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Questionmarktarius posted...

Yeah... I have no idea what that's about, and triggering them consecutively doesn't seem to actually move the tree anyway. All I ever see it do is change the words displayed on the bottom and sides.

Here's the diagram:


The icon on the far left represents the element you started the combo with, in this case Fire. The two icons in the next column along indicate which elements can be used to continue the combo, in this case Fire and Water. Once you use one of those, half of the options in the third column will disappear, and the remaining 1-2 will be the elements that can be used to finish the combo (if #2 is Fire, Fire and Light. If #2 is Water, Fire and Ice). The text indicates which effect will be blocked by finishing the combo with that element (and not, as I initially thought, that you'll be sealing by using that element at any point in the combo), so half of the text will disappear after you use a second special.

Basically, in this case, it indicates the four options you have after starting with Fire:
Fire-->Fire-->Fire (Seal Self-Destruct)
Fire-->Fire-->Light (Seal Affinity Down)
Fire-->Water-->Fire (Seal Self-Destruct)
Fire-->Water-->Ice (Seal Shackle Blade)

Finishing those combos will add, respectively, a Fire, Light, Fire, or Ice orb to the target, and it's that orb that blocks the status effect and can be broken in a chain attack for fun bonuses.

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LinkPizza posted...

adjl It diss sound like a lot. But I think once I start playing, it'll make more sense and will (hopefully) just come to me naturally. Haha.

It will. I was going through the tutorials and continually getting bombarded with new info and battle mechanics and I was like bruuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh

It's one of those things that you learn by doing, as opposed to learn by reading.

It also doesn't help that they introduce so many different things that are just called "___Combo" in short succession, and there's no in-game manual to act as a reference after those tutorials. The game could definitely do a better job of explaining itself (especially where you aren't necessarily going to have the elements you need to practice right away, depending on what Blades you've got at the time), but once I looked up how it works again I picked it up quite quickly. It's very intuitive once you get over that initial hump.
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Revelation34 posted...

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Zeus posted...

Again, not what a pedophile is.

Colloquially, it is. "Ephebophilia" is only ever used by people who are trying to avoid having to believe that somebody they like is a pedo, and cling to even the most pedantic alternative they can find to that. "Pedophilia" is broadly used as a blanket term for attraction to minors.

Except it's flat out wrong to use it as a blanket term like that.

Do you have a better option for a blanket term? "Creepy weirdo that sleeps with minors" is a concept that does come up often enough that it could stand to have a convenient single term. "Pedophile" being the best-known term that falls under that umbrella, it's pretty understandable that it's been adopted for that broader purpose. If you've got a better option, by all means, present it and start promoting it, but until then, you should probably accept how the vernacular language is evolving.

Zeus posted...

And if you think that the difference between a 5 y/o and a 16 y/o is merely "pedantic" then there's something very wrong with you.

Is that not how the distinction is used? "This guy's a pedophile! What a creep!" "Technically it's ephebophilia if the victim's a teenager, and I'm going to hope that nitpicking about this is enough to deflect from the fact that I'm not commenting on whether or not the dude's a creep." There are certainly differences, which are reflected in that statutory rape and child rape are distinct charges, but those who use the word "ephebophilia" generally aren't as interested in that distinction as they are in trying to use a label that has no vernacular negative connotations (because nobody else ever uses it).

Let's demonstrate: Should the allegations against him prove true, would you consider Roy Moore to be a creep?
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OmegaShinkai posted...

"It's the right thing to do"
So legitimizing a country annexing territory is the right thing to do, guess we can't criticize Russia for annexing former Soviet states anymore. After all, they used to belong to Russia, so it's clearly justified.

While we're at it, maybe Britain should take over the US again.

Muscles posted...

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Muscles posted...

Maybe Palestine should just fuck off already, they aren't going to win this, they just want to be instigators and can't accept reality

What is reality, mr muscles?

They are never getting Jerusalem back, and its just a matter of time until Israel takes all of it back

It's so cute when Muscles tries to understand complex geopolitical issues.
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Maybe he should also put the US embassy to Palestine in Jerusalem. That'd simplify things a bit. No reason Jerusalem can't be the capital of both countries.
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LinkPizza posted...

Also, side note, is the battle system in XCX-2 similar to the others games in the Xenoblade series?

It's got the same basic "autoattack while waiting for arts to recharge" thing going on, but they made some significant changes to it. Most notably, you can only have one of your three assigned blades active at a time, and each blade offers three arts and a special, with the ability to switch between blades on a cooldown. Additionally, arts recharge as you autoattack, rather than over time, and you can no longer autoattack while moving. Using arts charges up the special attack, which has four tiers, and using an art just after an autoattack connects boosts the art's damage and also fills more of the special gauge, so it's important to consider art timing. Because there's a huge variety of Blades to choose from, with different weapon types (which dictates available arts), roles, elements, and specials, this offers quite a bit of customization.

The biggest change comes in the emphasis on combos. There are several combo types, as follows:

Driver Combo - The basic Break-->Topple thing that's familiar by now, with the added steps of Launching toppled enemies into the air (which just looks funny), and Smashing them back down for massive damage.

Blade Combo - When you use a special of a given element (any level), a diagram will appear in the upper-right of the screen indicating which other elements can be chained together with that. If you follow that diagram by using level 2 and then level 3 specials of those elements (can come from party members as well) before the timer expires, extra elemental effects will be added to those specials, ending in a huge amount of bonus damage if you complete the combo. Completing a Blade Combo will make an elemental orb start circling the target, preventing them from using a particular status effect.

Fusion Combo - If you progress through a Driver Combo or Blade Combo while the other combo type is active (i.e. Topple the target between the level 1 and level 2 specials), the combination of the two will have extra effects, generally extra damage and extending the durations of the Driver/Blade Combo effects.

Chain Attack - Like other games, filling the party meter will let you start a chain attack, which in this case means selecting specials for each party member to use. If you break one of the elemental orbs mentioned earlier by hitting the target enough times (using the opposing element to that of the orb helps this), you'll extend the chain attack (each round consists of each party member using one special, and the specials' level goes up with subsequent rounds), as well as filling up yet another gauge that deals massive damage when it's full.

It's a lot on paper, but I'm finding that it's fairly intuitive once I've gotten the hang of it and learned to read the Blade Combo diagram that appears, and it offers a very pleasing number of options for customizing the party to maximize damage. It's not exactly the same battle system as prior games, but there are a lot of similarities, and it's no less dynamic.
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Zeus posted...

Again, not what a pedophile is.

Colloquially, it is. "Ephebophilia" is only ever used by people who are trying to avoid having to believe that somebody they like is a pedo, and cling to even the most pedantic alternative they can find to that. "Pedophilia" is broadly used as a blanket term for attraction to minors.
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Zeus posted...

Yellow posted...

How many great artists have we had since Picasso or Van Gogh?

Thousands of more talented people are probably slowly dying working in factories or something atm.

Kind of the nature of creative endeavors, tbh. Tons of talented people out there, but only a select few ever get their due.

That's one of the major benefits of a basic guaranteed income. Talented people have to eat until they hopefully get noticed, which means working unrelated jobs instead of being able to focus on developing their talent and getting noticed. With a basic income, that's no longer the case.
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JanwayDaahl posted...

And sometimes topics fall down quickly because the board is active.

12/2/2017 10:45:19 PM

12/3/2017 3:05:29 PM

Apparently being ignored for 16+ hours is "falling down quickly." Who knew?
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ernieforss posted...

Its pretty crazy how 3 levels can make you overpowered.

Level differences dictate accuracy bonuses/penalties, with a huge jump between +5 and +6 levels (-40% hit rate and -120% hit rate, respectively), where the enemy's level switches from yellow to red. When you're facing a higher-level enemy without enough bonus accuracy, you end up missing a lot, which not only means you aren't doing damage on those hits (which is devastating on higher-cooldown arts), it also means you're building up your talent arts more slowly, and most significantly, your Tension is going to drop. Having low Tension also provides a significant accuracy penalty (at the lowest level, you'll have a 5% hit rate) and crit rate penalty, so the problem just gets worse.

Basically, if you're having trouble beating anything, the first thing you should be looking to do is improve your accuracy, whether by leveling up to reduce the penalty (which isn't an option for the superbosses, since all but one are 6+ levels above 99), stacking more agility, or using Night Vision. It'll help tremendously.
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bulbinking posted...

Don't.

As somebody who loved the first, participated in operation rainfall (also bought last story and pandoras tower, although pandoras tower is passable for sure in terms of the 3 games) and bought it first day it come to the states... the second game is not related at all and unless you are super into modern jrpg bishonen prettyboy style ala FF15 and dont mind the japanese hiphop sountrack you CANNOT turn off, dont waste your money.

I was so excited I bought the game and guide first day, turned it back in a week later.

X is also a great game, it's just very, very different. It's a game about exploring, rather than being story-based, and it does a delightful job of capturing the feeling of exploring a strange and fascinating planet. Sounds to me like you just really hate the style of it, which isn't something you should be using as a basis for recommending or not recommending a game.

ernieforss posted...

I played it last night. i beat the second to last boss at level 76.

Again, how are you 110 hours into the game and only 76? Taking the game that slowly should leave you pretty overleveled, by my experience.

ernieforss posted...

I won't have trouble if my alies attack what i was attacking.

Hold Z and press A, I believe. If it's not that, it is in the manual for the game.

ernieforss posted...

haven't level up my monado, because the parts i need are from level 85 monster and i can't do any damage to level 84 and higher monsters.

The easiest way to tackle higher-level enemies is to use a party of Melia, Riki and Sharla, link Melia's skill that gives increased accuracy with Ether attacks to the other two, and put heavy armour on Riki so he can tank effectively. You won't be doing a lot of damage, but you'll at least be able to hit them, and Melia's DoTs are very powerful for longer fights. If you want to use physical attackers, you'll want to give them Agility VI and Night Vision VI gems and fight at night to fix their accuracy, but even so you're going to have a bit of a rough time until you get better skill links (like the one that makes all double attacks be crits, paired with a Double Attack VI gem and the skill that heals on crits).
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Full Throttle posted...

However some peple are stating she should HONOUR her deal because the users made the effort to retweet and fav her post...

"Effort." Riiiight...
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Jen0125 posted...

JanwayDaahl posted...

I guess it has to do with a lack of self respect that leads to such beliefs.

Bumped your own topic because no one is taking your bait. Sad what you've become.

"Become"? Janway's always been this lame.
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Zeus posted...

Tobacco use doesn't impair the senses.

Hence he specified distracted driving, rather than impaired.
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Smarkil posted...

_AdjI_ posted...

Mead posted...

Maybe this will motivate Disney to partner with some half decent developers with any new Star Wars games. Id even take Ubisoft over EA as a publisher.

They're contracted until 2020, and aside from this debacle, EA has definitely been making them money with the Star Wars brand. It may depend on how well they recover from this, but I doubt this alone is going to be enough to keep them from being able to renew the contract.

There's probably something in the contract that allows Disney to back out if EA fucks up this badly.

I kind of doubt it. If EA were actually causing monetary damages to the brand as a whole, maybe, but screwing up one video game isn't grounds for breaking a contract. This whole situation is going to do nothing to SW movie or merchandise sales, just make people less willing to trust EA with future Star Wars games.
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

_AdjI_ posted...

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joemodda posted...

Clearly they needed to add more microtransactions to compensate for their expected loss through the backlash. They're a company after all, they just want to make money!!

You jest, but that seems to be their mindset.

Well, and the fact DICE is now saying they did pay-to-win to avoid breaking SW canon (lol @ Vader and Solo playable in Episode I... nice try) theyve lost any hope of people believing anything they say ever again.

This is just embarrassing now.

Bonus points because Battlefront 2015 did have an abundance of cosmetic unlocks, so it's not like there's no precedent for it in the series (and it was done without grievously violating the canon, no less, as much as that means anything in a fanservice crossover game).

You know the dick that came up with this method to spin things thought checkmate!... Im waiting for them to exhaust all conceivable options and start referencing Hitler or something... Thats about where this arguments quality is.

For even more bonus points, people have been doing some datamining and found that there are additional skins and costumes lurking in the game, presumably with the intent of releasing them at a later date. It's not only a flimsy, nonsensical excuse, it's a bold-faced lie.

InfestedAdam posted...

Please correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the temporary removal of lootboxes/comestic/something and loss of revenue from that is why the stock took a hit and not necessary because fans are upset. At the end of the day, would stockholders even care about what the fans think so long as said game is making money?

Little of column A, little of column B. The initial stock drop would have been because removing microtransactions hurt the game's earning potential, rather than in direct response to the outrage, but I could see that further loss of value might be due to the fact that the outrage is still ongoing, and EA's damage control efforts aren't doing a particularly good job of restoring the game's image. That could definitely cause more investors to jump ship, since there isn't much reason to have faith that EA will turn this around any time soon.
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I usually go some time after the 80 km warning comes up, if it's convenient. Once it gets below 40 km, I'll go out of my way to refill, since that's cutting it close.
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I've already added this to my headcanon.
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Nightwish posted...

Oh no, his silver spoon having kids had to read a sign saying the truth about what their father is doing while he's selling the country to the highest bidder. The line was fucking crossed by him. The End.

Pretty much. It'd be one thing if his kids were actually being threatened (though not something that would in any way diminish the pro-net neutrality position, despite it being used for that end), but just reading a sign saying people hate what he's doing? If you don't want people to tell you that they hate what you're doing, don't do things people are going to hate.
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darkknight109 posted...

He was also legally a child when charged, giving him the dubious distinction of being the only child soldier ever prosecuted by the United States since the Geneva Convention was ratified.

Sorry, but you're going to have a hard time convincing me that the right place for a captured child soldier is prison (let alone Gitmo).

Indeed. The whole affair was extremely dubious, and far less clear-cut than the "Trudeau's paying terrorists!" thing people like to scream about.
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minervo posted...

Not long ago he apologized and gave 10.5 million to Omar Khadr, a convicted terrorist.

The alternative would have been spending millions more fighting the SC's decision (Harper had already spent over $100 million to that end, if memory serves), and probably still ending up awarding Khadr more money, all for the sake of fighting for Canada's right to torture information and confessions out of suspected criminals. Canadian citizens have rights, which the government is not supposed to violate. Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen, and therefore has the same rights as any one of us. There's a reasonable chance he's also a terrorist scumbag who belongs in prison, but that's quite irrelevant when it comes to his legal rights to not be tortured.

minervo posted...

Then why did he (purportedly) say that Evangelical Christians are the worst part of Canadian society?

Because Evangelical Christians are douches. Pretty much everyone that isn't an Evangelical Christian agrees on that, incluyding other Christians.

JunkoEnoshima posted...

he's better than harper, but he's still a do-nothing neo-liberal washup in his own right

Sounds about right. I'm glad Harper's gone, but Trudeau isn't doing much aside from periodically making everyone feel good by issuing long-deserved apologies. He also reneged on the electoral reform he ran on, which is really not cool.
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There's also this one, found with a pretty quick google search (literally the first page, readily available for anyone who's actually looking to learn about the issue and not just hoping that the assumptions they're basing their position on are right)::

https://qz.com/1139699/the-languages-that-take-the-most-and-least-time-to-learn-per-the-us-foreign-service/

(Ignore the URL, it's a weird article that's several articles in one. The first one's the only relevant one)
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Mead posted...

Modern day slavery is regular old slavery.

It never went away.

Eeyup. It just left the public eye.
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Zeus posted...

Given that a black professor in my state claimed that whites invented slavery and were the only practitioners, it's pretty safe to say that educational standards are in the crapper.

A professor of what? You can do a fine job of teaching physics without a solid understanding of history. That doesn't really say anything about educational standards without further clarification.
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Zangulus posted...

Id be curious as to find out how much of the huddle angry masses that hate EA spend money on their games...

The last EA game that I bought was Kingdoms of Amalur, which I got in early 2014 for $6. I haven't necessarily been actively avoiding them, but I don't really want to install Origin and their stuff doesn't end up on Steam anymore, so I guess that's kept me from buying their stuff even without paying attention to publishers.

Even if I were paying attention, though, and they were still releasing on Steam, I doubt I'd be getting too many of their games. I almost never buy non-Nintendo stuff at release (since it's not like Nintendo stuff's going to get cheaper if I wait), and by the time the games get discounted enough, there's enough unsavory information out there about their games that I don't think I'd buy them anyway. *Shrug*

Unbridled9 posted...

We've got a LOT of linear games that sell extremely well (just look at Pokemon)

I wouldn't really call Pokemon linear. Its story is, yes, but a lot of the game's appeal comes from exploring and collecting Pokemon, which is much more in line with open-world gameplay and the kind of ongoing player engagement EA and other big publishers love. It's not linearity that's bad for them, it's players finishing their games and putting them down (since that's when they stop buying microtransactions). So long as there's enough postgame content to keep players playing for a while, it doesn't matter how linear the story is.

Quite simply, Visceral's Star Wars game was canned because it wasn't going to make EA any additional money after the initial sale. They tried turning a linear single-player game into a cash cow with Dead Space 3, and they weren't able to do it without people getting uppity and disliking the game for introducing needless grinding and tedium. EA isn't interested in just having games sell well. They want those games to keep giving them money for years to come. Publishers have been saying that linear single-player experiences have been dead for years now, but that's less commenting on any actual observed trend, and more trying to convince consumers that they don't want something that's less profitable for them.
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ArctheLad13 posted...

Full Throttle posted...

The defense argued that Joe's only issues were minor speeding tickets and did not have a criminal record before that.

Right......but that doesn't matter because he very much raped an 11 year old who is his daughter.

Remember, it's okay to rape your preteen kids if you don't have a prior criminal record!
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mrduckbear posted...

"I would have preferred a name more like "Systemic Racism" because giving it "White Racism" as the name of the class i feel like it's intentional that you are trying to make white people look at the class a certain way"

Isn't "making [people] look at the class a certain way" the function of a course title? Of course it's intentional.
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While that's not a good position to take, it's important to recognize that it's in response to the attitude that legitimate sexual assault allegations should be downplayed or ignored because it's more important to avoid false accusations. In far too many cases, that attitude is even taken so far that victims have been prosecuted for making false accusations (typically based on minor inconsistencies in their testimony, since that tends to happen when somebody's interrogated without legal counsel shortly after being traumatized), only to find out a few years later when their attacker is arrested on more concrete charges that the allegations were completely legitimate.

It's important to avoid falsely accusing people of crimes, but that goes both ways: Making a false accusation is also a crime, and alleged victims of sexual assault should be presumed innocent of that crime until proven guilty. That means providing the resources victims need to be able to provide testimony that's usable as evidence, and not placing them immediately into an interrogation situation that's likely to pressure them into slipping up and failing to convict their attacker. Some police departments do this, which is great. Others still have the presumed attitude that any allegations are probably false, which is bad.

Also, a sizable chunk of the "court of public opinion" problem with sexual assault is the prevailing feeling that law enforcement is unlikely to solve the problem (see: Turner, one of the rare cases where a violent sexual offender was actually convicted, but just got a slap on the wrist for being a good boy that made a mistake). That doesn't excuse kangaroo courts, but it does explain them, and citing the kangaroo courts as a reason not to bother fixing the underlying cause of them is completely faulty, backwards logic.
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Ask your prof about the specific passages you're wondering about. Their opinion is the only one that really matters here.

thedeerzord posted...

I'm just explaining how Muslims radical interpretation of Islam has led to caliphates being created by terror groups.

You can absolutely find sources to back that up, and probably should because you didn't come up with that knowledge all on your own (and if you did, you should go find sources to flesh out what I imagine would be a very flimsy, poorly-substantiated claim).
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Generally, the higher the last three digits, the better. The first digit is the generation, and while a higher generation will typically beat a lower-generation CPU of a similar tier, if they're different tiers, the comparison gets trickier.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Any money spent on these products should be considered ephemeral entertainment, on par with theme park tickets, or overpriced themepark funnel cake.

Except still with a much, much greater entertainment:cost ratio than you'll get from those things. As much as games shutting down like this sucks, you still come out pretty well if you put even 10 hours into it.
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Unbridled9 posted...

Well, first off you have to have *actual* arguments to back up your opinion. Even if it's on something subjective you need at least some claim to validity.

Secondly, don't be up and in your face about it. One of the quickest ways to get someone to reject you is to come up into someones face and be like 'The world is flat you sheeple and I have evidence to prove that you've been knowingly lied too all these years by evil conspiritors!' That's not going to make you credible (even if it's true... which it isn't). It's just going to make people think you're crazy.

Thirdly. KEEP CALM! You will be mocked and insulted for it; so it's important to keep your cool. If you can come off looking like the better man you can get a lot more people to listen to you. After all, you stayed calm and reasoned while your opponent was shrieking at you.

Pretty much. Nobody's going to take you seriously if you can't support your opinion, and nobody's going to take you seriously if you come across as just being contrary for the sake of stirring up trouble. Even if you do those things, you'll still get people who'll dismiss you for being contrarian, but they're the sort of people that would look for a reason to dismiss anything they disagree with, and "you're just being contrarian" happens to be the easiest option for them. You can safely ignore those people.
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Protip: If it's a "pet peeve," then it's something you're complaining about. Almost literally by definition.
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I'm irrationally bothered by that article's decision to use "fake news" in place of "satire." Trump's America, ladies and gentlemen.
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TheWorstPoster posted...

Our current enemies don't give two s***s about the Geneva Convention.

Your allies, however, do. That's why your allies care about your enemies. The Geneva Convention exists not to let its member nations scream "you're not following the rules" when somebody breaks it, but rather to unite those nations behind the cause of stopping any nation that does perpetrate such war crimes.

TheWorstPoster posted...

I say we should simply abolish it, and win all wars, at ALL costs.

That's pretty easy for somebody to say who will never in any way be involved in bringing about such an outcome. If you aren't ready to personally mow down a militant's grandmother to get to him, then you're in no place to suggest that anyone else should do such a thing.
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It's an inevitability, but one which should be minimized as much as possible.
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Zeus posted...

Neither of which is a great example of waste, especially Christmas trees since the trees served no practical purpose in the first place.

Except for the huge tracts of land that are used to farm Christmas trees, and of course the water and fertilizer/soil nutrients that go into raising them. Those trees don't come out of nowhere. Even if they are being harvested from an existing forest, that's disrupting the local ecosystem by removing a habitat and shaking up ground-level vegetation. All for a decoration that lasts 3-4 weeks tops before being thrown away.
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pipebomb_phil posted...

Funny how all of a sudden most of you guys claim the UK's Committee is irrelevant and out of touch just because it their statement doesn't fit your narrative.

I think it's more a matter of thinking they're wrong than anything else, and the government is certainly not above logical scrutiny. People have reasons for lumping loot boxes in with gambling. The UK's focus here is on whether or not there's a monetary prize involved, which most people in favour of loot box regulations don't see as being particularly relevant. Instead, those people focus on the psychological principles that are exploited by gambling, which are also exploited by loot boxes. Gambling regulations exist to protect people from that exploitation (which can easily result in addiction), and therefore should also be applied to any other examples of that exploitation.

Basically, it doesn't matter if it's gambling or not. What matters is that it should be regulated for the same reason gambling is regulated.

pipebomb_phil posted...

This method allows Blizzard to continually update Overwatch with free maps, modes, heroes, and patches for everyone.

As I mentioned in your other topic (and you failed to address), Nintendo's pretty comfortably managing to provide a steady stream of updated content to Splatoon and ARMS without charging more than the shelf price of $60. Perhaps Blizzard should be asking Nintendo for advice on running online games if they're concerned about their ability to do the same.
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Metal_Mario99 posted...

Whoever the people are who think that "Breath of the Wild" is great and "Ocarina of Time" is terrible.

That's not a very long list.
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False dichotomy. You're already accepting that genders aren't necessarily binary by accepting a trans man, why insist that sexual orientations are still binary?
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