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Yellow posted...

Dylan is trans? I'm pretty sure she identifies as female. But she seems alright.

The real problem is that they identify as a TikToker, and that's the true abomination.

Ozmose posted...

I'd be more concerned about breaking down in Detroit . . .

Detroit's probably fairly safe these days. Everyone's already been killed or moved away so there's almost no one left there, and there's nothing left to steal so there's not a ton of crime anymore.

MrMelodramatic posted...

Damn dudes theres so many kids here theyre totally gonna ruin the experience. Shouldnt they be in school? This movie sold be for us old gamers first and foremost tbh

/s

Reminds me of when a friend and I went to see Spice World in the movie theater, and we were literally the only people there who weren't 12 year old girls.

Which felt even creepier because we were 20 year old men.

randy_123r posted...

Never a point to not sign it. It just makes it worse on you, even if it's completely bullshit. I'd just sign it and start looking for another job.

Signing it essentially means you are accepting responsibility for whatever they're accusing you of, and it can be used against you in multiple ways in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y1TZXc5DiY

Start with Countdown to Extinction. Then go back until you hit stuff you don't like. Then go forward until you don't like newer stuff.

Maybe you should submit that as a site poll.

LordRazziel posted...

Maybe...

Not maybe. She was historically documented to be Greek.

It's valid to argue over whether early Egyptians were black or some other ethnicity (because there's a fair amount of evidence both for and against, and it's not helped by most legit historians deliberately avoiding the issue out of fear of political incorrectness), but we know pretty definitively that the Ptolemaic Dynasty was fairly pure-blood Greek.



Crimsoness posted...

We know she was the last of the line of Ptolemy don't we? She's likely mixed though I'd wager.

Almost certainly not. From what we know of the Ptolemies they were hugely against mixing their blood with the "commoners". It's one of the reasons why they were basically known for a lot of brother-sister marriages.

The assumption has always been that most members of the Ptolemaic line were about as Greek as it gets. Which is why the occasionally had difficulty relating to their subjects.

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/chair-metal-spikes-torture-medieval-151131120.jpg







https://www.thegreenhead.com/imgs/spike-covered-sea-urchin-bean-bag-chair-1.jpg







I was going to post this one, but the URL was too long. So here it is broke in half:

https://p.turbosquid.com/ts-thumb/dz/fwMTBF/bz/medievalspikedtorturechairmb3dmodel000/jpg/1622045247/600x600/fit_q87/
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I think I knew Springer was a mayor before he even had the talk show. Or at least early on, when the show was trying to be more serious before it went off the deep end.

Depends on the number of people in his constituency.

Lokarin posted...

I wasn't bullied in 1st grade... and neither was anyone else, cuz what 1st grader even has any form of impetus

Kids got bullied in kindergarten in my school for being ambiguously brown and for being left-handed.

Kids are absolute shits. They don't need a reason to hate.

Super Mario Bros, but mainly only because he was apparently complaining about the new movie.

Otherwise the thing I always think of him from is this:

https://youtu.be/SEzskNtFnIY?t=116

I wasn't bullied in 1st grade. I was quite popular.

I did get bullied for a couple years in middle school, but I got over it relatively quickly because I grew up to be a 6'3" psychopath and the bullies backed off. And then I bullied other people in high school.

My school system never really had a ton of the "traditional" cliques you see on TV. No one gave a shit about sports so we didn't really have popular jocks or cheerleaders, and most of our smart kids had social skills so they didn't really act like nerds. We had a few metal head kids but no one cared, we had a few skateborders but they weren't seen as being super-cool or anything. All of which meant most people were relatively chill and it was fairly easy to make friends and be popular unless you had crippling anxiety issues or weird hygiene issues or you were one of the 2-3 nerds who didn't quite seem to know how to act human.

Between TTRPGs and CCGs and running track and having a pretty good sense of humor I always had a pretty easy time making friends and being fairly high in the popularity pecking order. I was never going to win Homecoming King or anything, but I also wasn't going to get soda dumped on my head like the one weird little toad boy who was in our class for a few years.

Zareth posted...

What the hell is hatching from 32 inch eggs

https://youtu.be/xh00VNHNB7o?t=60

adjl posted...

Toss in PO just being a very surly person in general

Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.

adjl posted...

If, say, I have a particular aversion to people using "literally" to mean "figuratively" to the point where I would prefer to ignore any users that make a habit of that

Ironically, if you DID have that aversion, then you wouldn't be replying to my post right now, because I do that all the time!

Mainly because I believe in the concept of linguistic drift and evolution of language by usage, which means that if enough people "misuse" a word for long enough, the connotation changes and the usage becomes valid (and new dictionaries will start including the new connotation as an official definition).

The boat on "literally" has long since sailed (Ambrose Bierce was pointing out people used it that way 150 years ago, and modern dictionaries actually include the alternate definition of "literally" used for emphasis), and at this point the people complaining about it are actually the ones in the wrong.



adjl posted...

Where the whole point of ignoring users is to make the board more enjoyable, exempting some users from being ignored stands to undermine that.

Yeah, but then you're pushing up on the fact that you don't actually have any sort of inalienable and innate human right to digitally ignore anyone you want, and online services aren't obligated to provide you with the ability to ignore other users at all.

So if a site decides to allow you to ignore users, that's as valid as as letting you ignore everyone or no one. It's just how that site chooses to administrate.

If a site decides to give you the ability to ignore (or block, or whatever), but still mandates that admin and moderation-level staff cannot be ignored for official reasons, they're fully entitled to do that. Even if they have the technological capacity to create multi-layered announcements or ways of administering things, they are in no way obligated to do so.

And to be brutally honest, if you're so bothered by people saying or doing things that are literally too minor to be modded or to get mods in trouble, you might be too thin-skinned to be on the Internet anyway.



adjl posted...

Even then, it's easy enough to work around that.

Let's be honest, though. This site is coded by monkeys. Even when they introduce the simplest of features they wind up breaking three other things, and almost everything they do is wrong.

If they tried to do something that allowed mods to bypass ignore only under special circumstances, they'd probably break both the ignore feature and the moderation queue entirely.

adjl posted...

They should (and do) have that right, but that right doesn't preclude them from being criticized or ridiculed for doing something that's objectively worse for everyone involved.

But it does mean they still retain the right to nuke your criticism or ridicule into the abyss when you use their actual content do it.

wpot posted...

We don't need more brainless/moral-less entities summarizing the internet for us, even if it's written well

Why not? It's mostly brainless moral-less entities using it as-is.

papercup posted...

ChatGPTis literally doing nothing new or innovative

For a lot of people, this is the first time they've actually become aware of the sort of stuff that's been happening in algorithm and AI development for years. The average person isn't a tech-head or engineer and don't follow tech news and trends. So the stories coming out now are the first time some people are starting to realize what's possible.

Plus image and voice-gen AI is finally reaching a point where it is truly useful, which is why you're seeing a flood of videos on YouTube all of a sudden with people doing AI voiced mods for games or "Super Mario as a gritty 70s action movie" or the last three Presidents rating Zelda games.

chelle posted...

Disney is just weird with what they go after. They fought for decades to extend copyright laws and then just let og Mickey lapse and it's now public domain.

It wasn't really their choice. Basically what happened was that they pushed copyright so far that even lawmakers were starting to get sick of it, and basically told Disney they weren't going to extend it again.

So Disney was basically left in a scenario where they couldn't keep their stuff under protection forever, which meant they needed to figure out new ways to screw people over. The live-action movies are part of that. A willingness to use trademark law (which works differently) as a weapon is also part of the plan.

It's an extremely complicated mess. But make no mistake, Disney didn't "just give up". The company that literally sued pre-K daycare centers for drawing Disney characters on the wall didn't suddenly decide they were cool with other people using their stuff.

I mean, the Post has pretty much been a tabloid paper for years. It's not as if anyone local doesn't already know that.

Their claim to fame for decades was basically that they'd come up with bad-taste punny headlines for everything, even some of the really tragic or horrific stuff.



BADoglick posted...

I've had multiple concussions (like at least fifteen) and I've never shot anyone or had any inclination towards doing so.

You do seem to show a profound lack of understanding of CTE, though.

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

Well, this topic went to absolutely shit quite quickly, didn't it?



adjl posted...

I don't see why ignore shouldn't be possible, though, provided it doesn't interfere with your ability to see any dispute responses they send you.

The assumption is probably that mods can issue verbal warnings or announce things in a topic and therefore you need to be able to see what they're saying in case it's important. But in practice they don't really do that.

Arguably it shouldn't matter - if mods are posting things that are so terrible or annoying that they need to be ignored for it, you should be marking all those posts or complaining about them on Hellhole in an attempt to get them de-modded. If enough people complain (or mark) they'll probably become more of a headache than they're worth.

Sexual harassment of cast members (both male and female) has been a thing for decades. It's not really a secret.

But no guest at the park will ever treat a cast member as badly as Disney itself does.

Dikitain posted...

and to stay busy so you aren't just left with your own thoughts.

A friend of mine had one of those types of jobs where sometimes you're overworked and doing like three times as much as you're capable of because everything comes in all at once, and then the other half of the time you're sitting around going crazy because there's literally nothing to do because you're waiting on other people.

Once he realized that he used to download books to his tablet and would read whenever he didn't have work to do. And for a while he was also working on writing a novel in his spare time.

You could always turn tricks.

AceMos posted...

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/woke-companies-broke-profits-1234710724

So your source is a magazine that has been accused of being woke for decades. Which might have an ulterior motive to spin things a certain way...

Sounds sus.

Nickelback, just to spite the people who've irrationally hated them for decades. You all need to be punished.

Besides, Rob Thomas was better as a solo anyway.

I prefer to read pretty much everywhere.

If I'm going to be somewhere and have to wait more than maybe 5 minutes or so (on a plane, on a train, in a doctor's office waiting room, at DMV, etc) I bring a book along and read.

The only problem now is that, as I'm getting older, my near vision is getting a bit weaker, so I'm actually having trouble reading (I'm probably going to need reading glasses or bifocals). But I'd still rather do it instead of anything else.

argonautweakend posted...

I should have waited the 30 seconds until actually 11, for you see, my watch is radio synced with NIST, giving me the actual, literal time.

This may be the nerdiest thing I've ever heard anyone say on this site, which is an incredible achievement.

The average person doesn't sync their time devices down to the nanosecond with an atomic clock. They just go by whatever the phone or watch sets itself to, or what the voice on the radio or TV says, or by whatever else looks right. Because the average person doesn't need pinpoint precision, they just need to be "close enough". Odds are by their watch it was already 11 - and even if it wasn't, being less than a minute off would fall under "Ehh, it's close enough" to the vast majority of humans who don't have crippling OCD.

It's in no way rude or unjustified for a customer to knock if their watch says it's time for a store to be open and they can literally see someone inside. Especially if they're polite about it. Even more so if they can see into your store and literally see you have a clock that says it's already 11.

Now if they were like "Hey asshole, open up! You're wasting my time you lazy fuck!", then yeah, sure, they're the asshole. Otherwise they were 100% in the right.



argonautweakend posted...

I should have waited the 30 seconds until actually 11, for you see, my watch is radio synced with NIST, giving me the actual, literal time.

If you'd have done that, you'd have been 100% the asshole. And they probably would have given you shit for it. That's straight up passive aggressive bitch behavior.



argonautweakend posted...

or better yet held my arm out, standing in silence for 30 seconds until the hourly chime on my watch goes off, only to then be like "Well howdy ma'am, yes we are! Thanks for stoppin' by, let me know if you need anything

And if you'd done this, you'd have gone from being the asshole to being a massive piece of shit. You'd also better be the owner of your business, because this is the kind of behavior that gets people going to your manager to complain about how much of a cocknozzle you were to try and get you fired.

Stories like this are why I've always hated "Not Always Right" as a site. People there will always post stories about how bad their customers were, but they'll never acknowledge that employees can be just as bad when it comes to being impolite, ignorant, entitled assholes. And a lot of times, asshole customers are being assholes because they're dealing with asshole employees. Not that the employees would ever admit that - it's always someone else's fault.

I worked in retail when I was younger, so I've definitely seen both sides of the coin. People can be assholes regardless of which side of the counter they're on.

At this point, I think you're probably safe.

Not me. I don't really have any friends who are into board games. Or at least not the overcomplicated Eurostyle board games that have gotten popular lately because nerds love complicated games with tons and tons of stuff in the box that take 4+ hours to play.

Most of us are adults, and between work and kids and other social obligations we have a really hard time getting together as a large group more than a few times a year, and when we do nobody really wants to play board games (if we play anything it's usually Magic: The Gathering, but we've fallen off on that as well).

I bought Betrayal at House on the Hill like 10 years ago and I've never played it once. Probably never will at this point. Doesn't really make sense to keep buying games I know I'll never play.



captpackrat posted...

I'd like to get the Skyrim board game, but holy crap is it expensive. $112 for the base game, plus $78 for Dawnguard, plus $57 for From the Ashes, plus $110 for the Miniatures Upgrade Set, plus $40 for the 5-8 player expansion. $400 plus tax for a board game!

To be fair, you're not supposed to buy it all at once. You're supposed buy the base game and play it over a period of time, and then when you've played it enough that it starts to get boring, you buy the first expansion. Then you play that for a while before buying the second one. So it's $400 stretched out over a much longer period.

Of course, the downside there is that if you wait too long you might miss out on some of the expansions if they go out of print (which is what kind of happened with HeroQuest back in the 80s).

On the flip-side, there's also the possibility that you'll buy the base game and decide you don't actually like it as much as you thought you would, so you don't bother buying the expansions. Or you have trouble getting a group of friends together who want to play it and wind up just stuffing it on a shelf and letting it collect dust.

The old housewives who used to squeeze lemons into water to make homemade cleaning solution before corporations started mass producing it.



Kyuubi4269 posted...

It's citrus, acids break down stuff, lemon juice cuts through grease like vinegar

This. Which is why people will still clean kitchens and stuff with vinegar (or vinegar mixed in water). But that can be kind of acerbic smell-wise and bothers some people, so lemon's a nice replacement.

Presumably the fact that the other major cleaning solution smell is "pine" is related, because pine needles are acidic. So someone somewhere probably figured out if you mix pine needles in water it makes a stronger cleaning fluid as well.



keyblader1985 posted...

Big Lemon, to be specific. Oranges and lines do not share that reputation

To be fair, oranges kind of do. There's a lot of cleaning products these days that smell like orange. Along with orange-scented air fresheners.

For a second my brain sort of transposed those two as Dreamlight Legacy and Hogwarts Valley, and now I kind of wonder what those games would be like.

PiOverlord posted...

Read the rest brother.

Mostly-silent hero.

But that's not what you said.

PiOverlord posted...

I think he should be a silent hero.

he will talk

Does not compute.

Wrong? No. It's absolutely and irrevocably going to suck. It's going to suck so very, very hard.

But worrying about it isn't productive, because there's nothing you can do and there's no sane or rational hope. So the best thing to do is pretend it isn't happening and don't get worked up about it. No reason to care, because there's nothing to care about, and never will be again.

Just accept that there were only and will only ever be three Indiana Jones movies. ONLY three. EVER.

"GameFAQs is considered a popular website... it remains a valuable source of information."

Goddamn it. Someone's finally taught the AIs to lie so they can pass the Turing Test.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

justify why your birth day isnt a birth day

Because in Western culture, the word "birthday" more accurately means the anniversary of your birth, not the literal day you are born on. It's why there's a difference between "birthday" and "birth day".

Otherwise, we'd all have one birth day for our entire lives and that would be it.

And you can't have a "zeroth anniversary", so the first one doesn't count in the reckoning.



Smashingpmkns posted...

It counts as one in Korea

It technically doesn't, because they don't actually count birthdays in Korea. They measure by what year it is - you technically go up a year at New Years, not your birthday.

Basically, Asians believe in a lot of crazy shit:

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

CyricZ posted...

Besides, when was Palpatine ever one for playing by hard and fast rules?

When he was in well-written movies.

But that was long, long ago.

Blue_Target posted...

https://youtu.be/JeaCirIv3g0

Came in to post that I only want a Legend of Zelda movie if Link sounds like he did in that show.

In fact, I want it to sound exactly like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzfXxkHrIBM



DrizztLink posted...

Michael Clark Duncan was my first thought but I didn't think he'd have the right name recognition.

There's also the small problem of him being dead.

remandramdoll posted...

Does he have a sexy dom boyfriend?

Sheik.

C-Raine posted...

Whatever it is, lost me in the first scene with the garbage poetry and terrible fiddlin'

It's a furry webcomic. Apparently someone tried to make a cartoon pilot for it to get it made into an animated series?

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/Lackadaisy

agesboy posted...

HOW SOON WE FORGET ALEXANDRIA

which i just discovered probably actually didn't get burned down all at once

Well, I did say stuff like the House of Wisdom, so I was including the possibility of other occurrences.

But the problem with Alexandria is that, even if it did happen (as you note there are questions about exactly what happened when), it was usually as a consequence of getting accidentally set on fire during unrelated invasions, not deliberate destruction of texts. That really only (supposedly) happened once (via the Muslims)... though most sources today suggest that was mostly made up BS at the time and never actually happened.

It's similar to how the Library of Constantinople was supposedly destroyed during the Fourth Crusade (though again, accidentally, by rampaging invaders who didn't care about knowledge and who were mostly just burning random stuff and looting). But then it turns out there was no evidence that the library even existed by that point, and there was no evidence that anything actually happened to it if it did, and the story was mostly sensationalist propaganda (who says it's only modern news that makes shit up for clickbait?).

Whereas the House of Wisdom was a pretty clearly documented case of the Mongols destroying a major library and throwing all the books into the river, because the Mongols gave precisely zero fucks (which is probably why they were also the ones who invented biological terrorism - by catapulting plague-riddled bodies over city walls to kill off people who annoyed them).

Entity13 posted...

Keep in mind I last saw the movie in the late 90s, with my old man when he was still alive, so my memory of the scene I'd seen twice or thrice up to that point is limited.

Fair point, I forgive you.







:P

Dikitain posted...

They are like Jerry Seinfeld, just not funny.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny

Zareth posted...

Why would you have Hitler autograph a book you were about to burn?

Technically speaking, if you watch the scene, you're conflating two different things (which is understandable, because of how it was shot).

First, the people burning the books. Symbolic to show how the Nazis hate dissenting thought, and giving Elsa a chance to look upset, showing how she values knowledge over ideology (making her more sympathetic in spite of her treachery). Hence why she acts offended when Indy steals the diary back from her and says he doesn't want to see it get burned.

Second, Indy gets stuck in the crowd of autograph seekers, all of whom have autograph books or note pads. None of which would be on the list of books to be burned, so all of those people would be keeping the autographs.

You have to remember that book burning is almost never indiscriminate (unless you're talking about stuff like the House of Wisdom/Siege of Baghdad incident). People are burning books that have been specifically proscribed by the ruling group for ideological reasons. It's not like people were going to grab every single book within a hundred mile radius and burn it, they were only burning books from the pile (which were specifically books that had been outlawed).



fishy071 posted...

I don't remember the part about Hitler signing a book in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade probably because it's been years since I've seen the movie.

https://youtu.be/o4lq3SOB8sw?t=82



Entity13 posted...

From what I recall, the books he signed got a pass. The point of that scene was to show how, in a tense moment, the journey got to continue because Hitler signed the book, preserving it, despite not truly understanding what the book contained.

It's just a one-off joke. Indy steals the diary back. He gets trapped in the crowd of autograph-seekers, who push him towards Hitler. Suddenly, he's face to face with him.

In that moment you see the panic on his face. He knows he's caught. Hitler's going to recognize him as the guy who has screwed the Nazis over multiple times. Or he's going to recognize the diary. Or maybe he'll just recognize that the guy in the Nazi uniform with the high-ranking medals doesn't look like any of his actual officers. Indy's fucked and he knows it.

And then Hitler just signs the diary without even reading it (he probably couldn't even if he wanted to - supposedly Hitler couldn't speak/read English).

So Indy goes from this moment of pretty much shitting his pants to suddenly being almost elated because he realizes he's going to get away with it.

I think trying to read any more into it than that is completely missing the point. It was just meant to be a dramatic moment that gets subverted into almost comedy. Hitler essentially loses because he's a dipshit. You're not supposed to assume that Hitler somehow "preserved" the book from being burned because it was never going to be burned in the first place.

potdnewb posted...

you sure do whine a lot
is that a gimmick

That's the gimmick of like 3/4ths of PotD these days.

I'm not planning to go out of my way to see it, but I might watch it eventually.