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Vegy posted...

Does it have the old general manager mode? dat shit was so fun back in SvR 2006 or 2007 iirc

Yes, it returned like, two years ago.

Yep. A sausage McMuffin with egg and a hash brown is a fantastic breakfast. That said, I'm rarely out and about early enough to get them, anymore.

crayola555 posted...

That's cause like I said you don't go into a topic like "All ice cream are good" and troll post something like "ice cream taste like ass", you get called out. And why do you think this topic dispels the sense of anti-cop on this board? What that means, is that the majority of this board has a negative perception of police, not every single person. You're not gonna get a topic about pro-police behavior and every single person agree on the same thing, there's parity and both sides of opinions. God you're stupid.

People like you can't seem to go an entire post without insulting somebody.

Sounds like you need a time out.

Dark_Arbron posted...

One person said ACAB in an inappropriate context. Everyone else told them to fuck off.
You claimed "this board has an anti-police agenda" which the sentence above disproves.
It's not hard.

Yeah, 99% of the people in this topic are either happy to praise a good cop for doing a good thing, or atleast say nothing, if they have nothing nice to say.

Only one bad actor tried to stir shit up, and they, properly, got the shit modded out of them.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

Reminds me of that sexy One Piece clown from the live action series more than the Joker.

Real talk, live action One Piece's Buggy is utterly amazing. It's, literally, the most accurate portrayal in the entire series.

ClayGuida posted...

It was a $5 hot and ready, $1 for crazy bread, .50 cents for marinara. Maybe it was $2 per crazy bread, but I don't think so.

But for like $8 you could feed a few for a weekend hangout, drinking, playing games and stuff.

I do remember Hot and ready being $5, but I don't think Crazy Bread was ever a dollar, at any point in my lifetime, which is since 1987.

ClayGuida posted...

What does that go for these days? You used to be able to get a Pizza and 2 crazy breads and marinara's for like $8. Obviously that was like a decade ago, but that was a monster deal.

I don't think I've ever literally, in my life time, seen this deal for $8. That'd mean a pizza for less than $5, and crazy bread for less than $1.50 each. Like, yeah, it was cheaper in the past, but let's not get crazy, here. It was never THAT cheap.

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Notice that they aren't brave enough to make those posts on their main.

Likely a chud attempting to make the left look bad.

Thud posted...

The hired goon with the badge

What a fucking dumb post. Seek help.

arkanomap2 posted...

Sounds like you don't take care of yourself and would rather make up conversations in your head instead of learning how to groom and style yourself.

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UnfairRepresent posted...

There's overwhelmingly sympayhy for this guy XD

This it the most attention swimming has gotten outside of a country winning gold medals and it's making potential fans and people interested in the sport look at it with abject disgust.

And from a spectator point of view by fans of swimming, this is considered a joke.

Also, yeah, saying "No sympathy for the guy" is hilarious, since there is... Overwhelming sympathy for the guy, from viewers, sportscasters/analysts, and even literally the other people in the race.

opopopza posted...

Most likely the ref just had a stick up his ass that day and didn't like the celebration at the end.

This is likely the truth, yeah. It basically comes down to the ref deciding to enforce something he could technically enforce, but really shouldn't have.

opopopza posted...

There was a good post on Reddit from an actual swimming ref that explained why this rule is in affect.

It basically came down to creating excess waves in the pool while others are competing can affect their visibility as they are trying to finish (plus just poor sportsmanship). And the lane dividers can also break easily, you are never supposed to get on them.

He said these are not some obscure rules, basically every swimmer knows you can't do this and you will be disqualified for it. So there wasn't much sympathy for this guy.

I'm gonna question this, only because a "Swimming ref" on Reddit is saying something that appears to be in direct conflict with what... Actual swimming refs/analysts are saying. Did said ref on Reddit actually provide proof that they are what they say they are? Because when it comes to actual provable analysts in the media, they all seem to almost universally "No, this was a dumb call."

EDIT: Thinking about it, the "excess waves" thing doesn't even make sense, since you can create "excess waves" by celebrating in your own lane, which is NOT prohibited. He could have moved in jubilation in his own lane in celebration, which would have caused more waves than what he actually did caused, and there would have been no rule against it. Furthermore, you can cross into another lane WITHOUT causing waves at all, simply by... Going under the barrier. This explanation sounds rather made up.

LeoRavus posted...

Maybe diving into the other lane could have distracted the other swimmers or created turbulence in the water that would affect their final time?

idk. I kind of agree with this. Can't have people playing in the water while others are still competing

He didn't "dive," though. He just kinda... Slowly plopped. And then hugged his teammate.

Like, there's a reason this is met with universal disdain. There hasn't been a single analyst who has been able to come up with a reason for why this should have been a disqualification. It's just "...We have no idea why the ref ruled this way."

Brianfellow posted...

But when you start breaking these rules into the context then you have the same situation you have here with "discretion". Where everyone interprets the rules how they see fit.

The entire point of the rule is that it is up to referee interpretation, which is the entire problem, so...

There is literally no rule against crossing lanes of a swimmer who has finished. The rule, in writing, is ONLY:

ARTICLE 1. a. Any competitor who interferes with another swimmer during a race shall be disqualified from that race, subject to the discretion of the referee.

He, objectively, did not interfere with another swimmer. The entire controversy is that the referee decided to apply the rule per their discretion, and nobody can understand why.

LinkPizza posted...

I think it depends on what the rule is for. The way its worded makes sense if his interference actually interfered with another swimmer. That swimmer was already done, however. And finished second place, no less. So, the rule doesnt even make sense in this context since he didnt actually interfere with any other swimmers, which is what the rule it used for

And on top of that, second place was his literal teammate. He was celebrating with his own teammate.

This reminds me of that ruling a few years ago where a female high school swimmer was disqualified because her swimsuit was "too revealing," and it turned out she wore the regular state approved swimsuit, and she just happened to have more ba-donk than your average high school girl.

Looking into it further, the rule he broke is actually flimsy.

ARTICLE 1. a. Any competitor who interferes with another swimmer during a race shall be disqualified from that race, subject to the discretion of the referee.

The reason there's uproar about it is the "Subject to discretion" part. He, objectively, did not interfere with another swimmer. It doesn't say anything about crossing lanes, it specifically says "interfere with another swimmer." The referee chose to disqualify him based on their "discretion" of an extremely flimsy rule.

It remains unclear exactly how officials feel that Lloyd broke the rules. The folks at Swim Swam, a popular swimming blog, pulled up the ACC rules on the decision and its a little unclear how Lloyd actually violated the rules.
ARTICLE 1. a. Any competitor who interferes with another swimmer during a race shall be disqualified from that race, subject to the discretion of the referee.
The issue is that Lloyd didnt interfere with another swimmer, because Dant had already finished as well. He also didnt jump into the lane of another team, as the two are both teammates on the NC State swim team. There is nothing in the rules that addresses moving into the lane of an opponent who has finished competing, but while other swimmers were completing the race.

Basically, the ruling is highly suspect.

LeoRavus posted...

Ok, those two may have been done but others were still racing. So the race was on and the rule is no crossing lanes.

Fair, next.

Actually, by the time he fell in the other lane, everybody had, indeed, finished. But the race technically isn't "over" even when everybody has finished. Thus, he was punished on a technicality.

EDIT: Actually, no, I guess technically one swimmer hadn't touched the final wall yet. They apparently touched it very shortly after.

The_Korey posted...

So he wasn't disqualified for celebrating. Fuck off with these misleading klickbait titles.

He fell into the lane while celebrating, after the race was over.

How does it feel to be this dumb?

Infinity War did nothing to actually irreparably harm Hulk, in the long run. Nobody who loved Hulk is suddenly going to stop wanting Hulk, which is why I don't feel he's a "dropped the ball" finalist.

kelemvor posted...

Be careful criticizing that movie, remember what happened to the AVGN.

...What happened to AVGN? He's just as popular as always.

Link_of_time posted...

It's possible that the bar was low at the time of it's debut. That's the only possibility.

This is the likely answer. It's likely that it was top 10 at a time when views in general were lower than average. I'd say the deciding factor was based on how much viewership dropped by the end of the series, unfortunately.

BobanMarjanovic posted...

Shut the fuck up

Why are you so upset over this being posted? Please explain.

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It's honestly just so weird how people are willing to shut their brains off just to hate The Rock, for some reason. Like how people got mad he "only" donated literally the biggest single donation ever to SAG-AFTRA, during the strike, instead of somehow literally just... Paying all of their wages ever, forever.

The Rock did not trademark these things. WWE trademarked these things damn near 30 years ago. The Rock finally just got ownership of his own creations, away from a larger corporation. And he's clearly not going to pursue them against normal people, just within the world of wrestling.

CommonStar posted...

This is a good thing no? WWE already trademarked these, but now he owns it himself. I think all wrestlers should be able to own the things they make. I rather they own it than some corporation like the WWE.

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

i'm sure there are limitations in the clauses that limit it to wrestling related things. like, WWE now can't sell "smell what the rock is cooking" t-shirts without the rock getting a cut because he owns it now. this doesn't mean if a game has the line "smell what the rock is cooking" that they suddenly owe WWE and the rock money.

anyway, good for him. no reason why wwe should own it, he's big enough to have control over it himself.

This. This is the point. We know this to be true, because it's clear WWE wasn't randomly collecting money every time somebody said "blue chipper" or "rock bottom" in media, for example.

Decrying The Rock here is to argue corporations should be able to own characters that individual people create, instead of the people who actually create them.

cuttin_in_farm posted...

You tell me.

It feels like you literally answered your own question, so why this new line of questioning?

Killmonger posted...

For the sake of this topic, lets just make it the DBZ versions only.

This feels like it cheapens the whole thing, since DBZ literally works in sequential order, where the next arc villain is stronger than the last. If you don't allow them the material to grow, then there's no point in actually asking, the answer is Buu.

ClayGuida posted...

The problem with Hulk is how they've basically neutered him to be a joke. Yes in the comics he loses to X or Y, but he also beats them in other comics. Hell, they ran a Hulk Vs Superman during the mid 90's for a reason. Does anyone think Hulk would stand a chance against any film Superman? I don't.

I understand they need to limit him a little bit, but they ultimately made him a joke across the entire MCU. The point of the character was that he was always an atomic bomb and that unease never even existed inside the MCU.

I get that, but I also get why it became a problem. They had to nerf characters like Hulk and Drax and Adam Warlock and so on, because you can't have an easy answer, or else there's no drama. With comics, it's not a problem, because you have enough time and material to make stories out of anything, but with movies and shows, you have much less time to work with, so you can't have an easy "Oh, Hulk could just win," or else you don't really have a movie.

It's a problem that doesn't really have an easy answer. Comics/manga/etc. are difficult to translate to shorter media.

Yeah, George was purposely portrayed to be a bit of an irredeemable asshole. It's not just a case of "It was the 90s," either, since Al Bundy was also an asshole, but he had good traits, such as standing up for his family when actually pressed, and actually being less of a misogynist than he seemed on the surface.

Rharyx211 posted...

tbf, when I said "dropped the ball" I mainly meant who did the MCU fuck up characterization with the most

Fair enough, I took "dropped the ball" more literally to how the phrase is typically used, which is why Shang-Chi was my answer. If you just mean "fucked up the characterization," then yeah, Shang-Chi isn't the answer. If anything, they did Shang-Chi better than expected.

ClayGuida posted...

Hulk or Strange.

Their goal with Strange was to be new blood for the future of the MCU, and thus far we had him cameoing in Spider-Man and his own film, but that was it.

They really just dropped the ball on a cohesive story for Phase 4 and 5.

Strange is a good answer, too. I feel like Hulk isn't a good answer because Hulk can appear in anything and people will be into it, still, whereas characters like Strange and Shang-Chi broke into the mainstream with fantastic debut appearances, and then they either... Did nothing (Shang-Chi), or haven't made them enough of a big deal when they were clearly meant to be (Strange.)

I feel like Shang-Chi is a slightly better answer, since atleast they've done SOMETHING with Strange, vs. nothing with Shang-Chi, but... Both kinda hit the same idea. They got people interested in a character your average person didn't know, and then didn't do enough with them.

Basically, the concept of "dropping the ball" relies on people actually being interested, first, and THEN you mess up, ergo "dropping the ball." You have to have the ball before you can drop it.

The reason Shang-Chi is a better answer is that they actually did get people interested in Shang-Chi, but then, so far, have never capitalized on it, to the point where now it may be too late. They never actually managed to get people interested in Iron Fist, since they, unfortunately, kinda messed him up from the beginning.

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This is what makes Shang-Chi more of a dropped ball than Iron First, though.

Both Shang-Chi and Iron Fist are characters your average person doesn't know. Iron Fist's show wasn't very good, so him not doing anything since didn't really hurt. Shang-Chi's movie was very good, so them not doing anything with him since is pretty much the literal definition of "dropping the ball."

Basically, after Iron Fist's show, people... Still didn't care about Iron Fist. But after Shang-Chi's movie, people DID care about Shang-Chi, and yet they haven't capitalized on it. THAT is dropping the ball. Iron Fist's ball was never in play to be dropped in the first place, since they never actually got people interested in the character, like they did Shang-Chi.

ProfOaksAide posted...

So what dinosaur is Bulbasaur supposed to be?

People who insist he's only a dinosaur and not a frog/dinosaur hybrid never seem able to answer this question.

All of the other dinosaur Pokemon are clearly based on an existing dinosaur, but Bulbasaur...

So many people cried foul over Vegy being banned, yet so few have apparently noticed that he's been unbanned for most of today.

ai123 posted...

Have you seen a frog hopping before? They don't push off their front and back legs equally like that.

This is 'Bulbasaur is a frog' nonsense is some of the worst misinformation seen on gamefaqs. Possibly anywhere, ever.

https://i.imgur.com/bzz70qS.gif

I mean, it's a hell of a lot closer to a frog hop than it is a gallop, in any case. Venusaur is doing the same general motion as a frog hop, he just obviously has less spingry-ness in his back legs since he's more short and stout. You can say it's not exactly a frog hop, but you sure as hell can't call what he does a "gallop."

ai123 posted...

That's not hopping. Looks more like galloping.

Frogs don't move like that.

Not a frog.

...Have you ever seen something gallop before? That is not a gallop. You can argue it's not a frog hop (I'd disagree), but it's certainly not a gallop.

pretzelcoatl posted...

There's an enforcement branch of the IRS...how on earth are you not aware of this?

By all means, please post examples of them actually carrying out violent enforcement.

When people like you say things like "Under the current government, we must be scared of X," I hope you can support that argument.

EDIT: And I really do hope you can support said argument, instead of disappearing from the topic like the coward you usually are.

Torgo posted...

He has a better case for it than most of these libertarian sovereign citizen clowns citing out of context passages from obscure and obsolete legal documents to claim the United States is a corporation and not a nation state.

Does he really, though?

His entire case appears to be based on "I'm rich enough to have a lawyer fight my ridiculous case for several years," which the average person who may actually need help cannot hope to match.

The old Wendy's Spicy Sriracha used to be so good, but they did away with it for whatever reason. Probably so they can bring it back in six months as a "new" thing.

Toonstrack posted...

Hes the closest to the comics version of the character and its not close.

You wanna talk about changes to the material? Raimi films straight up changed how his powers work completely, added in a bunch of "rules" to his powers that make no sense, and frature ginormous plot holes.

2 and 1 are great, ill even defend 3, but the MCU films are easily better spidey movies without nostalgia goggles.

The raimi films get forigven for doing things that of done today on a cbm; people would riot. I mean right of the bat his wall crawling ability being because of literal quills on his fingers makes zero sense, his body straight up creating new glands to make web fluid is nonsensical, and I could go on.

You know I hate to agree with Toonstrack, but this is true. MCU Spiderman is the one closest to the comics, not Raimi. I get liking Raimi, there's certainly a nostalgia there, but arguing MCU Spider-Man "doesn't feel" like Spiderman is silly, since it's closer to the comics than Raimi ever was.

FortuneCookie posted...

So, when you're not putting words in my mouth

Literally nobody has had to put words in your mouth, don't worry. You've built your own reputation, and you reinforce it almost vehemently.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Spider-Man MCU definitely sucks compared to Raimi's.

This is a take. The Raimi movies were generally awful, outside of certain character portrayals, such as Goblin and Doc Ock, which... Have since been able to exist, in the MCU.

Agent_Stroud posted...

Criminal Investigators, apparently.

https://financeband.com/do-irs-special-agents-carry-guns

This doesn't answer the question. They're authorized to, but your posts imply they do, and that they use them, to a noteworthy extent, so please explain further.

Agent_Stroud posted...

I know. Still, Terrance might want to pay Uncle Sam his cut since those accountants carry guns now.

Which accountants carry guns, exactly? Please explain?

Agent_Stroud posted...

Considering that the IRS is armed and dangerous now courtesy of our current president, I wouldnt want to get on their bad side since theyre just as liable to take whats owed to them in blood if they cant take it in money.

Please explain what you mean, in detail?

hyperskate65 posted...

I fucking love Don Cheadle.

So do I. Howard being greedy is the best thing to happen to the MCU.

Blue_Popo posted...

Anyone choosing people like black widow or thor or shang chi is silly

These characters had next to no fans pre mcu and are now A listers due to the mcu. You may not like certain aspects but dropped the ball does not apply

This is entirely what "dropped the ball" would mean, though. They built up Shang Chi, causing people to want more, and then literally dropped the ball by... Doing nothing else with him, so far. Like, this couldn't possibly apply more to Shang Chi if they tried. They made people care about the character, and then he hasn't mattered since.

Shang Chi is the perfect "dropped the ball" case, because they built him from nothing, and then just... Did nothing/dropped the ball, so now he's fading.