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TopicFahrenheit 451 is just Baby's First Dystopian Novel
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 11:12:01 PM
#20
Questionmarktarius posted...
ParanoidObsessive posted...
Brave New World

Has the Leonard Nimoy one been on disc yet?
I may have bought it already and forgot.

Amazon seems to think it's been released on DVD and Blu-Ray, though I don't know from personal experience.


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TopicGW2: Another example of "Get Woke, Go Broke" RIP Jessica Price
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 11:07:38 PM
#113
Revelation34 posted...
How is saying "they didn't ask for an opinon" factually wrong at all?

Because like it or not, when you are posting in a public space where literally everyone on the planet has the option to respond to everything you say, you're abso-fucking-lutely asking for opinions, even if only implicitly. Emphasized by the fact that, when she GOT those opinions in the past and they either agreed with what she was saying or outright praised her, she was perfectly willing to accept those opinions and continue to interact with those people. It wasn't until she (wrongfully) considered a response to be personally insulting and contrary that she flipped her shit, threw her tantrum, and whined about people who have the audacity to respond to her posts (and acted like everyone who dared to disagree with her or even question her ideas in any way was talking down to her).

And you're missing the second part, where he explicitly said "these are our private social media accounts" (which they very much aren't), with the implication that no one else really has the right to response to their posts - when Twitter is pretty much the quintessential opposite of that.

And if that was what she (or he) actually wanted, she could easily have set her Twitter to private, or stuck to posting on private forums or other non-public forms of social media. Conversely, she could have written up her ideas as an article and posted them on some static form of media rather than posting them in a format that literally exists solely to facilitate the ebb and flow of discussion between multiple people in a public space.

It's exactly the same as when people make a topic on PotD, get responses they don't like, and then complain about not asking people for their opinions - and then get absolutely shit on for it. We all implicitly understand that by posting in a place like this, you are inviting response from others - whether you like that response or not. And that demanding people only reply if they agree with what you're saying or otherwise want to praise your ideas or be supporting is pretty much an invitation to have your teeth kicked in.

If you don't want people responding to your posts, you should probably STOP POSTING ON THE INTERNET.

Again, solely without context and within their own isolated sphere, his posts weren't that bad. But they were wrong, tone-deaf as fuck, and posted at precisely the wrong time and in the wrong place. And thus he got caught up in the backlash when if he'd just kept his head down and his mouth shut, he would still be working there. Like it or not, actions have consequences. Those consequences don't always seem fair, or even proportional, but that's life.


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Topichey Nintendo, please remember that pn03 exists
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 10:50:10 PM
#8
It's unquestionably a Capcom IP, and one they've pretty clearly given up on forever.


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TopicFahrenheit 451 is just Baby's First Dystopian Novel
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 10:48:40 PM
#15
PK_Spam posted...
Lets be honest here, Fahrenheit 451 was clearly written because 1984 was such a big hit a few years before.

Considering what the author has repeatedly claimed the book was ACTUALLY about, 1984 wouldn't have influenced it in the slightest in terms of themes.

That being said, neither was was the first dystopian future story ever written with a fascist government in control. Brave New World (the other story 1984 always gets compared to) came out nearly 20 years earlier (and that wasn't the first one either).


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TopicThe Andy Griffith Show is depressing as fuck.
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 7:44:55 PM
#4
Fierce_Deity_08 posted...
I like the 1966 Batman show. The strongest thing they call someone is a fiend.

And Batman only drinks milk.

But to be fair, that was deliberate camp even then.


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TopicGW2: Another example of "Get Woke, Go Broke" RIP Jessica Price
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 7:41:00 PM
#105
Questionmarktarius posted...
Rimmer_Dall posted...
Joker_X_II posted...
...yeah, right? Where? The Unemployment Line? lol

There are plenty of converged companies that will be eager to snap her up for the sake of virtue signalling.

Probably Gearbox.

Or BioWare these days.

At least until EA dismantles them after Anthem tanks.


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TopicI'm trying to get into Heavy Rain.
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 7:38:18 PM
#16
Sonicplys posted...
David Cage is a hack fraud

He almost won me over, and then lost me forever with Indigo Prophecy.

I have seen absolutely nothing from him since to make me change my mind.


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TopicGW2: Another example of "Get Woke, Go Broke" RIP Jessica Price
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 7:35:00 PM
#103
Lil69Leo posted...
When you have your company info listed and go on social media you are a representative of that company.

You literally sign a code of conduct to behave like a proper adult if it's listed.

Moreso when most of your posts are literally discussing your work at that company, and the person you're shitting on is a major fan/customer of that company, who is trying to discuss that exact same work with you.

Worse - one thing people aren't really talking about is that the guy in question has been a major fan of the game and company for so long, and so tied into their media presence, that they've literally named a character in the game after him.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Deroir

So being forced to choose between one psychotic game writer who is flinging shit at everything that moves on her Twitter, and who seems incapable of anything resembling introspection or self-awareness, or a content creator who has been nothing but complimentary of the game and who has arguably been far better at marketing the game than she ever has, and who clearly seems to have been genuinely attempting to be polite and respectful in his responses, I'm probably picking him over her every single time.

She's a PR nightmare. Even if this particular situation could have been damped down and she kept her job, it was only a matter of time before the next bombshell got set off and started the next fire. She pretty much HAD to go.


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TopicNo love for Octopath? It releases in like an hour and 15 mins (theoretically)
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 7:25:16 PM
#47
Muffinz0rz posted...
Is it?

...Yes?

I currently own 24 games on the PS4. Of those, none of them are sports games, and only one of them would really fall under the guise of FPS - and of them all, precisely two of them are on the Switch (Skyrim and Minecraft: Story Mode).

Of the few games I'm looking forward to on the horizon, precisely zero of them are being released on the Switch.

So the problem becomes, while we can phrase things in the way of a tautology ("the Switch is the perfect console for people who want to play the games that are on the Switch"), I'd argue that it isn't necessarily "a great console for anything outside FPS shooters and sports games". Especially if someone doesn't give a single wet shit about Nintendo first party fare.

Once first party is out of the equation, I wouldn't say it's necessarily a better platform for any specific genre (except maybe JRPG) than any of the other consoles or PC already are.

But I'm more than willing to be proven wrong. Give me a list of your top 20 "must own" Switch games, and maybe you'll come up with some I didn't even think of, which will somehow sway my previous "not giving a shit" perspective (but again, you probably want to steer clear of things like Odyssey or Breath of the Wild or Smash Bros, because those probably aren't selling me on anything - their predecessors certainly never sold me on the Wii-U, or the Wii, or the GameCube, or the N64).


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TopicNo love for Octopath? It releases in like an hour and 15 mins (theoretically)
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 7:08:37 PM
#44
Muffinz0rz posted...
but the Switch is a great console for anything outside FPS shooters and sports games

Is it, though?

Is it?


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TopicGW2: Another example of "Get Woke, Go Broke" RIP Jessica Price
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 7:05:11 PM
#98
Incidentally, he was fully aware that he fucked up (unlike her). Because he went back and deleted the Tweet in question, whereas she's done nothing but double down on her initial explosion. He tried to fix things, she's only continued to constantly make them worse.


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TopicGW2: Another example of "Get Woke, Go Broke" RIP Jessica Price
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 7:01:10 PM
#97
Revelation34 posted...
No he didn't. Not one bit was what he said bad.

No, but 100% of what he said was factually wrong, at a time he really shouldn't have been saying it. That's what hurt him more than anything.

He stepped into a situation that didn't concern him, and it blew up in his face. In and of itself, without context and completely isolated from all other factors, no, what he said wasn't really worth firing. But in context, it helped exacerbate the situation and made him a target, while the other person involved was/is constantly throwing gasoline on to an already blazing fire and screaming her own self-perceived martyrdom.

There is literally no way he was walking away from this unscathed. And honestly, there's no real way he could have walked away from it unscathed without hurting the company's public image. He was doomed the moment he posted that message, and it's very much a "fair, next" situation.

I've said this before, and I'll say it again - if people don't like the idea that one stray thought or comment can destroy their entire life as the masses turn against them for it, they need to stay the fuck off Twitter. Like it or not, there is an implicit responsibility and acceptance of potential consequences when you post publicly on social media, especially when you do so in a capacity that reflects upon your employer. And yes, that employer is absolutely justified in cutting you the fuck loose if your own behavior has made you a PR liability in a business that is like 90% PR-driven.

If he'd posted as "Peter Fries, private individual" he probably would have been fine. But he posted as "Peter Fries, Guild Wars writer" (while she herself was creating the firestorm as "Jessica Price, Guild Wars writer", he was effectively representing the company in a public space.

Perhaps next time, he'll think harder before throwing himself on the grenade for someone causing a massive PR shitstorm almost entirely by her own actions. It will be valuable life experience for his next job.


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TopicNo love for Octopath? It releases in like an hour and 15 mins (theoretically)
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 6:44:44 PM
#42
EnvyFox posted...
Wait why? You don't think the Switch will ever have any games you're interested in or is it something else?

I don't care about the handheld gimmick, so that's more negative than positive for me. Nintendo hasn't produced a first-party game that I actually wanted to play since before half the people on PotD were born, so there's zero appeal there.

The only draw for me would be the indie games they're stealing from Steam (which I barely care about, and definitely not enough to buy a console for) or the third-party games getting ported over (most of which are available elsewhere, so I never need to own a Switch for them).

Of the top of my head, the single game released for or announced for the Switch at this point that would be of any interest to me at all would be Skyrim, and I already own that on two consoles.



Muffinz0rz posted...
Idk why you wouldn't get one.

Because there isn't a single game on it you want to own, while most of the games you do want to play/buy are being released on the PS4, which you already own?


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TopicGeekmasters: Now in 4D
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 6:39:56 PM
#266
Metalsonic66 posted...
Hawkeye and Widow appeared in other movies first, at least

Barely. Hawkeye's "appearance" in Thor borders on non-existent, was ad hoc as fuck, was clearly spliced in after the fact, and was pretty blatantly just to have him show up before the Avengers. It barely counts as anything.


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TopicI'm playing Final Fantasy X
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 6:30:29 PM
#50
Revelation34 posted...
FF6 is the best FF.

I agree, except when my mood is slightly different, and I feel like FF4 is the best FF instead.

Those two are definitely at the top, regardless.


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TopicGW2: Another example of "Get Woke, Go Broke" RIP Jessica Price
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 6:23:13 PM
#94
Revelation34 posted...
SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
Except he defend her, and he thought twitter was a private forum. Clearly the company didn't want Peter Fries to represent them in the public space as a result of doing so.

Yet he said nothing wrong. The company was dumb for firing him.

He said something wrong. It just wasn't as wrong as anything she said, and arguably wasn't wrong enough to justify firing. But it was wrong enough, at precisely the wrong time, in the wrong situation, to lead to him getting equally fucked.

The real problem is that she created the firestorm and was justifiably burned by it, but he jumped into a situation that was already catching fire, and got burned by his own ill-thought out action. Had his specific comment been more defensible even by the detractors (in a "I disagree but acknowledge your logic" sort of way, rather than a "you're blatantly wrong and defending a repugnant lunatic" sort of way), or had the situation been less volatile, he likely would have survived it. As is, he picked up a stick of live dynamite, and it's not surprising that it blew his hand off.

Ultimately, the fair thing in this scenario would be if he could at least get rehired elsewhere with little to no blowback from the Internet, while she should never be hired by any company with even a pretense of public relations or audience interaction until she at least demonstrates that she understands what she did wrong and honestly regrets her actions (which she will almost certainly never, ever do).


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TopicDo you like this person: Christopher Columbus
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 6:11:33 PM
#4
His movies are okay. Though I prefer his 80s work to his more recent stuff.


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TopicI'm playing Final Fantasy X
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 1:54:18 PM
#48
Smarkil posted...
helIy posted...
ffx wasn't even atb

Which makes it like way better

In every early FF game that had ATB and the option to disable ATB, I disabled ATB almost immediately. In the games where you couldn't disable ATB, I was usually surly about it.

Now, years later, when most RPGs are action-RPGs with real-time battle, and I'm far more used to reacting on the fly and not having my leisure to think tactically and screw around in menus forever, I still think ATB is the worst of all possible systems. It's straddling halfway between two extremes and being worse than either. It's the same thing I disliked about how they handled mechanics in Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Menu-based games should never be ATB (see also, why I don't play RTS games). Either lean entirely into tactical combat and tons of action options via menus, or flip the other way and go for more fluid action and constant activity but streamline your system inputs (Kingdom Hearts actually handled that pretty well).


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TopicIf someone does something that disgusts and offends you...
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 1:46:01 PM
#10
Solid Sonic posted...
Of course this topic was inspired by people who draw MLP porn

People who draw MLP porn don't actually disgust or offend me.

I also think a lot of people in this topic voting "I'm able to ignore it" really aren't thinking about things that actually disgust or offend them, as much as they're thinking of things that society as a whole tend to brand disgusting or offensive that doesn't actually disgust or offend them as an individual.


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TopicNo love for Octopath? It releases in like an hour and 15 mins (theoretically)
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 1:42:21 PM
#24
It seems like it's just a rehashed modern version of the gimmick in SaGa Frontier, and I didn't even remotely like SaGa Frontier.

Factor in the fact that it's on the Switch (which I will never, ever own), and it's a standard JRPG (which I haven't given a shit about in more than a decade), and I can't see a single facet of the game that even remotely interests me at all.


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TopicCalling yourself an anime "fan" without knowing Japanese is like
ParanoidObsessive
07/13/18 1:39:01 PM
#11
If you're an anime fan who goes out of their way to learn Japanese, you're less an anime fan and more a weeb.


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TopicI'm gonna invade Antarctica
ParanoidObsessive
07/12/18 1:06:57 PM
#4
Keep in mind that every piece of Antarctica is already technically owned by someone else, so you should pick a slice that's under the control of some sad country you think you can beat in a war.


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TopicWho is your favorite The Sopranos character?
ParanoidObsessive
07/12/18 11:09:43 AM
#4
Throw in another vote for Paulie.


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Topicbest root beer brand
ParanoidObsessive
07/12/18 11:03:38 AM
#31
A&W in the bottle, but Stewarts is great if you have it in one of their locations, where you get it served in a frosty mug and can have it with a hamburger.


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TopicHow often do you save your game cases?
ParanoidObsessive
07/11/18 10:49:22 PM
#14
Zeus posted...
I mean the boxes, which used to be the method for some older games. Case-in-point, I saved the box from my copy of Pokemon Crystal.

Sort of similar to how the NES and SNES used to come in cardboard boxes, but had slipcovers (NES) or plastic caps (SNES) to protect the inside of the cartridges.


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TopicI'm playing Final Fantasy X
ParanoidObsessive
07/11/18 7:49:49 PM
#32
Smarkil posted...
I'd say it's something of an improvement over the previous games where you would just have your favored party members that you use for the entire game (until the game inevitably forces you into a point where they're unavailable).

To be fair, when I played FFX, I absolutely spent 99% of my time only using my favored party members, except for situations where the game forced me to switch to someone else in some way.


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TopicTodd Howard: Want Skyrim re-releases and ports to stop? Stop buying them.
ParanoidObsessive
07/11/18 7:47:05 PM
#17
NightMareBunny posted...
so basically we'll never get a new elder scrolls game then

I started wondering about that once ESO took off. Being able to monetize the fuck out of an MMO and occasionally release new "expansions" for it to refresh the customer base and get another quick infusion of cash is way more profitable than actually releasing new stand-alone single-player games, and GTA Online has sort of shown AAA developers just how effective that can be if you do it right.

A lot of people were annoyed when they came out with the Summerset expansion for ESO for that very reason - the assumption being that, whatever TESVI might turn out to be (assuming it comes out at all), them releasing that off ESO tends to suggest they won't be doing Summerset any time soon as a stand-alone game.



InfernalFive posted...
NightMareBunny posted...
so basically we'll never get a new elder scrolls game then

Get your head out of your ass and pay attention. Bethesda already announced TES6 during E3.

Clearly that just means they've run out of new consoles and platforms to rerelease the game on.


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TopicHow often do you save your game cases?
ParanoidObsessive
07/11/18 7:43:00 PM
#7
I save boxes 100% of the time.

I still have the original box my copy of Baldur's Gate came in 20 years ago.



green dragon posted...
What do you mean by paper box case? Like the things that sometimes comes on the outside of the hard, plastic case?

And I think I save them all, when I buy physical. I mainly buy digital now, though

I'm assuming he means like if you buy a PC disc, and it comes in a paper sleeve rather than a plastic box. You see it often with cheaper games.


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Topic91yr old Mexican man beaten with a brick, attacker shouted Go back to Mexico
ParanoidObsessive
07/11/18 5:38:06 PM
#9
Mead posted...
I wonder which channel she gets her news from

She's 30, so it's probably Comedy Central.


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TopicGeekmasters: Now in 4D
ParanoidObsessive
07/11/18 5:37:00 PM
#252
The Wave Master posted...
P.O. and I love this movie.

STOP PLAYING WITH YOURSELF KENT.


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TopicWhat's with these progressive commercials
ParanoidObsessive
07/11/18 3:11:00 PM
#11
Kyuubi4269 posted...
Metal_Mario99 posted...
Blorfenburger posted...
Im confused. Are you talking about the company Progressive or progressive as society moving forward

"Progressive" doesn't mean society moving forward. Ironically, it often means the opposite.

progress
noun
prrs

development towards an improved or more advanced condition.

What he means is that there are many people who claim to be "Progressive" specifically to evoke the definition you are citing, but whose ideology is actually incredibly reactionary, regressive, or otherwise destructive to the point of being the literal opposite of what they are claiming to be.

For at least some time in the US in the early 20th century, "Progressive" was pretty much a code used by people with socialist leanings who didn't want to refer to themselves as "Socialist", because in the US "Socialist" was/is pretty much a dirty word.


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TopicAnd now we wait like 8 or 9 months for Captain Marvel
ParanoidObsessive
07/11/18 2:50:23 PM
#50
Mofuji posted...
Also, I heard that Wonder Woman was actually good.

Nowhere near as good as you've heard, though - that movie suffered from a ton of overpraise. Partly because WOMGFEMALELEAD and gender politics issues, but also because it was the first DC movie in a while that wasn't total shit, so people were desperate to give it more credit than it deserved.

It was a good movie for what it was, but the Internet would have you believe it was the best comic book movie in decades, where I'm not even sure it was the best one released that year.


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TopicI'm playing Final Fantasy X
ParanoidObsessive
07/11/18 11:23:00 AM
#11
Kyuubi4269 posted...
JOExHIGASHI posted...
Only certain team members can fight certain enemies

Are you thinking of a different game?

I think he means that, in older games, you could have a dozen team members but only three or four of them could fight in a given battle. Whereas FFX let you swap other characters in and out, so you could technically have your entire team fight the enemy.


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TopicAnd now we wait like 8 or 9 months for Captain Marvel
ParanoidObsessive
07/11/18 11:14:12 AM
#45
To be fair, Carol is a terrible character, so if any movie WAS going to fail, this could easily be the one.

That being said, I don't think it's going to fail. And hopefully the movies can redeem the character a bit, and make her more worthwhile than her comic version. Though I still wish they'd used pretty much any other version of the character instead. The male version, the other male version, the black woman version, and the alien lesbian woman version are all way more interesting than Carol is.

Hell, even Kamala is more interesting, and would probably be more popular.

I just get the impression that this is an attempt at "diversity, but not TOO much diversity". They wanted a film with a female lead, but having a female who is ALSO black, gay, or Muslim was a step too far and terrified the higher-ups. Which is a shame.


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TopicI'm playing Final Fantasy X
ParanoidObsessive
07/11/18 11:08:01 AM
#6
It was a beautiful game at the time, and had fantastic music. But most of the characters were annoying, and it suffered from the same problem a lot of older anime did - stilted lip matching that makes all of the spoken dialogue sound awkward as hell, which only exacerbates the "annoying characters" problem.

Throwing in lack of a strong, interesting villain and a meh story, and it gets hard to actually care about any of these people or any of the things they're doing.

It might also hurt that this was the first Final Fantasy that felt like it stepped away from mimicking the European fantasy aesthetic and shifted to a more Asian model (with strong Polynesian influences), which starts to push some culture conflict buttons as well.


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Topic"Americans treat family like strangers, and strangers like family."
ParanoidObsessive
07/11/18 11:02:25 AM
#24
YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...
demonfang178 posted...
For reference but not clarity

if it must be explained to you
it is remarking on the difference in how Chinese (and many asians) behave for strangers as opposed to family

In America it's not uncommon to be extra polite to strangers, whereas in many places in China being a stranger means you get the baseline level of polite.

So the way Americans treat family, wanting to be away from them, openly hating in-laws, etc, is jarring to some because China has the Confucian-influenced social model, where elders and family are held in the highest esteem, and strangers don't need to be catered to *as much

So what you're saying is, the Chinese treat family like strangers, and strangers like family.











Though to be honest, when you consider how many Asian cultures lean heavily into excessive submission and respect for superiors - to the point of having different pronouns for formal and casual speech - falling back on more relaxed and casual attitudes towards family, I'd say both cultures have similar views towards strangers and family in many ways.


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TopicAnd now we wait like 8 or 9 months for Captain Marvel
ParanoidObsessive
07/10/18 9:07:11 PM
#37
Krazy_Kirby posted...
captain marvel is still dc

Only because DC sued the company that originally created him out of business, then bought their assets out of bankruptcy.

But in the ultimate of ironies, Fawcett let the trademark lapse on the character after DC screwed them over, so when DC finally got their hands on the character, they discovered to their horror that they couldn't actually sell a comic book with his name on it, because Marvel had locked down the trademark in the meantime.

Now Marvel's pretty much going to hold on to that trademark forever, partly to spite DC, and partly because they don't want any characters with "Marvel" in their name being published by anyone other than them.


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TopicSo when Thanos did the thing... (spoilers)
ParanoidObsessive
07/10/18 8:43:30 PM
#9
You're underestimating just how much of a literal god the gauntlet makes Thanos.

Realistically, he took every single one of those factors into account in the split-second he acted, because for him time did not exist as we know it, and he essentially had omniscience and an effectively infinite amount of time to individually consider every single life-form in the entire universe, weigh their value and circumstances individually, and then sort each into the "live" or "die" category based entirely on which would create the least amount of disruption.

Keep in mind, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The moment he put the sixth stone on the gauntlet, he wasn't just a mortal with god-like powers, he basically WAS God. He absolutely would have taken those things into account in the moment.


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TopicIf Pocahontas and Mary Queen of Scots got into a fight, who would win?
ParanoidObsessive
07/10/18 4:29:52 PM
#2
Well, they're both dead, so it would probably be a tie.


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TopicXBone sucks
ParanoidObsessive
07/10/18 12:51:09 PM
#9
minervo posted...
Xbox live has a good community, always has

Speaking as someone who considered the 360 the best console of its generation, this is exceedingly untrue.

If anything, I might be willing to argue that the Xbox community in general has always been the absolute worst of all alternatives.


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TopicWhat difficulty do you like your games?
ParanoidObsessive
07/10/18 11:47:24 AM
#5
Related topic:

http://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/76785677


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TopicSo I'm gonna start playing Fallout New Vegas
ParanoidObsessive
07/09/18 4:51:24 PM
#53
TES_Nut posted...
3 was a good game. NV was also a good game.

Shit I could bring peace to the middle East if I wanted.

The only thing worse than people liking things I don't like is when people who like the things I like also like things I don't like.

It's filthy and disgusting.


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TopicDo you like this person: Chris Hardwick
ParanoidObsessive
07/09/18 4:43:20 PM
#79
Mead posted...
Should have clarified that I was referring more to the Chris Brown/Rihanna situation that some users were talking about

In that case, I'd be more inclined to agree with you.

Though in that case, the impression I got was that most people who shat on Rihanna /supported Chris Brown for it were mostly female fans who wished they could be in a relationship with Chris Brown, abuse and all. At least that was the impression I sort of got at the time.


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Topici really don't like any movies that has the title screen at the end of the movie
ParanoidObsessive
07/09/18 4:41:51 PM
#9
In the old days, there were no end credits. Only the most important people in a production got credit at all, and those credits were always at the start of the movie.


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TopicSo I'm gonna start playing Fallout New Vegas
ParanoidObsessive
07/09/18 4:38:23 PM
#50
Mead posted...
Can we just like games without having dumb arguments about which are better all the time

No, because that would be morally wrong.


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TopicSo I'm gonna start playing Fallout New Vegas
ParanoidObsessive
07/09/18 4:36:57 PM
#48
helIy posted...
oh okay so it is opposite day then cool

For you, every day is Opposite Day, but you're the only one celebrating.



helIy posted...
so many neat things that 3 had that i wish nv had but it just didn't

like fun

Where was that in Fallout 3? I never managed to find it in my run.

Is it in a hidden part of the map, somewhere along one of the far edges?


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TopicDo you like this person: Chris Hardwick
ParanoidObsessive
07/09/18 4:34:30 PM
#76
Mead posted...
Hard to imagine someone being angrier at the abused for the way they react to being abused than the actual abuser.

Bad victim! Look what you did!

On the other hand, if Dykstra actually IS lying about the abuse, and Hardwick is being persecuted for it in spite of being innocent, then technically she is the abuser while he is both the abused and the victim in this situation.

One could also argue that in that case the real victim might be the entirety of womankind, since if she did make false accusations and that comes out for sure, then she's effectively made it harder for legitimate victims to come forward and be believed in the future. If valid accusations against people like Harvey Weinstein helped allow other victims to come forward and gain justice for their own abuse, false accusations only help slam that door shut again.


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TopicJust saw rampage
ParanoidObsessive
07/08/18 8:19:51 PM
#38
FatalAccident posted...
I dont understand how somebody can doesnt understand the concept of 10/10

By any definition 10/10 means flawless

This is PotD. Everyone knows that a "perfect movie" here is 8/10.


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TopicThere's not going to be Gen 9.
ParanoidObsessive
07/08/18 8:18:01 PM
#3
People have been saying this for like two generations now.


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TopicAnyone here play Town of Salem?
ParanoidObsessive
07/08/18 8:17:18 PM
#2
I do not. Describe this game you speak of to me, for I am interested in learning of new things.


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