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ButteryMales posted...

First past the post and the electoral college are bad systems that gives power to conservatives. Fighting against nature has never been described as easy.

Who said it was easy? And how are we going to change things if no one even tries?

Heineken14 posted...

You see that "logic" from a LOT of people who do nothing but criticize the left. It's always about how Republicans are scum of the earth and will destroy everything and you can't reason with them.... But they're not going to vote for Democrats because they want to teach them a lesson.

They won't vote in primaries, they won't vote downballot, they won't show up for off year elections... And then they get all surprised Pikachu when the presidential candidates don't represent them in any way.

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SapphireOfChaos posted...

I feel like there's no reason to farm the new artifacts for Arlecchino when there's perfectly viable Shimenawa's Reminiscence you can get while simultaneously farming Emblem of Severed Fate pieces for other characters you might also want to use as well, or Gladiator set you could potentially have a million pieces of that aren't much worse off. Who the hell is this Burning artifact set even for at this point?

Well, I think it's unlikely they would make this set if they didn't have a plan to make it BiS for somebody eventually. Anyway I don't particularly need artifacts for any characters now, so I figure, why not farm the domain?

Eat_More_Beef posted...

Alright, folks. New rule. You wanna comment on something, you gotta supply a meme.

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Cause sometimes the poop is a surprise!

This makes no sense to me unless you're someone who needs to wear diapers

Is DToast on Tails' side, or just hideously incompetent?

The answer is, it doesn't matter.

Eat_More_Beef posted...

@3, sometimes you gotta poop multiple times during the day. If the poop is dangling, you don't wanna have to stand up and open a goddamn cabinet!

Why can't you just take it out before you poop?

Eat_More_Beef posted...

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1. I think most people who use them greatly overestimate how much difference a "poop knife" makes
2. Why does it need to be a real weapon like that? A butter knife will do the job just fine with much less risk of damaging your toilet bowl
3. Just leaving it sitting there all day is so fucked up. Put it in a goddamn drawer or something

Dakimakura posted...

That sounds illegal

It almost always is

NES and SNES were massive successes.

N64 should have been a dud, but Nintendo's amazing first party releases saved it. It wasn't a huge success like earlier systems but it did decently well.

GameCube's first party games were not at the same quality level and the competition was fiercer. It was definitely a dud.

Wii was Nintendo striking gold. They finally cracked the code of making motion capture games that worked enough to be fun to play.

Wii U was a series of bad decisions combined with weak first party titles. Nintendo's biggest dud ever.

Switch was Nintendo striking gold again. They took the ideas of the Wii U and made them work better, plus they had some of the most beloved first person titles ever.

We'll see what happens with the next console. I'll wait till release to pass judgment.

You can (and should) still wash a seasoned pan. What happens when you season a pan is that the oil hardens and forms a sort of non stick coating that won't come off unless you use a strong cleaning agent like lye or scrub too hard.

As long as you use a moderate amount of soap and don't scrub too hard with it, you shouldn't have to worry about removing the seasoning. Also after the pan dries it's a good idea to rub a little cooking oil on it with a paper towel before putting it away.

ssjevot posted...

He is extremely consistent in quality. He also hasn't turned into an old man who bitches about his problems with modern society.

"I can't say anything these days because of cancel culture!" the other old comedians complain, as they are being paid millions of dollars to say whatever they want on their own comedy specials.

Remember how news articles about millennials would always use slanted language to make millennials sound bad?

It never changes. This lady isn't informing millennials that their slang isn't cool anymore, she's DEMANDING that they speak the way that SHE has decided.

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The spangram and words under it were super easy but for some reason I just couldn't see the top words. The one I used my hint for, serial, was super obvious in retrospect and I don't know why I couldn't get it.

I think we all know who Freezy-E would have a REAL beef with

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Prince H 2 tha Z

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Is this one so terrible that it transcends the shittiness and becomes awesome?

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Felt very pleased with myself when I figured out purple

DKBananaSlamma posted...

But seriously if you're in your 30s, you're old. Let's be real.

Both Drake and Lamar Kendrick are in their 30s tho

Phantom_Nook posted...

why the sand feet tho

Maybe the prompt was "Elsa from Frozen smiling as she lays over her murder victim that she just buried in the sand."

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thronedfire2 posted...

who wears jorts at the beach?

I find that extremely offensive

Eh, that's not unusual at all for women wearing a bikini. You put the jorts on over your bikini bottom when you're not swimming.

I'm much more concerned with her left arm apparently melding into the beach towel.

I picked that I would die, but actually pulled it off

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_____Cait posted...

most countries consider it a vegetable. It blew my mind when i told people casually that watermelon was a good fruit, and everyone started correcting me. It was weird but hey, america and uk arent the center of the world.

Is that because the peel can be cooked in savory dishes? Anyway if I was in a culture that considered it a vegetable I wouldn't argue.

Vhagar995 posted...

I read it, and realized there was no joke. Was that the joke...?

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_____Cait posted...

so do you consider watermelon a fruit or a vegetable?

A fruit. Is this supposed to be a trick question? Because it is a fruit by both the culinary and the botanical definition.

It is a gourd, meaning it's a fruit according to botanical categories. Some gourds are vegetables according to culinary categories, but not watermelon obviously.

TC is being generous giving him 1-2 and not 0-2

VFalcone posted...

Corn
Tomatoes
Squash
Cucumbers
Peppers

Categorizing fruits and vegetables like this is asinine.

The culinary definition of vegetable is an edible plant with low sugar content and a relatively savory flavor profile. A fruit is an edible plant with high sugar content and a relatively sweet flavor profile.

The plants you listed are fruits by the botanical definition. That makes sense for a botanist or someone studying plant biology. But we're talking about these plants being used as food and drink here. Why shouldn't we use the culinary definition over the botanical one?

Moreover, there is no botanical definition of "vegetable" as a category of plants. Vegetable just refers to the vegetable kingdom as a whole, which includes fruits, grass, flowers, trees, even algae. So if we go by the botanical definition, either none of the plants on the list are vegetables or every plant that has ever existed is a vegetable.

So not only are you pedantic, you're wrong.

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Blue seemed like the easiest one to me.

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Powdered_Toast posted...

One of the things I found out while looking into this a few years ago is that Japanese comedians (or TV Talent, because they're also used for stuff like gameshows) are heavily controlled by talent agencies.

Comedians and "talent" (literally the English word converted to Japanese pronunciation tarento) are not the same thing.

Comedians, also called warai geinin or just geinin, have to come up through comedy talent agencies, with a whole bunch of rules and hoops to jump through, then work their asses off taking small gigs and developing their acts. If they're lucky, they get an appearance on prime time that blows up enough to make them celebrities and they use that to secure themselves a permanent slot hosting and/or appearing in TV shows.

"Talents" are people who are famous just for being famous. These days they mostly come from social media, but before that I think they were mostly models or entertainers with little success in their fields who were able to use their charisma to land spots on TV shows. Either that or some show that focuses on meeting and interviewing regular people would have some random person on who really popped, so producers would decide to give them spots on other TV shows. That's how it usually happened, although occasionally producers would even recruit random people off the street.

Anyway they're not the same but one thing that comedians and "talents" have in common is that they are frequently used as "filler" celebrities to round out panels and appear on game shows. There is a lot of overlap in what they do. You would definitely see both of them on shows like Susunu! Denpa Shnen back when they were popular.

That show was kind of the peak for a trend towards extreme physical comedy that had been going since the 80s. Comedians were basically expected to endure humiliation, grueling physical challenges, and even extreme pain in order to get a laugh. "Talents" were also expected to humiliate themselves and endure extreme, stressful situations. There actually was a public backlash to this show, specifically. That, combined with a lot of incidents where bullies would copy things on TV to torture other kids and injure them or drive them to suicide, made the studios gradually phase this kind of entertainment out throughout the 2000s.

Nowadays it still sucks to be a comedian or "talent" in Japan. You will work extreme hours for little pay unless you blow up really big, and endure a lot of humiliation. But the really dangerous and dehumanizing stuff is pretty much gone I think.

I would say Drake should quit while he's ahead, but for Drake, that would have meant quitting like ten years ago.

Drake should just stop with the diss tracks, he's digging his own grave. Kendrick's worst diss track is like ten times better than Drake's best.

The movie was okay but definitely went too long. And the Riddler's plot was easily the weakest part of it. The Blank Check podcast summarized my thoughts very well: the plot feels like it was based on Se7en, but they should have made it more like Die Hard 3.

DuneMan posted...

Reddit is good for sharing information about a specific topic or game, but the upvote system and nested conversation structures are garbage.

Yeah it's really bad and all anybody cares about is getting likes with funny one liners. There are a few subs I visit for interesting or useful info, but only one sub that I go to regularly.

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I think I'm probably more of an INFP-T, really. I'm an introvert by nature but I'm also a teacher and I kind of force myself to be extroverted. Anyway I was borderline (53%), so eh. Fairly accurate.

If someone dumps you over a personality test result, you're better off without them.

Lazy_Haar posted...

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Yellow once again giving me more trouble than the so-called harder categories. I was definitely feeling less than confident with my guess for it even with only eight words remaining, whereas purple and blue stood out instantly to me from the start. As for green, I don't think I've ever heard of an everything bagel or an egg bagel. I'm far from a bagel connoisseur, however.

They're both pretty common. "Everything bagel" is when they take a little bit of every spice, seed, etc. available and put them all on one bagel. Egg bagels have egg mixed into the dough, giving them a yellowish color and slightly richer taste.

pegusus123456 posted...

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Not too bad. Fruit bagels are a thing, damn it.

I've seen bagels with a specific fruit flavor like blueberry or apple but never just a generic "fruit" flavor bagel.

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pegusus123456 posted...

Figuring out edger took me more time than the rest of it put together.

I got it quickly enough but only because those were the only letters left and there were only a few combinations that could possibly be a word. I've never heard of an edger before either.

rick_alverado posted...

Id take the $100 million today, and then donate like $80 million of it to charity, as its already too much money for me.

I'd give like $40 million to family and close friends, keep $10 million for myself, and give the rest to charity.

It's still there, but you need to go to your own profile and tap general settings. The auto-play option is in there. I think you did use to be able to change it in the settings on the video, but not anymore.

I don't think it's possible to get rid of auto-play completely because a lot of countries have laws against it for minors. I'm pretty sure it's still turned off by default for accounts owned by people under 18.

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For some reason I just couldn't put together psycho.

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Okay this one was easy.

Not anymore. There definitely was a time when he was the most popular, but that was decades ago.