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Of those I know, the Predator seems like the easiest to avoid because it's not going to bother fucking about in a civilian area hunting down random people. It's going to search out actual prey.

ELI__2__SLAYTON posted...

i just see "rogue" and immediately think it's some stealth game but then "like" and think it's like, stealth with a twist or some shit

Rouge is the name of the game that started the genre, so like Metroidvania or Soulsborneikroringlike.

Star Fox is a game that might actually work as a rougelike because it's just a rather simple arcade style campaign anyway. Rather than play Star Fox 64 three times to see the different paths, you can just always have a different experience.

I would say they have overall the best fast food fries, and they have the best generic bagel breakfast sandwich Ive had anywhere. Other than that, its the overall pretty average.

The art of the manga is fucking horrid now. It's never been the best, but all the characters literally look like some dude's edgy fanfic. It's also weird because Shikamaru still looks completely normal so it's like the artist is mixing two styles.

How often does Mario even have new lines? Feels like they could have just sat him down and recorded like five hours of random stuff and been fine for the next 20 years.

I've been to restaurants where a lot of other people are dressed quite formally, but never one with a dress code. I think I'd do everything possible to avoid such a situation. Sounds like an extraordinary pain in the ass for no particular benefit.

That's one of the big issues with leaving Fandom. They still get all the traffic, and there will still be a corpse left over. You're basically building a much nicer building in the middle of the woods and hoping people stumble through to find you instead of going to the big cardboard cutout skyrise right on the main road.

I'm curious how many staff members they actually have looking at this kind of stuff. I'd bet money the "manual review" was someone looking over a spreadsheet of hundreds of requests and then using a bot's input to clear them or not. That's why it only ever seems to get shit done when people make a fuss on Twitter and get an actual human response.

Looks slightly more convoluted than a normal traffic circle, but presumably the placement of yield signs and the likely slow flow of traffic would make it easy enough to navigate.

That's presumably something found out within like a month of owning it, so who would care? It's not like you're going to form a bond that quickly, and the animal will likely be completely fine.

It's purposefully ignoring that the checkout process usually involves waiting behind people. If you have an empty line with a staff member and an empty line with a self-checkout, then choosing the staff member is obvious, but that's rarely an option.

Pretty tapped out on the MCU overall, so I'm only really keeping up with a few at the point. Captain Marvel was very average, so no particular interest in keeping up with any films along that subline.

Depends on if they can be trained to go in one spot or if they just let loose whenever. I have zero interest in pets that just shit all over the place.

That sucks. I was in the middle of trying to block as many advertisers as possible on the app to see what kind of weird shit starts popping up. I'd honestly bet that's the reason why they're removing it (though they could just stop you from blocking them on ads instead). Otherwise, doesn't really matter to me because I don't actually tweet anything, and I don't use the shitty general feed anyway. Either way, the site is definitely on a much quicker downward spiral than expected.

For a one time accidental offense, no. I think I recall that some platforms are extraordinarily biased in how they handle these incidents, so it may not be fair relative to other bans, depending on the platform.

As long as the stay at home set up is consensual between spouses, and they understand what the other wants from it, then nothing to judge. If its one of those cases where the spouse abuses that setup or simply refuses to work until the inevitable demise of the relationship, then they are an asshole. In the latter case, I would definitely call my brother an asshole, if it ever came up in conversation, but I wouldnt go out of my way to do anything about it.

1-4. It's not strange to have only one central TV. It's not strange to have one for the living room and each bedroom. More than 4 would be a little strange unless there are guest rooms.

if you take power levels, literally, hed probably be somewhere above the third form, but well below the fourth form. Even without that, he was definitely extraordinarily weaker than Goku, so little chance hed be strong enough to do anything of significance.

Fucking hell, they just want to make the site unusable. Hopefully a competitor that isn't shit starts blowing up. I just use the site to follow creators, so all I need is a good place where most will hopefully migrate. Last I saw, Threads was pretty shit, so hopefully they get that going better.

The dumbest thing is that it would have been relatively simple to do with just a bit of futureproofing. I know one of the Stadium games was a little overdone in terms of length of animations, but those otherwise should have been the basis of GF's animations. Instead, you have models that should punch or kick that do neither, models that should use proper breath/beam attacks that do neither, lazy hopping animations and cheap effects.

Is that purposefully campy like some of their movies, or is that supposed to be unironically dramatic?

Zero that I recognize, at least. I couldn't even tell you the bands that play most of my favorite songs though. I don't really find it important because I've found so few groups that actually have more than one song I like.

I think there's definitely a problem with a lot of modern critics where they think it's their job to make a statement on the piece itself, rather than provide easy to understand commentary for a standard viewer/reader/player. It's obviously a case by case basis, but a lot of the stereotype of self-important reviewers completely missing the mark on how the general audience feels seems to stem from that.

Dude dies all the time. Literally became a Dry Bones in that one game. Death has no permanence in the Mushroom Kingdom. I assume 1UPs are a real feature, not just a gameplay thing.

They can be interesting in small doses to see a live, honest reaction to something you've also experienced. The scary thing is that there are people who only consume content that way though.

When it gets to the point of grinding for insane RNG, I think most people give up until new exploits/strategies are found, only the most dedicated (or insane) bothering to try to improve it. Games that can be done with TAS can show both the optimal limit and optimal human limit as well.

Definitely better than the last one. Nothing stood out as incomprehensible, and it generally flowed well.

All except the Vita.

Those laws are so stupid. Let people get publicly lambasted and lose their jobs for saying stupid shit, but the government otherwise has no place arresting people for being dipshits. Didn't the same happen with some people getting arrested for insulting the queen during her funeral? Just a bunch of power tripping bullshit.

pnut027 posted...

As a kid, I had an obsession with reading. I couldnt put down Animorphs, Goosebumps, the Boxcar Children, Encyclopedia Brown or Harry Potter. I didnt want to play with or talk to other kids. I didnt go outside unless my parents forced me to. I books everywhere I went, even to dinner. It was universally accepted because they were books. Reading is good, right? Accept that it stunted my social growth. Hell, even now I prefer the company of books to people. Id rather be cooped up in a library rather than out and about.

Functionally, there is nothing different between kid me reading a book at dinner and some kid on their iPad at dinner.

Hell, most families stared at the tv like zombies socializing while eating for decades. And the world continued. And those same kids are innovators today.

The kids of today will likely take care of the planet better than we could.

There have always been the hyperfocused children, but this ease of accessibility is likely to generate more problems where there previously weren't. We're talking more about averages than individual experiences. This isn't declaring a social death sentence for any child with an unhealthy interest in media, but more that an increase in lazy parents creating a dependence issue will likely generate an increase in social issues. If there was a chart showing book nerds to gaming nerds to iPad nerds, I'd guess it'd be an extraordinary jump on the third one.

I'd say an iPad is a little different from past pacifiers. It can go anywhere, nearly universally acceptable to use pretty much at all times, and has millions of times the content of something like a Game Boy. I'd say lazy parents that don't teach their kids any sort of moderation with it will definitely increase the likelihood of issues.

It depends on how indoctrinated someone is, how they express themselves, and how close of a relationship you have. There's a big difference between someone who outwardly displays racism in public and someone who may be on the wrong but correctable path into cult-like thought patterns.

RPG, PM, TTYD, M&L, and BIS are all on the same level for me.

Thinks would probably be a lot better if we weren't so wired to form in-groups and out-groups.

It was fun, but it feels like it was some kind of shitshow in post-production. The entire end of the movie borders on nonsensical, as if they had planned an entire sequel set in the past, canned it mid-way, and used the stuff they in-production to put together what we got.

legendarylemur posted...

It's hard to read but I think I sorta get the gist.

There are publicly already outed figures accused of underaged sex and abuse. Martin has a public history of defending these figures and admonishing people speaking out against them.

LK's also going through some cancer in his family? Not sure of the details but on top of his already poor mental and physical health, it's unlikely he will ever address this document

My take is this: I think because LK's always had poor mental health, he's overly attached to people who were good to him during this period. He's several times cried when he had to part with people in his circle, so yeah, I think the reason for him defending specific people is as simple as that.

I'm not sure if it's even worth cancelling somebody over this. It's not anything LK's done personally. It's all about how he alienated some people in favor of confirmed pedophile and abusers.

Sounds like it might be mostly a nothingburger, if that's the correct reading of the situation. Not that you can't say someone was wrong for defending a piece of shit, but you also have to take into account the length of the friendship and strength of the initial accusations. Look at how hard some people go to bat for complete stranger celebrities and actually imagine being someone who considered them a friend.

What was the TL;DR with Mignogna at the end of the day? Was he actually an abuser or just weird? I remember it being a pretty vitriolic back and forth.

Series feels kind of dull since it came back. The first part had more of a schizophrenic feeling reminiscent of Fire Punch where things keep shifting , but it feels a lot more structured now.

ArsGoetia posted...

i mean lying sucks yea
but shitting on someone for having an unstable gender identity and/or fear of completely revealing the details of their coming out is kinda fucked imo

Some of the character arcs did border into the nonsensical at times. Lying on the internet isn't a giant sin, but I think some of the roleplay kind of exceeded the bounds of someone trying to come to terms with their identity. Not as bad as fake cancer or pretending to die, but also a giant waste of a lot of people's time who were genuinely trying to be helpful to her and her fake pregnancy.

It's really not a very good game, but I have such a nostalgic fondness for it. It's a shame they didn't continue with it onto the GBA. Could have been a pretty fun sub-series as the mechanics evolved.

On a general basis, no. That's too close to social credit. On a case by case basis, sure, as long as it make sense.

Couple middle of the road republican family members who will just support whoever is nominated. No particularly crazy or fundamentalist beliefs, but gotta ride the party line no matter what.

If it's so hot people are stripping off clothing, I'd probably go full Karen by the half hour mark. I hate heat as it is, no fucking way am I going to suffer on an indefinite basis.

Wonder how legally binding that is. I could see hundreds of lawsuits against Twitter after he inevitably fails to follow through.

Very disappointing overall. The overall free art style they were going with is very thematically appropriate, but they forgot the part about needing it to actually be comprehensible. The spastic choreography, horrible framing, and jarring cuts just make it a pain to watch. Compared to something like Naruto vs Pain that was very thematically inappropriate, that at least was mostly comprehensible despite being nonsensical.