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| Topic | No more aim-based video games for me. |
| zebatov 05/24/17 8:13:37 PM #10 | I haven't used a "joystick" since 1987. I find it's not the aiming, but the lag that frustrates me. Then the other guy thought he was something special so he runs around teabagging everyone. I just don't play online much anymore. Pretty much only Gears of War at this point. And that's because I still love it when dummies run around corners without looking, like they haven't learned anything in eleven years of playing the game, then cut cut cut! |
| Topic | so is our moon just named moon |
| zebatov 05/24/17 7:59:51 PM #75 | Revelation34 posted... zebatov posted...Lobomoon posted...How come Pokemon Pikachu is named Pikachu? I can't type Kana out on here or it will show up as (seemingly) random characters (code used to make each Kana) because the script doesn't allow for non-Romanised character sets. So, no. But those are what the individual characters look like in Hepburn. My smart-ass reply would have been "They always have?" They use an extended hyphen to double vowels. My gf is Japanese, from the south of Honshu, so I've been studying it for about three years. |
| Topic | so is our moon just named moon |
| zebatov 05/24/17 7:38:58 PM #73 | Lobomoon posted... How come Pokemon Pikachu is named Pikachu? I just typed Pikachu in Hiragana into a translator and got "What happiness was". Although, assuming if it were a proper word outside of a name in Katakana, using Kanji would change the meaning even further. The proper spelling is Pi-Ka-Chi/Yu-U. Have to use hacked-together Hepburn, because GameFAQs in 2017 doesn't accept other char sets. |
| Topic | so is our moon just named moon |
| zebatov 05/24/17 7:20:17 PM #71 | You said "a liberal versus a Liberal". That's not the wording in question. The wording in question is "a moon versus The Moon". If someone says "The Moon", we know they mean our moon. If someone says "a moon", we need more information. Since there is no definitive Liberal, we cannot simply say "The Liberal", unless followed by "Party", which in speech, would be the descriptive factor needed. The comparison was a poor one, because there is no "The Liberal", or even "the liberal". You would never see "a Moon". Again, OP asked if our moon was just named moon. The answer is no (unofficially). It had a name other than Moon and Luna at one point as well. Luna makes more sense, anyways, since most other planets and moons have Roman or Greek names. |
| Topic | A Man with a GUY FAWKES MASK Chased Children in Arizona with an AXE!!! |
| zebatov 05/24/17 7:12:42 PM #3 | Well that's not going to give them the right impression. |
| Topic | Do you think this world would be better off without religion? |
| zebatov 05/24/17 7:09:33 PM #72 | Yes, BUT, there are many, many religions that mind their own business. I'd say religions like those under Christianity, and Islam can take off, but others like Shintoism don't bother anybody. |
| Topic | Why don't they just nuke ISIS? |
| zebatov 05/24/17 7:07:05 PM #10 | Because ISIS doesn't exist. Stop letting the news think for you. |
| Topic | Would you be intimidated if someone you are going to fight takes his shirt off? |
| zebatov 05/24/17 7:05:11 PM #27 | Metal_Gear_Link posted... So I got hit from behind while driving by a guy who got off his car What was he doing on his car? No. It's just one less thing that you would be able to grab. |
| Topic | Is Ocarina of Time that good? |
| zebatov 05/24/17 7:00:07 PM #17 | The game comes from a time when realistic ratings were given to games. EGM gave it a 10, and that was extremely rare. Only other game that got that from them afaik was MGS. Anyone who disagrees about it probably has poor taste. And there aren't that many of them. I'm not the biggest fan of Zelda, and I'm not one to buy into ratings, but this is one title they aren't wrong about. Just wish it was open-ended. |
| Topic | From your hometown, what would be the furtherest city you have been to? |
| zebatov 05/24/17 6:55:15 PM #13 | Fukuoka. But London and Paris are pretty close to the same distance in the other direction. Canada is huge. |
| Topic | Is Ocarina of Time that good? |
| zebatov 05/24/17 6:52:34 PM #13 | SushiSquid posted... I think you'd have to play it to understand. It still holds up well today. |
| Topic | Do you usually answer the door when solicitors come to your door? |
| zebatov 05/24/17 6:50:38 PM #10 | It's usually census. |
| Topic | OguriSamas Vacation Count down topic! |
| zebatov 05/24/17 6:47:56 PM #72 | Ogurisama posted... Day 1: I, too, live in Calgary. Funny. |
| Topic | Should Trump be impeached? |
| zebatov 05/24/17 6:44:37 PM #32 | Reading through this thread made me some kinda thirsty. #imparched |
| Topic | think I made the wrong decision getting a car |
| zebatov 05/24/17 6:41:48 PM #51 | They're slimier than insurance agents. |
| Topic | "What kind of music do you listen to?" |
| zebatov 05/24/17 6:38:19 PM #40 | helIy posted... however. But they love it. It's almost always on TV. Enormous groups of people that definitely aren't all on the album version. |
| Topic | My lawyer made a pretty ballsy move yesterday... |
| zebatov 05/24/17 6:29:08 PM #6 | @Zangulus You could try it... It's worked here, with my roommate. If their guns aren't calibrated, how can they accurately say how fast you were going? It's one of those lazy things everyone has at their job they just don't do when they get on shift, that they really should. I'm in Alberta. We have the most lax laws for speeding because we have photo radar here. It wasn't more than double, either. Slightly under. But like I said, they don't care too much about speeding because of the cameras, and I slowed down before he even had his lights on because I saw him after I took off at the light. He did me a favour when he wrote me down as doing only 40 over, so I didn't have to go to court and explain to a judge why I should be allowed to keep my vehicle that's registered and insured in another province. I think 60 is around 40, and 115 is around 70-75. I was clipping for sure, but it was four lanes of straight freedom... for like eight seconds. 10-40 over is a gradually increasing fine, from $115-$397ish. 50, like I said before, is over $500 and a date with a judge. I'll probably be more careful in the future. They just use weird cars here. I've seen anywhere from canary-yellow Toyota Tacomas, to rusted-out older Honda CR-Vs pulling people over. |
| Topic | I dont understand the military worship in America. |
| zebatov 05/24/17 6:11:02 PM #148 | TyVulpine posted... But by the Japanese attacking first, Hitler was under no obligation to declare war on the US. The Germany-Italy-Japan pact was of mutual defense should one of the three BE ATTACKED FIRST. The US was justified in declaring war on Japan, but did not declare war on Germany until after Hitler declared war on the US. Correct. Except for the justified part. Since they initiated that whole scenario by breaking the treaty, knowing the events that followed would take place. They fully expected it. But you're also missing the point. The US would not have declared war on Germany at all because the public did not want it, and they also had no reason to. Canada had to go because of the relationship to England via The Commonwealth. The reason Hitler would have declared war first was, as per the pact, due to the fact that the US attacked Japan, after forcing Japan to attack first. Had the events in the Pacific not occurred at all, the US never would have gone to Europe. And as mentioned, the first "shot" fired was when the US broke their treaty with Japan. If anyone was justified, it was the Japanese in invading other countries in Asia and the Pacific for resources. If you look at it from a more personal perspective - if it was do or die for my family, and there was no other option, sorry, but my neighbours houses are getting robbed. The Hell of it is, most of the Japanese population truly believe they were in the wrong. |
| Topic | My lawyer made a pretty ballsy move yesterday... |
| zebatov 05/24/17 6:00:26 PM #4 | Holy shit your tickets are expensive. I was doing 115 in a 60, and the cop ended up writing down 100, because I was compliant. 50 over in my province is an automatic court date and a $500+ fine. What I got was $397. I'll have to fight it, because I can't afford to pay that right now, and don't want it to increase by 30%. You guys know to ask them if they've done their inspection on their radar guns, right? |
| Topic | Why is it on the ingredients for Goldfish, it says "Made with Smiles"? |
| zebatov 05/24/17 5:50:57 PM #11 | TheWorstPoster posted... faz posted...Smiles are free at McDonald's, so they're made out of the same thing I guess. shadowsword87 posted... They already pay more than most low paying companies, why not join them? Because the machines will take over soon enough. |
| Topic | Why is it on the ingredients for Goldfish, it says "Made with Smiles"? |
| zebatov 05/24/17 5:49:48 PM #10 | Muffinz0rz posted... zebatov posted...I wouldn't be smiling. Those things are awful. No. |
| Topic | I dont understand the military worship in America. |
| zebatov 05/24/17 5:33:58 PM #145 | I know what he thinks, and it's wrong. Firstly, the attack on Pearl Harbour wouldn't have happened at all if the US hadn't annexed (stolen) Hawai'i just to establish a naval base at sea. (You know, conquering other lands like the Japanese were doing in WW2 - except the US does it for power and control, whereas Japan did it to simply keep their country from collapsing. We'll get to that.) The US wanted to join the war in Europe, but Hitler wasn't taking their bait to attack "first". The US public was 80% against joining at the time. Japan was allied to Germany, so the US turned to them. The initial attack against Japan by the US, was the breaking of their treaty with Japan. This would halt the shipment of resources Japan needed (mostly oil at the time) to fuel its economy. Japan needed to seek elsewhere these resources, and a lot of neighbouring countries do have them. So what do you think happened next? Japan did what the US currently does (and has always done) and invaded other countries for the procurement of said resources. The bombing of Pearl Harbour was a pre-emptive defensive, as the Japanese knew the US would eventually send fleets out to defend the countries they were attacking. Similar to Chess, the US had seen this move coming from the start when they broke the treaty, and is exactly what they needed to sway the public's opinion from 80% against joining the war in Europe (as Japan and Germany were allied, as mentioned) to majority-for. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (where the main target was the Mitsubishi factory - but they missed) were to simply end that side of the war, as they never had intended on a full-out ground battle, and they had already gotten what they needed from the Japanese. This is why "D-Day" took place two years after the rest of us were already fighting in Europe. In short, the US stole Hawai'i, broke a treaty with evil intentions, and essentially had their own people bombed in Hawai'i, just so they could join the war in Europe. Then they bombed hundreds of thousands of innocents in Japan. Pure evil and murder. Why? War = $$. And don't try to say the US broke the treaty with and bombed the Japanese because of what Japan was doing at the time. We all know the US doesn't do anything unless it's somehow helping itself. |
| Topic | I want $9000 now |
| zebatov 05/24/17 5:05:11 PM #2 | I want over $9000. |
| Topic | Storm's a-brewin' so time to stay inside |
| zebatov 05/24/17 4:58:04 PM #20 | It was 28° yesterday, and today it's cold and rainy with a chance of snow west of the city. |
| Topic | Unmarried couple stoned to death in Mali |
| zebatov 05/24/17 4:56:46 PM #3 | They follow their book to the T, regardless of what laws they break in doing so. Religion trumps government there. (They actually choose death over bacon in a hypothetical starvation scenario. Absolutely ridiculous.) We typically follow the parts that make sense and don't break any federal laws. That's the difference, and also why their faith has never gotten along (for the most part) with any people outside of it in any country they've been in. They don't want to accept other culture. |
| Topic | I dont understand the military worship in America. |
| zebatov 05/24/17 4:48:40 PM #143 | TyVulpine posted... LOL at Zeus thinking Japan has a "military"....(Japan is banned from having anything more than a home island defense force after their actions in WWII, just as Germany isn't allowed to have a military after both WWI and WWII). @TyVulpine Just curious... what actions? Because it sounds to me like you've been reading US "history" books. So I just want to make sure. |
| Topic | I dont understand the military worship in America. |
| zebatov 05/24/17 4:42:14 PM #142 | slacker03150 posted... I agree, I meant that that was the narrative put forward. I don't know enough about Korea to speak, but just wanted to clarify that Vietnam was definitely an unnecessary mistake. I thought both those wars were between their own country, though. So why the US would get involved (yet again) is beyond me. I mean, I highly doubt their governments would have any impact on what goes on over here. It read to me like Communism would somehow trickle over to North America if the US didn't get involved. |
| Topic | my son couldn't get past genos maze in super mario rpg |
| zebatov 05/24/17 4:36:36 PM #8 | SilentSeph posted... Actually I got stuck in there for a long time when I first played it. I think the npc tells you to go left, left, straight, right or whatever when you reach the split paths. But I didn't know he meant from Mario's perspective so I kept going in loops. That's for the pipe that takes you to all the coin boxes. All you have to do to progress (after getting the coin boxes) is follow Geno. |
| Topic | I dont understand the military worship in America. |
| zebatov 05/24/17 4:33:38 PM #140 | Zeus posted... It benefits the US to have bases abroad because it protects *us* and defends *us* by allowing our forces to more effectively strike threats. Generally speaking, though, SK, Japan, etc, should be funding more of their own military so any presence beyond that isn't needed. Japan covers 70% of the cost of housing the US military there. It's not for their benefit. The US being there is a situation the US forced them into after that side of WW2 ended. How much more do you want them to be forced to pay? If they were allowed to have an actual army, and attack outside of being directly attacked first, this wouldn't even be talked about. |
| Topic | I dont understand the military worship in America. |
| zebatov 05/24/17 4:20:58 PM #139 | slacker03150 posted... I don't get it and I live here. Vietnam wasn't your fight, either. I don't understand the US' interest in it, but we certainly said "Fuck that." and never went. As for healthcare, socialise it. I got bit by a dog a week ago. Been to the hospital and clinic a few times, haven't paid shit. Never understand those people who don't want to pay $50/m so everyone gets free healthcare. They act like they'd be the only ones paying the fee... |
| Topic | my son couldn't get past genos maze in super mario rpg |
| zebatov 05/24/17 4:13:16 PM #6 | ... |
| Topic | Why is it on the ingredients for Goldfish, it says "Made with Smiles"? |
| zebatov 05/24/17 4:11:22 PM #4 | I wouldn't be smiling. Those things are awful. |
| Topic | SJWs created a list of restaurants that are "culturally appropriated" |
| zebatov 05/24/17 4:09:53 PM #2 | So Asians can't make lasagna, and Mexicans can't make Okonomiyaki, either? |
| Topic | Maybe getting my degree in English was a huge mistake |
| zebatov 05/24/17 4:07:26 PM #5 | Just get some simple safety tickets, first aid, and go be a safety attendant somewhere. Takes a couple of days. Or apply for driving/delivery positions. |
| Topic | Maybe getting my degree in English was a huge mistake |
| zebatov 05/24/17 4:04:22 PM #3 | That won't even help you teach English in Japan. All they want to see is that you went to school for something. May as well start applying at fast food restaurants or general labour positions in the meantime. What you two are experiencing is exactly why I never wasted time or money in school. My roommate has a business management degree and an HR degree, and he can't find anything, either. |
| Topic | Humans are originally from Europe. |
| zebatov 05/24/17 3:54:18 PM #3 | What is now Jordan, actually. Yeah anyone who has ever said Africa, I've just laughed at. There's literally no way. |
| Topic | This is how you score in an interview |
| zebatov 05/24/17 3:52:08 PM #4 | Since I moved to a large city, I've never had trouble getting work when the economy was good. The last couple places didn't even look at my resume or call references. If you look able-bodied and have a clean abstract, you're good. |
| Topic | impressed my tinder babe by eating 24 chicken wings last night |
| zebatov 05/24/17 3:48:22 PM #15 | I've done thirty plus where ten probably weighs 1.5lbs. Boston Pizza has huge wings. Requires heavy drinking prior-to. |
| Topic | Am I the only liberal here who is Pro guns, anti Islamism anti trans enforcement |
| zebatov 05/24/17 3:37:51 PM #14 | I don't understand what parts of liberalism you might like, then. Sending all of your money overseas when it could be spent better at home? |
| Topic | Bloody hell... I'm... un...fit... DX,, |
| zebatov 05/24/17 8:44:15 AM #3 | You might just be a sweaty guy. My roommate can't pick up a plate without looking like all of earth's dams gave out simultaneously on his face. You can go a lot farther than you think, you just have to get motivated to do it. |
| Topic | How do you become a morning person? |
| zebatov 05/24/17 8:32:09 AM #31 | Stay up until eight, have a banana, then go to bed. I'm doing it right now except it's 6:30. |
| Topic | I go see a psychiatrist for the first time in the morning |
| zebatov 05/24/17 8:17:19 AM #9 | Cacciato posted... zebatov posted...I'm still trying to figure out who was right Nah. Those people just have too much power, and nobody can tell you how you feel but yourself. |
| Topic | Is suicide-order baiting against the rules? |
| zebatov 05/24/17 8:09:04 AM #7 | Pretty much everyone says "kys" now. So, it's not hard. I still see so many people using words that break almost every TuS/ToU etc it's ridiculous. But yeah. Goading people into breaking rules is pretty easy on the internet. Actually in person, too. Just call them the F word and more than likely you'll get a punch in the face by the end of about a minute of more mouthing-off. |
| Topic | I go see a psychiatrist for the first time in the morning |
| zebatov 05/24/17 8:05:38 AM #6 | Recently a guy beat the piss out of a psychiatrist in my home city (I'm not there anymore) because the psychiatrist was going to put him back in his room(?) again, as he thought the guy wasn't ready to leave the hospital yet. Almost killed him. His jaw was displaced and he was left with permanent brain damage. He'll never work again. I'm still trying to figure out who was right. I mean, I'd be pretty angry if someone had control over my life like that, too, and thought they knew what was best for me. Anyway. Agree with Llama. |
| Topic | A Link To The Past Will Win This Poll! |
| zebatov 05/24/17 7:57:28 AM #26 | Sadly. |
| Topic | Post the first 10 words suggested by your phone |
| zebatov 05/24/17 7:55:39 AM #26 | My mom is going to be a good day :) |
| Topic | I think I need to find that JLaw... |
| zebatov 05/24/17 7:40:47 AM #47 |   |
| Topic | think I made the wrong decision getting a car |
| zebatov 05/24/17 6:44:46 AM #49 | Very afraid of buying used. Just bought my first one (other vehicles I had were brand new) and it did have some problems, but the dealership fixed everything that was safety-related. |
| Topic | Who will be the next President? |
| zebatov 05/24/17 6:41:23 AM #15 | Could be literally anybody. |
| Topic | so is our moon just named moon |
| zebatov 05/24/17 6:34:31 AM #59 | It's Luna. Like if someone asked me what someone's name was, I couldn't just say "The human." They asked for a name. Up until recently, we didn't have a well-known name for it. No, it's not named "just" moon. It had another name a long time ago, and now it's more frequently being called "Luna". You mean a liberal and the liberal. |
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