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dave_is_slick posted...

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

A robot with big tits goes around eating everybody.

I'm lost.

Dragonball FighterZ
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Because the Souls series as a whole is overrated garbage.
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Every time I go to a DC movie, there's nobody in it.
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He's the chill, laid-back Zen guy he's supposed to be instead of the whiny, spoiled rich kid with a stick up his ass.
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I thought it was because they're women.
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Because she saw 14 million outcomes and this is the only one where we win?
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Wasn't the first Expendables the only good one anyway?
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Not pass laws just to fuck over gay people and minorities
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Sephiroth1288 posted...

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

An ex-con abducts a little girl and teaches her how to kill people.

Last of Us

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An escaped convict abducts a little girl and teaches her how to kill people.
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I think Superman is the only superhero that really gets treated like a God though.
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A robot with big tits goes around eating everybody.
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CableZL posted...

99% of people don't give a shit about networking, let alone enough to go for certs or education on their own to get to network engineer level. Even fewer actually get certified. A tad less than that can actually perform the job IRL.

Of course, but the reason for that is that logically, not everyone can be a network engineer. There still has to be other people around to work the other jobs, and with most of those other jobs, there's absolutely no security.
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Darkman124 posted...

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Any skill can be learned, and we have access to tons of resources literally at our fingertips.

yes and no

development of software that only you know how to operate but provides ultra-high value to the company is one way many technical people build their job security

technically others could learn how to use it but the power to teach them is in the hands of the operator

Sure, but then someone comes along with something even better and then suddenly your value diminishes, especially since they're now aware of your unwillingness to teach others.

Might not happen in the immediate future, but it will happen eventually.
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CableZL posted...

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AlephZero posted...

Job security in the private sector is dependent on the value you provide to your employer, not some unmeasurable metric like "loyalty to the company." If you can be replaced by someone with less experience that can be paid less, you will get replaced. Make yourself indispensable to the company, or work to obtain skills in high demand, and you'll have job security.

Any skill can be learned, and we have access to tons of resources literally at our fingertips.

Your next replacement is simply lurking around the corner, and they'll be willing to do the job for less. Your company might even try to goad you into training your next replacement.

Don't be fooled into thinking you're the only person that can do your job.

It's not about being the only person who can do your job. It's costly to hire and train people. In my case, there are certainly other network engineers who can do my job just as well or better. There's still the cost of hiring and training that person to be familiar with the network as a whole and how things work.

Companies aren't only looking at the short-term benefits of keeping you around though. The initial cost of training and hiring them is offset by the long-term benefit of having to pay someone less to do your job.

Let's not forget that they can still promote from within which offsets that cost considerably.

Yeah, but "promoting someone from within" from "position x" to network engineer involves a shitload of training cost.

Well, I can't speak for network engineering, but that hardly applies to most of the American populace.
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CableZL posted...

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

AlephZero posted...

Job security in the private sector is dependent on the value you provide to your employer, not some unmeasurable metric like "loyalty to the company." If you can be replaced by someone with less experience that can be paid less, you will get replaced. Make yourself indispensable to the company, or work to obtain skills in high demand, and you'll have job security.

Any skill can be learned, and we have access to tons of resources literally at our fingertips.

Your next replacement is simply lurking around the corner, and they'll be willing to do the job for less. Your company might even try to goad you into training your next replacement.

Don't be fooled into thinking you're the only person that can do your job.

It's not about being the only person who can do your job. It's costly to hire and train people. In my case, there are certainly other network engineers who can do my job just as well or better. There's still the cost of hiring and training that person to be familiar with the network as a whole and how things work.

Companies aren't only looking at the short-term benefits of keeping you around though. The initial cost of training and hiring them is offset by the long-term benefit of having to pay someone less to do your job.

Let's not forget that they can still promote from within which offsets that cost considerably.
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AlephZero posted...

Job security in the private sector is dependent on the value you provide to your employer, not some unmeasurable metric like "loyalty to the company." If you can be replaced by someone with less experience that can be paid less, you will get replaced. Make yourself indispensable to the company, or work to obtain skills in high demand, and you'll have job security.

Any skill can be learned, and we have access to tons of resources literally at our fingertips.

Your replacement is simply lurking around the corner, and they'll be willing to do the job for less. Your company might even try to goad you into training your replacement.

Don't be fooled into thinking you're the only person that can do your job.
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One argument for working a traditional job vs entrepreneurship is increased job security, but while I do feel that it is a benefit, it's a benefit that's complete overstated.

Companies are laying off and firing people left and right. You can work a job for 5 years then suddenly, a change in management or the company falling on rough times, or simple incompetent leadership can lead to a huge chunk of people losing their job with little time to prepare. In the modern workforce, people are completely dispensable and replaceable.
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Yeah, Bushmaster is really a fantastic villain. His motivations are probably easily the most understandable of all of the main Netflix villains.
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I realize it's not for everybody. A lot of people lack the means and resources to fund a business themselves. A lot of people are intimidated by investing money into their business and risking losing it all. A lot of people are scared at the idea of not being given a clear direction to go in and don't want to risk making the wrong choices. A lot of people don't want to take their work home with them, and are content with getting paid for 8 hours of their time every day rather than having to grind for an indefinite amount of hours every day for an indefinite period of time for very little (at least initially). That's not something everyone has the time or the patience to do.

But when I think of a traditional job, it takes all the power away from the employees. Somebody tells you when to come in, when to leave, how long you have to work, what jobs you're allowed to do. Your pay is capped, so regardless of how hard you work, you make the same money regardless. The potential to earn more is basically a carrot dangled in your face to convince you to work harder, but there's no guarantee that you'll even get that, and if you do, it might not even be worth your time in the end. A lot of people like the added security of working a traditional job, but companies can basically lay you off and fire you for whatever reason, so that security is highly overstated IMO. Two of my family members got laid off from jobs they've been working for years, because their companies saw an opportunity to minimize loss by cutting people off, without any regard for their families.

Then I think about what I did at my previous job, using my skills, experience and knowledge and why I can't just offer my skills and build up my own clientele with my own business? Conceptually, it's no different than spending countless hours hunting for jobs and doing interviews, trying to market my skills and experience to the hiring manager to convince them that I'd do a good job for them. The only difference is that I'd have a "steady" job in exchange for surrendering my freedom to them and having them assign a value to a job they've pigeonholed me into that for, the most part, is non-negotiable since they can just find someone else that's willing to do the job for less.
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It was in promotional images, mods!!!

But he seems way less uptight and more relaxed like he is in the comics.
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Who the hell told her this was a good idea?

Imagine spending more than what most people make in a year just to look like Oblina from Ahh Real Monsters.
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BLAKUboy posted...

Goku died before he was conceived in Future Trunks' timeline.

hortanz posted...

Goten doesn't exist in Future Trunks' timeine

Yeah, I just remembered this right after I posted -_-
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Goten is like Trunks' bestie in the present, yet does either series ever mention where he is in the future timeline?
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"It's......1006."
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meestermj posted...

Is this a joke about Michael Cera and Jesse Eisenberg being incredibly similar or did you legit not know?

Lol issa joke
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SpiralDrift posted...

Young guy mogul villain was a take on Mark Zuckerberg, is my guess at least.

Yeah but the Lex Luthor vs Superman conflict is at its heart a theme of Man vs God, where man has hit every check mark on the list to achieve greatness but is held back by his crippling flaws.

That theme is lost when you make him some scrawny, socially awkward nerd.
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CloneTheHero posted...

DoubleDare posted...

The president of the united states shouldn't be name calling anyone, they should have more class and is above those people anyway I'm not being sensitive, has any president before trump done this to this extent?

fun fact: you dont have to be presidential to be president. his cavalier attitude is what won him the election to begin with. why would he stop being an arrogant goof now? this isnt something new. hes been well known for his pompous personality well before he ran for the presidency and STILL WON.

your opinion on how a president should conduct himself is irrelevant and outright ridiculous. a man can conduct himself any way he wants as long as he can do the job.

You DO realize the president's primary job is diplomacy, right?
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Just...why?
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I think they'll eventually cross it over, but probably not as frequent as the Arrowverse does now and probably not for another few seasons once they introduce higher stakes.

Like you probably won't see characters from Black Lightning just casually popping up in Arrow or Flash or anything, but I think they'll team up at least once.
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turns good once it passes?

I've been binge watching it lately and I just got past the Champa arc and I've been digging it so far. It's no "Z" but it's been enjoyable. My biggest complaint is the animation, particularly during the Resurrection "F" story arc. One scene in particular where they show the Z-Fighters fighting off Frieza's forces and you literally see dudes in the background just completely static, as if they photoshopped out a picture of a dude and just put him in the background but moved his position every couple of frames. That looked really bad. Plus they made Gohan look really skinny for some reason.

Goku also seems much stupider and absent-minded in Z so it came as somewhat of a shock, but I understand that that's more in line with Goku from the manga version of Z than the anime, so that's whatever.
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But jobs these days can basically lay off and fire people with little warning or justification.

Might as well go the entrepreneurial route.
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DifferentialEquation posted...

Donald Trump doesn't blame the poor. He started out his life in poverty and worked his ass off build a successful business and real estate empire.

"A small loan of one million dollars"
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Yes, it was the damn media that caused all of this divisiveness. Not the decades of the systematic oppression and many white people acting like they couldn't give a fuck about black people.
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Tyranthraxus posted...

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Disney is not even in Comcast's stratosphere as far as being awful.

Comcast is legit anti-consumer.

Disney is directly responsible for why our copyright laws are as fucked as they are and why things like SOPA almost got passed.

Comcast is one of the reasons why there's hardly any competition when it comes to ISPs and why many Americans are stuck with overpriced, poor quality service. You also want a cable company to gain majority ownership of a online streaming platform when they have both the motivation and the ability to completely stifle the growth of online streaming services.
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We know you guys were forced into slavery, had your children taken from you, had your women raped, were whipped, lynched and burned for acting out of line, were given poor quality education compared to your white counterparts, were demonized and mocked by all forms of media, were economically sterilized whenever there was any sign of prosperity coming from your community, had many of your leaders assassinated, were stripped of your voice and voting power, had guns and drugs introduced into your community in order to cause you to fight among one another over turf and money, and then had your men imprisoned over said guns and drugs to allow the cycle of violence, poverty and drugs to continue with no male role models......but sometimes black people say mean things to us and those racist Wayans Bros. made White Chicks, so that makes us even now.
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Keep in mind that hardly anybody cares about (in the same capacity) Avatar being such a huge success despite virtually everything about that movie being average besides its special effects.
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Disney is not even in Comcast's stratosphere as far as being awful.

Comcast is legit anti-consumer.
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Black Panther deserves all its success. At absolute worst, it's a competently made mainstream movie that's broken new ground for the film industry.

I know naysayers like to say Blade was the original mainstream superhero movie with a black lead, but Black Panther is the first one with a mostly black cast and creative team with a budget of its size, and the first one to actually be unapologetically black with its themes and narrative .

There's going to be people that insist "hurr durr this movie only did well because black people" but it really was important that this movie be a success and I think the movie was good enough to warrant it.
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Frieza did nothing wrong.
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They're all gonna laugh at you!
They're all gonna laugh at you!
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Dash_Harber posted...

Luke: "I know it's been 40 years, but I haven't changed one single bit. Now everyone stand back while I destroy the Empire and the Sith singlehandedly."

Lol basically
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I didn't even realize you followed me fam I gotchu
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Kisai posted...

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Sometimes he just wants to chill and live

What? Knuckles's singer is talking about his duty to the Master Emerald. Sonic's is talking about actually being himself and living free.

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Sometimes he just wants to chill and live
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Bloodychess posted...

Devs been watching DBZA

Lol it's pretty clear they have.

There's literally a scene where Goku, Cell, Frieza and Nappa all roast the fuck out of Yamcha lmao. Basically went:

Nappa: "Shut yo ass up, that's why you lost to a Saibaman"
Frieza: "LOL A SAIBAMAN?! I'M DEAD"
Cell: "This dude Yamcha so weak that the ripples ain't even affect his strength."
Goku: "LMAO DAMN!"
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They pretty much resurrected Cell only so he could talk shit to everybody
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The GOAT
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Verdekal posted...

When you're a kid, you love DBZ.
When you're in your 20s, you realize DBZ is shit.
Later on, you stop caring.

But I'm in my 20s and I still love DBZ
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DrizztLink posted...

Raikuro posted...

*desperate to destroy great universe-ending evils that only Saiyans are capable of getting strong enough to defeat*

*never bothers to wish any other Saiyans back to life*

The rest of the Saiyans are fucking lame that's why

Bardock is a badass, you shut your mouth
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