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LightHawKnight posted...

Nah, the law system was so much better in the first game, you had to obey the law, the second the law might as well not exist.

Which was great because the law system sucked

Kissinger (probably correctly, FWIW) identifies China as America's biggest threat/competitor, and wants to ally with Russia against them. What's happening now is that Russia is being pushed/pushing themselves right into China's open arms, and conservative war hawks in general aren't very happy about that

E_S_M_Z posted...

It has its moments, but I am a bit confounded at the internet's regard for it.

I just think that it's at the top of its genre. It feels pretty fresh, partly because less often it relies on generic ki powerups. Yeah it's wordy at times but it manages to set up tension and interesting conflicts that are resolved a bit more interestingly than just the protagonist unlocking a new SSJ transformation and overpowering the enemy.

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The entire premise of this whole topic was never questioning Amber's guilt, yet there are now almost 200 posts of people vehemently trying to convince TC how horrible she is. There's definitely a point to make about how there are a lot of misogynists/incels in the woodworks taking the opportunity to spew vile shit. Which is the point he's making.

Turns out that "method acting" was just "he's a shit"

I've seen women on Tik Tok listening to Heard's recounting of sexual abuse and be like, "that sounds sexy". Like, be regardless if it's true, to listen to someone describing a rape and be like "damn that sounds like a good time" is really fucked up.

Tenlaar posted...

They arent, though.

Then what did they pay that woman $250k to not disclose?

FurryPhilosifer posted...

I'll be very, very surprised if Johnny wins this trial.

He already won. The point of this whole thing isn't to technically win the trial, it's too televise the whole thing so he can repair his brand.

It's amazing to me how NDAs can be legally binding to prevent people from reporting criminal behavior

COVxy posted...

The only reason people care about this case is because they are super excited to see a lying woman get punished. A lot of MRA peices of crap coming out of the woodworks to cheer on a win for the team.

It's super gross.

Pretty much yeah.

I think regardless of who is guilty or not this trial and particularly the way it's covered and talked about is extremely harmful for actual abuse survivors. Just the other week we had people on here parroting various arguments about how she wasn't acting like a true victim is supposed to act... All while Depp is on there joking about trying to get Marilyn Manson to shut up. And apparently he's the victim here. And so on.

In the end this is a trial between two individuals and the only ones who actually know what transpired are those two. To me it looks very much like Depp is deliberately using this trial for PR, which 1) is working, and 2) is incredibly cynical. Yeah, the dogpiling on Amber Heard makes me really uncomfortable, and that's me already convinced that she's a bad person.

DeadBankerDream posted...

Did she sign the petition?

SpaceX paid her $250k to keep quiet so maybe we'll never know :)

Rathinor posted...

Yeah, people are saying he was playing 4d chess, lmao

What they don't realize is that he "switched" to Republican after he realized the story was going to break

He didn't even do that. He's been donating to Republicans for a long time already, he just chose to deflect to Democrats after the journalist (I think The Rolling Stone broke the story?) asked him for a comment.

Of course since he preempted the story by saying he was gonna vote Republican and "the political attacks will start coming now", Musk slurpers believe he's a genius and foresaw this

UnfairRepresent posted...

Don't make this about her. You didn't get the promotion that she was depending on and now you're trying to make out she's in the wrong for being upset while you blame someone else.

It's not about blame Scar! It's about responsbility, those are the issues. Why don't you touch her anymore Scar? Is it because she's older and not as pretty anymore? It's so empty scar, she's going to go stay at her sisters for a while, she needs some space.

I do touch her, and she makes more money than I do, so it's not really fair to say she's depending on my promotion. But yeah, if she needs some space while she thinks things through, maybe it's best she goes to stay with her family for a while.

UnfairRepresent posted...

I wonder if you'd feel the same way if it was your car you found slashed in the morning.

So you missed the big meeting and lost the merger, costing you the promotion you've been working at for years. Your boss is pissed putting you on on thin ice, your girlfriend is disappointed and it makes you start arguing again and then you have to explain to little Timmy that you can't take him to the ball game after promising you would because your car is out of commision.

It's easy when it's someone else and they're just a vague faceless blob. But when you remember these are just dudes living their dude lives with their dude wives... It's not so easy

I agree that it's not easy. But why would my girlfriend be disappointed in me if someone slashed my tires? Sounds like we have some issues we need to work on...

I'm not sure progress on climate issues will happen peacefully, so I have a hard time condemning this

The only bootcamps I would trust would be the ones that literally onboard you into a company after into like a trainee position or something.

That's admirable but as soon as that kid starts interacting with other kids or adults who don't respect the parent's wishes, they're gonna be just as gendered as anyone else.

Dakimakura posted...

My theory is he is trying to manipulate the MAGA people to eventually be his slaves on Mars.

I fully expect his plans to go to Mars to end up with a road trip to Canada, judging by how well the Hyperloop is going

opopopza posted...

My team doesn't hire from bootcamps, too many bad experiences. My impression is that the people learn the syntax to code, but lack the critical thinking to put it all together. And their job expectations are laughably high, when they are typically coming in at less experience than someone fresh out of college.

I have some friends who are managers in big software companies and their experiences echo this. There was a big drive in the '90s where those companies essentially hired random people and taught them coding, and what they learned was that in the long term they weren't very good, since they lacked general skills/flexibility that a bigger programme could provide.

I'm pretty sure it's gonna suck but I'm also pretty sure that the loudest complaints right now are stupid stuff along the lines previous posters have brought up

It should be noted that Turkey routinely labels Kurds as "PKK terrorists" to get rid of dissidents. So yeah, Erdogan wants the Swedish Kurds to be extradited and the weapons embargo lifted, and here we are crawling up his ass because apparently if you don't join NATO you're pro Putin

scamatoru posted...

lol

I have no idea which agency of which country to compare them to. They're called "the Security Police", SPO in short. I suppose it's "Swedish Security Service": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Security_Service

teep_ posted...

assuming turkey doesn't veto their NATO membership

That's the threat now. As a bargaining chip, to force Sweden to yield on some kurdish issues. SPO (kinda like uh.. Swedish Secret Service?) are already considering Kurds as a security risk, and who knows what the govt will do to please Erdogan now that they need his approval.

This is a big fat "fuck you" to Swedish kurds

The controls are clunkier than previous CV games. That initially turned me off, and is one of the reasons I think the game isn't as good as its predecessors.

Also in the study: ~three quarters of all violent offenders were only convicted once or twice. Seems like the main point of the study is to try and identify risk factors for repeat offenders of violent crime, to better know where to aim preventive measures.

Decent game! ButI don't think it's particularly better than, say, the DS Castlevanias. Or even Aria of Sorrow. I like the Curse of the Moon games more I think.

I missed you buddy

NES4EVER posted...

Except a countries currency has value based on the backing of said government and the economic output or opportunity for output within a country. Yes the value is based on confidence, but that confidence is in a tangible output.

Same with (most) stocks. The value is based on the confidence in the company based on their ability to earn money and provide a return to shareholders. It can also be based on potential output for a company (lots of tech stocks, tesla). But in most cases there is a tangible item, idea, or opportunity.

I havent quite figured out what cryptos output is, other than speculation it may be adopted in some places as a legitimate currency. Personally i think countries will create their own and restrict use of these kinds of decentralized currencies.

Yeah, currencies and stocks have some relation to real things. Because we as a society have collectively agreed that they should.

JuanCarlos1 posted...

Stocks are definitely more tangible. Between revenue, profits, debt and other factors you can determine whats the fair price of a company and decide if its a good place to park and grow money, although it is a gamble.

It's still made up tho

Questionmarktarius posted...

Cash is still a physical object, which requires no middlemen whatsoever for exchange.

Yeah that's true.

DarkRoast posted...

When you buy a house, you buy an actual thing. A thing you can live in. Sure, the bubble may burst and the value of your house may go down. But it's still a house.

To be fair, that value is just made up. The actual value a house provides (shelter) is not defined by the stock market, it's defined by its real, physical characteristics. Yes, crypto is just made up nonsense. So is money and stocks, we just collectively decided that they are worth something.

Somehow being able to put contacts on the Blockchain will force everyone to be nice to each other

Watched the video and I dunno? Felt more like a spectacle than a strong song I think.

DarkRoast posted...

Pro tip - just because a blockchain is valuable doesn't mean cryptocurrency is valuable.

Fake money is speculation no matter how you try to spin it.

But but but crypto will prevent greedy bosses from exploiting workers

Lol

Life Sympathy posted...

I'm not a fan of crypto but I can explain blockchains as this does have some uses outside of crypto.

A blockchain is first and foremost an electronic ledger: a collection of records. These records can be anything from records of transactions for a cyptocurrency or it could be records of design and processes of something (Boeing does this for its plane designs and manufacture) What makes it stand out is how those records are created.

Each record within that ledger has it's own hash that's generated from two combined sources of information:
1. The record information itself
2. The hash of the previous record in the ledger

That 2nd point is the main selling point of blockchains. It makes the ledger extremely secure as modifying a record changes its hash. This means that if you want to change the information in a record (e.g. have crypto payments go to you instead of some other guy), you have the painstaking task of modifying every record after that so that their hashes align with the new modified record. The more records that are after that transaction, the harder this task is.

This chain of hashes ('blockchain' as it has been named) makes the data stored within that ledger very secure.

This was a nice explanation. I'm curious about commercial applications like the Boeing example you brought up.

Oh it's this week? I haven't been paying attention :(

ViewtifulGrave posted...

Twilight Princess was originally a GameCube exclusive that got delayed to launch on the Wii. The same thing happened with BotW on the WiiU and the Switch.

What are the other 1,998 games?

I was mainly thinking of those two yeah

The last like 2000 Zelda games have been released on two consoles haven't they

Masao posted...

The US isn't exactly an innocent country but the difference between East and West Germany after WW2 is a vivid example of how different the US and Russia treats other countries

If anything it's a vivid example of how differently the US and the Soviet union treated allied states. At roughly the same time the US treated countries like Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Korea very differently.

OmegaShinkai posted...

Did the 600 innocent people who were killed in a single airstrike by Russia do anything to provoke it?

https://apnews.com/article/Russia-ukraine-war-mariupol-theater-c321a196fbd568899841b506afcac7a1

This is a weird comment, considering innocent civilians always suffer from war, no matter if it's provoked or not. That's part of why war is evil.

I really don't like this focus on abortions in rape cases. It kind of silently implies that there are more and less legitimate reasons for abortions, which there isn't. Abortions are fine, period. If it's rape, if it's an ectopic pregnancy, or just if the person feels like doing an abortion. It's all fine, all legit, and should all be allowed.

GGuirao13 posted...

When have they ever cared about other countries?

When other countries have oil or other valuable resources to steal

Conservatives 1) don't really care, 2) would think that countries like Poland and Hungary very much are social utopias, yes, and 3) genuinely believe the shit about Sweden being the rape capital of the world and other nonsense about more "progressive" countries.