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| Topic | How's life? |
| darkmaian23 07/18/23 9:24:59 AM #7 | MarthGoomba posted... Miserable and hopeless*hug* --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Republican states want medical records for out of state abortions. |
| darkmaian23 07/18/23 8:49:11 AM #6 | Each day brings a new reminder of just how important the right to privacy is. Any piece of legislation that threatens anonymity or privacy threatens us all. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | TIL Thomas Jefferson owned a slave that was his wife's half sister |
| darkmaian23 07/18/23 2:46:32 AM #6 | Garabandal posted... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_who_were_enslaved_by_Thomas_JeffersonI don't think it's supposed to be funny that a page called "People who were enslaved by Thomas Jefferson" exists, but it kind of is. People are sacks of shit and always have been. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | The DEA surveillance bill that targets encryption passed out of committee |
| darkmaian23 07/17/23 10:23:09 PM #1 | https://therecord.media/senate-dea-bill-targets-end-to-end-encryption-requires-companies-to-report-drugs https://gizmodo.com/cooper-davis-act-drugs-companies-report-users-1850510171 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/s1080 It currently is rated as having a 9% chance of passing, and doesn't have too many cosponsors. Drug legislation also isn't popular, so I guess there is some hope? --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | What are some silly/unintuitive hidden mechanics in games? |
| darkmaian23 07/17/23 6:44:24 AM #33 | Making broken equipment in Rune Factory. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | best game maker in JP is dead |
| darkmaian23 07/17/23 4:36:12 AM #9 | Does anyone know the actual reason the studio is shutting down? All of the games available in the West are popular, and if you like that sort of thing at all, the studio does have name recognition...not all of which is entirely positive, of course. I've seen this posted in several areas where adult Japanese content is discussed, and nobody seems to know what the deal is. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | how many of you are currently playing an MMO |
| darkmaian23 07/17/23 4:34:20 AM #18 | It doesn't really count as an MMO despite having JRPG trappings on account of limited player interaction, but I've been enjoying Honkai Star Rail quite a bit. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Anyone play A Wonderful Life on Switch yet? |
| darkmaian23 07/17/23 1:46:41 AM #5 | Without nostalgia, I'm finding it doesn't quite measure up to other Story of Seasons or Harvest Moon titles. Some fans with nostalgia have complained about the graphics being changed to be more cutesy, so you might want to look at some screenshots or video. Super_Slash posted... Do days still take a fucking eternity to get through?Don't really know what they were like before, but they feel like an eternity in this version in my opinion. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | My wife continues her journey towards MAID (Medical assistance in death) |
| darkmaian23 07/16/23 8:18:03 PM #147 | I wish the very best for you both. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Police apologize after mistakenly arresting innocent man in revenge porn case. |
| darkmaian23 07/15/23 6:30:00 PM #11 | Ideally, in a world where people routinely pretend to be people they aren't online, police would have checked to see if the accounts posting the images belonged to the man--and if he was the only who had access to said accounts--before arresting him. How did it take them 42 days to do basic police work? It can't have taken 42 days to find out the accounts didn't belong to him, so what made someone finally do the right thing and check? Japan's police are less problematic than US police, but cases like this illustrate that you always need to be wary of law enforcement. All it takes is a mix up or someone not doing their job competently, and your life will get turned upside down. And it's hard to get money or compensation out of them when they do mess up like this. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Capcom's Not Dino Crisis game came out today |
| darkmaian23 07/15/23 7:21:04 AM #39 | What's it called? --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Did anyone enjoy Threads of Fate on PS1? |
| darkmaian23 07/15/23 12:10:37 AM #6 | Bumping this once in case anybody else liked it. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar stabbed multiple times at federal prison |
| darkmaian23 07/14/23 9:46:17 PM #58 | Compsognathus posted... Our prison system is an embarrassment and nobody who is a effectively a ward of the state should be at risk of being straight up murdered under their watch. So I'm not going to take glee in the system failing just because the person it failed is gigantic piece of shit. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Whatever happened to that guy who kept making topics about his wife? |
| darkmaian23 07/14/23 4:09:02 PM #15 | Medussa posted... he started making topics about not his wife, and they weren't great. ._.That's not entirely fair: I always cared about his relationship with his fictional sister over the ones with his fictional wife. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Why do girls get mad if you have sex with someone new after breaking up? |
| darkmaian23 07/14/23 4:06:49 PM #5 | Jealousy or insecurity about the value or your previous relationship, I'd wager. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Did anyone enjoy Threads of Fate on PS1? |
| darkmaian23 07/14/23 3:35:20 AM #1 | Nobody ever talks about it, but I was randomly playing it earlier today and wanted to see if anyone else found it charming. I dislike the controls something fierce, and I think Rue's gameplay kind of sucks, but overall it's a pretty cool game. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Cali SB14 was blocked, would have made trafficking minors a more serious offense |
| darkmaian23 07/13/23 5:59:48 PM #14 | Lordgold666 posted... Also, i hope everyone who was against sb14 gets blasted off into space Xatrion posted... Filthy goppers deserve neither quarter, nor pity. Fuck em. How sure are you that there is nothing wrong with the bill itself? What the government claims a bill is for and what it actually does can be quite different---especially when it comes to terrorism, national security, or protecting children. There is a truck load of shitty bills claiming to protect children floating around at the federal level right now that are wildly unpopular publicly, and are designed to vastly increase police power, reduce privacy, and could be used to severely discriminate against LGBT+ people. I don't know a thing about this bill since I don't live in California, but it is a mistake to assume that legislation is always written in good faith. Rest assured though, good or bad, this bill will probably rise from the ashes at some point. Almost all legislation like this gets at least a second chance at life, whether it was a good bill or not. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | A Proposed Law Would Force Internet Companies to Spy on Their Users for the DEA |
| darkmaian23 07/13/23 4:56:11 PM #1 | https://gizmodo.com/cooper-davis-act-drugs-companies-report-users-1850510171 Got the link off of a Reddit post. If it's pay walled for anyone, let me know and I'll try and find a better link. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | My company is so fucking stupid when it comes to hiring software developers. |
| darkmaian23 07/12/23 3:33:50 PM #48 | Revelation34 posted... The technology will always change and evolve. They are definitely limitless.Technology in general might, but we don't yet know the limits of "AI" and our current approach. And also, nobody knows what the overall limits of technology might be. It is, for example, impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and we don't know that a ship capable of carrying humans to another star system can actually be built. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Tomorrow is the day that I earn my secret stone. |
| darkmaian23 07/12/23 3:31:13 PM #9 | Are you one of those Mason fellows? Knew a guy who was super into it, but the last couple of times I've seen him, he hasn't worn his ring or talked about it. Did this year's demon summoning go poorly? --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Do my 18 year old women topics make me come off as mentally ill? |
| darkmaian23 07/12/23 3:29:03 PM #7 | spikethedevil posted... Its creepy if nothing else.This is just a PSA, in case you lack the self-awareness to be sure and think it's everyone else. If you really are depressed, I hope you are seeking help and get better soon. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Fuck the haters. Dial of Destiny was great. |
| darkmaian23 07/10/23 2:58:59 PM #4 | It was great---basically as good as the original films. I do think though that a story about finding the lance would have been more exciting and true to the series' roots. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | $1,000,000,000 but everyone in existence has the voice of Gilbert Gottfried. |
| darkmaian23 07/10/23 2:57:34 PM #23 | This is an easy yes because I don't like talking to other people anyway. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | My company is so fucking stupid when it comes to hiring software developers. |
| darkmaian23 07/10/23 1:37:51 PM #31 | Starks posted... I really question whether programming as we know it can survive another 5 years.I wonder at this level of pessimism. ChatGPT is intended, ultimately, to be a commercial product. Of course there is plenty of hype. I'm sure that some folks are getting a ton of use out of it, but you also see plenty of less up-voted posts from developers who spend more time fixing code it spits out than it would have to write the code themselves, or who can't get it to do much. The claim is always that they aren't prompting correctly, but one does have to consider the hype. As well as the problem that the limits of the technology really aren't know. Are the possibilities really limitless, or will we see the technology plateau shortly? There is, after all, a finite amount of training data available and I have to imagine they are already using about as much as they can. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | My back is so bad at 30. |
| darkmaian23 07/07/23 7:15:10 AM #6 | Have you gone to a doctor? Tried PT? --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Star Trek watchthrough part whatever Spoilers from TNG season 7 on |
| darkmaian23 07/06/23 6:07:41 PM #59 | splodeymissile posted... Hideous, incompetent and incoherent and it would only be more atrocious if it actually functioned as a sensible story.I had the exact same thoughts about the episode. I thought it was ridiculous that Sisko didn't send a ship to pick those people up and deprogram them. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Stand, Devil Fruit, Quirk, or Nen. |
| darkmaian23 07/06/23 9:48:18 AM #32 | Nemu posted... Nen is probably the best pick because it's universally useful and not completely random, outside of specialization. For the others, there's a decent chance you get fucked over by a horrible ability or get a completely useless ability.I think Nen is a worse choice than Stand. The kind of Nen you are born with is random, limiting what abilities you could choose. Moreover, no matter kind you have or what cool ability you think of, it doesn't matter if you are born without much power. Virtually all Stands are cool and so whether you get an existing Stand from the manga or something new that matches your soul, you are unlikely to get something shitty. In a world without Stands (so that you don't get subjected to the huge downside of attracting other Stand users to you) you have all kinds of possibilities open up. Just having a stylish, invisible double of yourself that can't be affected by any normal damage would be awesome without the additional power(s). --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Rise vs. Yukiko |
| darkmaian23 07/06/23 9:41:14 AM #28 | Other: Naoto. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Canada is destroying the internet? |
| darkmaian23 07/05/23 8:29:11 AM #2 | Wow, I'm kind of honored to get mentioned by someone. I'm a bit short on time right now to watch a video, but the two things I've heard regarding Canada and the internet are about services no longer carrying news over a law meant to compensate media outlets, and some kind of online harms bill, which I can only assume is like the UK's proposed internet safety legislation or the whole flock of evil bills that are currently circulating in Congress here in the US. Essentially, all major world powers feel that the government and police have insufficient access to private communications and your online activity, and also have insufficient control over what can be said and done online. Under the guise of protecting minors from harm, they seek to all change that while silencing all criticism by painting opponents as monsters for not wanting to help children. Canada's legislation is the one I've heard the least about, but collectively, these all tend to feature the same ideas or will lead to the same things: no secure encryption (because police need to read all messages), the scanning of all communications and uploads and maybe what's on your device too (trust us, these AI tools work great!), age gating to prevent minors from seeing inappropriate content (more closely tying a user's real identity to what they do and say online and modifying behavior and restricting access to information). Individually, some of these ideas may not sound so bad...until you notice that no criticism is being considered, that they are all coming together at once, and until you zoom out and consider the wider political landscape (the LGBTA+ community is probably more outspoken about this stuff in the US than any other group). If this video is about something different--or if there are novel considerations in it--do let me know and I'll swing back to it when I get time. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Did Flash bomb cuz of movie quality or Ezra unpopularity? |
| darkmaian23 07/03/23 10:28:20 AM #27 | If you pay attention to entertainment news, you knew about the reboot coming for DC before deciding whether to watch the Flash. If you cared about the Flash, you've probably seen the zillion seasons of the CW show using a different version of the Flash. If neither of those describes you, your first exposure to the Flash might have been watching the Justice League, in which case you could be forgiven for not wanting to see any more of him (or anyone else in the movie, with the possible exception of Henry Cavil). Or maybe you like the Flash but have either read the comic or watched the animated version of Flashpoint, in which case you might not have felt like watching another version of the same thing for theater prices. Or you may have known about Ezra's behavior. At that juncture, you would either give the movie a chance or not. If you gave it a chance, then chances are the bizarre antics of the Flash made you uncomfortable in light of how the actor behaves in real life, and on social media or amongst your friend group, you might have had unkind things to say about it. Superhero fatigue might be a thing, but the Flash came in with a lot of issues that other popcorn flicks don't have. Blue Beetle is going to have similar struggles because of the coming reboot, and because dude + power armor is covered by a rather large number of characters in movies at this point. And in terms of the modern rendition of Blue Beetle, I don't think there is a lot of material to work with. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Gundam Seed's new movie" Seed Freedom"'s first trailer is out |
| darkmaian23 07/03/23 10:02:31 AM #24 | SDBZ posted... No one is pointing it out because only Cagali matters. The pink homewrecker is merely a distraction. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Gundam Seed's new movie" Seed Freedom"'s first trailer is out |
| darkmaian23 07/03/23 8:45:54 AM #15 | Do you suppose they'll finally give us the Kira x Cagali romance everyone secretly wants? --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Twitter being down has brought me back here |
| darkmaian23 07/02/23 7:35:45 AM #10 | One of us! One of us! One of us! --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Things you wish you could experience for the first time again? |
| darkmaian23 07/02/23 7:35:05 AM #18 | xlr_big-coop posted... The 90's/early 00'sTime travel for the win. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | If this hot girl was your step-sister would you have step-sex with her? |
| darkmaian23 07/01/23 6:00:40 PM #8 | If I had a hot sister who liked me...sure? --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | At what temperature do you think that it starts to get uncomfortable? |
| darkmaian23 06/30/23 5:18:44 PM #10 | 76F --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Best 2D or 3D platformers on Steam? |
| darkmaian23 06/30/23 5:12:22 PM #18 | ZevLoveDOOM posted... definitely Pizza Tower! one of the best indie platform games i've played all year!Thanks for this suggestion! Many of the others were great as well, but I'd played them already. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | What are the good Black Mirror episodes? |
| darkmaian23 06/30/23 5:00:05 PM #40 | Xenogears15 posted... Don't trust anyone who didn't feel something when watching San JuniperoMm, it might happen if they did that weird thing some people do where they turn on something they've never seen before for noise and the act like they watched it and it made no sense. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Whatever happened to DarkRoast AKA Beanz? |
| darkmaian23 06/29/23 9:10:03 PM #327 | I always thought that DarkRoast and Gunpla were the same person. Was that not a thing? --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Best 2D or 3D platformers on Steam? |
| darkmaian23 06/29/23 8:59:58 PM #1 | Can be pure platformers like Mario, or something more action-oriented like Contra. Thanks guys! --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Mom asked is it true I treat you better than your siblings. How do you answer? |
| darkmaian23 06/29/23 4:41:56 PM #3 | Unless your family is dysfunctional, tell the truth but be sympathetic to the affected parties. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | UAP whistleblower claims tech is clean energy and would got us off OIL long ago |
| darkmaian23 06/29/23 4:32:16 PM #2 | What the hell is UAP technology? --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Most important human right? |
| darkmaian23 06/29/23 2:58:23 PM #1 | What do you think the most fundamentally important human right is? I'm going to go with the right to privacy. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | I wonder if people with Schizophrenia know they have it. |
| darkmaian23 06/29/23 12:53:50 PM #25 | Jupiter posted... I convinced her to get help though since she was suicidal. She finally got help and was diagnosed and had to drop out of her nursing program despite being the stop student since you can't be a nurse and be schizophrenic. That was actually her greatest fear with getting help. She knew she'd have to drop out.That's kind of gross, actually. I can understand wanting to be a nurse and not wanting your condition to affect you, but it's not OK to fulfill your life dream at the expense of the people you are supposed to be helping. I see this type of thinking a lot in posts on Reddit about seizures. People keep getting them, they know they could kill other people on the road, but they claim they still drive anyway. I wish I could drive, but even from a purely selfish standpoint, driving is useless if you die on the way. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Wait, people actually like Tenet? |
| darkmaian23 06/29/23 12:47:18 PM #7 | Yes, but you kind of need to watch with subtitles on because of wonky audio. But it isn't the only movie to have that problem in recent memory. --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
| Topic | Vanna White Holding Out for 50% of Pat Sajak's Salary on 'Wheel of Fortune' |
| darkmaian23 06/29/23 11:57:01 AM #40 | Quezovercoatl posted... Meanwhile I'm here thinking nobody needs to make 3 million dollars a year. Tyranthraxus posted... People are asking who's replacing her but like they don't need to replace her. The letters haven't been spun in decades. They don't need anyone up there. She's literally being paid to stand there and look pretty. She doesn't really even get to talk for 99% of the show. Both of these. I also have to wonder about what goes on behind the scenes. Supposedly Vanna and Pat were best friends for years. He never once advocated for her getting better pay? --- Cuteness is justice! It's the law. |
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