benefit of offering couch multiplayer). With the second-best driving mechanics in the series, all the good things about Double Dash's cool item system without the drawbacks, and by far the best stage variety (some are better than others, but at roughly the same ratio of good:bad as other entries have, and just with way more options), I don't really hesitate to call 8 the best MK game.

Also, talk to your therapist about your self-medication with alcohol. That's something they should absolutely know about (if nothing else, many psychiatric medications can have some very harmful interactions with alcohol and your drinking habits will therefore affect what you can be safely prescribed), and they can likely help you find better coping mechanisms and work yourself off of being so dependent on it.

Count_Drachma posted...

You cite Steam as an example, yet Steam has been removing titles.

Steam's not entirely without standards, but they're exceedingly low. You probably won't ever actually see any of the worst offenders unless you actively go looking for them (Steam's quality control is decidedly lacking, but their recommendation algorithms are half-decent), but there's still quite a lot of shovelware out there that falls into the same vein of edgy offensiveness that Custer's Revenge does.

HiddenDoorway posted...

Qbert

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/dodo-peak-159276

Not a remake per se, but it's basically just Qbert released in 2023. It's not exactly good, but it still got made.

JoeDangIt posted...

Sandbox/simulation type games don't seem to be as prevalent as they used to be.

Depends what you mean. Survival crafting sandboxes are still extremely common, trying to cash in on Minecraft's success. Factory-building sandboxes are also seeing quite a lot of people trying to jump on the bandwagon Factorio kicked off (which itself started as an evolution of Minecraft, particularly with tech mods). City sims are quite common (Cities: Skylines and its recent sequel being some of the the most prominent examples, but there are plenty of others), as are things like Powerwash Simulator and Hardspace Shipbreaker that aim to simulate menial labour, and farming sims overwhelmingly dominate the "cozy game" sphere (following on Stardew's success).

Sandboxes like Kerbal Space Program and other really open-ended simulators are indeed less common now, though. The cascade of "X Simulator 20XX" games has also tapered off as the meme value has diminished.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Given that roughly half of them are part of a cult and the other half don't want to fall under a dictatorship, I don't think as many people will be thinking that as you're suggesting.

The half that doesn't want to fall under a dictatorship can be thinking that. Such is the nature of the two-party system: You don't vote for who you want, you vote against whoever you want the least.

It's a genuine possibility. If he'd just stopped posting here, that'd be one thing, but he had a couple other places he was active that he disappeared from as well, which is concerning.

Sounds like your career's on track.

Most likely, yeah. A lot of the more ardent trumpettes dipped out after he lost, and while some of those were actually due to getting arrested after Jan 6 (SMT's hinted as strongly as he legally can that he was one of them), most of that is just that without the galvanizing factor of "the president agrees with me," they lack the conviction to stand up for their beliefs in a community that disagrees with them.

THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

Whatever happened to ICOYAR?

When Biden won the election, he posted about having uncontrollable diarrhea as a result of the stress that outcome gave him, and I think that was the last anyone saw of him. Either he pooped himself to death, got arrested in Jan 6, or just moved on to an alt-right echo chamber that was more comforting for him than PotD.

If you need to consider alcohol in terms of how long it'll last and how cost-efficient it is, you're drinking too much. Full stop.

My interest in VR/AR is already pretty limited. I might be willing to spend like $20 on such a system, but certainly not what Apple is charging (really, across the board I'm not willing to spend as much as anyone has to charge for a decent system, so it's not just Apple).

It varies a bit by what's playing (games tend to be louder than shows/movies, and of course different pieces of media are louder than others even within the same medium), but it usually stays around 14 or 16, going as low as 10 or as high as 20 as needed. Even numbers only, of course. I'm at least that civilized.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

It's like in school being made to memorise the periodic table like it isn't literally a lookup table.

It is a lookup table, but a lot of the more practical things you're looking up are worth memorizing to be able to use that information without needing to dig out a table every time. Specifically, column numbers (for non-transition metals) dictate a lot of the chemistry each element can be involved in, and knowing how each element relates to others is handy to relate to the various trends of reactivity, steric hindrance, and other properties that the periodic table indicates.

Of course, in practice, most people only use a small handful of elements and just end up memorizing the properties for those ones, looking up less familiar ones whenever they come up. Still, being able to skip a lookup step is handy, so it can be worthwhile to have at least a working knowledge of the table memorized, much like it's worthwhile to be able to do simple math mentally instead of having to fish out a calculator to double a recipe or whatever.

Count_Drachma posted...

That's some loony leftist thinking. Israel is literally fighting a government whose leadership has repeatedly called for the genocide of all Jews.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/hamas-covenant-israel-attack-war-genocide/675602/

Nobody's saying Hamas is good. Just that apartheid rule, massacring tens of thousands of civilians, and destroying hospitals, schools, and water treatment plants is bad.

This is something a lot of people seem to struggle with, but you can in fact have more than one bad guy.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I know I've heard people say one of the problems with diet soda is that it tends to make you feel hungrier so you wind up eating more than you realize, and thus wind up consuming more calories than you otherwise would have, but I have no idea if that's true.

Depends how they're sweetened. Some artificial sweeteners (sucralose being the main offender because it's so chemically similar to sugar) trigger receptors in the digestive tract that are normally triggered by sugar and prime the rest of your body to expect some sugar to process. If you then don't get that sugar, you end up craving it.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I also know my dentist said it was bad for teeth - because even without the soda there are things in soda that are a problem, and which should be avoided if at all possible. Though I'm not sure of the specifics.

It's mostly the acid. All carbonated beverages are solutions of carbonic acid, with soda usually clocking in at a pH of 2.5-3.5. By comparison, lemon juice has a pH of about 2 and white vinegar is about 2.5, so that's pretty acidic and does a lot to accelerate the erosion of your teeth. That's particularly bad when paired with a high-sugar solution that fuels bacterial growth that further erodes them, but even without that sugar it's not something that's good to frequently expose your teeth to.

As with most things in the body, though, the actual impact will vary a lot from person to person. The rate at which your teeth erodes can be accelerated by acid, but it also depends on the calcium and phosphate concentrations in the surrounding environment. If you've got plenty of those ions in your saliva, that will help buffer the pH of your mouth and slow down the erosion process, so you won't see the same results as somebody who drinks the same amount of soda but has a less robust buffer. That's beyond the average layperson's ability to measure, though, so it's still just a good idea across the board to limit soda intake instead of hoping that you lucked out with more resilient saliva chemistry.

captpackrat posted...

it also contains caffeine which revs up your metabolism to burn more calories,

Caffeine's impact on metabolism is pretty minimal, and most people build up enough tolerance to it that it stops having a metabolic effect pretty quickly. It can help lose weight through its appetite suppressant properties, but I still wouldn't lean too heavily on that, particularly where high caffeine intake comes with its own problems.

I'll be 72 by then, so I'd say there's a decent chance of me still being around, presuming anyone is. Most of my relatives have lived longer than that, aside from my dad dying at 60, so at least the genes are there to support it.

Ogurisama posted...

custer's revenge

As much as people like to insist that you couldn't get away with such an offensive game in today's climate, there's really no shortage of such games being created. They just all pretty much invariably end up languishing in obscurity because they generally don't have any substance beyond their edgy shock value. Custer's Revenge is notorious solely because it was one of the first examples of somebody trying to sell a game on that shock value and because later platform manufacturers screened out such content for the sake of cultivating a more wholesome image for their systems (the Nintendo Seal of Quality being one such screening measure). In comparison to any number of porn shovelware games crapped out on Steam every day, it's nothing special. A remake would sell only to a handful of people who wanted to "own the libs," each of which would probably not actually play it for more than a couple minutes.

I don't think there really is such a thing. Old games owned by an extant publisher are generally owned by the sort of publisher that would just say "this was popular and I think we could capitalize on it, go remake it" with no regard for how well or poorly the game itself might have aged. That's just a consequence of game companies being run by businessmen and not gamers/developers: They see things in terms of what's popular in broad strokes and less in terms of the gameplay nuances that made them popular/might interfere with their popularity in a new market.

DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC posted...

Cool thing about Franklin was that when Schulz introduced him into the strip, he got a letter asking that he not show Franklin going to an integrated school, and didn't even bother to reply to it. ^_^

Heck, he had pressure from his publisher not to include a black kid, and he outright told them that if Franklin couldn't be added, he wouldn't write for them anymore. Schulz had no time for racism.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

how many inches of rain is that?

i think this is the most water weve had dumped on us since they started keeping records

In terms of total water volume, I believe 1 cm of snow is roughly equal to 1 mm of rain, so like 2-2.5 inches. Nothing on the scale of 12 inches, but then snow and rain are pretty different in the problems they create.

darkknight109 posted...

Character unlocks, Adventure mode, the trophies - all were at their absolute best in Melee.

I think character unlocks and trophies were better in Melee just because it hit a sweet spot for the number of them. Starting with 14 characters and unlocking 11 is a good number: Enough base characters that you don't feel deprived if some characters take longer to unlock (and are therefore more satisfying when you do get them), enough unlockables that you feel like you have something to work toward, but not so many unlockables that the unlock process feels like a slog. Similarly, the number of trophies was high enough for 100% to be a genuine challenge (including several with really difficult unlock conditions), but not so high as to be disheartening. Subsequent games had so many characters that unless they're being unlocked quite rapidly, it'd feel like a huge chunk of the game was walled off and that you had a significant ordeal ahead of you, so they kind of had to streamline the process a bit (though I think a single run of SSE unlocking them all was a bit much). Trophies kept the Melee structure, but because there were so many, trying for 100% was a lot more daunting and less tempting than it was in Melee (similar to how I'm never going to even try for 900 korok seeds in BotW/TotK).

Trophies also ran into an issue from Brawl onward that we can't really blame on the games themselves: In 2001, most of us were able to learn new information about Nintendo's history from trophies. The Internet was still relatively new (Wikipedia didn't even exist), and a lot of the characters and games featured in Melee were actually totally unknown to many of Melee's players, especially in the west. By the time Brawl rolled around, though, there had been 7 more years of information being exchanged, Western players learning about Japan-only games that might otherwise have been introduced to them through Brawl (in part because Melee kindled an interest), emulation and the VC giving people an opportunity to learn about pretty much every retro game that was high-profile enough to be featured as a trophy, and enough active discourse around Smash and which games could be featured in it that people already knew most of what the game could teach us. There just aren't any surprises left in Nintendo's history that Smash could teach us that we can't/haven't already learned elsewhere, which kills a lot of the magic that Melee's trophies offered.

Of course, part of that's just getting older. Internet or no, I was inevitably going to know more gaming history by age 19 than by age 12. I can't necessarily speak for what experiences current 12-year-olds would have playing Ultimate for the first time and comparing that to my experience playing Melee, but even so I'm pretty confident saying that the games featured/referenced by Ultimate's roster and trophies are less obscure now than those featured/referenced by Melee were in 2001.

I'm also now realizing that Mr. Game & Watch was as old when Melee released as any character from 2003 would be in a Smash game released today, and I'm not sure I'm quite ready for that realization. Still, it illustrates the point kind of nicely: In 2001, Mr Game & Watch was a piece of obscure ancient history that most of Melee's players had no first-hand experience with and knew nothing about. I can't think of a single character introduced in 2003 (or thereabouts) that would fill a similar role of being both too old and inactive for modern audiences to recognize but also a significant part of gaming and Nintendo's history.

We got like 50-60 cm of snow over the weekend. It just snowed continuously from Friday evening to midday Monday. Other parts of the province got over 100.