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ChocoboMogALT posted...

There are all sorts of good reasons why squatters' rights are good: https://youtube.com/shorts/tqpOk09rjZo?si=yT4SxQnDui1ylSXD
Yeah, there's plenty of bad cases, too. But those would be simple to fix with basic legislation if we cared to do so.
Then there's cases of tenants' rights that are largely only an issue because of an overworked legal system. Tenants should absolutely be favored 100% of the time in a dispute barring other issues.

"Squatters' rights" and "tenants' rights" are two entirely different things, though, since, 99% of the time, squatters aren't actual tenants.

HylianFox posted...

IIRC Mace was originally supposed to have a bigger role, too

This, yes. They backed down on Mace, too, unfortunately.

KaZooo posted...

Dang I'm late

....but I don't get the logic. It was all cool when Lando and Mace existed?

That was literally 35 years prior to Finn existing, to be fair.

Sadly, times have changed.

EDIT: Well, Lando was. And he wasn't a Jedi, to be fair. Mace... Well, he died very quickly.

They, unfortunately, backed down to the incredibly racist backlash they received by making Finn seem important. It's really sad.

Im the only cast member who had their own unique experience of that franchise based on their race, Boyega said. Lets just leave it like that. It makes you angry with a process like that. It makes you much more militant; it changes you. Because you realize, I got given this opportunity but Im in an industry that wasnt even ready for me. Nobody else in the cast had people saying they were going to boycott the movie because [they were in it]. Nobody else had the uproar and death threats sent to their Instagram DMs and social media, saying, Black this and black that and you shouldnt be a Stormtrooper. Nobody else had that experience. But yet people are surprised that Im this way. Thats my frustration.

Basically, Star Wars fans have nobody to blame but other Star Wars fans.

I remember a certain type of person, who unfortunately made up a big portion of the Star Wars fanbase, throwing fits over Finn even existing, because he was black and that somehow didn't make sense as a stormtrooper or... Something.

That said, the Finn/Poe bromance was the best thing in the entire sequel series.

Fucking terrible.

We were taught cursive as kids in grade school/middle school, but then when I hit college they specifically told us not to use cursive when we wrote shit. Granted, by that point, it was 'Don't even write shit, type it. But if you have to write, don't do cursive, other than your signature."

This is my favorite topic in all of everything.

Guns_of_Verdun posted...

Any proof?

90%+ of these "No one turned up!!!!" pics are before the event started or after it finished. Like the Virgil one posted earlier

How does this even make sense? How did somebody take a picture if the event hadn't even started yet? And if it was after it finished, why are they still sitting there?

Spoilers: People don't just sit at their tables doing nothing both before an event started and after an event ended. If it's before, they're prepping for the event. If it's after, they're... You know, packing up to leave. If they're literally just sitting there, it's clearly during the event in question.

TC has been warned again.

Pity that they keep getting away with only warnings.

I also do gotta admit that I'm kinda biased toward liking Leon. Not even the character (I'm honestly kinda so sick of Charizard, I wish he didn't have Charizard), but the concept. I, honestly, wish the Galar style had happened much sooner. From the very first episode of the anime, when Ash was watching a battle on TV, I was hoping they'd present battling more as a national sport, so the fact that they never really did until Galar made me just love how Galar did it so much more.

UIZeno posted...

First time here on this board and I've noticed this is where people ask these sort of questions.

That is literally impossible. Try to keep up.

Yeah, I'm not really defending the execution. I'm not really defending the execution anywhere, honestly. My argument comes from the "on paper" side of things. On paper, Diantha beating Lance can make sense. On paper, Leon being so strong can make sense. Etc. and so on. The anime... Didn't execute much of it the best, honestly.

Fenrir_Howls posted...

My point was Cynthia jumped at shot of facing a strong trainer (who would be Champion at the time), so its not clear to say they rarely battle.

Yeah, fair enough. I shouldn't have said "rarely." My point was that there's no indication that they battle as often as Leon does, since the indication is heavily that Leon battles like, all the time.

Fenrir_Howls posted...

Because of the overbearing focus the story put on Leon being the unbeatable champion, but with said not sure why youre assuming the bolded simply since the other regions arent treating battling as a spectator sport. Off the top of my head, HGSS has Lance training/battling with Claire and the Cynthia jump scare in Gen 5. Pretty sure there are other examples of trainer like GLs and E4 members training and battling each other from Gen 4 onwards.

Note that is even weirder with the anime where this doesnt really work as an explanation despite toting Leon as the strongest in the world (bonus points for the fact Cynthias whole plot line suggested she never faced Leon).

Edit: Also, I think a personal wrinkle to the Galar hyping is that battle prowess isnt so simple. Gen 9 is give us what might be potentially be the laxest region when it comes to battles and gives us Nemona whos depicted as above even competitively trained students of Blueberry Academy. The emphasis on Galars sports focused style of doing things doesnt necessarily mean that translates into the quality of their trainers being better.

Fair point on the Lance thing, yeah.

I still think it works since the suggestion is that Leon faces the largest variety of trainers, by far, and they're not even just training battles, since it's people literally trying to take his championship from him.

Again, I'm not saying Leon like, HAS to be the strongest. I'm just saying you can make sense of it, since... A region that treats Pokemon battling like an actual sport, where the champion is routinely and consistently defending his championship, can make sense for that champion becoming very, very great at battling.

I guess my point is that Leon being so strong doesn't NOT make sense. People don't have to agree with it, but there's nothing like, inherently "No, this doesn't work" about it, at the least.

ShineboxPhil posted...

Jordan would never go to any diddy parties

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/ENE6A9/may-22015-las-vegas-nv-sean-diddy-combs-and-michael-jordan-attend-ENE6A9.jpg

Rika_Furude posted...

I started the other day, I forgot her name but I just got that pin addict girl on the team

I heard the story of this game isnt as good as the first games?

I, personally, felt it was better, and I love both. It's pretty split. The second's is certainly more... Complicated, some might say convoluted, for better or worse.

MrDrMan posted...

Its crazy how saying hey Im tired of being bashed for no reason is misogynistic now.

You're not getting bashed for no reason.

And if you identify with the type of men being bashed, that's a problem you should probably explore further.

"If I see too many gay people, I start to ask questions." - TC

AgentCoulson posted...

Curious that everyone just ignored this.

I didn't really touch on it because it is very subjective how much of a "career" he has actually had, since they're mostly all very small roles, but... Yes, that just proves my point, even further. Star Wars clearly did not "ruin" him, judging how he went from literally nothing before it, to atleast something.

Aloc posted...

your personality is as exciting as watching paint fry

Wait, paint frying actually sounds pretty damn exciting. Why is the paint frying? Is the house on fire?

Scotty_Rogers posted...

So you're admitting he didn't have much a career afterwards?

You're winner

...Yes, I am winner, because I literally proved your assertion wrong. Thanks for the acknowledgement.

Scotty_Rogers posted...

One isn't much higher than zero, no.

So you're admitting he never had a career to kill, in the first place?

Cool. Thanks for playing.

Scotty_Rogers posted...

"He literally had one movie after Star Wars!"

Some career. You know most movies take three years right? Lol

One movie after is better than no movies before.

Life as a House literally lost money.

It's on you to prove Star Wars killed his career. You have not accomplished that. He never had a career to kill, in the first place. Star Wars WAS his career. And it netted him a movie that did well at the box office, before he stopped getting major roles because he's just not very good.

Scotty_Rogers posted...

He still fell off the face of the planet after Jumper. I only know Shattered Ass because I watched it in my journalism class in 9th grade. He had no real career after Star Wars

He literally had Jumper, after Star Wars. Three years after Star Wars.

Star Wars didn't ruin his career. Not being a very good actor ruined his career. Star Wars literally gave him the little career he actually had.

Scotty_Rogers posted...

His performance Life as a House was well received and it was because of it that he got the role in Star Wars iirc.

But he didn't get many big roles afterwards. Man fell off the face of the planet after Jumper with Samuel L Jackson

Life as a House literally only made 1/10th of the box office Jumper did. The former was before Star Wars, the latter was after.

Scotty_Rogers posted...

Hayden was a promising teen star

He literally didn't get any bigger roles until AFTER he was in Star Wars. And by after, I mean literally all three of them. Seems silly to say it ruined his career when he didn't have one prior.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


Yeah, I wasn't disagreeing with you. I was taking what I thought was a not so subtle jab at the person who tried to imply there may have actually been something more, there. In 2024.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


Okay.

But literally nothing came of it. Nothing was there.

And it's 2024.

Hence "I literally cannot take anybody who is still going "But her emails!" in 2024 seriously."

This isn't aimed at you. It's aimed at the person/people who went "Well technically something may have been there."

I literally cannot take anybody who is still going "But her emails!" in 2024 seriously.

Baha05 posted...

lol no

"lol no" nothing. TPC literally does not consider them remakes, officially. You can argue they are, but according to TPC, they are not.

TheGoldenEel posted...

TTYD is functionally identical to a remaster. the goal was delivering an unchanged version of the original game.

Except it's not unchanged. You're just discounting the changes because you don't want to admit that your argument is flawed.

By your same logic, Pokemon BDSP are remasters.

mehmeh1 posted...

so does Pokemon ORAS, and arguably Let's Go, but they're still remakes

Let's Go is actually officially not considered a remake.

TheGoldenEel posted...

that's fucking nonsense dude, if you put out a major version overhaul of an app you're not charging your current user for a new app again

The user? No. The client? Fuck yeah, we are. If we have to rebuild the app from scratch, instead of just updating the code that's there, we are 1,000% charging the client as if they ordered a new app, from us, even if it ends up functionally identical. Why? Because we literally had to rewrite everything. Who do you think is paying for that time and work? Not us. We're not eating that shit.

And this has actually happened, on numerous occasions. Typically when we have a client ask to go from native apps (iOS and Android) to one app, via React Native or Flutter. The app ends up functionally identical, but we literally have to rewrite the entire thing.

And guess what? The end user has to download a new app, when we're done. We have to delist the previous ones.

TheGoldenEel posted...

what does "remade from the ground up" even mean, if the end result is a game that is identical in level design, character design, level geometry, etc? Have you ever participated in a code re-write of some software? It does not matter whether the game was completely rewritten if the end result is functionally identical to a moderately enhanced port

I'm literally an app developer, and if we rewrite an entire app from scratch, you better believe we're charging you for an entirely new app, because that's literally what it is, even if it ends up functioning the same because... We literally had to remake the entire app. We had to rewrite the code, we had to include new assets, we had to QA everything all over again.

This argument did not help you at all.

A remaster, in app terms, would be if we just updated the code that already existed to be compliant with the latest iOS and Android, for example.

I'm not even criticizing FF7R. I fucking love FF7R. It's just, objectively, not a remake, and Square even acknowledged that by calling Part 2 something different, instead of "Remake Part 2."

TheGoldenEel posted...

nintendo called Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition a remaster and it added significantly more than TTYD

Because they didn't actually remake anything, they ONLY added something that is completely separate from the main game, to begin with. You can literally play Xenoblade Chronicles DE without ever even touching the stuff they added.

TTYD was literally remade from the ground up AND they added to it. And what they added is incorporated into the actual main game. New game mechanics. New dialogue. New animations. Etc. and so on.

Baha05 posted...

Based on context yeah because that can very well fall under a remake and a sequel. Because you are essentially doing the same story beats and adding into it while also acknowledging that it coincides with the original works too. This is why words can have many meanings to them and you can craft something into one or the other or even both.

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey includes the scene where they first meet Rufus from the first movie, but instead Bill & Ted meet... Bill & Ted.

By your logic, that would make Bogus Journey a remake.

TheGoldenEel posted...

a few people on a dead message board arguing that the timing being a fraction of a second different is a major change is roughly equivalent to no one

So, in other words, you have no actual argument. Got it.

The game has numerous additions, which a remaster would not.

TheGoldenEel posted...

no one cares about this

Where have you been? We literally had an entire topic of people caring about it on this very board. The gameplay/timing changing because of the change to 30fps has been a very hot topic.

And that's not even getting into the multitude of QoL changes, or the additional bosses.

Baha05 posted...

Counterpoint its still a remake because for the most part events are still playing out the same way they are and there is nothing stating that a remake cannot do what FFVIIR is doing with the additions to the story.

It literally cannot be a remake if it acknowledges that the original timeline exists, and thus is a continuation of it.

Square even admitted they were purposely playing with words, which is why the second is called "Rebirth," instead of "Remake Part 2."

Baha05 posted...

Again not false, learn how words work.

You'd have a point, normally. However, FFVIIR is, uniquely, not actually a remake, since the story quite literally treats it like a sequel, by acknowledging the original game/timeline exists.

TheGoldenEel posted...

TTYD is a remaster for all intents and purposes

This isn't true since even the gameplay is literally different since it's built on an engine designed for 30 fps, while the original was 60, so the timing is different. You literally cannot play the game the exact same, like you would a remaster.

It's incredibly simple.

A remake means they actually, you know, remade the game, even if they remade it to be largely the same.

A remaster means they took the already existing game and just updated the existing textures/whatever.

FFVIIR is actually neither. It's an entirely different game, all together, and it's even presented that way, story-wise.

Granted, my view is biased, since I was living in eastern Kentucky at the time, where women literally, openly, said "I'll never vote for a woman president, no matter what."

She's not entirely wrong, only in that... No matter how bad of a candidate she was, the fact a majority of white women voted for Trump, even after "grab 'em by the p****," is insane. You can say it was because she was a bad candidate, and she was, but... C'mon.

Oh god, I just remembered another I loved. Dinosaur Shredder.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/tmnt/images/b/be/Tyranno-Shredder-1997-B1.JPG

You could open his jaw, then press a button on his back to have it snap shut.

I had Slash. I loved it. I also loved Ray Filet.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51BKx5-KzjL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

Another I loved was the transforming Tokka.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/fhYAAOSwkdpfy1UC/s-l1600.jpg

Mad_Cow46 posted...

The Im not Joe one

"I'm not for actual progress" is certainly an interesting strategy.

inloveanddeath0 posted...

I don't remember asking you

Why are you so upset that I replied to you?