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MysticBrohan posted...

id push it too but i cant agree with this. Youre still responsible for your own decision, even with a gun to your head

sure, you can feel guilty about it personally, and of course you're moving of your own volition, but i don't think i or society would hold you responsible for the scenario your captor set up.

giving someone the choice between 'do what i say or you die' is not a reasonable choice that the person can be considered 'responsible' for, at least in a scenario where you have literally zero percent chance of resisting. like, protesting against pushing the button will do literally nothing. your captor will just push it themselves

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not sure if these will fix standard, but i'm pleasantly surprised by the agent ban. companion fix is clunky but probably necessary, even though my umori mutate deck was very fair. i didn't find fires to be particularly unfun to play against, but i'm not a balance expert and i'm sure others had issues with it.

masterplum posted...

Are people complaining about standard ever happy? Even before the bans there were a ton of interesting decks all doing radically different things.

i know it can seem like complaining is the norm, but the general time period between dominaria (early 2018) and eldraine (late 2020) had an overall great standard.

nexus of fate was the one bogeyman because while very beatable it was unfun to play against, but there's a difference between one bad deck and the entire meta being bad decks. i can deal with one frustrating matchup as long as there's a bevy of other viable options and opponents. And plus, nexus was eventually banned from arena, so I didn't have to deal with it

i actually disagree with your statement that there are "a ton of interesting decks all doing radically different things." There are always plenty of interesting tier 2 decks, but if they can't really compete with the top 2/3 that are all similar, it's a moot point.

maybe i stopped paying attention at the wrong time, but the pre-ban standard seemed to be 90% non-interactive, and mostly combo. The tier 0 deck (lukka) was combo, and when i peaced out the tier 1 decks were cycling combo "storm", gyruda combo, winota combo, and take-the-entire-day-fiddling around cauldron familiar/witch's oven engines.

maybe it's gotten better since then- looking at mtggoldfish, it looks like while lukka is still tier 0, and cycling combo and sit-around-waiting-for-cauldron-familiar are the tier 1 decks, there's also a control deck. i guess i miss aggro and midrange.

meta:
jeskai lukka: 32%
clicking-on-witch's-oven 500 times: 12%
control: 7%
cycling until you can OHKO your opponent: 6%

yeah actually idk if control or cycling even count as tier 1


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GenesisSaga posted...

Does it have the potential to be someone I know? If there's even a 1/8.5 billion chance I kill my own mother or best friend or husband I wouldn't take it. I have very bad luck. Also even if it wasn't someone precious to me it could be someone who would do a lot more good in the world than I could like a civil rights activist in the middle east or a heart surgeon or genius inventor.

think about it this way- if you don't push the button, it's a 100% chance that all of your immediate friends and family have to suffer through losing you.

do you think they would be happier risking a 1/8.5 billion chance of death to save your life?

edit: i forgot to add, if there's any chance of overpowering your kidnapper, i think going for that is the right choice

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that's a pretty interesting interpretation of what i said!

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hollow knight

i know, right?

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i get what you're going for, but these things always fall apart when you take them literally

there's no way for me to prevent my kidnapper from pushing the button themselves. in all of these situations where you're held hostage, i consider the hostage taker to be the only one responsible for the deeds they force their captives to commit

that being said, there are certain things i would not do, but in this scenario, sure, i'd push the button

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i could support the death penalty in theory in an alternate universe, but not in our current one

basically- if we were in a smaller society that couldn't reliably contain prisoners, and death was the only sure-fire way to keep them from harming people again, sure.

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yeah i don't get the goal of all the people complaining about how the protestors are behaving

does this mean they disagree with the spirit of the protest? or what do they want exactly

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i'd report this for clickbait but then i remember FT

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fyi it's "martial law", not "marshall law".

guffguy89 posted...

You know, this is just another example of how partisan this country has become on every single issue. Look at CNNs website, and the front page focus is exclusively on the protests themselves and White House's response. Go to Fox News website and the focus is exclusively on the looting and property damage. If you criticize the looting to someone on the left, you are called a racist. If you criticize Derek Chauvins actions to the right, they call you antifa scum.

Can't someone both be against what Derek Chauvin did, and support justice, but also be against the opportunistic looting and property damage going on, which is affecting innocent business owners who are just coming out of months of closure due to Covid? Both sides are doing wrong things here. And its the intense partisanship in this country that causes people to not even acknowledge that because they are too busy pointing their finger at the other side.

So, the situation right now is that there were a lot of peaceful protests going on. Unfortunately, a bunch of people come in with their own agendas and behave inappropriately. The looters aren't there to protest, and the protestors aren't there to loot. The original autozone damage was done by a cop in disguise.

Everyone just wants protests to be done quietly somewhere they don't have to see them and therefore won't accomplish anything. People flipped their shit over an NFL player kneeling respectfully

Just like how the good police departments aren't there to fuck shit up, and the bad police departments aren't there to support the people

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i had no idea ertyu had a driver's license

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definitely a combo of 2 and 5. as with anything that qualifies as art, it's not going to be equally enjoyed by everyone

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the ending was about as good as it could have been, even though there were a few things that didn't make sense.

felina spoilers, obviously

****

the segment with the auto turret was dumb as hell, as in it somehow just magically was at the perfect angle to hit every single nazi dude

it was also silly letting walt get in as many final strokes to his own ego- the whole arrangement with grey matter was so pointless when he could've just asked them for the same thing in the first 3 episodes with no fuss. and they might have done it anyway, even if he didn't barge in and threaten them. but it was in character for him to think it was such a smart and great idea that allowed him to feel scary and powerful.

in general, i was very glad i stuck through the whole show. i think they could've condensed seasons 2 and 3 quite a bit. They had a fantastic arc for the first season, then floundered a bit when they realized the show was actually going to go on for a while. 2 and iirc the first half of 3 were extremely repetitive.

the show ozark is okay. it's 100% an attempt to capture some of breaking bad, but skip the first couple seasons and get into the midgame immediately, which i appreciate. it's just a little less focused, and a little more soap-opera-ish

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i haven't in a long time. if i've finished the story mode for a really, really fun game and need an excuse to play more, i'll check them out

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but i really came to page 2 to comment on how insane those cops are in that nyc footage. what the hell!

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i also can't remember your stance when ahmaud arbery was shot for jogging near where a crime might have occurred

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thanks for sharing these videos, jakyl.

hey wang, i forget which arguments you've made in the past. were you a part of the "shoot people running off with a stolen tv" crowd? or were you part of the 'if you see a thief, let them go' attitude? i honestly don't remember

too bad she wasn't a cop, she could have tackled and cuffed him

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well, the fact that you got it to work is positive!

i'll give it one shot

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anyone on PC?

it has to be downloaded through the windows store, and the reviews there are claiming it breaks/uninstalls/has various technical issues

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Watched the shields and Brooks segment on the news hour tonight- i don't think I've ever seen David Brooks so rattled


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Jakyl25 posted...

This wont mean anything to non-wrestling fans but this is an incredible development

https://twitter.com/randyorton/status/1266479458816536578?s=21

https://twitter.com/randyorton/status/1266498139105529856?s=21

hey, kevin nash in the responses as well

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ha! well, i'm signed in to discord whenever i'm chilling (i use it like i used to use aim), which should be most of the weekend. poke me and i'll probably be up for playing whenever

edit: i'm countersmell in the b8 discord

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azuarc posted...

I have an ultra-wide. Do I need a second monitor? Seems like the only time I would care is if I were streaming.

i have a friend that uses an ultra-wide and now loves it, after hating it for the first week or so.

the main advantage i see of 2 monitors over a single ultra-wide is being able to frame a game or movie, while still having a secondary monitor to use for chatting/browsing/whatever

putting a game in a window on the left side of a screen feels weird to me, but maybe i'd get used to it

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why do you do this to yourself? laptop users, obviously i get it

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protest yes, riot... debatable.

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Do those streaming stations on YouTube not count? Curious as to what you're looking for if that doesn't qualify and radio stations on the web don't qualify

https://youtu.be/5qap5aO4i9A

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Man murdered by police

Nanis: zzz

Looters rob closed store under the cover of subsequent protest/riot

Nanis: activated laser eye meme

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Oh yeah, pokemon go was the one

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even though i don't enjoy the game

league of legends

there was some other one i was surprised to see didn't make it, but i can't remember the title

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As far as games i can remember the name of, probably Barney Blaster (mac).

My dad worked at a college, and in the 90s the computer lab was throwing out really old computers from their computer labs, so we inherited a few. There were a bunch of weird, obscure games on them that I can't remember the names of

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sephiroth/JENOVA
sephiroth/aeris
sephiroth/cloud

would all have legitimate arguments

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swirIdude posted...

The best link of these, irrespective of the character, is Tae Takemi.

If you include the character and what they do outside of the link, then I would pick Makoto.

Makoto is a strong party member for sure.

However, as far as I could tell, Takemi was the only source of passive MP regen in the game. At least in my playthrough, this broke the combat system

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Hollow Knight popped into my head

has anyone calculated GotD x-stats anywhere?

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Duck Tales

Shrug

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code works- thanks!

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I suspect it's because Male shep was on the cover of me1. people generally tend to prefer playing the presumedly canon option in games

Although if I'm not wrong (i probably am), femshep became so popular among the dev team that they declared shep canonically female

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i'd like mr. shifty please. thanks for sharing these codes!

i am kind of morbidly curious about euro truck simulator, but i see someone already took that

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this and obra jinn are two games i'll 100% play eventually, but i'm being a patient gamer

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got bohemian. surprising, given that my current phone's swype has been especially bad

just tried swiping a little more sloppily, and got Nigerian and Norwegian

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mega man comes to mind first, followed by crono

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yes, the ps2 and ps3 should be in the contest

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flying disc redirects to frisbee on wikipedia so i feel confident that one of them is still the correct term

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trump "is going to override the governors" this weekend if they keep rules in place saying not to gather in large numbers in public (citing churches specifically) lol

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3DSRage posted...

Is this the "extremely cliquey users of a message board full of 30-55 year old men" list?

looks like it- are they digging UotY up from the grave?

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MetalmindStats posted...

For the most part, that would just be a list of GotD 2 games that weren't in previous contests. Otherwise, I don't think it's possible to make a grouping with fewer than 20 games thanks to the likes of San Andreas bloating up Undertale's indirect chain through its GotD 2 loss.

Yeah, oops, I completely forgot about Untertale

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We could probably do the "math" and calculate whether a noble X exists for games

The original noble 9 was created by the smallest set of otherwise undefeated characters

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it's too long

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thank you for reminding me of that truly disgusting era

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will do, will be online by 7:30 EST

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