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Metalsonic66 posted...

https://youtu.be/JuMiq7eg91M

Kinda hyped, although I'm not terribly familiar with the comic. JK Simmons voicing the Omni-Man is awesome, though.

...oh, oddly enough, apparently I was already familiar with Atom Eve.

And reading through the wiki now. This comic looks pretty solid.

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It's not terribly likely any time soon because they released the Switch-Lite as a budget model. Especially not right now in the midst of COVID.


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ParanoidObsessive posted...

(And also, the Rolling Stones already wrote a song singing goodbye to Ruby Tuesday 50 years ago. Which I'm assuming was your intended joke.)

Yes, and also how the chain got its name in the first place.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I'd also be curious to know how similar places like Friendly's, Fridays, and Applebees are weathering things. I always sort of lump all those places together in my head (occasionally throwing places like Uno's into the mix).

Friendly's has been having issues for years. The company declared bankruptcy in 2011, then closed 9 locations in CT in 2012, and then just another 3 locations last year (as part of a larger closing of 23 locations in the Northeast).

https://patch.com/connecticut/danbury/friendlys-close-danbury-restaurant

https://www.newstimes.com/business/article/Friendly-s-to-close-Danbury-shop-2-more-on-I-84-13750851.php

And I didn't realize that Friendly's was a regional chain, given that it's apparently in most of the states where I've lived over the years. (And the News-Time article lists CT as having 17 locations, but I'm not sure how accurate that is and I'm wondering if which was likely the previous number before all the closures began. )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly%27s

The history has been surprisingly fascinating. However, I'm not really seeing news for any of those this year despite the assumption that they must be struggling in the midst of these current economic conditions.

(And, not for nothing, but I've always loved Friendly's.)

JixHedgehog posted...

Is the menu burger based or is there a variety of stuff to eat?

It's basically like an Applebee's, there's a variety of stuff. Come to think of it, they've got a salad bar so maybe it's not that much like an Applebee's. I can't really think of any fast casual dining places that still do salad bars besides them. Maybe Sizzler? Although apparently Sizzler filed for bankruptcy last month.

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

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Wanded posted...

i wish someone would buy megaman from them but alas that would probably never happen....

Legends 3 never forget

You'd probably want the whole company bought instead of one property, especially since they unlikely to sell one property and, even if they did, we still probably wouldn't see MML3.


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DocDelicious posted...

I've never had Chick-fil-A, Popeyes, or KFC.

Chickens are dirty birds no one should eat, imo.

And what would you consider an appropriate bird?

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CaptainStrong posted...

The map and gameplay of San Andreas are way better.

SA has a bigger map (and I'm not necessarily sure it was a *better* map), but it introduced a lot of wonky mechanics like the stupid leveling system.


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They've already started a far-right, anti-abortion narrative so... probably that?

Krazy_Kirby posted...

"how dare trump not honor her dying wish!!!"

Her "dying wish" that he wait until another president be installed, even if that means waiting another four years >_>

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I have no idea what the industry standard is for programmers. However, if it's functional and something cool that you can show them -- and you don't have much actual experience -- it could be worthwhile?


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Gamerz4Justice posted...

I know that your alt has a far-left troll gimmick going on, but this clearly isn't the same thing as just "allowing" drivers to run over protesters. They would still need to demonstrate that they're fleeing danger. It's not carte blanche to run over protesters and it very specifically isn't about "peaceful protesters" unless you're facetiously calling them peaceful protesters as a means of mocking the idea of peaceful protest.

papercup posted...

Ooh, cool, in Florida terrorism is legal. Great.

Considering that laws like these limit an angry mob's ability to inflict terror and damage, the opposite seems true. If somebody is being attacked while in a vehicle, they now have some measure of legal protection while trying to escape that violence. The one major problem is that it's just a band-aid and doesn't address the fact that the police have done little to stop mobs from engaging in bad behaviors in the first place.

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But did you shoot the sheriff and/or deputy?

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Go on TV and predict a few events from the past year, including COVID, then use that newfound fame to make a completely bullshit prediction people will believe because I got the other things right. And write a best-selling book about my psychic abilities and hopefully use that to get myself a tv show, then use that newly-acquired fame to run for congress where I'll introduce a bill to recognize the whippet as American's national dog.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Going back one year is pretty much useless.

Not if you remember lotto numbers or if something preventable happened in the past year.

Honestly, going back a year is in many ways more appealing than going back quite a few years.


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IronBornCorps posted...

It also makes little sense to donate to orgs to limit who can adopt when so many kids need homes, and are stuck as wards of the state.

Foster homes are a thing. It's not like they're all just in giant kid prison camps or anything. Plus, as a general rule, most people looking to adopt want to adopt either babies or very young children who have no problem being placed. It's generally the older kids that are more likely to have problems finding permanent homes and get stuck in the system as a result.

And that's excluding the wards of the state that are taken from their biological parents where there may be logistical issues making adoption difficult.

On the subject, my cousin -- for whatever fucking reason -- wants to adopt. However, as I pointed out to him, he's a single male -- there's no way anybody would let him adopt. The adoption system has an almost-universal scorn for single males. And up until maybe the 1970s, it was just straight-up illegal for single people to adopt in most states and even now it's far harder for a single male to adopt than any other demographic.

Revelation34 posted...

How can something else be at the bottom too?

McDonald's hardly has the worst chicken, or fast food in general. And the biggest reason it attracts the criticism it does is because it's the largest fast food chain in its niche (technically Subway has more locations but, other than its history of hiring sex offenders to represent the company, it doesn't seem to attract much criticism for whatever reason -- and honestly, it's probably the worst of the major sandwich chains)

The biggest chains are rarely the worst chains overall because, if they really sucked, they wouldn't be able to get big in the first place. (And some smaller chains aren't so much hindered by quality as they might just lack exposure or good business practices. And, of course, a lot of mom&pop fast food places have owners who lack the business sense to create any kind of a successful chain.)

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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/us/braggadocio-in-trump-and-clinton-debate-words-that-sent-viewers-to-the-dictionary.html

idk, prior to the debate, I thought I'd seen the word come up in a commercial for Brooklyn 99 or another comedy.

Regardless, it's perfectly cromulent for new words to enter the English language.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

For all my RPG nerd cred and pride in being a sort of modern Renaissance Man, I've always admitted there are plenty of things I don't know about. I usually don't go into or comment in topics about stuff I'm not all that familiar with though, so I acknowledge I can easily come across as a know-it-all.

For castles, about the only thing I know is that the fiddly bits at top are called crenelations (as mentioned in a recent topic!), and the incredibly esoteric fact that most spiral staircases in Europe tend to go counter-clockwise upwards (which I mostly just use to figure out how to build staircases in Minecraft), because it forces attackers trying to storm a tower to keep their sword-arm towards the central column, which makes it harder for them to fight against defenders above.

Oh, and I know about a little bit Mad King Ludwig's castles because my family (well, part of it) actually comes from Bavaria, so it kind of feels like I'm obligated to know about them.

Otherwise, it's not really a subject that's ever really interested me all that much, so I never really looked into it.

It's a surprise mostly because I thought you were a large fan of the fantasy genre, which can be pretty castle-heavy (in addition to my impression that you were something of a history buff). It's not so much the all-knowing PO aspect as it is that I just assumed it would be in your wheelhouse.

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IronBornCorps posted...

LGBTQ people can have biological children, we don't need heteros to do it.

Something that the groups CFA donated to didn't try to block but, more importantly, if those were the only ones having kids, society would collapse because you'd have a sudden massive decrease in the birthrate since LGBTQ people make up an absurdly small amount of the overall population.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/259571/americans-greatly-overestimate-gay-population.aspx

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/how-many-people-lgbt/

Thanos wanted to take the population down by half. That plan would reduce the birthrate to 5% or, likely, much less.


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Dmess85 posted...

except one of the games it is harder to take the enemies with you because you have to answer their trivial questions, or you cant talk to them unless you have a particular enemy in your party.

...and that's how I learned that Revelations: The Demon Slayer was part of the Megami series. Oo What a terrible fucking game that was. If anything, it just further hammers home how the two franchises are nothing alike.


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WhiskeyDisk posted...

that quip only really applies to being on the receiving end of an absurd barrage from archery units.

They can run, but they can't glide!


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The Wave Master posted...

Make sure to get your final topic suggestions in before the topic ends.

"Fall-Geeks" is in the lead thus far. It works on several levels.

Boo!

And I'm sticking with my previous suggestion:
In honor of the Bethesda sale, we could go with The Geeks Sell Out (or maybe Fallout of the Elder Geeks)

Although, in honor of the never-ending lockdowns (well, outside states like Florida and Texas), I'll also suggest The Geekdown Continues. Granted, in the case of CT's lockdowns, it's probably a matter of the governor just having no fucking clue how to do his job and being too scared to admit it, which is why he just copied his neighbors' provisions and then just went a lot harder on them.

Or The Geekoween Tree.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

Geeks Among Us
Hallowgeek
Geektober is here.

I'm really low on ideas. There isn't a hell of a lot to work with these days for geek culture.

I'm fine with these 3. I'm also okay with an election one, but that one didn't do it for me.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I was playing around with A Geek in the Lonesome October but it felt a bit too awkward.

Wasn't familiar with the source material, but the novel looks pretty neat.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

the advantage to being surrounded is that we can attack in any direction...

Then we'll fight in the shade!

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Full Throttle posted...

It follows a Fox/Disney Statement back in June that white actors would no longer be voicing non-white characters on the hit animated show as Azaria has been the voice for Carlton Carlson, the co-worker of Homer Simpson as well as Apu, who has long been criticized for portraying a racist depiction of an indian immigrant

jfc...

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While I respect the fact that Chik-fil-A has consistent values (unlike companies that merely just into an issue to pander) -- including their decision to forgo massive profits to let workers spend their Sundays with family (because something like that is how you really test a company's commitment to its beliefs) -- I've never been a fan of their food, etc.

IronBornCorps posted...

Popeye's sandwich is way better,

idk about their sandwich, but they make good chicken. Problem is Popeye's is over-priced as fuck.

IronBornCorps posted...

and doesn't have the secret ingredient of homophobia.

Well, I can't imagine Popeye's would be secret about its homophobia >_> And honestly, most fried chicken places are probably homophobic.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I find Popeye's to be vastly overrated. If I want to go to a chain for chicken, I'd far rather go to KFC. I find their chicken to be way better in general than anything Popeye's has.

While I'm not sure whether I think Popeye's or KFC is better, KFC certainly has better deals and they're way easier to find.

IronBornCorps posted...

You're right. Donating money to orgs that say heterosexuals shouldn't be able to get married and have children would be more comparable.

You mean adopt children, rather than not have children (because iirc that the stance... but also because as you word it would effectively mean no new children would be born). And you could, but it just wouldn't be a great use of money.

The Popo posted...

Ive never understood the obsession some people have with this place. I think McDonalds has chicken sandwiches that are in the same ball park as theirs... nothing special. Ill give them credit for the super good customer service.

I prefer McDonald's chicken sandwiches to any other fast food place's chicken sandwiches, but they don't have the same kind of chicken selection as a chicken place. If I'm doing KFC, Popeyes, etc, I'm not having a chicken sandwich.

And honestly, with all this chicken sandwich talk, you'd think that was the only kind of chicken anybody sells >_>

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mrduckbear posted...

because prosecutors said they would be EATEN ALIVE if they went to the big house as they said they fear the brothers will be severely beaten or even get KILLED in there!!

They probably would. Sex offenders aren't very popular in prison and incestuous sex offenders even less so. However that's an argument for sending them to a safer prison, not letting them out of prison entirely... although I guess if they're going through a sex offender program they can be rehabbed that way? idk.

Jen0125 posted...

What religion are these people with these fucking WEIRD haircuts

If they're actually Amish, some variation on Christianity. They certainly look Amish, but you can never be sure whether Ducky is just mocking their looks.

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DeltaBladeX posted...

Anyone here can name 5 games from the list. The most popular games (probably 20 or so) will be used for giveaways on this board.

Creeping Terror - It's going to be October, after all, so a horror game is a good fit.

DreadOut - Same reason

Arcana Heart 3: Love Max!!!!!

Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core Plus R

Skullgirls

Greenfox111 posted...

We don't deserve you delta

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I'm not sure I've ever had a console with the first 6 months of release (maybe the N64 was the closest) so I've never known the struggle... although I guess I've missed out on black fridays at times which is kinda similar.

Speaking of, still regretting not running out to get that standard-size New 3DS. Right now I think even a refurby would run more more than that.


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Meanwhile, the left-leaning Newsweek is reporting that mail-in ballots voting for Trump were already discarded in PA >_>

https://www.newsweek.com/luzerne-county-pa-where-voters-went-obama-then-trump-fbi-finds-discarded-military-ballots-cast-1534157

Noop_Noop posted...

genuinely curious jen

do you plan to still follow american politics as closely as you do now after you move?

The better question is does she intend to post about American politics as closely as she does after she moves =p She's spamming more topics than Erik did at the height of his #nevertrump-ism


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OrangeDawn posted...

Patented Zeus waiting days to respond

I never posted in the topic in the first place so how could I wait to respond?

Jen0125 posted...

He had to wait for his new alt to clear because he had me ignored on his other names

Also kinda this. When I'm not warned, I don't use alts on PotD (prior to this, Broken Zeus was the only alt I used here when not warned) and Jen has been on my ignore list for several years. So naturally I didn't see the topic at all when it was first posted and only learned about it via the "More topics from this board option" which is generally how I come to initially post in a lot of older topics.

Other than my crazed stalkers and a few gimmick posters, there aren't many people who warrant being ignored/blocked on my alt even if I have them ignored/blocked on my main.

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tbh, wouldn't even know where to begin picking. It had a lot of great games but nothing that jumps out as being definitely the best of games.

I might have liked KH or Vice the most, though.

Cotton_Eye_Joe posted...

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Vice was cooler than SA, though.


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kind9 posted...

gtfo

It's a Nick Cage movie. Just Knowing that it stars Nick Cage means there's a reasonable chance that it'll be fucking terrible.

BlazeAndBlade posted...

*Ties everyone up and forces them to watch dragon ball: evolution*

now suffer

While DBE is a terrible adaptation of the source material and a kinda bad movie in general, it's also campy fun so it's not as unbearable as other films. Come to think of it, a lot of the fun comes from the fact it adapted the source material so fucking badly. It's also funny because things wouldn't have been as hilariously out of place if they'd used Gohan instead of Goku and then come up with a movie-exclusive villain.

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papercup posted...

Everyone called him out on his bs and he singled out Jen.

I can relate, considering 10 people can say the same thing yet I'm always the one people focus on. Which isn't even tied into my always-wacky fan club which has, hilariously enough, at times condemned something vigorously until I criticized that thing as well, then completely reversed course to wholeheartedly support it.

Metalsonic66 posted...

But Zeus is still here

Yeah, but I frequently get warned for pointing out things like "rioting is bad," which would nontroversial literally anywhere else.

Oh, and speaking of, looks like you're warned.

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tbh, I've been disappointed that all reports suggest that New Mutants is bad because the trailers really looked interesting given the horror vibe. Between that and being released at a shitty time, it probably kills that whole sub-franchise.

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Jen0125 posted...

Best time to do it, imo. Fuck him. He doesn't need to feel like people support him when the GOP is doing everything they can to reverse her legacy.

lol, fuck respecting RBG. Who cares about her when you can launch a petty attack against Trump at the most awkward time?

GanonsSpirit posted...

It's more disrespectful that he went there in the first place.

lolwut? Unless a person murdered the diseased and got away with it, showing up at a funeral isn't disrespectful.

GanonsSpirit posted...

The man literally called her dying wish a Democrat hoax.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/21/donald-trump-ruth-bader-ginsburg-dying-wish-democrats

So basically the "dying wish" was something that nobody can independently verify, was likely made up, and is an unreasonable ask especially since it's worded "until a new president is installed," meaning if Trump wins re-election, suggesting that "she" would want that seat to sit vacant for another four years.

Blightzkrieg posted...

I think the acceptance of a lot of things depends entirely on whether or not people are colossal pieces of shit.

You mean like people who disrupt funerals?

Jen0125 posted...

Like bligh said, I don't approve of what WBC protests for but they have the right to do it at a funeral.

The question was literally never about whether somebody has the legal right to do something, but whether it's appropriate.

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Except maybe for Mario Run or whatever it's called, I'm leery of platformers on mobile because of the controls.

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kangolcone posted...

Yet another example of Republican hypocrisy. You dont actually care about this. If you did, you would have demanded Trump release his tax returns and divulge what foreign investors he still has since he never divested from his companies.

Ill care about Bidens son when yall care about the sitting President. Im tired of Republican gaslighting first issues they do not care about like the sanctity of human life, the second amendment, or foreign influence and corruption.

>Politician's son gets high-paying jobs from companies closely aligned with governments to buy access to a sitting politician and, while in that position, the politician acts to the benefits of those countries
>"But his tax returns!"

If Eric or Donald Trump was being paid a large sum of work for a company closely tied to a foreign nation where Trump was giving preferential treatment to that nation, your last concern would be "tax returns." You're basically suggesting that a fishing expedition is more important than something where you already have a very visible conflict that demonstrates the highly for-profit nature of politics where politicians' families enter the political arena from working class backgrounds but manage to tremendously enrich themselves through their office or benefits associated thereof.

Entity13 posted...

I do band them together as a potential issue regarding Hunter's finances, as examples of the one issue.

Imagine being sick, and the symptoms occur multiple times over the course of a few days. Do you call each symptom, each occurrence, or even each day, a separate issue, or do you classify them as part of a larger whole - the illness?

Assuming the validity of this report, these are accounts or examples of a single, corrupt behavior. By this token, it becomes difficult to ascertain if Trump's tax records and his foreign affairs are singular or separate, for example. We do not have enough information because said records are kept from the public eye despite court rulings on this. Hunter, on the other hand, is presumed by one side to have received money when and where he shouldn't have, while some on the left have zero interest in hearing about it since it is so peripheral to the issues we currently face, or that the right refuses to address its present golden boy who, as you say, not everything is about - clearly.

It's a silly claim justifying what you admit is a fishing expedition (ie, your assertion that Trump's tax returns are more important because you won't know what you'll find, which is literally a fishing expedition). The tradition of presidents/presidential candidates releasing tax returns goes back to the 70s and only started because somebody partially leaked Nixon's tax returns to the press at the time. And almost nowhere else in the world is this a standard practice.

More so, considering that Hunter's PRIMARY income comes from ties to these companies, it's also a far more significant factor than Trump possibly having business interests abroad considering Trump's massive empire (where his disclosures were already 92 pages long; meanwhile Bernie's full tax record was only 7 pages)

And if you're overly concerned about potential hidden conflicts, shouldn't you be advocating that everybody in a politician's family release their tax returns? You'll want to fish there, too, because oftentimes benefits are being given to relatives rather than the politician themselves (although the actual super illegal shit -- like direct bribes -- won't show on an IRS form anyway and you'd need a forensic accountant, etc, rather than John Q Public to find to find it)

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

its not trolling just because you disagree with it

It's trolling because it's trolling, whether or not you or I agree or disagree with it.

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It's a shame, considering that they were one of the biggest tag teams of all time yet neither lived to a ripe old age. Absolutely incredible team by the standards of the day, and perhaps even today.

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You may have trouble getting around, but you always find your way to my ignore list >_>

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BlackScythe0 posted...

You think that?

Can you really believe otherwise? Wait, forget I asked.

GGuirao13 posted...

Didn't Trump lose the popular vote?

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.

GGuirao13 posted...

(mathematically correct)

Cue laugh track

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Zee. Isn't Zed just a Brit thing?

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wolfy42 posted...

Actually a courtyard usually means a wall that is a secondary line of defense besides the castle itself, it allows you to have more people in defensive positions, and also to store food/water (have cows etc) inside a guarded position so you can't just be starved out as easily.

From a technical standpoint, the more defenders you have, the easier it is to starve you out (when preparing for a long siege, castles traditionally tried to reduce headcount) and I'm not sure that a few extra cows will be a major benefit since you're not going to have much grazing area to keep them fed which means you might wind up using grains and other dry goods that could instead go to feed the defenders.

In the case of a longer siege, one fewer person could extend provisions by a week or even a month.

wolfy42 posted...

A courtyward with solid walls surrounding the castle, and a moat around that is even better (with a drawbridge) as it prevents using many devices to try and smash through the wall, and makes scaling it more difficult as well. You can still use catapults etc though, but even if you do knock down the wall, if there is a dangerous moat, it still makes storming the castle more difficult.

Well, yeah, I mean if you had redundancies within the castle itself where the keep was like a castle unto itself, sure. I was more thinking about a keep within a castle where if the enemy could get over the walls, everything securing the outer walls would be negated and it would simply be a matter of getting into the keep. Castles with the same principle as a motte & bailey could simply have fall back to the far more secure upper region... although I guess even then there's the matter of outer walls and a keep rather than strictly just being the structure. I guess I might be overthinking this since main benefit either way would be a hill with steep walls at the end to block the enemy from trying to use ladders or siege engines.

wolfy42 posted...

If I was really going to make a castle like structure that was almost impossible to defeat, I would do it INTO a mountainside or large hill, then surround it with a couple of layers of walls for defense. Even catapults would not have any chance against that. You could even make it look like a traditional castle on the outside, but the actual living places would be underground/hill and pretty much impossible to damage.

With a mountain, you'd probably have the issue of natural tunnels potentially creating alternate entrances. Otherwise if you're just building into (instead of on top) of the mountain or hill, the structure would still be vulnerable from the exposed side.

Helm's Deep is a good example. Although the mountain protects the back of the castle, the walls can still be taken from the front as easily as any other castle. (And, on an unrelated note, the movie version of Helm's Deep had all kinds of vulnerabilities.) And the issue with catapults wasn't so much damaging the living spaces, but instead allowing attackers to breach the defenses. The point of a castle is having fortification against enemies entering, without it you're just vulnerable.

Then there'd be the potential secondary issue where catapults could trigger a rockslide. Granted, if you don't have anything important outside the tunnels and aren't impacted by having the entrance to your tunnels buried (in the short-term anyway), it can be a defensive advantage. The bigger concern would probably be enemies breaching the walls and then working their way through your underground structure.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I couldn't tell you what it is exactly, but I know it's related to castles. I've heard certain castles described as a "motte and bailey design".

Is this really PO? =x I assumed you'd have expert-level knowledge about castles.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

stop accusing everyone reacting to your dumbass posts of 'trolling'

it makes you look like a bitch

Stop defending trolling. It makes your dumbass posts look even worse.

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JixHedgehog posted...

I cant believe its almost been 20 years since I went down to the electronics market and bought her sex tape on dvd

Truly a different time!

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There's no such thing as a wholly unbiased news source

Somehow it feels like there's a middle ground between the extremes of "absolutely no hint of bias at all" and "outright propaganda."


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Assuming he's the taller guy, that's a rough 38.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I don't think I've ever gotten anything on sale that involves tipping in the first place, so I've never been in this situation in order to have an established pattern of behavior for it.

This. Although if I had, I'd probably pay based on the reduced amount in the case of a general sale or tip extra if it was a special discount.

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King_Dilly posted...

When AOC and Bernie are your champions of a political party, you know that your party is doomed.

Technically they're more fringe and Bernie is only a democrat when he's running for president. Considering Bernie's history of opportunism and extreme views, mainstream Democrats and leadership don't want him in a leadership role. The party's handpicked chosen one was Kamala Harris, whose candidacy was torn to shreds by Tulsi Gabbard in mere minutes so they had to settle for making her the VP candidate knowing that Joe Biden probably won't serve out a full term.

BeerOnTap posted...

That story was from unnamed sources, was disputed by many people (who actually came forward and went on record) including John Bolton, who has not been shy about being critical of Trump lately.
Even the Atlantic editor had to acknowledge that his unnamed sources were pretty much bogus.

tbh, the Atlantic has never been big on facts anyway. They only get in the way of their narratives.

Yellow posted...

Like what, increase in low income jobs? An successful economy based off the DOW?

"Make America Great Again" How?
"Keep America Great" How???? In what way?

He mentioned a litany of areas where America was falling down during all of his debates -- including the economy and getting screwed on trade -- which I thought you'd watched, but I guess maybe you hadn't if you're asking that 4 years after he announced his platforms. And, honestly, up until COVID shut down large swathes of the country, the economy and jobs growth had been consistently improving. And he's very visibly been fighting China over its countless unfair trade practices and illegal activities, something that Biden wants to reverse on day one (presumably because of Hunter Biden's business ties, since he had previously taken issue with China but now he has no interest on taking them to task over anything)

And while Trump's decision to block TikTok has been in the news, you won't hear the news discuss how China has kept American social media & other internet companies out of their country all this time which has allowed their companies to flourish. Something like Alibaba would have likely never got off the ground if ebay and Amazon had been in China. And while Trump's TikTok ban isn't even about the unfair trade practices but instead security concerns, China's motivation was to limit Western influence and keep out competition.

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Wanded posted...

There was a similar bill last year which got shut down in the senate by democrats, several states already have similar legislation.
It basically states a baby who survives abortion must be given medical treatment to make sure it survives.

Kinda wondering what the justification was for blocking that.

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While there's no strict "If I, then you" component, it certainly *seems* like an ethics violation that must conflict with some law. Other monetary benefits to get people to vote are already illegal, albeit poorly enforced.

https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2012/11/voting-related-giveaways-clash-with-federal-law-148481

The only kinda gray area is that it's not happening on election day whereas those laws more specifically target election day shenanigans.

Clench281 posted...

If the fines are paid off before the voting even happens...

... And there's then no reward or incentive OR punishment for them to vote one way or another...

Then how can you claim votes are being bought?

So basically you're arguing that if somebody gave you a hundred dollars to vote for a candidate a month before an election, that should be legal? >_>


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Not bad advice, just not the advice cops should be giving. However, as the cop notes, cops are being put in a bad place where they're being forced to burn bridges in the communities they protect.

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Jen0125 posted...

Do you suffer from selective reading? It's left-center. It's not left bias or extreme left bias. Do you understand there's almost no way to remove bias completely? It also states it is left-center because of the editorials, not the news articles. Please learn to read.

>Asks if somebody suffers from selective reading
>Reads "leftist" as "extreme left" (which could just be conflating my comments)

The point was that even the sketchy, non-authoritative guide you linked was acknowledging a clear bias I had already pointed out. The significance being that even though you had carefully chosen a bullshit reference even the bullshit reference doesn't absolve the Atlantic of bias.

Jen0125 posted...

So you admit getting your news from left leaning sources as well? While trying to call out others?

First, I don't rely on far-left sources like you do -- you cite crap like HuffPo, which fact checkers (including the one you chose) routinely rank in their farthest-left bracket, and the Atlantic.

Second, while NPR is leftist, I don't rely on it as a primary source for information since any claims I hear are vetted elsewhere (something you don't seem to do at all which is why you wind up posting really outlandish crap).

Third, even though USA Today and BBC are acknowledged as being more towards the middle (well, except by your sketchy site), I STILL vet claims against other sources.

Jen0125 posted...

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/bbc/

BBC - left center

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/usa-today-2/

USA Today - left center

Stop acting like you get your news from better sources.

You mean a sketchy, non-authoritative site you chose to go with (probably because the top few results didn't support your argument) is wrong?! Who would have thunk it!

However, it also circles back to my initial criticism of your low-information approach to media. And I suppose on some level it's inspiring, since it shows all I'd need to to sway the poorly-informed is create a website and buy an authoritative-sounding domain since I can count on people to not bother examining credentials, etc, to see that it's a one-man-with-volunteers operation where there's relatively little information out there about that one man. I can't even seem to find a Linkedin page, which is the barest minimum for a professional.

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hamsarris_ posted...

yeee, savin up to make a tiny shed into a tiny house

fuck the ideal home ownership shit ya know? Id rather find a plot of land like 45 minutes away from a city and live off grid sans internet lol

There are some elements to off-the-grid leaving that appeal to me, but I couldn't imagine that long of a commute. The other thing I wouldn't ever want to bother with is non-conventional plumbing. So if I'm off the grid, I'd want a well and then a septic system rather than something like a composting toilet or any of that crap.

And, as far as unconventional living goes, I think I'd prefer an earth home to a tiny home. While the mobile aspect of tiny homes are kinda neat, I like owning stuff and tiny homes tend to be minimalistic.

adjl posted...

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.

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

As for getting a bigger place, I've seen a few tiny home videos discuss additional accommodations they've built. However, as a general rule, it seems like the kind of living choice you'd really have to commit to and have long-term plans in mind.

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

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