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Mango Sauce posted...

proper grammar, but probably one of the worst sentences ever conceived in terms of clarity. even if this meant anything useful, it wouldn't be used because nobody could understand it.

It's literally meant as an example of the curiosities of language. It's not supposed to be useful or clear. That's the entire point.
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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Aristoph posted...

Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey!!

Yeahhhh that turned into NHL Hitz.

And became complete shit.
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It's literally not.
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Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey!!
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Bad_Mojo posted...

Second_Chances posted...

how did no one think to drive backwards

I agree

Not in the book

What he does in the book for the first Key is. . .

Plays a game of Dungeons and Dragons, which his school is a copy of. The first Key is at the school because school is free and it made it fair that anyone could find the first key

Which is one of the key themes that the movie completely ignored. He wanted a student to win the hunt. But the only thing even mentioning students in the movie is a literal throwaway line with a single mention of the school planet Ludus.
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LordFarquad1312 posted...

Is the 3171 figure accurate or did you make it up?

It's a rough estimate, really. 1 quadrillion divided by 10k equals the number of seconds for that many attempts. Divide that by 60 to get number of minutes, 60 again for number of hours, then 24 for number of days, finally 365 for number of years. Comes out to 3170.979~.

Didn't really do any proper probability calculations. Just going with "happens once in a quadrillion, so how long would it take for a quadrillion tries?"
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Veggeta_MAX posted...

Aristoph posted...

Because it completely changed the book in so many very pivotal ways.

Honestly, it's a decent romp through pop culture if you haven't read the book. And that's enjoyable enough, if a bit predictable. But as far as an adaptation of the book goes, it's completely shit the bed in just about every conceivable way. And totally altered the themes of the book as well.

LMAO it's one of those things

Honestly, I don't normally care if a movie doesn't stay 100% true to the book it's based on. But this one isn't just making a few tweaks for the narrative or to make the action more exciting. It's genuinely changing large plot points, entire themes have been removed or even completely turned on their heads, and many of the changes had absolutely no reason to have been changed.

I basically consider the book and the movie to be two entirely separate stories, personally. It's not an adaptation. It's just an entirely different story that happens to have the same setting.
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Because it completely changed the book in so many very pivotal ways.

Honestly, it's a decent romp through pop culture if you haven't read the book. And that's enjoyable enough, if a bit predictable. But as far as an adaptation of the book goes, it's completely shit the bed in just about every conceivable way. And totally altered the themes of the book as well.
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It would entirely depend on how quickly the attempts are made.

Even something with a 1-in-a-quadrillion chance is going to happen about once every 3171 years if there are 10 thousands attempts per second, for example.
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Slip-N-Slide posted...

I simply stated there are a handful of actions, that once you willingly commit them maliciously, you're immediately [redacted] and have proven yourself both unable to be as well as undeserving of being a member of society again.

Which is a fucked up statement to make for several reasons.

1. In that very topic I was giving a perfect example of why it's not true.
2. Second chances are a cornerstone of our society. Being given a chance to redeem ones self, learning from our mistakes, and overcoming our faults is a uniquely human endeavor. There's a reason the "bad guy turned good" is such a common trope in all forms of entertainment.
3. The concept of empathy and attempting to understand and help those who are struggling is considered among the highest of virtues. By refusing to even acknowledge that they have a problem and need help, you reveal yourself to be a hateful and vindictive person more likely to be the cause of pain than the answer to it.

All of this is beside the point, though. You asked "if you can't insult rapists and murderers, who can you insult?" The answer is, objectively, nobody. That's literally the entire point of the rules on this site. Insulting people is against the ToS. You might get away with it for minor infractions like calling someone "stupid" or a "jerk" because people understand that emotions can run high in internet debates. But saying that somebody is not even human and that the death penalty should be considered a "mercy killing" is just downright fucked-in-the-head level of insulting and offensive, no matter who the target is. So I'm really struggling to understand why you think there is even anything to debate about your moderation. It's one of the more fair and obvious moderations I've seen on this site.
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Spooking posted...

My first game added is GTA IV. I have to re-download all of that just to get a badge?

Witcher 3 for me. >_>
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When I was younger and more flexible, I could just barely reach the tip. Not ashamed to say it, tbh.

If I was like a contortionist I'd pretty much never use my hands.
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Slip-N-Slide posted...

Is it a game of semantics where as long as I just call them s***ty humans it's fine?

Yes, pretty much.

Calling them a shitty human being is still acknowledging that they are humans. And as a result they have rights, regardless of whether you want them to or not. Your personal feelings towards a person are irrelevant when it comes to deciding whether or not they are human.

Saying that they're not even human is disgusting. It doesn't matter what they did. Humans do some pretty shitty things to each other. But they're still human. The argument could be made that treating each other like shit is uniquely human, in fact, given our history.
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Slip-N-Slide posted...

But if in some news story about a rapist or something if you said "wow that guy's a jerk" that's not moddable, or it shouldn't be if it is because wtf.

Except that's not what you did.

There's a big difference between saying "wow that guy's a jerk" and saying "that person is no longer a human being and it would be a mercy killing to give them the death penalty."

If you're going to shitpost, at least be honest about it.
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Milkman5 posted...

ms13 I'm guessing?

I think it was in my sex offender topic, actually.

I didn't expect that post to last long, which is why I didn't bother responding to it. Fairest of nexts, tbh.
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.....the fuck did I just read?
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I do the same. Also when quoting black comedians, too.

I was actually hanging out with my "second family" (like seriously, I get invited to family reunions and everything, where I'm literally the only white person there and nobody gives a shit) one time and one of them mentioned Katt Williams. When I said I thought he was hilarious they didn't believe I even knew who he was, so I started quoting a bit from his Pimp Chronicles. But I didn't say the N-word, and just skipped over them. They were all laughing their asses off, but Desiree just looked at me and said "Alright, fair enough, I'm impressed. But next time just say the word. It actually sounds weirder when you don't. Besides, you're black anyway."

For the record, I'm a pasty white guy. It's just kind of become a running joke between us that I fit in so well with their family, and all the black people they know love me, that whenever someone makes a joke about "white people" I will make a mock-offended expression and they'll just go "oh come on, you know you're not really white." XD
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

but it's still not likely that someone who's done something like that will likely "undo" the damage they've caused despite all the good they'll try to do (not that that kind of damage is particularly "undo"-able)

But that's the thing...we don't even ask other criminals to "undo" their damage most of the time. Someone steals something that can't be recovered? Spend a year or two in jail, get out, promise not to do it again, and everything is forgotten. Kill someone? Spend 20 years in jail, get out, promise not to do it again, and society just sorta moves on.

It just doesn't make sense that sex offenses are the only ones we treat this way. Why isn't there a convicted murderer registry? There should be. Logic would indicate that they're an even bigger threat to the community. But there's no "icky" factor for murder, so people just objectively don't care once the person's jail time is up. And that's pretty fucked up, tbh.
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Wouldn't call it a disaster, exactly. The off-topic flair idea for game boards was a really stupid idea, but otherwise it's mostly unobtrusive and doesn't really affect the board experience.

I do think they should make misleading topic flairs a ToS violation, though. I don't want a topic about breasts to show up when I filter by "Politics" for example.
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BloodyNate posted...

i wonder if it would be good for there to be some kind of benefit-recovery program? like if a sex offender can be removed from registries by showing ample progress in therapy (over a long course of time, not immediately).

There actually is something like that in some places. The program my coworker is a part of, for example, is a state-sponsored program. As a result, if you successfully complete and graduate from the program you can petition the court to have your registration tier lowered by 1. The highest tier requires you to check-in to the sherriff's office once every 6 months for life, the middle tier requires it every 6 months for 25 years, and the lowest is once a year for 15 years. He's in the highest tier, and he could have it reduced (and thus only have about 5 years left on the registry) because he has completed the program. He's chosen not to, though. I think he sees it as a reminder of where he came from and where he never wants to end up again.
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BloodyNate posted...

i believe everyone has the capacity to change. but i also belief that sometimes, for the safety of others, some privileges may need to be lost, or at least put to evaluation. you wouldnt send a recovering alcoholic to the liquor store alone

Of course. I believe (as does my coworker) that restrictions should be placed on sex offenders. But there's a big difference between saying "you can't live near a school" and saying "you must be publicly humiliated every day for the rest of your life regardless of your future actions."

Personally, I think public sex offender registries should be abolished. The crimes are part of the public record in court documents and such already. There is no reason sex offenders should be paraded publicly while other very serious crimes are easily lost or forgotten by the public eye.
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Slip-N-Slide posted...

Unless his grandfather forced him to sexually abuse 2 brothers then it's not a very complicated answer.

There are far more factors that go into making someone abuse a kid than you are willing to acknowledge. That's sad.
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DavidWong posted...

Why did he do it?

Or more specifically, why did he say he did it.

I don't really know. I imagine it would be a very complicated answer, and I've never wanted to pry too much into the details. I do know he was raised by an abusive grandfather for most of his childhood. I'm sure that had a lot to do with it.
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LinksLiege posted...

Aristoph posted...

It's frankly irresponsible that there aren't more programs like this around the country.

This kind of stuff makes people voluntarily switch their brains off, to the detriment of everyone.

Very sad. And very true.

As exemplified by the next two posters after you. :-/
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catboy0_0 posted...

Aristoph posted...

whose crimes involved children.

wew lad

Yeah...not sure what you're trying to say?

If you don't like my wording for some reason, it's because it's not just for child molesters with physical contact with victims. The program also deals with other offenses like downloading CP. If it's a sexual offense and it involved children, this program is designed to help them avoid creating more victims once they've served whatever jail/prison time they had and get released back into society.

It's frankly irresponsible that there aren't more programs like this around the country.
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Yeah. I'm an exhibitionist to begin with. I'd be on camera constantly if there were more people that wanted to see me.

EDIT: Though I guess I'd probably be more selective about who I actually have sex with. So maybe not a slut, but definitely a ridiculous tease.
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MacDaMurderer posted...

Victims? Like more than one?

Fucking hell.

I believe it was 2 brothers. It's one of the subjects I've never asked too many questions about. I think understandably so.

Suchomimus posted...

One exception to the vast, vast majority. I don't believe 99.9% of them can change, particularly child offenders. That is their sexual preference. They are fucked in the head. It would be like a straight or gay person refusing to act on their desires for their entire life.

He's not the only exception, though. Apparently the therapy program he has been a part of has a nearly 100% record. According to my friend, in the entire time the main facilitator has been with the program (over 25 years and counting) only one person that has gone through the program has re-offended. It's not even remotely as unusual as you assume.

Freddie_Mercury posted...

https://imgur.com/nYwjyli

You think it's strange that there would be a program to rehabilitate child sex offenders to keep them from hurting anyone else again?
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And no, I'm not talking about the "pissed on the side of a building while drunk" kind of sex offenders, either.

I work with a guy who is a registered sex offender. I won't go into details of his offense because frankly that's not my place. But I will say that it was over 20 years ago, and he has done everything in his power to become a better person since then. He has told me a fair amount about his offense and what he's done since then, and has never once refused to answer a question about his past. He is not proud of it, but he does not run from it. He owns his mistakes and works to be better. I genuinely consider him to be a decent person now, despite what he did. He served 5 years in prison, and after getting out he was on probation for another 5 years. He will be on the registry for life.

Once he got out of prison, he entered a therapy program specifically designed for offenders whose crimes involved children. It combines both individual therapy and group sessions. He completed and graduated from that program after another 5 years, and has willingly chosen to continue attending the group aspect in order to help others who did what he did and are going through the same consequences that he went through to keep them from re-offending. He has been there for over 15 years now, and has earned the title of "peer facilitator."

The same program has another branch that deals with victims of sexual offenses. Beyond simply voluntarily continuing with the program to help other offenders, he has also had the opportunity on more than one occasion to go into a therapy session with a victim of sexual abuse. These women never had an opportunity to confront their offender, for various reasons. One of them was abused by her father, and when she told her mother what happened, the father committed suicide instead of facing his family, the police, and a judge. My coworker was able to be a stand-in for her father, giving her an opportunity to vent her anger, frustration, and pain as well as get some answers about how someone could do such a thing to a child they were supposed to protect. I personally cannot even imagine how difficult that would have been to do, but he just says that it didn't matter how hard it was. He wasn't there for himself. He gave up the right to be selfish 20 years ago. And he lives by that motto every day of his life.

To those who claim it's impossible for child sex offenders to change, you have not met my coworker. I believe you would feel differently if you had. I will never condone what he did. I will never defend what he did. It was despicable, horrible, and traumatizing. His victims will have to live with the pain he caused for the rest of their lives. But he, by choice, lives with it as well. And he uses it to motivate himself to be better. I support him, and I am proud to call him a friend.

....go ahead, commence the flaming. >_>
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A lawyer should just follow this guy around and give his business card to everyone this douche harasses.

I don't care if you think the sex offenders deserve this treatment or not. That's irrelevant. What this guy is doing is also illegal and he shouldn't be allowed to continue just because he's breaking the law to harass someone you think is worse. You don't get to selectively choose who you apply the law to.
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_BIueMonk posted...

OEIO999 posted...

Cavs in 7

Quote me

done.

you're gonna feel silly when warriors win in 4

Give LeBron some credit, even if you don't give the rest of the team any.

It'll be 5.
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Gudnardi posted...

He's only a dick in one part of the game

Well...two parts. But the first one is really short and much more understandable. Once Kratos opens up to him a little bit, he understands and goes back to normal.

The big reveal turns him into a total douche for a while, though. It got pretty annoying, and I feel like they could have had a bit more of a lead up to that attitude instead of just flicking a switch and instantly going full douche. :-/
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GiftedACIII posted...

-snip-

The fact that you're getting so worked up over this one is kind of stupid, tbh. If you don't like it, just say "Yeah, this one is stupid" and move on. There's thousands of them, ffs. Not all of them are gonna be good. In fact a LOT of them are really garbage. That doesn't make the good ones somehow less good. -_-

BTW, my two personal favorites are the stairwell (http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-087) and the clockwork machine (http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-914). Stairwell is really creepy and well written. And the clockwork machine is just a really novel idea with a lot of crazy/funny ways to play around with its abilities.
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I've always wanted to make one of these myself. I've had a few ideas I think could be pretty cool, but I'm horrible at creative writing. :-/
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Muffinz0rz posted...

That has no right to work as well as it does... >_>
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gunplagirl posted...

Aristoph posted...

12 was the worst game in the history of the series.

2 happened first

Indeed. And set a very high bar for suckitude, which 12 managed to surpass with flying colors.
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11 and 14 don't count. They're MMOs.

12 was the worst game in the history of the series.

So it's a choice between 13 and 15. 15's battle system sucked, 13's was surprisingly deep and fun. Both stories kinda sucked, but at least the characters were unique in 13. I'll go with 13.
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Yeah, I'm already on TroutPaste's list. He's doing God's work. ^_^
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Hexenherz posted...

I'm not talking about player counts above 50k, but PC games in general don't have that longevity that they enjoy on consoles.

They also tend not to cost as much, considering they're constantly on sale. I've had my laptop for about 9 months now. My Steam library has 45 games and I've paid full price for a grand total of 2 of them.
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babyeatermax posted...

Consoles are still great to have on the side. You just plug and play. I like that they're portable. I can't take take my PC over my brothers house for an evening and just have a good time.

Gaming laptops aren't nearly the ripoff they used to be anymore. I absolutely love mine and it was 100% worth the extra price for the convenience of being able to take it to work or my brother's house. And it has the added benefit of being able to take literally my entire library of games with me at all times, instead of having to choose which games to bring with me or just carry a whole extra bag full of games along with the console itself.
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Hexenherz posted...

Depends on which game you're playing. Battlefield series has more players on console for instance. It not only makes it easier to get into a match, but also into a match in the game mode you want to play.

But the point is that it's a non-issue. If the matchmaking for your preferred gametype has 1,000 lobbies to choose from on console, and only 500 lobbies to choose from on PC...you're still getting into a match instantly. There's literally no difference. The only time player count is an issue at all is when the game is dying/dead and there's only a few hundred people still playing. When a game is new and there's tens of thousands of active players at any given time, the difference in experience for an individual player on PC with 50k active players and PS4 with double the active players is literally unnoticeable.
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Hexenherz posted...

Player count on consoles is unfortunately still a good reason to get them.

Maybe to some extent, I guess. There's certainly more players on console. But it's not like I've ever had a problem finding a match on PC. "Lack of players" is only a problem when it affects your ability to get into a game, which only happens when a game is completely dead.
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I give them the money...shot. ;-)
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KingRocc posted...

CiIantro posted...

wackyteen posted...

P sure consoles are cheaper

PCs are just way to blackmail an extra $700 out of the consumer

See how stupid it sounds?

Except you know, every person in a developed country has a PC.

Except, you know, that's actually not true.

Everyone who considers themselves enough of a gamer to care about this debate in the first place does.
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Yes, Windows Updates are a thing.

And I just had one a few days ago as well.
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The number 1 reason really does come down to casting, though.

I can't think of a single Marvel "main" character that I looked at and went "....huh? They went with him for that role?" They have absolutely been on point when it comes to casting.

DC on the other hand...I'm still confused by Affleck. What the flying fuck were they thinking? I mean, I give him credit as an actor because he did better than I expected when I first heard the announcement...but still... O_o
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catboy0_0 posted...

Aristoph posted...

No, I work hard on making posts that people like you think are horrible.

aww, you're cute :3

https://imgur.com/8i7ijPb
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catboy0_0 posted...

you work hard on making horrible posts? congratulations man. you did it!

No, I work hard on making posts that people like you think are horrible.
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catboy0_0 posted...

Aristoph consistently makes bad posts

Thank you. Knowing you think that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Like when a boss comments about how you did a great job on something you worked really hard on. ^_^
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catboy0_0 posted...

you're unhelpful

You're welcome.

DevsBro posted...

I don't know why you're upset when I'm not.

I've always enjoyed how any time someone uses hyperbole or exaggerates anything on CE it automatically means they're upset and not just...y'know...joking around. >_>
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