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philsov posted...

GENESIS 2:18-25 / 1 Corinthians 11:9

Woman was made for man. Man is supposed to leave father and mother and become one flesh with his (female) wife.

The chapter says nothing about procreation, just that he's intended to leave his parents and become flesh with a wife figure.

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I hope you haven't slept in the same bed as your bloke mates, because at an absolute base line that would contradict the Bible's teachings.

Choco posted...

then why does he always give gay kids to the most homophobic parents?

Because he's an asshole, Billy. God's an asshole.

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Change my mind

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El Mexicano Texano posted...

You guys need to understand sarcasm/satire I got marked for trolling for that post, smh

I'm sorry, I marked the post so it might have been me.

It's been a long year, and I've seen how whacko some GameFAQs users can get. I took it seriously, I marked it as bait.

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ILiekSniping posted...

You're thinking of Jordan Peterson.

No, I'm talking specifically about Ben Shapiro.

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SamWincester posted...

Where is this accusation coming from?

Someone in another thread levelled the accusation, and frankly the profile seems to fit well enough.

You're definitely not a new user, and stooping to defending qanon shit is a low I could see the real realdill account doing.

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Doom_Art posted...

It's very odd that you felt the need to come in here unprompted and get defensive over QAnon

What do you expect? Dude is a realdill alt

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Jacinta Ardern actually seems to have taken the virus seriously from day one, and the virus still arrived on NZ shores and got a second flare-up. Just because America's brain-dead president and morally/mentally bankrupt Republican dipshits started lowering testing to affect the numbers, it doesn't mean other nations are doing the same thing.

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Protestors actually made an effort to wear masks and socially distance. The people who consistently and overwhelmingly made/initiated contact with others during the protests were police officers.

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Of fucking course my post praising them comes after a new wave of the virus hits, fuck.

I like New Zealand, and I was glad that they had gotten over the disease. I went as far as to say that they deserve to breathe easy, considering the government didn't downplay or normalize the virus to save face. But even NZ is going back into lockdown. Fuck.

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It's probably because of his creepy Muppet voice.

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Is tote-all a darkprince alt? That'll be something to keep in mind.

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poopoo peepee

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Electricity

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Inciting violence or other law-breaking, making terroristic threats, threatening/committing self harm or suicide.

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I feel like if it hasn't come out yet, it must involve some criminal shit. It doesn't go public because the police are looking into it or something.

I've learned time and time again when you get a person whose entire online persona is acting exaggeratingly arrogant or angry at dumb shit, they tend to actually be really negative, self-absorbed people. And whether they held certain biases before, during or after their initial fame, that negativity tends to take them in a really ugly path. You have dudes like JonTron who yelled slurs because he thought they were funny, and then he started parroting Great Replacement bullshit. You have AngryJoe, who's been a self-absorbed dickhead since pretty much the start of his career, have allegations leveled against him of being an entitled creep.

I get that DrDisrespect's irreverent, inflated personality is funny to a lot of people, and it's entirely possible for a guy to play a crazy character and be a decent, well adjusted person outside of the role, but it really wouldn't surprise me if his stupid fucking gimmick went to his head and he engaged in inappropriate conduct. He wouldn't be the first, and he won't be the last. All I hope is that he didn't hurt or take advantage of anyone, and whatever he did ultimately only harms him.

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Dude probably feels like the age of consent laws are an infringement of civil liberties or some dumb shit like that.

Hope he doesn't start a mod abuse blog and start posting about the cucked bluepill moderators suppressing his free speech on Reddit.


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Cops: use LinkedIn, Instagram and Etsy to pin an arson charge on a protestor

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/18/21295301/philadelphia-protester-arson-identified-social-media-etsy-instagram-linkedin

Also cops: send 5 people to court over a completely unknown Twitter post trying to expose a police officer being friendly with alt-right shitbags

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Hexenherz posted...

i just automatically assume if it's "dark____##" then it's that one guy that's like hardcore police lives matter.

Darkprince45/MarkDeRosa, who is actually a cop

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1: wtf, why?

2: what's gonna happen to the waifus?

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Such an inspiring story TC! Let me share a story from my own community.

Yesterday when a BLM group came to protest our county sheriff. About 100 protesters came to town, and around 1000 local residents showed up to support the sheriff. Any time anyone from BLM tried to speak they were drowned out by chants from the opposition. The protest was scheduled to go until 6 but they packed it in around 3. For the rest of the night the locals were outside all over town waiting to see if they'd come back.

Just take the L on this one BLM. There are way too many older white people in the community who aren't open to your cause.

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StarsOfCCTV posted...

But he's not conscious. If i just kill him he won't even be aware of it.

If you are appealing to some double-talk bullshit, which is likely, then this comment is fucking despicable.

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Heart-Mk-II posted...

It's pretty blatant that TC is actually talking about abortion. He's not slick.

Well fuck

fwiw, as long as a child is A) not developed enough and B) unwanted, it is the choice of the mother to abort or not. As long as it's in a woman's body, it's a precious miracle that deserves a chance at fulfilling its potential - but the second it's outside, in the arms of a woefully inadequate mother/family structure who could never provide for it or who never wanted it, it's not important for conservatives to support a "welfare queen".

A half-developed fetus doesn't have the same weight or sway in this shit-ass scenario as a man who's lived roughly half as long as you, who raised and fed you, who has had his faculties taken away in some sort of tragic accident.

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Only if your dad consented to euthanasia beforehand.

If he was like "son, if my quality of life gets so bad that I can't look after myself without your help, I want you to help me end my life", then okay. There's a case there for helping your dad pass away with his blessing. Becoming locked away in your own body against your will is a fucking horrifying prospect, and a part of me genuinely hopes that if I ever suffer the same fate, there'll be someone to help me escape that existence.

But if you want to kill your dad because he would be a burden on you, when you have no information that would determine his preference for being alive or not in a situation that limits his faculties, then you're being incredibly selfish and you are committing what is tantamount to murder.

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Doom_Art posted...

Yeah Iunno maybe it's just my own bias but they seem... lazier than before?

Like it feels less like they wanna do it and more like it's just habit at this point

"Hmm, lately I've felt touches of the ennui encroaching upon my mood. Perhaps I shall partake in another comment to steel my resolve?"

"TRUMP 2020! OBAMAGATE! BUILD THE WALL!"

"*handsome chuckle* Why, that should give Trader Joe's something to think about! But now I must sup, for the sun sinks low and I must contemplate the curative properties of hydroxychloroquine for the momentous occasion that I allow myself such immunity from the virus!"

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So who's gonna close this thread first, the mods or TC?

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God TC, you're so oppressed

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Hoo boy, you got this thread reinstated. I went to click when it got posted, but the mods had already zapped it by then.

I'm worried that wording this wrong will come across as othering or speaking down to autistic or transgender individuals, but I can see a connection in the sense that both autism and transgenderism involve coping with one's brain chemistry in ways that deviate from what we consider the societal norm. Autistic people have different ways of focusing and paying attention, and I think they absorb information in a much more lasting way if they can find an enriching activity to engage in while they engage with the material. The proper stimulation can engage them with the world at large, and repression of behavior that benefits an autistic mind will stifle them and reduce their quality of life significantly.

My understanding is that trans people have a mental self which is not reflected in the physical self. The stress that this disconnect produces impacts quality of life significantly, to the point of despondence. But if they can express this mental self, their quality of life improves tremendously. In areas where they used to struggle, they can excel with a strong support structure. It's an expression of what the brain needs, against what we consider to be the societal norm.

I don't think stimming is hugely comparable to gender transition, but I can understand there being some overlap. The brain suffers when its needs aren't being met - for autistic people, this can be flapping their arms, engaging in a texturally pleasant experience, engaging in echolalia or any other number of activities. For some reason, that's the condition that the brain needs to function, and it functions incredibly well if those conditions are met. For others, it's assuming a physical self that reflects a mental image of what the brain considers itself to be. There could be some bleed-through in between those states of mind, where there is a personal requirement that is not shared by a majority of people and starves someone of an essential part of their identity that they need to function.

But if there is any connection like that, which I could easily be horrifically wrong about, transgenderism and autism can be mutually exclusive. Being transgender doesn't necessarily mean that someone is autistic, the same way that being autistic doesn't make someone transgender. And while both expressions of the brain's needs do go against what we consider to be the societal norm, there's nothing wrong with someone improving their quality of life in such a drastic way. Some people are transgender, some people are autistic, some people are both. Rather than seeing it as something wrong or worthy of scorn, let them express themselves in a way that allows them to thrive.

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Wutobliteration posted...

A lot of non-religious people eventually deduce their idea of meaning of life to mean 'just maximise happiness/satisfaction'. Except as we all know, humans have an endless need for satisfaction.

I understand your point of not rewarding volunteerism and selfless acts, and those aspects of religion can be beneficial. But I'm not talking about karma, and I think your point about people who do believe in karma is a bit pointed. The benefit isn't "if I do a good thing, the universe will ensure that good things will happen to me" - it's "if I treat this person well, they're incentivised to treat me well in return, so we help each other out and we're both happy at the end of the day". If you act like a raging shithead, then people around you won't be incentivised to do anything for you. Boil it down to karma if you want, but I think that incentivising positive behavior with social norms that favor positive behavior in return is closer to the idea that "one good deed deserves another" than it is to karma.

I also think you default to hedonism as the default human experience kind of quickly, as if the only logical end to a faithless world is self-destruction. What I'm trying to say is that it's important for people to have standards - they want to get into Heaven, so they lead a pious life and devote themselves to their figure of worship. They want to make the world around them better, so they respond positively to the world around them and work to create positive change. They want to run a marathon every year until they're 80, so they stay in shape and lead a positive, healthy lifestyle for decades. I agree that people without a guiding force will aim to maximise their own comfort and enjoyment, but satisfaction comes from meeting your own standards at the end of the day, and religion is not the only standard that inspires positive behavior and morality in people.

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She Was Begging for Mercy, Charlie Brown

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I don't think it's needed, but I do think it's useful and even healthy for people to derive meaning from something they consider to be larger than themselves. The only real problem I have with religion is using it for untoward reasons, like personal gain or to amplify bigotry.

Morality is based on empathy and law. Of course, people can lack empathy and laws can be abused to harm/benefit certain people. But a greater societal focus on "treat people with respect and kindness and you'll be paid in kind", with a just punishment system to dissuade crimes like murder and fraud, is entirely possible without religion. That "higher power" that drives people to act morally can easily be respect for one's fellow man.

Not that life is that simple, of course - but there are reasons that appeal to basic human instinct which can instill morality in a society. Religion is one way to communicate a broader set of ethics and morality to a receptive audience if utilised in a positive way, but it isn't a requirement.

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My third grade teacher called me an idiot to my face, and was overall a rude, stuck-up bitch with a plastic-looking face and a fake personality. She was the worst about enforcing zero tolerance policies, to the point where she would shrug off bullying despite a zero tolerance policy, but crack down hard on zero contact rules when a kid got hurt and needed a friend to take them to the first aid room. I hope she's not around kids any more, and I hope she's as bitter towards herself as she was towards other people.

My sixth grade teacher once antagonized a student over Chris Benoit's death by saying he deserved to die for killing his family, and was overall an overbearing, unpleasant person. After two years with a teacher whose style of teaching resonated with me, I got a teacher who felt like a brick wall. I also hit the peak of my depression and angst in sixth grade, which meant that she got involved with behavioral stuff and tried to get me put in certain high school classes when I graduated from grade school (Aussie high school is 6 years, by the by). Her influence also got me involved with shitty high school guidance counselling for three years, which made me feel like I was performing normative behavior to a bunch of adults who wanted to see that. It only taught me to hide my honest feelings even more.

Ultimately though, I understand that her intentions were good and that she was trying to help me - even if I disagreed with her actions, and disliked her personally - and that while I think she could make some shitty moral judgements and justified them as the "right" one by asserting her authority in the classroom, she was dealing with a particularly volatile age bracket and she needed to run a tight ship to keep everything under control. Her calls were still wrong at times, including antagonising students, but I think I would call her a functional teacher and a functional person at an absolute baseline. I still have a strong negative bias towards her, but I think of her as a person and not as total scum.

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DuranOfForcena posted...

tl;dr

MrMallard posted...

To sum up my opinion of 2 Fast 2 Furious - while it's emblematic of the nature of forced sequels, in good and bad aspects, I would say that ultimately it is one of the better examples of a shoehorned sequel that I've ever seen.

MrMallard posted...

Fast 2 is not a bad sequel. It's not amazing, and it might still be the worst movie in the franchise for all I know, but my genuine opinion is that as far as sequels go, it does hold up in several key aspects that make it an entertaining spectacle on par with the broader franchise. As far as unnecessary cash-grab sequels go, this is actually a pretty good one.

At the beginning and end of my post, my dude. The reason why I think this makes upbthe bulk of the post, so if you're interested in knowing why I think this is the case, you know where to go.

Lonestar2000 posted...

God, those movies got so bad. At least Hobbs & Shaw was more grounded.

Honestly, I think they're all a bit schlocky and pandery imo. They're still pretty fun though, but I haven't seen any movies past Fast Five so I have no idea how whacked out they get by #8. Looking forward to it, though.

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A pretty decent ranking of the wider Final Fantasy X games, circa 2079

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Smokey and the Bandit II extended a great movie past the point it needed to exist, and MI2 was a stumbling point in a widely celebrated action franchise that no-one likes to bring up. Fast 2 - while undoubtedly dated, corny and a deviation from the first movie's focus - reiterates values that the first movie shared, and which became more prominent as the series continued. It also, bizarrely, aligns with the crazy action shit that later movies spiral into - just on a lower scale. In comparison to the first movie, the wilder, dumber action is a departure, but it's almost restrained in comparison to what the franchise becomes.

Roman isn't the best character for most of the movie - he might be my second least favorite next to the Miami cop - but I found his relationship arc with Brian over the course of the movie to be pretty solid, and it paid off near the end in a really great, personal way. And while it's not the same as Brian and Dom, it is still a strong "friends to enemies to friends" arc in the end. Complement that with some gratuitous racing action, and you have the basic formula for a good Fast and Furious movie.

And the thing about Fast 2 is that it reminds me directly of Smokey II and MI2. Near the end, there's a scene where the good guys intervene with the bad guys with a bunch of cars to help the good guys escape - the whole cavalry idea reminded me a lot of the ending of Smokey and the Bandit II, with the fleet of trucks that face off with the police force. And much like MI2, the main character has a fling with a woman on the inside of the villain's lair, and endeavours to save her life near the end of the movie. The former felt bloated in Smokey II after an absolute shitpile of a movie, while it appealed to the series' sense of style and whimsy in Fast 2. The latter felt shoehorned in MI2, with the character basically being a damsel and macguffin with entirely too much screentime dedicated to getting together with Tom Cruise, while the character in Fast 2 is a character who is intriguing and who feels essential, whose functions as a character aren't overshadowed by Paul Walker's massive boner for her.

Ultimately, the Fast and the Furious franchise is a flashy, speedy spectacle franchise. The worst thing you could do is botching the driving and making it feel slow and inessential. Ultimately, while Fast 2 isn't as good as the first one - and may or may not still go down as the worst movie in the franchise - it still feels like a Fast and Furious movie. And it's retroactively made better by basically being The Incredible Hulk to Fast Five's Avengers - the Fast and Furious movies are basically a cinematic universe unto themselves, and even the bad ones gain some entertainment points by factoring into the wider narrative. By the sheer nature of the Fast and Furious movies being pandering schlock at the end of the day, Fast 2 really isn't that bad. It feels congruent with the past and future of the franchise, even if it isn't necessarily as entertaining as the rest of the franchise. Other unnecessary cash-grab sequels gut the characters, skimp on their development and make stories that really don't need to exist - Fast 2 has main characters who gel well with each other (even if one of them kinda sucks), gives them a solid arc that plays into the wider theme of the franchise and introduces characters and plot elements which further movies build on.

Fast 2 is not a bad sequel. It's not amazing, and it might still be the worst movie in the franchise for all I know, but my genuine opinion is that as far as sequels go, it does hold up in several key aspects that make it an entertaining spectacle on par with the broader franchise. As far as unnecessary cash-grab sequels go, this is actually a pretty good one.

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Preface: I'll be calling the movie Fast 2 because 2 Fast is stupid.

To sum up my opinion of 2 Fast 2 Furious - while it's emblematic of the nature of forced sequels, in good and bad aspects, I would say that ultimately it is one of the better examples of a shoehorned sequel that I've ever seen.

I saw The Fast and the Furious 1 last week, and while I thought it was corny and dated - the f-slur gets used twice, there's a mesh tank top on a dude considered to be the height of badassitude, the dialogue is pretty dumb and the acting isn't great - I was very entertained. I've seen Fast Five, so I know how corny and over the top the series gets, and I'm approaching this series from an emotional standpoint - are the characters compelling, is the action good, how much am I invested in the stakes. The first movie was pretty good - I felt like it was kind of reserved, even, though that's because the budget was low and because I have unrealistic standards due to my knowledge of the franchise as a whole.

So going into Fast 2, I knew to keep my expectations level. It's a sequel that lacks a major star of the first one, it's set in an entirely new environment with an entirely new supporting cast, it's dripping in excess since the first movie did so well, and all of this is going to affect the story's plot in a way that will significantly deviate from what fans liked about the first movie.

But for a movie with those elements, Fast 2 actually managed to keep the essence of what makes this franchise so enjoyable. It's still fast - though the CGI and other car effects have aged like milk - there's still a focus on community and "family" in a way - Brian reconnects with Roman, he's made connections with Ludacris' character and he gets in good with the wider racing community in Miami - and while the villain is cartoonishly evil and the last act of the movie is basically a giant cartoon with the shitty villain and the stunts, the series as a whole has steered towards crazy cartoony shit ever since. And also, you can see the stupid cartoony shit in the first movie - using grapple guns to hijack trucks, for example.

Of course, two of those are retroactive connections to the franchise. That last one applies to the franchise going forward, as it became a franchise zombie. So it's totally understandable that for its day, Fast 2 was controversial. I still maintain that for a sequel that could be characterised as an unneeded cash-grab and potential reboot, Fast 2 has actually aged pretty decently.

There are two unnecessary sequels I want to compare Fast 2 to - Smokey and the Bandit II, and Mission Impossible II.

Smokey and the Bandit II is bloated and full of itself. The first movie was a straightforward caper movie - bootleg a truck full of Coors across state lines and evade the police. There's a little bit of backstory and character development, but it's a lean, functional movie at the end of the day.

Yet despite sharing the exact same cast as the last movie, sans one additional character, the characters feel outlandish and full of themselves - which reflects in the entire product. The Bandit has drunk himself into a pit over Frog, so Cledus has to give him a pep talk and push him through a training montage to lose his beer weight - it's padding, and it's trying to build a greater emotional arc based on a character who feels more like an archetype who works well in the moment. There's an unnecessary target shooting scene with Buford T. Justice that feels like padding, the Dom DeLuise character is grating, and the cargo of a baby elephant - along with its accompanying ethical dilemma, seeing Bandit take a more altruistic, heroic position rather than being the lovable scoundrel of the first movie - is such a self-serving cop-out. And that finale of all those truck drivers coming to the rescue - while awesome in concept - comes in after a majority of the movie has been a stinking turd and is the biggest example of unnecessary excess and bloat in the entire movie.

Smokey and the Bandit II took itself so seriously that it lost sight of what made the first movie so good. The Bandit has a heart of gold, but the movie doesn't have to give him an ethical dilemma to make him an objectively decent person. While the idea of the team losing the bet in the end is an alright ending, they didn't need a moral victory on the level of preventing an elephant from a life of circus work/misery to paint them in such a good light. And worst of all, the caper sucks. It's so up its own ass that it doesn't know how to emulate the first movie's appeal at all.

Quick note: I spoilered plot details, but I genuinely think this movie is one of the biggest pieces of dogshit I've ever seen and you're really not missing out on much by not seeing it. People seem to hate the third one, but even that was a fun watch compared to the second one imo. If you're never gonna watch Smokey and the Bandit II, by all means, disregard the spoiler tags.

Then you have Mission Impossible II, which I saw for the first time less than a month ago. And while the first movie was a goofy, self-indulgent romp, the second movie is filled to the brim with unnecessary excess, bloat and unearned emotional weight. It feels longer than it actually is, the cinematography is all style and no substance, the acting is grating and full of itself, the acting sucks and it feels so dated and out of place on almost every level.

Like Smokey and the Bandit II, it feels much longer than it really is. Sequences like Tom Cruise flirting with the main girl for the first half hour of the movie really make the movie drag, especially after the punchy and functional approach to the first movie. It's overly convoluted, even for Mission Impossible - at one point the bad guy basically nails Tom Cruise's plan down to the T, and the heist focuses more on his deduction than it does on the heist itself. Then the last act, with the main girl being infected with the supervirus, has some of the most self-indulgent and needlessly stylised action in the series to date, and it jams the forced love story into the forefront even more. Mission Impossible II is a rough watch, even today - it's a wanky mess.

What these movies share is that they're entirely detached from the movies that came before them in tone, plot and/or stakes. Smokey II has a dogshit tone, the plot is needlessly padded and the stakes suck. MI2 has an over-stylized and melodramatic tone, the plot is poorly acted despite having the building blocks of a decent MI plot, and the stakes are kinda fucked due to the forced romance being directly connected to the mega-threat of the movie. Smokey II bastardises previously established characters, while MI2 brings in a mostly new cast to ruin specifically for that movie - though the variable team has stuck around in the franchise at large.

Here's what Fast 2 does to stand out.

The plot - another caper involving the feds, with a new character and locale in place of a returning one. The stakes are less personal than the first movie, but they're bigger and they're supplemented by Brian and Roman reconnecting over the course of the movie. Brian and Roman's relationship reflects the values established in the first movie - community, or family if that's your bag. Ride and die.

The tone - gratuitous driving, gaudy colours, a bit more ambitious with the bad guy compared to the first movie - true to the first movie, and reflective of the later sequels. Arguably less actiony in some aspects. A bit sillier than the first movie.

The stakes - Brian and Roman's freedom, the safety of Brian's love interest and eliminating a violent criminal. More dramatic than the first movie - that movie was character-driven from beginning to end, while Fast 2 is more of a standard action movie with an unambiguous villain - but reminiscent of the first movie's values.

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ROBANN_88 posted...

i'm taking this as a personal attack, and i will not stand for it.
now, get off my lawn

What if I say I love you?

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I've gotta say - not a Biden fan, but the maddest of props if he picked Bernie.

If he picked Bloomberg, I'll drink an entire bottle of gin within an hour on a lifestream.

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Biden dementia memes, spurred on by the total Trump-rot who the human turd will continue to feed through his official Twitter channels.

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Wow, sounds like a cheap imitation

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AzurexNightmare posted...

I feel dumb asking this but that's photoshopped right xD

It looks like someone ran a Seinfeld cast photo through FaceApp. irl, Jerry is a lot more bald. Definitely fake, lol.

Webbernet posted...

I've never done the math before. Is this something we should have been all informed of when we graduated high school or something?

What high school did you go to? In my high school, we would celebrate the birthdays of each regular cast member with a mufti day. You didn't have to dress up, but you could come to school without your uniform as long as you brought a gold coin donation.

toyota posted...

ikr its so weird i cant imagine 31 year olds looking like that lol.

I always thought dude was middle aged in his mid 40s not some dude in his early 30s

I meant at the end of the day, 31 is definitely middle aged. Most folks won't live past age 90, if they get so far - so 30 is roughly within the ballpark of what "middle age" would define.

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Obvious bait but

this reminds me of a Reddit screenshot that's like "I found incest porn on my dad's computer, how do I process this?" - where the thread creator is a 16 year old who uses her dad's computer to send out resumes and stuff, and one day she comes across the guy's porn folder and clicks on a few links. It's all "Daughter Submits To Daddy's Big Cock" sorts of videos, and the question she posits is if this means her dad is sexually attracted to her.

On one hand, this could have been a shitty Reddit throwaway made for the lulz and the karma, but on the other, that sort of porn has real psychological consequences for the demographic that it's depicting. Your main point is "what if my child googles 'child porn' because they're a sexually explorative child", but ultimately any child coming across any porn - specialised or not - is going to be upset at this discovery. Like a step- or half-daughter finding a cache of weird porn shit catered to her particular situation in her dad's porn folder.

Maybe instead of "is my kid gonna get me arrested for illegal pornography", you should be asking yourself "how can I keep my child away from extreme sexual content". Because unless you're convinced that lolicon is a widely discussed porn term circulated among elementary/middle schoolers, or in the media at large to the point that your child would learn about it and become curious about it, your culpability in a sex crime shouldn't come before your child's mental wellbeing.

Again - obvious bait. But Christ, this line of questioning hits so many weird, shitty sore spots that it's worth talking about.

TL;DR - instead of worrying about going to jail over a broad Google search, you should probably consider the social ramifications of porn that depicts physically/mentally underage people, and how exposure to such material would harm a demographic that is obstentially being depicted in that media.

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Feel old yet?

fwiw it's actually been 31 years since the show began lmao

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Surprise, this is what happens when you run America as a business

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Did the Chocobo dungeon. Didn't put me over the line.

Gonna beat Via Infinito.

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Finally got 3 Level 5 chocobos. Now I need them to not run away, otherwise I'll have to save scum

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...I had a Level 5 Chocobo.

I was releasing other junk Chocobos.

I accidentally released the Level 5 one.

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The funny thing is, by the time I can open the Chocobo dungeon, I'll probably be around level 80 anyway.

To catch a Chocobo, I need to enter a random battle on the Calm Lands, Mi'ihen Highroad and possibly the Thunder Plains. One of the monsters needs to be a Chocobo, which is not a 100% chance. When I get into a fight with a Chocobo, I need to defeat every other monster and feed it some greens to capture it. In some battles, the Chocobo runs away before you ever get a chance to act.

So you have random battles that may or may not yield a Chocobo, and in battles where you do get a Chocobo, they may or may not run away as the first action of the battle. That cuts down the chances of me catching one significantly.

After I catch that Chocobo, I need it to be upgradeable to level 5, and it needs to have the Bold personality trait.

Here's what sucks about that: Chocobos can be Level 1 - 5. You can catch a Chocobo and have it level up to Level 2, 3, 4 or 5, or it will only ever be Level 1.

So of the Chocobos I catch, there's a 1 in 5 chance that it's a Chocobo that I can even use.

On top of that - this next part might not be 100% needed - each of these Chocobos need to have a Bold personality. To my knowledge, you can get Normal, Bold and Timid Chocobos. So you have a 1 in 5 shot of getting a Level 5 Chocobo, which will have a 1 in 3 chance of being the right personality type. Which will only appear in random battles, and which might run away before I can catch it.

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tote_all posted...

I did 100% it like 10 years ago, I was thinking of playing it again and seeing if I'd 100% it again. I remember it was quite satisfying finally getting it done.

You've put me off with your post.

It's a fun game, especially with the job system. But this is just bullshit of the highest order. I'm at the end of the game, and I have to waste my time gaming the RNG system to open a hidden dungeon I never knew existed until now. It's not even something that the game told me about - I only know it exists because of a guide.

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Prismsblade posted...

I blame that on it just being a product of it's time, but cranked up to eleven. Theres a reason missable content isnt usually a thing anymore in most rpgs.

And I remember trying to 100% FF-2 countless times and even with the guide and following it religiously we failed. The lady luck dresssphere was one I remember having a ton of trouble obtaining but can't quite recall why.

The Lady Luck dressphere is a reward for winning the Sphere Break tournament in chapter 3. Being a game of chance, it's possible for the game to break your streak at any time by giving you a multiple of 1 - the main way you get points in that minigame is to get to a multiple of whatever number shows up on your screen, and either using the same amount of coins to reach each consecutive number or reaching the same number as last time. Without this multiplier, it's extremely hard to just brute-force the game into giving you enough points to win.

So when the game gives you a multiple of 1, no matter which coin you pick to begin with, it'll activate a Sphere Break and reset your multiplier. It's a game of skill, but it's just as much a game of chance.

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