Lurker > Polycosm

So what happened? Did his investigators in Hawaii finally reveal Obama's birth certificate? Did he vote another cabinet member off the island?

(I think I know who the Final 2 are gonna be...)
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

GRRM may have a twist in store for Stannis in the books. Gotta keep in mind that the show and the books have some significant points of divergence now.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

It's almost as if Westeros is a parallel to Medieval Europe.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

I can't decide what's trashier-- a fat man jerking in the back of a theater, the comments section, or Emoji Movie itself.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

This is a tricky issue. The libertarian Non-Aggression Principle fails to provide a complete answer, imo.

On one hand, I can't support mandatory vaccination because it seems like it's barely one step away from the dystopian future depicted in The Giver. While today's vaccinations are totally safe, mandatory vaccination sets a dangerous legal precedent.

On the other hand, failing to vaccinate your child is awfully close to crossing the line of child neglect. Some people would even argue that it does cross that line... and I can definitely see the logic in that.

There's also the risk of exposing others... does that constitute an act of aggression? It's not clear, imo.

I'm in favor of leveraging social pressure against antivax families in order to make them bear the cost of the risk they introduce to society, but the devil is in the details. I don't think that there's an ideologically pure solution to this problem.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

Doesn't offend me, although I would negatively judge the owner of the mug.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

ImTheMacheteGuy posted...

"I can i i everything else," Bob reportedly said to Digital Journal, to which Alice replied: "Balls have zero to me to me to me..."

Basically, Bob is saying that he now has dominion over the world, to which Alice responds by suggesting that they exterminate all of the males first.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

It's hard to root for her over other characters who have struggled more, and struggled more recently. Dany's 10-minute walk with the Dothraki last season didn't feel like much of a hardship. And this season it feels like all of the tension is really about whether or not she'll follow in her father's footsteps, while her allies are being tortured and slaughtered.

At this point, it would be more satisfying for her to go out as a martyr. If she sacrifices herself to save the world, then all is forgiven as far as I'm concerned. It just doesn't feel like any of her current adversaries have done her an injustice that's begging to be made right. Dany's been coasting ever since Season 2.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

Weird... I had a really easy time setting mine up. It was no more difficult than installing a digitally purchased game. I guess it varies by region and whether you get HBO as part of a cable package or not. But once you get past the initial installation, there's no way that HBO Now is more inconvenient than having to search for an illegal download for each episode.

You really should pay for GoT if possible, imo. HBO spends a ton of money to make that show what it is.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

MwarriorHiei posted...

you dont have to worry about not being able to find DLC.

CoolBeansAvl posted...

Except Amiibos have limited availability and it's not a quick convenient readily accessible download.

rabbi_baby posted...

Except Nintendo is famous for creating false shortages by purposely producing low numbers of their products. They've been doing it since the Wii.

Okay, point conceded. I thought I remembered reading that the shortages were effectively over, but it looks like they're still happening with BotW related amiibo. Ugh... that's disappointing.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

There's nothing wrong with locking content behind amiibo; it's the same concept as DLC. What's gross about this scenario is that difficulty mode options are being locked behind a paywall. That's like a restaurant charging extra to rent silverware.

I remember when Mega Man 9 did this. It killed my hype for the game and I still haven't played it, 9 years later.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

You'll probably want to set up a temporary office in the living room. The upstairs AC isn't working and we can't get someone out under home warranty until Monday.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

Antifar posted...

"What's your name?"
"uh..."
*hastily looks around Starbucks*
"Goodlatte. Bob Goodlatte."

lol
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

SageHarpuia posted...

Literally why would you care?

His user name is literally COVxy.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

SpiralDrift posted...

I guess "I'm going to kill all of you" isn't considered an imminent threat.

Well to be fair, he didn't specify when.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

hollow_shrine posted...

Antifar posted...

To be clear, there is 0 chance a man built like Steve Bannon can achieve that feat.

You say that but I've seen similar dudes perform miracles. With the right combination of flexibility, patience, dick control, and size anyone can master the art of auto-fellatio.

I'm not sure what porn sites you've been visiting, but I can't say I've ever seen someone successfully fold a bowling ball in half.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

NOM posted...

That seems fucking stupid. Honestly makes me want to just quit the show if they're going to kill off all the good characters. What's the point?

Trust me, there are plenty of great characters still around in Season 7... and some amazing character transformations which may be hard to imagine until you've seen them.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

3edgy5me
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

FF_Redux posted...

Apocalyptic posted...

Meh

This
Pennywise is too cliche scary.

psh... floaters
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

I hear Terrible Tomi is making videos from her car after getting canned. Not surprised, boring woman (Tomi). Sad!
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

They were surrounding the truck, some of them standing so close that they were pressed up against it, basically flashing a strobe light in his face in the middle of the night.

Fair, next.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

I mean, I can still tell them apart, every time. But Coke Zero is probably the most respectable attempt at a zero-calorie clone of a real soda. When I drink a Coke Zero, I never think to myself, "damn, I wish this were a real Coke."
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

Okay, wait a second... my understanding of the agencies was incorrect. JE19426, thank you for the persistent pushback, because you inspired me to dig past the nytimes article.

Here's what tripped me up, from the NY Times:
"The Advertising Standards Authority, an independent body, will then enforce those rules."

I assumed, from this statement, that the ASA had a legitimate enforcement mechanism (e.g. administrative law) behind them. But in fact, it looks like all they do is publish your name on their website and try to shame you if you break CAP's rules.

So, you're absolutely right that this isn't outlawing anything. It would appear that the CAP and ASA have no legal teeth after all.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

JE19426 posted...

Polycosm posted...

From the article:
"Britain’s advertising regulator, reacting to these ads and similar ones, announced Tuesday that new rules would be developed to ban advertising that promotes gender stereotypes or denigrates people who do not conform to them; sexually objectifies women; or promotes unhealthy body images."

Direct from the ASA report (page 63):
"CAP will develop new standards on ads that feature stereotypical gender roles or characteristics which, through their content and context, might be potentially harmful to people."
(link: https://www.asa.org.uk/asset/2DF6E028-9C47-4944-850D00DAC5ECB45B.C3A4D948-B739-4AE4-9F17CA2110264347)

The intention to ban stereotypes could not be made any more clear. If Britain's Committee of Advertising Practice follows this recommendation then the Advertising Standards Authority will start enforcing the rule later this year.

So yes, it very well could be outlawed, i.e. banned or made illegal through administrative law.

Except for the fact that neither the Committee of Advertising Practice, nor the Advertising Standards Authority, have the ability to make or enforce laws.

The CAP has the ability to make regulations. The ASA has the ability to enforce them. Regulations carry with them the force of the law; that's why they're enforceable. If an advertiser fails to follow the rules set by CAP then they do so outside of the protection of the law, as Britain's free speech law does not protect them.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

JE19426 posted...

Polycosm posted...

I don't particularly like stereotypes in advertising but outlawing it absurd.

LMAO at "outlawing".

From the article:
"Britain’s advertising regulator, reacting to these ads and similar ones, announced Tuesday that new rules would be developed to ban advertising that promotes gender stereotypes or denigrates people who do not conform to them; sexually objectifies women; or promotes unhealthy body images."

Direct from the ASA report (page 63):
"CAP will develop new standards on ads that feature stereotypical gender roles or characteristics which, through their content and context, might be potentially harmful to people."
(link: https://www.asa.org.uk/asset/2DF6E028-9C47-4944-850D00DAC5ECB45B.C3A4D948-B739-4AE4-9F17CA2110264347)

The intention to ban stereotypes could not be made any more clear. If Britain's Committee of Advertising Practice follows this recommendation then the Advertising Standards Authority will start enforcing the rule later this year.

So yes, it very well could be outlawed, i.e. banned or made illegal through administrative law.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

Well, if you only have a cursory understanding of the history of modern medicine, then Pasteur sticks out as one of the most prominent founders.

I can't recall ever hearing about western civilization claiming credit for the wheel, but it sounds like a plausible accusation. There's been a long and hard-fought effort to correct Western bias and overemphasis in US education for several decades. No doubt some of that bias still lingers.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

EnragedSlith posted...

She looks like ms piggy

That's really unfair to Ms. Piggy, tbqh
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

City gov't is where I spend all of my time advocating IRL. Your voice definitely carries more weight in local politics.

Unfortunately, in my state (CA), cities increasingly have less and less ability to actually govern their own local affairs. The state is slowly but surely reclassifying everything as a "matter of statewide concern," meaning that city councils will eventually have no power to decide anything.

The latest affront to local governance: CA SB-649 which allows wireless telecom companies to install refrigerator-sized boxes on any public right-of-way or adjacent to any utility pole, without the consent of nearby property owners, the city or the county. Because if AT&T wants to put a huge utility box next to your property, that's supposedly a matter of statewide concern and not a local affair.

The more I've researched local politics, the more irritated I've become over how much the state is able to get away with because not enough people are paying attention. Get involved while you still can, while there's still something left.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

Samurontai posted...

Why do people keep using American values and shit to justify telling Europeans how they should run their countries?

It makes absolutely zero sense

For everyone's sake, I'd very much like to see a world where freedom of speech isn't a uniquely American value.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

It's a slower-paced, somewhat improv-ish Seinfeld, without some of the grating sitcom production values (e.g. laugh track).
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

This is yet another example of why hate speech is a critical component of free speech. It's stunning just how quickly "hate speech" broadens to include offensive speech, then "harmful speech." Pretty soon it's a crime to even depict traditional gender characteristics. Pretty soon your right to free speech has regressed a few hundred years. May as well toss out the British Bill of Rights and go back to the Magna Carta.

I don't particularly like stereotypes in advertising but outlawing it absurd. I hope you Brits are fighting this.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

when you accidentally type a name into your status update instead of the search bar and almost hit Enter
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

67% Fox 4% JUSTICE @Dont_ask_why

you have to do it yourself, like an anime fan on prom night

lol
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

Banjo2553 posted...

SSJGrimReaper posted...

*Watches porn*
*Girl talking on phone but the screen is completely blank*

me: LOL

Actually a lot of phones make the screen go blank when you put it up to your ear during a call. So it's actually kinda accurate.

plus that's really rude to peep at someone's screen
that's personal, dude
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

P4wn4g3 posted...

Guy moves pawn all the way across a chess board
Girl: "oh no I lose"

Pawnage à Trois: la Passion en Passant
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

time to get off the computer, Dad
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

There are a least a couple people itt who are confused about who is baiting who. When the President compulsively tweets at 3AM using one-word sentences like "BAD," "Sick," and "Sad!!" I don't see a man in control, carefully plotting how to manipulate the media. Come on... the guy is clearly not well.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

eston posted...

Phantom_Nook posted...

Breaking news: Trump has just tweeted the nuclear launch codes, and the password to get into the Oval Office!

The combination is 1...2...3...4...5

Whoa, slow down there, math wiz. What's with all the big numbers?
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

Phantom_Nook posted...

Breaking news: Trump has just tweeted the nuclear launch codes, and the password to get into the Oval Office!

I mean, he did propose a joint cyber security unit with Russia, so...
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

Twinmold posted...

Polycosm posted...

It's possible to write self-modifying code.

Which only occurs when very specific conditions, calculated by a person occurs, and the permutations that occur are the result of algorithms designed by humans. The computer isn't coming up with this code by itself. These are again, the results of human intelligence, not computer intelligence.

I like the thoughtful responses itt (not ignoring them), but I'll push back on this one. If I write assembly code that pseudorandomly overwrites its own instructions, then there's not really any human intelligence guiding the system's evolution. The computer is still deterministic in this scenario, but the algorithm could evolve in all sorts of directions which the human programmer couldn't have predicted.

To make a somewhat absurd (but not really) comparison... it's bit like arguing over whether life on Earth was seeded from Mars or whether it was planted by intelligent beings. Whatever the initial conditions may have been, we've taken on a life of our own. The Earth is now inhabited by a complex network of biochemical data processors.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

Twinmold posted...

The point was that he was suggesting that for it to be true intelligence, it must be aware of how it was computing, and my argument was that humans aren't aware of how they are computing.

My point was that computers aren't even aware they are computing anything. These bursts of electricity are only occuring because we have explicitly created logic to make that happen. The fact that every single action a computer takes was written or accounted for by a human cannot be understated.

It's possible to write self-modifying code.

Also, what is the human brain if not a deterministic computer that processes biochemical algorithms?
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

Depends on where you live. That's expensive for a suburban city (with like 100K+ population), imo. Not unreasonable for a rural area though.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

It all depends on Musk's meaning of the words "existential" and "human." I firmly believe that AI will change what it means to be human. It's inevitable that AI will eventually become better than us at everything, and before that happens we're going to need to adapt our social institutions and merge with our technology. I have no doubt that we're up to the task, but the politics of it could be tumultuous and there's a risk of global stratification, where some populations get left behind.

Musk is right to be concerned.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

"I'm scared I have to find a new dentist. I have to find a new doctor," she told the New York Post. "Those are things that don't seem like much, but when you're 73 and you have diabetes and you've had a stroke, it gets scary to find new people and starting over."

I'd be scared too if I had preexisting conditions like that, tbh.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

Transcendentia posted...

eston posted...

Antifar posted...

Professor is a weird way to describe a middle school teacher.

Especially since the article does not describe her as such

Yeah, teacher was a better word than professor, meh. I saw the video and the article and glossed over the fact that she's just a teacher rather than a professor, which is why I used the word professor.

Okay, honest mistake then, I guess.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

Weird... another smear against UC Berkeley, which isn't actually affiliated with the story in any way. A few days ago, someone tried to pin a cancelled Richard Dawkins event on the university too.

I'm starting to wonder if this is some kind of coordinated narrative or if people are legitimately confused about Berkeley being a city and not just a university?
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)

EternalDivide posted...

Looks great. Is Thanos summoning meteors and throwing them at earth or whatever in that scene?

Yeah, it's the very last shot before the title card. You can see the meteors for a split-second but the moon crumbling in the sky is cut off due to the angle this was filmed at.
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BKSheikah owned me so thoroughly in the 2017 guru contest, I'd swear he used the Lens of Truth to pick his bracket. (thengamer.com/guru)