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Deej posted...

My brain cells inch closer and closer to committing forever sleep every time I see the phrase "blue MAGA."

Where are you seeing that? I didn't see it in that other topic and your post is my first time seeing it in this one. What does it even mean? Democrats that support Trump?

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

So here's a thought

If the ninja who successfully takes down his target has usually infiltrated socially, using nonconspicuous equipment...

Then wouldn't the ninja who successfully takes down a pirate be a pirate? After all, he would be dressed like one, and he'd have done it with a Cutlass, and he'd have probably been hired on officially.

If you read about actual ninja you see stuff like that. Like ninja disguising themselves as Christians to infiltrate a castle of Christian rebels and sabotaging supplies and defenses as well as providing intelligence.

Tanthalas posted...

People shouldnt be making positive topics in response to topics trying to drive abstention to help Trump win.

Biden has clearly been a good president and is a far better option than Trump. Thats what needs to be said every time someone tries the same thing, both sides bs.

Biden has been shit, it's just Trump is literally an existential crisis for US democracy. It's not a contest. But yes some posters are posting in bad faith pretending to be leftists or care about issues they think could cause people to not vote for Biden because they actually want Trump to win.

Aloc posted...

The first negative topic or thing I've ever made about Biden.

No one believes that dude. Your entire persona is claiming there is a pro-Biden cult that won't let you criticize him in response to the majority of the board saying Biden sucks but Trump would be worse. That and your unhinged rants about feminists are like your two most consistent traits.

P4wn4g3 posted...

It would be interesting to see if Trump did just pull out and stop trading with Israel but I don't think it's an option in the near future.

Trump is mad at Biden for holding Israel back. He wants them to attack harder and faster. He also wants the protesters stopped with more force than we are already seeing. There are some posters here who want Trump to win and will try to make you think it won't be worse and might even be better. That's because they want Trump to win.

Most real ninjas didn't dress in black and get into standup fights. They looked like a normal peasant and if they needed to assassinate someone (and this was rare, they were mainly doing espionage) it would be with poison, while they are sleeping, when no one is looking, etc. A lot of the weapons they used were farming equipment because you could carry it without raising suspicions.

You know you often post stuff that makes people think you are being disingenuous, but the claim police are the most violent ever right now is a new record.

Bro police literally murdered unarmed black people, shot Vietnam war protestors, the list goes on. This is absolutely not the most violent ever.

Aloc posted...

It's not the I/P issue anymore.

It's the police violence that's going to turn young voters off.

I doubt it. They're a small minority of a minority and again young people don't vote in significant enough number to matter compared to older ones. Old people are the important factor and they're fully propagandized toward Israel and if Biden wants to win it would be a mistake to alienate reliable older voters for the possibility of getting some young highly unreliable voters. If you were making a moral argument that US support of Israel is wrong I would agree with you, but you're making an argument that this will hurt Biden's chances and the data just doesn't support that narrative.

I know a lot of people are really passionate about this, but it is in fact not an important issue to most young voters (and young voters don't vote much and no this election won't be different).
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/0301a78c.jpg

A lot of countries choose to recognize genocides not based on objective definitions, but for geopolitical reasons. So if you want good relations with Turkey you won't recognize the Armenian genocide, and therefore for Serbia you don't recognize the Bosnian genocide. It's also why they have done little to nothing to assist Ukraine, they want to maintain relations with Russia. They also help develop for and sell weapons to China and largely ignore Taiwan. This country is allegedly an ally of the US and the US provides them with endless aid and weapons in exchange for ruining US relations with Muslim countries. Also they bombed a US ship once.

Guns_of_Verdun posted...

I've literally never done that lol

And "definitive source " of what? What some English teacher ate for lunch?

It was posted here since TC is also an English teacher in Japan so comparing notes is fun

You're getting angry at me over the actions of phantom people who don't exist

You still also can't cite a single thing she lied about while you literally lie about me

Hypocrite

I'm not Cait.

Guns_of_Verdun posted...

I don't think any of these dudes are claiming to be experts, they're literally just talking about their experiences of their day to day life.

And no one can state a single example of anything they "made up"

In fact they get angry at you for asking.

Some of us live here and get sick of people like you who post social media as if it's some kind of definitive source. It's not.

I hate how people who have never been to Japan and think they're experts from fucking YouTube videos and/or Reddit posts constantly tell the people who live here what it's really like. Man I should just post random made up shit about the UK and be like nah bro I watched a YouTube vid, I'm an expert.

Trans people and gay people can be black. They also can get killed by hate groups.

Humble_Novice posted...

Well, they're not wrong, right?

It's a really weird conflict. Russia is supporting the side that is lead by a guy already wanted for genocide from 20 years ago. A lot of American allies like Egypt and Turkey support the government. So the US supporting neither side is a weird take.

I must be behind on the lore isn't she the one Gamergaters hate so much?

AceMos posted...

what do you like about his specials what are some jokes you find funny from his recent material

I liked when he told trans people to stop punching down at black people and people cheered. That's a common reaction to funny jokes.

AceMos posted...

speaking of what ever happened to daves biggest supporter

also congrats on ??? rank what does it say now for your karma needed for next level

I assume whoever his biggest supporter is still supports him. The dude is a NIMBY and hates trans people, so that endears him to a center demographic.

It doesn't say anything I don't think.

Dave Chappelle is by far the most annoying because he will make his special revolve around his old man political views and then claim he isn't doing that and then weird people will try to claim it was the funniest shit ever when it was just old man yells at cloud the majority of the time.

You definitely don't want to play the actual original version of 1. You really want to select stair from a menu just to go up and down stairs? It's a real slog.

epik_fail1 posted...

I have literally only seen people whine about Aloy, Abby and MJ in spiderman being "ugly" in every single gaming group I am in no matter how irrevelant they are to the topic.

Like yeah Anita sarkeesian whined about Bayonetta, but it was almost 15 years ago

There's absolutely unhinged people on circle jerk subreddits in both directions and then you have the game boards here versus the game board at ResetEra where even suggesting Eve looks hot or that you could play the game in a non-revealing costume will get you banned. This game is causing both sides of a dumb culture war to show their entire asses for everyone to see. I am sure I will eventually get the game on sale in the future and whatever status her outfits are in at that point will have no impact on my buying decision. Gameplay is considered good by most critics and players and that's what I play games for.

mario2000 posted...

so is the game good

Most people seem to think so. Actually even at ResetEra the people who play it largely really like it (though you get banned if you say she is hot or anything, so they just avoid commenting on that or saying they enjoyed it despite the sexualization).

Mario 3 holds up really well.

IronChef_Kirby posted...

I think I know what you're alluding to as I've watched a fair bit of Bloodborne on youtube, but I always got the impression that at the end of the day you're basically just a slashyboi, and I thought it'd be fun to play something where the eldritch beasties are on my side.

Go Arcane build. You can literally summon tentacles.

IronChef_Kirby posted...

Bloodborne looks pretty rad, but don't you fight against the eldritch horrors in that game?

I mean without spoiling things too much there are many paths to take your character and multiple endings.

ButteryMales posted...

What scale would you put, socialism, democratic socialism, social democracy, and Bernie's politics.

The political compass has a left and right economic scale.

The political compass is useless. It doesn't tell you the fundamental differences between economic systems. Different flavors of capitalism aren't comparable to socialism. They use a fundamentally different model. One involves the means of production in the hands of private entities. The other has it in the hands of workers. The left/right stuff also conflates a bunch of social issues that have nothing to do with economics. So Americans get confused by left-wing nationalism or a right wing party that supports LGBT or immigrants, because their entire concept of politics is just Democrats and Republicans. It's useless to even talk about socialism because people like you refuse to actually engage with the concept and just go on about government spending, welfare, or some other unrelated policy.

ButteryMales posted...

It's not a coincidence Social democracy and Socialism start with the same root word.

Lol, I forgot you're like the poster child for Americans who think socialism means government doing stuff. The more stuff government does the more socialist it is!

P4wn4g3 posted...

Better question, why don't the democrats ever correct anybody, particularly Republicans, when the word Socialism is mischaracterized and incorrectly defined?

Same reason.

Because they don't know what it means. Bernie Sanders doesn't know what it means. He advocated a bunch of social democrat policies which he called socialism like Nordic states have (they aren't socialist). 99% of people don't know what a means of production is let alone what worker control of it would mean.

Southernfatman posted...

Isn't that basically every giant monster movie besides the very first Godzilla?

Shin Godzilla and Godzilla Minus One are both intelligent.

Regardless of how you may personally feel about Bernie I think you can rationally admit the Democratic party obviously didn't want him as a candidate. It's not some crazy conspiracy. We watched every person drop out and endorse Biden as soon as it looked like Bernie had a chance. Maybe they thought Biden was the best candidate to win the election, maybe they hated Bernie's policies, either way they clearly did not want Bernie to win.

I have zero problem with this being patched out, but as a fellow old I can confirm hard R meant an R-rated movie that really pushed the envelope when we were growing up (80s and 90s).

mario2000 posted...

Since when do cops need a reason to beat people up and arrest them?

They usually present one so they can get paid vacation when they murder someone for example. So I assume they have some pretense they're using. When I lived in the US my university often had protests and I never remember police breaking them up. It was considered free speech.

Why are cops shutting down these protests? Is there some law they are allegedly breaking?

Europe didn't have potatoes, tomatoes, corn, peanuts, chocolate, etc.

As someone who speaks Japanese you are making a pointlessly weird distinction. Just learn using what's fun. You can work on ironing out any bad habits later. If you learn exclusively from anime and then move to Japan later you will get better naturally from talking to people here. I know people who learned exclusively from anime. They ended up fine. Better than the legion of foreigners who live here years and never bother to learn shit.

nekrodev posted...

I don't recall anything about the Mobius character being an issue. It was an awful game, and was shut down in 2020 after only being up for 4 years internationally (dunno if jp is still active)

It was a thing before release. The default costume was apparently too sexy and they covered him up more. You could get revealing costumes in game, but the default one was way tamer in the release.

CSCA33 posted...

This is one giant strawman, I never said anything about sexuality being negative or that it shouldnt exist. You are conflating sexuality with oversexualization and objectification.

I would argue that's the strawman. What is oversexualization and objectification? Because if it's stuff like Bayonetta, 2B, and Eve then I have to wonder what an actual naked woman having sex with someone would be. I made the Mortal Kombat comparison for a reason. The game has gone absolutely as far as you can go on depicting gore and received no criticism... for the gore. They made the costumes less revealing because people thought the women were oversexualized. I just can't comprehend of what causes that kind of thinking outside of puritanical views of sex.

Itachi157 posted...

Anime is actually fairly useful for learning Japanese and improving listening skills. Its still Japanese.

Absolutely. If you find it entertaining then it's better than listening to something that bores you. You should watch it with Japanese subtitles to reinforce what you are hearing as English subtitles will just distract you.

LightningThief posted...

For example characters like Tifa saw an ever so slight tit reduction, which still left her with large tits, and you had the perpetually horny types in devestation like her character was ruined.

She never got a reduction. It is made up nonsense. She has had an established cup size since Advent Children and Remake used that. People were literally freaking out over nothing and then freaked out in the opposite direction over her swimsuit in Rebirth even though they were literally the exact same size.

CSCA33 posted...

Imagine not being misogynistic, and treating women as actual humans instead of a sex object

real women are more attractive than some sex doll bimbo caricature mans idea of a woman who are also commonly depicted as child like

I love how GTA roasts this culture of misogyny with the satirical princess robot bubblegum anime and Wasabi Kitty

This feels like an extreme position. Lots of women and men like sexualized characters and that's okay. It's like saying anyone who likes gore in games is the same as a violent killer. Except this isn't even close to gore. These games are so tame and people make strong statements like that. If you find yourself more concerned about what the girls are wearing in Mortal Kombat than the graphic depiction of someone having their intestines ripped out and being strangled with them, you need to really ask yourself what your priorities are.

The closest thing I watch to subs, would be the Japanese subs on a broadcast. I have heard English dubs before though and especially in games am familiar with English voice acting. The quality is often worse in English, but that's because the industry isn't taken seriously for the most part. I encourage you to watch a documentary on voice acting in Japan. It isn't reading lines in a booth. You have the whole cast together in a big room reacting off each other and a director giving guidance. They do multiple takes, the actors have read the lines many times ahead of time and thought about how their character acts, they are familiar with the show and extremely engaged with the fan base. Most importantly they are paid a lot more.

So the issue with English dubs is you really need someone to naturally be good and self-motivated because the actual production is bare bones and the pay is shit. I was at an anime convention where Steve Blum had a panel. Someone asked him what he thought about Cowboy Bebop. He said he hasn't ever seen it, or any of the anime he voice acts in because he doesn't have the time. And he's a pretty good English actor. A statement like that in Japan would end your career. Fans would be outraged. It's just a totally different industry here.

I really like the gameplay and the story and characters are good enough.

A weak currency is good for exports and bad for imports. If you're an import dependent economy like the US, you want a strong currency. If you're export dependent economy like China, you want a weak currency. Back when Japan was blowing up in the late 80s and early 90s the weak yen was a huge help because they were an export dependent economy. Now though it's complicated. Japan still has a manufacturing base, but it's nothing like it was decades ago. So a weak yen is good for some companies and not for others. Nintendo is primarily based in Japan and most of their sales are overseas, so it's overall good for them.

evilpresident posted...

I distinctly recall that happening when WHF got canned.

Yeah there is an infamous video of a dude torching his entire painted army on YouTube.

mystic_belmont posted...

Has WH40K lore ever been changed?

Entire factions have had their back stories completely rewritten. Necrons, Leagues of Votann (Squats), and Tyranids (Genestealers) being the biggest ones.

Edit:
I found a list of major retcons:
https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2024/04/warhammer-40k-the-grimdarks-greatest-retcons.html

pegusus123456 posted...

Maybe I'm just naive or don't know how these things work, but my thought was that whatever Chinese studio they outsourced to outsourced it to NK.

Yes, it's really common to make use of North Korean labor in China. They even have restaurants run by North Koreans in China. They used to try to defect to South Korea, but now they get handed over to China and deported to North Korea if they try that.

There's quite a few articles about it, but here is one from NPR:
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/26/1234005107/the-north-korean-forced-labor-program-supplying-seafood-around-the-world