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I was fortunate to have a job where I was relatively unaffected by COVID. I did end up getting it, but I still got paid when I was out. Others were not so lucky.

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The perspective money from this one woman was more valuable to you than your entire workforce? That seems negligent, at the very least, or very telling at worst. I hope everyone who walked out has no issues finding a new job.

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Tipping is bullshit because employers get a way to pay less than minimum wage. What if business slows down through no fault of your own? You're just fucked until if/when it picks back up. You can say well then they can just work at a different place if the business goes down, come on man, no employer wants to see you hopping from place to place. You're just telling them that you won't stick around.

It's pretty unacceptable to me for someone working full-time to not know if they'll be able to pay their Bill's next month or not. Tips should be a bonus for a job well done, not the main source of income.

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gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Rex in Airheads

This was my first thought, so I probably would have went with this. He's certainly had "better" roles later in his career, but for me when I think of Steve Buscemi, this is the first movie that comes to mind.

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"Genetic mutations" don't kill people. "Miang" kills people.

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Bio1590 posted...

He's an absolute dumbfuck right-wing nutbag

Also

https://twitter.com/arifhasannfl/status/1423331528084443139

Gotcha.

This guy is somehow making Bruce Allen and Dan Snyder retroactively look smart. I didn't think that was possible.

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AOL is evil posted...

The PC version allows you to fast forward and avoid or easy win battles. Even without messing with it, the amount of random encounters is far lower than the original. The Moguri Mod makes the game look even better.

You know, I should really look into that. I've played around with mods on FF7 through 7th Heaven, and with some of them you almost feel like you're playing a different game, like with the New Threat mod for example.

I think you've given me something to do when I get home tonight

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The first tweet in the OP makes it sound like he's high risk and that's why he's not getting the vaccine, because he isn't sure how it would effect him; but the other tweets don't give off that impression.

I haven't been following it at all, so does he have a medical reason that he can't get it, or is he just being a dumbfuck?

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Gonna go with 1

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Health posted...

So adults working for Apple may end up looking at nude selfies taken by teens who never intended for anyone else to see them.

Yeah, this seems like a terrible idea.

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Winrawr posted...

The game speed is genuinely 40% of ff7. Combat animations are also super long and spell effects persist during animations so spells like regen essentially full heal you with any animation. The combat priority turn order is so busted that the team does more dps if you make one of your party members afk/guard then pass turn to either steiner or Zidane. The combat is also piss easy, then a massive spike in stats is required at the last 15% of the game. The encounter rate is the highest or any ff game besides ff2 and the slow combat startup along with long time to escape from battle along with trance going off while running away and having to wait for the animation to finish makes exploring a nightmare.

Trance is also supremely busted. Reg attacks do like 500 dmg for awhile but even early dyne and other tranches hit for upwards of like 8k dmg, nuking bosses.

Item equipment is also utterly devoid of any strategy. There are no stats, builds, and you just buy the newest item in the shop and equip the one with highest dmg or defense or gives you a new ability

I could go on and on, but wow is the gameplay bad. I still love the game for its other strengths like story, soundtrack, etc. but wow it makes ff8 junction system look functional. Thank God they abandoned atb in ffx

I have to say, that I completely agree with you. I bought the game at release, played it through to about 80% complete and then completely lost interest. The story is fine but I found the battles to be so absurdly tedious that I didn't want to play anymore. I didn't beat it until maybe 2 years after release.

I've gone back many times and tried to play through it... I do like the characters and the world setting, but my god, the battles are just so boring. I always make it to around Ipsen's castle before I'm like "Meh, I'm good". I've even re-purchased it on PS4 and Switch, hoping the 'remastered' versions would be enough for me want to play through it again, but nope.... same thing happened. I got to the Shrines and just... lost interest.

I've bought the game 3 times, I really want to like it and I can understand why people say it's one of their favorites, I guess it just ain't for me though. I always go back to 4 - 7.

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20 Years ago - Moderate Liberal
15 Years ago - Liberal
10 Years ago - Liberal
Now - Socialist

FortuneCookie posted...

I've come to the conclusion that, seeing as both parties have the same financial backers, American politics is pretty much a stage show and the American public has very little to do with the actual outcome.

And this is what pushed me hard left. The system is rigged to cater to the rich, full stop. When it comes to choosing between D or R it normally boils down to: "Which decision will make the lives of minorities and LGBTQ members fractionally better?" It's clearly D, but when it comes to systemic issues as a whole and wealth inequality, D & R play for the same team. I've become completely disillusioned with the whole system.

Edit: Basically what I'm asking is, is getting Juneteenth as a holiday an acceptable payoff for not getting a minimum wage hike, health care, police reform, climate reform, and free college? Because that's what you get with Democrats. You'll get holidays, you'll get parades, you'll even get some sound bites in support for your cause, but actual action? No. That just simply "can't" be done, or so we're told. Don't get me wrong, you'll get nothing with Republicans and I'm certainly not advocating that anyone vote for them, but I'm asking if your ('your' being general and not directed to the quoted poster) vote for D is worth what you're getting in return?

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Nothing will happen.

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gna647 posted...

its not stupid if its the truth.

like shes a great gymnast and I get it if you cant clutch it up. But you cant call yourself the best at the same time. Shes been calling herself the goat when she isnt

MrToothHasYou posted...

Shes literally the most decorated gymnast of all time.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

It's really telling when people step into a world they know nothing about just to try to bring someone down in a something they know nothing about.

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Turbam posted...

We need 12 more, if we can't get all of them by the end of the day then I'll go ahead and put the other Resident Evil nominations

I know you said 2 per game, but I feel the need to nominate Juri, Laura, and Poison from SFV

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She already said years ago that the only thing Hitler did wrong was try to be a globalist. If she wasn't cancelled after that, this is a blip on the radar.

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Yeah, no, I never untie my shoes if I can help it. I buy a new pair of DC's every 6-7 years. I think my shoes are fine, and they're comfy.

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MacadamianNut3 posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvFrIK2SeJo

cursed

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If you did want to do an Arkham girl, I'd say Catwoman.



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Ivany2008 posted...

Flying Dragon: Chibi Mode

I have literally never heard anyone else ever mention that game other than myself lol

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Oh, and 2B. Don't forget 2B.


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Is it 1 per game? Because I feel like you could put in most of the girls from SFV.

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Man, don't come 'round here no more.

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TheLiarParadox posted...

WWF No Mercy

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There's never been a Communist state as described by Marx or Lenin, nor will there probably ever be. At least, certainly not in our lifetime. Humans are too greedy.

But to answer your question, Vietnam is probably the closest in regards to "actual" Communism that you can point at currently.

Crescente posted...

There has been no successful communist state. Most of them have changed to socialist/democratic. Go read up on what communism is and come back and you'll see why it doesn't work.

Get educated.

IDK, the Hawaiian islands were essentially a Communist state before colonialists and missionaries showed up. They didn't even have a word for "own" or "ownership". It was a foreign concept to them.

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I remember saying this wayyyyyy back in the day on the Screw Attack forums...... I got death threats.

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It won't happen. People can say let them finish, or whatever, but consumers have shown that they are willing to buy a half finished game on the promise that it might be fixed somewhere down the line.

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Unsugarized_Foo posted...

Nothing was gonna happen anyway. It's all theater

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Sadly, the school was closed on the day I was there. No energy beams for me :(



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Flamer_Blue posted...

Sounds like a 50/50 blame.
The warehouse supervisor for denying her the accommodations and she for staying there.

LateStageCapitalism.jpg

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I alternate between 6 and 7 depending on how I'm feeling at the time. It's 6 right now.

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The memes on r/LateStageCapitalism have been rather poignant..... and depressing... and sometimes funny.... but mostly depressing.

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So, he's a failure then.

hockeybub89 posted...

But they'll raise prices exactly to match! Best we can do is do nothing and tell the increasingly poor people to get better jobs.

I mean, you could always tell them to work 80 hours a week instead of 72 also. That would help their situation.

/s

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Corruption, greed, cronyism, and outright baffling economic decisions.

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Socialism! And you can bet your ass if Bernie Sanders or AOC ever become president the US will become Venezuela 2.0.

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TC, you must understand that to Capitalist, they see no problem with that screen capture. It's literally a non-issue. To them, every homeless person is homeless because of their own faults and failures and not due to any other extenuating circumstance.

No jobs where you live? Just move... with the money and resources that you don't have. Can't make enough at a job? Go to college... with the money and resources that you don't have. Oh, you're sick and you went bankrupt trying to pay for medications and treatments? Well, guess you better get health insurance with the.... money and resources you don't have. Housing is to expensive? You should probably move several states over where the housing is cheaper. It's probably cheaper because there are even less jobs and less economic opportunity, but hey, go ahead and move a few states over on a maybe and see what happens!

They'll make it sound like it's so easy for a homeless person to walk in to any place hiring and get a job, despite the fact that they more than likely don't have a government issued ID, may not even know their SSN, and most likely don't have an address to put down on their application, hence the whole homeless thing.

But it's all their fault TC. It's their fault that they were born into a life that they didn't ask for, to parents with no money, or in a poor neighborhood with extremely limited economic mobility, in a city on the verge of collapse. If only they scrubbed the floors of the McDonalds a little harder when they were 16, they probably would have been the next Bezos.

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While I do think people would probably be more inclined to behave themselves if this were a thing, some people are far too nefarious for this to ever work.

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"I'm not racist, but.."
Every. Single. Time.

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For me, it's The Last of Us.

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Some are, for some reason.

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IMNOTRAGED posted...

What are we considering extreme left here

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I don't inherently hold any person's religion against them. I always give people a chance to disappoint me themselves.

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Lulu is goth GF, but Jess is no chump either.

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Yeah, it needs to end with S4. They've already set up the big tournament, Godzilla and Kong are joining forces to take on Kreese and Silver, all you need to do is finish it like they're Goku and Vegeta; with a healthy respect for each other but with an understanding that they'll always be rivals at the end of the day.

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You might be on to something. I went back this past weekend and tried to play some Dead by Daylight for the first time in over a year. I instantly remembered why I stopped playing to begin with. Not only is the community abysmally toxic, the game has become more and more buggy as the devs continue to cram 10 tons of shit into a 5'x5' box without ever fixing anything.

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Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Gonna have to disagree there.

1 - You killed me in the past, now I've come from the future to destroy you... IN THE PAST!

2 - I wanted to rule the world, but you killed me, so now I want to destroy it!

3 - I'm Xande and I'm evil. Whoops, just kidding! There's been a dark evil cloud controlling my every action and it wants to........ destroy the world!

4 - I'm Golbez and I'm evil. Whoops, just kidding! There's been a dark evil entity controlling my every action and it wants to... destroy the world!

You can continue going down the list and nearly every game pulls the old "Oh, you thought THIS person was the bad guy, but it's actually THIS THING/PERSON!!!" with VIII being the worst offender imo.

I think that's why people remember Golbez over Zeromus in FF4. Golbez was a character with a history and motivation, but they sacrificed it all for him to be another "I'm actually not that bad, I'm being controlled by something far worse" character, despite Kain already filling that exact role in the same game.

I also think that's why people like Kefka and Sephiroth so much. Kefka was just fucking nuts and wanted to watch the world burn from atop his tower. He's no ancient enemy that was defeated a millennia ago by warriors of light, making a return now to resume his plot of destruction. He just wants people to suffer because he finds it entertaining. He's like The Joker, clown makeup and all.

Sephiroth has a clear motivation for why he wants to do what he wants to do beyond just "I want to take over/destroy the planet." The world belonged to the Ancients and he sees humanity as a cancer to the planet. He also believes that he's the last of the Ancients and there's a part of him that wants to become one with the life stream so that he doesn't feel loneliness or suffering anymore. Then later on he does develop that god complex and sees himself as even greater than the Cetra, but his goals remain unchanged by that.

Compare those to most other FF games where the villain is some kind of ancient evil threat making a return, or "haha, you thought I was the main villain but the REAL villain is over there behind that door!", and you can see why they stand out.

I admittedly have not played through 15, so I can't comment on that villain.

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Squall28 posted...

yeah it's bullshit. Then some coworkers have the nerve to call me out for taking the full hour for lunch.

Just call them exploited workers with Stockholm syndrome.

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cjsdowg posted...

Who wants to live forever ...

Who dares to love foreverrrrrrrrr~

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Gonna have to disagree for the Squaresoft library alone.

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au_gold posted...

Don't threaten me with a good time.

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BeyondWalls posted...

Another clip shows the guy bleeding all over his shirt. No one deserved that.

Seems like he deserved it.

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