Lurker > K181

Madness...

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The "armed" and "robbery" parts. Oh, and correlating money with sex in a marriage.

And you're friends with people defending spousal rape?
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Kick his ass as he'd have no meaningful mobility or attacking ability. All a mutant like that could do would be to try to fall on me.
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Stunning news: candidate for president attempts to step back from long-standing support of an insanely unpopular policy.
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This study was coauthored by the University of No Duh
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I legit forgot that those controllers were a thing.
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In France, Roman Polanski is still a swell guy, too.
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sabin017 posted...

Freespace 2

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Dispersal draft
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Me six months ago: That character rendering from that stupid-looking movie that I don't want to see looks really awful.
Me today: That character rending from that stupid-looking movie that I don't want to see looks kind of lame.
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*stubs toe*

Millennials!
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Yes, the Hasbro trademarked Ouija brand is truly connected to the afterlife.
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Silly TC... they were with you all along.

https://youtu.be/nSeS7vTEkHE
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Waaaah, a game didn't fulfill my needs waaaah.

And fuck, it's not like Kojima pulled the plug on Silent Hills. He get paid to make his arthouse project, whether or not it looked interesting to you should've been obvious over a year ago. God forbid there being occasional off the wall AAA games.
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That seems particularly dumb.
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Then raise your calorie intake by a couple hundred per day but walk more.
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Antifar posted...

K181 posted...

I can't help but think that a huge chunk of the Dem base is just badly wanting a viable non-geezer candidate.

Is Patrick really more viable than the several non-geezers already in the race?

I don't think so, but that doesn't mean he doesn't think so of himself.
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I'm just lazy at home. On the rare occasion where I want something other than a beer or a bourbon on the rocks, the only mixed drink I usually make is rum and coke.
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Truth be told, I'd be surprised if there weren't a couple late addons. Avoid the hooplah of a year of nonsense that only political nerds pay attention to, get press in the immediate time frame more than the six candidates collectively polling under 10%, and if you have a surprise third place finish in Iowa or New Hampshire you could frame it as a hot start to the campaign.

I can't help but think that a huge chunk of the Dem base is just badly wanting a viable non-geezer candidate.
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Hmmmm....

Colorado Rockies, Memphis Grizzlies, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Kansas City Chiefs.
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If humans evolved from monkeys, then how come there are still monkeys?

Sarcasm
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And nothing of value was lost.

CanuckCowboy posted...

Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

The First World War does have a lot of attention in Canada for sure, but not in America.

Which, if im being fair, makes sense in a certain way. It basically established canada as a power in its own right.

Eh, nobody considered Canada a power after WWI. But it Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa all cemented their public concisounesses as being distinctly different and unique peoples with with own national prides as a result of wartime service and sacrifice and guaranteed that the British Empire would go down the path of establishing home rule commonwealths rather trying to stitch together an imperial federation.

Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

Definitely so. As a Canadian I've been told that America didn't have A LOT to do with the First World War anyways, since they were like, "Why the fuck should I get involved in their shit?"

Except for the fact that that mass numbers of Americans being added to the front forced Germany to launch a series of massive assaults that sapped their strength and the added manpower advantage of the doughboy divisions allowed the hundred days' offensive to entirely rollback the German advances and forced them to the sue for peace far faster than the Entente had anticipated. As late as October 1918, Entente commanders were planning for 1919 to be the decisive year to knock Germany out of the war. There's a reason why the US was immediately one of the big four powers during the peace notifications.

The buildup of American forces on the continent was essentially the central theme of the entire last year of the war on the Western Front.
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Not really. My jaw took some damage when I was a boxer so that it gets a bit sore if I chew on something for more than an hour or so.
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If I had to guess, without looking, I'd say some order of LA, San Jose, San Diego, San Francisco, and maybe Anaheim.

*looks*

Eh, close enough. Nobody cares about Fresno (5), thought Anaheim was bigger (10), and thought Sacramento (6) was way smaller but with a a lot of mid-sized towns around it giving it a decent metro area.
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Haven't weighed myself in over a year, so no clue. Probably still mid-150s.
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Ok snowflake
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GS4Life posted...

K181 posted...

She's shown as incredibly gullible, easy to trick, easily starstruck, constantly having crises of confidence and lacking self-worth, getting captured twice, and more or less relying on the support of her newfound friends and parent figure all throughout episodes 7 and 8.

I will agree that 7 and 8 kind of made the First Order into a He-Man villain level threat to the main characters, albeit successfully wiping out the Republic capital and wiping out almost the entirety of the Resistance, but is her not getting her butt kicked yet really that critical of a difference between her and Luke?

And added spoiler tags just in case.

Her 1st kidnapping she escapes with no help, granted she needs help getting off the Star Killer base. She only really has one brief instance where she questions herself and wants to get away from everything and that's resolved in 15 seconds flat. Finn goes through that arc twice. Her 2nd kidnapping which required Kylo's help to escape was her giving herself up trying to redeem Kylo ala Luke trying to save Vader in RotJ

Rey isn't that bad of a character and nothing personally against Daisy Ridley but she could use less obvious plot armor

And that is a fair criticism. But that doesn't make her a Mary Sue, which is more or less meant to imply an almost self-insert everything is easy pretty pretty special princess type of character.
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GS4Life posted...

Actually there is one moment for Rey Snoke toys with her some and Kylo saves her. But compared to Luke she still gets off pretty easy with no serious injuries or repercussions

and made utterly powerless when Kylo Ren captured her in 7 as well and used his force free ability, so twice she was defeated.
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GS4Life posted...

K181 posted...

Rey's a Mary Sue because she's a scavenger who fended for herself for over a decade, became an experienced staff fighter, mechanic, and pilot prior to episode 7 as detailed by the plot setup and several scenes directing herself as such, and was able to beat a more experienced force user in a lightsaber fight because he was badly wounded and taking her lightly, but Luke wasn't a Gary Stu because a random farmer with junkyard swoop piloting skills totally translates to being an immediately excellent starfighter pilot, turret gunner, blaster marksman, and force user capable of directing a pair of proton torpedoes at long range with a single training session under his belt.

Main character get plot armor to some extent but here's the thing about Luke:
Was almost murdered by Tusken Raiders, saved by Obi-wan
Nearly assaulted at the bar saved by Obi-Wan
Nearly drowned then was almost crushed in a garbage dump ultimately saved by the droids
Was mauled by a Wampa and almost died on the cold saved by Han
Was shot down by an AT-AT
Vader smoked him in a duel and cut off hand, completely destroyed him emotionally by dropping the truth about him being Luke's father
Hell even in RotJ he gets shot and the hand and electrocuted, saved by Papa Vader

Rey has no moments of weakness like this and don't need no help cause she's am empowered woman. She is a Mary Sue

She's shown as incredibly gullible, easy to trick, easily starstruck, constantly having crises of confidence and lacking self-worth, getting captured twice, and more or less relying on the support of her newfound friends and parent figure all throughout episodes 7 and 8.

I will agree that 7 and 8 kind of made the First Order into a He-Man villain level threat to the main characters, albeit successfully wiping out the Republic capital and wiping out almost the entirety of the Resistance, but is her not getting her butt kicked yet really that critical of a difference between her and Luke?

And added spoiler tags just in case.
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Sounds like the plot for the third season finale of a b-tier legal show.
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Well... I am a schizophrenic and still hear near constant background murmering, but thanks to medication and therapy it's no longer deafening and I only very rarely suffer any kind of visual hallucinations.

Not sure how to rank that/10
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Solid Sonic posted...

I'd rather argue with him if Rey is a Mary Sue or not.

Rey's a Mary Sue because she's a scavenger who fended for herself for over a decade, became an experienced staff fighter, mechanic, and pilot prior to episode 7 as detailed by the plot setup and several scenes directing herself as such, and was able to beat a more experienced force user in a lightsaber fight because he was badly wounded and taking her lightly, but Luke wasn't a Gary Stu because a random farmer with junkyard swoop piloting skills totally translates to being an immediately excellent starfighter pilot, turret gunner, blaster marksman, and force user capable of directing a pair of proton torpedoes at long range with a single training session under his belt.
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Don't schedule during a big game Saturday in college football territory or Sundays in the NFL season unless you want some no shows and people watching their phones during the reception.

I agree that very close family shouldn't skip, but be real... for the average friend or distant relative or coworker, it's just one of a dozen weddings they probably attended in the past handful of years.
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Internet in a nutshell.

A is bad.

how dare you say B is bad!

I didn't. I said A was bad.

but B was what I believe!

Good, I wasn't talking about that.

apologize for saying B is bad!
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And the best sitdown chain restaurant is Outback Steakhouse, btw.
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TheMikh posted...

K181 posted...

*mass popular protests against wildly unpopular and corrupt regimes with horrible fiscal records in Venezuela and Bolivia*

Damn you, America!!!!!!1!!1!1ONE

eh, i used to think protests were 100% usda organic, but nowadays it's fair to suspect the cia has a hand in things, particularly when the object of discontent is in conflict with the strategic interests of the us or its cronies

You have a far higher opinion of the American intelligence community than me if you think any role we played in millions protesting was more than a drop in the bucket.
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People still watch Survivor?
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*mass popular protests against wildly unpopular and corrupt regimes with horrible fiscal records in Venezuela and Bolivia*

Damn you, America!!!!!!1!!1!1ONE
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English bacon > American bacon > ham > Canadian bacon
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*reads topics title*

Okay, let's see how dumb this gets....

*enters topic*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-_hJthMgtM
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If I have five or so things or less, the self-scan.

If not, then the cashier. You're not giving me a discount for me for saving you on staffing costs, I'm not going to deal with that finicky crap and especially not waiting for when I buy alcohol.
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"California is the best," says inhabitants blissfully ignoring that 100% of the state is under some combination of major earthquake, wildfire, flood, and/or drought risk.
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I don't think you know what "storyline" means.
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