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Zeus posted...

While addiction is a disease, it's a disease that people bring onto themselves as opposed to say, a child who develops cancer.

Weeeeeellllllllllll.

While I'm one of the first to agree that calling alcoholism and similar issues a "disease" is something of a misnomer, and leads to mistreatment and misperception of behaviors in a lot of ways (and can easily lead to unhealthy rationalization/justification on the part of the addict), it's not 100% a purely behavioral issue. Like with most things in psychology, the reality is more complex, and the general population tends to oversimplify to the point of being blatantly wrong because most people don't actually understand psychology very well and just parrot back whatever wrong information they've heard someone else say.

Addiction disorders seem to be at least partially genetic/biological. Which is not to say that there's a gene that forces you to pick up a bottle and pour its contents down your throat (so yes, there's ALWAYS a "choice" and active engagement on the part of the user when it comes to addiction), but there does seem to be a genetic predisposition towards becoming addicted to things that radically alters just how much "willpower" a given person has to resist. For some people, peer pressure and life stresses and body biochemistry (and even potentially diagnosed psychological disorders of other kinds) can make it far harder to say no to the first drink (or smoke, or vape, or shot, or sniff, or pill, or...), and once you've established how good the high feels (and how bad the low feels), it can be much harder to stop than it might be for someone else.

The real problem is the point where a behavior goes from "use" to "abuse", and whether or not a given person can even sense when that line is crossed, or consciously choose to scale back their behavior once they cross it. Self-rationalization blocks a lot of awareness of the issue out, even things that are obvious to people on the outside looking in. Doubly so if negative effects aren't immediate, but things that only become a problem later (which is why we tend to gloss over addictions like caffeine, sugar, fatty foods, salts, etc).

What makes it more complicated is that most people aren't necessarily predisposed towards "alcohol addiction" or "heroin addiction" as much as they are predisposed to the addictive behavior itself, meaning that someone with an addictive personality can easily go their entire life never drinking a single drop of beer and still get addicted to something like gambling, video games, or spending way too much time surfing the Internet and posting on social media/message boards. Any behavior can be addictive, and people who treat the symptoms rather than the addictive personality itself can often easily just swap one addiction for another when quitting.

That being said, it's harder to blame someone for psychological damage that happened to them because all the bad choices/life events they made were when they were a teenager or younger, and as adults they're just reaping that same harvest, but yes, at a certain point you do generally just have to cut bait and stop caring, because for the most part, any addict generally needs to WANT to change before any outside support or advice or structure is going to help them improve. There's a reason why groups like AA only have a 5% success rate, and why there have been arguments that those 5% probably would have found other means of helping themselves regardless - because the program itself is mostly meaningless without the self-determination on the part of the addict, and because an addict with self-determination to improve can generally do so with any significant support network, not just a soulless 12-step program or "faith" (If anything, the most valuable part of AA is providing people with sponsors for support).


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Serdar posted...

Why do women need soap operas?

Based on ratings for various soap operas over the last 15 years or so, the evidence would tend to suggest that very few women "need" soap operas, and indeed, fewer and fewer women every year even WANT soap operas. There's a reason why there's only a few last straggler shows clinging to dear life while dozens of hours of content no longer exists.

Though for funsies, ask yourself this - why do men need sports?


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Lokarin posted...

The UK is banning people from participating in political conversation

From my understanding, isn't that basically just daily life in the UK these days?



Lokarin posted...

I think it's about time for America to go free them

Why would we do that? They don't have any oil.


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No one actually does that. It's just the psychological defense mechanism people resort to once they realize they've just been beaten by someone a fraction of their age, and they are suddenly confronted by the ice cold bite of their own mortality.


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Goes back to at least Grover Cleveland, because the fact that he was both 22nd and 24th President was pretty noteworthy.

Could go back farther than that, though I'd be less confident to assert it for sure.


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Miroku_of_Nite1 posted...

Waffle House is more of a flyover state thing.

It's more of a southern thing, honestly.

But I tend to lump it in with Cracker Barrel as the sorts of places you start to see once you've driven out of "civilization" and are encroaching on "the sticks", with a definite taste of "rural" in the mix. But that's mostly because as far as I (in common with many of my local peers) am concerned, anything outside of the Northeast, Chicago, and the thin strip along the West Coast is pretty much hillbilly country.


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I sleep on a pile of reeds inside of a cave.


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Serdar posted...

Are there better science-fiction films than The Matrix?

Yes, quite a lot, honestly.

And I say that as someone who actually quite likes the first Matrix. But I wouldn't even say it was the best sci-fi movie about virtual reality released in the same year, let alone the best sci-fi period of all time.


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OneTimeBen posted...

So much anticipation for a form of entertainment just shows lack of entertainment in your own life.

To be fair, most of modern Western culture is pretty much predicated on constantly seeking one form of escapism or another at all times. We treat work as a burden that must be endured and media as something we seek out to fulfill ourselves.

There's very few people in the population as a whole who are eschewing media entirely and having their own adventurous life.

Certainly no one posting in this topic, because by definition social message boards on the Internet are just another form of media escapism in their own way.


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AllstarSniper32 posted...

TheSlinja posted...

sweet maybe actually put a fucking C shot at the end, unlike 99% of sfm shit

I actually like loops more. I can understand wanting there to be a finish though.

The two aren't mutually exclusive. Loop for a bit, then end with a finish.

If nothing else, that way you're making something resembling a coherent scene, and not just a 15 second clip that is less a "film" and more a glorified animated .gif.

(Plus, in terms of labor saved, you can also use the trick some animators do, and have different camera angle cuts every couple of loops, so the scene changes dynamically without you actually having to do any additional complex animation.)


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Metal_Mario99 posted...

The thing is, a lot of the people here clearly have various social anxiety disorders. This is what makes them uncomfortable doing something like going to see a movie alone. Unfortunately, they don't always remember that their feelings on any given subject are not typical.

While you're not necessarily wrong, I'd argue that the idea that people who go to movies alone are somehow flawed because they can't find someone to go with is pretty strongly ingrained in culture as a whole, and plenty of people who are otherwise fairly well-adjusted can easily feel that way. I'd definitely say I know far more people who wouldn't be willing to go to the movies alone than I do people who would, and I'm talking about people who are otherwise extremely well-adjusted or otherwise socially adept (especially since most of the people I know at this point in my life are married and have kids). And Western media in general has portrayed that idea for decades, sort of underlining the idea that you're a loser if you see movies alone.

If anything, a case could even be made that the antisocial trend present in the average "Internet-er" might make them MORE inclined to see movies alone, if only because the awkwardness and anxiety of trying to find someone to go with in the first place outweighs the stresses of simply going alone. Though admittedly the more likely scenario there is that they just don't go at all, and pirate the movie on the Internet later because they feel like the world owes them something.


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I don't necessarily care about going to the movies alone, and I've done it a few times in the past.

But I've kind of reached a point in my life where there really AREN'T any movies out that I'm so super-stoked about that I desperately want to see them as soon as possible in theaters anyway. So the only times I really go to the movies is to take my nephew to see the Marvel movies (because he really enjoys them, and doesn't really have any other family or friends who'll go with him), or if my GF wants to see a movie and drags me along.

If no one else wants to see something, I'm usually just content for it to eventually come out on cable or DVD so I can watch it at home.



blu posted...

Was it a dick move on part of your SO?

Only if you told them in advance that you wanted to see the movie with them, and they implied they'd be up for it, and then went and saw it with someone else without you. If you don't say anything to them about it and don't make plans, and they take the initiative to see it with someone else, then that's kind of on you.

Though in my experience, at least, a caring SO might/should be willing to see the movie again with you anyway, unless they hated it so much the first time that they just can't endure being forced to watch it again. Because one of the things you learn about being an adult (especially an adult in relationships) is that sometimes (or a lot of the time), you're going to have to do things you don't necessarily want to do because someone else in your life wants to do them. I've definitely had friends (and I've also been the friend who does it) offer to go see a movie again just so that someone else can see a movie with someone else.

Sort of a "I get that you're not comfortable seeing movies alone, or just enjoy them more if you can watch them with other people, and I kind of enjoyed - or at least didn't hate - the movie the first time, so I'll go along because I care about you as a person" situation.


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papercup posted...

Tell him the last worthwhile Bioware game was Mass Effect 2, and since then the studio has been dead in the eyes of gamers.

Hey now, ME3 was great in a lot of ways right up to the last 30 minutes or so.


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likehelly posted...

you should hope that anthem does extremely well instead

Why would I hope for a game that apparently has absolutely none of the things I actually want out of BioWare in it, and which is little more than a shitty Destiny clone to do well?

It's a no-win scenario. If it does poorly, EA either guts the studio or shuts it down completely. It it does well, EA just has them keep shoveling out similar games and we never see a traditional BioWare game again. Either way, every single thing that made the company popular in the past is gone forever, and the only thing left is the name.

Better to watch the beast die than to see it continue to shamble on as a zombie corpse.


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Multiple save files for redundancy, which also occasionally double for going back to check different choices after finishing/acquiring trophies, or to "remember"/re-view major cut-scenes later on.

In the long ago ancient times, I used to just use a single save file per game, but then I got radically fucked in Final Fantasy VI (aka FF3 on the SNES), and basically had to start over, losing 16 hours of progress. So then I started staggering multiple tier save files.

These days, I usually have like 10 staggered saves per character in any given RPG, if the game allows me to. Though a frustrating number of RPGs seem to have hard caps on the number of save files you can have, which is kind of bullshit in the modern age of massive hard drive data storage.


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Tell him (or her, but let's be honest, probably a him) I'm sorry for hoping the game he's working on tanks so catastrophically that EA shuts BioWare down almost immediately to mercy kill my old suffering friend.

Not that I'm going to stop hoping that, but if he winds up unemployed from it, I might feel slightly bad for him.


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PK_Spam posted...

Im surprised people arent having a meltdown about this

Go to /co/ on 4chan if you want to troll a hysterical response out of people for saying it's good.

It's a show mostly aimed at 8-year olds. Obviously it's going to be almost entirely terrible. But most people here don't care enough about watching children's cartoons to flip their shit that stuff aimed at children somehow also doesn't manage to successfully entertain 20-something or even 30-something manchildren as well.


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Zeus posted...

Neither

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I also just remembered something from school.

It's called page breaks.


EDIT: Bless you, my child.


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I wouldn't buy the book in softcover for that price, but if I owned 4 books out of 5 in a series, and all of the books I had were softcover, I'd rather not buy the book at all until I can find it comparatively cheap in softcover. I definitely wouldn't buy the hardcover at any price if it fucks up the uniformity of the set.

I actually used to have that problem a few times in the past (especially pre-Amazon). Because it's usually easier to buy older books in a given set in paperback than it is hardcover, I'd have to skip over books I saw as new release hardcovers, or even if I saw them extra cheap on clearance in Barnes & Noble, because I either already owned prior books in paperback, or knew that I'd have to buy paperback books to complete a set.


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Bulbasaur posted...

it's a pirahnabytes game

the guys who made, uh

riven

Riven was made by the Miller twins, who founded Cyan.

You're thinking of Risen, not Riven.


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OmegaM posted...

FYI, if you're talking about the first sword in Zelda 1, it's actually just a Sword:

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/en/pdf/CLV-P-NAANE.pdf (page 19)

Game manuals in the US are pretty much meaningless, because they were usually written by people who knew very little about the actual game, and were rarely based on anything canonical or the intent of the original developers. Never trust anything they tell you, it's usually wrong.

Though to be honest, during the NES and SNES era, you can't really trust much that the actual games tell you either, since they also tended to be translated by people who barely understood the original Japanese and didn't really care all that much how inaccurate they were being.



OmegaM posted...

But I too for a long time thought that it was officially the Wooden Sword. I'm not sure how I got that impression. Well, obviously it stuck because the Sword is brown, but I don't recall how I first got to calling it the Wooden Sword.

Because nothing in the game actually refers to it by name, and it's brown. Add that to the fact that the game is based on the childhood adventures of a kid (which is also why Link is almost always drawn looking so young), and it's kind of clear the original intent was for it to be a wooden sword. Sort of underlined by the fact that wooden swords show up in later games as well.

Basically, the "White Sword" is the actual metal sword, and the "Magic Sword" is the one that was the default signature sword for the series until the Master Sword became a thing.


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Revelation34 posted...

I like how everything you post is an opinion yet claim it as fact.

I like how I've seen you try and shit on my posts in other topics in the past, yet I've never once seen you post anything worth reading.


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Noop_Noop posted...

These are the mercs who catch or hunt the poachers. Honest mistake, fucking one in a trillion shot.

But are you sure they weren't actually poachers in disguise, luring you into a trap, in order to poach YOU?

Since you got back, have you checked to see if you still have your ivory tusks?


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Noop_Noop posted...

I caught some ricocheting friendly fire, right in the fucking calf.

Maybe they were trying to poach you?


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I could never get over the stylistic design choices. It feels like something an edgelord teenager or Suda51 would think is awesome, which just makes me cringe right down to my toes.

Not that I'd necessarily like it even without that, but I'll never know because I can't really get past the visuals enough to even look into how the mechanics and story play out. Though my general growing distaste for JRPGs in general over the last 15 years or so probably wouldn't help in that scenario regardless.


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Nade Duck posted...

lucas is a crazy idiot but he at least had a vision and put it together coherently

I would argue that the only vision Lucas has really had for Star Wars since 1980 or so is how many unique-looking characters he can cram into each movie to sell toys of, since merchandising was always where he made most of his money.

It's part of why so many newer characters are so underdeveloped and pointless - 1970s Lucas was actually trying to tell a story (even if 90% of his ideas for it were stolen from other movies and TV shows he'd seen before), but post-success Lucas was basically far more concerned about look and appeal than minor things like characterization and likeable personalities.

It probably also ties in to why he spends most of his time worrying about CGI sequences and how things look than he does whether or not those things actually make sense or matter in the larger scheme of things. After all, the depth of Padme's character doesn't sell toys, but the fact that she wears 17 different outfits in a single movie means you can make 17 different figures! And it's way more important to shove dozens of characters into minor background cameos than it is to focus on a few major characters and develop them.

For all his talk about Star Wars being his baby or how he had a grand vision for it, he's just bullshitting like he's done in every interview for the last 40 years. Too many people spent too many years telling him how much a genius he was, and he stared believing it. So now he goes out of his way to play up to that idea when talking about something he cared about once in the mid-1970s, and which has been a merchandising machine for him ever since.

(It is kind of telling that so many ideas he had for the prequels - as well as his proposed ideas for what he would have done with the sequels - were ideas that were in his original script for Star Wars, but which were cut out because everyone he showed them to told him they were terrible. He's just recyling old shit because he doesn't really care enough to really think about it anymore (and because he's now deluded himself into believing he's a genius, so all of his ideas are clearly the best ideas, no matter what other award-winning director friends told him in the 1970s). This is also why it took him years to write the scripts for the first movie, but by the time of the prequels, he'd basically write the scripts in about a week. It's easy to write fast when you don't really give a shit about what you're writing, and are just referencing stuff you came up with 25 years ago anyway.

(Incidentally, rampant ego and self-delusion is also why he badgered everyone involved in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull to go with his idea of magic aliens in spite of the fact that literally everyone else involved thought it was a terrible idea. Because George Lucas the Supergenius is clearly incapable of having bad ideas, so he just threw tantrums until everyone else gave up and let him do it just to shut him up.)

The Sequels under Disney certainly could have been better than they are, but sequels from Lucas probably would have been even worse.


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Revelation34 posted...

Look how sad he was when he posed for the picture with Mickey after selling Star Wars.

He's looked like that since the early 1990s.


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darkknight109 posted...

On the upside, I thought DJ (the codebreaker) was awesome

I found him to be the absolute worst character in the history of the franchise.

Yes, given the choice, I would easily take characters like Jar-Jar or fat 1950s space diner asshole over Benicio del Toro's over-affected and blatantly not giving a single shit performance of an entirely pointless character.

I like the fact that he betrays them in the end, but since it was a pointless moment that was the culmination of an entirely unnecessary and unwanted sideplot, it doesn't really redeem it.


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OmegaM posted...

Look at what CYOA book recently got rereleased:

https://www.cyoa.com/collections/classics/products/the-throne-of-zeus

Maybe somebody should buy it for him.

(Maybe this isn't really on topic, but I didn't think it deserved its own topic on the board.)

I literally just saw that on Amazon like two days ago.

Are you secretly stalking my Internet search history?


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From what I've seen/heard, it seems like it's just a cheaper PC/Steam shovelware sort of game that somehow managed to get a physical release. So any difficulty isn't deliberate as much as it is just bad programming.

I could be wrong, though. I haven't really done a deep investigation or anything.


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Firewood18 posted...

The only super poor scene is the Finn and Rose part

I'd agree with this, in the sense that literally every part that has Finn and Rose in it is super poor.

Except then I'd also have to throw in most of the Poe scenes, the Leia scenes, the Holdo scenes, and probably a few more I'm not remembering. I'd also throw in literally everything related to Benicio del Toro, but I don't think he ever has a moment outside of Finn/Rose scenes, so that's already implied.

There ARE interesting moments and elements in the Luke/Rey/Kylo/Snoke parts, and I'm not throwing tantrums over Luke being bitter and old (if anything, I kind of like that concept more than I ever would have him just being Obi-Wan v2.0), but even those aren't handled quite as well as they could have been (mainly because those scenes always feel a bit rushed, to make room for all the other hot garbage).

In a more meta sense, it's also flawed in the fact that they've openly admitted they're just making all of this shit up as they go along, so there's no real plan in mind for future story beats. Which is why some of the plot feels so disjointed and awkward (and will likely do so in the next movie as well). It feels like the whole mess could have been much better if they'd come up with specific answers and background for important characters in advance, then trickled that out through the movies, rather than trying to fill in the gaps as they go without a single unified vision.

In a way, it almost feels like they looked at everything the Marvel movies have been doing right, then deliberately did the opposite.


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I've never had this problem, and I order white rice in place of fried rice every single time I order Chinese food.


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Mead posted...

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I prefer the original.

What is that

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OmegaM posted...

Are kids ever shown in Zelda games just playing with bombs? Link is using bombs to find hidden areas, though of course in the interest of freedom you can make him set off bombs anywhere.

And considering how most players tend to act in games, Link is pretty irresponsible as fuck with whatever explosives he finds.


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PuddingBoy posted...

Maybe the shitty episodes coincide with the network change?

I'd say it probably coincided with the writers running out of ideas, getting tired, and ceasing to give a shit (not necessarily in that order).

Which is also the same reason for decreases in quality in later seasons for Family Guy, The Simpsons, Futurama, South Park, and pretty much every other show that runs for more than a handful of seasons.

It also doesn't help that Seth MacFarlane has clearly moved on to caring about other projects and is mostly just doing the old stuff more out of obligation and a desire to keep the money coming in, rather than because he's actually passionate in it in any way (which, again, is similar to any number of other creators who went on to do new things while their old stuff was still going, like Matt Groening giving up on The Simpsons to work on Futurama, or Joss Whedon basically abandoning Buffy and Angel when he got the idea for Firefly).


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Lokarin posted...

But was kids playing with bombs really a thing?

Since the entire franchise is supposedly mostly inspired by Shigeru Miyamoto's childhood, I can only assume that, yes, in Japan it is entirely normal for small children to play with bombs.

And to also jump on turtles, throw fireballs at things, and beat up old men in caves with wooden swords.


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I prefer the original.


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ClarkDuke posted...

Am I alone, if you can't afford something, you don't need it, ok?

I would argue that, even if you CAN afford something, odds are extremely high that you don't actually need it.

If anything, a lot of the social problems humans face on a regular basis stem from people confusing "wants" and "needs".


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DarkKirby2500 posted...

From what I saw of it though it's unfortunately trying to ride off the popularity of Sword Art Online (not that SAO was an original idea, but it was popular at the time).

Indeed - at the time it was pretty much a straight rip-off of .hack, for people who were too stupid to like .hack, and just wanted more mindless anime action.

(Not that .hack was the first "trapped in VR" storyline ever either, but .hack had just finished two successful game series that interwove with games, anime, and manga as a multimedia experience, and SAO blatantly comes across like someone saw that and said "Yes, we would also like some of that money please.")


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GanglyKhan posted...

I nominate any of those blatantly bait TCs with the CRAZY post headlines about INSANE NEWS articles with the BIASED poll options.

What these polls need is an option to say you'd drink with a given poster, but only so you can get access to their drink to put rat poison in it.


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Kyuubi4269 posted...

DPsx7 posted...

then there's the gray area about obtaining the games...

If you own the originals, you're allowed to emulate.

You're not.

That's just the moral loophole people use to justify using emulators, but it's never really been true in either a legal or ethical sense. The logic is "Well I already paid for the game, so I'm just playing it via other means, which is legal," but your emulated copy is still a version that violates international copyright law that you almost certainly didn't pay for (and even if you did, the actual owners of the game almost certainly didn't see any of that money). And there are very few developers who would ever accept "Well, I own this on the SNES so its perfectly okay for me to play this other copy on my PC" as a valid argument.

You can argue whether or not companies should be able to hold older games "hostage" and force you to buy and rebuy them for new systems (*cough*Nintendo*cough*), but unless a game is complete and total abandonware, you can't legally play a copy, emulation, or ROM of that game without crossing some legal or ethical lines (even if you don't agree with them).


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Obviously, I know everything about Polonium. It IS my element, after all.


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Dynalo posted...

The Final Fantasy Victory Fanfare, obviously.

Back when I used to play browser games, I'd occasionally hum that after a particularly tough victory.


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SunWuKung420 posted...

Statistically, most distributions fall into the standard bell curve shape, the same with this poll except, the zero point isn't on the ends but in the center. That's an interesting phenomenon regarding this topic.

@adjl
@ParanoidObsessive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_bell_curve


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green dragon posted...

Depends on what exercises you're doing, and how strong you are.

This. Try to figure out what weight you need to comfortably do 10 reps or so, but still feel at least some resistance. Too light won't help you, and too heavy might wind up hurting you. But the range you're looking for depends entirely on how strong you currently are, and that can be different for different people.

When I started lifting in middle school I started with 5lb weights, then moved up to 10lb, 15lb, 20lb, and mostly topped off at 25lbs for bicep curls, but I also tended to do slightly lighter for triceps, and slightly lighter than that for flys.

Now, in my older twilight years, I've mostly just sort of plateau'd with 20lbs for curls, 10 lbs for tris, and 5lbs for flys.



Yellow posted...

I was told it's better to pick a lighter weight you can do many lifts with than to pick the one weight you can barely finish your reps with.

Depends on if you're lifting for mass or lifting for muscle tone.

Less weight, more reps is good for denser muscle mass. More weight is better for trying to look like a fantasy barbarian or comic book character.


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Mead posted...

Does she usually almost die though

Well, she's been in rehab multiple times, has been addicted to cocaine for something like 8-10 years in spite of claiming to be clean and sober multiple times (and then admitting later she was lying every one of those times), she used to be (and may still be) a cutter, she was bulimic for years, and she's been medicated for bipolar disorder.

Can't even really blame Disney too much in her case, because she's openly claimed that her childhood was somewhat abusive, and a lot of her problems started long before they ever discovered her. Becoming a child (well, teen) star probably didn't help matters, but she was a giant ball of fucked up even before that.

So it's the sort of pattern of behavior where you kind of look at it and go, yeah, this bitch is probably going to be dead before she's 30. Especially since every time she comes out and does an interview and goes "Man, I was really bad before but I'm good now", it comes out later that she was lying (in one case, she mentioned that she was basically strung out on coke during the interview she was doing about how great it was to be clean and sober). It seems like whatever deep-buried issues she's got, she's not really getting to the root of them and actually fixing her problems no matter how many times she goes to rehab.


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This isn't even a new thing. She's been fucked up for years.


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PK_Spam posted...

I hope this movies story is competent at least

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


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GanglyKhan posted...

A rare shred of logic in a sea of snap-decisions.

Logic has no place on PotD or the Internet as a whole. Away with you!


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