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archedsoul posted...

This is just not true in the US. The US is run by only a couple of ISPs and most of them do cut you off, and some do it the first time temporarily, but you do have to speak to specific departments to lift it during specific times. And then it gets permanent.

Regardless, not sure what point people are getting to by showing how easily they pirate. The average person is not doing any of that shit and it's much easier to pay $10 a month like the other people said.

Ok well I've lived in a few major metropolitan areas run by those few ISPs over my life and I've yet to see it happen. I'm sure there are many more on CE who can attest.

The point is that it was made out to be hard. And it's not hard. That's all. You could argue "downloading a program is hard for the average person" if we want to though.

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I4NRulez posted...

no it isnt. Its not like the early 2000s where you just have to download kazaa or something.

you have to have a client, a site, a vpn, and knowledge of file types. Its easier to just pay netflix 10 bucks a month for the average person.

Download qBittorrent > Search any movie or tv show you want > download > watch

Doesn't really need to be any more complicated than that. If anything it's easier than it was in the early 2000s Limewire days where half of what you download was abject malware. 99% of the world doesn't need a VPN to torrent and even if you live in a place with an ISP who sends you a mean letter about it they're almost always just posturing. They'd rather not actually lose customers.

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Shezarr posted...

I mean, number of citations doesn't really mean anything, especially in smaller fields. If there's a lot it can tell you that it's a well-regarded or commonly-cited paper, but having few citations could just mean it's new or written by a less well-known scholar who might be overshadowed by bigger names in their field.

Of course it's not the end-all-be-all measurement. But there is a reason university departments are so obsessed with their total citations. It's an easy rough measurement to see if anyone else even thinks the research contributed anything else to the conversation. So when an anti-vaxxer sends you some random research paper, with a citation of 0 or a citation of 1 and that other citation is the same author citing themselves, you have good reason to consider it's not really "what the research shows" or "what studies say" or whatever.

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Go to Google Scholar, search a paper, see if there's a PDF version you can view. Try that when you can't see something you want to see because of a paywall and you don't have institutional access. Generally it'll also tell you if the paper means anything because you'll see the number of citations.

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WeeWeiWiiWie posted...

This isn't directly related, but my biggest pet peeve in discussions about movies is when people think a character behaving suboptimially given the whole story is a plot hole.

"Oh, that character could have just done x y and z at the beginning and there wouldn't have had to be a movie. Plot hole!"

I agree the word plot hole is used in all the wrong contexts but characters behaving extremely stupid to move the plot the right way is lazy writing and can be criticized all the same.

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Endgame spoilers I think people had a lot of problems with Marvel's timetravel because they specifically had a scene where Professor Hulk is calling everyone else an idiot for not understanding the weird rules about Marvel's timetravel, which may or may not be contradicted by the Old Man Steve stuff at the end of the same movie and may or may not be contradicted by Loki. And even if it's not necessarily contradicted it's extremely convoluted now.

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Background_Guy posted...

I'd play it if they paid me

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Isn't there approximately one PS5 game?

Oh, apparently a whopping six actual exclusives. Whoo hoo!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:PlayStation_5-only_games

And one of them is a remake of a PS3 game...


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15 years ago everyone agreed horse armor was ridiculously greedy. How gamer's tolerance has changed...

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Tyranthraxus posted...

There's no fucking way you made it past the first disc without junctioning

As a very dumb kid I definitely remember getting most of the way into Disc 2 just spamming summons all the time and feeling like the game was supposed to be more fun than what I was doing.

I was definitely playing the game wrong but the weird thing about FF8 is that playing the game right almost feels like you're playing it wrong too. It's too easy to make the game too easy

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He really tells it like it is

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Neat and I respect the grind but I hope the dude knows he didn't actually need to grind 100 hours and it would've been simple to check what happens in a few minutes by just cheating his stats

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Bleuets posted...

you can get the virus and give it to others even when vaccinated.

You are much much much less infectious to other people when your body is actively killing the virus immediately as it enters your body, which is what happens when you are vaccinated

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It objectively does. That's how infectious diseases work

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100% Re:CoM isn't too too bad. Some enemy cards are annoying to get. But if by 100% you mean all achievements then it's very annoying. Lots of grinding to get to level 99 and leveling Riku to 99 is ridiculous.

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EmbraceOfDeath posted...

Persona Q games. Instant kill spells are broken there, and their success rates increase with luck.

Just the first Persona Q more than the second. And ailments are super brokenly good and scale with luck too. Pretty much everything in the game including bosses can be inflicted with panic to completely shut them down, or inflicted with poison which scales with their max HP so it does severe damage to bosses.

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mooreandrew58 posted...

No matter what I did with vincet I couldn't get his damage ouput aa good as say clouds. I maxed hia strength stat. Was I doing it wrong? Fact he uses a gun change which stat affected damage?

It's hard to say but likely if you were using Death Penalty and comparing it against Cloud's Ultima Weapon then that's why. Ultima Weapon goes up in strength using Cloud's HP. Death Penalty weirdly goes up in strength based on the number of enemies Vincent has ever killed. Death Penalty has the potential to be absurdly powerful but no non-grinding-obsessed player would ever see it get as strong as the other ultimate weapons.

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ssjevot posted...

Considered pretty bad actually.

Cait Sith can one-shot the final boss with his limit. Most people would never see it happen. But he could.

FF7 tier lists are a little pointless since the characters are even more alike than your standard JRPG. Everyone can have their stats maxed. Everyone can equip any materia so anyone can have any skill. The only strict differences between characters are weapons and limits. Not to mention most of us beat the game and the optional bosses when we were stupid kids so it's obviously not a hard enough game it would even matter. But it is still kinda fun to think about.

Oh, HP and MP values differ between characters too. But that's not very important.

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EndOfDiscOne posted...

On the contrary, any time before 2021 was a good time to buy in retrospect. So in Bitcoin's history, there was a solid good 10 years that were a good time to buy. And the future may show that now is a good time to buy.

Keep calm and stack Sats.

The future may also show that now is a terrible time to buy. That's kind of how investments work. Unless you have a crystal ball, that is. Everything goes up in value, until it doesn't go up in value. Anyone would've told you investing in Enron is a solid idea until it was a disaster.

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Kind of. Everyone's first priority should be having a decent fund of money saved up. That's the most important thing to do when someone doesn't make a lot of money. You might be surprised at the stats showing how many Americans couldn't survive missing one or two paychecks. Therefore everyone should have some saved in case an unexpected expense or disaster happens.

But after having that base "emergency fund" saved in a safe place, it's great to invest excess money. Keep in mind, most people would consider a 10% annual growth on an investment quite respectable. The last few years have been mostly better than 10% (which might also have fooled some people into thinking they're investing genuises), but historically a 10% annual return would be about average or maybe even a little above average depending on how far back you're looking. If you only had say $100 to invest and then got a 10% return then at the end of the year you would have $110. That same return would obviously look a lot more significant if you were able to start with $100,000. For that reason, a lot of personal finance people would say that the best investment for someone making a lower salary would be to take that money and see if you can use it to make a career change into something that'll give you more money to work with. But then that's easier said than done obviously and depends a lot on people's circumstances.

Also, it cannot be overstated how important compound growth is, which is the type of growth an investor sees in their investment. Google a compound growth calculator and try plugging in some numbers. You'd quickly see how significant investing as early on as you can makes a dramatic difference.

Final note - there are people who will show off their GME and bitcoin investing and whatever and talk about how they turned $100 into $50,000 or whatever. That's not the norm, and if you're fooled into thinking it is the norm and try to get into the next big thing then it's more likely you'll lose your investment. Those things exist, but they are by definition volatile. Some crypto people would be mad at me for saying it, because a crypto-holder has a very strong interest in getting other people to invest in the thing that they've already invested in (because that pushes the price, and the value of their investment, up even more). But I'll leave that at that.

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To be devil's advocate... the whole point of Clockwork Orange is that Alex is sort of a fucked up evil individual and has "rehabilitation" to fix it. Whereas Pepe Le Pew is played a little straight

But yeah.... Not so kid-friendly

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Kingdom Hearts 2 is a better Nightmare Before Christmas sequel

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I don't think you need to think too hard about the science behind the wishing and the mascot creature's race. The point is that it's very standard tropes in generic magical girl anime made for little kids - but here with a dark twist.

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I think it's a pretty clear an announcement of P6 would be coming with this too. The logo shows the colors from P1-P5 in order and ends with white. Either to say P6's theme color is white, or more likely to say that the final color hasn't been filled in yet and will be coming



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Lordgold666 posted...

Trying to finally get around to playing/beating persona 4 arena, but im so bad at fighting games..

Yeah I think they knew that would happen when they made the game. Non-fighting-game Persona fans wanting to see the story. That's what the auto-combo system is for. Or depending on the character and if you want to be really cheesy you could even just hold guard and spam your DP button whenever the CPU walks close to you.

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There is that conspicuous Tidus pallete-swap in Traverse Town. And you can very briefly see a Wakka palette-swap guy in Agrabah. But that just raises more questions...

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Atlus I would trade canceling all 7 of these projects if you would just finally release Persona 2 Eternal Punishment PSP version to the west, please

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I dunno. Not exactly a saint but God seemed to think Samson was a real holy dude as he massacred people using the jawbone of a donkey as a weapon

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Taskmaster was under-utilized even as this movie's version of Taskmaster. She spent half the climax locked behind a glass door

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It was ok

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KH1 is a wacky premise for a game to begin with and some particular story moments don't make a lot of sense but I think its made-up rules about darkness and hearts are internally consistent. It's like "don't think about it too too hard. this is just how things work in this universe" kinda sense.

CoM / KH2 I'd bunch together because almost everything in CoM is a set-up for KH2. All of the nobody / Org XIII stuff is another step in the "this is just how things work don't think about it too much" direction but I think most people could play it and understand the story sequences.

In my opinion it's BBS is where we hit the point of no return. Where no one really understands exactly how things work in this universe. With the super keyblade X-blade (which is pronounced "keyblade") which when created also summons the TRUEST Kingdom Hearts which is better than the other Kingdom Hearts and comes from Ventus's heart (i think...) and Terra-Xehanort body-switching and Vanitas looks like older Sora even though Sora is still a kid but he's not really Sora and Ventus is now in Sora which is why Roxas looks like Ventus. There's probably other important plot points somewhere in there I missed. BBS's plot is almost too ridiculous to even be a Kingdom Hearts fanfiction story.

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LightHawKnight posted...

Played first two FFs, played the first two Personas, played Warcraft 2. Played SMT 1.

Nitpicky but SMT 1 is the third or fourth-ish megami tensei game (depending on how you count the non-Atlus one). Megami Tensei 1 & 2 on the NES are definitely pretty ignored by fans and by later games in the series itself.

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It is impressive Trump is even lower than a man who died in office after 31 days

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Eevee-Trainer posted...

Not really. It's more that Shininess at the time was based on a pre-existing mechanic (DVs) - Gen 1 had DVs too, since they determine stat growth. They just didn't change how DVs work in Gen 2.

In Gen 3 they had the current IV system, and Shinies were pure RNG and not DV-based.

Yep. It's similar to how gender doesn't exist in Gen 1, but when trading to Gen 2 it'll consistently decide the gender based on the pokemon's Attack DV stat (where males are literally better than females btw)

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The old trick to get a Shiny Ditto in Gen 2 uses this idea. And it's very useful because Gen 2 is also the only generation where a shiny parents significantly increases the odds of a shiny egg.

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Are you referring to the Fake Death Pill to get out of the cell or the Revival Pill to advance the Sorrow fight. I think I figured out both on my own after a whole lot of trying everything.

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MaddenDude-- posted...

I don't think its a big deal in college tbh. Your time is your investment. If you feel like investing it in an internship is worthwhile, then so be it. If you feel like its best for your future to play football, then so be it. No one is forcing them to play, likewise no one is forcing them to intern at a company. You don't have to take more loans to do intern work. You just have to better manage your time.

And in internships you have the opportunity to thrive, to network, build your resume. Theres tons of benefits that can value more than just a salary.

I'm not sure how your college experiences went but for most of us we still had expenses we needed to cover to survive. Without loans or without your parents paying for everything you need some form of income. You're right that no one is forced into it. It is a choice - it's just one where the demand far exceeds the supply. But that's the same reason minimum wage exists at all. If it didn't exist then employers would be able to more easily exploit workers from receiving a living wage (and it's not even a living wage anymore). A medium-to-large sized organization offering an unpaid internship hardly has an excuse to avoid the sacrifice of the bare minimum $7.25 an hour.

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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

Each stock was a tenth of a penny back then when he bought it.

He is probably pissed he only put $1,700 in back then. Imagine if he put $50k

There are contribution limits on IRAs. The max he would've been able to contribute in that year would have been $2000

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MaddenDude-- posted...

-It depends on how you view college sports. How is it different than an unpaid internship where the company makes money, you acquire skills/training and resume building while working part-time or full-time hours. Its an investment into your future. In some cases it ends up being a waste of time and you go into another field. In some cases its a great opportunity to advance into better positions. How is sports any different?

It's a separate topic altogether but unpaid internships are absolutely a disgusting practice just as much. In theory it's like "job shadow us and we'll show you how it goes around here so you can get a little experience and understanding of the field" and in practice it's just "give us free labor and be grateful we're even allowing yourself to be associated with us". It's only tolerated because students in certain fields are so desperate that being exploited and taking out more loans to temporarily get through it in the absence of even minimum wage is the best option they have

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when you think about it Ganon really had the right idea to hide one of his most elaborate dungeons containing piece of the triforce underneath a random bush in hyrule

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Very cool. Now do Election Day too please.

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I can't believe she stooped so low

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CyricZ posted...

This will be the "end of a story arc" for Metroid. What this means is currently unclear.

I'm guessing at the end of the game it's "samus has finally eradicated the last metroid in the universe" which has already happened multiple times in this series and is undone in the next game.

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Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2 are perfect. Everything after ranges from ok to horrifying.

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CyricZ posted...

Nice box art. Looks like mostly new demons behind the protag as well.

I kinda wish SMT games would give you the gender option. The protag being male has just about never factored into the story.

It was an option in SMT If... and the girl is the "canon" gender. She re-appears in Persona 1.

It is amazing how much the JP trailer is better than the EN trailer. What were they thinking replacing all the interesting gameplay and demon cutscenes with the nonsense rambling

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Somehow even now I'm impressed at how incomprehensibly Trump writes.

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I haven't really been following this game at all but I was expecting the setting to be something a little different. Looks exactly like Dark Souls except replace the word Hollow with Tarnished.

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