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from age 12 to age 18... took real grade 10-12 all at once at age 18. I'm basically mentally 10 years behind. home"schooling" should be illegal.
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I don't think we get to see residential life much or at all, do we? the settings are usually:
- slummiest of slums
- government buildings
- military bases
- wilderness
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I don't know why I was tagged in this, I don't tag anyone for any reason ever so far. I'm especially terrified of offending the women so I certainly wouldn't tag you specifically.
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not ugly but she has low femininity or something which makes her less attractive
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Don Bluth says hi (I haven't seen the Toy Story 3 scene to compare though)

Secret of NIMH - Owl Scene


All Dogs Go To Heaven - Hell Scene

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what are those and can I have one?
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funkyfritter posted...

Resident simcity sounds awesome.

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Blighboy posted...

That's the specific intent though. They want people to associate it with a very specific and evil ideology, so that people don't trivialize it or romanticize it, as has been occurring with alarming frequency in the United States.

k yeah. I guess my example of superstitions doesn't work because superstitions *shouldn't* be taken seriously, and it's the superstitious themselves that keep it alive.

in the case of nazis and the (other) "n" word, it's not a fictitious evil, it's a real one. instead we have the opposite problem: people will trivialize something they should in fact take seriously.
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darkknight109 posted...

telling people they're not allowed to frivolously and baselessly make use of one of the darkest monikers in human history

I don't get this. it's similar to the "n" word, and similar to religious people "giving power to words", like saying "the Lord's name in vain", or having knee-jerk reactions against swearing, or getting super offended at words like "demon" or "magic".

the problem with this attitude is that it *preserves* the meaning of the word. you're giving power to the word by treating it as something important. if you want to devalue the word, then let people use it haphazardly. you're actually *empowering* the word by reacting to it. "demons" are only deathly scary to superstitious religious people because of the importance that *they* inject into the concept. that's why Doom is so awesome. the right attitude is to not let the concept control you with fear, but to kick its ass and treat it with as much lack of respect as possible.
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only time I've been asked to was before surgery. I think the anesthesiologist asks you to do that so that he can tell when you're out.
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no, mostly because energy.

previously I'd have maybe said that it's unlikely that robotics or AI could get to that level... and then the last few years happened...

but even with advanced AI and robotics, there's still the energy problem, and that won't easily be solved.



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that's basically "Restart the game from scratch, but on a harder difficulty"
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what are you talking about, less than 10% play on anything less than normal. that's more than 90% that play on normal or harder.
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cold has so many problems that come with it, from wind-chill, frostbite, scraping windows, snow and ice (walking, driving, shoveling), frozen pipes, having to plug your car in, etc.

hot isn't perfect either, but has (seems to have) so many less problems. dehydration and heat-stroke is about all I can think of. I guess wildfires.

(I should say, I have been to California before (can't recall the time of year but not winter), and one thing I noticed was how "painful" the sun was. like it hurt my brain just to be under the sun. I've felt a similar "this is so extreme it's killing me" feeling from intense cold, but that was the only time I've felt it from sunshine, so I guess I don't really know how bad it can be.)
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early 20s

Lokarin posted...

Like 20, I had older BBS peoples, but they were all people I knew

BBSs for me was in my teens. never really talked to anyone, though.
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TNG > DS9 > Voyager > TOS > ENT > Discovery

to be fair I've seen like 80+% of TNG, and TOS, actually, maybe 60+% of DS9, like 40% of Voyager, like 4% of ENT, and 0% of Discovery

TOS is hard to rank because it's better in some ways than all of them, and worse in some ways than all of them

Grendel posted...

O'Brien and Garak > Picard and Data

I agree that Garak is great, but is there really enough of him to compare him to Picard and Data? isn't he a secondary character? O'Brien is ok.
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right maybe I phrased that wrong, I just meant "games that very obviously belong on this list". like it must be that everyone sees their own list as obviously correct and everyone else's as more or less random and meaningless.
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just curious, does everyone see what I see, which is that your list is filled with obviously the best of the best games ever made, whereas everyone else's is more like a random list of games with nothing in common?

(not trying to say that my list is better I just wonder if everyone sees it that way; I guess it must be the case)
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not sure I see the point. it's not the right setting for it. it's not like Wolverine where you're constantly wondering why he just ignores his claws. it's not like lightsaber wounds should be spurting blood everywhere either since they insta-cauterize.

also we already have the scene in Rogue One, we don't need anything more intense than that. that's already the limit of what's needed I would say.
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Deus Ex 1
System Shock 2
Baldur's Gate 1
Master of Orion 2

runners up:
TES games, especially Morrowind
Fallout games, especially 1 and 3
Link to the Past
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do you live in a cold climate? try doing it when it's -20 and the metal is frostbiting cold and there's snow and mud on everything

the only things I don't really like about it are that you always have to lift the damn car, and working with metal. oh and the way everything is so expensive.

metal has this tendency to get so jammed and stuck together that it takes ridiculous force to get things apart. it's a really crummy kind of exhausting. first the lugnuts, then the wheel itself is jammed on and you need a sledgehammer to break it loose, then the brake pin is jammed and takes like a half hour to get out, and a half hour to get back in, etc.etc. working on a relatively new car in a warm climate would be a lot nicer.
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I wouldn't call Attack of the Clones the best, but I did like it a lot more than most people. the good parts (Jango Fett) outweight the bad parts (Anakin).

from the others, the best is easily Empire Strikes Back

(this scene in particular makes me want a whole Jango/Boba Fett movie (though watching it again the fight itself is not perfect))

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my mom likes those. there was a Trivial Pursuit game on Xbox 360 that was not bad. there was a movie trivia one that was so-so. both had the problem that the questions start repeating pretty quickly, especially the movie one.
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at first I tried it like a sudoku, with reasoning and assuming that there's only one answer. but really I think there are many answers, and all you have to do is try numbering the squares. I just did that from 1-47 and never hit a dead end.


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Tropic_Sunset posted...

You stop the gap just short of where you would need to measure another shutdown.

the way I was looking at it was not really comparing averages, but taking the statement "1 per year" and going backwards from now. counting down from 2017, until you get to 1996 you will have hit only 1 other year in all that time that had a shutdown. that's like 19 misses and 1 hit, or so. note also that the further you get from the present, the less relevant it is to compare to the present.

Tropic_Sunset posted...

Can you tell me that if the last shutdown was in 1986 rather than 1996 (or 95, whatever), you wouldn't be saying 30 years right now?

then it'd be 29 misses and 1 hit. even if going back to the start of the USA, the average *was* 1 per year, it would still be pretty relevant that in spite of that being the average, there was only 1/30 in the past 3 decades.
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helIy posted...

there's only one account on my pc. me. the admin.

well-theres-your-problem.jpg

you should have at least two accounts: you, the non-admin, and the admin account. and possibly additional non-admin accounts for friends/family.
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you gave your friend admin access to your PC?
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Tropic_Sunset posted...

Oh, I would have thought you were comparing the shutdowns to his argument.

his claim was that the rate (before this one, because we're attempting to determine whether or not this one is unusual or not in comparison to something else) was 1 per year.

if I look at the history I see that the rate (before this one) was 1 in the last 20 years.

if the rate, before this one, had been 1 per year, then yes, this one in comparison would not have been unusual, as he implied.

given that the rate, before this one, (looking specifically at the last 20 years, which could actually be argued to be somewhat misleading), is 1 in over 20 years, then no, this one in comparison IS significantly more unusual than he implied.

Tropic_Sunset posted...

But if they occurred like clockwork, exactly once every 4.75 years, what would be a more accurate statement?

A) We've had 2 shutdowns in 9.5 years, or
B) Except for right now, we've had one shutdown in 9.5 years?

that doesn't make any sense, you subtracted it from the average. you don't subtract it from the average, you don't include it in the average in the first place.

think of it as drawing a line on the timeline. you're trying to compare one side of the line to the other, wherever the line might be. it doesn't make any sense to compare two *overlapping* time intervals.

it's like, if something happened a million times this year, and you wanted to know if that was significant or not, you wouldn't include the million in your average. you would take the average *before* the million, and the average of the million and compare the two distinct intervals.
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also, now that I notice it... why title this thread with the phrase "Luke's fate has been spoiled". that's barely any better.
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I have no idea. I'm glad I don't like star wars enough to care. but it doesn't seem to be that much of a spoiler, it seems like a plausible outcome especially looking at the advertising and stuff, and that the actor is old, and there's something controversial about the movie, etc.etc.

what's probably more interesting and hasn't been spoiled is the circumstances surrounding it. (this was the case for me for a previous movie.)

also, these days I would recommend (and I'm not trying to be unsympathetic here) that if you want to avoid spoilers for a particular movie, that you see it ASAP, like immediately if possible. (actually, sad to see the marketing for the movie actually plays on this a bit). there's this sort of malevolent spoiler, where some jerk just spoils it for lols, but there are lots of places (youtube comments and stackexchange hot questions list in particular) where it's both extremely likely and extremely easy to inadvertently read a non-malicious spoiler.
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Tropic_Sunset posted...

But then it would've happened once. I just don't understand this hip new lingo.

it's a comparison to what has happened previously versus what has happened now. previously, there was 1 shutdown in over 20 years, and now there's one more.

it doesn't make any sense to say that there are two in the last 20 years, including this one, and now there's one more. that's not a comparison.
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Tropic_Sunset posted...

yes, until now, or else I'd have said that it hadn't happened at all in over 20 years
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Judgmenl posted...

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Judgmenl posted...

Partial government shutdown happens every year when the minority party has a hissy fit.

lol imagine living in a world where this isn't the fault of Trump refusing every deal.

imagine living in a world without Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_States

> says it "happens every year"
> posts link indicating that it has [previously] happened only once in over 20 years
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TYT is pretty often terrible, but they are attempting to get money out of US politics, and it sounds like it could work if they keep making enough progress. 5 states down, 29 to go.

http://wolf-pac.com

good talk Cenk gave about the issue, though the audio sucks

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I thought of this the other day. no one has mentioned this once in like 4 years or something, so we all have like the highest scores ever. yay.
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cold and sweaty is just awful... at least if you're hot you can put a fan on or something, but cold sweat is lose-lose.
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Chrome <3

Firefox is handy if you have any XP systems, since more and more websites are using encryption that doesn't exist on XP and just won't work, except that Firefox implements its own encryption and doesn't rely on Windows, so those sites work just fine on Firefox.
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bump
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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
haven't seen but heard is better than 2 and 3

Sherlock Holmes
very good but not the best movie ever or anything
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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Romania or that region has never been represented in a game before

in any game or in a civ game? in EU4, there is Transylvania, Moldavia, and Wallachia, and you can form Romania.

there's also an achievement: Dracula's Revenge: Start as Wallachia or Moldavia, form Romania and own or have a subject own all of the Balkans.
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Doctor Foxx posted...

You can do that with anything. But actually having sex with someone else...

I'm not exactly comfortable talking about this, but you specifically used the term "intercourse" initially. As well, you're using the term "simulate". I think it can be said that a dildo very specifically "simulates intercourse". What you're saying now is that it does not simulate the entire sexual experience.
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better to watch the interview itself, Sargon's constant interjections don't really add much


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Zeus posted...

that awful 1408 adaptation

are you kidding, that was the movie that originally convinced me to get Netflix. that movie was *great* and it was like 80+% solo John Cusack.
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was just now watching Grosse Pointe Blank clips. awesome movie. High Fidelity is also good.
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yes, but the best are bison (sausages anyway)
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Lokarin posted...

basically, these are NON-PLATFORMER shooters. While you can jump, it's not typically for traversing the terrain. There's some, but not much

hmmmm. Rambo (NES) is like that

I want to say Chuck Rock and Joe and Mac 1 and 2 (and Congo's Caper) but they probably have more jumping than you're looking for.
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Lokarin posted...

Let's include Dick Tracy...

I also had that (NES), and if I recall I I beat it exactly once. it was actually pretty good, and is probably an underrated game, though I played it decades ago so it's hard to say.
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