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Topic | Trump expected to announce 3rd White House bid today |
rjsilverthorn 11/15/22 10:13:00 PM #31 | Metalsonic66 posted... Desantis would still be Trump's running mate if askedI don't know that he would. Trump has zero loyalty and doesn't share power so DeSantis would be giving up his Florida fiefdom to be the guy that stands behind Trump and gets thrown under the bus at the drop of a hat. |
Topic | Trump expected to announce 3rd White House bid today |
rjsilverthorn 11/15/22 8:53:11 PM #25 | SeahorseCpt89 posted... If Desantis runs, I hope Trump gets so butthurt and jealous that he would rather run third party and ruin him for a second Biden term than endorse him. It probably won't happen, but it would be amazing.If Trump somehow doesn't get the Republican nom I can certainly see him doing that and he would definitely take a chunk of his diehards with him. |
Topic | Civilization 7 announcement tomorrow |
rjsilverthorn 11/15/22 4:09:23 PM #15 | FatalAccident posted... Boo its just some lame leader packI eagerly await the Spiffing Brit video showing how broken they are. |
Topic | Missiles, likely Russian, have hit Poland. Is it a World War yet? |
rjsilverthorn 11/15/22 2:52:23 PM #6 | faramir77 posted... Russia will deny it and say it was Ukraine trying to provoke NATO to join, even though the truth is likely that it was some drunk or drugged out Russian soldier firing it aimlessly.This seems like the most likely outcome. |
Topic | Idk how to turn my phone off anymore... |
rjsilverthorn 11/15/22 2:14:47 PM #2 | You can remap the button: https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00084203/#:~:text=You%20can%20remap%20the%20Side,can%20select%20your%20desired%20settings You should also have a power icon if you open the notification bar all the way. (Swipe down twice) |
Topic | Trump expected to announce 3rd White House bid today |
rjsilverthorn 11/15/22 2:06:52 PM #11 | wpot posted... See Jan 6th. Working legally within the system is not their (or especially Trump's) tactic.It didn't keep him in office. He could announce he wants to run all he likes, there is a difference between that and convincing 50 states to illegally put him on the ballot. |
Topic | Trump expected to announce 3rd White House bid today |
rjsilverthorn 11/15/22 1:33:02 PM #7 | keyblader1985 posted... I wouldn't be surprised if he kept running for as long as he remains a free man. I wouldn't expect his ego to willingly walk away from the power he once had.Fortunately we can only be subject to one more term unless the Republicans manage to repeal the 22nd amendment, which they couldn't even manage during the Reagan years. |
Topic | If you were Elon Musk rich, would you buy GameFAQs? |
rjsilverthorn 11/13/22 9:42:47 PM #14 | hypnox posted... Oh god yes, too many no life losers have alts on this damn site and I don't have the free time to know who is who.I deal with that by just not caring. Does it really matter if a shit poster is unique or an alt? |
Topic | What if GameFAQs had a blue checkmark system? |
rjsilverthorn 11/12/22 11:01:36 PM #9 | VIP Levels
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Topic | Elon's handling of Twitter tells me that Twitter itself was a mistake. |
rjsilverthorn 11/12/22 9:53:22 PM #27 | ItsKaljinyuTime posted... That's not what Twitter should be for.That is not what *you* think it should be for, but that doesn't mean everyone else shares that opinion. |
Topic | What would make Pokemon games better? |
rjsilverthorn 11/12/22 8:51:52 PM #3 | Better for who? The majority of players enjoy the games as they are and much of what would make them 'better' to the players that do complain about it would make it worse for the casual players that form the bulk of the community. |
Topic | Elon's handling of Twitter tells me that Twitter itself was a mistake. |
rjsilverthorn 11/12/22 4:19:43 PM #9 | Dikitain posted... It is like how we should have had 100% online voting and counting of ballots 12 years ago so there is never any doubt over who won an electionI find this an ironic statement in a thread dedicated to people being dumb about the internet. Online voting is a terrible idea rife with opportunities for abuse, not even factoring in the threat of outright hacking. Besides, when does the reality of fraud play any role in people alleging fraud? |
Topic | Elon Musk suspends Elon Musk from twitter for insulting Elon Musk |
rjsilverthorn 11/11/22 5:01:14 PM #49 | Zareth posted... Spend 7 billion to solve world hunger, or spend 44 billion to get clowned on by the internetI agree there are better things he could have spent the money on, but 7 billion isn't solving world hunger. That is the UN estimate to feed the people facing famine for a single year, 50 million people out of an estimated 852 million that are 'hungry', which I'm sure has a technical definition in this context but I couldn't find it. |
Topic | Elon Musk suspends Elon Musk from twitter for insulting Elon Musk |
rjsilverthorn 11/11/22 12:21:24 PM #40 | papercup posted... Apparently he told employees yesterday he expects the company to go under next year. He's only been CEO for 2 weeks and already he's running the company into the ground. Impressive.Plot twist, Elon bought Twitter just to drive it into the ground and score a massive a tax write off. |
Topic | Cat owners, Whats your cat's favorite not-a-toy toy? |
rjsilverthorn 11/09/22 10:46:35 PM #6 | Almost every cat I've had loves twist ties. I have to be careful to keep smaller ones away from them so they don't accidentally eat them. |
Topic | Elon Musk suspends Elon Musk from twitter for insulting Elon Musk |
rjsilverthorn 11/08/22 11:26:34 AM #25 | Nichtcrawler-X posted... A large part of the power of parody is that it is obvious to most people, without needing to explicitly mention it.A point The Onion recently made in their amicus brief to the Supreme Court. |
Topic | I found one of my chickens sitting on a feral kitten in the chicken coop |
rjsilverthorn 11/08/22 10:19:15 AM #7 | DeltaBladeX posted... Did you name it Egg?Shelly. |
Topic | Apparently in the boardgame community, nothing is hated more than dice games. |
rjsilverthorn 11/07/22 8:47:45 PM #29 | shadowsword87 posted... Ugh, people want to do things like "roll lots of dice" and "have fun miniatures".Every interest has its hipsters. |
Topic | Any of you, if you won that huge powerball jackpot, would not take the lump sum? |
rjsilverthorn 11/07/22 5:02:13 PM #9 | I can see scenarios where I might take the annuity, but since I only play when it is over a billion I would always take the lump sum. At that point unless you are catastrophically bad with managing your money you should be set for life. The cash payout this time around is less than half of the annuity amount, but it is still going to end up close to a billion and that is way more than anyone could reasonably spend. |
Topic | Have you ever played Minecraft? |
rjsilverthorn 11/07/22 12:58:15 PM #15 | papercup posted... Yeah like when I returned to it, its nice that the crafting log is there, but it does have some issues. But there are entire essential mechanics like potion brewing and enchanting that the game does literally nothing to explain to the player how they work. Good luck figuring out potion brewing without a chart.Or opening a nether portal, crafting eyes of ender or figuring out what eyes of ender actually do once you craft them. The enchantment system is equally bad, since nothing tells you to set up bookcases around the table to increase the level of enchantments. There are a lot of things that experienced players just work around that would baffle a new player. Outside of the crafting log the game essentially has no way of providing information to players. |
Topic | Apparently in the boardgame community, nothing is hated more than dice games. |
rjsilverthorn 11/07/22 12:37:23 PM #17 | Nichtcrawler-X posted... The main problem with Monopoly is that actually most people do not play by the actual rules. They complain about it being needlessly longwinded, but most of that is caused by universal house rules that people think are part of the main game.This is true, but it doesn't mitigate all of the issues of the game being very subject to dice rolls, both your own and other players. That was also just one example, but any game where the players ability to take action starts from a dice roll would probably fall into this group. |
Topic | Apparently in the boardgame community, nothing is hated more than dice games. |
rjsilverthorn 11/07/22 11:55:51 AM #15 | Archgoat posted... According to the TC, roll and writes are not dice games. Not sure why that would be, I think any game that utilizes dice as a key game component would be a dice game. That to me sounds like only games like Yahtzee and Farkle would be dice games. There is a game I really enjoy playing called Tekhenu which is a dice drafting game, but you only roll dice every once in a while to place them before drafting. I assume this would not be considered a dice game by the TC either.I assume they are referring to classic board games like Monopoly as dice games, where you can theoretically get shut out of doing anything meaningful based solely on bad dice rolls. |
Topic | Have you ever played Minecraft? |
rjsilverthorn 11/07/22 11:46:58 AM #13 | Sahuagin posted... well it does now, but it shouldn't preclude the exploration and survival parts of the game.There are things to do, but the game actually does a pretty terrible job of explaining what they are or how to go about them. I have no idea how you are supposed to figure some of this stuff out if you just picked up the game and started playing it. |
Topic | Elon Musk suspends Elon Musk from twitter for insulting Elon Musk |
rjsilverthorn 11/06/22 9:56:12 PM #2 | I'm really glad Elon is there to champion free speech... https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589390597798125568?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet |
Topic | Did you attend any of your high school reunions? |
rjsilverthorn 11/04/22 8:04:39 PM #10 | I haven't gone to any of mine and we are coming up on 30 year next year. |
Topic | This is your face |
rjsilverthorn 11/04/22 12:07:58 PM #4 | I was honestly expecting "This is your face on drugs" when I saw the eggs in the pan. |
Topic | Scientists think an Alien Encounter is coming soon... |
rjsilverthorn 11/02/22 7:09:18 PM #2 | That isn't what that article says. |
Topic | Is Elon Musk a Bond villain? |
rjsilverthorn 11/02/22 5:00:29 PM #13 | Entity13 posted... He is much more like the type of villain who would buy into a company that makes robots for defense purposes, make certain demands, and become a trillionaire in time for those robots to go haywire and kill all life on the planet, not counting a couple bunkers, and whoops he needs to silence the bunker that intends to teach future generations about what went wrong.So he's Ted Faro? |
Topic | What was the first game you played and how old were you? |
rjsilverthorn 11/02/22 12:54:48 AM #7 | I honestly have no idea, it was a LONG time ago. I have memories of playing a lot of old games, but I don't have anything to place which one came first. We had Pong and an Atari 2600, but my dad also loved going to the arcade and I remember being small and pulling around the little foot stool thing to play games. |
Topic | Are you giving out Candy this year? |
rjsilverthorn 10/30/22 9:59:10 PM #13 | I'll have candy on hand but we haven't had kids the last few years. Since we've been in this house we've only had one year where we had a decent amount of kids come by. |
Topic | What do you think is gonna happen to these Russian journalists? |
rjsilverthorn 10/30/22 12:29:27 AM #2 | https://www.euronews.com/2022/09/22/accidental-defenestration-and-murder-suicides-too-common-among-russian-oligarchs-and-putin |
Topic | Jerry Lee Lewis Passes... |
rjsilverthorn 10/28/22 2:30:22 PM #4 | Jen0125 posted... yeah he was a pedo who married a 13 year old.And later married the ex-wife of her brother. |
Topic | I kinda want an air fryer, but not sure. |
rjsilverthorn 10/26/22 9:20:15 PM #2 | There was an air fryer thread a couple months ago so there should be some people on here that can contribute. |
Topic | The Biden administration has gone too far! |
rjsilverthorn 10/26/22 2:43:55 PM #8 | I haven't eaten at a McDonalds in probably 30+ years. |
Topic | So, there's an Elf farming game on steam... |
rjsilverthorn 10/26/22 12:39:04 AM #2 | I mean, its Steam, I'd be surprised if there was only one. |
Topic | Name 3 States you would NEVER move to |
rjsilverthorn 10/21/22 3:25:33 PM #8 | Florida, Texas, Idaho...do I have to stop at three? |
Topic | I don't want to hear any of you complain about Star Wars being bad ever again |
rjsilverthorn 10/20/22 1:58:40 PM #20 | CyborgSage00x0 posted... To be fair, Grand Admiral Thrawn is mentioned directly by name in The Mandalorian, basically indicating that Disney is quietly walking back that idea. Which makes sense, seeing as there's definitely "non-canon" stuff in SW that isn't total shit.Thrawn is actually in Star Wars Rebels, which is post Disney. |
Topic | Truss resigns |
rjsilverthorn 10/20/22 12:34:07 PM #16 | Nichtcrawler-X posted... The Prime Ministers are from the Party that allowed the Referendum, but were against Brexit themselves right?Cameron and May voted to remain while Johnson was for it. No clue about Truss. |
Topic | I don't want to hear any of you complain about Star Wars being bad ever again |
rjsilverthorn 10/19/22 11:01:28 PM #15 | JigsawTDCII posted... Yeah, Im enjoying Andor quite a bit. Easily the best Star Wars content Ive seen in a while, and Ive watched all the live action stuff to date. People seem to think that a franchise cant fluctuate in quality and once theres a string of bad or subpar content its always going to be bad, so sucks for them to miss out on a great show.It isn't that I don't think content can get better, I just don't care if it does anymore. Its not like I was some super fan that decided to boycott it out of some sense of betrayal, it was just a thing I lost interest in. |
Topic | I don't want to hear any of you complain about Star Wars being bad ever again |
rjsilverthorn 10/19/22 10:30:13 PM #10 | ParanoidObsessive posted... ]This is honestly one of my peeves about Star Wars in general. They keep slicing the same chunk of time up to tell stories and we all know where it ends. MOVE ON! |
Topic | I don't want to hear any of you complain about Star Wars being bad ever again |
rjsilverthorn 10/19/22 10:27:56 PM #9 | Nade_Duck posted... at this point i've lost so much interest in the franchise that i can't even bring myself to care about anything that might actually be good.Pretty much this. My wife is a pretty big Star Wars nerd and it drives her nuts that I'm just so apathetic to it now. I think Phantom Menace was the last Star Wars thing I saw, and I don't mean saw in the theater, I mean at all. |
Topic | Alex Jones (Info Wars) on the Hook for nearly one Billion Dollars... |
rjsilverthorn 10/17/22 2:28:17 PM #80 | I didn't realize the $965 million was just the compensatory damages, there is still the possibility of punitive damages on top of that. |
Topic | Alex Jones (Info Wars) on the Hook for nearly one Billion Dollars... |
rjsilverthorn 10/15/22 7:42:08 PM #63 | agesboy posted... whatever he does is gonna be hackneyed and fake as shitYou can't even really claim a mental illness in a civil trial, at least not in the traditional sense. Although I guess the flip side of that is you don't have the same limitations as you would in a criminal trial of not understanding the consequences of your actions. Essentially it would be rolling to dice on who the jury would feel more sympathy for, which is a high bar when the other side is a bunch of parents that had their kids murdered. |
Topic | How is Jim Bean even a thing? |
rjsilverthorn 10/15/22 3:14:11 PM #4 | captpackrat posted... TIL Jimmy Dean (the sausage company) was founded by Jimmy Dean (the country music singer). I always thought the similarity in names was just coincidence.Yeah, he actually used to do the ads and even after he died they continued to use his voiceovers. |
Topic | Kid expelled from school for not sending bath pics to teacher... |
rjsilverthorn 10/15/22 3:11:37 PM #15 | BlackScythe0 posted... The majority of the reviews are bad.Indeed. Not only perverts, but also racists apparently. |
Topic | Kid expelled from school for not sending bath pics to teacher... |
rjsilverthorn 10/15/22 12:15:47 PM #13 | https://www.greatschools.org/florida/lakeland/5547-Victory-Christian-Academy/#osp-school-info |
Topic | Kid expelled from school for not sending bath pics to teacher... |
rjsilverthorn 10/15/22 11:23:43 AM #10 | Lynyrd_Skynyrd posted... Well that explains thatThat and the fact that it was Florida. |
Topic | Do you live near a "haunted/erie/spooky" house or apartment or park? |
rjsilverthorn 10/14/22 8:42:07 PM #3 | There is a largely closed psychiatric hospital not far from here. Originally built in the late 1800's and it looks like it should be the setting for a horror movie. |
Topic | What would you do if Chris Hansen showed up in your house |
rjsilverthorn 10/14/22 10:34:28 AM #2 | I would wonder who the fuck is Chris Hansen. |
Topic | lol judge orders Elon buy twitter |
rjsilverthorn 10/13/22 4:11:42 PM #36 | hera posted... did he?"Musk assembled $46.5 billion to fund his Twitter takeover, with his own assets backing two-thirds of that amount. Musks portion includes a giant $12.5 billion margin loan secured by his equity stake in Tesla Inc. (TSLA). The remainder comes from bank financing secured by Twitters own assets, a classic leveraged buyout arrangement." |
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