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-GalacticBass- posted...

Don't hug me I'm scared

Green is not a creative color

SydneySweenHero posted...

SMT wiki. The canon name is usually what the anime names him.

P3 is Makoto Yuki
P4 is Yu Narukami
P5 is Ren Amamiya

TBH I've always preferred Minato Arisato for P3 protag

Interesting, though I do like the final product more.

This version has Anakin much more in control of the fight, setting the pace, driving obi wan back constantly. While there is some of that in the final version, there's much more interesting back and forth in the swordplay, rather than Anakon just constantly advancing like a frickin terminator.

Started 2021 at a shitty call center tech support job. Job hopped to a tech writer role, slight pay bump. Well worth it; never going back to the phones ever again.

Then got promoted 6 months later into a much more technical role. Unfortunately, while that came with a raise, my company is MAJORLY undercutting what the role is actually worth. So, I'm in the market, again.

Sucks, because I quite like my manager and the people I work with. But I have a life to lead, and can't afford to be held back by penny-pinching HR bullshit

I've tried to get I to it many times, but I just can't shake the feeling of... the pointlessness of it all.

I dunno. Just the knowledge that there's never gonna be an end to it, and that every single major arc is gonna end with the characters splitting and the protag getting slapped with a big ol' reset button over and over just really blocks me from getting invested.

kuwab0 posted...

X-Men Origins: Wolverine was surprisingly good compared to the movie

Talk about a high bar...

Error1355 posted...

I'm the subject of a duckbear topic.

I'm not sure what this means. Am I ok?

Lead mod HEIFER Error1355 posts in his own duckbear topic.

Is he hot?

Gucci_Josh posted...

Most people operate on emotion/intuition, but if you want to persuade people generally that is done through data and objective and calm means.

It's literally not.

It would be a lovely world if people were swayed by facts and data.

The reality is that all it takes is one passionate, charismatic jackass who tells people what they want to hear to convince them to abandon logic and data completely.

Cue 45

Not possible with S'barro still kicking around

FortuneCookie posted...

Wait... this isn't even her new look going forward? This is just a one-time deal?

People are getting mad over a one-time pantsuit?

<__<

Shit, in that case fuck it. Piss-poor design or no, this nothingburger just graduated to a NothingRoyale with Cheese.

I mean, visually, it's super bland and uninteresting. I mean, could they have gone for a more muted color? Looking at the smaller picture on mobile, I legit thought she was wearing stealth ops uniform straight out of MGS, for a second. It's fucking Disney animation; where's the color?

And yes, when it comes to iconic animated characters, a recognizable silhouette can be a very powerful thing. Sounds dumb and pedantic, but that's just how our brains are wired. And this... is not a recognizable silhouette. That doesn't mean the look should never be changed; but you've gotta be more interesting than this.

That said, still a ton of hubbub over a whole lot of nothing. Seriously. who even cares?

Solar_Crimson posted...

That was likely the intention, but as mentioned, in English this resulted in the word "arse" being used when saying it out loud, so they changed it after Battle Revolution (in which Arceus wasn't legally obtainable until his movie to begin with) to a hard-C.

I would argue it was never intended to rhyme with Zeus.

the "eus" is MUCH more likely to derive from "Deus," meaning god. Not Zeus, who is just one god of many, king though he may be, and has almost nothing in common with Arceus in terms of role. Arceus has no particular affinity for lightning (beyond one plate of many), and Zeus isn't even a creator god.

There's basically no connection to Zeus whatsoever.

I always thought it was Ark-eus

Arc pronounced Ark, because it makes me think of the Ark of the Covenant, and -eus as in Deus. All very celestial and godly.

Sir_Gawain posted...

Besides, I've certainly known people IRL who live in a shitty house and otherwise shitty circumstances but put tons of effort into making sure their ride is 100% clean and nice.

I dont think there's ANY amount of effort that can keep a machine looking nice and shiny and polished on a planet whose permanent state of being is "baking sun and/or corrosive sandstorm."

And even if they COULD... if their angle was to look badass, they seriously missed the mark.

Questionmarktarius posted...

The insistence on single-climate planets is a bit... odd.

Yes, but its still a thing. Always how star wars has been. Nothing to do for that.

High speed chase at 20 mph

Hey everybody! What's going on?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/2/3/AAOdzqAACzWf.jpg

The gross majority of college professors don't give a shit about teaching.

They are there to either do their research, or otherwise have the university fund their work.

The "teaching" is just the tradeoff they put up with to get the funding. Hence, it gets the bare minimum they can get away with. Pawn off work on TAs (who equally have a ron of other shit to be getting on with), stand at a podium and read the book they wrote, grade arbitrarily hard to make it look "rigorous," Office hours from 6AM to 7AM Tuesday, by appointment only, may or may not check email.

WingsOfGood posted...

Imagine having that 300 times

Elon has 300 billion

he has 999 million, 300 times

Estimated to be 6 times as wealthy as Smaug would have been in The Hobbit.

A fucking dragon, in an enormous fantasy mountain filled to the absolute brim with pure gold and precious gems. Which totals to about $50 billion, according to the nerds who actually calculated that shit.

And musk has 6 times as much money as what we calculate that to be.

Accolon posted...

Wew, finally started it. Got to the third save point. I think it's Shiba. I got one of each demon so far.

I kinda wish the opening was longer. I liked the creepy murder mystery that was going on.

It's pretty much the bog standard SMT opening.

Some public area is closed off by the cops, nobody knows why, rumors of people getting eaten by monsters or some shit.

Then the plot starts. Almost as uniform as Professor Tree letting you pick one of three pokemon.

segasaturn posted...

Don't bother with the American version then, it's about 250-300$ Japanese version is your best bet.

Literally the US Sega Saturn library in a nutshell...

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I'm aware.

But plenty of people in both cases are not.

Pretty sure people never forgave Wendy's Chili after that whole finger fiasco some years ago

NeonCthulhu posted...

The 1st one is actually a fun movie. I haven't seen any of the others though

Smart

I'll take a double triple bossy deluxe, on a raft, four-by-four animal-style, extra shingles with a shimmy and a squeeze, light axle grease, make it cry, burn it, and let it swim.

Keep your supply of all the elemental dampeners stocked up. Make sure you learn what bosses do after they "gather magatsuhi," and stop that move dead. Anything that hits on that next turn will crit, and you're very liable to be wiped. Best to neutralize it if you can, and dampeners are great for it, especially early on.

Bosses are WAY more spongey than they've ever been. Do NOT try to blitz them, and do NOT go for ballsy power plays. Their little sliver of health is ALWAYS more than you expected. SMTV boss battles are a slow game; the safe move is almost always the better option.

I'm fully expecting Fett having united the Tusken tribes, at this point.

That'd be the major ace-up-his-sleeve he'd need to assert himself on tatooine. And exactly the sort of thing none of these current players would be expecting.

She is quote notably anti-men in many respects. It shows in her work quite a bit, and much of her clarification about plot points alludes to it. This, naturally, extends to her views on Trans women.

It's important to note that she has a history of being sexually abused. I won't go into the details here, and it in no way justifies her stances. But it is important to recognize that her views didn't just appear out of the ether. There is nasty history, there.

She has very apparent qualms with the quality of male character, by nature. When describing *spoilers for Harry Potter (whole series) ahead* why James' death didn't grant lily or Harry any protection, despite facing Voldemort unarmed just like Lily did, she went on record sayingthat James' sacrifice was more akin to "animal instinct" than real love; that there is nothing even comparable to what a mother has. This is reflected further in the series, ad the further we get in the books, the more James is trashedand forgotten, and the more Lily is practically deified by everyone who talks about her.

What's more every male character gets steadily less reliable and more flawed, while her female characters... don't. Ron gets more jealous, angry, and distant, while Hermione's biggest struggle remains "being so good at everything that she's afraid to fail." McGonoggal is a near-perfect role model, while every male teacher systematically fails. In the last book, Even Lupin suddenly has some totally-out-of-character "crisis" where he tries to run out on his pregnant wife for absolutely no reason.Sirius gets ripped down as a terrible slave-abuser and bully right before and after his death. Dumbledore gets a ton of time dedicated to how secretly awful he was.

While it's not universal (Hagrid, notably), her male characters are notably much more flawed and unreliable than their female counterparts. they're mentally weaker, more temperamental, and whenever there is a conflict between the two, the guy is the one flying off the handle and in the wrong. TBH it's a miracle that Harry ended up being the protagonist at all.

I dont say any of this to try to diminish feminism, or say "durr, how DARE she make the men worse than the women!!!1!" That's not the point. All I'm saying is that her writing TENDS to skew in portraying male authority figures in a worse light; which makes sense, given her history.

That said, those tendencies spill into her view on Trans issues. Because she views Trans women as basically "men playing dress up," she assumes that absolute worst case. She assumes that same level of flaw, weakness, temperamentalism, and "animal instinct." She sees trans women as predator sleeper agents, because that's the only reason a "man" would want to be a woman.

It's incredibly fucked up, but her stances have been there from the start, for anyone who cares to look. She has a very low opinion of men, and as far as she's concerned, trans women are men.

CinderLock posted...

"They're not even a real country anyways" man that whole movie soundtrack slaps. Shame they kost to Phil Collins at the oscars.

That moment when Satan has literally the best Disney Princess song of all time

Filoni's writing Boba fett the same way he wrote him in Clone Wars. When the character was a teenager. With qualms about the morality of what he was doing. Which was fine when he was a kid, but he's a grown-ass, seasoned bounty hunter, now. It's made Boba Fett too damn nice.

This is the guy who was introduced in Empore with the order "No disintigrations," ffs

AlCalavicci posted...

This isn't a "reset" necessarily, it doesn't just put everything back to normal, with normal being "no one knows who Spider-man is and things are back to normal". Yes, his identity is hidden again, but at the cost of losing his best friends and all of his allies. This actually puts him into a different phase than we've seen in the MCU, where he can't rely on Stark tech, he doesn't have friends, and due to the events of the movie he doesn't have Aunt May either. To say this is a reset as if everything is undone and things are back to normal is just incorrect.

I wasn't talking about Peter himself. I AM talking about his friends. MJ especially.

Took three movies for her to grow out of being an insufferable Daria knock-off, and now we're right back to square one.

Yeah, it's an interesting predicament for PETER (and yes, I get that it's first and foremost his story), but I hate when shit like this happens in any context.

It's why I hate everything IW/Endgame did to Loki, Gamora, and Thor. Busted excuses to just "reboot" characters because the writers couldn't figure out how to deal with their character growth and changed relationships with each other and the world.

#CancelCancer

I'll be honest, I hate it when plots just decide to hit the big ol' "undo" button on plot and character development once it becomes inconvenient.

One of my biggest issues with comics as a whole, because they pull that shit all the time.

And with NWH done, that makes five characters hit with the "reset" stick since Endgame. And I don't like it.

Northeast Ohio. No tests in my area unless you schedule more than a week out.

Eh, the best part was Nail and Piccolo, and they lost Nail's VA when they refused to use the show to promote social politics.

Some things are best left to rest.

So I don't have to waste time driving there, only to waste more time waiting to use the squat rack because 3 college bros decided to spend an hour posing for flexing-selfies between sets for the third time this week

Dammit man, Ron's a Magician, not a doctor!

Honestly, this one is perhaps the biggest double-edged sword of "double standards" out there.

On the one hand, you've got father's being praised for the tiniest bit of parenting, like they're somehow going "above and beyond."

On the other, you've got people treating fathers on their own with their kids like incompetent shits at best, and abusers/kidnappers at worst. Doubly so if it's a father with a daughter.

Just let parents be parents, dammit

https://youtu.be/WM8bTdBs-cw

I got lucky that my parents still had one left over from when my dad got it a few months ago.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have known I'm positive for another three days

OrangeWizard posted...

Let any who have done something illegal be punished for it.

I'm glad you feel that way.

Unfortunately the church, as a body, does not.

Kojima is the George Lucas of video games.

He's at his worst when he has full personal creative control

Solid Sonic posted...

Maybe Shrek.

Nonsense; Shrek 2 is better by every possible metric.

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Man, Chick Fil A weird me out. All the employees always talk about how great it is to work there, but when I'm there, their painted-on smiles and "my pleasure" nonsense just feels... creepy, I guess?

Like, this is the only thing I can think of, whenever I'm there:

https://youtu.be/M0kUAcxQiRI

OrangeWizard posted...

Correct, it's that we're not willingly putting other blood in our bodies.
Even if we kill and animal and bleed it, some blood still remains in the body. It's impossible to get it all out. This is apparently good enough for God, because that's all that God commanded us to do when it comes to animals. He didn't tell us to go to extreme lengths to squeeze out every last drop of blood before we could eat meat.

You've never actually asked this as a question before, just stated it as if it were a fact. But since you're asking now, I'd be happy to answer.

We don't, or at least, we're not supposed to. If we do, then that's wrong, and we would disavow those who did it.

Here's how we handle child sexual abuse:

https://www.jw.org/en/news/legal/legal-resources/information/packet-jw-scripturally-based-position-child-protection/

And yet in practice, the governing body has been going to battle in courts worldwide for years to defend their confirmed digital record of confessed child predators who are protected within the church under "two witness" doctrines.

There's the policy on paper, then the policy in practice

I take great exception to their information control garbage.

Their notorious "stay alive till 75" campaign is well known and documented, yet they will all pretend like it never happened. The Watchtower Society has branded it all "Apostate Material." Despite the fact that it all came from the governing body, most if not all of whom are still there.