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His behavior was creepy and came to light during a time when everyone was focused on sex crimes in Hollywood.

What he did is empirically not as bad as Harvey Weinstein or Bill Cosby but it was still creepy and was taking advantage of a power dynamic.

While he was wrong, he also never really seemed to show much remorse. I don't hate the guy and I do kinda rue that his material is less acceptable these days.

dummy420 posted...

I didn't know it was coming out already. I finally watched the first and ended up liking it but it took like 5 tries. Kinda boring for me.

First movie has a ton of relevant info crammed into a short time. Then the plot starts unfolding while you're still trying to pronounce kwizatz haderach

If "nature" disappeared but humanity could live on, that'd be a success

masterpug53 posted...

Of course. But surely you're well aware of the Americanized version of the Maginot Line's history: "France built a massive fortified trench expecting more WWI-style warfare, Germany simply flew over it, French = dumb losers, Germans = smart ass-kickers." It's cultural propaganda I've seen a few times over my life, something I myself bought into hook, line and sinker until I was corrected a few years ago.

I always learned that it was the blitzkrieg that broke the line

I've actually never heard of the "lol they just flew over it" story

refmon posted...

wtf is it even about?

Something about a planet wide war for some lame ass cooking spices?

it's about worms

Ricemills posted...

When they stop supporting US in Iraq occupation.
Remember shits like Freedom Fries?

wow but I feel like French people got mocked before that

I don't know this part of history. Is it actually after WW2 because France surrendered in the face of the overwhelming Nazi war machine?

Cause as far as I understand, the USA and France had a pretty good relationship before whatever happened to make them the object of ridicule in America

people eat half dozen omelets all the time

stop telling me it's wrong I know it's not!

Wonder if my brother still has his stack of old Nintendo Powers from the late 90s to early 2000s

It was the era when the spine had images of game characters that would show once you stacked them up.

Some of those fan letters are hilarious.

Yes

pizza flavor is the only one i get

i'm salaried

i have set office hours but i don't stay long past them

my compensation is higher than the available overtime would give me

i'm happy

and here...we...go

this topic will stay up a while

Thud posted...

That's entirely possible, I'm her first serious relationship so maybe she doesn't know how to do it like you say and I'm overreacting. She didn't disagree when I called her out on it tonight, but damn, she's got me feeling stupid and not even wanting to go through with classes now at this point

If she didn't get all huffy and puffy and defensive about it, then yeah, I'd say there's some positive there.

You really should just have a serious sit down convo about it. Just express how you feel about it, don't offer solutions or ask her to change. Just say how you feel.

That's always the best way to start approaching a problem. You can figure out a compromise after.

IMO anyway

You sound like me somewhat.

I would say there's a possibility she is simply trying to communicate her concerns but doesn't know to gently word it, doesn't know what being supportive looks like. If she's saying what you quoted verbatim, then yeah, that's pretty negative and unsupportive. But if you were paraphrasing... maybe she's being supportive in a different way.

Don't gaslight yourself, but maybe you two need to have a talk about this.

Because if this weren't your fiancee, I'd be advising you to leave (internet stranger opinions are important)

anttttt posted...

People get so weirdly obsessed with running the meta even if they're not even good enough to run the meta or the meta is only very slightly ahead of everything else. I have cerebral palsy so I play who I feel like in Overwatch 2, and people nonstop bitch about your choices even if you're the one carrying.

I don't really care that some people want to play "high level", but it's super lame when people try to force their gameplay on other people. People got so pissy when I beat their sweaty MSP/MSS/MSC teams in MvC2 with a much weaker team, and I never play Phantasy Star Online with randoms because they just want to play the same two quests for their entire playtime.

Metagaming is fine and something that will eventually happen, but people have such annoyingly binary ideas on balance that I constantly hear "run this or lose" or "everything else is completely useless", even in the context of a single-player game.

I think this is a big part of why I don't like this "meta-gaming" thing

Especially the very first thing you said. God, those people really annoy me.
I'm trying to think of a good analogy for this but I'm coming up empty. Like, how likely is it that you'll be able to use this advanced strategy successfully when you can't even use a basic one?

BlueKat posted...

I think this might be the first time I agree with you on something

we probably agree on a lot more than you think
i just enjoy being an idiot online

kage_53 posted...

It has no legit sequel. There are other games in the series that have legit sequels.

fair enough

I really feel like this is happening, but on a muuuuch smaller scale than people who buy into this theory presume.

Blue_Inigo posted...

This is kinda just how anything competitive is. I was in high school when Marvel vs Capcom 3 came out looking at how to do cool shit. People in the 90s formed groups and gathered tech to sweep competition in arcades. The internet has just made it so that any joe can learn how to be decent at a game

Sure, this is a good example of when it is appropriate and works to make people have more fun. But I also feel like that's not really meta gaming in this topics sense, but I'm not a fighting game player.

Thud posted...

It's now safe to say we are the dumbest fucking country on the planet, right? I feel like it's important to acknowledge that

While, yes, the USA does have a problem with political, media, general literacy that contributes to a feeling that our people are dumb

I'm going to assume you've never delved into the politics of literally any other country.

We really don't sound all that bad once you've heard what some people in other countries have to say.

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the "Starting Minecraft" to "Mob/Iron Golem Farming" pipeline

wow miraculously instant logged in

lmaooo

Smashingpmkns posted...

I used to be like that with fighting games until I hit a point where it wasn't fun anymore. Now I just pick characters that look cool that aren't grapplers lol

This is what I'm talking about.
I started barking up this tree with CSGO.
At some point realized it felt like a second job. Wasn't fun anymore.

I don't understand how this is so many people's MO when it comes to vidya

Irony posted...

So you've hated multiplayer as long as it's existed

nope.

in the past you'd be marked as a cheater.

Now, understanding the meta is tantamount to actually being good at a game. You can do both but they're not the same thing.

ironman2009 posted...

Isn't this why gamefaqs came into existence?

Yes and no.

Yes, sure, there's some guides on gfaqs that include meta strats

But gfaqs came about in an era before competitive online gaming, before the internet in its current state. So there was just less of this going around. Ofc the grinding ppl were there already, but this idea of meta gaming has corrupted so many people who play games.

I genuinely do not see how they enjoy playing anything like that.

oberyn

kage_53 posted...

Tales of Phantasia

Idk how to tell you this but uhhhhhh
(unless you don't count those as sequels lmao)

Anyway my answer is Earthbound
.... but only in the USA lmao

The biggest offenders of these might be modern Call of Duty and I noticed the latter thing recently happening in Helldivers 2 of all games.

It's nuts and I hate it.

If, in order to be competitive at a multiplayer aspect of the game, one has to research specific builds that take advantage of game engine limitations/quirks instead of being able to intuit and build your own way, you have failed as a game developer.

Also, people who play games and only care about levels and exp going up and not actually experiencing the game as it was meant to. Sometimes this is the devs fault, but in my opinion there's too many people who immediately just start grinding away at levels and then complain the game got stale.

Like, have fun how you want to have fun but I don't have to like it.

wrong

I heard joining a friend's steam lobby is faster

has anyone tried this yet

The controls are markedly dated. That is a common complaint of newcomers. The game also doesn't hold your hand in figuring out what's going on. There's a lot you can miss if you're not paying attention. It's an old game now, but a lot of what they had was innovative for the time and honestly still is. Nobody has been able to emulate what Dragons Dogma has.

This is not a WRPG. It's definitely a JRPG that takes from western games and it's not exactly the same kind of open world it was intended to emulate. The game's rushed nature has a lot to do with that.

All that noted, what I really want to convey is that Dragons Dogma is a very unique experience that plays like an ARPG in a lot of ways, takes its gameplay cues from JRPGs and takes its story cues from western high fantasy. There is no game like it. Theres a neat lore aspect to it, and the atmosphere of the maps areas is top notch. The difficulty curve is kind of steep, but it's very satisfying once you've mastered the games quirks and start becoming more powerful. Pawn system is very cool, the indirect interactions via pawns is still charming and fun, to put it plainly.

DD also always tries to challenge you. You can grind and push through the game but you WILL run into a wall eventually.

Finally, DD is the source of some gr8 memes. I hope you join us and learn that wolves ill like fire, Arisen.

damn I love this game so much I'm willing to do this

Games got some issues still but otherwise plays extremely well. Performance is great even when there's so much stuff on screen.

Go forth and bring managed democracy to the galaxy

not really on topic but I recently found that only Americans really like to judge distance by time.

10 mins away could be just a few blocks over. downtown Seattle is about 10-15 mins away, but that time doesn't necessarily correlate to distance.

Such a weird thing we do.

personally I think it's funny nobody thought to ask until I did

WingsOfGood posted...

Watch it be the savory wheat snack with salt that starts with C

lololol

so assuming tc isn't a troll

TC you made a kind of wild assumption that the cashier was trying to dismiss you when asking a confirmation question "so your dad bought it?"

They can't read your mind and who can say how coherent you were walking into the dispensary. You can't be coming to wild conclusions like that and then get angry about it. That's kind of your fault. They also shouldn't have called you names, but just based on what you're saying it's hard for me to be convinced that you had a genuinely bad customer service experience.

But I'm just a judgy stranger on the internet.

I'm not asking but I am curious what tc was called.

NittanyLions23 posted...

I will admit that I lost my temper.

I started off, mentioning how my dad told me about the broken cart.

Then the cashier cut me off and said oh, so your dad bought it? as if to shut me down right there and I cant return it unless I purchased it.

Well, I was the one who purchased it.

So at that point, I start to get pissed off because hes just trying to brush me off.

I told him not to give me a hard time about this.

He says Im not the manager.

Then I say, all right, then go get them.

At this point, the cashier was already cussing me out.

so where did u lose your temper

We are reaching the point now where there's much more porn flooding the market than sleuths can rip or pirate.

I will say, the general quality of porn has also gone down. OF videos are generally pretty low-effort and increasingly low (zero) budget.

There's just something better about professionally produced porn, from the lighting to the dynamic camera work. It's never gonna be replaced by video of a girl lazily receiving in one or two static angles

didn't read the rest of the topic, just up til where tc gave his story

I don't believe you were 100% polite to the cashier. And they're following policy, not withholding refund because they want to be a dick to you.

came in expecting 'yeah the wh gives me shit' with no elaboration

got what I expected

>_>

Feels like what they mean to say is "I'm not a *career* politician"

which is different

it's crazy there's 230+ posts in this topic when the many answers should have been taught to you in your respective k-12 or equivalent schooling

so either tc already knows and wants to troll or was too busy doodling guns and swords and not making friends instead of listening in class