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It should still be a fun matchup. There are a number I would rank over them so I'm alright with it being a r2 battle.

Overall, I'd say we've got a pretty fair representation of channels to look at. A few glaring omissions, but that's the way it goes. Should be a good time!
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I am now imagining a religion revolving around guns. Prayer would be russian roulette. Miracles would be 360 no scopes. All member of the church would be required to own a gun and would be encouraged to spread their faith. Needs some refinement, but if we sell it the right way to the south, we could make a religion more popular than scientology!
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18 seconds and however many seconds it has taken me to type this.

This is a wound you have delivered me. A pain from which there can be no recovery, for it is seared into my brain, permanently captured by neurons to be played upon recall forevermore. A meme. A different meme. Combined. There is a certain elegant nature to the efficiency of such, and yet the sum is less than the total of its parts. It is like a merger between pizza and beer, if they were placed in a blender and then drank. You would survive, but would life be worth it any more?

And while this agony is mine to hold for the remainder of my days, you too will one day come to realize that you have not escaped untouched. A slow but ever present guilt will gnaw at the back of your mind, creeping its tendrils throughout your inner monologue and one day, when you least expect it, you will weep for this sin of your past, forever knowing that you have willingly scarred not only yourself, but anyone else who thought they had 18 seconds to spare. You will try and justify it with statements like "I thought it would be funny!" or "Man I was so bored!", but deep down you will know that there is no excuse and it will haunt you. You will wanna run away, never say goodbye. You will wanna know the truth Instead of wondering why. You will wanna know the answers, no more lies. You will wanna shut the door and open up your mind.

And when that day comes, Board 8 will be there for you, because this place is basically immortal.
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Bees are fine. Seeds are real cheap. You'll probably get like 5 from this, and maybe 1 of them will grow right.
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Normal when mapped against western culture as a whole? Leaning towards no.
Normal when mapped against internet culture as a whole? Probably still leaning towards no, but for the opposite reason.

I guess the answer is more no than yes, but there would need to be actual analysis and studies before a definitive conclusion could be put forward.
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Why wait? We can all listen to this classic Linkin Park song right now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYNRhzX6gw8
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I wonder how many Trump would see.
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I can see the case for vanilla being called plain, because whenever you're using ice cream for anything that isn't just ice cream, like topping a pie/brownie, you're generally picking vanilla by default.
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I don't think I have ever had cinnamon ice cream, but I could see the appeal. Seems like you could just sprinkle some onto some vanilla ice cream or some other basic flavor and have some good times...

I kinda wanna try that sometime.

But until such time, I will probably default to something like Intense Chocolate that combines chocolate with chocolate pieces and chocolate syrup.
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SupremeZero posted...

LordoftheMorons posted...

New travel ban blocked! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-15/trump-s-second-travel-ban-blocked-by-u-s-judge

From f***ing Hawaii?

I guess they're big on Tourism, but no one really thinks about Hawaii, do they?

Thanks, Obama
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Delicia is naturally a good source for poison intel, being a pharmacist and all. Seems if you know the Angel recipe you can make poison, and we know from Ray that Kate got the recipe back as well as the mansion too. This is all shaping up to be preeeetty damning stuff!

Ahh...so Delicia found the fluorescent cloth in the fountain...THAT's what Larry was drawing...which Miles goes on to think the same.

All this and we're stiiiill not done. I even connect the two logics of the Angel Recipe and Kate having the book, which Miles says is the link needed to expose her. But yet, no new dialogue has opened up with her, and the investigation continues to go!

A much clearer picture is being formed though, and the next round of arguments should seal the deal if I can just find the one bit I need to move the case along.
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Some of my favorite chores are Dishwasher's Civilization, The Make Your Bedding of Isaac, and Swifter Heroes, so it came as quite a shock when I discovered games that felt like a chore!
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A lift trolley that's wet, and was seen by Ray where some of the sculptures were. It makes me think the body might have been frozen inside one of them, but that might be a bit of a stretch.

The fountain itself is the last thing to investigate. Despite the forensics guy saying it was all clear before, he reports now that there's trace amounts of normallium, fatalium, and sugar.

This triggers a call from Gumshoe, who has some winter palace details for us. The Taurus case had only sugar, but the Gemini one had...sugar, salt, and blood! Also a rainbow light thing and notes about liquids. Quite an evidence dump all of a sudden!
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then I second hotdiggedydemon

Naturally, I looked at the channel too...seems a bit low brow for whatever that matters, but backed up by a bit of cleverness and a pretty sizable amount of drawing talent.

Also, I think imma second The Film Theorists.

I kinda picked them semirandomly looking at the names of what was left, and have learned something today about dragonball z of all things that I did not know. Apparently the matrix might be the best movie ever too...imma have to check that one out.
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Gamergate Larry. Misogynist Larry, Nazi Larry. Really, there is no end to the labels you could give him, so long as Larry is attached, they're gonna be worse off for it.

Theorizing about the natural evolution of Larry's character aside, there is an attempted murder to solve!

With all the right means to set up the trap, Kate is the logical suspect. She points the finger at a week's worth of potential outsider suspicion, and also Delicia. Furthermore, she proclaims that she does not know how to make poison gas. Miles suggests that he will have to shatter that argument.

Of note, this investigation phase is still going. Also of note, this is all only half the equation, there is still the matter of how the body was hidden and all the connecting evidences and fighting people for the truth to get to.
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Alright then, Periodic Videos for hotdiggedydemon?
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We connect tea aroma to switched pots. Kate suddenly remembers she fixed some mint tea the other day. As an avid drinker of tea, this would be quite plausible to me if we were not in the middle of a murder mystery where minty arema is one half of a deadly assassin. Either it is true, and the one with murderous intent thought they could use the mint as a cover, or Kate is less innocent than she seems.

So basically, the culprit is either Kate or anyone who drank Kate's tea. Aka pretty much everyone.
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Larry switched the pots. Classic Larry. Probably secretly doomed us all, who knows what was meant to be hidden in that other teapot.

But for now we are fine, and Larry is gonna make it all better by showing us a sketch of beauties. It...actually doesn't look half bad by this game's standards.

...Jesus Christ Larry. He could have just left well enough alone, but had to specifically point out that the beauties only apply to Courtney and Kate, not the plump one. That is literally a view that he just expressed. I get we're supposed to have a low opinion of him, but come on!
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And now for some tea. Mint tea, perhaps. That would be too easy...

Miles logics that the tea from earlier had a different aroma. That's...actually pretty neat. If Miles made a minty comment then, I sure glossed over it.

This new information is a bit soured by SJW Larry bashing Miles for daring to say anything about the tea that Kate made. Meanwhile, in Miles' head "...It's like arguing with a child..."

Two aroma logics and the game denies me connecting them...either that assumption is wrong, or there is another puzzle piece we need to combine before the game lets us acknowledge it.
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I wouldnt mind trading to get Periodic Videos the bump it needs.
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a few hours later...

"wtf where did all that time go, zzz"

anyway, we're in the present examining a room for a thing that is normal.

Statues of a man fighting a snake..."The Math Test". Heh, reminded me of our resident letter rearranger.

We chat with Ray who naturally asks how the investigation is going. Since this conversation can happen at any point, Miles is forced to be super vague and respond that he's little by little forming a picture of what happened. Turns out that since the body was never really found, there was no funeral for Dover...how that didn't cause hell to be raised by his family and friends is beyond the scope of this game.

Mercifully, the discussion with Larry is short and only there so that the audience can see his sexist ways ogling Courtney under the pretense of 'art'. The puddle of tea in front of him has more character development and plot significance than him.
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They are clearly rebooting it because the first matrix was too perfect and human beings define their reality through suffering and misery.
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I thought Marvel was supposed to be the universe with the crippling alcohol issues.
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dowolf posted...

SovietOmega posted...

UItimaterializer posted...

Peace___Frog posted...

Ulti doesn't understand probabilities, more at 11

I always laugh at people who buy into hysteria and always will. Those people who buy 15 gallons of milk and 18 loaves of bread every time a snowflake falls are morons.

Now see, this is a reasonable opinion. People absolutely tend to blow things out of proportion. But that's not what you lead with. Instead you went with 'some people got this one thing wrong, how could they then get this other thing right' and displayed a very casual misinformed attitude about the science that far too many other people like yourself display.

I mean, I always try to have at least a week of food in my house, just in case >_>

A week is fine and a solid level of preparedness, but what Ulti was citing went a few levels past that into turbo armageddon levels of overpreparedness that more than a few fall into at the slightest provocation.
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UItimaterializer posted...

Peace___Frog posted...

Ulti doesn't understand probabilities, more at 11

I always laugh at people who buy into hysteria and always will. Those people who buy 15 gallons of milk and 18 loaves of bread every time a snowflake falls are morons.

Now see, this is a reasonable opinion. People absolutely tend to blow things out of proportion. But that's not what you lead with. Instead you went with 'some people got this one thing wrong, how could they then get this other thing right' and displayed a very casual misinformed attitude about the science that far too many other people like yourself display.
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Bump for now, will work on tackling this tail end of the case in a few hours.
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UItimaterializer posted...

Scientists can't get a snowstorm right, but they know what climate will look like in 100 years.

Sure thing, pal.

It is analogous to knowing that it gets hot in summer and cold in winter, but exact numbers vary day by day and be hard to pin down exactly.
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oh good, I don't have to worry about numberphile.

I'll save

GeopLP
PBS Idea Channel
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They probably made most of my clothes too. Modern society is funny like that. Are we really as enlightened as we like to think we are, or have there just been a few more links in the chain added between product maker and consumer since the 'good' ol days?
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Lightning Strikes posted...

Regarding the No Man's Sky thing, that happened before people realised the game was mediocre, when the fanbase was attacking all negative news. He did indeed get DDoS'd.

SovietOmega posted...

Lightning Strikes posted...

Nothing to be gained from reviews that are just "I don't like *genre*" since that says nothing about the quality of the work.

The same information of a person not liking a genre and reviewing it and a person liking a genre and reviewing it can be equivalent provided you understand the bias of the reviewer. A negative view will be more likely to overstate flaws while a positive view will be more likely to gloss over them. But a good reviewer will still point them out. This is part of why numerical scores get in the way of a meaningful discussion regarding the merits of a game.

Well yeah, but that's why you want someone who can like a genre, not always like or never like. So you can see the flaws and the merits. Really it does boil down to what you want in a review. There are going to be many who feel that reviews can be as biased either way as possible provided it's the reviewer's opinion. That's fine, but I don't think it's a fair critique.

Everyone has the capacity to like a genre. So if you know the preferences of the reviewer and know they generally dislike a genre, it helps you make an informed decision, especially if they find good things to say about it. For example, Totalbiscuit is well known for not liking platformers much, but there are exceptions to that rule if the mechanics are right/length is right/aesthetic is right and any number of potential factors that might influence his view, and that in turn might influence the viewer's view regardless of if they agree or disagree. The very things a person might nitpick about and not enjoy might be the very things the viewer is looking for in the game.
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Quite the extreme view he has there. He'd probably get along swimmingly with quite a few fundamentalist religious folks.
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Lightning Strikes posted...

Nothing to be gained from reviews that are just "I don't like *genre*" since that says nothing about the quality of the work.

The same information of a person not liking a genre and reviewing it and a person liking a genre and reviewing it can be equivalent provided you understand the bias of the reviewer. A negative view will be more likely to overstate flaws while a positive view will be more likely to gloss over them. But a good reviewer will still point them out. This is part of why numerical scores get in the way of a meaningful discussion regarding the merits of a game.
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In my teen years I was fairly interested in chess, but ended up not going further with it. For whatever failings it might have as a game, the cultural impact it has can not be overstated. On that front, it blows all other board game competition out of the water, but it admittedly has over a thousand years advantage over most of these here.

It remains a fun game, but I know my limitations with it.
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If it is a game I have played, I can well enjoy seeing someone else's reaction to stuff I reacted to. If it is a game I have not played and might want to play, I can watch a bit as an idea of what to expect. If it is a game I have not played and don't want to play, I still can reap the majority of benefits of having played it (some genres understandably work better than others here).

But none of that has much political bearing other than to maybe underscore how even with issues like 'watching people play video games' there are a range of potential opinions on the matter and one should always be careful of too casually dismissing them.
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Jakyl25 posted...

The MOST silly thing is caring about Metacritic

I'd say attacking someone's site that don't generate any ad revenue or profit from is even sillier. Like, congrats, now Jim will be cursed with free publicity and some easy content to joke about.

Even sillier yet is doing this when Jim ultimately liked the game and just had some concerns with it, but gets attacked harder than some of the fans of games he actually disliked.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUyM-qyAmRg

Finally, a practical solution to all of life's problems, forever.
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Suprak the Stud posted...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eEjDMQQbvqA

Welp.

I decided to watch on youtube and looked at the top comment. It was by some guy named bearrorist who posted a link that supposedly proved Jon was right, followed by a later comment pointing out the article in fact, said something different, inquiring if they had even read the article they posted.

I am starting to wonder if Ulti is not, in fact, a person, but is instead a meme slowly infecting normal humans.
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Poor Jon...he makes some good content on youtube, but that's quite the view he has...
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This is hard, there are a lot that I like, but not so much that they stand out among the rest. I guess I'll default to Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

I also found this thing when looking up some of the songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MteSlpxCpo

There are nations that have less population than that amount of views. This is the reality we live in now.
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Free money has to be the best, because free money is free everything else on this list.
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Stargate SG-1
Star Trek TNG/DS9
Rick and Morty

There are probably some others I could say off the top of my head, but they would be tinged with nostalgia.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paoEeRG-j8U

Which one of you spent the last two years coding pokemon red in...minecraft.
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categories
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I am not sure I am capable of adequately imagining what gamefaqs will look like 10,000 years from now.
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UItimaterializer posted...

It's not sad. There are far more important things for a president to be doing, and Obama setting the precedent for that "tradition" was awful. Japan had multiple nuclear reactors melting down and he called the NCAAs a nice distraction.

It's nice to have a president show true leadership.

Is true leadership a monday to friday job?
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SupremeZero posted...

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Skyridge87 posted...

https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/840980755236999169

This is the same dude that tried to pull the "what have nonwhites ever done for the world?" card at the RNC, right?

Yeah. He's majorly against multiculturalism and basically believes that if whites didn't do it, it doesn't matter.

I wonder if anyone's ever pointed out to him that the River Valley Civilizations essentially created Civilization, and none of them were white.

And all they've done since then has involved getting wiped out. If they were white, maybe that wouldn't have happened. Checkmate.
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being large.

so large, in fact, that what we call daylight savings time is really just him shifting position and causing the earth to rotate back/forth an hour.
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