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TopicThe more I think about it, the more I realize taxation is theft
DevsBro
02/13/18 10:34:02 AM
#26
Doom_Art posted...
Asherlee10 posted...
LRodC posted...
Ilishe posted...
Actually it isn't theft.

Taxation is a nationwide contribution to the government's operating budget from every person willing and capable of legally earning money.

Tax money pays for public services like police, firemen, health care, justice, garbage disposal, education, road maintenance and so on. It's a long list.

No reason why they cant be private businesses instead. Government is unneeded and free market can take care of that stuff.


This is a TERRIBLE idea.

For realsies. If I'm unhappy with my government I can fire them. There's no such possibility with a corporate alliance governing everything

How do you do that?
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TopicIf you didn't have to work/go to school, what woould you do?
DevsBro
02/13/18 10:20:35 AM
#13
Preevyet posted...
Do I have money?

I mean, you're not gonna go hungry or anything.
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TopicHoly crap! Brawl is literally 10 years old now >_>
DevsBro
02/13/18 10:15:39 AM
#33
My roommates and I played it pretty much nonstop from release until we stopping rooming together literally a year later.

We were like the most comprehensive trio of player personalities ever, too. I always played fair to a fault (I knew how to do chain throws but it was cheap so I would only do two or three in a row, and only if I was losing, etc).

Then one of the roommates was the total Han Solo type--knew nothing about the game technically but just by being lucky as hell managed to put up a fight anyway. He always went for the cheapest possible strategy. Kill stealing, Fox blaster spam, standing alone while the other roommate and I fought each other, etc.

The other roommate took the game waaaaaay too seriously and would get super mad when one of us would do something that's "not supposed to happen", like the time I managed to grapple him as he was zooming by during Fox's illusion, and the time I spiked him with Ike when he was already off the bottom of the screen.

I just about always won because I played the hell out of Melee before that. But we had so much fun. So so so much fun.

One time the angry guy and I played a one-stock match and I was Ike while he was Dedede. So I'm on one edge of the stage and charge up the side b and he thinks for like half a second and then holds b, lol. So I'm thinking as soon as I release, I'm gonna get eaten but I figure whatever live and learn and let go. But for some reason (I guess some fine point in the gameplay) I actually hit him, but instead of stopping at the edge like Ike usually does, I fly off the stage to my death. We both laughed about that one.

Another time, the cheater and I were playing on that windwaker stage and totall just decide to goof off. He decides to play one-handed while I just try to see what I can do for laughs. He was Pikachu while I was Fox. He kumps down onto the little rowboat or whatever that goes away in the storm, so I decide for laughs I'm gonna get us both killed and jump down there too and do fox's infinite kick move on him while the storm approaches. Now, he's trying to down B me so when the boat turns over it puts me above him for the down B. He dies and I get hit and knocked back up onto the ship, surviving it, lol.

Also one time the cheater and I were both playing Snake and he gets the smash ball. He jumps off the stage and comes down with the helicopter. I was at over 100% damage so I was dead and knew it. So I decide to just go out on a laugh and do the taunt (box). He sees what I did there, laughs and does the MGS "WHERE'D HE GO?" vocal while he starts pointing the reticle all over the place. Then the taunt ended and he does the ! sound and shoots me, lol.

So many other stories too. What a great game.
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TopicImagine you're Toby Flenderson and you have a meeting with Michael Scott.
DevsBro
02/13/18 9:49:02 AM
#7
Well that could have been worse.
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TopicImagine you're Toby Flenderson and you have a meeting with Michael Scott.
DevsBro
02/13/18 9:04:08 AM
#5
He's late. He's putting this off. This is baaaaaad. :(
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TopicImagine you're Toby Flenderson and you have a meeting with Michael Scott.
DevsBro
02/13/18 8:58:35 AM
#4
TopicImagine you're Toby Flenderson and you have a meeting with Michael Scott.
DevsBro
02/13/18 8:57:34 AM
#3
You know I never thought about it before but not only is the one-sided antagonizing there, I really do act a lot like Toby and he really does act a lot like Michael.
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TopicImagine you're Toby Flenderson and you have a meeting with Michael Scott.
DevsBro
02/13/18 8:54:01 AM
#1
This is me in six minutes.

*sigh*
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TopicThe more I think about it, the more I realize taxation is theft
DevsBro
02/13/18 8:52:21 AM
#15
uwnim posted...
You could argue that it is extortion

Yeah it's literally protection money.
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TopicYou're at a BBQ and the potato salad tastes like shit.
DevsBro
02/13/18 8:47:00 AM
#60
Potato salad always tastes like s***.
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TopicIf you didn't have to work/go to school, what woould you do?
DevsBro
02/13/18 8:43:05 AM
#4
Two_Dee posted...
Cook

For yourself?

stone posted...
Right now? I'd have stayed in bed.
In general? Ehhh dunno

In general. If you never had to work again.
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TopicKingdom Hearts III should have a Simpsons world
DevsBro
02/13/18 8:42:02 AM
#5
Needs Cloud City and Asgard first.
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TopicRemember when there was a 7 mile long spanking line on spongebob
DevsBro
02/13/18 8:39:41 AM
#4
No. Was this in a late season or something?
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TopicIf you didn't have to work/go to school, what woould you do?
DevsBro
02/13/18 8:36:04 AM
#1
You know, if you never had to work again.
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TopicTrump administration wants to dictate what kind of food poor people eat
DevsBro
02/13/18 8:19:37 AM
#192
Metro2 posted...
Under the proposal, which was announced Monday, low-income Americans who receive at least $90 a month just over 80 percent of all SNAP recipients would get about half of their benefits in the form of a "USDA Foods package."

So the US government is giving people free food, and the topic title isn't even true, and we make a topic complaining about it.
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TopicEvery time I've been in Publix lately I've seen those Shipt people.
DevsBro
02/13/18 8:17:11 AM
#6
Turbam posted...
DevsBro posted...
The question is more who's going to pay an hour's labor plus gas plus upcharge for someyhing as simple as going to the grocery store.

You'd be very surprised.
Shipt and Instacart are massive successes, so massive in fact that most grocery store chains are starting to offer something similar as they need to compete.

*spends entire life trying to get green paper*
*parts with green paper because lazy*
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TopicXenogears is now 20 years old
DevsBro
02/13/18 8:15:38 AM
#38
Does anybody remember that "never buy a bad game again" gamefly commercial where a bunch of people are shown doing the most ridiculous freakouts imaginable?

These are the people I picture when I see FF8 bashing on the internet. Yes that one scene was dumb. It was also 10 minutes of an otherwise great 30 hour game.
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TopicTrump proposes eliminating federal funding for PBS, NPR
DevsBro
02/13/18 8:11:47 AM
#107
A_Good_Boy posted...
masticatingman posted...
NPR actually claimed they were unbiased in the recent past. Yeah, no.

How are they wrong?

The basic philosophical limitation of solipsism comes to mind.
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TopicWhat is Satan's endgame?
DevsBro
02/13/18 8:08:07 AM
#36
Turbam posted...
God's kill count in the bible: Millions
Satan's kill count in the bible: 4

You should probably count all the people who died because Satan talked Eve into eating the fruit, which would be everyone.
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TopicWhat is Satan's endgame?
DevsBro
02/13/18 12:58:24 AM
#26
He doesn't really have an endgame so to speak. He's just a really sore loser and wants to drag as many people down with him as he can. I guess that could be a kind of endgame but it's not like he's got some master plan by which he thinks he can beat God or anything.
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TopicWow Resonance of Fate has a lot of gameplay particulars.
DevsBro
02/13/18 12:33:33 AM
#38
southcoast09 posted...
I literally did not get that game. Combat system was bad.

You know it was complicated at first but I kinda like it now that I've gotten the hang of it some.

I dunno why machine guns can't kill but you know. Gameplay and all.
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TopicWow Resonance of Fate has a lot of gameplay particulars.
DevsBro
02/13/18 12:24:35 AM
#36
TopicWow Resonance of Fate has a lot of gameplay particulars.
DevsBro
02/13/18 12:24:06 AM
#35
StucklnMyPants posted...
DevsBro posted...
Denoted by what? Color? The dots? Just, until it works?

Edited my post to be clearer.

Ok gotcha, thanks.
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TopicWow Resonance of Fate has a lot of gameplay particulars.
DevsBro
02/13/18 12:18:26 AM
#33
StucklnMyPants posted...
DevsBro posted...
gunplagirl posted...
DevsBro posted...
Huh now I can't get unto Lucia. I put the red hex on it but when I put the cursor over it and push X nothing happens.

I did a white one too just because I don't know what else I have to do but again pushing X does nothing.

*scratches head*

Have you fully uncovered every hex for the city?

I don't know. Do I need to do all the red ones? How do I know? Only one is labelled. Here's a pic:

FFOoCab

Yes. You have to uncover all tiles of the city to actually be able to go into it.

Denoted by what? Color? The dots? Just, until it works?
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TopicWow Resonance of Fate has a lot of gameplay particulars.
DevsBro
02/13/18 12:07:47 AM
#27
gunplagirl posted...
DevsBro posted...
Huh now I can't get unto Lucia. I put the red hex on it but when I put the cursor over it and push X nothing happens.

I did a white one too just because I don't know what else I have to do but again pushing X does nothing.

*scratches head*

Have you fully uncovered every hex for the city?

I don't know. Do I need to do all the red ones? How do I know? Only one is labelled. Here's a pic:

FFOoCab
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TopicWow Resonance of Fate has a lot of gameplay particulars.
DevsBro
02/13/18 12:01:40 AM
#24
Huh now I can't get unto Lucia. I put the red hex on it but when I put the cursor over it and push X nothing happens.

I did a white one too just because I don't know what else I have to do but again pushing X does nothing.

*scratches head*
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TopicWow Resonance of Fate has a lot of gameplay particulars.
DevsBro
02/12/18 11:44:15 PM
#23
Do I have to beat this machinegun robot by the end of the chapter? The one in the power plant.

Because he's tough. I think I could do it with enough tries but would be easier if I came back later
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TopicIf you don't know me by now
DevsBro
02/12/18 6:04:14 PM
#13
I remember as a kid thinking this song was about a guy dying.

"If you don't know me by now, you will never ever ever know me."
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TopicGay guys get along with women really well, but lesbians don't get along with men
DevsBro
02/12/18 6:02:16 PM
#53
Because men suck.

It's probably what created most lesbians anyway.
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TopicHalf of Americans have some form of herpes.
DevsBro
02/12/18 5:58:43 PM
#7
Isn't that the cold sore one?

Not at all surprised. I have it. Contracted it in sixth grade, I think. At least that was when I got my first cold sore.
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TopicHoly crap that refund.
DevsBro
02/12/18 5:56:46 PM
#8
gguirao posted...
You're actually better off having a balance due because your refund doesn't include interest on money that should have been yours from the start.

Conventional wisdom says this. But it's a holdover from a time when you could get more than a quarter of a percent on a savings account.

But even if your reasoning is antiquated, it's still bad to get a refund as it means you've been living on less than you needed to.

I'm gonna redo my W-4 I guess but I dunno, with the way it's gone the last few years even if I leave it I might still owe $10k next year.
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TopicGreat, I'm gonna run out of gas.
DevsBro
02/12/18 5:06:41 PM
#1
I had an eighth of a tank when I left work but sone goober had a wreck and now I'm almost empty.

And I'm uphill in heavy parked traffic so when it happens I'm literally screwed.

Guys, don't have wrecks. Come on.
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TopicTrump proposes eliminating federal funding for PBS, NPR
DevsBro
02/12/18 5:01:50 PM
#85
I'll miss the classical music on NPR but I can't even remember the last time I watched, caught a glimpse of, heard anyone talk about or even thought about PBS.
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TopicHoly crap that refund.
DevsBro
02/12/18 2:32:51 PM
#1
How do I have to empty my savings one year and then make no changes and get such a huge refund the next? Taxes make no sense.
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TopicH&R Block > Turbotax
DevsBro
02/12/18 2:26:58 PM
#27
Free Turbotax is federal only so we always have to choose deluxe.
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Topicyou are on a train in asia
DevsBro
02/12/18 2:09:35 PM
#39
Zikten posted...
DevsBro posted...
What am I doing in Asia and/or on a train?

bussiness trip. you are headed to beijing to pitch an idea to a company

Yes, all those people in Asia definitely need my revolutionary smartstapler.

Ok then in that case I whip out the smartstapler and push the secret button thst shoots staples at the attacker, blows a blast of hot air out the window to dry up the lake before he drowns and calls the police.

It's one of 362,981,106,441 emergency situations the button is programmed to handle. Also because it's the demo version it records the whole thing so I can use the footage at the sales pitch.
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Topicyou are on a train in asia
DevsBro
02/12/18 1:54:32 PM
#26
What am I doing in Asia and/or on a train?
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TopicHave you ever been scammed?
DevsBro
02/12/18 1:49:34 PM
#2
Not on the Internet. I got scammed by a mechanic once though.

I had a check engine light, so I took it in. Got the car back and the steering wheel was crooked, oil stains all over the interior, and still had a check engine light. $600. Took it back. They fixed the steering wheel, not the oil stains, still had check engine light. A friend of mine fixed the check engine light.

At around the same time, the other car started making this knockng sound. I honestly don't even remember the exact sequence of things because it was a giant back and forth for months, but I do remember that when I got it back it started knocking again within 40 miles (one round trip to work) and broke down. They told me the camshaft was broken, which in turn screwed the whole engine. Long story short, $1000 and we had to scrap the car.

So between the two, $1600 for an oil-stained interior.
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TopicYou have your choice of these video game weapons
DevsBro
02/12/18 1:41:45 PM
#34
nevershine posted...
DevsBro posted...
Rex, if I also get a place to keep it.

Yes, you have a hanger placed in your yard large enough to house your Rex

Does this mean I also get a bigger yard? Mine is probably 300 sqft. Townhouse, you see.
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TopicYou have your choice of these video game weapons
DevsBro
02/12/18 1:38:08 PM
#30
Rex, if I also get a place to keep it.
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TopicEvery time I've been in Publix lately I've seen those Shipt people.
DevsBro
02/12/18 1:36:18 PM
#3
Turbam posted...
They get orders and shop for people then deliver it to them.

The question is more who's going to pay an hour's labor plus gas plus upcharge for someyhing as simple as going to the grocery store.

I mean, there are only so many CEO's out there.
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TopicEvery time I've been in Publix lately I've seen those Shipt people.
DevsBro
02/12/18 1:34:02 PM
#1
What's up with that? I know they don't work for free.
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TopicWhen someone tells and actor to tell them to have less screen time on twitter
DevsBro
02/12/18 1:27:29 PM
#6
Have you ever had a dream that you, um, you had, your, you- you could, youll do, you- you wants, you, you could do so, you- youll do, you could- you, you want, you want them to do you so much you could do anything?
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TopicReminder that GameFAQs is dead, you're all GameSpot users now.
DevsBro
02/12/18 12:41:26 PM
#8
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOt a big deal
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TopicThis is not traditional fire.
DevsBro
02/12/18 12:34:36 PM
#6
Ex-Kefiroth posted...
tagged TC as "bag of milky ways"

Oh s***
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Topicdo u think gaming will ever hit a point where the writing isn't embarrassing af
DevsBro
02/12/18 12:33:27 PM
#32
I mean most B movies have terrible writing by any standard.
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TopicThis is not traditional fire.
DevsBro
02/12/18 12:31:20 PM
#1
TopicXenogears is now 20 years old
DevsBro
02/12/18 12:10:10 PM
#23
Very_Unreliable posted...
They are completely unrelated why don't people understand this.

Only one I've played is Gears so I don't really know for sure but my impression was that they were loosely tied in concept but unrelated in continuity.
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TopicUnpopular games that I liked #6: Yar's Revenge
DevsBro
02/12/18 9:54:39 AM
#3
Well at least I got someone to post.

But anway, here's the disclaimer:

DevsBro posted...
This is more a forgotten game than a strictly unpopular one, since it was the best-selling original game for the 2600.

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