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They really should have just stopped with 2 instead of making this another slowly degrading in quality Rocky. You can only do the same boxing life lesson story so many times.

Rich people who have more money than style, the kind who are fine with anything so long as its immediately identifiable as costing a lot of money.

Why is this stuff always ugly as sin? Its always pretentious fashion designer level horrible.

It must be weird to be so sheltered that you cannot understand the particular upbringing or community can heavily influence what a kid does or says. There's a certain level where they're just an inborn shitty person (heavy bullying), but otherwise there are traits people grow out of as they age and get out of the bubble that is their family and community.

Honestly, if the local government cannot support the people and businesses it's forcing to close, it should really have no right to shut them down. Impose all the safety regulations you want like limited capacity and fine them out the ass if they refuse to enforce them, but full closure, if it means the livelihood of these people, is quite shitty.

This has always been such a weird video. She has completely divorced science from its actual definition in favor of some nonsense position. Her point on the legitimacy of African religions would likely have place in a discussion on the syllabus of a theology class which likely does not give them much attention whatsoever, but outside of that it's like bringing up how to defend against UFOs in a discussion on air traffic control.

No matter how much money I'm making, I don't think I could ever seriously work in a room literally sponsored by Fritos.

I don't get why they couldn't just do a bunch of new continuities without making this dumb multiverse setting where it needs to be shattered and rebuilt repeatedly. It's just convoluted and stupid.

Conflict posted...

Or maybe she isn't actually fucked

Do you actually think for one second no employer or university forever is going to accept this girl because of this story? This isn't a criminal record. People have literally come back from worse

This is the exact goalpost shifting. One does not need to be literally ruined for life to be marked as royally fucked. "Deep has hundreds of millions so it doesn't matter if he lost several major movie deals and had his name dragged through the mud." Same shit. The consequences have to actually fit the action, and they do not in this case. This is not a "get back at the bully who called me the n-word on a daily basis and got away with it" situation. This is a "some petty dude decided to emulate that with some random ass clip that had nothing to do with him" situation.

Conflict posted...

But... she wasn't fucked out of all current prospects

Like, that's literally not what happened.

This just reeks of a massive goalpost shift in which youd never admit shes fucked no matter what happened to her personal life. Its like the same garbage people used to downplay Depp in his whole shitshow of a divorce.

I love how everyone who defends garbage like this uses the metric of their life isnt literally unsalvageable so youre being hyperbolic as if being fucked out of all current prospects doesnt equate to having your life ruined.

With how we understand the universe, there is no reason to believe one exists any more than there is to believe Bugs Bunny really exists. Its just human imagination that focuses on personification of the unknown as every other god weve ever worshipped.

VipaGTS posted...

Also, regardless of any warnings...what possible motive could someone have to blow up an entire street to war zone levels and not be considered terroristic? I don't want to hear the "just another crazy person" excuse again. there are too many of those.

Deliberate destruction of a particular building or aiding in a crime. While a bomb will inherently terrorize those around, I believe all terrorist attacks are labeled as such for having a particular goal in influencing or advancing something. This could turn out to be muh 5G nonsense or it could be something else.

VipaGTS posted...

that was from the cops. not sure they knew, but they did know and warned people.

Unless initial details have changed, the RV itself had a loudspeaker with a warning and he also shot off gunshots to get attention.

I mean a blaring warning for people to get to safety is kind of the opposite of a terrorist attack. You need a purposeful motive to scare and/or kill people, so that will have to be determined if he left evidence behind. The guy is still an absolute shitbag who could have very easily killed people, but the intent is what ultimately makes a terrorist attack.

Looks like $333 since 2010. Plus 5 or 10 HBs for the cheapest amount.

While I've never been a PC gamer, that is completely false. The visuals on PC are damn insane, especially when modding is introduced for games that otherwise aren't pretty.

UnfairRepresent posted...

If your child hit you, do you beat them?

If you're 6 foot 5 and 240 pounds and a 5 foot 1, 103 pound girl slaps you for making an offensive joke the retort is not to punch her in the face.

This is common sense and you're ghoulish for pretending not being able to understand that.

Show some restraint and maturity

That's a bit outdated and assumes it's impossible for a woman to hurt a man despite a rather critical weakspot. Self-defense has to be in response to a threat, so responding to a slap with a punch is generally a bit much, even if it's satisfying to watch. But if you're talking about repeated provocation and attacks while one side is shown to be trying to back off, then it's perfectly reasonable no matter the size difference.

It's a regular Nintendo game. You shouldn't expect much challenge outside of DK and some end of game challenge runs occasionally.

Socrawheeze posted...

if the original guy ceased to be how would it still be rape?

Wikipedia says the dead guy goes back to being dead and WW meets the possessed guy after, so he's seemingly just in hibernation mode for the duration where he's possessed.

Partly because men and women have different interests. Partly due to the nerd stigma. Partly due to the whole "boy's club" mentality. Partly due to the focus on developing for male interests. There are other factors as well, but I'd say the difference in interests is the biggest factor. There are plenty of women both casually and hardcore into gaming, but I don't think it'd ever exceed a certain threshold even if all stigmas were removed.

Haven't seen it, but sounds like the dude didn't consent to be taken over by the spirit of some guy from WW1 and certainly didn't give consent to either of them to use his body to have sex, so that'd definitely be mental and physical rape.

I'd equate that with making pain and suffering a personality trait. You can't cover up bad writing just through making someone a rape victim, killing their family, making them suffer years of abuse, etc. That in itself doesn't make for a good character, but putting someone well written through hardship can bring about interesting dynamics.

pikachupwnage posted...

And how the fuck did nobody tell the police before it happened?

Was this some awkward targeted blast and they didn't want randos caught in it? Is this some Batmam rogue gimmick crime shit?

The police were actively evacuating people, I believe. It's most likely a retaliatory attack by a disgruntled employee and/or an over the top suicide.

averagejoel posted...

that "if" is another extraordinary claim for which you have provided zero evidence

Okay, there's clearly no point in talking to you if you're just going to dodge the issue. We'll just end the conversation with "communism or any similar variant that relies on human decency is impossible" seeing as that's your whole MO anyway.

averagejoel posted...

this is not how it works. you made the extraordinary claim. it is your responsibility to provide the extraordinary evidence to support it.

That is the evidence. If we have thousands of years of one thing (being assholes) and zero years of another thing (being collectively helpful to each other to the detriment of our own tribes), that is in fact evidence.

averagejoel posted...

those are some extraordinary claims to be presented without evidence

I guess if you ignore all of human history in which poverty and strife have been everpresent, sure. Feel free to point out any singular point in time in which all of humanity organized to make sure everyone was cared for. Spoiler alert, it's not the fault of capitalism.

averagejoel posted...

this is not a given

It's in our core biology to be selfish and tribalistic. Applying that to a population of millions or billions simply makes that more evident. It doesn't matter what system we bring forth. There is no fixing that issue. The only way everyone could be happy is with an abundance of resources to the point where nobody would need to fight over them, and even then we'd fine someone being an asshole about it for some reason.

In terms of what it could handle if everything was optimized, no. In terms of what our current infrastructure can handle when accounting for the basic quality of life necessities for everyone on earth, yes. Given that we're naturally wasteful and selfish creatures, I don't think it's realistically possible to sustain our current population or above without such a large percentage being in poverty. Even if we could, we'd be looking at some kind "restrict free will, everyone is a sheep to be herded" kind of situation.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/courtroom-portraits-judges-ruling/2020/12/22/366c57a8-445e-11eb-975c-d17b8815a66d_story.html
Looks like it's received coverage elsewhere. Seems horribly stupid without some kind of context like "the judges were racist shitbags who should have rotted in jail instead of being venerated in the court." If they were all normal people, this is just a racial setback more than anything.

Antifar posted...

Weren't reports that there were no deaths?

No external deaths, but itll probably take a while to determine if there was anyone in the vehicle.

Yeah, no defending that whatsoever. If the father was getting up in their face and refusing to back off, that'd be one thing, but he's just literally chilling there across the street. I understand that family getting involved can make a situation messy, but he did literally nothing worth paying attention to.

Both were bad. The one in Infinity War reinforced the whole "women must fight women" trope for some reason and the one in Endgame simply made no logistical sense considering it was a chaotic battlefield with thousands upon thousands of combatants. It would have been perfectly fine if they had at least been showing all of them slowly coming together over a little bit, but instead the Uterus Signal simply summons them there inorganically.

It's likely based on specific parameters at that moment that shift the second someone else orders.

It's funny that they did all the child-safe demonetization, but their highest earner just happens to get by unscathed.

The whole trilogy is kind of a "meh."

Shit, I can never say Snying again. Damn this monkeys paw!

I personally had fun with LGP as a nostalgia romp, but I'd never recommend it to someone who hasn't played the original thoroughly. It's more a Kanto walking simulator than an actual game.

It would have been better without the first four seconds. They either should have stuck with the nostalgia or just have made a 100% new commercial instead of a weird hybrid. It's just a weird failure otherwise.

Oatcakes posted...

I'll put it this way.

Having an OF account increases your chances of this happening by X%

Going outside increases your chances of being mugged by Y%.

X>Y, but in neither case should his awful logic of "well what did you expect, it's your fault as the victim!" be used.

There's a difference between "setting up particular parameters only you as an individual can create" and "doing a normal thing everyone does" on a daily basis. I agree that the initial comment that sparked this thread of conversation is overly dismissive of the victims and implies that they deserved the outcome for the simple act of doing it, but it just seems people sort of lose the plot when it comes to basic step A leads to step B kind of things. I guess this is ultimately just a pointless conversation regardless.

Oatcakes posted...

The similarities are that you aren't blaming the person who fucked them over, you're blaming the victim. How are you not getting this?

It's not blaming the victim to say the existence of X means that it's possible for X to be spread publicly, maliciously or not. This has nothing to do with blame. This is simply arguing against your bad analogy. We're either having two different conversations or you're just being willfully obtuse.

Tenlaar posted...

It changes it from just being a dick into sexual harassment, fucking obviously.

That's not at all relevant to that particular aspect of the conversation though. Whether or not the guy is a piece of shit has nothing do to with the chances of someone doing something shitty with something public.

Tenlaar posted...

Again, for like the twelfth time in this topic, allow me to point out that this is not a person revealing the knowledge that their daughters have an account. This is a person going out of their way to specifically get the fathers to unknowingly look at their daughters engaging in sexual acts.

And that changes it how? If your goal is to "never have your parents see yourself doing porn," the only way would to guarantee that would be to not do porn. I'm not getting on the whole "people shouldn't do porn" or judging familial relationships train like that guy, but more of it being a simple causal link. It's not in any way the same as fearmongering that you'll be mugged for stepping outside is my point. It has much greater probability than that.

Oatcakes posted...

If you don't want to get mugged, don't go outside!!!!

This is your shit logic.

While I don't subscribe to his particular logic, that's not a good analogy. It's more like "don't share a secret you'd never want someone to find out." No matter how secretive you are about something, involving others makes it more of an inevitability than anything else. Whether it's an asshole like this dude doing it purposely or just a friend of a friend of a friend accidentally causing a chain reaction, it'll come out somehow.

Even if the game had launched with perfect performance, it definitely seems to be lacking much polish you'd expect in general, let alone a AAA massively-hyped game. There's wishful thinking and simple basic expectations like NPCs that don't feel like they're from the early 2000s.

I'd wait two years unless there's something you absolutely must have. Get the upgraded version with all the kinks worked out and early games discounted.

This is one of those things where it's hilarious in a "wacky car accident where you know nobody died" way. It's actually horrible, but I just cannot help but laugh at both the pathetic person and the idea of these guys just opening up a picture of their daughter spread eagle. Hopefully it's not actually real.

I think back away and dont interfere is the best policy, but defending yourself against assault tosses that out the window. I guess if he didnt back away after, that could be grounds for termination, but still pretty shitty regardless.