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Love sizzling me up a nice, hot glass of Dr Pepper

Actually fuck it, I'll hit Death Note too but it'll be quick. Again, spoilers.

Light Yagami, unlike Walter White, barely bothered pretending he wasn't Kira. In the very second episode, he murdered Lind L. Tailor, the fake "L", just for criticizing his actions as Kira. Light also states that he had already fantasized about the world he would go on to create by going on a ruthless killing spree. There's no difference between Light and Kira other than the power to do what Light really wanted to do all along. So even in the scene referenced in another post ITT, when Light didn't have his memories and was being a nice, normal guy, we have to remember that's also who he was at the start of the series and all it took was opportunity for him to "become Kira".

Won't bother with Death Note as it's not written well enough to be worth deconstructing, but in Walter's case, it's because they were, at first, different people. Big spoilers follow.

Walter White was the false self, a version of Walter that only existed because he was constantly repressing himself, forcing himself to be content with his life when he really wasn't. Heisenberg was the persona he created to interact with the drug world without using his real identity, however, his actions through "Heisenberg" over the course of the series allowed him to take more and more control over his life, and the real Walter White, a vain, egotistical monster, was finally seen when he began to prioritize and take pride in his new lifestyle over anything else.

As much as it's meme'd about, this is why most people point to the "I'm the one who knocks" scene as the point that Walter "became" Heisenberg, or rather was finally just admitting to himself and the world that the Walter they knew was actually the persona, and Heisenberg was more or less the real Walter. He was done pretending to be that good, humble man "breaking bad" to do right by his family. He had always had the option to accept his former partner's help, after all, so everything up until that point had been Walter's own choice. He's greedy, reckless and willing to do absolutely anything, pay any cost, to climb to the top and stay there. He cares more about being the man than he actually does about any of the values he appeared to have in the early seasons.

So that's why Walter and Heisenberg were treated as two characters.

There's Walter White, the wimpy pushover teacher who's always underfoot and never getting the respect and admiration he feels he deserves from his family and friends. Looked down on and less of a man. This man never really existed.

And then there's Heisenberg, the real Walter White, in love with himself, willing to take anything he wants by force, the master of his domain. High earner, big boss, scary drug kingpin etc. etc. He was absolutely getting off on being that kind of person, hence the "you're goddamn right" scene.

Wow! Is that DToast there on the far right?

I too have also been monitoring this data too. Here is the shocking trend I see.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7f4449e1.jpg

Staggering 416% increase. We're circling the drain here boys.

There are droves and droves of creeps and predators in the music scene.

Congratulations. This will be the only time in your life Wal-Mart does anything to benefit you as an employee.

Tyranthraxus posted...

~ An actual conversation

Essentially, yes. Only the conversation took place way earlier in the timeline than you think.
Climate change is very inconvenient for big businesses, so they have spent billions and billions rugsweeping it.

action52 posted...

We need to find a way to make these companies not so big and powerful.

That is what our government is supposed to do, but unfortunately they have been purchased by the companies.

No, I just tell them their friends with their fancy persuasion don't admit that it's part of a scheme,
but I can't help but have my suspicions 'cause I ain't quite as dumb as I seem.

I've given up pushing back on it. I barely game anymore. The fact of the matter is, no matter how bad and greedy it gets MILLIONS of players are still going to go for it because they either don't give a shit or they do care but don't have the agency to stop themselves if it means not getting something they want.

It's not my hobby anymore. It's their hobby. I'm just a visitor, from time to time. So if that's how the majority of "gamers" want and like it, who am I to tell them otherwise? MTX is good. Day-one DLC is good. Rereleasing the same game for a higher price point later with barely any changes is good. Padding DLC into a "full game" and charging higher than the price of the game you copy/pasted from is good. $60 controllers that are still prone to stick drift to this day is good. It's all good. I'm the one with the problem because I'm the vocal minority that wants to change something I perceive as bad even though most people apparently don't have a problem with it or even actually like or love it.

I am the Karen now.

Older. I'm 33 but I've got greys in my hair and beard.

Trump: 'If this can happen to me, it can happen to anyone'

Uh yeah, that's the point of having laws dumbass, it's illegal for anyone to break them

Bladesyphon posted...

We've had our share of shitty presidents in the past, but never have we had one even remotely like Trump. Make no mistake, if he does get incarcerated for this, the government absolutely will make changes to the law to prevent felons from running for the position in the future (whether or not any of those changes pass as law is an entirely different topic altogether).

Look, I don't know how to tell you this... but the government doesn't have the best interests of the American people at the front of their minds either. They WANT Trump in office, even now, because that's what the people funding their luxurious lifestyles need them to want.

The country's rotten to the fucking core at this point, and every time I think it can't get more ridiculous, it does. So for this... yeah. I'm going to keep my expectations real, real low.

Them's the breaks.

It's complete garbage that this doesn't preclude him from candidacy for president of the goddamn United States. Felons can barely get a job at McDonalds and this actual filth still gets to run for president?

Yeah, really hope everything pans out and glad there was such strong support.

Jupiter posted...

It's like saying Goku going to Namek is a spoiler. It's not.

By the very precedent they set with OP's moderation, it is.
So if you don't get moderated for this, then it's all bullshit.

This isn't a court. Previous rulings and moderator statements don't count or matter, and neither do the actual written site rules. What matters is how the mod that sees your post feels.

Fandom: Go, and mod them. Mod them for anything. Mod them for everything.

Yeah, my bad on that one. My head was entirely in explaining the other guy's point of view, I didn't think about how that would read without context.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

.......... yeah that's a hard sell, my guy.

Flaming_Fire619 posted...

From what I've heard; yes the pay is good but the expectations and stress is insane.

From what I've heard you might get a 5 minute break, and you aren't allowed on your cell phone. Even during your lunch break if I remember correctly. And I have a feeling that this is another scenario where the pay is good because they only pay 1 or 2 people and you will feel severely understaffed.

Looked into this and it's accurate. They're scumbags, the pay is this good because it's the only way to keep people in roles while simultaneously treating them as subhuman garbage and shitting all over them.

BlazinBlue88 posted...

What do you mean no single player mode? Like there isn't a story mode or no 1P VS COM option?

They mean you can't fight without a Kameo. Every fight is 2v2. It's not possible to 1v1.

More like...

Buc-ee's pays fairly normal
Most places weirdly low

s0nicfan posted...

I think people may be overvaluing their steam collection a bit. Your average pile of thousands of games bought on sale, 95% of which probably haven't even played, is filled with titles that your kids and grandkids will have no nostalgia over. You have the digital library equivalent of a hoarder's house and you're upset that you can't on death hand your children a giant pile of digital titles that they will never touch.

Wow, I didn't know we had a Valve employee posting here!

Zergrush80 posted...

Has anyone noticed that they increased the amount of ads you can get at one time to 4? Like they trying to go that twitch route and make you watch 10 mins of ads without the option to skip.,

Very apparent the strategy that all tech giants are using when you stop and think about it.
The goal is just to ease people into paying more, seeing more ads, etc. Every now and then there is a misstep and they go a little too far a little too fast, which causes outrage and they roll it back, but then they slowly introduce it over the next couple years and it's accepted.

They figured out that letting the harmful practices trickle in is an effective strategy that prevents backlash. So they've been easing people into the shittier version of everything for over a decade now, and here we are.

"Well, you see... it's possible, yes, but we're not going to let you do it. We'd really prefer if you just go ahead and buy all those same games. Say, while you're at it, know you're grieving and whatever but quick pitch, would you be interested in a Portal-themed coffin? We can put funny stuff on there like "the cake is a lie"! You guys loved that joke! We'll even throw in a plush companion cube for an extra $1,599. No, IN the coffin, not for you. You can buy your own, separately."

Btw this is off-topic Scotty but one of my favorite moments from the new trilogy of SW is a deleted fucking scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-He5_RtDE1o

For me it's DBS. I was never really into Star Wars, I watched them when I was a little kid but they didn't hook me or stick, so when Force Awakens was coming out I did a marathon of all the films to catch up. They were alright, I could definitely see how they were a huge deal for their times.

DragonBall on the other hand, was with me since childhood and I grew up watching it, playing the games, all of that. And it was mostly DBZ, I didn't get into DragonBall until my mid-late teens. But I was at first excited about a DragonBall revival. When BoG came out, I thought it was so-so, but promising. But the warning signs were there. Vegeta being treated like a gag character, Goku being an aloof jackass, everyone abusing the dragonballs for stupid wishes knowing they might need them in an emergency situation, the threat being simultaneously present yet completely diminished.

RoF came around and they added horrible-looking recolor forms for everybody, the form they introduced in the last film was already unimportant and they just had Whis Ctrl-Z the problems away, Freeza's training was a literal gag, and I knew shit was about to suck big time. And I was right. And then DBS drops and that's basically what it was, a goof series with ridiculous forms and no stakes. I just can't get into it. It's just too ridiculous now, and considering we're talking about the series where fighters were screaming hard enough to rip open portals and one of the main villains was a mean wad of bubblegum... that's saying a lot.

Not the Joker emblem on the back
Also I know they're in style right now but I hate those red caliper covers
Looks fine on some cars but just totally clashes here, looks awful

El_Marsh posted...

Why do you all keep responding to him if you recognize the tired shtick?

Because he's not going away, so when life gives you lemons...

Fandom has probably had meetings about him lol

The GameFAQs screen is edited in. AI can't write that goodly on its best day.

It says they suck and don't deserve a dog.

Ideas for Fandom:

• Larger ads. Larger things are bigger, and therefore easy to see. And that means more people will see them!
• Sig ads. Replace users' sigs with ads. Whatever they had in their sig isn't important anyway.
• Ads within ads. See OP's pic? You could fit at least four smaller ads in that ad.
• Ads in AMP. What are users always looking at? Their AMP. So put ads there!
• Replace all user posts with ads. The users are bad faith posters anyway.
• Replace user avatars with ads. Users have no right to use up your server space with their goofy little pics anyway.
• Ads on the moderation screen. All of your users are bad faith users, so they're constantly getting modded. Why not show them an ad while they're reading their suspension notification?

Because these are all my original ideas, I will of course be expecting significant compensation if any of them are used. But even with our 70/30 split, that's still 30 percent you wouldn't have made without my ingenious vision for the message boards.

Ending was so bad I haven't gone back since, and I'm the type to rewatch shows I like rather than watching new things.

So many of the threads throughout the story were leading in such clear directions just to have the writers completely spin them another way at the last minute. Felt like they were deliberately trying to crash the show, or were just trying to subvert every established expectation.

The only drastic shift in character they did somewhat foreshadow was Dany turning insane... but it happened so suddenly I cannot say it was properly set up. Everything else, from Jaime running back to his sister all the way to Jon just fucking off to Castle Black, from Tyrion drinking stupid loser juice to Bran apparently having the best story and being fit to be king. Speaking of kings, the Night King sure was just the boss lich, wasn't he? Nothing special, no purpose, no grand reveals, nothing. Just a generic fantasy villain for the sake of it, in a world of nuanced characters and intricate writing, and his death was as anti-climactic as his life.

Oh god, I don't know if I've got some of these details foggy but it sure does suck even thinking about this again. Yeah, fuck Game of Thrones.

wackyteen posted...

"There's no underwear in space"

I wish this wasn't a real quote, but yeah.

Anyway, George comes up to me the first day of filming and he takes one look at the dress and says, 'You can't wear a bra under that dress.'
So, I say, 'Okay, I'll bite. Why?'
And he says, 'Because... there's no underwear in space.' "

A shame that actresses were and still are subjected to garbage like this.

Looking forward to yet another update nobody asked for that makes everything worse!
It's sure to boost user engagement and ad revenue!

Can I pick the strangers?

ez

The maudeuraeteurs seeing this thread:
The Fandom employee watching the mod not mod it:

My dream is nearly realized. Too bad you won't live to see it.

DKBananaSlamma posted...

Thought you were gonna post this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uAHOsECDS0

I really don't know how he could fire back at Kendrick saying he's not interested in underage girls between this and the Millie Bobbie Brown stuff.
Like, bro, we got the receipts.

"I could never be defeated by the likes of you."

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Random battles
QTEs
"Hand-holding"

Random battles are just constant, often unwelcome interruptions, especially in games that don't have the courtesy to suppress/disable/auto-win encounters that would otherwise not benefit the player, IE the game forces you to go back to the starting town and all the enemies along the way are at their respective levels from before, so you're obviously far beyond that and going to one-shot everything, why even open the battle screen?

QTEs are just pure tediousness. If I'm watching a cutscene, I just want to pay attention to what's going on with the story, not worry about pressing random buttons to make the cutscene keep playing. Imagine if movies worked like this, the character dangles from the ledge and if you don't mash OK on the remote, the movie just rewinds five seconds. I can't take arguments in favor of QTE to be in good faith unless the outcomes of the sequence can ACTUALLY change based on the results, which is very rare.

Hand-holding has its place, but it should be optional, always. Some players don't need it, and when you force it onto a player's experience who doesn't need it, it's just an annoyance at best and at worst hinders their experience.

Because I've lost control of my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPMMNvYTEyI

TendoDRM posted...

I've never understood this complaint. Finn's kamikaze attempt wouldn't have done shit to that gun. Rose just saved him from showing the galaxy how much of a dumbass he is.

What are you basing this on?

So you saw the scene where Rose saves Finn then
Made me hate Rose so fucking much
Finn was heroically sacrificing himself by flying into the big fucking gun to buy the rebels more time
She does her dumb love gambit by t-boning him at 100mph which should have been fatal for the two
If it hadn't been for bullshit space magic and plot convenient cave animals, Rose would have allowed the First Order to slaughter everyone in the name of "love" for a guy she barely knows

She should have been, at the VERY least, booted from the rebellion and sent home disgraced.