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HypnoCoosh posted...

We get plenty of salt.

Not to mention you can add salt at any time pretty easily to anything.

Adding salt during the cooking process is different from salting food on your plate. Salt a steak during grilling vs grill it plain and salt it while eating. Totally different flavour.

MSG isn't bad for you. It's hilarious watching people stuff their faces with all kinds of unhealthy fast food, washing it down with Coke, eating foods with a ton of chemicals and preservatives and then going to a Chinese restaurant and asking, "does this have MSG in it?"

$8 tip on a $17 cut? That's crazy.

HBKick18 posted...

Weezy_Tha_Don posted...

not even trolling, has he been in anything else besides Star Wars?

He's a terrific voice actor

Has he done anything else of note where he doesn't sound like the Joker?

IT is one of the most useless degrees anyone can get.

Me: I'll just need to verify your date of birth and answer to the security question you set up which is "________."
Him: I don't know what I put in. I always put in random information.
Me: Ok. I'll need to verify some other information then to reset your password. Please provide the last 4 digits of your drivers license and credit card.
Him: WHAT?!? I never gave that to you! WHY DO YOU HAVE IT?!?!
Me: We have it because you provided it to us at some point in time when you activated your service.
Him: Are you calling me a liar?!?!?
Me: No I am not. I'm just attempting to verify your identity with the information listed on your account.
Him: This is outrageous! I'm going to call the newspaper and tell them your company steals private information!!
Me: You're more than welcome to do so sir.
Him: So is my password reset?
Me: Not yet. I'm just waiting on the answers to the questions I asked earlier.
Him: Well I'm not giving you my drivers license or credit card.
Me: I'm not asking for it. We already have it. I'm asking you to verify the last 4 digits of each.
Him: No.
Me: Ok. Is there anything else I can help you with today?
Him: Is my password reset?
Me: No it hasn't as I can't reset it without verifying your information.
Him: What a waste of time!!! Does everyone go through this torture for a simple request?
Me: No, it's usually a quick process as they put in the correct date of birth and answer to the security question. It doesn't even have to be real, just something they remember they used.
Him: I want to speak with your manager.
Me: They're just going to tell you the same thing I just did.
Him: I DEMAND A MANAGER!
Me: Ok. One moment please. *before anyone asks, if they insist on a manager, we have to transfer them*
*contact manager*
Yeah I have this customer who can't verify any information on the account so I can't reset their password and they won't take no for answer and is demanding a manager.
Manager: Ok, put him through.
Me: Ok Mr. X, I have a manager on the line, you can speak with her now. Is there anything else I can help you with before I complete the transfer?
Him: Reset my password.
Me: I can't do that just yet because of what's already been discussed. Is there anything else?
Him: Reset my password.
Me: Ok, I'm just going to put you through to my manager. Have a nice day.
Manager: There's nothing we can do if you can't/refuse to verify any information on your account.
Him: This is ridiculous! Over an hour for a stupid password reset!!
Manager: I'm sorry but we don't have the authority to reset an account password without proper identification. Anyone could call in and ask for any account password to be reset otherwise.
Him: I'm cancelling all of my services.
Manager: Would you like me to transfer you to our cancellation department?
Him: *hangs up*

For a freaking password reset. And it's not like this kind of thing was rare. Email related calls were the absolute worst.

Romulox28 posted...

really good movie, great sendoff for hugh jackman & patrick stewart. so glad it was rated R because Wolverine doesnt work so well in PG13 and he's my favorite superhero.

only thing I didnt like was how X23 was portrayed (super inconsistent) and I felt like the relationship between her & wolverine at parts was kind of contrived (I rolled my eyes when she called him Daddy at the end).

I wish they had used the R rating to its fullest because it's still pretty tame for what I'd expect out of a Wolverine movie. I would have liked more gore/fleshy detritus flying when he slashed people and some more blood when impaling people, especially when limbs were cut off and direct stabs through the head.

Other than that, it was a great movie, possibly the best comic book movie for me.

As for how they recover, we have New Mutants now. Not to mention, this story takes place at the end of the known X-Men movie timeline so there's still a lot they can do before it reaches this point or even prevent the world of Logan from happening.

Dustin1280 posted...

mobilebloechel posted...

The fuck? XII was top tier

You mean the game with the story where the two main characters could have been completely removed from the game and nothing would have changed?

You mean the game that could effectively play itself while you watched?

You mean the game that tried to bring MMO style to a series that had no business trying to be a MMO to begin with?

The last good FF was FFX and that isn't even the best example.

You can't go through the game completely hands off so that's misleading. If you actually want to finish the game without direct input during combat, you have to set up your gambits properly. Sure against trash mobs you can let it play itself but how is that any different than setting your cursor to memory and just hitting X over and over again on attack for every character?

Time lapse heat map of GoT piracy around the globe. It's interesting.


I can't link to the source but here's the jist.

Most downloads (absolute)

1 Seoul, Rep. of Korea
2 Athens, Greece
3 São Paulo, Brazil
4 Guangzhou, China
5 Mumbai, India
6 Bangalore, India
7 Shanghai, China
8 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
9 Delhi, India
10 Beijing, China

Most downloads (relative)

1 Dallas, USA
2 Brisbane, Australia
3 Chicago, USA
4 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
5 Seattle, USA
6 Perth, Australia
7 Phoenix, USA
8 Toronto, Canada
9 Athens, Greece
10 Guangzhou, China

Irony posted...

Quit gaming

No you won't.

My top 3:

Sweet Chili Heat
Dill Pickle
Ketchup

If it was an 8-10 episode season, spending 4 episodes on what they did would have been fine. Since it's a 4 episode season, they meandered too much and it ends when it just started to get a little interesting.

You think Margot Robbie looks plain? Women like Margot Robbie, Gal Gadot, Kate Beckinsale are a few of the most stunning women on the planet.

ThePrinceFish posted...

To be fair to Ross (the worst Friend); they were on a break.

"Moist maker" and "Unagi" say otherwise.

Twinmold posted...

I never enjoyed eating giant sea bugs.

Finally someone with some sense. Crabs are spiders with armour. ARMOUR!

I know cats clean themselves but they slather saliva all over them. How can that be "clean?" They must smell too.

Aristoph posted...

Just got a new computer, and on my old laptop YouTube would always remember that I view videos in theater mode. I could completely shut off the computer and the next time I logged into YouTube and clicked to watch a video it would automatically load up in Theater mode.

Now whenever I close my browser it resets and when I click on a video it loads up in the annoying standard format and I have to select Theater mode again. It's rather annoying, tbh. What gives?

You probably have your browser set to delete all cookies upon closing.

It says it's a PS4 game so at the very least, it's going to be on PS4 first and you'll have to wait for ports on other platforms.

The Raimi suit and the ASM suits look great. The MCU one looks terrible.

If you want historical accuracy from a game that doesn't profess to be historically accurate, you have issues.

Skye Reynolds posted...

The jurors -- five women and seven men -- were unable to come to a unanimous decision

Some dumb fuck on the jury thinks Bill Cosby is innocent?

This is all just a conspiracy against him; an act of aggression perpetrated by The Man. :/

Yes, he was Fat Albert, Ghost Dad, and the star of The Cosby Show. And, yes, he was also a twisted rapist asshole who deserves to be locked in a cage for the foreseeable future.

Not finding him guilty doesn't mean they think he's innocent. It just means they don't feel they have enough evidence to go the guilty route.

How does it make sense for one person to not be working and lounge around all day while the other person works 40hrs/week and is expected to do all the household work or even half of it?

Sucker Punch's new IP. Other than that, it was par for the course. People shouldn't have expected surprises since all the big devs showed their cards in previous years and haven't released those games. They aren't going to announce something big when the games they've been working on haven't come out yet.

This is just me but I don't want info on TLoU2 trickling out. Go dark and don't come back until the game has a solid release date. Same with FF7. Let people forget about it until it's ready to go.

People who say "all that just for a dog?" either didn't watch the movie or the actual reason completely flew over their heads. The guy fell in love with a woman that made him want to change his entire life. She didn't die suddenly, she suffered for who knows how long with a terminal illness. Before she died, she gifted him a puppy so that he wouldn't be alone and shut himself away emotionally. She basically gave him a gift posthumously. Some punks broke into his home, beat him, killed the last thing his wife gave him, stole his car, and smashed up, presumably, his wife's car. Considering his skillset, I think it was completely warranted.

As for the sequel, the action was better but the reason for the action wasn't as good as the first and lacked investment.

Sojy posted...

Lightsasori posted...

No, Netflix was already having plans in changing the rating system for awhile now. Just like how Youtube changed theirs from star ratings to thumbs up and down. It's a proven fact that more people rate things using the thumbs up/down system rather than the star rating. Also with the star ratings, most people tend to vote in extremes anyways. Now the real question is, is the thumbs up/down rating system better than the star rating system? That I can't really answer.

They don't even directly show you the thumbs up/thumbs down ratio though.

There's no point in showing the ratio because the ratings you see now and what you saw before were based on what Netflix thought you'd rate it. Even with the star system, it wasn't an amalgamation of all Netflix user ratings. It was what Netflix and other people with similar tastes as you would give for a rating. Now it's like-minded people's and your rating/viewing history determining a 0-100 percentage likelihood of how much you'd like/dislike it.

Look up an equivalent like Panda Express. Your food is likely to be pretty similar.
https://www.nutritionix.com/brand/panda-express/products/513fbc1283aa2dc80c00002e

I hated ones where they call saying they 100% know they're using the right password but it isn't working. I ask them for it to test and it doesn't work. I say we need to reset it and they get all angry saying why should it be reset when they know the password. Stop being an idiot and let me reset it so we can both be on our way.

You have to be talented and extremely hard working to be a youtuber/twitch streamer. You need to have tons of charisma and be able to generate content like clockwork to draw people in and keep them there. Plus, most of them edit videos themselves. How is editing for some tv show/movie production legit while editing for yourself isn't? Sure there are shitty ones out there but you can't codemn everyone because of a few bad apples.

You think it isn't a job and all it takes is turning on a camera and talking? Well give it a try and see how many viewers you get. Not many I'd imagine.

fenderbender321 posted...

DanielCormier posted...

fenderbender321 posted...

If you take any healthy adult who's never swum before and throw them into deep water... there's no way I can believe that they'd just sink to the bottom and die...they'd start moving their hands and feet in rhythm (as that is intuitive because of walking/running) and realize they're staying afloat by displacing water, which would also instantly teach them how to move around in there.

It makes sense to you that a person would do that because you already know how to swim. Not everyone is that adept and panicking changes everything. I worked at a pool as a teen and saw a lot of beginners freak out, start flailing about, end up taking in water, and get themselves in trouble.

I guess panicking can change things...but IMO if somebody starts to panic when put into a challenging situation like that, they've got bigger problems than not knowing how to swim....

lol.

It's so you know how much tax you're paying on every purchase. If it was just rolled into the price tag, you wouldn't know for sure. It's for transparency.

AlBundy33 posted...

@littlebro07 posted...

You can get a similarly spec Windows PC for like half the price

That's made out of shitty materials using cheap parts, higher likely hood to break or die

What are you doing with your computers that they're breaking and dying? What's going to go on a computer first? The hard drive. Have you checked what kind of hard drives Macs use? It's not some proprietary Apple wizardry. They're off the shelf. There's no problem with liking Apple products for whatever reason but let's be real. The premium you're paying for is the name.

NeuralLaxative posted...

I mean, I plan to buy it. I need a 4K blu ray player anyway, may as well run my games in 4K and 60fps and sell my launch xb1. Maybe my 360 too now that most of my games are backwards compatible

Your XB1 games aren't going to magically run at 4k and definitely not anywhere near 60fps automatically. They're going to need patches just like the Pro versions. And even with patches, they aren't hitting 60fps.

It's going to be as successful as the XB1 because it's only going to play XB1 games. It won't be a new gen with new gen games made specifically for it. People say it'll be a big deal if it has a good launch lineup but there aren't any games that we don't already know about. They aren't going to release big games to coincide with the Scorpio launch with no marketing. Whatever we know about like Crackdown 3, Sea of Thieves, and Red Dead 2 might launch at the same time but we knew about them and they're all on XB1.

newuser0x0 posted...

Why do folks think that game companies deserve special treatment?

If you were a race car driver and you won a race using Hoosier tires do you think that you should have to give them a cut of your winnings?

As far as letting folks see the story of a story based game, do you think that there shouldn't be public libraries where people can read just about any books for free? How about after I beat a game, do you think I shouldn't be able to tell a friend the entire story in detail if they asked me to because they don't want to play it?

Lets say you throw a party and you decide to put some music on that you bought, would you go around to everyone in earshot and ask them to kick in a buck for each song so you can send that money to whoever you bought your music from?

When I buy a game my obligation to a game company is complete. They created a product and I purchased it. That copy is now mine to practically do as I please with. No reason to insert your opinion about how I just bought a license to use said game, I'm not talking about reverse engineering it here. I now own a copy of game and now I feel like streaming, game company should have no say about that in any form what so ever.

Do you also believe that if you buy a movie you should be able to stream it? If not, why are games different than movies? If yes, lol.