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Shadow_toys posted...

People is a bit of an odd work. What really gets me "rendezvous" I don't like how its spelled at all.

Well, it comes from the same people that brought you "oiseaux" (pronounced "wah-zoh"), so...

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Collat posted...

The only people that it should be offensive to is any reasonable person who happens to be named Karen.

Pretty much. I feel a little bad for such people, as well as for any parents that named their kid Karen 2-3 years ago (presumably, the name's popularity has plummeted in the past year), but the term is not racist or misogynist in any way because it describes behaviour, not race or sex. That the stereotypical Karen is a white woman is a consequence of that being the largest demographic of Karens, not any inherent racist or sexist sentiment.

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He was given a clear warning about the dangers of his actions that he chose to openly defy? Fair, next. This would be unreasonable if he got arrested after a first offense, especially back in March before any precedent had been set, but he had plenty of opportunity to learn from his mistake and instead chose to throw a tantrum. Now he gets a time out like the petulant toddler he is.

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I'm just seeing the dog.

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Chr0noid posted...

Then you're reading the graph wrong

Not at all. The graph shows that, adjusting for inflation, games are being sold for less now than they ever have been. As such, according to that graph, increasing MSRP to account for that inflation would be reasonable.

Of course, as others have alluded to, there are a lot more factors at play here than simple inflation. Personal purchasing power generally hasn't kept up with inflation, which is a more salient factor for luxury purchases like video games than inflation is. Development budgets have grown, but so have sales numbers, which negate each other to a certain extent (and I'm pretty sure the increased sales outweigh the costs). Most significantly, post-purchase monetization (DLC, microtransactions, subscription fees, etc.) has become such a huge part of so many AAA games' revenue stream that keeping a $60 MSRP really doesn't hurt any of those companies, and in fact, each copy of the game sold generates far more than $60 on average.

Could a >$60 MSRP be justified? Yeah. But somebody has to make the first move to change that paradigm, and nobody wants that bad PR, especially when the industry's revenue is very much not suffering right now and increasing MSRP would have to be paired with a compensatory decrease in monetization (which is generally worth a whole lot more than an extra $10-20 per game) to placate consumers.

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Zeus posted...

>Guy illegally owns large stockpile of weapons
>Biggest concern is his "hatred" and "racism"

I mean, having a large stockpile of weapons without hatred isn't all that concerning, according to the "good guy with a gun" crowd. It's the hatred that makes said stockpile potentially dangerous.

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I remember basically nothing about that movie except how they lampshade the fact that it wasn't Brendan Fraser.

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Not knowing the law? After all the schooling and training they're required to undergo before joining the f- Oh. Right.

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Man, if people are getting this uppity now, I can't wait to see how hineyirate they get when "What Makes the Red Man Red?" isn't included (which it almost certainly won't be).

AWinterJ posted...

A live action remake of a Disney classic is indeed a attempt to bring the animated characters to life thus should follow everything to a t. When they don't things go downhill fast. Again look at Mulan.

Mulan's issues aren't a matter of trying to change things, they're a matter of making bad changes. There's plenty of room to make an adaptation of Mulan that's truer to the original myth and less fantastical, which is what they seemed to be doing by removing the talking animals, musical numbers, and gratuitous romantic interest from the animated version. Except then they also made it into the live-action equivalent of a magical girl anime and completely undermined any chance they had of seizing that opportunity.

The fact that they made stupid changes here doesn't mean that all changes they ever make will be stupid, nor does it mean that frame-by-frame remakes are all they should be doing. That's basically what they did with Lion King, and it got panned for not doing anything to make watching it over the original worthwhile (and also that realistic lions don't exactly emote very well compared to cartoon ones).

wwinterj25 posted...

However I do find it irksome when companies change well established characters rather than build new ones.

Tinkerbell's race isn't exactly a significant part of the established character. Sure, she's been white in every well-known depiction, but that hasn't factored into her role in the story at all. Make her black, white, or purple, and nothing meaningful changes except which metaphorical crayons you use up drawing the footage. It's virtually guaranteed that Disney is doing this for SJW points and not because this actress is genuinely the best for the role, but presuming the girl they've got is reasonably competent (which is probably fair, though I don't know Grown-ish at all), this isn't going to appreciably affect the final product in any way.

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CarefreeDude posted...

My wife and I tried the tiny home living for a bit, it was pretty miserable. We felt super cramped and felt like we had no space to ourselves when we needed it

That's not very carefree, dude.

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IronBornCorps posted...

Idk if that's really true in all cases. One job posting had a job posting for 7+ years of experience in a certain language. The creator of the language made a post stating he wasn't qualified as he only wrote the language 3 years ago.

That's an HR department that doesn't know what they're doing.

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joemodda posted...

Also helps with that problem of 'need 5 years of experience to apply but can't apply anywhere because I don't have experience'

Indeed. People often forget that volunteer or recreational experience can count toward that, provided you can back up the claim (which is what a portfolio is for). Professional experience is still preferred, but provided you can demonstrate that you aren't new to the work you'll be doing, that's points in your favour.

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dedbus posted...

It seems science and Facebook mom's are chasing themselves ouroboros style. They already wanted to wear masks in the begging but everyone told them how stupid they were for scrounging up whatever they can during the peak of the shortage.

Welcome to the front lines of science. When you're dealing with something really novel like this, it's not uncommon for recommendations to do complete 180's as the best available information changes. In the early days, available evidence suggested masks were mostly just effective for preventing transmission from infected people, not protecting healthy people, so people hoarding them for their own protection was baseless and problematic because it meant there were fewer available for use in riskier environments. Since then, there's been more than enough concrete data to conclude that masks are effective enough for personal protection to warrant using, plus the number of cases paired with the potential for asymptomatic transmission means there's a non-trivial likelihood that seemingly healthy people are infectious, so the recommendation has changed.

This is throwing people off because they don't usually get to see science working like this. Most people view science as a source of answers, not as a process of asking questions. The fact that Covid is such a pressing situation that demands immediate action has pulled back that curtain, and people are surprised to see that the whole process consists of throwing a bunch of educated guesses at a wall to see what sticks. It's understandable that many would be more inclined to distrust the science that's currently going on than you reshape their entire understanding of the process.

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mrduckbear posted...

Would you think this was a human brain if you saw this on the beach?

Nah, shape's wrong. Cerebrum is too small relative to the cerebellum.

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dedbus posted...

Maybe used means taken out of the box like those bowls at clinics then repackaged.

The article talks about washing and reshaping them. Pretty sure they mean actual use.

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Resume, no. Portfolio, yes. Your resume can make reference to things your portfolio demonstrates, if there's something you really want to highlight, but all that should really be on there is "Can use this program," while your portfolio demonstrates in detail your abilities with it.

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Zeus posted...

For a phone? What sorcery is this?!

Pretty much any bluetooth-capable controller can be made to work with a phone, as I understand it. You've gotta jump through some hoops with some of them, and I imagine some don't work very well, but it's an option, if you want to look into it.

Now, the fact that holding a controller means the phone (and its tiny screen) has to rest on something else limits how useful that really is, unless you want to get crafty and 3D print yourself a clip to attach the phone to the controller, which would actually be kinda cool.

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Zeus posted...

Overlooking the new healthcare plan for a second, the problem with measures designed to "protect" people with pre-existing conditions is that it fundamentally undermines the entire insurance industry because it allows people to only get insurance after they have a problem. Can you imagine buying insurance *after* you wreck your car and expecting that car crash to be covered? It goes against the whole notion of insurance.

Man, it's almost like health care is a really poor fit for the insurance model. Who knew?

likehelly posted...

look at zeus finally questioning the logic behind something trump did

it's cute

Surprisingly little evidence of cognitive dissonance, too. I guess he'd already made up his mind that he hates socialized health care more than he loves Trump.

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streamofthesky posted...

The way that's written, merely being present at a protest when a few anarchists, far right false-flaggers, or anyone else decide to start breaking windows or setting fires means you can get hit w/ a penalty, even if you didn't f***ing do anything,

Bonus points where the handful of people breaking windows and setting fires at some of these protests have been police. This conceivably gives police the power to arrest everybody present even if the police are the only violent ones.

On paper, it seems reasonable. Pretty much everyone can agree that rioting and other such violent behaviours are bad and deserve some degree of punishment. Consider how broad the wording is and the potential implications for overreach, though, and this should terrify everyone. Vandalism and assault are already illegal; the only reason more people aren't prosecuted for it is because of how difficult it is to single out individual antagonists in a chaotic situation like this. The solution being proposed here is to skip the step of singling out individual antagonists and instead just prosecute anyone they can get their hands on for being "associated with" (read: in the same area as) actual perpetrators. They're not making it illegal to riot, they're making it illegal to be present at a riot, and that's very much not okay.

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Zeus posted...

Also really curious how they collected them in the first place. Because that's probably the weirdest part. Do they have condom recycling bins over there? Or were they just collecting them from something like a brothel where you'd see wide-scale use over a short period of time?

Yeah, this kinda baffles me. There's no way ordinary dumpster-diving would find them quickly enough to make resale a sustainable business, even without considering the further costs involved in repackaging them. Condoms are very much not a high-value item, unless they're a lot harder to come by in Vietnam than I'm realizing (and therefore more expensive), so you'd need one person to be able to collect an enormous volume in order to turn enough profit to make such a criminal venture worthwhile. I'm really not sure how that's possible.

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Zeus_LLC posted...

Not bad advice

"If you ignore public health directives but avoid getting caught while doing so, nothing bad will happen to you" is absolutely bad advice. Police should not be undermining the advice of public health agencies, to say nothing of undermining themselves by explicitly encouraging people to be sneakier about breaking the law.

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Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

I just dont understand why people are so damn stupid. There is no way so many countries could get together and collaborate a hoax. They cant get along normally!

Eeyup. The extent to which every single country in the world would have to collaborate to pull off a conspiracy of this magnitude - to no measurable gain and at considerable loss for many of them, I might add - would be enough to attain world peace.

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Who's required to pay for it? If the mother, this seems like a thinly-veiled attempt to discourage abortions (since there will be additional costs if the procedure goes wrong). If the doctor, that's potentially reasonable, given that it was the doctor's failure to perform the procedure correctly that resulted in the need for care, but that's going to discourage doctors from offering abortions because of the potential costs. If the government, then that shouldn't affect abortions' availability, but the notion of a republican US government offering to pay for abortion-related health care seems somewhat less than plausible.

I is smart posted...

Not complaining about the order but... kind of an odd thing to issue an order for out of nowhere like this considering everything else that's going on right now.

It's an election thing. This is the sort of thing that pro-lifers will eat right up, so tossing it out there is easy brownie points from that crowd.

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Zeus_LLC posted...

By a small margin. If you walked down a street that was representative of the vote, close to half the people you pass would have voted for Trump.

This is going to be true for pretty much every election (minus the Trump part, obviously), given that vote margins rarely break 10% (55/45 split) and almost never break 20% (60/40 split). You're rarely going to find such a crowd occurring in the wild (for lack of a better term), given how regional voting trends are, but if you randomly select 10 Americans, odds are 4-6 of them will have voted for whichever presidential candidate you're considering.

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As a Canadian, "Zed," outside of specific contexts where "Zee" is defined as part of a name (such as Dragonball Z). How I choose to pronounce "La-Z-Boy" depends how silly I'm feeling at that moment.

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Seems like the easiest way to stop Bloomberg from "buying" votes (pretending for a moment that's what's going on here) would be to stop making it so people need more money to be able to vote. He won't be able to give people money to enable them to vote if they're already able to vote, after all.

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Trump using an international meeting to make himself look better for his fanbase? Sadly, I'm not sure that's really news at this point.

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Zeus_LLC posted...

Given the highly customized nature of tiny homes, I can't imagine a lot of them would be easy to sell.

That's pretty much the issue. By their nature, they need to be exactly what you personally need, and that means they probably aren't going to be what anyone else needs.

Zeus_LLC posted...

And it's not like conventional real estate isn't without its challenges either.

Oh, absolutely. You just often see tiny house living kind of romanticized as a way to get the perks of conventional home ownership (namely the ownership part) for a fraction of the cost, without considering the reality that purchasing such a house will yield basically no return on investment because you won't be able to sell it later. That's not to say it doesn't have advantages over conventional home ownership, but in terms of the finances and return on investment, it's best to think of it as an alternative to renting instead of to buying a house.
hamsarris_ posted...

I totally understandable that, however I feel that it would be a hell of a lot more convenient imo? To me, J can get that and a van and be gucci for all my life lmao

There's a good chance you'll change your mind, especially where you're still pretty young. Living in such a tiny space can wear on you after a while, especially in a relationship (even the best relationships benefit from a little physical space from time to time), and if you ever want kids, you'll basically have to rebuild the entire thing (to say nothing of the fact that they'll need more space and privacy as they grow). It's doable, but make sure you go into it with a long-term plan that considers how the finances play out relative to your other options, bearing in mind that any money you spent on your tiny house is probably going to be gone forever.

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I was playing Crystalis on the Switch's NES VC, but then I let the battery die and discovered that said VC doesn't handle the native saving abilities very well and it reverted back to the last save state I'd made from a few hours earlier. That kind of killed my motivation to keep going, though I was enjoying it up until then.

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streamofthesky posted...

Flipping off someone who's flipping you off isn't "putting your child in danger".
Jesus f***ing christ
He's a crazed thug, stop blaming the victim.
If she had replied to his insult by sticking her tongue out, would she also be at fault, to you? What if her response was to merely smirk or wink, or have a smug grin?
Just trying to gauge what level of response on her part is benign enough where you stop blaming her for the actions of the criminal.
Please, do tell.

For that matter, it could just as easily have happened that ignoring him pissed him off enough to attack them. Really, the only safe course of action is to just shoot everyone you encounter on sight in case they're crazy and your actions/inactions end up inciting violent behaviour from them that endangers you or those you care about.

Zeus_LLC posted...

Suggesting "Let's not talk about what they're doing because their motivations for being there is what's important" is absolutely handwaving.

That's not saying that it's justified, though. That's also not what I described, which is putting aside the actions of a violent minority (having condemned them as much as is contextually relevant) that is acting under the banner of a larger movement, for the sake of focusing on what that larger movement (the vast majority of whom are peacefully protesting) is trying to accomplish. Nobody is saying "they're violent, but they're right, so listen to them anyway and forgive the violence." I don't know why you think people are saying that.

Zeus_LLC posted...

Typo, it was meant to say discuss how you think anybody who defends violence isn't an actual person.

It's less thinking that anyone who defends violence isn't an actual person (although there is a certain extent to which it is reasonable to consider such individuals sub-human), and more saying that the people making such comments represent such a tiny minority of the movement as a whole that neglecting their existence outside of specifically discussing them is the only reasonable course of action.

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Krow_Incarnate posted...

Not sure who cares about a glorified trial.

Presumably, people who are currently subscribed to NSO and are interested in Disgaea 5 but have not yet decided to purchase it.

Krow_Incarnate posted...

Great, Epic game store has actually free games every single week.

That reminds me, I haven't checked them lately. I should see what's there.

Apparently Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 is free starting tomorrow. That's nifty. I'll have to remember to pop in and grab that.

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Krow_Incarnate posted...

That's not a free game.

No, but it is a free* game.

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Zeus_LLC posted...

Cops already have substantial incentives to not f*** up since they'd lose their job and possibly even their pension.

Ah yes, loss of job and possibly pension. That's a suitable punishment for murder. Possible punishment, at least, given that that's hardly guaranteed.

Zeus_LLC posted...

Beyond that, I'm not sure how you make them "pay the full price" -- monetarily speaking -- and still have them be able to effectively do their jobs.

I didn't say they need to pay the full price. Just that taxpayers shouldn't be paying all of it. "1-X=Y" does not in any way imply that X=Y. I also did not speak purely monetarily. Accountability goes further than throwing money at mistakes, it includes facing criminal charges for the commission of crimes and the removal of cops that shouldn't be cops from positions of power.

Quite simply, every single time a cop fires their gun (or exercises any other form of violence), they should ask themselves if it's truly justifiable to do so, and proceed only if they're sure. For that matter, so should everyone else. That is the basic responsibility of anyone that is taking the life of another person into their hands like that, and anyone who doesn't accept that responsibility should not be allowed to have that power.

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Black_Crusher posted...

My takeaways from that one were that the characters were less interesting but the gameplay is much improved over D1.

That is what I've heard. It's very much one I'm meaning to play, but that's how backlogs do sometimes.

Black_Crusher posted...

I think the main thing with these games is that they don't take very long to beat for the main story but all the extra stuff requires you to be leveled up to some obscene amount. Priere (sp?) from the first game was level 2000 IIRC.

Yep. Presuming the rest of the series is anything like 1 (which I understand is the case), the real meat of the game is in the postgame grinding to absurd levels. IIRC, the final boss of 1 was level 85, which was reasonable for how much you'd level just going through the story, but then there was at least one superboss that was 6000 or 8000 (and you wouldn't stand a chance without a buttload of reincarnations and some Item World-boosted gear, so it wasn't even just the levels). The fact that the announcement trailer for 6 made specific mention of the fact that damage could go into the quadrillions really kind of reflects the series focus on gratuitously large numbers.

Judgmenl posted...

Wow that is not "free".
If it were actually free I'd have gotten a month of NSO and gotten the game.
Why is NSO such a scam?

"They're not letting me buy a $45 game for $4. What a scam."

Yeah... not so much. As I said, it's basically a free rental for subscribers (or a $4 rental for people who want to just buy a single month to get in on it). Just like the game rentals of yore, you can potentially satisfy your desire to play the game if you can put in enough time during the rental period, and thereby avoid buying the game later, but it's not meant to be a giveaway.

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I've actually got Disgaea 2 sitting in my Steam library waiting for attention, but the time-sensitive nature of this one is going to prompt me to play it first. I very much have my doubts that I'll get through it all in a week, given how Disgaea 1 went (How Long to Beat is saying ~55 hours for the main story, 300+ for completionist, which sounds about right), but we'll see how it goes.

If nothing else, I really like the idea of having rentals like this paired with discounts, so I'm all for telling Nintendo that by taking advantage of it.

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*Offer only available for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. A trial of the full game is available for download now and can be played from 10 AM PST/1 PM EST on September 23rd until 11:59 PM PST on September 29th. If the game is purchased after the trial period ends, progress will carry over. The game will be discounted until October 6th (discount value pending).

Basically a free 6-day rental. Dunno how many people are out there that are interested in this that don't already own the game, given that it's five years old, but I figure it can't hurt to get the word out.

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A word of caution: Tiny homes tend not to hold their value well at all, which will likely be an issue in the future. There are plenty of stories out there of families that thought building a tiny home was a great idea and invested a sizable amount of money into doing so (less than a full home, obviously, but still not a trivial amount), only to later decide that they'd outgrown it (whether because of kids or just because they wanted something bigger) and wanted to upgrade, but basically having to start from scratch because their tiny home was worth next to nothing. In some ways, that's no different from renting, so they can be considered a viable alternative to that, but don't go into it thinking that it's a step toward owning a proper home.

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Revelation34 posted...

Nobody does. Everybody that would have remembered it is long dead by now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History

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Last I heard, they'd issued voluntary evacuation notices for people living along some of Nova Scotia's coastal regions. Some of those areas are expecting 8-10 metre waves (~26-32 feet).

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Sure, but the vast majority of masked sneezes I've experienced haven't been particularly juicy (they're either caused by the sun, or by the fact that the nerves in my mouth have been screwed up since my jaw surgery and I can sometimes make myself sneeze if my tongue hits the wrong part of the roof of my mouth), so it's not a big deal. I still sneeze into my elbow even with the mask on.

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Zeus_LLC posted...

So.... you're suggesting that we privatize police so taxpayers don't foot the bill?

Nah, that'd just turn into what would effectively be rich people hiring mercenary armies to invade poorer neighbourhoods. The issue there is that taxpayers pay the full price of whatever mistakes the cops made, rather than cops being held properly accountable to incentivize making fewer mistakes in the future.

Zeus_LLC posted...

in so many of these cases, involve s*** we shouldn't have cops doing in the first place. No-knock raids are a f***ing terrible policy that frequently results in unnecessary injury or death

This is also very true. I don't know who thought no-knock warrants were a good idea, but I have to admire the flexibility needed to shove their head far enough up their own ass to make such a decision.

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Zeus_LLC posted...

Actual people: "They were justified."

https://rhymingcoupletsblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/goalposts.jpg

Saying something is justified is very different from handwaving it.

adjl posted...

Actual people: "Yeah violence is bad

Zeus_LLC posted...

Adjl: "Anybody who feels that violence is bad isn't an actual person."

You might need to take another pass at that one. Maybe your next attempt shouldn't be on Opposite Day.

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Cops screw up, somebody dies, taxpayers pay the bill, cops continue screwing up without learning any sort of lessons. What a great cycle that definitely doesn't need reform in any way.

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Zeus_LLC posted...

Overlooking that "Actual people" claim is a disingenuous claim, I'm citing SPECIFIC acts of violence that people (usually not you, although you're kinda doing it now) have handwaved.

Actual people: "Yeah violence is bad they shouldn't be doing that. Can we focus on the actual issue motivating the protests now?"
Zeus: "Look at these guys defending specific acts of violence!"

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We're currently getting the start of the rain from Teddy. It currently looks like Cape Breton (the island that makes up the northern ~1/4 of the province) will be taking the brunt of it, but we're still expecting potentially 100+ mm of rain here in Halifax, and some pretty sizable winds. We've had worse (Dorian arrived as an actual hurricane last year and made a mess of things), but this should still be a fun time.

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likehelly posted...

rare is the most successful they've ever been and have complete autonomy

sounds like microsoft buying them was a great thing for them on the whole

For them, sure, but he was pretty clearly talking about the consumer side of things. Given that Rare's produced like two games that the core gamer market would consider decent since the purchase 17 years ago (one of which was just a compilation of their pre-purchase titles), I'd say that assessment was accurate enough. New Rare may be doing better for itself than Old Rare did, but the reasons people liked Old Rare did not survive Microsoft buying the studio.

Now, the primary reason for Rare's massive drop in quality was that a sizable chunk of their development staff - many of whom were responsible for some of their best titles - left the studio after Microsoft bought them, largely due to irreconcilable differences with the pro-sale folks. That wasn't actually Microsoft ruining them so much as it was them ruining themselves over being bought by Microsoft, such that treating them as a harbinger of doom for any other studio Microsoft buys isn't altogether reasonable.

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Noop_Noop posted...

lets actually break this down

if he is hiring a good personal chef for even 1 meal a day you can count on him dropping 2.5k per month on it (more likely he gets lunch and breakfast too. that number is likely closer to 3.5k or 4k, but im being conservative)

entertaining ladies? throwing dinner parties? shit is expensive, and im willing to guess that mr renner probably does so at least once a month, and i would guess that he spends at least 1000 on the affair

leaving him with about 2k per month, or about $500 per week for food and "other household supplies"

personally i would speculate that a good chunk of that $500 is probably going toward recreational substances. booze, marijuana, coke, who knows what mr renner gets into.

One high priced bottle of scotch per week could easily knock $100 off of that total, bringing us to 400 per week.

I could easily spend that amount on groceries in a given week if i thought the money was never going to stop rolling
in.

dont get me wrong, if you make that kind of money you should be setting yourself to be able to retire at the drop of a hat. if he were actually broke, then he is a fucking idiot, but then so is most of hollywood.

It's conceivable, but still seems positively absurd, especially where $1000 dinner parties aren't exactly commonplace in an era where having outsiders in your home is legally prohibited. The exact wording was also "for groceries," which I wouldn't think would include a chef's salary, but I know better than to put that much weight in Duckbear's word choices. It seems we agree on "what a moron," so let's leave it at that.

Zeus posted...

idk, it's a mansion in LA, that mortgage could be per month instead of per year =p

That math is based on it being monthly. Make it annual, and he should have been good for a couple years.

Zeus posted...

When you can afford things, you tend to fall into a lot of things most people consider luxuries and it's worth noting that some things we consider luxuries are actually important for helping an entertainer's career. In this case, an actor's public image and public profile can help them secure jobs.

Sure, I get that he'd have a whole lot more dry cleaning than most people, but an entire wardrobe, such that you always have to pay dry cleaning prices no matter what you're wearing? Actors can maintain their public image just fine with clothes that can go in a regular washing machine.

Revelation34 posted...

Alimony is never reasonable. It should not exist.

Eh, I can see some defense for it. In many ways, it's a relic of a time when most households were single-income: By the nature of that relationship, the non-working spouse becomes completely financially dependent on the other, and alimony ensures that divorce won't completely screw them over. With double-income households being more common these days, that's less of a concern, but there's still generally going to be enough of a difference in income that a divorce is going to introduce financial hardship for one party, and it's generally bad for people to be stuck in bad marriages because of that.

Now, does it need work? Absolutely. The extreme differences in income that you see in any trophy spouse situation should not result in similarly extreme alimony. There should be reasonable caps on it based on reasonable estimates of costs of living, rather than basing it on maintaining their current lifestyle. It should also probably have a time limit imposed on it (3-5 years is plenty of time to become independent), as well as adjusting it according to any changes in income level (whether due to employment or finding a new person to depend on). It also really needs to stop favouring women so much (again, that's a relic of the "man=breadwinner" dynamic of yore and has no place in today's world), though that's a broader cultural issue. Despite the numerous issues, though, I think the fundamental concept is sound.

That said, a lot of the issues alimony aims to solve can be solved with pre-nups instead, generally more amicably and efficiently than trying to sort out something "fair" in courts. Rather than trying to fix all the problems alimony has, it'd probably be more reasonable to promote a cultural shift to have pre-nups become normal (and possibly to revisit the agreements every few years to update them as needed to account for changes in the relationship dynamic), so that more couples are comfortable discussing them.

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Wired at home. My desktop doesn't even have a wireless card, actually. I use wifi for my laptop and phone. I don't have a data plan on my phone, which generally isn't enough of a problem to make me want to switch to a less basic plan.

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thekingoftown posted...

Wake me up when Gamepass actually come to Switch

I doubt that'll happen. As a service, Gamepass is meant to be an incentive for people to choose a system. It's on Xbox to make Xbox more attractive, and it's on PC's to make Windows 10 more attractive (less necessary now that prior versions of Windows are no longer supported), but Microsoft really doesn't benefit from making the Switch more attractive. Most of Microsoft's support of Nintendo has boiled down to making life harder for Sony, rather than helping Nintendo compete with the Xbox. Gamepass on Switch would generally fall more into the latter camp than the former.

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Zeus posted...

I marvel at the sheer arrogance and hypocrisy given how often you guys have defended violent leftist protestors in recent months

Actual people: "Most protesters aren't violent and it's misleading to characterize the entire movement as such."
Zeus: "Look at these guys defending violent leftist protesters."

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