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Humble_Novice posted...

How do you feel about San Francisco's gradual shift to more moderate candidates?

Pretty damn good.
The extremists on both ends are terrible, and it's a shame it took a "find out" phase for people to realize that.

The government let everyone else from his companies off the hook for jail just to only get 25 years for his ass?
Absolute giant L by the prosecutors.
I was against going soft on the rest of the company leads, and now I feel proven vindicated. "Oh just wait, I know it sucks they escaped karma, but the feds are gonna REALLY bring the hammer down on SBF!"

Like a decade ago or so. Way too MAGA now, and climate change is gonna fuck the state up hard.
Florida Keys are really nice, but if a hurricane came, you'd have to evacuate the whole island chain.

You can run from Death, don't have to fight it. Unless you want to, then yeah he's tough if you're not cheesing.

I love Magick Archer and it really shines in BBI w/ the lightning arrow that bounces off walls.

As for RC, I just made a 2nd file and traded pawns w/ myself... lol

Switch. I have never used it portable even once, but at least it doesn't censor games. And has far better exclusives.

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I have PS1-4 and PS 1 and PS2 are (w/ SNES) my favorite consoles of all time. I also liked PS3 better than Wii.

Switch.

Imagine using LOLtaku as a news source!

Especially regarding Nintendo, after they got blacklisted by big N for leaking shit and then making a racist tweet.

Don't give LOLtaku clicks. Let their site die.

Holy shit, the VA one got basically unanimous consent. I thought Youngkin and Republicans would pay for it next election, but apparently both parties were on board w/ it.
That's really fucking disturbing, means potentially any state could pass these stupid laws. And seems to dampen hopes that Texas and other states will "pay for it" w/ a blue wave in November....

That's pretty blatant (-_-)

Hope we supply Taiwan enough before it happens that China gets absolutely fucking annihilated to the point where they don't even think ending the world w/ nuclear war would help them take the damn island.

Like, "create a land bridge of dead bodies in the gulf between the two countries" level of ass blasting.
The only way these invasions end is when the soldiers invading decide that they have a better chance of survival turning against their commanders than they do following orders.

trappedunderice posted...

Who wants to move to Oakland

From the comments:

California: Find yourself here.
Oakland: Find your car here.

lol

emblem-man posted...

What's the context? Is that a lot? Is that significantly more than Oakland saw in the past?

3:35 in the video.
As for Oakland car theft over time I'm not sure, but the fact it's becoming such a noticeable problem now implies that it didn't use to be this bad before...

PizzaPatty posted...

So what I am hearing is right wing nut jobs are trying to claim abandoned cars as stolen to raise the crime rate and the police and everyone else is like no crime has been committed. I don't like to believe the police but even they realize how insane it is to pretend an abandoned car is stolen.

You think this whole thing is a false flag operation?
:D LMFAO

creativerealms posted...

Of course it's a problem and of course it needs to be dealt with.

So, will they start arresting tons of gang members stealing cars and actually hold them in jail?
Comments section is filled w/ people saying they try to report this shit happening and the cops don't care, the judges toss out the cases anyway.
Doesn't sound like it's being dealt with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dn1OFVa_F8

Absolute madness. They act like it's a problem of cars being abandoned.... No, it's a problem of car theft! They strip the car for all they can, then dump it, and then the city pays a shit load to store these effectively totaled cars in a lot and tries to get the crime victims to pay the lot fees to get them back.

My favorite part is when they talk about how openly the gang members operate and ask why they don't just arrest them.

"Not a priority. We only deal with violent crime."
EDIT: Right after saying to hide the camera for safety. Totally not violent criminals...

O_O

Seems pretty innocuous, who cares?
I never learned how to use a manual, but being a Hyundai driver, I recently started thinking it'd be nice to have a manual car, just b/c the thieves won't know how to steal the fucking car, then... (-_-)

brestugo posted...

There's a growing backlash against that shit. Even worse, are subscription services to use features in a vehicle that you own.

The "backlash" is pretty useless considering we only keep moving further in the direction of this fucking awful technology. Looking for cars now is horrible, you basically have to pick the one with the fewest intrusive expensive BS and just accept some of it as unavoidable.
One thing I absolutely will not budge on is the god damned touch screen controls. The less I need to use that for, the better. Give me fucking dials and mechanical controls. And if I need to use the touch screen to open the glove box, that car is automatically disqualified.

CirillaRiannon posted...

Yet, all that stuff Ieyasu did pales in comparison to Toyotomi ordering the invasion of Korea. So I have no problem with any media depicting Toyotomi as the bad guy.

Hideyoshi Toyotomi was dead before Ieyasu even tried to usurp power. Ieyasu pretty much copy/pasted most of Hideyoshi's government policies anyway, probably the only reason he never invaded anywhere else was a) he was too busy crushing internal dissent and b) b/c it had already been tried and failed (pretty spectacularly... how does an island empire have such a useless navy, anyway?).

Carlton McPherson, 24, was arrested and charged with murder. Officials say he has multiple prior arrests and has a long and violent past.

On Tuesday morning, the suspect was captured on video sliding down a banister as detectives led him out of an East Harlem precinct.

He was released without bail after he was arraigned on an October 31 arrest for assault, menacing, harassment and other charges in Brooklyn.

He failed to show up for court twice and a judge issued a warrant for his arrest. He was picked up and brought to court on Jan. 11, where bail was set for $2,000 -- which he posted. His next court date was set for July.

What a vile fucking piece of shit. He's so pleased with himself.
And yet again, NYC's criminal justice system is a fucking joke. How the fuck was he loose? The whole point of the bail system is to get people to show up for their fucking court dates and "stay clean" till trial. If you can't do that, you're supposed to get locked the fuck up!
God, what a horrible way to die...

The NYPD has responded to past incidents where the Bronx resident was acting erratically and authorities say he has a history of mental illness.

"Recidivism is a real issue and the second issue we have in this city is a severe mental health illness problem that was played out at 125th Street and Lexington Avenue at the subway station," Mayor Eric Adams said. "And he was a recidivist, several severe mental health issues, indicators of violence. When you do an analysis and a cross correlation, you will see its the same people, over and over again."

Oh hell no! Oh HELL NO!
He planned his shove perfectly to time it so the poor victim had no chance. Don't you fuckers DARE give him a "mental health" pass!

The department is surging 800 officers, including some plainclothes, to random stations looking out for fare evaders and hoping that reduces overall crime.

Officials say many of those who committed crimes underground often didn't pay to enter. McPherson also has a prior arrest for fare evasion.

People w/ no respect for the law tend to commit crimes. Shocking.

Ricemills posted...

IT viral marketing

That's what I said it was at the time, and I stand by that statement.

Mistere_Man posted...

Lock that jerk ass murderer up forever!

Announce his crimes to the prison. Put him in gen pop. Have the guards go on a 5 minute smoke break.
Save the taxpayers some money.

https://youtu.be/7Lf25jxvLjw?t=384

TroutPaste posted...

ok! Before NG+, do the BBI?

Nah, don't listen to him. Go there whenever you feel like it. Absolutely don't quit the game w/o going there, if you decide the main game isn't for you.
Just remember running away from stuff is a valid strategy. You don't have to fight everything you meet.

thronedfire2 posted...

because service is compulsory in Israel?

Democratic countries with neighbors trying to murder them -- like Israel, South Korea, and Finland -- need conscription to maintain a strong army at all times no matter what.
Those in the U.S. and Canada have no idea how utterly blessed we are to not have such existential concerns.

Lonestar2000 posted...

Gotta get them young so they are easily indoctrinated.

That's how literally every military on the planet works, yes.

CobraGT posted...

Israel not only has active and ongoing conscription of 17 year olds: you will be called back to duty after serving your time.

In the US afaik returning to service is voluntary.

When you leave service in the U.S., unless you're retiring (20+ years in, getting pension, etc..), you go into the Ready Reserve for ~ 4 years and can be called back to service. It's probably similar in most militaries. Potential life-or-death situations occurring require contingency planning...

Hey, they finally verified the Greedflation everyone else noticed like 2 years ago!

Also note how the price increases have become permanent. Even though the supply chain is fixed now.

pretzelcoatl posted...

We have something similar happening in my state, and people basically don't go to jail unless they kill someone.

Legislation is being drafted to remove mandatory minimums for gun possession (which already often don't get prosecuted), it's insane.

The Young Turks getting upset about how insane NY's laws are now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=236Exj7Hc4M

I legit don't get where the fuck this all came from. I thought bail reform was about like marijuana possession, not shit like dismembering a corpse.

StarSpangled posted...

Why? What protects them from homicide charges?

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/as-suspects-in-long-island-body-parts-case-remain-free-critics-urge-bail-reform-laws-change/5208535/

NY has absolutely fucking crazy "bail reform" laws where the list of "nonviolent" offenses is absolutely mind-boggling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XE2-GxUzzQ&t=0s

On top of that, Alvin Bragg has consistently declined to charge people to the full extent they should be and released violent felons. It reached the point that the based DA in Arizona refused to extradite a criminal back to him, b/c they figured he'd release the guy yet again.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/soho-hotel-homicide-suspect-extradition/

Topic title immediately made me think of this, lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yFaM32mvEo

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I did, actually. 3 days ago.

"Election ballots are anonymous. Texas Republican's porn passes are not. Which one will you choose to utilize this November to access adult content?"

10 second campaign ad. Done.

She's been the most reasonable still-Republican (hasn't already gone independent) in the Senate...and probably Congress in general, for a while now. Far better than blue-state-elected Susan "I'm very concered" Collins.
Not that surprised, and her defecting would be quite welcome.

Alaska is very interesting. I recall it being like a 60/40 red state around Obama's time, and the past decade it's quietly become very purple. Florida, Arizona, Georgia, and Ohio all get the attention for their major shifts left or right, but Alaska's seems more drastic than any of them and no one talks about it. I wonder what changed? Florida it's all the loonies moving there, Arizona it's literally just blowback for Trump pissing on McCain's grave.... but why has Alaska moderated so much so fast?

refmon posted...

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/22/kids-childhood-smartphone-ban-social-media

What they're saying: Haidt offers four controversial suggestions:

No smartphones for kids before high school give them only flip phones in middle school.
No social media before age 16.
Make schools phone-free, by putting devices in phone lockers or Yondr pouches.
Give kids far more free play and independence, including more and better recess.

All of that sounds like basic common sense, lol

Vokrent posted...

are you talking about Madeleine?

Ah, that's her name. It's been a while.

andri_g posted...

[ Note: Your character, no matter what creation, vocation, or configuration they have, can survive *one* normal hit. ]

If you git gud at the dagger dodge rolling, you can run past a lot of stuff to get to the next room. Might need more than min. level to reach discipline level 5 in strider for it, though. But I've done it a few times now. Can always reload from the last door. Really isn't that bad... And picking up and throwing those mages to insta-kill them w/ gravity is so satisfying.

VeggetaX posted...

Casuals always ate up loner rebellious assholes with a heart of gold types. It's the reason Ralph is prolly the most popular Ninja Turtle as well. Why people like Batman more than Superman.

It's funny, b/c Cyclops is my favorite X-Men character, but Raphael is my fave turtle.
I remember very little from the tv show, but one thing I do recall is Splinter having them "train" against some machine and the other 3 struggle, and he just walks around and unplugs it from the wall. :)
I like attitude when it's in a snarky or outside the box thinker style of it. Spider-Man is incredibly snarky and I love it.

Cyclops was always my favorite and the obsession w/ Wolverine always annoyed the shit out of me.

I quit the X-Men movies after the first one in like 2000 because it was basically The Wolverine Movie and Cyclops could've been replaced w/ a cardboard cutout and nobody would've noticed.
Pissed me the hell off, and for decades felt like I was screaming into the void b/c most people apparently loved those terrible fucking movies.

That's one of the most dystopian fucking things I've ever read

CassandraCroft posted...

streamofthesky

OK what you have said is ridiculous.

I literally did it, though. You START at like level 40, but you're not still level 40 by the end. Nor am I saying you need to finish all of BBI in one go. Just that you can explore plenty of it, starting at that level.

I did "cheese" it a little in that I saw an xp trick and followed it.... Popped a xp boosting item just before beating the Beholder knockoff, then quickly bee-lined for "Shady's" scripted appearance to knock him back w/ arrows and get mondo xp. Shot me up to the 70's in level. But I still got 1/3 thru at level 40, regardless. And could've just grinded to 70 in the middle portion of BBI if I hadn't done that, just would've taken longer.

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Two women get stabbed and Clay plays asinine misandry shit.
What happened to the two sisters is tragic, doesn't give you an excuse to condemn an entire gender.
If a woman murdered people and someone said "something's seriously wrong w/ women,' the poster would have a month long vacation from the site within 24 hours.

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Nope. It's still there. "Sexist messages" is literally one of the examples for Abusive Behavior, yet mods did nothing. The moderation bias on this site is fucking appalling.

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Another polite post that the mods will find no fault with.

ClayGuida posted...

There's truly something wrong with men.

Why is blatant sexism allowed on gamefaqs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6UeNBj9rrU

Humble_Novice posted...

Pictures

Damn, I actually like "paternitytestsforall". Based username and good comment.

And fuck those losers still mocking Gary Johnson for the media hit job done to him. He was by far the best and most qualified candidate in 2016, but b/c that fucking two-faced loser Joe Scarborough switching topics abruptly to confuse him w/ (nonexistent) context, they ran w/ "Gary doesn't know what Aleppo is!" for weeks.

CassandraCroft posted...

It is like this, After very valid criticism that the main game was too easy once you got to the really high levels and had the best weapons in the game even on hard mode Capcom came up with Bitter Black Island.

But instead of releasing it as DLC for Dragon's Dogma they decided to rip everyone off by releasing the full game again with BBI in the re-releae Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen.

And if you were late to the game and didn't want to buy a 2nd game to play the new game, fucked you over on fast travel, at least on PS3. Apparently later system ports to PS4 and PC don't have this issue.
-_-

The game sets a recommended level of around 78 or higher for BBI but ignore that. I would wait until you are into the low - mid 100 before attempting it.

BBI is for experienced players only.

Ok, this is ridiculous. You can start exploring BBI in earnest around like level 40. Yeah, it's hard, but it's very achievable and you'll level up quite fast. I've done it, and I am definitely not that skilled a gamer. Hell, I've done runs at like level 10 multiple times to get the ring that doubles discipline point gain and managed (once I did it on a fresh game just to show a friend how it works, b/c apparently transferring save files doesn't work...). There's tons of videos of people doing "BBI only" games from level 1 (or the lowest level possible before you can reach it, I forget which level that is). BBI is a very interesting environment, it actually provides all the gear, tools, and resources you need all self-contained within it.

BBI is by far the best part of DD 1, and it pains me to see people discourage others from venturing in there until super late/post game. Both because it's not necessary and because I'm sure there's plenty of people like me who get sick of the open world shit and might consider dropping the game if going to BBI didn't ignite their love for this game.

sfcalimari posted...

Very little of that kind of stuff matters. What really matters is getting a good run of BBI level 3 gear, and getting the right augments.

Quina's quest line eventually gets you a port crystal, one of the earliest ones you can get. So yes, it mattered.

BBI level 3 gear honestly matters less. In order to even get them as drops you have to beat the entire thing the first time and get thru like half of it again, literal post-post-game content.

TroutPaste posted...

How many hours did you put into this title ?

I was unfortunate enough to have Dark Arisen on PS3 without the original game. So no infinite ferrystone or easy starting cash for me! So I think I put 200 hours in, but probably 1/3 of that time was running around back and forth b/c I couldn't afford many ferrystones and wanted to be near a class change spot before leveling, to control my stats w/o being forced to play classes I didn't like.
I still loved the game, but dear god would I have loved it a lot more w/o that tedium.

TroutPaste posted...

Played about 90 minutes! seems great so far. Wish the side quests had recommended levels. I don't know if I can do the well level (original town) or find the chief's daughter (past some bandits)

Trial and error, I guess! :)

One of the worst aspects of the main game is how brutal the sidequests are. Like, maximum "guide dang it!" levels. You have one save file (well... 1.5 you could argue) that autosaves, and when you advance the main story too far, ALL side quests that expire at that point instantly do and you're hosed. Especially since missing out on one sidequest in a series of them will lock you out of the later ones, too.
I missed out on both Quina and Meredith's entire quest lines my first playthru b/c of that. Shit is brutal. Quina's involves going past a bunch of really tough bandits (you can try to flee past them, but they are hard....) and Meredith's you won't even notice if you don't check the quest board in the first town near the start of the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28FBEqG5FbA

The good news: They've been caught

The bad news: They didn't get far enough away to reach a state w/ a DA that would refuse to extradite them to NY, so they'll probably be back on the street by this weekend. Pretty much guaranteed if it's Alvin Bragg's district.

StealThisSheen posted...

...You're kidding, right? It feels like you're trolling, at this point.

They focus on Trump because people like MTG/the RNC in general have made Trump the goal of the entire party, so, yes, it makes sense to focus on him. But you're pretending they ignore people like MTG, which is just... Blatantly false.

What's your angle, here?

What have Dems ever done to make MTG seem "important" or "noteworthy"? I only ever see anything about her in the lens of her own deranged twitter posts and speeches. She's a self-promoting lunatic.

It's probably more of the same Tokugawa are the protagonists and making the Toyotomi and Ishida that bad guys even though it's the former that usurped power, broke a peace treaty, and burned the last child heir of the Toyotomi to death in order to secure their grip on power.

Hard pass.
And the guy playing Ieyasu has the Sanada name, but Yukimura isn't even one of the characters.... wow.

StealThisSheen posted...

Does not compute, please explain.

Dems focus way too much on just Trump and not enough on Bitch McConnell, Matt Gaetz, MTG, Ted Cruz, etc...
I mean, it predates Trump. Dems have been noted to focus too hard on the presidency and not enough on down ballot shit for at least a decade now.

I was disputing his claim they've masterfully made MTG the face of the GOP when:

1) She blatantly is not, it's Trump
2) They haven't done shit to that end, they barely ever talk about her, it's Trump 24/7

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Dems have masterful propped MTG up as the face of the GQP, knowing how destructive she is. This is working out well.

The hell they did. Trump is the face of the GOP all on his own "merits" and Dems over-fixate on Trump even though there's dozens of politicians in Congress just as or more evil than him. They haven't done shit to "make her the face of the GOP," and removing her from power would be far more beneficial to society than any sort of negative PR she provides.

It's really good, but I mostly liked the Bitterblack Isle area that Dark Arisen added, far more than the main game story and overworld.

You'll want to level up all the disciplines to mix and match passive abilities, but definitely try to main any of the daggers + bow classes, they're by far the most fun and varied, IMO. Strider and (later on, when you get a decent magic bow) Magick Archer were my favorites, but Assassin and Ranger are great, too.