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My friend's profile picture is of him posing happily with my drunk, passed out self beside him sleeping on a couch.

It was pretty funny seeing me show up on his "In A Relationship" notification.

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They didn't burst or get mangled, so it's fine. Definitely strange though.

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Rocky 11: They Should Have Mickey'd Me Out 3 Movies Ago

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Duckbear's paragraph: doesn't sound too bad, what does that have to do with shooting people?

Whole post: "I'll shoot these lame security guards with hollow point bullets. I have more power than them. They just don't know it yet"

Yep, justified.

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Rocky 8: Rocky learns how to crochet

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Rocky 2: Rocky learns how to read

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A slightly wrong interpretation of John Wick

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like Christ, I've done shits that are probably too big to fit through her entire pelvis. My god.

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rodu_jr posted...

has there been a Florida Karen moment?

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au_gold posted...

*shakes head* no ass. pity

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CyricZ posted...

Well here you're just addressing a person who is not in this topic and indeed not currently an active member of the site.

I am also very drunk.

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I'm sorry to hear that TC. Two friends of mine have lost their grandparents recently, idk how I would cope with a grandparent's death like that.

No-one's expecting you to respond to this in a certain way, and if you know for a fact that they are, they should fuck off. You need to handle this in the way that you're handling this. Don't believe that you need to be the most sad to be the best example - handle your feelings as they come, process your feelings as well as you possibly can - and don't be afraid to seek help if it's too hard to handle by yourself

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CyricZ posted...

For people who say guides should stay up forever regardless of the wishes of the writers.

You do realize that's not how GameFAQs works, right? Apart from those circumstances I mentioned regarding FAQ Bounties, the author always has and always had the right to have their work removed for any reason.

And it's been done in the past.

I wouldn't be opposed with the FAQ creator taking his FAQ down if that was the case. It just makes me wonder why he wouldn't be able to do such a thing.

We've seen discourse about this guy providing the FAQ for the sake of a GameFAQs bounty. That's allegedly what's stopping him. As money has changed hands and the rules are clearly stated in the ToS, if he can't delete his old guide, then he can't delete it. Leave it up for people to benefit from.

But if he submitted it without that stipulation, then fine - whatever. Take it down. Just don't make a moral stance about it.

I said earlier that "a guide should only be taken down if it posts patently false information or if it's illegible to a majority of the people who read it". That statement was a bit broad - as long as you have your account credentials, you should be able to remove your contributions to a site like GameFAQs. The issue seems to be that he got paid for the guide, so he can't remove it.

Just accept that your previous self conducted sinful conduct that may or may not have drawn people into it, and go on in a way that tries to smoothe over the harm of your previous actions. Acting with pure intent in the name of the Lord should vindicate your prior actions in the eyes of God. That, or accept that the doctrine of Christianity permits radical displays of fanaticism, and give in to that. I don't care.

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Wow, and he didn't even have to accuse the governer of California of pedophilia to do it

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On one hand she's out of my league to begin with, on the other I feel like even if I did have a shot she would annoy the fuck out of me. So either way, no

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PsykoMage posted...

Isn't Persona a lot more tame than the main Shin Megami Tensei series?

I think Persona 1 had Hitler in it. 1 and 2 were in a league of their own, but 3 was a breakthrough hit and from there they were off to the races.

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Veggeta X posted...

Remember, guys. Karen isn't a race or gender. It's a type of person. For example, anyone can be a Debbie Downer.

What are you talking about? It's a race-based slur, and it should be villified on the same level as the N word. Anything less than that is bigotry at its finest!

clearly I'm joking here. Entitled shithead customers who cause misery for both staff and other sane, waiting customers aren't as mistreated as historically marginalised races, and any refutation if that claim is self-absorbtion at best. Imagine feeling like your plight as a widely disliked loud, rude dickhead is even comparable to races who have been put in detainment camps and whose direct ancestors have been treated as property. Imagine the delusion and the pure selfishness of comparing yourself to those struggles.

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Oh yeah, totally. My year 12 teacher said that Holocaust survivors don't like The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Life is Beautiful because it trivialises what they went through and makes a mockery of it, or in Striped Pyjamas' case, asks you to sympathise with Nazis when their son is gassed and burnt instead of the Jewish boy imitating him.

I think it was a good call for Jerry Lewis to sit on this movie for as long as he did. He wanted to release it at some point, but eventually it became an old shame.

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Like damn, there's being a Karen who demands the destruction of Harry Potter and Pokemon for depicting sinful, transgressive content that directly clashes with the word of Christianity, and there's wanting to limit access to a mass shooting video because 4channers looking for a kick and white supremacists wanting to strengthen their hate by celebrating the deaths of minorities are a crowd that shouldn't be abetted. People shouldn't be exposed to mass murder.

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deupd_u posted...

Censorship is bad, and it's really not hard to find.

Censorship is bad, when it involves completely and totally destroying evidence that something exists. That's why I harbor hatred towards Mao Zedong in particular, the bastard wiped out centuries of Chinese architecture, history, art and culture and turned China into the authoritarian, sweatshop-littered hellhole it is today.

I don't think it's a pressing issue when any Joe Blow has trouble finding video depictions of mass shootings, given that those depictions exist in their entirety and serve a noble purpose. It shouldn't be locked up like the centuries of Catholic artifacts under the Vatican, where they decide what's scripture and what's apocrypha and dogma - if it can be used in an educational manner, then academics pursuing education in a field relevant to mass shootings and radicalisation should have access to it.

I just don't think it should be widely available to any sick fuck looking for entertainment.

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How sad, Donald Trump didn't do a very good job after all. He's still gonna say "well we still did a good job, this is the best we could do, it's the best we could have hoped for".

Y'all Trumpers wanna shitpost about how he's the best creation since the handjob, but if you stood between that man and a piece of good publicity he could use to bolster himself and attack his enemies with, he would trample you to death.

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...removed the video?

People on CE were incensed that this video - depicting people being shot to death by a mass shooter - was being scrubbed from the internet and attracting fines and police attention to anywhere which hosted the video for public viewing, and argued that anyone who wanted access to it should have a place online for them to find it.

My opinion is that it should exist in its full, original context, but accessible to academics and law enforcement only. You want to see the video, go and get a degree in criminal law or something relevant to preventing/stopping a massacre in-progress. Folks who were seriously arguing that a video depiction of 50 Muslims being shot to death should be available openly on the internet for anyone to see - they're fucking dumb.

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I'm not too knowledgeable about rap, but would you say that blog era rap filled a gap between ringtone rap and party rap? Like, between Soulja Boy's Crank Dat and Chris Brown's Hoes Ain't Loyal or Jason Derulo's Wiggle?

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Keith_Valentine posted...

Hehe. Thats right, take a walk. My favorite cellie didnt tell me i was having a melty, he wasnt a nerd. He was an asian meth dealer. He said 'KV lets make some burritos and watch Animal Planet'. Then he taught me katas with two socks knotted together.

Bishop's comment wasn't "your cellmate told you you're having a meltdown", it was "your cellmate said 'i'm done with you' before rolling off you for the night".

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Time for some Paid Leave, baby!

To the usual crowd who's gonna go parroting the same lines of "it was an accident, these poor officers will have to live with their mistake for the rest of their lives" and all that sort of shit - this innocent woman wouldn't be dead if these incompetent hicks did their job properly and made sure they had the right house. Even at their most sorry, they deserve to have their competence called into question, and most likely, to be fired from their jobs. If you kill civilians as a police officer, if you bungle an operation this poorly and gun down an innocent person in their sleep, then you deserve to lose your fucking job.

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That end times prophecy is all sorts of whacked out.

Why is it that all the Born Again Christians go for the really radical, wacky doctrine?

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Whether this is real or not, the FAQ should stay up. The only time an FAQ should be removed is if its quality is deemed to be exceptionally poor. Like, if the I formation present in the FAQ is patently false, or if it's conveyed so poorly that most human beings wouldn't be able to parse it in a legible way.

If the FAQ is good, leave it up. He can go and bark up some fundie lawyer's asshole if he wants it removed, because there's no way in hell that an online game guide is going to be removed on the grounds of religious freedom.

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shockthemonkey posted...

Well thats something I didnt know I wanted until right now

You could call it Green On A Plane, it's a double entendre because it's about Tom Green on one of the 9/11 flights and he smokes weed

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YellowSUV posted...

I thought it is only going to be screened once to the public in 2025 and then it will be locked away again. It will essentially become lost media again.

This might be the case too. I just heard he donated it to the Library of Congress in the condition that it not be made public for another 10 years.

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KillerKhan420 posted...

If it's released I wonder who will get the money. His wife and adopted daughter are pretty horrible. His sons and homeless daughter need something.

He donated it to the Library of Congress. They'll probably back it up and make it available for people to watch, as libraries do.

J03can posted...

Dont the people who have seen it think its horrible?
I will definitely watch it just based on the legend around it

Questionmarktarius posted...

Was this a disposable film made to close a contract, or intentionally withheld for decades?

My understanding is that Jerry Lewis thought it was a good idea at the time, but they ran out of funding just as they were wrapping up pre-production. Jerry Lewis paid for the reels and kept them locked in a vault, and he would periodically show the film to a handful of people.

As time went on, he began to regret it more and more - there's unproven discourse that Jerry Lewis put the 10 year restriction on The Day the Clown Cries to make it less likely that he would be alive when it was released to the public. That's just ghoulish speculation though.

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Imagine if we used names like ages, so if you're 7 years old and a guy your name is Jim, but when you turn 8 your name is Michael.

"I had my first kiss when I was Steve"

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Bump

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jeffhardyb0yz posted...

No more creed movies after 3. It should end at 3. No need for the franchise imo outside of money.

Maybe so, but those fight scenes are electric.

I feel like we need more earnest sports movies on the market today, something that awakens that primal passion in us - to make us want to see someone succeed. I don't get that reaction from the 2000's The Longest Yard, or Remember the Titans, or any of that. I don't get that urge from biopics, where they use a real person's story to inspire. For some reason, I get that feeling from a good Rocky movie.

If Creed isn't around to tap that market, I feel like there really does need to be a series of sports movies to replace it. That, or a good race movie.

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Blue_Target posted...

Wait, did TC watch 3, 4, Creed, and Creed 2 before Rocky 1 & 2?

I watched 3, 4, some of 5, Creed and Creed 2 before Rocky 1 and 2, yes. Like I said before, my first exposure to the Rocky movies were from video copies that we taped off of TV back in the 2000's. The Rocky movies were cultural touchstones even back then, so it's not like I didn't get the gist of Rocky.

Honestly, I'm kind of happy I knew Rocky more from 3 and 4 than from 1. The first movie was like a shot in the arm, seeing Sylvester Stallone actually act out a quirky, interesting character. He is a talented actor, at least on some level - he's just been a hack for most of his career, relying on his abs and a squinty stare into the camera for most of his career. Also, it was nice seeing where his hat in Creed came from, lmao

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Creed 2 is complicated. It's watchable, but it does teeter on that line between being a good, solid sports movie like Creed 1 and the good Rocky movies, and being a rehash nostalgia bait movie like the biggest blockbusters nowadays tend to be.

Even if it was a better movie, it would absolutely have a hard time living up to Creed 1. That movie's a masterpiece, a reboot of Rocky starring Apollo Creed's secret illegitimate lovechild where Rocky is the trainer has no goddamn business being as good as it is.

Honestly, after seeing Adrian's dropoff in Rocky 2, I'm not that bothered by the relationship in Creed 2 being kinda weak and rushed. What matters to me is that any potential future Creed movies are watchable - if they can at least stand out in the first movie's shadow, that'll be good enough. Here's hoping for a John Wick situation at worst - first movie is excellent and stands on its own, the second movie is fine, the third movie has effectively hit upon the John Wick formula and offered bigger and better thrills than 2

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

It irritated me that Rocky's fighting style never really evolved past getting punched in the face a bunch of times until his opponent got tired.

truth, lmao

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MrResetti posted...

Rocky is one of those series where all merit died when they made a sequel. Stallone got on the roids and the writing went to shit.

If you recall

"They're ain't gonna be no rematch."

That does kinda kill the hospital scene at the start, where Creed is already butthurt, but those office scenes with Tony and Creed's hurt ego were decent enough motivators. It's petty, but it's interesting - an absolute nobody, who Apollo dragged off the street to fight, went 15 rounds with him and got such a swell of support that people think Apollo rigged the match. It's clear the whole movie that Apollo Creed is shaken, and it's that antagonism - dragging a retired boxer out of retirement with a second bid for the title, out of no obligation but to satisfy his wounded ego - that really sticks out to me. I guess I did enjoy Apollo Creed in this movie.

I can see him breaking like he does in this movie, is what I'm saying. 6 months of bad press, and the first win he didn't earn by knockout, would do that to him.

But yeah, when Stallone got big, he started getting shit. I personally think he sold out with the first Rambo sequel, because in the first movie there's a potent anti-war message and a case to support military veterans who are dealing with shattered psyches, only to bring Rambo back into warfare and portray him as a total badass in the sequels. It totally undercuts the first movie's point.

It's movies like Balboa and Creed that bring him back to being a halfway decent actor. Stallone is Rocky Balboa, and he does an incredible job at portraying this character in at least half of his movies. But as an action hero? Total hack.

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Ilishe posted...

Don't skip Rocky Balboa (part 6) and the Creed franchise.

I haven't watched 5 in years but it was fucking terrible IIRC.

4 is bad in the best way possible, it's fun as hell.

I've seen Creed 1 and 2. Legit, the training montage in the first one gave me goosebumps. That's an incredible movie on its own, and arguably one of the best reboots ever made.

I've seen 3, 4 and some of 5 before, but that was years ago. Like, my mum recorded them off of TV one year when a local channel was doing a Rocky marathon. It would have been around the same time as Rocky Balboa. 3 and 4 are gonna be like revisiting an old friend, 5 is gonna be uncharted waters and Balboa is gonna be completely new.

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DD Divine posted...

Paulie is awful. Especially in rocky 3

Christ, don't tell me that. I already hated him from bumming off of Rocky in 1 and taking belts of scotch at work, and while I think he had a lot more rapport with Rocky in this movie, that one scene with Adrian just threw him back into the toilet, all over again. He's gotta improve - don't tell me if he does or not, I'm watching half of these movies blind and I want it to be a surprise. But yeah, fuck Paulie.

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I saw Rocky 1 for the first time about a week ago, and tonight was Rocky 2. I seem to remember Rocky 2 having a reputation as one of the best sequels ever made.

Honestly, I didn't see it.

The fighting was fine. A bit samey from Rocky 1, but arguably less electric. The training montage was, as always, on point - you can't say that Rocky doesn't have great training montages. I thought that Rocky's struggle to provide for his family made for a good storyline, and I liked seeing Cuff, Link and Bupkis. I liked Paulie more in this movie, I guess since times are a little better he's less of a piece of shit - even though he's still a fucking jerk-off at one part of the movie.

Here's what I didn't like.

Rocky isn't the brightest bulb, and Rocky 1 illustrated that fairly well. But he's compassionate, he loves his girlfriend, and while he's definitely very offbeat and rough around the edges, he's wise to his surroundings. While it hasn't aged well, you see all that in the scene where he's walking a neighbourhood girl home and telling her that she might develop a reputation, so she should look out for herself.

While that amount of fame would get to anyone, he goes from 0 to 100 once he's out of the hospital. Remember that tender moment in Rocky 1 where the broadcasters make a bunch of bold-faced jokes about him and his heritage, right to his face, and as he's leaving Adrian's place he admits that their treatment really hurt him? That was one of my favorite scenes - it comes at a point in the story where Rocky and Adrian really understand each other and gel, after a lot of incredibly awkward build-up to their relationship, and it's a crack in Rocky's good-natured "ay, no problem" sort of attitude where he lets things roll off his back. He's not smart, he's not photogenic, and he knows that. He cares enough about Adrian to let her in on that.

In Rocky 2, he only gets that emotional moment after Adrian nearly miscarries and goes into a coma. It's overwrought as shit.

Yeah, he took a beating in Rocky 1. We know that head trauma affects brain function. But the level at which Rocky operates in Rocky 2 is just ridiculous. He already feels like a cartoon character, and not even like a badass one - like that asshole who spends an entire episode doing something mind-meltingly stupid before learning a very obvious lesson. I dunno, it just feels like he regressed since Rocky 1. Of course, Gazzo's driver in Rocky 1 did say "take your girlfriend to the zoo, [mentally handicapped people] love the zoo" - and one of the first things Rocky says in this movie after getting out of the hospital is that he loves the zoo.

But the worst casualty here is Adrian. In the first movie, she was my favorite character - she had so much depth and growth, from being a shy, nebbish person who's constantly harassed by her scumbag brother to gaining enough confidence to grab him by the shirt and scream in his face for how useless he's made her feel. The end of that movie felt kind of limp, like her acting was really wooden and there was no oomph behind that "I love you" - she felt like a cardboard cutout. I thought Rocky 1 had an ideologically sound ending, but in practice it really needed work.

Adrian in Rocky 2 is like that cardboard cutout version of her from the end of Rocky 1, for an entire movie. There's nuance to both her and Rocky when the money starts running out and Rocky can't find a job, but it's like the majority of her role in this movie is to play out a bunch of soap opera cliches.

She gets pregnant at the height of the good times, and when Rocky can't find a job she goes back to work at the pet store. She goes into labor early due to overworking - and stress from Paulie yelling at her for "breaking Rocky", i.e. disapproving of his training because he told her he'd stop fighting, and out of concern for his health after his right eye is severely damaged and affects his vision. Then she goes into a coma, during which Rocky is a dutiful and repentant husband to her, and when she wakes up she approves of Rocky fighting again, like it's his reward for being a good husband while she was in a coma.

There's barely anything I like about Adrian from Rocky 1 left. She's just a slightly more assertive doormat, except it's to Rocky now. At the very least, he doesn't show outward discontent towards her like Paulie does - he very clearly loves her and cares about her opinion on the matter, even if he doesn't say it - he just let's it eat him up inside. But for a majority of the movie, her only role is to enable Rocky's stupidity, serve as a scapegoat for his poor training due to her guilting him, and then serve as an enabler all over again - after she's come out of a coma, after going into premature labor, after Paulie yells at her because Rocky isn't training properly. Again - it's a regression.

Paulie is decent most of the time, except when he's the worst fucking character in the movie. Legit, him yelling at his pregnant, overworked sister about making Rocky feel bad is the worst scene in this movie. He wasn't even doing it to like bait Rocky to follow him and get his fire back, to bring tensions to a head and get Rocky and Adrian talking - no, he goes over and yells at his sister for impeding Rocky's training. Paulie is the worst fucking character in these movies so far, and that includes the main antagonist Apollo Creed and the mafioso who Rocky collects debts for - the actual mob is more likeable than Paulie. I think the only character I enjoyed consistently was Mickey, and maybe Apollo. But even Apollo Creed had a scene in this movie where he neglects his family and yells at his wife. Like Christ, there's being a short-sighted, petty gloryhound, and there's throwing a tantrum in front of your wife. Christ.

When the movie gets sporty again, it's fine. We've got Rocky chasing chickens to improve his speed, we've got another excellent training montage, and while maybe a step down from Rocky 1, the fight is pretty decent too. I especially liked the POV shots from Rocky's perspective as he gets dazed in the ring, and the slow motion shots of Rocky copping punches holds the fuck up. I also thought that the hospital scene at the start was really good. The issue is that for a lot of the movie, Rocky loses that relatable, offbeat charm - he's a moron, who's painted so by the movie at every turn, whose storyline culminates in a fucking coma story arc. At which point he can fight again.

It's a less cohesive movie than Rocky 1. I didn't like it as much.

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kayoticdreamz posted...

Because the mainstream liberal media doesn't want you to know this. Rather they want to blame Trump for everything and so there are a lot of stories you miss if you only watch cnn

cool redpilling, bro

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The Day the Clown Cried, the infamous unreleased Jerry Lewis movie that sat in a vault for decades, was donated to the Library of Congress in 2015 on the condition that it not be made public for another 10 years. For those who are unaware, Jerry Lewis plays a clown who's thrown into Auschwitz for mocking Hitler in a drunken stupor. While in prison, he performs his act for the children on the other side of a fence, and this leads the prison guards to enlist him to entertain children who were headed for "deportation". Yes, it gets worse.

The entire plot synopsis has been known for years, but I'll leave it there because there's a chance that we'll all get to see it in 2025.

Can you believe it? In 5 years, one of the most infamous cases of lost media might be made available to the public.

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Was it the Ukraine who started gathering gay men and putting them in prison camps, or was it Crimea? Either way, that region of the world has been going to shit for years now.

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Big RIP, Jerry was a funny guy.

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Anyway I need to get some shut-eye, I'm posting this in good faith so people don't get ass-blasted about TC not answering their queries. It's because I'm about to go to sleep.

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Ehh, it looks a bit cheap but he's cute.

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EverDownward posted...

i agree with most of what you said, but saying the rest of the world is "over" covid-19 is pretty laughable when both south korea and china are reporting new cases in the last week. south korea in particular has seen a pretty sharp uptick, and this was one of the very few countries that most of the world looked at as a role-model for fighting the infection.

That's a fair enough statement to make. That last little ranty thing I did is probably tinged with a bit more unintentional bias than I'm comfortable with. I might be feeling a bit too comfortable at the moment because my country is coming out of lockdown soon and the figures look good, but it isn't my intention to paint other countries as "doin' fine" - because this virus is fucked up, and lockdown is fucked up too.

It just gets under my skin to see the nation with the most covid 19 infections/deaths in the world move to re-open, despite hundreds of deaths a day. The US response to coronavirus has been consistently weak, and the virus keeps peaking and dipping. Add to that the Republican talking point that "old people would willingly put themselves at risk of death to keep the economy going for their grandkids", and the whole push to re-open the country just feels sick, like there are people who acknowledge that this is going to expose more people to the virus, and that they're okay with that as long as the money starts flowing again. It's repulsive.

But yeah, only a handful of extremely lucky places are starting to get over covid-19. I got carried away in that last part of the OP - that's my bad.

EverDownward posted...

and let's not forget that huge-ass protest in germany recently. what, with roughly 40,000 people protesting the quarantines and lock-downs?

pretty sure america isn't the only country currently in the throes of covid-19, my dude.

That's a fair point too, I barely heard about the protests in Germany to tell you the truth. Again - everyone's going through lockdown rn, and all that this protesting does is fuck up recovery for the rest of your country. It's selfish, and it's wrong.

I appreciate you bringing this up. Yes, Germany's being fucking stupid about it too.

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So you don't get to be a saint, martyrs never last this long
Now Playing: Skyrim, Final Fantasy X-2