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Since we're already objectifying women, she looks like the stereotypical hot girl in a "teen movie" before she takes off her glasses.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

youve said that its a simple majority that causes a moderation to be upheld which isnt good enough because then if 49% of people disagree with the moderation its still upheld even though something is very obviously wrong with the decision. you're saying you dont know how many votes it takes? with the amount of mods on this site it cant be too many. you get one dispute and often you dont even know what rule your post has violated so you're going in blind and arent even allowed to ask a simple quest "why was this moderated". And then you have some mods who use the system as a "super downvote" for posts they personally disagree with even if they arent wrong and dont violate any rules. The system is fundamentally broken compared to larger websites

How many mods would it take disagreeing for a moderation to be overturned? I imagine >90% of moderations are voted 90/10 one way or another. Do you think the old system where basically 4 people decided your status (marker, 1st mod, 2nd mod, admin) was any better?
What larger websites do you go to with a better moderation system? How is Reddit's moderation system, where subreddit mods are practically omnipotent, any better?

GameFAQs requires that:

1. Someone marks you, which means smaller boards can get away with practically anything.
2. A mod, who didn't mark you, thinks you broke the rules AND your message should be removed.
3. The majority of OTHER mods agree.

Again, that's at least 3 layers of protection you need to fuck up before getting modded. Mistakes happen, I have some BS moderations directly approved by admin. But, even if the moderation is arbitrary it's at least a fair amount of posters who actually don't like what you posted and want you to stop.

Squirtle has higher base Attack than Onix, too.

In Gen 1, Rock/Ground was actually pretty good. Rock was the only type, besides Ghost, that resisted Normal. Normal was probably the best type in the game between Body Slam and Hyper Beam. And Ground typing gave an important immunity to Electric attacks and Thunder Wave. Then Steel came along and Hyper Beam was nerfed. Even so, Golem and Rhydon are OU in Gen 2 partially because Snorlax is so busted. Once the prevalence of Normal types died down, Golem and Rhydon couldn't keep up with other heavy hittters with better typings.

PatrickMahomes posted...

Not sure why he gets credit for the vaccines though. Moderna had already agreed to produce 600 million doses and were clearly ramping up delivery with plans to have over 100 million before the end of q1 2021, all under trump.

Don't get this twisted by the way, I didn't vote for trump. I just think praising biden's admin for what was mostly the previous admin's planning and development is a bit revisionist. Biden admin just had to pretty much change nothing and let the vaccines continue to ramp up and roll out.

All the while everything else he's promised in the campaign is showing 0% progress. In fact, student loans are showing negative progress as he tries to get them started again (despite folding from the outrage). Doesn't make a lot of sense considering the pandemic numbers continuing to spike.

Trump had no distribution plan:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-klain/ trump-administration-had-no-coronavirus-vaccine -distribution-plan-white-house-idUSKBN29T0FY

Biden came up with a plan, set metrics, and implemented it:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/15/ fact-sheet-president-elect -biden-outlines-covid-19-vaccination-plan/
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/ bidens-coronavirus-plan-funds-supports- state-vaccination-efforts/

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Pandemic time is crazy.
He got the vaccines out very well. He has stumbled with the rest of the problems.

Honestly, his first year was good. He did the things he needed to do and communicated well.
2021 was not the same. He's backed off on COVID, he can't establish priorities to push bills through the Senate, he can't even get the party together. It's one thing to blame Manchin and Sinema for being fuck heads, which they are, it's another to fail at basic messaging.

Yes, if they catch you speeding in a way that would currently give you a fine a better punishment is x hours of community service with threat of jail time.
You have a record of not coming to a complete stop at stop signs? 12 hours of community service.
You got caught going 100 MPH? Probation/ 1 month of jail (maybe 2 to make it easier to plea down).
Drunk driving? Yes, jail + community service + loss of license.

Community service should be open to scheduling so that, unless you're working 7 days a week, it's possible to go without losing work time.
If the punishment is a fine and you were born rich, it's not really a punishment at all. If the infraction is so bad that punishment is necessary, there should be something equally punishing regardless of income.

It's pretty much the worst part of the manga, too. Might as well not throw your best animators at it, I guess. Basically waiting on the Garou arc to finish before we wait for another season.

pogo_rabid posted...

Was 343 gutted, stripped, and overmontized? Because that's the issue you brought up.

Halo Infinite has pretty blatant monetization issues all over the place. And there have been some not-so-subtle hints that it came from on high.

pogo_rabid posted...

Microsoft already has a track record of not stripping and gutting companies, forcing them to overmonetize their games. Additionally, Phil Spencer has already publicly made statements regarding NFT's and how he is not in favor of them integrating into gaming.

Until they do this, claims that they "may" do this are unwarranted and hold as much weight as Alex Jones saying the moon landing is fake. If we're talking about "what ifs" that Microsoft has given no indication of having no interest in doing, any discussion is meaningless, because we could just make any sort of claim.

So who fucked up with Halo infinite? Was is 343 upper-management themselves?

ColonizedMind posted...

I mean buying studios instead of having their own studios make them

The problem is that they buy the studios, either gut them or cause all talent to leave, and then throw the IPs in the trash. They also push a lot of heavy microtransactions that immediately get in the way of building rewards systems.

But, a lot of that was what Activision Blizzard was already doing. So, it's hard to tell if Microsoft will force them to get their shit in order or will just double down on the money grubbing.

Ask them how Lincoln felt about Communism.

There's been a whole lot of info coming out about 1/6 just in the past month. There's also been some serious pressure on the DoJ to seek charges. Unfortunately, the DoJ is very reluctant (unwilling) to do so. Probably won't see anything stick to Trump, a more effective Congress certainly would have made it happen, but might see some charges stick to higher members of the administration, possibly even including his family.

LostForest posted...

All these are great examples of okay songs ruined by shit-tier instrumentation. That's kind of what I'm getting at though. A lot of the soundtrack is ruined because it uses these goofy sound effects that make it hard to take seriously.

I agree with you 100%. Poor instrumentation, poor cohesiveness, each song seems to be competing in the Loudness War. There's some alright songs, but very few decent ones.
Dry Dry Desert is good.
Sun Tower is almost good, but has (again) cohesiveness and instrumentation issues.
Shooting Star is really generic. Oh, hey, found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKRElCGP5Fk >_>

I like Paper Mario 64, but haven't been sold on the soundtrack.

darkstar4221 posted...

How am I wrong? Who's creating the inflation that most Americans are complaining about?

Supply chain issues largely caused by negative externalities of COVID, a just in time economy, abnormal demand caused in part from an untimely dropping of COVID restrictions, and even more supply chain issues (seriously hard to understate issues with shipping, storage, production, processing, and even on the final leg).

Bestoffuture posted...

Wtf happened to my topic?

I just wanna make fun of Joe Rogan.

To be fair, if you start a Joe Rogan topic you're gonna get Joe Rogan posters.

I worked for Starbucks for a long time and would inadvertently pronounce it opposite of however it was said at me.

Chocolate = choc'lit
family = fam'ly
camera = cam'ra
different = dif'rin(t) (depends on positional context)
favorite = fave'rit

Caramel vs Car'ml (actually there's CARE-uh-mel and CAHR-uh-mel, too) is fairly regional. Here are some other regional differences: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/pecan-caramel-crawfish-food-dialect-maps/276603/
I think that maps out of date, I would expect Car'ml to be fairly more mixed, especially in Florida and Texas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_change
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elision (I know, it's not techically elision)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_effort

COVxy posted...

I think the reason he's so mad is that he knows his viewership depends on the weird gradual introduction to the right-wing through the skeptic community. Like, he's one point along a spiral and if the points before him break he looses viewers, and therefore money.

H3H3 is weirdly on that spiral, too, and I think this is probably Ethan trying to cut part of that connection.

Doe posted...

There's also no reason that the kingdom gets worse under Scar except bad luck

He deregulates the meat industry and lets the hyenas eat indiscriminately, creating supply chain issues. It's really pretty transparently anti-capitalist. (/s)

The Popo posted...

Smart enough to be like Scar? He tricked a child. That isnt a very tough thing to do.

He sets up a situation where Simba's life is at risk and the only way to save him is to put Mufasa's life at risk. He then politically strong arms his way back into the monarchy and assumes power.

Not a fan of vegan chicken, but impossible sausage is better than the real thing and many vegan burgers are delicious.

Background_Guy posted...

Happy and with my mouth open

I don't think you heard me. Happier. And. With your mouth. Open.
Now do it again.

Number090684 posted...

Arceus is officially pronounced "Are-see-us" in English.

I don't think so. Pokemon did use the soft C in Pokemon Battle Revolution and some other earlier media, but the movie, Pokmon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life, and Silvally's RKS system both use the hard C. Every single trailer for this game has also used the hard C. I don't know if it was an intentional pronunciation change or they just should have spelled it "Arkeus" or "Archeus" in the first place.

Design by checkbox is an awful way to design. Might as well remake Assassin's Creed.

Also, how in the world is "Arceus" pronounced "Ark-ee-us"? Is there any other word where "ceus" is pronounced with a hard C?

According to the GOP's own arguments for denying Merrick Garland, the Supreme Court is illegitimate, otherwise they would have waited to replace RBG.

This honestly looks like it was developed by some enthusiast who wanted to make a Monster Hunter + RPG with Pokemon branding. The art style is awesome in a way that's completely not-Pokemon, but the some of the textures are hideous. I don't know what universe we stepped into where this fangame was approved, but it's oddly exciting. This looks way better than Pokemon Let's Go, and I liked Let's Go.

It's understandable that some people fight for the right to make personal decisions themselves.
It's not understandable that those people cheer on a pandemic like a football team.

https://youtu.be/IBrkKnXHfb8?t=545

Prestoff posted...

Kind of sounds like One Punch Man where it started off as a parody series about super heroes/battle shonen series, but then as the series goes on it becomes the very thing it tries to parody.

That's just bad translation from web comic -> manga -> anime. In the web comic, the tournament ends in just a few chapters hinging on bald jokes, definitely satirizing old DB. In the manga, it's drawn out waaaaaay too long. The focus, even in Season 2, is still the jokes and on subverting expectations and that will last at least through the Garou arc (the best arc).

Edit: I don't know how anyone is praising the Redo anime. It's literally hentai with a weak plot surrounding it. The writing is like a 13 year old on a certain fanfic site. The MC has no arc, no one grows in any appreciable way, and you can tell how every single story arc is going to go relatively early on. S1 Shield Hero is a classic story of miscommunication and competing goals, Redo is a cliche revenge (literal) porn.

Illuminoius posted...

what's so bad about where the series is now? i'm only familiar with the first season of the anime and it was too much to bear
how did it get worse

Pretty much every mechanic that keeps the series grounded gets thrown out the window. Stuff just happens. The plot is really messy: characters have awkward motivations, it's unclear who is working with who for what reason, the villain is idiot and mostly unseen. MC starts getting the "friend aura" where everybody flocks to his harem for no reason. Basically everything that made the series kinda interesting is gone. It's hard to tell if it's bad in the LN or just lost in translation from LN to manga.

cjsdowg posted...

The first part of me is hard to watch. I don't like the slavery in it.

How do you feel about eating animals?

The manga has one of the sharpest decreases in quality I've ever seen. It starts off ok enough, dips a bit after the first arc (where the anime ends), then just jumps off a cliff. It's based off a LN, so the anime might be significantly better.

He doesn't take just populist positions, he will take any position that gives him ratings. He will complain about AOC not wearing a mask outdoors then complain about Biden wearing a mask outdoors in the very next segment. He will complain interest rates are too high/low, taxes too high/low, regulations too strong/weak, and so on. He will say anything, it doesn't matter. He is a talking head, he repeats the words on the teleprompter written by his (often very racist) writing staff. His sole purpose is to keep idiots watching a dying media form.

raocow. He kinda peaked... 11 years ago... so it's hard to find a video that's up to modern standards (in terms of voice quality and joke cringe-level). But he's got a nice little niche community of SMW romhackers and posts about an hour of video every single day.

Sorry for the triple post. How do I select an action based on input?

I was planning on making methods for every character's action. Depending on what you do, the code would run Player.attack(), or Player.castFireball(), or maybe Player.cast(fireball). I really don't want to make a switch-case for every single action, especially since those choices can change as you progress. What's a clean way to do this?

Can we start grouping people by their shot order like we do bloodtypes/ astrological signs?
I'm MMP, slow and cautious, value intelligence but to my own detriment. Tomorrow will be a <rolls dice> GREAT new week. Try to start something new in your life.

Can I get some pogs from the PAWG?

From what I'm learning ITT, Undertale-haters, or Hatertales as they like to known, either don't care about the story or can't read. I personally know some former 4 year olds who fell into the Undertale hype but didn't have the reading ability or patience for the story. But claiming that nothing changes between a genocide run, a pacifist run, and a "no mercy" run is still incredibly reductionist at best.

I've been working all day on little bits of my Java game. Having big issues pushing(?) it to GitHub. Here's a gist: https://gist.github.com/TurquoisePenguin/743473ea715cbae3b66cef3f29c560f7
Changelog:
Tested and finished (fight method):
- display enemies
- display actions
- select actions (input)
- determine turn order

Partially implemented:
- perform actions

TODO: Have each class read in actions and proceed accordingly.

Undertale is no Apex or RDR2!

1337toothbrush posted...

Are you running into any problems with your current setup? If you wanted to use this data programmatically, you could always access this data through Google's API: https://developers.google.com/sheets/api

The limitation would be that you'd need to be connected to the internet. If you wanted to migrate this data offline, you could do so in a number of ways, but it really depends on how you're planning on organizing and accessing this data.

Yeah, it's all sorted in a rather specific order and if I want to add an entry I have to drag all the entries below it, crtl+x, crtl+v. I guess I could create a sheet for each column and then create a way to view what I want...

1337toothbrush posted...

To be fair, a relational database can be overkill for that. I typically go for a custom file-based format for simple data persistence.

So I have this data I've been storing in a google sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xx-n3TFnBE4Ha8rhYo0YXUT7yRyJSUU44dEOMzB2Dm0/edit?usp=sharing
If you navigate to the "Owned Relics" tab, you'll see most of the grunt work. Is there a better, more accessible, more easily updated way to store that data?

saspa posted...

I still refuse to believe that this red muppet had an entire fad craze over his doll. As a kid if I couldn't have the count, the obvious best sesame street, then I would settle for cookie monster or big bird himself.

Who even were these people that liked that red thing.

Bro, it's The Count and Oscar, then all the losers.

Anyone with Hamon has a stand, you just can't see it ;-)

Bump.
Working on MySQL and A+ classes. Probably going to code tomorrow.

They're all good games with different strong and weak points.

Johnny vs Valentine has the best three-act structure of any JoJo fight and leads right into...
major Steel Ball Run spoilers: Johnny versus ZA FUCKING WARUDO!!!
Jail House Rock also stands out as one of the best fights in all of JoJo.

Luffy never needs a condom.