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HeeathLivesOn posted...

Ya'lls literally celebrating the loss of freedom of choice / right to privacy
Doesn't matter if you never use it, it should never come down to this

This.

And don't be foolish, The Hub won't be the only ones blocking Texas. No one will comply with those silly rules.

Shit is happening fast now in the OP world. What will happen first, a showdown with BB/Akainu/Shanks and the like, or the WG?

agesboy posted...

im still so mad at how dirty they did him four years ago

he is one of the very few politicians i actually trust

Did him dirty how?

The Bernie Bros that helped get Trump elected (not saying that you are) had many flaws, but the biggest is forgetting the President can't do anything without Congress. Absolutely nothing Bernie wanted to happen was going to pass without a full majority Dem Congress, and even then that would be doubtful.

lol Texas. Red states really trying to be Handmaid's Tale.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

My gf dragged me to see it in the theater when she was going through her artsy phase. She kind of hated it, but I loved it.

It definitely is easy to believe it's just another wire-fu movie, but the neat twists and turns of the story, and itself being a fictious version of real historical characters and events was cool.

According to Wikipedia, it is the 5th highest non-English film in North America. It was #4, but Godzilla Minus One surpassed it. Pretty damn impressive. Also, the film would likely never have come to NA if not for Quentin Tarantino getting involved in pushing it through.

Hero is very underrated. But fucking great.

Dark_Arbron posted...

RoS deserves more sympathy in that regard. It had to try and pick up the pieces, whereas what TLJ tried was a terrible idea to begin with.

This is true. It was obvious a mile away, but 3 different directors (2nded up being 2), wit no Kevin Feige type making sure there was cohesion or continuity between the films guaranteed a mess.

That said, RoS is still full of sins, the biggest being the Palpatine ass-pull. Just Saturday-morning cartoon levels of lazy and bad.

RIP

HylianFox posted...

At least it tried

the other two movies didn't even bother

It didn't try shit, ot copied and pasted A New Hope, but with power creep.

The other 2 tried, and failed hard, but they actually tried. TFA was a lazy, by the number Cash grab.

Yes, but I thought NM is the Balloon Fiesta.

Karovorak posted...

Everyone in the US is accquainted with Fahrenheit.

Outside of the US, EVERYONE is accquainted with Celsius, no cartoons involved.

Well, of course, you can make any system work. You could make it a base 25 system or something, and it would still "work" for people.

The point of this topic is, what is preferred. C "works", but it's actually a lesser system than F for weather temperatures is the point.

Mam, this looks like a mess.

The casting is wildly off. Blanchett is too old and doesn't have the energy to be Lilith (and the Siren tattoos are missing)

Kevin Hart, nuff said. It seems he's trying, but he's Kevin hart.

Jamie Lee is also way too old to be Tannis, even if she may have the kook factor.

Tiny's energy is way off and toned down. Plus she's supposed to be like, what, 13?

Why the fuck don't they just use Cl4ptr4p's actual VA? Bless Jack Black, but it's so jarring.

Kreig actually looks...fine, but my next problem is: why is he and Tiny even in this, but not Mordecai and Brick? Tiny ain't even an actual vault hunter, so I'm not sure why they dropped Mordy and Brick, especially due to the irony of they actually are still alive by the end of BL3.

This seems so bad. Not even giving it a chance.

Doe posted...

One thing thats interesting to me is that weve gone through some pretty immensely powerful villains without introducing anything past base devil fruit powers. Skypeia introduced Mantra but it wasnt developed very much and I get the feeling Zorro has already used Mantra before in those moments where he feels the world around him and finally takes down a foe in one strike that was beating his ass.

Bingo. These guys HAVE been very powerful, but don't scratch the surface yet.

Surprised people are excited about this, the thunder and excitement are gone at this point.

Good, throw the book at him.

I'm going to guess the abuse of corporate jets for private use is 100%

reincarnator07 posted...

I would challenge anyone to tell the difference between 72 and 73f in a blind test.

I could snap my fingers and find you hundreds. This is extremely common. Hell, have you ever lived with a woman?

ClayGuida posted...

He also had his company dropped by ABC because his methods worked for a couple elections and then absolutely tanked 4 consecutive election cycles.

In way, it's bot his fault, since polling is more dead and chaotic than it has ever been. But rather than embracing that, he died on that hill.

I mean, that's been competitive gaming for basically forever, and why it can't be called a real "sport." You're skill level is always filtered through the inherent unbalanced of any game.

Silver got called out for his shitty polling, pulled a "no, the kids are wrong", and bow is embracing the right because he got his feelings hurt.

What a downfall.

Karovorak posted...

I don't get this "precision" about weather issue at all.

It's more precise degree over degree, since there's less of a leap in 1F , compared to 1C. And humans are extremely sensitive to minute temperature variations (i.e., 72F definitely feels different than 73F), meaning F is a more accurate read out, since the variation between 1 degree in C is too large.

And yes, using decimals could solve this, but no one does, and it's clumbsy.

While I liked Vesperia and especially Yuri, I was always confused by the debate between it and ToS.

ToS is better, and it isn't even close.

TC almost got it. Add Fahrenheit for weather temperatures being objectively better. The short scale ~0-100F, give or take, allows it to be more precise in a degree-to-degree basis. That, and a scale meant to measure water freezing and boiling is simply a poor way to measure weather temperatures humans care about - about 70% of the scale is enough to kill humans, and thus irrelevant. Fahrenheit ironically does the base 10 = easier to remember model of temperatures better than Cel for weather.

She's an idiot who has long overstayed her usefulness. Stuff like this is needlessly dumb in an election year, and get this single-voter nonsense out of here.

What people ITT fail to understand is, this type of rallying WILL linger with people come the real election. It's a pointless protest that has no hope to matter, and only chance to hurt.

VGAddict90 posted...

Texas has the worst voter suppression in the country.

Texas only allows ONE ballot dropbox per county, meaning Harris County, with 5 MILLION people, and greater in landmass than the state of Rhode Island, has the same number of ballot dropboxes as a county with fewer than 1,000 people.
You must be 65 or older to vote by mail in Texas.
Texas does not allow online voter registration, or same-day voter registration.
The government removed a popular on-campus polling location at TAMU.

"Just vote!" is an incredibly simplistic solution that does nothing to actually help. It's like telling a depressed person to "just be happy".

That, and Texas has had among the lowest voter turnout for at least 50 years, even before the suppression tactics.

Texans just don't vote.

colliding posted...

When are Democrats going to learn they need to be younger and more progressive if they want to appeal to the youth vote, whom they desperately rely upon?

When are Democrats going to realize that funding Israel's ongoing extermination of Palestinian civilians is not a popular platform?

When are Democrats going to be more vocal about their policies and platforms and not rely on "but the other guy" to galvanize voters?

(yes, I'm voting for Biden)

Only the Israel bit is kinda true.

The other 2 have already happened.

I've always loved thos movie. Straight hilarious with perfectly timed gags, likeable characters, great setting and score and fun plot. Just a hit.

mehmeh1 posted...

it's pretty clearly just meant to be that BB's crew is here

Nah. The originally translation is slightly different, but it's basically Luffy saying, "Well, it's not 'he'". Nami is confused, says "then what?". Zoro then says "Them...probably."

Which is very strange and how it's framed in it's own right, and has long caused confusion and suspicion as to what that means.

Well, *SPOILERS IF YOU AREN'T CAUGHT UP*
Later it is revealed that Blackbeard has an "odd/atypical body type", after it is revealed he can wield 2 DF powers at once, the only person who can do that. There's other subtle references and hints, like his Jolly Rodger with his 3 skulls, throughout that suggest there is something unique about Blackbeard. He's also trying to acquire more DF, so we know he can absorb at least 1 more. Does he have multiple personalities? A conjoined twin inside of him? What?

But this scene is definitely the first reference that something odd about Blackbeard is detectable by those who can perceive it. That's the leading interpretation, but debate does still rage about what exactly Luffy and Zoro mean. But accurate translations make it seem to not make sense for them to be talking about his crew.

AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

Not really sure you can call moving from a high tax state to a low tax state a "rigged system"

Because it is. This money and gains are ethereal, just 1's and 0's, so geographically relocating shouldn't affect taxes like this.

You can say that's Washington's bad for adding said tax, but the point is this should be something entirely streamlined and controlled at a purely federal level. That, and he's not ACTUALLY moving to Florida, he's just establishing a brick and mortar there he can claim as a house. All the business and capital gains are still occurring from what happens in Washington.

The entire system is design like this, so that those who have money always keep it.

Fuck yeah

It's simply astounding how different conservative brains are, and how pliable they are to propaganda. Like, the one group you'd think would be the most pro-America, anti-Russia, is now slurping for them hardcore.

Doe posted...

Another famous page
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/40072702.jpg

One of the best. It was cool to see this before Blackbeard gets established as a villain. That they are alike.

Plus, the panel right after, where Luffy and Zoro suggest (but Nami can't apparently see) that Blackbeard may be a "them", is one of the biggest mysteries in OP currently.

Rika_Furude posted...

i just finished the Alabasta arc and Im heading into the next arc myself. After shitting on One Piece myself for years, Im surprised I like it so much after giving it a genuine try. That scene you posted with Nami is still my favourite one so far though

Feel like there's been a big uptick in this in recent years. Way too many watches Naruto, because ninjas and it had a way better anime American dub, and dismissed OP. But OP is the GOAT manga for a reason.

And to be fair, Crocodile beat Luffy 2 times before he was able to come back and win. Hell, he damn near killed Luffy.

Dontcha just love the endless appeals system?

At this point, a President could nuke the moon, and it would take a decade worth of trials to determine if it happened or not. It's a very poor deterrent for Presidents to act correctly when you can gum up the justice system forever.

mystic_belmont posted...

I don't see the USSC ruling on ending their power by granting the President immunity from any prosecution.

But we will see.

I mean, it would then apply to Biden, opening up Pandora's box. If nothing else, the Cons don't want that.

I'd prefer if game design and layout could handle this in a more natural way, but I don't mind it. SOmetimes it is just hard to say "this random slope of rock is climbable, but not these ones" without paint, so I don't mind.

Or have an option to toggle off.

EPR-radar posted...

Vyrulisse posted...
Blue MAGA is not a thing and this topic is the first I've ever heard of it. What the hell? lol
There were a few cranks on the old 261 that used to flog this Blue MAGA nonsense.

It's always projection with these right wing clowns. They worship their God-Emperor Trump and think that's how everyone else does politics.

It's been in the GOP's playbook to try to find false equivalences with the Left to excuse their own horrid behavior. Because it muddies the water to try and convince people the 2 are different sides of the same coin, which proves useful for useful idiot edgelords.

But man, this topic got off the rails. Just laugh at Biden memeing hard on the insane Right.

It should also be mentioned that those who think their religious beliefs should be respected and adhered to are the ones least likely to respect the beliefs of others. It's just thinly-veiled elitism.

Roller skates and some of the theatrics were cool, but otherwise lame.

ItsNotA2Mer posted...

How is this a controversy?

*Sees $30 cosmetic, laughs out loud, goes about day*

Controversy solved.

Kinda this. On the one hand, yes, that's an insane price for something so trivial.

On the other, it's so trivial that who the fuck would care in the first place? Just ignore it and move on.

That said, have they fixed non-season mode yet to actually smooth the level progression and add things to do, like they promised a year ago?

Tbf, that's every game of that type. Pretty much the same thing happened to Diablo4, but after a month. People grind the game, run out of content, then stop.

Absolutely not. People's "personal religious beliefs" should NEVER matter when it comes to them being in a government position, where it affects someone's health...well, for ANY reason, at all.

Mostly because it's bullshit. Religious beliefs can be whatever people say they are, so it opens the door for them to be "against" any and everything. It's not even a slippery slope, but a lube-coated slide into the abyss.

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More than just that, since it's been going on for so long. Texans are just lazy and submissive. Even the Dems are too lazy to make a difference. They could flip Texas blue tomorrow, but the turnout is never there.

Stop linking to Twitter.

Good. They knew this would be the consequence and did it anyways.

It doesn't help Texas has had the lowest voter turnout of any state for like 40 years now.

Literally unconstitutional, but OK.

What is this link trying to prove?