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adjl posted...

So buy a cheap gun just to stick in your luggage so you can supervise the TSA's search of it. An interesting solution indeed.

Doesn't seem particularly effective at solving the original problem though.

Even if TC was there for the search, they still would have demanded to open and go through the books. I'm honestly not sure what the policy would be at that point if you tried to stop them.

Unless, of course, your plan is to hope they just won't search your bag because it's way more of a hassle for them. Or you're really really concerned about replacing a cheap luggage lock.
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ZBug_ posted...

Itd be a drastically more dangerous world but okay.

I'm not so convinced. I honestly don't believe the TSA is particularly effective. If you've flown a lot and always pack the exact same things, it's mind boggling the inconsistency with when things get flagged vs when they don't. My bag, which almost always contains the exact same things, gets flagged like 20% of the time.

I know people who have accidentally left hunting knives in their carry on bag and didn't realize it until they got to the hotel at their destination. TSA completely missed it.

And I'm pretty sure there have been multiple undercover attempts by Homeland Security to test how much they could get past the TSA, and it's always just a ridiculous number of things. So they really aren't as effective as we're lead to believe.
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aDirtyShisno posted...

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aDirtyShisno posted...

Nooooooo!!! I got up to the front of the line and just found out that theres no gingerbread latte this year! I googled it and its true!

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

Just come up to Canada. We have them here.

I know, I saw that but I live in SoCal and its not exactly worth the drive up there just to get a good cup of coffee.

Listen here. Are you a fan of gingerbread lattes or not?
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aDirtyShisno posted...

Nooooooo!!! I got up to the front of the line and just found out that theres no gingerbread latte this year! I googled it and its true!

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

Just come up to Canada. We have them here.
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I had no clue that was happening, but holy hell was I caught off guard when I showed up and it took another 20 minutes to get my drink (which was ordered 10 minutes prior on the app).

I wouldn't go to Starbucks nearly as often as I do if I wasn't out here for work with my company paying all my expenses... Including a constant supply of $6 drinks.
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I travel a lot, I'll tell you this - books get flagged all the time (especially if you have a bunch of them, which it sounds like you did). The X-ray machines are worthless when it comes to books, they just appear as giant rectangular blocks. So they have to check them manually. And yes, they opened them up to see if you were hiding anything in the pages, since the X-ray machine may have not been able to see it.

I fly with Magic cards on occasion in my carry on, and I just take them out of the bag because it gets flagged each time.

And yeah, it's frustrating that they always just make a mess of everything and cram it all back in. I have everything neatly folded and organized, and when I open it up everything is just a mess with a note on top saying tsa went through it.
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It's so good.

I put an embarrassing amount of time into the game before finding out you can upgrade the armor.
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Smarkil posted...

I liked the concept of having a boss fight that didn't reset on death and I liked that it wasn't a 'traditional' boss fight. I think what really kills the boss is the run up to the arena. It's a boss fight where you're literally expected to die repeatedly. The slog of getting to the boss room makes it annoying as fuck.

Yup, both the hidden bonfire in Lost Izalith and the shortcut via the Chaos Servant covenant are still quite far away. Sucks running for like 5 minutes just to be bitch-slapped down a hole 4 seconds into the fight.
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Zareth posted...

Imagine if your progress in the Bed of Chaos fight reset on death.

I'm honestly not sure if I'd have ever finished the game.
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Sahuagin posted...

Lokarin posted...
Yes, it's about prioritizing and managing threats. You know where the boss is and how often an attack will come (Nito's gravelord sword is on a timer), so you have to attack/advance in between the gaps in the timing.

yeah but every boss is like that to some degree. you're basically just describing all of the game's gameplay here, nothing specific to Nito

Pretty much. And a divine weapon completely trivializes that entire fight.

Even just limiting it to bosses where there are multiple enemies, the Gargoyles does the "managing threats" aspect way better. The Capra Demon does it, but in a cheap way. Ornstein and Smough is pretty much the pinnacle of "managing and prioritizing threats". And Pinwheel is a thing, probably a more interesting fight if anyone ever bothered doing it early on, but everyone does it late in the game.

Nito actually does it worse than any of them save Capra Demon, because there isn't really any "managing" of threats. If you're using a divine weapon, then quickly kill the skeletons, then Nito. If not, focus on Nito and drop him in a few seconds because he has such low health. The correct way to manage the threats is basically to ignore them...
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AwesomeTurtwig posted...

You wanna play L4D2 next weekend maybe?

No can do. I'll be out of town from Friday night until Monday night.

Metalsonic66 posted...

I don't think I died once against Seethe. I basically just wailed on one of his side "tentacles" as he slowly tried to rotate in my direction

I think every death I've had against him was because I wanted to chop off his tail and the god damn tail would just be in the wall out of range. So I'd die trying to kite him into a spot where the tail wasn't buried 30 feet inside a damn wall.
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Lokarin posted...

Timing more than damage wins this fight, even if you wait until all 4 kings are up.

lol

By far the best way to handle the fight is to just havel up and tank hits while swinging nonstop. If you don't havel up, you should aim to dish out as much damage as humanly possible in the shortest period of time. You really don't want more than one King on the screen at a time

Even this run as a sorcerer, I didn't feel like timing was that important as I never really thought of the 4 Kings as "fast".

Metalsonic66 posted...

I've been putting off fighting Gwyn again for so long. I can't get the party down just right, and if I try to use a potion during the wrong point in one of his animations he insta-leaps at me, and then I gotta sprint for another two minutes to get back to the boss door after I die

This is the first time in like 200+ hours of playing Dark Souls that I did a pure sorcery build... And my god does magic tear through him. He could dodge the soul spears, but each one that hit took off like a quarter of his health.

I've gotten pretty good at parrying him though, so even my melee runs have been pretty good. Oddly though, Artorias always gives me trouble, no matter what my build is.
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funkyfritter posted...

If you enjoy the rest of the game enough to replay it frequently you should consider learning the pro strat to cheese it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ0csuFo5vY

I really should. I've played the game so much, but just brute force throw myself at the boss until it works.

AwesomeTurtwig posted...

Man, we forgot to play L4D2 this Halloween.

We most definitely did :(

And for once I wasn't even doing anything and totally could have played.
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Love me some Dark Souls, but my god is the boss "fight" infuriating.

Anywho, g'night PotD.
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I did not, until about a couple weeks ago when I picked up Collection of Mana.

But that's because I haven't played any of the games.
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I expected a conservative minority, but the results don't surprise me. Knew it was going to be close, still hate all the options.

Mad Max losing did make me smile though.
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Dynalo posted...

I'm also in the Ralph Goodale riding, and that boy has been in power there for nearly as long as I've been alive, so I don't expect that will change.

Well I'll be damned. He lost.
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At first blush, I think I'd want proportional representation, but my biggest fear is that if that is implemented, nothing would ever get done in parliament because you would quite often end up with the house very split. Even in landslide wins, it's unusual for a party to get more than 50% of the vote.

In the 2015 election the liberals won a majority with only 39% of the vote. Imagine how difficult it would have been for them to implement any of their promises if the 32% of conservative seats were able to stonewall them? It would effectively force us into a two party system as there's just no way to get anything done if all the parties have different ideas and on what action should be taken.

I understand why the liberals gave up on that promise. No voting option is without downsides.
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I have never been so disillusioned with politics. I literally hate all the options. Normally I vote either Conservative or Liberal, but I really really dislike both party leaders.

I'm also in the Ralph Goodale riding, and that boy has been in power there for nearly as long as I've been alive, so I don't expect that will change.

Kungfu Kenobi posted...

It's funny, I'm voting Conservative, but if the NDP had agreed to Ranked Ballot I would be voting something like

I'm convinced that if Ranked Ballot became a thing, the Liberals would never lose an election ever again. Anyone who voted conservative would have Liberals as their second, and most people who voted NDP would have liberals as their second.
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Clench281 posted...

2 was amazing and I played through it tens of times

3 was boring, the game didn't transition well to 3D, quit early on

never tried 4

3 was actually the first one I played, and I really liked it. I thought the battle system, at least at the time, was innovative and incredibly fun. Then I later played the psp remakes of one and two, and really liked both of them.

Then I played 4... Well. At least I managed to finish it. I own 5, but haven't played it.
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I'm inclined to agree. I put about 30 hours into it, and I just stopped. I wasn't liking the story, the characters, or the combat... So basically I wasn't liking any aspect of the game.
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Bust out the granny. At least maybe something good will be left to me in the will.
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wwinterj25 posted...

LinkPizza posted...

I have had to swap with someone because they said that the child couldn't sit in the emergency lane. So, there's that, as well...

I mean in most cases the parents have the option to pay for the seats they want too. I probably wouldn't move if I paid for a seat.

Some people just don't read when they're booking something and ignore all the requirements to sit in an emergency row seat. And generally speaking people will jump at the chance to get an emergency lane seat. So much more legroom. The flight attendants usually have no trouble moving people around when that happens.
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Never been to Europe where Ryanair operates... But they are kinda a notorious airline. Mostly known for trying to nickel and dime their customers as much as humanly possible and treating them more like cattle than humans... So good luck?
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Oh, also worth noting - you may occasionally see a bunch of seats not available to select when you check in, but when you board the flight you'll see a ton of empty seats. They block off a lot of the seats in the middle of the plane if the flight isn't full to better distribute the weight in the plane.
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wwinterj25 posted...

Dynalo posted...

Most people don't pay for advance seat selection - they just pick their seat when they check in for the flight.

Don't most airlines charge you for picking your seat yourself and if you don't pay you get a random seat?

Depends on the airline and class of ticket you buy. It's more common in the US to be able to select a seat when you buy a ticket than it is in Canada (assuming you didn't buy the absolute bottom barrel cheapest ticket). Canada is absolutely awful for flying. On every airline I've been on you can change your assigned seat when you check in. If you didn't select a seat when you purchased the tickets, one would be assigned to you randomly and you can change it when you check in - no charge for that.
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Most people don't pay for advance seat selection - they just pick their seat when they check in for the flight.

I tend to check in as soon as I can (usually 24 hours before the flight) since I find motion sickness to be much worse if I'm at the back of the plane.

That said, I usually fly on my own, so if people want to trade seats, and the seats are comparable, I don't mind.

Times when I won't trade seats:
- They have a middle seat, and I have either an aisle or a window. Middle seats suck.
- Their seat is further back from where I am (a couple rows is fine. Moving to the back of the plane is not)
- The swap would put me right next to a baby or small child.
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My gut says no. I would assume there are people who are shy solely because they are very self-conscious. If they learned to get over that, they would be very outgoing and extraverted.

And there are the people who don't really talk a lot, but like being out with people and just taking it all in. Even if not taling a lot doesn't necessarily mean they're shy.

As a general statement though? Probably reasonably accurate.
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I still miss the days that I worked 4 weeks on (78 hour weeks, but I generally worked closer to 82), 4 weeks off. That was a great schedule. Did it for a year, and if I could I would start doing it again tomorrow.

Probably be singing a different tune if I were in a relationship or had kids. But as a single guy, that was great.
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Pixel 2. Had it for almost 2 years now. Still like it.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

The seal since his physical fitness is based on survival in hostile territory and not surviving the balance beam.

Males don't use the balance beam <_<

It's a hard one to quantify. Competitive level gymnasts train an absolutely absurd amount. It requires being in insanely good shape... But it's not the type of fitness that will necessarily help them in a battlefield.

You put most seals through an 8 hour training regiment a gymnast will go through, and I suspect they would be exhausted at the end. But you strap a ton of combat gear to a gymnast and tell them to sprint across a battlefield, and I doubt they'll do much better. Different styles of fitness.

So basically, impossible to say. I'm sure there are plenty of Seals that would put the average gymnast to shame, but I'm sure there are also Seals that may not be quite as good.
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Yeah, I just periodically check in now. Used to spend a ton of time here with hundreds of posts at any given time. Now I have 5 or less active posts whenever I check.

GameFAQs is just slowly dying in general, but PotD in particular has really come to a screeching halt.
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Just saw it. It was really good.

There was a parent with a kid who looked to be 7 or 8. They walked out about an hour in. I'm not sure why the parent thought that was a good film for a child.
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I miss SomeThomas and his comics.
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I made it to the office today - mostly just to answer emails and plan things out for next week.

Not my most productive day here.

Also, my pants don't fit properly anymore. I need food.
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I had a pancake.

It was delicious.
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Like a god damn skeleton looking back at me. I know it's mostly water weight, but it's horrifying how quickly you can lose weight.

Anywho, off to attempt to eat solid food for the first time in 3 days.
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Oh yeah.

I had an interview with one of the governing bodies dealing with water, and the first thing they did in the interview was put a map in front of me and tell me to draw all the major lakes and rivers in the country.

I don't know any god damn rivers.
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I would assume that based on the wording of it though, Valve doesn't have to provide any means to allow users to sell games. They just won't be allowed to ban people who sell their account.

So I wouldn't be able to buy a game at launch, quickly beat it, and sell it to get my money back unless I created a new account to sell every time I bought a game. And then the buyer would need to be fine with having a completely separate account for whatever game they bought?

Correct me if I'm wrong there.
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Mead posted...

Unless Im mistaken Canada doesnt have the same history of racial tension that the US does.

Racial tensions in the west specifically regarding First Nations are definitely what I'd call tense. Louis Riel and his execution are still very controversial topics around here.

Can't speak to the east since I haven't actually traveled there or really know people from over there. But let me tell you, out in the prairies, we got plenty of racists.
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Only put like an hour into it so far.
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synth_real posted...

I don't like paying a delivery charge and tip that costs close to what the meal I ordered did. I'd much rather take a walk to go get it. It's only worth it if you're ordering for a bunch of people

This.

I use them to order for pickup on occasion, but very rarely have something delivered.
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I honestly don't know how people are so bloody fast. This is the third one I've done, and I finally got under 2 hours. The fastest did it in 1:13. I don't even know how that's possible. I'll just keep trying to shave a few minutes off here and there.
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In our defense, Zestiria is also the worst Tales of game I've played.

So basically you asked us to choose between the worst Star Ocean and the worst Tales of. Star Ocean 4 is still worse than Zestiria though.
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So far I've done the two Black Eagle routes.

The church is straight up evil, and siding with Edelgard makes the most sense to me... But it bothers me that it ended after defeating Rhea and you never got to go after "those who slither in the dark".

Golden Deer is probably the next route. Lysithea is a powerhouse. I recruited her in my most recent run and she was absolutely ridiculous.

I quite like the game so far. Looking forward to trying a non black eagle route. Currently at 72 hours of playtime.
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Remember, you're allowed to hit two children per year. Choose wisely.
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Doctor Foxx posted...

Remedy also has really nice vegan options for food

I recalled seeing a vegan butter chicken on the menu last time I was there and was very curious how on earth you make something that's mostly cream and chicken into a vegan dish. I assume tofu and coconut milk, but no clue.
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I live really close to Die Pie, walk by it all the time. Perhaps I'll try that out.

I may take you up on that offer.
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Mead posted...

Added taxes dont stop low income people buying stuff like alcohol, cigarettes, or lottery tickets

This is true, but it's worth noting that all three of those are addictive. I'm not sure if meat could be compared to those. Maybe it could be. Perhaps it's more addictive than I think. But at first glance it seems to be an unfair comparison.
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You're still in Edmonton right? What would you recommend for vegan restaurants? I've only been to Copper Branch downtown, but that was pretty "fast-foody" so I feel like there have to be better options. And I'm not actually 100% sure if it was vegan or just vegetarian.

Ideally a place that has a lot more than just meat substitutes on their menu. I find that if I'm eating something that's meant to simulate meat, I can't help but compare it to meat that I would probably rather have instead. Many better things can be done with vegan dishes.
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