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mnk posted...

RIP Treehouse Live.

This is the true loss. I know they still do like, mini ones, but I miss when they basically filled the whole day each day.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure primitive humans survived by, you know, just not walking up and fighting the wild animals that could rip them to shreds.

They weren't your typical keyboard warrior going "Yo give me a katana and I could solo an enraged gorilla!"

red13n posted...

Absolutely, but he didn't draw the line at that. He would not back down from a position of "unions should not be able to do this". He had some positions where it was things he had no idea that unions actually did those things. It was "regular unions dont do -insert things regular unions do- so police arent real unions" arguments mixed up in there.

You could be right, I stopped paying full attention to politics topics around then. I just legitimately only remember him mostly pointing out the differences between police unions and regular labor unions, and to that point he was right.

Not worth arguing over, in the long run. I think we all ended up agreeing on the same conclusion, minus a few obvious outliers.

For the record, my memory coincides with Chris in that, for all of his problems, Biscuit was as close to 100% correct about police unions as it gets, and he was vehemently vocally against them. Maybe he made a few wrong assumptions here and there, but his overarching message was completely correct.

And this comes from somebody who never stopped giving him shit over defending Richard Spencer over the gym incident, for instance.

EDIT: Maybe others took Biscuit's anti-police union rhetoric and used it to argue against unions in general? I don't actually remember such a thing coming from Biscuit himself, he seemed aggressively anti-police union and pro traditional labor union.

Kenri posted...

I mean, this strikes me as a pretty fair, even generous, criticism of police!

Anyway unions are great (except police "unions").

I remember even Biscuit agreeing police unions were a problem, since unions are supposed to help workers against an unjust authority figure, whereas police are their own authority.

HanOfTheNekos posted...

Teaching was twice as hard as coding and I made less than half what I do now.

I had to teach coding for awhile.

That was... An event.

MacArrowny posted...

It was pretty popular with the B8 anime people. Won several awards in our little AotY competition.

I should probably pay more attention to the anime topics here, now that I find myself routinely enjoying them. Thanks for the note.

EDIT: I'll be honest, I fully went from somebody who was team "anime is dumb" to team "I love this shit."

There was definitely a very slight push for it, because at the time I didn't subscribe to any anime streaming services or anything, but I was still made aware of it. It just didn't last long, and I assumed like nobody watched it.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Naw dude I fucking screenshotted the hell out do that mid-season fight in the rain, Brawler rules.

I absolutely recommend this anime to anyone, Kodaka killed it with this one. I even got the shiny collectors edition box with the art book and cards!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/8/1/AAeolZAAESjl.jpg

I'm hoping he continues the good content with Rain Code.

I think we just became best friends.

Crescent-Moon posted...

I've never even heard of Akudama Drive

I don't watch a ton of anime, so maybe I'm not the best judge, but I saw it advertised randomly on... Something (Maybe Hulu or Netflix?), and I watched it and loved it.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

....In fact, I know it could have worked, because Akudama Drive was a great anime!

Oh my god, I loved that, and I've never seen anybody talk about it.

Is Brawler being my favorite a hot take?

This one definitely sucks.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

This is not surprising, since the show WANTED you to hate him for quite a while!

I have an extremely severe weakness for characters that a show or game goes out of the way to make look like/actually be the worst, only to have them wake up and try to fix things, or have it revealed that wasn't the case. It's not quite a redemption story thing, since I actually don't like this when the characters in question were just straight up villains, but it's close.

I think it helps that Juzo's story in particular is SO GOOD and quite relatable, since his reasoning for everything he does is blatantly spelled out, and none of it is over the top or anything.

OrangeCrush980 posted...

V3 is the best Danganronpa game

I'm actually torn on this, personally. I'm not sure if I'd say it has the best story or characters, but it DOES have the best content with the side games, so I may call it the best game overall, yeah.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

I actually don't know if liking Juzo is a hot take. DR3 doesn't exactly get a lot of discussion even amongst DR fans, other than the discussion of "is it shit or not". When it was AIRING, at least in the first half, there was quite a bit, then uhhhh....yeah.

At the time, reaction to him was definitely mixed. I'm not sure which direction it has gone since then.

Also yeah, I'm not sure where this "You need to see/read the other stuff outside of the games to get the games" came from, it's not true at all. It expands on certain things, and some of it is interesting, but it's not at all like, mandatory. The extra stuff can give you more context to understand some theories and such, but those are just theories. When it comes to the core story, you only need the main three games.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Now the future arc, I go back and forth on. It's really an episode to episode basis. I like Juzo a lot, though.

Oh, this is another. Juzo is a fantastic character.

Kaito is the best character in the entire series.

I wanted to see Ash catch those Tauros, dammit.

Honestly, K. Rool is exactly who you want pressing buttons/calling in ranged attacks, since he does it frequently in the actual games. Everywhere from calling in cannonball shots, to training/instructing actual snipers (Kroc/Krosshair, which are canon Kremlins who control/fire the crosshair reticles in those DKC levels).

Paratroopa1 posted...

Why do trailers do that thing where they show you a preview of the trailer first, like are they that worried they're going to lose your interest

That's a Youtube/social media thing, probably something to do with search algorithms.

I'll watch this purely because I like Mr. Kingsman.

EDIT: Also because I love Tetris, but "loves Tetris" wouldn't have normally been enough.

FL81 posted...

8BitDo Pro 2 or Ultimate

Pro 2 for symmetric analog placement, Ultimate for asymmetric

Intriguing, thanks. I'll look into these! I've used 8BitDo controllers before. I used their N64 controller with an Nvidia Shield long ago for *redacted*

KCF0107 posted...

If you have a Windows OS, then Xbox controllers should be able to connect via bluetooth. I have preferred using rechargable batteries over built-in controller batteries for both battery life and controller longevity, but I am unsure where your feelings are on that.

Anyway, the Microsoft-branded Xbox One and Series controllers are arguably my two favorite controllers ever (I prefer the feel of the former slightly more I think), so they get my vote. I don't know if you can still get their Xbox One controllers new though.

This is a good call, too, since I have atleast one old Xbox One controller atleast SOMEWHERE. I bought the Plug and Play pack or whatever because I personally hate having to deal with individual rechargeable batteries, but I remember it having pretty decent battery life.

paperwarior posted...

PS4 controller
Kind of hard to come by new ones but you did say you like the PS design.

Actually not a bad suggestion. I honestly haven't used one since the originals, where the battery life was atrocious. Did they improve it? I'm honestly probably more willing to sacrifice design/feel for battery life, but if it became atleast decent, I'd probably splurge.

EDIT: I should have probably been more specific. Ultimately, I don't play games on PC/Steam every day. When I do, it's like, an 8-9 hour a day kind of splurge thing, where I'm not working or not going out and just want to drink and game and ignore everything, basically, so that's why battery life is important to me.

I play a lot of Steam using Steam Link, and I've typically used a PS3 controller because I love the feel and battery life, but mine is currently starting to experience pretty noticeable stick drift, so I'm going to need to replace it. Anybody use any good ones they'd recommend?

Also that pains me to say as I loved disrespecting Samus in previous Mercs.

Yeah I don't even like League and Arcane is fantastic

Anyway,

Team Samus I agree with Lopen, basically, that Samus almost solos, so if K. Rool does... Anything, it's enough. And he will, with the ambush, at the very least.

Crescent-Moon posted...

Actually I'll just leave it at this.

One of the dumbest things I find about sports is the expectations that rules should change based on "the moment".

It's an incomprehensible way of thinking to me.

It's more of a consistency thing. If you're gonna call something like that at the very end of the game to change the entire flow, then you should be calling it all game. It's a correct call, but the timing and inconsistency just makes it look like the refs are just choosing when they feel like calling something or not, which makes it stand out and thus people complain. Be ticky-tack all game, or don't be at all.

EDIT: Hell, I was disagreeing with people here over a game a few weeks ago because they were saying the refs made too many calls, and I was fine with it because they were pretty much consistently ticky-tack all game.

I don't like either team so it doesn't really matter, but yeesh what an ending.

Refs reminding everybody who is really playing.

pezzicle posted...

He blocked me my first like, day here. I quickly realized it was a badge of honor

Yeah. He got super mad because I called him out on posting transphobic shit on the politics board, and then I called him out on saying Damar Hamlin, the NFL player who collapsed on the field due to a freak accident of a hit, collapsed due to "taking the vaccine." Honestly, I'm surprised he didn't block me sooner, since he got clearly bothered every time I warned people about who he was.

Ulti blocked me because I've called his shit out on multiple boards, now.

Nice.

This is after he begged Lopen to ask me to unblock him just a few months ago, by the way, because he had "changed."

UltimaterializerX posted...

Okay that makes a lot of sense. My apologies.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/02/tech-billionaire-2020-election-donations-final-tally.html

Our media is not at all controlled by right wingers. Its actually so far left that a bunch of bad faith actors exploited this (think Alex Jones or Breitbart conspiracy types) to generate massive audiences, so what we have now are two fringe minorities selling outrage and trying to be the actual story instead of just reporting news, both of which claim to be a counterculture even though the mass majority of the population thinks theyre all garbage.

This is just blatantly false, and I'd say you should feel bad, but you obviously never do based on how often you get btfo and then cry about it. You pretend you care on this board, but your behavior on other boards (such as the NFL board, where you were recently suspended for anti-vax bullshit) proves who you really are.

Hell, when you got suspended on the NFL board for anti-vax bullshit, you came crawling back here crying "that's not me, honest!" Fuck off with that. We know who you are, and you get treated accordingly.

Paratroopa1 posted...

Boneless wings feel like a sad compromise between chicken wings and chicken nuggets or strips. They aren't bad, I just don't really know why they exist.

People eat wings fast, they don't savor the flavor or anything. Boneless deliver a similar-esque flavor without having to slow down to eat around a bone, increasing the chance you order/eat more wings.

Boneless. I usually eat wings with alcohol, and I ain't got no time for bones.

I like how he clearly expected an uncomfortable chuckle, and didn't know how to react to a full blown laugh.

Bengals are always thugs, it will probably stop being surprising at some point.

Eh, to be fair, I think certain judges are still concerned about their image. Kavanaugh, for instance, has balked at certain things in what seemed like clear attempts to present a certain "impartial" image. I think we're basically at a precipice where the next year or so will decide where things tilt, and right now Republicans seem to be fumbling the football.

...So they support guns more than America? That seems like the easy takeaway, here. Gun pin WITH flag pin, sure. But gun pin INSTEAD of flag pin? There is like zero chance this doesn't get used against them.

And yes, it'll never shake the MAGA base, but, uh, the MAGA base is shrinking all the time. Did they not get the memo?

Mewtwo59 posted...

If the playoffs were rigged, the Bills would be in the Super Bowl right now.

This is the biggest tell. They would have absolutely rigged the Bills into the Super Bowl story for the feel good moment, and they likely would have done some Hamlin moment and all that.

Minshew Mania!

It made sense after they explained it, but yikes.

Forceful_Dragon posted...

That's true, but it was also completely irrelevant to the result of the play being a stop.

So you could call neither penalty or call both.

I'm not really sure I get the logic, because the hands to the face clearly happened first and weren't caused by the latter.

I mean, to be fair, your hand must first be there to get pinned there.

I get being emotional for your team, but this "the refs are winning the game" stuff is kinda silly.

Hell yeah #30

neonreaper posted...

is santos Escobar any good?

As a wrestler? Absolutely.

As an option to win the Rumble? Not even remotely.

Based on interviews, it sounds like Kaling has literally no idea about the show at all other than that it exists and what the original premise was. I'm not actually sure if this reflects positively or negatively on her.

Only Brock Lesnar can beat The Undertaker at Wrestlemania.

However, with time to plan, I have no doubt Batman can figure out how to become Brock Lesnar.

Oh I see I'm a week late.

The partnership with Rudolph has been in the works for a while, said Gabrielle Wesley, chief marketing officer for Mars Wrigley North America, in a statement emailed to CNN.

There are lots of stories out there but let me say conclusively that this decision isnt a reaction to but rather is in support of our M&MS brand, Wesley said. The original colorful cast of M&MS spokescandies are, at present, pursuing other personal passions.

That doesnt mean the brand is ditching the candy characters: We will share more on the spokescandies new pursuits over the next few weeks, a spokesperson told CNN.

Rudolph will appear in an M&MS Super Bowl commercial.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/23/business/m-and-ms-controversy/index.html

It's a marketing gimmick for their Super Bowl commercial, confirmed.