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OniRonin posted...

adjl,,, my boy.

I was thinking about this "cat-code" thing you mentioned a couple of weeks ago and wonder if, was it the instument of psionic or solar energy? I think it could be either.

Obviously solar. Cats thrive on sunlight.

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Cyberpunk's piqued my interest, but it'll probably be a while before I pick it up. Not really interested in either of the others. I don't know off-hand of any April releases that I'll actually be getting in April. I'll be picking up Animal Crossing in March, though.

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Yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

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Zangulus posted...

Thats not what he was talking about.

It's not, but it's nonetheless an issue that affects the Oscars. "Oscar bait" is a very specific niche of film. Those involved in judging the awards could really stand to broaden their horizons, a process which will naturally result in the ethnic diversity people are complaining about (which, as outlined above, isn't actually as pressing an issue as it has historically been because the film industry is already working on that).

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Not when food prices shoot up,

So secretly enact laws that prevent that from happening by enslaving food producers. The needs of the many and whatnot. We are, after all, completely disregarding any sort of moral or practical considerations in favour of enacting laws based on appeasing public opinion.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

It's very different to say Americans think every criminal is a murderer waiting to pounce than to say Americans prepare for the rare incidence a person happens to be a murderer, but I'm not surprised an American wouldn't recognise the nuance of their own words.

One is hyperbolic exaggeration for dramatic effect, and the other is a minor rewording of my exact point. Which means we're right back at you saying what I said and thereby conceding my point. I don't know why you're trying to argue against me with my own point. It's really very silly.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

A bike theft involves property stolen 100% of the time, speeding is not harmful 99.999% of the time, and when harm occurs it is because of additional circumstances.

And in the vast majority of circumstances, having property stolen is a significantly lesser consequence than the injury or death of an innocent person. Smaller likelihood of the risk being realized, higher magnitude, it balances out well enough that speeders belong right there on the chopping block next to petty thieves.

Except, of course, you speed, and you like to think that's justifiable enough that you don't deserve death for it. Always fun when your stupid ideas can be turned around and applied to you, isn't it?

Kyuubi4269 posted...

You take-a the stuff, we take-a tha life. It's very clear and unambiguous, property ownership is king. If it's not yours and you try to take ownership you die, if you do not take things that are not yours, you live.

Does the simplicity overwhelm you?

You did not answer my question, so I am still unsure of how to proceed. I shall await your clarification, but eventually I'll get bored and go with the option that involves the least effort (that is, you're not interested in anything more than childish stonewalling and should therefore be ignored like a petulant toddler).

zebatov posted... I just wish our justice system actually taught people something. Its revolving door isnt justice for the victims. I totally understand the frustration of these people (I just caught a kid stealing from the carport two nights ago) and I believe if the criminals feared physical retaliation they would think twice before they acted. Two weeks on weekends in remand over and over again doesnt send a strong enough message.

Again, enough societies have tried physically punishing thieves throughout history and failed to eliminate the problem that it's safe to say it just doesn't work. There's a lot of room for improvement in how the American justice system handles minor crimes, but the answer there is not to feed people's angry bloodlust, it's to actually try to rehabilitate criminals (especially youth) to reduce recidivism rates. Plenty of other countries manage to have much lower recidivism rates than the US without resorting to medieval approaches to justice.

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You need diversity to optimize quality. If you're never trying different things, you're never going to find a new thing that's better than what you've currently got.

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JTekashiro posted...

Hold up... you are calling her beautiful? That just doesn't seem right for a Duckbear post...

I mean, she is Asian, and so is Duckbear, so...

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Meanwhile, it's 5C here and feels weirdly like spring. This is a very strange January.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Laws are for appeasing society, everything else is incidental.

Then shall we have laws that mandate free cookie dispensers on every corner? That would make society pretty happy, I would think.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

It is not, the presumption is that anybody could be a murderer and a gun is useful if that situation appears.

That's... what I just said. I'll take that as you conceding my point.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

All harmless for the most part.

You know, except when people literally die, which isn't usually a consequence of bike theft. If petty theft - a crime whose harm can usually be completely mitigated by insurance - is going to carry the death penalty, then speeding - a crime which contributes to thousands of deaths every year in America - absolutely should.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Thieves are garbage and fair game for abuse, that's the line.

Did you not read the part where I said you need a set of logical principles to guide your line-drawing, or did you not understand it? Because being challenged to provide a set of logical decision-making principles and then just restating your arbitrary position means one of those two things happened, and I need to know which one so that I know whether you need education or just to be ignored because you're not interested in anything more than childish stonewalling.

zebatov posted...

Or maybe they should have just done a citizens arrest on them instead of attacking them.

They really should have. Obviously, these thieves are in fact criminals who deserve to face justice for their crimes. Assaulting them, however, is not that justice, because vigilante violence is a terrible way to allow a society to be run. Film the incident and citizen's arrest them, then hand them over to the police. If these people aren't willing to do their due diligence to ensure due process is followed, there's no reason to treat them as anything more than people who've watched too many Batman movies.

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Depends if you die because you took too much or because you took too little.

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wordscansay posted...

By TC's own nomination it's obvious he's asking for the third installment of a series.

Technically, there are only three SMB games, not counting Lost Levels (or not counting SMB2US, which is also a valid approach). All other Mario games follow different naming conventions and could be said to be separate sub-series within the franchise.

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Aculo posted...

so my blind playthrough of botw doesn't count as a blind playthrough because i played it within the first year of it coming out?

Technically it would still be a blind playthrough, but the concept doesn't really mean as much when the game's brand new and there simply isn't that much information available on it yet. When everyone's blind, nobody is.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

It stops that particular thief, and thieves deserve that fear.

Laws need to be based on what will actually solve problems and help society, not on what individuals deserve.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Because the US is well-known for bicycle thieves shooting victims /s

Have you seen the number of gun owners that insist they need to have a gun to protect themselves from petty thieves whom they can only assume want to murder them as well as steal their TV? The presumption that minor criminals are armed and just itching to escalate to violent crime is practically a central tenet of American culture. Hardly an unthinkable leap of logic, particularly for the "tough on crime" crowd.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

So go further, kill 'em. Don't need that type of garbage, we have enough people of every order that don't steal that we won't miss them.

Shall we take that a step further and apply it to speeders (which I understand you count yourself among because you consider yourself too capable a driver to be beholden to speed limits)? Jaywalkers? People who hang toilet paper under the roll (yes definitely)? Heck, since we're talking about practicality and not letting an obsession with vengeance dictate public policy like a moron, why not take it a step further and execute anyone that stops being able to demonstrate their usefulness to society? We don't need to waste resources training factory workers to do other jobs after they get replaced by robots, just put them down! Retirees? Bullets are cheaper than nursing homes.

Obviously, slippery slope arguments don't mean much in terms of drawing actual conclusions, but if you're going with that logic, you need to have a basis for drawing a line. "It's the law" isn't enough, because laws can be changed, and you need a set of logical principles to guide those changes.

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Aculo posted...

what is a blind playthrough?

are you blindfolded?

Metaphorically...

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wwinterj25 posted...

I see zero point in vaping without nicotine as at that point you'll just be doing it for the taste and I can taste things without putting s*** into my lungs.

That's about my attitude. You like banana flavoured vape juice? Just eat a friggin' banana. Regardless of how safe long-term research reveals vaping to be, that's still going to be the obvious healthier option.

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Sounds like they're both putting sex on way too high a pedestal if this is putting a genuine strain on their relationship. It's being treated, just be patient and work on your oral skills in the mean time.

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wolfy42 posted...

I think breaking a leg of a bike thief for the first offense is fair, the second time you break both legs.

I mean seriously who would steal bikes if that was the penalty? No bikes would ever be stolen, nobody would have their legs broken.

You say that like physically injuring thieves is a new idea. Enough societies have tried that over the ages and still had theft problems that it's pretty safe to say it doesn't actually work that well. Especially in America, that's just more likely to result in bike thieves carrying guns so they can shoot anyone that tries to attack them. Even if it doesn't, crippling people generally interferes with their ability to be a productive member of society moving forward, potentially sentencing them to a lifetime of mooching and/or further crime. America's justice system obviously isn't very good for rehabilitation, given the recidivism rate, but other countries have seen significantly more success with more of a focus on rehabilitation than on being angry.

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There will probably come a point when subscribing to enough streaming services to access all of the content cable can offer will end up being more expensive than cable, but streaming will still have the advantage of letting users choose what to watch, to say nothing of the option of cancelling subscriptions as needed to save money if a given service isn't offering enough to be currently worthwhile. The streaming market will also likely see a collapse when it gets to that point, since there will be too many different services for them all to sustain themselves, but the outcome of that collapse will be a return to having a smaller number of services that each have more content, not a collapse to something worse than cable.

Of course, there's also the very real possibility that streaming services start running commercials and lose that edge that they have over cable, but even then streaming will still have a clear advantage in that you can watch stuff on demand. It's going to take a lot to negate that advantage.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

btw, denmark isn't socialist

"Socialist policies are succeeding"=/="Countries with nothing but socialist policies are succeeding"

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

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Blighboy posted...

I just assumed a dad kidnapped another kid, because that seems to be the reason 99% of the time. I didn't even realize it was nuclear until I woke up later and actually looked at what I'd been ignoring.

I usually at least glance at the alert, on the off chance I might have seen something (that is the whole point of Amber Alerts, after all), and this time the word "nuclear" kind of jumped out at me and got me to pay more attention.

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Generally, my family would keep lighting them until the 6th (turning them off when we went to bed), which is traditionally the "Last day of Christmas," but they'd tend to stay up for at least a couple months after that before the weather would be good enough to easily take them down. My dad died five years ago, though, and he was the only one comfortable with going up the ladder to get the high ones, so the higher stuff just kind of stays up year-round now.

As for lighting them later into the winter, I'm generally a fan of the idea. Winter's generally just a dark time of year, and the increasing presence of Christmas lights leading up to the solstice helps to offset that and make everything a bit brighter and happier. It's just as dark in late January as it is in early December, though, so I don't really see any reason to stop trying to brighten up the world before the world starts brightening itself again.

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The alert woke me up, I just said "I'm pretty sure London's more than 10 km from Pickering" (~200 km, as it turns out, but my grasp of Ontarian geography is shaky) and went back to sleep. Kind of ridiculous that it took them 2+ hours to send out the second alert cancelling the first one, though.

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EvilMegas posted...

"I'm sure they did reduced dex for a great reason like balance, they couldn't sustain having full dex anymore." Is the gist of what you three said.

I mean, I still stand by that. That they failed to decently balance the reduced dex and are opting to re-expand it for fun and profit doesn't mean reducing the dex wasn't a good idea. It just means that they got greedy and failed to capitalize on the opportunity they created to make a better game.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

lmfao what the fuck

this is such a stupid post

Most Americans are significantly more likely to have the opportunity to save a life in their home with CPR than with a gun. The ambulance is just as far away as the police are. Why rely on one when you like to believe that relying on the other is a death sentence?

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

If you use as much energy to dream as you do to function when awake, sleep is redundant. You're lazy enough when awake, how much effort do you think you'll put in when you're in the allotted time to save energy?

In terms of raw magnitude of the activity, the brain is actually roughly as active during REM sleep as while awake. It's just active in different ways. Sleep is weird, and not at all simply a matter of the brain entering a low-power state for a few hours.

As for dreaming specifically, the best theory I've heard for it is that there's random activity happening in the brain, and dreams are what happens when the brain organizes that into pre-existing perceptual schema (that is, plans for interpreting and organizing sensory data). If that's correct, then there's really no difference in the effort involved in interpreting that random activity as a single person compared to interpreting it as multiple people's traits combined into one person.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

It could be, but that's effort.

You're literally asleep. Can't take that much effort.

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Free may be a bit unrealistic, but the degree (pun not intended) to which post-secondary costs have ballooned in the past few decades is utterly ridiculous and definitely needs to be reined in. Whether that comes by restricting the amount of extra costs a university can tack on to get a degree or by subsidizing tuition to a certain extent (or, realistically, a good chunk of both), I don't think it really matters, but the current paradigm of student debt just isn't sustainable.

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Jen0125 posted...

At least it isn't two hillbilly looking people for once. But he's so hot. He really couldn't get outside the family? Lmao

I mean, your boyfriend could probably do better than you, but he's still with you. The reverse is probably also true. It's less a matter of not being able to find somebody else and more a matter of liking the person enough to not want to find anyone else.

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Broadly, because steel manages to be a very strong material while still being malleable enough to avoid being brittle. This is why it's used so often for structural purposes: You need some flex to avoid having the whole thing shatter whenever a particularly strong force is applied. There's an entire industry built around tweaking steel's properties to optimize it for various applications, and the steel used in weight bars (at least high-quality ones) has been chosen to be optimal for the forces the bar will face.

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Honestly, provided the work is reasonably compensated (otherwise it's basically sentencing people to slavery), this makes a lot more sense than simply jailing people for failing to pay their fines. Elongating the sentences by charging them for the prison room they're forced to inhabit is pretty questionable, though.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

It usually means you just don't remember where you saw them.

Or are piecing together parts of different people, each of which you also may not remember seeing in any particular place.

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CTLM posted...

How do AEDs protect us from heart disease? I only see automated external defibrillators unless AED is something else?

AED use takes the success rate for CPR from ~10% to ~85%. Heart disease obviously is not the only potential reason for cardiac arrest that would necessitate CPR, but it seemed like the best word choice to make the sentence nice and succinct.

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It's kind of funny that you see so many Americans buying guns to protect themselves from home invaders, but you never hear anyone talking about buying AED's to protect themselves from heart disease. Humans are so bad at risk assessment.

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I wouldn't consider her hot, but I'm less bothered by that than I am by her music. Truth Hurts is easily the most annoyingly repetitive song I've heard, and I've listened to the entirety of Baby Shark.

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Making incest illegal because of the increased risk of genetic disorders just opens the doors to making it illegal for other couples to reproduce if they have an increased risk of passing on a genetic disorder. Should women over 40 be arrested if they get pregnant due to the risk of down syndrome? Should X-ray technicians have to be sterilized before they're allowed to be sexually active? Huntington's and polydactyly are both dominant alleles. Should people with those conditions be forbidden from having sex because of the 50% chance of passing them on (note: vastly higher than 7%)? Where are we drawing the line here?

This is a couple that consulted a geneticist to determine their actual risk, which is more than most non-related couples with an elevated risk of problems do. To ignore that and insist that they have an unacceptably-elevated risk despite concrete evidence to the contrary is just ridiculous, especially to the point of wanting to jail them for taking that presumed risk. Marrying your cousin is weird, yes, but don't try to pretend this is anything more serious than that.

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helIy posted...

you can get the returning pokemon without having the dlc

But can you get them without somebody buying the DLC?

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Because you shouldn't want to avoid affection from an appealing person.

Sure you should. Relationships are more than just having a hot girl available to bone periodically. They're an emotional investment and a substantial lifestyle change from single life. There's nothing wrong with preferring single life to that.

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LinkPizza posted...

Well, not my old ones. The written ones, and the saved ones. So, I would still have to do conversions. Which would be a waste of time, when its not really needed...

Yes, that'd be a pain. This is more thinking long-term, not looking at the conversion process itself (which, as we've already established, would be way more hassle than it's worth).

kukukupo posted...

So what? It is harder to divide in half using base 10 than it is binary.

Not really. It's still just a single step, not the multi-step problem I identified there (convert pounds to ounces, add to ounce value, then divide, compared to just dividing), and base 10 math is already what most people are used to anyway.

kukukupo posted...

What happens when you read a clock? Do you just get upset because it doesn't divide by 10 nice and easy for you? Or months of the year?

Decimal time would be nice, but because time is based on a non-decimal natural phenomenon and not on defining an arbitrary measurement, it's not nearly as viable. Hours, minutes, and seconds could potentially be changed to decimal, but having 365 days a year is fixed, and that doesn't divide nicely by 10 no matter how you try to slice it.

kukukupo posted...

More than half of metric is garbage anyway. Throw out the centi- and deci-, no one uses it. Just use kilo, mega, micro, etc

Centimetres get used almost as often as metres, and decilitres see fairly regular use in Europe. Regardless, there's really no reason to get rid of them just because they aren't used much. The option exists, in the event that somebody does find a use, but otherwise they don't take up any sort of finite space or anything.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

For example, Fahrenheit is more precise and useful for the range of temperatures humans find comfortable than Celsius is

The existence of decimals in both systems renders any comparison of precision moot, to say nothing of the fact that such a level of precision is completely irrelevant to the topic of human comfort. Absolutely nobody is so sensitive to ambient temperature that they need to make a distinction between one degree fahrenheit and half a degree celsius, and very few people are genuinely so sensitive as to even be able to notice temperature changes finer than 1C (as much as a bunch of drama queens will insist otherwise). I see the "0-100F intuitively covers a reasonable range of air temperatures" point made a lot, but that's completely meaningless.

I'll concede only two advantages to Fahrenheit:
-0F is the approximate point at which salt stops working on ice, which is more intuitive and easy to remember than -18C (though -20C is a reasonable approximation that's easier)
-For candy making, the various stages through which sugar passes as you boil it are generally 5-10F apart, and multiples of 5/10 are easier to remember than the Celsius equivalents

One of those is pretty minor, the other is extremely niche and mostly obviated by the fact that many candy thermometers have the stages marked right on them.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

But again, in the span of the average person's life, they're not juggling so many conversions that the slight extra edge in speed is going to mean anything.

Which is why I pointed out that, in the context of science, where you may be doing multiple conversions often and where precision is important, then Metric is definitely better. But if the only conversion I do this week is trying to figure out the comparative prices of a 2 liter bottle of soda to a six-pack of 12oz cans, it really doesn't matter which system I'm using.

It applies to more than just science. The entire food service industry (including the supply end of things), construction (and most related trades), fashion... plenty of industries need to convert between different scales of units on a regular basis, and introducing an extra step into each one of those does cost time and money (to say nothing of the added potential for errors).

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Basically, the overall benefits gained in the long-run are minor enough that it doesn't necessarily justify the short-term disruption and frustration the change-over would change if it was done all in one go.

That's why it's unlikely to ever happen. Metric is objectively better in pretty much every way, just not by enough to be worth the astronomical cost of converting every established industry in the US over to it.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

The only real advantage of Metric is unit conversion, but for most applications it's perfectly easy to do if you were raised using inches/feet/etc.

No matter how much practice you get, dividing 1 lb 6 oz in half is always going to be slower than dividing 3 kg in half due to the extra unit conversion step required. That difference may not be overly significant, and it'll disappear when you're working with single-unit imperial measurements, but for anyone who does have to do math on measurements that aren't always so tidy, metric is pretty unquestionably superior.

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WWI's beginning was a whole lot more complicated than Ferdinand's assassination. It was one of the contributing factors, certainly, but far from being the only thing.

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Smarkil posted...

i thought you werent gonna post anymore

He held a poll at the end of the year asking if people wanted him to keep doing his topics. At some point, "Yes" was winning, so he went with that and ignored that "No" ended up winning (52%, last I heard, though that was several days ago). I can't say I'm even remotely surprised. I don't have 2020 vision, but I could be absolutely certain Duckbear would continue his topics this year because this is so obviously a deeply-rooted compulsion for him.

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I would presume either because they're holding off on them to release later in an effort to drive long-term demand, or because another streaming service still owns their distribution rights.

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I_Abibde posted...

I would argue that this is a problem facing consoles in general, not only the Switch (currently my most-played console).

Most things are indeed multiplat now, with a lot of high-profile releases just being remakes of older games. To that end, I actually find myself preferring to buy some games on the Switch instead of the PC purely because of the portability. Something like a rogueli(k/t)e or puzzle game that plays well in short bursts really goes well with that.

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DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...

The thing that really pisses me off is how more lenient the penalties are for "vehicular homicide" or "death by vehicle" or whatever you want to call it. At the very least, it should be treated like manslaughter, and you shouldn't have drivers killing 2 or 3 people and getting sentenced to like 5 years.

Personally, I don't think there should be a distinction between Dangerous Driving Causing Death/Injury and regular Dangerous Driving, given that the only difference is that the culprit was lucky enough to not hurt anyone in the latter case. Everyone driving dangerously should be charged and sentenced as though they killed as many people as they possibly could have with their driving.

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JebronLames posted...

really? but there would be no way if you didn't know someone

Not necessarily no way, but networking is indeed the best way to get pretty much any job. You can pad your resume all you want, but if an employer is told by somebody they trust that another person would be a good fit for the job, you're going to have a hard time competing with that even if you have the better resume. So be that person. Get to know people in professional contexts, build yourself a reputation as a hard, competent worker, and you'll end up learning about job opportunities that you'll have a pretty good shot at getting.

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That first point tells me that you aren't hydrating well enough when you're awake and also possibly that you've got nasal congestion issues that are causing you to breathe primarily through your mouth while you sleep.

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I like mixing peanut butter with icing sugar to create a rough facsimile of the filling from reese cups. It goes well on cookies.

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BUMPED2002 posted...

I remember games on the old SNES and Genesis 16-bit consoles that were on cartridges costing $59.99 so times haven't changed much but you would think with games being on discs, they would be cheaper but they make money off games and peripherals so.

I mean, this one isn't on a disc, and $60 in 1992 would be worth a whole lot more than $60 today, due to inflation. That said, the price point for this remake has been one of the biggest issues people have with it, given that $40 has been the standard price point for other handheld games (of which this is a remake), it's a pretty straightforward remake that doesn't change up enough to justify spending that much on a second copy, and Nintendo has a recent history of only charging $40 for console games that intuitively don't seem like they're necessarily worth the full $60 price tag (Captain Toad and Kirby Rainbow Curse being the ones I can think of off-hand).

At the end of the day, it's still a full-scale Zelda game and you're likely to get $60 worth of play time and entertainment out of it, but I can understand why people are balking at the price.

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I enjoyed it well enough. It would have been nice if the individual stories intersected more instead of just being tied together by a massive lore dump right before fighting the optional final superboss, and there's some rather glaring ludonarrative dissonance stemming from characters accompanying each other on their quests (one of the more glaring ones being the thief character being introduced as a jaded misanthrope with trust issues who only works alone, then immediately inviting 1-7 random strangers he just met to join him on a robbery, strangers which can include a cleric and a knight that have both been introduced as being significantly more virtuous than that), but most of the stories are enjoyable (if short and simplistic) and the characters develop nicely.

The battle and skill systems are often compared to Bravely Default, and rightfully so. They're generally a little bit more simplistic, but still offer plenty of options for class/passive skill pairings based on what you want to do. The weakness system forces you to play a bit more cautiously when you first arrive in an area or start a boss fight until you've figured out those weaknesses (which is sped up a lot by one character's innate ability to automatically identify one weakness at the start of a battle), but then lets you play more aggressively once you've figured them out and devised a strategy for dealing with the enemies quickly. I liked it, others found it to be unnecessary and tedious, your mileage may vary.

All in all, is it the best RPG ever? No. But it's enjoyable enough to be well worth playing if you're looking for a turn-based JRPG.

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