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Some Solitaire games are just unwinnable. Don't feel too bad.

dragon504 posted...

Play Freecell, I believe every puzzle is meant to be winnable.

They are, so if you lose at Freecell, you have only yourself to blame.
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Zeus posted...

That's not how real jobs work.

You spend time doing something you're suitably skilled at, and people pay you to do it. The only reason to insist that it isn't a real job is because you're too jealous to accept that it's legitimate.
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Zeus posted...

First off, she looks like a man. Second, if a man got fired for his behaviors, he'd had zero recourse so it's absurd that women have these special privileges.

The complaint was that a man wouldn't get fired for those behaviors, though.

And the complaint is speculative, gender-baiting bullshit which gives women a free pass for doing things a man couldn't get away with.

You're saying that based on Duckbear's rather limited and sensationalised paraphrasing of Daily Mail's rather limited and sensationlised account of the events, as well as your own thinly-veiled misogynistic biases. A judge with access to all facts of the case and a substantial body of evidence said the opposite, and gave her $40 million as a result. I can tell you which of those conclusions I consider more reasonable...

Kyuubi4269 posted...

If execs weren't paid so much, I doubt a 40 mil case would've succeeded.

Well, no, given that any claim made in a wrongful dismissal suit is going to be taking lost wages into account to determine a suitable damages value. That much is pretty obvious.
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Muscles posted...

I'm pretty sure most people can agree that personal freedoms are a good thing

Until you follow that up with "which personal freedoms?" A great many personal freedoms come at other costs, which different people are going to value differently.
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All the time, though usually more phrases and mannerisms than things like stutters. Happens with both actual people and TV characters that I identify with.
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I use a 2-in-1 for both my head and facial hair. It seems to do the job.
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Religious morality is fine, provided it doesn't fly in the face of practicality and cause people to suffer for no reason. If it does, it's time to consider whether or not that bit of the religion is really worth following in today's world.
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Sounds like a lovely individual. Good on you for shrugging him off like that.
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Because it can readily switch between being used as a portable system and being used as a console. The joke doesn't really work when there is actually a clear practical reason for the name (as distinct from marketing buzzwords that don't actually mean anything).
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That does sound stroke-ish. Fingers crossed you can recover well, and that it's not too bad.
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Final Fantasy2389 posted...

Plus their tree house live event is more in depth on game coverage than a conference and they can interview the developers too.

That's also true. Those are pretty great.
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The biggest reason is that pretty much everyone they would have speak at a press conference doesn't speak enough English to be able to present without a translator. It's just much, much easier for them to record a Direct and have a translation dubbed over it, as well as being more engaging for the audience because they don't have to wait for a translator to catch up. Especially where you consider that, for online audiences (the vast majority of viewers), the only real difference is that the people you see talking between trailers are in front of a green screen instead of on a stage, and that's pretty meaningless.

DarkKirby2500 posted...

After the Wii, they weren't interested in he "gamer" audience, they wanted the "non gaming casual" audience, so they deemed an E3 stage show a waste of time and money.

That's not true at all. The whole point of the "U" in the WiiU's name was the idea that it was going to be a system for "You, the core gamer." Their failure to engage that audience with the WiiU was due to other factors than a casual-centric attitude (note also that it was 2013 when they stopped doing the conferences, well after the Wii's casual audience had lost interest) Deeming E3 a waste of time and money was for factors other than the audience, especially where the press conference at E3 is more often tailored for shareholders and other industry folks (who love to see things that will sell to hordes of casual gamers) than core gamers.
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Muscles posted...

I tell them the day the schedule comes out I can't work x day

They say ok

If you got this in writing, they're wrong. If not, you failed to follow through and make sure there wouldn't be an issue. It was their mistake, but you're responsible for pointing it out and pushing to have it fixed.
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Erik_P posted...

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OhhhJa posted...

Lmao at that testimony... whole lotta nothing as expected just like the tax returns.

Hope you enjoyed your half day off @Erik_P

I'm at home instead of working. I think I came out ahead.

You're at home for Thursday morning. If you're going to take a half day just for the sake of having half a day off, at least make it the afternoon so you don't have to go into work later. That, or make it a monday morning.

Morning turns into the afternoon.

Yes, but if you only took half a day, you have to work once the morning turns into the afternoon. A morning off is not an afternoon off. Silly goose.
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KevinceKostner posted...

Desperate Nintendo fans will call it GotY

Unlikely, unless nothing else comes out in its year, which is also very unlikely.
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ImmortalityV posted...

Pent up rage leading with an lackluster sex life can drive individuals to commit severe acts. Must be the reason that so many of these shooters are men.

Pretty juvenile assumption. They would just be serial rapists if that was the case.

Most serial rape isn't actually about sex so much as it is a power thing.
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I think he might actually have made one a long time ago, unless this was only just announced.
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Syntheticon posted...

I think she's being a bit of a b**** with the 'I can rescind at any time',

Uhh, not really. That's how sexual consent works. Sure, you'd need to sort out how refunds would work in such a case, since it's important to be very clear what you're paying for (and "sex" is pretty vague), but saying that she should be able to stop a sexual encounter at any time isn't at all unreasonable. That's just basic decency; you should be treating all sexual encounters like that.
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Erik_P posted...

OhhhJa posted...

Lmao at that testimony... whole lotta nothing as expected just like the tax returns.

Hope you enjoyed your half day off @Erik_P

I'm at home instead of working. I think I came out ahead.

You're at home for Thursday morning. If you're going to take a half day just for the sake of having half a day off, at least make it the afternoon so you don't have to go into work later. That, or make it a monday morning.
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Cacciato posted...

Lol, you really don't remember making this exact same topic already?

Dunno if he did this exact topic, but he did one for the Switch. It was just as unbearably cringy then as now.
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Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva was a great movie.
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That waterfall doesn't really look that great. Looks too solid.
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JanwayDaahl posted...

And yeah, I won't touch a filthy animal like a swine, not even with a fork.

Clearly somebody's never been inside a chicken coop. Pigs are no filthier than any other livestock, that was just the easiest wording to use in writing down kosher/halal laws to convince people not to eat something that carried serious and then-incomprehensible health concerns. Now that we have meat inspection and meat thermometers and pans/burners that can cook meat effectively, the likelihood of contracting trichinosis or pork tapeworms (which are really, really bad infestations to get, even today) has been virtually eliminated, so those rules don't really matter as much in today's world.

JanwayDaahl posted...

Plenty of cultures have "fresh" food that are decorated with spices

Today, yes, but that's not where the cuisine came from. In hotter climates, it was much harder to preserve meat, so it became common practice to heavily season it to mask the taste of it having gone bad. That practice persisted past the invention and proliferation of refrigeration, simply because those were the flavours people were used to, and now the same seasoning is applied to fresh meat and has been refined for that. Cuisines developed in colder climates (i.e. the European countries that comprised most of America's initial colonization) tend to be less heavy on the seasoning, plus a lot of America's history has been since the invention of domestic fridges in the early 1900's.
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JanwayDaahl posted...

So the terrible mods here don't see this as flaming?

JanwayDaahl posted...

Your food sucks,

Umm...
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What abominable formatting. A list would work just fine, Gamespot. No need to go full clickbait and put each game on a different page for extra ad hits.
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That's a pretty complex question. A region's cuisine is based on a huge range of factors, especially for a region as large and diverse as America.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

adjl posted...

Simple: Because having a number blocked is very easy and inconsequential for them to circumvent, while being drawn and quartered is a much more effective and permanent deterrent.

Annoying phone calls is not justification for invading India.

You don't have to invade them. Just bring back a few capital offenders as souvenirs after taking a perfectly normal trip there.
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Zeus posted...

To be fair, he's not entirely wrong to the extent that if you basically wipe out an entire country there wouldn't be anything to draw from.

Except he absolutely is, especially where the number of people worldwide willing to join the "we need to stop the West at any cost" bandwagon is going to jump astronomically if the West starts considering large-scale genocide to be an acceptable course of action in response to anything. And that number is going to start including people who have no interest in Islam whatsoever. If you're going to try and prevent a group from recruiting by wiping out a region, that region will have to be the entire planet, at which point you've erased any good your efforts could possibly have done.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

ISIS will kill a few every now and then until they're wiped out, if we keep p****footing about then that will last indefinitely, this means that they will kill more than we ever could with an aggressive bombing campaign, assuming the body count isn't that high already.

If ISIS ever makes it up to a thousand kills a year, I'll be very surprised. Carpet bombing an entire country stands to kill thousands per hour, if not far more. I get that you're scared and all, but don't be so stupid as to think you're actually presenting realistic ideas here. Calm down.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

There's a very easy solution to poaching: farms.
https://www.thedodo.com/people-are-farming-rhinos-1592752412.html
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/23/total-ban-ivory-disastrous-elephants-legalise-it

Alternatively, synthesizing ivory in a lab. When it can be mass-produced without harming the animals, it becomes easy to completely gut the market by flooding it.
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DorkLink posted...

You should do something crazy like go 16 miles away from your house

In 103 hours, he could go 17 miles.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

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Zeus posted...

I'm surprised that this isn't already widely being done, especially by the shady illegal as fuck scam ones based in Canada.

It is.

Every other day or so, I get robo-voicemail messages. I just delete them and block the number.

So, if the means to deal with it already exists, why even bother with an ineffective attempt at a ban?

Simple: Because having a number blocked is very easy and inconsequential for them to circumvent, while being drawn and quartered is a much more effective and permanent deterrent.

Johnny Eagle posted...

And having it completely run by Democrats would be so much better >_>

That would also not be very good. Balance is good, so you get the good of one side balancing out the bad of the other. Finding that balance is hard, though, especially where it frequently shifts.
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Darth_CiD posted...

Only shocking if you somehow forgot that ugly people can be talented.

Which is pretty common, really. Just look at Simon's first impression when they walked out on stage. People were amazed not just because he's really freaking good, but because they expected him to suck because he's fat and ugly.

Darth_CiD posted...

Also, f*** that girl. She was so trying hard to ride on the guy's coattails, i bet he would have done much better without her.

Given how he was acting, I don't think he could have performed without her. He's leaps and bounds above her as far as singing ability goes, but he's got no confidence at all, and was very much relying on her in that department.
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More harshly than some, less harshly than others. It's not at either extreme.
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Bugmeat posted...

RCtheWSBC posted...

political spectrum

I find these two words together to be very amusing.

There are two political alignments. Anything more than that is snowflake SJW cuck nonsense.
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45 minutes is a pretty impressively fast e-mail for a cockroach, regardless of whether or not it was under your bed.
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Peanut_Butterz posted...

And I thought the exact opposite was happening to me...

Heterosexual agendas were forcing a movie on you?
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I have been guilty of that sort of thing myself, largely because experimenting with unfamiliar restaurants alone is kind of intimidating. There's often a massive selection, and it can be overwhelming to try and figure out which ones are worth spending on of those 24 precious meals at (and while it seems silly, I would kind of be more inclined to completely waste the meal by going to a fast food place than to risk trying to make good use of it and ending up with something mediocre). That, and if I'm traveling alone, that means I'm eating alone, and going into a sit-down restaurant to eat alone isn't completely comfortable. It's silly, and a waste of a great opportunity to try new foods, but I can sort of understand the lure of familiar things.

Now, I say this having never traveled alone anywhere particularly well-known for its local cuisine. In such a case, I would probably be interested enough in the local fare to take some chances and step outside of my comfort zone, and when I've visited such places with other people, we've done so. But I can understand where she's coming from.
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If I'm trying to keep tidy-looking, I shave around the edges every other day or so (after I shower), and trim my beard and mustache with clippers weekly. If I'm being lazy, I tend to shave more on the order of once a week, and trim every 2-3.
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I'm still rocking the i5 2500K I put in when I first built this thing in 2011. One of these days I might get myself an aftermarket cooler and overclock it to squeeze a bit more performance out of it, but I don't really have any complaints.
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Troll_Police_ posted...

The nice thing is, none of their degrees will be worth shit once their school loses its accreditation

Yeah, they really haven't thought this through.
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I do know that some people are annoyed at fidget spinners because simply playing with them has become a fad, as opposed to their intended (and very effective) use as a way to help kids with ADHD focus. It kind of hurts their therapeutic potential when most people are just playing with them, and they're just a distraction in most cases.
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DeltaBladeX posted...

Spend it on other sites though. Valve is getting terrible with stuff lately.

To see what I mean, try sending a game to a friend in the US. At the point where you confirm payment, check out their newest change.

Which doesn't really affect those that just want to buy games to play them, and don't make efforts to circumvent regional pricing differences. Regional pricing differences are bull****, certainly (at least beyond what exchange rates would dictate), but you can't really expect Valve to let you get around them.
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MICHALECOLE posted...

Also, if you're going to be this comedian you better know the backlash that comes along with it whether you're Sarah Silverman or Gilbert gottfried. If you host family friendly shows, be prepared to lose your job, but don't f***ing apologize for it after you do it. Stand by your comedy or don't do that joke.

Eh, that's debatable. Backtracking and apologizing just because you didn't get away with something is pathetic, yes, but mistakes happen, and it's certainly not unheard of to cross a line without noticing or meaning to. I'd be cool with an apology there, because they're actually apologizing for making a mistake, as opposed to regretting being caught doing something wrong and trying to weasel their way out of the consequences.
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The first time? It's going to vary by regional culture, but generally, not anticipating that people aren't going to be okay with it isn't that egregious a fault. Subsequent times, after being asked to stop? It's not okay.
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helIy posted...

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ShadowWarKing posted...

What Remains of Edith Finch was a stupid decision. The PotD submitter had obviously thought it was great, but nobody will give it GOTY. The poll in general is terrible.

that would be Allen or Devin who made the poll

yknow, the website admins

https://www.gamefaqs.com/contribute/submit_potd

and if it was from a user submitted one, their username would be there

and there's no username there

Plus polls like this are a regular occurrence, for thinly-veiled market research purposes. This isn't something that would come up because some random user wanted it to, it's something that is part of the standard poll rotation.
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I'm not sure you understand what a letter's pronunciation means.
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Getting achievements that aren't fun to get is dumb, unless they offer some kind of reward that can provide more fun than you gave up.
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Starflesh.
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Three. Facebook, GameFAQs, and the Factorio wiki, which I'm perusing intermittently. Normally it's two.
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