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| Topic | Personal debt |
| darkknight109 09/03/23 5:58:02 PM #6 | Mortgage is the only debt I have right now.
Aside from credit card debt, but that's not really "debt" given that I pay it every month and don't leave a balance outstanding. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | PlayStation + going up to $80 for the basic tier next month |
| darkknight109 08/31/23 11:52:28 PM #34 | I haven't played consoles online since Nintendo got rid of free online play (not that I played a tonne online before that, but I at least liked the opportunity).
I feel like with all the DLC/microtransaction bullshit that gets tacked on to a game's price these days, the least they could do is offer free multiplayer. Back in my day, the only games that charged you to be online were MMORPGs and those at least had the excuse that they were constantly being updated with new content. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | What do you think gassed means when used in the context of someone being gassed? |
| darkknight109 08/31/23 7:19:21 PM #26 | MeatiestMeatus posted...
Tired; exhausted --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | US Government |
| darkknight109 08/29/23 5:31:30 PM #51 | CyborgSage00x0 posted...
The thing that trips up most people also is they restrict themselves to think life as we know how it survives on Earth. Aka, Oxygen consuming, CO2 emitting (or visa versa), need water, etc. But there's no reason to think why life must obey these rules, elsewhere. In fact, we KNOW this is bunk - there's bacteria living in a phosphorus lake that consumes that and arsenic, instead of any O2 or CO2. We have organisms on Earth, now, that break the mold on how life "should" work and survive, meaning it's silly to think Earth's limitations would follow suit everywhere else.OK... but how does this affect anything I've said? We're not talking about microbial life in this topic - that extraterrestrial microbial life exists is almost a certainty at this point - we're talking about intelligent life. And whether that life evolved based on carbon compounds or silicon ones, consuming oxygen, hydrogen, or some other gas, if it meets our classical definition of "life" and "sentience", the specifics of their biology really don't matter. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Two clients today asked if I was military, one commented on my junk, repeatedly |
| darkknight109 08/28/23 3:01:55 PM #6 | I take it you don't know military guys' opinion on other military guys.
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| Topic | US Government |
| darkknight109 08/27/23 1:50:07 PM #31 | Revelation34 posted...
Such as?To me, the most likely implication is that intelligence/sentience is an evolutionarily-recessive trait. Any species that evolves intelligence sufficient to explore the stars similarly evolves technology sufficient to destroy themselves. We've certainly done a good job of that here on Earth, both directly with things like nuclear weapons, and indirectly via climate change. Perhaps the simple truth is that any intelligent species is destined to destroy itself long before it reaches the state where it could contact anyone else. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | What happens if they build a school near a sex offender's house? |
| darkknight109 08/27/23 4:25:43 AM #18 | BlackScythe0 posted...
I don't think there is a way to rehabilitate them.If that's the case - and, for the record, I don't think that's true in many cases - then why are they out of prison? The entire point of prison is to be the place we put people who have caused harm until they are no longer a danger to society. If they are still a danger when they get out, we have failed at our job to rehabilitate them and/or they need to be kept in there longer; if they aren't a danger, then why are we still treating them like they are? This is one of the reasons I don't like sex offender registries. They don't work (I have seen zero evidence that such registries keep people safe or prevent recidivism; in fact, by most metrics, the opposite appears to be true); they prevent people from reintegrating into society and, therefore, maximize their chances that they will once again turn to crime; they are applied way too liberally (you can wind up on one for something as innocuous as public urination) and there is almost no way off of them once you're on them; and they're basically a continual punishment on someone after their sentence is supposed to be served. If someone's debt to society is paid after a prison sentence, then that should be the end of their punishment and they should be equipped with the tools/support to maximize their chances at a successful reintegration into society; if we think someone's debt is not paid and/or they're still a danger, they need to stay locked up. These half-measures serve no one - they don't make society safer and they don't help felons become productive members of their communities. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | US Government |
| darkknight109 08/26/23 7:40:13 PM #28 | Revelation34 posted...
The galaxy maybe. The universe? Fuck no.Even if we're restricting our scope to just the galaxy, there are somewhere between 350 billion and 500 billion star systems in the Milky Way galaxy alone. The idea that none of them are capable of sustaining life beggars belief. Even if you think Earth is a one-in-a-billion type of planet (and, notably, we've already found other Earth-like planets in other solar systems), that would still give us hundreds of planets capable of sustaining life in the galaxy. And yet, there's no sign of them. The question - with some potentially disturbing implications - is why not. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | US Government |
| darkknight109 08/26/23 6:54:50 AM #24 | agesboy posted...
aliens probably exist but it's a cosmic improbability that we'd ever meet so the idea is inherently just a thought exerciseThing is, if aliens *do* exist, we might not meet them but we *should* have seen some sign of them at this point. Consider this - what is the precursor to colonizing space? Exploring space. And what's the precursor to exploring space? Surveying space. Assuming sentient aliens reason in a manner similar to us, they would likely want to conduct an automated galactic survey once they had the technology available to do so. This would consist of building autonomous, drone-crewed vessels that would travel to new solar systems, conduct orbital surveys of any planets to determine if any of them either had life or had conditions suitable for life, then construct an outpost on one in order to build a facility that would construct and launch several new survey ships to repeat the process. It sounds futuristic, but by most estimates we're within ~100 years of having the technology suitable to conduct such a survey ourselves - it would take tens of thousands of years to complete such a survey on a galactic level, never mind trying to explore other galaxies, but once started the survey would need very little additional input/oversight from us and within a few millennia, we'd have an intergalactic survey and communication web set up. That sort of a timescale is the blink of an eye in the cosmic scale - if dinosaurs had developed sentience and intellectually progressed at the same rate we did, they could have had that sort of a system up and running less than 1% of the way through their time on this planet. So, realistically, we should have seen *something* in our solar system from extraterrestrial sentient aliens, if they indeed exist in our galaxy - probably not them in person, but maybe a waystation or automated communications satellite of some sort. That we have seen nothing lends credence to the idea that we truly are alone. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Poll of the Day tester time. How many times have you voted in the poll? |
| darkknight109 08/26/23 6:05:17 AM #30 | 1582, but that's a definite undercount - I voted pretty close to daily in the PotD from ~2003-2009.
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| Topic | Wagner chief listed as a passenger on a plane that crashed |
| darkknight109 08/25/23 12:44:08 PM #25 | GastroFan posted...
More than likely the Wagner chief died right after he turned on Putin. It just took this long for Putin and his allies to come up with something that wasn't a 'he fell out of a third story window' tale since nobody believes that story anymore is all.The Russians know no one believes those stories - that's the entire point. They *want* people to know that crossing Putin means you will die quickly and violently. They *want* you to know they were involved. The fact they bother with lying about it is intended to be a bit of a slap in the face - it's their way of saying, "Yeah, this is a transparent lie, but we don't respect you enough to come up with something more believable, so deal with it." --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | US Government |
| darkknight109 08/25/23 12:28:36 PM #10 | I'd say it depends on which part of the government and what they're talking about.
There are some subjects I would consider the government to be a credible source of information on and others where I consider the government's word to be completely untrustworthy. It all depends on what's being talked about. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | New Atari 2600+ System Coming... |
| darkknight109 08/25/23 2:30:55 AM #13 | trivialbeing posted...
video games didn't really become good until about the mid 90';sThere are some fun games from the 80s. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Is Trump going to be held in Fulton County jail? |
| darkknight109 08/24/23 8:59:30 AM #6 | Trump isn't ever going to wind up in jail - it would be a logistical nightmare to try and work that out.
Hell, that's one of the considerations that is being talked through right now - if Trump is convicted, how the hell does prison work? The Secret Service still needs to be able to protect him, which is almost impossible in a conventional prison. He could be sentenced to house arrest, but that hardly seems like a punishment commensurate with the crimes he's committed. Turns out the justice system never thought it would have to figure out how to accommodate a felonious ex-president. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Wagner chief listed as a passenger on a plane that crashed |
| darkknight109 08/24/23 8:55:01 AM #20 | rjsilverthorn posted...
That is the most confusing part of this, I don't understand why he backed out.It seems likely that he was expecting at least some of the Russian military to rally to his side; when none of them did, he didn't have the strength to force the issue and had to back down. I found the whole putsch interesting - in particular, the Russian military's actions during it. They didn't join Prigozhin, but neither did they really make any attempt to stop him. The logistics centre at Rostov-on-Don was handed over without a fight, and none of the Russian military units in the area attacked or even attempted to intercept or harass Wagner, aside from one brief skirmish where the Wagnerites shot down a helicopter. Wagner's forces were allowed to approach Moscow unmolested, which suggests to me that there is little loyalty to Putin within their ranks; however, as mentioned, none of those military units pledged themselves to Prigozhin, meaning they didn't seem to trust him either. The military powers seemed content to just sit back and let the two of them fight it out until they could see who was the stronger. That led to the awkward situation where Prigozhin couldn't complete his coup because he didn't have sufficient support, but Putin couldn't really punish him because he *also* didn't have sufficient support. So both of them had to do this awkward step-down while trying to save as much face as they could, then pretend the whole thing never happened. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Looking for an old creepypasta |
| darkknight109 08/23/23 3:46:39 PM #1 | I read a creepypasta years ago that I've been trying to track down recently, but with no luck.
It was written from the perspective of a guy who worked at a small tech startup selling pop-up ads and trying to come up with a way to get more people to click on the ads. They decided through market research that making their ads controversial would make them stand out more, so they bought some metadata off of reddit and used it to seed an algorithm, which they then used to generate controversial prompts. When they try their new tool on an internal company subreddit, it winds up causing a fight that results in half the team quitting/getting fired, and the remaining half realizes the potency of what they've just created. They then try to pitch it to the military as a psy-op tool, who aren't particularly interested but ask the company to prove that it works by using it on a national subreddit for some small African country. The tech start-up then falls apart due to a lawsuit filed by the former employees and the narrator moves on with his life, until he rediscovers the program on an old hard drive years later and runs it again just for kicks. He then discovers that, when he uses the metadata for a political subreddit, it pops up with a bunch of items that have already happened and he realizes someone powerful has a copy of his algorithm and is using it for some unknown ends, with the worst yet to come. I recall it being a fun read - short, but kind of gripping, and I'd love to read it again but I didn't bookmark it the first time I saw it and I've lost track of it since. Any of this sound familiar to anyone? --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Wagner chief listed as a passenger on a plane that crashed |
| darkknight109 08/23/23 3:38:22 PM #6 | It says something about Russia that I could believe just about any narrative coming out of this crash.
Legitimate accident due to shitty Russian maintenance procedures and lack of proper parts? Sure. Putin offing him in a public way while giving himself just enough plausible deniability to not immediately be pinned with it? Wouldn't be the first time. Ukrainian special forces attack? Seems reasonable. I'll be interested to hear what the Russian investigation "discovers", because that will be a highly reliable indicator of what didn't happen. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Memes 29 sexy Deathclaws!? |
| darkknight109 08/21/23 5:51:39 AM #174 | Darth_CiD posted...
They said super power, not magic spell. Superman don't be screaming heat vision or ice breath every time.I mean, the original picture doesn't say it's a superpower, just an ability the pill grants you. I guess it depends if you consider "on command" to be synonymous with "at will". I could see it both ways, honestly. If it was truly "at will", that one definitely wins hands down. Think about how many political careers you could ruin by just having some bigshot shit themselves any time they're in a public place or at an important meeting of heads of state. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Memes 29 sexy Deathclaws!? |
| darkknight109 08/17/23 6:00:29 PM #132 | adjl posted...
I do really like being able to retrieve arrows in TotK, at least when they aren't inside somebody. It's a nice little bit of immersion.The problem for me is that most games - most fictional media in general - are awful at realistically depicting bows. One of the biggest offences is one you're tangentially referencing in your post: if you shoot someone with a bow suitable for combat (i.e. a war bow or high draw-weight hunting bow), unless you're shooting at range that arrow is going to go right through them. The whole trope of someone shooting someone else with a bow at close range and having the arrow dramatically stick out of their chest is pure fiction, yet almost no depictions of bows get that detail right (I think I've seen precisely one time where someone was shot with a bow and didn't wind up with the arrow sticking out of them). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | On average, every former American president has been indicted 2 times |
| darkknight109 08/16/23 4:07:07 PM #18 | Dark-Summoner posted...
Honestly, it might be bc of my age and when I became politically aware...but it really seemed to start with Obama...a certain subset couldn't STAND that a (relatively) young Black man was President.It started well before Obama. At least as far back as Clinton - honestly, maybe as far back as Nixon, depending on how you want to define the start of the trend. As I see it: -Nixon and the "Southern Strategy" helped push Republicans to the right and tacitly acknowledged and condoned, if not promoted, the quiet (and sometimes not-so-quiet) racism that has pervaded the party ever since. -Ronald Reagan was the first Republican president to push "hardline conservatism" and really appeal to the religious right. His reign marked the full conservative takeover of the Republican party and sowed the seeds for a lot of what happened after, and social conservatism saw a huge jump in the 80s as a result. Reagan liked to promote "sunny conservatism", but a lot of who came after him were much more hardnosed and pessimistic. -The 1990s was the tipping point where all of the other decisions of the past started to actually show up at the presidential level. We saw the rise of Newt Gingrich, the original obstructionist congressional leader, as the Republican Speaker of the House, and he was seemingly on a personal mission to undercut Clinton as much as he could. He is generally seen to have overplayed his hand with Kenneth Starr and the impeachment efforts (while Clinton did lie to congress and that is a crime, most at the time felt it was about an embarrassing personal matter that had nothing to do with his fitness for governance and, thus, did not rise to the level of impeachable conduct; it would be interesting to see if that viewpoint would still hold up in the modern, post "Me Too" era), but really did work puncturing that aura of "untouchability" previous presidents had largely enjoyed. In a not unrelated matter, the late 90s also saw the creation of Fox News (and, therefore, the rise of a prominent conservative voice in national media) and the birth of the 24 hour news cycle with the rise of the internet. The need to generate constant content created a rise in partisanship and opinion hosts that caught on like wildfire, particularly on the right. -George W. Bush's election in 2001 was anomalous for several reasons that the country probably could have done without. He was the first president since the 1800s who did not win a plurality of the popular vote, and his election came down to a single state which was governed by his brother at the time, with a contentious recount ultimately being settled by a conservative-aligned Supreme Court in Bush's favour. Whether you think the results were correct or not, it's not hard to see that the optics were awful and were pretty much guaranteed to fuel a spike in partisanship from the left, which they did. Bush was easily the president most reviled by citizens on the other side of the political spectrum since at least Nixon. He enjoyed a rally in the polls after 9/11, but by the end of his second term, a pair of disastrous wars in the Middle East and the worst economic crash since the Great Depression left him a pariah, hated by vast swathes of the country and even disliked by most Republicans. His approval rating at the end of his term was in 20s, an absolutely abysmal showing, and this really shattered whatever was left of that view of the president as a national leader and the great uniter. Obama, as you observed, evoked much of the same feelings of revulsion from the right as Bush did from the left (and not a small amount of it was racially tinged), and dealt with the most obstructionist congress that a president of either party has faced in living memory. Trump then came along and, rather than even pretending to be a uniter, simply amplified the divisions of the country and took advantage of the chaos. It's been a long road to get to the current ugly state of US politics and it has its roots in a lot of different social trends. It's not a new development, that's for sure. ParanoidObsessive posted... We've reached a point where almost no one has respect for the office anymore (#NotMyPresident), so now we're far more likely to see both impeachments and indictments in situations where we wouldn't have in the past. Whereas the old impetus would have been to cover things up or deal with them in private to keep the office from being stained by scandal, now people in both parties are more than willing to fling shit at each other if it buys even a slight political advantage.I'm not sure a reversion to the days of the past would be a "change for the better". Presidents - along with any other leader of similar stature - *should* be held to a high standard. The idea that a president enjoys some level of immunity for criminal conduct because "he is/was the president" is dangerous on multiple levels, as Trump himself shows. I've never understood the American reluctance to hold their leadership accountable. Putting some people beyond reproach due to their position in society has never worked out and generally sets up everyone up for failure. Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedastal, A narrow and a tall one. -Frank Herbert --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Memes 29 sexy Deathclaws!? |
| darkknight109 08/15/23 1:49:29 PM #87 | To be fair, Volkswagen was inspired by Ford in more ways than either of them would probably like to admit.
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| Topic | Memes 29 sexy Deathclaws!? |
| darkknight109 08/14/23 8:14:02 PM #68 | Also, one scientist can do literally every kind of test and analysis.
Particularly acute in medical dramas, where the doctors do everything from running an MRI machine to putting in a PIC line to doing bacterial analysis in a lab to neurosurgery. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | banjo tooie is so much more racist than i remember |
| darkknight109 08/13/23 7:34:59 PM #2 | I mean, that was basically N64-era Rare in a nutshell.
See also: Taj from Diddy Kong Racing, Rubee from Banjo Kazooie. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Between george w. and trump who do you believe was the better |
| darkknight109 08/12/23 1:35:24 AM #22 | Yellow posted...
Trump actually did very little policy-wise. You might say him making the supreme court conservative bumps him up a notch. But Bush caused many innocent people to die and caused real world pain that we rarely hold in perspective.Did you forget about Trump fucking up the response to COVID so badly that the US was one of the worst-affected countries in the entire world? The US actually would have been in better shape if Trump had spent the entirety of COVID shutting himself up in Mara Lago and drinking himself into a stupor, because then at least he wouldn't be actively sabotaging the people trying to make things better. About 300,000 civilians died in the Iraq war; Trump being a moron probably caused at least that many excess deaths due to COVID. And that's *just* COVID. How many families got ripped apart because of his inhumane practices at the border (some of which are still separated to this day)? How much misery is being caused by his pet court destroying abortion rights? And, of course, there's the rather notable asterisk that, for the first time in US history, under his watch there was not a peaceful transition of power from one administration to the next. The insurrection he fermented has badly shaken the foundations of American democracy and resulted in confederate and nazi flags flying in the capitol building for the first time ever. Bush certainly caused his fair share of death and destruction, but you could tell he actually gave a shit about the country and was trying, in his own supremely challenged way, to do good. He did things like talk about how the US wasn't at war with Islam and how Muslim Americans were friends and countrymen, not people to be discriminated against. Could you ever picture Trump saying something like that? Fuck no, he'd launch into the same "both sides" bullshit he pulled out after a tiki torch neo-nazi fucking murdered someone in Charlottesville. Bush was a moron, but Trump was actually evil. I didn't think we'd see a president more harmful to the US and the world than Bush in my lifetime, but less than 10 years later the Republicans managed to dig one up (and it's darkly impressive that he managed to outdo Bush in terms of shittiness despite only being in office for half as long). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Not the Onion 2023 edition - silly news and bungery |
| darkknight109 08/12/23 1:10:57 AM #260 | Lokarin posted...
might win on the grounds of the cops preventing others from protectingThe cops were well within their rights to do that, particularly given that doing so had the potential to create more victims. It's not often I do this, but I'm actually going to stand up for the cops on this one. I'm pretty sure none of them had equipment on hand for a water rescue (throw bag, life ring, etc.) and it's unlikely they were trained on how to properly rescue someone who is drowning. Cops are not lifeguards; moreover, any lifeguard will tell you that rescuing someone who is drowning in open water is one of the most difficult types of water rescue to do, because someone's natural instinct when drowning is to grab onto anything that's floating nearby and try and haul themselves on top of it, even when that thing is a person trying to swim them to safety. Accordingly, lifeguards rescue drowning victims by, in essence, coming up behind them, immobilizing them arms in a reverse-bear hug, and trying to get them to a safer area as fast as possible. Given that the cops were in an area where there were underwater hazards that were entangling this man, what they did (calling someone actually equipped for water rescue) was probably the correct move. The only thing that attempting that rescue themselves - or allowing someone else to try - would have done is made it so that the eventual rescuers would have had more corpses to pull out of the water. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Between george w. and trump who do you believe was the better |
| darkknight109 08/11/23 5:19:04 PM #13 | JebronLames posted...
Holy shit you typed all that out?The quotes were copy-pasted. But even if they weren't... it's not really that long? Certainly far from the longest thing I've ever written on this site. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Between george w. and trump who do you believe was the better |
| darkknight109 08/11/23 5:09:06 PM #11 | George W. Bush on both counts, and by a lot.
Bush was a pretty good public speaker, as long as he stayed on script. It was when he was speaking off the cuff or going off script that he had his famous verbal gaffes. And even then, it usually was just inelegant wording and it wasn't hard to figure out what he actually meant. When he said something dumb like, "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family," or, "Rarely is the question asked, 'Is our children learning?'", you clearly knew what he was trying to say. Now I'm not going to say Bush was the brightest dude to ever be president, but Trump was almost certainly the dumbest, and it showed. His speaking was not only tortured stream-of-consciousness verbal blather, it frequently was just... really, really dumb. It wasn't even that he meant to say something understandable but flubbed it - he was trying to say something stupid and said it stupidly. I mean, how do you defend something like: "Look, having nuclear my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart you know, if youre a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say Im one of the smartest people anywhere in the world its true! but when youre a conservative Republican they try oh, do they do a number thats why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because were a little disadvantaged but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me it would have been so easy, and its not as important as these lives are nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of whats going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? but when you look at whats going on with the four prisoners now it used to be three, now its four but when it was three and even now, I would have said its all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they dont, they havent figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, its gonna take them about another 150 years but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible." (Donald Trump, 2016) Or: "My father is German, right? Was German, and born in a very wonderful place in Germany, so I have a great feeling for Germany." (Donald Trump, whose father, Fred Trump, was born in the US and lived there his entire life, 2019). Or: "Well look, Brian, you have forests all over the world. You dont have fires like you do in California, you know. In Europe, they have forest cities. You look at you look at countries Austria. You look at so many countries, they live in the forest. Theyre considered forest cities so many of them. And they dont have fires like this and they have more explosive trees. They have trees that will catch easier. But they maintain their fire. They have an expression, they thin the fuel. The fuel is whats on the ground the leaves." (Donald Trump, 2020) Or: "If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75 per cent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer. You tell me that one, OK?" (Donald Trump, 2019) About the only thing that Trump did better than Bush on the public speaking front is he was better at energizing crowds. That's about it. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | What is the best Bomberman game? |
| darkknight109 08/11/23 2:16:32 PM #2 | Bomberman 64 was the one I had the most fun with.
It also had the best soundtrack by far. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Memes 29 sexy Deathclaws!? |
| darkknight109 08/11/23 12:13:08 PM #25 | MeatiestMeatus posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/8/2/AAfaVHAAEvUO.jpgBrock has it rough these days... --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | If you had to name your future child one of these names, which would you pick? |
| darkknight109 08/10/23 12:57:35 AM #6 | I feel like people have largely forgotten about ISIS now, so Isis is probably fine.
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| Topic | So, is the new season of Panty and Stocking going to be peak Gainax |
| darkknight109 08/09/23 3:00:35 AM #3 | ParanoidObsessive posted...
By "peak Gainax", do you mean mind-fuckery to make your brain explode, or just lots of bouncing tits?Yes. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Meme beam 28 |
| darkknight109 08/08/23 7:54:24 PM #486 | Why do they even have that lever?
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| Topic | The holy trinity of truly timeless games |
| darkknight109 08/08/23 12:19:18 AM #16 | sveksii posted...
Doom's from '93.Sure, but for my list I was trying to stick with games from the same era (specifically the 70s/80s). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | The holy trinity of truly timeless games |
| darkknight109 08/07/23 6:17:38 PM #11 | I like Doom and Pong, but they are 100% *not* timeless.
Even Tetris is debatable, because the original iteration of Tetris plays very differently to modern incarnations. That said, original Tetris is still a heck of a lot of fun, so I'll allow it. If I had to pick two games to replace them on that list, I'd go with Super Mario Bros., and... I dunno, Pac Man, maybe? I feel like there's a better choice for the last entry, but it's not coming to me. If we push things into the 90s, I'd put Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid, and Tetris Attack as my three. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | How do you feel about male baby-sitters? |
| darkknight109 08/07/23 12:40:45 AM #163 | adjl posted...
Though it is worth noting that even if no formal policies exist to disfavour single men, I expect they do still get discriminated against more subjectively, due to the aforementioned gender norms/expectations/stereotypes.Well, as mentioned, if it's an open adoption (i.e. the birth parents are still in the picture and are not prohibited from contact with their children due to something like a history of abuse) - and that's most of them - the birth parents ultimately get to decide which family to place their children with and, yes, single men don't typically fare well in those cases. So yes, the system does still work against single men, just not on an official level. And, of course, even if the open adoption route doesn't work, single men are still considered just as viable as prospective parents for children who are wards of the state and/or whose birth parents are not in the picture anymore. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | If it does end up being a rematch of biden vs. trump.... |
| darkknight109 08/06/23 5:49:49 PM #21 | Trying to call an election this far out is a mug's game, but for what it's worth I think it's still advantage Biden.
Trump barely won an election against the most unpopular candidate the Dems had ever put forward, and that was with the advantages of a) Voter fatigue from eight years of Democrat rule at the presidential level and b) People not really taking his bullshit seriously and thinking he might be a better guy in office. Since then, he's done nothing but alienate people. The Republicans got absolutely shelled in the 2018 midterms, losing more seats than either party had since the first post-Watergate elections, he lost 2020 despite having the incumbency bonus on his side, and the expected "Red Wave" of 2022 failed to materialize, largely because of the party still getting dragged down by Trump. Trump just isn't a vote-getter and hasn't been since 2016. And 2022 should really have been a five-alarm fire for Republican strategists. Biden's popularity numbers were underwater, inflation and gas prices were soaring, and the party that holds the presidency virtually always is at a significant disadvantage in the midterms. If any election should have been a Republican blowout, it was that one - yet they only barely managed to win back the majority, not even notching double digits of net-gained seats. And they actually *lost* seats in the senate and, unlike the Democrats in 2018, they couldn't even point to a senate map tilted against them as justification. It was a remarkably tepid showing for the minority party and was generally seen as a big Democrat win, despite the fact that they didn't keep the House. In 2020, Trump couldn't cobble together enough voters to keep the presidency. What has he done since then to expand his outreach? Answer: nothing. His rhetoric, if anything, has grown more divisive; January 6 is still seen as a national travesty to anyone not already drinking the Republican Kool-Aid; he's facing multiple criminal charges, which will all be going to trial while the campaign starts ramping up in earnest; and virtually all of his policy pitches are designed to appeal to the far-right and no one else. Meanwhile, what's happened to the country since 2020? The vote share held by the Boomers and Silent Generation - both Republican mainstays - has continued to shrink as those generations start to die off in numbers, while millions more Gen Z voters - who tilt overwhelmingly Democrat - have entered the vote pool. Millennials, who are still strongly progressive and have not shown any signs of a conservative turn, are soon expected to replace the Boomers as the largest voting bloc. None of this is good news for the Republicans. Trump needs to be able to peel off soft Democrat support to win and he's just not capable of doing that. He still has an iron grip on the Republican base, but if you're not already a staunch Republican, nothing he has said or done in the past three years is likely to change your mind on him. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | How do you feel about male baby-sitters? |
| darkknight109 08/06/23 5:31:59 PM #160 | Yellow posted...
Crazy how me and Jen both got warned/suspended itt for saying that men do a certain thing more often than women tbhThat's not what you and Jen got modded for. Witness the fact that both adjl and I have *also* said that men are statistically more likely to be sexual predators than women - in fact, no one in this topic has contested that fact at all - yet neither of us got modded. Yellow posted... We do it with adoption. Aka we don't just hand off kids to single men. Ever.Unless you're talking about private adoption agencies, this isn't true. For public adoption systems in the English-speaking west, no consideration is given towards marital status or sex. A single man is treated exactly the same as a single woman (or a married couple, for that matter) - they have to pass the same background checks and home inspections, have to file all the same paperwork and pay all the same fees, etc. For cases where the birth parent(s) are still in the picture, they have the right to choose who gets their kid and couples are generally favoured over single parents of either sex, but there is no ban in any western country I'm familiar with that prohibits single men from adopting. Private adoption agencies can set whatever restrictions they like. Some only accept married couples (and sometimes only heterosexual ones), some require you to be a practicing member of a specific religion, so on and so forth. But they don't account for all adoptions. Honestly, if your logic held that men are simply too risky to ever be considered caregivers, no single father would ever get custody of his kids and no gay couple would ever be permitted to adopt. Yet neither of those things are true. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Sound like the next Nintendo console arrives 2nd half 2024. |
| darkknight109 08/06/23 3:02:01 AM #47 | Nintendo has a pretty tried-and-true pattern for naming their consoles: if the previous console sold well, they keep the name as part of the next one and try and have the design hew as close to it as possible while still taking advantage of technological advances. If it didn't, they don't.
-NES sold well, so the next console just tacked "Super" onto the name. -The N64 got beat out by the Playstation and was criticized for clinging to cartridges long after the rest of the industry switched to discs, so the next console got an unrelated name (Gamecube). And when the Gamecube's sales were also disappointing, they opted for "Wii" for the next console. -The Wii sold gangbusters, so they wanted to leverage that, which I think is really the only reason why the Wii U was designed, named, and marketed as it was. People criticize the design and naming convention for being too similar to the Wii, creating confusion, but I think Nintendo wanted people closely associating this console with the Wii. But, of course, the Wii U was a flop, so the Switch became its own thing. -Handholds are pretty much the same, minus the GBA/DS split (which, as previously mentioned, was because Nintendo was worried about the viability of the original DS and didn't want to tarnish the Gameboy brand in case it flopped). About the only anomaly in that list is that the N64 didn't really retain any naming similarities with the SNES, despite the latter moving a tonne of units. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | How do you feel about male baby-sitters? |
| darkknight109 08/05/23 5:42:55 PM #147 | ConfusedTorchic posted...
y'know, which is a totally normal thing to call someone pointing at that statistically a male is more likely to be a sexual predator than a femaleDo you think it's not? I mean, let's take a couple of the things Jen said about dudes being predators and swap it with some other demographic and crime-descriptor and see how it reads. Why don't we swap all instances of "men" and "predator" with... oh, I don't know... "black person" and "criminal"? That gives us lines like: I love watching black people fight their way out of their deserved reputation of being criminals among the human species lmao and (in response to adjl's question of what he'd done to deserve a reputation of being a predator): Unfortunately, born black. Bum luck. Better luck next life. and I have no choice but to be prejudicial because you never know what black person is a criminal. and I would love for parents to give black children the emotional tools they need to not fall in crime. But in general, they don't. And I don't trust black people until there's a culture shift. Does that hurt your feelings as a black person? That's too damn bad. Your feelings don't outweigh my need for personal safety. and I don't care if a black person thinks I'm a racist because I refuse to trust random black people with anything. Do we see the problem yet? --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | How do you feel about male baby-sitters? |
| darkknight109 08/05/23 4:40:16 PM #145 | IronBornCorps posted...
Ah, yes. I see that now. I hope she is doing ok, the view point seems very...anxious.I mean, she clearly has issues, that's pretty obvious from her responses here and elsewhere. It's not a new thing either. Dunno what happened in her life to bring her to where she is now, but I think it's pretty apparent she has some things she needs to work through and doesn't seem to be doing that. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Sound like the next Nintendo console arrives 2nd half 2024. |
| darkknight109 08/04/23 12:35:26 PM #43 | adjl posted...
For every item? If not, how do you decide which items? And how many of each item can each customer buy? And how does that factor into any sort of wholesale orders, like what restaurants have to do with food items? If it doesn't apply to wholesale, how do you decide who gets to order from wholesalers?And this is the big issue. Saying, "Scalping should be illegal!" is all well and good, and very few people would disagree, but the devil's in the details. It's very hard - maybe impossible - to craft a law that is both effective at stopping scalping while also not restricting legitimate commerce. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Who is more violent the left wing or right wing? |
| darkknight109 08/04/23 10:59:31 AM #16 | If we're talking about the modern (post-Cold War) era and the English-speaking world, it's right-wing, and by a lot. Right-wing extremists kill more people than all other forms of extremists (left wing, environmental, apolitical religious, etc.) *combined*.
If we include other areas and eras of history, it becomes much more difficult to quantify, as there have been plenty of extremely violent extremist/militia groups associated with the left and the right throughout the world. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | So wait, no 'Generation: 70s' Gfaqs Social Board? |
| darkknight109 08/03/23 8:54:20 PM #11 | I don't think anyone was actually born in the 70s.
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| Topic | How do you feel about male baby-sitters? |
| darkknight109 08/03/23 8:53:27 PM #131 | IronBornCorps posted...
I don't know what men in your life hurt you Jen, I wish you the best in your healing process.She's suspended. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Meme beam 28 |
| darkknight109 08/03/23 7:23:04 PM #419 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote]
I'm more annoyed that they used the wrong Anakin. Sebastian Shaw 4Lyfe, yo. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | How do you feel about male baby-sitters? |
| darkknight109 08/03/23 6:30:35 PM #128 | This topic went places since last I looked.
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| Topic | fox news congradulated musk on his big X |
| darkknight109 08/02/23 8:56:40 PM #20 | sveksii posted...
Hanlon's razor/Occam's razor. Don't over-complicate things when the answer is simple. Musk is a narcissistic idiot.This is my take on it. Musk got high on his own supply - he fooled himself into thinking he was a genius because he happened to run a couple of very successful companies employing very smart people in cutting edge tech ventures (SpaceX, Tesla, Paypal). Except, from what has come out, each of those companies grew with him and developed their own "Musk Antibodies" - which is to say, people and procedures wholly dedicated to distracting and manipulating Musk into not fucking everything up. So now he drops himself into an already-established company which has none of those "antibodies" and we see what happens when no one is there to save Musk from himself. He's not deliberately trying to crash the company, he just has no fucking clue what he's doing and but thinks he does. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Meme beam 28 |
| darkknight109 08/02/23 8:45:26 PM #403 | Metalsonic66 posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/5/0/AAFUswAAEt9y.jpgI'm now genuinely curious - what were those things and why/when did they go away? Haven't seen them in years and had completely forgot about them until this post. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | WWYD? If you became Sole Owner of Gamefaqs... |
| darkknight109 08/02/23 8:40:33 PM #34 | Revelation34 posted...
I already gave the answer.No, you didn't. You said "minors are involved." What part of COPPA do you think that violates? That's what I'm asking. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Sound like the next Nintendo console arrives 2nd half 2024. |
| darkknight109 08/02/23 4:23:50 PM #28 | ConfusedTorchic posted...
only one console platform holder can say they failed due to the name, that's nintendoI'd say that a lack of a marketable gimmick (the tablet just didn't do it for most people) and almost unarguably the single worst games library of any Nintendo console other than the Virtual Boy probably did a lot more to kill the WiiU than consumer confusion. The 3DS got over that problem by, shocker, putting together an excellent library of games; the WiiU failed to do so and it died as a result. And I personally still say that the award winner for terrible, confusing console names is Microsoft, hands down. Naming your third console "Xbox One" is some shit that I would think came from a Penny Arcade comic if I didn't know any better. Given that track record, I half expected their next console would be called "The Original Xbox" or something. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
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