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TopicOpinion on this media bias chart?
Hinakuluiau
12/28/18 11:12:06 AM
#61
I still can't believe people think BuzzfeedNews is like the rest of Buzzfeed, don't be sleeping on it now y'all
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TopicI live in Southern California and will be visiting NYC in January. I need a coat
Hinakuluiau
12/25/18 11:43:10 PM
#1
What do you guys recommend?
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TopicWho's excited for the new President in 2025?
Hinakuluiau
12/24/18 8:32:15 PM
#7
Duncanwii posted...
I think you're being a tad overdramatic.

Says the guy who thought Hillary would cause WW 3.
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TopicApparently DNA tests are exposing infidelity.
Hinakuluiau
12/20/18 3:13:11 PM
#21
I'd say anyone who raised a kid, taught them to ride a bike/learn to drive, took them to their favorite places growing up, was there for them when they had their first breakup, taught them how to be a functioning member of society, etc. and every other thing a parent does, but then suddenly hates them because they don't share genetic material is a piece of shit who deserved to be cheated on
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TopicSmash Ultimate Tier List from ZeRo
Hinakuluiau
12/17/18 7:46:22 PM
#1

It's an hour long video explaining it, but the list:

Top Tier :

Inkling
Chrom
Pikachu
Olimar
Lucina
Marth
Peach
Lucario
Yoshi
Mewtwo

High Tier:

Roy
Link
Young Link
Richter
Simon
Shulk
Ike
Cloud
Megaman
Toon Link
Palutina
Pit
Fox
Pokemon Trainer
Donkey Kong
Snake
Lucas
Ness
Samus
Dark Samus
Bowser
Ryu
Ken
Bayonetta
R.O.B.
Isabelle
Villager
Mii Swordsman
Zero Suit Samus
Meta Knight
Diddy Kong
Pichu
Wario
King K. Rool

Mid tier:

Luigi
Dr. Mario
Mario
Wolf
Incineroar
Ganondorf
Falco
Wii Gunner
Pacman
WiiFit Trainer
Captain Falcon
Corrin
Zelda
Robin
Rosalina
Greninja
Ice Climbers
Shiek
Jigglypuff
Ridley
Mii Brawler
Mr. Game & Watch
King Dedede
Bowser Jr.
Duck Hunt

Low Tier:

Kirby
Little Mac

Not listed:

Sonic (??)
Daisy and Dark Pit ==> They're considered too similar from their original fighters to be set apart.
Piranha Plant, obviously.
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TopicReal talk: Sugar is a fucking problem
Hinakuluiau
12/17/18 6:53:23 PM
#22
ThyCorndog posted...
sugar, oil and salt

we'd all be super healthy if we had like 1/10th of what we normally have of them

GTFO here, don't put Oil and Salt anywhere close to Sugar in terms of being bad for you.
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TopicI am convinced someone on GameFAQS who hates The Last Jedi made dozens of alts.
Hinakuluiau
12/16/18 11:23:12 PM
#14
What gets me is that Star Wars has never been good. Struck gold with Empire, sure, but aside from that they've never been good. The idea that TLJ ruined the franchise is ridiculous.
Star Wars has never been anything but a fun series, fanboys need to come to terms with that.
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TopicWhy did I get scouted and then told I didn't have enough experience?
Hinakuluiau
12/16/18 10:18:45 PM
#1
Backstory:
Recruiter messages me on Linkedin. Phone interview HR, then invite to company event to meet the team I'd be working with. Then brought out to have a face-to-face interview with two managers. Email a week later saying "After further consideration, we regret to inform you that we will not be proceeding with your candidacy for this particular role. We have identified other applicants whose specific experience is more closely aligned with our current business needs."

Like, how much BS is that? I never even applied to the job, I was invited. Why feed me this shit?
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TopicIt's funny how the DC Arrowverse has ended up being better than the DCEU
Hinakuluiau
12/13/18 10:38:08 PM
#8
Are we really at the point where people hate the DC movies so much they think teen drama with a veneer of superhero schlock is supposed to be good? Get some fucking taste guys.
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TopicPelosi tells Dems she'll limit Speaker role to 4 years to get progressive votes
Hinakuluiau
12/12/18 6:56:56 PM
#1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/us/politics/nancy-pelosi-democrat-leadership.html

Best case scenario I guess for Left Dems that were realistic, but seems meaningless outside of optics
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TopicIs this a good gaming laptop?
Hinakuluiau
12/04/18 10:31:35 PM
#1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BP9SFZ5

I already have a desktop. My grandparents found out I have to travel for work and they decided to ask me if I wanted a laptop to play games with while I'm in a hotel. They're willing to spend up to 2 grand as a Christmas present.

I trust MSI and Asus more than other brands, but I'm open to anything if it's trustworthy.
I don't really care about weight, temperature is a big deal though.
I would prefer a 17 inch screen because I'm a size queen.
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TopicIt will be weird having Clinton, Bush and Obama being the only living presidents
Hinakuluiau
12/02/18 10:55:20 PM
#9
I doubt an obese 72 year old man whose primary diet is McDonalds and has a button on his desk that brings him a coke will live a long life like most other former presidents.
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TopicHow many Xmases will we have to deal with debates about Baby Its Cold Outside
Hinakuluiau
12/02/18 10:10:44 PM
#6
Noirespanties posted...
It hasn't aged well

This is the stickler.
We can debate over whether it's really rapey or if it's just a joke worried about society's fucked up notions on sex, but either way the lyrics haven't aged well.
And that's ok. We can accept that it's indicative of its era while also saying that a lyric with "Say what's in this drink?" isn't something that should fly today with the Cosby and other date rape shit going on.
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TopicDo you think a person's intelligence is usually mostly inherited?
Hinakuluiau
11/28/18 12:38:12 PM
#4
Twins are pretty much the best options for testing.

Ridley, M., & Matthews, P. (1999). Genome: The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters (p. 12). London: Fourth Estate.
The same person tested Twice: 87%
identical twins reared together: 86%
Identical twins reared apart: 76%
Fraternal twins reared together: 55%
Biological Siblings: 47%
Parents and Children living together: 40%
Parents and children living apart: 31%
Adopted Children living together: 0%
Unrelated People Living Apart: 0%

Basically an identical twin with a shared upbringing is indistinguishable from the same person taking multiple tests, in terms of repeat-ability.

Raising twins apart drops the correlation, which suggests that upbringing has some sort of effect.

Fraternal twins have significantly less correlation than identical twins, meaning that genetics are playing a large role. However, they have a higher correlation than regular siblings. Which means that either sharing a womb has some sort of result (shared conditions of mother while brain developing, or similar external stimulus of epigentic factors), or perhaps having a constant companion of the same age causes some sort of convergence of development.

Biological Siblings are next in line. Not surprising. A big effect, but still a lot of variation. It's notable that siblings correlate more amongst themselves than with their of their parents. The mixed result of the parents genes are playing a role.

Adopted Children living together having 0% correlation contradicts something earlier - that suggests that nurture (alone) has zero influence.


tl;dr: it's about 50/50 nature vs nurture, with genetics playing a larger role in maximum potential and raising the minimum
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TopicGillibrand / O'Rourke 2020
Hinakuluiau
11/13/18 7:32:25 PM
#3
Nope.
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TopicGillibrand / O'Rourke 2020
Hinakuluiau
11/12/18 7:20:35 PM
#1
You heard it here first, folks.
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TopicIt occurred to me this week that people might really just have different tastes
Hinakuluiau
11/08/18 6:11:47 PM
#9
There's basically four different kinds of opinions

1. The kind you're talking about. You like red, I like blue, neither is objectively better so there's no point in arguing over it.

2. The kind where it's wrong. The world is demonstrably not flat. saying it's your opinion doesn't mean it's true.

3. The kind where there might be a right answer, but we haven't decided it yet. Much of politics is this since there has to be a "best" system, but we need to argue to find out which one is right.

4. The kind where something is objective and subjective at the same time. Much of art (music, books, games, movies, etc.) is like this. For instance, my painting of a sunflower is objectively worse than Van Gogh and you should be ridiculed if you defend such a statement, but you could subjectively prefer my painting. For instance, I think the Star Wars movies are pretty much crap with only one-and-a-half good ones in there, but I love it and think it's a great franchise.
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TopicI feel bad for Gen X
Hinakuluiau
11/07/18 3:15:18 PM
#1
They were taught to wait their turn by Baby Boomers, saying that they'll get to be in charge one day.
But it's skipping them. Baby boomers are outliving their parents and millennial are coming in vogue and taking charge. Gen X got completely skipped over.

'Course they also fit the stereotype of "fuck you, got mine" as they age, unlike millenials, so fuck 'em.
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TopicOf the current Smash characters, who doesn't deserve a slot?
Hinakuluiau
11/05/18 9:30:30 PM
#6
Off the top of my head?
Dark Samus
Luigi
Daisy
Dr. Mario
Pichu
Falco
Lucina
Young Link
Roy
Chrom
Dark Pit
Zero Suit Samus
Ike
Lucas
Toon Link
Wolf
Villager
Wii Fit Trainer
Mii Fighter
Bowser Jr.
Ken
Corrin
Richter
Isabelle
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TopicHuge reddit thread about women being jerks to men
Hinakuluiau
10/31/18 4:39:38 PM
#35
And after that you still thought it was real?
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TopicDo you use Craigslist?
Hinakuluiau
10/29/18 10:24:35 PM
#6
I used it in college a lot to fuck straight guys who wanted to try the D and were afraid to download grindr.
It's a shame the changes made it so you can't use it to hook up, idk if any other site is good at it. Not that it matters to me, I'm in a relationship now and haven't used CL in awhile.
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TopicIf you are politically moderate or in the center you are a terrible person
Hinakuluiau
10/29/18 2:26:17 PM
#27
Zanzenburger posted...
When in reality, they just side on individual issues regardless of party and may lean on either side at a given time.

A better example would be that in the above comic, the moderate says "no I agree with the eagle who says to kill no kittens" but then agree with the elephant on a different issue later that day.

I think the problem with is the idea that it's somehow special. There are democrats who support gun rights, republicans who are pro-choice, etc.
People aren't just blind to issues and vote for a party unless they already largely agree with the party.

There's this narrative that somehow we few are politically conscious while the majority of voters just do everything the party says. This feeds this whole moderate/centrist stuff while also tapping into the part of your brain that rewards you for being different from other people. That's the issue people have with so-called moderates/centrists.
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TopicAdam (Adam Ruins Everything) thinks games are equally popular between genders
Hinakuluiau
10/29/18 1:23:14 PM
#24
PiOverlord posted...
I mean, I guess if you include mobile.


The distinction is irrelevant. It's the same as when your English teacher sneered at the Harry Potter books that everyone was reading and insisted you read something tedious and boring like The Great Gatsby.

To assume that the audience for gaming PC's and smartphone games is the same may be fallacious, but to assume that the former is inherently more of a gamer than the latter, or to assume that high end Triple-A games are inherently superior to smartphone games is equally fallacious.
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TopicApparently the synagogue shooter spared the kids
Hinakuluiau
10/27/18 11:45:31 PM
#6
Small comfort to those who are dead
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TopicThe Simpsons is getting rid of Apu
Hinakuluiau
10/27/18 8:53:21 PM
#97
Kondobolus thesis from the problem with Apu wasnt just that he was a stereotype, but that as the only Indian character and still so stereotypical. Homer is the stereotypical Murican, Burns is the greedy tycoon, Cletus is the redneck, Wiggins is the stupid cop, but these are ALL different aspects of WHITE dudes. You know that all white dudes arent greedy because theres dozens of other white dudes that are not greedy. You know that all white dudes are not dumb because there are dozens of white characters who are smart.

But the one Indian guy is a Hindu guy with a thick accent who runs the mini mart, and thats the difference made by representation.

It also does not help that he was the only one Indian character on (a white) American TV for decades.
When your only representation on TV for your racial minority is a stereotype, its not the Simpsons is bad, Apu is offensive, therefore you are racist. Its more this dudes one of, if not the only depictions of an Indian on TV. As a kid everyone used this stereotype to talk smack or make off color jokes. The. Same. Damn. Joke.

TL:DR - this was addressed from the very beginning and you dont understand the issue.
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TopicWas Age of Ultron the last bad MCU movie?
Hinakuluiau
10/27/18 6:17:59 PM
#48
The MCU didn't become consistently good until Phase 3.
Phase 1: Iron Man is the only good movie in the lot. The rest are passable, even Iron Man 2 and The Hulk, but overall just whatever. Avengers hasn't really stood the test of time, despite being such an achievement it really ends up feeling like a made-for-TV-movie.
Phase 2: Captain America Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy are both good movies. The rest of Phase 2, including Iron Man 3, Age of Ultron, and Thor 2 are all pretty meh. They succeed in being fun flicks to watch and they certainly add to the franchise, and none of them are outright offensive in quality, they're not really good.
Phase 3: This is where it gets great. Civil War isn't a worthy sequel to Winter Soldier, but aside from that it's pretty good. Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, and Black Panther are all better than Phase 1 and don't fail as origin stories despite being ~8 years after the franchise started and ~15 years after CBM's became huge. Thor Ragnarok was a solid followup to Thor 2 and introduced a more interesting list of characters -- the comedy was sometimes a bit much even for a Marvel movie but it was overall good. Admittedly though, Guardians 2 was pretty much a step down in every way from the first given how they flanderized half the cast, tried to manipulate us with a cheap death, a dumb villain (somehow even worse than the first), etc. and Ant-Man/Wasp was pretty whatever following Infinity War (which was awesome).

I like them, but they have too many shared problems that consistently appear to be what the hardcore fans want them to be.
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TopicImmigrant Caravan... why isn't Mexico doing anything to stop it?
Hinakuluiau
10/23/18 11:21:09 PM
#6
Why would they? This has happened before and has been dealt with. The people in the caravan will be evaluated at our borders according to the law. Its that easy. The border agents have handled this kind of thing before. This caravan thing happens just about every year. The border patrol will handle it again like they've handled it before - according to the immigration law. This is a convenient thing for Trump and the GOP to try to scare everyone about because they want to drum up support from ignorant Americans.
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TopicTrump supporters, explain this blatant lie?
Hinakuluiau
10/23/18 9:17:08 PM
#1
Trump claims that an Opioid bill was passed with very little Democratic support.
The vote was 98 to 1 in the Senate, with only Sen. Mike Lee (R) opposing it. The House passed it 393 to 8.

Why is Trump saying this?

Video of Trump saying this: https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/trump-claimed-bipartisan-opioid-bill-had-little-democratic-support-1349924419737?v=raila&;

source about passage of bill: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/03/senate-is-poised-send-sweeping-opioids-legislation-president-trump/?utm_term=.060fdbcc08ca
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TopicWill those against expanding transgender rights be on the wrong side of history?
Hinakuluiau
10/22/18 9:15:50 PM
#32
__B0xxY2J0sHBK_ posted...
Holy shit! Is that for real? That's all kinds of crazy. That's gotta be satire

Kind of, but not really. It is important to note that this does not apply to most people, only certain relationships are covered by human rights legislation in Canada. They don't apply between people on the street, but rather to employment, housing, commercial transactions and education- all areas that have much higher levels of government regulation already.
Further, C-16 only applied to federal jurisdiction, which is mostly banks, airports and fisheries. The most likely instance where pronoun use could even come up is employment- so let's take a hypothetical of an employer who hires a transgender employee. The boss referring to this employee with the wrong pronoun is not discrimination in itself, but if they continued to do so despite requests to use another, that could come to the realm of harassment or creating a hostile work environment, under which the employee could make a complaint to the human rights tribunal of their province. This would be like if the employee was black and the boss kept using racial slurs to refer to them- I think you can understand how that would be a problem.*
*In this context it's a useful example regarding what sort of conduct is being targeted by this legislation. It's not simple misgendering, but a repeated, malicious pattern of conduct. It doesn't even have to apply to a transgendered person- imagine a straight, cisgendered woman who dressed in a very masculine, "butch" way. Should her boss be allowed to mock her, and refer to her with male pronouns despite her making it clear to him that it bothers her? Can you see how that would be demeaning and hostile in a way that would interfere with her ability to work there, much like someone who used racially demeaning language to a black employee?
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TopicTrump is the most religious person...
Hinakuluiau
10/22/18 7:18:09 PM
#3
Also the most American until it comes to immigration.

Then he becomes blind and forgets this quote from the Statue of Liberty:

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore
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TopicMy boyfriend and I are going to have a book club to ourselves. Any rec's?
Hinakuluiau
10/22/18 2:39:10 PM
#3
We fuck often enough, we don't read nearly as much as we used to and want to try to get better at that
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TopicIs Patrick Stewart as Professor X still the most perfect casting in history?
Hinakuluiau
10/22/18 1:44:46 PM
#12
Professor X is American, so no
RDJ's Stark is fun, comic Stark sucks

So really the answer is and always will be

s0nicfan posted...
Menardii posted...
LightHawKnight posted...
J.K. Simmons as J.J.J.

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TopicAny D&D 5E players on CE? I had a question about class creation
Hinakuluiau
10/22/18 1:31:34 PM
#8
s0nicfan posted...
In terms of intent, I was thinking less of something like a witcher and more something like an alchemy wizard. So instead of casting an illusion, I sling/fire/etc a potion with a hallucinatory effect into the area, or an explosive potion, or I set a trap with an armor corroding chemical outside of a door with hostiles inside. That sort of thing.

Like I said above, you can do this if your DM is fine with you playing a Wizard who has potions instead of spells. It doesn't really change anything, just the way you narrate your actions as "I throw my potion of grease at the floor under the goblins" instead of "I cast grease by waving my wand at the floor under the goblins"

Unless you want actual mechanical changes
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TopicAny D&D 5E players on CE? I had a question about class creation
Hinakuluiau
10/22/18 1:27:26 PM
#6
TES_Nut posted...
Having a truly unique build is hard. 5e is very homogenized.

I wouldn't quite say that. It's hard to have builds that don't play well within the rules, such as someone wanting a potion slinger in a game where you really have only weapons and spells to use. I don't think the rules even go in depth on how/when to make potions, leaving it up to DM fiat
But on the positive side, you can very easily reflavor things if you want. There's nothing wrong with saying you have a wizard who instead of casting spells is actually drinking different potions, or a barbarian who takes a swig of a magic potion that enables rage, etc. The rules don't care how you make something appear so long as you don't actually change the mechanics

So it's a weird spot but given D&D is more popular now than ever, they must be doing something right

Darkman124 posted...
are you thinking something comparable to the witcher?

I think if that's the case, your idea of a cleric is a good idea but Matt Mercer's blood hunter class is homebrew but pretty well received
https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/classes/blood-hunter
https://geekandsundry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Blood-Hunter-Class-1.2.pdf
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TopicMy boyfriend and I are going to have a book club to ourselves. Any rec's?
Hinakuluiau
10/22/18 1:10:13 PM
#1
We have the following that we decided we'll read. Some of them we read for school but now this is for fun. Then there are some more that are considered 'mandatory' to read.

Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Stand - Stephen King
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Lord of the Flies - William Golding


Anymore you think we should read or ones on here we should remove?
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TopicSo Guardians 3 is basically canceled.
Hinakuluiau
10/19/18 1:02:17 AM
#75
Guardians 2 was awful. The writing was bad, the chemistry between the actors was not as good, baby Groot was something out of a 90s movie.
I feel like they had a survey where people listed what they liked about the first movie and cranked it up to 11. The over usage of color, The jokes are too forced, and Bautista's character Drax laughing his ass off at stuff, etc.

Yondu was a problem too. In the first movie Yondu is a remorseless villain who enslaved Quill. In the sequel he was retconned into a father figure. Felt a little forced, it kind of felt like one of those crummy fan theories about how the good guy/bad guy is actually the bad guy/good guy, and they give a paper thin "They're just PRETENDING" excuse to cover all the times the theory is blatantly contradicted.
"I was just joking about eating ya." No you weren't, we can still watch the first, you're dead serious each time and make no attempt to clarify when Quill tells you off.

It actually made me think that they didn't understand what worked so well about the first movie at all, which was how unexpected the chemistry was and how much it played against many superhero tropes to give us an antihero team of a-holes. The Soverign were ridiculous, and severely lacked any threatening presence and how the hell does the entire "TASERFACE" scene make it past the first draft of the script?

I think a huge issue that goes beyond the movie though is Chris Pratt. I'm happy for him and is success, but he's lost a lot of that lovable underdog charm since landing so many big roles. Now he just seems like a discount version of an action star.
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TopicPretty sure there's no way to end the growing extremism in America
Hinakuluiau
10/17/18 4:38:20 PM
#41
Dyinglegacy posted...
I guess I'm a moderate centrist. I lean left or right, depending on the issue. I don't feel an intense attachment to most of the political issues, tho. Some of the really conrtroversial issues, like gun control, I tend to go back and forth on. I don't really think that more gun laws will do anything, and that it would take an outright ban for change to happen. I don't think I would be cool with a straight up ban.

Some of the things I feel, don't make sense to a lot of people, like my stance on abortion. It doesn't bother me, up to a point, like 3rd trimester abortions. At that point, I nope out.

Personally, I feel that the gray area is the most reasonable, but many don't think that. They want you to pick a side, and stick with it. I just can't do that.

What you're saying here isn't particularly different from views espoused elsewhere, though.
Take your stance on gun control. You worked your way through how you feel and ended up being against gun control. Your stance on abortion is a relatively common one: pro-choice until the 3rd trimester. The first is a conservative view and the second a more liberal one, but neither is a gray area.
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TopicThe truth about Star Wars movies.
Hinakuluiau
10/16/18 9:41:51 PM
#1
It's always sucked.
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TopicRewatched TLJ
Hinakuluiau
10/14/18 11:34:21 PM
#1
Not near as bad as I thought it was when I first watched it.
If you haven't seen it in awhile, definitely give it a second shot.
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TopicI hate 'Death of the Author'
Hinakuluiau
10/12/18 11:25:11 PM
#1
It's always been an insanely narcissistic academic wank fanboy philosophy.
Ideas don't exist independent on the author. And there's no fucking way that any audience's interpretation takes precedence over the intent of the creator.
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TopicWho do you think would win in a fight a bear or a tiger?
Hinakuluiau
10/12/18 9:41:04 PM
#37
DrascalKiller posted...
. A better comparison would be something like Mike Tyson vs. Bruce Lee

A trained boxer vs an overhyped actor is not comparable to a tiger and a bear
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TopicWhat would happen if we repeated 2018?
Hinakuluiau
10/05/18 12:37:51 AM
#1
Say it's New Years Eve and when we go to bed that night, we wake up in January 1st 2018 instead of 2019
We all remember what happened over the past year, but it's as if it never happened

What do?
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TopicThe democratic process died when we stopped having meaningful civil debate
Hinakuluiau
10/04/18 8:38:53 PM
#34
The United States has almost always exhibited a degree of political polarization
https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/assets/4273163/polar_housesenate_difference.png
This political polarization is largely related to economic pressures resulting from income inequality, which drives citizens to choose more ideologically extreme options. This chart
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Share_top_1_percent.jpg
shows the share of pretax household income received by the top 1%, top 0.1% and top 0.01% in the US. As we can see, the level of income inequality mirrors the level of political polarization.

If you look to the beginning of the charts at the late 1800s and early 1900s respectively, levels of political polarization and income inequality were high. This period of time was known for its lack of substantive regulation regarding business structure and labor laws in the face of massive industrial growth. This subjected harsh working conditions onto the US's working poor and allowed untold riches to its elite.
This, in turn with an often jingoistic and dis-informative press, radicalized the two flanks of the population until progressive reforms were enacted under Theodore Roosevelt. Polarization rose slightly in WWI and the year after due to the First Red Scare, but dropped under the Roaring Twenties and further when Franklin Delano Roosevelt enacted the New Deal in the Depression, to further reduce income inequality.

Any of this sound familiar? Political polarization will begin to drop when the United States begins to regulate its businesses again in a way reduces economic pressures on the 99.9%. This would be through manners similar to those enacted by both Roosevelts, which would be to break up the big banks and giant media conglomerates like Comcast and Disney, massively increase taxes on the .01%, and end all tax loopholes. It'd also require heavy expansions to the welfare state (Single-payer, more education funding, reintroduction of AFDC, etc.) nothing socialistic, but enough to make sure every American's needs are met. People tend to be less politically radical when their economy is functioning correctly and their needs are met. Until this happens, it will only get worse from here.

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TopicIs there any version of FF VI where I can cheat in the Espers from the beginning
Hinakuluiau
10/03/18 10:39:58 PM
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TopicDefying all odds and logic, Super Mario Party is actually good
Hinakuluiau
10/03/18 5:37:56 PM
#36
Obviously I would like there to be more than 4 boards, even getting some retro versions from past games like some people have said would be good.
That being said though, I'm not sure if it'll impact my enjoyment of the game. Like, Mario Party is not going to be a game I sit there over and over again playing. It's gonna come out when I have friends over and we don't have anything specific to do.
The chances of me having only 3 friends (or really 2 if you count my boyfriend) over and us playing 4 hour+ maps is a bit crazy. Chances are we're gonna play a couple and call it quits.
And then a few days/weeks later, we'll slowly get around to playing the others. It could be a month before the same people play the same map, and even then we have different characters and games to mix it up in between (and of course co-op modes and such will mix it up further).

So I get the outrage, but I don't think it'll effect my enjoyment of the game so I'm still getting it (plus Amazon texted me while at work that it had shipped).
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TopicThe Crown is decent, so far. Does it get better or worse?
Hinakuluiau
09/24/18 8:00:43 PM
#13
Gheb posted...
Lithgow is so excellent in the role, I can't imagine anyone would have any real complaints with the casting.

Spike does this in every topic involving movies set in the UK.
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TopicIs transgender/non-binary political power a little disproportionate?
Hinakuluiau
09/24/18 12:39:24 PM
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Megaman50100 posted...
I know plenty of people like this, its basically how parties exist in the first place.

No, parties exist because groups are stronger than individuals.
If I am pro-2nd Amendment and don't have a strong opinion on abortion, and you are pro-life with no strong opinion on the 2nd Amendment, we can double our votes for the things we care about because we're willing to "trade" on the other stuff we don't care about

Parties also exist for voters to immediately know a lot about a candidate. We can stereotype them based off of their party affiliation instead of having to research literally everything about them.

I think the idea that we're special because we all have individual beliefs and don't go down the party line is basically "I'm 14 and this is deep" because a lot of people actually genuinely agree with a lot of what the party believes. It just reeks of people trying to feel superior "Oh I'm an individualist that doesn't get his entire belief set spoon fed to him. I'm basically a moderate liberal." GTFOutta here man, congrats you're like millions of others, they just happen to fall under most of a specific party's beliefs
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TopicIs transgender/non-binary political power a little disproportionate?
Hinakuluiau
09/24/18 12:06:49 PM
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
I'm an individualist that doesn't get his entire belief set spoon fed to him. I'm basically a moderate liberal.

Never understood this line of thinking. A lot of people are like this too, it's not like they just wake up deciding they're going to hate abortion just because they also like the 2nd Amendment and that's what the GOP says.

AmericaTheBrave posted...
And their population is so tiny, it just seems weird to focus so much on it.

One does not have to be trans to be aware that they face discrimination and want to fix it.
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TopicRosenstein resigns.
Hinakuluiau
09/24/18 11:37:32 AM
#47
Antifar posted...
My reaction, as always: which one is he again?

I really don't understand this. He's potentially the most important person relating to Trump's investigation (bar Mueller) and has been in the news a lot, how does someone who cares about politics not know this?
It's genuinely weird.
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TopicEverything Trump does is held under a microscope
Hinakuluiau
09/17/18 1:33:19 PM
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Which of those is Trump showing signs of stopping? As far as I'm aware, he's on track for doing all of this is with even greater numbers.
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