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Don't forget about Tony Rodham's exclusive gold mining contract in Haiti either...
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Amuseum posted...

It feels great to go to Politics or Current Events boards, and just look for posts to report. There's usually one or more posts in many topics with blatant flaming.

Offensive terms I've marked:
Racist
Transphobic
Shitbag

If you added Trumpanzee and conservaderp to that list 261 would be a dead board.
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I think self driving cars can work, but it's only going to work if everything on the road is self-driving and networked with every other vehicle on the road.

I'm not sure how I feel about giving up all autonomy for that though.
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bdw9Onnn7og/

Apply cold water to burned area.
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Firewood18 posted...

I'm ashamed at my measly 146 PotD accounts.
it's true there only 6 real people on this board

And at least 5 of them are Soma.
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LanHikari10 posted...

I'd just avoid name calling period, even made up names.

You scruffy nerf herder!
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ernieforss posted...

But honestly i don't know what her platform will be, but i would probably vote for her.

This is exactly why we have the Electoral College. Ready to cast a vote without even hearing the platform. Lol.
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Zeus posted...

We have a lot of educated baristas and deli clerks, but those are jobs which don't need much education in the first place.

Which has in turn led to a job market where employers are asking ridiculous degree requirements for low paying jobs.
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Zeus posted...

WhiskeyDisk posted...

can we take a moment to reflect on the fact that both Roald Dahl and Lewis Carol shouldn't have ever been within 100 yards of a child ever, under any circumstances?

Awfully presumptive. Basis?

"Lamb to the Slaughter" should tell you Dahl was far more screwed in the head than people give him credit for and where Carroll is concerned it's pretty clear now that he was a pedophile that had an unhealthy obsession with his own neice.
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Not many of them do much for me, but if Khrystyana is considered "plus sized", there's something wrong with the standards. I get that models are supposed to be walking clothes hangers and all, but calling that body plus sized is just a generation of eating disorders in the making.

By that standard, Jennifer Lawrence, Katheryn Winnick, and Alexandra Daddario would be plus sized.

Hell, I'll concede that maybe gals like Kat Dennings and Milana Vayntraub are plus sized, but there's nothing wrong with their weight or body type. We're not talking Melissa McCarthy, Amy Schumer, or Roseanne Barr here.
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Since we're on the topic of young adult literature all around, can we take a moment to reflect on the fact that both Roald Dahl and Lewis Carol shouldn't have ever been within 100 yards of a child ever, under any circumstances?

Hell, I'd almost put Shel Silverstein on that list too if we're being honest...
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PowerSurgeX posted...

EclairReturns posted...

It's not like Oprah knows more than Trump about managing a first-world country, does she?

But shes a black woman - that even beats Obamas black man election platform.

She'd curbstomp Shillary, but the presidency would be debased at that point all around.

We shit all over the electoral college, but it was established to prevent mob rule by idiots to begin with and we seem to forget that.
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nwbp00ner sucks.
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Lol, maybe 20 years ago in Park Slope, but right now Brooklyn is so damned gentrified you have a better chance of someone bumping into you and spilling their organic artisanal fair trade latte on your jacket than getting shot at.
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My favorite autoflag that it took GFaqs nearly a decade to fix was "wristwatch/pocket watch".

Now if only we could get Zeus to spell Gaiman properly I can stop having this terrible mental image of Neil dressed like a Ferengi keep popping up in my head as the discussion continues...
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Honestly, about the only "young adult" books I have any fondness for at all at this point is probably the Dark is Rising series

Finally! Someone else that knows those books. I was starting to think my having read them as a kid was a Mandela Effect in the making since quite literally nobody else I've ever talked about books with for 30 years ever seemed to know what the hell I was talking about when I've brought them up.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Given the choice between the three, and being forced to be trapped in an elevator with one of them for a few hours, I'd probably pick Gaiman.

Now I can't say I've ever met or conversed with Miller or Moore at any length but I am a bit biased in that regard where Gaiman is concerned having had the opportunity to have a couple of beers with him after a book signing for the release of Neverwhere. I've told the story here many times so I'll save you the particulars but the man seemed very down to earth and humble to a fault given the praise being heaped upon him at the time and the bubble his core fandom had the power to create. Not at all what I'd expected. Certainly not the self absorbed ball of angst and brooding I'd anticipated under the false premise that The Lord Shaper was an author proxy. If anything, his self insertion character was Hob Gadling if I had to guess.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that he (at least as of just over 20 years ago) was certainly not a pretentious, navel gazing "artiste" despite it being easy to expect that of him.
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Mead posted...

The Waldo one is probably my least favorite of the entire show

If anything, I would think the Waldo one is more poignant now than it was when it was originally released.
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At least stick with it thru "White Christmas" before passing judgement...
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

A large part of that stems almost entirely from his work on The Sandman, though. Partly because of the sort of audience who were hugely into it at the time *cough*mall goths*cough*, but also because it seemed to key off a specific sort of subculture/mentality that I didn't identify with in any way (a similar problem I had with Changeling: The Dreaming early on, for similar and understandable reasons). What I always sort of think of as 1990s San Francisco in my head, for related reasons. Though which, in retrospect, I might define as "Art Hipster" (it may need tweaking).

It might be worth revisiting Sandman with fresh eyes--the writing on Sandman is actually quite good, at least thru what should have been the conclusion of the entire thing in Kindly Ones before he was pestered into beating a dead horse and adding several unnecessary books to the series that were obviously cash grabs.

Those original books are the kind of writing that largely went over the heads of the mall goths you despise since they only ever paid any attention to Dream, Death, or maybe Delirium anyway for fashion cues. Sure some of Gaiman's work is hit or miss, but he's kind of like Dave Mustaine and Megadeth in that regard. When he's bad, he's terrible but when he's good, he's outstanding.

I'll never understand hating a work of art because of it's fandom (unless we're talking about bronies or Juggalos, then by all means hate away). Nobody is asking you to cavort around comic-con dressed as Destiny and it's not like reading Preludes and Nocturnes is going to have you suddenly running out to Spencer's or Hot Topic for a spiked choker, a Marilyn Manson lunch box and fishnet arm gloves ffs.

Just sayin PO, at our age I think we've long passed the point of having to justify our interests in the context of "I like "x", but I'm not like those other people that like "x"".
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Zeus posted...

In other news, picked up a cheap copy of Neil Gaimon's Neverwhere which has been pretty decent. Granted, I'm not a fan of the intrusive narrative textboxes which I assumed (quite rightly) were a holdover from the original novel. Can't recall hearing about the tv show prior to this (no doubt partly due to having been on the BBC), but may check it out as well.

I think I still have a 90s era bootleg VHS of the series in my basement somewhere, it was very hard to get a hold of stateside, at least back then...but as far as Gaiman stories go there are a few major plot holes in Neverwhere that sort of ruin that one for me all around.

I might be behind on some of his most recent works and collaborations, but as much as I hate to admit it...unless his most recent works are stellar he seems to have peaked somewhere between Anansi Boys and Mirrormask .
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20ish. Gotta admit, I absolutely love my Kindle Paperwhite. Sure, I have the app also on my laptop, tablet, and phone...but it's just not the same. At least on the actual Kindle device I can read without any distractions from notifications and such.

Sure, I can get a chapter in on my phone here and there during a lunch break but the Kindle really allows me to just plow through a book properly free of distraction.
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Ultima_Dragoon posted...

The Russian businessman had his men steal the bottle so the Danish guy would be in his debt

^this
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Syntheticon posted...

avatarmight posted...

Mother Brain

Weird ass question but this answer is hard to beat. Could be /thread right there.

Chi-Chi would beat Mother Brain's ass. Just sayin'.
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1. Lower your standards considerably.
2. Forget all you know about dignity.
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
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She has a very Milana Vayntrub thing going on...and I like it.


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A song from a game I have very much tried to love many times, but just can't for fundamental game mechanics reasons.
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Vagrant Story
Steambot Chronicles
Siren
Godhand
Robot Alchemic Drive

I'm sure I'll think of more later.
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Raganork posted...

WhiskeyDisk posted...

it's steep learning curve and clunky controls have aged like a warm halibut and to pretend otherwise is dishonest.

I dunno man. Seems like games with steep learning curves and clunky controls are making a comback. See: Monster Hunter, Nioh, Dark Souls.

"Shrugs" I've always been clear on my distaste for monster Hunter, I couldn't care less about nioh, and my opinion of dark souls has always been that it's Devil May Cry slowed down hard enough to make second guessing yourself into a game mechanics.

At least DMC and Ninja Gaiden had the decency to let you screw yourself in real time...

That being said...as far as clunky controls go, I've always loved the hell out of Robot Alchemic Drive, and I'm currently replaying Steambot Chronicles, so who am I to judge, lol?
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Raganork posted...

WhiskeyDisk posted...

The same could be said of games like Vagrant Story and Parasite Eve.

I replay those two every year and still think they're some of the best games ever made, and in the case of Vagrant Story, probably THE best game ever made (tied with Valkyrie Profile, of course).

Though I am playing Terranigma for the first time and it's possibly the best game I've played on the SNES, maybe the best I've played all year, so that #1 spot is in danger.

I'm not saying Vagrant Story is a bad game at all. In fact you know it's one of my top 5, but it's steep learning curve and clunky controls have aged like a warm halibut and to pretend otherwise is dishonest.
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The Wave Master posted...

The best thing we can do is make a list, of whatever you're rating, then go back in a few years and see if your opinion of the game has changed.

That's a good point. There are plenty of games from past generations that were worthy of high praise at the time but have aged about as well as unrefrigerated fish.

Something like Bushido Blade comes to mind as an example. Certainly revolutionary at it's time of release, and to this day I'm not sure we've seen anything like it, but it has aged terribly to put it mildly. The same could be said of games like Vagrant Story and Parasite Eve. Unique, certainly but long in the tooth as anything other than a historical footnote 20 years later.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

WhiskeyDisk posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

Cotton_Eye_Joe posted...

*pays two different companies for access to the internet*

okay... I'm missing something obvious here

I'm guessing home based and mobile here.

Yup... that was pretty obvious.

With a name like yours, it never hurts to ask.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Cotton_Eye_Joe posted...

*pays two different companies for access to the internet*

okay... I'm missing something obvious here

I'm guessing home based and mobile here.
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It probably doesn't help that his pants are hiked up to his solar plexus like it's the 1940s either as far as perspective goes.
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Back in my hometown about a decade ago they had to install suicide fences on all the overpass bridges since jumping on to traffic on I-95 had become a popular suicide method. Then the brother of a guy I worked with jumped off the 9th floor of the mall instead.
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Kungfu Kenobi posted...

Anisoptera posted...

A lot of these movies starring an Asian protagonist are martial arts movies.

Fine, Tampopo.

Lol, I would be surprised if you, me and Leos weren't the only ones that have watched that one...
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I think he was guilty in the sense that some of his actions were wildly inappropriate around children in his home.

That being said, I don't think any of it actually had a predatory romantic or sexual intent, and that MJ was just a really messed up individual from a psychological standpoint, but entirely harmless. I think he himself had regressed into a child like mental state himself and couldn't conceive of why his actions would be interpreted as creepy.

I don't believe for a second that his intention was to hurt these kids or that he even understood why his behavior would be considered inappropriate.
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Wait until they get around to an all female Rocky or Armageddon...
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Just like the Newburgh Sting. Agents entice a borderline simpleton that had no means to carry out an attack into planning something and then bust them after providing the simpleton everything they needed to make a case out if it.
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80/80.

I'd make a parody topic, but I'm just too lazy to do it right...

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Every Christmas my Mom would get a fresh goose, for gooseburgers, and my Dad would whip up his special eggnog out of bourbon and ice cubes.
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No ring of fire as such, but are you aware of Steambot Chronicles?
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Probably the first accessory you'll find in Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, followed by a ring of ice resistance...
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Nightengale posted...

can't wait for androidboys to act like their phones don't also have planned obsolescence

My oneplus2 is definitely starting to show it's age, and I certainly wouldn't turn down the most recent model as a gift, but this phone still does what I need it to.
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