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WhiskeyDisk posted...

Remember the tombstone in the original Final Fantasy that read "here lies Link"?

No, because in the original US version of Final Fantasy, it didn't say that. It said "Here lies Erdrick" (aka, the character from Dragon Quest/Dragon Warrior). It wasn't until later translations that they changed it back to Link.

But either way, it was itself a reference to a tombstone in Zelda II - in the original Japanese, it said "Here lies Loto" (aka, the original Japanese name of Erdrick).

http://dailynintendofacts.blogspot.com/2018/08/223-hero-slaughter.html
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Noop_Noop posted...

i did however love when gamefaqs let you block people from seeing your posts. imagine censoring yourself and thinking thats a victory.

Does wasting your breath trying to talk to people who are either too ignorant, too stubborn, or too much of an asshole to ever really care about anything you say other than as a way to attack you somehow make either your life or the world a better place?

I know children of the Internet Age may have a very hard time understanding this concept, but sometimes, you don't need to project your opinions to every human being on Earth to somehow validate yourself.
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I was mostly sad that GIA stopped hosting FAQs and walkthroughs and went looking for the first alternative I could find, and then went "Ehh, I guess this will do."
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Does it matter to me? No.

Does it matter to other people? Yes.

SHOULD it matter to other people? No.
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Revelation34 posted...

They are the same thing.

They're objectively not.

Ignore is basically making the person who is annoying you cease to exist in your world, block is making yourself cease to exist in their world. Similar outcome, two entirely different mechanics.

You can argue over whether or not they should be CALLED something different from what they're called now, but that's not really the same thing.
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Judgmenl posted...

The Irony is that the TARDIS would have told The Doctor where they were the entire time It was a post-apocalyptic earth.

Ehh, I can almost forgive that because this isn't the first time they've done that plot point:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Planet

...but at least in that case, they at least tried to justify it by implying the planet (and the entire solar system) had been moved out of its natural orbit and relocated somewhere else.

Though that's also an implicit negative of its own - it's indicative that they're so lacking in ideas that they're going back to the old series to steal premises. And it's not even like this is the first time Doctor Who has done a bit of an anvilicious "Hey, if you don't stop polluting the future is going to suck" moral, since they did that in the last season of the original show ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curse_of_Fenric ), so they aren't even being original with that.
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Revelation34 posted...

Actually no it isn't. Block is supposed to stop the person that blocks from seeing people's posts they don't want to see. It is NEVER supposed to stop somebody from seeing other's posts.

You're confusing "ignore" and "block".
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wwinterj25 posted...

... and I'm entitled to believe those folk are snowflakes.

And I'm entitled to point out that you don't really seem to understand what that term actually means or how to properly use it in context.
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Revelation34 posted...

LinkPizza posted...

But blocking is censoring other people because you're scared of them seeing you post.

It's a shitty blocking system because literally no other forum even does blocking like that.

It's mostly to prevent harassment.

If someone follows you into every single topic to shit on you no matter what you're actually posting, you can ignore them but everyone else is still going to see them attacking you, and they can essentially accuse you of all manner of things that you now can't defend yourself against because you can't see them. You won't even be able to mark them for harassment (which would be perfectly valid) because you don't even know it's happening.

The idea of block is that you essentially remove yourself from them even knowing you exist, with the assumption that they'll eventually get bored of posting about you and move on with their lives.

In practice, it doesn't really work because most of the really shitty trolls or obsessed harassers have multiple accounts anyway, so they'll just log into a different account to see what you're up to. Or will just make shitty little snide comments about you every now and then in entirely unrelated topics just because they know you're still out there even if they can't see you.
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I've mostly just got Duckbear ignored so his spammy zero-content clickbait topics don't wind up cluttering my front page all the time. Other than that, I really only ignore really blatant gimmick/troll accounts.

Even some of the shittier posters occasionally have something interesting to say. Or can accidentally spark worthwhile conversations with other people. And it's not like it's all that difficult to ignore people who are mostly assholes anyway.



wwinterj25 posted...

I believe folk are indeed entitled to post whatever they wish without snowflakes being well... snowflakes.

People are entitled to post whatever they wish. And other people are entitled to avoid having to read what they post.

Freedom of speech doesn't really mean other people are obligated to listen to you.
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I stopped watching the show a few seasons back, and I'd been watching since 1983 or so. And have every single serial that still exists from the original series on DVD.

Moffat as showrunner really ground the show into the dirt, and the hope was that things would improve under Chibnall, but if anything they've gotten worse.

At this point I'm not even sure a new showrunner who wound up being completely awesome could salvage things.



Nichtcrawler X posted...

Your loss

It really isn't.
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Irish-German. With at least one strain of my bloodlines coming from nobility.
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hypnox posted...

They are almost never done in a way that don't make them look unnatural.

Most of the time, they're not necessarily done with being naked in mind. A lot of boob jobs that look terrible completely exposed look fine when you're wearing clothes.
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Johnny_Ace posted...

When did the polls start to be about non-gaming?

Since before you made your account.
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Entity13 posted...

Some of the books were good too, but then Disney happened.

About 6 good books lost and 180+ terrible ones burned to the ground really isn't a housecleaning to be mourned. Or one that wasn't effectively both inevitable and necessary.

(especially when the original plan seemed to be to try and salvage the only worthwhile bits out of the EU in the new continuity anyway)

Though that being said...



Entity13 posted...

So rip canon

"I don't read that stuff. I haven't read any of the novels. I don't know anything about that world. That's a different world than my world. When I said [other people] could make their own Star Wars stories, we decided that, like Star Trek, we would have two universes: My universe and then this other one." --- George Lucas

No matter how hard Lucasfilm tried to lie about multiple levels of canon to trick fanboys, the EU was never really "canon" in any meaningful way, except inasmuch as it related to itself. Which really isn't canonicity as much as it is consistency.

The EU was effectively "official fanfiction". Sure, it had the official branding on the books. Maybe you enjoyed it. But it was never really "real" as part of the official universe, in the sense that anyone doing new movies was ever going to feel obligated to pay any attention to it, Disney, Lucas, or otherwise.

Lucas' real opinions of the EU were pretty obvious, like when he found out about a popular EU character, and decided to add her to the movies, and her sole role was to get shot. That was basically Lucas saying "Ehh, fuck your EU." The EU thrived because Lucas was mostly disinterested in anything other than what he was doing personally, which meant he didn't care about the books because they "didn't count" anyway.

It didn't really matter WHO ultimately wound up making Episode VII-IX, every single post-RotJ EU book was absolutely doomed the moment anyone decided they were going to make those movies.
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Toothpaste, moutwash, rubbing alcohol, shaving cream... there's a lot of chemicals in the average bathroom.

Obviously, they must be mixed. That's just common sense.
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RoboXgp89 posted...

the catholic church would do the same

I am now bleeding to death after cutting myself on all that edge.
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FrothySolutions posted...

What do you think my dream meant?

Nothing.

Dreams are the disc defrag process of the brain. Random images, ideas, and thoughts are all sort of jumbled together in a bag and then spat back out.

It is not you magically connecting to the collective unconscious, receiving visions of the future, or having your own subconscious whisper secret revelations to you.
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Lokarin posted...

Banding

I understood that reference!
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It would probably mean more if it wasn't mostly just made up by people making subjective assumptions rather than anything tangible or objective.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Empathy isn't a choice, otherwise we wouldn't consider ethics so fundamental.

Empathy also isn't the ability you're necessarily using most of the time when you experience fictional media anyway. Sympathy is, and that's a different thing.

That being said, you're both right in this case. It's up to the narrative in question to provide characters you feel inclined to engage with, sympathize with, and otherwise care about, but it's also up to the player (or viewer, or reader, etc) to be willing to engage with the narrative in the first place, and not just, say, skip through every cut-scene, skim every dialogue line, and generally not pay attention to the story or the characters to the point where it doesn't matter how well written they are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkpgP8ovFZQ
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Judgmenl posted...

Yes, yes it was.

But was it really?
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Lokarin posted...

do you ever get Record of Acarest (or whatever) and Record of Lodoss War mixed up?

No, because Record of Lodoss war is a franchise I actually care about, and Record of Agarest War is a game franchise I cannot even remotely bring myself to care about. So there's a distinct difference between the two in my head.

If I didn't really care about either and they were just vague Japanesey titles I'd heard once or twice I could see mixing them up, but that's not really the case for me.
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But is it, though?
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Mead posted...

you forgot to say to be fair so your post is void, sorry

Nah, because I used "it's worth noting", which is another of my dialogue crutches. So parity is maintained.
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Lokarin posted...

Interesting dynamic: Two ex-borg with different outlooks ON the borg; would have brought quite a lot of drama in the past with good writers...

I wonder how it will go?

Explosions, gun battles, and a minimal amount of thinking, probably.
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is used in statistics, for calculating standard deviation. It might be for that.

If I remember correctly, I had a TI-36 that had that, and I used it in Stat class.

In fact...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TI-36X_Solar_1993.jpg

...that looks like the exact calculator I had.
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What a coincidence. I just watched Star Wars: Pikachu.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmHkx9P19hg
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HornedLion posted...

Even people in their late 30s dont give a fuck about Doctor Doolittle.

I'm in my mid-40s and I don't give a fuck about Doctor Dolittle. Nor do any of my peers.



helIy posted...

If it's not Eddie, it's not Dolittle.

-_-







http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49CmzIRX1k0
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Mead posted...

So since it was a black dude they jumped straight to calling the cops instead of taking a moment to I dunno call the organization that printed the checks to find out if they were legitimate

It IS worth noting that it was a bank in a place where the overall population is like 85% black, 7% white. While racism isn't out of the question, there's the distinct possibility that he's overplaying his hand and making accusations when other explanations exist. Especially if a significant amount of the bank staff were themselves black.

There's way too many details missing from the story that kind of make it clickbait sensationalism.
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The more astonishing part of this story is that there are still people and banks in Detroit.
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Zangulus posted...

Why is admitting youre wrong a thing of pride? It shouldnt be. If youre wrong. Admit it and move on. You cant learn if you dont.

I almost feel like he's asking whether you should "swallow your pride" and say you're wrong even if you're NOT wrong, just to defuse arguments and tension. Notice he didn't say "admit".
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

That's not how it works, we've had a mod clarify this.

Admins and the literal site-owner have clarified it in the past.

But really, even if he was right and people replying to his post were moddable for being off-topic, the real problem is that this entire topic would be off-topic if this board had topicality, so every post he's made would be moddable.

He'd discover this fairly quickly if he went and made this identical topic on any of the game boards.

But he won't, because this is pretty clearly someone's troll alt account.
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PMarth2002 posted...

Maybe her kids school is a Mcdojo?

Was coming in to say this.

And post this:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/McDojo
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WhiskeyDisk posted...

I'm willing to bet there's a million more times water than oil on this planet given that more humans have walked on the moon than have gone to the bottom of the Marianas trench.

We're already bordering on a water crisis occurring within the next century, though.
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Whargarble posted...

It's a good game, but the fanbase is pretty annoying. Of course, the fans aren't half as annoying as the nitwits who hate it simply because it's popular.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJX4ytfqw6k
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I'd say no, but that's less about the game's objective value to gaming as a whole and more about the fact that it's not the sort of game I want to play, so it could be the most perfect expression of what it was trying to be and it still wouldn't be worthwhile to me at all.

2019 was kind of a bleak year for games, though. Most of the games worth playing were remakes or re-releases, and most of the good new titles were just kind of mediocre. And RDR2 was kind of a disappointment.

I wish I could say GreedFall or Outer Worlds were GOTY material, but both of them felt so lacking compared to what they could have been, or should have been.
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Dark Sword of Chaos is the only one on that list I've played.
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CTLM posted...

In baked goods

Came in to say this. I don't eat eggs in any way other than as an ingredient in other foods. And not even if they're the primary ingredient (like in egg salad, for instance).

I do eat egg noodles and french toast and egg-battered breaded chicken and baked goods, though. So it's not so much that I'm anti-egg entirely, I just don't like eggs in and of themselves.
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dancer62 posted...

And the Avengers (the British TV series with Patrick McNee/Diana Rigg, not the new hokey comic book garbage that tarnishes the name)

You realize the TV show only predates the comic by about 2 years, yes?
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The first one I owned was Zelda II/Adventure of Link, but I forget whether or not I played the original Legend of Zelda first.

I definitely played both before Link to the Past came out, though. And then afterwards I basically lost interest in the franchise forever.



DeathMagnetic80 posted...

Weirdly enough, Zelda II which is why I have a soft spot for it.

It was never really a bad game, people were just pissed because it was so different from the original (the same reason why so many people shit on Chrono Cross over Chrono Trigger). But it's pretty good in its own way (and I'd be tempted to say the same thing about it that I saw about CT/CC, which is that the sequel is better than the original no matter how many people refuse to accept it).
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Casino Night
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captpackrat posted...

I like to listen to classic radio shows.

Didn't even think of those, because of the "watched" part of the question.

I've listened to old Shadow radio shows, along with stuff like Spike Jones and Dickie Goodman when I was a kid.



Zeus posted...

It's weird to think people wouldn't watch things from before the 70s, no matter when they were born.

Children of the Modern Age are obviously incapable of enjoying anything that doesn't involve at least one thing exploding every thirty seconds. What we used to call building suspense or establishing dramatic tension or even setting the mood, they call boring.
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helIy posted...

There's no tracking number because they don't have one.

There's no shipping confirmation because they don't have one to give. You said that they said they sent it to their distributor.

It's out of their hands at that point, you should be talking with the distributor.

To be fair, there's an argument to be made in this day and age that every distributor direct shipping to customers should be providing tracking numbers and shipping confirmation via e-mail. If they're not doing so, it's valid to question why. And if you have no knowledge of who a distributor is or how to contact them, it's also valid to complain about the issue to the company using that distributor. If nothing else, knowledge of problems may lead them to switch distributors in the future.
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JixHedgehog posted...

Not since the ads were available to watch online

They haven't even been worth watching for the most part since 2000 or so.

Most of the really good, clever, or humorous ads that led people to say "Oh, I only watch the Super Bowl for the ads" were from a long time ago. Now most of them are just pretentious or kind of stupid.
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Mead posted...

hed be president if the DNC hadnt rigged the primary for her and we wouldnt have the orange dipshit in office right now

It's lovely for you that you believe that.
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Sort of.

I normally try to go to a party where people watch, but if none of my friends are hosting one I generally don't bother watching.

But even when someone does have a party, usually it's more of a social occasion where people are only half paying attention to the game (and even less to the commercials and half-time, which mostly suck these days), so I'm watching, but I'm also drinking, and wandering around talking to people, and probably missing large chunks of the game.
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LinkPizza posted...

Dont you have to play like 100 times to get all the endings. I heard that when you play a second time, they mention how you played the first time or something. So, you have to play a lot to get all the endings... From what Ive heard...

The opposite is sort of true. The game essentially punishes you if you do anything other than get the best ending first time, and then never play again.
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Depends on what you ordered and where you ordered it from.
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dancer62 posted...

Possibly confused with Carrie, or The Omen, or even Assault on Precinct 13.

Especially since The Shining blatantly feels like a 70s movie. Even after the first time I saw it I assumed it was from the mid-70s until I eventually saw the actual date and was like "Wha...?"

That being said, you could probably figure out what she was thinking of based on what month her birthday is. Carrie (the actual Stephen King movie that year) came out in November, and The Omen came out in June.

Probably wouldn't be Precinct 13, that really isn't a scary movie at all.

It's also possible she got the right movie but the wrong year. Or the wrong year AND movie (Amityville Horror was 1977, for instance).
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