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EffectAndCause posted...

Itd be a lot better if we didnt even have mods.

You are out of your fucking mind, unless you like the idea of MarthKoopa spamming pedophilia, the Alt-Right brigade spreading literal nazi propaganda, flagrant racism, and every topic being derailed by trolls.

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I try to avoid knocking people for their means of employment, but if you work for fucking TV Licensing then you are a shit person with no principles.

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Literal Washington Football Team.

To be frank if I was an NFL ref I would just rig every game against that franchise. Wouldn't need Tom Brady involved to justify it.

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Rebel getting into stupid pedantic arguments because he thinks he's smarter than he actually is?

Must be a day ending in Fuck Off, Rebel.

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lmfao

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I would just like to point out those Pitbull death numbers are statistical inconsenquential. Like, sub-50 deaths per year is nothing. Here are some things that are deadlier than Pitbulls for context.

Horses! Around 100 deaths per year. Ban horses!

Bicycles! 1,000 bicycle deaths per year, and hundreds of thousands of injuries. Ban bicycles!

Trees! Over 100 tree falling and landscaping related deaths per year! Ban trees!

Beds! Nearly 20,000 deaths per year involving falling or strangulation in beds. Ban beds!

The fact of the matter is that fearing Pitbulls in general is entirely irrational. You, the person reading the post, yes you, face VASTLY, nearly INCOMPREHENSIVELY more dangerous things on a daily basis than fucking Pitbulls--Like traffic! What you are arguing is, instead, a willful fear of something. You want to bolster your fear of this thing becauze it gives you an excuse to lable something as evil or bad. This helps give you a sense of control over an otherwise terrifying world. Pitbulls are CREATURES with their own WILL, but if we work together to get rid of them, we can make our world SAFER. It does not, however, make you any safer in any statistical significant way. It is the same behavior of medieval peasants inventing witches to prosecute.

These arguments against pitbulls never come from rational conclusions. They are irrational fears that reach for scraps of evidence to justify their own cowardice or insecurity.

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Oh no, this might turn into a real "I'm Spartacus!" situation.

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If we just cower away from domestic agitators and terrorists, that means we win!

Maybe we can avoid a Civil War with the South if we just give them whatever slave considerations they want!

Maybe we can avoid a confrontation with Hitler if we just let him redefine the borders of Europe however he wants!

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This is your brain on Hollywood movies.

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Pro-biotic yogurt

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BettyWhite posted...

Of course a cop is gonna shoot her.. It's not like they're trained to handle a person with a knife.

People act like cops are badasses with krav maga skills or some shit. They're hardly a step above a security guard.

Hey, big self-defense aficionado, used to practicise a lot of MMA, I find it super fun.

You don't get out of a knife fight without some really serious wounds. I urge you to try it yourself. Go buy a cheap rubber knife off Amazon and have your friend try really hard to stab you with it. Then look up as many "krav maga" video tutorials and practice as much as you can. You really will not have an appreciation for how spectacularly dangerous it is unless you do.

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Conflict posted...

Okay, this dude isn't grooming, but he said some pretty damn creepy shit. "Every time I wank I think of you"

He's was an awkward 19 year old, they're not known to be the most charismatic flirters.

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wackyteen posted...

While I understand this sentiment, it opens loop holes that people would immediately use to abuse minors.

These laws are already being used to abuse minors through the legal system. Minors have been sent to jail or put on sex offender lists 0for sending nude photos of themselves to their partners. This is not a tenable way to handle sexting. Arguing from the position of moral panic prevents reforms that would actually address the issue.

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Tenlaar posted...

A 17 and a 19 year old is not grooming, it's damn sure not pedophilia, and it shouldn't be against the law to have nude pictures of somebody you are legally allowed to have sex with. That is just a ridiculous perversion of what the law is supposed to do.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

It's getting to the point now where the WR for SMB is extremely close to the theoretical perfect run so anything that breaks the current WR is going to have an extremely high level of scrutiny.

The theoretical perfect run with current strategy, at least. Just look to SMB3 to see how wildly a game can shift when data-mining produces exploits that are thought to be utterly impossible.

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The mania can be pretty euphoric, which is why I placed the (?) there tbh. I never had an issue seeing that as chasing a high, though. It's not a way to live. I could see the way it would hurt the people around me if I kept it up, and avoiding that was far more important to me that periods of extreme joy and energy.

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President Xi leads an inherently unethical means of government that acts constantly to suppress the freedoms and economic power of its citizens in order to accumulate power and wealth in an oligarchic ruling class. That should be the first and primary topic of any broad discussion of China ever. The Modern CCP leadership is not, and has never been, concerned with the improvement of the lives of its citizens as a matter of priority. Its primary concern is power brokerage in a bid for economic and political hegemony in Asia.

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I use to have diagnosed mania/Bipolar Type II when I was a teenager (The mania has thankfully(?) numbed over the years) but even still I could never imagine not taking my meds. No matter how bad my mania got, I was still cognizant that my meds were important to keeping me out of trouble.

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I'll give you 20 bucks if you cry.

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Naruto had the most potential but slowly squandered it over the course of Shippuden.

Bleach was kind of trashy-but-good.

One Piece has been pretty consistent.

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She needs to hire a professional camera man. Also, all the cuts were pretty lame as well.

With a bit of direction and camera work it could probably have been decent, but yeah it was kind of boring. She has a cute face for a finish though.

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pogo_rabid posted...

I don't understand why they wouldn't use a seeded map for this kinda stuff

There are seeded map categories as well.

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SpoiltTrouser posted...

I've not heard of this but a sample size of 200 is laughable, using compound calculations to arrive at some massive number doesn't really mean much either.

"I know better than the literal statisticians".

The stupidest thing Dream did was mod the game and cheat in a way that created a sample size that large.

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Most speedruns have some significant RNG mechanic. The answer is that you speedrun the games you like to speedrun.

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I just listened to Madvillainry for the umpteenth time. God... damnit.

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'Cause you know that I have no fear, ain't gonna walk into the river and disappear. I'm gonna be a powerful man. Red blood running down the broken sand.

I will if I'm planning to finish the remainder of the bottle in that sitting and I don't feel like doing anything weird with it. Otherwise I'll use a glass because I don't want my backwash sitting in the bottle for days.

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He about nailed my opinion on the matter, and I'll leave it at that.

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Lol the cannon section is good dude. The pattern is extremely consistent if you do it correctly your first run, and you can use the diagonal crossing cannonball on every fire timer to scale two cannon levels at once. If you fail and fall, the timer may get disrupted and you're forced to try to climb with an erratic timer. If you really wanted to, you could just reset the timer by going through the pipe again

Are you seriously critiquing my critique when you can't even recognize an easy cannonball pattern? The firebar is not a matter of timing--The window is so large other than that fact that if you arrive there with good pace you have to decelerate for a second. The firebar serves no purpose after the first time you see it other than to make you slow down a little.

The koopa shell is extraneous and a trap for less-skilled players. If you don't know the P-switch timer well, you might think the level designer actually play tested this section and made sure you had to get the Koopa shell to pass the obstacle. This isn't the case. This isn't a puzzle section where uncovering the solution is the obstacle, this is a case where the level creator inadequately tested the level and didn't make the obstacle correctly. You can make a section where you need the koopa shell or a section where you don't. This is an obstacle that looks like the former but is actually the latter. Further more, again, waiting for the koopa to spawn from the pipe is more unnecessary waiting for the player. In levels that are fairly difficult and expect the player to replay them many times, every section of waiting is not something the player will experience just once--They'll experience it potentially dozens or even hundreds of times. What looks like 2 seconds of waiting becomes 3 minutes worth of waiting over a play session of the level. That's 3 minutes I could have given the player something actually fun to do instead.

Did you find the bob-omb section fun? Did you like hitting the block, waiting, and then jumping over one muncher on flat ground? This shouldn't even be controversial. The segment is legitimately pointless. If someone filled a level with these pointless contraptions, you would find it terribly boring. You should. It is boring. Part of the design process is the editorial process--Cutting away the unnecessary, unimportant, or unfun. It's an important part of any level or game design.

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One_Day_Remains posted...

^ This is some MASSIVE nitpicking. The only good point you made was 4.

The level sucks because it has annoying sections and an unnecessary clear condition when it could use a checkpoint. Not because of any of that overanalytical crap you posted.

lol Sure dude. What makes those sections annoying? Why does it need a checkpoint? Your average player doesn't even understand why they don't find things fun. You see it all the time in game development (Same thing with Kaizo). Game designers don't need to know that a section is good or bad, they need to know why. I've laid out the reasons why. Every little unnecessary hitch adds to the experience. I could 100% redo this level and make it flow much better, with much less gears grinding together and even more difficulty, and make it a better level for it. Not to say this level was a total travesty or anything like that, but it has basic design issues throughout that make it frustrating.

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1. Timing of the level is wack. A lot of "hurry up and wait". A lot of spots that make you stop or slow down for no real, enjoyable reason. An obstacle where the difficulty is "You have to wait one second until it's safe" is not a fun obstacle. It's just banal.

2. Geometry is wack. There's a lot of poorly planned areas where you can clip blocks where you shouldn't have to worry about it--The jump up to the three spiny's after the firebar invites clipping on your spin jump, which is an annoying way to die. The small "stair case" that leads to/from the on/off block will cause you to lose momentum for no real reason. The one block hole for the first thwomp section, where it's just annoying (Not difficult) to jump through. The placements of the donuts beneath the see-saw can lead to weird bumping issues with the bottom of the P-Switch. In all honesty, the two donuts should have been organized on the outside of the see-saw so that a mid-air vertical throw is needed to place the P-Switch on them. That would have been a better challenge and would have avoided bumping issues with the p-switch when jumping on to the see-saw.

3. Extraneous shit. The shell is actually pointless during the P-Switch section, the actual challenge should just be to hit the on-off then reach the exit within the timer (Which you can currently do). Even if you're going to make the shell mandatory, just grabbing it from a pipe is the least interesting way to do it--You could spring-launch it and make the player knock it down in mid air. You could even do a bit of simple back and forth platforming with the area utilising the on/off. Well, technically the on/off block is extraneous if you can do a p-switch mid air, but fuck that. My least favorite mid-air. The Bomb-omb part is literally pointless. There is no actual obstacle there other than jump over a muncher. The cannons at the see-saw part are largely pointless since you didn't actually playtest them correctly.

4. Enemy spam. Enemy spam is shit. It's what people do to make a level more "difficult" because they can't think of anything that's "fun". Don't do enemy spam. Things you place in the level should have a purpose. Granted, I haven't developed a speedrun for the level and that enemy spam might be usable to skip the final pipe segment, but what's the point? If you're designing a level where the intent is to skip large parts of the level, why are you investing time into making the parts to begin with? The context of a SMM2 level is a lot different than a full game like SMW, where players were expected to replay the game several times after beating it.

5. WR Chicannery. WR currently sits at around 47s, or it did last night. My initial clear was around 97s, with pretty decent pace for a first clear. I know I could P-Switch jump the see-saw, which would be maybe 12s off. If the enemy spam can be used to skip straight to the Yoshi, I could probably save another 25s. I don't know if that WR time is even possible without a dev block somewhere which, if you literally put a dev block in this fairly easy level, then that's a complete bitch move. I might try to speedrun it tonight after work to see if that's the case or if I'm missing some exploits somewhere. If there's a dev block, then that's just legit kind of sad. This ain't even some kaizo shit.

6. Wiggler is just shit. It forces precision in a mechanic and typical set-up that doesn't allow it. Getting consistent clears required me to develop a specific set-up in the first thwomp section, and even then it's still pretty annoying. It could work in concept but it would need to be retooled.

The see-saw and vertical cannon sections are pretty good. Rest is boring or actively bad.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnql4vU28Ns

Sully has no feats that even come close to this. End of discussion. Not to mention Shrek has shown incredible durability, like when the dragon launched him hundreds of feet through the air and crashed him through a roof.

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Lightning, final answer.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/202/222/7cd.jpg

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There's gonna come a day when you'll feel better
You'll rise up free and easy on that day
And float from branch to branch, lighter than the air
Just when that day is coming, who can say? Who can say?

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Shrek has clearly shown a much higher propensity and talent for violence than Sully ever did.

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If you can't think of ways to teach your child to empathize with the disenfranchised and downtrodden without subjecting them to trauma, then you are a bad parent.

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What about if there was an iceberg bigger than the ocean?

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DeadBankerDream posted...

Are they advocating a coup or are they warning about a potential coup?

Considering the Appeal to History with the last post, I would almost certainly say the former.

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Can we stop including them in aggregate polling data yet?

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It seems like she's arguing for a relative view of reality, which is the opposite of what scientific theory tries to produce. So if she wants that, then I recommend she create a new way of interpreting the world instead of trying to change science.

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...THIS is the thing you're skeptical of? Out of all the hair-brained nonsense you've subjected this board to without hesitation?

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I think The Gorillaz are more physically fit but there are more permanent members in Grizzly Bear so I'm going with them.

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I used to a few years ago, but my body seems to be really acclimated to it. I can have a couple cups now without any adverse feelings.

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Not every person dating an 18 year old is grooming them. You're literally fabricating an elaborate abusive relationship knowing literally nothing about them or their relationship. You people are so god damn judgemental.

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If there was no extreme, visible wounds that you could have pressed or applied a tourniquet to then there was probably very little you or a paramedic could have done. It implies there was probably fatal organ damage or massive internal bleeding. If the car crash happened in a trauma ward at a hospital it still might have been impossible.

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Gwynevere posted...

Alright, I see more of where you're coming from now. My point was mostly just pedantic anyway; while the energy of a state is quantized, the energy of the electron in the extremely short time between states isn't, and likely has some uncertainty (no clue what exactly the time between states is honestly), and like you said, this can lead to some messy probability predictions for its location

Essentially yeah I agree, the math itself is just a convenient way of explaining these behaviors in detail. The laws of physics themselves predate humans, but the math that defines them does not

Yeah, I understood where you were coming from. I was frankly considering addressing electrons in that post but figured it would muddy the water too much with how much I would need to explain it.

nexigrams posted...

It's not really a useful question. For some reason I was expecting the replies to be about whether or not the laws physics existed, which is actually interesting. Whether or not math is intrinsic to the universe or invented just doesn't matter at all though. It's not science first of all, it's philosophy, and second, it's not even useful or illuminating philosophy like arguing about whether or not truth or knowledge is real is.

For people that have studied some epistemological, it's a very... Unproductive conversation to have considering how long salient critiques of this line of thinking have existed. It either veers into the "Math is actually just God because Math explains everything" or "All things exist if we think about them" when extrapolated to it's conclusion, which does a very poor job contributing towards any thorough epistemological view since it's essentially circular logic. It asserts its existence as proof of its existence.

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Gwynevere posted...

I dont necessarily disagree with your greater point, but this is misleading

One of the core ideas of quantum mechanics is that energies of excited electrons are quantized. There is no gradient.

The quantized states are an abstraction of an increase in the energy level that creates a change in the orbital probability field. With that in mind, we can theoretically fix the variables of the atom to determine a consistent change in this energy level movement as well. While we can talk about them as integers changes in the state, and for the sake of equations they work perfectly as integers, the physical phenomena that is observed is far from "standard addition". Instead, we see complex transformations of the orbital field probability. While these changes are "discrete", to say non-gradient, you would not view them as a singular sub-atomic particle in orbit around an atom--It would instead be a different random distribution of locations within a probability field of the atomic shell with a determined angular momentum as indicated by its energy level and atomic mass of the atom. To me, at least, that qualifies as too distinctly different from standard Newtonian models that more easily coincide with a simple "integer representative" interpretation of the world. But that is truthfully just my opinion.

But that's the beauty of mathematics. It creates abstractions that allow us to communicate extremely complex concepts efficiently.

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Holy shit lmao

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