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SunWuKung420 posted...

I don't need to refute his false claims. They are false.

That's not how persuasive communication works.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

You get to be higher up the ladder than others and see less ass when you look skyward.

Significantly fewer of the asses you see are female, though, and most of them are pretty old and wrinkly.

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To date, I've yet to summon anyone for O&S, purely as a matter of pride. They even ended up stonewalling me on my SL1 run to the point where I drifted away from it, but I did not use summons.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Most people with millions or billions use trust funds and other methods to avoid estate tax. Usually the ones paying estate tax are people who didn't plan properly and usually those without a lot of money.

The estate tax only applies to exceedingly wealthy people. It's not those without a lot of money that are paying it, as much as many rich people circumvent it via whatever means they can.

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Makes sense. I've currently just got rows of 5 or so of each flower colour, spaced by 1 square and staggered with the rows above and below them to make a grid.

X RXRXRXRXR
WXWXWXWXWX
XYXYXYXYXY

It's not as efficient as your setup, but it seems sensible for getting multiple pairings done at once (i.e. breeding white with red and yellow at the same time). I'll probably condense into something like that once I've got most of the easy colours out of the way.

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Yeah, I need to start figuring out what I want to do with my town, to say nothing of my house (which is pretty much just a dumping ground for semi-interesting furniture at this point). I'm going to need to keep some land allocated for flower breeding, and I might wait until I've finished with the simpler ones (just one more to go for hyacinths and cosmos, but roses and mums are going to be a while), but I should at least start deforesting a bit and moving my fruit trees to a proper orchard.

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I spent the better part of an hour this morning watering and rearranging the flowers that I'm trying to breed, and just as I finish, noon rolls around and it starts raining. Typical. On the bright side, I had a few new hybrids today, including a purple rose that gets me one step closer to blue, so that's fun. I also caught my first coelacanth (followed shortly by another one) and paid off my final house loan.

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As people are saying, it's justifiable for multiple people, but I'd still be inclined to just wait for it to come out in a cheaper format. I go to see movies in theatres rarely enough as it is, even being able to do so for free (my credit card rewards program offers points for free movies and I've racked up more than I will ever use and should probably switch to a proper cashback card), so paying comparable prices to just watch it on my own television doesn't make much sense.

Far-Queue posted...

Given the success Trolls has had with this launch, Hollywood is almost certain to make this a regular thing moving forward.

It'll be interesting to see how well that works for non-children's movies. I imagine demand for that one was inflated by parents desperate for a new way to entertain their kids during quarantine, so those results may not generalize to other movies or once everyone is free again.

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It might make more sense to just tax the income the proper amount the first time around to streamline the process and limit opportunities to work around it, but the fundamental concept of attempting to break up oligarchies by preventing wealth from concentrating is fair.

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Zeus posted...

Honestly, UBI is only really sustainable when the government owns all means of production because otherwise there's no incentive for anybody to work.

Pretty much every UBI/minimum income experiment conducted hasn't run into that problem. There's no incentive for anybody to work in garbage jobs that don't pay enough to attract people to them but can currently get away with it because the immediate alternative is starvation, sure, but people generally like to do something with their lives. People also generally like better lives than mere subsistence, and that takes work on top of whatever minimum they're getting. Exceptions will always exist that are content to live off of that bare minimum and do nothing while mooching off of the system, but that's going to happen with any sort of social support, and those small pockets of abuse shouldn't result in the supports being taken away from the people that use them properly.

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Joker_X_II posted...

The problem with that counter-argument is that "purpose in life" would be inherently meaningless, if everything was provided for you. Despite Thanos' need to wipe out half of all life, he did respect life's need for struggle and purpose. So even on the flip-side and providing all those needs would be illogical as well.

He had omnipotent control over all of reality. He could find some middle ground between preventing overpopulation from becoming a problem and preventing everyone from getting bored because there was no need to work toward anything.

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"We've been social distancing for like a month now and I know hardly anyone that's been infected by this."

Cause, meet effect. Keep it up.

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I've seen some mention the idea that all of space is just an image on a firmament that covers the entire earth. Flat earthers are a pretty nutty bunch.

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If "Laughable and false" is the best "argument" you can come up with to support your position, you probably don't actually have a position.

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Thanos' motivation was sound, but the actions that followed were arrogant and myopic. He figured out the solution of killing people off to solve overpopulation, then proceeded to amass the power he needed to do so more and more effectively, never stopping to consider that such power could be used to solve the problem another way. With all six Infinity Stones, Thanos could have solved the problem of the universe's finite resources by making the universe's resources stop being finite. Instead, he used literal omnipotence to enact a solution that was temporary at best and pissed everybody off. He attained the power of a god, but continued to think like a mortal.

Now, none of that was ever actually presented to Thanos as a counterargument. The good guys' position consisted pretty much entirely of "killing people is bad, we'll figure out a different way after we stop you," which avoids talking about the problem he brings up instead of actually working to solve it. That could probably have been done better, but at the same time, I don't think it would have been consistent with any of the characters to have any of them actually do that. The only one who might have considered such a cosmic-scale solution to the problem would have been Doctor Strange, it's not in his nature to be so interventionist (see: Not telling Tony which of the millions of possibilities he searched through they were living in). Everyone else also thought about the problem like mortals, which is why they also fixated on individual lives instead of the bigger picture of solving resource scarcity.

Really, the whole story arc amounted to mortals being mortals while fighting over the power of gods, and that's inevitably going to result in all of them looking stupid if you look into it far enough. That's the only way to have interesting characters, since thinking of everything and doing everything right means you don't have much conflict to base a story off of.

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Long enough that I don't usually care for rewatching stuff that I paid any attention to the first time around, since I remember enough of it that watching it again isn't really worthwhile.

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papercup posted...

I don't think I've ever given a villager clothes. >_> My brother gave Katt a steampunk outfit for her birthday. Yesterday Buck gave me a track suit and told me "it's probably not haunted." Then not 2 minutes later, while I was wearing a blue Simple Parka, Rooney gave me a blue Simple Parka. >_>

Today, Octavian gave me some Pleather Sneakers and told me they would complement my outfit nicely. I'm not sure how I feel about this.

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Applied for CERB (Canada's expansion of their existing Employment Insurance system to streamline it and accommodate the increased volume of claims due to the current emergency situation) on April 7th, got my first $2000 on the 16th, and another one today (it's meant to be every 4 weeks, which I guess they're counting at the end of the month instead of 4 weeks from the first cheque).

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InfestedAdam posted...

Overall, I'd say 7-8 but it still really depends on the type of game. Certain well made RPGs for example I might replay for the story but usually the story is all I would care about so if the gameplay was cumbersome in some way, I might not replay the game. I found Planescape: Torment story to be amazing but in terms of gameplay will have trouble getting back into it.

And then there's the Borderlands where it might not be the best of stories but the gameplay is fun enough that I would replay again with a different class. And then there's games with both stories and gameplay that I enjoyed such as Xenogear but I know that game is bloody long so probably will not want to get back into again.

This sounds about right. Some games aren't designed to be readily replayed, and I'm fine with them having less by way of replay value. Some games are, and if they lack it, it drags them down a lot in my eyes. it's not something I can make a blanket statement about beyond saying that replay value is generally a good thing because it means I get more entertainment out of my dollars.

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Zeus posted...

No, because that would be crazy. And already the results are skewed by people who consider PC a handheld.

That, or your opinions and insecurities aren't shared by everyone and you were wrong to think they were. But no, it must be people counting PC as a handheld, despite there being nothing in the topic replies or anywhere else to suggest that.

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bunnynames.com

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I'm still working to get anything but the base seed colours. Roses seem slower to hybridize than other flowers.

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The only company I'm explicitly boycotting is Blizzard, since after what they did with WC3 Reforged (namely, pushing the Reforged update onto existing copies of WC3 and effectively breaking a 15-year-old game I already have), I can no longer trust that any game I buy from them won't be ruined somewhere down the line. Until they earn that trust back (which is going to take a long time, since even if they walk back the decision to push Reforged onto existing copies, I have no reason to believe that's a genuine acknowledgement of error and not just caving to pressure for PR purposes), I'm not buying any more of their games. In practice, the only upcoming one I have any interest in is Diablo 4, and even then I was pretty wary of it because I'm expecting it to be positively seething with exploitative monetization (plus it's not like Diablo's the only ARPG in town these days), so that's not really a big change for me, but it's still my position.

There are several other publishers that I just haven't been buying games from, though, without explicitly boycotting them. I could count on one hand the number of games I've bought in the last decade from each of EA, Activision (counting them separately from Blizzard, though even then Diablo 3 is the only Blizzard game I've bought since the first part of SC2), Ubisoft, Konami, and probably a few others. That's not really a deliberate decision not to buy from them, it's just a consequence of the kinds and qualities of games they've been putting out in that time frame and which systems they've been focusing on. I'm not buying from them not because I don't want to buy from them, but because they aren't selling anything I want to buy.

Golem25 posted...

I get that you want to act like Johnny with the Big Balls on the internet, but I don't think the poster you are replying to is under the illusion that his boycott will cripple Disney

I mean, he did phrase it as a conditional boycott, and generally speaking, giving conditions means you want the company you're pressuring to yield to your demands. That condition is completely unrealistic, though, so if that's the primary basis for the boycott, it's not exactly going to accomplish much, meaning the boycott just results in limiting the entertainment available to him for no reason.

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Depends a lot on the context. Playing them at home, not usually, unless I'm playing them alongside somebody that's doing something else that would be disturbed by the sounds of the game. Out and about, if it's a situation where bringing headphones is practical, I'll sometimes do it, but I'll usually go without provided it's a game where I don't overly care about the music or need the sound (since then I mute it).

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ZBug_ posted...

You cant actually

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rhyme
One of the two or more words corresponding in sound

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/rhyme_1
ends with the same sound as another word

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/rhyme
A word that that it pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.

even the google dictionary: a word that has the same sound as another word

Notice how they all say another word or two or more words.
are you going to tell me that all these dictionaries are just wrong?

Lets say we spend the day by the bay.
has three rhymes in it.

Day by day
has none.

get it?

In terms of how it's defined, sure. In terms of how rhymes actually get used (to provide a pleasing repetition of sounds that helps to define the meter and rhythm of the poem), though, using the same word again provides the same repetition of sounds and therefore the same function. Practically speaking, that's a rhyme.

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It was my main weapon for my first playthrough, and I liked it well enough. Having used the Claymore up until that point, losing the thrust kind of hurt, but it's a pretty solid weapon.

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I mean, at a max of 1 painting per week, finishing that collection will take a while. I'm okay with what they've got at the moment. Expanding the others might be nice, though. Probably not until we're at least a year in so everyone has (legitimately) had a shot at catching all the current ones, though.

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Ogurisama posted...

I like working on the museum

That too. I really like how they've designed the museum this time around. So much of the collection aspect of the game boils down to dumb luck, but it's still fun to work toward completing it and displaying all the stuff I've found.

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There we go. On me way.

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For BFing, I believe so.

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No BF, only Friend (for like forever, pretty sure we added each other back when the Switch first came out), no interaction in this game yet. IGN is Andrew.

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I don't seem to be able to find you. I can see you're online on the Switch menu, but Orville's coming up empty-handed.

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faramir77 posted...

And that's with unprecented social distancing measures.

And that worldwide figure is taking China's stats at face value, which almost certainly means it's significantly lower than the real numbers.

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274 is better than I've got. Mind if I also pop in, @Kimbos_Egg ? It'll be 2-3 trips, if that's cool.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

i remember reading something at the start of all this that was along the lines of if we do this right, people will say we overreacted. if we dont, a s*** ton of people will die.

Eeyup. Every public health crisis is the same: Crisis emerges, a response is mounted to it that may or may not directly impact the public, the crisis passes, and then people complain about how much of an overreaction the response was because it wasn't a big deal, oblivious to the fact that the only reason it wasn't a big deal is because of the hard work and sacrifices of countless public health workers. The concept of cause and effect is lost on some people.

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You can rhyme a word with itself, but it's a lazy cop-out for finding a more legitimate rhyme and will often stand out so glaringly as to take away from the piece as a whole unless that repetition is somehow significant.

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Don't bother upgrading the Drake Sword. The upgrade materials are hard to come by and it gains very little from upgrading. Take a look at the strength weapons you have available and see which movesets you like, then double-check that they scale reasonably well (many weapons don't, unfortunately) and/or if there are similar weapons that scale better. Generally, you probably are going to find that most strength weapons are slow compared to the Drake Sword, since that's just the nature of strength weapons, but there are definitely some that are faster than the Zweihander (which is on the slower side). The Claymore is a popular choice, as is the Man-Serpent Greatsword that can be farmed from those snake dudes (similar moveset, MS GS is a bit stronger, but loses the Claymore's thrust attack).

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ArvTheGreat posted...

Arv has no probably with her saying yes every ten minutes usually its every second

Pretty much. Consent can be more than just a verbal "yes." If your partner is actually enjoying themselves and wants to be there, you won't have to ask because that enthusiasm will be obvious. If it isn't, you should probably consider becoming better at sex.

ScritchOwl posted...

Feminist ruining safe sex for woman. Imagine the potntial effect if the 10 min timer causes you to stop what your doing right when she is building up

That (very obviously biased) article took a hyperbolic question from a 15-year-old and decided that was the entire point, disregarding the clarification from the teacher that they themselves quoted:

Its not a timing thing, but whoever initiates things to another level has to ask.

Quite simply, you do anything new, you make sure they're okay with that. Maybe that means explicitly asking, maybe it just means paying attention to see if they're still comparably enthusiastic about the new thing and offering to do something else if they aren't. Just be aware of the importance of consent and act accordingly at all times. It's really not difficult, as much as right-wing tabloids like to fly off the handle the moment anyone suggests it and start talking about needing a notarized contract for every thrust.

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darcandkharg31 posted...

I was just looking up what stones he had and there's the directors saying he wasn't even using the stones.

https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/avengers-infinity-war-how-thanos-beat-hulk/

idk, it's a movie anyways, not like it makes much of a difference, the story is written lulz.

That explanation also makes sense. Hulk isn't exactly a competent fighter, he's just strong enough to not need competency most of the time. Matched up against somebody similarly strong who is competent, he's not going to have a good time. Meanwhile, Cap is a very competent fighter and the hammer in question was Mjolnir, which does a lot to level the playing field as far as raw power goes, hence he was able to do a better job of holding his own.

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RedPixel posted...

It's fun for creative people. It's only a chore if you're rushing to beat an unbeatable game.

That said, it's not for everyone.

Pretty much. If you want to design a town and decorate a house and have a bunch of talking animals give mildly amusing commentary on the mundane tasks you perform, it's great. If that's not your thing, then Animal Crossing won't be your thing.

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RedPixel posted...

It's called sunlight. And taking care of yourself from illness in general.

How do you propose shining sunlight into people's lungs?

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Black_Crusher posted...

But yeah before you get the Lordvessel and let's say you save down at Ash Lake you have to climb ALLLLL the way back through the Great Hollow and up through Blighttown and it sort of sucks.

On one hand, I get why some people don't like that you can warp freely between bonfires right away in 2 and 3. It does mean you really only ever experience the interconnected nature of the world once, which is a real shame because that level design is one of the series' great strengths. On the other hand, though, having to walk absolutely everywhere for the first half of the game is just plain miserable.

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darcandkharg31 posted...

I mean, Thanos ktfo of Hulk in IW easy peasy, and yet he's struggling with Captain with a hammer, idk, he's kinda a little nerfed

He had 1-2 stones at the beginning of IW (I don't actually remember if he socketed the second one before or after fighting Hulk). That makes a difference.

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Rewards cards also typically charge vendors a higher cut, often 3-4% instead of 1%. This is why I try to use cash or debit instead of credit whenever I'm buying stuff from a small business, since those fees hurt their margins so much.

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They're back up from the insane lows they were at a couple weeks ago (now $0.80-0.82/L, instead of $0.73), but still far, far below seasonal average prices (which are usually around $1.10/L by now).

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Wanded posted...

imo Thanos got nerfed in Endgame

I mean, he didn't have any Infinity Stones in Endgame, so that makes sense. He still managed to go head-to-head with all of The Avengers' strongest and ultimately only lost because Ironman managed to get the stones away from him for the few seconds he needed to write Thanos out of existence. It's not like he wasn't a serious threat, he was just a threat that could actually be faced in open combat instead of being so omnipotent that the only way to fight him was to outsmart and outmanoeuvre him.

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That said, getting Sesame Street episodes a few months later isn't that much of a disadvantage. Sesame Street doesn't really have the kind of social significance that's needed for kids to feel left out for seeing the episode after all their friends, and it's not like older episodes are any less educational. Last time I checked, C is still for "cookie," and that's good enough for me.

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Veedrock- posted...

The real talking point is this settles the debate that save scumming is cheating.

Oh, it's always been cheating. There's never been any question about that. Rather, what's up for debate is whether or not the mechanic it circumvents deserves to be cheated.

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teddy241 posted...

Big countries like China/Russia/U.S./India would try to claim the vaccine by paying the smaller country if they were to find it first

The US already tried that with a couple of promising German candidates. They offered a couple billion for exclusive rights to the vaccine and Germany was like "lolno."

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