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I'd say it's a waste at any point, provided you're talking about actually trying to develop a relationship and not just casually hanging out with somebody that's also looking to just casually hang out. If you know for a fact that a relationship isn't going to go anywhere long-term, misleading your partner into believing that it is is always going to be a dick move.

Unless, of course, you're upfront about it and she says she's okay with that. Then you've done all you can be expected to, though bear in mind that she may be hoping you'll change your mind and you should therefore bring up the issue periodically as the relationship progresses to make sure you're on the same page.

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Far-Queue posted...

Does anyone have any clear link to some anti-LGBTQ bias on this dude's part? From what I can tell it's all speculation based on his donations.

If I like playing with gasoline and matches, and I accidentally burn down your house in the process of playing with gasoline, are you going to be any less homeless than you would be if I deliberately burned down your house? Whether or not you can call him homophobic doesn't change the end result of his actions, nor does it change whether or not he should be held accountable for the result. It just changes whether or not you can call him homophobic.

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Zangulus posted...

That has nothing to do with what I'm saying. Whether they believe it's wrong isn't the topic at hand.

It kind of is. We can agree that he did something wrong by donating to the GOP (and in particularly, to high-profile GOP members that have made explicit moves against LGBTQ rights). The broader question of whether or not he did so maliciously is still relevant and worth discussing, though.

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Zangulus posted...

Which does not make it any better to the people who're told by these candidates they're less than people who don't deserve rights.

It does, however, make it harder to convince the donor that they're doing something wrong. Especially so where he seems to have bought into the vague GOP fearmongering about the horrible things the Democrats would do if given power, such that he's explicitly said that things would be worse for LGBTQ people under Democratic rule (without citing examples or acknowledging that Dems have had power many times in recent history and not made things worse for LGBTQ people).

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Far-Queue posted...

That's what I'm asking, was he donating to them because of the LGBTQ thing or was it just that he was donating to these candidates because they're conservative-leaning candidates?

Far as I can tell, the latter. It's not a deliberate attack on the LGBTQ community, just a careless one.

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Basically, financially supporting lawmakers that make it illegal for trans people to use bathrooms safely is a personal contribution to making it illegal for trans people to use bathrooms safely. Even if he doesn't personally have anything against LGBTQ folks, supporting politicians who are actively working to restrict their rights means he is actively working to restrict their rights.

It really, really sucks that it's impossible to making campaign donations to facilitate something like reducing small business taxes without also facilitating the erosion of gay rights, but that's the current state of the GOP.

Now, saying that, doxxing and threatening him and his family over it is not okay, and that's happened. Disagree? Sure. Stop supporting him because you don't like where your money's going? Absolutely. But not violence.

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Full Throttle posted...

"We have to get back into schools, they have to get open.

Is he... unaware that summer break starts in like a week?

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Jen0125 posted...

Red light lmao

That's what they all say...

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Zeus posted...

ITP: "A person's appearance isn't a meaningful part of their appearance!"

Only if you interpret the word "depiction" as "appearance" and then immediately stop thinking about anything further. Also only if you consider every single aspect of a character's appearance to be of equal importance. Neither are particularly sensible ways to approach the matter.

Zeus posted...

Well, that's some s***ty typecasting.

He's an easy actor to typecast. Or at least he's easy enough to typecast that nobody would ever suggest that he'd make a good rebellious teenage girl, and to be fair, you can say the same about most actors.

Zeus posted...

Kinda discriminatory, too, if you're sitting there arguing that appearance shouldn't factor into appearance. If that's your argument, age clearly doesn't matter.

I strongly encourage you to keep your clothes on if you're going to be humping that strawman so hard. Not to kink shame, but I suspect that you really, really don't want hay splinters down there.

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Also, for all the nitpicking over "Juneteenth" itself, the actual official holiday name is "Juneteenth National Independence Day," which is more self-evident.

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It is a silly-sounding name, which does very little to inform people that haven't grown up with the term what the holiday actually is, but it's been celebrated locally under that name for long enough that changing it to appeal to a wider, non-local audience wouldn't be reasonable. We live in a world where almost all of us have a repository of all human knowledge in our pockets: Those that are confused can figure it out in a matter of seconds, eliminating any potential consequence that confusion might have had.

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ClarkDuke posted...

i like how this is a topic about sunny, yet zeus is struggling to make it about himself, ok?

Makes perfect sense... if they're the same person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhBM_Yay6w

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Monopoman posted...

There are a TON of unmotivated 18-22 year olds out there, acting like this kid was busting his ass everyday to get a job is a joke.

Yeah, the sort of person who murders his entire family for saying they won't let him mooch anymore isn't the sort of person who makes a genuine effort to not mooch, generally speaking. Yes, there are people out there whose genuine efforts aren't recognized or appreciated, and it's not fair to put them in situations like this, but this is not the response of somebody who's genuinely trying and has just been unlucky.

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What_The_Chris posted...

why would anyone be against MORE holidays, regardless of what they're for.

Generally, they're the sort of people that never do enough work for a formal holiday to make much difference for them, but they know that the people working under them could spend that day being productive instead, so they don't like it.

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VioletMassacre posted...

I also for the life of me cant have my face in the water without closing my eyes and holding my nose with one hand.

I can open my eyes, but I also struggle not to plug my nose. I understand the theory of letting some air out slowly to keep the water from coming in, but I always blow out way too much air and run out too quickly for that to be worthwhile. I generally also mis-judge when I'm going to hit a point where I can't maintain enough pressure to keep the water out, so trying frequently results in getting water up my nose.

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It's not hard, but it is something that does take actual practice to figure out, so without the opportunities or resources to learn (you do need access to either a pool or a reasonably tame body of water), it's understandable that people wouldn't know how. That then gets reinforced as an adult by not wanting to try learning (whether because of fear or embarrassment) and avoiding potential learning opportunities.

It is also just plain harder for some people. It's still doable, speaking as somebody with exercise-induced asthma that grew up with a very low body fat percentile who still manages to swim passably (treading water for extended periods is still out of the question, though), but somebody very much doesn't need a formal handicap to have more trouble swimming than you do.

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I think I'm actually legitimately excited about this remake. These games hold more nostalgia for me than I realized. It's making me want to break out my GC copy of 1, but I'm resisting the urge because that would discourage me from buying this one and I do want to get it because I never played 2 (or Deluxe, though as I understand it's mostly just a combo pack anyway).

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fishy071 posted...

My choice isn't really in the poll. I would tell them that they could try if they like, but suggest them to have a backup plan. If they proceed, I would accept but not really do anything unless they ask for help.

Sounds about right. Temper their expectations, but if they want to give it a shot and they've planned things out well enough to not have failure ruin their life, there isn't really any reason to discourage them.

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sveksii posted...

If you want to argue that Super was an old game and that positive opinions of the game are due "nostalgia goggles", at this point Prime is also an old series and you could likewise argue that positive opinions of the game are due to "nostalgia goggles".

Fun fact: The gap between Other M and Dread has been 3 years longer than the gap between Super Metroid and Prime/Fusion (2010-2021, compared to 1994-2002). It's been over a decade since the last new Metroid game (not counting Federation Force, for what I hope are obvious reasons).

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It's not really new AW. Just a remake of 1 and 2. Still a whole lot more recognition than the series has seen lately, though.

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Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

Most likely wont be able to uninstall Microsoft Edge manually this time, just like they blocked the uninstall button.

I'm sure a workaround will emerge soon enough. It's like when they took away the option to turn Cortana off: Within a day or two, there were regedit directions for tearing her still-beating heart out of Windows' chest. Unless they outright start policing who is and isn't allowed to access necessary programs and services based on which features they've disabled (which would pretty quickly drive an awful lot of people away), there will be ways to destroy the unwanted bits.

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SinisterSlay posted...

But neither does their gender.

Gender, no, but sex kind of does for the sake of being able to sing the songs. A countertenor just doesn't offer the same sound as a female alto/soprano.

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papercup posted...

Monkey Billiards

I can't read this without hearing it in the announcer's voice.

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Wasn't 10 supposed to be their last actual release?

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BigBangBro posted...

Ikr, let him walk free, that'll show him.

As much as I like the idea of this, especially paired with leaving the house to him so he can experience slowly starving in a comfortable home because he shot the hand that fed him, I feel like that'd probably just turn him into a supervillain.

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Zeus posted...

By that logic, why not cast Danny DeVito as Ariel?

Because his voice and typical acting style aren't a good fit for the character's personality. As magnificently entertaining as it would be to hear Danny scream "But daddy I love him!", the novelty would wear off pretty quickly.

Zeus posted...

If you don't feel that the character should resemble the depiction, you could literally go with anybody.

The character should resemble the depiction, I just don't see why race is a meaningful part of your world.

C-Raine posted...

Black mermaids don't make sense, do they?

What do they need extra sun protection for?

They'd be extremely deficient in vitamin D.

White mermaids don't make much sense either (at least, not any more sense than any other skin colour). There's really no reason to expect mermaids to have human skin colours at all, given that camouflage and attracting mates are the two driving factors for aquatic animal coloration, and human-coloured skin doesn't really help much with either under the sea.

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Zeus posted...

...because it's an iconic role in a visual medium? That's a really stupid question.

And why is the race of that iconic role important?

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Zeus posted...

She's cute, but it's still just a really stupid casting choice to racially recast Ariel.

Why?

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Man said hard cider like real cider can be alcohol free.

The distinction is more of a North American thing. To my knowledge, "soft" cider never really took off in the UK, plus hard cider's popularity in the UK has been relatively constant, as opposed to all but disappearing in the US during prohibition (cider had been the drink of choice before then, but most cider orchards were destroyed, then when prohibition was lifted, it was a lot easier to get beer production back up and running than to regrow thousands of trees, so beer took over that market).

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Revelation34 posted...

Epic Store is only good for getting free games you won't play.

Eh, I've played a few of mine. Like maybe 2-3, out of 80-something. But better than nothing, and I have gotten some free ones there that I'd wishlisted.

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Sahuagin posted...

and of course in Canada the whole thing's flip-flopped

Not that I've ever experienced, aside from hard cider generally being clear (but that's also not a Canadian thing).

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Probably hungry. That's how I usually feel shortly after I wake up.

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Philip027 posted...

Someone basically saying "nope; what you say about yourself is invalid, because I say so" isn't even participating in a real debate. It's like someone trying to argue with someone else about what the other person's gender is. You don't get a say.

That's not remotely analogous. Gender is a psychological trait, comprised entirely of one's own experiences, thoughts, and feelings. There is no empirical, objective basis for defining it.

On the other hand, there is only an empirical, objective basis for defining somebody's ability to breathe. If they're getting enough oxygen, they are not having trouble breathing. Period. Discomfort while breathing is subjective, and is what you're talking about, but the question of whether or not air is making it into the lungs properly is one that only needs O2 saturation to determine (then you can get into stuff like spirometry to figure out the nature of a problem once you conclude that one does exist). Subjective assessments indicate nothing except the need to check.

I'm not saying you aren't experiencing discomfort while breathing with a mask. I am saying, however, that you're getting all of the oxygen that you would while wearing one that you would without it. That has been empirically determined. Unless you have reason to believe that your respiratory physiology differs from that of everyone else that has been empirically studied, there's no reason to expect that your results would differ if you were similarly examined.

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You could destroy their monitor or video card, but that would also change their foreground.

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

In the other image the boy was asking about it. This should be the response to that question from the adult. The apparently female adult.

I think the captioning is just weird and isn't indicating that two different characters are speaking. The wording definitely does not sound like the same person is saying everything.

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OhhhJa posted...

a botw 2 trailer that shows basically nothing

It showed about as much as any other trailer. Bits of gameplay (namely some new elements), vague story hints (spoilers: You're saving Zelda and the world from some evil entity), a sampling of environments... It's hardly a comprehensive summary of the game, but trailers that are are kind of dumb.

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To answer the actual question, by and large, political correctness just boils down to finding new ways to be nice/avoid being mean to people. Conceptually, that's a good thing. In practice, sometimes people can be too aggressive about it, getting upset at people that really can't have been expected to have considered those new ways for failing to adhere to them. It's also not uncommon to try to push forward with new ideas without considering how reasonable, practical, or beneficial they actually are (often without doing anything to consult the people it's supposed to be benefiting and falling into White Saviour territory).

On the flip side, though, that's very much not true of every such idea, and people raging against the mere concept of manners evolving are being extremely unreasonable. More often than not, "I hate PC culture" actually just means "I want to be able to act like an asshole without being treated like an asshole," and that's just not a sensible position at all. Like everything, moderation is key, but pretty much everyone does it wrong by glomping onto an extreme and yelling at the people glomping onto the other extreme.

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Is this a nerw announcement or did they rename Metroid Prime 4?

New. They mentioned that development was proceeding on MP4, then announced this.

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OhhhJa posted...

So what? That doesn't dispute his point. 2D games will never be AAA in 2021

Given how the AAA market is behaving these days, I'd call that a good thing.

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ItsKaljinyuTime posted...

A 2D Metroid. Not exactly AAA headline making. It's like announcing a 2D Mario game. "Oh that's nice, a New Super Mario Bros."

There hasn't been a new 2D Metroid released in 19 years.

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Jen's predispositions aside, I really have to wonder how many new recruits they actually get with cold calls (well, texts) at midnight. Are there actually people for whom an unsolicited text in the middle of the night sways their decision to join the marines?

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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Dread existing at all is pretty mindblowning.

The fact that it's Dread is honestly more surprising to me than that we're getting a new 2D Metroid (before getting literally anything on MP4, but that's beside the point >.>). Dread was only ever a codename passed around as a rumour, before even that rumour died out and it became less than vapourware. Now, suddenly, here it is, a fully-realized game that's releasing in four months. That's wild.

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Better than console culture.

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I'm guessing they just aren't counting Other M as 5, possibly because it wasn't a regular sidescroller and/or because it was outsourced.

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Other M would have been the fifth (4 was Fusion), but perhaps they didn't consider that a mainline game.

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Yeah. 1, 2, and Deluxe.

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I think I'll actually get this one. SMB1 was stupid fun, but I never picked up any of the others. A remake of three of them sounds worthwhile to me.

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