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not really worth eating without being melted
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the only one I know so far is John Mahoney (Frasier Dad)
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the 50-72 genders thing comes from facebook as per recommendations from the LGBTQEtc community

https://www.facebook.com/facebookdiversity/posts/774221582674346

The new genders being added to the list are:

Asexual
Female to male trans man
Female to male transgender man
Female to male transsexual man
F2M
Gender neutral
Hermaphrodite
Intersex man
Intersex person
Intersex woman
Male to female trans woman
Male to female transgender woman
Male to female transsexual woman
Man
M2F
Polygender
T* man
T* woman
Two* person
Two-spirit person
Woman

The list of the 50 previous gender options:
Agender
Androgyne
Androgynes
Androgynous
Bigender
Cis
Cis Female
Cis Male
Cis Man
Cis Woman
Cisgender
Cisgender Female
Cisgender Male
Cisgender Man
Cisgender Woman
Female to Male
FTM
Gender Fluid
Gender Nonconforming
Gender Questioning
Gender Variant
Genderqueer
Intersex
Male to Female
MTF
Neither
Neutrois
Non-binary
Other
Pangender
Trans
Trans Female
Trans Male
Trans Man
Trans Person
Trans*Female
Trans*Male
Trans*Man
Trans*Person
Trans*Woman
Transexual
Transexual Female
Transexual Male
Transexual Man
Transexual Person
Transexual Woman
Transgender Female
Transgender Person
Transmasculine
Two-spirit

seems to be a lot of overlap, many are just rephrasing the same things
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Lucky Charms are actually surprisingly terrible. The "marshmallows" aren't even that great, and the rest is pretty lousy.

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myghostisdead posted...

Lucky Charms are magically delicious.

if stale marshmallows and cardboard had a baby

yeah this
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JanwayDaahl posted...

DS3 seems to be one of the better optimized games in recent years. Just about every other AAA game gets run on low settings if I want it to run at a decent framerate. For example AC origins, battlefield 1, overwatch, pubg, far cry 4 and nioh all suffer from heavy fps drops, some even on lowest settings.

DS3 was the game that "forced" me to upgrade my video card. I had Doom 2016 and DS3 at the same time. DS3 was almost unplayable, but Doom 2016 ran fantastically.
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JanwayDaahl posted...

Dark Souls 3

If you can play DS3 well, then what exactly are the games you're having problems with? you gave one example of a bad running game, but gave three examples of games that run well, so it doesn't sound like you actually have a problem
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shoveling snow is hard on the back, but at least you can sort of do it quickly

mowing the lawn makes a ton of noise, you have a mechanical device to maintain, it's sort of messy, it's a way larger area, you have to clear the yard, it's not always easy to get every nook and cranny, maybe you have to also do some weed-eating, etc.
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Yellow posted...

First off, since when does Fox want Hillary?

"the media" doesn't mean "the entire media". obviously fox can't be anything but pro-right.

Grendel posted...

Sahuagin posted...

Hillary

Sahuagin posted...

extreme-left

I referred to extreme-left ideas, particularly identity politics. I didn't say Hillary herself was wholly extreme-left.
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delicious when fresh, but they dry out fast
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I realized a long time ago that the people that you meet in real life you have nothing in common with, and talking to them just doesn't work, even somewhere like Facebook. A message board, though, we all come here with relatively similar interests, which gives us a default way to relate to each other (even though two gamers liking the same games in the same ways is actually pretty rare). Also, the pacing of message board discussion is a lot easier for me to cope with. Even chat is too fast.
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I went to Video Games Live twice. that's basically all the "concerts" I've been to. the first was the best and one of the most amazing things I've ever done. the second was the same exact show, though with a different set of songs or at least in a different order, and was a lot less amazing though still very enjoyable.
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Nightengale posted...

Americans are by and large confused and that is how someone like Trump gets elected.

well... no. the media wanted Hillary. Trump is the americans' response to this same kind of extreme-left nonsense trying to rear its ugly head there. but yeah, Trump is gloriously anti-left and anti-political-correctness, not a nazi.
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these are both games I'm playing through regularly at the moment, so it's hard to say that I "finished" one and "moved on to" the next, but:

Just Finished (and still playing): Death Road to Canada
Now Playing (even after finishing): Endless Space 2

DRtC is probably the best roguelike I've ever played (if it counts as one, the more I read of the term the less I think it fits)

Endless Space 2 is the best 4x game I've played in a while
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work day:
9:30 coffee
11:30 coffee
1:30 flavoured coffee
3:30 hot chocolate
6:00 2x tim horton's sandwiches and a large soup

day off, varies considerably:
morning coffee
morning eggs if I have them, otherwise noodles
midday coffee
midday cookies if I have them
afternoon/evening some larger meal, usually spagghetti or stirfry noodles
gatorade
evening decaf if I have it
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true, this is extreme-left-wing not right-wing
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darcandkharg31 posted...

Sahuagin posted...

buy Ichiban instead?

apparently it means "number one" or "first"
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just frustrated at always arguing against a brick wall in both directions. might as well agree with someone for once.
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I like how it's rendered to look like a blistering plague
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Nightengale posted...

You can argue that the law is written poorly all you want

the "code" I linked literally says they don't define the terms "gender expression" and "gender identity" in the code, but that it could include various things.

Nightengale posted...

oh good lord dont tag him into this

I don't normally tag anyone, but I've had so many arguments with him and others where he wouldn't budge a nanometer on his free speech, and now there's all this stuff that just tramples free speech to death and no one cares.
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lots of info here:

http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/questions-and-answers-about-gender-identity-and-pronouns

they sure go out of their way *not* to say that it's ok to use the wrong term. note that all of the stuff in the "code" is what the "human rights tribunals" enforce.

Kana, it sounds like you *could* file a complaint if someone regularly mislabels you.

where are those guys that would die before having even a sliver of their free speech stepped on? they must hate this so much. maybe that is why they were being all anti-canada earlier in the thread.

@Troll_Police_
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Nightengale posted...

I live in Ontario, and no, sorry, thats really not something I could do.

I don't see how you can know that, but it doesn't matter if you can or not.
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Nightengale posted...

yeah its not like Im someone who actually does deal with being misgendered or anything

if only Id known I could make everyone whos done that stand at a human rights tribunal lol

it's possible you could if you made a big enough deal about it and talked to the right people, who knows, I'm just glad I don't live on ontario. just the fact that there *exists* a "human rights tribunal" should be alarming enough.

faramir77 posted...

Saying that a law disallowing discrimination against people based on gender expression will lead to people being jailed for refusing to use pronouns is a textbook example of th slippery slope fallacy.

it's not slippery slope, it's badly written law. slippery slope is like, "if we allow iffy thing X, then it's only a matter of time before we're allowing obviously-horrible thing Y!". this is nothing like that.

the law (ambiguous as it is) can be interpreted in such a way that saying "she" to someone you didn't know wanted to be called "he" is literally illegal. whether anyone will ultimately be charged or not is beside the point. the fact that a law like this is allowed to exist is an embarrassment.
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Bagamak posted...

World of Warcraft. people have been asking for playable Ogres since almost the entire lifespan of the game, and Blizzard continues to ignore them. they even mocked us one year when they announced Ogres as an april fools joke

yeah that could be an example of "just because fans want it doesn't mean it's a good idea". there's lore implications, geography, art, abilities, it's not an easy thing to just add a race, unless they added it cheaply (like adding race skins and have it as an orc skin or something) which is probably something they don't want to do.
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I think I would need a specific example
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reminds me of the time I was auditing, and they had processed a refund to correct a double charge. for some reason it kept being off by the refund amount (probably twice the amount but this was a long time ago), and I couldn't figure out why. eventually I realized that the "refund" had been processed simultaneously as a void and a refund, so it double negated itself, and instead of returning one charge to the customer, it was effectively a third charge.
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overwatch is all i've played from that list
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she should have the opposite reaction and be proud to live somewhere that a person can actively openly diss the government and *not* be punished for it
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Lokarin posted...

Do you know a way to make Mr. Noodle packets any good? They have totally weak ass flavour

buy Ichiban instead?
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Nightengale posted...

Please cite an official government link of our Criminal Code that mandates use of specific pronouns.

my understanding of this issue is:

Bill C-16 "adds 'gender identity or expression' to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act"

"gender identity" and "gender expression" are poorly defined terms. the ontario human rights policies have said that refusing to use someone's pronouns can be considered gender-based harassment and that it is "likely" discrimination. not knowing or not intending to harass is still harassment.

ontario has *human rights tribunals* which is already ridiculous by itself. they enforce ontario human rights policies, and you can hypothetically legally find yourself in front of a tribunal, and be found guilty of a hate crime, for not using someone's pronouns, even inadvertently.
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The 'Burbs
Grosse Pointe Blank
Groundhog Day
The Princess Bride
Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz/The World's End
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wwinterj25 posted...

It could very well be 13 large dogs.

no, because then there'd only be 36-13=23 more small dogs than large dogs.

hmmm
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capn crunch is "yummier" but special k is what I would actually choose to eat, being way more healthy. it's not bad taste-wise, either. it's basically rice krispies that were smushed before being dried
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wwinterj25 posted...

They say 36 more small dogs than large dogs.

there aren't 36 small dogs unless there are 0 large dogs and 13 something-else dogs
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most of the time, the villain is not an active entity in the world, and can't cause *anything* to happen. it's up the player to push things forward.

some exceptions could be:

if I recall, in mass effect 2, the end part of the game starts when you are attacked "randomly" by the bad guys. there is something the player does to allow that to be able to happen, but it's not an obvious thing without looking it up. and until the attack actually happens, you're not in the end game yet. there is still another "point of no return" that the player has to actively and knowingly access, though.

in the game Lords of Magic, the bad guy wanders the map for the whole game, and can attack you at any time. if you beat him you win. often you will amass an army and attack his lands directly, but sometimes you will just win if he comes across your armies and attacks, and you manage to win.
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probably the best part of ME3 was this song

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I don't even like our anthem anyway, but how is "in all of us command" grammatically correct? or... what does "in all thy sons command" even mean, since "sons" is not possessive...

I guess they did like a german thing and put the verb at the very end of the sentence. that a dumb way to form a sentence is.
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you could say that there is 1 medium dog. then there's 6 large dogs, 1 medium dog, and 42 small dogs. but doing it that way, with some unknown number of neither-small-nor-large dogs, gives you many solutions.

probably it's supposed to be 48 instead of 49, which would seem a more likely number to use with 36.
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Lokarin posted...

Well, it's imbalanced. The core characters are very well developed, but some of the extras are like "mehhh, let's kill Hidon"

very well developed? I feel like they're more defined by their appearance and name than by any actual character development. they're all basically their sprites, name, and a few one-dimensional properties. even kefka.
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there are things to like about FF6, but if you actually play it it hasn't aged that well at all IMO. in particular, the characters have very shallow development. the gameplay's not that great either.

it was mind-blowing for its time, but it doesn't really hold up today. it could use a complete redesign.
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bulbinking posted...

Was it the homeschooling which was bad, or did you have bad teachers and dont want to look at your parents in a negative light so instead of blaming them you blame the practice homeschooling.

I don't know what you mean by this, there are no "teachers". there's just an endless series of workbooks.

What oppurtunities do you think you missed from homeschooling?

stunted social development from spending ages 12-18 doing almost nothing but lounging around the house playing video games not knowing any better. there's so much growth from that timeframe that never happened. you have no idea what it was like to take grade 10 classes at age 18 with the mind of a 14 year old. I've been playing catchup ever since and there's still things I can't do. and my siblings are much worse off than me.
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Zeus posted...

You're being overly dramatic.

you have no fucking clue. you can't be real, brushing aside a person missing 7 formative years of their life as if it was nothing.
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I wish there were better ways of punishing people. Some things deserve punishment and shouldn't be tolerated, but not everything should just be "throw them in prison".
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Zeus posted...

The isolation IS the exception.

I don't see how. if you have enough extra activities to make up for the experience of entire years of school, then that arguably isn't even "home schooling" anymore, it's just some weird form of private schooling.

to be clear, I wasn't isolated to the point of having no human contact whatsoever. I had a few neighbourhood friends. it's not the same, not even close. again, the moment I was in a real class again, I knew the difference. I grew emotionally/socially as much or more in that year than in the past 7. though I also had to painfully discover my now permanent handicaps.

Zeus posted...

Having gone through the public education system, I can assure that you missed far less than you think. Otherwise, *everybody* has at least some regrets or remorse about the way they grew up.

well I'm the one who's actually missing something; as the saying goes you don't know what you have till it's gone.

weren't you the one who posted about genie? you can't really fix things that happen during formative years. it defines you. you can learn to cope with it and work around it, but your brain is hardwired with the deficiency.

additionally, I'm the oldest of three. I actually have it the best, since I was isolated at a later age. my siblings are much worse off, proportionate to their age and how young they were when it started.
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I find this to support that people die more from coconuts than from sharks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_coconut

but where is anything to say that coconuts kill sharks?
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haven't gotten T4 yet, and you can't file till like Feb 15 anyway
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Zeus posted...

Homeschooling doesn't automatically pertain to religion

the religion part isn't even that bad necessarily. obviously it's bad, but I would choose religious real-school over secular home-"school" any day.

Zeus posted...

The cliche of social isolationism isn't inherently true either

doesn't fucking matter if there are exceptions, it happens, and isolating someone that way for an enormous chunk of their development years is beyond fucked up. *anything* is better.

Zeus posted...

sending kids to public schools doesn't guarantee socialization

having lived through this, the difference is beyond anything I can explain. I knew on day 1 home-room that this was something critically missing from my life. it's a hole in my development that I can never get back. it's like having a piece of my brain removed.
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Zeus posted...

It works for some people, but not for others. A naturally intelligent, self-motivated youth will yield far greater results in less time than an average student. However, if somebody doesn't have those capabilities, they're going to end up worse.

from a learning point of view it's almost ok (ignoring the religious indoctrination, like actually learning that the world was covered in an ice shield before the flood, etc.), it's the social isolation during development years that's the problem.
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