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| Topic | How are the Danganronpa games? |
| lightwarrior78 10/23/17 5:10:53 PM #7 | If you like AA, Danganrompa is a good follow up. It's the same style of whodunit mystery, but more psychedelic and with mini games in the courtroom. --- |
| Topic | Ex-NeoGAF community and moderators come together to create ResetEra |
| lightwarrior78 10/23/17 4:56:22 PM #29 | mario2000 posted... taking bets on how long til the admin of that site is outed as a sexual predator and site gets shut down We need one of those workplace accident signs: X days since a holier than thou liberal was accused / exposed to be a sexual creep. --- |
| Topic | Scenario: The last horror movie you watched is now happening down the street. |
| lightwarrior78 10/23/17 3:35:22 PM #21 | I'm not sure myself, but there are silhouettes of robots making smart assed comments about it on the corner. --- |
| Topic | Trump Admin wants to reduce funding for bc medication; increase rhythm method $ |
| lightwarrior78 10/23/17 3:20:34 PM #26 | s0nicfan posted... That's a shitty thing to do, but I also wonder why whenever birth control comes up nobody ever talks about the fact that condoms are cheap (free if you go to planned parenthood). It's like the default assumption in cases like this are "well nobody's going to use a condom anyway. Without access to birth control women everywhere are just going to get knocked up" It's its core, the left sees income redistribution and taking from the wealthy as something that should at least be a side effect of all policy, hence there's little if any need to do a cost / benefit analysis. Being smart about your sex life and acknowledging low cost options available to you doesn't redistribute wealth, so bring on the "free to me" pills and abortions. --- |
| Topic | Garfield creator Jim Davis finds "dog semen" theory hard to swallow |
| lightwarrior78 10/20/17 5:12:23 PM #18 | Kitt posted... FrozenXylophone posted...wow This was well before she even liked him. --- |
| Topic | game of thrones ending is gonna be the Mass Effect 3 of television |
| lightwarrior78 10/18/17 10:07:47 PM #7 | It probably won't live up to any expectations, but it will probably stay at disappointing, not the insult we got in ME3. --- |
| Topic | why do trump and the alt right appeal to bitter basement nerds and weebs |
| lightwarrior78 10/18/17 5:24:53 PM #7 | Hint: he's not asking for approval while calling them "bitter basement dwellers". --- |
| Topic | Feminist is offended that men are sharing stories of abuse experiences #metoo |
| lightwarrior78 10/18/17 1:50:38 PM #20 | pinky0926 posted... The context would provide clues on what she's responding to. Sorry, but I see it as the opposite. Denying certain voices that have suffered the same problem shows hashtags and movements like these are not about the problem, but in making it all about themselves and how much they've suffered. This can be for attention or to control the conversation so that only certain solutions are up for consideration, but either way it's about saying "I know you've suffered too and I want to be empathetic, but it's all about me now so fuck off." --- |
| Topic | When Are You Going to Die CE? (Death Clock Game) |
| lightwarrior78 10/17/17 11:04:14 PM #13 | LanHikari10 posted... But there is no February 30?!?!? Must mean immortality. Mine says 2065. I'm not sure I want to go on that long. --- |
| Topic | Elliot Rodger and the Toxic Weight of Virginity |
| lightwarrior78 10/17/17 6:03:26 PM #34 | Sadly, male virginity is something it's still okay to shame. Notice how often "virgin" or "sexless" are used are derogatory insults in online arguments like the amount of sex you get is a qualifier for the right to be heard. --- |
| Topic | They need to make this movie to explain the dangers of time travel |
| lightwarrior78 10/16/17 2:07:22 PM #24 | Few stories about time travel don't act like there's no danger or unforeseen possibilities. It's rarer to see one that has time travel as somehow perfectly safe. Though the specific idea is a decent one, even fairly plausible. On one side Hitler was a catalyst for a lot of civil unrest that would have blown up over something, and on the other, was possessed of ...let's say eccentricities not helpful to the war effort. Hitler just did so much bad it's hard to imagine he might have been the lessor of 2 evils. Or more likely, people don't see the whole puzzle and think it's that one bad piece. It's the idea that makes me miss the first 2 seasons of Sliders. --- |
| Topic | Why did the election of a conservative shell shock so many people? |
| lightwarrior78 10/11/17 5:50:28 PM #91 | It's probably been said, but they thought the core values of the whole country had changed because they stayed in their tiny corner of it. "everyone" believed in gay marriage, trans rights, and picking your own gender. "everyone" loved Obamacare and there were no unintended side effects like rising premiums. And even when they didn't have everyone, most big names were supporting fighting climate change and supported suppressing vile hate speech like "I didn't like Ghostbusters 2016". Then like the coyote in the cartoon, found their endless road was painted on the wall. Trump may be an agrivant, but like Obama's race to the other guys I doubt they'd be much better with anyone else. --- |
| Topic | I like my women like I like my presidents |
| lightwarrior78 10/11/17 2:21:18 PM #10 | |
| Topic | "Hard work" is an "ideology" |
| lightwarrior78 10/10/17 3:35:30 PM #31 | I think the problem is we define success as being filthy rich, not earning a comfortable middle class lifestyle. My house is paid for. I'm out of debt. I have more games than I can play. I'm successful enough (especially since most people thought I'd be on disability all my life). Others seem to see anyone with more than them, or earning at all with less effort as some personal attack or form of oppression and are never really happy. --- |
| Topic | "Hard work" is an "ideology" |
| lightwarrior78 10/10/17 2:51:00 PM #15 | C_Pain posted... It kinda is. I hate the notion of hard work makes you better. Fuck that, all of human advancement has been about lessening the work we do. The culture has changed. Labor saving was supposed to take away the drudgery of survival so as to focus on things we enjoy. ie: I now have the time to become a great painter. I now have the time to read everything I've every wanted. I now have the time to learn new skills for my own enjoyment. We don't do that as much anymore, often looking at people strangely if they do their best at anything, or like a challenge. Worse, since we haven't gotten rid of work yet, it's infectedin to those areas. Why take a hard career. Why do my job to the best of my abilities. Why should I work harder for more reward. Why learn to do what I can pay someone to do. --- |
| Topic | Whats the deal with republicans being anti- birth control? |
| lightwarrior78 10/06/17 2:09:57 PM #82 | Prestoff posted... It's not just conservative Christians, but conservative *insert any Abrahamic religion here* are anti-premarital sex and anything that promotes having it, they are against even if it's counter productive. It's been proven that getting rid of things like planned parenthood only increases the birth rate of unwanted babies, the exact opposite of what they want. I mean yes in a perfect world abstinence would be the perfect answer, but so would things like 100% socialism. But no, we don't live in that perfect world, we live in the real world that by making it harder for people to get access to preventative things like birth control it only creates an environment that only hurts everyone. The thing is, and the thing that makes me sympathetic to the Republican side of this is, what is the imperfect hing? People. People that do things they've been told not to do and why they should not be doing it, but do it anyway. We try and duck the issue that unwanted pregnancies are why abstinence was pushed as a good idea and safe sex is brought up everywhere to instead act entitled to an active sex life even if someone else has to buy the condoms. Why be smart and responsible when you can get someone else to buy things that take risk off the table? --- |
| Topic | Whats the deal with republicans being anti- birth control? |
| lightwarrior78 10/06/17 2:01:32 PM #79 | DuranOfForcena posted... DevsBro posted...But some oppose it for religious reasons Money. --- |
| Topic | Why is white slavery in OTHER countries brought up when black slavery... |
| lightwarrior78 10/06/17 1:37:10 PM #7 | Slavery is the de facto thing to blame for everything wrong in the Black community. Bringing up other batches of slaves is to show that a shitty history doesn't have to hold you back if you'd quit internalizing it so much and tried to make the most of what you have. --- |
| Topic | If we ban guns, how will people protect their family and property? |
| lightwarrior78 10/04/17 2:52:25 PM #196 | Taking a guess, I'm sure many believe that when they also get all the government funded safety nets they want in place and legalized drugs, such crime would drop to 0% so you won't need protection. --- |
| Topic | Can people who willfully choose not to drink milk even be considered people? |
| lightwarrior78 10/03/17 5:42:30 PM #7 | I was allergic when younger but have largely grown out of it (I just get a bit gassy instead of violently ill), but now I can't develop the taste of it. --- |
| Topic | "Owning guns is like owning a car!" |
| lightwarrior78 10/03/17 5:18:40 PM #12 | Potentially dangerous in the wrong hands but we don't try and ban them or restrict them en masse for the acts of a few idiots despite causing more deaths per year then guns? --- |
| Topic | What's the deal with white people who claim to be non-racist but don't want to |
| lightwarrior78 10/02/17 1:48:37 PM #28 | In my case it's because I don't want my non racism to be measured in how much I'm giving someone. It reminds me too much of an emotionally abusive relative of mine that's always judged how much she's loved by who's giving her the most stuff and attention. I'm not falling for it again. --- |
| Topic | the movie Interstellar should be required viewing for anyone who wants to defund |
| lightwarrior78 09/27/17 5:49:16 PM #10 | FLUFFYGERM posted... lightwarrior78 posted...Until the movie copped out and gave it a happy ending Only because I expect that from Hollywood. The movie was 95% grounded in real science and downright fatalistic, then at the end, here's the way to have everything work out through physics so theoretical they come close to star Trek technobabble. It never worked for me because it seemed like that only happened because "movie". --- |
| Topic | the movie Interstellar should be required viewing for anyone who wants to defund |
| lightwarrior78 09/27/17 5:06:01 PM #6 | How does that work? Until the movie copped out and gave it a happy ending it pretty much ran with the reality that no matter who is in charge, science doesn't always produce great answers to problems. --- |
| Topic | Holy shit. I just saw a squirrel run into the street when a car came |
| lightwarrior78 09/27/17 4:45:39 PM #16 | Awesome posted... i remember seeing a cat looking both ways when crossing the street like a month ago, shows how much smarter they are than humans. I don't know. I've seen a cat sleeping in the middle of the lane. --- |
| Topic | Prejudice + Power = Racism |
| lightwarrior78 09/27/17 3:04:28 PM #54 | The Admiral posted... lightwarrior78 posted...My response is the same: so you're fine with Prejudice, just not a lack of power. I don't think it's academic so much as pragmatic. Like I say, they got caught behaving in a way they say is bad and are left with 3 choices 1) Change their behavior 2) realize it isn't easy to do and be more forgiving of others' failures to do so 3) come up with some way to justify it. Guess what wins. Privilege and fragility do the same thing. Privilege lets you accuse racism without naming specific wrongs, persons, or actions that can be brought to account, and is done to both protect from rebuttal and explanation, and to ensure that the problem is never really solved so that it can continue to be used whenever you want something changed. Fragility is the usual insult of a bullying shithead that for all the talk of empathy and respect for others, are indifferent to the opinions and negative outcomes to anyone outside their chosen groups (if they don't enjoy making the evil white devils hurt). It's another "do as I say" thing that make me say "why should I give a shit about your opinions when you show no respect for mine." Nothing is academic. It's all weasel words to avoid being held to a standard they set for others so they can keep the outrage train going and not get called out like the anti-gay pastor caught with a gay hooker. --- |
| Topic | Prejudice + Power = Racism |
| lightwarrior78 09/27/17 2:31:28 PM #49 | My response is the same: so you're fine with Prejudice, just not a lack of power. I have never seen that statement come up except to try and defend behavior that by all appearances is judging and negatively stereotyping someone for their race, gender, etc, but it's to the "right" people done by the "oppressed" so it's okay. It gives the whole progressive movement a "do as I say, not as I do" vibe to it. --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones - don't understand the outrage *Season 5 wedding spoilers* |
| lightwarrior78 09/25/17 4:26:15 PM #8 | A) It wasn't worse. The first Danny/Drogo wasn't pleasant to see, but it wasn't particularly violent either. B) By season 5 the show had gotten very popular, so it attracts a lot more attention from people ranging from moral busy bodies to people just fanning over Sansa upset more bad shit happened to her. --- |
| Topic | everyday i wake up with tense shoulders and neck pain. can a new mattress help |
| lightwarrior78 09/25/17 2:40:02 PM #6 | Neck pain would probably apply to the pillow more than the mattress. --- |
| Topic | Darkwing Duck |
| lightwarrior78 09/22/17 4:36:49 PM #4 | EvalAngell posted... what happened to DW's baby momma. Is it ever explained? If you mean Goslin, she's adopted by DW at the start of the series. --- |
| Topic | >Kingdom Hearts 2.8 is $60 |
| lightwarrior78 09/22/17 4:31:54 PM #15 | DDD was the best of the nintendo line, but that isn't saying a lot. On the plus side it has an actual story structure akin to the main games instead of missions, and it's original worlds, not rehashes. It mostly controls well and sets up KH3 well enough. On the downside, the story is even beyond my level of tolerance for convolutedness. The dual protagonist thing was annoying enough in BBS (fill the journal 3 times my ass) and now it's on a timer forcing switching when you don't want to. Then it threw a ton of touch screen game mechanics at us just because they could and it breaks combat flow. And of course that applies to the virtual pets, er, pokemon, er, Dream eaters all requiring leveling through long grinding and / or dopey mini games. All of this was based on my 3DS version. I haven't gotten to this on PS4 yet. --- |
| Topic | >Kingdom Hearts 2.8 is $60 |
| lightwarrior78 09/22/17 3:38:37 PM #3 | 2.8 had one (short) original game, one remake which needed re-working to use a single screen among other things, and one movie that needed a dub job. 1.5 and 2.5 were re-re-releases of finished material. It's natural it was cheaper as it was pure cash grab. --- |
| Topic | why do people think schools are obligated to give people a platform? |
| lightwarrior78 09/22/17 3:01:04 PM #6 | They aren't obligated, but it doesn't speak well of their position if they have to silence an opposing one. It's like firing someone because they aren't the perfect yes man: legally you're allowed but it makes you look childish and afraid of being wrong. --- |
| Topic | Why are black people expected to speak up on "black crime"... |
| lightwarrior78 09/22/17 2:30:00 PM #14 | A_Good_Boy posted... darkjedilink posted...weapon_d00d816 posted...The "black on black crime" thing is just a counter to the narrative that white cops are black people's biggest threat. It's basically saying that black people should work to fix the violence in their communities before complaining about police brutality. It's more speaking about cultural views that lead too many to think crime and gang life are the only options because the system will just fuck them over if they do things like stay and school and try to get a good job. --- |
| Topic | Rate your social skills out of ten |
| lightwarrior78 09/20/17 6:01:17 PM #12 | When I'm really trying, at best 4. More normally, somewhere in the negatives. --- |
| Topic | Could multiple TV shows come together for a season and be successful? |
| lightwarrior78 09/20/17 5:36:21 PM #14 | There's a lot of problems in the idea. Logistics for even small crossovers like the Arrowverse stuff prove difficult as actors can only work at certain times depending on their schedules, then over the long term, increases their workload as they have to cameo or guest in one or more shows while doing their own. For small bits they're kind of fun romps, but over a long term, it would probably lose more people than it gained. It's hard keeping up on one show these days, but when plot or character development is on another show, people tend to not try. The MCU is getting away with it now, but one day people will complain about having to see a new Iron Man movie to know why he's doing something in Avengers. As a tournament angle, I'd just be afraid they'd let audience voting or forum opinion to decide who wins. Then you get into trouble with home video releases and syndication rights and it all becomes a mess. The closest I think we'll get is if Flash and Arrow share a villain for their respective seasons, but are mostly kept separate for everything but the finale. --- |
| Topic | Why do nerds so eagerly need source material for everything? |
| lightwarrior78 09/20/17 4:55:03 PM #2 | Too easy to lie or exaggerate the truth. Not that news sources vet much these days anyway making sourced material not much better. --- |
| Topic | Why do people dismiss depression as 1st world problems. |
| lightwarrior78 09/19/17 5:56:05 PM #13 | Dealing with it would be very costly to people, both in terms of medical costs, but in changing societal and cultural factors that heavily contribute to it or enable it. --- |
| Topic | Game of Thrones - what happened to the gratuitous nudity in Season 3? |
| lightwarrior78 09/18/17 12:58:37 PM #5 | MikeArmstrong posted... Romulox28 posted...the show got more popular than the creators & HBO expected and started to get flack for the nudity since it reached a wider audience. After her attempt at film career crashed and burned. --- |
| Topic | Gun rights petitioners at the DMV have been doing this shit for years |
| lightwarrior78 09/15/17 2:39:22 PM #8 | Two posts down from saying no one wants to take your gun rights is someone saying only cops should have guns. THAT is why they think you're after their guns and gun rights. A lot of people are. --- |
| Topic | You have a bacon and egg sandwich but have to eat it without the egg or bacon |
| lightwarrior78 09/15/17 12:57:29 PM #7 | |
| Topic | Is this too many tattoos? |
| lightwarrior78 09/14/17 3:26:41 PM #22 | Nothing against full body tats, but they usually look like a horrible jumbled mess, like a child's art project. --- |
| Topic | I've never heard a real reason why "Illegal Immigrants" are a problem. |
| lightwarrior78 09/14/17 3:18:21 PM #23 | Even before I lost a lot of my support for the left, this was something I thought was BS. The left wants people to have higher wages, and people are withholding talking certain jobs until they pay more. But instead of seeing this as labor trying to exercise power over capital, the left allow and encourage illegals or come in and take those jobs for lower wages like scabs crossing a union picket line while the right says send them back so the labor surplus can be lowered and employees have more power to demand higher wages. Someone's morals seem screwed up a bit. --- |
| Topic | NYT reporter says she knows people still in therapy over Clinton's loss. |
| lightwarrior78 09/14/17 2:24:31 PM #47 | Are we talking real therapy that will help them first accept they lost and confront their negative traits that led to their poor acceptance of an election loss, or (more likely) are we talking about feel good cuddle sessions that will just re-affirm the self important narcissism in people that have broken down for not getting their way? I'm fine with the former. I think the left has a lot of issues they need to work through. --- |
| Topic | Sad that liberals mainly use "scarlet letter" tactics |
| lightwarrior78 09/14/17 2:16:16 PM #3 | Until they develop those powers that kid on that Twilight Zone episode had to make everyone be nice or else. --- |
| Topic | PotD: Man, eternal darkness should have WAY more votes. |
| lightwarrior78 09/14/17 1:57:14 PM #14 | While I voted for it, ED has a few flaws I get. Primarily 3 playthroughs to get the "true end" in a game already a bit repetitive, and how to get the cool sanity effects, you have to play badly. --- |
| Topic | why does every prescription medication commercial give you an allergy warning? |
| lightwarrior78 09/14/17 1:47:07 PM #7 | Questionmarktarius posted... lightwarrior78 posted...People are that stupid. Then people sue. It's only CYA level now because some people got away with it and it sets legal precedent. Now I have to be warned not to use the hair drier in the shower, that the toilet brush is not to be used orally, and (my favorite) the curling iron is for external use only. --- |
| Topic | why does every prescription medication commercial give you an allergy warning? |
| lightwarrior78 09/14/17 12:57:58 PM #5 | People are that stupid. Then people sue. Then people get accused of being heartless human beings if we expect people not to be that stupid so they win. Therefore various don't be an idiot warnings. --- |
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