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You can't really ask for much more than 96, but that's still sad. Rip.

The Great Oral Sphincter Controversy of 2022.

Jen0125 posted...

Someone is at the house rn makes me nervous I worry he'll do something to my property

I feel like you should be adding cameras to common areas. Obviously not the bathroom/his bedroom, because good luck not getting sued for that, but other areas should be okay and would help deter vandalism/reassure you it isn't happening.

HornedLion posted...

@adjl
Youre a smart guy what is it called when someone intentionally oversimplifies or misrepresents something in order to distort the truth?

There's probably a specific name, but off-hand all I'm coming up with is calling it a variant of a strawman.

Muscles posted...

Modern unions are a scam meant to steal money from the workers

That's pretty much entirely because of the lack of laws to protect them, which creates a corrupt two-tiered system in which only some workers get to join unions and the rest are left unprotected. Even then, that's only true of a relatively small number of industries, despite what the corporate propaganda you're deep throating would have you believe.

The only thing you need to know to know that unions are a good thing is that the corporations that treat their workers worst are deathly afraid of them. Those corporations will do everything to screw you over that they can possibly get away with, so if they're busting unions, you can very safely presume that's a bad thing.

Sphincters are single, circular muscles. The mouth consists of many muscles. You sit on a throne of lies.

hera posted...

if it's the managers considering it, then it actually has a chance, however slim it may be

Indeed. Firing a few dozen minimum-wage workers is easy. Closing a few dozen franchises, on the other hand, is a much bigger deal.

Unless they time travel, of course.

Count_Drachma posted...

The hilarity of this bad faith argument is Putin took over Crimea under Obama, NOTHING under Trump, and then raised his control of Ukraine to 20% of the country under Biden.

Meanwhile the same guys who in 2015 and 2016 were claiming Trump would let Putin take over all of Ukraine if he got in office are repeating those same falsehoods today when the invasions happened under the other guys.

It's almost like Putin has scheduled his invasions whenever it will make the presidents he doesn't like look bad. Of course, that would be a stretch unless there were other evidence that he'd gone to considerable lengths to manipulate the American election process to favour Trump, so I guess it's a good thing that's never come to light, eh?

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The trick is, most of that is more a question of degree than a simple binary assumption. People love the idea of a black & white world, but we've literally never lived in one.

Indeed. Going purely cashless is rife with problems, but it's exceedingly unlikely that any appreciable percentage of the world will ever truly go completely cashless. Cash may effectively disappear from everyday commerce, but the option to use it will remain.

Whenever I get a new pair I hang on to my previous pair as a spair, but I don't get a duplicate of my new prescription. Generally speaking, the difference between prescriptions isn't enough for that to be at necessary.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

That's just bad programming. An extra condition in the detection would have avoided false positives.

Welcome to GameFAQs, where the profanity detectors have been about 20 years behind the rest of the world for the site's entire history.

LinkPizza posted...

As for Ethel, I havent met her yet. Just saw her in a couple stories. But I did unlock classes. And am now in a forced class swap for a little while

Ah, you'll see more of her soon, and the class system opens up properly shortly thereafter.

LinkPizza posted...

I feel like sticking with one character is not bad here since they can all switch classes, anyway. Though, it might start making more of a difference later when I can start building string characters using stuff from multiple classes

Yeah, eventually you'll get to the point where everybody has every class maxed out and you can do whatever you want (there are minor stat differences between characters if you really want to min/max, and the original six classes will eventually get a sizable attack buff if you use them on their original users, but it doesn't really matter who is what for the most part), but until then you'll probably find yourself either focusing certain characters on classes that help them fill certain roles more effectively, or focusing them on classes with the highest aptitude so they level them up faster (which is what I did).

I will give you one piece of very important class advice that you probably won't understand for a short while: make sure that if you have Noah as a Yumsmith at the end of chapter 5, you change him to a different costume before finishing the chapter. Just trust me on this.

LinkPizza posted...

Yeah. I think most of the tutorials came pretty early. It was just weird when theyd tell me how to do something, and then force me to do it before I could do anything else. Like buying and equipping accessories when I wanted to buy more. Or changing every characters class, adding a skill, and adding a sub art or something For all six characters And telling me to to do it for each character one at a time That was awful

Yeah, that should all be done now. You might get one more for the Ouroboros skill trees when they open up, but otherwise the only remaining major mechanic is Chain Attacks, and they don't have such an in-depth tutorial (though they're pretty confusing and you might actually want more direction).

I finished more or less 100%'ing Xenoblade 3 a couple weeks ago (there are a couple more things I could finish, but they're too grindy to be worthwhile, in my eyes), marking the first time since April that I wasn't playing some manner of Xenoblade (I played through 1, 2, and their respective bonus stories leading up to 3's release), which was kind of wild. I've started up the Super Monkey Ball remake now and have been playing that off and on, but I'll probably start weaving either Rune Factory 5 or Neo TWEWY in in the next couple days or so because Monkey Ball is a game that works better in short bursts.

ReturnOfFa posted...

Same with the cash hoarders. I also find the cash hoarders funny because if everything went to s***...would that cash really be that useful?

Indeed. If nobody's able to access any of their digital wealth, society isn't suddenly going to start worshipping the people that still have cash. They're going to prioritize restoring that infrastructure and probably barter some of their physical assets in the mean time.

ReturnOfFa posted...

It definitely is the most private option, but it doesn't mean it isn't traceable...

While true, tracing somebody's cash transactions usually requires specifically investigating them and relying on other methods of surveillance, such as cameras, tracking their phone, or using other identifying information the vendor might collect (which a privacy-obsessed person probably wouldn't give). By comparison, it's pretty easy for the police to just get a warrant and ask a bank for your transaction history. Hiding from people that are specifically hunting you is always going to be hard, but hiding from people that are just mildly interested in finding you but will give up if it's too difficult is fairly easy.

ReturnOfFa posted...

I guess they forgot that most transactions are recorded, your cash withdrawal is recorded, your cash withdrawal is dependent on power and internet too...

There is the point that that's where the tracking and dependency on outside systems ends. Your cash withdrawal is recorded, but after that there's no record of what you buy with the cash, making it the most private option. There's also a number of people who refuse to use banks altogether and just store all of their money themselves as cash, but that's obviously an extreme case.

shadowsword87 posted...

Cashless societies are killing the tooth fairy!

That's such an odd list. Half of it isn't actually killed by going cashless (selling stuff, saving, tipping, markets), some of the lines are just outright meaningless (tooth fairy/piggy banks), and others aren't exactly high on most people's list of things they like to use cash for (homeless, buskers). The only one that's potentially a legitimate concern is the privacy one, which is buried at the bottom of a list of nonsense.

Jen0125 posted...

And it certainly doesn't warrant such an abusive response.

Indeed it does not, and I think you could probably justify terminating the lease based on that alone.

grimhilde00 posted...

this girlfriend has been there for a very long time, usually lease agreements have limits on how many nights guests can stay consecutively. And she brought a CAT. Which is very against lease terms. That's no longer a visitor, that's someone acting as a resident not on the lease.

Yep, it sounds like there are plenty of actual lease violations.

Jen0125 posted...

Other reasons included that he wanted us to be friends before he moves out, our friendship needs to be on "solid foundation" before he moves

Translation: He's hoping that you'll change your mind and take him back before he legally has to leave. I think you need to tell him in no uncertain terms that his behaviour is burning any bridge of friendship that might have existed and that there never was a chance of getting back together. It doesn't sound like he'll necessarily accept that (presumably you've made similar comments already and he hasn't taken those to heart), but it should at least help make it clear to him that eviction is on the table if he doesn't start complying with the lease. As Wolfy suggested, maybe also tell him that every conversation you have with him in the future will either be need to be in writing or will be recorded to be used as evidence against him, which may not be a legal requirement, but should at least make it clear that he's on very thin ice.

Surely you've had instances when renting where you left the property for whatever reason and a visitor stayed behind. It's not that unusual, nor is it really a problem at any intrinsic level. Having a live-in landlord doesn't (or at least shouldn't) change that.

Now, it sounds like said visitor is becoming a permanent fixture and the tenant is committing other violations, which is beyond what's reasonable and may justify evicting him. But don't let your desire to have your tenant gone extend to trying to prevent him from enjoying his time in his home (which, until the end of the lease, is what your house is). That's just petty. Specific violations of the lease are the only things you have any right to correct, no matter how frustrating the arrangement is.

LinkPizza posted...

And even though the flame clock thing in the eye is gone (is Ouroboros now), I have no idea what its original purpose was (gameplay wise)

If you let it get low enough, your whole party will suffer an Attack Down debuff until you can raise it back up. Letting it get that low pretty much requires you to have the whole party die a couple dozen times, though, so it's not something you're likely to encounter naturally. The mechanic pretty much just exists so the Flame Clock isn't relegated to being entirely a story gimmick, which is a nice touch for making the game feel more fleshed out and consistent, but ultimately has pretty much zero impact on the game.

LinkPizza posted...

I think Im about to unlock classes or something. And I like Ethel so far

If you've met Ethel, I believe you've already unlocked classes, though just those of the main party. More will follow shortly.

LinkPizza posted...

How did others like the game?

I absolutely loved it. It's perhaps a bit early to tell since I put it down relatively recently (after ~200 hours and just straight up running out of content, though I want more and I'm quite hyped for whatever the DLC brings), but I think it's managed to beat out #1 as my favourite in the series and one of my favourite games ever.

LinkPizza posted...

Also, did you guys play with one character more than the others. Or did you switch a lot. Ive been playing as Noah a lot. But I think I might start trying the other characters more

For the most part, I stuck to Noah and just cycled him through different classes as I maxed them out, occasionally popping over to Mio if the one she was working on interested me more. For late-game farming, I generally controlled Sena for more reliable Breaks (the Break-Topple-Daze-Burst combo is very useful for farming and Ogre has a skill that reduce Break resistance by a large margin, which makes those combos more reliable) and played as Mio as either Zephyr or Guardian Commander for the superbosses because controlling the tank for harder fights tends to be the best way to keep them under control, but you've got a long way to go before that becomes relevant.

LinkPizza posted...

Also, I dont want to turn off the tutorial since I dont want to miss anything But I do think its a bad system, tbh And slow, at times To much forces stuff going on with it

The tutorials ease up pretty quickly (unlike 2, you get most of the important mechanics pretty early), but if you're finding them too frequent or to be stating things that are annoyingly obvious, you do have the option to review them later in the System menu, so you can turn them off and just read them as needed on your own terms.

LinkPizza posted...

I also liked seeing a Gundham lookalike. I assume its not the one from 2. I was thinking that he looked like him. And then, when they said his name, I was like, same name and face But I guess its someone related on some way

Fun fact: Guernica's name is shared with one of Picasso's paintings. Specifically a very overtly anti-war piece, which is pretty fitting and a nice little touch (I very much doubt it's a coincidence, because Takahashi).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)

Jen0125 posted...

They aren't entitled to per the lease agreement lol but okay

Unless the lease agreement explicitly prohibits visitors (or outlines conditions under which they're allowed/disallowed), then they are entitled to have them, whether you like it or not. You are in no way entitled to privacy in a property you rent out unless you explicitly stipulate it somehow in the lease.

That said, him being so abusive could probably qualify as grounds for eviction, or at the very least threatening it.

GanglyKhan posted...

The media and politicians are really fooling people into believing there isn't a single GOP-voting pot smoker lmao

That's probably actually a significant part of the reasoning behind the pardon. The GOP now has two options:

• Condemn the pardon and vow to do whatever they can to reverse it if they take power in the midterms
• Don't take a stance on the pardon

If they choose the first, they're going to alienate GOP voters that have or do smoke pot and enjoyed a brief taste of not being criminalized for it, inevitably resulting in some of them jumping ship because they've finally realized how much voting Republican actually hurts them. If they choose the second, they're unlikely to push anyone to vote D, but they are going to piss off their voter base that sees this as a moral failure, quite possibly to the point of discouraging them from voting at all. Either way, it's an easy win for the Demcorats.

wpot posted...

Note that Alaska neighbors Russia, however...

But also that nuking Alaska would be little more than a petty, desperate attempt to lash out out of spite. That said, any use of nukes is going to be a petty, desperate attempt to lash out out of spite, so I can't rule it out.

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.

I cast Magic Missile.

That will presumably come in time, but full decriminalization and legalization is a slow process that's going to face a lot of opposition from people that don't like paying attention to real-world evidence that it's okay (to say nothing of the pretty intense lobbying against it from corporate forces that have an interest in keeping it illegal).

It's also very important not to confuse either with a freeway, for they are not free.

It's like a dangerousway but with fewer accidents.

It's like he's so afraid of getting trolled into being angry that he just defaults to being angry at anything that could possibly be trolling so the potential troll can't take credit.

BigOlePappy posted...

That said, it isn't a universities job to get you a career.

If they advertise career services as being part of what they offer to students (and it often is, along with advertising a given program as providing the necessary skills to work in the corresponding field), then it very much is part of the job that students are paying them to do.

It's a legitimate question; I genuinely don't know. If there aren't, then I'm mistaken and it's a moot point. If there are, then I expect this development won't prevent people from getting charged with intent to sell if they're carrying too much, and I'm concerned that there will still be room for racial disparity in enforcement unless it's clearly defined (though, realistically, there will still be disparity regardless).

Are there no federal charges for intent to sell?

ZangsBeard posted...

Federal offenses are based on jurisdiction not quantity... it doesnt magically become a federal offense simply for having more of something.

That said, I expect there'll be a certain amount above which people can be charged with intent to sell, which should probably be explicitly defined so black people don't end up with 20% of white people's threshold for that.

Judgmenl posted...

Like there is no "correct" answer. There are idiomatic ways of solving problems, and those could be considered correct.

Being a competent professional means knowing that what you're doing will work to solve the problem at hand. That's as much of a "correct" answer as you need. You should self-evaluate on a regular basis to see if there's anything you can improve, but at the end of the day, all that actually matters is giving the customer something they'll be happy with, so if you're managing that, you're doing fine.

*Shrug*

I've never actually played it, because I like mods too much to leave the Java version, but my understanding was that it was meant to address some of Java's limitations. It wouldn't surprise me if those efforts were less than successful.

BuT tHaT's SoCiAlIsT!!!!

Pretty much every game is somebody's GotY, and "Game of the Year" edition hasn't been tied to any actual awards for quite some time now. That bugs me less than "ultimate editions" that have less content than later or even contemporary versions. That's just not what "ultimate" means.

They've already gotten enough money from me.

This Mario looks an awful lot like Fix-It Felix.

Diamonds are indeed pretty hard.

Bedrock's also on PC, as a way of moving away from the limitations of the Java version so they could have a more stable product and monetize it more.

rjsilverthorn posted...

It looks like they did make some updates to deal with that:

"AirTag is designed to discourage unwanted tracking. If someone elses AirTag finds its way into your stuff, your iPhone will notice its traveling with you and send you an alert. After a while, if you still havent found it, the AirTag will start playing a sound to let you know its there."

That doesn't sound like it'll help people without iPhones, but otherwise it sounds more or less like what I suggested.

Ogurisama posted...

To the moon

How could I forget this one? Finding Paradise as well, though to a lesser extent. I should really pick up Imposter Factory.

Could it have a separate icon to indicate the Xbox version? Paired with a beta preview one, that would account for 5, at least.

I'm guessing one is Java and one is Bedrock from before the launchers were integrated, then one could be the integrated launcher, but that still only adds up to 3.

If I had a nickel for every time a character that previously dated a character played by Seth Green came out as a lesbian, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

ArvTheGreat posted...

Its hard calling out when Arvs the opener and theres no one qualified to take the spot its one of them situations where your damned if you do and your damned if you dont.

Correction: Your boss is damned if you don't. You being the only qualified person is an oversight on the staffing end.

Welcome back!

GanglyKhan posted...

Tell me you live in a shitty city without telling me you live in a shitty city.

Welcome to the modern housing crisis. It's slightly hyperbolic, but that's an accurate description of the housing situation in most major cities these days. This is why homelessness is such a growing problem and traffic is so bad,

Revelation34 posted...

They are displayed, not used.

The two are hardly mutually exclusive, as demonstrated by the event about which this topic is speaking. Sometimes, exhibiting artifacts can involve demonstrating their intended use, or sometimes even letting the public use them. Other times, that's not an option because the intended use is obsolete/dangerous or the artifact is too fragile.

slacker03150 posted...

I hope the main characters stay in a guardian/ward relationship instead of getting romantic.

*Shudders in Usagi Drop*

I can't think of any that have made me actually cry, but all three main Xenoblade games have had their moments that had me pretty close, with 3 being the clear winner (half the soundtrack triggers enough sad memories to threaten tears, even without the context).