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Squall28 posted...

The movement sure died quick when people started losing money instead of making money.

They got fucked when Robin Hood and the other apps made it impossible to buy back in once you had sold. People get cold feet, especially since an overwhelming portion of the people who came into it in the back half were first time investors.

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divot1338 posted...

Not being a nuclear terrorist state is its own reward.

Compare the quality of life from Iran before the revolution with today. Thats what their nuclear program is costing them.

I don't dispute that, but that's also not relevant as to the fact that the US broke the treaty and thus Iran has no reason to trust anything that comes out of a US diplomat's mouth.
Also, the US being the only country to ever use a nuke, primarily for the purpose intimidating the USSR, means we don't get to call other countries nuclear terrorists, sorry.
Also, quality of life in Iran went downhill the instant a dictatorship based in religious zealotry took over. Their nuke program has certainly accelerated it though.

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CRON posted...

I feel bad for her. Every time she wrestles she fucks up or injures someone, and this time around she was either fed a ridiculously stupid line, or made it up on the spot thinking it'd be hilarious.

I'm still pissed that she managed to give Becky Lynch a concussion by failing to properly work a punch. You gotta be careful when your fists are the size of fucking hams.

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The insurrection was the fascist friends we made along the way.

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TheGreatEscape posted...

sure but breaking the deal they had before make the current sanctions worthless. Why would Iran trust the US now? Why would they submit to more pressure when they know the other party is not trustworthy? They respected their end of a deal that ultimately meant nothing.

This. We broke the deal, why should they trust us not to do it again the next time a Republican wins the presidency.

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Motherfucking Bad Breath from Marlboro

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totalnerdken posted...

Unions are run by a 3rd party. The members of the Union are from each respective business. But it's still run by a 3rd party.

It's a third party created by the workers. You don't have to have a third party union, you can make a union that just represents workers from one company but then you lose a chunk of your bargaining power.

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CruelBuffalo posted...

I actually liked Philly. Everyone treated me nicely in PA, but some of the behavior I saw in the state was just so weird.

Like people flying confederate flags in central PA. Lol that state was in the union.

That's because that flag isn't about geographic location, it's about racism.

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We are literally fighting politicians for things that everyone else in the developed world already have.

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Ruvan22 posted...

Why did so many things get cut?

Time and budget. Same reason Cyberpunk is missing tons of content and mechanics.

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Dude is Israeli Trump, he's gonna walk.

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Graycap posted...

Morally and ethically yes, since Ellie didn't give permission for the operation.

Effectively probably not, for a variety of reasons, but Joel had no way of knowing any of these, so it's a moot point. (granted he would've made the same choice no matter what, which the attempts to paint the Fireflies as herbal remedy-level doctors who had no chance of fixing anything anyway kinda diminishes lol)

That's how I feel about it. Ellie gave no consent, and they wanted to kill Joel for literally no reason. The issue though is that Joel really did not care about that. He knew that if asked, Ellie would have been willing to die if it would create a vaccine.

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CalypsoDoom posted...

19 and married???? Poor girl, hope she gets out soon (and hopefully gets some money out of it too)

Fuck off, my wife and I got married at married at 22 and will be celebrating our 17th anniversary in may.

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DarthAragorn posted...

Yeah I think Ride of the Rohirrim gets it just because Theoden is fucking badass.

It's even more badass in the book. Probably one of my favorite sequences in all of literature.

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I just wish that the new games had retold the story from the NES games.

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Mackorov posted...

I think for equivalence, if we're gonna let all the Japanese and Russian veterans get away with the s*** they did (even some Americans and British but their atrocities were more rare/mild in general), then it makes no sense to only keep targeting the Germans, no??

What is this "we" shit? I'm cool with ending any and all war criminals. That includes the Russians who raped their way through first Prussia and then the rest of Germany. Or the Americans and British that raped French civilians. The issue is that Germany seems to be the only country who takes it seriously.

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Mackorov posted...

yes it is. I get that woman is culpable, but the crime was literally almost a freaking century ago. Give her a break. But hey, apparently the minute CE hears Nazi they think 'evil'. The world has only been taught as Nazis as evil villians.

Most of the general public go completely unaware that this is so damn far from the truth. There's like 99% of the other atrocities throughout the history of the 20th century that have gone completely unpunished if you didnt realize. For closest comparison, go look at Japan. Literally all their bats*** crazy soldiers that went around raping, beheading, cannibalising and massacring little kids just got sent back home and lived peaceful lives till old age.

In fact there's this interviewer that went to ask these veterans if they even regret what they did. Some of that did NOT. That's how f***ed up it is. Or go search the Unit 731. The amount of horrifying s*** there will make you think the Holocaust is lalaland.

And guess what? The Americans gave all those crazy Japanese scientists the free pass. No punishment. NOTHING.

Meanwhile here... "hey, let's hunt down an old 95-year old woman 'cos Nazi bad bad bad..."

No, I will not give her a break. She got to live a long life. Fuck her. Stop pretending most of us don't know anything about the shit you are talking about, I know all about Unit 731, it was bullshit that they got away with it. They deserve bullets to the back of the head as well. The difference between the Germans and the Japanese is that the Germans take dealing with their past seriously. The Japanese want to pretend it didn't happen.

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Mackorov posted...

lol these people hating on Nazis like they're the devils of the world. For your effin' information you numbs***s, the Holocaust isnt the only genocide that has happened and hardly even the deadliest.

Holodomor? No one is held culpable for it till today.
Khmer Rouge genocide that killed half a country? No one either. Pol Pot died himself.
Mao Zedong, killer of millions? Immortalised as the f****ing savior of China instead.

Grow up kids. Read history. Most evil doers just go unpunished and they are MUCH worse than some woman who was somehow indirectly involved in the killing of Jews

Yes those things happened. None of it is relevant to this specific woman or this specific case.

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President Uncle Ruckus. Just what we need.

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Ving_Rhames posted...

Being a Trump supporter is their entire identity, man, don't take that from them. :(

It's very similar to being Anti-Vaxxer at this point.

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Trelve posted...

It was either that or the Soviet Union would get them. As bad as they were, they had knowledge that could be exploited. Same for Unit 731, at least let some good come out of the worst places.

Or we could have rounded them all up to prevent the Soviet Union from getting them and put bullets in the war criminal heads.

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Doom_Art posted...

What's his angle

Trying to be the anti-Trump in hopes of redeeming the party's image.

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The Trent posted...

elon doesn't have friends?
he's like dr. manhattan
no friends, brilliant beyond mortal comprehension, wants to fuck off to mars

He certainly doesn't have friends that are plebes like us.

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I'm just annoyed that it ended in a complete tragic way for everyone involved and now there is no hope for a sequel.

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lzual posted...

Curious how people feel about the nazi scientists and officers that were given amnesty in exchange for info \ working for the US government.

Bad, most of the people involved in Operation Paper Clip were war criminals who deserved to hang.

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Be careful, there are plenty of people on CE who will call you anti-semitic for questioning Israel's shitty policies and actions.

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He's actually also to the left of the current GOP on most positions. Still a sack of shit though.

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Orchestrion posted...

Do police next

Do the Police first. They have a fair greater impact on the day to day life of the citizenry.

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Frodo carried the burden of the ring. Samwise carried Frodo.

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The ones in London probably could if they wanted. There were so many in London when I was there a couple of years ago. It was amazing since I find the Eastern European accent sexy as hell.

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Wow, are we just now noting the correlation between racism and people who live in the south?

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Vicious_Dios posted...

I see that the truth I've stated have these users shook.

No, it's just that like they said, you aren't likely to have a ton of race based crimes in places that are homogenous or segregated.

You've never once spoken an intellectually honest truth the whole time you've posted here.

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Paragon21XX posted...

The president has the unilateral power to declassify anything he wants to without having to go through any declassification process. Whether or not it's a good idea is another matter entirely.

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/05/758038714/can-president-trump-really-tweet-a-highly-classified-satellite-photo-yep-he-can

Yeah....we probably shouldn't let the executive branch have that authority. They should also lose their ability to pardon.

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I dig a good mix of both. Though the vast majority of my time is spent grinding total war or paradox games.

Also, to your point about Xenogears having a high encounter rate, it's bad no doubt, however there was an early PS1 rpg called Beyond the Beyond that had, to this day, the worst encounter rate of any game I've ever played.

Like to the point of getting out of one battle, taking a step, then going right into another battle.

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steveoSEK posted...

It was first shown in a YouTube video the other day. Suddenly it leaked on pirate sites and now people are posting videos and streams of them playing it. It's the full game.

I'll never understand why companies will fully develop a game and then not release it.

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It would certainly seem unwise to give security briefings to a guy about to be broke.

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Where is the motherfucking option for Suikoden? This poll is trash.

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Jesus man that shit is horrible. I'm sorry and wish you guys the best.
lww99 posted...

I know its just a freak occurrence. No one did anything wrong. Just a lot to process

This is the important thing to remember. Process it together, and in whatever way you need to get through it.

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He looks like he has the personality of Lesnar as well.

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The-19th-Sparta posted...

Correct with elegance. He was powerless in his youth and saw people like him, including his own sister, not being able to have equal opportunity of the common man and to be able to live a life that only dreams were made of (cue Wiegraf's speech about dreams). However, he did not want to be on top merely to have power and control people as an act of retribution. He wanted to become king to create a land where people like his sister didn't have to suffer anymore, and though his actions to get there ranged from understandable to flat out evil, he did not share much sympathy of his victims due to the quality of the hierarchy that controlled the very nation that oppressed people like him.

I did use the word "much" there, because the ending showed he did feel some empathy with how he lamented over Ovelia's death and questioned if Ramza found what he was looking for. Delita did want to also give Ovelia a life she deserved considering the truth of her own existence, but unfortunately, his actions also drew the suspicion of his once closest ally.

It's completely okay to hate Delita as a character, he's chaotic in nature, abandoning your childhood friends and shanking the tragic princess are definitely worthy of judgment. I just sometimes see people hating Delita for those alone and not keeping in mind why he did them. Delita ended up being a hero for those who had the opportunity of living in his version of Ivalice, just not our hero.

At the end of the day it's a question of ends justifying means. To a degree he's sort of like Littlefinger, using chaos to create conditions that allow him to rise to a position of power and authority that he otherwise never would have been able to achieve. The issue I take is with the amount of death that his actions would cause amongst the very people he was trying to make life better for. The great majority of people who fought and died in feudal wars were commoners.

Delita's goals of tearing down the system of both chirch and state that control and manipulate the people is a noble one. His actions and the consequences of them are anything but noble.

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Damn_Underscore posted...

Lara got a reduction.
Samus got a reduction.
Tifa got a reduction.

There is a pattern here.

You can say I'm a loser, but you can't deny what is happening. It's not a conspiracy. It's not internet nerds preemptively being outraged. We said it would happen and it did. We knew it would because it's happened already. Because it's a clear and continuous pattern.

I don't care. I'm a fucking nerd. Whatever.

No, I don't need big breasts on a female character to find her interesting as a character. You don't need profanity and gratuitous bloodshed to have a good time at the movies. But if there's a PG-13 sequel or remake to an R-rated movie, people flip a table because they're being denied something they used to have. It's the same thing here.

If you go to favorite place to eat and find one day that they've stopped serving alcohol, you'd be within your rights to go someplace else even if the food is just as good as it always was.

Even if you don't care about fictional breasts (or real breasts on women playing fictional characters). Even if you're not into women period, it's still a bad thing to remove all buxom women from the media. You are saying that there is a certain type of person who you do not want to be featured in the media and it's through no fault of their own. This is like taking every story which had a Jewish character in it and replacing them with non-Jewish characters. You would be selectively removing a group of people from having any media presence or representation.

It's not just censorship. It's discrimination. How are women with large breasts supposed to feel in real life when they're not good enough to make it into movies? What does it say to them that body types and personality types are treated one and the same and that busty types are the "bimbo" types that we don't want? I suppose they can go out and get reductions if they want to be treated fairly.

Cover Tifa up more. Take away her midriff. Make it so that there's no bounce or jiggle -- just fat dead space. But don't flatten her because women with sizable breasts are somehow bad people according to the censors who think themselves progressive.

It's like there's an Anti-Tit League that gets to dictate who has an appropriate enough body type to achieve representation. And, according to them, women with small wastes and large busts are unworthy.

Fuck!

Still hilarious.

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SquirtleSkwad posted...

I have other ideas about what would fix racism in the south.

Does it involve the ghost of General Sherman wrecking the former confederate states again?

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SquirtleSkwad posted...

Jesus Christ we need to cut money from the military and put it towards public education. Especially in the south.

Do you really believe that more money for education in the south will help fix racism?

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Literally Shadowrun holy fucking shit

That is exactly what I was thinking. Holy shit here comes Corporate Sovereignty.

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WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...

Oh I agree. I'm in a weird place politically but honestly I think there's a LOT of people who are and still keep to the party loyalty thing.

Then that makes it about party and not ideology. I can never understand how a boomer who loved Goldwater's version of the party could actively vote for the current party.

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