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DANTE20XX posted...

Not really. Its not bad, but its not one the better ones. It's one of the weaker ones.

Bullshit.

Lokarin posted...

Thing is, it was the worst at the time... but the bar was quite high. As the bar lowered it turned out to be kinda up there

Crazy talk.

hmnut7 posted...

I was the only person I knew who did not think Avengers 1 was the greatest film in the history of film. It was a good movie, it was not the end all be all of film.

I wouldn't put Avengers 1 anywhere near the top.


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Honestly, it might be the best one... if IW didn't exist.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Assuming you're talking about the video I'm thinking of, I don't think I've ever posted it for anyone, anywhere. I never really found it interesting enough that I'd be recommending it to other people.

How odd. I thought you were the one who had posted it a few times when his name came up. I wonder who did it then.

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Guess I'm finally getting an Epic account =x

While I'm normally all for competition, I kinda worry about a Steam competitor eventually putting Steam out of business and thereby losing access to stuff I have on the platform.

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sveksii posted...

Why are you complaining about going outside? Sure there's a tornado a block away barrelling down at us. But there are only an average of 60 tornado deaths a year in the US. You'll be fine. You can't hide inside all the time.

There's no tornado, that's just hysterics. It's like being scared of swimming in the ocean because you just saw Jaws.

Revelation34 posted...

For following the constitution?

Frozen better not be calling the Constitution a joke!

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Because the 80s had an echo.

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TheWitchMorgana posted...

i don't know why this is strange to you when you constantly talk about how you only chose your career because it made good money and you don't enjoy it. not everyone is into minmaxing their money and retiring early and will choose a career that makes them happy even if it makes less money

Yeah, a person's net happiness is going to be higher doing a job they enjoy over a long period of time rather than doing something they hate for a short time so they can retire early. Especially when there's no guarantee of a tomorrow so you could be suffering through a lot of shit for nothing. That's why if I was doing something I hated for money, it would have be enough money and still give me enough free time to enjoy the fuck out of my non-working time.

All that said, if somebody hates their job, that's going to impact their overall quality of life. It's hard to compartmentalize misery.

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I think I got Steam for a free Portal (or Portal 2?) offer at some point, but then never used it and, at most, I might have played some other free stuff I got. The first time I bought a game on it (unless I'm forgetting a Humble Bundle) was last year and since then I've bought 3-5 games. Still haven't used it a ton, although I put in some time after getting UMvC3.

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Humble Bundle apparently has some of Joe Hill's comics in it. Was going to skip since nothing is a full run (except maybe at the highest tier?), but then noticed that there's a Ray Bradbury-themed one there.

https://i.imgur.com/M1YKMu1.gif

Other than enjoying what I read of Locke & Key (which now has that NF series I *still* need to check out, in addition to having never watched the pilots for the failed shows), I've never been much of a Joe Hill fan (partly due to Horns) and was predisposed to dislike him after learning he was Stephen King's son (a fact that seems hard to hide when you see photos of him). However, I've long-enjoyed the works of Bradbuy (and no, we don't need the music video again, PO)

Oh, plus we should probably start brainstorming titles for the next topic. Have either "The Omega Geek" or "The Last Geek on Earth" have been done yet? Either one seems apropos in the aftermath of a pandemic.

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Because they have jobs that align with their interests and co-workers who provide good company? And it's also worth noting that some people work alongside their romantic partner and love it, while for others it could break up their relationship.

blu posted...

. Charitable work I get.

If you enjoy what you do, why would you enjoy it less if you got paid for it? Now THAT shit doesn't make any sense.

blu posted...

But those working for an employer and are just satisfied?

Nor should it change whether you're working for yourself vs working for an employer. Although it's worth noting that some people prefer to work for an employer than themselves even when they could make the same money either way.

blu posted...

That job doesnt exist. There will always be things I enjoy more than having an employer.

It probably does, even though the concept is so foreign to you that it seems impossible.

pionear posted...

Because some people don't like to sit on their @$$es all day and do something active (while earning)?

Except a lot of the jobs people hate are active jobs, whereas a lot of jobs people love involve sitting.


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1) Make-up

2) She's only 34 and her son looks like he could be in his 20s.

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Yes, I wear a Lone Ranger mask. While it doesn't provide any protection, it's very stylish and gives the opportunity to call people I meet "Tonto" (which means "fool" in Spanish)

But seriously, I only wear a mask when in places requiring a mask.

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Why are RPG and JRPG separate categories yet you can't find a place for shooters or racing games?

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HornedLion posted...

Yeah like this father(56) son(23) duo. Both died to the virus within 2 weeks of each other. Someone shouldve told them that its only fatal to 1% of those under 60.

And anybody killed by lightning should have been told that only 6k people die from lightning strikes each year. Somebody is always going to hit those long odds and people can't live their entire lives indoors to avoid a lightning strike or anything else.

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faramir77 posted...

They should pit Ocarina of Time against Final Fantasy VII in literally the first round, and let the bitter fanboys of whichever one loses (FFVII, let's be real here) spend the rest of the contest voting against it in spite. Might have a chance to bring it down.

idk, somehow deciding the winner in the first round sounds like a crazy idea.

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captpackrat posted...

They literally could. A full embargo is within the US's powers, as it is within China's powers. And it's a tactic that the US has tried to leverage in the past. The fact that you pretend to be ignorant about it is silly, considering that we've had an embargo with Cuba within your lifetime.

Joker_X_II posted...

Economy from both country tanks.

America's economy could survive it -- since it was doing reasonably well even after multiple rounds of tariffs -- but China's economy would be much harder hit and it could have more serious ramifications for them.

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Full Throttle posted...

THREE MALE JUDGES in Tennessee have ruled that it is NOT illegal for someone to film WOMEN who are fully clothed in public WITHOUT their permission

Well, that's kind of a duh. Otherwise CCTV would be illegal.

HornedLion posted...

Making others feel uncomfortable is bad.

Considering the subjective nature of comfort, making people uncomfortable by itself can't be used as a legal standard for anything.

sodium-chloride posted...

Difference is these models don't have any idea of what people are doing in their private lives with the photos. Their photoshoots are controlled and safe environments where they have agreed to take pictures of themselves. They also are aware that their photos will be shared on the internet and in magazines.

They have a pretty fucking good idea of what some people will do with it. Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) even went so far as to publicly tell Rey's actress about what the attention of male fans would mean and how she could expect to be in their "fantasies," a fact that Ridley acknowledged she already knew. And those were legitimate actresses, not models. The idea that anybody is ignorant as to what people might use these images for in their private lives is folly. Models -- both male and female -- have a very good idea what people might use their photos for.

sodium-chloride posted...

The women this guy is taking pictures of are fully aware of what's going on and do not want their picture to be taken. They do not know what this guy is going to do with these pictures.

And people can take your photo for any reason without your consent or comfort, which can be done for any number for reasons that might also make you uncomfortable. In some cases, the activity could violate other laws that can be used (and I believe some states could have laws regarding minors)


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BlackScythe0 posted...

I thought he was compensated? Is this just Zeus being wrong like usual?

Ducky's post certainly doesn't mention it. Where did you see this claim or are you just talking out of your ass like usual?

SkynyrdRocker posted...

He made it under the bounty program, apparently. He was paid for it. Apparently the rules of the bounty system are that it must remain up.

Oh. Well, it wasn't in either the story Ducky presented which also suggests that *all* FAQs posted to the site are beholden to stay up (which they aren't) or in the screencap of his post.

Monopoman posted...

If the site does state that you agree that every FAQ remains on this site when you submit it he has 0 legal ground to stand on.

It would be virtually unenforceable in the absence of compensation and the site would certainly cave once a lawyer was involved.

TyVulpine posted...

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of people in it. (even Christianity was once considered a cult by Jewish people and Romans)
Both only follow rules laid down by the Leader (the religion's chosen god or some religious leader)
Both pretty much require lifetime commitments
Both claim those that break the rules will receive a 'penalty' after death (funny how they "know" what the penalty will be, considering nobody has ever actually been proven to have returned after dying and told what the "penalties" are....)

Funny, because you just described government except for that last bit which doesn't apply to every religion (although I think it could be true of all of the world's remaining major religions) let alone every cult. And like I said, claiming that a religion vs a cult is based on the number of members is like claiming that a country vs a family is based on the number of members.

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mrduckbear posted...

He claims he agreed to the site rules that every faq is to remain on the site once you write it but is asking for an exception..

Given that he wasn't compensated for his work, I imagine if he hired a lawyer the site would probably pull the faq rather than bother going through a lawsuit.

EDIT: And it looks he CAN have his stuff removed-
"Your FAQ, Review, Save, and Top 10 List contributions on GameFAQs are your copyrighted works, and you can request they be removed at any time, as long as they have not won a contribution contest."

Which I was pretty sure you could do, so I'm not sure what this other crap is about.

Akira_Kurusu22 posted...

Religions are cults. Very popular, long-lasting cults, that have always exhibited cult-like behaviour - like controlling thoughts, controlling behaviour, demonising non-conformity, being anti-education and anti-science, revising history, taking a book of books of mythology and fairytales meant to be taken figuratively seriously and literally.

Cults should be eliminated for the wellbeing of their victims and future would-be victims.

No, religions aren't cults any more than countries are families. Just because something shares some of the same traits are a larger thing doesn't make the two the same thing in different size. Second, and more importantly, almost everything you described could also apply to government considering it's also anti-science, public education is more babysitting than education, and policy is often directed by books of fairy tales not meant to be taken seriously which is where we get many socialist ideas.

kind9 posted...

Imagine having a bronze age moral system that prevents you from enjoying any form of modern entertainment.

lolwut? "Any"? He's complaining about one very specific thing. If his complaint is about media featuring demons, that leaves countless films not featuring demons.

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Zika - She probably did hear about it and forget. It was recent and a major event. Personally, I struggled to remember the name Zika a few weeks ago. Given that the overall impact was relatively minor, I wouldn't be surprised by somebody's failure to recall the name.

Thoreau - She most likely learned about him in high school and only retained the information long enough to pass a test.

CGI - This is the only really weird one, considering it's a major thing. I've known people who had to ask what that was despite the fact they *must* have known it at some point, although I imagine it could also be a matter of people understanding the concept without knowing the name.

And, not for nothing, but some of my exes had never seen a Star Wars movie. My brother's wife and his last two exes never saw any of the SW movies prior to dating him. There's a lot of information and experience that we kinda see as being universal because so many people have seen or experienced those things, but there are always going to be some absurdly common things that people haven't seen. There are a great number of things that are known by 90% of the population, but who makes up that super-majority will vary depending on the subject. Everybody has at least a few surprisingly common things that they either don't know or have forgotten.

That said, you should still look for a better partner.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

un fucking real

Unreal is right, considering that the whole thing involves countless fundamental misunderstandings. The most basic misunderstanding is that most of Jeff Bezo's "wealth" is in Amazon stock, which could tank overnight if stock prices tumbled and therefore lacks the same meaning as cold hard cash. It's one of many reasons why the obsession over others' wealth is all but meaningless unless it involves tangible assets as opposed to something like company stock.

The question then becomes should a founder and CEO of a company own a majority stake in the company he founded and runs today? Or is he magically beholden to turn over his stake in the company -- thus causing him to lose control over said company -- to the general public who did nothing to build that company other than buy products from it?

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Oh yeah, forgot that I can watch this now that I have access to Disney+. The only downside is I spoiled a lot for myself.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

but doxxing is. Which is what these people are doing.

Which is why Joaquin Castro got arrested for it... oh wait. Otherwise this was already covered: the target was Australian, the website is hosted in Russia, and the domain master is -- allegedly -- American. Those are three different countries and currently there's no international law regarding doxxing. Even the US's laws regarding doxxing are relatively limited and, at the moment, are only designed to protect government officials and people involved in the judicial process.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/119

In some cases, it can violate stalking/harassment laws (which *also* are poorly enforced when it comes to the internet)... but again, this is an international case and one of these countries is Russia so good luck doing anything there.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

okay zeus

Don't bring me into this topic, Erik

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Locke90 posted...

in my opinion those who have had their info used for this site should find a lawyer in order to sue these grubby individuals into oblivion, as no one should have their info used in such a manner.

A plan with any number of flaws, including the fact that defaming people on the internet isn't illegal (if it was, much of this site would be arrested), the fact that it's an international website, and of course the obvious fact that the site itself is hosted in Russia so it's likely one of their racial agitation schemes.

If the girl was a minor (she's 18), it might be a different story since it'd be easier to pursue as a criminal matter although even then it probably wouldn't make much difference since the hosting is Russian. Search engines could and probably should de-list the site, but that won't really stop traffic there.

Locke90 posted... a melbourne teenager has been added to a site that tries to shame "race traitors" the site in question is called Coalfax and used by incels to "shame" women who marry or date those not of their "race" i wont link to the site in question as ill leave it up to you guys to google and check it out if you wish.

Considering that a great many racists are married, this kind of a claim just further renders an already generally-meaningless term even more meaningless.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

people get so insanely upset when they realize no one wants to read their silly posts anymore lmao

lolwut? The block feature is what keeps people from reading your silly posts, not you from reading theirs. You have it confused with the ignore feature.

blu posted...

I only have 2 users on there, but it really is. GameFAQs should've introduced block a long time ago.

It's kinda nice as a last resort when even the ignore list isn't enough.


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Just more money for government to fritter away.

blu posted...

Every once in a while I think I could afford a $1,000,000 home (probably move to an area where that would be maximized), but property tax seems like it would basically kill the desire for me. Even a $300,000 home seems like an awful deal with property taxes.

You could if you made more.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

inheritance tax is worse

Yeah, the concept is fucking insane, since that money has been taxed multiple times already. But that's government for you, it just keeps clawing and clawing and clawing until nothing is left.

Dynalo posted...

People also don't take into consideration that renting tends to be far cheaper (I admit, this is really region dependent), and if you use the excess money to invest, you can sometimes end up further ahead by renting a cheap place. If my payments are 2k a month less and I invest all that money, if I can get 5% return on it, that investment portfolio will be worth well over $1,000,000 after 25 years, likely ending up with more money in my pocket than if I bought a house.

It really depends on the area and market. It's generally cheaper to own than rent.

Dynalo posted...

But houses are much much safer investment tools, and kinda force people to invest their money, so it's the right fit for a lot of people.

It's really not, and it's scary that people still believe this after multiple housing crashes including one that decimated the economy just a decade ago.

DarkProto05 posted...

I agree, property tax is stupid if it's your primary home. Property tax should be waived or at least drastically reduced for one's primary residence.

...property taxes are used to pay for local government. You couldn't afford to run local government without them, and the only way you could lower them is by cutting expenses which is something politicians hate doing.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Has anyone here played Mega Man 11?

No, I had meant to buy it back when it was on sale at one point but didn't get to it in time and can't justify the normal MSRP.

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Akira_Kurusu22 posted...

Breath of the Wild is an awful game, the exact opposite of a Legend of Zelda game, and is a survival open-world game (which are filled with needless hindrances, repetition, and blandness).

Eh, the open-world with no idea where to go kinda takes after LoZ1. (Although the searching out giant mechanical-looking monsters across a huge, mostly empty map with gorgeous landscape feels more like Shadow of the Colossus.)


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lihlih posted...

Zeus is a hipster.

I'm too hip to be a hipster

FatalAccident posted...

shock

I imagine if people saw more movies, their favorites would be more fringe as well.


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DirtBasedSoap posted...

also, Zeus cracks me up. Ive never blocked him once.

Because you blocked me at least thrice? Is that your game? Wordplay?


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Nichtcrawler X posted...

That all depends on what continuity it takes place in, if not just its own.

Technically it's based on a comic occurring in the normal continuity, but the movies take liberties with the story and are kinda self-contained. I'm pretty sure it came out before DC had its animated movie continuity, which has generally been a stupid thing anyway.

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I can't remember if I've seen the whole thing, but it has a lot of great moments. That final confrontation is awesome.

SpeedDemon20 posted...

Is Jonathan Kent alive canonically? I always thought he was dead (actually, I'm not even sure how he dies, I just thought he was).

Probably because they kill him off in a lot of the movies. DC's continuity is kinda shaky. Sometimes both Kents will be alive, sometimes only Martha is alive, and sometimes they're both dead. Whether they're alive or dead tends to inconsequential since even when they're alive he doesn't interact with them much as an adult.

As of the last reset, I think they're both still alive.

SpeedDemon20 posted...

When did Superman get an Iron Legion?

He's had robots for a long time. During the Death of Superman storyline, it was his robots who recovered his body from the crypt. I'm not sure what decade they were introduced, but I think it was 80s or earlier.

They very rarely come up.

SpeedDemon20 posted...

Also, who can get into the fortress?

Given its location, very few people. Some continuities have a physical door, others just have an entrance underwater. Lex Luthor got into it during some of the movies. Batman, Wonder Woman, and Robin have all visited, most notably in "For the Man who has Everything," which is among the best Superman stories (which was adapted for the JL/U where it notably excluded Robin because Robin wasn't in the show)

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

That being said, I also stopped watching Agents of SHIELD after the first couple seasons, so it might depend on when you're watching.

I couldn't even make it through the first season.

Granted, I watched the Ghost Rider clips out of curiosity and, had I been impressed, I probably would have given the show another chance. That was the closest they came to having a real hook for me.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I could see if the first couple episodes turned you off and drove you away for good, though, because let's be honest, the first couple episodes of pretty much every series ever are usually pretty weak.

I'm not sure how far I made it. I know I definitely watched the first 4 episodes -- since #3 and #4 included a memorable element/gimmick -- and assume I must have watched a few episodes past it. I think some nonsense involving May might have been the final straw.

And sure, the early episodes -- and frequently the first season -- of a great many shows tend to be bad or weak, especially after watching the later seasons. However, the various clips I watched from Agents of SHIELD (including the Ghost Rider stuff) suggest that many of my issues with the show hadn't changed. The subject matter often includes things of interest, but the presentation, script, acting, etc, keeps me from being interested in watching the show.

I should mention that I *probably* have a higher threshold for terrible shit than most people. After all, I managed to make it through Grimm and only haven't watched that final season because I haven't seen it on any streaming service I have access to. (On a related note, I was flabbergasted to learn that one of the people from NPR is married to Claire Coffee who played the Hexenbiest Adalind on the show)

ParanoidObsessive posted...

If they weren't, that would be a massive lost opportunity.

Shelf space is kind of a premium in retail and they tend to fill up just about every inch in those stores. Most locations are incredibly cramped. The only store where it felt like they could have fit more aisles was in a kinda shitty mall where I imagine they have more open space to deter shoplifters.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Though honestly, I'm not sure that "boxed set" card games have more in common with board games than they do CCGs. Sure, you lose the "keep buying boosters and chase the dragon" element, and the "build your own deck" aspect, but overall playstyle with randomized card interactions tend to be the same.

It's a fixed all-in-one product vs individual boosters. A person typically only buys a box set once whereas people multiple boosters. The play style is also going to be different as a result.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Honestly, I don't think the M:tG backs are illustrative or evocative of anything at all. The five colored dots are absolutely meaningless unless you already know what the color pie is and how it interacts, at which point you don't really need the dots. And then you've got the "Deckmaster" part, which is a meaningless artifact left over from the time when they actually planned to publish CCGs other than Magic. And the brown is just kind of ass (and was mostly picked because it was cheap to produce, and at the time it was created WotC was basically a start-up company with no money).

https://i.imgur.com/cI9uGt2.jpg

Stylized cardback that looks like a grimoire (which wouldn't have worked if they had done anything *other* than brown). Great use of font. Inclusion of the color wheel, which is the core mechanic.

While the Deckmaster serves zero purpose (and I always forget that it's there), it provides an excellent counterbalance to the game name at the top. This means that the color wheel -- the most important thematic aspect -- is centered without looking weird

ParanoidObsessive posted...

But it's not completely out of the question to release booster packs that cater to a specific faction as long as they're clearly labeled. It isn't inherently more expensive than producing a more randomly-distributed set in boosters with multiple wrappers - and can have the added advantage of potentially showing you which factions are popular, if you want to phase some out or introduce new ones, or to see which factions need better cards to help make them more popular (something that L5R used to do, based on who was playing what decks in tournaments).

Because then you start to run into issue with different buy rates (if it's part of the same set) or get pigeon-holed into releasing sets specific to each faction or something.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

But now they sell "Red Boosters" and "Black Boosters", that I can buy and be sure that every card in them will be potentially usable in my deck (even if realistically, most of them will be common trash and pretty much worthless).

I'm intrigued by the concept. I wanted to see how it compared to a normal pack and learned that boosters are up to $4 now. If the MSRP is $7 and you can actually get it for $7, kinda seems like a good deal (relatively speaking) since it contains 35 cards and supposedly has more uncommons than normal.

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EclairReturns posted...

Disappointment that I have not yet found work in my career of choosing?

You probably should have put more effort into looking for a job while you were still in school, which is how your more proactive peers probably got their jobs.

EclairReturns posted...

Disappointment that I have not thought of a career that I might have a possibility of enjoying?

That one's always tricky. The only thing you could have done was tried as many things as possible growing up and then volunteered/interned/worked in a lot of fields in high school (and to a lesser extent college). However, instead of considering all jobs out there and trying to find something perfect, it makes more sense to just hone in on something tolerable with good income potential because if you want to hit high earnings you need to invest a good amount of time and effort.

The "passion trap" tends to derail kids because it creates unrealistic expectations for employment and ensures that they'll most likely never be happy with a job.

EclairReturns posted...

Disappointment that my life is not really going anywhere?

You make it sound like you don't have any direction so it's understandable you wouldn't get anywhere.


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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Nope. They were one of many things but they are not equally weighted. One hospital bill could be more than all three cars combined.

Or the most expensive bill could be less that of the tv. And given how far the medical bills are buried, you'd kinda have to assume that they're small compared to the other shit especially since if it was a huge bill they would have led with that.

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I want to know who Kraust is (and Lysol, for that matter). That said, DBS blocks just about everybody at some point or another. In fact, he blocks so often that Kraust's failure to ID himself will be like a "Do you have any idea how little you've narrowed it down" type of circumstance.

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It's a great way of supplementing the main game's story or, in the case of something like the ES games, adding lore.

However, it can be annoying when it tells most of the main narrative, especially when the audio files or notes might be hidden.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

If you go the Skyrim/Elder Scrolls route and go "There's TONS of lore, but almost none of it actually matters, and you have to read all these books we've scattered everywhere to know any of it",

It doesn't have to matter. The fact that it exists shows that the world extends beyond the basic storyline and thus enriches it. A lot of the more relevant lore (like the White-Gold Concordant) is also available through NPCs.

And while the game could support a feature like a library to consolidate the information to some extent (especially after you've found the book), it's kinda easier to just use a wiki after the fact especially because the wiki will often have bridging material, notes, or added context.

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With the Witcher surprisingly beating Skyrim -- almost certainly out of spite-voting to keep it from facing BotW in the final round, possibly with some rigging -- BotW seems almost guaranteed. Before now, I expected Skyrim would win the whole thing.

Skyrim does much of what BotW aspired to do. BotW was a neat concept, but its giant map feels empty (unlike Skyrim which always had things to discover) and just feels like it breaks up the very small handful of locations in BotW (unlike Skyrim which has countless places to do things)

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Only if I don't like who I'm around.

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Monopoman posted...

Trump's chant for his future rallies "Lock Him Up!"

Of course he will never attempt to lock anyone up that he creates chants about. He's had 4 years to try to lock her up and yet here we are...

The fact that he allowed himself to be talked out of appointing a special prosecutor was the first campaign promise he broke.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Lately I have been seing a LOT of people talk about crimes the Obama administration did, "Well documented crimes" at that. No one can name a single crime that Obama or his administration has apparently done.

Well, under his administration, a whistleblower was tortured in an American prison, countless women & children were killed by his drone program which was operating illegally in some nations, and then there's the usual smathering of war crimes that every president should stand trial for at the Hague. Then he did a lot of supposedly-legal (but rather glaring) stuff like raiding news offices, etc, which if Trump, GWB, etc, had done would have resulted in wide-scale protests if not an outright revolution. Imagine if Nixon had raided the WaPo's offices in response to a leak. Obama did things even *Nixon* wouldn't.


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This is the worst rigging since Undertalegate! ...although it's more on par with Drevangate?

ParanoidObsessive posted...

For the same reason why people in Boston chant "Yankees Suck" even at concerts and other things that have literally nothing to do with sports or New York at all, and why people drive around with American flags plastered all over their trucks.

Humans seem to have an instinctive need to identify with things outside of ourselves, and tie large chunks of our ego to those things. So when people criticize those things, it's like those people are criticizing us. The more insecure someone is in general, the more likely they are to immediately leap to defend their beloved thing. And to completely shit on the other person with ad hominem attacks rather than trying to address the actual thing in question.

Plus context is really important!

https://i.imgur.com/LG39m4p.jpg

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I saw it maybe six years ago and I remember it being alright... although I barely remember anything, other than the ending where Spicoli and his teacher have that showdown. (Which is kinda funny since the Spicoli stuff was my least favorite part of the movie.)

THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

It was 4AM so I thought I would just watch half and then watch the rest today but it was so good that I ended up watching all of it.

I don't like starting movies unless I know I can finish them in the same sitting =x

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Youtube "celebrities" turn out to be horrible people. More at 11.

lihlih posted...

Water u talking aboot?

You've been around the board long enough that I'd hope you wouldn't take that guy all that seriously >_>

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Person106 posted...

Two knives. Having two wives implies the first dies and I replace her :/

No, because then you'd only have one wife.

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Revelation34 posted...

I need R2D2 especially.

R2-D2 was one I was conflicted on given that I have a lot of R2-D2 merch and the Pop! doesn't really jump out at me for whatever reason. However, I found it used for $3 which was hard to resist. But, on that subject, I'll once again complain about Funko dragging its feet in releasing other R2 units since they're pretty basic colorways. It's even more annoying considering that Funko previously released some of those R2 units in other lines. In particular, I want a R2-Q2 (which, oddly enough, connects into the CCG discussion since the Decipher SW CCG is what first got me interested in that particular unit). I have the Wacky Wobbler, which is alright but it's not quite the same.

I will mention that I paid full pop for the Gamestop-exclusive R2-B1 just to have one of the colorways. Humorously, I kinda like the look of the Pop! more than the actual droid, which is the reverse of the issue with R2-D2.

Revelation34 posted...

I forgot about AAAAAH! Real Monsters until you mentioned it. That was a great show.

It holds up remarkably well, probably because the concept and art was so different.

Revelation34 posted...

After the Vegas shooting they made an episode during that season to make a political statement about guns being bad even for government agencies. Also I really liked the first season of both. I would say they both peaked at about season 3 though

Virtue-signaling current issues in shows annoys the fuck out of me. Blacklist keeps doing that, including working in a wage gap subplot into an episode just so the issue could be discussed.

The smaller throwaway lines can be a bit of a distraction that painfully dates the show, although it's less of a nuisance. It often depends on the set-up. In a later season of Supernatural, parallel Earth Bobby recounts a few things -- some of which are egregious and then works Trump's election into it to imply a negative association -- where his Trump jab feels out of place, although had it just been a Trump jab it might have been more amusing. It's also worth noting that some of the Supernatural case had been vehementally anti-Trump, including Mischa/Castiel.

The same sorta thing annoys me when it comes to the Harley Quinn cartoon, where the creators feel the need to pepper it with a lot of SJW jokes that probably are only funny to the choir and broadly feel out of place.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's part of why I could only watch the Crisis crossover a few months back in bits and pieces as YouTube clips rather than watching the whole shows - the acting and writing really is that bad for all the shows as far as I can tell, and it's kind of painful to watch.

I've found that a lot of shows and movies look better when you just watch clips instead of the whole thing.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Granted, I'm not expecting film-level quality from throwaway CW shows, but at the very least I'd prefer something on the level of Agents of SHIELD (with the ideal being something closer to the Netflix shows) rather than something that's about on par with everything else on the CW (ie, bad, and aimed at shitty teenagers).

Now you're sending mixed messages. Agents of SHIELD seemed every bit as bad if not worse than anything on CW. The acting and writing killed my interest almost immediately.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Edgy teens would probably lap it up, and you could totally sell it in Hot Topic.

Now that you mention it, I'm trying to recall ever seeing CCG booster packs sold at Hot Topic.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

My suspicion is, you'd be tapping into the same sort of market that buys stuff like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Epic-Spell-Wars-Battle-Wizards/dp/161768029X

The problem is, something like that would probably be extremely niche, even in the niche hobby that is CCGing. So you might not be able to turn it into profitability.

That's really the board game crowd at that point, so basically just comics and games shops if enough of those still exist.

I guess my best option is still to create a moderately successful media property then create a CCG based on that since original concepts don't seem to do particularly well anyway (then again, a lot of the franchised stuff flops as well)

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I really liked the original L5R card backs, but they got screwed over when the International Olympic Committee decided that they own the entire concept of interlocking rings and sued them over it:

While the interlocking rings are a great visual and tie into the name, it's not a particularly illustrative concept. I kinda prefer the coin/token look even if the game name looks stupidly out of place. The backgrounds for both cardbacks are trash, though.

The new cardbacks look neat. The individual symbols don't look like coins so it ties a little nicer to the game name, there's no huge name, and the background fits the setting.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The one cool thing about L5R (and you can kind of see it in the new version pictures) is that there are different colored card backs (in the original black and green versions, in the new versions there's white, red, and ones with different art on the back). This is because certain cards have different functions in the game, and you can tell which cards are which by the backs. So they're functional as well as aesthetic.

I also tend to like card backs for games that show factionality (like the old Star Wars CCG from the 90s where you had Rebellion backs and Empire backs), though those work best in games where players have to choose opposed factions and have less individuality when it comes to deck building (ie, you can't play an Empire deck against an Empire deck in the Star Wars game, and you can't use Rebellion cards in Empire decks). But there's not a ton of games like that, because players tend to prefer the idea that they can use any card in any deck, and play any deck they want rather than having to pick a side opposed to their opponent(s).

I like the concept of multiple cardbacks to some extent. Yes, it can add a richness to the theme in a game with clearly established factions, but it also leads to issues like having to make more general cards multiple times. Decipher's SW CCG is a good example because instead of just making one card for something like a blaster that could be used in either faction's deck, they had to make a card for each faction. Something like that adds to the annoyance factor when it comes to the collectible component. And in general, one of the problems I've had with strictly-factional CCGs is that -- excluding the fringier, box-set sort of things -- the factions are generally combined in booster packs (for pragmatic reasons). In a CCG without that kind of rough divide, having a mix is more justifiable but it makes less sense when something just straight-up can't be used.

As for the different cardbacks in L5R, would they be in the same deck (meaning that both players would have some clue as to the next card) or did you have multiple decks in a game?


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I had seen the packs from time to time, but never paid any attention to it since there wasn't much of an intrigue factor for me (as opposed to a CCG based on something I'm not familiar with at all).

It looks like the game focuses more on the heroes, villains, and supporting characters rather than the rich selection of monsters and magic. Combine that with the card layout, and it doesn't appear to be something I'd enjoy. I'll probably look into the series as a whole tonight, though.

Are you trying to stay more within franchised CCGs? And are you involved in offline play or are you looking for online?

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