Lurker > OmegaM

Yes, but mainly because there's a clear line between unborn and born. I suspect that killing a day-old baby doesn't cause the baby to suffer much more than killing a baby the day before it's born, but I worry that if we start allowing any born people to be killed at will, we'll be tempted to add more and more groups of born people to that category.

The moment of conception would be another clear point at which to say a human organism has to be protected, but I can't make myself care about all those fertilized eggs that never implant and pass out of the mother's body, and I think that if you really believe that fertilized eggs deserve to live, you can't be indifferent to the ones that don't implant.

It's more cringing than laughing, but sure.



I don't think I've ever seen it happen in person.

I'm sure it was unconscious prejudice or just a fluke, but you have to wonder why they didn't just make all the corn pops yellow. Maybe at one point there were many yellow and many brown corn pops in the picture, but then later the people at Kellogg's decided it looked better to have all yellow corn pops and just forgot to change that one corn pop's color? I guess you could say that it was due to unconscious prejudice that the artists didn't notice that the janitor corn pop was still brown, but we'll probably never know.

I don't really care as long as it's somehow obvious on the boss itself that you hurt it; otherwise you have no idea when you're on the right track. It's good if the boss also has a life meter, but it doesn't have to be there if it would clutter up the screen.

I too got Aladdin. That should be good as long as it's the Disney Aladdin. A girl I liked thought he was pretty hot---or rather, she said she wished she could find whoever the real person was that Aladdin's look was based on.

Well, this version of the song that I found doesn't make any references to black people:

http://www.bethsnotesplus.com/2014/04/cotton-needs-pickin.html

I generally find Jewish women with curly hair hot, like young Gal Gadot:

https://gl-images.condecdn.net/image/pVRqdW5Q2QY/crop/405

Jewish women with straight hair are no more likely to be hot to me than any other type of woman.

The first ad says it's for when you shoot someone in lawful self defense. So as long as the people at the insurance company pay out money only when they actually believe someone acted within the law, I don't see a problem with it.

Sahuagin posted...

not sure that video is a great example since the guy is wtfpwning everything in sight.

Do you think he's using some cheat code? I thought that the World of Longplays videos were created without any cheating.

I know it's become a joke since it's not really a Street Fighter game and takes place in 2010, which was an implausible year even when the game came out (1990), but it looks like a decent, though hard, game in the style of Mega Man. It has some good music, too.



I might think differently if a lot of its difficulty comes from bad play control. Is that the case? I haven't actually played it.

I can make a partial list (not necessarily in order of quality), but it won't be very original. I haven't played too many of the "obscure" NES games that people say have good music.

Super Mario Bros.
Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Final Fantasy
Kirby's Adventure
Dragon Warrior IV
Mega Man 2
Castlevania
Darkwing Duck

Actually, I haven't played Darkwing Duck either, but I think its music is pretty good. Fairly often I go on Youtube to listen to the music or to watch a bit of a playthrough of the game.

I could just finish the list out with other games from series I've listed, but I might not agree with that in the long run. >_>

How do you fracture a hole anyway?

She has no butt, but she's still hot overall.

Last night I was playing the Game Boy Advance version of Donkey Kong Country (on my DS Lite; this is the only version of Donkey Kong Country I've ever played). I felt like beating it again without deliberately looking for secrets just to see if it would still be fun. I guess it is, but the characters are so tiny and the screen occasionally so bright that the graphics sometimes verge on bad. The game definitely looks more real on the SNES, based on the videos I've seen.

I just hope there aren't a lot of kids being pushed into taking opposite-sex hormones or puberty-blocking drugs just because they like some activities associated with the opposite gender (e.g., boys liking dolls, girls liking to climb trees).

I got 4 (invisibility). If it's permanent, it seems like I'll mostly be scaring people when I try to talk to them or when they see me picking things up. And it probably won't be long before I die from getting hit by a car or bike whose driver can't see me. I'll get to sneak into locker rooms and watch women get changed, but that really doesn't outweigh the drawbacks.

It seems fine to me, as long as boys and girls aren't sleeping in the same cabins/tents when they're camping (for obvious reasons).

I always assumed Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts were basically the same, except for some small differences that could be chalked up to random evolution. For instance, I assumed they both did a lot of camping/wilderness stuff. Is that not the case?

I voted no (ignoring the other words you put in my mouth), but I'm surprised he hasn't yet made my life tangibly worse.

spedav posted...

OmegaM posted...

What sort of cheese is used in the cheese curds? I don't like every type of cheese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_curd

I saw that page, but it didn't really say what kind of cheese they tasted like. Anyway, I found a page that says they're generally made from cheddar cheese and have a "mild, salty flavor". If so, I think I'd like them if they were served hot.

http://www.eatcurds.com/cheese-curds-101 (fourth panel from left)

What sort of cheese is used in the cheese curds? I don't like every type of cheese.

Tweety also looks more like a generic "thing" than a bird.

He seems like a bad guy from what I've read about him online. Not sure any college group should be inviting him, even if they're technically allowed to.

In contrast, Ben Shapiro seems reasonable, even if you disagree with his starting premises. I don't know why people flip out when he speaks at colleges.

Almost never, these days. I used to do it to get over my fear of talking to women, but now I realize I was probably just scaring them or looking like an idiot to them and anyone else who was around.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

You're in to dudes?

No, Serena Williams looks like a woman to me.

big boobs
curvy/thick
long(ish) curly/wavy hair
physically fit

So Serena Williams is pretty sexy to me:

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/55d2414814000077002e31b5.jpeg
http://heightandweights.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/serena-williams-Height-and-Weight-Measurements.jpg

Actually starring Professor Layton's daughter, but whatever.

https://www.gamefaqs.com/3ds/193550-laytons-mystery-journey-katrielle-and-the-millionaires/data

Can't wait to get it. Actually, I've been spending a lot of time looking at screens lately, so I think I'm going to at least stop playing video games for a few months and ask for this for Christmas. I just hope my parents don't look at the title and cover and think the game's too "girly" for me. >_>

RCtheWSBC posted...

I laughed.

Do you mean that you think this is a fake story? It didn't sound fake to me.

Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World (new) from a GameStop about a month ago. I always go to GameStop first because I have that PowerUp Rewards card from them. Maybe I got suckered into getting it, but I do have only the free version.

I thought the game was pretty good, but that was because I did not use easy mode or any of those badges that make levels easier, and because I made some effort to find the flowers and other collectible items. If you just try to get to the end of the game, you'll probably find it too easy.

I actually once had an old, unattractive woman next to me in line complain about her pains and then say directly to me, "Don't get old; stay young and cute." It did feel rather creepy.

It could've just been a very stealthy superhero that saved him.

I was actually just thinking about Ernest yesterday. All the Ernest movies I've seen have been decent, but I remember Ernest Goes to Jail being my favorite. I've never seen Hocus Pocus.

Why do I think he's just sorry his post didn't go over well?

Kazakhstan just to see if it's at all like in "Borat".

It doesn't offend me if players kneel. I assume that the people who are offended can just stop watching and showing up to games, and if the NFL starts losing too much money, they'll do something about the kneeling.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/entertainment/julia-louis-dreyfus-cancer/index.html

How sad; she's only 56. Hope she recovers.

Do you actually know any libertarians who want all-private police? I thought most of them were fine with "socialized" police and military, since without them almost everybody would be living in fear of the physically strongest people.

RCtheWSBC posted...

Let's chit-chat y'all,

Are you dating anybody?

I actually try pretty hard not to be impressed by jerks. I just wish the people around me would do the same. I don't mind jerks too much as long I'm with people with whom I can laugh at the jerks behind their backs.

At the risk of implying that some people are racist, I don't see why these football protests became such a big deal. If it offends you to see players disrespecting the flag, can't you just not watch the games and email the team to let them know why? If you have season tickets that you want to cancel, I bet the team would even let you do so if you threatened to give them bad publicity.

LaggnFragnLarry posted...

poochy and yoshi's wooly world has an excellent easy mode

I actually just beat this. I didn't need the easy mode or the badges at all. Maybe I'll need them to 100% the game, but if you're not going to 100% a game "fairly", why bother?

I'd tell her we could date as long as I didn't have to see her kid. She'd probably say no, but who knows? It'd be worth a try if she was hot.

I think that if you're pro-life from the moment of conception onward, you're a bit hypocritical if you're fine with the fact that a lot of fertilized eggs don't implant and pass out of the mother without her knowledge. If you think that all human organisms deserve to live, you can't just ignore a huge group of them that are dying for no reason. Maybe you should push for more funding of research into helping more fertilized eggs implant, even if it means taking away funding from research into "less important" diseases (whatever you think those might be).

Since I can't make myself care about these fertilized eggs that fail to implant, I'll probably never be an extreme pro-lifer. As I said in that other topic, I'm okay with abortion at any time before birth, but that's largely because it's an easy line to draw. I'm fine with looking down on a woman who gets a late-term abortion because she wants to go on a ski trip, say---though I've read that almost no woman gets a late-term abortion for a frivolous reason like that.

I'm pro-choice for a woman's whole pregnancy. Maybe for some period of time after a baby is born, you could put that baby "to sleep" without him or her fearing death, which is what in other people I empathize most with. However, I worry that if a society starts allowing babies outside the womb to be killed, that society will be tempted to keep raising the age at which humans gain protection from being killed until, say, five-year-old kids are allowed to be killed. The line between inside and outside a woman's body is at least a pretty clear line to draw.

Obviously it's best if we all do what we can to make sure a woman never gets pregnant in the first place unless she wants to be a parent, since an abortion is a somewhat significant medical procedure (though safer than giving birth, or so I've heard).

Pikazard1 posted...

I can't recall those, were they something UK specific

The Wikipedia page says they came out in the US, the UK, and Argentina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerful#3-piece_characters

They were these little figures whose heads were balls that you could take out and throw around. As a kid, I thought they were cute. When I read the story behind them in the pamphlet shown in the second video above, I wished I had all of them. I don't know what happened to mine, though.

Also, according to Wikipedia, the woman who created Nerfuls also created My Little Pony. Maybe Nerfuls could appear on Friendship Is Magic!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerful
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Zacherle

Lokarin posted...

Instead of going down a secret passage and finding an item as a reward for exploration... now they show you the item and say "fetch".

When I heard that Zero Mission and Fusion did this, I thought it would make the games too easy, but I found it was still sufficiently non-obvious how to get to the goal spots that show up on your map. Obviously, if those goal spots weren't there, the games would've been harder, but maybe only by having more aimless wandering.

I gave it a 9/10 only because pepperoni+sausage pizza is better.

Remember on The Office when Michael went crazy over a dead bird because one of his colleagues had died earlier that day? That was funny.

I've beaten all five of the Mario & Luigi RPGs. I'll get Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions when it comes out; I'm not sure if I'll buy a Switch if a Mario & Luigi RPG comes out for that system.