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| Topic | The MJ Incident - An Exercise in Reading Articles |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/27/21 12:32:00 AM #83 | NGL I see his point. Zendaya's character is basically the Miles Morales equivalent, different character created to score diversity points by invoking but never actually becoming the original character. --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Have you gotten the covid booster shot yet? |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/26/21 1:38:08 AM #13 | They haven't announced booster shots in Canada yet, but I will get mine because it will almost certainly be a requirement to travel, and I have some work trips planned for the spring. --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Reminder: Dune is out today |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/26/21 1:33:33 AM #48 | Going to see this on Wednesday, good to see the reviews are almost universally positive. Excited to see my first movie in theaters in at least 2 years --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1367 |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/26/21 1:30:17 AM #381 | I was looking something up from GotD2, and for some reason my brain cannot perceive that this contest actually started just as the pandemic was starting. For some reason it felt like the last contest was way before covid --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 379: Kabulshit |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/22/21 1:27:28 PM #443 | After reading that full quote my original statement stands, that it is an incredibly dumb thing to say. If outright racist groups like the KKK didn't exist, there would be no "understanding" necessary as black people would be treated as equals without prejudice. --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Reminder: Dune is out today |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/22/21 1:24:46 PM #7 | The no bake spice cookies must flow! Will probably go see this in theater next week to avoid the initial crowds, but I am very excite --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1367 |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/22/21 1:05:50 PM #336 | LeonhartFour posted... Well, I imagine stuff like ADGQ and the emergence of Metroidvania as a genre in general have probably helped give Super Metroid a second wind.The SMZ3 randomizer certainly helped with that as well, on top of being by far the coolest ROMhack ever made --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | 20 Call of Duty Developers in infamous COSBY PHOTO are FIRED from Activision!!!! |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/22/21 12:05:27 PM #3 | What a weird post, considering those were very specifically Blizzard employees. Also neglects to mention that the picture in question was taken over a year before any of the Bill Cosby allegations were made public. Also also neglects to mention that only the one specific person (who's name escapes me) was ever accused of sexual assault --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Alec Baldwin accidentally kills crewmember on set of movie with prop gun |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/22/21 12:01:50 PM #25 | Crazy that this can still happen in show business after what happened to Brandon Lee in the 90s --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 379: Kabulshit |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/21/21 8:17:01 PM #436 | Kenri posted... shout-out to that time famous twitter brigaderIf that is an actual quote, it was an incredibly stupid thing said by a smart man --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 379: Kabulshit |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/21/21 5:14:56 PM #430 | It's really the Dunning-Kreuger effect in action if you think about it. People on either extremes of the political spectrum are CONVINCED that their beliefs are reality, and that their ideas are the only way to progress as a society. Thankfully reality disagrees with these concepts and we somehow have managed to keep things for the most part on the track. That doesn't stop the Twitter brigades from screaming from the rafters about how "cEnTrIsM = NaZi" or whatever garbage they're pushing. As if "centrism" is apolitical ideology, instead of the intelligent and rational thinkers evaluating topics on a case by case basis instead of just defaulting to what some messed up "ideology" tells you to think. --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Netflix Cowboy Bebop Teaser |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/21/21 5:10:38 PM #48 | The weakest part of Cowboy Bebop is the completely useless Ed and any of the Ed centric episodes --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 379: Kabulshit |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/21/21 1:05:24 PM #423 | Nowhere did I say I was surprised. The issue here isn't that these people are ignorant to the economic and societal implications of what they're demanding, the issue is that they are willfully ignorant, and refuse to listen to reason, or any expert opinion that disagrees with their prebuilt narrative/bias. Gosh this crowd is starting to sound an awful lot like another group of people, known for wearing red baseball caps --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | The Metroid Dread Topic (marked spoilers) |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/21/21 10:46:48 AM #217 | Finally had a chance to play this with some friends (I don't have a switch) and I think my biggest beef is that the different areas of the map didn't feel distinct enough, which made memorization and backtracking a lot harder. Think about Super Metroid and how visually distinct the different areas are --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 379: Kabulshit |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/21/21 10:34:38 AM #421 | LordoftheMorons posted...
The problem here is that a large part of their voter base are either just completely unreasonable, or completely ignorant to the mechanics of running a country. I've hear way too many people talk about how they can "write off student debt and it doesn't cost any money!". The people in the "socialist" camp don't understand how they are shooting themselves in the foot by having this "all or nothing" mindset. Student debt is a great example, since there are lots of reasonable plans out there such as reducing/eliminating interest payments, or assisting with the debt for people below certain income thresholds, but the popular narrative on social media is that the only solution there is "wipe out all debt and make school free, and damn the consequences" --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Dave Chappelle's Netflix specials. |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/21/21 10:29:03 AM #93 | All this controversy both makes me laugh, and makes me incredibly sad. The laughter is because of the hilarious double standards on display here, coupled with the "woke culture" Twitter morons viciously fighting to see which arbitrary grouping of people is higher on the "victim scale". The sadness is because there was nothing vicious or out of line in his jokes, they were funny and they pointed out a really embarassing facet of how society behaves, and I think things like that video of the Netflix protest yesterday are proof that Dave was not wrong. We have to get out of this mindset that every single person belonging to a "group" has had the same experience. People should be judged on their individual merits rather than by what "boxes" they tick. In terms of the "punching down" comment, comedy is about pointing out the absurdity in a situation, regardless of any other mitigating factors. When someone does something really dumb or embarassing, that is the root of comedy, and that's the beauty of comedy, you can find humour in powerful politicians saying something dumb, and you can find humour in how poor people dress when they are shopping at Wal Mart. Comedy is the great equalizer, and to try and censor jokes based on arbitrary classifications is a great way to kill all humour. If everyone is afraid to make a joke because someone might find it "offensive" and start a Twitter cancel culture campaign against them, we are going to lose a lot more than we would gain. --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Netflix Cowboy Bebop Teaser |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/21/21 10:18:11 AM #38 | GenesisSaga posted... I liked that they leaned into the campiness for the teaser, but the fact that things got serious for a second the moment Vicious made an appearance gave me hope that the actual product can be more than just that. Some of you guys need to lighten up. If you wanted a shot for shot adaptation of the original just watch the anime. There would be no point to this existing if they didn't take a few creative liberties.I don't know a single person that was asking for this. In fact, the only opinions I have ever seen regarding Bebop is that they either need to make new anime episodes, or just leave the series completely alone so it can stand on its quality. --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Sounds like No Time To Die is legit |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/21/21 10:13:38 AM #79 | When have I said anything either racist or sexist? Seriously, one example. I'm all for equality, which is why I feel like Brie Larson should be treated equal to a man when she says really stupid sexist shit. Ideally we would get rid of cancel culture entirely, but I would settle for at least eliminating hilarious double standards when it comes to that garbage. The whole Dave Chappelle thing is another fantastic example of this --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Netflix Cowboy Bebop Teaser |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/21/21 1:54:53 AM #35 | MoogleKupo141 posted... dragonball was seemingly made by people who dont know what dragonball isSee, I don't know that it is true, given the weird casting choices and the overall look of the trailer, I'm getting major Dragonball Evolution vibes --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Michigan Man is HORRIFICALLY KILLED after he got Pulled into a WOODCHIPPER!!!! |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/21/21 12:16:33 AM #2 | What a way to go, yikes --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Netflix Cowboy Bebop Teaser |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/21/21 12:15:23 AM #31 | This looks like trash. The tone seems way off, and there isn't a chance this doesn't end up as an Avatar/Dragonball level of live action remakes sucking complete and utter ass. --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Sounds like No Time To Die is legit |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/21/21 12:08:31 AM #75 | https://youtu.be/_LjmwDIVRoQ --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Sounds like No Time To Die is legit |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/20/21 6:56:28 PM #72 | Mr Lasastryke posted... ghostbusters 2016 definitely had terrible, patronizing marketing. "GIRLS RULE! GET OVER IT!" and crap like that.Larson basically went on a sexist rant talking about how men should have no opinion on her movies. You know it's sexist because if a man said the same thing about womyn or minorities they would be crucified. She's basically the most famous Karen in the entertainment industry --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Sounds like No Time To Die is legit |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/20/21 11:01:28 AM #66 | LinkMarioSamus posted... The movie's own quality is besides the point. You wouldn't know Carol is a "Mary Sue" before watching the film, and even otherwise likening the movie to the Ghostbusters reboot is still a borderline expression of misogyny because the movies only have the most superficial similarities. At least likening Captain Marvel to something like The Last Jedi can just be passed off as anti-Disney sentiment. The comparison between Craptain Marvel and Ghostbusters 2016 is in the way the film was developed and marketed, focusing on a "stick to those LAZY IDIOT MEN" narrative instead of trying to make a movie with actual quality to it. Ghostbusters is about 1000 times worse than CM though, Marvel is one of the worst MCU movies but is still a middling popcorn flick with an unfortunate troll of a lead actress. Ghostbusters 2016 is quite possible the worst movie ever made, when you factor in the unnecessary damage it did to the franchise. RedLetterMedia has a great breakdown as to just why that movie was so abyssmal, and a lot has to do with the director just showing up to cash a cheque, and let 4 very unfunny women try to improv a bad comedy movie. --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Sounds like No Time To Die is legit |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/19/21 10:15:47 AM #61 | See, I would say John McClane is one of the most grounded and believable action heroes (at least in DH1). He doesn't just go "Rambo" on the bad guys, he actually struggles a lot and gets out by the skin of his teeth in almost every confrontation. Compare that to the aforementioned Rambo, or pretty much any Arnold movie, or the Fast and Furious movies. With Craptain Marvel, she is absolutely an overpowered Mary Sue which as annoying as it is, isn't the end of the world. But you need to couple that with the bitchy tone of both the movie and the marketing around the movie, and that is the reason why people didn't like it. Even comparing to the rest of the MCU movies, I think only Thor 2 is worse in terms of just being boring and lame (although I did fall asleep during Black Panther, a lot of other people swore by it). Captain Marvel suffers from the same problem as Superman in terms of being boring and lame as a hero so powerful there are no stakes, with none of the humanity or commentary that comes from the Clark Kent alter ego. And even then, at least Superman has kryptonite to add SOME tension if handled well. --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Are the lions the most pathetic sports franchise, since the beginning of the |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/19/21 1:36:22 AM #65 | KCF0107 posted... They probably haven't been mentioned because they have won 13 Stanley Cups and been to an additional eight. If you go from the 60's, in terms of expectations versus reality, I can't see how Toronto doesn't count as the most pathetic. Sure they were flat out better than some other teams, but the sheer unmeasurable disappointment they have generated as a franchise far outstrips the par for the course Lions --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Hooters REVERSES New SLUTTY Uniform after Backlash!! Do you like it???? |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/19/21 1:33:37 AM #4 | Ya, I'm not going to believe that, or at least in any significant number. I find it hard to believe that women working at a dodgy chain restaurant who's whole selling point is waitresses in skimpy outfits are all the sudden offended by slightly skimpier outfits. --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Parents DEMAND Principal FIRED cause she listens to IRON MAIDEN and is SATANIC!. |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/19/21 1:31:07 AM #4 | St Kitt's is a literal shit hole, so this isn't surprising --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | The thumbs-up sign had been used by the Galactic Federation for ages. |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/19/21 12:05:01 AM #4 | Other M is probably the one case where I will agree with people who criticize portrayal of female characters in media. There was absolutely nothing wrong with Samus in any of the other Metroid games --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | FFXIV Topic Part 8 -- Suffering from Success |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/18/21 11:46:33 PM #395 | Levelling crafting from 71-80 is dead simple. Do weekly turn-ins, do Dwarf beast tribe dailies and do the 71+ levequests from the crystarium. Make sure to also do the class quests ever couple levels as they also give great Exp. Levelling DoH/DoL has never been faster or easier --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | TikTok User says White Men's FETISH for ASIAN GIRLS is AMERICAN IMPERIALISM!!!! |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/18/21 11:43:18 PM #9 | Beyond the point of people actually taking a "TikTok user" as any sort of authority on any subject beyond stupid dances and repetitive songs, this recent "woke" trend of thought policing what people are attracted to is so lacking in self-awareness it's almost hard to believe. Remember, these are the same people that say university dorms should be segregated by race to provide a "safe space". Horseshoe theory is real people --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Gamefaqs User is BULLIED off the site!! Listen to his Tirade!! Lots of CUSSING!. |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/18/21 11:40:29 PM #11 | It blows my mind how absolutely thin skinned people are in 2021. When did this change happen? When did people all the sudden start taking what anonymous people say on a stupid message say to the point of recording a 10 minute long video bitching about it? Jesus christ people Oh, it's a Smash Bros player? Well that tracks --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Hooters REVERSES New SLUTTY Uniform after Backlash!! Do you like it???? |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/18/21 11:37:15 PM #2 | I don't see how these are much different than the normal uniforms. At least not to the point where girls that signed up to work at a Hooters would actually care. I suspect most of the "outrage" is coming from the usual Twitter/Tumblr crowd --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Were any of you dudes bullied back when you were in school? |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/18/21 11:33:04 PM #30 | I was never bullied at school, but being a small/skinny kid I got banged around alot playing hockey, to the point where I quit at age 12 because it just wasn't fun anymore. --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Are the lions the most pathetic sports franchise, since the beginning of the |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/18/21 2:49:34 PM #52 | I don't know how the Toronto Maple Leafs haven't been mentioned. No cup wins since 1967, constant playoff choking, no other team with that size fanbase and bank account is that bad for such an extended period --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Best Final Fantasy romantic couple? |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/18/21 2:46:45 PM #17 | Cloud/Tifa is probably the only one that isn't an absolute cliche in that it actually starts off with them as friends before turning into something more --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | What is the definitive way to play FF Tactics nowadays? |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/18/21 2:43:17 PM #14 | Leonhart4 posted... The purple prose of the War of the Lions sucksThis is the truest thing Leon has ever said. As far as I'm concerned, the PS1 version is still definitive, at least as far as legal releases go. Why is it that Square goes through the trouble of retranslating games, and getting the biggest absolute bellends to do it every single time? --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 379: Kabulshit |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/18/21 2:41:01 PM #364 | FFDragon posted... https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1450070523296243714?s=20Hopefully the fact that he was the first black secretary of state doesn't overshadow what an absolute puppet and borderline war criminal he was --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | alternative sexual archetypes in the marketplace ("fastest Mario") |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/18/21 2:27:31 AM #9 | The real reason is that while speedrunners run the gamut of political opinions, big events like GDQ will almost always prioritize timeslots to people that meet diversity quotas (that are often outside of the top 10 in their category) rather than basing their selection on merit --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 379: Kabulshit |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/18/21 2:23:15 AM #357 | Jakyl25 posted... https://twitter.com/alanrmacleod/status/1448927208400113665?s=21Not to defend the Iranian theocratic dictatorship, or the US military industrial complex, but it's pretty braindead to try and compare life in the USA to life in Iran. I'm guessing this guy is a massively self-entitled plug --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | What's the hardest non-optional, non-Final Boss boss fight in a game |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/15/21 9:15:43 PM #27 | The dude you fight in Chrono Cross at the end of the dungeon where you go to the future zone. Miguel? --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 379: Kabulshit |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/14/21 9:32:44 AM #336 | Also lol @ trump telling his supporters to not vote. Is he intentionally trying to tank the GOP at this point? --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 379: Kabulshit |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/14/21 9:31:15 AM #335 | Mr Lasastryke posted... also, i thought the hasan piker thing was worth bringing up because bernie constantly got attacked with the same "HOW CAN HE BE A SOCIALIST WHEN HE'S RICH LOL" bullshit. it's just the dumbest ad hominem attack.There's nothing ad hominem about it. Just like there's nothing wrong with someone who has found wealth and success enjoying the fruits of their labour. The problem comes from the fact that this particular idiot made his wealth and fame by centering his content on a shaky political persona and then also begging for subs/donations from his fans who are most likely unemployed and/or poor. That's pretty much a textbook definition of exploitation and hypocrisy --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | 2 OVERWEIGHT GIRLS Win HOMECOMING QUEENS!! Are They Hot???? |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/11/21 12:34:12 AM #2 | I couldn't imagine being the winner of this "contest". How could you not be extremely embarassed that you only got the position because people are taking pity on how fat and ugly you are? --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | PSA: Twitch reportedly suffered a massive hack. |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/08/21 4:55:58 PM #101 | Dels posted... complaining about it doesn't mean they find it surprising. it means they want that dynamic to change. either for the base to have a larger variety of people, and/or for people to not gravitate subconsciously to people who look like themBut you're not going to change either of those things. Forcing diversity down peoples' throat will just push away people that don't buy into performative activism, and you're not going to change peoples' preference for enjoying watching someone they can relate to. The harder you try to push the agenda, the more it will push people away from minority streamers. I don't care what race/gender/whatever someone is as long as they are entertaining and playing games that interest me. One of the easist things you can do to get me to lose all interest is to spend your entire stream complaining about identity politics. --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 379: Kabulshit |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/08/21 4:50:59 PM #301 | Seems pretty meaningless, since the issue with tax avoidance has always been loopholes in moving money around and abusing tax breaks/incentives. Ultimately you can only tax on net revenue, and as long as companies have loop holes to take advantage of, net revenue can be defined however they see fit. --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | GTA Trilogy: Definitive Edition coming later this year |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/08/21 4:48:23 PM #15 | MechanicalWall posted... Basically if you buy a PS5/XSX digital-only, you're killing your ability to buy things on the second-hand market and are relying on publishers to not just decide to permanently take things off the store.If publishers want to stop selling things, who am I to judge? They don't owe us anything, and if you're that miffed about it, just pirate the games with a clear conscience --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | GTA Trilogy: Definitive Edition coming later this year |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/08/21 3:02:11 PM #8 | MechanicalWall posted... "Rockstar is going to start removing the original versions of all three games from digital storefronts on October 11."Not sure I follow, since if you already purchased those games you have them on your account. --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 379: Kabulshit |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/08/21 2:54:03 PM #297 | The solution is to have the government run some schools directly, while leaving private schools to their own devices. As long as there's a cheaper and properly regulated government funded option, 90% of the problem goes away. And the quality of education doesn't matter, since the people that rack up massive student debt and then can't pay it off are the people that either fail out of their programs, or the people that get a useless degree. --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
| Topic | PSA: Twitch reportedly suffered a massive hack. |
| BlAcK TuRtLe 10/08/21 2:04:59 AM #93 | Apparantly some people were complaining about the "lack of diversity" at the top of the list, but how is it surprising that a predominantly white and predominantly male userbase would subconsciously gravitate to people like them? --- Props to azuarc, the current Guru of the Decade. Wear this title with pride! |
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