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Quite a few posters here seem to have some sort of relation to a lot of these shooters. I'm pretty sure a GameFAQ's poster survived the Dark Knight Rises shooting.

Vegas hit me bad. I always wanted to go there. Now it's gonna be in the back of my mind if I ever go there. That a lot of people were gunned down just over there from that big hotel.
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It's more about the lead designer than the actual game. The politics of the game combined with the fact that the lead designer is an open alt-righter is why they're not gonna cover it. Waypoint are an extremely left leaning video game website.

If the lead designer wasn't a factor I doubt they'd care as much.
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orcus_snake posted...

DezDroppedFreak posted...

L0Z posted...

Well the good white guy in the movie was called a "colonizer", referred to as "broken white boy", and barked at and threatened to be fed to dogs for speaking and then laughed at.

How is it not racist. The movie was good other than that.

...That's not racist

Second thing was also a setup for the post-credits scene

I mean, I noticed that along with those the guy touches tchalla and he goes ewwww he tocuhed me with the side glance, it's obviously going for the reverse of what people usually do agaisnt black people and I understood the point that they are trying to make but stop doing it every couple of fucking seconds jesus fucking christ.

Cause yeah, in the end he helps a ton and all is good m I rite guys? but those scenes still happened, and I'm not even white, I'm latino. I think the scenes where the white cannot fathom the level of tech these "suppossed savages" can yield is enough of a point to make wihout having to be dicks to the one white dude bumblin about lol.

It should be obvious in the context of the movie why Wakandan's wouldn't be quick to trust him.
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Kazi1212 posted...

Lol what I just asked a question. I was confused why African Americans are making a huge deal about this when the lead character isnt even an African American, its about an actual African in Africa. I can see why TC mistakenly put African American Panther, with so much hype from that community regarding this movie youd think it was about them

African-Americans are important in Black Panther.
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Coffeebeanz posted...

"The creator of this game is a pig, therefore it invalidates anything objectively true about the game's depiction of Bohemian society"

-gives Roman Polanski an Academy Award-

Waypoint must be bigger than I thought if they decide academy awards.
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ZombiePelican posted...

Are you actually naive enough to believe this? Every other MS exclusive has microtransactions with a BS premium currency. In what world will Sea of Thieves be any different?

The world in which it launches without one and Rare haven't said it will have one?

How would a premium currency even work in this game? As far as I know you steal gold from other players and treasure chests.

Your argument has basically devolved to "this game will have in-game currency and shitty F2P mechanics regardless of what they say!"

If that isn't the case is the game fine then?

myzz7 posted...

Darmik posted...

Microtransaction and in-game currency are not used interchangeably and they do not mean the same thing. And no I don't consider buying $60 worth of in-game currency a microtransaction.

Google microtransaction definition and paste all of the results here. This is looney even for you.

wtf is this. if u put real world money into a game to buy small bits of game features - its a microtransaction. doesn't matter if there's a middle step of ingame currency brought with real world money. you're pretending to be stupid or what?

ZombiePelican is saying that it's only a microtransaction if there's in-game currency. You're agreeing with me.
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Even homicide rate doesn't truly show the only impact when it comes to mass shootings. How many people experienced but survived these mass shootings in schools and massacres like Vegas?
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ZombiePelican posted...

Yet, They're still considered "micro" transactions no matter how much you can drop at once on virtual play money by everyone else but YOU

Sea of Thieves doesn't have a premium virtual currency so this conversation is irrelevant anyway.

ZombiePelican posted...

But because YOU conventiely want to try to change what it means to be a microtransaction for the sake of shilling for a huge corporation, we're all supposed to agree? Lol no.

Find me one source where microtransaction means virtual currency

Because the definition on Google is;

Microtransaction (sometimes abbreviated as MTX) is a business model where users can purchase virtual goods via micropayments. Microtransactions are often used in free-to-play games to provide a revenue source for the developers.

Monster Hunter World has microtransactions weirdo

ZombiePelican posted...

The difference is Capcom isn't acting as a mouthpieces for a publisher to defend their s*** greed driven business practices

You're not even being consistent
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- The document was presented to higher ups. The response? Meh. Then Lion King happened. Finally some people started to ask for a solution. This doesn't mean they got permission though. You don't get permission in Microsoft. You do it anyway and hope it pays off so you don't get fired
- So work on the Manhattan Project properly started headed by St John. Without permission from the higher ups. They spent 1.2 million unauthorised money for contactors
- St John still had that Microsoft stigma so he changed the way they approached developers. They didn't want to appear as Microsoft. It was more like an edgy anti-marketing campaign that focused on kicking out Japanese consoles. St Johm angled himself as an enemy of Microsoft corporate management
- At this point DOS games were for hardcore gamers (because they took extra work to get running) and Windows games were for casual gamers. Video games in general still weren't very mainstream in the mid 90's however
- It was too late to include DirectX in windows 95. But they could slip in some hooks to add it in later. This was risky work and could have got them in huge trouble. It was all undocumented.
- The trick with DirectX was that it would basically shut off all of the Windows crap bogging them down. They're essentially turning off Windows to run the DirectX game. Nobody outside the DirectX team knew this.
- A lot of DirectX was designed to correct the mistakes made with the previous Doom port. Doom 95 (or Doom 2? The book calls it both) was the first true DirectX game
- The Manhattan Project was renamed to Windows 95 Game SDK
- St John 'tar babied' the SDK and went too the press with the exciting news. He used a nuclear symbol to represent the new SDK. The press went crazy with a bunch of nuclear bomb drop images that targeted Nintendo and Sony. Microsoft PR weren't happy.
- Because it wasn't an officially supported Microsoft initiative they had to get pledge support from developers and went to a theme park for the reveal instead of GDC. A lot of games weren't working yet and were shown on WinG instead. This event was called Ground Zero
- There was a Beavis and Butthead demo that unfortunately blue screen of deathed. The theatre roared with laughter and DOS chants. Some Microsoft employees put on lab coats and started pulling out cables and put on a show like it was planned
- At this point DOS games were 320x240. Windows games were 640x480 but were slow. DOS developers weren't convinced this would pay off and were there for free food
- The first demo was Super Bubsy. It was smooth. People were blown away. It ran 640x480 in 24 bit colour and 60fps. They turned off vertical blank sync and the game went blurry but started running 500fps. The audience went wild. Graphics this advanced were unseen before
- Following Super Bubsy was WinDOOM running in 640x480 at 60 fps with multi-channel stereo and even a force-feedback joystick. And synchronized sound.
- This was their Steve Jobs moment. Suddenly DOS seemed ancient and DirectX was where developers wanted to be. This advanced PC gaming significantly and you could easily argue that if this didn't happen there wouldn't be an Xbox. Microsoft were now serious about games
- The show ended with $5,000 fireworks
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- DirectX began as the Manhattan Project. Developers were excited because they were losing 70% of their revenue on support
- Microsoft went around and simply asked developers what they wanted. Their intention was for The Manhattan Project to be 'crack for developers'
- A lot of developers hated Microsoft. St John was often called Darth Vader. Regardless he went around and asked what they hypothetically wanted and couldn't refuse using
- They got a lot of feedback and it was seen as a great move for developer relations
- They created a manifesto titled Taking Fun Seriously: or How to own PC games in two years, and take a bite out of the home game console market. It was a radical document about the importance and strategic value of hames. Games weren't a priority for Microsoft at the time outside of this team
- The goal was to empower games with Microsoft technology. To target games against Apple

The specific goals for Project Manhattan was to;
- Use Manhattan SDK to enable systems, ACT and consumer
- Kill DOS within two years
- Grow PC revenue against consoles
Some observations;
- Game market is huge
- Console market is in decline and must reinvent itself next year (this was in 1994)
- PC Game market severely repressed thanks to difficulties with installations, piracy and little hardware innovation under DOS

- The document includes terms like 'DOS bumpkins' and 'Apple Maggots'
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NES4EVER posted...

The most surprising part is that it still worked!

Old boy has put in a long career but still managed to perform in old age.

It doesn't take a lot of performance to splooge on a dress
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Overall pretty split so far. Bayonetta has got the edge for me. That game is just so damn replayable.
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Lorenzo_2003 posted...

Jiek_Fafn posted...

Trump gives us reasons to hate him several times a week that are far more reprehensible.

I dont get it. Why would Trump banging a porn actress be reprehensible, let alone something that you hate? Men like sex, especially sex with beautiful women. Sometimes you can get it totally for free, but most of the time you have to pay. Girlfriends made me pay. I had to buy them lunch and dinner for several days and take them out to movies. But the point is I paid. This is not uncommon obviously.

Is it because he told her to keep quiet about it? Im just upset that he apparently paid her more than a hundred thousand dollars, even though it wasnt like a three-some or anything out of the ordinary.

Well if his specific story is true he'd be married and with a child that was recently born...

I suppose it's possible his wife knew. If that was the case it doesn't really matter.
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A few of these are franchises so if your favorite is DMC3 (Or DmC!) vote for Devil May Cry.
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While you were out partying and sleeping with girls

He studied the blade
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Mal_Fet posted...

hockeybub89 posted...

Or because we realized locking people up and stabbing icepicks in their brain may not be the best way to treat mental illness.

...Are you under the impression that we live in the 1930's or something

Darmik posted...

Considering the rise of mass shootings in America

The homicide rate has been falling drastically for several decades now, actually.

So what else do you got

Lets have a look at the actual numbers here. Both numbers are the homicide rate per 100k people

Australia went from 1.9 in 1995 to 1.0 in 2017

America went from 8.2 in 1995 to 4.5 in 2014.

As for mass shootings?
Australia had 35 people killed in a mass shooting in 1996
2 people killed in a mass shooting in 2002
8 people killed in 2014 in two separate shooting sprees (one of which was a man who killed his family)
That's all of them

82 people have been killed in shootings sprees in the US this year already.
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Mal_Fet posted...

Still, your statistic isn't significant. There weren't many mass shootings in general before the Port Arthur shooting so saying that the gun buyback was a success because there's only been a handful of mass killings since is beyond dishonest.

It's not being dishonest. A guy easily massacred several people. The laws changed so this is no longer easy. We haven't had one since.

Considering the rise of mass shootings in America and these stories in the media there is no reason to believe we wouldn't have had our own if people had the same access to the guns used in Port Arthur today.
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Mal_Fet posted...

Darmik posted...

Ok? So a kid threatens teachers at the school.

What do you think the FBI should do from there?

Put them in a psych ward.

Can they storm in his house and take his guns away?

Yes. Violent criminals shouldn't be allowed to have guns.

A psych ward? Can the FBI make that decision on their own? Who decides that?

When is someone a 'violent criminal'

When they make threats online or in person?
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Mal_Fet posted...

You also really didn't have any mass shootings before, either. It's a statistically insignificant figure.

We had the worst mass shooting at that point

Mal_Fet posted...

Also, 2/3 of the gun owners in Australia still have their guns after the "ban" went into effect. Don't act like your firearms all magically vanished.

Why would I need to pretend that? The point was to make it harder for people to murder people with firearms and to avoid mass shooting. Not make guns disappear completely overnight.
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Mal_Fet posted...

Or people who were threatening teachers at the school he went to. That would be good.

You must have missed this one then;
Darmik posted...

Mal_Fet posted...

Darmik posted...

So just to clarify you're advocating for the FBI to investigate people who write death threats on the internet?

Or people who were threatening teachers at the school he went to. That would be good.

Ok? So a kid threatens teachers at the school.

What do you think the FBI should do from there? Can they storm in his house and take his guns away?

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Mal_Fet posted...

It's not guns. Gun ownership has skyrocketed in the past 30 years and the homicide rate in America has been dropping at a faster rate in that timeframe than Australia did after they imposed their ban.

Because ours have a lot less room to drop.

We also haven't had a mass shooting since.
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Mal_Fet posted...

Shooters will target places where they think they can kill as many people as they can, regardless if they have a death wish. The Boston bombers didn't just happen to set off their explosives at the same day and the same place as the marathon.

Yeah it's not like these kids who shoot up schools had any relation to that school or anything. That must be a coincidence. Clearly it's only because it's a gun free zone.

You also missed this question.
Darmik posted...

Mal_Fet posted...

How about the FBI did their jobs and put more effort into apprehending the psychopaths they were warned about in advance? Or are they too busy investigating nothingburgers like the Russia conspiracy?

So just to clarify you're advocating for the FBI to investigate people who write death threats on the internet?

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hockeybub89 posted...

Mal_Fet posted...

In the latter case, they can remove gun-free zone laws because all that actually does is entice shooters to target the areas where they know nobody will have a gun.

But if schools are such a powder keg, then why did you earlier remind everyone how rare school shootings are?

And clearly these mass shooters are afraid to die so that will stop them!
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https://www.theonion.com/gorilla-sales-skyrocket-after-latest-gorilla-attack-1819574361/

Following the events of last week, in which a crazed western lowland gorilla ruthlessly murdered 21 people in a local shopping plaza after escaping from the San Diego Zoo, sources across the country confirmed Thursday that national gorilla sales have since skyrocketed.

After seeing yet another deranged gorilla just burst into a public place and start killing people, I decided I need to make sure something like that never happens to me, said 34-year-old Atlanta resident Nick Keller, shortly after purchasing a 350-pound mountain gorilla from his local gorilla store. It just gives me peace of mind knowing that if Im ever in that situation, I wont have to just watch helplessly as my torso is ripped in half and my face is chewed off. Ill be able to use my gorilla to defend myself.

Law enforcement and animal control can only get there so quickly, Keller added. And you never know when youll need to use a gorilla to save your life.

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You get a discount if you own one of the games I'm pretty sure. No idea how that works with pre-existing sales though.
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chill02 posted...

why is a 3 year old game still $60

Nintendo games like Donkey Kong take a really long time to drop in price.

Hell if the Wii U was still a thing I'd bet DK would still be $60.
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LordRazziel posted...

Curious how Islamic terrorism is when compared to all the murders in the world.
Doesn't mean inst not a serious problem.

These same people constantly talk about how Europe is a dangerous shithole because of the terrorist attacks as well. Despite the America faring worse with random killings in pretty much every available metric.
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"The FBI knew about this kid! They should have done more!"
"What should they have done?"
"Stop investigating Trump!"

Good grief
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Mal_Fet posted...

Darmik posted...

So just to clarify you're advocating for the FBI to investigate people who write death threats on the internet?

Or people who were threatening teachers at the school he went to. That would be good.

Ok? So a kid threatens teachers at the school.

What do you think the FBI should do from there? Can they storm in his house and take his guns away?
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muchdran posted...

Darmik posted...

Mal_Fet posted...

How about the FBI did their jobs and put more effort into apprehending the psychopaths they were warned about in advance? Or are they too busy investigating nothingburgers like the Russia conspiracy?

So just to clarify you're advocating for the FBI to investigate people who write death threats on the internet?

The FBI knew about him, but way too busy chasing conspiracy theories.

You do know the FBI is an organization of people who all work on different things right?

I'm curious what people who make comments like this want. Do they want death threats on the internet investigated? If someone makes a claim that a teenaged kid threatened to shoot up the school should they storm in that kids house, go through his internet history and confiscate his guns?

What is the expectation here?
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Mal_Fet posted...

How about the FBI did their jobs and put more effort into apprehending the psychopaths they were warned about in advance? Or are they too busy investigating nothingburgers like the Russia conspiracy?

So just to clarify you're advocating for the FBI to investigate people who write death threats on the internet?
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St0rmFury posted...

Let's be honest, if Sandy Hook didn't spur them to change, nothing ever will.

https://www.americanheritage.com/content/america-gun-culture

A nation that could not devise a system of gun control after its experiences of the 1960s, and at a moment of profound popular revulsion against guns, is not likely to get such a system in the calculable future. One must wonder how grave a domestic gun catastrophe would have to be in order to persuade us. How far must things go?

This article was written in 1970.
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They've said that SNES/NES games will be on their online service thing. So they're probably waiting for that.
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Why did Skinner and Springfield Elementary get the money from discovering the oil in Springfield.

Wouldn't that money go to the Government. Or does Skinner own the school somehow.
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chill02 posted...

And how come I can't get no Tang around here

SHUT UP!
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Why does Flanders try to baptise Bart, Lisa and Maggie and got offended when they weren't when he doesn't seem to go to a Catholic church.
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But Homer is also only dumb because a crayon is lodged in his brain.
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I, for one, get offended when people compare things to the cultural milestone of sliced bread.
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CasualGuy posted...

Who is going to pay them to stand around all day?

Tons of schools these days even have to share gym/music teachers because of lack of funding

I think it's one of those 'alternative solutions to gun control' that they're not actually serious about because those alternative solutions will require a lot of public investment and higher taxes.
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Why limit it to vets? Are they expected to do it for free or something?
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