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scarletspeed7 posted...

How is the worst fanbase not MLP?

Because the bar is really fucking high for terrible fanbases

Most MLP fans just enjoy the show
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_foolmo_
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SmartMuffin posted...

Only the coverage is universally positive, instead of universally negative.

Because there's no threat
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_foolmo_
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Muffin doesn't realize that the tea party was dismantled and cannibalized by Republicans (and Democrats together) into racist neoconism

Doesn't help that most original tea parties were racist neocons either
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_foolmo_
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It's pretty much all aesthetic
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_foolmo_
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I've had it in my backlog for a while and I really want to play it but I wish there was a 2x speed button
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_foolmo_
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It's not about being vague, it's about getting as far away from the word as possible in a way that only those who know the actual word could follow. Like if you google the word + your word it should be clear, but if the ghosts google all the given words it should not lead to the original word at all.

But that's only if everyone plays it perfectly. Usually there will be some easy hints given out, so you have to assume that the ghost will suspect the real word at some point. So you have to make it hard for them to confirm the word, which also makes it hard for your team to confirm. Then you have to convince your team not to lynch you if they don't quite understand it.
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_foolmo_
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No which is why all elite colleges have been doing that since the higher education bubble. They're all massively diluting their student base and education standards.

Well to be more exact, they are diluting the vast majority 95% of students. A certain 5% are still given elite and exclusive extra benefits so that they can graduate and carry on the image of "elite ivy league student" to attract the next batch of 6 figure suckers.

This system works great because there's literally no limit. They could have 1 million mediocre students and still if there's just 200 super elite graduates every year who get super rich jobs and there's a kid from Somalia or whatever who now works at Lockheed making nukes, etc., people will still view it as super elite.
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_foolmo_
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lol @ how you desperately try to group whites with asians in this case

Whites lose in a strongly merit-based system. That's the ONLY reason this is an issue right now. That's the ONLY way Harvard can reasonable justify the "better personality" angle. Whites have a much more "Harvard" personality than asians - this is a plain fact. Their argument exists 100% only to justify their white preference. They couldn't care less about blacks and hispanics, that's your SJW rage projection.
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You're missing my point

How is it a groundbreaking exposal when it's been common knowledge (an explicit feature of the system even) for centuries?

The only thing new here is that they are using the diversity angle to justify dumbass whites deserving to go to Harvard more than highly qualified asians.
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Vlado posted...

Nobody said Putin liked them, either. Why would he?

Because they're his citizens who apparently voted for him 90%
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Jakyl25 posted...

I hope Vlados kid turns out to be LGBT

That's impossible because Vlado will just beat him until he's straight and Christian again
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SmartMuffin posted...

It's about to be exposed for the cold, hard, race-based discrimination that it is.

You know you're talking about ivy league admissions right?
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_foolmo_
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He lost all credibility when he said it ended in 2016
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_foolmo_
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I mean the previous president was the first black one in literally all of history. The current one copied Reagan so it's not THAT special but still fairly rare.

So with 2 weird elections in a row, the next one going back to standard would be the anomaly. We are in an era of seminal events right now (no small part due to the internet). And the next election is very ripe for something big. It could be the first non-2 term president in a while, or the first woman, more 3rd party resurgence, actual anti-war (trade or military) stuff, cryptocurrency shenanigans.

I mean don't get me wrong, voting is still useless. But the political machine is definitely getting stirred up.
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_foolmo_
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So am I the only one that found it incredibly stupid that Connor didn't shoot the Chloe but then in the next scene he tortured like 4 other androids in the evidence locker including ripping off a Traci's head?

Connor's story is better but it is far from immune to Cage's garbage
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HotDogButts posted...

And yet you argue that things are moving in the opposite direction, presently

Sure, I just don't see these issues and society in general as linear. It's really easy to understand my position if you drop that kind of thinking.

HotDogButts posted...

But we're not talking about ultimate logical conclusions and we're not talking about 50 years down the line, we're talking about 2

50 years is just 25 * 2 years. That's my point. At some point, something happens in those 2 years. It would be stupid to assume that 2020 can't be that point.

Especially since 2016 was arguably already one of those points.
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_foolmo_
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That's also a middle school tier idea
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_foolmo_
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Also this is kinda interesting, not sure if it will play out properly (I know it won't): Alice being an android makes Kara actually seem LESS human. Like they are 2 parts of a set just programmed to interact with each other. That's definitely a Nier-esque idea.
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kevwaffles posted...

after so many years of androids it's not too surprising the average citizen overlooks anyone without an LED

sure.... if it wasn't incredibly easy to remove the LED in 1 second with no side effects
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HotDogButts posted...

Why do you see it as mindless

Because if you take that idea to its logical conclusion, it's obviously absurd. Even if you take it just a little bit down the road (50-100 years), it reaches absurdity pretty quickly. And even stronger, you could argue that the past election has already contradicted that idea.

So it can only be an idea that someone who has given no thought would hold. Mindless.
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_foolmo_
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It's a really good idea imo, in a different context.

Like let's say all the characters had the same arc as Connor. Obviously robots, slowly showing humanity, eventually they convince the player they are actually human. If this was how Kara developed, it would be an awesome way to sell the idea that androids are not very distinguishable from humans, since this character whose humanity you never questioned all along is actually an android.

But instead.... Kara is 100% human the instant she goes deviant like 30 minutes in the game. There is no question at all whether she is human and the player never has to question that fact. So to reveal Alice is an android is at best "duh" or "who cares".
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Ok so it's one thing to look at this guy and realize he's just some typical r/iamverysmart guy, no big deal.

The real issue is that Vlado has decided that he himself will never surpass this guy. To the point that he made this topic to tell everyone that he will never be cooler than this guy. Such a weird public form of defeatism and self-deprecation. Is he looking for support or something? A cry for help?
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GANON1025 posted...

Oh man, it's going to be so good when it turns out Alice has been an android this whole time

I guess this is an inevitability at this point right? Is there any way this isn't an enormous plot hole though?
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_foolmo_
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The problem with Woolie running away and also sacrificing himself is that those options all seemed pretty good and natural in the moment. The game tries so hard to make all the options feel viable that it fails to realize that lots of options are explicitly not viable, ruin/limit the game's content, make no sense, etc.

The game SHOULD have some opinion about the choices so the first time player doesn't totally screw themselves up like this. It should be an option to screw yourself up like that, but it shouldn't be easier to do that than do have a good playthrough. Or, the "screwed up" path provides some good stuff that makes it worth seeing, instead of just cutting out a bunch of content. 100% failure of the game designer.

I did love the neutral -> lover scene though because of how absurd and anti-traditional adventure game romance it was. But I can't believe they let Markus just become a god and a slave-driver to these other androids... I mean I know it's Cage but still damn.
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HotDogButts posted...

Do you actually believe this question doesn't already have a foregone conclusion?

Sure

Mindless cynicism isn't a virtue
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SmartMuffin posted...

I mean, that was the great libertarian hope, and foolmo keeps acting like it will happen, but it just isn't.

It does happen here and there, just in little ways. Like the border family separation thing, it was brought back to its Bush/Obama status quo by the executive order, but (some) people aren't satisfied with that anymore.

The overton window is definitely still moving towards totalitarianism though.

We'll see how the next presidential election goes though, whether people were able to remember 4 years ago or if the media machine still has total power.
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_foolmo_
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That article would've been great with a playable explanation. Make people figure out what their actual line is, and realize how it's probably far lower than Hitler and Bin Laden. And their line likely excludes a "protected group" or some other non-violent group (which is always gonna be the easy caveat to make when you only point out Hitler etc).
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Hardcore_Adult posted...

^ Is there such a thing as a *rational* religious person?

epic
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SmartMuffin posted...

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/06/22/report-tesla-plans-to-close-a-dozen-solar-facilities-across-nine-states/

Let's see if the free market bails them out with billions of dollars like it did the auto and coal industries
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

muffin in 2018: "the gov't can kill people in their homes or shut down barbecues in the park or stop 8 year olds from selling water on the sidewalk, as long as they do hilarious stuff like throwing starburst at merkel"

No it's all about whether a pepe meme was made about it
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_foolmo_
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Progressive gay women should be the ones ordering SWAT raids and drone strikes on children

^imagine a bunch of clap emojis in between
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