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Kain_Highwind posted...

FF14 is gonna have early access by like 5 days if you preorder the newest expansion lol

For FREE

all you have to do is, purchase the game and if you weren't going to buy it anyways you wouldn't be playing

^ I feel like I read this comment the other day. Did you delete post 128 and repost it? Or am I imaging it.

TendoDRM posted...

None, lol at preordering digital games.

What...but you ... won't get the extra quest and will have to wait 3 days to play.

Thought you were a big AC fan.

Your post has been deleted. Do you know why I did this?

NoxObscuras posted...

Yeah, a lot of AAA games have been adopting that paid early access practice. It's dumb. The first time I ever encountered that was for the MMO ArcheAge. At least there it made sense because for an mmo like that, getting a 4 day headstart was a huge bonus for the competitive players. You could buy houses and things in-game, and it was first come first serve. The headstart players got to claim the good locations first.

What's also been dumb to me is when AAA games offer a "beta test" like a month before release, but you have to pre-order the game to gain access. That's just paying for a glorified demo if the beta is that close to the release date.

They need to stop taking ideas from MMO's and using them in stupid (greedy) ways.

So it wasn't Diablo 4 who started this BS?

TendoDRM posted...

Can't wait to play it, love AC.

Which edition you pre-ordered?

Tyranthraxus posted...

Don't preorder this game. Don't even buy the game.

I see reports suggests pre-orders for the game are strong

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obesity is scarier than IT

*3 days early access - more like pay extra to not be penalized

and apparently there is a quest you have to pre-order to get

So you can pre-order a $70 game to get your special dlc but you gotta wait 3 days cause you didn't shell out $39 more dollars

Ghostwriters aren't as good or they wouldn't be ghostwriters.

Sue HOA for harassment of disabled person. Find violations of accommodation. Sue.

Noname13 posted...

You have 4th amendment protection from unlawful seizures and searches. I dont think facial rec would count as those. What it would fall under, I dont really know

You are cop and you...don't know. Not surprised.
For the record I don't blame you, this just shows how low the standards are for the typical PD. It is quite sad.

ClayGuida posted...

Nothing happens. Cops are immune to just about every form of punishment.

Mayor and Chief are a bit different here.

Noname13 posted...

So, this is a really interesting case. I had to look it up. Heres the actual section of what was put out. From what I read, it doesnt seem like its an actual law but rather a policy for the department the city created. I have to keep reading to make sure

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9780fe7f.jpg

So they are disobeying the Chief's order or thr Mayor's order. Either way what usually happens when an officer does this? Probably not good.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

Beside that point, it seems they're skirting a law.

If I were to skirt a law, what would we call that?

They lost an argument to a random redditor once or their post got downvoted to oblivion.

Noname13 posted...

I didnt see that paragraph, I see it now. But a city ordnance can be nulled by federal law

1. Why would federal law nullify it?
2. Why would Austin Tx obey a federal law?

Noname13 posted...

So an armed robber was caught by facial rec and hes mad? Theres no expectation of privacy in public. Not jsut from law enforcement. Just assume youre always on camera when you leave the house these days. Casinos use facial rec and a lot of popular tourist shopping areas do as well

Cops were caught breaking the law.
You don't care?

your first what?

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but he does the thing, with the arm

ohhhhhhh

specialkid8 posted...

Obviously most of this is complete hot air and bullshit but he will absolutely enforce the wind ban and oil power because that makes him and his buddies money. He would also enforce, as much as he can, the firing of people he doesn't like because he loves sycophants more than anything else. The amount of reshuffling he wants to do though, I don't know how much he can actually sign off on. I would also worry about the trans student protection because that's an easy executive order for him to sign and he's motivated to get rid of it because Biden did it. I'm not sure how much actual power an executive order has though. It's still gotta jump through some hoops. We can only hope, with the slim chance he actually wins, that he doesn't have nearly as much power as he thinks he does.

the beauty of a coupe is you don't care about stuff like "how much actual power an executive order has"

go to saltbae instead

wallstreet looking down on the average person in contempt

CRON posted...

Characters look Fortnite-ish.

Fortnite cartoonyish copied Team Fortress cartoony
Valve invented it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSTz-A47da8

bees are pollenators

You mean team fortress?

Have you seen the job trailer?

Kradek posted...

Thanks for the list, TC. Good thread.

No problem.

MrDrMan posted...

Banning porn would actually be hilarious. Cant complain without looking like a complete horn dog.

But you might notice some people more tense

Cheetaluv posted...

That the true face of ppl way into politics.

What does this mean?

PballDepot posted...

Yeah scary stuff, shame Biden is doing everything he can to lose an election with such high stakes

From above:

Trump has also promised not only to reinstate his travel ban targeting certain Muslim-majority countries but to expand the ban to include Gazan refugees and institute certain ideological screenings for all immigrants.
I banned refugees from Syria, I banned refugees from Somalia very dangerous places and from all of the most dangerous places all over the world, I banned them, Trump said at an Iowa rally in October. In my second term, were going to expand each and every one of those bans, he added.
In 2016, Trump repeatedly promised to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall that was 1,000 miles long. What ended up coming together was 453 miles of border wall, the vast majority of which was reinforcement of existing walls. Trump also vowed that Mexico would cover the cost, which it did not. This time around, in a similarly ambitious fashion, Trump promises to finish what he started.

Is Biden really trying to lose?

Deploying the military domestically to fight crime, a big tax on foreign imports and record-setting deportations are among Trumps main 2024 pledges.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-campaign-promises-second-term-rcna138621

At a Donald Trump rally, it is often an off-the-cuff one-liner that ends up driving headlines.
In between, in speech after speech, the former president is laying out an aggressive and ambitious policy agenda for a second term one that makes elements of his first term in the White House look mild in comparison.
Most of the agenda items arent brand new on immigration and other issues, Trump is making a lot of the same promises he did during his 2016 campaign that never came to fruition due to a lack of congressional support or limitations on his executive authority. But there are some unique areas Trump is focused on now that telegraph a more hard-line approach if he returns to office.
Trump makes many consequential pronouncements suddenly, like his recent statement about letting Russia attack a NATO ally that wasnt paying enough for defense. But here are some of the campaign promises Trump is repeating most often from the campaign trail.
Record-setting deportations
Immigration was perhaps the biggest driving force, policywise, behind Trumps 2016 campaign. Now, he has unofficially deemed it the top priority of his 2024 White House bid, speaking in depth about it during every campaign speech he has given.
On my first day back in the White House, I will terminate every open borders policy of the Biden administration, stop the invasion on our southern border and begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history, Trump said at an Iowa campaign event in December.
Trump made similar promises back in 2016 that he wasnt able to keep, deporting fewer people than President Barack Obama did in each of his two terms, according to federal government data. If anything, Republican voters might be more animated by border and immigration policy now, and NBC News latest poll showed Trumps biggest policy advantage over President Joe Biden was on the subject of securing the border.
Trump has also promised not only to reinstate his travel ban targeting certain Muslim-majority countries but to expand the ban to include Gazan refugees and institute certain ideological screenings for all immigrants.
I banned refugees from Syria, I banned refugees from Somalia very dangerous places and from all of the most dangerous places all over the world, I banned them, Trump said at an Iowa rally in October. In my second term, were going to expand each and every one of those bans, he added.
In 2016, Trump repeatedly promised to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall that was 1,000 miles long. What ended up coming together was 453 miles of border wall, the vast majority of which was reinforcement of existing walls. Trump also vowed that Mexico would cover the cost, which it did not. This time around, in a similarly ambitious fashion, Trump promises to finish what he started.
A hard-line approach on global affairs including a big import tax
The former president has projected a my-way-or-the-highway approach to international dealings, floating the idea of a universal 10% tax on all goods coming from countries outside the U.S., in an attempt to prioritize domestic production.
On the campaign trail, Trump often generalizes his economic approach as America first, threatening big tariffs on goods from companies that choose to outsource labor and production from the U.S.
Economists on both sides of the aisle have cautioned against Trumps universal proposal. A center-right think tank, American Action Forum, said Trumps proposed policy would distort global trade, discourage economic activity, and have general negative consequences on the American economy. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, meanwhile, said the plan would raise the cost of a wide variety of goods that American businesses and consumers rely on.
Trumps recent comments about Russia and NATO also drew a rebuke from the head of NATO, who said it could put at risk the lives of American and European soldiers.
A military crackdown on crime
Trump has suggested using the National Guard to address crime, which he argues is worse than its ever been.
The former president often alludes to expanding the military domestically to address crime in cities. Referring to Washington, D.C., and Chicago as crime dens, Trump has vowedto intervene with military force without gaining the necessary permission from local leaders.

One of the things Ill do youre supposed to not be involved in that, you just have to be asked by the governor or the mayor to come in the next time, Im not waiting, Trump said.
There has traditionally been a bright dividing line between the military and domestic law enforcement. But figures on the right have argued for a more aggressive use of the Insurrection Act by Trump to deploy the military domestically during a second term.
Trump has also upped his harsh rhetoric on crime: For certain low-level crimes, Trump has suggested the punishment of death.
Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store, shot, Trump said to a rowdy California GOP convention crowd in September.
Trump also routinely insists that the death penalty should be instituted for drug dealers, depending on the severity of their offenses.

Eliminating the Department of Education and using federal dollars to fight local mandates
Trump intends to slash the federal department entirely, a 4,400-person operation with a $68 billion budget. Trump claims this would give full educational authority back to the states, even though an elimination of the department wouldnt directly transfer over any new state power.
While Trump talks about returning power to states and localities, another promise met with roaring applause at each rally is to cut the funding of any public school system that has a mask mandate for child safety, an increasingly rare authorization.
The former president floated eliminating the Department of Education when running in 2016. While in office, he attempted an unsuccessful merger of the Education and Labor departments into one entity. Trump also attempted to cut billions from the departments budget that would have ended subsidized student loans and the public service loan forgiveness program.

Political retaliation against Biden
One of Trumps most consistent talking points on the trail centers on his intention to prosecute Biden if he regains executive power.
I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of America, Joe Biden, and go after the Biden crime family, Trump said in June at his Bedminster, New Jersey, residence, just hours after being arraigned at a federal courthouse in Miami on charges alleging willful retention of classified documents.
Trump often points to the 91 felony counts he is facing as evidence of a two-tiered system of weaponized justice that he says has opened Pandoras box.
During a South Carolina rally last week, Trump seemed to sardonically shift that messaging around, saying he no longer wanted to seek revenge on Biden because he was too incompetent. When Trump asked the crowd in a tongue-in-cheek manner if they agreed with not taking revenge on Biden, shouts of no and ardent boos filled the arena.

dead? or just their career

Evil0tto
2 weeks ago
Me: "Oh, a UFO documentary? Hard pass. Wait... National Geographic? Suddenly intrigued."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXO_RwR1UA8

dynamicvoltage9765
2 years ago
No lip sync. No auto tune. Just 100% talent.

kek

watch this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs4_LZl1OIs

Necronmon posted...

I get that, that's why I reserve things such as Armored Core 6 or Soul Hackers 2 before they vanished. What I'm talking about is that I did not preorder Chronicles because I did not even know what it was...it was not till I looked at the message boards here and saw that the game was a spiritual successor to Suikoden that I realized it was a game I wanted.

Its harder to even be aware of lesser known games if they vanish before you even have a chance to buy them and all.

But does your gamestop have any copies today? I bet they do. And you can order the game off the website and ship it to store anyways.

That is if you can't find it anywhere else and don't want to use amazon.

Mad-Dogg posted...

Pretty much the main reason I bought this game here since I seen it on the upcoming releases and gamestop is the only single store in my area that is stocking a game like this. Glad I did though since this game was pretty cool:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/180394bd.jpg

Interesting, I will look it up. And if it looks good I will use my amazing $5 off to get it at gamestop!!! and point reward coupon!!!

HylianFox posted...

That's the other thing, plenty of games don't even have a physical release anymore

another reason I go to gamestop is half the games that come out I don't even know they existed but I see them on the shelf

tons of weeb games go under the radar

My solemn consternation, gravely presentation, rent my station, yet only with elation
so did I begin preparation, silently in anticipation, for your replication, of satiation