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I don't have an anger issue, I have an idiot issue. If idiots weren't around me, I wouldn't be angry.

SpiritSephiroth posted...

There's something called extra decks now

That's just a renamed fusion deck

BlueTigerLion posted...

Plus it looks like there wont be video coverage of the trial

Reasonably common, especially after the OJ Simpson trial proved a lot of judges who didn't want cameras in their courtrooms right. Whole thing was more of a media ratings frenzy than a trial. And look what happened.

"About damn time. Fuck this planet."

I feel like these are apt if I'm suddenly stuck by a car tomorrow or live another 40 years.

Runeboggle posted...

The god of the Bible is a perfect example of an evil, abusive spouse that gaslights you into thinking he loves you.

The fucking Book of Job. God dammit that one's such a load of BS. "Here Satan, fallen angel my followers are supposed to fear and revile, torment my most loyal follower, because he'll love me anyway."

Whenever I say God is a dick, Job is how I back it up.

Cheater87 posted...

Perhaps the god of the OT is Satan?

I believe that was actually part of the Cathar beliefs, in addition to being tied to Gnosticism. Regular Christians reviled the Cathar beliefs so fully that their last fortress was slaughtered to the man, and was the oldest recorded instance of "kill 'em all and let God figure it out." Well, the actual quote was "He will know His true Flock" or something similar.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

I mean, this is the real reason. As far as scholarly interest in religion goes, rather than an active religious interest, books and stories removed or not included in the Bible is a pretty interesting rabbit hole to go down.

The story of Lilith for instance. Adam's first wife, who was raised from the soil the same as Adam. She refused to obey him because they were both formed from the Earth by God. Then she ran away. Adam demands a new wife that will obey him, God uses a rib from Adam. Eve is made from Adam therefore must obey him. All women are descended from Eve, women must therefore obey men.

Anyone with reasonable critical thinking skills can figure out why they didn't include the story of Lilith as Adam's first wife. Wouldn't want women getting ideas.

Zikten posted...

I would respect Christians more if they dumped the old testament and declared its part of a totally different religion.

The thing is, the New Testament is supposed to have basically done that with huge sections of the OT, like Leviticus.

EArly access for Indie games isn't a scam. It helps them pay the bills as they build a game and shows people actually WANT that game. It's a gamble, sure, but generally it pays off in the end unless the team implodes.

Now, when a AAA publisher does early access.... (cough, Take Two Interactive, cough), 100% scam.

Heartomaton posted...

Tazer

Strong disagree. A tazer is only good if you have one attacker. If you have two, well, while guy one is on the ground, guy two just clocked you with a left hook or stabbed you.

Payzmaykr posted...

Yes because somebody put my order together and had it ready to go. How is that any different than them bringing you the correct order if you sit down to eat?

Do you tip the guy who bags your groceries too?

Realistically, if you play new PC games, this shouldn't even affect you, since new games have been Windows 10 as the required OS anyway, unless you're just playing oddball low spec indie games.

Ricemills posted...

You kidding me? They're highly flammable, and surely you've been taught about powder explosion at school.

There was also a Mythbusters episode on it. They did coffee creamer I think. Sawdust and wheat will also do it.

Domino Sugar had a fire in their factory in Baltimore last year over it.

I heard it could have been airborne powdered sugar. Why there was something like a spark or open flame in an area full of airborne particulate is beyond me. Seems like someone decided to ignore safety regs or something was broken.

Trumble posted...

Eh, I think not at least providing some way to download existing purchases on those systems is iffy, but I also can't understand why anyone would still be running those rather than either Win10/11 or Linux.

Right? I can't figure out why people are running Windows 8/8.1 at all. Statistically it's the OS no one used full of features no one wanted or asked for.

buddhamonster posted...

The Battle of Kursk was the first time in the Second World War that a German strategic offensive was halted before it could break through enemy defenses and penetrate to its strategic depths.[45][46

Well, that explains it. At Moscow and Stalingrad they broke through the enemy defenses. Fighting in Stalingrad was building to building on some streets, and the Axis countries did surround the cities. They just failed to occupy.

Vampire_Chicken posted...

Especially seeing as how roughly 80% of the Wehrmacht's strength was committed to the Eastern Front; imagine if it had all been thrown against the West. I very much doubt the Allied democracies would have been able to soak up losses on the colossal scale sustained by the USSR.

True. And Russia still stean rolled them.

I'd argue that either of those events could be removed and Germany still loses though. Not as soon, but before 1950.

MabusIncarnate posted...

As said, I go to the laundromat and use their giant washer.

My local laundromat has something funky with their water, no thanks

Bass_X0 posted...

When was the actual turning point in World War II that lead to Germanys defeat?

Honestly, the two biggest are Operation Barbarossa and Operation Overlord. Overlord was the hammer blow, but Barbarossa was really the nail in the coffin of any chance of Hitler not being totally defeated.

Noumas posted...

The real question is do the Japanese know about the devil connection and are they ok with it, no parental outrage?

Christianity isn't a huge part of Japanese Culture. Religiously they're Shinto and Buddhism followers.

Not shocking at all. No matter how much you ban going into a country, there's always going to be someone who disagrees with the US and will trade with them. Iran's biggest trading parterns are Myanmar and North Korea, both of which are pariah states generally speaking. And North Korea's biggest trade partner is China. North Korea has made a career out of ignoring the demands of the international community, so any country willing to trade with them could be theoretically immune to sanctions.

The only way sanctions work is if you make EVERYONE enforce them, and that's impossible. The US couldn't even stop the CSA from getting guns during the civil war, and the US had total naval superiority. And if you think that's a dated example, look up Narco Subs.

Leanaunfurled posted...

I don't think he's a dick but I do think he says some harsh things about Obsidian. Not that it's all unwarranted and we don't know everything that went down while he was there, but some of the things he says when talking about current things they're up feels like it's still a chip on his shoulder still. Not that I'd call Avellone a dick just for that, and he's human, so it's still pretty whatever to me.

It's more that he's made characters like Kriea or Ulysses author inserts so he can rant about his opinion on the setting. And I've heard he gets pissy about the idea of Darth Nihlus being anything other than an amorphus blob of force wound.

EmbraceOfDeath posted...

Lmao what is this bullshit?

He likes to throw his obnoxious personal opinions on media into games he writes. Look at him bitching about the Force in KotOR II

https://youtu.be/C06jAb-e_iU

I mean, good, Chris Avellone is still a dick though. Not over this, just the way he writes in general.

JaiCSC posted...

I Ran - Flock of Seagulls for me from the Vice City Soundtrack.

https://youtu.be/iIpfWORQWhU

Same actually.

Followed up by the march from Liberty City Stories

kingdrake2 posted...

damnit. no new game for anyone if ever die.

Well, based on probability, it's entirely likely a new universe randomly forms. In an infinite time, infinite things can happen.

I hate this reality. I fucking hate it.

Zikten posted...

If it ends in Heat Death, I feel like everything is just over forever. And I sometimes imagine all the planets in the universe, and asteroids and stuff, still floating around after the last star has vanished. And there is no light in the entire universe.

So, one, science is leaning towards heat death, which is the most neutral ending. And second, what actually happens to all matter depends on whether or not protons decay. Modern science has no idea if protons decay or not. But if they do, there will be literally nothing, as opposed to theoretically nothing.

But look on the bright side, by the time this is ever an issue, you and all of your descendants will be long gone and won't have to see it.

ellis123 posted...

And?

Right? No one who actually pays attention is shocked by this.

I change it every now and then, usually when I get bored of the current one. I also run a secondary monitor that I don't always have something up on, otherwise I wouldn't care at all.

MAybe I have the concept wrong, but I thought you were supposed to be hard when you put it on... Seems like you wouldn't have this issue then.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Rod from God is only theoretical anyway. No one has ever even come close to building any kind of weaponry designed to attack from LEO or beyond.

In theory it's a violation of international law. particularly the Outer Space Treaty. Though that's debatable since "a giant metal pole" doesn't qualify as a WMD, even if the impact would have a similar effect.

Really, the only reason no one has actually designed and built a Rods from God system is probably the cost involved compared to either sending a wet work team to kill someone, or launching cruise missiles at whatever you're upset with. Seems like it would be fairly easy to add them to spy sats.

It, really wasn't that hard of a read. At all.

Jennywentnorth8 posted...

I never read the book just read the plot summary, and wow, that epilogue is maybe the dumbest "twist" I've seen in a long time holy shit

It's a middle grade novel. For children. I think you're over analyzing.

If you really want a hard read, the first edition of Timothy Dexter's book is damn near impossible given that it's littered with spelling errors and lacks and punctuation whatsoever. The second edition put a page of punctuation at the back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter

electricbugs2 posted...

The dude's a sex offender, has tried to have people killed, has made fun of dead people for attention, became a gang member just for attention, the list goes on. Snitching is the least of the idiots worries.

I mean, go to his Wikipedia page and go to "Legal issues". Only reason the guy isn't in jail is because he makes music and apparently is famous (I guess, I really only know the name for all the times he's come up in legal trouble in the news.) He's a pretty shitty person.

Master_Bass posted...

Hopefully Russia doesn't feel the need for two "special military operations" at the same time.

Unlikely. Kazakhstan and Russia are both members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. In terms of alliance, it would be like if the US decided to invade New Zealand. Also, if Russia really wanted to push the issue, Kazakhstan gets most of its imports from Russia, given that they're a landlocked country, that borders Russia, this probably not something they should consider fucking around with.

Trelve posted...

Rather than restoring the Russian empire, Putin is working on turning Russia into a Chinese puppet state.

One could argue that's been slowly happening since 1995, given the origins of the SCO.

Politically, it looks like Russia isn't exactly in great favor with their allies right now, exempting Belarus which is a puppet regime anyway, their President has all but outright said it. I've heard China hasn't been willing to assist Russia with their fuck up in Ukraine either, so it looks like Russia is pretty well going to be put over a barrel by China and other allies with a choice of "either have a half functional economy where we cooperate" or "keep dicking around in Ukraine and wasting lives and money. Because that worked so well for you in Afghanistan in the 80s."

Alternatively, I'm just sleep deprived and rambling.

I only know xQc as the guy who is so fucking atrocious with computers that Linus Sebastain finally threw up his hands and flew to California to fix his PC for him.

Revelation34 posted...

That's utter bullshit. It would be impossible for something like New York City to completely vanish.

Modern predictions say the tunnels will last the longest, but on a long time scale, it will. We're talking tens of thousands of years.

Zikten posted...

No it's not. You are telling me that there is zero chance that a society could vanish after 65 million years? I am not saying I actually believe this is the case. Just that it's something to wonder about.

It's not impossible, just improbable.

To wit, assuming this ancient society was at our level of technology, and assuming they thought reasonably like us, shouldn't there be evidence in space? I mean, it's a serious concern that due to littering in space that one day we'll be unable to launch space missions. I'm just saying if such a society existed, we'd have found something in space we can't explain as natural.

wackyteen posted...

25 minutes later

Not even for that possibly. They left the post up.

Edit: Oh.

A mod will wake up eventually