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| Topic | my fiancee's sister got mad at us for dissing her spiritual crystals |
| darkmaian23 05/15/20 12:27:03 PM #7 | That sort of stuff just makes me cringe. |
| Topic | You have to self isolate in the last videogame you played. How do you fare? |
| darkmaian23 05/14/20 4:44:59 PM #42 | CyricZ posted... Would be tough. Living in either Tokyo or Osaka in 1988. I can get stuff, but no Internet. :-/Things were a lot more relaxed in the late 1980s than they are now, and Japan has had a low crime rate for decades. After a month or so of internet detoxing, I bet you'd have a great time. |
| Topic | You have to self isolate in the last videogame you played. How do you fare? |
| darkmaian23 05/14/20 3:38:16 PM #16 | I last played a certain 18+ game. If I don't survive, I'll at least have died happy. |
| Topic | Wow I'm done with pc gaming |
| darkmaian23 05/12/20 6:18:11 AM #20 | Lanzol posted... First of all amd is saying they won't support my Mobo anymore what the h*** Lonestar2000 posted... I had a similar thing happen to me, it's why I won't buy AMD until they have a retention bracket on their mainstream mobos. And you think it is any better on Intel? Spoilers: it isn't. I bought the best consumer motherboard money could buy a few years ago to build my rig, and there turned out to be hardly any upgrade path for the CPU. When the technology moves on, the mobo has to change too. Right now AMD is making the better product (at least for my uses), and I'll be going with them for my next build. |
| Topic | Cop beats man who isn't resisting (video) |
| darkmaian23 05/12/20 6:14:05 AM #48 | cardoor123 posted... We don't have any context of this, quit your fucking yapping Blue_School posted... We have no idea what happened or was said before this video started. Hold the outrage. This had better be sarcasm. There is no excuse for shit like this. |
| Topic | I can't stand my best friends girlfriend |
| darkmaian23 05/10/20 6:09:58 AM #13 | Guerrilla Soldier posted... maybe the only time she can find happiness is when they're alone togetherIf the girlfriend isn't happy unless it is just her and the friend alone, and if she constantly acts out to control him in social situations (and likely in private too), the friend is in an emotionally abusive relationship and might be struggling with codependency. @Politics Does this describe your friend's girlfriend? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder#Associated_features I only bring this up because I grew up around a person who had this, and they used to do exactly what your friend's girlfriend is doing all the time. It could be something else---the world of mental health issues is vast. But whatever it is, your friend doesn't deserve it and should leave if his girlfriend won't seek treatment and try to improve her behavior. Nobody needs that kind of static, man. |
| Topic | Youtube disabling comments on kids' videos seems counterproductive and arbitrary |
| darkmaian23 05/08/20 7:29:27 PM #10 | I expect that eventually all comment sections will be removed. They are really just a source of liability and legal issues for platforms and content providers. |
| Topic | How come they aren't cramming out Alien movies like crazy? |
| darkmaian23 05/08/20 7:23:35 PM #22 | i honestly believe there has never been a bad Alien movie. The third one was rough, but the extended cut smooths things out a bit. The fourth movie isn't much like the others, but it was perfectly watchable. Prometheus was quite good. Covenant was also a good movie, but I was kind of pissed because it wasn't great. We deserved more of a backstory about the Engineers, not only from a lore perspective, but also because David's motivations seemed like they were tied up with what he learned from studying their culture and history. |
| Topic | Adults of CE, what advice can you give a teenager about becoming an adult? |
| darkmaian23 05/08/20 11:28:50 AM #27 | The time you have now won't come again. You only get to be young, free, and healthy once. Right now--or in a couple of years from now depending on where you live and exactly how old you are--is the time to figure out what you want in life. Adult life is sort of laid out like this: high school -> college or trade school -> career -> additional training if you need it. If you skip out on getting a degree in something you want and can use to start a career, it's much harder being a non-traditional student than you might think. If you need a college or trade school to follow the path you want for yourself, head straight for it. People who put it off tend to fall right off the wagon and don't get back on. Get a part time job if you can to build experience. Keep working through college or trade school if you can, but prioritize your education and professional development. Don't compare yourself to other people. If your friend from chemistry can work three part time jobs and take a full load of credits, good for him. If you can't, that's fine. You do what you need to do to succeed and build a future for yourself. If you fail at something, that only means something needs to change. It absolutely doesn't mean you are a failure. Don't ever let other people control or take advantage of you. You, LumaRosalina, deserve to be happy and free and live your own life. I hope you have a family that is good to you, but if you don't, make sure you graduate from high school with a complete enough set of life skills that you can stand on your own two feet without help. Don't let your parents decide your life path. Watch out for abusive people. There are things that can be wrong with people--like narcissistic personality disorder or psychopathy--that can create an incredible environment for abuse if they have wormed themselves into your life and target you. It's not their fault that they are like that, but it isn't your fault either, or your responsibility. That last thing is a rare problem, but I've seen it happen three times in my life, and my life would have been so much happier if someone had bothered to warn me that dangerous people can come in some unusual packaging. |
| Topic | $10,000 but you have to watch one of these "essential Anime" |
| darkmaian23 05/08/20 5:39:58 AM #54 | Mistere Man posted... Where is the downside? |
| Topic | former prosecutor talks about convicting people on flimsy evidence |
| darkmaian23 05/08/20 12:02:09 AM #9 | FortuneCookie posted... Please tell me that's a copy-pasta.If you're referring to my giant wall of text, then no, I wrote that all myself. Though I have written several other posts like it over these last few months, so it might feel kind of redundant if you've seen me posting in these topics before. |
| Topic | former prosecutor talks about convicting people on flimsy evidence |
| darkmaian23 05/07/20 11:48:00 PM #6 | Well, if they didn't want to be convicted, they shouldn't have broken the law! Or talked to police. Or been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or have been chosen to help meet department arrest quotas. Or been chosen to help the career of an ambitious DA by having drugs planted on them by a crooked cop. Or looked at a crooked cop funny. Or become afraid that you'd be randomly shot and tried running away, because then you obviously do need to be shot. Our "justice" system blows, from top to bottom. Laws are written by lobbyists, special interest groups, and people whose career is having power over other people (and my state is so gerrymandered that we don't even get the ones we voted for). Even considering just the criminal code, huge swaths of the law aren't written for the good of society or for any objective reason, but are instead written to satisfy special interest groups and keep elected officials elected (and wealthy). Browse an annotated version of your state's statutes if you can---you'll be shocked. Crooked cops abound, and the good ones largely do nothing because of social pressure. The rule of law and the courts protect both bad cops and those who cover for them. Well over 90% of defendants never get a trial, and if you do get a trial, you are penalized for "wasting" justice department time (because we push too many people through the system to have speedy trials) and then get the book thrown at you in a trial you probably have no chance of winning, even with a lawyer (some districts have a 100% conviction rate). Once you're in prison--guilty or not--you can expect to lose a very large chunk of your life in squalid conditions because of mandatory minimum laws, laws that are basically pulled out of a politician's (in my state, technically unelected) asshole. And people will cheer your lack of freedom because you are criminal scum. In the United States, you don't have to be anything like guilty to plead guilty to a crime. You just have to be arrested and find 5 years in jail preferable to the 20 years + 3 years of waiting you'll get if you want a trial to prove your innocence, a trial which your state appointed attorney is statistically guaranteed to lose. Even if you have no sympathy at all for criminals and believe a tough on crime, "lock 'em up" approach is what's best for society, what routinely happens to innocent men and women, and the lack of accountability for those who see to it that it happens, is absolutely unacceptable. |
| Topic | Internet turned to crap after 2007... Agree? |
| darkmaian23 05/05/20 6:16:01 AM #8 | Rika_Furude posted... It turned to crap with the rise of the sjws. Everyone in the US takes shit online so serious. Its quite the culture shock for meDoesn't Australia have a bunch of censorship laws we don't have in the US? Or is that not what you mean? |
| Topic | My relatives told me theyre going to straighten out my GAY BROTHER! |
| darkmaian23 05/03/20 1:09:01 PM #5 | 21WIVES_CHILL posted... "We'll just have your brother do Gods work since you cant"Gross. Isn't it amazing that God always wants exactly whatever the believer wants? I don't know if I've ever met a Christian who was actually interested in the nature of God or what he might want from them. Instead, they take whatever they already believe is right and claim God gave them their morals. If they read the Bible, it is conjunction with a pastor's sermons where everything is viewed in the light of trying to find lessons that match up with whatever they already think is true. I was raised that way myself, and to this day I find it disturbing. |
| Topic | Japanese people talk about hentai |
| darkmaian23 05/03/20 1:02:54 PM #5 | Is there a tl;dr? |
| Topic | smh internet, stop paying women to get naked. |
| darkmaian23 05/03/20 1:02:34 PM #16 | Tired-Insomniac posted... I mean there's still plenty of girls getting naked for free on Omegle. You just gotta swim through a sea of dicks to find them.I think I've found the flaw in your scheme. |
| Topic | Please Bang my wife headed to Nintendo Switch |
| darkmaian23 05/03/20 7:22:05 AM #23 | Is this a joke? |
| Topic | Federal court rules police can shoot a dog if it moves or barks |
| darkmaian23 05/02/20 6:09:14 AM #76 | Tyranthraxus posted... Right now a Cop can walk into a house, shoot at a poodle, miss, kill a 4yo girl, and then charge the father with murder via felony murder laws because he had a bag of pot in the house.Has that actually happened? |
| Topic | Which non-human fantasy race do you find the sexiest? |
| darkmaian23 05/02/20 6:00:44 AM #33 | I'd like a fairy vampire elf, with a side of fries please. |
| Topic | God is working on a patch for the universe. |
| darkmaian23 05/02/20 2:15:28 AM #9 | RedWhiteBlue posted... EqualityMaybe not that last one, but definitely the first three. |
| Topic | Is Beastars a show for furries? |
| darkmaian23 04/25/20 5:31:01 AM #3 | No. The show is actually a fairly serious drama with interesting characters that examines various social issues in a new light by inventing a fictional world filled with sentient animals. It wasn't my cup of tea, but there is a reason everyone is talking about it. |
| Topic | The sheer lack of talk about healthcare is disturbing |
| darkmaian23 04/23/20 6:13:33 PM #13 | ElatedVenusaur posted... There are no solutions that are acceptable to the power structure, so there's nothing that can be done.Basically this. Also, we're due sooner or later to hit a great filter and be destroyed. Humans are too stupid and riddled with too many cognitive defects to survive in the long term as a species. |
| Topic | this is sad :( (AVGN) |
| darkmaian23 04/23/20 2:28:01 AM #28 | KillerSlaw posted... I'm surprised by how many people aren't aware that James basically had to sell the AVGN property off after his film flopped.Is that for real? It's been been several years now, but I followed the events surrounding the movie closely. I was under the impression the entire film was paid for before it was even released. How could he have gotten in debt over it? Wasn't it mostly paid for by a Kickstarter or something? |
| Topic | AVGN Animated |
| darkmaian23 04/23/20 2:24:35 AM #14 | I'm no prude, but that was a bit too graphic in my opinion. |
| Topic | Man who served 44 years in prison dies from corona weeks before his release. |
| darkmaian23 04/20/20 8:53:07 PM #60 | rikasa posted... yall both posted the same ridiculous appeal to emotion at the same timeIsn't it more likely that it is one person posting with two different accounts? |
| Topic | Man who served 44 years in prison dies from corona weeks before his release. |
| darkmaian23 04/20/20 8:05:13 PM #29 | B-Factor posted... If you take a life you don't deserve your life.What about soldiers in the army, or police that end up killing people in the line of duty? Do they get a free pass because in society's judgement they are doing something necessary? The War on Terror has been going on for nearly 20 years now and is basically a Forever War. Personally, I'm not really sure how many more brown people need to be droned to death by American soldiers, especially when they miss or get the target wrong and kill women and children. To say that across the board killing is different when police and soldiers do it and that a regular person should go away for life is WAY too simplistic. Even if the guy was an amoral piece of shit, the committed the crime he was being imprisoned for in 1976. Unless he is a deranged psychopath, the man was nothing like his young self at this point. Hell, I'm not the same man I was just 10 years ago. |
| Topic | 1 million dollars but you become the perfect girl |
| darkmaian23 04/13/20 7:55:37 PM #4 | Aren't these things supposed to come with punishments instead of rewards? >.> |
| Topic | If I want to learn digital art what software should I use |
| darkmaian23 04/12/20 2:08:52 AM #6 | That depends on what you mean by digital art. If you want to create logos, icons, posters, illustrations, or anything really that looks perfectly crisp and clean, use Adobe Illustrator. If you want to create pixel art (like the stuff from Binding of Isaac, Shovel Knight, or classic NES and SNES games), buy Aseprite on Steam. It's only $15 and you'll own it forever. If you want to do traditional drawing, grab a copy of Clip Studio. If you want to paint, Artrage and Corel are both solid options. If you want to create 3D art, download Blender (it's free software) and do the Blender Guru's famous doughnut tutorial. Blender isn't the industry standard for any particular part of the 3D content creation process, but it can do basically everything for the low price of free. There are fantastic tutorials out for the latest version, and there is no reason not to start with it to see if you even like doing 3D. Adobe Photoshop can technically do pixel art, painting, drawing, and contribute to graphic design, but I'd recommend you learn software that is specifically for whatever kind of art you want to do. Photoshop is primarily intended for editing photos. It happens to have various brushes built in and has the word Adobe in the title, so a lot of people try and use it for sketching and painting. No doubt professional artists make nice pieces with it, but seriously, just pick the right tool for the job. |
| Topic | Africans told to leave homes as Chinese regime blames foreigners for bringing... |
| darkmaian23 04/11/20 11:31:04 AM #29 | Chinese citizens know its BS though, right? |
| Topic | now that Sanders is out, im not going to vote |
| darkmaian23 04/08/20 2:23:27 PM #28 | Unless Biden shapes up to be someone worthy of my vote, I'll write in Sanders in November. |
| Topic | Just started Preacher. |
| darkmaian23 04/08/20 4:29:18 AM #16 | InTheEyesOfFire posted... Should try reading the graphic novel tc. IllegalAlien posted... The graphic novel is one of the greats. |
| Topic | Why do people hate Mike Matei so much? |
| darkmaian23 04/06/20 11:12:36 PM #24 | JTilly posted... Idk but the dude has a MASSIVE dick. Like idk how a girl would deal with itPeople keep saying that like they know. Uhh...do they for some reason? |
| Topic | So did Nintendo successfully shut down all of the ROM sites? |
| darkmaian23 04/06/20 12:11:07 PM #21 | At the very least, Google search results have changed recently. It used to be that if you typed in the name of a game, at least one or two of the links would be to shady downloads. Those are gone now. |
| Topic | For those of you over 30 would date someone in their 20s? |
| darkmaian23 04/04/20 9:27:47 PM #23 | Shouldn't dating always depend on your compatibility with the person, and not some superficial trait like their age? As long as they are legal, of course. |
| Topic | Mike Matei is probably self quarantined at James Rolfe's house right now |
| darkmaian23 04/04/20 9:20:52 PM #30 | cmiller4642 posted... He's probably in the nerd room playing games for the 15th consecutive day while Mrs. AVGN is telling her husband to "get him the fuck out of here"The most recent James and Mike Monday featured James and Mike playing a multiplayer game over the internet, so he definitely isn't in James' house. __aCEr__ posted... The split between Mike and Bootsy was surely due to some kind of financial dispute. He left the channel almost immediately after Bootsy Beats began. Having done everything for his Battletoads episode (game capture, editing, etc.) Bootsy probably wasn't happy with what they were going to pay him.I've always thought the real problem between Mike and Bootsy was that Bootsy was better at games than Mike, and that the kinds of videos he wanted to do are basically Mike's thing. And maybe I'm biased because of how different Cinemassacre is now, but I always got the feeling Bootsy cared mostly about the art and not much about the business. James doesn't like most video games, and Mike seems to favor stuff that gets clicks over passion projects most of the time. [LFAQs-redacted-quote] James looks checked out in most videos and Mike doesn't seem to produce much original content (or any?) these days, but surely James wouldn't actually sell the channel. |
| Topic | Navy fires captain who raised alarm about coronavirus outbreak |
| darkmaian23 04/02/20 8:33:08 PM #2 | TrowaBarton7 posted... Why is America suppressing information and punishing whistleblowers about this pandemic?Trump? |
| Topic | If passed, new legislation would lead to mandatory message scanning in the US |
| darkmaian23 04/01/20 12:48:29 PM #38 | Who keeps posting and then deleting? |
| Topic | Porn companies have spent five years pushing incest themes |
| darkmaian23 03/29/20 7:51:01 AM #21 | MachineJaipur posted... who watches porn outside of incognito mode and without a VPN Are you really supposed to use a VPN when browsing adult sites? Why? |
| Topic | Please give anime recommendations <_< |
| darkmaian23 03/28/20 1:44:09 PM #23 | Simon_Petrikov posted... Land of the Lustrous - very colorfulAnd unique. Even if you end up not liking it, you'll have seen something quite different. |
| Topic | Trump losing patience with medical professional on dealing with corona |
| darkmaian23 03/24/20 9:56:15 PM #25 | CM_Ponch posted... Does anyone else remember that psychic that claimed Obama would be the final President of the United States?Off by one error? |
| Topic | Consequence-free super speed is the best superpower, change my mind |
| darkmaian23 03/24/20 2:47:32 AM #14 | Wolverine's healing factor is the best power (ignoring the versions where adamantium eventually sickens him or he ages). No other power even compares. What could possible compete with being kept in your prime at peak strength and speed, able to heal from any injury or illness rapidly? The only thing that might do it is if you get some kind of reality warping power where you can give yourself Wolverine's power plus some other bonuses. Plenty of powers are cooler, but eventually age, illness, or injury will make it pointless. It's also one of the only powers that comes with no downsides. Yeah, you'll outlive everyone else, but in the life of a regular person, people come and go regardless of closeness. And with endless youth the jaded inflexibility of old age won't become a thing. By the time you feel you've done it all, there will be more to be done. And if society of the world collapses, you can live through it without worry and perhaps be in the best position to help the survivors. I've always thought stories about bored immortals or ageless people who longed to die were written mainly to try and give meaning and justification to the horrors of old age and death. |
| Topic | Pelosi's stimulus plan will give $1500 to every American |
| darkmaian23 03/24/20 2:19:30 AM #95 | In my opinion, both of these bills suck balls. The aid package should: prevent evictions during the crisis and keep utilities going; provide funding to critical businesses to ensure they don't go under; provide a blanket payment to every American to keep them going (by the time checks go out, the situation will likely have evolved further); and contain absolutely nothing else. This is going to go on for months and nobody knows how bad things will get. We need to focus on making sure society can continue to function until the virus has been marginalized. Everything else is a secondary concern. This isn't an extinction-level event or a zombie plague, but it's the worst thing we've seen as a species in a century and it's everywhere. Modern society is fragile and vastly more interconnected than it was during the Spanish flu. At every level of government and in both parties, it seems like nobody quite grasps the seriousness of the situation. Especially puzzling given how old and vulnerable most of our officials are. It's like humanity is collectively too stupid to live. |
| Topic | The "Edgy Zootopia" anime is out on Netflix |
| darkmaian23 03/24/20 2:06:55 AM #56 | I liked it right up until around episode 5. |
| Topic | Worst Mario 64 course? |
| darkmaian23 03/23/20 2:42:59 AM #26 | Try_Another___ posted... Tick tock clockIt had no redeeming parts. At all. |
| Topic | Australia is shutting down non-essential businesses for upwards of 6 months |
| darkmaian23 03/22/20 8:39:58 AM #11 | Wait, so what are all of the people in Australia without essential jobs going to do for food, shelter, and other necessities? Never mind the eventual lawlessness and civil unrest, how is anyone going to pay for anything if most people don't have money? |
| Topic | Nightmare scenario: COVID panic leads into election, Trump loses, martial law |
| darkmaian23 03/22/20 7:55:39 AM #5 | Trigg3rH4ppy posted... Holy fucking shit. Somebody tell me that's fake news I'll pretend to believe youYou didn't think they had plans like this ready just in case? It's real, sadly. |
| Topic | Tropical Freeze has the best level design in a platformer |
| darkmaian23 03/21/20 9:28:05 PM #11 | Tropical Freeze is easily the worst DKC game and it's not even close. |
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