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Topic | WTF. Please tell me this bill board isn't real. |
ThePieReborn 04/20/24 2:46:10 PM #6 | *vacant blinking*
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Topic | Alien Isolation or Dead Space? |
ThePieReborn 04/20/24 2:41:23 PM #6 | a-c-a-b posted...
I love Dead Space. Both the original and remake.It's... serviceable? Combat is more about neutralizing/creating breathing room rather than the murderating. That said, the death of Dead Space as a franchise makes me sad because I was invested in the story and the lore. --- Party leader, passive-aggressive doormat, pasta eater extraordinaire! |
Topic | Every Cybertruck recalled. |
ThePieReborn 04/20/24 2:36:18 PM #76 | Peak performance
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Topic | What's CE's theme song? |
ThePieReborn 04/20/24 2:29:17 PM #5 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUamHEvVQy0
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Topic | I never played a Fallout game in my life. |
ThePieReborn 04/20/24 2:21:26 PM #14 | That is still quite the take.
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Topic | I never played a Fallout game in my life. |
ThePieReborn 04/20/24 2:15:29 PM #10 | That is certainly a take in post 5.
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Topic | How the hell do you get used to keyboard and mouse controls? |
ThePieReborn 04/19/24 9:07:59 PM #35 | divot1338 posted...
After I discovered Counterstrike I realized there was a whole other level to being comfortable with your keyboard setup.Let me tell you the wonders of rocketjumping, my friend. --- Party leader, passive-aggressive doormat, pasta eater extraordinaire! |
Topic | imagine eating a large blizzard in one sitting. |
ThePieReborn 04/19/24 9:02:46 PM #19 | I do. And I regret it immediately afterward.
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Topic | Trump Trials General Part 15: CE's Last Hurrah |
ThePieReborn 04/19/24 2:01:49 PM #394 | Westernwolf4 posted...
I was also surprised by this. I dont know what your experience with jury service has been Pie, but my JD/legal career has always disqualified me. When I lived in Va., I was always dismissed before coming in (long time ago, so dont know if that still happens.). Where I live now, I always come in and am instantly dismissed when people realize what I do for a living. Last time it was a law school friend of mine working the case who laughed at me for having to come before kicking me out!Oh no, I've also been tossed for (presumably) my JD. Funnily enough, at all three stages of my career: law student, judicial clerk, and practicing attorney. All my voir dire questionings have ended at the "and what do you do for a living?" stage. Funny enough, the attorney at my second voir dire was a classmate of my judge, so she asked me to tell my judge she said hi. Unless if I was really confident in both my case and the JD juror, I sure as hell would never let anyone with a JD on a jury if I still had the peremptory challenges to spare. Too much of a risk for taking control of deliberations. That said, I don't know what the strike count was looking like, but it wouldn't surprise me if this was strategic by the state. New Yorker + JD may be a good combo in this situation. --- Party leader, passive-aggressive doormat, pasta eater extraordinaire! |
Topic | How the hell do you get used to keyboard and mouse controls? |
ThePieReborn 04/19/24 1:52:46 PM #4 | We talkin bout practice, man.
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Topic | Protestor sets themselves on fire outside courthouse of Trump trial |
ThePieReborn 04/19/24 1:51:19 PM #15 | Humble_Novice posted...
I'm censoring this to avoid triggering any potential moderations.Watched the video. Wouldn't recommend for the squeamish, but a woman cuts into the camera's view, sits down, and just casually watches the person burn. Fucking weird. --- Party leader, passive-aggressive doormat, pasta eater extraordinaire! |
Topic | what is helldivers 2 like? |
ThePieReborn 04/19/24 1:45:16 PM #5 | Zwijn posted...
Nothing at all like Destiny, but it often reminds me of Destiny for some reason.It's the fashion. --- Party leader, passive-aggressive doormat, pasta eater extraordinaire! |
Topic | Trump Trials General Part 15: CE's Last Hurrah |
ThePieReborn 04/19/24 1:43:03 PM #377 | Surprising that a juror who apparently has a JD got through, although I figure the state reasoned that works in its favor and Trump ran out of peremptory challenges.
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Topic | Oklahoma Athletic Commission 'warns' AEW over transgender wrestler Nyla Rose |
ThePieReborn 04/17/24 6:37:47 PM #16 | I'm sorry. There are too many layers to the stupidity and maliciousness at play with this that I just don't even know where to start.
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Topic | Trump Trials General Part 15: CE's Last Hurrah |
ThePieReborn 04/17/24 5:05:24 PM #169 | mystic_belmont posted...
I wonder if the prosecution will use the NY fraud trial to show that yes Trump has committed business fraud before.That's the first bout of conduct on the Tweeted cover page. --- Party leader, passive-aggressive doormat, pasta eater extraordinaire! |
Topic | Trump Trials General Part 15: CE's Last Hurrah |
ThePieReborn 04/17/24 4:58:23 PM #167 | mystic_belmont posted...
I guess they are using those to show a history of bad acts?They'll be using these to impeach credibility and as a "Lol, this dude has done nothing but commit fraud at all times relevant to this case." --- Party leader, passive-aggressive doormat, pasta eater extraordinaire! |
Topic | Trump Trials General Part 15: CE's Last Hurrah |
ThePieReborn 04/16/24 10:38:13 AM #36 | Beep boop
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Topic | Trump Trials General Part 14: Dawn of the criminal trials |
ThePieReborn 04/15/24 4:02:34 PM #461 | I do want to highlight for folks that jury selection goes much deeper than the questions posed during voir dire. Something this high profile, I would bet my bottom dollar that at least the state attorneys probably know more about the jury pool's backgrounds than they themselves know.
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Topic | Trump Trials General Part 14: Dawn of the criminal trials |
ThePieReborn 04/15/24 11:15:48 AM #364 | lilORANG posted...
The judge kept it out. Not the prosecutor. Probably bc it's cumulative, as in the Access Hollywood tape says the exact same thingCumulative, propensity evidence, more prejudicial than probative all come to mind. --- Party leader, passive-aggressive doormat, pasta eater extraordinaire! |
Topic | What is the biggest political shift you've seen in a person? |
ThePieReborn 04/15/24 11:05:22 AM #18 | Not so much a political shift rather than an expedited descent into insanity, but a large portion of my extended family is Q-adjacent despite my best efforts.
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Topic | How do you feel about Trump? |
ThePieReborn 04/15/24 10:49:26 AM #8 | Shitty excuse for a human being even discounting the post 2015 insanity.
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Topic | itt we remember the CEmen who have passed away |
ThePieReborn 04/14/24 9:44:48 PM #28 | [LFAQs-redacted-quote]
We had some moments of very... sharp disagreements, but he was the one who encouraged me to sit down and finish my law school application back in 2016. Regardless of the scars I received throughout my three years of schooling, I do still remember and appreciate that. Hard to believe it's been almost 8 years, though. --- Party leader, passive-aggressive doormat, pasta eater extraordinaire! |
Topic | Draven won the character battle |
ThePieReborn 04/14/24 12:28:01 PM #7 | That was some fun drama.
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Topic | Rank the Doom games |
ThePieReborn 04/14/24 12:01:39 PM #25 | Final Doom (Plutonia Experiment) > 2016 > Eternal > Doom 1 > Doom 2 >>> Doom 3 >>>>>>>>>>>>> Final Doom (TNT Evilution)
Can't speak for 64 or Doom 3 BFG. Doom 1 and 2 are placed lower due to my discounting their their roles as progenitors; if I added that into the equation, at least Doom 1 would outrank 2016, if not both. There are certainly highlights to both games, but the big thing they both struggle with is that the last half/third of each falls off in enjoyability for me. Doom 2 is especially not very fun in the latter half of the game. Plutonia is king of the commercially sold WADs, and I will die on this hill. --- Party leader, passive-aggressive doormat, pasta eater extraordinaire! |
Topic | Rowling got beef with Harry and Hermione. |
ThePieReborn 04/13/24 4:03:30 PM #138 | The snippets I've seen from the Cass report give me the same vibes from Mark Regnerus's sterling (read: heavily discredited and eviscerated by both academics and jurists) study on the supposed terrible impact on children caused by being raised in a same-sex couple household.
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Topic | Non-Trump legal news: 8th Circuit OA on AR gender affirming care ban for minors |
ThePieReborn 04/12/24 7:45:11 PM #1 | Title's a bit of a clusterfuck, but short version is that the Eighth Circuit had oral arguments this week on Arkansas's ban on gender affirming care for minors. The text of the bill (Act 626, or as the ingrates decided to name it, the Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act) may be found here: https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2021R%2FPublic%2FACT626.pdf
For folks who have not been paying attention, this bill went into effect back in 2021. A lawsuit was immediately filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and the judge found the bill to be unconstitutional on Equal Protection, Due Process, and First Amendment grounds. For anyone interested, here is the ACLU's website entry that contains basically the entire docket for both the trial court level and the appellate level: https://www.aclu.org/cases/brandt-et-al-v-rutledge-et-al I just remembered that oral arguments were held at the 8th Circuit this week on Thursday, so I spent a good chunk of today catching up on briefs and listening to the oral arguments (the recording of which may be found here: https://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/court-session , select the April 2024 session and ctrl+f for "Brandt"). Overall, not impressed with the Arkansas Attorney General's arguments or the 8th Circuit's questions. It is likely that there is a hang-up on the Equal Protection issue due to US case law's different levels of scrutiny applicable to allegations of discrimination based on a suspect classifications. A brief summary on Equal Protection and scrutiny levels: (1) only racial classifications get strict scrutiny, the highest level; (2) classifications based on sex receive intermediate scrutiny; and (3) everything else is subject to rational basis review. Where Republican attorneys and jurists like to muddy the waters is what all falls under the umbrella of classifications based on "sex." Back in the Windsor and Obergefell days, Republicans vehemently argued that gay marriage bans were not based on sex classifications by virtue of claiming that LGBT folks were able to marry members of the opposite sex just as everyone else was. Kennedy, in his infinite, flowery language, elected to not make an affirmative statement as to what level of scrutiny the gay marriage prohibitions were subject to, but it's generally understood that classifications based on sexual orientations are subject to a scrutiny higher than rational basis review, if not intermediate scrutiny. Turning back to the gender affirming care issue, we are in exactly the same place where Republican states are asserting that gender affirming care restrictions are subject to rational basis review. This is problematic for jurisprudence purposes because short of a finding that only animus fueled the legislation rather than any legitimate government purpose, legislation is presumed to satisfy rational basis review and therefore not violate Equal Protection. As expected, the legislation at issue here hides under the guise of "Won't someone please think of the children?!?!?!", nevermind the fact that these are the same people who routinely drive LGBT people to the edge and beyond. It is notable, however, that the 8th Circuit affirmed the trial court's preliminary injunction of Arkansas's enforcement of the bill, so all is not necessarily lost despite the 8th Circuit being second only to the hacks in the 5th Circuit (although there's a wiiiiiide gap between the two courts). It is almost guaranteed that this will be appealed to SCOTUS regardless of the outcome. All that said, I do want to highlight something from the trial court's order. The Alliance Defending Freedom previously recruited a whole cavalcade of halfwitted "experts" during the Windsor and Obergefell days to support states' enforcement of gay marriage bans, primarily on the back of saying that children raised in same-sex couple households were somehow worse off than children raised by opposite sex couples. These "experts" were routinely BTFO by both trial and appellate courts. Well, the ADF recruited many of the same people to be "experts" regarding gender affirming care, which they obviously have zero understanding of. The trial court judge in this case (an Obama appointee) basically took them out back and gave them the Old Yeller treatment. Even called out one directly in the order in Footnote 11, so if you see anyone citing a Mark Regnerus as an expert in LGBT matters, promptly laugh at them and/or hit them with something heavy. Just wanted to give a little update with a slight ounce of optimism on something I've been paying attention to in connection with my work. --- Party leader, passive-aggressive doormat, pasta eater extraordinaire! |
Topic | Virginia Becomes First State in the South to Ban Child Marriage |
ThePieReborn 04/12/24 2:35:48 PM #4 | I'm a little curious if there were actually shenanigans done by folks via the described emancipation loophole. Wouldn't surprise me, but it's also those niche situations where you get the truly fucked up "well akschually..." people.
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Topic | Trump Trials General Part 14: Dawn of the criminal trials |
ThePieReborn 04/12/24 2:14:13 PM #219 | teep_ posted...
While I absolutely believe he should suffer consequences, I also worry about how that will affect/galvanise his fanbaseSame boat. And I hesitate to say "Do it, motherfucker," because (1) I recognize that my ass will almost certainly not be in the line of fire and (2) I find "ends justify the means" thinking to be reprehensible. But disease can't be allowed to fester any more than it has already. And that's what this all boils down to: a bunch of sick, selfish individuals who would rather burn everything down and rule over the ashes before ever losing their unearned "status." --- Party leader, passive-aggressive doormat, pasta eater extraordinaire! |
Topic | Potato Wedges: Yay or Nay |
ThePieReborn 04/11/24 7:08:31 PM #30 | Not my favorite (prefer a little more crunchiness), but they're very versatile.
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Topic | You like samurai swords. |
ThePieReborn 04/10/24 9:40:03 PM #10 | I'm an axe man tbh.
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Topic | Matthew Mercer learns he's auditioning for Vincent in Rebirth during recording |
ThePieReborn 04/10/24 5:35:23 PM #26 | AuthenticZac posted...
Steve BlumIt will never not be funny to me that the dude occupies literally the entirety of Doom 3. --- Party leader, passive-aggressive doormat, pasta eater extraordinaire! |
Topic | Trump Trials General Part 14: Dawn of the criminal trials |
ThePieReborn 04/10/24 5:24:20 PM #126 | Kradek posted...
I sincerely doubt that he actually realizes that.It's what happens when you have a brat born with a silver spoon in his mouth who grew up with a constant stream of yes men surrounding him because of daddy's money. He never grew up. He never gained the notion that his words and actions have consequences because he has never experienced any, and thus disregards the consequences that he has either imposed or forced others to bear as a result. That supposed "salt of the earth" people like my extended family choose to champion trash like him just belies the reality that he embodies the inner child in them who desperately wishes that they, too, were never told "no." Edit: Also, yeah. I have absolutely no idea what to make of that Trump post. I am honestly inclined to say that the alleged letter is manufactured, but I suppose weirder things have happened in this timeline. And even if real, it is literally evidence in support of the coverup shenanigans that are the heart of the prosecution, so the dude is a fucking idiot regardless. Probably could have just led entirely with "The dude is a fucking idiot." --- Party leader, passive-aggressive doormat, pasta eater extraordinaire! |
Topic | Arizona Supreme Court votes to uphold states 1864 abortion ban. Voters this... |
ThePieReborn 04/09/24 7:34:23 PM #71 | Something I found morbidly funny is that this law predates women's suffrage.
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Topic | Trump Trials General Part 14: Dawn of the criminal trials |
ThePieReborn 04/09/24 1:56:59 PM #83 | ReiRei89 posted...
Fat fuck is going to try and intimidate the jury, just watch.Oh that's a guaranteed reality. I feel terrible for jurors that will almost inevitably be outed to the lunatic cult members. --- Party leader, passive-aggressive doormat, pasta eater extraordinaire! |
Topic | Crumbley parents sentenced to 10-15 years in prison. |
ThePieReborn 04/09/24 1:47:08 PM #25 | name_unknown posted...
Prosecutors do this now getaway drivers get murder charges.Different theories (felony murder and aiding/abetting) that aren't apposite here. This case is essentially one of criminal negligence, which is more appropriately described as recklessness/reckless indifference. Edit: And yeah, post 22 completely missed the mark on the rationale of the indictments and verdicts. --- Party leader, passive-aggressive doormat, pasta eater extraordinaire! |
Topic | Free meals for life, but it's Golden Corral |
ThePieReborn 04/09/24 1:41:40 PM #23 | I can imagine worse things.
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Topic | Crumbley parents sentenced to 10-15 years in prison. |
ThePieReborn 04/09/24 1:33:21 PM #17 | Honestly the dad deserves it for being stupid enough to threaten the DA/county attorney over his recorded jailhouse calls.
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Topic | Trump Trials General Part 14: Dawn of the criminal trials |
ThePieReborn 04/09/24 1:28:02 PM #81 | Incoming WiTcHuNt screaming.
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Topic | Guess Who Trump Just Turned On? |
ThePieReborn 04/09/24 9:12:34 AM #10 | Phrasing
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Topic | Helldivers 2 General: For Democracy! |
ThePieReborn 04/09/24 9:03:24 AM #358 | Touch posted...
So what's the verdict on the Dominator post buff? Almost got enough to buy itI just picked it up and I dig it. --- Party leader, passive-aggressive doormat, pasta eater extraordinaire! |
Topic | After NCAA title win, South Carolina coach spoke about her faith |
ThePieReborn 04/08/24 7:48:33 PM #10 | Good thing God's got nothing to do besides root for X shooty hoops or handegg team.
And the favorite teams change every season! Such a bandwagoner. --- Party leader, passive-aggressive doormat, pasta eater extraordinaire! |
Topic | Trump posts bizarre solar eclipse ad with his head blocking out the sun. |
ThePieReborn 04/08/24 5:04:05 PM #6 | I am so confused by this timeline.
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Topic | Do pushups and planks do anything? |
ThePieReborn 04/08/24 9:58:17 AM #5 | If your number one concern with exercise is how you look rather than the practical benefits conveyed thereby, then you need to reprioritize. Abs not being visible does not mean the underlying developed core strength isn't there.
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Topic | The Trolls Have Angrily Turned on DToast |
ThePieReborn 04/07/24 5:27:05 PM #36 | Much as I struggle with depression and frequent suicidal ideation, at least I'm not these people. >_>
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