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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M0jm-cwZeo

Jkd91 posted...

How are they making 50% profit ? most people wont trade in a game for $20 when gamestop will then sell it for $40 as they could just sell it for that price, its so easy to sell games along other things online nowadays for a good price, be it facebook market place or other local pick up sites and even online via ebay or amazon.

Which is why Gamestop is struggling. Their high-margin used sales were the bulk of their revenue, but they no longer hold anywhere close to the same monopoly they used to have over the used game market (it was never a true monopoly, obviously, but they were definitely the biggest name around), plus digital sales have eroded that market considerably.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

If a position can gain credence, that by definition is defensible.

Lots of things gain credence without being logically defensible. A good many people don't apply logic when deciding how credible something is. It's kind of a problem.

The_Viscount posted...

That and Lok called it a "pedo bill"... jfc

CENSOR

...also jfc

CENSOR

And, on top of everything else, you're misrepresenting the source. The site has ZERO connection to the UN. And in fact, it seems like it's attempting brand confusion.

And, rather than being focused on human rights broadly, it mentions itself as being specific to LGBTQ, meaning the name is misleading as well.

Doubtful. Even thirty years ago, kids were too fat to stuff into lockers.

This.

I can't help but notice that you've pointedly avoided actually expressing an opinion on the matter itself. Why might that be?

Yeah, I'll need a new CPU, GPU, and RAM, which also means a new mobo (I kind of doubt I can find a suitable processor with an LGA1155 socket). My storage is all fine, as is my PSU, but that's not a small upgrade for basically one game (I think I'll also need some upgrades to play Horizon Zero Dawn whenever I get around to buying it, but not to the same extent and I might be able to barely meet the minimums). I may start keeping an eye out for sales and see if I can pick something up cheap, but large-scale PC upgrades aren't really in my budget right now.

As sad as it is, I think euthanasia is probably the way this is going to have to go. If he's outright breaking into houses, that's a major safety concern. It might be possible to relocate him somewhere far, far away from any chance of human interaction, but if he's lost the instinct to hibernate, there's a good chance that would kill him. Other than that, I think the only other option would be to take him into a wildlife rehab facility, but I don't know how many of those are really equipped to deal with a 500-pound bear (though I expect his Internet fame would yield enough fundraising success to cover the costs of taking care of him, if any facility can do so), and losing his fear of humans to such an extent pretty much guarantees he'll need to be domesticated for the rest of his life..

Unfortunately, I'll need some pretty significant PC upgrades to be able to play. Fortunately, I still haven't even finished DSIII, so it'd be kind of silly for me to buy a new Soulsborne anyway.

The_tall_midget posted...

Now, now, adjl said that in one case, it's obviously terrorists and in the other case it's peaceful protesters. And, as we all know, he's not completely and utterly biased and delusional about it due to his nonexistent political biases.

If you judge entire protest movements based on images that were cherrypicked to create a meme that unambiguously favours one over the other, sure. If you're a rational person who considers the situation as a whole, less so.

I've said on several occasions that burning down cities for the sake of forcing police reform is also terrorism. The reality of the matter, however, is that 97% of BLM protests were completely peaceful, and in the 3% that weren't, the violence was perpetrated by a relatively tiny handful of the individuals present (of which only a further subset were genuinely protests and not false flag attacks or opportunistic troublemakers looking for a free TV), with everyone else protesting peacefully with no terrorist activity. By contrast, 100% of this protest was intended to cripple the economy to force the government to listen to angry truckers instead of medical professionals in determining public health policy. That has always been the core point, and they have resorted to similar terrorism (blockading borders, torturing citizens) when the protest turned out to not comprise a particularly significant portion of the country's trucking industry and therefore couldn't actually hurt the economy simply by protesting instead of working.

You'll notice I have not described any of the thousands of other anti-vaxx, anti-mask, or otherwise anti-listeningtodoctorsaboutmedicine protests that have been happening across the country for the past two years as terrorism. Stupid? Yes. Creating public health risks for no reason? Yes. But terrorism? No. That's because, as stupid as their protests were, they protested peacefully instead of relying on threats of violence and economic damage to coerce political change. This convoy, however, is comprised of people that are tired of not getting the change they want from peaceful protests and have chosen to escalate to using force. By definition, that makes them terrorists. That's not a matter of political opinion or bias, that's the simple objective reality of the matter.

KodyKeir posted...

Debatable. There is a German expression that goes:

I know it was not as simple as looking around and finding yourself in a crowd wearing immaculate Hugo Boss uniforms with skulls on the collars and Adi Daschler jackboots, but some basic diligence of a quick google search could have saved them the endless grief they will now face.

That's what I'm getting at with the next line. They are certainly not as intolerant of Nazis as people ought to be in order to be considered decent, and that's something they should be held accountable for, but there's a distinction between being less not-okay with Nazis than they should be and actually donning Swastikas and goosestepping around.

Ozmose posted...

Heavens forbid you face the occasional opposing viewpoint.

Provided that opposing viewpoint is properly substantiated in a genuine effort to have intelligent discussion, sure. When that opposing viewpoint is presented in a series of boomer memes and the person in question pointedly ignores every piece of opposing evidence while spreading blatant lies, less so, because that's just plain trolling and/or dangerous.

If the opposing viewpoint is stupid and dangerous, don't complain when people call it stupid and dangerous instead of pretending it isn't.

I liked Lost Kingdoms. I always meant to buy the sequel, which I understand was better than the first one, but never got around to it while buying obscure GC games for reasonable amounts of money was still possible. Perhaps one of these days I'll get around to acquiring a copy.

NeoSioType posted...

I got Daemon x Machina when it was free on Epic but haven't found the time to play it yet.

I liked the idea of DxM, but by the time I finished I was very much done with it. There are a ton of customization options, but most of them really aren't impactful enough to feel like you're growing meaningfully by unlocking them as the game progresses, nor to really justify experimenting with different builds. It's not a bad game, by any means, but it's a lot shallower than it had the potential to be, which meant the missions felt pretty samey by the end.

Accrovideogames posted...

This is horrible. I hope she sues them into oblivion.

And then some. That's some major malpractice there.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Even single beer I've made in the last year and a half has had some amount of wheat in the grain bill.

That's nice, but as you seem to keep forgetting, your personal experience does not reflect the world as a whole. Barley is the common grain to (almost) all beers, not wheat. Of course, barley is also glutinous, so the distinction is largely irrelevant for the celiac types (who are the primary demographic for wheat warnings), but it's still good to be accurate.

Unbridled9 posted...

It was likely an egg loaf.

https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/danaegcoverphoto-1.png

IIRC it's basically whites and yolks separated then reformed to allow for easy shipping and delivery. Failing that I wouldn't be surprised if they'd used some sort of frozen egg patty that they just re-heated and put on.

Neither would surprise me, especially with the current state of Tims' food. They're not exactly big on doing any actual cooking on site, except for the occasional token effort that they try to market as being "fresh made in-store!" despite everything but the final step being done in a commissary.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Is a hot dog a sandwich? Show your work.

Hot dogs? That's baby-level sandwich controversy.

Pop tarts are sandwiches.

NeoSioType posted...

That protest wasn't one body. There were gay pride flags too. I can't say what they're thinking but I'm sure most people there weren't Nazi party sympathizers bent on genocide. Believing something like that is a caricature that I would expect from someone with dishonest intentions.

I'm sure they weren't all Nazis, but they all tolerated Nazis to enough of an extent to let them march with them. That, and the protest's organizers are overtly white supremacists (one of the parties involved explicitly lists "the advancement of the white Aryan race" as one of their core goals).

Nevertheless, you are correct that characterizing the whole thing as a bunch of Nazis to discredit them is not reasonable. Their relationship with Nazis may be questionable, and there's a much higher concentration of Nazis among this group than among the general population, but they nevertheless were not all Nazis. They are, however, all terrorists, by virtue of attacking the economy and innocent civilians under the pretense of forcing political change (the definition of terrorism). That's why I prefer to focus on the terrorism angle and only bring up Nazis when talking about the definite Nazis.

BEERandWEED posted...

Individuals should be allowed to make their own choices including wearing a mask or getting a vaccine without the government or society judging them for not following the trend or even a collective belief

Freedom of choice is not freedom from judgement. You may have the right to do stupid things, but you have no such right to not be called stupid for it, and you certainly have no right to not have people think you're stupid (since protecting that right would entail stripping everyone else of their freedom to think certain things).

Moreover, freedom of choice is not freedom from the consequences of that choice. The consequence of choosing not to take preventative measures during the greatest public health crisis in a century is that you are endangering others. Enforcement of those protective measures aims to counteract that consequence and protect other people from it (all of whom have a right to live their lives without being endangered by others). As the age-old saying goes, your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins: when exercising your freedoms risks hurting others, you shouldn't exercise those freedoms.

mrduckbear posted...

The government's decision to invoke the act became controversial leading conservative news outlets to deem Trudeau as HITLER for invoking the act and silencing peaceful conservative protesters.

Conveniently, they ignore the thousands of other anti-restriction protests that have been happening across the country for as long as Covid restrictions have been a thing that neither Trudeau nor anyone else has done anything to silence. I wonder what the key difference between those protests and this one might be? Surely it couldn't have anything to do with blockading national borders and torturing innocent citizens.

If I were a pointlessly rich man, I'd hire bagpipers to play 24/7 outside the homes and offices of every pundit that's calling this a "peaceful protest." See how long it takes that tune to change.

NeoSioType posted...

Not saying that's not possible but given the tactics I've seen I'm more willing to believe the Canadian government is behind that to discredit the protest.

And is the government also behind everyone else in the protest that didn't kick out the Nazis? If that were a false flag meant to discredit the whole thing, after all, I would think the protest as a whole wouldn't take kindly to such efforts and would shoo them away to hold their own protest.

GunslingerGunsl posted...

Good point. Personally, I never really try to burn bridges anywhere I work. You never know when a good reference would come in handy.

Same, but in places that are bad enough that you doubt you'll get a good reference anyway and if you've got a job lined up that doesn't care about your current employer's opinion, I don't see much point in bending over backwards to keep them happy.

EvilMegas posted...

It was 750 but it dropped to 645 because I was out of a job for a month and had to pay a lawyer which maxed out a credit card.

Yeah, maxing out cards hurts. I never fully maxed mine out and still managed to pay it down before the statement was due (so no interest), but I was in the low 700's after moving a year and a half ago because I carried a 4-4.5k balance on a card with a 5k limit for nearly a full month. But then I started getting paid again and managed to boost my score by 100 in like a year, which felt pretty good.

JixHedgehog posted...

I'm guessing you didnt see the crowds at the Superbowl? Triple mandated mask, Hollywood elites and politicians maskless, how do you explain that?

Stadium owners that don't have the balls to stand up to anyone with actual clout. That is indeed wrong.

About the only piece of information you need to know to conclude that unions are beneficial is that large corporations invest hundreds of millions of dollars every year into fighting to keep them down.

Muscles posted...

I work at a job I love, definitely not at Walmart. Its non union and we still have lazy bums that should get canned, I definitely don't feel like a union would be helpful here. If a work place is really bad maybe they should unionize but I don't think most places need it and actually treat their employees good.

That is indeed a case where you don't really need a union, but there are many, many instances where that is not the case. Ideally, employers would be good enough of their own volition to make unions unnecessary, but many are not, especially when you look at larger companies and corporations.

ReturnOfFa posted...

The Prime Minister can't end Provincial Mandates lmfao.

The catalyst for this whole thing was an update to border policies, which would fall under federal jurisdiction. That said, that's very much not just the PM's decision, and the people acting as though he's solely responsible for both the implementation and the hypothetical removal of such rules have a thing or two to learn about how Parliament works. The expansion to demanding that all mandates be removed country-wide is indeed ignorant of the fact that the PM can't do that, though.

MartianManchild posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/9/4/AAb2N0AAC9bW.jpg

Do you really think that basing public health policy off of the opinions of a vocal minority is not only a good idea, but an appropriate way to responds to terrorists that are demanding it?

sveksii posted...

Gazpacho exists along with other non cooked soups.

I'd thought gazpacho was cooked, then chilled, but apparently I was mistaken.

Well, we've got 200 years to re-engineer time to make that be a Tuesday.

GunslingerGunsl posted...

You don't owe your job anything other than a 2 week notice

Heck, you don't even owe them that, in many cases. That's often more a matter of common courtesy than an actual requirement. If you don't need the reference, can afford to burn the bridge, and there's nothing explicit in your employment contract, you can just walk out.

2/22/2222 is gonna be so awesome.

Yeah, mine was around 805ish, but it dropped because I accepted my bank's offer of a line of credit (which I have no immediate plans to use, but is probably good to have just in case I end up with a credit card balance I can't pay, since the interest rate is much lower). I expect it will climb again as I demonstrate that I don't plan on borrowing buttloads of money just because I can.

Unless the new job will treat you even worse, that sounds like a no-brainer.

MartianManchild posted...

I can pretty much guarantee you that more people would have gotten the vaccine if Trump was president.

The people whose mind would be changed by Trump endorsing the vaccine will have changed their minds whether that endorsement came from President Trump or Random Dude Trump. Those that rallied under his anti-vaxx sentiments did so because he was a public figure that explicitly validated them, not anything inherent to him as a person. When he changed tacks, they booed him, and that would be true even if he were president. Trump's value to them was that he agreed with and encouraged them, not anything inherent to Trump.

Hop103 posted...

the things that would improve would be a better Afghanistan retreat

As far as the US' contribution to withdrawing from Afghanistan went, Trump couldn't have done much better than Biden did. The US side of things went very smoothly, the problems arose because the Afghani security forces promptly gave up everything as soon as the US left. That's not something Trump could have controlled any better than Biden.

In a pinch, a large enough boat can double as a bridge.

Unbridled9 posted...

You might wanna look into those 'socialist' states because they're basically capitalist nations with high taxes that turn around and use said tax money to fund social welfare systems.

So... Capitalism, with socialist policies applied as needed to prevent that capitalism from reducing people's quality of life? What a novel concept that I'm sure nobody has suggested before as being a way to improve countries that are taking capitalism too far.

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Notschmendrake posted...

So if I microwave a bowl of cereal, did I just make soup?

Arguably, yes, though you probably aren't getting the milk hot enough to make a difference to flavours blending.

Notschmendrake posted...

When you drink the milk at the end of a bowl of cereal, it doesnt taste like just milk. You seasoned it with cereal powder.

I was going to say that dissolving powder in water doesn't make soup, but that's basically what soup mix is, so... maybe?

Notschmendrake posted...

Is cereal soup? I personally see no reason why not.

Maybe hot cereal, but generally not cold. As a concept, soup entails cooking ingredients together to blend their flavours. You can have cold soups, but that's not just dumping veggies and water in a bowl, that's simmering them together then chilling it before serving. By contrast, you get some of the cereal's essence leaching into the milk and vice versa, but there generally isn't that much time to really get the flavours intermingling and you don't apply any heat to facilitate that.

At least until getting into the higher OP levels (which just didn't scale well, a consequence of trying to tack on extra difficulty scaling beyond what the original formulas were meant to accommodate without adjusting those formulas), I didn't find enemies were really too spongy unless I didn't have a good build for dealing with them. That, in turn, runs into the issue with targeted farming and build-enabling legendaries: If you balance the game around having great builds, builds that aren't great or are missing the legendaries that enable them are going to suck. That means you don't really have a choice but to look up min/maxed builds and devote specific time to farming certain items (sometimes with pretty poor drop rates), which is not everyone's cup of tea.

Slag was also, indeed, a questionable mechanic. It's an interesting concept, but it very strongly favours the idea of having somebody playing support in multiplayer games, and even that isn't really a good fit for the "EXPLOSIONS EVERYWHERE AHAHAHA" sort of theme Borderlands goes for (which means nobody wants to be the slag bitch). For solo play, there aren't nearly enough options for applying slag that don't consist of "switch to a worse weapon for a couple shots," which is pretty boring, thematically. Building skill-based or automatic slag application into each skill tree would have been nice, and some characters did that, but even then, those skills tended to become must-haves (because tripling your damage output for a single point is huge), and must-have skills that don't somehow define the feel of the build (like adding a new ability, or something like Anarchy that changes how you play) just aren't a great concept in a game where customization is supposed to be a major thing.

The_tall_midget posted...

It sure was one of the biggest appeal, but gunzerking though.

And that's where Rubi comes in. Constant slag application, plus lifesteal on whatever other gun you're using at the same time? Win-win (except for not getting to use a second fun gun at the same time).

streamofthesky posted...

It's a factor in the minimum wage debate where like... yeah, the federal amount hasn't kept up w/ inflation and needs to be indexed to it. But the left's push to blanket increase it to $15 or $20 or whatever is irresponsible because that would be genuinely insane in low cost areas.

Personally, I like the idea of establishing an algorithm that automatically updates the minimum wage a business needs to pay based on the local cost of living. Define a reasonable standard of living, then require businesses to pay their employers enough that 40-hour weeks meet that standard within a half hour walk (or half hour drive, provided the wage also covers car ownership). Review and adjust every 6 months or annually or whatever works. That way, you not only ensure that everyone that's working full time is making a livable wage, you provide an incentive for businesses to open in/move to lower-cost areas (which they often avoid), plus it automatically regulates the cost of living because businesses will avoid high-cost areas (which pushes prices down).

Toss in some extra regulation to cut down on the extent to which speculative investments drive up real estate costs (because that's one of the major driving factors for CoL inflating, which is frigging stupid and absolutely should not be happening) and maybe a few other measures to keep CoL from fluctuating too rapidly (like rent control and resources to help mitigate the impact of bad tenants without having to force good tenants to pay for them), and you've got a much better idea than a flat wage that will still be inadequate in many areas of the country while being both unnecessary and unsustainable in others.

That... wasn't a good idea. There's some validity in the whole "I want to draw attention to this issue" idea, but posing nude in a campaign video is very much not how you win elections in Texas.

The_tall_midget posted...

They're just mostly "peaceful protestors".

Throughout this whole thing, I've made a point of trying to keep an open mind and believe that the literal Nazis and those assaulting people and trying to burn down apartment buildings are not necessarily representative of the entire protest. I'm sure a good many of them have not participated in any of the more deplorable behaviour (though they also didn't kick out the Nazis, which is itself pretty deplorable), and characterizing the entire protest as being a bunch of violent Nazis to discredit it is no better than similarly characterizing all the BLM protests as riotous vandalism to discredit them.

That said, this is fundamentally a terrorist act: The core goal of this protest was to force political change by disrupting the economy and supply chains to enough of an extent to cause a logistical crisis. That is, by definition, terrorism. When it turned out (to the surprise of nobody outside of the convoy) that the convoy did not, as they hoped, end up being large enough for the simple act of striking to have an appreciable economic impact, they instead forcibly occupied a chunk of Ottawa and tried to use the threat of making citizens' lives miserable as leverage, as well as resorting to forcibly blockading border crossings. Those are also terrorist acts, committed well within the core mandate of the protest, and that means nobody involved can really claim to be peacefully protesting.

By contrast, while burning stuff down to stop police violence is also a terrorist act, that was entirely ancillary to the core approach of every BLM protest. The vast, vast majority of BLM protesters protested with no intent to cause any harm, and those organizing the protests did not plan for anything more than simply making the message heard. That's the fundamental difference here, and why it's valid to say that the BLM protests were mostly peaceful and that this one is not. That some BLM protesters chose to be violent at a small handful of protests (remember, 97% were completely peaceful) doesn't change that.

Wait, where's she getting a house for only $100k?

The_tall_midget posted...

If you own/drive a truck, you're more than likely an asshole. Glad that convoy continued to prove my theory.

While I don't entirely disagree with the stereotype (I've met plenty of people that drive trucks that are fine people, but I've also encountered many that are not), the convoy very much was not a random selection, so you can't generalize it like that. It's a given that you're significantly more likely to find assholes in the convoy than in the general population.

MartianManchild posted...

Just going to ignore most of reality because I don't like it

Yes, we're used to that.

He's wondering about the gaps, since it goes from 7 to 12 to 14 to 22.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Borderlands 2 was better than the original in pretty much every possible way, though.

Except, arguably, the loot philosophy. Some people preferred BL1's focus on world drops and incremental upgrades over targeted farming of legendaries that were substantially more powerful than anything else you could find. Personally, I preferred the latter, since I like the idea of specifically working toward build-enabling gear (that concept offering more build diversity than you can get without including gear in build concepts) instead of just hoping for a drop that would let you become properly OP, but I can understand people preferring otherwise.

MartianManchild posted...

Shes done over two years of research just on this topic.

Meanwhile, becoming a virologist or immunologist takes 4 years of undergrad and another 2-6 years of grad school (depending on whether your desired position requires a Masters or a PhD) just to get the necessary background understanding to work in the fields, let alone to become anything resembling an expert on any given subject within it.

Why, then, do you believe that spending 2 years cherry-picking studies and data that support the opinion she's become quite wealthy selling to gullible idiots makes her any more qualified to educate people on this subject than literally any actual immunologist or virologist that has spent 6-10 years in higher education to support their understanding of the subject (to say nothing of whatever work experience they've accumulated)?

Of course, we all know the answer already: Because she's saying what you want to hear.

People that aren't white tend to try to avoid joining parades that are flying swastikas. I fully expect that there are plenty of non-white truckers who don't like the mandates (I don't believe it's true that minorities make up the biggest share of vaccinated people in Canada. I haven't looked at the stats, but I suspect that's just Duckbear mis-paraphrasing, given the trends everywhere else), but I would not expect them to participate in a protest that's so openly hostile to them

SmugRickMoranis posted...

Did you see that the terms of service forbid disparaging Trump lmao what a fucking crybaby

MAGA Let's Go Brandon morons gonna circle jerk their shitty meme game all over that app, I'm sure

Under the pretense of allowing freer speech than mainstream alternatives, no less.

I dunno, I think we might be better off not encouraging him to leave the house.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Oh no? You mean the police were protecting residents from a group of people known to be violent and made sure they lived in the location they were going?

Woe is them.

Specifically, while in the process of clearing out a terrorist occupation. It's kind of a given that that's going to be disruptive, but blaming the police instead of the terrorists for that is absurdly myopic.

Wired optical, specifically a Razer Diamondback. It took some hunting to find an ambidextrous mouse with more than the standard two buttons+scroll wheel (I use my mouse left-handed normally, but switch to right-handed for any WASD game), but this does the job pretty nicely.

Revelation34 posted...

That guy was claiming they weren't arrested at gunpoint. I don't know what it has to do with the other argument.

Presumably, TC struggles to distinguish between "arrested at gunpoint" and "brutalized," but given that he also struggles to distinguish between "the media isn't portraying these brave patriots as innocent heroes standing up against a tyrannical dictatorship" and "the media isn't covering this," that's kind of par for the course.

So the New York Times saying that protesters were arrested at gunpoint (which is what's implied by that response) counts as "main stream media [being] 'oddly quiet'" about police violence in response to the protest? Is that what we're supposed to take away from this?

Of course guns are being used. This is a group that's shown they are not above using their vehicles to ram police that try to arrest them. This is a group that's had multiple sub-groups identified that were credibly conspiring to commit mass murder, with police identified as a specific target. The mere presence of guns in the process of arresting a group with a well-documented history of violence does not mean they're being "brutalized," it means the police are being reasonably cautious.

I'd guess that was a matter of either cross-contamination or using whey protein in it. It should still be safe for lactose intolerant folks, but people with full-on milk allergies should stay away.

I don't remember that at all, which may or may not have something to do with the fact that it didn't happen and you get your news and opinions from alt-right meme pages as a rather flimsy substitute for developing a personality and world view of your own.