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| Topic | What's wrong with 20-30 hour RPGs? |
| Balrog0 04/06/17 7:07:41 PM #19 | It's been so long since I've had time for even a 20 hour RPG I used to live on that shit. --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | What do you want to be when you grow up? |
| Balrog0 04/06/17 7:01:07 PM #20 | BoobsAreMurder posted... actually a Public Administrator. I am about to get my masters in public administration --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | "Your hourly wage will be 9.50 an hour." |
| Balrog0 04/05/17 9:44:41 PM #20 | RebelElite791 posted... Balrog0 posted...lilORANG posted...you won't be paying a 25% rate at $9.50/hour lol. Not unless you work 80 hours/week. Combined payroll taxes are over 15% Unless you have minor dependents, tax credits won't make up for your tax burden. Even in California you need to pay state income taxes on 19k in income. I doubt state EITCs make up for it either --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | "Your hourly wage will be 9.50 an hour." |
| Balrog0 04/05/17 9:27:42 PM #11 | lilORANG posted... you won't be paying a 25% rate at $9.50/hour lol. Not unless you work 80 hours/week. 25% probably isn't that far off. Your income tax is only gonna be like 3% or something, but payroll and medicare taxes already get you more than halfway to 25 --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | This will be my 1st 500 topic!!! |
| Balrog0 04/05/17 5:30:42 PM #36 | Tag --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | Chicago to require HS students to be accepted by college/ internship/ military |
| Balrog0 04/05/17 3:48:22 PM #106 | Zanzenburger posted... My question with that, then, is if they would work with companies that offer internships to flex their requirements to attract a larger population of high school students to accommodate this change. I don't really understand what you mean, or exactly how its supposed to relate. Like, the easiest way to accommodate more interns is to pay them less. What do you imagine the city or school district could do to "work with" companies in order to make them offer more jobs? --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | Chicago to require HS students to be accepted by college/ internship/ military |
| Balrog0 04/05/17 3:44:19 PM #100 | Zanzenburger posted... And they are very common in many fields? For people who are about to get a HS diploma? Seems unlikely they would get paid internships --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | Louis C.K. 2017 is pretty bad I thought |
| Balrog0 04/05/17 3:21:45 PM #1 | What did you guys think? --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | Angie Varona |
| Balrog0 04/05/17 2:56:46 PM #109 | chrono625 posted... faizan_faizan posted...Amazing how people think small waists are impossible to achieve. pretty unsurprising I dont think its that uncommon for women to do though. I know a couple who do, at least, and they're not ig models lol --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | Chicago to require HS students to be accepted by college/ internship/ military |
| Balrog0 04/05/17 12:53:31 PM #28 | one of the dumbest things I've seen recently and Trump is the president --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | Yooka-Laylee reviews are coming in |
| Balrog0 04/04/17 6:32:31 PM #119 | Darmik posted... When these games were setting the bar they were the closest thing we had to open world games. They just can't impress on the same level anymore. I never thought about it like that. I guess that was sort of like an open world environment --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | What do you want to be when you grow up? |
| Balrog0 04/04/17 3:28:16 PM #10 | organicbamf posted... someday i'd like to be a consultant of some kind so i can just find problems that interest me and i just tackle those lol i feel the same way I actually have a small portfolio of clients but its not enough to live on :/ --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | What do you want to be when you grow up? |
| Balrog0 04/04/17 3:25:38 PM #6 | still dont know --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | Yooka-Laylee reviews are coming in |
| Balrog0 04/04/17 2:42:19 PM #97 | darkbuster posted... the last major "collectathon" style 3D platformer that immediately comes to mind is Super Mario Sunshine, & that game is nearing the 20 year mark. aren't the ratchet and clank games collectathons? Ive never played them much. I remember them being 3d platform (shooters) for srue though --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | Describe the first year of your life after winning $100,000,000,000. |
| Balrog0 04/04/17 2:22:31 PM #79 | I'd buy a private island some where off the coast of the US maybe the keys --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | Democratic Senator: Wall Street supported Bernie Sanders to weaken Hillary |
| Balrog0 04/04/17 1:18:16 PM #23 | Darkman124 posted... Balrog0 posted...that's rpetty cool that he was on gamefaqs and just look at us now --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | Democratic Senator: Wall Street supported Bernie Sanders to weaken Hillary |
| Balrog0 04/04/17 1:15:22 PM #21 | that's rpetty cool that he was on gamefaqs --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | California middle school has too many white students, will now lose funding |
| Balrog0 04/03/17 12:16:00 PM #54 | s0nicfan posted... This is most likely a case of "not my job." I mean... who in a school administration would actually be tasked with tracking the demographics of the town and projecting out to determine if and when they would lose minority status? well, I live in the South, specifically Little Rock, which took the federal government and the national guard to integrate lol so basically everyone around here pays a lot of attention to this kind of thing Sad_Face posted... Substitute the graduating class for the maximum student class size feasible from the pool of incoming student applications, and remove students until you return the threshold for qualifying for the PHBAO grant, and then send acceptance letters after that. This is operating on the assumption that they can't discriminate which students to drop, so they'll have to randomly assign numbers or by order of application submitted, and then keep dropping a student from the max number. idk how it works, I think it is a little harder than that, but it's definitely feasible in a school district like L.A. for someone to keep track of this even if it's at the district level and not the school level I can see how it would slip through the cracks though --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | California middle school has too many white students, will now lose funding |
| Balrog0 04/03/17 11:23:27 AM #50 | Sad_Face posted... But since they can't regulate the student demographics, that's rough for them. they should have been able to forecast it, at least --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | California middle school has too many white students, will now lose funding |
| Balrog0 04/03/17 11:06:17 AM #48 | The Admiral posted... Freddie_Mercury posted...maybe now the right will care about school funding It was an order from the court forcing integration that caused these minority schools to receive extra funding A charter system would have avoided this by not needing to desegregate in the first place, because charters generally don't need to follow the regulations public schools do. So do you have a problem with forced desegregation, the compromise the LA school district made due to an inability to sufficiently integrate, or both? --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | California middle school has too many white students, will now lose funding |
| Balrog0 04/03/17 10:15:42 AM #36 | ity studentsAxiom posted... prince_leo posted...seems more like it's an old rule that they're looking into changing I mean, some people are looking to change it. From what I can tell, the issue isn't so much that the rule is old as it is very rare for a school that is more than 70% minority to become more white over time in Los Angeles lol http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED246141.pdf Basically, the existence of PHBAO programs was court ordered in response to the forced desegregation of schools. LA seems to have had some problems integrating sufficiently, so they reached an agreement wherein schools that were insufficiently integrated (the 70+% minority bar) instead had to receive some additional support, because separate isn't necessarily equal remember. The fact that we haven't heard about this prior to now tells me either that racial rhetoric really is heating up in this country or, more likely, supermajority minority communities in L.A. have never been gentrified enough until now to face this problem. I'm betting on the latter but it's hard to tell without going through the history of LA between 1981 and now and I'm not doing that --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | California middle school has too many white students, will now lose funding |
| Balrog0 04/03/17 10:06:16 AM #35 | iron jojo posted... ChainedRedone posted...darkphoenix181 posted...so is it the neighborhood got gentrified by rich tech white families making the school surge in white students and now the school loses funding? I don't really get the issue doing it based on minority status is arguably racist, but poor schools should get more money from the state than rich schools. rich schools have more of a local tax base from which to draw funds. or you could argue that we shouldn't fund school districts, but just students directly. even then, shouldn't vouchers be progressive so poor students have a shot at better private schools? --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | California middle school has too many white students, will now lose funding |
| Balrog0 03/31/17 6:18:32 PM #9 | Iodine posted... I am all for helping out PoC, but punishing a school be being "too white" is just terrible. it's because minority students usually get a bad deal when it comes to resources because of redlining in school catchments https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/public-school-funding-and-the-role-of-race/408085/ --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
| Topic | "Girl, are you from Tennessee?" |
| Balrog0 03/30/17 3:05:18 PM #11 | tennessee isn't even the deep south --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. |
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