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| Topic | Will you be a virgin for life? |
| darkmaian23 07/07/21 10:42:48 AM #68 | At this point, it does seem rather likely. |
| Topic | Hobby Lobby puts full-page ads in multiple papers to advocate for Christofascism |
| darkmaian23 07/05/21 2:56:45 AM #51 | The_Hat posted... I would like to ask if you could please try to judge us as individuals though whenever possible.@The_Hat I'm not the same guy, but I kind of have the same view. I was raised Christian in a small town, and every Christian I've ever met is one of the following types:
Your are yet another type, the type who insists that there are real Christians out there that aren't like the others you've seen. That some folks out there are living the way Jesus wanted and are cool people. I have met precisely zero of these people in real life. I'm sure that there are plenty of good folks out there who are Christian, but the fact that some of the worst people I've ever met are all church leaders and "godly" men started me firmly on the path to atheism. |
| Topic | Pretty sure my dad is about to die. |
| darkmaian23 07/05/21 2:36:47 AM #31 | I'll keep a good thought for you and your family man. I hope he pulls through! |
| Topic | The Tomorrow War |
| darkmaian23 07/04/21 5:45:47 PM #36 | @Bleuets I had the exact same thought. I think that kind of plot twist was too smart for such a poorly written film. |
| Topic | The Tomorrow War |
| darkmaian23 07/04/21 5:41:36 PM #34 | Blbmbr666 posted... Just from the trailers, if you have time machine technology why the fuck are you using it to bring cannon fodder from the past instead of manipulating the timeline to win easily?@Blbmbr666 |
| Topic | The Tomorrow War |
| darkmaian23 07/03/21 2:42:28 AM #19 | So many things about the movie felt off or just made no sense. It had real star power and a large budget behind it, to say nothing of the long runtime. There was no excuse for it not to be incredible based on the premise alone. |
| Topic | About to delete my porn collection that I've accumulated for 15 years. |
| darkmaian23 07/01/21 9:09:23 PM #45 | The 90s and early 2000s had some wonderful stuff that you just can't find anymore. Truly, to destroy such a collection would be an actual shame. As porn sites start to restrict content to verified uploaders only, even quality recent stuff is disappearing. |
| Topic | Man is guilty of stabbing 16 cats in savage attacks :( |
| darkmaian23 07/01/21 4:29:38 PM #20 | _Rinku_ posted... This is why you should never let your cat roam outside unsupervised. Just takes a minute for some fucking degenerate waste of oxygen to brutally murder your beloved pet.While this crime is heinous, I don't think people murdering cats is all that common. Or is it and I'm out of touch? |
| Topic | "Castle my asshole" is the best roast of Mike Matei |
| darkmaian23 06/26/21 12:37:15 AM #6 | ModLogic posted... fuck mike for mistreating bootsyAre we sure it was Mike and not James? |
| Topic | Non-Metroid games have long surpassed actual Metroid games.... |
| darkmaian23 06/24/21 3:50:54 AM #44 | I can't believe all of the Axiom Verge hate in this topic. The graphics were great and the music was even better. I only have two real complaints: the grapple beam in the game controls like ass and some parts of the game were balls hard. I can give it a pass for those though. Almost every Metroidvania out there has some kind of awkward mechanic, and difficulty is relative. For all I know, nobody else struggled nearly as hard as I did against some of those bosses. |
| Topic | Why isn't there a Sonic Adventure 3 yet |
| darkmaian23 06/24/21 2:59:20 AM #16 | Hambo the Hog posted... Any change they make to the chao garden will be the wrong one. Not changing the chao garden wouldn't fly. Not including the chao garden at all would be an outrage. There's no winning, so they simply avoid the problem altogether and make awful games instead.Wasn't the chao AI literally just random? Any changes would be good changes. |
| Topic | Why in God's plan did he make the devil so much stronger than a man? |
| darkmaian23 06/20/21 9:42:54 PM #23 | Xavier_On_High posted... He didn't make the Devil stronger than a man.The Devil has magic, doesn't he? |
| Topic | Are you familiar with the restaurant chain Culver's? |
| darkmaian23 06/20/21 9:41:57 PM #5 | Get the fish sandwich and some cheese curds. |
| Topic | If you're alienated from your father, do you still contact him on father's day? |
| darkmaian23 06/20/21 10:27:01 AM #7 | LeoRavus posted... Feels like the right thing to do even though he moved away when I was 10.You really shouldn't let society pressure you into doing something that violates your personal feelings. Father's Day is essentially a marketing gimmick. I mean, it can be nice to get your dad something if the two of your are close, but if you honestly don't care about him at all, just skip the text and move on with your life. |
| Topic | Playing a video game for longer than an hour is hard for me |
| darkmaian23 06/19/21 10:06:15 PM #19 | How is everything else going for you? Even with COVID winding down, depression and anxiety are seeing huge spikes everywhere. |
| Topic | Do you believe in life after death? |
| darkmaian23 06/18/21 7:27:00 PM #15 | I kind of find it disheartening how few people took my topic seriously. |
| Topic | Do you believe in life after death? |
| darkmaian23 06/18/21 5:14:08 PM #1 | If so, why? Around a year ago, I watched a close relative of mine die on hospice. It was ghastly. Like, there wasn't anything spiritual or enriching about the experience at all. You could basically check off the parts of the brain and body that died each week. The idea that when the body finally fails and death destroys any remaining memories or abilities the brain once had, an invisible thing called a soul that was the real you all along pops out like loot from a video game enemy and goes somewhere else seems kind of silly. Trauma to the brain can erase memories, impair any kind of function, change morality, change the personality completely, and even alter sexual orientation. So what is it exactly that a soul does? If the very character of a person can be changed through brain trauma, doesn't that sort of kill the idea of mind-body duality? If souls exist, at what point in the evolution of the human race did we start to receive them? Where do they come from? Why can't we detect them? On a slightly broader note, if souls come from somewhere other than our physical reality before we are born, and then fly off when we die, what of that spirit world? Evidently, souls can only get body and leave a body. because we see nothing else happening on that front. If vengeful ghosts were real, Adolf Hitler, Albert Fish, and Frank West would have had a pretty bad time of it. Similarly, we don't see dead grandmas coming back to heal or comfort their grandchildren. We don't see any real evidence of other types of non-human spirit creatures, either. If gods or devils existed, you'd think at least some of them would would care about what happened in our physical reality and take some kind of action. But that doesn't happen today,and as far as we know, it never happened in the past either. I wish there were a convincing reason to believe, but it all seems so silly and obviously untrue. |
| Topic | Did you grow up in an "I love you" household? |
| darkmaian23 06/17/21 1:06:22 AM #37 | It got said a lot, but sadly, it was never true. |
| Topic | The perfect girl but she prefers the Bourne movies over Mission: Impossible. |
| darkmaian23 06/16/21 10:25:07 PM #5 | Cotton_Eye_Joe posted... Yes catboy posted... Good ToadallyAwesome posted... Then she really is the perfect girl. |
| Topic | Minneapolis is such a shitshow |
| darkmaian23 06/15/21 12:37:28 PM #39 | So what's the real story here? Is this really about the George Floyd case and the repercussions, or is it a COVID economy thing? During the pandemic, every business around me started cutting workers to increase profits, demanding unreasonable hours for their remaining employees, and forbidding time off. Even with Biden being elected and the rollout of vaccines everywhere, these things haven't changed, and now all Republican states are trying to cut unemployment benefits to push people back into low-wage, long hour jobs that have just gotten harder purely for the sake of company profits. It's not the case that all businesses with lots of openings want them filled either. I know several high-end businesses in my area are keeping positions open as a sort of carrot to dangle in front of the remaining staff. Telling them, in essence, that things will get better when they hire more people (to replace the ones they fired for no reason?!), but nobody is applying... I'm sure there are jobs where they can't get the right people, jobs that get vacated because workers want to move on, and jobs that can't be filled because no one will put up with what is required in the job for low pay. But there is definitely a game being played in a lot of businesses. |
| Topic | Highschool should have 1 semester of "life" class as a requirement |
| darkmaian23 06/15/21 12:25:16 PM #36 | School needs a big overhaul in the United States, or at least that is what my life experience tells me. My physical education classes were taught by barely functional alcoholics and people with 100 word vocabularies and behavioral problems that taught dangerous ways to lift weights (if they taught anything at all). The music teachers didn't want to acknowledge you unless you played an instrument already or could sing. In art, you were part of the in-group if your skills were good but not better than the instructors, you were either doted on or bullied if you were better than the teacher, and ignored otherwise. Technical education was taught by folks who knew more than the average high school student, but would have been laughed at by anyone who did it professionally or as a serious hobby. Science was fine for me, but the main teacher actually had an engineering background. Math was OK, but if you had any interest in it at all, you could easily go beyond what the teacher knew. History was memorization, mostly of some key US facts, but the envelop was never pushed and I had to read on my own to learn basically anything worth knowing. English was mostly good, but I would have preferred to gain more practical communication skills. Something is wrong with how stuff is taught though, because you see tons and tons of people who can't understand percentages or proportions, or sometimes even perform the most basic addition and multiplication. I took my education seriously, and even I had to work a lot harder than I think is reasonable to turn my A in something like calculus into the practical skills to solve real problems. There absolutely should be a required course on cooking, one on personal finance and maybe a little law, and maybe one on some other common life skills. Not everyone has good parents, and those with good parents may not have ones who have the time to teach basic life skills. or they may not have them in the first place. There are a surprising number of wholly defective people in the world who know nothing but somehow continue to exist anyway. |
| Topic | AVGN used to be so much better |
| darkmaian23 06/15/21 12:02:55 PM #4 | I second this. James used to have more fun doing the AVGN and did most of the work himself. It shows. He doesn't do any of the writing or planning anymore and just phones it in. Mike left to do other things, which not only killed off James and Mike Mondays, but took away the driving force behind the AVGN character. |
| Topic | What other websites do people use? |
| darkmaian23 06/13/21 9:26:52 AM #11 | viewmaster_pi posted... neopets, gaia, habbo, second life, homestar runner, that sort of thingThose sites were ancient like 10 or 11 years ago. They can't still be popular can they? |
| Topic | Marge and Lisa are the two least popular Simpsons characters, and why? |
| darkmaian23 06/13/21 6:58:33 AM #39 | Trumble posted... Lisa is only unpopular in-universe.This is the correct answer. |
| Topic | *Rediscovers the old PS2* |
| darkmaian23 06/11/21 3:14:41 AM #10 | I know that feeling. It is sometimes shocking and sad to discover how long ago I last played some games and made some memories. |
| Topic | 10 milllion dollars but you have to go on a date with a CEgal |
| darkmaian23 06/11/21 1:38:58 AM #10 | I for one refuse to believe there are any women on the internet, so free money? |
| Topic | Anime and Other Stuff General V192: "Please Sir, I Want Some More" |
| darkmaian23 06/11/21 1:34:20 AM #125 | Calwings posted... https://twitter.com/magireco/status/1402943635012964360I find it hard to support a second season when the global version of the game was yanked for no reason after working hard to drain its players of funds. |
| Topic | My coworker thought the Property Brothers were lovers |
| darkmaian23 06/10/21 5:02:04 AM #26 | Dakimakura posted... I'm still not convinced they are not. |
| Topic | Be sure and opt out of Amazon Sidewalk before Tuesday |
| darkmaian23 06/08/21 6:47:36 AM #4 | Bump |
| Topic | R.Kelly's attorneys ask to quit, citing that the prosecution is trying too hard. |
| darkmaian23 06/08/21 5:50:33 AM #5 | UnfairRepresent posted... This can't be true, can it? If something has been a law for 60 years and has never once been used, why the hell is it a law in the first place? |
| Topic | A recent ruling on copyright is incredibly dangerous |
| darkmaian23 06/06/21 4:59:55 PM #9 | @Solar_Crimson Solar_Crimson posted... I thought this would be about the EU's Article 17 which just went into effect.I've heard that most countries are really watering it down so that it doesn't do much. Are there serious problems in Europe with copyright? |
| Topic | A recent ruling on copyright is incredibly dangerous |
| darkmaian23 06/06/21 4:18:24 PM #1 | https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/if-not-overturned-bad-copyright-decision-will-lead-many-americans-lose-internet If the ruling is upheld by a higher court, internet providers will have to start cutting off customers after as little as two accusations of piracy. |
| Topic | Be sure and opt out of Amazon Sidewalk before Tuesday |
| darkmaian23 06/06/21 10:43:09 AM #1 | https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-sidewalk-network-how-to-opt-out-echo-ring-alexa-2021-6 This shouldn't even be legal. |
| Topic | So y'all given up ever finding "a girl" to spend your life with? |
| darkmaian23 06/06/21 8:30:42 AM #41 | @AldousIsDead AldousIsDead posted... Best I can do is 3/4 mast. It's incredibly frustrating.Is there any chance it's one of those symptoms that will go away over time? Either way, that really sucks. I live in a Republican controlled state, and it has been difficult to get the vaccine. The state was making it so hard for clinics that I can't even get it at my doctor's office. |
| Topic | Scenario: Chris Evans is outside your home and he wants to fight you. |
| darkmaian23 06/05/21 8:17:53 AM #7 | Nukazie posted... I have to ask: what the hell is that? |
| Topic | The year is 1999. The Phantom Menace just released. Social media does not exist. |
| darkmaian23 06/04/21 11:33:53 PM #33 | @MorbidFaithless MorbidFaithless posted... I don't want to sound like a loser but man I miss the 90s.I don't think that makes you a loser at all. The wage gap was smaller; the economy was better; no forever wars; no Patriot Act; no Big Tech hovering up all your data for advertisers, police and governments; America was a first world nation with no huge political troubles or signs of problematic decline; and it might be just me, but I feel like everyone was less of an asshole back then. @Autocraticus Autocraticus posted... Going back to the days of playing Graal Online and discovering Billy Joel for the first time.lol, I can't believe anyone else here played that. I don't remember it being much fun. I mainly remember how many creepy and mean people there were. |
| Topic | Why on Earth would you pay almost 100 thousand dollars for a chicken nugget? |
| darkmaian23 06/04/21 8:53:07 AM #10 | If I were obscenely wealthy, I would pay that much for a large box of chicken nuggets if they were all white meat and guaranteed to be free of fat and gristle. |
| Topic | David Cage: Quantum Dream doesn't make games for (homophobic slur) |
| darkmaian23 06/04/21 8:52:02 AM #16 | So, is this real or garbage clickbait? If the guy is this unhinged, I'll have to reconsider playing Detroit and Beyond: Two Souls. I got them from PSN+ and haven't gotten around to playing them yet. |
| Topic | Life As A Gamer is SHUT DOWN |
| darkmaian23 06/04/21 8:24:42 AM #115 | Well...that's something. I always thought that board was kind of off. I posted on their recent China topic calling it out for distorting the meaning of the article. I saw I couldn't enter anymore and assumed I'd been banned for wrong thinking. |
| Topic | Someone pulls a gun on you and asks for the integral of 15e^2x. |
| darkmaian23 06/04/21 8:15:37 AM #8 | I survive by pausing for a minute and replying, "(15/2)e^(2x) + C my good man." |
| Topic | Watching the simpsons from the beginning. When does it get good? |
| darkmaian23 06/03/21 8:00:56 AM #53 | About mid season 2, and after season 10 the quality is still there, but it is far less consistent. |
| Topic | The LAST MESSAGE from the Desk of Donald Trump |
| darkmaian23 06/03/21 12:51:55 AM #12 | Gal_Gadonut posted... I mean, China is threatening to nuke us right now. I kinda miss having a real president who protected us.This happened when, exactly? |
| Topic | I like how Banjo Kazooie will straight up erase your save if you cheat too much |
| darkmaian23 06/01/21 6:45:54 AM #6 | VioletMassacre posted... I actually didnt know this, and Im pretty sure I tried some of these. |
| Topic | Even if you are an atheist, the bible has some great wisdom/advice. |
| darkmaian23 05/31/21 8:57:33 PM #17 | I can't tell if topics like this are serious or bait. |
| Topic | its great when gordan ramsey flirts with the waitresses |
| darkmaian23 05/28/21 6:06:02 AM #8 | pegusus123456 posted... "The first thing we have to do is deal with the health code violations you have in this kitchen. First on the list, this entire side of the room needs to be deep cleaned and sanitized because I laid two of your waitresses out like a buffet and we did not bother aiming our fluids."This really needs to be in a future episode. |
| Topic | Sexy Anime Women ver.14 |
| darkmaian23 05/27/21 4:05:54 AM #33 | |
| Topic | Zero divided by zero is NOT undefined, |
| darkmaian23 05/26/21 10:32:31 PM #32 | Observe the following progression: 1/1 = 1 1/0.1 = 10 1/0.01 = 100 1/0.001 = 1000 The smaller the divisor becomes, the larger the quotient. If you could divide by zero, you would get something that was infinitely large. Since infinity is not a number, division by zero is impossible. In more advanced mathematics, we would say that the limit as x goes to zero of 1/x is infinity. |
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