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| Topic | Do predators even exist? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/17/23 5:34:19 AM #9 | Lokarin posted...
"you should know" followed by 2 different definitions... thanks my actual point Personally I thought he was talking about invisible aliens who hunt people for sport. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Game of the year! |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/17/23 5:32:41 AM #5 | TotK came out, and most of what I heard for the first couple of weeks was how it was bad because it was just a rehash of BotW, and then it disappeared off my radar completely.
BGIII came out and everyone's talking about how it's the greatest RPG in years and making YouTube videos about how it takes a massive steaming shit on every other studio showing that you can in fact make a robust and engaging RPG in the modern era without falling into all the same traps every other dev seems to. And people are still talking about it and posting clips from it months later. Just from my perception alone, TotK was a fart in the wind while BGIII was apparently a masterpiece. Only one of those really deserves GotY status. Not that GotY status really means anything or matters all that much. Like the Oscars, it's mostly just an excuse for an industry to masturbate for a bit once a year. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | How much would it cost to keep you from using ad blockers? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/16/23 7:43:18 PM #20 | adjl posted...
The number of times I've tried to load a website, checked NoScript because it failed, and found that it was trying got load 20+ different domains is really quite alarming. Even here, on a relatively barebones site, it's trying to load 7 different domains, with zero loss of function from my end for only having two of them enabled (gamespot.com and fandom.com, and I could probably kill fandom without issue). And that's with uBlock stamping out the actual ads, so I imagine it'd get significantly worse if they were trying to get through NoScript as well. What pisses me off is how many sites are including Google code as critical necessity. I'd like to cut Google out of my life as much as possible (I even refuse to use Chromium-based browsers because I don't trust them), but blocking Google or Google Static or Googleapis on certain sites disables functionality. So you have to wind up allowing them if you want to use that site. The Internet of today is a terrible place compared to 20+ years ago. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Adblockers are not allowed on Youtube |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/16/23 7:39:00 PM #19 | shadowsword87 posted...
I have a feeling YouTube is just testing how much shit they can get away with and how much people will pay. There's an incredibly common sales/PR tactic. Let's say you are selling something to a customer for $10. One day, you raise your price to $100. The customer freaks out, refuses to pay, threatens to stop buying from you forever, etc etc. So you "compromise" and agree to lower your price to $15. The customer agrees because $15 is better than $100, and at least you showed a willingness to listen. The customers win! ...except now you're charging them $5 more than you were before. At the cost of a little bit of bad PR (that will blow over because everyone is a goldfish who can't remember more than 20 minutes ago), and maybe a few customers who actually stopped using your product. But the revenue you lost is easily offset by the revenue you gained. And will continue to gain. It's not as effective as the "boiling frog" (making small changes over time so people don't notice or complain, and then suddenly you're charging them three times as much and they never realized it). But it's definitely a thing companies have done. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | How much would it cost to keep you from using ad blockers? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/16/23 7:32:21 PM #17 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
I don't think 20 million USD is enough to stop using the internet completely. Without adblock I would not have the forbearance to look at a web page. NoScript isn't an adblocker, but it technically blocks a lot of ads. It might be an effective compromise for you. Though if the mythical genie offering us this deal says NoScript counts as an adblocker so we can't use that either, I'd tell him to shove his bottle up his ass. The Internet is pretty much unusable without NoScript because there's so goddamned much malicious code out there. Even on otherwise completely innocuous websites. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | How much would it cost to keep you from using ad blockers? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/16/23 7:29:48 PM #16 | It's a hard question to answer for me. I don't really use adblockers overmuch (though I do use script blocking, which blocks all of GameFAQs' ads - and fuck 'em).
I don't mind watching a 15 second commercial (or one that's skippable after 5 seconds) that much. Especially if I know that at least to some degree it's helping support creators I enjoy. I generally just see it as the price that needs to be paid, because nothing in life is ever truly free. Basically, I grew up in the 80s and 90s, where the only media was TV - it's sort of ingrained in my brain that commercials need to exist because otherwise all content goes premium and you'll only see what you're willing to directly pay for. But I do have a line. A line where convenience and gratitude ends and where bullshit and annoyance begins. YouTube upping from one commercial at a time to two edged closer to that line. Going from one ad per video to occasionally seeing a dozen fucking ads over the span of a half-hour video pushes much closer to that line. YouTube fucking with how content creators can control where/when ads appear in a video (seriously fucking over ASMR creators and similar who don't want ads at the end) pushes closer to that line. YouTube still running ads on channels that are "demonetized" (which just means YouTube keeps all the ad money and refuses to pay the creators at all) pushes towards that line. And so on. Eventually, YouTube will reach a point where they push father than I'm willing to go, and that's the day when I accept the inconvenience of finding an effective adblocker and keeping it up to date as much as possible, and never watch another ad on their service again. They are currently relying on my goodwill and apathy to continue watching ads - so it's a very bad idea for them to keep doing things that deplete my goodwill and give me motivation to overcome that apathy. When using the service the way they want me to becomes more inconvenient to me than simply looking for alternatives, I'm going to have zero loyalty to Google's bloated tumor of a platform. And once I start, I'm never going to stop. I've never going to give them the benefit of the doubt and "go back" - at that point my apathy and inertia will keep me using the adblocker forever. If the current adblocker BS winds up spiraling too far out of control, and YouTube keeps getting more aggressive, it's more likely to drive me to go looking for an alternative, not less. I stopped allowing GameFAQs ads through because they kept upping the ante on intrusive and even outright malicious ads. And once you reach that point, you no longer deserve a single cent of active revenue from me, and I will go out of my way to insure you get nothing (unfortunately, they're still benefiting indirectly from my site traffic alone, because my activity here adds to the stats that they show advertisers for number of active users and time spent on site when haggling over ad costs). And I don't consider YouTube Premium a viable answer, because I don't believe you should be rewarded for creating a problem and then "solving" it. For the same reason why I won't pay for microtransactions in games that have been made extra grind-heavy solely to justify XP boosters, I'm not paying YouTube to avoid ads because they've gone out of their way to make ads as annoying as possible. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | youtube is just getting absolutely destroyed by the community and the media |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/16/23 7:10:05 PM #16 | Judgmenl posted...
Crazy that people are shifting the ad blocking situation to other drama garbage It's almost as if certain people have a vested interest in not drawing attention to it, and may be encouraging a shift in the narrative. Oh, by the way, look over here *jingles keys* Shiny! --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I just found out Cheems died in August |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/16/23 7:07:15 PM #5 | Dikitain posted...
Kind of appropriate she died of cancer, given her stance on cancer treatments. To be fair, she survived 20+ years after her initial breast cancer diagnosis. That's more than a lot of people who stick to completely orthodox treatment. If anything, that might be more of an argument for her being right than it is for her being wrong. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Adblockers are not allowed on Youtube |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/16/23 7:37:02 AM #6 | Judgmenl posted...
uBlock is trying to "battle" Youtube's very aggressive anti-adblock. Lots of updates on their subreddit. Begun, the Ad War has. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I just found out Cheems died in August |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/16/23 7:33:33 AM #3 | Lokarin posted...
somer sanders just died No she didn't, and you spelled her name wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Sanders Suzanne Somers died: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Somers Very different people. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | The most recent #1 rock single was "How You Remind Me" in 2001 |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/15/23 4:36:32 PM #9 | MrMelodramatic posted...
Did Nickelback kill rock and roll? No, they perfected it. After you hear that song, you never need to hear another rock song again, because they'll all sound inferior. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Imagine wasting hours of your life getting angry at a superhero film |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/15/23 4:35:31 PM #4 | I mean, it's not like most of us have anything better to do with the time.
Case in point, we're here posting on GameFAQs. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I wax my ass for the environment. |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/15/23 3:38:43 PM #3 | Me, on the other hand...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPEbA5FI1tk --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Is garfield funny? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/15/23 3:33:31 PM #11 | ReturnOfFa posted...
we already have this topic I think it purged. But the real question is, did we need this topic again? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | damn, digivices are on sale like a motherfucker right now |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/14/23 2:16:59 PM #5 | My brain misread this title as "Divorces are on sale", and I was wondering what's suddenly started ruining marriages.
--- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Labor Unions |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/14/23 2:15:56 PM #9 | No, never been in a union.
Muscles posted... Nope, and based on what I've heard from friends/family in unions it sounds like they take your money without actually doing anything besides making sure the shitty workers can't get fired This is more or less my experience - most of the people I knew who were in a union constantly complained about it. From their perspective, it did little more than take their dues, and the union leadership benefited more than anyone else in the union, and would generally sell out their fellows to their corporate masters most of the time anyway. I also don't know that I'd say that unions even keep people from being fired - I know people who had union jobs who lost them because their positions were downsized or their specific workplace had been shut down. Hearing that sort of thing has always sort of given me the impression that some unions are worthwhile and strong, while others are either weak or corrupt or inept - so whether or not a union is good or bad depends entirely on which union you're talking about. In terms of current events, my opinion of the Hollywood guilds is extremely low at the moment. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Youtube started serving me Ad Blockers are not allowed on Youtube. |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/14/23 2:08:28 PM #29 | adjl posted...
but those costs do not scale linearly as you handle larger amounts The argument in defense of that would probably be that they lose money on smaller transactions so the larger transactions balance things out and make them profitable. It would probably be a lie, but it's likely how they'd defend it. It's unrealistic to expect anyone to run a money-transfer service of any kind and not charge fees, though. If you can't make money doing something, no one is going to bother doing it in the first place. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | How did Jesus find people named Mark, Matthew, Michael and Paul in the Midl East |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/14/23 2:06:04 PM #27 | Blightzkrieg posted...
Maybe they were white colonizers. Based on every painting from the Middle Ages Jesus was white, so that would make sense. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I'm so glad that I don't have a nut allergy... |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/14/23 2:05:06 PM #21 | Dikitain posted...
Like I have known people so allergic to dairy that they need an epipen if their skin so much as comes into contact with milk, and I would even prefer that to a peanut allergy. My friend has that level of reaction to raw onions. Just holding one in his hand his hand will start to develop a rash. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I swear Disney always has at least 1 Marvel or Star Wars TV show going on. |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/13/23 7:58:41 PM #20 | Blightzkrieg posted...
Why are green marvel characters always the sexiest https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/1/16/Emil_Blonsky_%28Earth-616%29_from_Tales_to_Astonish_Vol_1_90_001.jpg --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Microsoft closes Activision Blizzard deal |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/13/23 6:42:53 PM #26 | Nade_Duck posted...
the only downside is that the dude isn't being tossed in prison or stranded on an island with a large population of horny, pissed off chimpanzees. He is instead being rewarded for everything he's done as CEO by being paid 1/3rd of a billion dollars as part of the sale. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Have you played the NES Disasterpiece RPG The Black Onyx? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/13/23 6:41:11 PM #3 | Lokarin posted...
It never came out in America I was going to say "I don't think I've even heard of it", but that pretty much explains why right there. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Did you know there was a Maniac Mansion sitcom that ran 3 seasons? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/13/23 6:37:47 PM #12 | captpackrat posted...
The 80s was the best time for sitcoms. Hah, I have two of those. But now I will see you, and raise you this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb4C7vSByMM --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Did you know there was a Maniac Mansion sitcom that ran 3 seasons? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/13/23 2:40:51 PM #4 | I did know that.
I also know that it was almost entirely unlike the games in every way, other than the fact that some of the names were the same. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I swear Disney always has at least 1 Marvel or Star Wars TV show going on. |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/13/23 2:25:16 AM #8 | Entity13 posted...
Nah, this is going to turn out worse for them than when they produced The Black Hole to compete with Star Wars. Black Hole wasn't really made to compete with Star Wars. It was more that it was made to exploit Star Wars' success (much like Battlestar Galactica was). Star Wars opened a lot of doors for cheaply-made sci-fi in the late 70s/early 80s that would otherwise never have existed. Some of which was good, even if most of it was kind of crap. And Black Hole was an awesome movie, and only failed because people are stupid. People went in expecting "DISNEY!" and got weird creepy existentialism and lobotomized robot people. The dissonance led to a lot of negative reviews (in the same way that people hated The Cable Guy because they went in expecting Ace Ventura or Dumb and Dumber and got dark comedy instead). But if you ignore the context and just watch it as its own movie, it's pretty great. It's sort of the same scenario as to why Who Framed Roger Rabbit got released under the Touchstone Pictures label - they were afraid that people would be put off by the darker nature of the film if they released it as a straight Disney film. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I'm so glad that I don't have a nut allergy... |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/13/23 1:02:45 AM #10 | Sarcasthma posted...
Imagine having an allergic reaction every time somebody came. You say this as a joke, but there actually are people allergic to semen. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | How did Jesus find people named Mark, Matthew, Michael and Paul in the Midl East |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/12/23 11:11:13 PM #18 | Metalsonic66 posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/6/0/AAFUswAAE7ZU.jpg Peter's even worse - it just means "stone" in Greek. It's not Peter's real name, that was Simon. Jesus renamed him (giving him a name in Hebrew that meant "stone"). But because the entire point of the name was that it meant "stone", the Greek writers of the New Testament just called him "stone" in their language rather than attempting to use the actual Hebrew name (which was Kefa). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | jason x was a weird movie |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/12/23 11:07:04 PM #11 | The thing about Jason X that always weirds me out is that they hired two of the actors from Andromeda to be in it, which just makes it so that I can't not think about Andromeda whenever I see it.
But that's what happens when you're cutting corners so hard that you have to hire Canadian TV actors for your film to keep the budget down. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I swear Disney always has at least 1 Marvel or Star Wars TV show going on. |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/12/23 11:02:07 PM #3 | When you pay $4 billion for something, you want to milk it for all that it's worth.
Especially when you're running it into the ground so hard you're fully aware that you're not going to be able to milk it indefinitely. Also, don't get confused and assume the viewing numbers are as strong as you think they are. Disney tends to massage those for PR purposes (ie, announce initial viewing figures for the first episode, then don't release further figures - while outside sources are pointing out more than 50% viewer drop-off over the course of the series; or saying that something is the highest-rated show on your service without releasing numbers for the other shows, so there's zero context). It's been pretty well documented that viewers as a whole are kind of growing disinterested with both franchises. Each successive series and film seems to do worse than the last, and engagement as a whole (via things like merch sales) is plummeting. Disney is in trouble, and it's fully aware of that fact. The real question is whether or not they can pull out of the dive in time (like they managed in the 80s), or if we see some form of buy-out or takeover as the endgame of all this. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | How did Jesus find people named Mark, Matthew, Michael and Paul in the Midl East |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/12/23 10:53:39 PM #16 | Lokarin posted...
How did Jesus find people named Mark, Matthew, Michael and Paul in the Middle East? Because... synth_real posted... Jesus' name wouldn't have actually been Jesus either, remember that the Gospels were first written in Greek. Yeshua ben Yosef wouldn't have known anyone named Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. He would (probably) have known Matityahu, Marcus, Lucas (or Lucius), and Yohanan. Matthew and Johnathan are just modernized spellings of names that were originally Hebrew. Pass the original names through a filter of Greek to Latin to English and you get the current versions. Those names wouldn't exist at all today if not for the Jews. Meanwhile, keep in mind that Judea was under Roman control at the time - so Greek and Roman influence was certainly present in any number of Jewish cities and towns. Which is where Mark and Luke come from - both would have been extremely common Roman names of the era (in the form of their original Latin versions), and there could easily have been Jews with those names at the time. It's also entirely possible that their names weren't Marcus or Lucius, but some other Hebrew name that latter got mistranslated into something closer to what Greeks and Roman's were already familiar with. In the same vein, it's also possible that Matthew and John didn't have Hebrew names either - they could also have had Greek or Roman-style names (which would have made them Matthias and Iohannes instead). As for Paul, his name wasn't actually Paul, and he wasn't really a disciple. It's right there in the book that his name was Saul (a very Jewish name) and he just changed his name later (ironically, probably just to sound less Jewish, and/or to cover up his own sordid past). Even more ironically, he wasn't even born/raised in a Jewish city (Tarsus was heavily Greek-influenced in that era), so he probably grew up knowing tons of Jews who had non-Jewish sounding names. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Youtube started serving me Ad Blockers are not allowed on Youtube. |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/12/23 10:35:33 PM #9 | Like with piracy, the likely scenario is that ad blockers are going to evolve to continue blocking ads on YouTube faster than YouTube can actually prevent them from doing so. To the point where you're going to start seeing ad blockers that exist solely to prevent YouTube ads specifically.
I could even see someone clever inventing an ad blocker that literally exploits the code somehow to trick YouTube into thinking you're watching the ads while not actually showing them to you. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Harvey Dent is the worst Batman character |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/12/23 10:32:23 PM #9 | Cruddy_horse posted...
I wanna say I almost liked him in the Telltale batman Game, but then I had to look it up to remember and he just gets forced into the villain role even if you save/help him at every single opportunity anyway, which is like twice every episode. Yeah, the Telltale games are notorious for that sort of thing (though some are worse than others). That was probably the one time it annoyed me the most, though - you can go out of your way to save him and he still goes crazy (for basically no reason). He basically turns into Two-Face, just without the face (One-Face?). Would have been nice if you could save him, and have him stay mostly good for the rest of the story (it's not like Telltale can't tell stories with consequence - the choice in Tales From the Borderlands where you choose whether or not to ally with Jack creates significant changes to the plot for an entire act or so, which makes the choice feel way more meaningful). Since you actively have to leave Catwoman in danger to save him, it might have been neat for the branching story to have her turn against you instead in his place, otherwise create conflict that way. Catwoman's plot as a whole was the other thing that annoyed me in that story - you can go out of your way to reject her at every opportunity, yet the game still kind of forces you together with her (about the only real change is whether you get to kiss her goodbye when she leaves or not). Would have been nice if any of the choices you make with her ever meant anything of substance. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Harvey Dent is the worst Batman character |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/12/23 7:14:09 AM #5 | Blightzkrieg posted...
Two Face seems to act completely differently in every incarnation I've seen him in, which is bizarre because of all the Batman villains you'd think his gimmick would be the most straightforward. If you really want to blow your mind... https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Harvey_Kent_(Earth-Two) https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Wilkins_(Earth-Two) https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Paul_Sloane_(Earth-Two) https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/George_Blake_(Earth-Two) --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Harvey Dent is the worst Batman character |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/12/23 5:57:46 AM #2 | Yellow posted...
Ok, so nevermind that people with split personalities just don't act like that If you're looking for realism in comic books, there may be no hope for you. But honestly, I'm not sure any form of media has ever gotten the depiction of MPD/DID right. It's the same problem with schizophrenia. Laypeople have no idea what that actually means, and like with most mental illness they base their portrayal of it almost entirely on pop culture and armchair psychology assumptions about what it is (that are almost always wrong). Yellow posted... No one walks away from a Batman media thinking "man, I really liked that version of twoface". It's always "twoface was there and he was kind of cool I guess". I really liked the Batman: The Animated Series version of Two-Face. And it's not just because Richard Moll is my spirit animal. They did a really good job of making him sympathetic but also utterly broken. BTAS did a fantastic job on most of their villains, though. I consider most of them my definitive favorite versions of any given Batman villain. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Should Cenk from TYT run for President if allowed? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/12/23 5:50:58 AM #25 | I can't imagine a scenario where I'd want anyone from TYT running anything of importance. Or anything at all, honestly.
Yellow posted... Cenk has just announced his run for president It's nothing more than a PR stunt, because he's not legally eligible to run. You have to be a natural born citizen and he's not. Even if every single voter in the US voted for him as a write-in, he still wouldn't be President. It's the same reason why when people were talking about Arnold Schwarzenegger running for President years ago it was pointed out that you'd have to amend the Constitution first (which is almost certainly never going to happen). It's also the reason why people made a big stink about the exact details of Obama's birthplace (and wanting to see the birth certificate) - if they could prove he wasn't born on US soil, he was an invalid candidate. Even John McCain took a bit of flack for that - people pointing out he wasn't physically born in the US (though his loophole was being born on a US military base, which counts as sovereign US soil no matter where it is). Cenk running is about on par with when the Yippies nominated a pig for President. Or when people nominate Cthulhu. Or when Stephen Colbert nominated himself as a publicity stunt/charity campaign. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Which of the two characters is faster? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/12/23 3:12:38 AM #2 | Using Google and Wikipedia, I am told that Sonic could originally run somewhere around the speed of sound (about on par with comic book Quicksilver), but in later works can actually run as fast as the speed of light (about on par with comic book Flash). Whereas Saitama has moved at near the speed of light, but never actually reached it. Which would make Sonic objectively faster.
But the real answer is --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Who are you going to play in Super Mario Bros. Wonder? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/11/23 1:47:38 AM #14 | Considering I haven't played a Mario game since Super Mario World, I can safely say I won't be playing as anyone.
Doubly so since I don't own a Switch and never plan on buying one. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Sonic Superstars comes out next week...are you getting it? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/11/23 1:43:30 AM #5 | Considering I haven't played a Sonic game since the mid-90s and never owned a single one even then (I only ever played on my friend's Genesis), I can safely say I'm probably never going to buy this one.
--- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What makes a man sexy? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/11/23 1:35:29 AM #14 | Ogurisama posted...
What is a man? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851BqHMCaeM Hejiru posted... A featherless biped ...with broad flat nails. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | YR: Joe Biden walks up to you, opens up his wallet... |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/09/23 12:00:38 PM #17 | Entity13 posted...
PO knows it well, because he's nearly there himself. (I kid) Who are you again? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | YR: Joe Biden walks up to you, opens up his wallet... |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/09/23 2:03:38 AM #6 | BlackScythe0 posted...
??? So he gives me nothing??? What is the point of this? I mean, to be fair, it's memetic at this point that Biden is kind of senile, so having him wandering around handing out imaginary money to random strangers would totally be in character. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | does anyone even know that loki season 2 started lmao |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/09/23 2:02:34 AM #2 | I've seen multiple commercials for it both on YouTube and TV, but since I don't actually give a damn I couldn't have told you if they'd already released episodes or if it was still "coming soon".
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| Topic | KFC $20 fill up box |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/08/23 11:59:50 PM #11 | BUMPED2002 posted...
4 pieces of chicken, 12 nuggets I was going to ask why you would ever buy something with 4 pieces of chicken AND nuggets, but I'm assuming it's supposed to be a family meal where the adults eat the chicken and the kids eat the nuggets. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | We aren't even over 1000 users in the middle of the day... |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/08/23 11:56:30 PM #7 | BADoglick posted...
I didn't check my power ball ticket but if I won first thing I'm doing is saving gamefaqs How? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | We aren't even over 1000 users in the middle of the day... |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/08/23 5:43:10 PM #4 | Not with a bang, but a whimper.
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| Topic | A lot of people say Ahsoka is the best Star Wars show yet :) |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/08/23 5:40:08 PM #14 | SomeUsername529 posted...
I wouldn't trust the opinion of Star Wars fans on anything at this point. This is actually a huge point. When you've alienated like 95% of your audience, the ones that remain are the ones who've proven they'll happily lap up whatever shit you spoonfeed them. So their opinions sort of become meaningless because they'll give good reviews to even terrible shows. This is something you used to be able to see in wrestling - when WWE was putting out absolutely horrible shows the vast majority of wrestling fans stopped watching. Ratings dropped, ticket sales dropped, merch sales dropped. But the fans who stayed would happily watch pretty much anything. So their opinions were kind of meaningless for anyone else. You can also see this on Rotten Tomatoes for Marvel and DC stuff these days - because the people who hate it have long since stopped caring or watching it, the only people left are the people who will happily accept mediocrity (or worse). So you'll actually get higher than expected ratings for shows and films that otherwise absolutely tanked hard. When you permanently chase all the negative opinions away by being unrepentantly terrible, the remaining positive reviews don't really mean all that much. Disney can still get people praising shows like Andor or Ahsoka. But it's apparently not bringing in Disney+ subscribers or translating into merch sales, so they aren't actually benefiting from it. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You ever go to goodwill? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/08/23 5:28:08 PM #12 | Lokarin posted...
yes, to donate KJ_StErOiDs posted... Once, to assemble a costume. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Are you sick of Terminally online people on internet? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/07/23 3:46:39 PM #25 | KobraSum9 posted...
Its also non addictive and fun time waster I'd be inclined to disagree, because everything is addictive to the right personality/mindset. Hell, even old-school Solitaire was addictive to some people. KobraSum9 posted... But thats what you call healthy distraction. And one man's stuff is another man's shit. We're all more likely to justify our own foibles and condemn other people's, because the alternative is to admit that we might actually be fuck-ups ourselves. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Wii U and 3DS servers shutting down in April 2024 |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/07/23 3:42:27 PM #17 | adjl posted...
are run by people that still aren't quite sure how e-mail works The real irony is, most younger people aren't entirely sure how e-mail works either. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Israel declares war after massive attack from Hamas. |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/07/23 3:40:45 PM #11 | Shrek posted...
po you would have had more relevance if you instead said the proxy war the us is having with ukraine vs russia The one doesn't negate the other. Both can be true. agesboy posted... Israel, funded by western powers, is occupying and genociding Palestine. It's pretty clear what's happening. Palestinian-aligned terrorist groups, funded by radical Islamic groups and corrupt regional powers, attack and murder Israelis (and occasionally their own people) over the ideological belief that Israel shouldn't exist and has no right to survive. It's pretty clear what's happening. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
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