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keyblader1985 posted...

Andromicus posted...

I feel like people put way too much thought into those movies/books they were obviously written as light fantasy fluff and aren't supposed to be looked at nearly so deeply

But there is incredibly deep lore and backstory.

Most of which was written after the main story, or at least in parallel with later books. A lot of extra worldbuilding and whatnot has happened, yes, but it wasn't written at the time of the first book, which results in a lot of things that end up being pretty shallow and poorly-explained. That's not overly surprising, really; I don't think anyone was expecting it to become popular enough for people to want the universe expanded.
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Nightengale posted...

please stop trying to make discord a thing i'm begging you

It's kind of become a thing on its own. Dunno why NMB's shilling it so hard, given that it's doing just fine, but there's really no reason for it not to succeed Skype.
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darkknight109 posted...

It worked out OK for him.

I mean, I wouldn't say it worked out for him personally, but it did the job.
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PK_Spam posted...

Jesus! I forgot how scummy Dumbledore was during the final points ceremony.

Can you IMAGINE being a Slytherin, walking into the cafeteria and seeing your banner hung up on the walls because godDAMMIT you might be pieces of shit, but you mostly earned those points fair and square! But then Dumbledore is a Gryffindor, and just gives his house like 300 points so they jump from dead last to 1st.

https://imgur.com/xpaOW18
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I'd assume so. This is my first time making it (having done a couple batches of wine already), and so far it's tasted pretty good, although very young.
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I bottled a batch of mead just under a month ago. I'm eager to see how the first month of aging has been to it.
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Realistically, it's not unreasonable to expect that every website should be able to automatically detect your current country and put it at the top of the list, regardless of where you or the website are based.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Implying hijackings are destructive?

No, implying that hijackings prevent the event from proceeding as intended. Same as a dictionary would imply.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Oh so if Roger Federer decided to start openly playing with himself between sets that wouldn't be wrong as it wouldn't have any impact if you weren't butthurt over it?

That'd be good old-fashioned public indecency, and objectionable on those grounds. It would not, however, be objectionable on the grounds of "hijacking the match," provided it happened entirely between sets and did not delay them (though in practice, it likely would due to immediate police involvement).

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Harmed people's pride seeing him disrespecting the flag by not standing to attention

They don't make violins small enough to adequately respond to this. I'm going to give you an opportunity to retract that so you don't have to live with a reputation of equivocating "harming people's pride" with actually inconveniencing or injuring people.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

and the NFL by defying the rules set out prior to him being allowed in

Defying rules is not in and of itself harmful. Rules are typically put in place to prevent the harm that can arise from not following them, but if you want to cite some harm that has occurred, you're going to have to do better than "rules were broken."

Kyuubi4269 posted...

By your logic if he put up an ISIS flag and burnt his own US flag but put it all away when the anthem ended and went back to play, that would be fine.

Yes, actually. That'd be very solid grounds for investigating him for terror connections, and those implications would likely cause enough of a panic to disrupt the game (akin to yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre, which is a crime), so in practice that particular example would not play out non-disruptively, but hypothetically, it doesn't really matter what he does, so long as the game can proceed as scheduled.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

MLK didn't hijack an event to push his agenda.

Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot that the football game was canceled and the stadium burst into flames immediately after Kapernick took a knee.

He didn't "hijack" anything. The only reason kneeling had any impact after the fact is that people decided they wanted to be butthurt over it.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

I imagine you approve of people who protest by blocking public roads and throwing themselves in front of cars, after all, they're not harming anyone, the consequences are their own and people notice.

Except they are harming and effecting consequences for other people, who are delayed by their actions. Dude kneeled down. Then he stood up again when the anthem was done. Then the game went ahead exactly as scheduled. What consequences were there?
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VioletZer0 posted...

You all understand that the police in the US are horribly corrupt.

Not really. Some police are corrupt, and there are certainly issues with racial and other biases and a growing trend of unnecessary force, but that's hardly grounds for calling all American police "horribly corrupt." That's usually reserved for places where organized crime effectively owns the police force and can therefore do whatever they want with impunity.

VioletZer0 posted...

So what exactly are we supposed to DO to protect ourselves?

Engage police in meaningful dialogues about biases, work with them (community de-escalation programs, etc.) to reduce violent crime, vote/campaign for municipal politicians that plan to employ larger-scale programs to make such things happen, and for state/federal politicians that will end the for-profit prison system and war on drugs... Really, the fact that "I can't shoot them if they do something I don't like!" is your first thought here is pretty alarming. There are ample avenues for peacefully effecting change. You'll just actually have to leave your house to try them.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

being defiant for no good reason.

knivesX2004 posted...

Dude he's just kneeling because he doesn't like people getting shot.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

mrduckbear posted...

that must be so sad if you're on a wired internet still...

If I wanted I could complete the cat5 wiring of my house and have a wired port in all the rooms.

Wired has been and will always be faster than wireless.

Not sure why you think that's sad.

Presumably because he's assuming that means you have no wifi available anywhere in your place, which limits your ability to use smart phones, tablets, many game systems, and laptops. Obviously, that's a dumb assumption, but he's already asking if our wifi is wireless or not, so I think it's par for the course.
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My wifi is wireless, by definition. My desktop is wired, because I have that option and it's unambiguously better for something that won't be moving around.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

When you're at work, you're expected to not act like a prick when you're at work even when you've clocked out.

And how exactly is kneeling "acting like a prick"?

Kyuubi4269 posted...

And kneeling on his own time wouldn't be defying the expectation held to him during work hours, so nobody would complain.

The expectation is still to stand. All that would change would be the visibility.
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Still going on, and the NFL reignited the debate a couple weeks ago by saying that players could stay in the locker room if they don't want to stand during the anthem, and that teams would be fined if their players didn't choose one of those two options.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

_AdjI_ posted...

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Mead posted...

Since when did kneeling become a sign of disrespect

When context.

Being defiant is disrespecting order.

Yep, better not do anything defiant in a country that claims to value the concept of personal freedom of expression.

You are free when you're not at work. You can kneel on your own time and you won't be defying anybody, but that would ruin your point, would it?

Is his job to stand during the anthem, or is his job to play football once the game starts?

And kneeling on his own time would be no less defiant. It'd just be less visible.
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I_Abibde posted...

*facepalm*

3,000+ achievements. This is the type of game that should be targeted for removal by Valve, IMO.

Spread over 9 levels, no less.
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Lost Kingdoms 1. I never did pick up 2, though I meant to.
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shadowsword87 posted...

But, if you didn't have voice acting, you could spend more time refining the story, and adding better word choice, and adding extra dialog options into it. You can just do straight up more story and make it more interesting and a reason why people actually like it.

Pretty much. Rewriting a scene in a text-only game? An hour or two of writing and ten minutes to copy it into the code (and that's only for a major rewrite). Rewriting a scene in a game with VA? An hour or two of writing, then however long it takes to pin down the voice actors for several hours of recording each, then a few hours of editing, then several days of work to reanimate the scene (possibly needing to get some time with mocap actors) and get the lip syncing right, then some unknown amount of time to get the audio decompression working right to have the lines played at the appropriate time in game.

It's substantially more time (and therefore money) and substantially more people (and therefore money), which strongly promotes keeping stories simpler so rewrites won't be necessary.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Only in America are people too lazy to walk to get their money.

I've seen a couple in Canada.
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Your first mistake was going into Pokemon for the story. Teambuilding and battling are where the actual meat of the game is.
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Hasn't this topic been made already?
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Zeus posted...

afaik, Eevee doesn't have a held item that can make him more viable as an unevolved Pokemon.

Yet.
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adjl posted...

inb4thisisdisappointingtheindustrysucks

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Revelation34 posted...

"made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally"

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/natural

Existing in or derived from nature; not made or caused by humankind.

*Moonwalks out of topic*
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Ekans
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dragon504 posted...

knivesX2004 posted...

Zareth posted...

Diablo 3 is proof that that style of game is just too old to work anymore.

Titan* quest just came out with an expansion and it's great. Made by a competent team I don't see how these types of games are too old to work.

Path of Exile is still going strong as well afaik.

And Grim Dawn's another solid option. Plus both Torchlights were fun. Really, there's nothing wrong with ARPG's, D3 just made a mess of things with the whole RMAH debacle (and, as I understand, has since fixed the game up quite well).
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I can almost guarantee he won't be doing it right, though, given that he's so incapable of functioning on his own that he had to be taken to court to get him out of his parents' house.
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Oh, I hadn't paid enough attention to know that he's in NY. Yeah he'll be homeless by July.
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Revelation34 posted...

Use a better dictionary.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/artificial

Made or produced by human beings

I'm afraid I'm not seeing the difference there.

Revelation34 posted...

I don't see how that is saying it isn't taking a life. I'm just pointing out using loaded words like "baby" or "child" is wrong.

The fact that you're calling them "loaded words" illustrates that specifying that they're fetuses creates distance between that state and what they will become. The only difference between a fetus and an infant is time. It's important to make the distinction in a medical context, for obvious reasons, but for laypeople, using "kid" as an informal blanket term and relying on context to indicate that it's an unborn child doesn't actually take away any important semantic information. Steering clear of such colloquialisms doesn't deny that abortion is taking a life, but it is pretty flagrantly trying to avoid the discomfort of talking about killing kids.

Basically, I don't feel that "technically it's not a baby yet" is a good response to "you're killing babies!" You don't shut down a guilt trip by pointing out that they got their terminology wrong, you shut it down by facing exactly what they're saying and not feeling guilty about it.
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Revelation34 posted...

Not every fetus makes it to birth. You're also using wrong terms like child. A fetus can't be a child by definition.

I'm actually not fond of making that distinction, despite being pro-choice. It always feels to me like it's trying to downplay the gravity of the situation. As pro-choice as I am, I do recognize that abortion entails taking a human life. Any effort to say it doesn't strikes me as arbitrarily drawing the line for "human life" where it's most convenient/comfortable, and I don't like that at all. I just also recognize that sometimes taking a life is the lesser of two evils, and provided the choice is made with the appropriate seriousness (and it usually is, as much as pro-lifers like to bring up fringe cases of women who have abortions for fun), I'm not going to tell anyone they can't make it.
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iCurious posted...

Not the least of which is because one is dying of ailments and unlikely to survive

Likelihood of surviving is only one factor that's considered in deciding to take somebody off of life support. The other is the quality of life that can be expected if they do survive. Most of the time, if somebody's put on life support, it's to keep them alive until they can recover from whatever's endangering their life. They're only taken off when either that lifesaving effort is guaranteed to be futile, or more commonly, because they're never going to wake up with a decent life (vegetative state, profound cognitive impairment, etc.).

iCurious posted...

the other is a developing life being denied very good odds of reaching self sufficiency in a virtually guaranteed time frame.

Self-sufficiency in the sense of being able to live in the outside world? Sure. Self-sufficiency in the sense of being able to live without relying on others? That's never really guaranteed. Even after being carried to term, a child is going to be dependent on its parents for a good many years, meaning their quality of life is only going to be as good as what those parents can provide.

iCurious posted...

What the actual f***. This is patently false. Biological processes are considered natural. Human involvement doesn't suddenly make human reproduction artificial.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/artificial?s=t

produced by humans

If humans produce it, it's artificial. Is that an exceedingly narrow and pedantic interpretation of the term? Absolutely, which is why I prefaced that with "if you want to be really pedantic [...]". But it does illustrate how silly it is to use the line between natural and artificial as a basis for anything meaningful. On the flip side, most things we readily consider artificial are made possible through processes that could be considered natural, like muscle movement and brain activity. What you were saying wasn't a real example of the naturalistic fallacy, but it was relying on a similar perceived dichotomy between natural and artificial things that just isn't there. It's a very arbitrary line, and so shouldn't be used for anything as significant as a literal matter of life and death.

iCurious posted...

"You can't speak for yourself yet, so we're just going to assume you'd rather dodge this s***ty world that we're choosing to deliberately survive in ourselves. Bye."

You're making a very fundamental mistake in your understanding of my position. I am not in any way saying that every baby should be aborted because this world sucks so much. I'm saying that people who feel that they won't be able to give a baby a decent quality of life should be able to abort it. It should be a choice, made by each family (or would-be family) based on their own situation.
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Sahuagin posted...

it can be, can't it?

It can, if there's no justification for it. That's not exactly common, though.
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So... he's got maybe 3 months of rent, bills, and food covered, which I expected he'll spend doing exactly the same things he was doing in his parents' house, and then he gets evicted again for not paying rent and this time doesn't get any attention for it. Jones' money would probably have been better spent on a therapist to help him get over his variety of issues.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Sure built like one

Is it? What reason do you have to believe that?

Dikitain posted...

I mean with the way Steam culture is nowadays, if it is more then $5 then you wait for a sale or bundle.

That doesn't mean $20 is expensive, though, or that games aren't worth $20. It just means you have the opportunity to get them for less. The attitude that dozens of hours of quality entertainment* can't be worth more than $5 is hideously entitled at best, and absurd no matter how you slice it. I'll be waiting for a sale myself, since I have no shortage of other stuff to play, but it definitely looks like it'd be worth $20.

*The "game length=value" metric has a lot of room for criticism, but there's enough merit to it to bring it up here.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

It's expensive for a SNES game

It's not a SNES game.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

and any game on steam

Any game on Steam is pretty much every game these days. Are you suggesting that every game is worth less than $20?
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JanwayDaahl posted...

Not to mention there is barely any, if at all, unlocked additional content.

Formally unlocked? No. Stuff that is new because you just didn't find, notice, or successfully acquire it the first time? Absolutely. You shouldn't expect games to gate all of the content that makes replaying fun behind formal unlocking processes.

JanwayDaahl posted...

(e.g. pyro/miracle builds aren't much different at the end of the day than other spellcaster builds)

Uh huh. Now compare non-spellcaster builds to each other. Choosing to play with/without a shield is damn near a different game.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Looks cheap, is expensive.

$20 is expensive? I think you might need a job, mate.
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TheWorstPoster posted...

Yes, since you are ending the life of an innocent person. Even if legal by doctors, would still be homicide.

And yet it happens every single day.

TheWorstPoster posted...

The patient may still have consent to do so to the doctors.

They may, but many (my own father included) haven't. In the (very common) absence of a formal DNR order or similar advance directive, loved ones and doctors have to make decisions about whether or not to prolong life support, decisions which are based largely on what sort of quality of life can be expected if the person is given a chance to recover. The way I see it, abortion's no different from that, except for not being able to make personal considerations based on what you know about the person's values (since they don't have any yet).

iCurious posted...

adjl posted...

Is it murder to take somebody off life support?

Applied artificial prolonging of a dying person's life vs removing someone from their only natural and biological source of survival - and one that wasn't asked for in the first place I might add.

You seem logical enough to spot a difference here.

The natural/artificial distinction doesn't mean a whole lot. Heck, if you want to be really pedantic, human reproduction is already technically artificial, since the only criterion necessary for calling an object or process artificial is that humans make/perform it. The only salient difference is that you can't take prior wishes into account when determining what sort of life the person in question would rather miss out on than survive to see.
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inb4thisisdisappointingtheindustrysucks
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TheWorstPoster posted...

adjl posted...

A fetus' life-support system is somebody's organs. Why shouldn't the owner of those organs get to decide whether or not they get used as life support?

Because, that would be murder.

Is it murder to take somebody off life support?
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I generally don't find that bad graphics bother me past the first hour or so of gameplay. It can be a bit jarring if I'm expecting something better, but that passes pretty quickly.
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TheWorstPoster posted...

It's like saying that a life-support system is somebody's organs.

A fetus' life-support system is somebody's organs. Why shouldn't the owner of those organs get to decide whether or not they get used as life support?
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PuddingBoy posted...

Ireland has been under the thumb of Catholic Church for a very, very long time so talking about the effects of the patriarchy when their government and the dominant religion is run by old white men isn't that far of a stretch lol. I mean, they didn't even allow divorce until late 1995.

Pretty much. You wanna tell me there isn't a patriarchal element to Ireland's abortion ban? Get back to me when somebody in the Vatican has a uterus.
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They're both idiots who don't understand the importance of communication when navigating relationship difficulties.
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Zeus posted...

Overlooking the tone-deaf (if not borderline racist) reference to them as Indian reservations

Steering away from "Indian" is largely a push from white people who want to avoid looking stupid for calling them the wrong thing. Most actual natives are quite fine with being called Indians. Ideally, use their actual tribe instead of a blanket term, since that's what their actual ethnic identity is, but as far as referring to indigenous folks as a whole, "Indian" is pretty acceptable.
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Zeus posted...

Supposed journalism and it's talking about the patriarchy...

How can you not talk about a patriarchy when a bunch of old men are telling women what they can't do with their bodies?
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JanwayDaahl posted...

What new items/weapons get unlocked with subsequent playthroughs?

Depends how you choose to build yourself the second time around, as well as the question of what you end up finding (especially if you go in blind). There's no meaningful difference between unlocking a weapon and using a different build that allows you to actually use it. It also does take a minimum of 3 playthroughs on one character to unlock all of the weapons/armour in the first Dark Souls (the Soul of Sif can be used for three different items, and you only get one per playthrough). Plus everything you get from the Soul of Gwyn.

Really, there are lots of examples. You'd remember this if your tastes were good enough to enjoy replaying Dark Souls.
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GastroFan posted...

People died in every war so that blowhards like Cadet Bone Spurs can say stupid things without getting arrested (or thrown into one of those third world sh...les that Trump despises so badly).

Eh, for the most part, American soldiers haven't died defending America. America's interests in other countries? Certainly, but not a whole lot of actual defense of America. The whole "they died for our freedoms" thing is pretty exaggerated.
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Miroku_of_Nite1 posted...

https://imgur.com/Hknix0i

I really wish "ancient gamer" included something that came out before I graduated high school. I get that I'm old and all, and that that's pretty exaggerated, but it's still really twisting the knife.
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