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Why would anyone want an unhinged murderer to go free? Good for him for picking a target nobody will miss, but the guy is a psycho.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

could he have survived against or destroyed the ant king

Mereum should be so far above the rest of the cast that he could solo a room of the top 49 strongest people below Netero with zero resistance. Just his brute strength and speed alone is enough to overwhelm everything other than supersonic prayer.

Eating anything that resembles its living self is just disgusting. I don't get how people can just sit there picking apart a body.

He's like Miyamoto. Generally, their ideas align to form a very good core that resonates with the audience, but they can randomly get up their own ass about something and just go off track to produce/influence something very meh.

Why are protestors never smart about this shit? The are plenty of ways to be invasive without being stupid.

I don't think I'd want to be friends with someone so open about their fetishes that I know them, but I don't think there are any that would make me instantly nope out if I accidentally found out.

RKO_OrtonBoi posted...

Fictional content can and will harm people. There's people whose trauma gets reawakened upon seeing art or games with bad actions. And the easily impressionable are affected too.

So do you want the world of fiction to be a place where nothing bad ever happens? If you want to discuss things like age ratings, that is a different conversation.

FaultyCircuitry posted...

I wasn't really discussing a 10 year age gap. I did mention 40 yos that go after 18 yos in which case consent is absolutely not black and white.

Anyone can be abused or groomed regardless of age, but instantly assuming that it's problematic is infantilizing those we recognize as adults. After 18, you have to look at everything on a case by case basis.

I never got this one. Are people arguing about the picture itself or the picture vs the real dress? Eyedropper gives you a gold color, so it never made any sense for there to be any argument on what the picture depicts.

Seems like a whole bundle of stupidity. Bad things exist. Bad things exist in fiction. Bad things exist on the internet. It's sad that some people are so hurt that simply reading it can make them feel horrible, but it's up to that person to deal with it.

For the rest of it, it's fiction. It's gross fiction, but fiction all the same. Saying someone will be influenced by it goes back to the violence in video games nonsense.

DKBananaSlamma posted...

LOL, that definitely does not make me feel safe >_> Human error still happens

Pretty sure most of these places study diseases that would be equally bad or worse if released into the public. Thats why they have so many safety protocols.

I don't know how anyone could justify living in a major city in a world with supervillains. It's not like themed supervillains can be evenly spread per capita.

Are you volunteering to go clean up the space after people inevitably start trashing it like they would any public park?

Probably more of a question what they choose to wash. Some Airbnbs dont ever wash their comforters unless they are visibly stained. Who knows how much gunk is on those until that point. I imagine that hotels may do the same.

Not really, outside just a "holy shit they were still alive" or a "holy shit it's hard to imagine they died so early."

Possibly, but there's not really a giant push for it. The stigma that comes with forced cult/religious marriages certainly won't help.

Punished_Blinx posted...

I think when a VA is specifically a big part of a brand it should be seen as a moneymaker.

Flat fees are applicable when you just need voice work. When you need a specific person who brings value to the game then the pay should go up.

If Charles Martinet isn't a millionaire from Mario by now something is wrong. Doesn't really matter that he barely has any lines. He brings a specific voice to the role that has proven great value.

VAs don't really have the star impact of celebrities, so they aren't really selling themselves or signing their public lives away in most cases. They're still presumably making hundreds of thousands per year if they're making thousands off 2-5 days work, unless the VA world is so shitty that they're scrambling for work at all times.

Punished_Blinx posted...

You don't think a lead actress for a franchise like Bayonetta (where her personality is a pretty big selling point) being paid only $4k flat speaks for itself?

Platinum paid $7k for a YouTuber to promote the Wonderful 101 Kickstarter.

I've never really seen being a VA as a huge moneymaker (relative to other media work at least), so it doesn't seem that crazy. Though I don't really know much about their pay structure, which someone in the industry outright breaking down would be nice. It's not like they have to name people as long as they're credible.

Punished_Blinx posted...

Seems low.

But I think the sticking point here is that she isn't just some regular VA. At this point she's the lead voice in an established franchise. That should be worth more. The response to all of this is evidence enough.

I hate when people in situations like this don't throw out amounts. With just some vague assertion, it's hard to tell if she was basically told she's worth less than dirt or simply a bit underballed. It sounds like they definitely did her dirty relative to her role, but being $2k off would be a world of difference from being $10-15k off in skeeviness.

Is $4000 particularly far off industry standard? Looks like $250-$350 per hour is apparently the norm according to google. These games don't have that much dialogue, do they?

Overall, it's definitely going to filter out the low-tier commission-based artists. How long it will take them to reach the level of cohesive style is another question. There's also the current issue of them simply pilfering from existing art way too heavily, but that will probably be solved in time. It probably won't completely kill the good artist, but it's definitely going to heavily change the dynamics going into the future as the tech evolves year after year.

I don't know how people who only shower at night function. I don't wake up as a sweaty mess, but there's zero way I can just get up and go out without looking like a slob.

The projected end goal is some kind of mass-use virtual reality world that's integrated into every facet of life. They have those dumb commercials showing its supposed future utility. I think their overall plan is to try to do some sketchy trademark shit by completely associating "VR world" with their platform or something equally dubious.

008Zulu posted...

A 70 year old son?

If using Nielsen's actual age for his character's age, that's right on point if he had the kid when he was 30-something.

What actually does happen in a case like this when its clear that the money will never actually be paid? Do they just garnish whatever money he makes forever or can it just be removed in another bankruptcy in however many years it takes until is viable for the next one?

That has to be a shitposting troll. There's no way someone can be that stupid.

I honestly hate working from home. I like the separation. If I had a dedicated home office or something, I might feel different, but I also don't want to waste the space on it.

LotsOfHorror posted...

What makes you think they wouldn't have to prove it here? The only difference with this is that they'd have to prove potential damage to a jury if no real damage has happened, a higher bar sure but not really abusable.

And that would help them convince a jury how?

Because giving power to the government to decide what is "harmful information" is a horrible idea. Look at the UK and people getting arrested over Tweets. That's not slippery slope yet, but it's damn close to it.

The more control you try to put on speech, the more that can be abused. Being able to sue is the furthest it should go because that then requires someone to prove that they were damaged by the false information.

Tipping culture sucks, but "rebelling" against it by fucking over people trying to make a living just makes you a shitty person. I don't really care about the person in this particular case because she's just an attention whore trying to get screentime, but she was still wronged.

If I notice, yes. If I don't notice until later, probably wouldn't care enough to try to correct it.

Yeah, Kubo is definitely a "oh this would be cool" kind of writer. Not as bad as someone like Araki, but he definitely comes up with set pieces he wants to use without an actual plan for using them.

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Not inherently. You could probably get a slight reaction out of an animation of two toasters humping or two animals breeding as well. I wouldn't take either as an indication of anything other than that humans like sex, so anything inherently sexual will get some sort of reaction from us.

It's fine. Not bad or particularly great.

Is the study in question the one talking about how people react to sexual images? I think correlating reaction to attraction seems a bit of a stretch. I think we're kind of just hardwired to react to sexual stimuli of any kind, so it seems like a rather disingenuous, pushy conclusion.

Only some directly supervised target shooting as a small child. Otherwise, havent touched one in decades and dont feel the need to own one.

I've never been solicited by one, but I carry zero cash. I might be inclined to buy a small food item or a necessity, but I don't think I'd give cash even if I had it.

Ive been in a single casino. Place reeked of cigarette smoke. Wasnt particularly interested in gambling. Played slots for a little bit and did nothing else. Definitely would not go again.

I'd say he's packing a solid foot of meat. Sanji's probably at three inches. Robin has fifteen inches.

assboobsgames posted...

Money isn't love. Money doesn't raise a child, it doesn't teach them things that children need to learn and to grow. Money buys things but it's not a stand in for a parent.

Grandparents are old and their contributions will be limited in what they can do.

The whole two parents thing is just broad statistics. There will be outliers on both sides of the bell curve, so you cannot really say anything about a singular person's upbringing just based on how many influences they have in their life. All you can say that statistically it's better to have two parents, but it's not inherently some kind of horrible, tragic situation if they don't.

Solar_Crimson posted...

Despite being financially independent, you could still be legally on the hook for child support for her kid is she were to pursue it.

Pretty sure there's no issue as long as it's done through a proper process. The child support issue comes from when people do it on their own, sex or otherwise, to save money, so there's no legal trail to show it was done for the purpose donating genetic material.

Before his stupidity became public, he had the air of a real life Tony Stark to people. He sold people on his fanciful ideas, and the ever so honest journalists then fanned that cycle by putting out vapid hype story after vapid hype story. So now you have the indoctrinated people and the people who still buy these hype stories without looking any deeper into it.

Stronger Bleach characters have the reaction speed to deal with attacks hundreds of times the speed of sound and can casually block attacks from giant entities without needing special abilities. Im pretty sure Naruto characters never really exceeded extraordinarily superhuman outside of ninjutusu for the most part.

Don't think you're using the right term, but I imagine it's probably something that has multiple causes. Though even if it's immutable, it's not like that makes it acceptable.

Its definitely designed for you to pick a lane. If you are alone, then hanging back makes sense, but once other people start pulling up, roll the dice and go with it to avoid congesting things.

It was pretty good. I just really hope theyre able to at least add enough meaningful padding to flesh out some of the weaker areas, especially the finale.

Only one I really remember is the story about the alien, but the alien was actually a human on an alien planet all along.

God, I don't understand how SNL has some skits that are just so plain unfunny. Are they not allowed to veto ideas, or do these people think these are legitimately good comedy? It's definitely not wrong though. I imagine the way they're going about it is mostly legalese, but all they had to say is that they felt betrayed so they split ways. They instead treat it like he did something illegal.