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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Also worth noting is that the rest of the game certainly plays a role in just how intolerable something is. For someone who loves everything about BotW except weapon breaking, they'll likely be willing to overlook it in favor of everything else. But for someone who is already ambivalent about most of the rest of the game, weapon breaking may seem like a far greater sin, because the rest of the payoff isn't worth the annoyance.

Hence my post-I would HOPE there's more to it than that, since in the grand scheme of all that is the game, that is pretty minute. It's not like the game is broken and you ever run out of weapons. That's why I'm asking, since if that mechanic alone is a deal-breaker, that's fine. More power to yah. Just seems out of the normal.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Ehh. To be fair, the original games didn't have a plot because they were released at a time when it was almost impossible to integrate plot into games due to technological limitations. And we as an audience accepted that lack of story because we understood there really wasn't much alternative, and we'd never really seen story-intensive games to contrast it against.

I get what you're trying to say, but this is false. Text base games have plots, and they predate Mario by a decade. Even then, Zelda and Metroid came out right after Mario.

The issue is, you're looking for Mario games to provide something it never did, and never said it would did. It was always a game about platforming, with saving the Princess a giant McGuffin just to get to the end. Where the Goombas come from, why mountains and cloud have eyeballs, and other aspects of the game are still largely unexplained today. Mario never promised a story, and expecting it at this point is like being mad that Ridge Racer isn't an FPS.

Hell, I'm not even sure what story one could even put in that would matter at all, since it'd still have to be framed around "get to the end and save the thing." That's why we have Super Mario RPG and the Mario & Luigi games, for those that want Mario with a story. But the core Mario games have always been gameplay driven.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

But that was 30+ years ago. Since then, games have evolved, technology has improved, and plot has become integrated into most games to at least some degree. We've grown more sophisticated as an audience, and we tend to expect more out of games than we did in the past. We demand they do better because we've SEEN other games do better.

Again, not true. If you NEED story to go with your game, that's fine. There have always been games for that. Likewise, games that get acclaim to this day like Shovel Knight or Limbo are no more sophisticated story wise than Mario. And that's fine, since there's clearly an audience for games that are more about the gameplay/adventure/experience.

Basically, you're conflating game evolution with personal taste. The aforementioned games and franchises have evolved tremendously from where they started, but if Mario ain't your jam because you need a story, then that's on you, not Mario. And that's fine.
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The Wave Master posted...

I guess this isn't more of a critique of the games themselves, but more of the fact that as I get older, as i have gotten married, and just grown up, Nintendo hasn't grown up with me. That's not a knock on them to an extent, as they should evolve, but more of the fact that I have changed a deal and they have not.

There yah go, this is much better. Or rather, they HAVE evolved, just not in a way that merits your attention these days, even if it once did.

As for BotW, it seems it does/would have your interest, but it hinges over one relatively minute game mechanic?
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Metalsonic66 posted...

Mario never had a plot. And Mario Kart Double Dash was definitely different from MK64.

Yeah, that's the thing. Have your likes and dislikes all you want, but shit arguments shouldn't be tolerated. Complaining about the lack of Mario plot or saying MK hasn't evolved in 20 years is just silly.
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I don't know how Nintendo manages to put so much joy into a game, but Simon Belmont, King K. Rool, 900 music tracks, over 100 stages, and EVO style competitive settings...the new Smash is so hype.
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Jesus Wave, you really are going to become a Cyborg at this point. Sorry, but you can't have my username! Hang in there, fellow Geek.

Oddly, I may have a torn muscle in my rotator cuff (<fun fact, absolutely everything, except for Google, flags the word "rotator" as being spelled wrong, despite it being correct...odd), finally got into an Orthopedic. So physical therapy for me, as it's likely minor, and from bench pressing.

Other than that, finishing up this show, plan on doing some minor vacationing, and then I'll go work for Disney for the first time on a show...yipee.

I actually almost caught up on all my console games for the first time in ever. Got a few Wii/Wii U ones I never finished, and I need to do the BotW DLC, but I've been mostly just playing Splatoon 2 and contemplating booting up the Metroid Primes or Viewtiful Joe again. Or Baten Kaitos.

My Steam backlog is still a monster. Got Resident Evil 7 next on my docket, then I think Wolfenstein: New Order.

Finished Season 1 of Master of None, it was alright. Think I'm ready to dive back into Fargo and watch the show in earnest.

That's Cyborg's lightning breakdown on what's up in my life, lol.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

All the Netflix series are probably in trouble in general, since Disney is talking about how they want to run their own streaming service, and if they do they're almost certainly pulling all of their own material off other streaming services and moving it to their own.

I can vouch for this. Not only was there a report about a year ago that Disney was making their own Streaming and yanking their stuff off of Netflix eventually, I'm personally going to start working on a made-for-Disney-stream movie here in a couple of months. I would guess 2019 is likely when it'll happen.
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adjl posted...

I'm not really sure why people are so bent on insisting this one's a port. It's an engine rewrite with improved graphics and a few new characters, stages, and items. That's all Smash sequels have ever been. The fact that there aren't many brand new characters doesn't mean they aren't putting any work into it when they've got so many existing characters to update and balance for the new engine.

I think the sudden announcement and the same-year release (in contrast with the usual long-Smash hype cycle) coupled with the lesser amount of time between games than normal is why.
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MICHALECOLE posted...

I would be very confused if Luke skywalkers kid couldnt use the force, or if harry potters kid was not a magic kid.

So.. yes

The odd thing about this is, no one seems at all surprised that Luke and even Leia are strong with the Force due to Anakin, and yet, you'd think it would be more of a revelation since Jedi were chaste, and thus wouldn't know one way or another if the Force was hereditary.

Then again, being Force sensitive doesn't make you a Jedi, so I suppose it could be observed in non-Jedi.
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^It doesn't help that I have a general disdain to any and all spin-offs and reboots.
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The Wave Master posted...

I thought we addressed the crap fest that was the 2016 female Ghostbusters in a previous Geek topic.

For brevity I will just say that its "Dog ****."

It has nothing to do with it being an all female reboot. It has everything to do with the horrible nonsense of a cobbled together plot. Then the terrible miscasting of the 4 leads, well 2 of them at least (Wigg and McCarthy.)
Turns out they hated each other on set, and it shows.

Finally the directing. Directing isn't just framing and shooting a shot. It's getting a solid performance out of your actors. That didn't happen at all. It was a mess of a movie, and I wish I could be more harsh, but because its an all female production, I have to walk on egg shells...

But it's terrible. Much like Birdman.

I'll do it for you: It sucked shit for a variety reasons, and yes, I believe the all-female cast was one of the reasons (though not the primary one)

There, done.
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Entity13 posted...

I may or may not have been if I didn't expect this. I legit suspect that the announcement made last year was a last minute idea they had, complete with a title screen, for the purpose of showing off to 1) pad their time, and 2) gauge people's reaction to it. So it was barely, if even that, in pre-production at the time, and we'll be a while before we see anything of Prime 4.

To be fair to Nintendo, they said years ago that they no longer wanted to use E3 as a vehicle for their big game announcements, choosing instead to host their own Nintendo directs as they please for game news. So an absence of MP4 doesn't mean we won't glimpse it sometime this year.

For what it's worth, one of the Nintendo reps. interviewed simply said they didn't think it was a good enough state to show yet. While normally that might agree with your guess that they are still pretty early in development, this being Nintendo, that answer could honestly mean anything.
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He's not wrong, but equally, welcome to being literally anyone of any sort of fame in the Internet Age. Getting death threats and stuff just comes with the territory.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Part of me wants to call it lazy, which it kinda is, but I'm going to hold off on passing judgment until we see how many more new characters there are. So far it's Ridley and Inkling and "technically" Daisy.

That said Sakurai also did say something like "we don't have that many new characters" or whatever he said in the trailer, so idk

While I would guess the engine is based off of Smash 4 (which is good), it's still heavily modified, which means things have to be tweaked for nearly 70 characters on an individual basis, and plenty got small move reworks. And while characters like Young Link and Pichu aren't "new", they still had to be designed from the ground up with new assets, considering they weren't in Smash 4 at all. So while only 2 "new" characters exist, saying it lazy is an insult to the huge amount of work that has gone into the game.

Personally, I could have done without Pichu and others, but it's admittedly exciting to see the game be an ultimate compilation of all things Smash.
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I only tuned into Nintendo's proper, and while the Smash hype level is high, and FE, the IP, and the rest generally looked good, no further MP4 showing or any other big surprises definitely feels like a bit of a let down. Then again, Nintendo tends to make separate big announcements on their directs anymore, so them not coming out swinging at E3 is typical anymore.

I just saw the game announcements for the rest. There wasn't a lot that personally excited me, but it seems there's overall decent variety.
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The Smash hype is super legit, and the FE showing and even a new Party was nice, but I feel like Nintendo underwhelmed here. Having nothing more to show of Metroid 4 was a blow, and a lack of any real big tent poles sucks (that said, the new IP is interesting).

That said, Nintendo release big news on their own directs anymore, so it's always hard to tell what is in store from Nintendo by e3.
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SSB 64 to Melee was 2 years.
Melee to Brawl was 7 years.
Brawl to Smash 4 was 6 years. (Two different versions of Smash 4 exist too...)

4 years isn't that early imo.
Would Smash 4 have released sooner if the 3DS version didn't exist?

So like I said, it'as basically arriving 2-3 years too soon. Which is compounded by the fact that DLC extended the feeling of when Smash 4 was actually "finished" in comparison to previous ones.

But the real odd thing is not a new Smash announcement, but the fact that it's apparently coming out THIS YEAR. That's a radical departure from the long hype-build up that Nintendo likes to cultivate for the series. Which is why I still think this will ultimately be a GotY edition port of Smash 4, rather than Smash 5 proper.

But I guess we'll see soon.
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I tuned in and out of a few episodes that my room mates were watching, only so they could laugh at it and proclaim Bryce the real hero of the story.

My take away was that it's basicaly Degrassi, except every male character seems to be gay.
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Checking in.

Is it weird I feel it's too early for a new Smash?
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It would, with utmost certainty, make the problem worse.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I actually feel terribly ashamed because this didn't even occur to me.

I'm going to deflect the shame by suggesting it never occurred to me because I never really thought of Holdo as a worthwhile character anyway, so in my brain she's actually less worthwhile than the average droid.

But yeah, now that you've said this, I'm never going to be able to watch that part of the movie again and not be annoyed by it.

I was going to question how you just now noticed this, since it was pointed out almost INSTANTLY online after the first showing, but then I remembered you just saw it recently, and thus would have missed the rants/analysis.

It's one of the few times those long, wall o' texts by angry nerd fans turn out to be absolutely right. There is a staggering amount of logical lapses and suspensions of disbelief to make almost any part of the Holdo-Poe-Leia-Finn sequence work. Like, virtually every part of dialogue and scenes in the whole sequence is the most blatantly vapid attempts to pad out a film I've ever seen, hyperbole be damned. The salt on the would being that the entire subplot amounts to dick, and takes up easily 1/3 of the movie. And while I have plenty of other problems with the film, gutting that entire part would instantly make TLJ way better.

Rian clearly had no clue what to do with any character not named Luke, Rey, or Kylo (and even then he only hit a few elements right, in my opinion), so instead of try, he just kept them in an extremely cringey holding pattern. I've only seen the film once (and likely only ever will, at least for some time), and it generally takes a LOT to jar me out of the filming experience, but I kept having mini double-takes during the entire subplot, because it was so extremely contrived from top to bottom.
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I'd straight up become Light, except also use it to enrich myself.
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Should I bother to watch Agents of SHIELD at this point? It's always been on my list, and I found out Ghost Rider is in it, which is cool.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Oddly, there was apparently absolutely no discussion of Black Panther. Is that something we want to start this time around? Or are we content to let that sleeping dog lie forever?

And at some point in the near future, I'll throw the Infinity War topics up here to reply to.

Let's do both. Spoilers might have been the reason for both. Or in my case, for basically being inactive for most of last topic.

I liked Black Panther. Not so much to explain to me its staggering box office success (it's still in theaters as it's coming out on home media!), but it's probably the best Marvel film focused on a "B-tier" Avenger (then again, I liked Dr. Strange quite a bit). Killmonger is definitely one of MCU's better villains (and it helps that I like Michael B. Jordan a lot, and I liked him on screen more than BP himself), and the music, visuals, and fights were all great. The story to me was just meh. The idea of isolationism vs. the globalism interaction Wakanda could have was a neat story idea, but I feel it kinda got lost in the shuffle of Killmonger's revenge plot, and BP's inner struggles on what it meant to be a king. I feel like honing in tighter on the struggle and responsibilities of a country like Wakanda has to itself and/vs. the world would have made for a more interesting outcome.

That, and I felt the scenes of meeting in the Korean casino or w/e kinda hurt the overall story flow, but BP was definitely good over all.

IW I thought was pretty sublime in a way, to pull something that big off that felt really well rounded over all. I especially like how dedicated they went to making Thanos that big of a threat and badass...since it's inevitable that the Avengers will come back and "win" in part 2, they really needed to make Thanos' victory here look dominating. And they did. Great fight scenes, proper time for basically all the heroes, good one liners (I'm really glad they gave Thanos the "You'll know what it's like to lose. To believe so desperately that you are right, yet fail all the same" line, just it's basically a giant "fuck you" to the idea of the power of friendship), tone....it was a big win for me.

I'll get into it more, but back to work for me.
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I'd argue that's not the problem at all.

The real problem, I think, is that they didn't have an overarching plot worked out in advance, knowing exactly what was going to happen in VIII and IX while still writing the script for VII. That leads to choppy plotting, because each film has to improvise a plot that may or may not connect to the others properly (see also, the Mass Effect franchise).

I didn't spell it out in my original quote, but yeah, this is exactly what i meant by "inconsistent structure", since there was basically no guidelines that each writer/director has to stick to. The effect being it feels like reading one of those "Let's write a story 3 words at a time" topics when watching TFA and TLJ back-to-back.

I'm honestly baffled how anyone thought that was a good idea.

While I'm not champing at the bit to know how it all ends, I'm still willing to see it through (eventually). There's both good and bad in there, and if I was the sort of person who completely wrote off all of the good because the bad annoyed me, I'd have spent the last 35 years hating RotJ.

Sure, I basically have to finish something once I start it, unless it's just that god-awful (in which case I usually tap out mid way/right after the first season/film/whatever). So I'll see IX. But that's very likely where I end my escapades with the SW films going forth. I basically blatantly refuse to see Solo, since I don't want to promote Disney's continual whoring of the films, in addition to me giving no fucks about the premise of the story.

But as I said before, I see no way IX can turn out well, especially now that JJ is doing IX. Is he going to have blue balls for not being able to write the conclusion he was likely imagining (since TLJ likely derailed it), or will be somehow try and make a salad out of the leafy fragments that he has to now work with? And even if IX turns out pretty good against all reasoning, it'll have somehow manged to do that in stark contrast of the other 2 films in my eyes.
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The Wave Master posted...

"If you had three super powers, not just one or even two, what would they be?"

I was initially going to think of stuff that would be cool thematically for me personally and stuff, but fuck it: If I can legit get any 3 super powers, I'm just going to go for the most broken ones so that I can become rich, and make myself a super hero/villain if need be.

So give me teleportation, mind control, and and time control. Or swap time control with immortality, if that's allowed.

I would then essentially make myself Light Yagami from Death Note, except with more money and maybe slightly less of a god complex.

I'm not a fan of casting Jamie Foxx as Spawn. I feel it's going to be two hours of him growling and talking with his mouth closed thru his teeth.

*shrug* They need star power is they are going to compete with the big superhero film obvious, and that's something he definitely has. I like Kaluuya a lot, but I definitely don't see him as Spawn. I could go with Duke, though.

Any thoughts on why Solo is under performing at the box office?

Come on, you know why: Film fatigue, which myself and practically everyone else predicated would happen as soon as Disney got the SW rights.

It was inevitable that Disney was going to suck the teat dry, but they somehow seem amazingly oblivious that having a once cherished series with only 6 films in a 30+ year span switching to like 4 films in 4 years would be a very jarring switch that would wear people down and out. Despite the large marketing blitz, you could just FEEL how uninterested the general public has been for the film.

There's a myriad of smaller reasons, too: Planting it right after/next to IW and Deadpool 2 was an amazingly bad idea, and the extremely polarizing The Last Jedi definitely killed more fans of the movies than brought in, yours truly included. Alden Ehrenreich not really having the "look" of Harrison Ford in the trailers, or the fact that no one was asking for a Solo backstory in the first place also contribute.

One would hope this is a wake-up call the Disney, since they already have like 2 other trilogies and a Boba Fett movie already planned. They definitely need to pump the brakes over there. The fact that a SW movie is going to have trouble making its money back is mind blowing.

When they originally announced they were going to do Rogue One, Solo, and a presumed Obi-Wan movie, Rogue One was pretty much the only concept I even remotely gave a shit about.

Same. I have a problem with doing stand-alone movies with already established characters, just so they can fill in their backstories. I don't NEED to know Han's backstory-the fact that he's a ruffian and a smuggler has been, and always will be good enough for the SW movies. I don't need the exact details.

RO is different though, because it has minimal connection to already established characters, yet a large connection to the plot. And while no one ever asked for, or needed to see how the Death Star plans were stolen, it offered a rare glimpse into the SW universe void of Jedi or The Froce, and instead relied on good-old subterfuge and whatnot. The fact that it turned out to be a suicide mission and all the heroes were basically forgotten also made it cool.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I have a extra question for the class, in honor of the new topic:

Hypothetically, science perfects human-form robots, and they become cheap enough that many people own one (and they are tested enough that we're sure they won't go defective or try and kill us all). The only condition is that, for socio-political legal reasons we won't get into, every robot needs to be cast in the likeness of its owner (and it will look exactly like you).

Also, for utility purposes, the robot will be programmed with an artificial personality similar to your own, and will be programmed with a copy of your memories, but will NOT (as far as you know) have self-awareness or motivation of its own.

Someone (who isn't important - it could be someone you know, your employer, or even part of a contest) offers to buy you a free robot (or maybe the robots just become so cheap and ubiquitous that pretty much anyone can buy them for almost no cost). If you accept it, you can basically have it do whatever tasks you wish, whether incredibly menial labor like cooking and cleaning, more advanced tasks, or pretty much anything that you can think of that a absolute slave could do.

Would you want one? Or would it be too creepy for you for whatever reasons might motivate you?

This almost sounded like the plot of Surrogates for a second.

So basically, you're asking if I'd want a robot clone of me that i would have complete dominion over? Sure, why not? So long as the bot would let it be known that it's exactly that, and not actually me, so there wouldn't be any IRL confusion. I'd probably just use it for chores and stuff like that.

Bonus Question: Um, no.

Second bonus question: ...Maybe. Depends. I guess so long as I can program the bot to never talk about it, so I don't have to face the fact that I basically just f'd myself.
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How does one, um, return emails?
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Cybrog here, checking in!
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Do you think being a bit older than the median posting age of the average GFaqs user has afforded you a unique perspective on this site?
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BADoglick posted...

Also 'this is just bait' is an admission of a lack of critical thinking skills

That would imply that there's anything to critically think about in regards to the topic in question. Spoilers: There isn't.

Curse you for making me take Jen's side on anything, but this is obviously a low-hanging fruit topic.
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Mead posted...

Since when did kneeling become a sign of disrespect

Allow me to introduce you to the American conservative.

ninja_lootz posted...

That was 28 years ago and she caught a ton of flack for it at the time. What is even the point of bringing it up?

To show that Trump is blatantly racist, but that's kinda beating a dead horse at this point.
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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

I haven't been paying attention to details of the new Pokemon game...someone give me a tl;dr.

Looks like a remake of Yellow on the sun/moon engine at first, but there are no wild battles (you can only catch wild pokemon GO style), the starters Evee and Pikachu can't evolve, and has coop play.

Btw, I do hope the coop thing gets passed on to the next main game, I would buy a Switch for playing Pokemon from start to finish with a friend.

The fuck?

On the one hand, seeing a game like Pokemon Go, but with way more depth and polish, would be a good thing to see. On the other hand, it sounds like they aren't intergrating this in the best way, and non-evolutions doesn't make sense.
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I haven't been paying attention to details of the new Pokemon game...someone give me a tl;dr.
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I'm at fault for being AWOL. It's been a busy ass year in film land, and what precious hours I have to myself are basically spent socially and/or catching up on my backlog. I'll try and be more active. I've been trying to get out (as in, hike and camp) more. Spurred by the fact that I haven't had any real Summer time off in like 4 years. I think I'll have 2 weeks between this show and my next one.

Anyone watching Westworld?

And DP2 was a hoot, especially with the fight scenes and post-credit scenes.
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I've had Tales of Zesteria (sp?) on Steam for a while now, I think I'll finally try and play it this year. Currently about 60 hours in Xenoblade 2.
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Can someone design a Chrome plug-in to remove this garish crap?
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Some country in Asia is literally endangering us all by breaking the global ban. Scientists are apparently pretty shocked.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/16/mysterious-rise-in-banned-ozone-destroying-chemical-shocks-scientists

A sharp and mysterious rise in emissions of a key ozone-destroying chemical has been detected by scientists, despite its production being banned around the world.

Unless the culprit is found and stopped, the recovery of the ozone layer, which protects life on Earth from damaging UV radiation, could be delayed by a decade. The source of the new emissions has been tracked to east Asia, but finding a more precise location requires further investigation.

CFC chemicals were used in making foams for furniture and buildings, in aerosols and as refrigerants. But they were banned under the global Montreal protocol after the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica in the 1980s. Since 2007, there has been essentially zero reported production of CFC-11, the second most damaging of all CFCs.
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I, too, enjoyed IW quite a bit.
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knivesX2004 posted...

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

So, I think I'm seeing IW Saturday, and the NFL Draft is on.

I just got back from seeing it.

Non-spoiler, generic thoughts?
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So, I think I'm seeing IW Saturday, and the NFL Draft is on.
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LinkPizza posted...

That must have been very awkward...

Absolutely. She's got that mom sense where she left quickly because she knew something was up (probably thought we were making out), but I'm absolutely sure she couldn't possibly know the full extent of what was happening.
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Unless you're using it for nudes or confidential shit, Snapchat is useless and in fact stupid for anything else.

And even then it's pointless, since you can save/screenshot stuff on it now.
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>be me
>in college, still living with parents at the time
>GF is over, no one is home. Sexy time commences
>She's wearing a skirt. Slide off her panties, toss them away. Have her sit on bed edge. I unzip, insert, and start going at it.
>5 minutes or so later, we hear someone approaching down the hallway. My door is half-open.
>Mom walks in. It's a big house, so I didn't hear the front door open and close.
>Since my pants are still on, and my back is facing the door, I just sort of embrace my GF as if we were hugging/making out
>Have a mini conversation with my mom while still inside my GF. I basically refuse to move/can't move to face her
>She leaves soon. I pull out, GF and I have a terrified laugh about it. Sexy time is over.

I win.
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Low quality bait is low quality
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Except this arguably isn't true for a metric shit-ton of video games.

A fair amount of films could be seen the same way, and can be wildly different than what the general agreements of what a "movie" is.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

But e-sports aren't real sports.

Oh, I agree. Admittedly that wasn't the best place for me to use that example, as I was rather trying to demonstrate that just some people will go to great lengths to classify video games as something that already exists.
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If films are art, then so are video games. Full stop, this is an objective statement, it meets all the requirements, and checks all the boxes a movie does.

That said, I don't really care to guard the hill on that statement, because I'm not sure why anyone would be upset if someone considers games a form of art of not. Just like the same people who get bent out of shape over if e-sports should be compared to real sports or not.

Video games are pretty unique in terms of if they are an art/sport/whatever, we should just leave it at that. They don't really need the approval of any other medium.
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lol crypto currancies
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Iron Fist is the only entry from the 4 and Defenders I haven't seen. Oh, and I guess if The Punisher counts.
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TigerTycoon posted...

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

TigerTycoon posted...

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Nazanir posted...

But if you are giving away a years worth of fruit for free,

you know that everything in those bags are paid for, right?

By somebody who then chose to give them away for free. It's an act of charity toward people who have no need of charity, which is just wasteful.

It's not charity. It's rewarding and encouraging them to come.

The communism in this topic is high

That's not the problem, it's that Hollywood loves to paint themselves as extreme liberals, but they're total hypocrites about it.

Confusing being liberal with communist, matey. Many of these people are philanthropist and have foundations, you know.

So to you, "being liberal" means spending more money on a meaningless award show which purpose is to make themselves feel good and raise themselves above others in the most extravagant way possible over using it to help people who actually need it or on causes that actually matter?

Okay.

That's exactly right. Because they don't conflict with each other.

Your concern trolling has been noted, though.
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