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EM4 Hades is definitely harder than Elysium. By a fair margin.

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Looks like one of the Ori games.

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helIy posted...

the elysium boss(es) are way too hard. they're harder than hades ffs. why? why are they tuned so high

Somebody hasn't hit EM4 yet.

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I will say that, conceptually, I really liked 3's approach to a time limit (rather than the hard time limit of 1, you were limited by how much food you could collect, which was a more dynamic system for applying time pressure), but it was so easy to get to a point where you had more juice than you could ever use (excepting that one story event, though that issue quickly goes away) that the concept ultimately felt like a pointless addition. That was disappointing, given what a cool idea it was and how well hunting for food fit into the setting (as opposed to a lot of survival games where it feels tacked on or becomes more of a chore than anything else).

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I think I'd say they're all fairly even, with 3 trailing slightly. They're all great in different ways.

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Smarkil posted...

if you do it right a failed marriage hurts children significantly less than trying to force a divorce. children are really only hurt by divorces when their parents make it more difficult than it has to be.

By and large, people are going to be happier amicably going their separate ways than trying to stick out a relationship they're not happy with, and it's parents being unhappy that hurts kids more so than parents being separated.

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It'd be nice to be able to plug the charger in on the top, but given how docking works, I understand it being on the bottom. They'd pretty much have to add a second charging port in order to have one on the top (that, or have it dock upside-down, but that's just weird and awkward).

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We're in a pandemic. Shaking hands would be needlessly risky. Ask me again in 3 weeks when my vaccine kicks in and I become invulnerable.

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Wanded posted...

divorce hurts the children

If you do it right, divorce hurts children significantly less than trying to force a failed marriage to work does. Children are only really hurt by divorces when their parents make it more difficult than it has to be.

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Are you able to eat sourdough? I know some gluten intolerant people are okay with it because enough of the gluten is pre-digested by the culture, though people with actual Celiac still can't handle it.

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If you don't, you're doing it wrong.

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YoucanpetCerberus/10

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Zeus posted...

Oh lawdy... "toxic masculinity" is largely feminist propaganda

You've still never actually answered me when I ask you what you believe that term means.

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

So you CAN walk WITHIN that area? That doesn't sound like a good idea while in flight.

It doesn't say that. It just doesn't tell you not to, which is quite distinct from saying that you can.

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On the bright side, the fact that he resisted arrest/assaulted police means any hesitancy on her part to press charges against him (which she absolutely should do, but that's often not how domestic violence cases go, especially when there are kids involved) won't be enough to keep him out of jail. That should help her recovery a lot because she will have enough space to not be tempted to forgive him.

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mooreandrew58 posted...

I know im quoting myself but ironically I post this and now my prison is talking about doing it. Segegrating by vaccinated or not. I think down to the point vaccinated officers stay with the vaccinated inmates and no vac with non vac inmates

Makes sense, honestly. No sense risking the health of people that are trying to protect themselves and others by forcing them to be around people that aren't.

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Switch is the only one I have, though I've been spending more time on PC lately.

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Zangulus posted...

Your amusement gives him validation.

There are worse reasons to feel one's existence is worthwhile than the amusement of others.

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BroodRyu posted...

Were you the guy that ran that red light and tried to convince us all you didnt run it, but when you posted video footage it proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that you ran one?

Also komaiko/nomak.

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Zangulus posted...

Why do you entertain him? You know he will never make an argument in good faith.

Because he entertains me, mostly. His cognitive dissonance can be rather amusing at times.

papercup posted...

It wasnt even the NG. It was the DOC. He had armed federal riot officers standing around DC pointing guns at people, because the military wouldnt act as his personal police force.

My mistake. Same basic idea, though.

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Zeus posted...

These are all just smokescreens for the Biden regime to justify a military presence at the US capitol, something that would make most Americans skittish because we've seen what's happened in other nations where things like this were normalized. They kept crying wolf all of these months to keep the national guard there, until politicians rightfully got fed up and demanded that the national guard be removed back in May. Now it seems like the Biden regime is trying to get them back there and keep it going.

So would I be correct to presume that you raised a similar fuss when Trump had the National Guard protecting the Capitol during BLM protests?

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Nope, that was komaiko54. Carlisle was the mattress humper.

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Reigning_King posted...

My logic is simply that at a place where guns are expected to be fired, pointing a gun at someone is a bigger deal than pointing a gun at someone in a place

Safety rules don't change based on where you are. A gun should never be pointed at anyone or anything you don't intend to shoot.

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Fortunately, I hear its popularity is falling.

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That was indeed a quality joke. 10/10, would laugh again.

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"Eating out" isn't inherently more or less healthy than home cooking, so if we're talking strictly in terms of nutrition, there's really no clear answer to this question. If people aren't eating healthily enough, doing more home cooking is often a good way to address that because that gives more knowledge of what goes into the food and therefore offers greater control over their nutrition, but using eating out on its own as a metric for determining how healthy somebody's diet is isn't particularly reasonable.

In a nutshell, what/how much somebody eats is what determines how healthy their diet is, not where they eat. You can make some generalizations (fast food, by and large, is unhealthy and should not make up a significant portion of one's diet), but providing actual useful advice is going to require you to dig a lot deeper than those generalizations.

Economically speaking? Home cooking is better. Full stop. If you're trying to fixed an inflated food budget, one of the first things you should do is cut back on how often you eat out.

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That's indicating to people working on the wing not to cross that line because then they'd be standing on top of the flaps and their mechanisms, which has the potential to cause damage and/or be unstable enough for there to be a significant risk of injury to them. It's not strictly necessary, since everyone should know better than to cross those lines, but like most warning signs, it acts as a reminder.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

What a fantastically dangerous stance. Keep that energy for the death penalty argument.

If somebody who is guilty is not found guilty, that is - axiomatically - a failure of the system responsible for finding them guilty. Whether or not that system can be fixed such that they are found guilty without collateral damage in the form of convicting innocent people is another question entirely, as is whether or not it should, but being angry at the system for failing is never unreasonable.

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You can, but I wouldn't expect to get one. That's really no different from demanding a dowry in any marriage, though.

Though with sex dolls, I guess you've already paid them a dowry.

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Veedrock- posted...

I never knew the right to a fair trial was so despised.

It's less that the right to a fair trial is despised and more that a man who drugged and raped dozens of women is being let out of jail because of a technicality that meant due process, and people despise that. Cosby belongs in jail. Any system or process that fails to incarcerate him is therefore flawed.

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Well that's slightly terrifying.

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Yeah, very few people buying houses actually have the capital to be able to buy them outright. Being approved for a mortgage is not a matter of having enough money for the house, it's about making enough money to pay off the house within the terms of the mortgage.

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Zeus posted...

That's the stupidest fucking deranged brainwashed absolute drivel and hogwash I've heard in a long time. I've had a credit card for longer than most of this board's users have been alive and I've never once been "sucked into their system and piled up debt and [interest] payments" and... what, did you say mortgages? This whole fucking thing is a rib, isn't it? Got me there!

I guess it had to been a joke, because nobody would believe that nonsense. A credit card is superior to a debit card by most objective metrics. The two are broadly treated the same by retailers (so credit or debit you face the same penalties when there are penalties) except credit cards have far more perks including a greater number of protections, far less potential for disruption when something goes wrong, rewards of all kinds, etc.

Credit cards are able to offer those benefits because of people that are sucked into their system that rack up interest payments. Certainly, it's not that hard to avoid ever paying interest on credit cards (by basically treating them as a debit card with an extra step and paying down any balance you accumulate before your statement is due), but the entire model is designed to prey on people that lack the impulse control, financial planning ability, or financial stability to stick to that process. If it weren't, it wouldn't be profitable enough to be worth offering the service, let alone offering it with all of the added benefits that you're enjoying.

Zeus posted...

Offhand, I can't remember the last time I've used a debit card to pay for anything because, really, why would I?

I mostly only ever use mine at Costco (because they only accept Mastercard for credit and I only have a Visa) and small businesses. The former because they only accept Mastercard and I only have a Visa, and the latter because credit fees hurt small businesses a lot more than debit fees do, in many cases, and I'd rather give them more support than earn slightly more rewards on a relatively small purchase.

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Humid is clearly worse.

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LeetCheet posted...

There are too many moons but I still got them all because it was just fun to play the game. It took me around fifty hours to get them all.

Pretty much exactly this. The game mostly boils down to "play around with these awesome platforming controls and interesting environments, and you'll find some random stuff periodically as you accomplish things." More so than almost any other game I've played, it was just a joy to play, such that getting to play it was all the sense of reward I needed. Some of the purple coin hunting was a bit lame (I broke out a guide to find a few of them, made worse by the fact that they gated that help behind an amiibo), and I was disappointed by the coin grind needed at the very end to truly 100% it by getting all the costumes (it wasn't a bad grind, as grinds go, but it was just so much weaker than the rest of the game that it seemed worse than it was), but I can't think of any other game that has just made me feel so consistently happy from start to finish.

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And found that he'd misrepresented the data quite considerably, including rounding to favour his point (not that user-submitted data on a controversial vaccine with tons of misinformation and antipathy surrounding it is particularly meaningful in the first place).

And the worst part? I agree with him, I'm just trying to coax him into actually substantiating his position instead of relying on hunches and vague impressions. Most jurisdictions aren't recommending the vaccines for <12's due to the lack of data on them (testing new drugs on kids is somewhat frowned upon), the very low rate of adverse (confirmed) Covid outcomes, and the fact that the herd immunity provided by everyone else getting vaccinated will likely be enough to protect them from infections. He's not just refusing to prove his point to me, he's refusing to prove it to himself, and that's just sad.

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Eekum bokum

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OhhhJa posted...

Not actually. There have been over 6000 reported deaths in the VARES database after receiving pfizer/Moderna vaccines. That's just in the US in 6 months time. That's far more than children killed since the entire duration of the pandemic

Raw numbers when asked to present rates? No actual links to the data used (for both parts of the comparison)? How embarrassing...

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Zeus posted...

And that's the nutty part -- there's a LOT of s*** happening. I guess it's because Ducky doesn't want to discuss what's happening in Canada land where it seems like every week they're finding another mass grave

Good ol' genocide. Never fails to liven up a headline.

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Because restricting your breathing during exercise does not sound like a good idea?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201105112934.htm

Intuitively, it makes sense that it would, but it doesn't. It's mostly just uncomfortable, which is only going to result in problems if it triggers an anxiety response that causes hyperventilation.

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Ferarri619 posted...

This is probably the ONE year we probably don't deserve a Stanley Cup anyway, given the recent findings of graves of thousands of children that were raped and murdered by our Catholic teachers back in the 70s.

I honestly don't get why everyone's acting like finding those bodies is some great tragedy. It's been common knowledge pretty much forever (at the very least, since the TRC completed its work in 2015) that kids were abused and killed en masse in the residential schools. Pretty much any survivor that can bring themselves back to the site of their school is able to point out places where kids are buried. The only thing that's changed now is that having it in the news has made it harder to ignore that reality, so everyone that has been ignoring it is prattling on about how it's so horrible and they feel so bad, and will continue to do so until the news gets bored of the issue and they go back to not giving a shit about the natives.

Finding bodies at residential schools is not news. The fact that so many are treating it as though it is is just a testament to how wilfully blind Canadians are to our history.

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Yes, that was also rude of him. I think you're a perfectly fine cheering section.

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faramir77 posted...

But I see it much more likely that Tampa Bay will win, and we'll see a repeat of the 2011 Vancouver riot in Montreal.

They already had a riot in Montreal when the Habs won (some number of games ago, I don't particularly sportsball). Montreal's going to burn regardless of the outcome.

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Zeus posted...

Which comes back to the previous point: If the story is already terrible, why would you try to change details?

Because "Mass casualty event that includes multiple shooting victims" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, and the distinction is so insignificant here that having a catchy title that fits the established pattern is more important.

Zeus posted...

Because facts trump feelings and words have meanings.

And why does that matter here? Specifically, why does it matter to enough of an extent that you feel it's necessary to correct it?

Zeus posted...

Except now and every single time I've done it.

I cannot remember even a single time that it's worked. You are at your absolute best in that regard when I don't immediately think "ugh, it's like a 10-year-old that thinks he's smart is trying to insult with what he believes is a totally awesome comeback" upon reading it, and even that doesn't happen very often. It does not come off as a brilliant intellectual riposte. It comes across as trying way too hard to show off some manner of intellectual badassery, whicht inevitably invokes nothing beyond second-hand embarrassment.

Zeus posted...

Not for nothing, but your cheering section is Metalsonic66.

I don't really need a cheering section. I'm quite capable of being right regardless of how much external validation people want to provide.

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OhhhJa posted...

I feel like it has to make you crazy to live that way

For people that aren't hoarders, it often does (many of those episodes focus on how strained the relationship is between the hoarder and their friends/family), but for the hoarder themselves, amassing a hoard is such a gradual process that they tend to just get used to it and accept it as a natural part of the lifestyle they feel compelled to live.

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PunishedOni posted...

im not allowed to eat the delicious cards

Oh no, never eat them. That would be terrible. You just want a little taste, to appreciate the full dimension of the cards.

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Must be a slow news period. Duckbear's really going hard on these "can you tell the difference between these animals?" topics instead of his usual ones.

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By tasting the flavour text. It's right in the name: *flavour* text. Why would you read a flavour? Get licking.

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You'd think he'd have figured out by now that the "use my own wording against me to seem really clever" thing never works and always just comes across as awkward and contrived.

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Zeus posted...

What do you get out of this by pretending that it's a mass shooting when it isn't by any objective standard?

Simple: I know it's not, and I don't care because that's an arbitrary technicality that changes nothing about how terrible the story is or whether or not it's worth making a topic on, so I ignore it and scratch my head at people that insist on making a big, pedantic deal out of it. It's fun. Maybe you should try it some time.

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