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| Topic | How does Final Fantasy XVI look even less interesting than XIV or XV? |
| wpot 10/20/22 5:01:24 PM #11 | Indeed I won't. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | How does Final Fantasy XVI look even less interesting than XIV or XV? |
| wpot 10/20/22 3:48:11 PM #9 | Cruddy_horse posted... I can't stand action games where you hit an enemy and 30+ separate damage numbers fly out of themI like information, but it's all useless if it's too small to read or too much to comprehend. FF15 was bad with that: I often wasn't really sure what the results of my attacks were. Did I hit a weakness? What did light orange instead of light yellow mean again? Did that hurt it or not? Not easily knowing those basic things was REALLY a turnoff. Then again, for 15 in particular maybe it was by design: once you figured out that warping was brokenly effective there was no need to pay attention to any of it anyways. And now it looks like Star Ocean 6 will be the next RPG to use ridiculously small, illegible font. Do they honestly not try these out on TVs at all? I shouldn't have to sit 5' away from a 55" screen with my 20/20 vision. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | How does Final Fantasy XVI look even less interesting than XIV or XV? |
| wpot 10/20/22 1:54:26 PM #3 | I like some action games, but I'll agree that I continue to get more and more bored with FF's decision to become an expensive, identity-less WRPG clone while rooting out every JRPG element in their past. I thought FF15 would be the first I didn't play (apart from the MMOs, which I have zero interest in) but I ended up with it anyways (present). I won't buy 16 unless the reviews are surprisingly good AND I see some other good reasons to get a PS5. If 14 wasn't such a success I'd predict 16 would bomb hard (the nostalgia is gone), but as is...it's seems like this is what they are. Past time to move on if you were a fan of their old stuff only. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | What are your Top 5 bands of all time? |
| wpot 10/19/22 9:31:03 PM #28 | Metalsonic66 posted... No, but the Black Mages doThat works. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | They don't do cheese burgers with Happy meals? |
| wpot 10/19/22 8:29:27 PM #12 | Rasmoh posted... My wife does for reasons I don't fully understand, especially since she loves cheese.A person who loves good cheese can/should be disgusted by fast food cheese product. I like McDonalds fine, I suppose, but if they don't follow directions and put that "cheese" on my burger I usually throw half of it away. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | What are your Top 5 bands of all time? |
| wpot 10/19/22 5:37:04 PM #22 | Pink Floyd Skynyrd Weird Al Green Day Aaand...does Nobuo count as a band? Something like that. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Do you like the taste of Corona beer? |
| wpot 10/18/22 7:06:27 PM #33 | ReanimatedJutsu posted... No I don't ever consume anything alcoholic the equivalent applies to Narcotic as what you put into your body has no immediate effects but later on in life you will face the consequencesThe same applies to anything you eat, really. You have to make good choices about what you put in your body, but just because something can cause an immediate effect doesn't necessarily mean it's bad for you in the long term. Many narcotics are bad for you, of course: smoking, heavy drinking, etc...but it's likely safer to drink moderately than it is to, say, eat at Burger King daily. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Home generator |
| wpot 10/18/22 10:35:23 AM #3 | I find going back to the dark ages for 30-60 minutes every 2-3 years to be entertaining, so no. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | heelies are so fuckin sick |
| wpot 10/18/22 9:50:06 AM #7 | Are you implying there's someone in the world who cares what my feet look like? I rather doubt it. And Nichtcrawler-X posted... No idea what heelies are. When I do something outside I wear the shoes a runner friend gave me because they didn't fit him well. They're bright blue. Nobody comments on this. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | If you had a 50% chance of dying in two weeks |
| wpot 10/18/22 8:57:04 AM #12 | Take out a life insurance policy, I suppose, unless they account for whatever is causing this 50%. :) Otherwise, yeah, I wish there were something I wanted to do badly enough to be interesting in this scenario. Finish that book I've been trying to write? :) --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Do you like the taste of Corona beer? |
| wpot 10/17/22 4:10:59 PM #6 | On a hot day/beach with a lime, sure, it's pretty good. Apart from that scenario...nah. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Halloween costume? |
| wpot 10/17/22 2:29:11 PM #20 | I'm going as a homeowner who remembers the neighborhood kids' and who knows what their costumes are. It's just a disguise, though. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | How is Jim Bean even a thing? |
| wpot 10/17/22 2:20:35 PM #13 | Yeah, cheap hard alcohol is for getting drunk and nothing else. There's a reason they screw around with the good stuff for years. The medium grade whiskey/bourbon (i.e. Wescott, what I tend to buy) is solid for mixed drinks, but you want the top shelf stuff if you're going to drink it straight. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | People rightfully shit on pineapple on pizza, but black olives are worse |
| wpot 10/16/22 7:24:02 PM #27 | ReturnOfFa posted... Kalamata olives are really good though, obviously delicious on a Mediterranean style pizza.This. I get whole kalamatas with spicy sausage on my pizza, and it's delicious. Black olives are good, but there are better things to put on pizza. And if you do get black olives, get the ones without the black dye. Black olives are actually dark brown...and they taste better that way. Pineapple, as everyone sane knows, does not belong on pizza. Does anyone eat pasta with red sauce, cheese, and pineapple? ...no? Case closed. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | List your top 10 video games |
| wpot 10/14/22 5:12:11 PM #20 | I like old and generally popular games, so this should be good for some abuse: Final Fantasy Tactics Final Fantasy 7-9-10 in some order Zelda BotW Dragon Quest 8 & 11 Star Ocean 3 Burnout 3 RBI Baseball --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | This some bullshit right here |
| wpot 10/14/22 10:48:25 AM #7 | My bad. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Concert or Universal Studios? |
| wpot 10/14/22 10:20:45 AM #8 | Japan's case count death peak for the entire pandemic actually just occurred at the beginning of September (I'm looking at heading there) so they're forgiven for still being at high alert. That said.... MagicalPrincess posted... Neither during a pandemic....as far as the US goes if you aren't back to "normal" now what sign are you waiting for? I'm legitimately curious. We aren't ever going to eradicate COVID, unfortunately, but we have vaccines, the case count is low, and Biden outright said the pandemic was over a while ago (although, yes, a public health emergency remains). --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | This some bullshit right here |
| wpot 10/14/22 10:14:02 AM #4 | Nobody else was out there at the time: seemed like fair game. :) --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | This some bullshit right here |
| wpot 10/14/22 9:36:29 AM #2 | I took the same picture half of an hour ago. WTF Minnesota. :) --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | ernest scared stupid is free to watch on youtube |
| wpot 10/13/22 11:27:21 AM #5 | Kimbos_Egg posted... malkNo, miak. My kids love Camp, so I tried to get them to watch this one. But the puppetry creeped them out too much. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Joe Biden is too old to be a president; |
| wpot 10/10/22 10:03:44 PM #21 | Count_Drachma posted... His approach toward Russia emboldened them to invade for the first time since 2014 when, unsurprisingly, he was VP.Biden can certainly be criticized in areas, but this isn't one of them. Putin didn't invade his neighbors TOO flagrantly when he had a useful bootlicker as US President as Trump (probably?) would have stopped trying to dismantle NATO given the European outcry. But when the US President was (rightfully) calling out his crap then he had less to lose. BUMPED2002 posted... Need younger people with fresh new ideas in DC.Very easy to say, and true in some ways. But the people that you are probably talking about likely don't know how to execute those ideas (and the ideas are likely more flawed than they realize). What we truly need is a clear reason to exist as a nation...and nobody has a non-awful answer to that one. Until we know what said reason is more and more people will just act purely in their own self interest and decline will continue. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Joe Biden is too old to be a president; |
| wpot 10/10/22 1:26:26 PM #14 | hera posted... most people in Congress were alive when segregation was still around.If we're talking school segregation that ended in 1954. The average age of a congressperson is 59, the last I saw. You have a point, but your numbers don't add up. faramir77 posted... Out of principle I'd have a hard time voting for someone over 65. They shouldn't even be working anymore.65 isn't 65 isn't 65. Some 65 year olds are worn out and should be done...but we should beg many other high-performing 65-yr-old to work longer if they're willing. My point isn't that fresh blood wouldn't be good (I support term limits and better ways to get aging members of congress to retire). My point is that America no longer seems to put a value on experience: we only seem to want partisan firebrands. Experience is very valuable in terms of actually accomplishing things, however. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Joe Biden is too old to be a president; |
| wpot 10/10/22 12:29:27 PM #11 | I dunno: I actually think he's quietly doing as much as it's possible to do in the current environment. He's not, of course, a great and inspiring speaker/leader of people...and that's a very important part of the job. But if I have to choose between functional and boring vs inspiring and ineffective (or Trump, shudder) I choose boring. I think an age limit would cause more problems than it would solve. And if we're adding rules affecting which candidates can be considered I think we should focus our energies on preventing insurrectionists/con artists/etc. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Yo Gamers, how's it gaming up in here gamerinos? |
| wpot 10/10/22 10:44:50 AM #26 | Arishok posted... How, and why, would I ever use wpot in a sentence? Barring this one of course.Any use is good, including that sentence. :) It's an acronym for 'worst person on team', but it can really be used for any purpose. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Yo Gamers, how's it gaming up in here gamerinos? |
| wpot 10/10/22 9:59:46 AM #22 | Grinding through old or old-style games. The past year or two I keep skipping between Dragon Quest 11, Hollow Knight, BotW, and Star Ocean 3. Except that recently I've been playing Dark Cloud 2. I have a soft spot for that one...even though the storyline feels made for a 5-yr-old. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | Bluejeans |
| wpot 10/08/22 10:53:11 AM #4 | myghostisdead posted... An even number --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | what are the chances that russia is gonna nuke usa |
| wpot 10/07/22 5:41:14 PM #23 | Bartiscool posted... You know what I meant. He is a villain but not in a cartoon, James Bond sense. Despite how corrupt and destabilized Russia is, there is still a chain of command when it comes to using nuclear weapons. Just because crazy Putin orders a nuclear strike doesn't mean it will happen. There are still people in Russia that know what nuclear war will lead to and they want to live to see another day.Right, that factors into the low chance. But there are also people who would love to nuke the US...and from all indications Putin remains firmly in command. My point was the odds are very low, but not 0%. Even a 1% chance is unacceptably high. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | what are the chances that russia is gonna nuke usa |
| wpot 10/07/22 5:21:56 PM #19 | FatalAccident posted... Because even when Russia is at war with Ukraine the world still revolves around the usa?Everything Putin does revolves around his perceived competition with NATO, which he perceives as led by the USA. In the case of this topic the US is Putin's nemesis because he has made it so. He views Ukraine as a plaything in that competition. Of course he's wrong and Ukraine alone - at least with Western help - appears to be more than he can handle. And the US doesn't want to compete with Russia: they want to ignore (and occasionally partner with) Russia. Bartiscool posted... Putin is some evil villainHe attacked a country unprovoked and is threatening nuclear war. As far as world leaders go, that's more or less the definition of 'evil villain'. The question is how mentally stable he is. Best guess is that he's fairly stable, although he has concentrated on theoretical grievances and has - at least until recently - lost touch with realities on the ground. But even mentally stable people can do 'crazy' things when desperate... --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | what are the chances that russia is gonna nuke usa |
| wpot 10/07/22 4:31:45 PM #15 | adjl posted... any use of nukes is going to be a petty, desperate attempt to lash out out of spiteExactly. He knows he wouldn't win a nuke battle, but he could lash out memorably on the way out if that's something that appeals to him. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | what are the chances that russia is gonna nuke usa |
| wpot 10/07/22 4:27:28 PM #12 | adjl posted... Very low, but not quite 0. Putin's crazy and desperate, and while I don't think he's quite crazy and desperate enough to start nuking people, I can't completely rule out the possibility.The worry is not so much that he would decide to do it, it's that he raises tensions so much that someone overreacts to a situation. Orrr...if he becomes despondent enough would he nuke the US while committing suicide? Point being, agreed that it's near 0 but not 0. As far as technical capabilities go...who knows. I'll agree it's far more likely that they are reliably able to strike their neighbors than the US. Note that Alaska neighbors Russia, however... --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | I don't understand the concept of the "multiverse". |
| wpot 10/04/22 9:19:19 PM #27 | SunWuKung420 posted... Considering the existence of pie, it is.I don't think pie is infinite, no. That would be pretty cool, except that the universe would become filled with nothing but pie. That probably isn't good. The digits of pi appears to go on forever, however. :) --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | I don't understand the concept of the "multiverse". |
| wpot 10/03/22 9:10:18 PM #15 | OhhhJa posted... we'd be arrogant to assume we have any real clueI would say we have some real "clues" and some plausible theories. But yes, assuming that any of those big picture theories is THE truth is definitely premature. We have some evidence, but not enough to be nearly as certain that, for example, the earth rotates around the sun. There's a continuum between crackpot theory and demonstrable proof. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | I don't understand the concept of the "multiverse". |
| wpot 10/03/22 3:41:39 PM #11 | Muscles posted... our universe is just 1 tiny little sliver of the multiverseIf a multiverse exists: it's a mathematical theory with no observational evidence whatsoever. OhhhJa posted... Empty space within our universe may be infinite but I don't believe the matter within isThat's consistent with most scientific thought, although there has been some degree of backsliding on what we thought we knew about the big bang of late. I'm just pointing out that nothing in astronomy/physics is as settled as people like to believe at times. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
| Topic | I don't understand the concept of the "multiverse". |
| wpot 10/03/22 2:57:03 PM #7 | In physics it's just a theory that - per the math - an infinite number of universes could have been generated during the big bang. As said above, if truly infinite then there should be some (an infinite number, actually) that are exactly like ours but "insert small change here". Actually there should be an infinite number exactly like ours, also. And an infinite number of universes which are only different from ours because I misspelled the word "physics" in my first sentence. Frankly it's so wide open I don't find it as interesting as many people seem to. Infinite is so infinite that if one universe blew up entirely it would make no difference as there are infinite more (and an infinite number of them are blowing up every second). It's impossible to care about IMO. And they may or may not exist in the first place and we will never know. And if our own universe is infinite (still a possibility) there should be infinite planets exactly like Earth out there anyways. --- Pronounced "Whup-pot". Say it. Use it. |
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