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Or parrots, or any other species?

6'1" highest I've been is 225, I'm at 210 right now. Ideally I'd be about 185.

Obama (a black person) won counties and states that Hillary (a white person) lost. How is that racism? Obama won Michigan by more than 9% in 2012 and Hillary lost in the very same state. Because of race? How do you twist that into a narrative framed around Trump winning Michigan because the people of Michigan are racists?

I've never support Xenocide...... until now.

That game seems old to me at this point but it was one of the good ones as a starter for the Total War series.

Empire Total War was a bit of a shit show starting out with an overly broad scope and a lot of unpolished gameplay mechanics. By Napoleon a lot of it had been ironed out and in the patches since launch of that game it solidified into THE game about that era in warfare.

This will probably be a news pretty soon.

FreshSushi posted...

Atralis posted...

josifrees posted...

HorrorJudasGoat posted...

The japanese didn't invent guns, it wouldn't be their's to use in a duel against someone from the West. If you account for time period, in the situation of a samurai vs 16th century European infantry tc is betting a shitty katana that breaks easily and so has to be held loosely is going to...

slice through the european armor like carving a cake.

Riiiiiiiight. Also, it would be the knight that has guns. Sayonara, samurai.

Did knights ever use guns though? Who cares about invention. This isnt some greater culture war dick measuring contest

Knights and Samurai were basically just rich guys with enough money to afford armor and weapons that worked for even richer nobility so yeah they both used guns once they came into existence.

that's not true, knights served primarily as heavy cavalry and they went into military decline once europe began adopting the pike and gunpowder weapons and started ironing out the pike and shot. socially the increasing organizational capabilities of central european governments made the maintenance of professional armies possible again which in turn made a feudal military caste like knights obsolete

samurai on the other hand fought primarily on foot and did use guns. the only reason the samurai were able to out live the medieval knights by a few centuries is because of japanese geography, the fact that they were an island with no real enemies meant the shogunate could afford to entrench the samurai caste by making it a hereditary position and the only ones allowed to bare arms. europe didn't have this luxury, and their constant warring required them to actually move along with the times.

My point was that "knight", while we associate the term with a guy in heavy armor that is often riding a horse was a social class and they didn't just vanish overnight even when their traditional mode of fighting changed. Guns and knights coexisted for a long period of time even if firearms were steadily improving and making traditional knights, particularly the heavy cavalry with lots of armor, obsolete.

Example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Malta

Would you argue that these guys were no longer knights or that they weren't using guns?

josifrees posted...

HorrorJudasGoat posted...

The japanese didn't invent guns, it wouldn't be their's to use in a duel against someone from the West. If you account for time period, in the situation of a samurai vs 16th century European infantry tc is betting a shitty katana that breaks easily and so has to be held loosely is going to...

slice through the european armor like carving a cake.

Riiiiiiiight. Also, it would be the knight that has guns. Sayonara, samurai.

Did knights ever use guns though? Who cares about invention. This isnt some greater culture war dick measuring contest

Knights and Samurai were basically just rich guys with enough money to afford armor and weapons that worked for even richer nobility so yeah they both used guns once they came into existence.

KainWind posted...

Barn house?

That make a lot of sense actually.

Spanish- Granja - Grange. Range. I get that.
French- Ferme- Farm. Obviously.
German- Bauernhof. What the fuck?

Its weird which languages have cognates and not.

The Ayatollah C posted...

As a Brit, while I think American gun laws are about the stupidest thing in human creation, I really like them. You guys seem to be enjoying your freedoms and it makes great TV.

When you say this are you talking reality TV or that its plausible for guns to be all over the place in fiction that is set in America?

D.

Addicts are really tough to work with.

LIsJustice posted...

Atralis posted...

LIsJustice posted...

How many of them have committed crimes now. These mass shooters has to add up to more than any immigrants from Mexico who have.

What part of the country do you live in?

I'm asking because I grew up in and currently live in Colorado and I laughed out loud when I saw this and apparently we are one of the mass shooting capitals of the world. Gang violence is a thing in much of the country.

Southeast

Bullshit. Do white people commit a majority of the murders in your state? Look it up. If you think they do then tell us the state so I can laugh at you and do a 5 second google search to prove that you are an idiot. Unless you are calling fucking West Virginia the south east.

LIsJustice posted...

How many of them have committed crimes now. These mass shooters has to add up to more than any immigrants from Mexico who have.

What part of the country do you live in?

I'm asking because I grew up in and currently live in Colorado and I laughed out loud when I saw this and apparently we are one of the mass shooting capitals of the world. Gang violence is a thing in much of the country.

O sho nuff I be shuckin and jivin and follwin Maitland Ward on snapchat

A DarkProto05 posted...

Bishop9800 posted...

DarkProto05 posted...

How do you guys condone this? Shit talking deserves an ass beating?

The grown man approached him first. You don't get to act like a savage because of name calling.

Really?

As far as I can tell the kid was just trash talking. The man approached him to get physical. He's a savage.

The kid kept trash talking as he kept taking a beating. Brave but dumb.

The guy he is fighting is literally twice his size (a foot taller and about twice as heavy) and clearly has at least a bit of experience and fitness.

Fascinating.

I fully respect that medicine can come from other sources but it must be studied and what is nonsense (grinding up rhino horns or petrified tiger dick as an alternative to viagra for example) should be tossed in the garbage.

"Western" medicine is medicine and when things that actually work are found they are absorbed. Look up Quninine or as it was known centuries ago "Jesuits Bark" because some random priests talked to natives in South America that used it to treat malaria. It was more effective than anything in the west and it spread back across the ocean and became medicine.

Since that time actual science has been used to separate the bullshit from the effective treatments.

Azardea.

My whole point is that this type of thing should either be turned into a feature or destroyed and I see no compelling reason from a gameplay perspective to turn it into a feature.

Dailies were made to give solo players, including players that enjoy group play but not all the time, something to do and some way to progress other than doing dungeons or raids. This silly kind of mod basically turns all solo content into group content but the solo content is not at all balanced in those terms so it just becomes a pure advantage that in no way changes the way you play the game but dramatically increases the in game rewards...... but it isn't a feature. It is just a cheat unless everyone has it.

It becomes an inside secret or trick. Like some kind of magic button that makes all quests complete 5 times faster without in any way altering the dynamics of how you play or requiring you to make any friends.

What a wonder. Except it adds nothing in terms of fun factor or gameplay to the people using it while detracting tremendously and wrecking balance for people not using this third party mod.

Why should this exist? Why? Actually explain it to me? What good does it do. You have said "well this content sucks anyways so why shouldn't it go 5 times faster. Why wouldn't the solution to that be to ban the mod and reduce all quest requirements by 80%? The difference there would be that you wouldn't have a % of the population in the know cheating. You would just have everyone going through content absurdly fast.

Azardea posted...

Atralis posted...

If it actually is easier to solo the damn things then why do you need a group?

Because it's faster with 5 people.

You pop into a zone , the mod auto groups you, the quest is done 3 minutes later with you killing NOTHING? Is that not a cheat?

No, that's leeching, and some people kick players who do that.

Why is this type of autogroup necessary?

It's not. It's to group up with others to make something easier and faster.

What you don't get is that these quests are basically dailies. Brainless, with mediocre rewards, just like back in BC. These aren't dungeons or raids. I get that you enjoy spamming trade for hours to find people to group up with, but that's just a waste of time to most people when there are better alternatives out there.

You are speaking to me like I still play the game when I stopped playing it almost 10 years ago but yeah I still do understand the terminology. Why should dailies be the kind of thing where you install a mod and they become entirely trivial not just in difficulty (which they always were) but in time? If you are going to allow this mod why not just introduce a button that shows people a flash of a WoW zone in a flicker of screenshot everyday and they collect money and exp? If you are going to allow something that makes it trivial in all ways why should dailies even exist? Why not just introduce a system where every day people log in and collect their daily login bonus like a lot of games already do?

You want this reward to remain, and you want it to still require a lot of time to achieve for people without this add-on, and you want this add-on to remain effective in making achieving the reward trivial to where you admit that you could literally just pop into the zone and take a piss and in most cases it would finish itself before you were done taking a leak.

Azardea posted...

Atralis posted...

God forbid there is a single form of questing in the game where you have to speak to another human being to form a group right?

Seriously? It'd be much faster to just solo the damn things than to manually find groups for each World Quest up at the same time, which is, what, 30-40 of them? You make yourself seem incredibly stupid when you argue about things you know nothing about.

If it actually is easier to solo the damn things then why do you need a group? You pop into a zone , the mod auto groups you, the quest is done 3 minutes later with you killing NOTHING? Is that not a cheat?

Why is this type of autogroup necessary? If I played WoW to this day instead of quitting almost 10 years ago I would realize how important it is in the current progression system to have something where people with the mod can warp into a zone, auto group with a mix of players and bots, drool and watching their favorite netflix show, and warp out two minutes later instead of 25 minutes later with all the same rewards. Because that kind of mindless anti social bullshit cheating is the true essence of WoW these days.

DavidWong posted...

WoW was designed to group up. For quests, too.

You can still group for quests, this just makes it more difficult. It's an inconvenience.

If they're going to do this, then just come out and make it so you can only quest with people on your server, like Mythic Raiding. Don't just make it slightly more annoying for people.

God forbid there is a single form of questing in the game where you have to speak to another human being to form a group right?

Am I reading this situation wrong? Literally all you would have to do to form a group is say "please form a group with me to do X" and someone else would invite you. If people in MMOs had any social sense or literacy or any ability to actually engage with another human being or weren't actually bots that obviously wouldn't have these skills.

I'm speaking a bit from anger here but I've tried MMOs in the recent past and the lasting impression I've had is that people have basically stopped acting like people in most of them if they ever did. When I played WoW at launch people spoke to one another. They formed parties in the general chat. They talked, guilds formed, people moved forward together and it was MULTIPLAYER. When I've played them more recently? Good luck getting another human being to say a single fucking word to you in the open world. Good luck getting your group mates in a group of 4 to even speak.

Are here is you, blizzard doing their best to invite you out of your shell and invite you to actually talk to another person in an MMO and here is you raging about it. How dare they offer any incentive for acting like anything other than anti-social in 2018. Why are you even playing an MMO? Why do you need EVERYTHING in it to be formed around solo play? You rant and rave and say "game ruined" because they did anything to encourage human beings speaking to eachother over mindless grind.

DavidWong posted...

You literally don't play either game or are involved in either community and yet you base your opinion higher than mine after 5 minutes of googling.

I played WoW for five years, which I've acknowledged is a small portion of its lifetime but back when I stepped away it seemed like a vast fucking span of years to be playing a single game and I feel like I understand what you are talking about.

Basically the thing you are griping about sounds like a cheese to me. Vast amounts of content exist for groups and you are taking one of the few things they took efforts to try and balance around solo or tiny groups that know eachother and adding a group finder to it. Why run the content balanced for people using a group finder when you could run content balanced for solo players and run a cheat group finder add on.

Right? Am I missing anything here? If you actually stepped away from WoW for a few years you would look at this kind of crap as it is. You are practically drooling with rage at the idea that they in any way are encouraging people fucking talking to eachother or trying to form any sort of lasting relationship beyond drooling and hitting the auto-group button in their ui and then forgetting about the people they grouped with 30 minutes later.

I google FIFA 18 without giving a shit about fifa and see it has reviews about the same as every other FIFA.

I google the WoW World Quest Group finder and I see people demanding it get taken away because apparently it takes what was meant to be a socializing feature that will bring people that share a server together and form a connection and turns it into yet another mindless grind fest.

In regards to FIFA: You are an overly judgmental. "FIFA 17 got an 85 on gamerankings, FIFA 18 got an 84. Worst game ever." Could you seem like a bigger douche to the outside observer?

In regards to WoW.... I stopped playing WoW a long time ago but the whole point is that its an MMO. It became a lot better for solo players with auto group finding back in the day (back when I played this was still new) but what was lost was the manual group finding within servers that brought guilds into existence and some sense of community. There has to be some kind of balance between the benefits of being social and the benefits of a mindless grind in an MMO.

Your complaint about this mod seems to be you basically saying that you reject any attempt by blizzard to try and get players to be more social and less anti-social.

It was my Diablo 2 characters name for my first character which was a barbarian and I was trying to think of a good Diablo 2 character name.

Like.... astronaught.... stars and such... astra.... astralis... yeah... already taken. Asstralis ..... too much ass. Assstralis...... still too much as. Lets go the other way with it. Atralis.

Lil (Insert Name Here).

Not sure his voice would sound the same after.

Error1355 posted...

MedzXVIII posted...

shockthemonkey posted...

Seeking asylum isnt a crime

Not if you do it legal.

If you enter the country illegally and go right to asking for asylum that's still a legal way to ask for asylum.

You really think they were searching for the nearest border patrol station when they got picked up. also most of them are from central america and crossed all the way through mexico before getting here. Why not ask for asylum there instead of here?

I've never experienced it. It has always sounded like nonsense to me when people talk about it because im such a light sleeper.

We see the unlimited stick. It is infinite. It is all.

Skye Reynolds posted...

> 2037
> US develops rocket pack technology, but there's no longer any bounty hunting

A sad day that'll be.

I get that but instead of the cops its some random dudes literally hunting human beings in America. To be fair they are usually used for shit the cops don't care about like some doofus jumping bail for some dumb shit like stealing cars or drug crimes rather than serial killers but it is still just private citizens out there hunting human beings for money.

glitteringfairy posted...

Well this is different. I applaud you for new material TC.

My opinion, no. Money is a very good motivator. And like you said it's effective.

Well its one of those things we don't even question. As far as I know we are the only country that still does this and we never question it. If you jump bail a bounty is placed on your head and in most states people can literally kick your apartment door down and pull a gun on you to drag you to the law and collect your price.

Its effective now for the same reasons it ever was but it just seems like a weird thing to do in this day and age.

Basically I'm talking about the whole system in the US where if you jump bail privately contracted 'bail bondsmen'/bounty hunters are contracted to hunt you and in most states they can basically just grab you off the street and drag you to the cops to collect a bounty on your person.

Basically every other country in the world has stopped doing this but in the US we continue to have bounty hunting as a profession.

tamashiini posted...

SageHarpuia posted...

I love how people know this is unfair, but are feigning support because they don't want to be the bad guy.

the girls just need to git gud

By "gud" we mean 10 times as much testosterone as the average female injected into their veins right?

Yes.

NibeIungsnarf posted...

People who call suicide selfish are the lowest tiers of human existence. Not because they're wrong (depends on your point of view) but because there's literally no reason to make that statement other than being complete human dreg.

If there was no stigma more people would commit suicide as evidenced by the massive disparities in suicide rates between different cultures.

Quack!

I go to a berber. He has his least favorite wife hold my hair and then he shrieks and swings his scimitar and woosh my hair is cut. Do this once every 6 months or so.

I agree but.... at a certain point in the future you need to stop accounting Mccain's opinion or it will seem like James Brady where they roll out a brain damaged guy with half a brain and say "John thinks that we should ban scary stuff".

How can you not love them?

But what are you going to do with the other hand?

Esrac posted...

"I try to be flexible" -> Do not be flexible, with a 96 ASVAB score you can literally get any technical job you want.

This. They may say "we don't have spaces open for that right now" at MEPs and your response should be "I can wait until there are spaces open".

Go intelligence and avoid nuclear would be my advice. By Nuclear I mean the guys that man the power plants on our carriers and submarines. I've heard that is a really rough job. I was Army Intel (35N) and it was alright.

silentwing26x posted...

Atralis posted...

If I lived in a studio apartment and ate Ramen for my entire life I couldn't safe that much and I'm a software engineer.

$2,700 is $32,400 a year. At a respectable SE salary that still leaves you with anywhere from $40,000 to $50,000 more to live off .

In a world without taxes.

If I lived in a studio apartment and ate Ramen for my entire life I couldn't safe that much and I'm a software engineer.

Bolivia has less people than Ohio so I'd hoping the US can do this.

I was 15 and in high school in Colorado at a school with about 3,000 students. I saw the initial news reports as I was sitting in the living room watching TV waiting for my Mom to drive me to school and I was basically dumbfounded. When I first got to school my first class everyone was just watching what was happening on the news and then when the first building fell down the principle asked all the teachers to turn off their televisions.

Then in my next class people were basically just talking about rumors they had heard like "I heard a plane hit the Pentagon" or "I heard someone blew up the white house" basically mixes of truth and imaginings.

Then at some point in the middle of the day they just stopped classes and said people could go home for the day but they weren't pushing people out the door I hung out with friends at school watching some TVs that had been set up in the cafeteria and then I walked home a couple hours later.

It felt surreal.

During a lap dance a stripper twisted my nips really hard (I'm a dude). She was like "do you like that" and I said "not even a little bit" and she stopped.

One thing to note is that the diesel pumps don't fit into gasoline powered cars for just this reason so it would have to happen by you getting one of those little containers and filling it with diesel.