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Noop_Noop posted...

its pretty much a duckbear topic.

this VIRUS has already KILLED a HUNDRED PEOPLE

and then you open the topic and find out those people were living in houses made out of refuse with no access to healthcare and nobody in the developed world is actually at risk and the topic only existed as clickbait.

Meanwhile influenza kills tens of thousands of Americans a year and a flu shot is a really good idea. Risk assessment is important.

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hypnox posted...

Meh not much for those tasting.

It's going to be by far the most efficient way to narrow down your tastes. You certainly don't have to make a habit of getting them moving forward if you don't want to, but you should be trying a large variety of beers until you figure out what sort of things you like, and doing that one pint at a time isn't a very effective use of your time or money.

hypnox posted...

And I did give more than "dont like bud light" I am a whisky drinker.

adjl posted...

"I like whiskey and don't like Bud Light."

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The best advice anyone can give you is to go find a local pub that offers tasting flights of craft beers and try everything on the menu (possibly over multiple trips, depending on the size of the menu). Make note of what you like/dislike and why, and that'll give people something more to work with than "I like whiskey and don't like Bud Light."

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captpackrat posted...

The media whipped up a fear storm about ebola, SARS, MERS, swine flu, bird flu, goat flu, and none of it ever really affected Americans except a very small number who traveled a lot overseas.

Again, the fact that those weren't a huge issue was a consequence of a lot of very hard work from public health workers around the world, rather than indicating that they weren't actually dangerous. Without the countermeasures that were applied, they would have been a much bigger deal for Americans. Fortunately, as citizens of developed countries, we do have access to such countermeasures. It's just important to appreciate that rather than acting as though these very dangerous diseases are inherently too trivial to be worth worrying about.

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I had yesterday off, quite enjoyed it, went grocery shopping in the evening, then came home to find that my apartment flooded in the hour and a half I was gone. Relatively minor, with no serious damage to any of our stuff (an ikea bookcase that will probably not be worth saving when we move out of here), but a huge hassle to clean up and the laminate floor is going to have to be replaced at some point. I'd prefer boredom to that.

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There's also a reliable test for it already, which is huge for an emerging epidemic and means it's going to be a whole lot easier to get under control in any place with reasonable health care infrastructure. That's not to say public health officials aren't working their asses off to make sure it won't be a problem (work which the typical "oh I guess that wasn't that big of a deal" response to a looming epidemic very ungratefully ignores), but it's unlikely to end up being a significant problem outside of China.

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captpackrat posted...

To the Moon.

You literally get inside the guy's head, going through his memories to figure out why his dying wish is to go to the moon.

This has got to be up there. Pretty much the whole game consists of trying to form a personal connection with the guy, learning everything you can about his life and the way it affected him. There are many feels to be had, including no shortage of ethical dilemmas (the premise is that this magical new technology allows memories to be rewritten, but that the process is so taxing that it kills the patient, so it's only used to let dying people die with the memory of fulfilling a final wish of their choice).

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How do you break up the Roman Empire?
With a pair of Caesars!

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Lokarin posted...

I can't tell if the Hokuto Bow boosts DoT damage, since the enemies I can safely test on die really quickly and I don't have any DoTs that last more than 3 seconds

Far as I can tell, it adds to each stack of the DoT's on there, though it wouldn't surprise me if there was some scaling factor applied to keep that in check. I've had great fun with DoT-focused builds that use it because everything just melts.

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Most of the time, you can get a good chunk of the cleaning done while the dish cooks. Having only the dishes that the food is cooking in and the serving utensils to clean after eating isn't too bad. If you can't feasibly clean as you go, and you're cooking for another person, get them to wash while you cook.

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Your disputes probably aren't worth responding to.

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Revelation34 posted...

The original statement was that everybody should see it. The regular person isn't going to understand anything and then take everything out of context when they decide to be a moron and bitch on Twitter.

Fortunately, that's a pretty meaningless consequence, meaning it doesn't offset the added logistical costs of identifying every person in the world who's sufficiently legally competent to understand it and sending them a recording of the trial (a process which is itself extremely prone to corruption and political bias because of how subjective that assessment is) compared to simply publicly broadcasting it.

Bear in mind that your line of reasoning means you should also be arguing against the publication of scientific research. After all, most people are going to be too stupid to understand it, so why not instead feed it all through a single governing body that decides which science the public should and should not be allowed to learn about?

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Revelation34 posted...

This is blatantly false since people not involved in the legal process would be morons about a legal process.

And the people directly involved in the trial are not the only people in the world involved in legal processes. Isn't reading fun?

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I'm a big fan of the heavy crossbow, at least on lower difficulties. Being stuck in place while it fires makes it a lot less useful against anything it doesn't one-shot.

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~150-200%, depending on how many hours I end up working. Student life is fun, especially where I'm currently shouldering 100% of expenses because my girlfriend's finishing up the internship hours she needs to actually start getting paid for her job and her student loan was pretty stingy this term. Fortunately, she'll be paying me back her half whenever she has the money, and I'll be able to work significantly more than my current 10-12 hours/week once I graduate.

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It's been bouncing around between ~$1.10 and $1.15 per litre lately.

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Revelation34 posted...

That would be pointless anyway since it would still be twisted by your typical Twitter user. Since only people in the actual legal process such as lawyers or judges would even understand the evidence.

Even if we accept your premise, the vast majority of the lawyers and judges in the world (or even just within the US) are not going to be inside that courtroom, and would therefore benefit from having the trial be transparently publicized. You don't have to get into questions of democracy or corruption or anything like that, your position is just plain factually wrong from the outset.

Furthermore, the idea that the information should be controlled because some people might misinterpret it if they had access to it is extremely totalitarian. You are literally saying "most people are too stupid to understand it so we should just rely entirely on the version of the facts provided by a government mouthpiece," which is entirely the opposite of what anyone in a democratic society should be saying. Should there be summaries of the proceedings so that people without legal training can understand what's going on? Absolutely. But that doesn't mean all of the information needs to be kept under wraps except for what's in that summary, because that would prevent people who do have legal training from fact checking it and holding the government accountable for any lies they choose to tell.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

It's not weird at all but it is inconvenient if you wanna go for drinks

Pretty much. It abides by the golden rule (23/2+7=18.5), which is only ever a rough guideline anyway, but it presents a problem if hanging out in bars with SO's tagging along is your primary mode of spending time with your friends. That is pretty easy to circumvent, though (don't bring her along, or just hang out at somebody's home instead and enjoy cheaper drinks), so even that isn't much cause for objection.

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Amuseum posted...

like seditionists have the intellectual integrity to properly interpret the evidence anyway. any evidence or testimony will be twisted and misinterpreted to fit their agenda.

All the more reason to have the trial be transparently publicized. It's a lot easier to twist evidence when nobody else can see it.

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TheWorstPoster posted...

Seeing how he would have been First Gentleman

So... not the elected president. I'm not seeing a problem.

TheWorstPoster posted...

as well as he and Hillary are both part of his administration...

I don't particularly care about administrations. The crimes for which Clinton and Trump were impeached were their own crimes, not those of their administrations. If anyone in their administrations committed crimes (including crimes relating to those of the presidents), then they should be tried for those accordingly and similarly barred from re-election if found guilty, but that's a separate matter from the impeachment.

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TheWorstPoster posted...

Of course, the same Democrats who wanted Hillary to win, are probably trying to find a way to fraudulently steal the next election, possibly by making a law stating that all impeached Presidents and their cabinets are barred from seeking reelection. Of course, they want the public to forget that Bill Clinton got impeached

I also think that Bill Clinton should be barred from seeking reelection. Does that help?

TheWorstPoster posted...

And they want the public to forget that the Democrats demanded Trump's impeachment since before he got into office, trying to find every excuse in the book for an impeachment for crimes that never happened.

What bearing does that have on his impeachment for crimes that did happen? I don't think anyone's going to forget that everyone's wanted some excuse to impeach Trump since he got into office. He's a very unlikable president, so that's been a pretty common sentiment since 2016.

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The_tall_midget posted...

What's the matter? Not enough pen ceremonies and hypocritical house representatives laughing and having fun off screen during such a "serious" and "somber" moment for you?

Want ridiculous? How about campaign organizers "joking" about throwing people in re-education camps, or sending them in gulags? Or outright killing everyone who disagrees with their communist garbage?

I'm pretty sure math is the matter. There are significantly fewer than 48 total hours (24 per side) available if you're starting after 1 pm on each of two days. The most that is physically possible is 22 hours, and that's assuming they go right to midnight on both days (which isn't the most reasonable expectation as far as scheduling goes). You can squeeze more out of it by going past midnight and into the next day, since "sessions start at 1 pm" doesn't necessarily mean there can't be anything happening in the early morning that bled over from the previous day, but that still won't count as "over two days" if it happens again on day 2, and that's even less of a reasonable expectation. And even then that's going to be less than 48.

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Zeus posted...

It does, however, undermine the ridiculous faux outrage over it happening the *same* way it did last time.

Unless the way it happened last time was also bad. Or are you willing to argue that Clinton's government was right to restrict what the public was able to know about his impeachment trial?

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helIy posted...

If it happened once before, then there is a precedent for it happening again.

Either way, it's not unusual because it's happened before.

Impeachment is inherently unusual. As such, anything pertaining to impeachment is also unusual and the fundamental concept of "usual" because useless for describing any part of it.

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I think the real problem here is that you haven't properly considered Bernoulli's Principle.

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helIy posted...

Didn't this also happen during Clintons trial?

Oh, yes, it was. I remembered correctly.

This isn't really that unusual, then.

The impeachment of a US president has reached the senate exactly three times, one of which happened nearly a century before the concept of televising the trial was even an option. This really hasn't happened enough times for there to be a "usual." A single instance of doing it one way (particularly when doing it that way can very rightly be criticized) isn't exactly strong precedent.

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DrunkCaveman posted...

I don't see how the order in which you finish the dungeons matters much

It means there's less "Oh hey I found a dungeon but I won't be able to access it for another 7 dungeons because of an arbitrary, pre-ordained order," which makes exploration feel a bit more free and meaningful. The consequence of building the game like that, however, is that you don't have as much difficulty progression as you can have when the difficulty curve is controlled by linear progression, which means you either end up with everything being too hard at the beginning, or (as happened with ALBW) everything being too easy once you get a few dungeons in.

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It's more effort than it's worth, usually.

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Safe and tastes fine, as really ought to be the case in the entire developed world.

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Eminem still exists?

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I don't know about the most recent time, but Mario Odyssey was really good about awarding coins (which weren't completely useless, but also weren't tremendously meaningful) for reaching hard-to-reach but otherwise pointless areas. This is probably one of the best-known examples of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a382dmNvRXs

That's less feeling good about the item itself, though, and more feeling good about accomplishing something tricky and having that accomplishment recognized.

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jkdarlow posted...

I wonder whats in these pie if theyre that cheap.

Most of the typical ingredients for chicken pot pies are actually very cheap, and if they're being mass produced, the labour/energy costs per pie are pretty negligible. The majority of the cost would come from the chicken (and to a lesser extent, butter, which is generally going to be replaced with shortening in something this cheap), so I'd guess they use some kind of byproduct meat, like whatever they could strain out of a pot of chicken stock (which would be used for other purposes or possibly sold on its own) after boiling a few carcasses.

Obviously, it's not going to be a very good pie at that price, but you can actually get them surprisingly cheap without having to sacrifice all ingredients that would qualify as food. Given that this is a sale, it's also likely that the store is selling them at cost or at a small loss to use them as a loss leader.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

Knowing you have 2 dozen pot pies sitting in the freezer can provide piece of mind after a long and frustrating day when you know you don't have to think about grabbing something on the way home or what to cook. You can just get home, kick off your shoes and throw one of those bad boys in the microwave or oven and 6-20 minutes later, dinner is served with minimal hassle and clean up.

That's not wrong, but you can get the same peace of mind by meal prepping for the week before you have that long day, usually with better food. Labour-wise, there's not much difference between pulling a dirt cheap pot pie out of the freezer and pulling a tupperware full of sesame ginger pork and garlic green beans out of the fridge, but the latter's going to taste better and generally be healthier. Just a matter of planning.

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Unfortunately, I think Smash wants to stay in the T rating range, and such forceful fornication is generally at odds with that goal.

Now, face-poking them to death while they scream "onii-saaaaan"? That'd be fair game.

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OniRonin posted...

but none of the three main lords and ladies in 3 houses are marth-like.

Well then I've got nothing except maybe that picking the avatar meant not having to pick between three equally-qualified choices.

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Blighboy posted...

They keep picking self insert player avatars instead of actual characters though

They do indeed, but I can blame that on the fact that player-inserted avatar characters tend to have more variability in how they can be built (by virtue of being avatar characters that can be built according to the player's will), while lords with a more concrete identity tend toward being Marth 2.0. There's no reason the series couldn't produce another Hector, but until it does (and honestly, "it would encourage them to put a more interesting character into Smash" is a pretty flimsy reason for FE's development team to do such a thing, as much as it'd be nice), I'd agree with Sakurai's apparent decision that the player characters make for more interesting, unique fighters.

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EvilMegas posted...

The whole point of this topic and my point is; we have so many options to choose from that would be exciting and unique, yet they keep going fire emblem sword person route.

And Robin, Corrin, and now Byleth demonstrate that "Fire Emblem sword person" can also manage to be exciting and unique. For that matter, even Ike was a substantial departure from Marth/Roy's playstyle (which was really weird given that Ike was generally quite fast in FE9/10, but that's another matter). Each Smash has ended up adding an FE character with a playstyle that differs significantly from the others (SSB4 technically added 2, counting DLC, and we have to either count new DLC or disregard old DLC to say that U added one), as much as people like to distill them down to "sword boys" as though they aren't as distinct from each other as from anyone else in the roster.

Does that mean the game needed another FE character? No. Does that mean you have to want another FE character? No. Is there a disproportionate number of FE characters in Smash? Yes (though the series is extremely character-rich, so there's an argument to be made that it isn't actually that disproportionate). But none of these mean "it's just another 'fire emblem sword person'" is in any way a valid criticism of the new character. You can watch the reveal trailer for yourself: Byleth's moveset is no less unique and interesting than that of any other character. Acting otherwise is so obviously wrong as to completely undermine whatever legitimate complaints you might have.

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Broadly, pretty much anything that isn't F2P requires the subscription to play online. F2P games fund their own servers, so they don't get in on the subscription fee. I'm sure some exceptions exist, but that's a reasonable generalization to work from.

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To be fair, they're capuchins. It doesn't take much for them to have sex. The money could actually have been an unrelated gift.

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Trying way too hard.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

They think the handle is too dirty to touch before not washing their hands.

The toilet handle is likely to be no dirtier than the handle to the bathroom and any part of the stall door, so...

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CTLM posted...

Why do people got to mix their food like that?

Because it tastes good.

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Lokarin posted...

But everyone laughs at Trump... it all makes sense now

The ENTIRE WORLD is in a global conspiracy with Putin and Assad to hate on Trump!!!!

*Puts on glasses*
*Puts on a second pair of glasses*
*Puts on a third pair of glasses*
*Removes all three pairs of glasses in a single motion of incomparable dramatic weight*

My God...


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TheWitchMorgana posted...

doesn't sound like you had a chance anyway my dude

This.

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That's an extremely common trope in pretty much any storytelling medium.

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We had a week of pretty consistent -35 to -40 wind chills last winter. My half hour walk to and from school was great in that.

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Sounds like it'll at least be an interesting moveset, so that's fun.

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JebronLames posted...

so you believe that msg isn't safe to eat?

I have no strong feelings on it. I grew up avoiding it because my mother's sensitive to it (she's got a buttload of allergies), but even without her directly influencing my preferences that way, I tend to not be a fan of it as an artificial flavouring. Naturally umami foods are great and all, but sticking the flavour into stuff that I know shouldn't have it just ends up feeling incongruous to me.

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Zeus posted...

Because there's nothing actually special about Florida as far as craziness goes.

Indeed. The "Florida Man" trope is actually just a consequence of the fact that journalists in Florida have more or less full access to police reports and can therefore report on all of the insanity that happens there. Other states have more or less the same amount of insanity, it just doesn't get reported as often because the media doesn't have access to the details.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Try butter, less heat, longer cook time. It's a slow process to avoid burning the sugars.

deoxxys posted...

Cooking time is like 30 mins minimum, its got to be low and slow, plus you got to mix those a lot to make sure they dont burn.

hypnox posted...

Try covering the pan with a lid.

Also, reduce heat.

These. Caramelizing onions takes a long time, despite a rash of online recipes suggesting you can do it in 5 minutes on medium-high. Keep your heat low, your moisture high, and stir them periodically to keep the cooking even.

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zebatov posted...

Chinese food has tons of it. Its just salt, basically.

Monosodium glutamate (MSG), also known as sodium glutamate, is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, one of the most abundant naturally occurring non-essential amino acids. Glutamic acid is found naturally in tomatoes, grapes, cheese, mushrooms and other foods. MSG is used in the food industry as a flavor enhancer with an umami taste that intensifies the meaty, savory flavor of food, as naturally occurring glutamate does in foods such as stews and meat soups.

Uhh, the fact that Glutamate is naturally occurring doesn't mean MSG is naturally occurring. That's not how chemicals work, to say nothing of the naturalistic fallacy you seem to be invoking there.

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