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Zeus posted...

Because they have jobs that align with their interests and co-workers who provide good company?

Pretty much. If you like the work you're doing and the people you work with, what's not to like? By the sound of things, you just have some fundamental dislike of the idea of somebody else dictating your responsibilities, but if those responsibilities are things you like doing anyway, there's really no reason to object.

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It's on there now, and it is indeed free.

Krow_Incarnate posted...

FYI, to whomever it may concern, you also get a free $10 coupon for claiming it.

Though in order to use the coupon, your order has to still be above some threshold ($15 for Canadians, probably $10 for US) after the coupon. You can't get free stuff with it.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Why wear a mask at home?

Because it's easier to find a good place to model it for the photos that way.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Less reliance on China is a good thing.

It is, but that has to be a gradual process. You can't just cut off all trade at once and expect everything to be fine.

Zeus posted...

They literally could. A full embargo is within the US's powers, as it is within China's powers. And it's a tactic that the US has tried to leverage in the past. The fact that you pretend to be ignorant about it is silly, considering that we've had an embargo with Cuba within your lifetime.

Did you really just compare embargoing Cuba with embargoing China? Really? Like, seriously?

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I'm just disappointed BotW beat MM. BotW's fun and all, but the only thing it's got on MM is length. MM is the real best Zelda.

Noop_Noop posted...

now comes the part where you post another sick burn that i heard in 2nd grade and then sit there and wait a week for me to get back on potd and respond to you and then cry into your pillow when it purges before i get on again. OR you could just move on with your life. break the cycle buddy.

This would be a lot less hilariously hypocritical if you'd included it in your last post instead of coming back to the topic a couple minutes to tack on the sick burn you came up with after you'd finished talking. As it stands, it's just kind of funny.

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RedPixel posted...

I would agree with you if the "virus" wasn't heavily politicized

This has nothing to do with how politicized the issue is (not that there's any way to deal with a pandemic on this scale without politicizing it, given that managing it requires political action). It has to do with the fact that it's airborne, extremely easily transmitted, can be transmitted by asymptomatic people, and all of these risk factors can be mitigated to some extent or another by having as many people as possible wear masks. The media and politicians can do whatever they want, but common sense will still dictate that wearing a mask is a good idea (provided it doesn't interfere with the supply for the medical professionals that are at highest risk, which homemade options do not).

Your entire position on this seems to be "the media and politicians say this is a big deal so I'm going to believe that it is not because I'm so smart," with no actual basis given for that position or even a concrete idea of what that position entails. That's not an informed, enlightened, or even basically sensible position, despite how you insist on acting. A little less intellectual masturbation and a little more basic common sense.

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Monopoman posted...

It's funny how the conservatives are always the biggest talkers about how tough they are.

It's kind of telling that some of the most vocal opponents of wearing masks to protect themselves are also proponents of carrying guns to defend themselves. It's almost like they were never actually concerned for their safety and instead just wanted to look cool.

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RedPixel posted...

I have no idea why people get so angry when others simply try to shake them awake. I like asking questions.

People generally get annoyed by people saying stupid things while insulting their intelligence for not believing said stupidity. A mask of any sort is considerably more effective for slowing or preventing the transmission of a droplet-borne virus than a chain fence would be for stopping mosquitoes. It's far from perfect protection, obviously, especially where the eyes are such a significant route of infection (tear ducts are a direct line to the nasal passages, though that's significantly more relevant for catching it than transmitting it), but it's a non-trivial difference that requires a trivial amount of effort. Basic risk analysis therefore dictates that it's a good idea.

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I feel like he would have made his point better if he jogged in an unfamiliar neighbourhood where nobody recognized him. Jogging in his neighbourhood likely worked quite a bit in his favour, though I suspect the outcome would have been the same anywhere.

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Blightzkrieg posted...

Arguably at a certain point the power and respect they earn holds far more worth than the additional wealth that doesn't serve any kind of purpose.

Pretty much. There's absolutely no tangible increase in quality of life going between having $20 billion and $21 billion. When you get up to that scale of wealth, you're making more money purely for the sake of making more money, not because additional money serves them any sort of purpose.

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LeetCheet posted...

Why are people literally rioting for being forced to wear protective gear?
Doesn't people want to continue living?

The least you can do is to not endanger others.

A great many American people really don't like being told what to do, to the point of doing the exact opposite while nattering on about liberty and whatnot regardless of how thoroughly sensible the request is. Some of these counties would probably actually see better mask-wearing rates if their citizens were ordered not to wear one.

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Have you actually played Witcher 3, TC? I remember you making a topic a while back about trying to play Witcher 2 and immediately complaining that it was basically porn because there were boobs, and based on that reaction I'd be surprised if you gave the third one a chance.

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I always feel like graduation's a waste of time, but if the kids in question (or, more realistically, their parents) wanted it to happen, this seems like a reasonable way to do it, provided attendance was optional for the kids that didn't want to take the risk.

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Phantom_Nook posted...

you can buy a document stack at Nooks, then keep making scattered papers and document stacks over and over.

Oh man. There's nothing more exciting than a crafting loop.

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Royal Crown is in store at a point when I have the money to spare for it. It is good to be king.

Also, I got the recipe for Scattered Papers last night, which requires one Document Stack to craft. I also already had the recipe for Document Stack, which requires one Scattered Papers to craft. I'm not quite sure how that's supposed to work >.>

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Zeus posted...

What about all the kickstarters that don't finally release anything?

As much as people like to think of it as a preorder system, Kickstarter is an investment platform. Sometimes, investments don't pan out and you lose money with nothing to show for it. I believe the platform does have some protections in place to prevent full-on scams, but at the end of the day, investing in a kickstarter is taking a risk.

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AnnoyedCops posted...

At least it's capped at 7 days so you could rebuild it soon and pretend it never happened. lol

The impact may fade, but I will always know of my failure.

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What about holding hands in public during sex?

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Getting the Nook Shopping app the other day has resulted in me breaking my daily Nook Stop bonus for the first time since I started playing. That's kind of upsetting >.>

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Zeus posted...

Assuming that sanctioned driving instruction was a requirement for getting a license, it might not be as big a deal as you'd think. Plus apparently they had their permits for over a year.

Yeah, as absurd as this sounds, road tests tend to be more about strict adherence to arbitrary rules than actually testing competent driving. I'd still want to see somebody vouching for them having enough driving practice to deserve a license, preferably somebody credible who incurred some kind of personal risk by giving that recommendation, but there is a legitimate argument to be made that formal driving tests aren't altogether necessary.

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Corned beef hash is excellent. I kind of want some now.

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Mead posted...

Wouldnt it be wild if all these people actually protested the lockdown in a productive way by volunteering at healthcare centers and testing sites

instead of just being selfish babies

They don't want to help people, they just want to get haircuts and go golfing.

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Eh, they had better sex games than just those ones. If nothing else, the losing sex scenes tended to be too rapey for my liking. Sex scenes as a reward for winning were generally more consensual.

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Vaguely reminds me of all of those old Newgrounds flash games that would end in a sex scene if you lost.

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Zeus posted...

You can be sedentary and not turn into a blob, since all you really need to do to manage your weight is to calorie count and adjust accordingly. There are people who work out all the time yet are consistently overweight while people will be thin without exercising.

The key point there is that being sedentary is bad for you, not that it will make you fat. That's true regardless of where your weight ends up.

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FatalAccident posted...

Only thing Im really wondering from the gameplay vids is if the game ever feels like a chore?

It can at times. There are definitely times when I only boot it up because I need to check turnip prices, then I feel like I need to slog through the rest of my once-a-day activities (dig up fossils, plant/harvest the day's money tree, find the money rock...) or risk wasting those opportunities, but in practice, there's no real time limit on anything and no need to rush like that. If you want to make money quickly, you will be in for a grind (at least until you build up enough capital to start multiplying your profits in the stalk market), but the only reason to make money quickly is for the sake of making money quickly.

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Like somebody decided their family tree would make a nice wreath.

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Megadash posted...

humans survived for THOUSANDS of years without a conscious knowledge about "herd immunity" or access to artificial vaccines

They survived, sure. A whole lot of them were still killed by diseases, though, and it's the development of improved medical technologies that has allowed cities to form (you try building a city without a sewage system and see how long it takes for feces-borne diseases to kill everyone) and for our current lifestyle to emerge. If you want to go back to a time when every single person on the planet could name a couple friends they lost to any given disease, that's your prerogative, but I'd personally prefer that you isolate you and everyone you know in a concrete bunker while you carry out that experiment so the rest of us don't have to worry about you.

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The concept of "cookiing" is a continuous one, not a discrete one. "Cooked" and "raw" are purely comparative terms with no absolute meanings. Something that has been cooked more is less raw, and vice versa. Typically, when used without explicitly declaring an alternative to which it is being compared, the terms refer to whether or not the food has been cooked to the degree that the speaker considers ideal, which is often subjective and prone to contextual variation. The only universal interpretation you'll find there is that cooking something less than is needed to make it safe for human consumption is undercooking it, and even then there's a sizable degree of variance in how people define "safe" due to variance in what people consider to be acceptable risk (example: stuffing a roast turkey with bread and then eating said stuffing).

Helly, your attempts to make absolute declarations on what constitute "cooked" and "raw" are foolish and inconsistent with what the words actually mean, to say nothing of how absurd it is that you would try to make such sweeping generalizations about something that varies so much from context to context. You are wrong in a way that shows you understand very little about cooking as a whole. For all you cite him, Alton Brown would be ashamed of you.

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Pikazard1 posted...

pretty sure meat is supposed to rest a bit after cooking. you know, for juice redistribution

but I guess you already knew that

After 45 minutes at 400F, there aren't many juices left to redistribute >.>

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At least fill the skillet with some broth so you're braising it if you're going to cook it that long.

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Is Kicks' stuff not unique to him? I'm pretty sure everything I bought from him the other day was stuff I hadn't seen before in the Able store, but I could have been mistaken.

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You should see if you can find a copy of Kirby's Tilt 'n Tumble to play on the Gameboy Player.

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Here's hoping that slap on the wrist is with a chainsaw.

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My afternoon turnip price is 55. Definitely on the decreasing pattern, and definitely right to sell when I did. Whee...

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Lokarin posted...

That's bigoted against joggers... it's not a 'burglary' if you're out and about.

"He was burgling my air!"

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Bugmeat posted...

You squeeze them all together into a bundle to create one super stream. Yes, I know, the Ghost Busters say don't cross the streams. But the one time they did, it worked out just fine.

That would obviously make the most sense, but in the dream, that didn't occur to me and I had three separate toilets to use anyway. How I aimed three of them, I'm not sure, since the dream ended before I actually peed, but dream-me didn't seem too worried about that for whatever reason.

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ChaosAzeroth posted...

<sp>testing</sp>

Hmmm idk

Maybe < /s>, then?

<s>Blah</s>

Nope. I dunno.

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I have, and they were pretty tasty. Even that was just canned ones being cooked with garlic and butter on a camp stove by a bunch of young teens (my scout troop at the time participated in an outdoor cook-off sort of thing with an international theme, and we opted to make snails), so I would imagine they could be even better with higher-quality meat and more skilled preparation.

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That brings my bank account up to a cool 4.5 million. Many thanks. Having done that, I'm sure I'll get a spike of 600 tomorrow, but that's life. I'm still 3 million shy of the final Nook Miles stamp (10 million), so I'll be stalking for another couple weeks yet, but this puts me in a very nice position indeed.

On another note, Leif is in my town today and has lilies, which are the last flower type I need. If anyone else needs them, I can open my gates.

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Schweet, on my way.

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Unless my luck turns around this afternoon and the decreasing pattern turns into a spike (20% combined chance for large and small at this point, this afternoon is the last possible chance to change), I'm going to need to. I bought them at 92, so I don't need a particularly high price to turn a bit of a profit (or even just avoid a significant loss), but if anyone has a half-decent price that they're willing to share for ~3 trips, it'd be much appreciated.

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I loved the first. I'm going to have to pick up #2 at some point. It seems like development is far enough along now to be worthwhile. I probably should have given it a try during the free weekend it had a while back, but I just didn't get around to it.

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I had a dream once where I had three dicks. I was really baffled as to how I was going to pee until I noticed that the stall I was in had three toilets so everything was okay.

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DPsx7 posted...

All things that make me use better designed sites and not theirs.

The fact that your definition for "better designed sites" is "sites that let me use less secure passwords" is really very questionable.

DPsx7 posted...

I'm not creating bizarre PW's because they developed a crappy site.

Really, just tack something like "L:" onto the end of whatever password you'd normally use and you'll satisfy their requirements. You can do the same thing for every such password and not have to remember anything extra. It's really not the big deal you're making it out to be.

DPsx7 posted...

You can make strong PW's without all the fluff.

You can, and it is kind of annoying that so many sites prioritize character variety over password length. You can get a much stronger password that's easier for the user to remember (and therefore less likely to be written down somewhere else) by simply using words (preferably with irregular caps or spacing to throw off dictionary-based password crackers) instead of requiring different character types. Again, going by the site linked earlier, a typical desktop computer is capable of cracking the standard minimum of 8 alphanumeric characters (upper/lower case plus symbols) in about 9 hours. Just the word "alphanumeric," however, takes about 4 weeks, which can be upped to 700 years by hyphenating it (grammatically inappropriate, but still easy to remember and breaks dictionary searches), or 434 thousand years by capitalizing the last letter (also easy to remember), and that comes entirely from its length. Password strength increases exponentially for each additional character included, which is why increasing from 8 complex characters to 12 simple ones has such an effect.

That said, I do get why emphasizing variety is the norm. Ask people to make a 12-character password, and they're going to start falling back on numbers and common words that are much more vulnerable, or reusing their passwords more (which is more of a risk than having a crackable password, given how often password databases are hacked). More complex passwords are similarly prone to reuse because they're harder to remember, but they seem less so than a longer requirement would be, and the fact that many will just come up with an 8-character base password and tack on the additional 2-3 characters to satisfy the requirements results in stronger passwords overall.

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All of the above. Potatoes are magnificently versatile. The meals I've got planned for the next two weeks include roasting some potatoes to go with a sausage dish as well as mashing some to use for shepherd's pie (technically cottage pie, because beef, but we'll ignore that). I may also turn some into hash browns for breakfasts, but we'll see if I ever feel like doing that much work in the morning.

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I believe the tag for spoilers is < sp> (without the spaces), if you can't access the button for it.

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Golden Sun isn't really underrated. Most people that have played it enjoy it to roughly the correct extent (they're certainly decent games, but nothing tremendously special as far as TBRPG's go), it just doesn't get much attention these days because it's been a decade since the last game in the series came out and 18 years since the last consistently-liked game. Dark Dawn wasn't bad, but it certainly wasn't good enough to ignite interest in the series for people that hadn't played the rest of it, especially where it so shamelessly set itself up for a sequel that never came and sacrificed its own plot in doing so. I'd happily play GS4 if it came out, but I understand Camelot not having enough confidence in the series to make that happen, because there just isn't that much interest left.

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Revelation34 posted...

Only trash people fire people over something not done at work.

He's got some obvious anger issues. I wouldn't want to have to rely on him in any delicate, high-stress situation, and that's exactly what paramedics have to deal with every single day. With public violent rhetoric like that, continuing to employ him is just asking for an incident.

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