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| Topic | Persona 5R advice? What's different from P5 vanilla? (minimal spoilers) |
| DarkBuster22904 10/28/22 11:23:18 AM #27 | Holy_Cloud105 posted... So this might be a stupid question, but is hard harder than merciless now? I wanted to play it on whatever is hard. Doing the first palace in one day on hard and merciless in vanilla was rough but fun.Hard is absolutely the hardest difficulty --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Keepmywifename8 is WARNED |
| DarkBuster22904 10/28/22 12:47:23 AM #28 | *checks* Eesh. Guy definitely needs a break. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Think i'm near the end of Persona 4 Gold (progressive spoilers, be careful plz) |
| DarkBuster22904 10/28/22 12:41:05 AM #82 | Doe posted... But you can totally do it though. Diamond is Unbreakable (the Jojo analog to P4) has one of the series' most tense finales and it's just a local serial killer messing with a kid's life. There is not necessarily a 1-to-1 relationship between scale of the threat and how exciting and gripping a climax is. P4G is a human-centered story, not an action-centered one. The gang's motivations in acting throughout the game are to save their classmates and bring the town's killer to justice. The biggest and most pivotal conflict the gang goes through is deciding whether they should commit a murderWhich is what makes it work on the micro level. On the macro level, it ignores huge elephants in the room. What is the Midnight Channel? Why did Adachi suddenly get this power? Why is it linked to everyone's heads if it's just the product of this one fucked up guy? Why are the two worlds collapsing in on each other with the fog? Is it really because this one guy killed a collective two people? Lord help anywhere with gang violence. Doe posted... Perhaps if the gang had to actually explicitly confront that those feelings are inside themselves, but they just brush it off as clear nihilistic nonsense Because they already did. Everything from confronting their shadows to their S-link routes is them doing exactly that. By the time you reach Izanami, they've all refuted her thesis in their own lives; no need to retread that ground. I think the trouble here comes not from the core team, but the people of Inaba itself. Unlike the general population of P5, which pretty consistently reflects the big bad's thesis, the town of Inaba just doesn't embody Izanami's philosophy as much. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Would you personally suffer if da GOP gains power again? |
| DarkBuster22904 10/28/22 12:20:27 AM #15 | Sort of. My fiancee is Indian, and has been mistaken and profiled as a Muslim many times. Airport security, comments she gets from redhats at work, among others. Trump's election was... not a fun couple of weeks for her or her family. The last thing I want is to further empower these vile, ignorant fucks. Not just because it makes her life harder, but because nobody should have to deal with this shit. On a more logistical level, it's gonna make things worse for everyone in a very real way. Redistricting will make our votes matter less, and it's foolish to think that Republicans won't end the filibuster in their favor if it's ever used against them. Manchin's little stunts be damned. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Think i'm near the end of Persona 4 Gold (progressive spoilers, be careful plz) |
| DarkBuster22904 10/27/22 10:26:08 PM #79 | Doe posted... Their being puppetmasters of TV creepypasta rumors and an incel cop is just silly when in mainline SMT they'd unleash Armageddon outright. But it's played completely straight here.That's sort of the thing, though.The key difference between persona and SMT. In SMT, humanity is basically 1000% victimized by demons. It plays well to the series' core themes, but its very much an external threat. There are no demons in persona. Every single supernatural element in it is from the minds of people. The personas only take the shape they do because that's what people liken certain traits to. It's not ACTUALLY lucifer you're summoning, but basically what an AI would think Lucifer would look and be like by looking at search engine data. People arent being victimized by external forces; beginning to end, its people dealing with their own shit. Nothing wrong with preferring one over the other; that's a matter of taste. Just saying it's not necessarily a weaker narrative choice. I'd say they're both the appropriate choice for the worlds in which they're set. Adachi may he more compelling on the micro level, but let's face it, he was never gonna be the main threat. Some random cop who murdered two people isn't gonna undo the fabric of reality on his own, not without something else spurring it. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Persona 5R advice? What's different from P5 vanilla? (minimal spoilers) |
| DarkBuster22904 10/27/22 10:11:26 PM #24 | NeonOctopuses posted... You just keep it >_> It really isn't that much money in the long runit is in the early game. There's the rub. Persona 5 in general just gets easier and easier as you go, with how many options, features, and perks it opens up for you and how much money it gives you. The first two palaces are pretty much the only truly difficult parts of the game, purely because of how limited your resources are. That 100k yen basically turns those into a solid stomp. Unless you just choose not to spend it, with an arbitrary "never have less than 100k in the wallet" rule. Or, as smiffwilm suggested, spamming the summon/release cycle. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Schumer caught telling Biden that GA Senate race is 'going downhill' for Dems |
| DarkBuster22904 10/27/22 7:12:31 PM #18 | cjsdowg posted... Dems spend most of their time telling people how bad republicans are and not how good they are.Because they aren't good, and damn near everybody knows it. But when your competition is "rewriting election laws so the right never loses," "brand 7% of the population as sexual predators," "institute the Christian equivalent of Sharia law," "storm the capital and erect gallows out front when we lose," and "Jewish space laser shoots chemicals into the China virus vaccine to turn the freaking frogs gay," suddenly just "not good" gets a lot more appealing. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Schumer caught telling Biden that GA Senate race is 'going downhill' for Dems |
| DarkBuster22904 10/27/22 6:53:50 PM #13 | Solar_Crimson posted... How the fuck is anyone intelligent even planning to vote for Hershel Walker?We've long since passed the point where intelligence, policies, consistency, truth, decency, or any other factor matters. To these people, (R) is good, (D) is bad. Period. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Does the Kanye stuff prove that people actually can get "canceled"? |
| DarkBuster22904 10/27/22 6:33:24 PM #38 | It's proof that "fuck around and find out" is a thing. I guarantee that even after all his anti-semitic shit, he would still be sponsored by Adidas right now if he hadn't publicly called them out, himself. They'd have kept their heads down, waited for it to blow over like his dozens of other issues up till this point. and hocked his products for the profits. Not that they SHOULDNT have cancelled him, because they absolutely made the right call, but I doubt they would have. The minute he went on-air and publicly announced that he could say and do whatever he wanted, up to and including anti Semitic shit, and not face any consequences or lose SPECIFiCALLY his Adidas deal... well, great job, jackass. Now they literally HAVE to respond. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Persona 5R advice? What's different from P5 vanilla? (minimal spoilers) |
| DarkBuster22904 10/27/22 5:51:19 PM #18 | How much more easy it is really depends on what you do. There's a new minigame/social event you can do to level up your Baton passes, giving them added power bonuses, hp/sp recovery, etc. Those make the game stupidly easy. The new Switch and pc versions come with all the dlc. And I do mean all of it, including the "tine saver" bonus items; as a consequence, it loads you up with money, items, and accessories that trivialize the early game, if you choose to use them. As do the freebie "crossover" personas that are automatically dumped into the compendium. That said, most of the boss fights were significantly harder, in my experience. A d every dungeon usually has at least one random encounter that can easily one-shot your party, if given the chance (provided you don't overlevel, or abuse the ever loving shit out of the guillotine and lockdown systems). Overall, the problem isn't necessarily that the game is too easy, but the game gives you a lot of options to MAKE it super easy. The option to go through with the standard, intended difficulty balance is still very much there. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Did *Persona 5 Spoilers* do anything wrong? >_> |
| DarkBuster22904 10/27/22 5:38:35 PM #36 | Alucard188 posted... Even in the good ending, they can't help but give you a tantalizing bit of what? Goro Akechi's reflection? Did he survive the suicide bit in the yacht dungeon? Is it bleed over from Maruki's influence? A cohabitation of Joker's psyche, visible only to Joker? Did they elaborate on that as anything other than fan service?Never elaborated, but there's a lot of strange shit in that ending. That weirdly ominous moment where joker sees his phantom thief self in the window reflection comes to mind. It's pretty clear atlus is planning... something, moving forward. Personally, I like to think that the akechi bit, where he's flanked by two other guys, is (whole series spoilers, I guess) --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Did *Persona 5 Spoilers* do anything wrong? >_> |
| DarkBuster22904 10/27/22 3:51:27 PM #30 | There's also a fundamental difference in what he was doing vs the phantom thieves. The phantom thieves wood go to work on their target's shadow, ultimately swaying it and causing it to return to its host. The final change of heart would then be catalyzed in the palaces collapse. The shadow, however, was intrinsically a part of the person in question; they are, at the end of tge day, reflections of the deepest part of the person's psyche. All the phantom thieves were doing was appealing to and stimulating qualities that already existed in their targets. It stimulated change from within, without controlling for who the person would be on the other side. It also didn't change the world around them. If they did bad shit, it was still there when they hit their point of revelation, and they'd have to own up to it. All the thieves are really doing is breaking down the mental blocks people put up to dissociate themselves from their actions. What they do afterward is up to them. Maruki's work was both external and artificial. He's not waking people up to who they are, revealing their inner potential, or inspiring any actual growth. He's changing outside circumstances so things just... work. He's not teaching anybody to be strong or move on after the death of a loved one; he just gives them back. He's not actually solving for any corruption, so much as hiding the circumstances in which it might appear. And he does it in really convoluted ways. Some struggling artist would make a better archer? Rewrite their whole life, against their will. Futaba blames herself for her mom's death? Give mom back. Smile blames herself for Kasumi's death? OBLITERATE HER LIFE AND TURN HER INTO HER DEAD SISTER. Hos methods have nothing to do with who these people are, what's good for them, or even what they actually want; it's about just giving them what they ask for in the immediate moment, damn the consequences. And it doesn't work. The fact that Sumire still exists under the Kasumi mask is proof positive that all he's doing is painting over shit that still exists underneath. And Akechi, that bastard makes it abundantly clear that he'd much rather be dead than reduced to some saccharine smiling puppet; but guess what he gets in the bad ending. There's enough differences for me to pretty positively differentiate the Thieves and Maruki, and say pretty definitively that Maruki was wrong. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Atp I'm being trolled by the mods |
| DarkBuster22904 10/27/22 2:05:54 PM #32 | Error1355 posted... *looks* --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | GameFAQs+ is gonna be a thing lol |
| DarkBuster22904 10/27/22 11:18:21 AM #14 | will there be t-shirts? --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Why was it easier to cancel Kanye than it was to Cancel trump ? |
| DarkBuster22904 10/27/22 11:15:14 AM #20 | "I could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose a single vote." He was correct. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Do you want Donald Trump to go broke? |
| DarkBuster22904 10/27/22 2:21:20 AM #44 | Broke would just be a start. Prison would be far preferable. A proper one. Neither are likely; I'll settle for some level of accountability. Literally anything at all. House arrest. Probation. Crushing lawsuits. Banning from running for office ever again. A god damn parking ticket. literally anything to publicly show that the shit he's done is not ok. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Female Yoda talks normally |
| DarkBuster22904 10/27/22 12:33:06 AM #25 | Sufferedphoneix posted... Ok. As said not a fan. Probably saw one movie of the original trilogy as a kid.Honestly the more weird thing is just how many characters can just... understand the dozens of alien languages that ARENT galactic basic. From Droid beeps to wookie roars. I mean C-3P0 is supposed to be a translator. And they use him for that, like, 3 times. And even then it hardly feels like they need him. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Do you think kanye is very bummed out about losing his partnership with adidas? |
| DarkBuster22904 10/26/22 8:31:35 PM #10 | TetsuoS2 posted... https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/26/business/kanye-west-skechers/index.htmlbaaaaaahahahahahahahaha! Life's kinda entertaining sometimes. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Think i'm near the end of Persona 4 Gold (progressive spoilers, be careful plz) |
| DarkBuster22904 10/26/22 8:18:05 PM #57 | Doe posted... P6 should just make personas jojo stands they can use in the normal world --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Why Gen-X escaped the "Generation Wars" |
| DarkBuster22904 10/26/22 11:40:44 AM #43 | SiO4 posted... And somehow you don't think GenX wasn't fucked over by the same things?They were, albeit to a lesser extent. The Reaganomics nonsense was young enough in their time that they were able to slip past with far less damage. They escaped the brunt of the student loan crisis. They were able to establish careers well enough in advance to have far better survival odds against the numerous economic crashes. They were absolutely iced out of politics, just the same as us. They're in the same situation, but spared the worst by time. The difference is that by and large they tend to side with boomers in blaming millennials and zoomers for this shit; they play apathetic but, atvleast in my experience, are far more likely to cast blame downstream than up. Hence, "honorary boomer." They've elected to be part of the problem. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Best version of Final Fantasy IV? >_> |
| DarkBuster22904 10/26/22 11:33:31 AM #26 | The_Popo posted... PSP > DS > GBA > Pixel > SNES1000% this --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Why Gen-X escaped the "Generation Wars" |
| DarkBuster22904 10/26/22 11:29:04 AM #37 | bigblu89 posted... I feel that just the younger gens attitude towards anyone they see doing better than them.I mean, sure, generational rivalry is always gonna be a thing. That said, given that millennial and gen z are the first two generations in a VERY long time to actually have quantifiably and verifiably worse prospects than their parents, they arguably have a much stronger leg to stand on. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | People losing weight, how was your family? |
| DarkBuster22904 10/26/22 11:25:10 AM #15 | Shitty to me when I was 350 ibs Teased and needled me relentlessly while I spent a year and a half losing the weight Finally decent to me when I reached 180 It really wasn't all that different than most other people I knew, at the time. Everyone always talks about how empowering and confidence boosting it is to go from being overweight to healthy, but mostly it just made me more jaded. The thinner I got, the better people started treating me, friends, family, and strangers alike. More than anything else it was an eye opener to how shitty people had been before (I'd been overweight most of my life, and didn't have much frame of reference). Ironically enough, thr better treatment came out feeling like a net negative. One of the biggest reasons why the "I'm shitty to fat people to encourage them to lose weight" excuse gets a big "Fuck Off" from me. Made it super easy to pick and choose which relationships to keep, I guess. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Why Gen-X escaped the "Generation Wars" |
| DarkBuster22904 10/26/22 11:13:02 AM #32 | I'll be honest, as much as they like to pretend otherwise, Gen X are basically just Honorary Boomers at this point. They didn't have QUITE as many benefits and freebies as the Boomers, but they're just as complicit in the ladder-pulling nonsense. And both have the same "fuck you, got mine" attitude toward millennials and zoomers. The biggest difference is that they tend to fall back on "things sucked for me, so they should suck for you" more often than Boomers do. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Think i'm near the end of Persona 4 Gold (progressive spoilers, be careful plz) |
| DarkBuster22904 10/26/22 3:10:01 AM #35 | Doe posted... Okay maybe that's my bad I've been on break from this game since February. But I don't remember itI will grant you that it's not particularly WELL foreshadowed. And even then, it doesn't make a ton of sense until the golden/true ending stuff. But Ame-no-sagiri is definitely not just some random eye monster. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Think i'm near the end of Persona 4 Gold (progressive spoilers, be careful plz) |
| DarkBuster22904 10/26/22 1:31:59 AM #32 | Doe posted... Adachi being possessed and upstaged by some heretofore unmentioned entity is pretty lame imo...Less unmentioned than you might think --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Please help I am crying (Red Dead Redemption 2 spoilers) |
| DarkBuster22904 10/25/22 10:33:40 AM #26 | supervaan posted... I bet the main character of rdr3 will also die.Depends. Personally, I'd love the protag of RDR3 to be Dutch --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Think i'm near the end of Persona 4 Gold (progressive spoilers, be careful plz) |
| DarkBuster22904 10/25/22 12:57:30 AM #3 | Doe posted... except by process of elimination of important characters.as someone who DID face it blind, that's sort of what you do. No, there's nothing really telling you outright. There's no big "AHA" clue like in other games in the series with similar twists. Just the classic "mystery story" formula: if you eliminate the choices that are obviously impossible, you're left with the truth. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Please help I am crying (Red Dead Redemption 2 spoilers) |
| DarkBuster22904 10/25/22 12:53:58 AM #16 | xGhostchantx posted... Knowing stuff like this was the norm for those of us just old enough to remember the back-of-book and back-of-the-vhs-cover blurbs. Shit, there's probably people old enough here to remember "I am your father" being in the trailer.Even longer than that. For the better part of human history, fictional stories, plays, poems, etc all had foregone conclusions. They'd be based on stories that everyone already sort of "knew" through cultural osmosis, or the chorus, such as in Romeo and Juliet, Oedipus Rex, or Antogone, would tell you the outcome outright; the point of the story wasn't the conclusion itself, but rather what happened to bring about said conclusion. The fixation with avoiding spoilers and keeping the "surprise" factor intact is actually a pretty damn recent cultural phenomenon. That said, I won't blame anyone for ascribing to it; we all enjoy media in our own ways. But it is something of a modern oddity. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Please help I am crying (Red Dead Redemption 2 spoilers) |
| DarkBuster22904 10/24/22 11:10:58 PM #6 | BignutzisBack posted... I was going to play the game but someone spoiled it and said Arthur dies and you play as someone else. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Golden Sun died so Xenoblade can live. |
| DarkBuster22904 10/18/22 6:53:02 PM #2 | Nah. Golden Sun died because Dark Dawn showed they were out of steam, and not enough people cared. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Dexter's Lab - Ice Cream Man Jar Of Pennies Story |
| DarkBuster22904 10/14/22 2:04:28 AM #6 | Years ago, when I was still working retail, a couple of teenagers showed up with a bunch of jars of pennies to try to buy something; they were clearly trying to fuck with us, with how they were giggling. They ended up bringing it to the manager. Manager insisted they stay while he counted the pennies one by one in front of them, to make sure it was enough. After he "lost count" a few times at the 500-600 mark, they just left. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Netflix with ads plan to cut content. |
| DarkBuster22904 10/13/22 6:59:35 PM #22 | I literally just resub every year or so to watch the new cobra kai season, then dip. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | That Mario Trailer was 10/10 for the first half |
| DarkBuster22904 10/08/22 12:45:02 PM #136 | chrono625 posted... dont forget sing and sing 2.God I wish I could --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Three days until the Bleach anime returns. |
| DarkBuster22904 10/08/22 12:42:40 PM #8 | groan --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Trump reportedly tried to trade the documents he stole... |
| DarkBuster22904 10/08/22 12:36:24 PM #16 | Ricemills posted... to whom he traded it to?The National Archives. So it's less of a trade, and more of a ransom --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Do you mostly use credit or debit to pay for stuff? |
| DarkBuster22904 10/08/22 2:18:50 AM #16 | Any purchase not earning credit rewards is leaving money on the table. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Why are game boards full of people who hate the series? |
| DarkBuster22904 10/07/22 1:01:09 PM #5 | ChocoboMogALT posted... A lot of Pokemon "fans" are certainly in the latter group.I dunno about that. As someone who plays all of them, loves the series, but can be pretty harsh when criticizing it's shortcomings, I get accused pretty often of being in that latter group. It's not true. But it's been my experience that pokemon's fanbase does have a disproportionately high number of people who will die on any hill to defend the games. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | That Mario Trailer was 10/10 for the first half |
| DarkBuster22904 10/06/22 8:06:11 PM #63 | Jack Black was killing ot as Bowser. Shame that Chris Pratt Mario, from first impressions, is just as jarring, awkward, and bad as I thought it'd be. I dont care that he's not Italian. I care that he's Chris Pratt not even trying to sound like anyone else. Took the trailer from "this looks like a good animated movie" to "Oh, its just ore of illuminations usual tripe. Cue the cheesy pop songs." --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | This why police should ALWAYS be filmed and scrutinized and their WORD means zip |
| DarkBuster22904 10/06/22 3:11:24 PM #27 | While Brennand was responding to a disturbance at a McDonalds on the North Side at approximately 10:45 p.m., he noticed a car in the parking lot that allegedly matched the description of a vehicle he had tried to pull over on Saturday. Ah yes. Because we all know that only one car of a particular make, model, and color will ever be produced. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Stranger Things actress: "everyone should consider vegan lifestyle" |
| DarkBuster22904 10/06/22 2:33:19 PM #81 | Crescente posted... Eggs and cheese are the best things in life. I can never say no to those. Also...the reason why vegans don't eat eggs is just...lame as heck lol.As is their reason for not eating honey. I respect their position for the most part, but hard-line veganism lacks a lot of nuance that it could really stand to have. Not all animal products are intrinsically unethical. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Stranger Things actress: "everyone should consider vegan lifestyle" |
| DarkBuster22904 10/06/22 2:00:11 PM #62 | ZannoL posted... I heard Chao cheese is a really good brand. I need to try it. You mean this guy? https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/5/5/AAOdzqAADwE7.png --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Is it shameful to have too many active messages? |
| DarkBuster22904 10/06/22 1:52:07 PM #4 | Depends. Some boards are so low activity that they purge and archive super slowly. To say nothing of stickies that never reach 500, etc. 300 posts on CE is an entirely different story. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | In the event of a nuclear strike, what should Russia's punishment be? |
| DarkBuster22904 10/05/22 2:53:33 PM #101 | NatsuSama posted... This insisting of any retaliation against Russia means nukes is under the demonstrably false pretense that the ONLY form of retaliation in existence is nuking Russia.No, it's under the demonstrably true pretense that Putin has asserted over and over that any retaliation or reprisal would result in nukes. And we find it prudent to believe him. Especially in a hypothetical where he starts lobbing them at his military targets. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | In the event of a nuclear strike, what should Russia's punishment be? |
| DarkBuster22904 10/05/22 2:36:13 PM #86 | MachineJaipur posted... They won't have any allies if they use a nuke.And they'd be in no danger of that happening, because losing China as a trade partner would doom the US before next Thursday. China has such a chokehold on global markets that it can comfortably play both sides with no consequence. The whole reason they haven't done anything to Russia is because they want to see how it plays out so they can figure out how to do the same to Taiwan. If Russia nukes its way to victory with no military reprisals, it'll have its answer. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | FYI Nukes don't just obliterate the entire country. |
| DarkBuster22904 10/05/22 2:27:42 PM #7 | The 15 kiloton bomb caused enough destruction to have world ending consequences if deployed on a mass scale. Saying the ones they'd use on Ukraine would "only go up to about 100 kilotons" isn't exactly comforting or inspiring. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Universities suffer as colleges struggle with enrollment declines, underfunding |
| DarkBuster22904 10/05/22 2:08:45 PM #10 | Shadow_Don posted... *sighTo say nothing of how it falls back on the "real job" fallacy. I can promise that nobody wants to live in a world where every prospective artist, writer, graphic designer, historian, librarian, or even those dreaded Gender Studies and Basket Weavers suddenly dropped everything to become a plumber or welder. Trust me. You don't. The whole idea that STEM and trades are the only things worth pursuing is so patently absurd that most people can't even begin to comprehend how radically different their lives would be if it were true. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | Rurouni Kenshin reboot footage revealed. |
| DarkBuster22904 10/05/22 1:59:04 PM #63 | Makeveli_lives posted... In Japan its because anything drug related is heavily tied to the Yakuza and/or the Triad. Japan is a country obsessed with keeping up appearances and those groups are fucking it up for them. I remember a story of some guy getting hard time for having it in his system after he came back from America or something.Can confirm. Just having tattoos is enough to get you banned from public places like bathhouses, and get businesses to refuse to serve you. Because they're heavily associated with the Yakuza over there, so that's the knee jerk reaction. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
| Topic | In the event of a nuclear strike, what should Russia's punishment be? |
| DarkBuster22904 10/05/22 1:28:29 PM #58 | AloneIBreak posted... Whatever else may be said about him, hes completely capable of understanding the difference between nuking humble Ukraine versus the already hostile, nuke-ready United States.Don't put words in my mouth. I don't WANT to do anything. I'm saying that it's pointless. Any response beyond shrugging our shoulders and letting Ukraine burn would prompt a nuclear response from Putin. Period. He's not just going to sit there while an invading army or missile strikes begin closing on the Kremlin. Not in a million years. Amd even if we DID decide to do nothing, our of a sense of duty to the greater good of survival, that would send a clear and powerful message that it's A-OK to nuke non-nuclear powers, regardless of alliances, as there will be no consequences. Which would be one hell of a precedent to set. Emphasis on Hell. Expect Taiwan to be gone within a week. --- Haven't had a good sig idea since 2006 |
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