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Nomadic View posted...

COVxy posted...

I had said that age is a really shitty predictor of between subject brain maturity, and so using it as a strict cut off is silly. More appropriate would be to take it on a case by case basis to assess maturity and circumstance.

Is there a circumstance where a 30 year old should be allowed to fuck a 10 year old? An 11 year old? 12? Etc.

As I've said to you before, as you continue to ask the same question over and over despite getting an answer to it:
The probability is likely so low that it might as well be zero at young ages, obviously. Doesn't mean that any given age cut off isn't completely arbitrary. Trajectories of development are so varied that pretending like a single age thresholds moral and amoral behavior is pretty silly, don't you think?

I don't know why you think this is some sort of "gotchya" question.
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I had said that age is a really shitty predictor of between subject brain maturity, and so using it as a strict cut off is silly. More appropriate would be to take it on a case by case basis to assess maturity and circumstance.
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Seems like a strange amount of personal investment to take a position I talked about like a year ago and present it out of context in this topic to try to make me look bad.
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powerman1426 posted...

I've had a couple bad orders, and when they're not right they're really awful. Properly made they are fantastic

This is the main worry with them.

Pies and Thighs in NYC has a brunch menu option that is biscuits and gravy with scrambled eggs and cheese that's absolutely the best breakfast I've ever had.
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HydraSlayer82 posted...

COVxy posted...

Subjective wealth class is a pretty skewed thing. People have a poor understanding how well off they are doing relative to others.

This topic is partly evidence for this lol.

I agree. My question is: what is actually considered middle class? You cant go by income because that varies so much by region.

Good question, the definition seems to be hard to grab onto.

If we look at the household income distribution:
https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2015/demo/distribution-of-household-income--2014.html

Median household income is 53k, so presumably we would put some bounds on either side of that and call it a day. So like 25k-75k, or something like that, to capture the middle 3rd of the distribution.
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Subjective wealth class is a pretty skewed thing. People have a poor understanding how well off they are doing relative to others.

This topic is partly evidence for this lol.
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monkmith posted...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666315300428?via%3Dihub

Probably one of the smallest correlations to take the press by storm.
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I read this interesting article that pptx and docx documents are actually just zipped documents, so you can unzip them and rezip them with better compression to save space.
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Good and evil are metaphysical concepts. Those who do not believe in religion strive to understand the world physically.
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CasinoNights posted...

So...we're no smarter than animals, it's just a different kind of intelligence?

Seriously?

Cross species comparisons are really hard, and the more and more we study nonhuman animal cognition, the more we find similarities, not differences.
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Interestingly enough, the only time I've heard about the outrage regarding that show is on CE, mostly by people outraging about the apparent outrage.

And yet, the show still got renewed lol.
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tennisdude818 posted...

That show was extremely non-PC. SJWs would flip.

No, no they wouldn't. Nobody would bat an eye.

But it would probably do very poorly, as the humor was pretty much just "they can't say that on television, can they!?" Which, you know, doesn't work in an age where TV is routinely vulgar.
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Do you have memories of playing recent D3 content when you were a child?

I can play FFVII today and have the same exact experience I had when I was a kid, even though the dialog is ridiculous and the graphics are hard to understand. I play that game and feel the same grandiose emotions I felt as a child, and enjoy it just the same. If I were to take my experience and try to understand why a current day player, never having been exposed to the game, may have a different opinion, I would be dumbfounded. But I know that my experience is tinted with nostalgia. Those strong feelings are partially driven by memory.

It's really easy to see this effect in music. Everything you listened to in middle school is still fucking awesome, as embarrassing as it is to admit it to yourself.
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Nostalgia isn't something that only touches the past lol.

That's the entire reason why anyone cares about the phenomenon.
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Mr_Biscuit posted...

COVxy posted...

Lmao. Diablo has always been kitschy as fuck.

You know, for all the Diablos story never mattered to anyone posts in here, there sure are a lot of others agreeing with me too

Makes you think

Story being kitschy doesn't mean story doesn't matter, my point is entirely different. The story has ALWAYS been full of ridiculous tropes and over exaggerated caricatures.

I think too may people played Diablo 2 when they were 11 and thought "oh, this is so spoopy" and have now generalized their nostalgic experience to "what Diablo is supposed to be about".
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Lmao. Diablo has always been kitschy as fuck.
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Lol.
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Godnorgosh posted...

Drumiester posted...

So you're complaining about 15 pages when you have over a month to do it? LMFAO this generation.

That's hardly any time for a paper that length. Like, imagine only having a week to write a three-page paper.

Only if you don't have much experience writing research papers, tbh.
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That's not how it works lol.
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I think she just took it from the infowars person and then reposted it. Though, it would be completely fitting for this administration to send out doctored video to influence people.
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He didn't even grab her lol. He was gesturing towards the president when she stuck her hands towards his face. She literally thew her arms into the gesture. Pretty fucked up that the white house is sharing a doctored video sourced from InfoWars.
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TheOlJollyRoger posted...

This is a set up move to legalize cannabis. He will legalize medical nationwide and leave states to decide rec or not expect rec to have a high tax

The opioids have gone to your head lol.
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Turns out the the backfire effect just nullifies it all anyway, whoops!

Lol.
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Tyranthraxus posted...

The problem is the game presents outright lies that the character knows are lies to the player as truth

Unreliable narrators are all the rage now-a-days. Still surprised people get pissed off about it.
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Some people seem to decide that they don't need to learn anything new after they turn 50.
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Romulox28 posted...

COVxy posted...

Why do you need a Masters?

i think it will be a big career boost

Worth 30k and 2 years of your life?
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Why do you need a Masters?
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How's about you study?
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It seems to be a big propagator of misinformation, tbh.
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Hypothesis doesn't mean wild stab in the dark (hehe).
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You know people are going to complain the shit out of Diablo 4. Just look at Diablo 3 lol.
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Shake shack is waay better than 5 Guys.

Idk, maybe the difference between chains in different locations. Shake Shack in NY has always had much better burgers.
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Masters yes, PhD is less common because the admission is so competitive and the actual amount of work isn't something most people can just power through.
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MI4 REAL posted...

Strawman is a decoy. What if it wasn't a decoy. What is it then called?

Strawman is any reconstruction of an argument that distorts the original argument in favor of constructing a counter argument.
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Veggeta X posted...

MI4 REAL posted...

Strawman?

Naw. Strawman is taking what I said and misconstruing it to make me look bad and you look like the righteous one. For example if I said the sun is too bright today and then you will understand it as I hate the sun.

Naw, strawman describes what you are taking about pretty well.
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pinky0926 posted...

Yeah, I miss the guy that was going after lowkey fatcats and corrupt corporate practises. We know Trump is a c***, hear about it 47 times every day.

He's still tackling many different issues in his show. It's only like every 3rd episode that has to do with the current administration.
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RebelElite791 posted...

Nobody has said or thought this

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DarkProto05 posted...

There are literally so many cis women in my college who are okay with trans men using the men's bathroom but absolutely hate, feel uncomfortable, and feel they have no privacy when a trans woman uses the women's bathroom. Such hypocrisy.

In what world is this view common? The only people I've seen uncomfortable with trans women using the women's bathroom are heavily conservative, in fact it's their entire rhetoric.
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Webmaster4531 posted...

COVxy posted...

But it wouldn't be creepy.

Quit trolling.

Massage therapy is super clinical, I don't find it creepy at all. It's like, the only people worried about a female doctor giving them a physical with the turn and cough are children who haven't experienced how nonsexual the experience is lol.
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Trickfinger posted...

COVxy posted...

"It's not sexual!"
"But kids doing it is creepy"

lol, kids working at massage parlors would be creepy too but that isn't inherently sexual either

A child as a massage therapist would be weird cuz where did they get their credentials and do they really have the strength for that? But it wouldn't be creepy.

A child at a seedy massage parlor would be creepy, but that's because seedy massage parlors are sexualized.
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Webmaster4531 posted...

Do you know what a Ladder and a Ladder reset is?

Yes, like I said, people take Diablo too seriously. I pumped 100's of hours into Diablo as a kid, doesn't mean that it's some super serious competitive game.

There's an air to pretentiousness surrounding Diablo 2 fans, specifically. It's a fun game, it's always had an incredibly low barrier for entry, and just because you spent your childhood pouring hours into it, doesn't make it a super serious game that needs to be cloned from Diablo 2. Diablo 3 was a really good installment in the Diablo series. Kids who started with Diablo 2 don't seem to understand that the root really is arcade action rpg, just like Gauntlet Legends.
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Webmaster4531 posted...

It's your stupid argument. How does achieving something in 30 minutes make hardcore mode casual?

Here's the thing though, you tried to use biking as an analogy to show how stupid my argument was, but it turns out that competitive and 'hardcore' biking competitions are pretty much universally very long. The tour de france is like a month long of biking. Most bike marathons are at least 6-10 hours of biking.

Nobody is biking to the store or to work and calling themselves hardcore bikers.

Now, getting to your next point. Determining some arbitrary threshold is certainly arbitrary. My 30 minutes wasn't an actual threshold, and you are taking that number too seriously.
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Webmaster4531 posted...

COVxy posted...

As an online RPG, if you can pick it up for half an hour and accomplish something, it's pretty casual, as it were.

That's a stupid reason that can be used for anything.

You rode your Bicycle to the store and got back in 30 minutes. Pfft, you're a casual bicyclist Lance Armstrong.

How long are competitive bike races?

Lol.
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It's a similar concept...
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Tyranthraxus posted...

Diablo was both. That's why there's a hardcore mode.

I mean, in the same way that arcade games are for the hardcore because they have hardcore modes...

Having difficulty settings is a pretty silly deciding factor here. People take diablo too seriously, I'm guessing because it was several people's first online rpg. I spent hundreds of hours in Diablo as a kid, but in no way was that anything other than a casual game. Same way people spent hundreds of hours into Diablo 2 as a kid. As an online RPG, if you can pick it up for half an hour and accomplish something, it's pretty casual, as it were.

Anyway, I chalk it up to 90% nostalgia.
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whitelytning posted...

From a ver hard game that required grinding to an arcady game that requires no thought or planning. They did a terrible job of providing the hardcore fan base (D2 no lifers) with a legitimate sequel and instead turned the franchise into a mass seller made for casuals. The mobile version is just the 2018 example of that.

Diablo always was a pretty fucking casual series lol.
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Diablo fans are composed of petulant children who just want a carbon copy of Diablo 2, mainly because it was the game they grew up playing.
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"It's not sexual!"
"But kids doing it is creepy"
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