Lurker > Bio1590

Extreme_light posted...

Also it's stupid that the headphone jack has been eliminated, now that I have a phone without it. I basically don't even listen music on my phone anymore. Congrats, phone makers.

lmao what? Is keeping your headphones charged THAT difficult for you?
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Master_Bass posted...

That would ruin the Hitler reference, though.

Jesus I completely whooshed on that
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Holy_Cloud105 posted...

Why wouldn't you? Wireless headphones have shitty audio quality compared to wired ones. Then again, people run around with Beats and think because other people can hear what they're listening to means the headphones are good.

Defending the lack of a headphone jack, not defending the actual concept of a headphone jack.
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Be prepared to wave goodbye to the headphone jack.

Is this when people start defending it
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Whoever made that obviously has 0 IQ because the last one should be 89 not 88
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CruelBuffalo posted...

1. Post was bumped yesterday

No it wasn't, it was bumped the night of the 22nd and then died out again a few hours later.

You decided you needed to "revive" this topic after it hadn't been posted in for over 33 hours because you're fucking obsessed with this shit.

Get over yourself.

E: Also I still can't believe I had a topic modded after like 30 minutes for "Trolling" for using the actual title of an article as the title of the topic meanwhile this topic is still up despite TC's bullshit topic title.
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Anteaterking posted...

Who?

He probably means Hernan Cortez, the guy who traveled to America and genocided the Aztecs
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Jesus this is a bad topic
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Mr Hangman posted...

which in turn will threaten them with jail

And then they'll get sent to jail where they'll be paid pennies per hour for labour to produce things to make millionaires even richer.

It's one big fucking joke.
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https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/23/matt-bevin-pardons-fbi-asking-questions-situation/2737842001/

The FBI is asking questions about the pardons Matt Bevin issued during his last weeks as Kentucky governor, The Courier Journal has learned.

State Rep. Chris Harris, D-Forest Hills, told reporters that a criminal investigator contacted him last week and asked what he knew about Bevin's pardons.

Harris did not elaborate on what questions were asked, and he declined to say which law enforcement agency contacted him.

"I can confirm that I have been contacted by someone looking into the pardons that were issued by Gov. Bevin on his way out the door," he said. "The impression I got is that there was an investigation ramping up."

Two sources with knowledge of the inquiry told The Courier Journal on Monday that an FBI agent had spoken with Harris. An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment, saying the agency could "neither confirm nor deny the existence of said investigation" when reached late Monday night.

Bevin has received national criticism for pardoning or commuting the sentences of more than 650 people following his failed reelection bid in November.

State prosecutors and leaders such as U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have condemned several of Bevin's decisions, particularly his pardon of Patrick Baker, who had served two years of a 19-year sentence for reckless homicide and robbery in the slaying of a Knox County man in front of his family.

The Courier Journal reported on Dec. 11 that Baker's brother held a campaign fundraiser at his home for Bevin in July 2018 that raised $21,500. The former governor also received a letter from business executive Terry Forcht, one of the states Republican mega-donors, urging Bevin to pardon Baker.

Forcht has given at least $2.8 million to state and national political causes in the last 40 years, including more than $100,000 to Bevin's campaign and inauguration funds.

Bevin has welcomed an investigation and denied political gifts had anything to do with his pardons.

"You will see people subpoenaed, you will see people deposed, you will see people convicted," he predicted.

"If the truth comes out, there will be people involved in this process on the other side of the equation that have very good reason to be very concerned right now. And some of them are the loudest people right now, and for good reason."

Harris said an investigator called him on Dec. 17 and asked whether he knew anything more than what he had said at a press conference five days earlier. At that press conference, Harris and state Sen. Morgan McGarvey, D-Louisville, called for state and federal investigators to look into Bevin's pardons.

"It may be a formal investigation or it may not be a formal investigation," Harris told The Courier Journal. "It may be just calling to see if theres anything there to warrant a full investigation. ... I can tell you, at least, there are questions being asked.

McGarvey, the Senate's Democratic floor leader, said he has not been contacted by investigators. But he said an investigation is needed.

"It's clear there was political favoritism involved in these pardons," McGarvey said Monday. "We have got to find out if the pardon power was abused and possibly sold to restore the public's trust in the system."

Baker proclaimed at his own Dec. 17 press conference that he was framed in the Knox County slaying by state troopers. But former state police Commissioner Rick Sanders said he conducted an internal investigation and told Bevin that "Baker was, in fact, guilty in that case."

Senate President Robert Stivers, R-Manchester, also has condemned the pardons and called for an investigation by the U.S. Attorneys Office. Stivers has not returned phone calls or emails seeking comment.

Bevin has defended other controversial pardons in at least two interviews since The Courier Journal first reported on the Baker case and other commutations. He went into explicit detail during a radio interview Dec. 19 about the pardon of Micah Schoettle, 41, who was convicted of raping a 9-year-old girl.

Bevin said the case was investigated and prosecuted in a manner that was sloppy at best." He said the victim's sister was present during the assaults but that the sister denied they took place. The former governor also said the girl could not have been raped because her hymen was intact.

"If you have been repeatedly sexually violated as a small child by an adult, there are going to be repercussions of that physically and medically," Bevin said.

Bevin's comments were criticized by medical professionals and victims' advocates.

According to Forensic Science International, a peer-reviewed journal, a survey of pediatric child abuse rape cases indicated that only 2.1% of subjects examined had visible lesions on the hymen.

Interesting
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So which right-winger was too afraid to post this on their Main
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Will it make it beyond 2 years?
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Reminder Giuliani is literally Roman Catholic
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Webmaster4531 posted...

What else are you supposed to do during dialysis?

The point is never to take anything he says seriously and it also goes to show that you can literally admit you're trolling and nothing gets done about it.
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Reminder TC claims he trolls the boards while he's getting dialysis done as if that's actually the best use of his time.
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>_> this isn't about his acting, but his appearance

bevan306 posted...

I can't see him as anything other than adam from girls

Also his character from Logan Lucky after that movie came out
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I think that was one of the fundamental problems with this trilogy for me.
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TheGoldenEel posted...

I dont know that thats true

if a country is gone (aka taken over by another) the land and people are still there

Literally no one uses the phrase "wipe off the map" like that.

The user was saying they wanted India to commit genocide against the people of Pakistan. There's no misinterpreting that.

And some Mod decided that was only going to be an NKL, and given what we've seen in the past there's only one possible reason why.
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I do have a suspicion that if the countries were reversed in this scenario it'd have been a Suspension.
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dave_is_slick posted...

I guess Odyssey is technically more polished but to me it's nowhere near Origins. Story and characters are what's most important to me and Odyssey just doesn't have that. Meanwhile they knocked it out the park with Bayek and Aya.

Yeah I think they went a little too far with the 'choice' system. Like having the 'option' to either completely remove or never even add certain characters to the story obviously would reduce their overall impact and strength of the character, because the story has to be able to go on if they're not even there.

eston posted...

So what you're saying is the side content isn't actually pointless at all

Things being made artificially "relevant" because of developer choices doesn't mean they're not pointless.

Even the 'choice' system is ultimately pointless because the ending of the "Family" storyline you get based on your choices doesn't fundamentally effect the game.
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The Trent posted...

i disagree and think there's no validity to complaining about optional content
it's optional, if you don't like doing it then just don't do it

Does it still count as optional content if the game basically forces you into it by level gating certain areas of the game, which you can't reach just by doing the main story missions?

The story also forces you to upgrade your ship to be able to actually finish the required naval combat sections. You'll never have enough resources to do that if you don't do any of the side content.

Not to mention the sheer amount of times you're told to go to 'X' fort to kill a certain enemy which becomes significantly easier if you clear the fort so you might as well do it.
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The Trent posted...

yeah i don't understand this
"there's way too much optional content!" is a crazy complaint

tbh when it's all the same and there's no real point to it, I think it's a valid complaint.

For example, Odyssey kept the "Hidden Tomb" feature from Origins (in Odyssey they're just tombs of 'famous' mythical people like Ajax and Orion), but in Odyssey they serve no purpose other than just giving you a free ability point. In Origins at least the tombs contained a ton of lore (ex. one of them was for the Pharaoh who founded the Order of the Ancients, which you find out by reading inscriptions on the wall), and of course some of the tombs also contained an Ancient Mechanism, which further added to the Isu lore.
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There's no real story, someone made a post in this topic

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/78272156

saying what I indicated this topic is about, and the post is deleted and the User isn't even Warned so whoever modded it only gave it an NKL.
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That's literally advocating for a genocide.

What the fuck
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MrMallard posted...

Oh yeah. As an edgy 14 year old atheist in 2008-2009, the atheist shit was bad enough that I rethought my position on atheism while not believing in God or respecting Christianity.

I think it was synonymous with the anti-PC crowd at the time, because the PC crowd of the 90's and 2000's was the religious right. But as time went on, this came to encompass your standard, shitty "get in the kitchen and make me a sandwich" douchebags, and "God isn't real and I'm not going to hell for being deliberately offensive" turned into people actually getting offended and up in arms about feminism and shit. I'd go as far as to call them proto-incels - they preceded PUAs, who preceded "meninists", who preceded incels.

I saw this thing the other day that someone wrote and I think it sums up a lot of the "edgy atheist" movement of that time frame. Definitely brought back someone pretty bad flashbacks of CE at that time

The thing that I hate about atheism as a movement is that it doesnt just want to critique the hegemony of Western Christianity, it wants to kill spirituality. There is no joy, there is nothing about it that isnt founded in a pessimism that sees itself as so self-important that it cannot exist outside of destruction. The face of atheism is a white male disgruntled ex-Christian who decided that if he cant find joy in religion, then nobody else can. Theres a leftover missionary sensibility to enlighten people to atheism that exposes itself as racist, antisemitic, and islamophobic, thats ultimately not unlike the dominance exerted through colonial Christianity

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tbh I'd have appreciated it if the article expanded on what he considers the gaps to be
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That's not their Main?
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I mean everybody knows this, that's how they've kept the prices at only "gradually increasing" instead of "astronomically increasing", as well as using shittier-quality ingredients than they used to.
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PlsGodDontBanMe is Warned
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MrMallard posted...

I like to think The Weakerthans are a Canadian musical staple. I like The Weakerthans.

Eh they're kind of over
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Yeah I can't see the posts so they must have, I didn't think you could Block people as soon as you hit New User.
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I'm confused did he block me on that account before it got Suspended?
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AvantgardeAClue posted...

And GameStop has to be really upset Disney made a rare miscalculation about the popularity of its new Star Wars TV series, The Mandalorian, because there are no Funko POP "Baby Yoda" action figures available for Christmas. The figurine is available for pre-order, but it won't be shipped till the spring. GameStop has had a long-standing relationship with Funko and its POP figurines are a big part of the retailer's collectibles business, so this segment could reasonably see a nice, well, pop itself in the fourth quarter if demand for the Baby Yoda dolls is as great as many believe

Assuming this is actually true, nobody is gonna care by Spring about baby Yoda lol, it's a fad

It is true, legitimately none of the official "Baby Yoda" merchandise is supposed to ship until April or May. I have no idea what the fuck Disney was thinking, because there's other merchandise for the show out already (like, Funko Pops of EVERYONE ELSE)
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Microsoft and Sony sure did no favours with console sales by announcing the PS5 and Series X so early.

Like the Xbox One was only announced like 6 months before it was released.

They announced the Series X a full year.
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Well someone sure fucked up letting that username through
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According to the comments it's not official
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But the EU laws on US tech companies only apply to their operations inside the EU or as it relates to EU citizens. That's not "outside interference" at all.

Also, natural gas is significantly cleaner than both coal and oil.
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Errrrr most of them can't see this >_>
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99% of the time they just end up in another Purgatory unless the account is like a month old anyways so there's no point wondering imo.
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Also had a field goal blocked

Unreal
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Hexenherz posted...

I never played Zoo Tycoon.

It's actually pretty easy, there's a lot of numbers but it's all really easy to read and adjust as necessary. Like animals that go in an exhibit box have preferred temperatures and humidities but you just adjust the A/C and humidity level and that's it >_>.

Also I realized I like that it *does* force you to diversify your exhibits and everything. In Planet Coaster if you wanted to make your queues better you just plopped down some animatronics and boom, 100% queue attractiveness. In this game you gotta put down things that go well in the exhibits, like specific types of trees and rocks, ground, etc.

Yeah so it's just a more nitpicky ZT. Like ZT didn't have temperatures or humidity or anything, but you have fences that were varying strength and height, and you needed to use an acceptable one to keep the animal contained.

Using the correct type and amount of rocks and trees/bushes/grasses applied as well.
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This is even worse than normal
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