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Zeus posted...

All of BS0's opinions are backwards. We have countless people in prison serving life sentences -- something that shouldn't happen in a supposedly civilized nation -- for murder yet he thinks the charges for firing in the air are worse. He lives on his own separate planet. The planet is called Scythonia and it's in Universe-0.

So the cops should probably be arresting him as well.

Cops generally don't care about trespassing unless they are called by the owner and you still are there. They certainly aren't going to extradite someone for it.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Based on what I'm reading about the actual details of the scenario, he's kind of an idiot for shooting a gun in a school zone, but the other guy involved is also apparently a grade-a asshole, stalker, and attention whore, so he seems like the kind of person who probably deserved to get shot.

Boogie should've just slammed the door on his face and his honor still would've been preserved, but he took the bait and gave the troll everything he possibly could've asked for. What an idiot.

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faramir77 posted...

I didn't know boogie was 46 years old wtf. Maybe I'm just getting older but I thought he looked late 30s at the very most. I would have guessed 35.

Yeah, sometimes fat people look younger because the fat smooths out thier skin. Wings of Redemption looks younger for his age as well. Although, everything else looks like hell though

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Yeah, the Russians love old PC games. They even used to have an active Nox community

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Smarkil posted...

Is it anything like that other mod? I forget what its called but it added like pirates or some shit.

Horn of the Abyss, you mean. It added the cove faction that had pirates

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wpot posted...

Wait, are you envying the first group? Being a middle manager parent with a mortgage isn't as glamorous as you might assume. :)

Yeh, it sucks watching everyone grind end game content and even creating and leveling thier alts when you are stuck leveling your character alone in the badlands with shity gear.

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The people that aren't getting the vaccine are delaying the reopening of the economy and society at large. Ironic, since most of them dislike the covid restrictions to begin with yet do the action that keeps them in place

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Outside of the thirty year old crisis when you realize half your friends are pretty much middle managers at their work, have a wife, kids and even a mortgage payment while you are still working the same crummy job you did in your twenties and just barely moved out of your parents house, peachy.

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Mix five different cereals together and die of a diabetic coma after drinking the milk.

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Uwuwu

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The jury probably should've been sequestered given the the media hype and political issues around the case. Plus some of them got partially doxed by the media, which could be cause for concern if you are a juror given the political situation given the case. Overall, it would be impossible to have a impartial trial given the circumstances surrounding the case. I mean people were pretty much threatening to burn down Minnesota unless a guilty verdict was achieved something the jurors knew going into the case. But regardless, I am fine with the ruling anyways. I mean, I understand peoples' interest in pushing back on BLM, but you shouldn't have to support crooked cops to do so.

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A lot of it was the fact that there was a draft at the time and the war seemed endless and pointless. You suddenly care a lot more about pointless wars when you or one of your friends could be the one fighting them and possibly dying in them.

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Yeah, you are right. It is a bit of an unfair comparison. To be fair there is quite a bit off popping off even from the search terms, so it may give MGS a run for its money possibly. Probably should've compared search terms to search terms, but ,eh, I don't care now. Only time will tell.

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"As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly" - Proverbs 26:11

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party_animal07 posted...

If you use the video game search for phantom pain, the outcome is different.

Ah, you are right. I don't know what the heck I searched for. Must've been the search term and not the video game because the phantom pain is even bigger than ground zeros now. So yeah, MGS V hype way bigger than RE Village confirmed.



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Looking at Google Trends. RE 8 defeats, Phantom Pain, but the hype for Ground Zeros was off the charts. I guess everyone played it and were disappointed, then did not care as much about Phantom Pain.

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Yeah, there were so many more variables that made MGS V more interesting. One, the graphics looked insane at the time, especially the textures, it was ages since the last MGS game, so people were getting hyped and finally it was Kojima's game with Konami, so there was that. Not to mention it was the first open world MGS game, so people were interested on how it turned out (like peace walker 2, I guess).

Re Village just looks like RE 7 for the most part, a heavily scripted first person survival horror game and I feel like MGS had a bigger fanbase at the time, although it is hard to say because interest for that series is pretty much dead now, given Konami's treatment towards it.

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I wonder if putting my whole wealth in pork bellies would be a sound investing strategy

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So she traded Spiderman for Yosemite Sam

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ReturnOfFa posted...

Now I'm not saying she's a gold-digger, but she ain't messin' with no broke...bloke!

Yeah well, having a couple billion dollars greatly increases your sex appeal

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joemodda posted...

Nobody wants to bring up the woman who's getting tons of money for basically nothing?

Talk about living life on easy mode. No work needed, just marry a rich dude and steal half his shit later

When you sweat it out in marriage for 27 years, I just don't feel like you are a gold digger. If it was all about the money she could've left ages ago. Plus she gave the dude 3 kids. It isn't like she didn't contribute anything to him

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Mead posted...

yeah he could end up only having 50-60 billion like a total loser

Well, he will lose the mansion, maybe a couple lambos. Divorce really sucks =p

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Mead posted...

yeah he certainly wronged you after all

It's more that it hard to get too sympathetic about Bill losing half is wealth when he has 120 billion to start. It all becomes funny money after a certain point.

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OhhhJa posted...

Really? I haven't seen that at all

Yeah, I don't think anyone is crying too much at seeing Bill getting taken down a peg as microscopic of a decent that it is.

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Kotenks posted...

It's the pandemic. I went through a list of games with my brother the other day and we saw a spike in many games starting at March 2020.

Yeah, but that was about a 15- 30% jump then. We are talking a 100 or even 200% increase since then. There is more going on then the pandemic hobby buy .

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Kanatteru posted...

imagine sitting on the internet and talking about how phones are the devil lmao

If phones are the devil, then we all are going to hell, but it doesn't mean I can't be critical on my way to the abyss

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

The future of the human race will be when we eventually figure out a way to hardwire directly into the pleasure center of the brain, and tie it directly to a remote control with a single button to trigger it.

It will also be the end of the human race, as we spend the rest of our time just constantly pushing the button until we die.

It's already getting that way: work from home, buy food from phone, swipe right for sex and get your stimmy checks via direct deposit. We already are approaching the wall-e future.

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Dmess85 posted...

I didn't even own it, but I don't understand why this game has appreciated in price, but the PS2 version has not.

If I were to guess, it is probably one of those retro game pimps on youtube like metal jesus rocks or the immortal john hancock that put out a 3ds games fomo list or something. Plus Nintendo, scalpers love Nintendo.

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Pandemic pricing, stimy checks and rampant speculation on nearly every asset class from trading cards to bitcoins equal ludicrous game prices. People act like retro games can cure cancer or something they way they go crazy for them nowadays

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And she would have gotten away with it if not for, erm, her bragging about it to everyone. Yeah, I never understood criminals need to brag about thier crimes, but then again they probably wouldn't be criminals then.

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pionear posted...

You can say that about any Pop culture creation out there (LotR, Marvel/DC, Pro Sports, FF, Pokemon, etc)

May the merchandise be with you, always.

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adjl posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC6J4T_hUKg

Actual plasma, though it needs an external fuel source instead of being self-contained.

Yeah, I would always be worried about fumbling that thing chopping my arm off or something.

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Waifus of Warships

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Mead posted...

Theres possibly an argument for a mistrial although that is seriously a stretch at this point considering how often jurors misunderstand questions or arent paying enough attention and answer wrongly, this kind of thing isnt all that uncommon and its one of the reasons you need a unanimous verdict from jurors in a case like this.

to suggest his guilty murder verdict should be overturned based on this though is pretty far and away detached from reality

Yeah, but no one would be crazy enough to do something like a mistrial with the mob out. And let's face it, Chauvin, isn't worth dieing over anyways. He still fucked up massively


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Zeus posted...

Have you seen the size of their home?

https://www.businessinsider.com/crazy-facts-about-bill-gates-house-2016-11

They could be stuck at home for years without running into each other.

True, true. I forgot that some people live in houses the size of hotels. I do think like a peasant I suppose. But regardless the first point is still applicable.

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Zeus posted...

This whole thing is kinda crazy because you wouldn't expect them of all people to split, especially not at their ages. I was also surprised to learn they'd only been married 27 years, but I guess Bill is also somewhat younger than I thought.

It's pretty common to get divorced at thier age nowadays. The couple may be willing to rough it out in the marriage for the kids, but the moment the kids leave they only have thier hatred for each other and marriage quickly goes down hill. Work from home probably didn't help things either.

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streamofthesky posted...

India has such an amazing history and culture, and so many potential great spots for tourism. But yeah, any time I ever think of going, I start thinking of the water and sanitation situation and immediately nope the fuck out of ever wanting to visit. No travel experience is worth getting grievously ill over. What they've done to the Ganges River is absolutely disgusting. Saw a video recently on it, and even some of their medical doctors are claiming the river water is magical and can "heal itself". O_O

Yeah, from all the pictures I seen of the country there does not seem to be much of a cultural disposition to throw things in the rubbish bin. Littering & dumping seem to be national pastime and place looks like a landfill. I would feel like I am lucky if all I catch from that country is a new strain of covid.

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Yeah, that is weird. It's almost like all those systems were randomly generated. I feel like it is mostly Sony enthusiasts that are into the PS5 and new ones at that, I can't imagine any of those other systems outside of maybe a 360 appealing. Weird recommendations.

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It always seemed like a boring thing to bet on. There is no strategy or tactics. It's just beasts running really fast. Pretty much like rolling a dice.

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Eh, India is pretty much a shithole anyways. Pretty hard to want to travel there under any circumstances

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FrozenBananas posted...

Holy shit! I have 2 Nidokings as well

Neverminded, I looked it up in the card data base and it is pretty worthless. For whatever reason I though it was worth something. Maybe I saw a graded near mint version and got confused. Charizard is still thing king though.

https://pokemonprices.com/set/Base+Set

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FrozenBananas posted...

nope, Theyre in perfect condition. Sitting in my basement for like 20 years. I just didnt think they were worth anything special. Not worth the price to ship them.

Maybe Ill look into what theyre worth

Lol, it is like $750 just for the charizard, nidoking & magnaton ungraded. Unfortunately, all the jungle and fossil cards are worthless.

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Ah, the bloody charizard. I spent innumerable resources on trying to pull the friggen thing back in the day, but alas it was not to be. Got just about everything but it.

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Yeah, unfortunately. I was impressed with the games at the time and did get to enjoy the miiverse insanity, but I just wish I waited for the Switch, since I am more of a portables gamer anyways. Serves me right for buying new tech. You always get burned.

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philsov posted...

new game+ exists in the Souls-verse. It's nothing fancy, just some % mods on the baddies regarding their health and damage output.

Putting a negative sign in the front of that equation is an easy task.

It would completely trivilize the game. The whole game is built around enemies that are slow, but hard hitting, similar to re 4. If you make it so the enemies are slow but weak hitting the game will no longer be any fun, since there will be no danger and the game will be just a walking simulator

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Garioshi posted...

Easier, yes. Extreme is easier than European Extreme, but it's not easy by any means.

Eh, it is not too hard. Shields are pretty powerful in most dark souls iterations as not only do they cause massive block stun to enemies on normal attacks trivilizing weaker enemies but you can move while blocking allowing for safe zoning against bigger threats

The fact that you get a lot of healing and most enemies have a hard time chasing you down before you can heal makes things easy as well. That is why the agressive bosses that are constantly in your face like flamelurker and smough and ornstein tend to be considered the difficult bosses, but they are the exception rather than the rule.

Another easy thing about dark souls is that crowd management is not as big of a deal because you generally are fighting one on one most of the time and the aggro distance is pretty low so you can run away from enemies without them chasing you too far.

It is only in successive new game pluses where enemies start one shoting you that things get challenging otherwise the game is pretty average difficulty wise for the most part.

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Digitize me baby

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Blade_Trinity posted...

He is. You don't know much about the real world do you? It's not all about Wikipedia and your parents basement. Go outside more.

To be fair, I hope most of our experience with prison are from wikipedia articlesd or youtubers like wes watson and not the actual thing.

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mooreandrew58 posted...

Child molesters are in gen pop at my unit.

Even if you are. I had to take a 6ft 5 260 lb guy to the hospital the other night. Broke nose split lip that required surgery to fix and blood on the brain. Guy who did it to him wasnt small but no way near that big.

Yeah, that is pretty much what I hear most of the time. Size doesn't matter when you are getting jumped or getting attacked by an improvised weapons. From what I have always heard prison survival relies on making proper alliances and not getting in debt more than being big and bulky, although having a bit of bulk doesn't hurt.

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Mead posted...

resisting arrest is not a reason to use lethal force

lethal force should be used to stop someone from doing harm to others or in self defense only

Regardless, when you resist arrest you are relying on a poorly trained jarhead that is looking for action after writing traffic tickets all day to exercise the proper continuum force. I don't like those odds. Oh, and by the way, they are going to tack on jail time for you as well? So why would you resist arrest again?

Zareth posted...

Cops will taze you and throw you to the ground for asking why you're being arrested and not immediately doing what you're told.

Why wouldn't you do as you are told most of the time? What is the advantage to mouthing off to a cop? From my experience they are pretty douchy, the less I talk and deal with them the better.

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