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Does it remain more valid if the anchor, in trying to seem knowledgeable about flowers to say why it was bad ("something something asthma"), then said something along the lines of "And I mean, it's just a dandelion, which hasn't even grown into a flower yet!"

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It sadly isn't!

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How can you even think about vaccines right now

Biden picked a dandelion for his wife and Newsmax is rightfully furious, as we all should be

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Yeah, but I think it worked better for the character. The Ant-Man movies tend to be much smaller in scale, whereas stuff like the airport fight would've been news pretty much everywhere, so Giant-Man basically debuted to the world, in that universe.

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The best part of Civil War is Giant Man and you won't change my mind

As dumb as that movie is, that was a fun way to debut it

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I mean Manchin opposes stuff like a stubborn child but it seems more for show than anything. Certainly better than not having him at all.

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Xeybozn posted...

You're missing the point. Manchin sucks, but he's also being a giant distraction so nobody notices how much other senators also suck.

Yeah but I don't think it's a conscious choice at all. I think he just sucks.

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And as easy as it is to go "Look, even the ACLU is against it," the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council is one of the petition signees, so an objective stance on that matter can't really be taken.

EDIT: And even they don't think the ban is bad itself, just the potential police response. It's like FFD said. Let's not just immediately hate something objectively good, when we should instead just take it as further reason and call to push for police reform.

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https://www.publichealthlawcenter.org/sites/default/files/resources/tclc-fdacitizenpetition-menthol-2013.pdf

Here's the petition in question.

Basically, flavored cigarettes (except menthol) were banned over 10 years ago, but menthol and flavored cigars were left untouched, so a citizen's petition was filed to basically complete the ban. The FDA was ordered by a court to respond, and they took as long as they possibly could, even getting a 90 day extension (Which ends today), to consider arguments and research, and have decided today to grant the petition.

This isn't some random Biden initiative of trying to look like he's helping minorities or anything, it started far before him.

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Also, for the record, this isn't random. They did this because today was the last court ordered day the FDA had to respond to a 2013 petition to ban menthols, since they were sued over it because they didn't act on it sooner.

So this isn't the government just randomly deciding "We're doing this whether you like it or not." This is them literally acting on a petition from the people.

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HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

The concept of menthol cigarettes? I've got no issue.

So, just to be clear, you don't have an issue with the concept of menthol cigarettes, which is to make smoking easier so people are more likely to get addicted young instead of stopping early because of a negative experience?

I understand certain arguments against the ban, but to say you have no issue with the actual concept of them is insane to me.

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So for people that are against a complete cigarette ban (Tony, I know this isn't you, don't worry), do you just oppose any government oversight/regulation whatsoever? Like, if your stance is "Let people do whatever the fuck they want" about cigarettes, then it seems inconsistent to want them to do pretty much anything else, like ban guns, enact environmental regulations, provide healthcare, and so on.

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

Unless it's a replay I've never used a pokemon in my party that wasn't new to the game in question.

Why would I play a new Pokmon game and use an old Pokmon? Don't even put them in there. Maybe then you can spend the time focusing on making the game good.

If you literally only catch 6 and don't want to see old ones, it sounds like you just want a typical jrpg and what makes Pokemon Pokemon really isn't for you.

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Zigzagoon posted...

So for people who just like looking at a ton of different pokemon that they've seen countless times before... okay sure this is for you.

To be fair, given the reactions to the dex cuts, this sounds like a majority of people!

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And to be clear, I'm not saying "No puzzles ever." I'd like them to return, just hopefully less monotonous.

I'm just saying discounting time spent in the Wild Area seems kinda silly since catching Pokemon is literally the point of the series. If somebody spent dozens of hours catching them all, then sure, it doesn't count for "Main Story." But if somebody just spent a few hours, I don't see any reason not to count it, since that's what it's intended for. And honestly, that's why "Rushed" exists, anyway.

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But the whole literal point of Pokemon is catching Pokemon. I play Pokemon to catch and battle Pokemon. I don't play Pokemon to use Strength to push rocks into holes. It doesn't feel like actual progression, it feels like shoving crap in just to shove crap in.

I get excited when I go through the Wild Area and see a Pokemon I don't have. I don't get excited by having my progression stopped by terrible puzzles.

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Eh, to be perfectly honest, I don't necessarily see Wild Area counting towards main game time any worse than those dumb slide or teleport puzzles extending length, or getting lost in Rock Tunnel, or so on.

Like, I have more fun spending an hour catching a bunch of different Pokemon than I do spending an hour doing HM "puzzles." But either way, they're both just time fluff, to me. One just actually feels more relevant to the actual core of the game (catching Pokemon), while the other just always feels super monotonous and forced.

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Zigzagoon posted...

Oh okay, you're right. I guess I'm just lying about what I said. My bad.

I didn't say you're lying.

It just appears your time is more of an outlier.

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The average main story time for Sword/Shield on howlongtobeat is 25 hours, with "Rushed" being 16.

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I wouldn't be surprised if Capcom honestly wasn't even interested in doing another, after their attitude toward the last one

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Underleveled posted...

Yep...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jz1TjCphXE

It's okay I forgive you

this time

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I think so.

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Underleveled posted...

Oh, I'm fine with people buying this shit. Hell, I still buy amiibo sometimes when I remember they exist. I'm just criticizing SEGA for not only missing the window of opportunity to make maximum profit, but missing it by several years.

You do realize it's not referring to amiibo/amiibo-like things, right.

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KamikazePotato posted...

That's not at all an equivalent example. Tucker Carlson is in a significantly higher position of power than a news article writer. New article writers, especially for trash, are a dime a dozen. They are easily replaceable. There isn't a good replacement for Tucker Carlson. He has great power in media and continues to choose to use it for the worst possible ways.

Then certainly she could have tried to work for literally any other paper other than one owned by Rupert Murdoch, where she wrote primarily right wing trash her entire time there, right? Nah, she knew exactly what she was doing, so I'm not even going to remotely have sympathy or give her credit now.

In fact, today, she's even still defending the paper and those in charge:

A note to anyone picking up this tweet -- take some care. I say it was an incorrect story. I say I was ordered to write it. I do not say I was ordered to write a story by editors who knew it to be incorrect.

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KCF0107 posted...

Should you really be thanking me?

I'm just going off of what Nick and Ark have said

I'll haunt you later if necessary.

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Got it, thank you!

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Underleveled posted...

Man they're like, what, six years late on this?

They're bigger than ever right now.

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I'm all for this.

I like ARCSys, but they're working on like a million different games, reportedly, and I'd worry about fatigue there. You don't want to flood the market with too many ARCSys fighters.

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LordoftheMorons posted...

Rogan being terrible again

https://twitter.com/noahpinion/status/1387111739100065792?s=21

I hope nobody defends this piece of shit ever again, thanks.

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Djungelurban posted...

An actors portrayal can be empowering for a group even if the actor portraying the role isn't part of that group. In fact done well I might even prefer it, since it shows the person behind the portrayal has done their due diligence and really tried to understand what life may be like if you live within that group, which would be touching.
The only people who complains about who portrays a role are people who cry about representation, and people who do that are people who that either are so insecure about their own worth that they feel they need preferential treatment, people who can't identify with anyone who specifically doesn't represent them or people who section up people into different distinct groups and live with an innate "us vs them" mentality... Or any combination of those things.

Now again, if the portrayal is bad then that isn't a good thing... But it's not worse than if any other portrayal is bad. Believe me, I know Hollywood doesn't do a particularly good job when portraying autism. My particular "quirk" is asperger's and I seen countless of things where they've used it almost like quantum physics or nanoparticles in the script (something they can throw into script to not have to explain things further). It's very clumsy... But the problem there is that the script writers are lazy and/or bad. It's not worse than any other case of dumb script writing. To be all like "it's extra bad cause it's autism" is condescending. Like autistic spectra people are weak people that need special coddling and protection. And besides, the criticism didn't happen cause the portrayal was bad, it happened as soon as casting got known. Besides, I just looked it up and it seems the actress is someone Sia personally knows, can't be too upset for someone wanting to make a movie with their friend.

Anyway, if the portrayal is bad then critique the portrayal. Whether the actor has a disability or not should be completely inconsequential, their skill at the role is all that should matter. If that's what the critique was based on I'd be completely onboard with the critique...
But as it is I feel insulted.

And all that's fair, but you've also gotta consider that other people felt insulted by how she promoted it as she did and then didn't even attempt to actually include anybody from the community whatsoever.

The issue was basically that there are many autistic actors out there struggling for work and she makes a movie that is supposed to be "empowering" for the community and basically tells autistic actors "I didn't consider you because you're bad actors."

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redrocket posted...

They in fact did not actually remove that. Sia claimed she would remove it after the backlash, but never did.

Yeah, I just noticed that. I guess she apparently later admitted that the casting was pure nepotism and she never even considered anybody other than Ziegler.

It's just a mess all around.

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Looking into it more, it seems the controversy wasn't just the casting itself, but how Sia responded to critics about the casting. She apparently tried to claim that she didn't use autistic actors because autistic actors "found acting stressful"(?) and she thought it was more "humane" to cast Maddie. She then got called out for it by many autistic actors saying they would have been more than happy to take part, and basically replied with "yeah but you're bad actors."

Replying to an autistic actor that suggested that they and many other performers who were on the spectrum would have been available to act in the film on short notice, Sia responded: "Maybe you're just a bad actor".

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Djungelurban posted...

As a member of the autistic spectra community, I find that critiquing a movie for casting a non-autistic actor in a non autistic role is straight up disgusting. Not the casting itself, but the critiquing.
Now, I have no idea if the portrayal of that character is any good, which judging by its reception, maybe not... But that would be an issue of acting ability and/or script, not casting.

I assume you meant "non-autistic actor in an autistic role"

The point is that the movie was promoted as being empowering and a vehicle for people in the autistic community, but it casts a non-autistic actress to play an autistic role in a way that is basically based on stereotypes and with mannerisms that seem almost more on par with mocking.

It's very tone deaf to claim your film is a vehicle for a certain community and then not actually hire somebody of that community for the role. Even worse, hiring somebody with literally no experience to play the role with very little actual research.

EDIT: The film initially had scenes of restraining the character in a very dangerous way, for instance, that they only took out after backlash. They may have had good intentions, but they put like zero effort into actually approaching the subject in a good way and it became clear it was basically a vanity project for the director.

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I think my point is we need to reform the shit out of police and everything so that instead of cops feeling like they have to respond with lethal force to kids stabbing each other, we can get actual professionals in there to prevent kids from trying to stab each other in the first place.

Because while I've made it clear I don't think the cop had much of a choice in this specific instance, and further video reaffirmed that feeling, it's still fucking tragic that it happened and even got to that point to begin with.

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I mean kids shouldn't be getting in knife fights literally every single day though

Like how did this become so normal that "Just let the kids stab each other to death geez!" has somehow become the apparently acceptable scenario

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NFUN posted...

how the fuck would you ban a gender reveal party? that's almost a dumber take than deciding to have one in the first place

Just ban all the stupid ass ways people do these parties. Like ban explosives and cannons and shit and suddenly people won't want to have them because they can't reveal information about their child without literally blowing shit up.

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I agree.

It's definitely scary though that there have been some "Kids get in knife fights all the time without intervention, don't start now" reactions. Let's forget the cops, why are kids getting in knife fights and why is this okay?

This country needs a lot of help.

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An update on the Ohio shooting, new video (looks to be from a security camera on the house across the street?) shows everybody just standing around yelling at each other as the cop pulls up, and then the victim suddenly charges the first girl and yells "I'm gonna stab the fuck out of you, bitch" before lunging at the first girl with the knife (the one that falls back and out of the way), and then she immediately turns on the other one who didn't actually do anything physical. It also makes clear she was very much trying to stab the second one and there's a brief struggle with the knife right before the shots.

So she definitely started the fight (atleast the one that occurs when the shooting takes place) and was definitely trying to stab.

I'm aware this probably won't change overall opinions, but it clears up a few things from the first video.

EDIT: It also casts doubt on the idea that she was the one who called 911, since it turns out the only ones saying that are her family, who don't live there/were not there since she actually lives in a foster home, not with them. And the 911 call was somebody calling about somebody threatening to stab them, and she appears to be the only one with a knife/is caught on video... threatening to stab people.

EDIT EDIT: She also may have apparently went inside to get the knife, since I missed that she's not even outside when the video first starts, you see her come out into the driveway a few seconds before the violence.

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You can't fool me, I've got this mug that says World's Best Internet Dad!

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TheRock1525 posted...

To give her the tiniest bit of leeway,

Let's not

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Romeo & Juliet - Fantasy Overture

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Part of the reason may be how the stores are laid out. On Switch vs. PS4, atleast, it's like front and center in the deals section every time it's on sale on Switch, whereas on PS4 you kinda have to specifically search for it or scroll through the entire sales list. I don't know what their sorting algorithms are that causes that, it's just something I've noticed.

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I mean if Person B tried to kill Person A first then Person A's acting in self defense which is obviously different.

And also, I'm not saying I wouldn't prefer the killer to be taken in and given a trial and all that, but if taking them in alive comes at a much greater risk of them succeeding in killing, then I'm not going to fight very hard for it.

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I'm not being literal with "not human to me."

But, for instance, in a case where Person A is about to try to kill Person B, I place higher value on Person B's life, absolutely.

There are obviously exceptions, that's not a blanket thing, which is why I mentioned "good reason." But if Person A's just killing Person B over something petty or selfish, then I'm not placing anywhere near equal value and care on the two.

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red, you're making me not want to take Tony's guns for a post

What are you doing

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And to be clear, that does apply to cops.

I consider saving a life to be a good reason.

But like, Chauvin, for instance? Fuck that guy, I couldn't care less what happens to him.

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HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

Yeah this is just toxic as hell

Not as toxic as trying to kill somebody!

Obviously it's not a blanket statement as each case is different. But if you kill somebody just because they're different from you or some petty reason, or because you're trying to rob them, or a million other stupid, selfish reasons... Then yeah, I don't really think much of you.

I'm not going to emphasize with people like that.

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See, I'll readily admit, if you try to kill somebody without a damn good reason, you're pretty much not human to me anymore.

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Yeah, looking at the hack again, it only mentions Great Ace Attorney being packaged with original trilogy, and AA7.

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Lightning Strikes posted...

Capcom hack said 4-6 trilogy likely but not decided on a set date. Whenever they need to fill space on the schedule I suppose.

Are you sure? I thought it actually said the opposite, that they had no plans for one.

I could be wrong though

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