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Muscles posted...

I'm not trying to defend that idea because it is stupid

And yet you suggest accepting their stupidity for the sake of not pissing them off rather than calling them out on it. That's the rough equivalent of giving Karen her milkshake for free because she complained to the manager about it taking three seconds longer than she wanted.

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

That's 416 and 2/3rds days of playtime. You'd be real hard pressed to put in that many hours in less than 2 years.

Even in two years, assuming 8 hours a day of sleeping, that only leaves a total of 72 days not playing, or an average of 2.4 hours per day. Averaging 2.4 hours of playing per day would be quite a bit, but have that be the only time you're not playing would be just ridiculous.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

I also expect something like FF14 to be going for a very long time, probably on private servers if the official server ever shuts down.

Realistically, if somebody's only able to play 1 game for the rest of their life and they've chosen a server based game, it stands to reason that they would start up a private server themselves for it, since they have so much to gain by doing so.

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Muscles posted...

the right thinks it's disrespect

adjl posted...

In what bassackwards universe is kneeling an act of disrespect?

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FrozenBananas posted...

How has this not already happened? Literally every single store in Massachusetts is mask mandatory and were doing better than almost every state in fighting the virus

Large swaths of the US have generally resisted the idea of doing things that have been demonstrated to be effective at combating Covid's spread. It's the primary reason the virus has gotten so bad there.

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Ah yes, the ever-unreasonable expectation of actually having to say the thing you want to say in order to communicate it to people. How could I have inflicted such misery upon you?

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I like hard pretzels well enough on their own (though generally less than soft pretzels, much like I generally like bread better than crackers), but their shape tends to be a really bad fit for snack mixes and just interferes with taking a handful and putting said handful in my mouth. If there are going to be pretzels in a snack mix, they should be really short sticks/balls that are consistent with the size of the rest of the pieces, not long sticks or full pretzel shapes.

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Blightzkrieg posted...

"How could we have exterminated the Indians if not for slavery"

I mean, Canada (well, BNA, but that's a minor technicality) did a pretty good job of it, so I don't think that's the best argument >.>

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DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...

I didn't say it was disrespectful, I said it's being framed that way by people who want to ignore the issues the kneeling is designed to call attention to.

And that is correct.

argonautweakend posted...

Some people "want to watch a game" without any of that stuff. I don't care if its in there, as all I'm trying to do is watch a game.

Pretty much. Although, that's something that's really only that easy to do if you have already considered and made peace with the issue at hand. The folks that would rather pretend the issue doesn't exist than confront it and make a decision where they stand will have a much harder time with that, since its mere mention disrupts their safe space.

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Blightzkrieg posted...

We're like two moves away from calling slavery a necessary neutral. I'm thinking by 2028 that will be the official GOP position.

"If not for slavery, more Americans would have starved to death than slaves died, and that means it was okay!"

I'm sure that argument can be made (although with a whole of of pretty baseless speculation, given the number of variables involved and the lack of good data), but again, that falls back to the issue of whether or not America growing as quickly as it did was actually necessary. I'm really kind of hoping that argument becomes more common so it becomes possible to throw the "maybe you shouldn't have sex if you can't afford to feed more kids" thing back in the face of the anti-abortion crowd, because that's just going to be fun.

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You can't get food out of the Internet. You can get learning out of the Internet (even if it's less effective). Teaching is an essential service, but not one that has to be delivered in-person like groceries do.

Now, the fact that grocery store workers aren't getting significant hazard pay out of this is indeed a travesty. They're required to show up to a dangerous job, they should be compensated accordingly.

MilkCroc posted...

this disease is less deadly to people under 18 then the flu?

People under 18 almost always live with people that are over 18, to say nothing of the teachers themselves being put at risk. Younger children are also notoriously bad at hygiene at the best of times, let alone compared to the enhanced hygiene recommendations that are in place for infection control purposes, so you're going to see pretty rapid spread between kids and from kids to the adults around them. The kids themselves probably won't die, but they'll infect a whole bunch of other people that will.

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I think you are overestimating how funny it'll be. The basic concept of doing something strange and unexpected that will throw them off is fine, but I get the impression that a puzzle was the most random thing you could think of and you've latched onto it without considering that it's not actually going to be that disarming for them. You'll get a "that was a weird thing to do" and a couple chuckles, but I'm not expecting much more than that. Odds are, their reaction will be more along the lines of "oh, I guess he did a puzzle while he was staying here and forgot to clean it up."

What you want is something that they won't necessarily notice immediately. Maybe something like hanging a creepy portrait in their bedroom, especially if you replace an existing picture with it so their eyes aren't immediately drawn to the conspicuous new thing. Ideally, you want them to notice it after they get into bed or in the middle of unpacking, if orienting it accordingly is an option.

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Fam_Fam posted...

this does NOT make it necessary

adjl posted...

if you consider establishing the country and its economy in a timely fashion to be necessary (which the founding fathers did).

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helIy posted...

i'll pee on you

That won't make your point any better. Perhaps try typing out the explanation? I doubt it'll be more than 50 words, tops.

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He's not altogether wrong, if you consider establishing the country and its economy in a timely fashion to be necessary (which the founding fathers did). That would have been substantially more difficult if not for slavery, and America and the world would be a very different place because of such a change. The problem is that saying something like that usually needs to be paired with "and as a result, those of us who are benefiting from that economic success owe a great debt to the class that was oppressed to get it, so have some reparations," otherwise you're defending slavery (read: being a racist bag of moldy feces) instead of expressing regret over the harm that was caused (read: the position every decent person holds).

The actual quote is also a concerning bit of historical revisionism, since he's not saying that himself, he's claiming that was the founding fathers' opinion. There's no reason to believe that - collectively - the founding fathers believed slavery to be evil, even if they felt it was necessary. I'm sure some did, but to suggest that all of them held that position is utter nonsense, and seeks to excuse the past crimes of slavery.

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Kungfu Kenobi posted...

This is why we have lunch breaks out in the real world.

Eh, that's more because working for eight hours without a break is generally very bad for people, both in terms of overall productivity and their health/quality of life. Situations where eating while working might result in costly errors generally explicitly prohibit eating, rather than relying on the expectation that people will only ever eat on their lunch break, and eating while working is very common in lower-stakes scenarios.

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DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...

Because you're supposed to stand

And? Kneeling is almost universally a gesture of respect, regardless of how people expect respect to be expressed at any given time. It stands out because it's different and unexpected, not because it's disrespectful.

And that's without saying anything about the supreme, absurd irony of having strict rules about how one must show respect for "the land of the free."

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Lokarin posted...

He was pretty old; it's very sad when young people die, but when old people die you get to be like "that dude had a rich and fullfilling life, sail on into the cosmos, bro"

Pretty much. It's sad to see him go, but it doesn't seem particularly tragic. Dude lived quite the life.

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Zeus posted...

Because they're deliberately engaging in an act of disrespect against something signifying America and by extension protesting America?

In what bassackwards universe is kneeling an act of disrespect?

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You can't really ask for more than 104 years. That's a pretty solidly long life. RIP.

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That's not even a strawman. That's like... a strawblobfish or something.

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I'm 4 minutes in and he's done nothing to actually discuss percolators. You could really stand to provide a TL;DW summary, instead of expecting everyone to wade through 20+ minutes of tangential jokes to find the part that's relevant to your point.

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Raze_Razel posted...

They get paid millions of dollars to play the game, so they should shut the f*** up and do their job.

They don't get paid to play the game during the national anthem. THAT would be disrespectful.

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We didn't exactly eat out much before the pandemic, but that particular expense category has dropped to almost zero since then.

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Everyone should just be randomly assigned a tax-funded lawyer, rather than personally paying them. Adjust those lawyers' salaries based on how many cases they win (presumably with some further nuance than that) so there's still an incentive to be competent, but take away the wealthy's ability to rig the justice system by affording better lawyers.

Of course, "random" has a lot of room for manipulation and corruption, but that's not impossible to sort out.

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Mead posted...

I wouldnt say scared, but I do weigh the risks and consider if its something I really need to leave the house for

Pretty much this. Local numbers are good enough that I'll make the occasional trip that's more frivolous (masking and/or distancing wherever appropriate, of course), which is more relaxed than the "grocery shopping and walks around the neighbourhood only" of the first couple months, but going out is still a decision that I put some consideration into every time.

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I've forgotten most of what I picked up from watching anime. Guess that's what happens when you don't watch any for over half a decade >.>

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I legit started choking on the water I took a sip of while reading this. Woke up my girlfriend gasping for air. I coughed it out and am fine now, aside from my lungs kind of hurting, but that was not the most fun time I've had >.>

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Yeah, if the coffee is actually getting exposed to direct heat, you're using the percolator wrong. You heat the water, not the coffee.

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aHappySacka posted...

Not sure, I'm torn between Chad and Kevin but the latter is a different reference and not equivalent to Karen.

Chad is something different.

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Probably not.

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Also Karen. There's no particular need to gender the term.

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Only if the movie in question has nothing but young children characters.

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It's an egg where the egg part has been removed and replaced with milk.

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Mostly water these days. Chocolate milk was my go-to beverage for meals, but since the pandemic started we've been grocery shopping for two weeks at a time, and that's limited our fridge space such that I've switched to just having water.

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Most of Canada has done fairly well. It hasn't been perfect, but most provinces closed their borders and took an aggressive approach to keeping cases down before their case numbers got really bad. But then that's mostly a function of population density; Ontario and Quebec have still been fairly bad (Quebec also really hasn't been doing much to control it, resulting in them being the worst).

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Veedrock- posted...

All I'm getting is you think Gamestop had zero used inventory going into covid.

They didn't have zero used inventory overall, but they did have zero copies of games that have released since then and are popular enough for there to be significant demand for used copies of them. Switch games falling under that umbrella also makes sense because the Switch has been selling so well since this started (Animal Crossing really couldn't have released at a better time).

Further to the point about fewer customers, I'd also expect fewer people will have been bringing in their used stuff given that used goods are potentially risky in a pandemic situation. That's also going to hurt their inventory, as they'd still be selling stuff. With things reopening and people getting more comfortable about shopping, they're going to be facing higher demand, so they're pushing to bolster their supply to meet that.

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I think I might be allergic to kiwi, so I've been avoiding it. Otherwise, I really don't like sour cream (as a topping, I'm fine with stuff that's made with it), and I'm not huge on zucchini/squash (though I'm okay eating them), but that's about it.

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RedPixel posted...

I think the people wearing the masks are the reason people have to wear the masks.

I feel like more people should have called out this obvious nonsense.

RedPixel posted...

Any information is potentially dangerous if you blindly follow it though.

Some more so than others, and mocking the intelligence of people who disagree with the information you're spreading encourages people to follow it blindly. Hence, you get modded.

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Clench281 posted...

No, I'm thinking of someone who would argue creationist apologetics. Probably just confusing old usernames I remember then

Unrelated, but this just made me remember MarioFanatic. He was rather something.

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RedPixel posted...

Ask yourself why a man who simply asks questions gets censored.

When you do get modded, it's because those "questions" are thinly-veiled insults and/or serve little purpose except to spread dangerous misinformation (especially as pertains to the ongoing pandemic). It's not because GameFAQs is part of a grand conspiracy to keep the clever people from asking too many questions, it's because you lack the self-awareness to follow the terms you agreed to when you created your account.

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Zeus posted...

Because opting out of FREE healthcare is very different from opting out of paid healthcare. And this topic says free and it ain't free.

adjl posted...

Everybody understands the difference just fine, regardless of what terms are used in colloquially speaking about it.

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adjl posted...

If I offered you the opportunity to join a game in which everybody rolled four dice, and those who rolled four 1's had to kill themselves, would you participate?

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RedPixel posted...

Life goes on. If you want to stay home and live in victimhood mentality, go for it. Don't force your insecurities of the real world onto me.

Answer the question, if you really aren't afraid.

OhhhJa posted...

Not really an equivalent scenario. You're not factoring in the limited odds of actually contracting the virus in the first place on top of the mortality rate. And on top of that, the mortality can't factor in all the asymptomatic people or those with mild symptoms that never even get tested in the first place

Sure, it's not perfectly equivalent, but at least part of that discrepancy is covered by the fact that you're ~8 times less likely to roll four 1's than to be killed by Covid (0.077%), and I'm okay with saying that the rest of it is mitigated by the reality that "playing" is likely to entail forcing multiple other people to also play against their will, plus the fact that infection will stop being an unlikely outcome if everything returns to normal the way people like him want it to.

Basically, if you want to dismiss Covid because its mortality rate isn't all that high, you need to consider what those odds actually mean. Rolling double snake eyes is something pretty much anyone that's played any appreciable number of dice-based games has experienced. It's very uncommon and you probably won't see it on any given set of four rolls, but it definitely happens, and attaching such a dire consequence to it as death is enough to dissuade most people from rolling in the first place.

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RedPixel posted...

99.5% survival rate, dummies.

If I offered you the opportunity to join a game in which everybody rolled four dice, and those who rolled four 1's had to kill themselves, would you participate?

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ChaosAzeroth posted...

I don't see why people go by the numbers anyway, they don't really tell you if you'll like the game or not.

It really depends how good/bad the numbers are. Mostly just bad ones. If a game has piqued my interest but comes in at a sub-60 metacritic score, that's usually enough to turn me off of looking into it further unless it looks really interesting (in which case I'll dig deeper into why the review numbers are bad and go from there). A major discrepancy between critic and user scores will also prompt further research, though I don't put much weight in user scores alone. I don't really pay much attention to differences in anything above 70, though. Get into that range, and that just means there aren't any glaring problems with the game, so deciding whether or not I'll like it is going to be more nuanced than a single number can tell me.

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LinkPizza posted...

Doesnt mean he would have, though. I know lots of people that pay for healthcare that never really go to the doctor. Even for regular checks. Even if he had it, he may have been in the same place...

Oh, sure, but removing the financial deterrent does a whole lot to encourage people to get problems checked out before they become serious. It's still not a guarantee, since people will resist going to the doctor for plenty of reasons other than money (not liking doctor visits, embarrassment, not wanting to waste resources if it's not a big deal, not wanting to be seen as weak/cowardly, not being able to get time off work...), but it's one less reason to worry about.

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SilverClock posted...

Not saving my game in Animal Crossing (Gamecube) and having Resetti chew me out for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTpc1h8wt8I

Guilt? Please. I spent a sizable chunk of time deliberately resetting just to go through all of his dialogue and laugh at it. Of course, that meant I just got annoyed whenever I accidentally turned off the game without saving (e.g. power outage) and had to sit through his lecture again, so maybe that wasn't a great idea >.>

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Wait, it's 36 hours? That's not three days. TC, you lied to us. That actually seems kind of silly, since that's not much time at all for would-be bombers to lose interest, and you're still only going to get well-informed reviews from people that have binged the game too hard to be considered impartial. I like the 3 day idea better.

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Krow_Incarnate posted...

Again, the dude was diagnosed with Stage IV. His level of healthcare literally didn't matter.

Unless having health care covered made him more willing to get checked out prior to that point. Early detection is by far the best thing you can do to treat cancer, and regular checkups and screening are the best way to do that.

Krow_Incarnate posted...

Not opting out would've been a waste in his case.

Five years of $35/month would have been $2100. He left $45,000 in medical bills behind, which would have been covered by that $2100. It's been a few years since I took any math classes, but I vaguely remember learning that 45,000 is a whole lot bigger than 2100, so I'm inclined to conclude that it wouldn't have been wasted.

Zeus posted...

If you have to pay for something, it's not free. Bait & switch! Bait & switch!

I really don't know why you think this is such an effective counterargument that it needs to be used every time duckbear calls socialized health care "free." Everybody understands the difference just fine, regardless of what terms are used in colloquially speaking about it.


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papercup posted...

I don't see this backfiring on them at all. Nope, not one bit.

It'll see some backlash, with people review bombing everything in sight, but I expect that'll be pretty short-lived due to how much of a commitment that would be to sustain on a long-term basis. Collectively, gamers really aren't very good at caring about stuff for longer than a couple days, which is why such lazy expressions of malcontent as review bombing are so popular. Make it so people have to hold onto their anger for a few days before enacting a review bomb, and most of them are going to get bored and go back to playing the game they aren't actually all that upset about.

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