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| Topic | Hallmark channel gives in to christian right group. |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/14/19 12:46:53 AM #5 | Zeus posted... Considering that they pander to those demos in the first place, I'm surprised they'd run the commercial at all. Was going to say this. Hallmark Channel is pretty much entirely reliant on the Middi-est of Midwestern audiences, so their continued existence rests on being as traditional and conservative and schmaltzy as possible. The only people who watch the channel at all are people who still wish it was 1950. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you think environment is in such a bad shape because we picked Capitalism? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/13/19 10:43:26 PM #38 | Zareth posted... Virginia was founded on the fact that the English really wanted to smoke a lot. Rum's a large part of why the slave trade flourished in North America. http://www.amazon.com/History-World-6-Glasses/dp/0802715524 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Someone found a solution to the YouTube monetization dickery |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/13/19 10:40:28 PM #4 | Mr Hangman posted... The only solution is alternative video distribution. Nothing else can or will stop YouTube from increasingly fucking over their video creators. This is true, but it's difficult to create and grow an alternative platform in the face of what is essentially a monopoly. It's similar to how most of the alternatives to Twitch are being started by companies with a ton of money, who are deliberately trying to buy content producers away. And how Epic has been throwing its money around in an attempt to break Steam's dominance over PC game distribution. The idea is to try and artificially stimulate user adoption to grow the platform, because otherwise it's incredibly hard to pull enough users to create a viable user base even if you're technically providing the better (or at least more consumer friendly) product. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Joker |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/13/19 10:32:47 PM #8 | zebatov posted... I like the remake of that song better than the original tbh. I loathe every version of that song, because it was the favorite song of an ex who made my life miserable, so I always associate it with her now. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Cat says, "well, hi" in a southern accent |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/13/19 10:30:46 PM #8 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Dammit my cat is gonna think the xbox series x is a play thing... |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/13/19 10:29:49 PM #2 | FrozenBananas posted... Shes def going to want to jump on top of and sit on it That's what she said... ...wait, no, that doesn't work. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Board games |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/13/19 7:50:27 PM #6 | WastelandCowboy posted... The fuck. Are we the same person? Yes. I'm actually an alternate personality that lives inside your head. I'm also running a secret underground fight club, which is why you occasionally wake up in the morning with aches and pains you can't explain. You thought it was just you getting old! --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you think environment is in such a bad shape because we picked Capitalism? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/13/19 7:40:48 PM #36 | Noop_Noop posted... It's actually 12/13ths. They got llamas. I was mostly estimating, because I couldn't remember the exact numbers. But from what I was remembering it was something like 6 species were domesticated in the Americas (including llamas), out of something like 40 or so domesticated species total. Maybe even less. Noop_Noop posted... That's also the reason why natives didn't have their own plagues to spread back to the Europeans. This is definitely true. It's one of the reasons people question just how "good" a thing the Agricultural Revolution was in the first place - encouraging people to settle down actually limited the nutritional intake (meaning people were much less healthy afterwards than before), while being settled in one place is what encouraged animal domestication, which in turn is the source of most of the major diseases humans deal with on a regular basis (because most of them started as animal diseases that jumped species, and then proliferated in the new, more crowded environments of towns and cities). The converse is, agriculture also opened the door to things like property ownership (whether you see that as a good or bad thing), but is also the source of most art, culture, and technology we've come up with since. Civilization essentially can't advance without the ability to stockpile and trade food for services. One of the prevaling assumptions is that the only reason early humans were willing to make that trade is because agriculture also makes booze possible. So all of human history as we know it is built on the back of the fact that our ancestors 10,000 years ago just wanted to get really, really drunk. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you expect the new star wars movie to be a good movie? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/13/19 7:20:23 PM #14 | ToadstoolPeach posted... Some of the scenes they've previewed probably proved the leaks are true, and if that's the case it's going to be ass sauce. Here's hoping it isn't. It doesn't help that every single person who's claimed to have seen test screenings say it sucks, and almost no one has come forward saying they saw a test screening and enjoyed it. That's a real bad sign. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Board games |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/13/19 7:18:34 PM #4 | Conceptually, Clue - though I like it more in movie and VCR game form (and the version I made for Mafia) than the actual board game. Trivia Pursuit SHOULD be my favorite game considering my love for useless knowledge, but every time I play I'm almost inevitably fucked by dice rolls. Being able to answer more questions than anyone else doesn't help if you're being forced to answer four times as many as everyone else. Of those, the one I probably had the most fun with as a kid was Life. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Does anyone here hobby at all in handheld lasers? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/13/19 7:16:24 PM #5 | I'm starting to suspect you might really be my son, considering this newfound obsession with acquiring an effective death ray. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Halfway done with my 60 page paper. |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/13/19 4:08:09 PM #3 | See, and you thought you weren't going to be able to finish it. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Next Gen Xbox Gets a Name... |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/13/19 4:07:24 PM #5 | aDirtyShisno posted... Maybe they intended it to happen all along... Memes are powerful viral advertising, after all. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Attention: PO. |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/13/19 3:34:34 PM #2 | I saw the patch go through yesterday. It does seem to work. Now I just have to hope they either fixed the problem where Felix and Ellie's quests apparently conflict, or at least hope I don't trigger the problem myself. Or the problem where Ellie's quest doesn't detect the necessary NPCs for some reason. But they should have known two patches ago that ladders kill companions, because people were explicitly saying Parvati glitching out on the ladder was what was triggering the kill flag for her. So them saying it was incredibly hard to figure out just kind of makes them look kind of inept. Also, I feel like there has to be more triggers than just talking to someone while they're on a ladder, because I'm pretty sure I never did that. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you expect the new star wars movie to be a good movie? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/13/19 3:14:14 PM #2 | If someone burned my house down, and I tried to rebuild it without actually removing any of the rubble, charred beams, or melted stuff, I wouldn't expect the end result to be a house worth living in. I suspect the same principle is going to apply here. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Someone found a solution to the YouTube monetization dickery |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/13/19 3:08:34 PM #2 | Lokarin posted... Then when your video inevitably gets botclaimed, the ad revenue is split between you (your claimed outro) and the bot entity (such as Disney). That's not how claims work. If two different people claim revenue on a video, it locks everyone out and YouTube keeps the money. Jim Sterling actually uses this to fuck with companies that put claims on his video in spite of the fact that he doesn't monetize them in the first place, by deliberately putting things in that he knows will be claimed (Disney references and songs that Warner Bros music will catch, mostly), so he forces the two corporations to fuck each other, because neither will ever back down from their claim. He often does that when talking about Nintendo stuff, because Nintendo's pretty dickish about claiming pretty much anything that contains Nintendo content, even otherwise free-use trailers and the like. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Gov Huckabee is saying that Trump will be eligible for third term |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/12/19 11:33:26 PM #37 | Jen0125 posted... There are thriving Nordic countries with hugely high levels of citizen satisfaction. That's way easier to pull off when your population is like 90% homogeneous, though. In terms of economic, ethnic, and cultural division, the US is probably one of the hardest governments on Earth to run effectively and have everyone agree on a singular course or vision. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Which generation are you? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/12/19 11:31:36 PM #10 | Judgmenl posted... 15 year gap is too much for a age cohort, however I usually have a lot in common with the early millennials as much as I do with the late ones. At this point I feel like 80s kid/90s kid/2000s kid has more meaning and interconnection than generation does. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | i can't figure out why they thought guitar hero live was a good idea |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/12/19 11:30:41 PM #4 | CTLM posted... $$ and had to strike when the iron was hot The iron hasn't been hot for about a decade. Live was about 5 years too late. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | An odd thought about death. |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/12/19 11:28:56 PM #6 | LinkPizza posted... Sounds like after everyone died, they just sat in a void until everyone else died. And when they did, they all appeared there. Or it exists outside of time as we know it. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Did you like the movie Superman Returns? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/12/19 11:28:11 PM #14 | Metalsonic66 posted... I still think MoS could have been a good starting point for a new movie continuity, if literally anyone else had been at the helm of the sequels lol I feel like it could have been a good starting point for new continuity if it had a different director who had done at least one or two more rewrite passes on the script. Cavill was excellent casting, but the tone was wrong. The real problem is that the Superman films suffered from WB desperately trying to shoehorn it into whatever thing was trendy at the time. It was hurt badly by the attempt to make it like the Nolan Batman films (in spite of the two characters being radically different), and rushing to push the crossover to try and cash in on Avengers-money (while doing it in precisely the wrong way, because they were in too much of a hurry to do individual movies) meant it couldn't really be salvaged. Ideally they should have gone more down the route they did with Shazam, where they allowed the character to set the tone of the movie, rather than forcing the movie to fit a preestablished tone it wasn't right for. And keeping crossover BS to a minimum until you establish the characters in a way where the audience WANTS to see them cross over. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Remember when we used to argue about what the best Final Fantasy game was? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/12/19 11:22:40 PM #64 | mooreandrew58 posted... You never know. People running the show at square aint gonna be around forever whoever takes over might have different plans. Unless the industry and marketplace as a whole radically changes, there will never be motivation for anyone to do so, no matter who is running things. Again, nostalgia can sell as a niche side title, but they're never going to move it back into the mainstream because pure nostalgia doesn't sell THAT well. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you think environment is in such a bad shape because we picked Capitalism? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/12/19 11:01:10 PM #4 | CTLM posted... Some exceptions did apply were they didn't hunt, fish, or eat something to extinction. Some people didn't demolish everything around them, as others were trying to change their world through sheer force. But humans have always succeeded in screwing up nature The reason there's no surviving megafauna or larger species in general in North America is because the Native Americans slaughtered most of them to extinction when they initially arrived, and found an entire continent full of animals that had never learned to be afraid of humans (see also, what happened to the dodo). It came back to bite them in the ass later, when they reached a point of cultural development where they would settle down and potentially domesticate animals, because by then they lacked sufficient species to work with. It's why something like 5/6ths of all animals domesticated by humans all originated in either Asia, Africa, or Europe. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Remember when we used to argue about what the best Final Fantasy game was? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/12/19 10:54:47 PM #59 | mooreandrew58 posted... As if they havent gone back to their roots before. FF 9 says hello. The entire point of FFIX at the time was also as one last nostalgia-fueled hurrah to the older games before the franchise moved on forever. It's why there are constant references to older games in FFIX, while FFX is radically different in most ways. They could still try to cash in on nostalgia again, but at this point they just put out remakes of old games or "side titles" like FFIV: The After Years or Crisis Core rather than doing it as a main series entry. We're almost certainly never going to get a main series old school turn-based RPG in a simplistic medieval setting again. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Did you like the movie Superman Returns? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/12/19 10:45:43 PM #11 | Metalsonic66 posted... I would still put MoS above Returns despite having problems with it. I'd argue that MoS is a better movie in general, but it's a worse Superman movie (because it profoundly misunderstands who and what Superman IS). Superman Returns, for all its flaws, at least has its heart in the right place. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you think environment is in such a bad shape because we picked Capitalism? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/12/19 10:44:34 PM #2 | Lobomoon posted... Do you think there is a parallel Earth where people went with Socialism and the environment there is in the great shape? Humans were fucking up the environment long before capitalism ever really existed as a concept. Plus there's the obligatory pointing to the USSR and the catastrophic damage they did to the environment in any number of places (cue also obligatory complaint that Soviet Communism isn't the same as Socialism). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | An odd thought about death. |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/12/19 10:41:47 PM #4 | You've basically just described the plot of Riverworld. Except that's more just some people from every point in human history, not necessarily everyone. But then again, the river is really, really long, and as far as anyone knows no one has ever journeyed from one end to the other, so it's possible that it really IS every human who has ever lived. You can't just wish yourself to hang out with other people, though. Part of the setting/plot is that everyone wakes up completely naked, and most forms of higher technology don't really seem to exist. So no one's going to be building a motorboat or planes to explore the world any any point. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Did you like the movie Superman Returns? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/12/19 10:37:57 PM #9 | Ehh. I thought it was a lame and terrible movie that was pretty bad even in a franchise that had a movie like Superman IV in it. But then they went on to make Man of Steel and BvS, and Superman Returns sort of became a better movie by proxy. It's still pretty lame, though. Zeus posted... I don't remember any hype. Hype in the sense that it was a new Superman movie after nearly 20 years of none, hype in the sense that it was ignoring the continuity of Superman 3 and 4 but continuing directly on from Superman 2 (and thus wasn't really a full reboot), and hype in the sense that it was being directed by the guy who'd made two pretty good X-Men movies. When it was first announced, there was a fair bit of optimism for it. And then it came out. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Which generation are you? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/12/19 10:32:41 PM #4 | Just to note, there's no official timeline of when most generations begin and end, and any standard you cite or go by is just arbitrarily choosing their own interpretation of things. It's part of what makes most conversations about generation kind of bullshit (along with the fact that modern generations tend to have less in common than older ones, because the speed of media, pop culture, and information distribution has become so much faster). When I was a kid I used to be considered Gen Y as often as I was considered Gen X, but these days I usually fall pretty hard into Gen X and Gen Y isn't really a thing (though I'd argue it probably should be). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Gov Huckabee is saying that Trump will be eligible for third term |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/12/19 9:08:48 PM #16 | SaltyAndSweet posted... ok boomer Cool story bro. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Gov Huckabee is saying that Trump will be eligible for third term |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/12/19 9:06:23 PM #13 | Zikten posted... This would spark a civil war No it wouldn't. Americans are pacified drones. People would complain about it on Facebook and Twitter for 4 years and do absolutely nothing of substance about it. Revolutions are hard! And I don't want to miss the new episode of The Mandalorian next week! Baby Yoda is cute! TyVulpine posted... Thankfully a 41% approval rating isnt going to result in a second term. It will if the Democrats assume they've got this one in the bag and run someone like Hillary or Sanders. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Egg Nog? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/12/19 3:55:47 AM #13 | Not a fan. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What's new pussycat, whoa |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/12/19 3:52:57 AM #3 | ~throws panties~ --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | the fact that they're bringing emperor Palpatine back |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/12/19 2:39:51 AM #27 | joemodda posted... Is it true that the whole trilogy ends with Yes, and then --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Current consoles |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/11/19 5:15:13 PM #31 | It's not about how I interpret it. It's about how the people whose opinions actually matter interpret it. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You get 3 wishes |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/11/19 5:13:52 PM #59 | SunWuKung420 posted... Lol, I didn't even refer to myself yet PO is the one resorting to insults because he didn't like my wishes. And there you go demonstrating an astonishing lack of self-awareness. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You get 3 wishes |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/11/19 5:09:22 PM #56 | GreenKnight127 posted... Not all people become evil after obtaining power. No, most people are evil before obtaining power. The power just reveals their true nature. But it takes a real "I'm doing this for your own good" mentality to really make a super-villain. The sort of ambition you need to be a real monster and not just a selfish asshole comes from firmly convincing yourself that everything you're doing is fully justified and people should be thanking you for it, and that future generations will praise you for what you've given them. Road to hell, intentions, etc etc. SunWuKung420 posted... That's what actually what your jaded attitude is, so that you can justify your unwillingness to try to create a better place. Of course you're going to call it realism but true realism is balance and harmony since that is what the universe and existence is constantly striving for. See, self-righteous horseshit like this is why no one likes you. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Current consoles |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/11/19 5:06:09 PM #29 | Far-Queue posted... But I'm aware that sites like Wikipedia, where I'm sure you're getting your info, list it incorrectly as 8th gen. No, because regardless of how YOU interpret it, the sorts of people who actually invented the concept of video game generations in the first place and Nintendo themselves still consider it 8th gen, so it is. There's more to generation than simple iteration. The fact that the Switch is essentially the combined successor to the Wii-U and 3DS doesn't automatically advance the generation. It's very much a side-step and not a step forward. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Current consoles |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/11/19 2:48:26 PM #24 | Far-Queue posted... Yes. No. In spite of the fact that it's basically the replacement to both the Wii-U and 3DS, it's still technically considered part of the 8th gen. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Who shot Mr. Burns, part 1 or 2? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/11/19 2:22:15 PM #8 | CTLM posted... One. It ended so perfectly and created a great cliffhanger. The payoff felt like a cop out in a way Pretty much this. Considering season 7 was about the point I started going off The Simpsons entirely, that may have played at least some role in my growing disillusionment. All that hype with such a lame pay-off kind of helps kill interest. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | How often do you go to the movie theaters by yourself? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/11/19 2:17:59 PM #20 | JebronLames posted... how often? Very rarely. I don't have an issue with seeing movies alone, but I barely care enough to see movies in the theater for any reason regardless. So one of the few things that actually motivates me to go out is when someone else wants to go and ask me to go with them. Occasionally my GF wants to see stuff, or some friends will say "Hey, do you want to go see X?" and it'll turn into a social occasion sort of deal, and I used to take my young nephew to see the Marvel movies when they came out because it was the only way he'd see them (but he's old enough to go on his own now). But if no one else wants to go see something, I don't really have the motivation to go out. I don't care enough about movies to not be able to wait the extra few months before a movie comes out on DVD or TV to watch it for free at home. If some movie came out that I was absolutely obsessed with, and no one else wanted to go see it, I'd go see it alone. But I can't remember being that excited for any single movie for more than a decade or two now. JebronLames posted... any of you gonna see the new star wars movie by yourself? I probably won't even watch it at home, unless someone somewhere decides to pay me to do so. I might read the plot summary on Wikipedia at some point to laugh at it, though. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | How old were you when you figured out there was no.........? Spoilers? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/11/19 2:17:49 PM #9 | I can't remember, because it was never really a big thing for me. Mainly because I was a materialistic shit even as a kid, and I didn't care about "Santa" as much as I did getting stuff. So if people were still giving me stuff, I was fine with it no matter who was doing it. I went off Christmas entirely early, though. I stopped celebrating (and giving or getting) presents somewhere in high school. Around the same time I stopped caring about birthdays. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You get 3 wishes |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/11/19 2:04:57 PM #53 | SunWuKung420 posted... No, peace and joy. Don't be so jaded. That should be your first wish. Why would I wish for willful self-delusion? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You get 3 wishes |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/11/19 2:04:13 PM #52 | darkknight109 posted... I've always thought the, "You'll outlive anyone you care about!" argument is a weak one against immortality. Sure you will... and then you can go make new ones. It's not like you only ever get one set of friends in life and that's it. Nothing's stopping you from just getting out there and meeting new people. It's less about the outliving, and more about the constant outliving. In the average person's life, you eventually have to deal with your parents dying, but may also have kids of your own who will outlive you. You grow apart from some friends, but make new ones. Relationships bloom and fade, but ideally you wind up with one special person in the end, and grow old together. But there's always a limit to how much pain you have to go through, an end to the constant cycle. For an immortal, there's never an end. You're constantly burying friends. If you can still have kids, you'll outlive every single one of them, forever. If you find that one special someone, they'll die, and you'll go through that pain over and over and over and over again (which is why, in the Highlander franchise, it's kind of established that most immortals stop having serious relationships with mortals after the third or so time of having to go through with it - they eventually decide the pain isn't worth the love). It's not so much the individual act as much as the constant accumulation of regrets and sorrow. Eventually you theoretically reach a point where you just sort of shut down and decide making new friends or finding new lovers isn't really worth it. Why should I care about you at all, when you're just going to die like everyone else? On some level, you'll always be more aware of the impermanence of life far more than the average person is, because they live in the moment, but you live in forever. darkknight109 posted... Why would you feel pain if you're invulnerable? Who says that your invulnerability makes your individual cells immune to all damage? You asked for invulnerability, not cellular indestructibility. The word "invulnerable" simply means you can't be permanently wounded. But that can be achieved on the functional level if you simply regenerate faster than you can be wounded. Plenty of stories have presented characters who can't be killed because you stab them and the wound heals, or where you can lop off a limb and they just pick it up and stick it back on. But being able to survive and repair damage isn't the same as being completely immune to damage, and it's entirely possible that in those sorts of scenarios you still feel pain (Wolverine does, for instance). And Winter explicitly mentioned being able to regrow limbs or pop his head back on, which is the healing factor version of invulnerability, which is what I was replying to in that instance. Presumably if you literally cannot be damaged in any way, with weapons simply bouncing off and not a single cell in your body can be harmed in any way, you wouldn't feel damage... but that might also create other problems, depending on how it's achieved. Cellular stasis would screw with you in other ways (like never being able to change how you look after the moment you're given the power, right down to not being able to shave or cut your hair, having problems with sex, etc). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I can understand mens and womens sports but... |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/11/19 1:47:54 PM #31 | T0ffee posted... Lol the sheer fucking irony of a tl;dr coming from PO of all people. Congratulations, you got the joke. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You get 3 wishes |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/11/19 1:45:23 PM #50 | darkknight109 posted... No elves are ageless, not immortal. That's not what the word "immortal" actually means, though. "Immortal" means "not mortal". And "mortal" only means "subject to death". So, being immortal means you cannot die, but it doesn't necessarily include not aging. It just means you can't die from aging. Nor does it preclude you from losing limbs, or remaining healthy in any way. So you could literally wind up a withered severed head with no eyes stuck in the bottom of a hole and still be immortal, because you'd still be "alive". Just not very happy about it. Modern people tend to confuse immortality with invulnerability, but they're not the same thing. And you can get one without the other. Like I already mentioned, one of the Greek myths from 3000+ years ago basically addresses that exact problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithonus Llamachama posted... All the people wishing for immortality do not realize it's repercussions. This is why you need to make one of your other wishes for the power to make other people immortal. Actually, roll all of that into a single wish, and just wish for the power to grant eternal life to anyone you choose (including yourself), but also with the ability to turn it off as well. That way, you can keep your friends and lovers alive as long as you want, and if they turn against you just make them mortal again, and you can reserve the ability to die yourself if you ever need it (like if you're trapped in a block of concrete or the world ends). SunWuKung420 posted... 1. World Peace So, mind control and no free will then. GreenKnight127 posted... Because if it could work out....I promise you all right here and now..........I would make your life wonderful beyond your wildest dreams :) This is how supervillains start. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You get 3 wishes |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/11/19 1:31:36 PM #47 | Yellow posted... Trap, eventually you'll accidentally fuck up the universe or yourself. At least with 3 you can be careful. Depends on how sensitive the genie is. In some stories you actually have to wish with intent rather than just say "I wish". On the flip-side, the moment you even think the word wish you're committing to it, or sometimes even subconscious wishes count. Assuming you can actually qualify wishes, it wouldn't be that difficult to say something like "Infinite wishes, but they only count if I wish out loud and then snap my fingers" or something. darcandkharg31 posted... people are saying immortality but you can still die if you get shot or something, like Elves are immortal but you can still hack ones head off If you've got one of the asshole genies, what you really need to worry about is that immortality doesn't even include agelessness. That one goes all the way back to Greek mythology, where Zeus granted immortality to someone, and they just kept getting older and older and older and withering away even as they lived forever. wwinterj25 posted... Eternal life would mean I can't be killed. Anything that seems like death will be ignored so my limbs would grow back. I'll just pop my head right back on. Immortality just means you don't die of old age, though. It doesn't even mean you CAN'T age. You're thinking more of adding invulnerability or some kind of ridiculously overpowered regenerative healing factor into the mix. The problem with eternal life in general though is that you dramatically increase your odds of getting buried alive or trapped somewhere for all eternity, with no possible means of escape or suicide, because you cannot die. Then over a long enough time scale, you start to run into problems like eternal boredom, watching everyone and everything you've ever loved die, and on a long enough time scale, the sun burning out and you being trapped forever on a scorched lifeless chunk of rock in a dead universe. And that's not even taking into account that even if you're immortal and invulnerable, you presumably still feel pain, so drowning is still extremely uncomfortable (you can't breathe water, you just can't die from drowning, but you're still drowning), you presumably still suffer from starvation and dehydration pains, if you fell into the sun you'd still be burning to death more or less forever until the sun itself went out, etc. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Remember when we used to argue about what the best Final Fantasy game was? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/11/19 1:18:47 PM #38 | EclairReturns posted... That would actually be the start towards making a new game entirely, I think. You say tomato, I say tomato. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Current consoles |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/11/19 1:16:45 PM #15 | Mead posted... Ps4 cause it has the best library imo I'd go with this. Even though the PS4 and XBox have mostly the same games, I'd say the PS4 exclusives are more worth owning, while the XBox exclusives are mostly meh at best. The Switch has the most dramatically different library, but most of the games on it are games I either already own, or don't give a single shit about. And I'm hugely not a fan of portables in general and the joycon controllers specifically, so I really wouldn't want to own one even if it DID have a bunch of games I wanted to play and couldn't get anywhere else. Mead posted... although the battery life on their controller is total garbo How long do you play at one time, and do you top the charge off when you're done, or just wait until the controller is completely dead before recharging? And how old is your controller? Rechargeable batteries in general tend to get worse over time the more you drain them dry. My last laptop started out being able to hold a charge for like 12 hours, but eventually got to the point where it would die in under 2 hours. I haven't actually noticed any appreciable battery capacity loss in my controller (and I've had it for about 4 years), but I rarely run it dry and tend to keep it topped off by plugging it in whenever I'm not using it. And I don't really play for like 36 hours straight at a time or anything. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Remember when we used to argue about what the best Final Fantasy game was? |
| ParanoidObsessive 12/10/19 10:28:59 PM #21 | Lokarin posted... So a proper Special Edition of FF8 might actually be decent. Well, sure. Because it would give them the opportunity to completely rewrite all the characters, the whole story, and all of the game mechanics. That would be a good start towards making the game good. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
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