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Are you saying that Bond is Blofeld?

Honestly, I think it's a bit of a stretch, they needed a G sounding food and went with a specific name of a pickle, but is that actually the type of pickle they use? Probably some GMO patent pending "food" simulant, made out of pancaked cucumbers.

Just be safe, it'll probably be some hardcore supporters with a bunch of parents who thinks it sounds nice without understanding how governments work, or their exact place in it. Plus the ever present surveillance state. It'll be totally safe.

Radical Thought:

We concede on the security theatre aspect on the pandemic response and just agree on allowing for the freedom to wear a mask. Triple layer cloth or better, wear a mask, it's cold out.

Some people feel comfortable covering their face, we should allow them the freedom to do so.

Hence codified.

Yeah, not everyone has signatures turned on, so it can be jarring when it pops up.

I think people were taken advantage of, under the guise of being granted freedom and another life away from what they viewed as oppressive, and soul crushing.

Flappers posted...

Did they fix the EXP problem so that the game is actually playable?

I can't answer the first three (yet)

The fourth:

They encourage you to catch a lot of pokemon, ABC (always be catching) they want you to cycle through your tertiary pokemon and explore what the constant changing dynamic means to you much the same with weapon durability in BoTW. After four hours I had just screamed through the first early challenges to my first star and the red eyed pokemon. I could play this straight through to the end but better to set in breaks because I can see the little addict triggers built in to keep you playing.

So the majority of you embraced the Warmth, and poor water otter was left all by his lonesome until the endgame content.

I went with Rowlet because he's round, and super buff. Got False Swipe early.

Blightzkrieg posted...
Dwarves is a term invented by Tolkien.

Codified by Tolkien; as a concept in mythology, they predate Tolkien.

I for one, am glad that for once, dad's ass prevented the release of toxic gas.

Pretty sure there are a couple of games that will nerf you hard at the end game if you pirated them. That comes with the added difficulty of either getting the game legit or risk spending the time to try finding a truly cracked copy.

Lorthremar posted...

what the fuck is this topic talking about

pla? isekai?

Pokemon Legends: Arceus

Isekai is a type of genre where the protagonist is thrown into a world not their own. This is essentially their take on Platinum, but perhaps not as well done? It could be an awesome foundation but idk cause my copy has not arrived yet.

I never got to The Witcher or the Sequel, just skip to The Wild Hunt like everyone else.

I have to go to this funeral and play my cards right to have sex with my ex, but I'v been avoiding going to the Harbour to meet up with Yen. Velen is mostly done and I haven't gone looking for the Bard yet.

I think Tucker Carlson is right, we need more diversity on the court and Biden should nominate 6 people to the bench.

Sex is over rated, you're only a few more years away from being a wizard, why ruin it now.

And isn't it dimensional time travel? Effects nothing outside of this one game unless they want it to.

I mean, they'll probably find a way to throw Looker in there too.

Isn't that just a chicken burger on a stick?

Wasn't she Polka Dot Man's mother in The Suicide Squad?

Revelation34 posted...

What's a KGBLT?

Khicken, Gerkin, Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato, on rye.

I'll have the KGBLT with the Robin Nuggets, medium Spite and batfries, and do you still serve the batminis after 1100h.

Kungfu Kenobi posted...

Yeah that's some Robert Pickton shit.

Pickton was just a disposal man, I doubt he was the one ever picking them up, not the he will ever point the finger at his masters.

It's mostly air. When it's cold, birds fluff up to better trap in body heat.

wpot posted...

Does every Disney movie really need to live forever?

kangolcone posted...

I like when people get upset that classic Disney movies are being changed because Disney has almost zero original stories in their classic catalogue. Even Frozen is based on a HCA story.

wpot posted...

Disney will try to make them last forever (with good success) but they don't NEED to. And they shouldn't in some cases. But yes, in this case Disney isn't going to go that route.
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What they're really trying to do is to squeeze more money out of characters that have been successful,

I think in the arguments of diversity and representation, what has been forgotten or at least pushed aside, this was a public domain story that Disney has made their Intellectual Property, and seeks to retain it for the foreseeable century and beyond.

dioxxys posted...

Forced political agendas in Comics or any media has always pissed me off because usually how much it ruins it.

Yeah, lets go back to the good ol days when Captain America punched Nazi's and Superman fought the Klan.

When a bunch of them got stuck there, had their trucks impounded and sold off when they couldn't pay the impound fees, and then couldn't even afford the greyhound home.

Jokes on them, greyhound don't exist no more.

Plus side, CSIS, and every police force in Canada has their identities.

Also, media trying to hide it? they've been their biggest booster, would not have gotten the attention they got if every major media outlet in the land had not said "hey look at this" then they realized "oops, white nationals organized it, but we still have to report the mess we made"

No banging your head on the display case, please. It contains a very rare Mary Worth... in which she has advised a friend to commit suicide, thank you.

CDN$ 3,689.00

That's seven month's worth of rent for me; it's probably a quarter of what the enthusiast paid for their rig to run it.

Kite Man has a cameo appearance this week (Hell Yeah!)

That was a bloody good episode. Totally metal and fucking brutals yous guys.

Mucho dinero

Full Throttle posted...

'i want to get away from this crap, go buy a house in alabama where there is people more civilized'

Needed to highlight this part, 'bama and civilized in the same sentence.

When I lived in Calgary I had the Mormon missionaries come to my door, I brought out the Lord of the Rings and tried to evangelize them. Not sure what happened to them.

I think MG just wiped the floor on turn 2.

Lokarin posted...

Clark Kent

It's actually one of his sons, John or Jordan, I forget which. I know it's not Conner because he's technically a clone of Kal-El and Lex Luthor.

Conner4REAL posted...

i dont see how climate change is even a problem in a world with such super powered characters.

Because corporations also exist, and super heroes follow the law of the land (mostly); anytime Dr. Isley tries to take polluting corporations down, she gets a face full of batarangs. (Ace Chemicals has got to be a subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises)

Now if it was Injustice Superman, he would have no problem melting the faces of polluters until the problem was solved.

That's totally brutal.

Very metal.

When did they start doing that? Last I checked it was just a random 15 seconds from the video and it doesn't get added to my history.

I've barely used YouTube in the past two years.

I was fairly certain there was an SMBC Theatre version, but I just ended up going down a rabbit hole and watching random SMBC videos

ssj4supervegeta posted...

it should not be mandatory

And the government hasn't made it mandatory; it's been made a condition of entrance into the country by both the American and Canadian governments.

Don't say weird shit like "it's mandatory" when no one (who actually matters) is claiming that.

ssj4supervegeta posted...

the misinformation saying it does is why people are not wearing masks and people saying that you dont have to wear a mask if you have the vaccine.

That's a lot to unpack.

First, they were refusing to wear a mask long before the vaccine was extant.

Second, the push to drop the mask mandates was and is an ideological problem that predates COVID-19.

ReturnOfFa posted...

I know it's just Wikipedia, but for an overview:

Doesn't exactly prove your point. With some exceptions, they were Europe's whipping boy.

ReturnOfFa posted...

There is a long history of war between Finland and Russia, and the Finnish were not always the victors.

Which goes to my point that size isn't everything, Russia should have swept across Scandinavia but were not only kept at bay, Russia often lost territory to the Fins and the Swedes

Are they responsible?

No (have you ever met a fourteen year old girl)

Are they a contributing factor to her behaviour?

Absolutely (Zuck wants them clicks)

As part of a class it has merit, but if they opt not to seek class certification, Meta just has to argue "she's a fourteen year old girl, have you met one?" though that would eventually harm them when a class action is filed.

Just to elaborate: Meta's argument hinges on the systemic societal issues effecting young women predating the creation of social media, and hoping the plaintiffs don't use Meta's own internal data that shows they exacerbated the situation by allowing minors to use their platforms.

ReturnOfFa posted...

https://youtu.be/ai2gC2Xw87w

(I'll watch it later) Army size does not equal competence in using it, ask Finland.

Russia had to deal with Japan and the Mongols in the East, the tribesmen of Azerbaijan in the south, the Ottomans and Eastern Europe in the West, plus their own constant internal civil unrest from being a feudal state for so long.

Sure, they had a big army, but it was stretched thin across their vast "empire" and had little to no effect outside it's own borders.

Zeus posted...

Because they're a pro-Russia group.

Zeus posted...

Ukraine doesn't have native terrorist groups

Just pointing out that what you meant to say was "Ukraine doesn't have native terrorists groups friendly to the west"

Zeus posted...

Russia has always been a major player,

In Russia, sure, but that's not how the rest of Europe saw it. Again, they only became a major player in the 20th century because they had nuclear weapons.

Zeus posted...

we've NEVER seen surveillance on anything close to this level,

It was W that oversaw the expansion of the modern electronic surveillance networks (Barry codified them and confirmed they existed to the public) but if you think previous governments didn't have mass surveillance programs of it's own citizenry, you're either naive or wilfully ignorant. The internet and expansion of electronic communications only made it easier for the government to spy on us. To quote Rage Against the Machine:

Although you try to discredit, you still never read it. Radically poetic.

Zeus posted...

Moscow Mitch

Took control of the Senate, held a press conference where he told the world he would block Barry's agenda and say no to everything, and Vlad took advantage and took Crimea and Donetsk because he knew his puppet would block any legislative action the US could have taken.

Ah yes, the Flu Trux Klan

They are threatening to kill the Prime Minister and do a "January 6th" on the capital, and recent leaked messages shows them planning to blockade hospitals in Ottawa.

They are being funded and propelled by Western separatists and white nationalists.

There is also far fewer then what Rupert Murdoch would have us believe, by an order of magnitude.

Looks like that is correct according to the Leak thread (Vol.2) found a second poster who confirmed.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/314257-pokemon-legends-arceus/79861088/961907345

Nichtcrawler X posted...

The GF forum for the game has the information, if you are interested.

Yes, I would like the sauce. Having some trouble sorting through all the threads.

Found one where it is claimed Grass/Fighting, Fire/Ghost, Water/Dark

Leaning toward Cyndaquil based on that and the stat dump I found.

Might just assign some numbers and roll d100 to decide.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

allowed to say something I came across

That changes the calculus, by a lot.

I've been avoiding detailed spoilers because I have a habit of mapping out what I'm going to do before (pokemon) games release (choose X pokemon, ensure they have Y moveset, prepare for when Z happens, etc...) but I probably would have learned this information soon enough anyway that I'm glad to know it ahead of time.

Definitely going to have look more into it and weigh my options.

CinderLock posted...

They put out an official trailer of them now so it's ok

Reporter at thegamer writes:

The trailer, which you can see below, hints at Hisuian variants of Typhlosion, Samurott, and Decidueye. However, it doesn't fully show the appearance of the forms Dartrix, Dewott, and Quilava ultimately take on. It only shows three pairs of eyes and the rest of their bodies are silhouetted and shrouded in smoke.

Apparently early copies have gone out and they are streaming on twitch, so it's going to be online by the end of the week, if it isn't already.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/fight-club-has-a-new-ending-in-china-where-the-authorities-win-1.5754873

'Fight Club' given new ending in China
CNN, Nectar Gan and CNN's Beijing Bureau
5-7 minutes

More than two decades after its release, "Fight Club" has been given a very different ending in China -- and this time, the authorities win.

Chinese fans of David Fincher's cult classic were enraged over the weekend when they noticed a version of the movie available on popular Chinese streaming platform Tencent Video completely removes its iconic ending.

The finale of "Fight Club" shocked audiences when the film hit theatres in 1999. In a massive twist, the narrator, played by Edward Norton, realizes that Brad Pitt's slick-talking Tyler Durden character is his imaginary alter ego, and kills him off.

In the final scene, the narrator stands with his girlfriend, played by Helena Bonham Carter, as they watch explosives blow up a cluster of skyscrapers -- all part of what was originally presented to the audience as Durden's plan to destroy consumerism by erasing bank and debt records.

That amount of anarchy -- and the government's inability to stop it -- doesn't appear to have passed muster with China's notoriously strict censorship rules, though.

In the version available on Tencent Video, which CNN Business was able to view on the platform, the entire scene featuring the explosions has been cut out. Instead, it has been replaced with a caption explaining to audiences that the authorities arrived just in time to save the day.

"Through the clue provided by Tyler, the police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding," the caption reads. "After the trial, Tyler was sent to [a] lunatic asylum receiving psychological treatment. He was discharged from the hospital in 2012."

The new ending has infuriated some viewers. It wasn't clear when this version of the film appeared on Tencent Video, but screenshots of the edited film gained traction in China over the weekend, as commenters complained about the drastic alteration.

"This is too ridiculous," wrote one person on Tencent Video's page for the movie. Another called the change "a pillar of shame in cinematic history."

"No one wants to pay money to watch a classic that has been so ruined to such an extent," yet another person wrote on Douban, a movie review site.

Tencent declined to comment about the edit. CNN Business also reached out to the Cyberspace Administration of China, the internet regulator that oversees streaming platforms, as well as the China Film Administration, but neither government agency responded to a request for comment.

While it's unclear how or when the edit was made, it's not uncommon for foreign movies to undergo heavy censorship before finding a legitimate broadcast home in China. And the Chinese companies that hold the rights to international films in the country often self-censor to appease regulators before general releases.

According to the version of the film available on Tencent Video, the Chinese publisher of "Fight Club" is Pacific Audio & Video Co., a company based in the city of Guangzhou. It's affiliated with state-owned Guangdong Radio and Television.

A Pacific Audio & Video employee told CNN Business that she could not comment about the movie's streaming release. She did say, however, that the company no longer owned the rights to the movie's DVD release in the country, which it obtained more than a decade ago.

This isn't the first time Chinese audiences have been able to watch "Fight Club" legitimately in the country. The movie was shown at the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2006 -- an event that Norton and other Hollywood stars even attended -- according to Chinese media reports at the time.

That same festival screened the movie again in 2017. The China Film Archive in Beijing has also held screenings, according to Chinese media.

CNN Business did not attend those events, and so can not verify whether those screenings were edited. However, one Douban commenter who wrote about her experience watching the movie at the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2017 remarked about the "much anticipated ending," including the collapsing buildings.

Film censorship has a long history in China.

Since the early 1990s, authorities have allowed just a few dozen foreign films to be screened in the country each year -- only nine of the 26 Oscar best picture winners were screened publicly in China from 1994 to 2019, for example.

Movies or shows with controversial themes -- such as those that purportedly depict China in a bad light, portray taboo subjects like the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre, or feature LGBTQ storylines -- are kept out entirely. And since China lacks a film rating system, any content approved by Chinese regulators is heavily edited to remove certain scenes, such as graphic sex or violence.

When the Oscar-winning Freddie Mercury biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody" was released in China in 2019, for example, any mention of the Queen singer's sexuality -- as well as his AIDS diagnosis -- was edited out.

And the American blockbuster fantasy drama "Game of Thrones," which built its popularity on graphic sex and violence, was censored so heavily on Tencent Video that some viewers complained that it was turned into a staid "medieval European castle documentary."

Rida_Go_To_Bed posted...

parachute doesnt work when she jumps out of the plane.

Happened on a farm up the road from where I grew up, it had been a wet spring and the ground was boggy to begin with. IDK what Peggy's excuse was, but it is possible.

captpackrat posted...

The other ring she passed up had a two-headed eagle, a triangle with a yod, the number 32, and a Rose Croix.

Oddly enough I think they were all Free Mason rings; going to go out on a limb and say your grandfather was a 32nd degree grandmaster.

MrMelodramatic posted...

what do masons even do these days

Depends on the Lodge they belong to, most are just social clubs, some still adhere to the ancient traditions of anonymous charity and good deeds to the community; there is an unfortunate subset of lodges that seek only power, or worse. If you ever meet a Shriner or a 33rd degree master mason, ask if they have been to the Book of the Play recently and watch their face turn white as a sheet.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Is there a conspiracy theory about why there are so many conspiracy theories?

Criminalt posted...

I think The X-Files touched upon this. There was a plot strand that put forward the theory that basically, the belief in a government conspiracy to cover up the truth about alien abductions had in fact been manufactured by the government, in an attempt to cover up the fact that it was carrying out the abductions itself. In other words, a strategy of diverting the spotlight away from the mundane truth by focusing it on a fantastical lie instead.

Basically this. The CIA coined the term Conspiracy Theory as a way to discredit individuals who were telling stories out of school (so to speak) and found that the public was eager to make their own up; the CIA then covertly (and sometimes overtly) encourages and propagates them to better classify individuals and their ideologies. A good portion of DoD black budget goes to programs that investigate phenomenon that in actuality is just another secret DoD program, Project Blue Book for example.

LazLemon posted...

you have to take loads of medications after having a transplant to help your body accept the new organ.

Yep. Had he survived the transplant, (there is always the possibility of dying in surgery) he would need a daily regimen of anti rejection medications to prevent the immune system from attacking the foreign body, for the rest of his life.