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I had a SNES game genie.

You will be pleasantly surprised by the soulful shucking and jiving of the first openly black protagonist in a Spiderman game as he swings from building to building as if he is swinging from vine to vine in a dense jungle in the heart of africa.

MixedRaceBaby posted...

America: *becomes rich because of african slavery*
Americans: "How can this country be so racist?"

If cheap african labor was the secret to wealth the world would be a very different place.

AzNDarkSamurai posted...

thats not even tolerated in a lot of the US though. only mainly liberal states.

Mississippi is more tolerant of homosexuals than most countries outside of the west including India and China

I've got a wireless razer basilisk and I like it.

I felt similar.

In high school I never did my homework turned in most projects late for partial credit and relied entirely on the tests to pass the course so they were these huge pressure things where anything less than an A would mean an F in the course.

I went in the Army after high school and when I got out in college I did all my homework and all the projects on time and studied my ass off for tests and ended up with a 3.9 GPA even though I felt like I was a much weaker programmer than a lot of other comp sci students.

I felt a bit embarrassed at graduation when they announced the latin honors stuff because I felt like other people knew that they were better at coding than me but saw me with this super high gpa.

Tolerance of homosexuals.

We had the lowest unemployment in 50 years before the pandemic.

Its the worst platform for the game unless the switch gimmick is a selling point for you.

It is a cool gimmick but if you are mostly playing it sitting down on a couch with a TV then you shouldn't get it for the Switch.

You trying to get a pension from the VA?

Most people I knew that were trying to get sleep apnea got shit faced before they did the study to fuck up their sleep so that they could get free money from the government for the rest of their lives.

I actually got back into it a bit when BFA launched after not playing it since Wrath of Lich King.

I played through all the single player story stuff 5 man dungeons and a few raids from Legion and BFA and I enjoyed them. A few takaways ....

1. The Story Content and questing in the newer expansion is dramatically better than it was when I stopped playing but that content was also all still in the game and up until Shadowlands pre patch (which is out) you had to level through some of the older zones to get to the good stuff. As of about a month ago they patched it so you can pick a single expansion zone and level through all of it and see all the story content and all of the zones to get to end game levels which I think is very wise because the leveling experience for new players felt very jumbled before as you walked through mostly empty zones of legacy content where you would level so fast that you saw about 1/5th of each expansion before zipping on to the next continent and got no coherent narrative.

2.I still don't really enjoy high end raiding which is why I dipped out of the game in the first place but they seem to pack a lot more in for the solo players like world quests and daily stuff.

3.Demon Hunter is a ton of fun- I basically started by leveling my old Orc Warrior up to legion then I switched to a Night Elf Demon Hunter and its my favorite class in the game. Its simple, its basically got a triple jump/gliding with no cooldown that you just activate by slapping the jump button a few times, anything you kill refills your hp so you never have to rest in open world play, it has a relatively limited number of abilities and cooldowns to manage.

Its just perfect for a casual player that loves running around the world or pvping in battlegrounds and it honestly is what kept me playing the game.

Kisai posted...

You'll never get a girl that way.

It gives you a bit of extra confidence and guys like me and possibly like a lot of people on this board need it.

I'm nerdy and I had always been nervous around the ladies. I crawled out of my shell for a relationship when I was 23 then crawled back into my shell when it ended badly a few months later.

When I was 31 I got on match.com and eventually found a woman that shares my interests and we've been together for almost 2 years now and been living together for about a year and a half.

Do not give up my dudes. Hit the gym, be as social as you can and eventually you will find a person to share your life with.

Thats almost 2 high schools worth of people.

Is it just Black Desert Online?

That was a cool looking game but it felt really hollow to me even compared to WoW or Guild Wars 2 and the combat was completely mindless.

TheGoldenEel posted...

no because empty land shouldnt get a vote

(Im assuming this image is of counties that vote Democrat)

I'm not sure thats even what we are looking at. El Paso county is on there (Colorado Springs) and they are solid Republican. Maybe its just counties with large populations?

Colorado may be weird but our electoral map looks more like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Colorado#/media/File:Colorado_Presidential_Election_Results_2016.svg
Some of the bigger counties up around the ski resorts are fairly liberal while the western slope and the Kansas/Nebraska border are solid red. The Denver area is blue (Boulder is SUPER blue) the Colorado Springs area is red.

Racoons.

metralo posted...

because he's not specifying the age group you fucking dump

i know this is shocking to you but a large portion of this country are over 50 and aren't just statistics

And if he was on an AARP message board I'd agree that covid is a bigger threat.

It's totally plausible that more Twitter users will kill themselves in 2020 than die of covid and we should keep that in mind. His numbers are off but it's still a valid message to the audience he was speaking to.

Conflict posted...

That's not relevant to the claim being made

How is that not relevant?

More than 14,000 people under the age of 35 died of suicide last year. Covid has killed less than 2,000 in that age cohort.

You should be more worried about the mental health of your friends in that age group than whether or not they will die of covid especially if suicide rates are rising as a result of covid. If the rate goes up by 20% that will be more of an increase than all the deaths from covid for that age cohort.

He may be wrong about the numbers but does anyone argue that the average Twitter user or for that matter gamefaqs user is more likely to die of covid than suicide?

Covid is terrible but suicide is a far bigger killer for people under the age of 50.

Veggeta X posted...

Wasn't Reagan for immigration?

As with all things its mixed but he we did do a massive illegal immigrant amnesty while he was president.

That would be political suicide today.

The economy boomed and he left office incredibly popular and shortly after we won the cold war. You have to realize that a majority of people that supported him had reason to be happy with his policies.

Yes.

I promised myself I would finish Odyssey before I bought another AC game but I finally got around to doing it last month. I liked it a lot and I feel like I'm ready for another AC.

Esrac posted...

Shit. I dont even wear my uniform off base, if I can help it. Partly because it is pretty awkward when someone you don't know "thanks you for your service."

Some of my most awkward moments were when I was far from a base wearing a uniform.

Funeral Detail doing ceremonies for old retired dudes in a large radius around Augusta Georgia extending into southern South Carolina.

"Hometown recruiting' after AIT. I recruited no one. I stood around awkwardly in a uniform feeling completely out of place.

R&R at multiple airports- It was worst on the way back from R&R. When you have spent a few days doing flights from Afghanistan to Kuwait to wherever to Dallas you are going to just stop giving a fuck by the time you arrive. When you are strolling into Denver International Airport in your ACUs after spending a couple weeks back home with all these people 'thanking you for your service' you feel weird as fuck.

All of them.

Naysaspace posted...

amazon does not give a damn about you or your family

the fact that you had enough compassion to interrupt your machine-simulation-task and be a human is reason enough to not call you back for an interview. They need sociopaths, not social workers.

It isn't sociopathic to expect productivity out of people you are hiring, particularly if you are going to be paying them six figures. There is also a difference between showing compassion and understanding to your employees and hiring someone that is already a problem child.

They aren't adopting a kid they are hiring an employee.

Don't get your hopes up.

Companies like Amazon have a pretty high number of applicants and they likely already have a batch that completed the coding interview that they are sorting through. I'm guessing they will just say "better luck next time".

Think about it from their perspective. They are hiring the best of the best in terms of software developers and you are saying "I had stuff come up so I couldn't complete the test you gave me".

Perascamin posted...

India is 3x smaller than the US and has over 3x our population yet we still have more coronavirus cases/deaths than them.

I'll say it again. Americans, what the fuck are we doing???

This isn't a fair comparison. India has a far younger population on average, and more limited medical care in general and therefore less of an ability to track who is dying of covid particularly in the more rural areas.

ButteryMales posted...

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/21/925794511/were-the-risks-of-reopening-schools-exaggerated

While agreeing that emerging data is encouraging, other experts said the United States as a whole has made little progress toward practices that would allow schools to make reopening safer from rapid and regular testing, to contact tracing to identify the source of outbreaks, to reporting school-associated cases publicly, regularly and consistently.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/feared-covid-outbreaks-in-schools-yet-to-arrive-early-data-shows/2020/09/23/0509bb84-fd22-11ea-b555-4d71a9254f4b_story.html
She called the early data potentially optimistic but said it is premature for districts to change course and decide to open their buildings.

Much of the concern is focused on teachers and other adults in the building, because data shows that covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, is far more deadly to older patients.

According to the American Federation of Teachers, 14 active teachers, principals and counselors have died of covid-19 since the school year started, although it is not possible to conclude that any one of them contracted the coronavirus at school.

I agree we should have a debate over this. If discussion on this topic were allowed and not a bannable offense I would argue that there are over 50,000,000 k-12 students in the US and 14 deaths teaching 50 million students makes it tough to make a strong connection between opening schools and covid deaths.

Laserion posted...

stating that keeping schools closed is irrational

is not the same as

posting that you think schools should be opened

So your take is that someone is allowed to read the most reputable news sources on the planet showing data showing that covid is not spreading significantly in k-12 schools after they are opened and then post

"its irrational to keep schools closed"

But someone can not read any new sources and not be informed at all and just say
"I like schools. They should open. Hooray."

Because the problem with my post is that I suggested I was putting forward a rational response to covid given the data that we have. You aren't allowed to do that. Its offensive. Offensive enough to be warned.

Captain_Qwark posted...

It says many of them are hybrid

And they're all using masks and staying six feet part and using hand sanitizer when entering/leaving rooms.

So pf course the spread will be less. That means those efforts are working lol

I support all of these things. I wear a mask everywhere I go and I have hand sanitizer sitting at my desk at work that I splash on my hands every time I have to go somewhere else in the building.

That being said I believe that at 100% at home schooling doesn't work for a lot of kids. We have data saying that bringing these kids in, with measures being taken like you described, does no lead to outbreaks.

I'm not going to say I think we should put kids into in person classes because that is a warning offense but I think we should look at the data and make a rational decision that chooses the lesser of two evils.

Delirious_Beard posted...

TC should be warned

I suspect I will be. You aren't allowed to have thoughts that oppose any restriction being implemented to fight the covid. Even if it is massively destructive and the most reputable journalists and scientists in the country tell you those restrictions do nothing to fight the virus.

You can only think one way.

Vicious_Dios posted...

*Eyeroll*

Oh really? 'incredibly'?

Give me a break.

You must be a conspiracy theorist getting your news from conspiracy theorists like NPR, the Washington Post or the BBC.

Enjoy your warnings / bans guys.

whitelytning posted...

No you won't.

I just did. I literally posted the message I got when I was warned. This happened and it was upheld when I disputed it. Any moderator on this site can confirm if they would like.

NPR
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/21/925794511/were-the-risks-of-reopening-schools-exaggerated

Despite widespread concerns, two new international studies show no consistent relationship between in-person K-12 schooling and the spread of the coronavirus. And a third study from the United States shows no elevated risk to childcare workers who stayed on the job.

Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/feared-covid-outbreaks-in-schools-yet-to-arrive-early-data-shows/2020/09/23/0509bb84-fd22-11ea-b555-4d71a9254f4b_story.html

NBC
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/coronavirus/202-more-students-staff-at-mass-schools-test-positive-for-coronavirus/2216674/
Local public health experts say the data seems pretty clear -- after several weeks of in-person or hybrid learning, COVID-19 is not spreading in Massachusetts schools as some had feared.
What were seeing in schools is that there are occasional cases that occur, but what were not necessarily seeing are cases where kids are acquiring the infection in school, said Dr. Paul Sax, who studies COVID-19 closely as the clinical director of the Infectious Diseases Division at Brigham and Womens Hospital.

Gamefaqs:
"stating that keeping schools closed is irrational is incredibly offensive and not allowed."

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He is in a Church that is homophobic just like a few billion other people. CANCEL HIM!

I donated plasma once in the Army. I had gone in to donate blood and they wanted my plasma because I'm AB+ which apparently is the universal taker for whole blood but the universal donor for plasma.

Except this job as a Software Engineer.

But I don't wanna be a software engineer I wanna be a dancer!

I loved 1 but I've had trouble summoning up the will to play RDR2. I had the same problem with GTA V even though I enjoyed both games so I think maybe my gaming tastes have just changed.

I was on a funeral detail for a few months in the Army (45 funerals in about 2.5 months). Only one was a KIA the rest were veterans.

It was weird how normal it became to do them. We had a three man group where we would just show up, put a flag on the casket, then hand it to the family for veterans and we had the full detail show up to carry the casket to the grave site and do the 21 gun salute (7 guys three shots with blanks out of m16's).

The first few funerals I felt some emotion about it but by about number 20 it just felt like a thing we did. Obviously we took the job seriously but it was more about not fucking up than any kind of emotion you would normally associate with a dead person.

I've got a galaxy s8 and the newer phones do nothing I care about substantially better than my current one.

Its large because Sony and Microsoft for that matter have realized that people aren't buying their gaming consoles as a fashionable accessory for their homes they are buying a powerful machine for a hobby that they care about and plan/hope to dedicate a lot of time to.

Its about fucking time.

We need to stress that to Americans that this could have been their son.

This could have been their son sitting at a picnic table having lunch with a bunch of members of Al Qaeda in the desert in Yemen if things had gone just a little bit differently in their lives.