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Lunar_Savage posted...

lmfao, I've been saying for years we should burn the whole system down. The private corporations, the government, the rich assholes hoarding wealth, and those propagating and facilitating a system that intentionally creates people who act hostile to one another and teaches people this is okay behavior because it's dog eat dog or bust.

Cooperation beats competition every single day of the week. The evil assholes are cooperating while we believe we can compete against ourselves to beat them. It's fucking hilarious and sad.

I grew up poor too and I've worked hard to get what little I have in life. I understand your initial sentiments, but you have to rise above that "I did it so you have to as well" bullshit that's clearly been crammed into your head.

idk if you finished reading but i most certainly agree with you, that's why i say start with your own communities. It's easy to cooperate with people that are standing in front of you...much more likely to compromise on an idea if you have to see them all the time yannow... I'll I'm asking is for the people that can rise up, should do so. To act like there isn't an entitled generation coming into the workforce, though, well that I can at least claim from personal experience.

But what's happening is they are dividing us up to battle ourselves while they run away with all the money..the BIG money not billionaires...the people with more than that. And it's working so good right now.

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Panthera posted...

I once argued in poor faith the merits of this very conversational topic with a man from the land beyond who knew his way around the words of men and gods and was able to convince him to abandon all he held dear and live in fear of the world his eyes had finally been opened to

Im trying to find meaning in this

does it have to do with staying ignorance orrrrrrrrr

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UnfairRepresent posted...

That's really not hypocrisy....

i was trying to make the point that Ebay is like the epitome of a "free market" and people demanding socialism on the iphones purchased there

regardless nobody knows the fuck a fair wage is unless they see the damn books

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tl;dr

idk i'm sorry i've been drinking and smoking just feeling frustrated. have a good night.

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I work at a company.

When I got to the company, the mentality of our generation was..."**** yeah, we made it...got real jobs, worked hard, now I can afford a car, a house, I can travel...got a flatscreen, a yard, a PS3...yeah!

Now the kids I'm employing come to me on THEIR FIRST DAY asking to become partner, say ridiculous things like "I want my starting salary to be X" and say things like "You're lucky I come to work everyday, most people won't even do that" and so few of them are fit to handle high stress situations.

It's like what happened?? This hatred of the upper class makes people feel entitled to some of that wealth? WHY? What have YOU done?

Do people realize that if you make more than 20k a year (Poverty in many states) you are richer than MOST people on the planet? 10% of the world population is so poor, if you made only 2k in a year, you would STILL be wealthier than them? Tell you what, how about all these kids just coming out of college with their 40k a year jobs cut out all utilities except heat, bike to work everyday, eat on a dollar a day and donate the rest....maybe then they'll have the right to tell the CEO's of Walmart to donate their salaries to every Walmart employee (and they'd each get like, what, 100 bucks? ) JUSTICE goes both ways. There is always someone less fortunate. These ****ing city kids walk right past homeless people everyday without looking up to go home and complain on facebook about Amazon, GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE WITH THAT SHIT.

"Nobody needs that much" -- people referring to billionaires.

YEAH no shit, nobody needs a phone, a car, a tv, a game system, credit card, electricity, internet....but I lived in poverty. I worked minimum wage jobs for years, lived with 4 or 5 guys in a 3 bedroom house. It was a blast. We had food, vehicles, video games, drugs, it was awesome. THAT'S AMERICAN POVERTY...a BETTER LIFE THAN 99.9% of people that have EVER LIVED. I recommend people travel or go camping somewhere remote. You'll find out real quick you don't need more than other people around you to get by in life.

And then it's like yeah, sure there are some rich assholes who are keeping too much for themselves but...there are also really, really good people too. Thing is you'll never hear about them. They are almost ashamed of their wealth. But go google them right now and be prepared to cry because I bet you didn't know that kind of kindness existed in the world....it's just not fun to talk about. An anonymous billionaire dying and donating everything to local schools just doesn't make headlines...there's no name, no tale, no legacy, no story...

But you know what, if you really think Amazon/Walmart are so evil then stop buying shit from them. You don't have to shop at these corporations that are bigger than the government. But you do it and then complain about them.

Kids complaining about Capitalism on facebook on their iPhone they bought off Ebay from a man in China, where it was built and shipped on a boat owned by a capitalist and yadddah yaddah. WOW the hypocrisy.

It's not the system...it's the people that control the system..right now our "Capitalist" system is a charade has been for 107 years...taken over...the money power slipped into government and allowed this "corporatocracy" to take place. The consequences of this corruption has tricked these stupid kids into thinking they need to turn over more power to the government to "fix" the economy and make the rich "pay their fair share" when it reality it will just help to rich to "legalize" the control of the population.

How fucking moronic is it to think that the money power, the power that which already controls the government and the media.... would allow anyone to get in that could overturn them? Are you serious? They got fooled into letting a revolutionary in office in the 60s...once they realized their mistake they shot him in the ****ing head, in broad daylight in front of a crowd, immediately took away all the good he was trying to do and started a war. The only way to change the world that will FOR SURE WORK is to affect change is in your own communities. Shop local. Support the little guy. Volunteer. Boycott and protest Amazon for treating their employee's like shit. Organize a revolt and stop paying stupid high insurance premiums. Money doesn't help the homeless, most of them need PEOPLE to help them not MONEY.

idk. And it's like on here, this message board, I don't know or recognize any of you... I just shit post and puke out my trash opinions on video games but like, I just see so many of you spute utter garbage about the state of the world and it's so frustrating especially if i'm picturing you in your mom's basement or as the anti-social weirdo's many of you are. It's like how the fuck do you know what's best? At least attempt to see the whole picture. Quit picking a team, arguing repub vs democrat as if it makes a ****ing real difference in your life.

idk i'm sorry i've been drinking and smoking just feeling frustrated. have a good night.

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Re-reading my topic title hurts my brain

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I guess I'm in a good area right now.

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dolomedes posted...

my wages have been garnished for the past few months for one year i spent at a university in 2007/08 lol

i liked the last uni i went to (also didn't finish - financial aid quit paying so i quit going), but not for the courses. i just liked having access to a lab, microscope, and a bunch of field equipment lol

That sucks man, Im sorry. Luckily I somehow avoided garnishment thru loopholes and complaining a lot, and only a couple hundred bucks of interest accumulated.

But another thing I forgot to mention...due to the recession at the time ALL of my scholarships were canceled (they all came directly from my state). Just like, awesome, I'm already enrolled but next semester is an extra 5gs.

EDIT: when i drink i guess i like to bitch about this

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I had anapplied calc teacher that spoke completely broken English...I had incredibly liberal, polarizing literature professor...a super old, behind the times professor teaching "Office Etiquette" (that class is $6,000???) I had to take like 12 credits of PE (Bowling counts and nobody ever went, was also $6,000...to go BOWLING TWICE A WEEK FOR THREE MONTHS)....I had teachers require "new" textbooks but use slides/homework from the PREVIOUS YEARS EDITION.

During O-week outside the main hub was a Wells Fargo kiosk where you were encouraged to get credit cards (fishy as FUCK) and open accounts with them (they had a "university branch"). I went to buy books at the bookstore near the hub, they only took cash so I used my brand new credit card to do cash advance which has crazy interest rates, I learned like, the next day (I was only 17 at the time). Literally setup like some sort of criminal system, taking advantage of kids.

To top it all off, my philosophy professor also spoke completely broken English, would assign things that nobody understood, often came in late halfway thru the class with no explanation...would ramble for minutes and be mad nobody could understand him...and he did not accept DIGITAL papers, only physical copies.

So I wrote my final and turned it in, he apparently lost it. I saw my score was zero and immediately emailed it to him... I claimed the paper wasn't perfect but it was far from a zero....he said he "never got my paper" and I'm like...ok well I sure as hell turned it in. He refused to let me turn in my digital copy, even for reduced credit. He said "if you problem, contact the dean but It's my word against yours". I was so appalled I didn't even bother. At this point my mental health was in terrible shape. And college just made it worse. It was the friends and experiences I had trying to figure out life outside of college that actually helped me grow.

But college...what a waste of my time and 10k that I havent even begun to pay off 8 years later.

tl;dr If you are a slacker student in high school, DO NOT GO TO COLLEGE. Get a job and live with some friends or something, try out the "real world".... I was a slacker in class but I worked hard....30 hours a week at a fast food joint, I became a session level bass player by the time I was out of college, I was in like 7 bands. I wish I would have just kept working, I'd have savings right now instead of debt.

I made great lifelong friends blah blah and had some serious party time, but maybe I would have took it more seriously if it wasn't a complete JOKE. The sad part is, I still live in the city the university is in (it's a small but reputable tech school) so I can't publicly call them out because our whole economy and the business I manage depends on them.

So, I post on gamefaqs. Thanks for listening, and if you're young, please heed my advice. At least give it a year or two, grow up a bit. I was playing in rock band chasing girls. Not ready for college.

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Monday Night just plow out something stupid and tell the teacher "I really didn't have time so I sorta winged it, I'm sorry."

Say you are "SORRY" like you have something to lose, when in reality, high school is generally completely useless. I found "sorry" works a lot.

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GallisOTK posted...

Campaign was great, Warzone is great, Spec Ops is still a broken mess, and Multiplayer is still bad but not as awful as it was at launch.

No, not entirely. There are still only three good maps in the entire game (Hackney Yard, Gun Runner, and Shoot House) while the other maps are either complete unorganized chaos only good for completing challenges (Shipment and Rust) or huge campy mazes that make camping far too easy to win and far too difficult to effectively counter. Even the "remakes" of Crash and Vacant are far more campy than they were back in CoD4 due to all of the doors that have been added and the way this game favors campers at a design level. Like I said, it's not as awful as it was before due to various balance changes, but the game still plays way too slow and campy for my liking. If they made a 24/7 playlist of just those three maps I mentioned above, then that's literally all I would play because those are the only maps where I feel like I can actually play normally and have fun with the game's multiplayer. I don't like slow-paced games of hide-and-seek and I don't like spawn-die-spawn-die loops, which all of the other maps fall into one of those two categories.

If it weren't for Warzone, I would probably have already uninstalled this game and gone back to CoD WW2 (AKA the best CoD game of this console gen) full-time since that game is ten times more fun than this one.

I completely disagree, WW2 was the most uninspired CoD I have ever played. Add on to that it was the dumbest **** at launch with it's stupid hud and extra b/s. I know they fixed it later but man that really killed it for me.

The problem is you want to play "normally" in MW but that's not what this CoD is. This is a reinvention of the games design. Shoot House is a call back to hold school maps, and sure it plays fast like old CoD...but the newer maps make better use of all the new tools available. The guns feel way, way different imo. Like it's part of the balance...AK is very powerful but is hard to aim. The "perk" system is better than any other CoD and seems far more balanced than other games and is especially balanced in the bigger maps. Maybe I have the luxury of usually playing in a party where strategy can take effect on the large maps. There just wasn't much room for that in WW2's small 3 lane maps.


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Well, if that's like, your opinion man.

I know they are flawed but there aren't any fantasy games like them.

Even in Skyrim, which apparently was "dumbed down"...it wasn't. It's actually gameplay is far more complex than Morrowind and Oblivion. Sure there aren't 60 different stats but what those stats did is actually represented in the new perk system.

I'm on my third our fourth character on Switch, and it's my best save file. Even vanilla has lots of room for Role Playing.

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BLAKUboy posted...

Because "libertarian" has always just been a codeword for "racist". They've never exactly been subtle about it.

This is not the case, at all.

One of the primary reasons Libertarians want lax drug laws is because it's an excuse to disproportionately throw minorities in jail.

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Proofpyros posted...

I'm sure its improved more by now, but Corner of Duty: Modern Campfare wasnt very fun at release

This is true only if you are bad and/or whiney.

Camping really isn't that much of an issue, especially now that people know the maps. The maps were bigger so it took people time to get used to where to check, but now it's pretty understandable and some maps are really, really good. 3 lane bullshit is not a problem in this game, and if you want that, there are two maps that have that old-school CoD map style.

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Dark_SilverX posted...

Overwatch

Over-watch is so overrated. CoD has so much more content than Overwatch. Overwatch feels like a free game imo.

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I mean really what's better?

Everything from 3 lane maps to large 10v10s to Battlefield-large maps with vehicles to Battle Royale. Guns feel super good. Balance is iffy but the many gamemodes allow most weapons to be viable. Best custo system.

imo 10/10 one of the top games this gen.

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CommunismFTW posted...

Read the room. Pandemic, economic collapse, under $150 to his and his brothers name for food, no roof, no bed, no shower, no dresser, no toaster, no coffee machine. That is fucking terrifying. No one is hiring, no one is even open right now. Now is not the time to over generalize prior cultural statistics to a man on his ass during a global pandemic and inevitable recession. The best we can do is be kind while he has a fucking internet connection.

100% certain the nearest Walmart is hiring.

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PIITB415 posted...

Your fault 100%.

Thanks.

So what do I do?

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Rainbow_Dashing posted...

If she used to do it for a living why didn't she tell you to fix your deductibles so you wouldn't be getting so much cash that you depend on a windfall refund?

She did

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EnragedSlith posted...

Why did your mom file your taxes?

She used to do it for a living, but I forgot to tell her that I changed bank accounts.

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So what happens to my tax return money? What do I do now? It says it was accepted. Do I call the IRS? Is that even possible?

I hope this doesn't delay my money too much...my hours are cut in half at the moment due to the virus. I need that ****

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KiwiTerraRizing posted...

Game is shit on the switch.

It's really not, it has exactly the same gameplay and runs pretty well.

Just don't play it on a giant 4k tv. In portable mode, it looks rather good actually.

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ProfessorKukui posted...

lolno.
why would I pay more for something I got for $15?
this "muh portability" meme.

have a nice day.

Because even on the Switch it's a fantasic game worthy of all the praise. The devs didn't nickel and dime for pay to win/ "goofy $5 armor sets" etc etc.

Jabodie posted...

Eh, maybe in time. Is it not selling well or something?

It sold pretty well actually, believe it will crack a million. The WHOLE GAME is on the Switch cartridge, including DLC and the box comes with stickers, a little book and some extras. A collectors item in the future for sure.

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Make sure you buy the Switch port.

If at least one company deserves your money it's them.

The Witcher 3 had two expansions, no pay to win/removed BS. The Switch version has the whole game on the cart +DLC. No extra download.

The game doesn't look great on a TV but it's fine on the smaller screen. Very playable in any instance, and if you have the PC version you can transfer your save.

Can we please reward devs who still do it right?

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And so now we ask the the real point of all of this

Do we detain people who aren't being as cautious as you think they should be? Who sets those parameters? How long? Do you fine people in a time like this?

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CruelBuffalo posted...

Why would you want to display to others I take joy in mocking others
that seems like such a sad personality type

I mean when you claim to be a liberal, you are also claiming you "take joy in mocking others" namely...Republicans.

But at least a coffee cup is funny.

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And they talking about women?

You know what I'm talking about. Some of the men in those pictures are you.

GIMME THE LINKS

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Why 6 months though? Do they think it will take that long?

I still don't know a single person with the virus. There are no confirmed cases in hundreds of miles

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Damn_Underscore posted...

I'll use this topic to say this.

Almost no one online uses the term socialism correctly. You have right wingers calling everything the government does (that they don't like) socialist and then you have two types of left wingers: those who want welfare capitalism/social democracy-type government with maybe some policies that are inspired by socialism (like price controls and a federal jobs guarantee for example), and those who really do want socialism.

It's a confusing mess and it's not really worth diving into tbh.

Pretty much this.

I think the individual should be as free as possible.


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To increase to demand.

Nintendo did this

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We need to be careful.

Governments will use this to reach for too much power.

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This has been a very difficult time.


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I have vivid dreams if I cross like eight hours of sleep, in that weird "snooze" state of sleeping. Sometimes they are happy and enjoyable. On open days where I can sleep in... I find myself sleeping the whole entire day just to keep dreaming. If I find a person or a memory or some kind of unnamed feeling in my dreams, I go back to bed to get it back. Often I can continue with the same vibe.

I used to think this was normal but apparently a lot of people rarely remember dreams.

That said, this rarely occurs on regular sleep nights (5-8 hours).

Recent dreams are:

About a specific person from my past and us just dealing with whatever dream is conjured. Often I understand I'm in a dream but I stay in it to spend time with said person. These dreams are strange since they have a lot of 1 on 1 interaction. Conversations without saying anything, they feel like.

In another I'm in a fight to the death with a powerful opponent, but my attacks do nothing. These often turn lucid when I start to analyze why I can't hurt them, but not always.

I frequently have dreams where I'm in a situation where I know I'm going to die. Usually it's an animal attack or some kind of dangerous stunt/accident. I Always I accept it bravely and calmly. Which does not sound like me.

These have been reoccurring for some time. I also have had just crazy out there roller-coaster dreams... like me searching for my father in an apocalypse setting or I'm on the run from some kind or organization. In These "epic" dreams, I remember few details since they feel like a long journey when I wake up.

I don't think I've ever talked/written or posted about these but sitting here all cooped up, really thinking about it...I guess it's kind of cool. I haven't had "nightmares" since I was a child, though.

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EffectAndCause posted...

Probably.

So America has 900k infected and China might not make it to half of that it looks like.

Again, assuming they aren't fibbing numbers.

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pikachupwnage posted...

Celebrities travel more and come in contact with more people. They also may have the power/money/influence to get tested more easily

Its not fucking rocket science.

Coronavirus is bringing out all the dumbasses.

Do they though? You get to touch many celeberties?

Hang out in the same rooms as them?

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EffectAndCause posted...

Easier for them to get tested?

Winner winner chicken dinner.

So what does this mean? Actual cases are over 100X higher then we are being told?

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I honestly don't think so.

Unless China is lying, their cases are rising but the number seems to be dropping as far as new cases. And they weren't nearly as prepared AND they live in much closer quarters than most of America does.

Assuming we do better than them, which we most certainly will, I doubt we will get to a million deaths.

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0.0027% of the population are confirmed with the virus so far...

Over 30 (roughly) "celebrities" (Politicians, actors, sports superstars..) are confirmed with it

So .33% of confirmed cases are people in news, media, radio or sports.

Famous people more likely to get it?

Easier for them to get tested?

Some kind of conspiracy?


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UnfairRepresent posted...

I haven't read the article but pointing out the problems a pandemic is going to cause in the future isn't fear mongering it's pragmatic

people need to know the damage it will do to the economy and be prepared for the next pandemic. This is going to happen again and it could easily have been a lot lot worse.

Almost the entire world was completely unprepared for something experts have spent decades saying is going to happen and explaining how to combat it. All ignored.

If conservatives worldwide would just listen, so many lives and so much money would be saved

Do we understand why it took decades though?

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There is no way this will hit a million cases with how serious the lockdown is. My town is in nowheresville USA and people still are trying to stay in.

Maybe at the end of it's life it will be in the millions, who knows....but I personally doubt it in 30 days.

Be careful with the stats on this btw.

the mortality rate statistic (I've seen 2-3%) is NOT ACCURATE at this stage of the diseases global development.

Many cases simply will not be reported and haven't been, and it's safe to assume people who get tested or go to the hospital and confirm it, already have particularly bad cases. This was pointed out in several articles but here's one:

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/early-mortality-rates-covid-19-misleading-experts/story?id=69477312

But it's much nicer for the media to have a nice whole number I'm sure.

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mrgoatthief posted...

I'm really worried for the next few days. Not just the coronavirus but the damage it does to the economy. Riots are going to start, I'm sure of it.

I don't think so. What would they riot about?

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Could really use a blistering heat wave right about now.

My area is very isolated, it has been like watching a circus through a peep hole.

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

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pfh1001 posted...

I second this.

Hmm horror/RPG?

Weird. Ok.

I have pretty much any weeb game you can think of. Plus most games that I've heard have some appeal, think like "70/100+" area of the PS1's library. I think I'm feeling more RPG and I'll save horror for when I'm less stressed about the state of the world.

Strange, as I look over this collection I find....a lot of horror games. Not many horror games on N64 that's for sure.

So whats a cute safe RPG that's not Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest or Crono Cross@@!!

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Digging into the collection tonight...

What should I play? I have almost every game worth playing, for my money.

Popped in "The Lost World: Jurassic Park- Special Edition" and had some fun, played until I got stuck on the stupid "Dodge the Long-Neck's feet" level.

What else is good?

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UMMM wtf???

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The first major heatwave.

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I Like Toast posted...

Online gaming is horrific, it makes it about exploiting the engine over the actual point of the game.

Certain games sure.

But games that are meant to be multiplayer make it so exploiting the engine IS the point of the game.

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I love when you are low key flaming a member of the team, and they hitting you back, but it's not like, malicious, and there is real advice hidden in there. Kind of like how athletes talk to each-other on the field (at least in my experience) and when you pull it together and win the match, even though you were calling each other out, you still commend each other after the game. This happened to me in Dota 2 last night.

That's like the highest level of respect.

There were legends in Halo 2 about this. Lasting friendships were born. You would get trashed all night by some guy, talking smack, but you would add the player and play with them and learn from them. It's a beautiful thing, there are good people online.

I wish I could go back to 2012 and really try to go pro instead of smoking dope and playing.

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21WIVES_CHILL posted...

If people followed your advice, the economy would tank. Why do you think the feds cut the rate a few days ago?

Lol so clueless man. THEY PRINT MONEY OUT OF NOTHING AND THEN CHARGE YOU INTEREST ON IT.

it's an artificial economy based on debt. Every dollar printed is two dollars owed back to the bank. The game is rigged. That's why even though I lean right in terms of the role of government, I'm all for Bernie and I was all for Ron Paul.

We didn't need a central bank to form this country, we didn't need one during the industrial revolution, Ancient wars were fought in opposition of this idea, etc etc.

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