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| Topic | What's the likelihood we get a new chapter of deltarune... |
| Paratroopa1 10/19/19 8:36:10 PM #10 | Anagram posted... If this is the official B8 Deltarune topic, what do you guys think of the |
| Topic | What's the likelihood we get a new chapter of deltarune... |
| Paratroopa1 10/19/19 8:28:59 PM #8 | saying something is going to happen in 2021 sounds bizarrely like some kind of far off future year. weird |
| Topic | What's the likelihood we get a new chapter of deltarune... |
| Paratroopa1 10/19/19 8:28:22 PM #7 | Yeah he said he was going to release the rest of the game in one go He's said that he wants to get the game out as soon as possible but who knows when that is - I'm not personally making expectations of it being any time before 2022, if it drops in 2021 that's great |
| Topic | Who is the best Cleveland Browns HB of all time? |
| Paratroopa1 10/19/19 1:13:15 PM #3 | Where's Peyton Hillis Jim Brown never got on the cover of Madden |
| Topic | Tennessee EXECUTED THE WRONG MAN as evidence suggests he's INNOCENT!!!! |
| Paratroopa1 10/18/19 9:17:39 PM #13 | we are no longer on speaking terms. goodbye |
| Topic | Tennessee EXECUTED THE WRONG MAN as evidence suggests he's INNOCENT!!!! |
| Paratroopa1 10/18/19 9:15:42 PM #11 | BlueCrystalTear posted... TheRock1525 posted...Are you saying if people rape, then our government should rape people? you're fucking horrifying |
| Topic | Tennessee EXECUTED THE WRONG MAN as evidence suggests he's INNOCENT!!!! |
| Paratroopa1 10/18/19 9:07:29 PM #8 | BlueCrystalTear posted... There's nothing "cruel and unusual" about ending the life of someone who ended someone else's or caused severe mental anguish for several people. Why should those assholes just be fed taxpayer dollars in prisons? ah shit I have terrible news about how much the death penalty costs then |
| Topic | Tennessee EXECUTED THE WRONG MAN as evidence suggests he's INNOCENT!!!! |
| Paratroopa1 10/18/19 8:54:30 PM #5 | BlueCrystalTear posted... The death penalty is completely fine so long as it's for a murderer, serial rapist, child molester, etc. and the conviction is supported by DNA evidence. DNA evidence is itself vastly more unreliable than people think it is, and the kind of "DNA evidence" that people use in court ranges from "has genuine scientific merit, but still carries a margin of error larger than people are willing to admit" to "literally just quackery" |
| Topic | It is NEW JACKBOX 6 Time, come play on Discord/Twitch ! |
| Paratroopa1 10/18/19 12:58:11 AM #7 | This is better than Jackbox 5, too, which I think was the weakest (Mad Verse City is excellent but everything else is a bit 'eh') |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 244: All Presidents of the Last Century are Criminals |
| Paratroopa1 10/17/19 7:30:36 PM #7 | Every time I hear about Jimmy Carter he seems really chill and maybe the least bad person to hold the office of the presidency ever |
| Topic | NFL Pick'em Topic Week 7 |
| Paratroopa1 10/17/19 7:37:43 AM #30 | Kansas City Chiefs Atlanta Falcons Buffalo Bills Cincinnati Bengals Detroit Lions Green Bay Packers Houston Texans New York Giants San Francisco 49ers Tennessee Titans Chicago Bears Seattle Seahawks Dallas Cowboys New England Patriots |
| Topic | B8 NFL Ladder Contest, Week 7 |
| Paratroopa1 10/17/19 4:27:43 AM #12 | Level 4 Buffalo/Miami 10+ Lions/Vikings 5- Bonus: Kupp (I'm fucking lazy and everyone else is saying it) |
| Topic | so I'm hooked on the idea of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure: The Musical |
| Paratroopa1 10/16/19 10:02:10 PM #7 | I googled it and apparently someone has done it before |
| Topic | Should plastic straws be banned? |
| Paratroopa1 10/16/19 7:55:24 AM #37 | I've been to a couple restaurants where the policy is that they have straws and they'll give you one if you ask, but you have to ask specifically for it. Seems like a decent way to go, although you can't really legislate that kind of behavior, it has to be kind of all or nothing if you really want to completely eliminate the waste. Overall I think it's a good idea but it needs to be part of a much larger push to eliminate plastic waste. |
| Topic | Paste magazine put out their top 100 games of the decade and it's... interesting |
| Paratroopa1 10/14/19 7:33:57 PM #67 | MetalmindStats posted... Paratroopa1 posted...and unlike Pokemon Go, TPP gave us like a bunch of memes and cultural touchstones, whereas Go has just not done that Oh I agree that it didn't, but I do think that TPP is something that sort of lives in at least our niche part of cultural memory (which is where most of our favorite games live anyway), whereas Pokemon Go hasn't really like... imparted me with any lasting ideas, which maybe it's not something that everyone values, but I do. Maybe it's just because I didn't like Pokemon Go as much but thinking back on playing it in its heyday isn't really something I do a lot. I remember a lot of good times I had in my life that were indirectly related to Pokemon Go, and that's the stuff I have a hard time ranking, because playing Pokemon Go sort of turned into "you know, I should really just go for walks on the nature trails in the city more often", which I ended up doing without the aid of PoGo |
| Topic | Do you side with martin scorcese or the mcu films? |
| Paratroopa1 10/14/19 7:19:47 PM #57 | The whole thing about how the interconnectivity of the MCU movies ruins them as standalone films isn't really something I agree with anyway - the fact that they have that connecting tissue is what makes them sort of unique among movies, and I think it's something that has value for its own sake |
| Topic | Paste magazine put out their top 100 games of the decade and it's... interesting |
| Paratroopa1 10/14/19 7:16:57 PM #64 | I was there for the early days of Pokemon Go so I totally know what you're talking about, but it's something I put more in the same category as like "Twitch Plays Pokemon" where it's like this crazy interactive experience that you kinda had to be there to understand how big a deal it was. and unlike Pokemon Go, TPP gave us like a bunch of memes and cultural touchstones, whereas Go has just not done that |
| Topic | Do you side with martin scorcese or the mcu films? |
| Paratroopa1 10/14/19 7:14:25 PM #54 | I think the concept of what SHIELD is, what Hydra is, and why it's shocking that one infiltrated the other is sort of important to understanding the impact of Winter Soldier, but I think you can pretty much understand it without knowing that stuff |
| Topic | Paste magazine put out their top 100 games of the decade and it's... interesting |
| Paratroopa1 10/14/19 6:10:18 PM #58 | Right? I mean Her Story is far from one of my favorite games of all time but it seems like the type of game that would appear on this type of list |
| Topic | Do you side with martin scorcese or the mcu films? |
| Paratroopa1 10/14/19 5:54:25 PM #43 | I think to imply that the MCU really lacks artistic merit is wildly reductionist, I wouldn't say any of them are truly the most profound works of our time by any stretch but there are definitely little moments and ideas throughout many of the films that I would say are worth viewing with a critical eye. A movie doesn't need to be the HIGHEST art to still have something meaningful to say and putting everything in either "true art" or "just entertainment" is kind of selling everyone short Also, I think people have a strong tendency to underestimate the amount of craft that actually goes into making something fun; that, in itself, is art of its own. Most of the films that people describe as 'popcorn flicks' I don't really find all that entertaining - anything that is 'turn your brain off' material ends up not being that fun. I think what makes the MCU cool is that it's particularly well-made fun, and there is a difference! Most movies don't really achieve the heights of entertainment that these movies reach. It's reductionist and maybe even borderline offensive to dismiss both the vision of a director and performances of actors who know how to actually make something fun instead of just boring, as well as the extremely high levels of craftsmanship that thousands of people put into making these things work. |
| Topic | Paste magazine put out their top 100 games of the decade and it's... interesting |
| Paratroopa1 10/14/19 4:57:50 PM #56 | It seems like this is kind of just a single person's list? Which explains some of the weirder choices, but then doesn't explain why a lot of the list does seem very 'consensus', which kind of threw me I'm surprised given the author's predilections that neither The Witness or Her Story made it on to this list, those were two like huge conceptual standouts in the indie scene in the last decade |
| Topic | Paste magazine put out their top 100 games of the decade and it's... interesting |
| Paratroopa1 10/14/19 4:37:12 PM #54 | Wait wow they didn't even include Fortnite on a top 100 games of the decade that's... spicy |
| Topic | Paste magazine put out their top 100 games of the decade and it's... interesting |
| Paratroopa1 10/14/19 4:36:13 PM #53 | Pokemon Go always making this lists sort of mystifies me in a way It's certainly one of the biggest cultural experiences of the decade, and I do think it's a fun activity that encourages people to go outside, and it's one of the most interesting technological concepts for a game to date - but the game itself is boring and really just feels like a list of stuff to collect with a presentation that is close to as clinical as possible I don't really know how to rate something like that. Maybe I just need to change my thinking on what makes a game 'good', but for me it just wasn't worth spending that much time with, and holding it up to a bunch of games with stronger craft and auteurism behind them just seems really strange to me I don't feel the same way about stuff like Minecraft and Fortnite mind you, I'm too old for that shit but it clearly belongs on a game of the decade list |
| Topic | Do you side with martin scorcese or the mcu films? |
| Paratroopa1 10/14/19 2:37:33 AM #14 | I think many of the MCU films, even in areas like having smartly written themes and portrayal of three-dimensional characters, show a lot of craft, much more than the average summer blockbuster, which is why this opinion is frustrating - it's just pointlessly and crudely dismissive without displaying any sort of deeper insight I just really don't think there's anything enlightened about dismissing the things they do out of hand because you think they're popcorn flicks I've seen some far more "grown-up" movies that really weren't, comparatively |
| Topic | Do you side with martin scorcese or the mcu films? |
| Paratroopa1 10/13/19 11:21:14 PM #6 | Nrrr posted... I generally agree with what Scorcese is saying, these are big tentpole event films that run on hype and are basically a thrill ride, and it would suck if that is the only kind of movie anyone made or paid attention to. I don't think that is a concern, though. yeah but that ain't what he said |
| Topic | Do you side with martin scorcese or the mcu films? |
| Paratroopa1 10/13/19 11:19:26 PM #3 | the viewpoint that MCU films "aren't cinema" and "aren't narrative stories" is just fucking childish, that's not an enlightened opinion of what art is |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 242: China, in fact, DOES Care |
| Paratroopa1 10/12/19 11:55:13 PM #237 | LordoftheMorons posted... Those deaths are directly attributable to Donald Trump and we're probably going to find out he sold them out to benefit his fucking Turkish hotels or something. I feel like we already know this, there is no 'finding out' |
| Topic | Blizzard bans and withholds prize money from hearthstone player for HK support |
| Paratroopa1 10/12/19 11:17:23 PM #463 | I don't even know what to take from the fact that the person who wrote that statement might be Chinese, I just find the linguistics of it very interesting |
| Topic | Blizzard bans and withholds prize money from hearthstone player for HK support |
| Paratroopa1 10/12/19 6:33:46 PM #458 | SantaRPidgey posted... Paratroopa1 posted...There is a consequence for taking the conversation away from the purpose of the event and disrupting or derailing the broadcast. Yeah, that's the thing. People have brushed this off as "oh, it's just corporate speak," but no it's not, again I wouldn't describe myself as an expert but I've seen enough corporate speak in my life and this ain't it. |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 242: China, in fact, DOES Care |
| Paratroopa1 10/12/19 6:27:39 PM #217 | You are officially too fucking rich if you don't even know secondhand how a grocery store works |
| Topic | Blizzard bans and withholds prize money from hearthstone player for HK support |
| Paratroopa1 10/12/19 6:22:06 PM #456 | I think mc is missing the fact that this post IS written in english. It's not, like, a sloppy translation where the grammar is incorrect; the person who wrote this is what I would describe as fluent in english. But they are not native in english, and there are certain choices of phrasing that make that clear to me, things that are "technically correct" but are not the way I would write something. The biggest 'smoking gun' for me is this paragraph: "But playing fair also includes appropriate pre-and post-match conduct, especially when a player accepts recognition for winning in a broadcast. When we think about the suspension, six months for blitzchung is more appropriate, after which time he can compete in the Hearthstone pro circuit again if he so chooses. There is a consequence for taking the conversation away from the purpose of the event and disrupting or derailing the broadcast." Nothing in this paragraph is incorrect so to speak, but there are two things that stand out to me here. 1) "When we think about the suspension..." It's really difficult for me to pinpoint the exact reason why this phrasing is odd, but it is, and I just know it when I see it. If I were writing a formal statement like this, I would probably start this sentence as something like, "after further consideration..." Starting this out as "when we think" clearly comes across to me as someone who learned a slightly odd way of saying things. Something about the tense is just wrong here. 2) "There is a consequence..." No, there are consequences. Again, it's difficult to pinpoint exactly why this is wrong, but the phrasing here clearly would be "there are consequences." It would not occur to me to say "there is a consequence." It might slip out in casual conversation as a result of me conjuring up words in a slightly disjointed order, but it wouldn't occur in writing. I'm not an expert on this sort of thing, but I have seen a lot of words before, and I've seen enough words written or spoken by people of other linguistic backgrounds to know it when I see it. This isn't a knock on people who only know english as a second language, since the subtleties here are so precise that I can't even describe WHY they are the way they are, but it just... is. I don't even know what I should take away from any of this I just think it's neat |
| Topic | Blizzard bans and withholds prize money from hearthstone player for HK support |
| Paratroopa1 10/12/19 12:09:42 AM #428 | Yeah, I thought a couple of wording choices in the post seemed odd, I just wasn't really thinking about it at the time |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 242: China, in fact, DOES Care |
| Paratroopa1 10/11/19 7:04:32 PM #102 | Tulsi Gabbard is basically the Dave Rubin of presidential candidates |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 242: China, in fact, DOES Care |
| Paratroopa1 10/11/19 6:52:22 PM #98 | I think Yang is probably a complete charlatan but I'll take him over Gabbard |
| Topic | Who is the best Arizona Cardinals HB of all time? |
| Paratroopa1 10/11/19 6:22:44 AM #10 | Yeah I thought of Edgerrin James too. He did actually give them three seasons of decent football and was a part of the 2008 SB run. |
| Topic | B8 NFL Ladder Contest, Week 6 |
| Paratroopa1 10/10/19 8:25:45 AM #12 | Level 4 Patriots/Giants 10+ Broncos/Titans 5- Bonus: Broncos/Titans |
| Topic | NFL Pick'em Topic Week 6 |
| Paratroopa1 10/10/19 3:47:45 AM #33 | CHANGE: Giants to Patriots I just put the wrong team in, I'm not doing that. |
| Topic | NFL Pick'em Topic Week 6 |
| Paratroopa1 10/10/19 3:47:12 AM #32 | New York Giants Tampa Bay Buccaneers Seattle Seahawks Kansas City Chiefs Washington Redskins Minnesota Vikings New Orleans Saints Cincinnati Bengals Los Angeles Rams Arizona Cardinals Tennessee Titans Dallas Cowboys Pittsburgh Steelers Green Bay Packers |
| Topic | Guys donates his Mothers Body to science, gets blown up by military !! |
| Paratroopa1 10/09/19 10:47:17 PM #8 | Really pissed that this is who got the Sirfetchd alt |
| Topic | Blizzard bans and withholds prize money from hearthstone player for HK support |
| Paratroopa1 10/09/19 9:50:30 PM #389 | I agree it's more likely the system just got overloaded (they certainly don't expect so many account cancellations at once) than that they are risking an easily-lost class action lawsuit over doing something hugely illegal in preventing people from unsubscribing |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 241: Trump Goes Coup-Coup |
| Paratroopa1 10/09/19 9:33:14 PM #472 | LordoftheMorons posted... https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1182031506237280257?s=21 jesus christ |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 241: Trump Goes Coup-Coup |
| Paratroopa1 10/09/19 12:14:12 AM #425 | LordoftheMorons posted... Very cool gif: I still fucking hate that they're using a misleading map. a lot of the counties listed in red here DID NOT VOTE RED IN 2016! see Pierce County and Skagit County in Washington state for instance, which were both Clinton counties in 2016. |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 241: Trump Goes Coup-Coup |
| Paratroopa1 10/08/19 6:26:43 PM #387 | The response to "we are not going to cooperate with any impeachment inquiry" should be "okay, then you're impeached" this should be pretty easy |
| Topic | Blizzard bans and withholds prize money from hearthstone player for HK support |
| Paratroopa1 10/08/19 3:50:48 AM #26 | If corporations ought to have the power to kowtow to Chinese interests like this through censorship, then it's up to us to make it inconvenient for them to do so - we need to make them choose to bow to us instead of them. We have the power to do this |
| Topic | Blizzard bans and withholds prize money from hearthstone player for HK support |
| Paratroopa1 10/08/19 3:42:54 AM #22 | I can't actually boycott Blizzard since I haven't purchased anything Blizzard since Diablo II so I need others to do it for me |
| Topic | Blizzard bans and withholds prize money from hearthstone player for HK support |
| Paratroopa1 10/08/19 3:40:01 AM #19 | Make sure you guys actually speak up in opposition to what blizzard did instead of just dropping them without a word |
| Topic | NFL Discussion Topic - Week 5 |
| Paratroopa1 10/07/19 8:36:27 PM #114 | I mean, if the Cowboys and Texans don't count as legitimate defensive tests then I'm not sure what does get to count. |
| Topic | How many car accidents have you gotten into in your driving career? |
| Paratroopa1 10/07/19 7:49:55 PM #16 | Just one, I lightly rear ended someone and it was my fault (sudden traffic stop on the freeway during a heavy rainstorm, so it was hard to avoid, but it is still my fault). I don't think any damage was really caused, it was more or less a love tap, but we did exchange info. I don't think action was taken ultimately. I've been driving for about 12 years now so I'm pretty proud of my record |
| Topic | Top 30 Games of the Decade -- According to CNET |
| Paratroopa1 10/06/19 6:16:32 PM #21 | LinkMarioSamus posted... Minecraft was officially released to the public in 2011. Its two years in open beta clearly do not count. release dates are fuzzy nowadays |
| Topic | Top 30 Games of the Decade -- According to CNET |
| Paratroopa1 10/06/19 6:12:30 PM #19 | Jakyl25 posted... Paratroopa1 posted...3. Minecraft yeah I forgot to mention that one too I'm actually totally okay with doing the list this way too, if a game was released in the 2000's but has been updated and remained meaningfully relevant it's perfectly fine to treat it as a game of the '10's, games should be considered to "belong" to any decade in which this is true since a lot of games, especially online games, still 'live' throughout these time periods like I would say you can judge WoW as a game of the '10s as well |
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