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I like the consistency, since it makes them easier to spot in a crowd or recognize at a glance (which is very useful when I'm just getting to know somebody). Granted, it doesn't have to be the exact same thing either, provided that they stay within an overarching color scheme or style.

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TerranceC posted...

Shaggy and Velma being a couple makes no sense honestly. They were never remotely involved romantically in the original HannaB toon

Different continuities can do different things.

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Smarkil posted...

yeah seems pretty stupid

not to mention they had to basically get the boss to coverup for their 'intentional' killing

if he was working for me, id off his ass for threatening my work

Pretty much these.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

To be fair, Santa is in Gremlins as well.

He's in Phoebe Cates' chimney.

O snap!

SunWuKung420 posted...

In Die Hard, Bruce Willis flies to LA to spend CHRISTMAS with his family and his wife's CHRISTMAS party gets hijacked.

That's pretty clearly a Christmas themed action movie.

Not at all, unless he was just killing people with Christmas shit. Like he said, the movie could have been about Thanksgiving or Easter.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

There's actually a lot of Christmas elements in the movie. They don't need to be there, no, but they're still there. And saying you can take them out and still have a movie is true of most Christmas movies as well, so it's not really a valid argument (A Christmas Carol doesn't have to be about Christmas, it could just be about any old miser being misery at any point during the year, etc).

They could, but then the title would be really weird and kinda out of place.

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shadowsword87 posted...

I've realized that I got really adult-y when I get excited about having more kitchen tools that we need, but, at the same time, whatever, this baby is going to produce so much rice and hardboiled eggs, look out world.

I knew I was an adult when I got excited about trying out a new brand of toothpaste.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I said years ago that you know you're an adult when people give you socks or underwear as a present and you sincerely appreciate it.

No matter the age, it's an awful gift. I have a hard enough time finding underwear I like, how could anybody reasonably expect to find it for me? Then socks are the worst.


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captpackrat posted...

The money is going somewhere, but it's not to you.

I beg to differ. Otherwise the productivity gains are mostly a result of things like automation, not labor, so why would the two be tied? The workers aren't the cause of that productivity gain. Otherwise globalism has helped to push down workers' wages by outsourcing the jobs where labor is still useful or cheaper.


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ObligatoryFate posted...

One actually balanced the budget. Thats more than we can say about most presidents.

Most presidents could have balanced a budget under those economic conditions. He was presiding over a time of great prosperity that he didn't create and, quite honesty, did relatively little to encourage.

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BUMPED2002 posted...

Why is capitalism in America so brutal on workers?

It's not?

Lokchan posted...

Protestant work ethic instilled a desire to be surfs into the public unconscious.

1) That would be "serfs"
2) Serfs and Protestantism have nothing to do with each other
3) Most of the aspects of the Protestant work ethic also have nothing to do with capitalism, it's a separate cultural issue that would be present under other systems.

Unbridled9 posted...

Multiple factors but, I suspect, the single greatest influence is that American workers just don't know any better. They don't bother to learn about other people and cultures (especially since they're working so much) and thusly don't realize that things *could* be better.

This needs a laugh track.

Unbridled9 posted...

Especially since a lot of places practice 'at-will' employment which basically means your boss can fire you at any time for any reason.

That's generally true across the world, although the US has more restrictions than some other nations when it comes to the reasons.

Unbridled9 posted...

When you have a family to support this means your boss can basically go 'work an extra 10 hours a week for free or be fired' and you'll be encouraged to accept because, if you don't, your kids go hungry.

Which basically isn't a thing and, the times when it is a thing, would also happen in other places even under other systems because it's an example of an employer ignoring laws (with the exception of salaried managers who are often exempt from overtime)

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I hate gift cards. It's like a restricted form of cash that you forget about half the time and, depending on the state iirc, can expire.

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While I enjoyed the movie, I didn't remember that shit until I googled the lyrics and saw the context =x

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Muscles posted...

They aren't about Christmas, they just happen to take place during Christmas, the stories aren't about Christmas.

Christmas is central to Gremlins, considering Gizmo was purchased as a Christmas gift and the movie was a deconstruction of holiday commercialism. It's more devoted to Christmas than a lot of movies starring Santa

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The Wave Master posted...

What did everyone get for Christmas?

Giftcards, mostly, because most of my friends and family are lazy assholes. Granted, I will say that there's a certain clarity that comes with giftcards because on some level you can see exactly how much people value you. If they aren't finding something for you and then giving you a tiny giftcard, it speaks volumes about your relationship.

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Mead posted...

Both were actual left-leaning centrists, unlike Zeus.

Parrots the guy who still confuses center-left for left-of-center. Not the same same.

Mead posted...

obama literally bent over backwards to try and appease republicans for eight years dude

Insert gift of J Jonah Jameson laughing. Trying to force through legislation while saying, "I'm open to your ideas as how you can help me force through this legislation" ain't him bending over backwards, it was him bending them over backwards. Just about the only area he caved on was end of life counseling and that wasn't to appease Republicans, it was because it was almost universally condemned by the public who didn't like the connotations.

Mead posted...

you clearly did not follow politics while he was in office

Insert a gif of a pot calling the kettle black. At the risk of sounding sold, you shouldn't be criticizing his political awareness when yours was subzero.

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kukukupo posted...

I don't think any of the presidents in my lifetime were 'good'. There are just bad and a little less bad.

More or less how I feel about it. If a president does a slightly-better than mediocre job, he looks good by comparison. However, our last few have generally been mediocre.

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Both were kinda lousy in their own way. However, we won't know the full fallout from the Obama administration for years to come, even though the race riots and racial unrest today are largely owed to his open criticisms of police and unabashed support for BLM in its early stages which helped to stoke public sentiment in that direction.

Bill Clinton created an increased federal debt obligation by shifting the unemployed onto disability, had a hand in the mortgage crisis, instituted draconian justice policies that helped create our current system of mass incarceration, actively blocked intervention in the Rwandan Genocide, etc.

Zareth posted...

Both were actual left-leaning centrists, unlike Zeus.

He called my name, which means I get 45 seconds to respond! At any rate, I'm not sure I'd consider either of them anything close to left-leaning centrists, although Clinton was obviously closer to center than Obama. However, Clinton still passed the most sweeping gun ban, he attempted to push a public health option,

As for Obama, I'm not sure what stances you'd even consider conservative to balance out his liberal ones. In Clinton's case, you could put out that he was harder on crime than most Republicans, he passed DOMA, and he repealed banking regulations, among other things. Obama was consistently left, although sometimes he took more pragmatic stances because he wasn't sure the things he actually wanted would go through.

lihlih posted... Although Clinton was a pretty good president, he was president during the time where the internet was becoming mainstream and a lot of businesses were starting and thriving because of it. He had a very unfair advantage, and pretty much anyone not named Trump or Bush would've had similar results, albeit prolly not as sucessful.

Pretty much. Clinton didn't create the success or do much to contribute to it, he just benefited from a bubble that happened under his watch and began to tank at the start of GWB's. He also made security cuts that might have helped enable 9/11 and, of course, he had a bigger hand in the mortgage crisis than GWB.

Likewise a lot of the things that helped us recover from the mortgage crisis were passed right towards the end of GWB's presidency, although president-elect Obama had some role in a few of the discussions. However, most of the real recovery didn't involve the government at all and it might have been faster if somebody other than Obama (or GWB, for that matter) had been president.

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The Wave Master posted...

May the holidays be filled with quality entertainment that won't turn your soul black.

My holidays are going to busier than usual. New owner/CEO is a real Scrooge. Meanwhile all I want to do is check out that new Scrooge miniseries that I saw an ad for on Hulu...

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idk, Secret Wars?


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Magneto by a pretty massive margin.

AllstarSniper32 posted...

Uhm, Anakin of course. He can stop any metal object that Magneto could fling around and can attack with any non-metal object that Magneto can't stop.

He can't stop everything and Magneto could use metallic objects to shield himself. Not to mention that the film show that force telekinesis of larger objects is difficult for users.

AllstarSniper32 posted...

Why mind trick? How resistant is he to getting force choked?

How resistant is Anakin to being attacked from all sides by multiple metal objects while trying to focus on a force choke, a move that takes time to really impact the target and during which he's never been shown using any other power while concentrating on it?

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Remote work, which could also make up some of the difference in salary. Granted, I've done a lot of remote work over the years and... honestly, it's not as fun as people think.

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Mead posted...

it was more that conservatives historically actually show up for midterms and progressives dont, which makes 2018 even more telling as to what to expect

Kind of like it was so telling that Trump was going to lose in 2016, right? I, for one, am enjoying Hillary's presidency... oh wait...

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Probably blind, since it's a heavy accuracy debuff and it tends to last longer and is less conditional than something like sleep. Granted, frozen is also great, even when it ends via a guaranteed critical hit on a frozen opponent.

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Probably Time Crisis. Soul Calibur is tempting, though. I think there's another major franchise I'm forgetting.


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I can't really think of much. If it's Activision as a publisher, *maybe* the Legends/Alliance franchise (XML1/2 and MUA1/2/3). Granted, does that really count as an IP?


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Torn. Probably Mega Man since it encompasses so much, although other front-runners would be the "vs" games and the Street Fighter franchise.

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DeltaBladeX posted...

What system would you pick and what 5 games would you choose as must be included?

No Sega, Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft (XBox generation only). Also nothing that already got a Mini console, like the C64 or NeoGeo.

Which leaves absolutely nothing of any relevance.

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Mead posted...

the results of the 2018 midterms and the recent special elections where he supported candidates beg to differ

Kind of like how the 2010 midterms were a referendum on Obama, which is why he didn't get a second term... oh wait...

Action53 posted... I hope so

And only because I want to watch the world burn

Didn't happen the first term, so pretty much out of luck there.

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Depends on the context. Usually a crime that isn't known to be a crime beats an unsolvable one, although unsolvable ones are cooler.

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Socialism vs capitalism.

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Does Will know?

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TheVipaGTS posted...

People need to stop saying "its not the dog its the owner"...Yes, some people can raise a dog to be meaner or kinder, but that doesn't change the fact that its still an animal with its own instincts, and this particular breed is an instinctual attacker. I'm not saying ban them, but get one at your own risk and don't keep spreading that "its how you raise them" stuff....because you can raise them to be nice and a family dog but the moment it gets nervous or something sets it off its going to attack and forget all the "nice teachings" you gave it..Kinda like Chimps, and they're even more human like than a dog. People have owned them, they raise them, for the most part the chimps are usually fine with their owner and are able to live just fine...until something sets it off and its animal instinctive side kicks in. Like that one 911 call from a woman who owned a chimp that got scared and ripped the face off of her friend. Not even the owner could calm it down and even she knew the only way to stop it was to kill it.

tbh, the "it's not the dog, it's the owner" argument is even an stronger reason to ban them or require special handlers' licenses.

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>_>

While the presidents' kids are kinda peripheral, most people learn stuff like that. Especially when those kids are busted for trying to use a fake ID.


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Mine is probably Gremlins. Or maybe Nightmare Before Christmas.

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LinkPizza posted...

Being sterile would probably be fine, I would think. You just won't have any grandchildren born from your children. Though, they can probably still adopt, I guess...

No, I mean the catgirls themselves may be sterile as well since they themselves might be a hybrid or possibly a mutation.

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argonautweakend posted...

It depends on many things, but nobody has been able to explain to me how a guy who barely won the first time around, who now has way more people that hate him now than on election day, is somehow going to win. He won by the skin of his teeth and lost the PV by around 3 million. Are the midwest farmers being crushed right now going to vote for him? They may, I don't know, but that is one group at a bare minimum pissed off at trump, who liked him before.

Because incumbency is a thing. And the "people hate him more now" is mostly media spin.


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LinkPizza posted...

I think they are assuming it safe to have children with them. Which would make sense. And I think they are asking if the children would be like kittens...

Not sure what you mean by "safe," but keep in mind that not all unions across species of capable of developing progeny and the progeny of certain unions are born sterile.

Kungfu Kenobi posted...

It's cute that you think that.

Even furry fans complained about how awful the designs were.


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Unbridled9 posted...

I would say it's safe to assume you can have kids with them (would they be kittens).

Why would you assume that? It makes no sense. A catgirl is usually 98% human and the other person is 100% human. Why would the offspring be 0% human? And even if it was a more feline catgirl like a Khajiit, you're still talking about combing two things yet getting a vastly different unrelated third thing.

Kungfu Kenobi posted...

Maybe a more human one, but that's more human relative to a Khajit. I draw the line somewhere around Taylor Swift in Cats (2019).

I think even furry fanatics draw the line there.

NeoSioType posted...

How do I explain her to my family?

#GuessWhosComingToDinner

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Just glancing through, the reporting is pretty deceptive:

One of those actions involved a 41-day standoff at an Oregon wildlife refuge that resulted in one death, the report said.

The "one death" involved law enforcement ambushing a demonstrator who was currently off the premises.

Honestly, the clickbait headline and initial content in the topic made the resignation seem reasonable, but further reading from just the source article makes the thing sound bullshit. Not that I necessarily feel that the politician should be in government.

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I'd love to see WET get a sequel. The first game had a lot of gameplay issues, but it was otherwise really fun with an amusing/silly story.

Likewise, Magi-Nation had some issues, but I'd love to see it get a sequel because it did a lot of things neat.

Otherwise for good franchises that need more games, let's keep Monster Rancher going.

TheWitchMorgana posted...

yeah and it was amazing

And I've been hoping for a sequel =x

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It would really depend on the individual and, because we're talking marriage, whether they could even bear children. It wouldn't necessarily be something I'd seek out, though, and the objection might be more towards the more overtly feline ones. Otherwise it's just a human with minor cosmetic differences (either a different set of ears or a second set; and sometimes a tail).

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Fast food-wise, it'd have to be someplace that uses relatively cheap ingredients, but has an absurd mark-up. Taco Bell is one of the first things to jump to mind. McDonald's is perhaps another choice, but then I'd need specialized equipment like a deep fryer.

Restaurant, probably a popular Asian or French place. Those are both delicious and marketable.

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Judgmenl posted...

Only if Biden is nominated or Russia interferes again.

Trump would have an easier time against Sanders or Warren, who are basically a free pass. And
the "Russian Interference" was overblown.

Judgmenl posted...

Trump is a weak president being held up by the tech bubble, and was only elected because HRC was unelectable.

No, he was elected because we had 8 years of Obama, because of his celebrity status, and because Hillary ran a shitty campaign that skipped areas she didn't think she could win.

Yellow posted...

Bottom line being the Democrats aren't currently enthusiastic enough about the candidates being pushed (Biden, Harris) to get out and vote, along with Trump still being hugely popular with Republicans. A researcher says that the model might be wrong, because things are so different than the norm.

Harris isn't even running atm.

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Tremendous wasted opportunity at a cool name. Should have been Space Marines.

WindMouseHanpan posted...

It's really not that crazy. As technology advances, there will be new ways to fight war. Space is already home to spy satellites, how long until it's filled with armed weapons platforms that could rain down destruction on anyone they wished?

The future is space, and while we don't need space defense right NOW, we certainly will in the not so distant future. Security will be about more than defending our skies and land; we'll have to secure and defend the atmosphere and outer reaches of the planet as well.

This. Well, except for the orbital attack stations, nobody wants to start that arms race.

GanonsSpirit posted...

This. The mission of the Air Force is to "fly, fight and win in air, space and cyberspace."

Then they should have renamed it the Air and Space Force

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mrduckbear posted...

He came under fire for pardoning the rapist after losing to Democrat Andy Beshear last month and issed 428 controversial pardons before leaving office

Kek. Kind of wonder how many of those pardons were done as a "fuck you" to voters, etc.

mrduckbear posted...

Micah - Rapist Pardoned

https://i.imgur.com/mB6Lk7Q.jpg

I know you can't judge a book by its cover most of the time, but he looks like he did it.

GanonsSpirit posted...

Pardons shouldn't even be a thing.

They absolutely should because it's one more safeguard for citizens. And if you don't feel like governors/presidents should have the ability to pardon, maybe you don't feel that America should have governors/presidents.

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helIy posted...

Other teams are just going to take over those titles.

Also, for some reason, when I visit mangaplus, everything is in spanish.

Que es la pregunta?

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Gamerguymass posted...

Except it will just be worse for you. All those people that are above you who's job you might get if they retire? Well now they will be there forever. Not to mention there will be people that go get something like 50 degress from college if they will live hundreds of years and so you won't have a chance in hell of moving up.

Except for the fact that even today, people switch jobs and even careers. The idea that you'd have some static, unchanging system is ignorance to the point of absurdity. Faced with an unlimited timespan, you're unlikely to find people who want to do those kinds of things forever. And, as Mead noted as well, this would represent a massive social paradigm shift. It'd be hard to predict many of the changes, although you're going to be less likely to see somebody hold the same job or stay married to the same person if they're alive for far, far longer.

There are a few things that obviously would change: The idea of retirement would go away, or it'd serve as a vacation of sorts. Our technology and understanding of science would likely advance at a much faster rate, since geniuses would live longer. The overall QoL would likely improve simply because technology would be better. And, I would imagine, space colonization would eventually offset potential overpopulation.

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FatalAccident posted...

5 of us in the office were joking about something mildly related. And he just jumped in and said thats not the worst thing Ive said - I called someone a ***** once. So I was just shocked and kinda laughed it off.

Really? He puts that above the myriad of other awful things he's likely done in his life?

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MM1 criticisms are fairly nontroversial. It's not like it's the original SMB or anything. It was a good intro to the franchise, but it had balance issues, some of the platforming elements are stupidly brutal, etc.

EnvyFox posted...

Mega Man 1 sucks? Maybe compared to the other main games in the classic Mega Man series but, when compared to the entire NES library, I still think it rates pretty high. If you want an NES game that suck, play Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

It rates under a lot of Mega Man games, so I doubt it'd rate pretty high =p

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15 years is insane. And arguing that going overboard on punishment sends a message to would-be copycats is just wrong, considering that we already know that the most extreme punitive measures -- like the death penalty -- have had little impact on modifying behavior. If they wanted an overly harsh punishment for theft, vandalism, and threatening behavior, 5 years is more than enough. But, as others have noted, the guy sounds like he needs a psych eval first.

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