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Sephiroth > Mario in 2005 is a great one to bring up and one of the reasons I think the "8 legends" will tear through the guys that reach them (with a Mario > Sephiroth revenge result to cap things off). By holding back the classic guys until the end, we're building up hype for their arrival and minimizing the anti-votes that build up against them throughout a typical contest.

Anyway, I'll pick a random one and say Kefka winning two rounds in 2013. He gave us glimpses of legit strength by beating Arthas in 2010, but no one expected him to take out a FFVII character (and easily!).
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ExThaNemesis posted...

Yoblazer, you need a superior microphone brother.

Yeah, I listened back and definitely wasn't happy with the output quality (which isn't surprising since I was just using my phone and a standard earbud mic for the call).

I might need to think of a better system, but I really like taking the Skype call from my phone now, so my options are probably limited.
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He also had a clutch win against Donkey Kong in 2003, but it felt like a poor performance since most people expected him to be stronger.

That doesn't approach the Kefka match though, which still may be the greatest Round 1 match we've ever had.
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VipaGTS posted...

you can tip whatever you want. there is no "norm".

There are definitely cultural norms, and tipping (and tipping at certain percentages) for restaurant service in the US is one of them.
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AlisLandale posted...

The norm

Is there like, a council that decides this?

If more and more restaurants push for it over time, it'll become the norm, right? I was too young to pay for my own food 25 years ago, but wasn't the standard ~10% back then? Nowadays, 10% is cheapskate territory.
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Ummm time to text my girlfriend to drive back home
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I'll jump into the convos here shortly, but right now I just want to say that I started Doki Doki today, and why some of the plot revelations themselves may not be shocking me, the presentation is incredible.
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Yeah, the widespread belief is that the PPV-selling drama is fabricated, but I rarely if ever hear someone actually claim UFC stages their fights.
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UFC has out-pro wrestling'd pro wrestling ever since the WWE abandoned their PPV model.
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Very soon suga
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Now dis a match
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I think I've covered all the big ones.
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Take back bracket and rework bracket =(
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Punnyz posted...

Uglyface2 posted...

I don't have a gun. I have a history of having a bad temper, and while I've worked exceptionally hard to change my behavior I still don't trust myself enough to own one.

I do, however, support people's right to own guns.

do you really think you'd go out and murder someone if you got mad enough?

That answer would probably have been "no" for most of the people who've actually done it.
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X > Blastoise

I was on the X > Classic train for years. Classic's inclusion in Smash does make me hesitate, but not enough to depart the train I helped conduct for so damn long.
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Spider-Man > Sephiroth
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I'm afraid of the irrevocable commitment. You can break up with a partner. You can quit a job. You can divorce a spouse. You can't just go "take backsies" on your kids. Also, I'm particularly scared of the possibility of having a kid that you don't fall in love with. What if I don't love my kids? Not every parent does, and I'm terrified of being in a situation like that.
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AxemRedRanger posted...

Bayonetta did slightly better against Snake in 2013 than Isaac did and that was before Bayonetta 2 and Smash, so at least Lucario's probably her floor rather than her expected strength!

I think gamefaqs is too old and set in its ways to get her even close to Dante, though.

Yeah, Bayonetta would be stronger if her first game came out in... let's say 2005 versus 2010, but she's probably a victim of GameFAQs Modern Apathy. I think I'd take her over Kratos, but never over white haired Dante.
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Maybe I'm reaching but his wife has that divorce look...
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This guy sounds like a talk radio host. He's as antithetical to the supreme court as Trump is to the presidency.

Guess he's in.
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You know - toys, cartoons, comics, card games. I'm referring to media in those fields that are generally aimed at children (so a daytime cartoon versus Rick and Morty or an adult anime).

I collected amiibo for about a year when they were first launched.
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I finally watched T3 a few months ago and it was worse than I ever imagined.
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Rocky and First Blood is right on par with the Terminators and Predator. It's an even rivalry.
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Trump appealed to the midwest. Jeb could have taken Florida but would not have nearly the same appeal in all those Midwestern states Trump carried.
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Objectively? Obama.
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From what I can remember (counting phone interviews and a lunch that doubled as an interview)...

9/13 = 69%

Didn't think it was that high.
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2070 in the Vegas suburbs. I feel overpaid and live comfortably.

Although that's twice a month. Biweekly would probably be 1950 or something.
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820

Got my credit card set on auto payment and owned a condo the last three years. I won't deny being more privileged than the average person, but it honestly hasn't been too hard reaching that score.
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Voted Joker > K. Rool before reading the topic (assumed it was the OTHER joker).

K. Rool gets my vote after the full read.
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Zelda
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Fridge. I wouldn't care if he froze it.
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My roommate keeps leftover takeout and his uneaten prepped meals in there for like... 2-3+ weeks. I've always eaten leftovers within a day or two, so I had never seen anyone do this before.

Am I in the wrong for being grossed out by this, or is it actually gross behavior that I should talk to him about? My biggest concern is it actually becoming a health hazard, because some of his food has smelled funky before, and he just seems to forget about it.
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This won't make national news, and I only know about it because it happened in my old community, but

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1922022911191230&id=100001506203074&__tn__=C-R

Fans of the home team "welcomed" the visiting Santa Ana Saints, a high school with a majority Hispanic student body, with signs that included "We Love White" and "Build The Wall." They also broke out in chants of "USA USA USA," a curious thing to chant when your opponent is from literally ten miles up the road. And this is in an affluent Orange County city, not some mining town that's been dying for 50 years.

The new normal.
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YYh
DBZ
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Batman
Monster
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Lopen posted...

social terrorism

Never heard this term before.
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Anisoptera posted...

Multigeneration households aren't too common in America and are frowned upon. Americans are expected to send their parents off to retirement homes or apartments/neighborhood for the elderly. There is great shame in living with your parents past the age of 22. The shame is so great that people start moving out of their parents home as soon as the age of 16.

This stigma has been disappearing due to both economic limitations and the increase of minority populations in the U.S. (I think multigenerational homes are less stigmatized in the black, Hispanic, Asian, and Middle Eastern cultures). But you're right, it's generally still there though not as significantly as it was two generations ago.
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No but I bought a place just a mile away so I'm still not completely independent. I can visit to bum a hot meal whenever while still having the privacy of my own place, so it feels like the best of both worlds.
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One thing I've learned from living in Eastern Kentucky that seems to echo what I see online is that Republican women in particular tend to be incredibly racist

Maybe it's a bigoted (per)version of maternal instinct? Most seem to be mothers and care deeply about their children and grandchildren remaining uncorrupted by the growing scourge of minorities and LGBTs.
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Before the finale, I was guessing Jesse would live just because killing him (I assumed Walt dying was a given) would leave too sour a taste for fans. While he did live, he sure as hell didn't get a happy ending.

He lost all his money. The only two women he ever cared for died horribly. He could never return to his family. He was a major criminal and turning himself in really wasn't an option - at least not at happiness. He was mentally broken after not only witnessing Andrea's murder, but being literally tortured and enslaved for months. Another poster on the Cable TV board said that after his final scene, Jesse was more likely to drive his getaway car off a cliff than into a new, happy life. I agree, sadly.

IMO, the overarching motif in the Breaking Bad world - told through the stories of Walt, Jesse, Mike, Gus, Saul, Hector, Gale, Nacho, you name it - is that crime doesn't pay. No one ended happier than where they began, and many innocent lives were destroyed by their greed and hubris. Jesse's tortured survival tells that same story.
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Holy shit dude. I hope this doesn't sound disrespectful, but I didn't know you were THIS talented. Awesome job!
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Melee's competitive scene has probably gotten even larger and more active in the last three years, so if we somehow get a game contest soon, I'd look at rallies as a serious possibility in any match where it needs them.

Does anyone know if the Smash reddit permits rally posts?
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VideoboysaysCube posted...

EternalDivide posted...

Investing in worthless imaginary intangible "money" turns out to be a bad idea? Who would have thunk it.

And is paper money really all that different?

Paper money has governmental backing and fail-safes to keep it from collapsing (provided that it's historically stable currency to begin with). If the U.S. Dollar completely collapses, it's taking a good chunk of the world's economy with it. If Bitcoin completely collapses, everyone who DIDN'T jump completely on board that train will be fine.

Also, comparing Bitcoin to paper currency seems a bit disingenuous to me because most of us didn't think of it as currency when we bought it - we thought of it as an investment. If Bitcoin was as stable as most currency, it wouldn't have been nearly as alluring last year.
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I put $3k in as play money last October/November, saw it increase to around $8k, held, and now I'm at $2k. Since I don't need the money, I'll probably keep it in crypto and forget about it until the next time it makes major news. I don't feel bad about holding when I could have made a $5k profit in under two months - better to get smacked on the wrist than to become obsessed and risk losing serious money.

But yeah, I think those golden days of December 2017 are gone for a long while, if not for good. What can really bring Bitcoin back? It's dominated the news cycle for the last nine months, meaning that everyone knows about and the allure it had last year is gone.
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I've only been to a handful, but Disneyland takes it running away. There's too much atmosphere and nostalgia there, which is much funner to me than pure thrill rides.
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Foam soap ftw
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I'm a junkie for carbonation. Sparkling water with lime squeezed in is my go to, but I'll go for a Coke Zero from time to time. Hope aspartame isn't as bad as some people say, because that's pretty much the only soda I have these days.
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My longest commute ever was still under 30 minutes most days, even in 5 PM traffic. That's my limit. I've had two commutes that were under a mile, including my current one, and the relief of never having to worry about traffic - along with the ability to actually go home and kick your shoes off for lunch every day - is such a boon to my overall quality of life that it's hard to imagine giving it up.

God speed to you guys who can tolerate two hours of commuting every day. That's way beyond me.
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I agree with GMUN. There are so many frustrating design choices with SS, but at the end of the day, I think the triumphs well and truly surpass the failures. It probably had the freshest approach to puzzles in series history, which is why IMO the dungeons felt quite a bit better than those in WW and TP.
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