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Why are they blocking the streets and not protesting the establishments responsible for their ire?

I didnt shoot an unarmed black man, and I didnt vote to have the officer acquitted. Im just tryna get some Burger King.
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Miz_iZ_AwSOme_X posted...

Didn't those same Christians said Y2K and Dec 12 2012 were also the end of the world? Lol what about the rapture during 9/9/09 or the 6/6/06 date seriously these people are fucking insane. Why do people give them attention when they say shit like this?

Bruh, try to keep up.

Y2K was tech based because computers that didnt know how to count to 2000 were going to blow up and the economy would collapse.

Dec 2012 was based on th Mayan calendar.

6/6/06 was a meme nobody seriously believed.

And 2016 was the day the mandella effect sent us all to the darkest timeline.

But 2017 saw the return of Oreo-Os cereal so we're going to be okay
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/15/us/crayola-new-crayon-color-bluetiful/index.html

Tl;Dr: Crayola makes a new crayon called "bluetiful". People complain because they have nothing better to do.
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Hexenherz posted...

I read a great article / theory once upon a time that the reason conservative Christians are so opposed to more progressive views of science that serve only to protect mankind and secure a better future is that every single generation of such Christians have had myriad predictions about the second coming of Christ and the apocalypse, so they just don't give a shit.

Which is equally hilarious because Jesus himself says in the Bible that no one will predict his second coming. So by their own beliefs they're automatically wrong.

Reeeeeeeeeekt

http://biblehub.com/mark/13-32.htm
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https://www.humblebundle.com/store

I remember playing this for like, half an hour once. Apparently it had a lot of hype. >_>
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http://bit.ly/IqT6zt

Guys just click it its fine
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TC makes an interesting observation, though. I wonder what mechanisms are at work when we mature and lose attraction to people that used to be our own age. Something biological? Socially programmed? And if that is somehow connected to pedophilia.

There should be a study on this but I don't want the keywords needed to find it in my search history. >_>
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I hope that if a riot happens they just burn down the court house or police station, not random 7-11s and walmarts that have nothing to do with the case.

Come on, society. Learn how to efficiently riot. Destroying things and people innocent and unrelated to the problem doesnt help >_>

Not that I condone such things. But hey, if people must riot, at least make a statement. <_<
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I remember in the original Harriet the Spy movie, a parent was walking a kid on a leash.

And in In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, the little Chinese immigrant girl walked a bird on a leash.

The world be cray.
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I stole Jenny's number. It's 867-53-0009
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My coworker is named Ebony. At least once a day a customer makes an "Ebony and Ivory" joke. Don't subject your children to this.
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DirkDiggles posted...

AlisLandale posted...

Remember the E-Surance girl?

awwww yissssssss
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Remember the E-Surance girl?
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To this day my favorite jump scare was in the movie "Hush."

Deaf woman is slowly realizing something is off. The audience knows the killer is playing with her. Slow pan to the scenery behind her as she turns around and...

the killer is just standing there.
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Personally, almost anything I had ever pirated fell into 1 of 2 cataegories:

-Prohibitively innaccessible (old or non-English games/shows that were rare/not distributed any more)

-an ethically sketchy try before you buy deal. (Shoot, it made me end up buying Platinum after I told myself Diamond and Pearl would be my last Pokemon games. Fufufufufu)

Bu Im not everybody. There are lots of reasons people pirate, so when fighting piracy one has to look at what kinds of piracy they want to fight, how to fight it, and if that worth it.

Of course there was also the summer I kept borrowing Harry Potter audio books from the library and ripping them to my computer. Felt kind of bad and ended up deleting them spmetime later lol
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I once offered a friend some chocolate, and he made a comment abou how "its not as good as imported chocolate"

First an last time thats happening
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The movie was such a bait and switch.

"Here, watch this wizard chase down magical animals in early 20th century America!"

"Actually,"

Let's relegate that to a sub-plot and make the REAL plot about an abusive anti-magic cult home and Grindelwald too for some reason
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As a nerd, I actually have no intetest in "nerdy" places like Akihabara, lol.

But I was watching ROD and my wife told me that town filled with book stores really exists so I gotta go see that once.

And the shrine with all the foxes.

And the cat town.

And the almost-deserted town where the old lady filled empty homes with creepy dolls.
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Asherlee10 posted...

I always had trouble reading Frankenstein and watching any movies about the story because the "monster" was so misunderstood and it was heartbreaking.

It really was. The novel killed me because multiple times he had almost found a path to happiness, only for the rug to be pulled out from under him at the last minute.
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GOATSLAYER posted...

No, he's just a doctor who didn't understand what he was really doing. And his creation wasn't a monster either. Society was the monster in that story

They were. But the creature was definitely a monster by the time he revealed himself.

Tbh thats what makes the story so interesting. societys ignorance and irrational hatred transforms a strange, but innocent being into a monster. And the cycle of fear and hatred following that transformation that leads to even more terrible things.

I feel that story is relevant in todays world too. And you can see how that same process can occur in oir society.
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Whatever disease Gabe Newell has is spreading. Mother loving tech dudes keep forgetting how to count.
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Michael Jackson was an avid activist for the wellbeing of children. His movie, Moonwalker, was about saving children.

Pennywise kills children.

Choose your destiny and play through the campaign. As Pennywise, you prey on the children at Never Land Ranch.

As Michael Jackson, use your sick dance moves to save the children and clown Pennywise.

Thinking MJ's special move could be turning into the zombie from Thriller and commanding an army of undead to fighr for him.
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Horus_Leftfield posted...

No taxation without representation, remember?

Tell that to D.C. fufufufufufufufu
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I vaguely remember snatching up the GC version in high school and promptly forgetting about it.

I specifically remember making sandwiches in the middle of battle.

Should I? Probably won't be able to play it for a few months, but this is tempting.
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ChromaticAngel posted...

Phantom Zone

if it can hold Zod it can hold The Joker

Isn't the Phantom Zone projector relatively portable? (For a superhero)

Why doesn't Superman just fly around zapping all the bad guys? It's a non-violent instant-win button.
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lilORANG posted...

that just makes it more impressive tbh. I still had dial up until like 2002

What do you think dial up is? >___>
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blablablax17 posted...

Remember when everything was part of "THE INFORMATION SUPER HIGHWAY!"?

Kekekekeke. It's crazy. The internet used to be this magical electric world of infinite possibilities.

Society's become too jaded. >_>
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lilORANG posted...

so it should have been called mailflix, or postflix. These guys had mad foresight.

Netflix was founded in 1997. Idk if you remember it, but that was still during a period of time when the internet was super fucking chic, and not a staple of everyday life.

Calling it "netflix" was probably the raddest name they could think of in the 90s.
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shockthemonkey posted...

Price gauging is not the same for manual labor. There is an infinite supply of time in which labor can be done. It is not a finite quantity in stock that is needed at once.

Hey now. Check that human hubris before it kills us all, dude.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/large-hadron-collider/3319218/Time-is-running-out-literally-says-scientist.html
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Questionmarktarius posted...

lilORANG posted...

When it started it was a DVD rental service. How'd the have the foresight to call it Netflix when it wouldn't be all internet for several years?

You, uh, rent flix, over the the net.

This.

The original service was designed around mailing DVDs, which you ordered over the internet.
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It makes sense when you think about it: When prices are too high, people won't hoard and only buy what they need.

It stops making sense when you consider you can achieve the same protective effect through rationing and limiting sales. >_>

But what of the businesses who are making less sales because of rationing? Surely they have to make up for the lost profits with an increased price? Yeah, you know, a price hike wouldn't be totally unforgivable.

But gouging once again stops making sense when you consider a supplier has a limited stock anyway. And even with rationing, you're likely one of very few sources for what you have, and will likely have little problem in selling off your stock.

So if you just want price gouging to be legal because it has a use (even if it's inferior at what it does to other alternatives) more power to ya. Or maybe you just like the market being able to sort itself out with being regulated for those pesky ethics. But let's not pretend price gouging is beneficial to anybody except the seller.
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yusiko posted...

i like how people ignored this post which is the root of the sexist accusations

All the characters were shallow though. Like, the only guy that was portrayed with a hint of depth was the Asian Law and Order actor from the first movie.
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My hypothesis is that one of the people behind the script had a terrible experience with a nanny once, and did that to the movie nanny as some sort of bizarre, meta retribution.

Or maybe she was evil in an earlier draft and they never sorted out her death after a rewrite.

Also Chris Pratt was wasted and had like, no charm or charsima in this movie for some reason.
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Balrog0 posted...

AlisLandale posted...

I once ordered a big mac with quarter pounder patties.

Come at me.

did they do it? I dont think I would have known how to ring that up

They did. I forgot how they did it.

Tbh I only tried it because some people online were swearing by it and I was curious. (The same way people made a big deal about the "mcgangbang")

Wasnt really impressed though and its not worth the trouble to try it again.
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I once ordered a big mac with quarter pounder patties.

Come at me.
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epik_fail1 posted...

I have been curious to play the 2nd, is it reallt THAT bad?

You level up your stats by using them.

So you level up your HP by getting your ass beat.

So if you're good at the game you'll get murdered lol.
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Depends on why you hated 2.

It has a traditional level up system, and a minimal plot that pushes you around the continent until you end up at the final dungeon.

Battle system is largely the same, but the custom team composition makes for interesting replay value.

The OG FF1 (and I think the Origins remake) have a "per day" MP system for each magic level, that resets with each rest at an inn. But everything else replaces it with the traditional MP system of later games. IDK about the PSP version specifically.

Over all, I had a lot of fun with it. Some parts are frustratingly difficult though.
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Asherlee10 posted...

AlisLandale posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

Both are barbaric practices and eye-for-an-eye didn't make our society better. Systematically slow-torturing people as punishment is also abysmal.

So one is not more barbaric than the other?

They both cross the line of barbaric practices. Their degree doesn't matter.

Well thank you. I think I can understand your position. For the purposes of society, barbaric practices have no place once they cross that line.

However, you're being strangely coy on one detail. By saying "degrees dont matter", you acknowledge that degrees exist.

So, while neither have a place in society, is one worse than the other?
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Asherlee10 posted...

Both are barbaric practices and eye-for-an-eye didn't make our society better. Systematically slow-torturing people as punishment is also abysmal.

So one is not more barbaric than the other?
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Asherlee10 posted...

I think that barbaric punishments make us no better than the criminal. We set our society backward with practices like that and there are tons of reasons why we stopped doing that.

This is what Im trying to wrap my head around.

Your reasons for the sake of society's overall health is good. Its in that area (and its general ineffectiveness) I agree with you.

But how do you morally equate sex traffiking (or any similar crime) to a hypothetical punishment that only affects those sam criminals?
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Asherlee10 posted...

AlisLandale posted...

So your'e saying that proactively victimizing the innocent is equal to reactively torturing the people who commit those crimes.

Is that correct?

What?

You said the OP makes us as bad as the sex traffikers.

So is "proactively victimizing the innocent" (sex traffikers who need no motivation other than their own greed)

Equal to

"Reactively punishing those criminals " (hypothetical torture that requires sex traffikers to exist, and only affects those traffikers)

Also i edited the previous post
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So your'e saying that proactively victimizing the innocent is equal to reactively torturing the people who commit those crimes.

Is that correct?

For the record, the rest of your reasons are sound. My issue is with the "killing a killer makes you as bad" cliche youre spouting.
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Asherlee10 posted...

It makes us no better than such a criminal if we sink to such levels.

I mean, one person sells defenseless children into soul and body-destroying slavery for profit.

The other is unnecessarily brutal, but only carried out in reaction to other far worse crimes.

So while I definitely dont agree with bringing back ancient torture methods, the whole "makes us no better than them" is a really, really shallow argument.
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I'll hand it to you. It is pretty close. Ryoji and Kaworu also are both related the the primary antagonist while still being friendly towards the MC.

I think Aigis has more personality than Rei though. >_>

Also...(3.33 spoilers)

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Eighty Six, Pick Up Sticks
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Theres an underwater city-like structure off the coast of Japan.

Maybe Lovecraft was right.
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