Lurker > DragonClaw01

VampireCoyote posted...

most of these are bypassed with exception loopholes or outright ignored by local and federal governments in the US

Pretty much. Especially with things becoming more privatized in the US. It becomes very easy for the governments to use them as a proxy to circumvent various rules & the rules have always been thrown out in various ways in times of war or extreme circumstance or outright ignored all together until enough fuss was made about it. Ultimately, it is nice that we have the bill of rights, but it is going to take more than a piece of paper to protect you

Knuxdontchuckle posted...

not entirely sure but they are vampires and as we all know, vampires usually have a tie to bats.

The rules for vampires vary so much from series to series. I mean, in Bram Stokers Dracula, Dracula couldn't even die when exposed to sunlight. Much like the average 4channer going outside for the first time in months, he was weakened, but not exactly killed, plus he could shape shift into a variety of animals such as a rat (not too cool) or a wolf (super cool). He wasn't limited to bats.

I mean, you will be out of a job if your job is just parroting opinions around the internet. It's not like the machine can think, it can only regurgitate. It's not exactly like AI generated news is anything particularly new either. Chumboxes have been doing something quite similar for awhile, perhaps with a human making a few changes here, but it isn't like AI writing articles is anything new

I honestly don't understand how anyone can live there, at least in the big cities. Homes are practically a million dollars for some ancient 1960s abode, rent close to 3k for 2 bedroom, 1 bath. I mean, I know techies get paid a mint there, but what about everyone else? It's not like the pay is that much higher than anywhere else for the usual jobs.

Orcas are super op. Even sharks have no choice to fear them. Sharks are pretty cool with thier blood sense & fast regenerative ability, but they don't have the brains to match thier brawns like the Orcas do. Not only are orcas super huge, but they also are really smart and work together to hunt, truly formidable.

In terms of what I think is one of the coolest. Falcons are pretty sick. They are masters of the air with really fast speed & good control. Owls and hawks are good at dive bombing to secure kills, but they largely target stationary prey, but falcons are skilled enough that they can catch things as they fly around and try to evade them. Truly impressive.

It's pretty much a nothing burger right now. Trump is essentially charged with covering up a felony, but the DA does not even state what the felony is in thier indictment. It suspected to be something along the lines of election fraud, but even the feds didn't want to prosecute that & that is more within thier jurisdiction. Regardless, the trial is not even set to be aired until December. I can see why the news media is pissed, there is nothing to go off here.

Too bad your eye can't see over 2075600 pixels

shadowsword87 posted...

Those shirts are a pretty shitty design, not going to lie.

Agreed. It looks like a shitty photoshop I could do in 5 minutes & they just slap that crappy jpeg on the shirt rectangular corners & all & charge $45. Yeesh, it must be nice being loved

Light & L in Deathnote, but it is a bit cheating because the whole point of that show is the rivalry between the two and the mental chess game they are engaged in.

orlouge82 posted...

6'8"/203 cm

Damn dude, do you play in the NBA or something?:

The 30s have been devastating to my hairline. I am going to looking like Mr. Clean before too long.

Lokarin posted...

what's weird is that it's financially more viable for them to just throw them out than to give them away as a promotion

They don't want to weaken thier brand by selling them at a fire sale. It is best to make them seem "limited", so you can maximize FOMO. Plus it costs absolutely nothing to make one, probably cents on the dollar, a buck at most so it is not exactly like they are losing millions, that is just retail, not costs of goods. Shame they are too cheap to recycle them though.

LinkPizza posted...

What would even be the gimmick of Switch 2 be, I wonder

More powerful hardware & better performance in handheld mode I would guess. That is the biggest complaint people have with the Switch, well that and the joycons. Plus if they can up the performance of Switch 1 games on it that would be even more incentive for Switch owners to buy it, although the later is probably too much work and will never happen.

It was the same thing for me as #27. If you have other Nintendo consoles, there is only a handful of exclusive titles for the Switch that are worth playing. I would just wait for the Switch 2 to come out and see what to do then. It probably will be backwards compatible, stupid if it wasn't. Although, with the popularity of the Switch it may be awhile. I wouldn't even be surprised if it takes another 4 years for the Switch 2 to come out. No point in releasing a new console if everyone is buying the current one.

Only of loves lost. They used to call you a hopeless romantic back in the day, now they just call you a simp.

FAQ-Checker posted...

Does he mean this literally? Is he saying that if he didn't agree to the firing that he was going to walk in and shoot up the office before killing himself?

Well, in Minecraft of course

PS3: Demon's Souls, 3D Dot Heroes, PS2 Remasters
PS4: Wipeout Omega Collection, Bloodborne
PS Vita: Soul Sacrifice, Freedom Wars, PSP/PSX games
Xbox 360: Ninja Gaiden Black & 2. Bangai-Oh

There is less stigma to divorce & let's face it, love fades, so it gets hard to maintain a marriage after awhile, so especially after the kids are gone the marriage goes to pot. It always seemed that the most successful marriages I witnessed are between two people that have thier own lives outside of thier spouse. So, to answer a clich with a clich, while love may fade, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Spelunky. You have the basic ending which is just beat the Olmec, which is a good challenge for a casual, but if you are hardcore, you can aquire the book of dead in your run, which will give you access to an optional end game zone and true final boss, although it will take quite a bit of tasks for this, so is much more involved and difficult.

Also, Arcade games frequently have second loops that you can get to after beating the game with certain conditions, such as not dying or meeting a certain score threshold. These 2nd loops are harder arranges of the first and have the true final boss. Beating the 2nd loop is exponentially harder compared to beating the first, since not only do you have to master the 1st loop to get to the second consistently, but you still have to be able to beat the second. Some of these second loops are legendary for their difficulty such as Ketsui's Ura loop, which only 15 people in the world are known to have completed, since not only does it require you to no hit, no bomb your first loop, but the actual Ura loop is quite difficult, but probably not as difficult as no miss, no bombing Ketsui consistently I would imagine

It was pretty forgettable from what I barely remember, but not necessarily unpleasant.

The game has quite a few fundamental issues: the backtracking, the cheap deaths & hits (even in speed runs, speed runners are constantly getting hit due to the poor enemy placement and mechanics ), the terribly implemented character switching and just over all the genericness of it. The game is a positive nightmare to A rank as a causal like me. You can only save once, half way through the game (after the airplane) and essentially have to play two, hour and half segments perfectly in a game loaded with cheap hits and deaths. Absolutely brutal, although both characters are absurdly tanky, since you can take like eight hits before dying, which is nuts for a RE game, although you will need it

CassandraCroft posted...

Code Veronica is also my favourite RE game. I must really download it again. I haven't played it since my Dreamcast days.

Yeash, a CV lover. That is a truly rare breed among the RE fandom

If you buy Hogwart's Legacy, you are worse than Hitler!

But seriously, the game looks just like a boring open world game to me, just flying between places, doing a bunch of filler content. I doesn't look like it trying to shake up the genre and you know there is going to be like 5 sequels to it as WB squeezes every bit of juice out of the IP. But hearing people freak out about it to this magnitude is hilarious to me. More entertaining than the bloody game itself

Muscles posted...

Is this a false flag for wwiii?

WWIII may start from many things, but the shooting down a balloon won't be one of them, well at least I hope not.

Eternal happiness, I'll take that for a dollar

DirtBasedSoap posted...

he has a 14 year old girlfriend

Living the dream

3 is my favorite in the series, although I only played up to 9. Don't know if I will get the remake, the SNES version nostalgia still runs strong for that game, one of the better looking games for the system. I guess the only problem with 3 is that it feels like you always have to grind like 10 levels before the final dungeon, but it isn't as bad as 1 & 2 when it comes to the enemy level curve, although the GB games help mitigate a lot of problems with this with thier faster leveling, although the NES ones are pretty rough in this regard.

Justin2Krelian posted...

CA went Republican for almost the entire Cold War period. 1964 was the exception because almost everyone was blue.

It was a different party back then. Nixon & Regan changed the party with thier southern & religious right policies, respectively. It went from the party of Lincoln, of emancipation, etc. to the party of racists & weird Christian conservatives. The Christians aren't so bad I suppose, but the racist connotation that the Republicans have from Nixon's southern strategy has cause a ton of headaches for the party, especially in the modern era.

The dude got hit by the five point palm exploding heart technique. It is a miracle he survived.

Fajitas with all the fixins. Strangely finished off by a heaping glass Junmai sake. Fusion cuisine I guess

darkknight109 posted...

OK. And?

You're still going to have to deal with this guy and a set of nunchaku is as suited to that as any other tool you're likely to have on hand.

A set of nunchaku is not equipped to take on a person wielding a knife. All the knife user as to do is rush you and stab you a couple times to win the fight. The nunchaku is not a powerful enough weapon to stop this tactic. I mean, you got at best one swing at the guy, then the dude is going to be stabbing you in your spleen and the sad thing is that the nunchaku is a specialized tool that is cumbersome to carry around all day, whereas nearly every male in America carries at least a pocket knife

darkknight109 posted...

I don't think there were too many "crazy methed up guys" in medieval Ryukyu.

Dealing with someone with a knife back then didn't mean they were on a different planet trying to cut out your heart and eat it; they could just as easily be after your money and threatening you, similar to how a gun would get used in a mugging today.

Dealing with a knife wielder in Medieval times is even more scary because due to the low level of medical science it was very easy to sustain a mortal wound. A stab wound to the stomach was almost certain to kill you then. Plus there was a death penalty for robbery in many places, so criminals had very little incentive to spare your life.

Counter clockwise has the alliteration going for it. Anti clockwise just sounds weird

Your lawn has male pattern baldness

IronBornCorps posted...

Why we still discuss gender differences like each is a monolith is beyond me. As if having testosterone as the primary sex hormone makes you automatically bigger and better at handling guns.

Well, it isn't like estrogen is showing up on too many PED lists, but T on the other hand....

darkknight109 posted...

In that particular role, nunchaku work fine - they have a range advantage over the knife, and their large arcs make approaching for a stab or slash difficult. Moreover - and this is the part of the nunchaku most people don't understand, because they're used to Bruce Lee or Michelangelo from the Ninja Turtles swinging them like flails - the nunchaku actually has a lot of uses as a grappling tool. They were basically a primitive form of handcuffs. You were probably just as likely to use these things like a garrote or in submission holds as you were to actually hit someone with them.

I've seen plenty of knife fights on CCTV footage. It is usually some crazy methed up guy running full tilt at some dude and stabbing the dude several times like a maniac until he is incapacitated. There is no technique, just raw ferociousity. Unless you can land a death blow on the knife fighter as he approaches you are a goner and I just don't think chucks have the force necessary to do this. Even if we are limited to just improvised weapons, I would rather have a bat, since the one blow I have would be devastating, probably cracking the knife wielding maniacs skull and instantly killing him, unlike chucks that are kind of wimpy

Elden Ring
Freedom Planet 2
Vampire Survivors (and its million copy cats)
Gunvein
Ex-Zodiac

Hard for me to say. On one hand, I was super addicted to it at the time & fully it completed in a one week manic episode, but at the same time I have no desire to ever replay it again or even play its sequel. While it does some things different than a standard open world game, such as giving greater traversal options, eliminating map icons & having over a hundred unique (well, besides the combat ones) bite size dungeons, it still is subject to a lot of the traditional open world game problems of too much wandering through empty fields & repetitive, uninteresting combat encounters. I prefer a more traditional Zelda game, but it was a nice change of pace.

adjl posted...

I expect it's less that and more that his ego won't let him go back somewhere that rejected him.

Pretty much this. He said he was never going over to Twitter even if he was reinstated. I guess he wants build up his Truthsocial platform, although no one is going to bother going over there, so it will greatly limit his reach. I mean if most people are too lazy to create a Spotify account to listen to Rogan, they certainly aren't going to create a Truthsocial account to listen to Trumps ramblings in a conservative eco chamber.

Most of the streaming shows are going for massive amounts of content, rather than quality. I guess they figure as long as they more interesting than staring at a wall, they are golden

It used to be a stereotype in the early days that the priests were all drunkards. I guess they enjoyed a little bit too much of the communion wine.

As for the wafers, I'm not a big fan of them. They need a bit more spice, flour & water just doesn't do it, pretty much a glorified saltine without the salt.

adjl posted...

Jesus was all like "I'm wine now, drink me senpai," so clearly he doesn't have issues with people being drunk.

Well, technically the wine transmutes into the literal blood of Jesus according to Catholic doctrine, but it does taste a lot more like wine than blood to me. The man has wine in his veins & bread for his body.

Hard_Light posted...

if their best candidate is the man who lost the popular vote twice, was impeached twice, tried to incite a mob to kill congress and the vice president, and sold nuclear documents to saudi arabia, then i don't believe that replublicans are going to be around for much longer

They are going through some growing pains

Entity13 posted...

Well no, it's split between him and DeSantis, and some of their base are presently in the mindset the elections are rigged and thus voting is useless. All the Dems have to do at this point is not shit the bed; and there might be a history of stained sheets.

An economic downturn near the election can ruin anyone's chances of winning. I don't know if any incumbent party ever won a national election in an economic downturn. It may've happened once, but it pretty much is a unicorn. A lot of elections come down to the luck of the economic draw aka, "it's the economy stupid."

It's a tad sweet for my palate, since I am more used to dryer spirits like whiskey or gin. Pretty sad when you think a Cabernet is a desert wine. Plus I hate how quick it goes bad. Not that it is a big deal, since the APV on most wines is so low it feels like you can guzzle them, but it doesn't feel too good spending $15-$20 for the thing to only last 3 days.

No one cares about Japan anymore. South Korea is the new cool Asian country.

His own. Trump has a massive cult of personality & once the more orthodox republican voters discover he is popular again they will jump on the Trump band wagon again. He is pretty much the only Republican nominee that has a chance at a national level anyways. It's not like the Republicans have particularly strong branding or candidates to take on the Democrats at a meaningful level anyways.

BigOlePappy posted...

No he's not.

Adam West, baby!

teddy241 posted...

Damn makes me feel lucky for my Gma. Shed take me to the local market as a kid and tell me to pick out whatever i wanted. She never had much money but always took care of her grand kids first.

Yeah, my grand parents spoiled me rotten. They call me El Infante aka the prince.