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| Topic | 'i like the taste of mushrooms but i can't stand the texture!!!!' |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/05/23 11:31:44 PM #8 | What about people who love corn but hate creamed corn because of the texture?
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| Topic | I am getting leg lengthening surgery, and going from 5'9 to 6'1.5 |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/05/23 11:29:27 PM #14 | sodium-chloride posted...
You were meant to be 5'9". If you want to be taller go for it, but unless you were deprived of proper nutrition while growing up, had a serious injury, or have some kind of congenital defect, you're more than likely the height you're supposed to be. The funny part is, the human body is meant to be proportional. The length of your legs is meant to counterbalance the length of your torso and head (that's sort of the point of the Vitruvian Man). If you break your legs to add four inches, you're basically turning yourself into an asymmetrical freak (because you're not countering that additional height in your torso). You'll basically be a 5'9" body with the legs of a 6'6" man. It will not look good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNjYJV4PO1E Everything will be out of alignment, your center of balance will be absolutely fucked, and you almost certainly will become incredibly clumsy and awkward afterwards (absolutely temporarily, and possibly permanently). Also, speaking as someone who HAS legs that are slightly too long for my torso (I'm 6'3", but I should probably be closer to 6'0"), it can be incredibly inconvenient - it makes bending over harder, doing things like putting on your shoes, and other foot related stuff. It'll probably also increase your risks for knee problems later in life. I get that people (especially men) don't want to be short, but none of the drawbacks of being short are going to be as bad as the drawbacks of essentially mutilating your body into a shape it was never meant to be in. Unless you're suffering from literal dwarfism, you definitely shouldn't be getting leg lengthening surgery. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Is Baldur's Gate 3 actually good, or is it the lack of quality recently? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/05/23 2:39:04 PM #10 | CyborgSage00x0 posted...
and reviving a long-dormant franchise It's not even really reviving a long-dormant franchise as much as it is rebooting it. Cameos from Minsc and Jaheira don't really make it a Baldur's Gate game. It's closer to being Divinity: Original Sin 3 set in Faerun. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Is it time for another Final Fantasy MMORPG? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/05/23 2:35:57 PM #9 | The only reason you got XIV at all instead of XI just going on forever is because they completely screwed the pooch on XI and had to redo everything all over again just to get people to play.
FFXIV is successful and popular, so there's no reason to reboot. It's the same reason why we never really got WoW2. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Attn people who use rent free in your mind as an insult |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/05/23 2:33:45 PM #3 | Sounds like those people are living rent free in your head.
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| Topic | Do you have friends? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/05/23 2:27:07 AM #23 | Yellow posted...
If you can't interact with women without being accused of sexual harassment then you're coming on too strong Or someone who is already suffering from tons of social anxiety has been conditioned to assume their every attempt at showing interest will be perceived as harassment, so they don't even try in the first place. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Optimus Prime drives his truck without a license |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/04/23 7:56:43 PM #2 | It doesn't count because it's still just him, just with wheels on. It's like saying I'd need a license to go rollerblading.
Now, when one Transformer gets inside another and drives them around they should get a license. https://youtu.be/XrMbkbTPrPA?t=30 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | If you were to find yourself in isekai right now - what would it be like? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/04/23 7:52:12 PM #16 | agesboy posted...
summoning isekai is absolutely a crapshoot, so the tldr is to hang around oddly specific trucks a lot if you want control over your isekai So it's like Western comics, where you drive a truck full of animals out to the nearest nuclear power plant, let them loose, then hope they get irradiated and bite you so you can "have an origin". --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Why can't indie RPGs ever get the story right? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/04/23 5:06:36 PM #23 | Lokarin posted...
That's kinda how Geneforge works There's a few different companies/services that work that way. And it's sort of what Ren'Py is often used for. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Personal debt |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/04/23 5:05:17 PM #12 | Dikitain posted...
The American economy is basically built off of debt. If Americans weren't in debt, the economy would collapse. Most modern currency is built on national debt to some degree. The UK still owes debts from hundreds of years ago. And trying to pay off those debts would destabilize the economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | So games workshop is releasing a warhammer box for $140 |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/04/23 4:59:01 PM #6 | darkknight109 posted...
Like... 3D printers are a thing and they're not that expensive anymore. They scream a lot about how 3D printing is evil and have kind of brainwashed the community into supporting the idea. It's like how it's incredibly easy to print near-perfect proxy cards for Magic, yet there's a huge push to discourage that because the entire M:tG economy is built on collectability. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Why can't indie RPGs ever get the story right? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/04/23 4:30:29 PM #21 | Yellow posted...
A) most people don't have that skill naturally C) Most story-driven indie devs just default to visual novel style play or "walking simulator" rather than RPG. RPG mechanics really don't add to narrative - it's usually just something that exists parallel to the story rather than integrating with it. If you have a story to tell and you view it as the most important part of the game, you're more likely to focus on gameplay mechanics that enable that story more effectively. A lone dev basically has to prioritize tasks because they don't have a team handling every aspect of games. So an indie game with robust mechanics likely has crap art and terrible story. A game with stronger story probably has weak gameplay mechanics. And so on. papercup posted... Honestly if I were to make an RPG, the story would be bare bones and the focus would be the combat. Like, the story wouldn't be very long, maybe like 8-10 hours, but then there would be like 8-10 hours of optional difficult postgame content. For me the priority would be reversed - I'd probably just make a Choose Your Own Adventure style game with general gamebook mechanics and multiple endings. Using dialogue flags like crazy to alter how NPCs interact with you and whether you've triggered certain events. I basically built a game like that in HyperCard years ago. I could probably do it with HTML now if I wasn't so lazy. The main discouragement for me would be that I'd want to make more of a 90s style point-and-click adventure game visual style, but I lack the artistic ability to draw or pixel art anything - so all I could really do would be 80s style text-based. In theory, I could exploit the hell out of AI art now. But I don't know how well that would work if the intention is to make a commercially viable game. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Which fictional character is the most powerful? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/04/23 4:11:48 PM #7 | Unicron says that there is literally one thing in the entire universe that can harm him.
None of those other characters are that thing, or possess that thing. Or could use it even if they had it. So he eats them all. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I am hereby making CM Punk my spirit animal... |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/04/23 12:49:09 AM #6 | Count_Drachma posted...
( Good, it was a shit storyline anyway. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | If you were to find yourself in isekai right now - what would it be like? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/03/23 10:03:57 PM #7 | EclairReturns posted...
That sounds like some sort of paradox. Not as much of a paradox as Kennedy being the second shooter on the grassy knoll during the Kennedy assassination: https://youtu.be/W6naJ08Tskk?t=150 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | If you were to find yourself in isekai right now - what would it be like? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/03/23 9:18:33 PM #3 | I mean, usually the person who dies doesn't get a say in what sort of world they go to...
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| Topic | Favorite pudding flavor? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/03/23 5:02:03 PM #14 | captpackrat posted...
If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat? Hey, leave those kids alone. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you have friends? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/03/23 5:00:55 PM #6 | https://youtu.be/DnLtuVaW_9M?t=28
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| Topic | Kevin costner has to pay 63k a month in child support |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/03/23 3:30:43 PM #2 | To be fair, it's three kids, not one kid. Which it literally says in that article.
So it would technically be $21k per kid. And may be subject to change once they start hitting adulthood (one of them is going to be 18 in about 2 years). Though from that article the bulk of the money is going to the fact that she's unwilling to move them out of the rich neighborhood they've been growing up in, so it's a "living in the style to which they are accustomed" argument, where she doesn't want to start living closer to her actual means. But the US court system has been horrifically biased against men in divorce, custody, alimony, and child support cases for a looong time now. And it tends to be even worse in California. So if anything he's lucky he managed to argue it down to $63k, when she was apparently asking for almost three times that. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | do you sit or stand to type |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/03/23 1:54:49 PM #2 | I use a special rotating harness to type while hanging upside down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1egkqpDOn2A --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Favorite pudding flavor? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/03/23 1:28:50 PM #9 | Rice pudding.
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| Topic | What if all the religious end times happened at the same time? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/03/23 1:44:48 AM #4 | Lokarin posted...
Like you'd have the 4 horsemen and surtr and the giants and there's a giant flood which is somehow stopped my a meteor This is sort of what happened in the World of Darkness RPG. All the different game lines (Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Wraith, Changeling, Hunter, Demon) basically had their own version of the end of the world. And when the game lines came to an end, all of their apocalypses technically happened at the same time. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | it's kind of weird that tony hawk became super popular for about a decade |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/03/23 1:43:11 AM #13 | LinkPizza posted...
I think it had something to do with the game This. Extreme sports got popular in the 90s, which led to the games getting made. The games made him more of a mainstream figure even to people who didn't know who he was in the real world. I've heard people from England who still call him "Tony Hawks" because they think that's his name because they remember "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater", not the actual guy. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I am hereby making CM Punk my spirit animal... |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/03/23 1:35:04 AM #4 | Solid_Sonic posted...
You either respect me or we throw hands. And then you get fired. Like he just did ( --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | i have fully bought into the starfield hype |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/02/23 4:46:08 PM #42 | DirtBasedSoap posted...
slightly better but not by much How does it compare to Outer Worlds? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | i have fully bought into the starfield hype |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/02/23 12:08:18 PM #39 | DirtBasedSoap posted...
its fallout 4 but instead of an open world, you just fast travel to different planets Are the NPC characters and overall plot written better/worse/same as Fallout 4? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Im creeped out by Ring cameras |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/02/23 1:09:07 AM #22 | Yellow posted...
Anyway Ring doorbells should not send video streams outside of the lan for security reasons but I'm sure they all do, and I'm sure it's all recorded, so police can just spy on you if they have a warrant, and I'm sure pervert Ring employees are jerking off to your family. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(company)#Security_and_privacy_issues --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Im creeped out by Ring cameras |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/01/23 11:30:54 PM #16 | Muscles posted...
I'm not saying it's going away, I'm saying the vast majority of people will view it as a mistake as it gets worse. Disagree. As a culture we went from everyone constantly worrying about the government forming a police state and installing cameras everywhere to everyone constantly carrying around a phone they use to take pictures of themselves and post literally everything they do on social media. We've given up all pretense of privacy, and the younger generations barely even understand the concept. Once the last few old holdouts die off, there'll be no one left to complain about being constantly monitored and recorded. If you want to see the path the future is going to take, just look at algorithms that look at everything you watch and everything you search for, then go out of their way to recommend things they think you'll like - and the people who gleefully love the convenience of that. The future is that, only more refined - until the algorithm knows more about you than you know about yourself, and has mastered the art of selling things to you. And you'll love it for it. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Can you afford to buy a house on CostCo wages? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/01/23 7:50:02 PM #5 | MeatiestMeatus posted...
If you think the problem is that the layperson needs to find a better job, you're sorely mistaken. It's not the problem, it's the reality. You can argue about WHY things are the way they are, or talk about how much better things would be if you could magically wish things to be different, but at the end of the day you're still stuck with the same shitty situation. Realism is understanding that "how things SHOULD be" doesn't help you survive NOW. Like it or not, minimum wage jobs really aren't designed or intended to be the sort of jobs that result in your owning your own house and all the other trappings of a modern lifestyle. Regardless of whether or not you think that SHOULD be true doesn't really change whether or not it IS. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | "Sorry, we don't sell tickets to adults not accompanying a child." |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/01/23 5:21:49 PM #60 | AltOmega2 posted...
What animal exhibit would be weirdest for a single guy to just stand in front of, fixated? Masturbating gorillas. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | "Sorry, we don't sell tickets to adults not accompanying a child." |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/01/23 5:21:25 PM #59 | SwollenColon posted...
Funny that people are willing to defend creepy behavior from absolute strangers in anecdotal situations and feel like it's a personal affront to them. Wonder why? Because they're tired of Chris Hansen constantly showing up to ruin their fun, so they sympathize with the hypothetical creeper. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Can you afford to buy a house on CostCo wages? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/01/23 5:19:48 PM #2 | You probably shouldn't be trying to buy a house on any retail wages.
If you want to go for the full "American Dream", improve yourself and get a better job. Pursue a career and not just a job in retail. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Speak of the devil... RIP Volition Games (Saint's Row, Summoner 1 and 2) |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/01/23 5:18:31 PM #17 | RVallant posted...
This is generally why I just try and enjoy the stuff from the new dev teams now, whilst their star is rising. Nearly every developer turns to shit it seems. I'd agree, but the problem there is that new devs may not be giving the experience you want. Whether that be because they're not as skilled, or because they want to provide their own take and it isn't something you want. The reason old devs become beloved in the first place is because they keep putting out experiences that you loved, to the point where you started to rely on "new game from [insert dev]" was a guarantee that you'd enjoy it. But now someone who loved BioWare-style RPGs may find they can't find any games that really scratch the same itch. Stuff from Larian or Spiders/Focus Home, or even From Software may be too bleak. Stuff like Cyberpunk releases so broken you don't want to take the chance. Stuff like Vampire: the Masquerade Bloodlines 2 dies in development hell. And so on. So mourning the slow lingering death of companies like BioWare and Obsidian isn't just nostalgia for the past, it's because nothing in the present/future is really replacing it. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Speak of the devil... RIP Volition Games (Saint's Row, Summoner 1 and 2) |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/01/23 2:23:51 PM #14 | Solid_Sonic posted...
No one ever remembers Red Faction... All I remember is Saints Row 3 parodying it in the good ending. I actually have Red Faction: Guerrilla saved on my 360 from when I downloaded it via Games for Gold. I should play it some day. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Disney and Charter/Spectrum dispute |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/01/23 11:38:57 AM #5 | Sulugnaz posted...
Its funny that Disney understands withholding content for a better deal. It's a shame that two greedy corporations fight over minor price increases that ultimately get forced onto the people paying for the services. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What do you think is the LONGEST NES game? |
| ParanoidObsessive 09/01/23 11:36:02 AM #2 | My vote would be for one of the games that have no ending, and which just keep getting harder as you go until they become impossible. Those would technically be infinitely long.
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| Topic | So, some states are trying to pass new internet laws (KOSA) or something |
| ParanoidObsessive 08/31/23 11:36:12 PM #18 | Entity13 posted...
A device approach is a good step in the right direction, I think. Having parents or legal guardians actually perform their role rather than put whomever in front of a screen and forget about them for hours on end would be nice, but that has been the struggle since the end of the 70s; and it's gotten worse since then. The problem is, if you're the parent who goes out of their way to limit your kids from using the technology, Internet, and social media, you've essentially guaranteed your child is going to be a janitor at McDonalds when they grow up. Like it or not, being able to use and navigate technology has become the "literacy" of the modern age. A kid who grows up not having access will grow up developmentally limited compared to their peers. They'll also be socially impaired, because they'll lack the capacity to relate to their fellows. It's easy to say that parents should parent and kids should go out and play and not spend all day on their phones/tablets. But it's not really that easy to do in a way that doesn't do more harm than good. Ultimately the real problem is finding a way to better integrate and implement the technology, skills, and experiences in a formative way rather than just shrugging and hoping everything works out for the best. adjl posted... Conversely, however, letting that cynicism get in the way of recognizing and solving problems that genuinely are harming children is no less wrong. Yes, but that's why I said "probably" and "almost". --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What do you think gassed means when used in the context of someone being gassed? |
| ParanoidObsessive 08/31/23 9:57:46 PM #28 | Nade_Duck posted...
like "that was a gas!" or something. not exactly the same, but it's what the topic made me think of. https://youtu.be/KXUJMaYzh6U?t=36 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | youtubers whos videos are all the same? |
| ParanoidObsessive 08/31/23 8:07:43 PM #13 | Zareth posted...
I use Express VPN AND Nord VPN at the same time so even I don't know what country I'm in If you throw SurfShark into the mix I'm pretty sure you can jump to a parallel universe. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | i got baldur's gate 3 |
| ParanoidObsessive 08/31/23 7:25:34 PM #3 | Nade_Duck posted...
i made a devil boi but i kind of want to go back and make a gnome because none of this game feels very serious so far anyway for some reason. If you make a Gnome, you'll make the ghost of Nudojudo very happy. The boy had a straight up Gnome fetish. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I went down a Wikipedia rabbit hole last night and came across this |
| ParanoidObsessive 08/31/23 7:24:16 PM #37 | SilentSeph posted...
Is there also a Jesus Christ 2? Christ 2: Electric Boogaloo Him and the Disciples have to save a local youth center from being demolished by THE MAN. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I went down a Wikipedia rabbit hole last night and came across this |
| ParanoidObsessive 08/31/23 4:44:17 PM #26 | DirtBasedSoap posted...
holy fucking shit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok1yBEuoJKU --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | So, some states are trying to pass new internet laws (KOSA) or something |
| ParanoidObsessive 08/31/23 4:36:20 PM #8 | Lokarin posted...
But "think of the children" is literally the 14 Words Doesn't really mean much when assholes on every part of the political spectrum have used it as an argument (for longer than any of us here have been alive). It's not really aligned to a specific ideology, it's just one of the easiest rhetorical appeal-to-emotion arguments you can make. Because whenever someone disagrees with you you can just accuse them of hating kids. It's Social Manipulation 101. It's like how anti-abortion groups call themselves "Pro-Life" (because it allows them to paint themselves as morally superior while their enemies are "anti-life" or "pro-death" or "in favor of murdering babies"). While groups in favor of abortion call themselves "Pro-Choice" (because it allows them to paint themselves as morally superior while their enemies are "anti-choice" or "pro-oppression" or "in favor of denying women basic human rights"). It's all deliberately worded to make you look like the asshole for disagreeing with them. People on both the Left and the Right have used the "won't someone please think of the children?!" argument. And it's usually the argument you use when you don't have any other good arguments. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | We're here, we're queer |
| ParanoidObsessive 08/31/23 4:27:42 PM #3 | joemodda posted...
I'm late! Should have used "I'm great!" instead of late. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | So, some states are trying to pass new internet laws (KOSA) or something |
| ParanoidObsessive 08/31/23 4:22:11 PM #6 | Lokarin posted...
"think of the children" is the foundation of neo-fascism Unfortunately, people who use "fascism" as part of their argument are also usually wrong. And bad. It's basically the trendy way to accuse someone of being a Nazi without having them throwing Godwin's Law in your face - it's almost always emotional rhetoric from immature armchair pundits. It's not even a new thing, Red Dwarf was making fun of that sort of mentality back in the 1980s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfFSlQ9zv9w --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | i have fully bought into the starfield hype |
| ParanoidObsessive 08/31/23 4:16:42 PM #20 | DirtBasedSoap posted...
just did it. fuck this shit. i hate video games now Can I introduce you to Tic-Tac-Toe and Dots and Boxes? Once you've got a taste for it, we can even start trying more advanced fare like Snakes and Ladders or Uno. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | youtubers whos videos are all the same? |
| ParanoidObsessive 08/31/23 4:15:12 PM #10 | Revelation34 posted...
All of them? Lokarin posted... ya, it's cuz of the algorithm --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | So, some states are trying to pass new internet laws (KOSA) or something |
| ParanoidObsessive 08/31/23 4:13:38 PM #4 | My usual stance is that any argument or proposition that involves "think of the children" as part of its justification is probably objectively wrong. Because it almost always is.
papercup posted... Honestly, kids shouldn't be online anyway. At this point it's pretty much a necessity that they need to be, in order to become functioning adults. Maybe we just need to create a separate Internet for kids. And every kid has to take a driver's license-like test to be allowed on the adult Internet. (of course, if we DID that all the pedos would just make fake kid accounts to hang out there anyway, so it would take a lot of policing) --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | "Sorry, we don't sell tickets to adults not accompanying a child." |
| ParanoidObsessive 08/31/23 4:07:49 PM #26 | Nade_Duck posted...
as a single man, i guess i get it but wish they would extend this crap to women as well. 100% agree. The problem isn't single men, it's adults (of any given gender) without kids wanting to go somewhere that is mainly kid-centric. There are way too many pedos of any given gender or pronoun choice who would view that sort of thing as a smorgasbord. Or an opportunity. I don't have kids (and never will), and I'm perfectly fine with places like Legoland or Chuck E. Cheese not wanting me there. But limiting it to just men is only solving half the problem. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Speak of the devil... RIP Volition Games (Saint's Row, Summoner 1 and 2) |
| ParanoidObsessive 08/31/23 4:03:18 PM #7 | Nade_Duck posted...
deserved, even though it hurts to say it. It's sad when you think about all the big developers you used to love, and realize every single one of them is basically a walking corpse. Or a flesh-eating alien wearing the severed face of your former loved ones. BioWare, Obsidian, Bungie - none of them are even remotely the same companies they used to be, either in terms of people, culture, or output. Go back farther and I can throw Square into the mix. Or the other devs that were devoured by EA like Origin and Westwood. Even companies like Bethesda, Blizzard, and Gearbox are pretty clearly shadows of what they once were. And the list goes on... Volition's been dead for years, this was just a mercy killing. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
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