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Depends on the person in question. What do they already have? What are their interests? How tech-savvy and/or physically able are they? etc.
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VeeVees posted...

bring a fucking sandwich

This attitude is why my lunch in kindergarten typically consisted of a single piece of fruit, usually a kiwi. Gee, I wonder why I was bullied growing up. >_>
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Too broad a subject. 7/10. Some of it is absolutely atrocious, and unfortunately that's what you tend to hear the most, but the music I grew up with in my home was excellent, so I can only dock so many points just because of the crap they play on the radio.

Thanks to my parents, when someone says "Christmas music," I don't think of Jingle Bell Rock and such... I think of stuff like this:

So for me, the good outweighs the bad, provided you know what's out there.
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MICHALECOLE posted...

Im gonna go ahead and put that on lists of videos Im not gonna watch

The part near the end is one of my favorite comedy anecdotes. Starts at 42:57.
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Mixed feelings about this particular instance. It's not nearly as straight-forward as the last article I read on the subject of trans students involved the staff of the school forcing a bathroom stall door open, presumably so they could ogle at the kid's genitals. :-/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transgender-teen-posts-video-of-school-staff-opening-bathroom-stall-on-her/
And those staff members are probably going to justify it by claiming that they're worried the student would ogle other students, apparently not recognizing the irony.

Principal Jonathan Hochman said that Vlaming told him that he "liked" and "missed" the FEMALE VERSION of the student.

Wat.
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Well, I don't have a favorite but this is probably one of the funniest shows I've sat through:


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But where do all the calculators go?
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I like Pikachu's design more, but I think Yoshi is more fun.
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Dragon Warrior/Quest had 4 main-line games on the NES, not 3... FF should be on this list instead.

Anyway, Castlevania. I'm also fond of Wizards & Warriors, though that series doesn't seem to be as well-known, and I believe there were only 3 Dragon Slayer games on the NES/Famicom (Faxanadu, Legacy of the Wizard, Romancia). However, I'm only familiar with LotW, which is a great little adventure game.
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TLJ is an absolute travesty. At least Solo had some parts that were so bad that they made me laugh (the robots rights robot thing felt like poorly done parody). TLJ was just bad, period.
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This explains it pretty well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niwbGGQ_dpY#t=4m
Watch from about four minutes in to about ten minutes in.
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Ah, if you want to grind for limits, use the fury status via hypers to speed up the process.

Maxing an All materia and selling it will set you up for most of the game in terms of finances.

You can just stack passive counter materia on characters to make them counter over and over and over again.

Oh, one thing you can do is run from battles a whole bunch in order to make it so one of the enemy skill spells will hit your character with just the right amount to set their HP to 7777.
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Ah, I remember this instance. Women have died from that sort of negligence.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

Lol @ one of America's founding principles being separation of religion and state.

That is going fantastic.

There's been a concerted effort pretty much from the start of the country's founding to undermine that, starting with the effort to get tax exempt status and moving on from there.
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I don't drink much at all but... I think I had cake the last time I got tipsy and ate?
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Offensive? Sure. Too bad she's surrounded by snowflakes to the point where they violated her first amendment rights AND her property rights.
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Now I keep imagining this idiot just randomly shouting that word whenever he does something. *opens pickle jar* "N-word! :D"
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I've never experienced that.

I did get someone who put a needle against a nerve when I was trying to donate blood one time. That was incredibly unpleasant.
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He wasn't on trial. He was being interviewed under oath and repeatedly committed perjury. That alone should have been enough to disqualify him.
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Oh, I don't know. It depends. Probably a scene from a Kaneto Shind film. He's a bit over the top but I've got a thing for nice black and white cinematography. My father was a studio photographer when I was a kid so maybe that's where it comes from.
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Worst thing about the Switch, I think.

I'm also displeased that it ditched the dual screen functionality the Wii U had. I loved that.
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Very rarely. I don't much care for it, and of the four common animal meats (chicken, cow, pig, fishies) it's probably my least favorite. Tbh I don't like meat very much. I'd cut it out of my diet entirely if it weren't for the fact that my sister likes it and we live together, so...
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EclairReturns posted...

Gaawa_chan posted...

Played anything lately?

Fire Emblem 6, and procrastinating on Final Fantasy XV.

6... is that one with Hector/Lyn/etc or is it the one with Eliwood's kid? I need to finish that one.
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No. I fell asleep in math class in junior high once. My teacher had one of the most monotonous, soothing voices I've ever heard, and I already knew the stuff he was covering so I couldn't focus and I fell asleep.

But never at work. I'm always too busy; I usually skip breaks and such, too, because there's a lot to do. It's against policy to do that, but you get in trouble for not getting things done on time and that's worse, so... *shrug* I can't deny that there were times I badly wanted to, though. There was about a 2 or 3 week period of time where we were severely short-staffed and the machinery that kept us going broke. We had to wait for a replacement piece to arrive... it was a nightmare working double shifts with no days off (eight hours on, two off, three more on) with that stupid broken piece of crap forcing us to do everything by hand. Ugh.
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I've never experienced that. Quite the opposite. I can sleep for twelve+ hours and still feel exhausted. I think there is something wrong with me, tbh.
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Wait, you have nothing to talk about except school/homework?

... but this is a video game site?

... Played anything lately?
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LinkPizza posted...

I had a fried oreo when I went to Ocean City. It was amazing. At least, it was then. I still love them...

This is going off on a tangent, but you might consider trying to make this:
http://www.the350degreeoven.com/2014/02/pastries-pies/easy-no-bake-chocolate-silk-pie-with-oreo-cookie-crust-chocolate-mousse-tofu-pie/
It's freaking rich, though, so be sure to reserve fridge space or invite other people to eat with you. That filling's good as a cracker/cookie dip instead of a pie, too.
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Sometimes I wonder how many of the "radical SJWs" people cite as evidence that equal rights for women is evil are actually poes/trolls. They're very common to run into when discussing religion and such, so I don't see why politics would be any different.
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Lol you really are incapable of actually addressing anything substantive people say to you. What a child.

The_tall_midget posted...

Of course you did! I totally believe you!

https://www.kxly.com/news/local-news/northwest/clarkston-man-arrested-for-rape-murder-of-elderly-woman_20161121082223675/177594080
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2015/09/doug-wilsons-pedophile-problem-sex-offender-for-whom-wilson-begged-leniency-molests-infant-son.html
Welcome to my part of the USA; it's one of the parts where you can't just sticking your fingers in your ears and closing your eyes doesn't make systemic problems seem as though they don't exist.
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He is not on trial. He's being approved for a job. And as I said elsewhere, if someone I was interviewing for a job, ANY job, behaved like that? I'd kick him to the curb... oh, unless I was human resources at a beer company or something, lol. The repeated lies under oath alone, blegh... remember when we impeached a democrat president for lying under oath? good times.
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Why do people act like this is some sort of mandatory partisan resistance when Neil G. got in with barely any fuss at all?

Honestly, the thing I'm most confused about is why Trump didn't just ditch this perjury-happy clown in favor of a more banal option; I wouldn't have hired this guy for a retail job, let alone any form of judgeship. But considering who he put in charge of the EPA and education, I guess I shouldn't be surprised, lol. Trump is too proud to do anything but double down even on his most flippant choices.
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Not enough information to make any sort of judgment call on the situation. I don't have a problem with age gaps between consenting adults, though, unless some sort of grooming was involved, but that does not seem to apply here.
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KJ StErOiDs posted...

Thank goodness. Once he's sworn in the media will let it go.

That... sorta depends. There's a slow push to impeach Trump atm (they wanna try and flip the Senate first). If they're able to get him on very specific grounds, it can actually take out his whole cabinet with him, believe it or not. However, in that incredibly unlikely scenario, I'm not sure what happens to his judicial appointments, if anything. I'd have to do some research. There will be backlash against Kavanaugh in the event that it does (which it won't, let's be honest. That would be... well, it would be interesting if nothing else, but from what little information I have they're going about it completely the wrong way, the idiots). It is a funny hypothetical to toss about, though.

I am curious to see what will happen under the president that will come after Trump. He may end up getting some sort of pardon like the CIA got from Obama or something if anything substantially criminal from recent years does come to light. His pay for play with the Saudis may cause problems if nothing else.
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Mead posted...

Imagine actually arguing that 18% of women being raped isnt that bad

Happens at all ages, too. Youngest case I know personally was four. Oldest was in her sixties. Rapist killed her, too. Gee, I wonder why women in the USA are angry?
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Ehm... there's Live's Throwing Copper. Their music went to crap pretty fast but that album is sweet.

If you like Modest Mouse, you might try Ugly Casanova.

Maybe... hmm... Okkervil River is a band I've heard of but haven't listened to personally. My cousin likes it.
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The_tall_midget posted...

Amount of women raped (attempted and completed) according to most women and losers trying to win arguments? Over 50%. Reality? Around 18%.

What's funny is that I also gave a statistic for the # of women raped on average. 1/5-1/4, depending upon the source. That's 20-25%. *GASP* I was 2-7% off from you! What a hideous SJW loser I am!

What's funnier is that I actually live in a region of the USA that DOES have a noticeably above average rate of rape on account of it being both a rural region (we've got two cults in the area that protect a lot of the local pedophiles; they're big on white supremacy too)... and a college town. :-/

But I have no doubt that it totally happened to your sister and that you totally used a shovel to save her.

What, you'd rather I shot them? Well, I didn't manage to hit any of them. I was a kid swinging a huge-ass shovel around; I didn't wanna go after them without something to hit them with, but beyond scaring the shit out of them it wasn't very effective.

Here, lemme show you:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/playspacefinder.kaboom.org/photos/photos/000/004/160/large/3014-4160.jpg?1378221520
That's the schoolyard where it happened. If you see those buildings on the left? Those are apartments we used to live in. Our apartment was right next to a big gate in the fence, so I was able to get to the grounds pretty fast.

It turned out later that one of the boys in the group was a consistent molester of that sort. We ended up calling the police multiple times about him.
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The_tall_midget posted...

You really compared the amount of human (oops, I meant clump of cells) beings murdered as opposed to the amount of children "gunned down en masse." En masse? Are you insane?

I think you've been watching a bit too much Ray Comfort propaganda, for one thing, but beyond that, are you seriously suggesting that we don't have a gun murder epidemic in the USA that disproportionately targets children, lol? You do realize that we've had almost as many mass shootings this year as we have had DAYS in the year?
But hey, if dem fertilized eggs really are that much more important to you, by all means. You obviously don't know much about pregnancy if you're saying stuff like this, lol.

Hell, if we want to go into children having their lives ruined, let's talk about the amount of children raped or sexually assaulted by teachers every year!

Fixed. But if it comforts you to think only women are rapists, be my guest. I was under the impression that you didn't care much about rape victims... but I guess you only don't care about them if they're impregnated from it, lol. Then they take second place to their rape egg, yes?

And the other points you're trying to make are idiotic at best. Pro-lifer does not mean that you have an ABSOLUTE right to live, but that you have an inherent right at life as long as you don't stampede on that right of others (aka: an actual murderer). Can you fucking imagine if a pro-life absolutism would be established? That no matter how many people you kill, that you would never be killed yourself?

Says Mr Spermicide. Aw, we all draw lines where it's convenient for us, don't we? It's not every day that someone's a hypocrite on both ends; you kill sperm almost every day, sneer at women dying because they have pregnancy-related complications (but hey, at least the baby liv-oh wait no it was already dead inside her and they just refused to take it out lol) and revel in the deaths of criminals, but you'll be damned if you let dem blastocysts go without a fight!

Besides, as we all know, the biggest factor in determining what makes an actual criminal is to be raised by a single mother.

Aw, but I thought you didn't want those single women to have abortions? Hmm.
Oh, and you're wrong. It's poverty. That the two go hand in hand says more about the foul state of our economics than anything else.
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Awww, look at them all scrambling to actually avoid addressing anything I said. How quaint.
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^ Hmm, I admit that I've only ever heard those rattled off by MRAs and such, but you know what I have heard all over the place?

No means yes. Yes means anal.

See that all over the place in the town I live in. Fun. I don't go outside anymore, and neither does my sister, who was raped when she was in pre-school. Couple years after that, a gang of boys once surrounded her and tried to tear her clothes off. They didn't realize I was watching from the window of our apartment overlooking the park they were in. I don't think they liked it when I came at them with a shovel, but hey...

Fat/ugly/poor girl chasing you down with a shovel? Maybe you shouldn't have worn those clothes, whore.
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It's too expensive. I usually don't buy anything when I do go, and I rarely go... um... I think the last thing I got at one was a funnel cake, though? I can't remember; it was years ago.
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I am, yeah. I don't look much like it because it distributes over my body fairly evenly (probably the only good thing I can say about my body, lol), but I used to weigh quite a bit less than I do now. I blame depression-inspired cake cravings. :D
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None. I don't even root for a specific road cycling team, which is one of the only sports I pay even a bit of attention to.
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Oh, I think I forgot one or two... yes. According to the WHO, "about 830 women die from pregnancy- or childbirth-related complications around the world every day." Abortion is far safer than pregnancy.

Also, depending upon the source you check, you will generally find a number between 1/5 or 1/6 as the ratio of pregnancies that end in miscarriage (this has held true in my own family where 2 members who had five pregnancies each suffered one miscarriage). Have fun clogging our legal system when you turn all women who miscarry into suspected criminals. Yet cutting access to women's health/health care in general can only result in the # of miscarriages going up. Very pro-life.

Oh, and let's not forget exemplary pro-lifers like Idaho's lieutenant governor candidate Bob Nonini, who wants the death penalty for women who have abortions. Ahahahahaha..... not so funny when you remember that we've already found women who miscarried "guilty" of the "crime" of abortion in more than one state in recent years.
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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

Well this all would be avoided if girls would keep their panties on and guys keep their dicks in their pants.

*GASP* Eugenics! EUGENICS!
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It's funny how conservatives accuse pro-abortion rights people of being "baby killers" even as children are being gunned down en masse all over the country while they stick their fingers up their noses and print out guns, vote for war hawks that fuel the military industrial complex that results in blown up school buses and hospitals... cutting health care so that children with diabetes die or children with tooth infections die because their insurance doesn't cover dental or they kill themselves/others because their insurance decides to stop covering their mental health care, or how about when they de-regulate environmental protections that result in children imbibing lead? Or how about all those "pro-lifers" that are also pro death penalty? Or all those "family values" folk who tell people to stay with their abusers, but abandon their gay kids.
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Going off on a tangent, do people actually care about passing on their genes? Like... why do people care, especially men, since it takes pretty much no effort for them to do so? It's like being proud of yourself for taking a crap.
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What a nightmare. The man doesn't support the 4th amendment and he's a corporate whore through and through to boot... but I guess most of you couldn't be bothered to actually look at his ideological positions and just paid attention to the sexual assault allegations, so all we get are people sniveling about SJWs... again. "I don't like listening to people whine about civil rights and inequality, so I'm gonna support the guy who wants to let the government spy on anyone they want to for no f***ing reason, because... SJWs wanna take muh freedom or... or something." :-/
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That's a menace to society right there.
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I'm the first one to post this? For shame.


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Yes, when I was in elementary school. I won the cake, too, which was cool because I have wretched luck and rarely win anything.
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Muscles posted...

Orcs were invented by Tolkien though

No.

Orc = goblin. Something that Peter Jackson apparently missed when he included a line in his movies about cross-breeding orcs with "goblin-men." Pft. I think the word is Germanic in its origins but I'd have to double-check; it's been a while since I read up on Tolkien's work. It should be noted that Tolkien's depiction of orcs differs quite a bit from what we typically see today. They aren't really similar to, say, Warcraft orcs.

Tolkien invented hobbits while he was in the trenches in WW1. One could also make the argument that he invented Balrogs, but Tolkien's balrogs are heavily tied to his setting (corrupted Maia- Gandalf, Saruman, and Sauron are all Maia as well- basically fallen angels), and other depictions of balrogs since Tolkien just seem to be... a class of fire-related demons, so they take the name and the fire and leave everything else.

Pretty much everything he wrote was rooted in something already established in myth/fantasy, not that that's a bad thing.

Cruddy_horse posted...

Because it's a race all to easy to shove in. I wish more fantasy works would incorporate a mostly original racial roster but that's probably more effort than most creators are willing to put in.

It's usually either the traditional fantasy races, the "humans crossed with animal X" race, and/or the "mascot" race, heh.
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