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As much as it got a lot of hate for turning Shadow into a gun-toting edgelord for the sake of appealing to the masses, it was actually pretty solid as a 3D Sonic game. My biggest complaint was that you had to go through every story variant (14, if memory serves) to get the true ending, and that just got so tedious that I gave up on the game before I made it. The story variants were, for the most part, the sort of hamfisted choices that are often passed off as a morality system (save puppy to be good, kick puppy to be evil, alternate to be neutral), and presenting all of them as being equally viable alternatives for explaining who Shadow is ("this... is WHO I AM," because subtlety is apparently not cool) really made them all seem pointless and not worth slogging through for the sake of getting to another variant that invalidated them all. I would much rather have seen them give a more linear, concrete exploration of Shadow's past and identity than to take such a half-assed "you get to choose!" approach that didn't commit to anything and required me to play through Westopolis a million times.

As a 3D Sonic game, though, the controls worked pretty well, the gunplay occasionally added some interesting segments, I remember the level designs being generally passable... It wasn't a bad game. Worth playing, but nothing amazing and not as good as SA1/2 were.

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So I went from idling at 87C to idling at 25-30C and not going higher than ~47. Who knew that 9-year-old thermal paste doesn't take kindly to having the HSF dislodged? Makes me wonder what my temps were like before the move, since I haven't exactly been keeping track of them, and I feel like the computer is running a bit faster overall now, but I guess I'll never know.

dragon504 posted...

When you do end up wanting to upgrade, make sure to check out AMD's offerings. Intel got complacent and greedy and they're floundering pretty hard right now. Meanwhile, AMD's been steadily working their butt off to make up ground on Intel and their cpus are the go to as of right now. With a new gen of processors releasing later this year, they're looking to pound on Intel even more. Hopefully Intel gets their s*** together in a few years, but for the forseeable future AMD seems like the way to go.

I'll keep that in mind. Because Intel is Intel, I'll need a new motherboard regardless of who I go with for processor, so AMD is definitely an option (an option that makes upgrades slightly easier in the future, though evidently I don't change CPU's very often).

dedbus posted...

That was my last cpu. I remember the clamps being kind of finnicky. Lots of people say its overclocks pretty well on just the stock cooler but I never bothered.

I vaguely remember the clamps being slightly troublesome, but I've got nothing to compare it to (this was my first build) and 2011 was a long time ago, so I couldn't say for sure. I went for the K version under the rationale that I could squeeze more longevity out of it by overclocking (they're apparently very stable up to like 4.5 GHz, from the stock 3.4), but I just haven't felt the need to do so yet.

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keyblader1985 posted...

Unless you're a white cop. Then just fire straight through the door at will.

Oh, it goes without saying that cops don't have to comply with any such instructions. Duh.

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Butter. Margarine is tolerable, but generally a significantly inferior product. Shortening is disgusting.

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I have an N64. I don't have a PS1, nor have I ever. That's a pretty easy choice. It gets a bit more complicated if giving them up extends to rereleases and not just the original copies of the games, since that would prohibit me from trying out games I missed out on by not having a PS1, but I think I'd still keep N64 because those games were such a big part of my childhood.

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He's basically the patron saint of customer service.

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On my mouse. My right hand was resting on my thigh before I started typing.

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deadpigs101 posted...

snow storm yes
thunder storm no

Pretty much, unless the thunderstorm in question is bad enough to seriously impair driving (exceptionally heavy rains, high winds, poor visibility) or your property has enough wide open spaces that they'd actually be at a real risk of being struck by lightning between their car and your door. Basically, just don't order delivery when delivery is unsafe.

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$40 CAD per month for unlimited Canada-wide talk and text. No data, just me on the plan. That (plus a $40 activation fee) also includes the phone, which would have been ~$900 without the plan, so I worked out that I'm actually paying something like $4/month for the phone service itself until that two-year contract is done (which rather nicely illustrates how bloated phone service charges are). I'm also paying $13/month for a replacement warranty (anything at all happens, I get a replacement phone for $250), though I think I may cancel that because it becomes less valuable as the phone ages.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

i have no symptoms, no reason to wear a mask

What part of "asymptomatic transmission" confuses you?

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OniRonin posted...

based point, adjl. they should flash freeze the buildings and then crack them with hammers or something

What an ice alternative.

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Arson is bad because there's too much global warming already and fire makes it even warmer.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Until the virus subsides is not indefinite, we know it will happen and we have means to track when it has occured and can even predict a time

"Until a time that has not yet been defined" is literally what "indefinitely" means. If we don't know when it will happen, it's indefinite.

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Unbridled9 posted...

You mean besides the fact that it's stupidly insecure? I mean, a few months ago we had someone stealing our mail for money. Imagine if they did that, saw the ballot, and then filled it out the way they wanted and sent it in. All I could do would be complain that I didn't get to vote but there'd be no way to do anything about it.

Sure there would. You complain that you didn't get your ballot despite it having been sent out (presumably there'd be a reasonable window in which to expect it), they mail you a new one and flag the serial number on the missing one as invalid so any votes coming from it aren't counted (since any quasi-sensible mail-in ballot system will have some sort of unique identifier on each ballot).

Unbridled9 posted...

Nevermind if a mailworker got malicious

Same solution works.

Unbridled9 posted...

a delay happened due to literally everyone in the nation sending in mail,

Start early so there's time to correct delays (which, incidentally, el presidente is resisting for exactly this reason).

Unbridled9 posted...

or people singling out voters because now their ballots can be traced back to their home.

Presumably, the completed ballots would be anonymous. There'd need to be some sort of serial number attached to your name and address (as outlined above), but it's not that hard to keep that attachment confidential, both from the general public and from whatever agency is counting the ballots. Short of mugging somebody on their way to the mailbox and stealing the ballot they have in hand, I don't really see how you could single anyone out, and even then that's going to be a matter of singling them out beforehand, not tracking them down based on how they voted.

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Wanded posted...

aren't they?

Obviously. But to suggest that Trump has done enough to solve that problem and paint that as a positive outcome of his presidency is pretty naive. What's Trump has done to be "tough on China" amounts pretty much purely to optics. He's done nothing to actually combat their flagrant human rights abuses, the tariffs he did enact were just all over the place and largely arbitrary (despite having the power to combat rights abuses and the wages that have led to outsourcing, if he'd applied the concept properly), he's done nothing to punish American corporations that continue to do most of their maunfacturing there, he personally has manufacturing done there (perhaps the most egregious point), he's completely dropped the ball on exerting pressure to keep the wet markets that produced SARS and Covid-19 (among others) shut down... Yeah, he's verbally criticized China on a few occasions and made a few token efforts to look like he's doing something, but he's done basically nothing to actually get tough with them and try to make real change. He's just done the bare minimum to convince the disenfranchised American manufacturing class that the outsourcing problem might change if he gets another term, when in fact it's extremely unlikely that will happen so long as he's personally depending on such outsourcing.

Now, would Hillary have done better? Probably not. Nobody wants to mess with China to the extent that is actually necessary because of how deeply the world's economy depends on a cordial relationship with them. It's a delicate situation where doing anything meaningful is going to have some very serious negative consequences that will be blamed on whichever politician takes the plunge, and nobody really wants to martyr their career like that. But that doesn't mean that Trump has done a good enough job of it to call that a positive outcome of his presidency.

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Zeus posted...

It's still only a 14 points difference regarding acceptance between groups.

Multiplicatively, that's ~30% higher. That's pretty significant.

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Monopoman posted...

What's the most entertaining is many establishments i go into have very strict mask policies and some businesses have completely changed their layout or design to maximize social distancing. So despite Trump doing his best to downplay this plenty of businesses and government officials have scoffed at his supposed information.

As much as Trump's overt dismissal of the crisis has hamstrung public health efforts and motivated far too many people to try to ignore it, most people do actually recognize that he's an idiot who has no idea what he's talking about, and have been listening to recommendations from actual medical professionals instead. A culture of effective infection control has taken root despite efforts to the contrary, and even though the occasional idiot disregarding/mocking guidelines still exists and is very noticeable, such people are in fact the minority. That minority is still much too large, and efforts to crush it under a relentless barrage of truth should be maintained, but there is some hope yet for America.

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Johnny Eagle posted...

And just who the hell are you to tell someone whether they actually believe what they believe or not?

You can't tell someone what they believe, but you can tell someone what their actions suggest they believe, or whether or not their actions work against their beliefs to such an extent that believing those beliefs becomes pointless.

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Wanded posted...

You're right that the top tier leftists don't like the democratic party because "it's not left enough" to their taste but at the end of the day MOST of them will no doubt vote for joe biden, hence supporting democrats,

Welcome to the two-party system, where everybody that wants their vote to have any sort of impact whatsoever has to vote for whoever they dislike the least because producing an actual decent candidate is apparently hard.

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I wonder what percentage of those people stand up whenever it's playing on TV, and what percentage of those people only do so because it's a decent opportunity to take a leak without missing anything.

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Sahuagin posted...

isn't this already common knowledge? or was something discovered that wasn't already known about? I was hearing "planned parenthood are pro-eugenics nazis!" like 10+ years ago.

That was my first thought. It's really not news that Planned Parenthood has roots in eugenics. That doesn't mean they aren't doing good things today, though, or that the entire organization is secretly committed to that cause. As with any reproductive treatments, it's important to hold them accountable for any discriminatory behaviour they may commit, but that doesn't have to entail trying to discredit or tear down the entire organization. Just holding individuals accountable and bringing their behaviour to light.

If the organization tries to cover them up, that's when you should tear them down (*coughcatholicismcough*), but even then you shouldn't be trying to tear them down without establishing a suitable replacement. The vast majority of attacks on Planned Parenthood are motivated by wanting to stop abortion (and, in some cases, birth control/fertility treatments) altogether, not to take away that responsibility from somebody that's unfit to do it. If you don't want your legitimate criticisms to be dismissed as inane pro-life drivel, you need to be advocating reallocation of funding to less corrupt alternatives, not just criticizing PP in a vacuum.

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PyroBlade1985 posted...

Well excuse me for not speaking ill of the dead.

I've really never understood this philosophy. Unless you're personally speaking to people close to him that are mourning his death (in which case it's just plain rude), there's no reason that being dead should excuse people from criticism or mockery. Especially when that mockery can help to prevent future such tragedies by highlighting that this man squandered ample opportunities to save his own life and that others therefore should really consider seizing the opportunities they still have.

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agesboy posted...

starting with 14* weapons, high-end weapons get a lot more unique/rarer with unique flairs.

That's the impression I've had, looking at class guides that discuss gearing. High-end gear choices seem to depend more on the utility offered by their potentials than on raw attack stats, such that there's a lot of personal/situational preference involved. Atlas Ex/Lightstream seems to still be a clear winner for most classes, much as Slave/Nemesis are right now, but the path to get there is long enough that there'll be other choices to make along the way, and even then SSA's and regular augments still make for a lot of customization and gear progression that lasts for a solid while after getting the weapon itself.

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Even without considering Nemesis/Slave tradability, they're really not trying to make high-end gear hard to come by. Being able to trade Glory Badge 2020's 1:1 for Rising Weapon 2 Badges meant Ray weapons/units are really easy to get now, plus RW2 badges were dropping like candy in the most recent Boost Rally. They've also got Revolsio weapons easily available through challenge quests, if those are better than Ray ones for your weapon of choice. Really, Episode 1-3's experience is being deliberately accelerated so that people can actually see the content before newer stuff comes out. They're cramming 8 years of content into ~6 months, so it's bound to go a little faster than might normally seem reasonable.

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Marry as soon as she turned 18 didn't work out? Colour me surprised.

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Electroplankton is rare? I also have a copy. The first one to come to mind for me was my copy of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance for GC, which I know goes for quite a bit, but I don't know if I have anything rarer.

faramir77 posted...

I have the Gamecube disk version of Ocarina of Time Master Quest. I also have the Zelda Collectors Edition on Gamecube.

I also have both of these.

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Far as I can tell, blinker fluid isn't actually available in Ontario.

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Really, a lot of the game feels weird and restrictive, but I guess a lot of that just comes from knowing that something better is coming/is already in the JP version. It'd be nice if they took a more QoL-focused approach to deciding which features to include in the first wave (like not making Rangers wait for PA crafting to get access to their only worthwhile travel PA's, or tweaking material requirements for build-defining rings like the DS whirlwind one), but it's not like there's a dearth of stuff to do now that isn't held back by that, so meh.

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I'd guess it's something like the automatic profanity filter not being applied to signatures because they aren't part of the actual text block.

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I haven't done the newest UQ yet, but I'm pretty sure they're the same. The defense angle of it doesn't seem to be anywhere close to as hard as the sheer amount of damage you have to put out in order to clear it in 15 minutes, and with only 3 AIS activations to work with. I'm not sure it's possible to do without using a burn weapon to force the boss to expose its weakest point, activating AIS and lasering it, then deactivating the AIS so you can do it again right away. The AIS' damage is still necessary, though, so it boils down to killing enough of the trash on foot to not have to worry about them killing the AIS, which is a very real problem because that's the only target they have.

Again, though, that's extremely optional, especially if it doesn't need to be completed to unlock episode 4. I'll probably wait until level 80 so I can do it without the level handicap. Why they decided to have that be the only story quest to do level scaling like that, I'm not sure, especially where it's content from a version of the game where the cap was 80, but whatever. It does mean the game has another solid challenge in it, I guess.

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That was a short year. Guess the Windows Store shenanigans were bad enough for Sega to get out of their exclusivity obligations early. I'm glad, because I'm at the point where I'm strongly considering throwing a bit of money at it (mostly to get a fourth character so I can have one with a Dex mag), but Microsoft's colossal failure to make the store work properly means I'm hesitant to give them the only sort of validation that matters (money) for the job they've done. Presuming Steam can manage to install the game without forgetting to give itself access permissions to the folder, I'm much more willing to give them money (thereby letting Sega get the share they deserve).

agesboy posted...

the game never gets SUPER HARDCORE hard, but barely clearing by the skin of our teeth is common for new stuff in jp pso2. as of now, the only content in the game like that is magatsu phase 2, and- surprise- that's also the only content in the game where gear doesn't matter atm

There's also the last episode 3 quest, which is actually much harder now than it's supposed to be because the quest is scaled to level 80 and that imposes an automatic 33% (iirc) damage penalty on our level 75 characters. That's another AIS-based one, but with limited deployments, so gear still matters to some extent. That's also a quest I'd be willing to wager most haven't even seen because of how bothersome trudging through the story is, and the only reward for beating it on hardcore is a bit of SG, so there isn't much incentive to figure out a strategy.

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Clench281 posted...

I've heard plenty of historians and economists make the argument that slavery was in fact worse for the economy. That productivity would have been higher without it.

Wouldn't surprise me. At the very least, being reliant on slavery and then having it abruptly abolished was a significant economic blow, and the stability offered by either not relying on slavery in the first place or phasing it out more slowly would have been much better if we're considering abolition to be an inevitability (which I like to think it is in any civilized society). That said, being able to say that in hindsight and being able to predict that at the time are two very different things. I wouldn't be at all surprised if those in charge genuinely felt slavery was necessary to prosper, and the argument can be made that they shouldn't necessarily be faulted for that belief.

Now, those who resisted abolition even after it became apparent that slavery wasn't necessary (i.e. British North America/Canada doing a fine job of establishing itself without relying on slaves)? That's significantly less excusable. Yes, it required a substantial philosophical shift to consider slaves to be people instead of subhuman property, but basic decency like that really isn't a lot to ask for anyone that isn't utter trash. That an entire war had to be fought to force that shift on such a large portion of the country is more than a little despicable.

Zeus posted...

Senator - Slavery is a necessary evil
Adjl - He's not entirely wrong

>_>

You're the LAST person who should be calling anyone out for playing devil's advocate for questionable positions.

Lokarin posted...

Was the quality of life of American slaves above/below/about average compared to other slave nations at the time?

I can't necessarily speak for all of their contemporaries, but the American slave code was one of the most brutal of any major slave-owning nation throughout history, given how thoroughly slaves were stripped of their humanity and personal identity. I'm sure there were still worse countries that could have bought them, but America was not very nice to its slaves, by comparison.

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Zeus posted...

Isn't it kinda hard to set up a private server?

Sure, but we're talking about somebody whose primary hobby depends on that. The choice is either to give up gaming entirely or set up a private server, so the stakes are potentially high enough to motivate them.

Zeus posted...

And don't they tend to get shut down?

Depends a lot on how much it's competing with current products. Sega, for example, didn't do much of anything to any of the PSO Blue Burst private servers that arose after they shut down the official ones, since it wasn't a game they were selling anymore (the Blue Burst release was available only via a subscription model, and stopped being sold when the servers were shut down), nor did they have any other games in their repertoire whose userbase would be appreciably affected by people playing the game on a private server. To my knowledge, most/all of those private servers died out naturally before PSO2 was released, which might have qualified for that, but even then PSO2 only just saw an official NA release a couple months ago and is such a radically different game that I would barely call them competitors (beyond the most absolutely basic interpretation of competing for users' free time, which literally every leisure activity ever does and trying to control a specific one is foolish).

Private Vanilla servers for WoW, though? Those were coming out at a point when Blizzard wanted to sell more expansions (and, later, sell Vanilla WoW itself again) so they were absolutely competing with one of their current products. Shutting those down was completely within expectations. Even once WoW actually dies, I'm sure Blizzard will try to release a remake somewhere down the road, so I would expect them to continue squashing any new servers that pop up because they do threaten their revenue.

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I'm pretty sure WoW still holds the title of the most playtime for me (roughly 250 days total), which was '04. Everything else that's competing for the title is kind of scattered, and I couldn't say for certain, but I'd guess there's a strong bias toward 2001-2010 because that's when I was a teenager. That was when gaming was cemented as my primary hobby, so I spent a greater percentage of my free time playing, but I also didn't have adult responsibilities to distract me and cut into that free time, the combination of which meant lots of game time.

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blu posted...

Probably the former. Why? Shouldnt fulfillment be about the effect you make?

Because the former is more tangible and involves more personal investment. Intellectually, you know that sending a cheque off to some tree planting company to plant five is going to be more beneficial, but your actions are so detached from the actual benefit that it doesn't feel like you've actually done anything. By comparison, if you hold a sapling in your hands and shove it into the ground yourself, you're getting immediate feedback about what you're doing and what impact you'll have (well, the tree might still die, but we'll ignore that), making it feel much more meaningful.

This is why so many of those "send us $1 a day to feed an African orphan!" charities make a point of matching you up to a specific kid and sending you pictures and whatnot to show (or at least create the illusion of) the impact of your contribution. Simply sending money off doesn't feel overly meaningful, so charities make a point of attaching more meaning to it.

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Depends how the clinical trials go and also how credible the data coming out of those trials is (since it's likely to be rushed and there's a lot of incentive to be the first person with something "safe enough"). Even then, I'm still inclined to wait a month or so to see how the first wave of early adopters goes, though I'll probably get it relatively early because I'm asthmatic (albeit mildly) and therefore at a higher risk than most others my age.

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Muscles posted...

I get your point, and I'm not saying just stop, go and do interviews about it, pregame, postgame, podcasts, interviews with tv/radio shows, etc. Go out and do charity in brutalized cities, advocate for certain laws/politicians that will help end systemic racism, go to a peaceful protest, there is plenty of other, more impactful ways a famous athlete can help to change the way things are without dividing people further

All of those things are also happening, and the celebrity status that helps make them more effective is fuelled in part by the fame associated with kneeling. Really, if people don't want to see kneeling, the best thing they can do is shut up about it to reduce the amount of attention it seems to draw.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

the report i heard was if the customer didn't put on a mask they would be escorted to a separate area, and their order expedited

I think places should have separate lines for people without masks, that take a meandering route that leads them out via a side door.

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MilkCroc posted...

Oh but teaching our children and watching them while parents work isnt essential?

adjl posted...

Teaching is an essential service, but not one that has to be delivered in-person like groceries do.

The childcare angle has been a significant issue throughout the closures, especially now that more people are getting back to work instead of staying home, but that's not a reason to jeopardize the safety of the people around the kids. If anything, that's cause to challenge the "school as daycare" paradigm that has always been flagrantly at odds with properly educating kids.

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I've had some pretty enjoyable dark chocolate pretzels. And now I wish I had some of them, but I don't and now I'm sad.

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zebatov posted...

Are you doing this, or this?

Both
Neither

It's worded really awkwardly, but it actually works. Wearing offensive masks and not wearing a mask at all both qualify as defiance of mask requirements, so lumping them together under that umbrella makes sense, and is actually a yes/no question. The way duckbear worded it, providing two different "yes" options for each of the presented possibilities would probably have been better, but it's not actually wrong this way.

Revelation34 posted...

Also she's wrong since the symbol was originally a symbol of peace. She doesn't know her history to claim that it's a symbol of hate.

Symbolism changes over time, based on how people view it. The swastika is probably the most notorious example of that, in that nobody (in the West) that isn't trying to disingenuously pretend they aren't dressing up like a Nazi actually associates it with anything other than Nazism.

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Not as far as I know. I've been tested once, which came back negative (girlfriend had a mild sore throat and was therefore required by her work to get tested, so I went along because we live together and I'd certainly have it if she did), and I haven't been symptomatic enough to suspect that I had it, but I also haven't had an antibody test to rule out an asymptomatic (or otherwise mild) case.

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Silghtly impressed by the dedication required to have the B face the right way when everything else could have simply been mirrored without issue.

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If people get pissed off when you press them on something as simple as "how is kneeling disrespectful?", odds are they're actually pissed off about being reminded of and made to confront the issue instead of being able to ignore and forget about it (especially when the vast majority of people getting pissed off by this "disrespect" sit on their asses while the anthem plays on TV, if they aren't treating it as an opportunity to take a leak). The idea that kneeling is "disrespectful" isn't tremendously defensible, for reasons we've already gone over here.

The bottom line is that nobody actually feels that unnecessary police brutality and killings are a good thing. Pretty much everyone can agree that's bad. The challenge, however, comes in actually looking into the details of what's happening in any given case to form one's own opinion on how justified violence is. It means moving away from the comfortable position of being able to trust that your local police are good people with your best interests at heart and facing the reality that some of them are abusing their position, and your moral responsibility to hold them accountable for that. That's really unpleasant, and it's a whole lot easier and more comfortable to ignore the whole thing. That's why people get so uppity about the protests spilling into their sportsball time, even in reasonable, unobtrusive ways that don't actually interfere with the playing of the game in any way. They're trying to relax, but it's hard to relax when you're being reminded that there's a major social issue that you're trying to ignore.

The thing is, that's always going to be a problem for that crowd. They're always going to be doing something that they'd rather just enjoy (or otherwise focus on) in peace instead of having to make significant moral decisions. Without adequate pressure, those decisions will be procrastinated indefinitely, because these people have the privilege of doing so. Yes, that pressure is going to piss people off. People don't like being pressured to do stuff they're trying to put off. But that's no reason to stop applying it.

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I don't think GameFAQs' character limit is high enough for that.

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