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King Shit

No-one deserves a dedicated community analysing your fucking hotel bedsheets so you can spam mail at their hotel to make them evict you. Eat shit.

I've been saying it for years: best Metal Gear gameplay, worst Metal Gear story.

I like it and Peace Walker a lot. I dislike how much it trashes PW's elements like Huey and Strangelove, but it's such an involved gameplay experience that I can play for hours and hours. Saying that, Metal Gear Solid is probably the best game in the Solid series as far as story/gameplay integration goes, and 3 probably has the best story in the series.

Trumpers: "we're the party of law and order"

Also trumpers: "shoot federal agents on sight! they can't take Our America away from us!"

My favorite spirit is gin, my favorite cider Rekorderlig strawberry-lime cider and my favorite beer is Coopers Pale Ale.

Hate when folks are clingy and spam "what's up". Like jeez dude catch a hint.

Now strings of 5+ pictures being sent at a time, that's okay. But the whole pestering thing is really lame and it's a total bonerkiller.

"looking for the burgler who breaks into my house to get the $8,000 they lent me when we were drinking to my locking the house and burning it down with both of us in it, killing us both".

me: oh cool I love the Mountain Goats

I have a laptop from 2016.

This thing is budget. It was budget when I got it, and the years have not been kind to it. It can run Valheim, but only at 1fps. That's not a joke or an exaggeration - one frame per second. I use it to play Runescape and watch the Blacklist. The battery is fried so it needs to be plugged in at all times, and I've had to buy a new charger because the old one deteriorated.

For the past year, my laptop has been scheduling automatic updates. Initially I didn't install anything because I just wanted to play my games and watch my shows. But eventually I was like "fuck it" and I made time for the updates.

I swear to god, they take hours. Somewhere in the ballpark of three hours, when this is just like my nightly chill-out machine. It downloads, it restarts, and it begins applying the patch.

My laptop is so fucking old and budget and stock that the newest updates aren't compatible with it. So after three hours, the whole computer reboots with the same software it had before.

Windows keeps scheduling updates. I have tried to update multiple times, and it is genuinely impossible. It never works. Hours, wasted on this horseshit.

And the worst part is that it keeps interrupting whatever I'm doing to say "we're going to update in 20 minutes, would you like to update or postpone for an hour?". I have to stop what I'm doing every hour to stop Windows from automatically resetting my computer and installing software that won't install.

I'd make a snarky comment about irony, but that sucks dude. Hope the vaccines help you get through this relatively unscathed.

On one hand, tobacco is the one narcotic I don't get. There is zero advantage to smoking other than it having a calming effect, but even that comes with time as the smoker adjusts to the act of smoking and in metabolizing the narcotic element of tobacco. It's mixed with ammonia and all other sorts of additives, it's proven to contribute towards/outright cause lung cancer, and the tobacco lobby is one of the largest and most evil lobbies in the American political system.

That being said, there are a few factors in play that I would say make 21 either a reasonable enough age to be able to smoke, or even a bit too old. Namely, the ability to serve in the military.

Like let's be clear, when you're considered old enough to sign a legally binding contract by yourself or to go overseas and potentially die for your country - you're an adult. In the eyes of the law, you are considered an adult when you do those things. Those are life-changing acts that, in theory, rely on an individual having an informed enough opinion to understand the potential consequences of those actions.

To be able to do those things, but to turn around and go "oh no you're too young to drink or smoke", seems remarkably pedantic, arbitrary and even condescending. You want to feed a kid into a meat grinder or saddle them with crippling debt before they're even out of high school, sure. But don't smoke or drink the silly juice, you don't have your big boy pants yet.

Granted? I'm influenced by the culture I grew up in. You can drink, smoke and gamble here in Australia as soon as you turn 18, and that's specifically because we decided in the early 20th century that if you're old enough to go to war, you're old enough to drink and smoke. It's a courtesy if nothing else - if you're going to make adult decisions, you're going to be treated like an adult. And it's not always a good thing, but it seems like the right thing to do in those circumstances.

So here's my take:

For health reasons, 21 is fine. But making people wait three more years after they're otherwise considered adults seems arbitrary, and maybe if you're allowing them to fight and die for your country, you can let them partake in these legal narcotics.

Or - the more radical opinion - raise the recruiting age to 21. Make it so that anyone under the age of 21 needs a parent or guardian to sign off on important documents like contracts. Justify the higher age cut-off to smoke.

Smoking is a public health issue, but it's also an issue of personal freedom. I've gone into this a ton in regards to my posts about legalising pot, where I'm pro-legalisation and pro-decriminalization but I'm critical of the potential negative health effects that weedbros say don't exist or aren't important. I regard tobacco in a similar way - there's clearly a public health concern, but over the past hundred years or so, the right to smoke has been a big thing in our culture and that right is tied closely to the legal age of adulthood. We live in an era where younger and younger people are being held to adult standards and being expected to make those informed decisions that are meant to be made by grown, level-headed and mature people. But the ability to drink or smoke hasn't caught up, and while that might be good for the sake of the body's continued development, it still signifies a lack of respect or a sort of hypocrisy in how we treat younger people. Give us blood for oil, but take a sip of bourbon and you're a delinquent.

In summary:

imo, the question is both health-focused and age-focused, and while 21+ is probably the better cut-off point, I'm of the opinion that drinking/smoking age should be tied to military recruitment age. Either lower the drinking/smoking age, or raise the age at which you can consent to join the military.

Lego City Undercover, fr fr

Senator Armstrong

Whatever you do, you don't tell her it's because you were trying to find a cute Korean girlfriend and only came home because you failed.

Flauros posted...

My bois Jedidiah, Malachi and Rick.

I'm Amish Riiiiick!!!

ROBANN_88 posted...

No, of course not
I don't think there even are any Amish here in Scandinavia

Hell, i'm willing to bet there are almost none of them even outside the US

Here in Australia we have the Brethren. They're kind of Amish-y.

Imagine being someone who convinced an Amish person to stay out here and never return to their homes again.

Oh you motherfuckers are in for it now.

Fearless - Jet Li movie about a famous martial arts master. Great movie that incorporates elements of wire-fu.

Human Traffic - a movie from a small but passionate trend in British film-making, reflecting the club culture and the youth of the day's struggles as they navigate that grey area between childhood and adulthood. It stars John Simm and Shaun Parkes (the first revival-era Master of Doctor Who and the navigator character from the first two Mummy movies), and it's an okay watch. If you liked 24-Hour Party People, you might like Human Traffic.

Castaway on the Moon - a Korean man jumps off a traffic bridge in Seoul after losing his job. Rather than dying, he washes up on an island underneath and begins to survive in an overgrown jungle-like environment. He's noticed by a shut-in with a telescope, and she begins to sneak out of her apartment to drop bottled messages to him. Really good movie about isolation and connection.

YourDrunkFather posted...

I hate all religion but Islam is definitely the worst of the bunch.The world would be so much better off without it

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I saw like a long podcast video recounting the plot, and yep. It's a bad video game movie alright.

Hell yeah, responsible dad Trey. Hope the medication process goes smoothly, if you're feeling really spaced out they'll probably try something else or adjust the doseage.

It takes a lot to get through this, and doing this in relation to being a parent is a very noble and responsible thing to do.

Katamari Damacy

10/10. It may be the one truly perfect kid's show.

Even the occasional miss like The Valley is perfectly reasonable cartoon fare, and the excessively detailed animation and the charisma that oozes out of the screen is unmatched. Episodes like Appa's Lost Days and Iroh's section of Tales of Ba Sing Se set a high bar that the last ten years of American animation has been trying to meet, and we're seeing shows like She-Ra, Infinity Train and The Owl House that are getting up there, but nothing really beats those watershed moments.

Avatar: The Last Airbender has lows that bottom out at like a low 7/10, and the highest peaks of the show changed the landscape of American animation forever. It might as well be perfect.

Just found this fight scene, about what I expected. Lots of quick cuts and forced generic banter.

https://youtu.be/Bsxn6wNIj_k

I've only ever seen screenshots, I'd watch a video dissecting the movie but I don't think I would ever watch it by itself.

Scanning the plot synopsis, it seems like they turned it into a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk story, with the Mishima Zaibatsu being replaced by the Tekken Corporation and a city built in its name, called Tekken City.

pegusus123456 posted...

A script was leaked and it was as godawful as you might imagine.

The highlight for me was Blossom's love interest being Mojo's son, Jojo, who was elected mayor. The cliffhanger ending is when he looks at his pet monkey and calls it dad.

I want this shit to exist for the sole reason of being able to laugh at this. Holy fuck, that's an amazing CW-tier cliffhanger.

I like Turbam being a fish.

Are you taking requests?

The Weakerthans

Butt Slut. that car is definitely a Butt Slut.

Trumble posted...

I don't really get it either. It's not bad, but it's nothing special either IMO.

That's more or less my stance.

You guys have a discord server? I can't promise I'll post in there much, but I'll take an invite if you're offering.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Kinda baller to survive all this with one eye and a few scars.

Reckon he'll wear an eyepatch for the rest of his life?

My nomination is Guilty Gear X2 Accent Core:

https://youtu.be/V9khT_IUXUk

I've had less than three of these beers and I'm already ratshit drunk. My god.

Mistere_Man posted...

Why not?

If users could use reclaimed terms that are still used as slurs as long as they belonged to the group reclaiming them, there would be a lot of other egregious suspendable/bannable terms that GameFAQs would let slide on a case by case basis. As far as I can see, GameFAQs still cracks down hard on slurs with a long history of reclamation, because those terms used in a vacuum are both hurtful and against the ToS.

You also can't verify a user's legitimacy based solely on what they say, due to shit like when right wingers say shit like "as a black man I think BLM are bad for the black cause" despite not being black. So rules like this stay in place to avoid the potential for abuse by bad-faith actors and to ensure a level playing ground for everyone.

If my workplace was doing fucked up shit that was against the law, I would whistleblow if I felt it was the right thing to do whether it went against the terms of my contract or an oath I undertook. The one oath that's the most important to follow is "do the right thing".

I played the Chronicles version on PS3. It has a worse frame rate and more glitches than the GameCube original because it's based on the buggier Japan-only PS2 version.

I really love the story of this game, but I played the entire game on auto-battle because I really fucking dislike how Tales Of games play.

Saying the right is the party of science is like saying vegans are the party of red meat

That being said, there are valid criticisms of the impact of commercialism/corporate interference in the field of science. The issue being that right wingers would either entertain conspiracies about the earth being flat and using that cause to "challenge" contemporary science rather than actually commit to a reasonable and ethical discussion of the sciences and what they need. Of course, it's mostly corporate entities empowered by Republican legislation that's been able to outright fuck with scientific studies.

At the end of the day, you can challenge my preconceptions about the right-wing being anti-science by naming a left-wing creationist.

Okay, these vintage ales are growing on me the more I drink them warm.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Toy Story 1 is awesome and established so many classic characters, but after seeing 2, 3, and even 4, it's...weird to go back to 1. Not because of the CGI or anything, but just how...mean everyone is to each other. There's so much hostility and conflict in Toy Story 1, it's not nearly as cozy to watch.

To me, Toy Story 1 is a much more barebones story compared to the later movies. Like tropes aren't bad, a strong foundation makes a strong movie, and frankly the rest of the movies benefit from Toy Story being such a strong foundation to build on. But it does make going back to the first movie more of a chore.

The conflict in Toy Story 1 seems to have brought everyone closer together in the subsequent movies. Mr Potato Head, upon falsley condemning Woody as a murderer, outright says "what have I done?" when he realised he almost caused Woody and Buzz to either be lost forever or destroyed/thrown away. The whole story arc of TS1 is Woody overcoming his jealousy of Buzz and working to bring him back to Andy. So of course future movies would have the group being much more close-knit - they worked all that shit out in the first movie.

I honestly agree.

When She Loved Me went above and beyond. I like how the toys had to escape Andy's room and look for Woody, I liked Woody's conflict between his commercial legacy and his love for/duty to Andy, and the whole thing with Buzz 2 and Zurg was really interesting in regards to the Buzz Lightyear lore, a great way of contrasting Toy Story 1 Buzz with Toy Story 2 Buzz, and really fucking funny to boot.

Toy Story 1 is a great story with a great premise, but Toy Story 2 takes the entire thing over the top.

It's a reason, but it's not an excuse.

If you want to hide behind "this is how I was raised and it's all I know", that's your business. But it's not like a card you can pull whenever you face backlash for expressing that opinion. Your only options are to either look further into it and try to see where other people are coming from and make your mind up from there, or double down on what you believe and continue living your life regardless of what other people say.

You don't get a pass for being brought up ignorant. You can add context as to why you feel that way, but that's no excuse. Either work on yourself and decide on what your priorities are, whether you still feel the same or if you can understand the opposing point of view, or keep your shitty behavior to yourself.

_____Cait posted...

She served no purpose in the game at all iirc. Then again, everyone introduced after CS was shoved into the story for fetish reasons, or to fill in a GG proxy.

Mai was absolutely used as fetish fuel too. It is so weird how Bb began as a really high concept time-loop story with some light anime tropes, to a gross pedo-joke and incest-gag ridden mess. Not only that, but the characters who werent used as fetish-bait were useless to the plot, like Bullet. Or they were from some dumb visual novel tie-in. And still served no point.

BB started as one of the coolest stories, and quickly turned into one of the very worst works of fiction Ive ever seen in my life.

That being said, I feel like BlazBlue was basically the contemporary shonen anime counterpart to Guilty Gear's 90's hot-blooded shonen stylings. We went from classic rock references and like immortality and the destruction of an entire country in the backstory, to a main character named fucking Ragna the Bloodedge.

It probably had merits of its own, but BB aways felt like it was filling a void. Guilty Gear is the original and the best, and BlazBlue - for all its merits - is second best.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

is guilty gear good for a newcomer to fighting games

Guilty Gear, at least prior games, have been pretty difficult to get a handle on. But the style of the games are impeccable and the music is consistently fantastic - especially the Accent Core OST - so it makes you want to keep playing.

I would absolutely recommend Guilty Gear for a relative newcomer. Not because it's particularly easy or user friendly, but because it's really fucking fun and cool. If you're concerned about price, grab Accent Core +R the next time it goes on sale - it'll be cheap, and it'll be stylish as fuck.

TurtleInFreedom posted...

They rode the emo phase well. The kids who listened to the Killers were basically echo millenials who finally had a pop rock group for themselves. Before that it was Green Day, and before that era was Blink 182 and so on. I think pop rock died just around when The Killers came out. Don't remember any memorable pop rock bands after that. Music generally got really pop or rappy after that I feel.

My Chemical Romance, Panic at the Disco and Fall Out Boy though.

I'll bump this one more time. I was on the road yesterday and had to work with changing cell signals, so I'll probably have a bit more time to mull things over.