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| Topic | Jonah Hill tells Sarah Brady (surfer girlfriend) to cover up |
| TheShadowViper 07/08/23 4:24:45 PM #43 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote] This. I don't know what people in this thread are whining about. You can disagree with his boundaries but he is entitled to them and she is entitled to nope the fuck out of there. |
| Topic | Biden no on expanding the courts |
| TheShadowViper 07/05/23 9:07:32 PM #60 | Expanding the courts is the way to go period. It puts the judicial more in line with the average citizen. These clowns are out of touch AND corrupt, and the only way to make change on a reasonable time scale is to stack the court. "Oh but Republicans will just do that to!" AND?!? At least they would actually be accountable to a vote and Republicans already control the court for likely decades to come. Any progressive "oh I want this" without expanding the courts is fanciful jibberish. It is the only way short of waiting decades. |
| Topic | Why can't the simpsons seem to make good episodes anymore? |
| TheShadowViper 07/05/23 9:02:29 PM #4 | There isn't any evolution of the characters or setting and thus the possible scenarios they can be involved in are limited. Moreover, it is mostly grounded in reality and thus there isn't as much room to just pull shit out of nowhere (like South Park can). South Park had a similar problem that they got around by simply having the kids involved less and plots come to them. But if the Simpsons took that approach they wouldn't be the Simpsons anymore. The answer is that every show can go too long for the narrow scope of their setting and/or characters, and The Simpsons passed that point a long time ago. |
| Topic | Baldur's Gate 3 has 174 hours of cinematics... |
| TheShadowViper 06/30/23 5:18:53 AM #38 | That is what happens when you have to account for a lot of different scenarios as others have noted. Still an impressive number. As someone who played EA, if Larian can pull off the mid game and landing, we are looking at an all time great here. |
| Topic | Why hasn't Bethesda remastered Fallout 3 or Morrowind? |
| TheShadowViper 06/29/23 12:14:31 PM #17 | Too busy remastering Skyrim to work on fridges. Kidding aside, they really don't need more projects given how long their releases are taking already. Skyrim released in November of 2011. Like it might be 15+ years after Skyrim before we get another Elder Scrolls game. Fuck remasters they need to focus on sequels. |
| Topic | Why are people not doing anything about health care? |
| TheShadowViper 06/29/23 11:20:50 AM #12 | People are ridiculously depressed about the state of the country and distracted by pointless shit. It all ends up in a cycle where things get worse and worse and people just accept less and less. There might be a breaking point, there might not be. But one things for sure, it is likely to get worse and there is currently nothing that looks like it is going to lead to things being better... |
| Topic | Skullgirls devs alter old artwork they felt was in 'poor taste' |
| TheShadowViper 06/29/23 7:09:43 AM #173 | gmanthebest posted... Are people still not understanding that it's controversial to change something people paid money for? They keep mentioning other media getting reprints, but reprints don't change what was already bought.Some people just love to act like people are overreacting to everything. It is one thing to make efforts to change an art style's risque elements (that many gravitated to the series for in the first place) it is another to remove shit like announcer packs or alter already released artbooks. They are doing both. I see this as pretty fucking lame and an awful precedent. |
| Topic | The cowardly school guard mass shooting trial had closing arguments today |
| TheShadowViper 06/28/23 9:15:25 PM #340 | Shadow_Don posted... Yea that's cool. I quoted you as saying something was criminally negligent. Which it is not by the SCOTUS ruling. Again, he may be convicted of this charge but it will absolutely be thrown out on appeal. It is completely missing the legal mark here because he does not qualify as a caregiver nor do police have a duty to risk their lives for citizens, and that includes children. Moreover, you are over simplifying the problems here. There are many scenarios where such laws if they did exist would actually be a detriment. For instance, what if an officer fearing that he will face liability if he does not go in, enters a situation prematurely and is killed or - perhaps even worse - kills those he was trying to protect? This is why protection exists for police officers and soldiers. It is easy to second guess split decision making in a once in a life-time decision making scenarios, but society does not necessarily benefit by putting more pressure on these people. Man was fired, he is being shamed, why exactly do you believe it just to go further than that? |
| Topic | The cowardly school guard mass shooting trial had closing arguments today |
| TheShadowViper 06/28/23 9:01:04 PM #333 | ChainsawFerret posted... And the Supreme Court was dead wrong then. Just like they have been many times in history.Let me add these cases as well since that alone is not sufficient. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeShaney_v._Winnebago_County And whether or not you feel the Supreme Court is wrong is irrelevant to whether something is illegal or not. If they say it isn't, then it isn't. They are the final vote. You can argue about what should be all day, but if you want to call something illegal, and the Supreme Court says otherwise, then you are just blowing smoke. |
| Topic | The cowardly school guard mass shooting trial had closing arguments today |
| TheShadowViper 06/28/23 8:54:10 PM #329 | Shadow_Don posted... Holding police accountable for their failure and criminal negligence seems like a pretty good way to get them to take their training and their responsibilities seriously.Except, by US Law, police are not required to risk their lives to protect anyone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_Castle_Rock_v._Gonzales So your claims of criminal negligence are incorrect. Again this man should be fired, he should be shamed, but under US Law he did not commit a crime here. |
| Topic | Jordan Peterson is trying act like an internet tough guy again |
| TheShadowViper 06/28/23 8:47:48 PM #48 | nexigrams posted... I'm not a violent person by any means, but Jordan Peterson sure makes me see the appeal. I think I would actually be in the process of punching him in the face before my brain even registered what was happening if he said that to me.That sounds like something a violent person would say and do. Jordan Peterson isn't worth the energy required to ball your hand into a fist, let alone let loose on him. |
| Topic | The cowardly school guard mass shooting trial had closing arguments today |
| TheShadowViper 06/27/23 1:20:15 AM #8 | To be clear he is being tried for child neglect not an accessory to murder or anything like that. I think even if there is a conviction this is being overturned on appeal. A cop is not a "caregiver" for children at school. Moreover, US law dictates that cops do not have to risk their lives for others. This guy should be fired. He should be shamed. But a crime? Not in the way US law is currently written. |
| Topic | My engineering IQ is pitiful, but was the Titan disaster really that obvious? |
| TheShadowViper 06/26/23 12:28:37 PM #44 | Honestly if you told me the CEO of OceanGate was suicidal and was just taking unnecessary risk after unnecessary risk to eventually off himself I'd probably believe it. The reality is that he was probably an extremely arrogant and delusional person that made a series of decisions that cost his own, and more damning, others lives. He basically did the equivalent of not buying bullet proof glass while driving through a war zone. It wasn't a question of if someone would be killed, it was when. |
| Topic | My hairline is starting to thin out. |
| TheShadowViper 06/25/23 6:05:02 AM #21 | finasterideNever had anyone tell me they took this without also being depressed and/or having sexual problems. Many of which never went away after discontinuing. Get real and start to picture a world where you are bald and shave that shit. Much better than risking permanent sexual dysfunction. |
| Topic | Society collectively laughing at those submariners' deaths |
| TheShadowViper 06/23/23 6:15:56 AM #476 | I feel very sorry for the 19 year old who just went because of his dad. I feel sympathy for would-be explorers and professionals just trying to make a living or spend their money doing something beyond hoarding. I do not feel sympathy for a CEO and his company who ignored warnings on safety and cost people their lives. |
| Topic | After all this kerfuffle, would you ever ride a sub? |
| TheShadowViper 06/22/23 1:14:51 AM #30 | Sure, if there was something worth seeing. Like an underwater city. Certainly not to see a shipwreck. |
| Topic | Why did all the storylines in 343's Halo go away every next game? |
| TheShadowViper 06/20/23 1:32:09 AM #7 | Compsognathus posted... 343 is a bad developer. |
| Topic | When did we actually lost the battle on microtransactions? |
| TheShadowViper 06/12/23 12:13:10 PM #55 | The mistake is believing that the fight isn't ongoing every day. It isn't a fight that ends either. There are plenty of games that don't shit on you with microtransactions, and those by and large are the only ones I play nowadays. |
| Topic | What color is the sine function? |
| TheShadowViper 06/09/23 10:59:30 AM #12 | SOHCAHTOA dictates that the sine function is ORANGE. Why do you ask? Because I have decided that opposite is red, adjacent is blue, and the hypotenuse is yellow. Tangent is red over blue and thus PURPLE. Sine is red over yellow and thus ORANGE. Cosine is blue over yellow and thus GREEN. |
| Topic | Do any of you believe that a large pit bull could defeat a male african lion? |
| TheShadowViper 06/08/23 12:09:33 PM #19 | CedarPointcp posted... oh really? you think that most, would still try to attack the much larger lion?You understand why there is a bull in Pitbull right? They were bred to pick fights with bulls. Bulls can weigh 2000 lbs to a Lion's 420 lbs. Pitbulls are way too mixed to make any definitive statement on what they could or would do, but their ancestors were literally bred to pick fights with animals many times their size. They could and would pick a fight with a lion and they would die fighting it. The Lion would likely take injuries far beyond what it would deem acceptable in the fight as well and might even die from those injuries. |
| Topic | you can learn one Dragon Ball power |
| TheShadowViper 06/07/23 12:56:53 PM #12 | Flight, I could see a lot of things going wrong with Instant Transmission without the energy detection ability they have. |
| Topic | turns out bernie sanders votes against the debt ceiling deal |
| TheShadowViper 06/02/23 8:43:19 PM #26 | Centrists carve out the safety net in order to cater to Republicans to save their own fortunes...pretty much the last several decades in a nutshell. And it ain't likely to change with current leadership. |
| Topic | What's the "But can it run Crysis?" of this PC era? |
| TheShadowViper 06/02/23 8:39:57 PM #20 | It's Cyberpunk with ray tracing because there are very few things that can match a cyberpunk city with ray tracing in terms of ridiculous shit needed to make it happen. ForsakenHermit posted... PC Aryans wish they had a Crysis for this era. Their superiority complex flounders without one.Eh Crysis was just as poorly optimized as it was ambitious. I'd say Cyberpunk is actually closer to "the legend" of Crysis as a benchmark of its time, and it too had plenty of problems to go with that graphical ambition. |
| Topic | Realpolitick nuked. (continued) |
| TheShadowViper 06/02/23 8:04:22 PM #256 | They close down the politics board and they are shocked other politics boards got more people? Are these guys dense or what? You are never going to be able to stop talk on politics and you can't even begin to claim to have "community boards" without some sort of political discussion. All this entire episode did was remove a lightning rod for political discussion that kept it all relatively focused and diffused it elsewhere to make other boards worse. *Slow clap* |
| Topic | Is Hollywood full of nepo babies now? |
| TheShadowViper 05/25/23 11:51:30 AM #18 | Kombucha posted... lmaoOf course you could look at that the other way and say it favors them as well. I didn't consider the "clout" angle. More the "serious actor" angle. And by "harder" I was referring to harder than in the past before the pervasion of social media - not harder than non-nepo babies. Which is why you shouldn't quote half a post, you lose context. |
| Topic | Is Hollywood full of nepo babies now? |
| TheShadowViper 05/25/23 11:46:45 AM #15 | creativerealms posted... Yeah its not a new development.This. The only reason it seems like it is more prevalent now is because of the amount of coverage individuals get because of the rise of social media. In fact, if anything it is harder for many nepo babies because they get such pervasive coverage from the get-go. |
| Topic | Mortal Kombat 1 trailer |
| TheShadowViper 05/18/23 10:16:00 AM #40 | greenjeans posted... Forgive me, I haven't played a MK since the originalI mean for perspective they had a mode that was basically a story RPG / fighting trainer hybrid in Mortal Kombat Deception called Konquest which had a plot centering around how the primary antagonist became the primary antagonist. It was released in 2004. But every game had a story in one way or another. There are also plenty of retcons and timeline shenanigans to the point where the story was muddled at best for the vast majority of the series. Though I think they did a decent enough job setting up for this with the Aftermath expansion for MK12. |
| Topic | Mortal Kombat 1 trailer |
| TheShadowViper 05/18/23 9:56:43 AM #29 | Slayer_22 posted... Hopefully they removed Shawn Kittelsen from the writing team. Absolute trash writer imho. Doesn't know the first thing about MK. The story has been trash since MKX.Meh I thought the add-on story with Shang Tsung was quite good. Time Shinnok wasn't a very good antagonist though I'll grant you that. |
| Topic | Mortal Kombat 1 trailer |
| TheShadowViper 05/18/23 9:24:32 AM #19 | Key to these games will always be coming in late...but not too late to where the game is irrelevant. Got MK11 complete and was one of the best value game purchases I've ever made. Unfortunately they have a habit of overpricing shit when it is first released... |
| Topic | Mortal Kombat 1 trailer |
| TheShadowViper 05/18/23 9:20:07 AM #14 | Don't really understand the point of not just calling it 12, but whatever. Loved 11 so I'm looking forward to the next one! |
| Topic | "There are no plans to shut down CE" |
| TheShadowViper 05/18/23 5:15:18 AM #134 | I find it extremely hard to believe that CE wouldn't meet the same fate as 261 if exposed to the same supposed criteria they used to axe the latter. Then again in my many years on this site I have seen some absolutely laughable decisions by moderators and staff so it is entirely possible CE could absorb all the political topics from 261 and still not get axed for "reasons". |
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