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ROBANN_88 posted...

the constitution is a just 200 year old document
it's not divinely ordained

it can and should be changed when it has stuff that doesn't work anymore

if it still works fine, that's great but having the value of "uphold the constitution" just for the sake of upholding it is folly

The arguments against Gun Control have always resolved around it not being part of the constitution.

Bass posted...

Not sure why you care so much about my interpretation, dude. Chill out.

You are the one calling the country wild for upholding the values stated in the constitution. Do you not support upholding the 2A?

Bass posted...

I don't see the government using well regulated militias anymore.

I know this is a widely debated legal question, though.

That's not what the current interpretation of the 2A is. Do you not agree with upholding the values of the constitution?

Bass posted...

Lmao. This country is wild.

Do you not approve of upholding the 2A as it states in the constitution?

Prestoff posted...

This ruling is going to trigger a lot of Republicans.

If they aren't hypocrits they should love this ruling. The constitution applies to everyone within the borders and if the 2A is some infallible right then it applies to everyone within the borders of the US.

https://shorturl.at/qrEH9

Source: https://local21news.com/

CHICAGO (TND) A U.S. District Court judge ruled earlier this month that completely prohibiting illegal immigrants from possessing firearms is a violation of the Second Amendment.

The ruling, issued on March 8 by Obama-appointed District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, pertains to the case of illegal migrant Heriberto Carbajal-Flores. Carbajal-Flores was charged under Title 18 of U.S. Criminal Code, a measure preventing illegal migrants from possessing firearms.
Carbajal-Flores had no criminal history of improper use of a gun and therefore, according to the court, did not present a public danger when exercising his Second Amendment right in Chicago in 2020.

In her decision, Coleman cited the Supreme Court's ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which found New York State could not constitutionally prevent anyone from carrying a pistol in public. The case, she said, established a framework for analyzing whether a challenged firearm regulation violates the Second Amendment.

Dark_Arbron posted...

I guess thats logical in theory, especially with a homeless issue.

It's important for unused land to be able to be claimed by new people. Leases, agreements, etc can all be lost over time and having a plot of land that no one can touch even though no one can prove they own it would have cascading issues if left unchecked.

Regardless of what media you consume, you're generally going to have characters you like more than others.

Not to mention Persona games are RPGs and you take the role as a fellow high school student. In Persona 5 in particular, you can even date your teacher which is something I find weirder than saying one of the girls on your team is your favorite character of the game.

Spending effort to tell people that they could get your product for free, but they shouldn't do that because reasons when your product is made intentionally non-user friendly really shouldn't be a surprisingly reveal that more people end up pirating it.

Modern game devs don't seem to compress game files. I guess when storage is cheap and you aren't limited to how much data can be stored on a single disc, optimizations take a backseat.

How times is this now?

Until the punishment for securities fraud is jail time, Elon is only going to keep committing it since a fine is just a cost to do the crime.

Elon has been posting about white replacement theory for a while now. Not really sure how this is where you conclude he's a white supremacist.

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Media is all about engagement for views and clicks. It's why I only quoted the most relevant details from the article, I just still sourced the original article.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-billionaire-drowns-tesla-after-rescuers-struggle-cars-strengthened-glass-1723876

Angela Chao, the billionaire sister-in-law of Sen. Mitch McConnell, tragically drowned in a pond at her Texas ranch. It is speculated that she may have accidentally put her Tesla in reverse while attempting a three-point turn.

The water called, it want its billionaires back.

Any app/site that you put payment information that doesn't require 2FA would be a concern. Considering most phones can accept text messages and you can hook up to your email account, I'm not sure why it's a big deal to get a 2nd code just to help prevent someone using your money to buy stuff.

Intelligence and being born into wealth are not mutually inclusive traits. The more money you start with the more you can fail before you succeed so even an idiot with enough wealth can become successful.

This may be confusing to Starfield and Elite Dangerous players, whove been able to do this since their games launched, but this is Star Citizen, and its actually a pretty big deal.

There's something funny about comparing Star Citizen to Starfield

No one can force you to break the ToS.

https://twitter.com/jam_etc_art/status/1762645906560586053

Oh no 1-2% will be lost. Won't we think of the CEOs that already make insanely way more than their underpaid workers.

The lack of Mordecai is upsetting.

ROBANN_88 posted...

I have a question that's more about grammar nitpicky

Why is it called Baldurs' Gate?
Doesn't that apostrophy turn it into "Baldur is Gate"?

Baulder was a person. Baulder's represents that the person Baulder owns the gate.

ROBANN_88 posted...

act 3
Lower city

I know when you fight Z'rell, they or one of their allies can counterspell. I remember my spike growth getting counterspelled. Though my current run is also honor mode.

ROBANN_88 posted...

i haven't seen a sinlge counterspell so far, os that only in higher difficulties?

How far have you gotten?

Alucard188 posted...

They fixed the bug that allowed you to loot dropped weapons from elementals after a long rest. Sadge. Wonder if if applies to Devas as well. That mace is great on Minthara in Honour mode.

tbf, they had like no animations and were really overtuned in values. They clearly weren't intended to be PC accessible and only existed so elementals could make attacks.

Xenogears15 posted...

Being knocked prone also makes it easier for melee attacks to hit you, I think.

It does, it also makes you have disadvantage on dex saves (even though that isn't an actual rule in D&D 5e).

You can also completely shut down enemy actions if you make them prone and frightened since if they have no movement, they can't get up.

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All Shield Bashes except this very specfic one from a shield in Act 3 at the House of Grief do no damage. However, knocking an enemy prone does immediately end their turn which is extremely useful.

SpawnShadow posted...

Shockingly, the GOP's current "policy" of "no policy except doing whatever Trump wants when he wants, including using campaign money to pay for his legal bills" isn't helping anyone in their ranks but Trump, while their stupid-ass culture war bullshit is simultaneously lighting a fire under Democrats' asses to get out the vote.

The biggest thing right now is the fact the GOP told a hardline stance on the border "issue" and is now saying they won't pass anything until after the election. They are saying we have a problem that is apparently not urgent enough to be addressed now. That's certainly not helping them win.

I'm pretty sure this is old news. I remember it being pointed out around the time Musk purchased Twitter.

Baha05 posted...

It also ignores any differences between the two works.

It's really funny for you to say this considering you are going out of your way to ignore the differences between Palworld and Pokemon.

MC_BatCommander posted...

That's pretty much the goal of these mtx riddled shit games, for ever 1,000 people who scoff and spend nothing there's one whale who drops a few grand. It's a pretty disgusting business model because it doesn't care at all about quality, someone somewhere will buy that trash. And when they stop, move on to the next game

And the thing is even if you don't spend money, the game was made worse for you just so they could sell these bonuses.

ItsNotA2Mer posted...

How is this a controversy?

*Sees $30 cosmetic, laughs out loud, goes about day*

Controversy solved.

I'm just copying the article title.

Still there is something to be worried about. Horse armor was made fun of and yet Horse Armor became microtransactions of today. We should be concerned that the next step in big game publishers is to nickle and dime us for simple recolors.

Baha05 posted...

Because literally we are talking about nuances in online forums and discussions. Because guess what can lose itself in terms of text messages? Emotions. Like any post can be interpreted in many different ways and when you attach feelings ton them they dont always pan out how you would think they are.

This is literally more that Twitter meme more then anything.

I think we can all tell you are getting upset through your text.

https://www.gamesradar.com/diablo-4s-latest-microtransaction-controversy-is-a-dollar30-portal-recolor-you-can-get-palworld-for-this-price/

"You can get Palworld for this price"

Blizzard is charging $30 for portal colors in Diablo 4, and players are having none of it.

From the recent confusion surrounding cosmetic items in Diablo 4's Lunar Awakening event, to what players deemed "mathematically the scummiest" coin reward Blizzard could have given battle pass purchasers in Season 1, the action RPG has had its fair share of controversy when it comes to paid content. Now players are once again up in arms, this time over portal colors that cost "almost half the price of the game."

Over on the Diablo 4 subreddit, user Mwatki20 sparked the conversation by posting an image of the Dark Pathways pack, which offers town portals in orange, green, purple, yellow, and blue, as well as 1000 Platinum for a considerable sum. "$20 for different color portals? LMFAO Blizz!" they write.

Amazingly, it's even worse than that. As another player points out, the bundle actually costs $29.99, making it "almost half the price of [Diablo 4]." Further down in the comments, user Cmionor rightly says that for the same sum, you could purchase Pocketpair's 'Pokemon with Guns' sensation: "You can get Palworld for this pricejust sayin"

Adding salt to the wound is the fact that each color is locked to a specific class. "It isn't even just that it costs money," says WhiteVoltage. "I wouldn't necessarily mind paying $5 or something for it. But $30 for a portal that I might get two classes' worth of use out of? Hell no. Hay-ell no." Rather than being outraged, Patient_Competion4 finds the situation downright laughable, saying, "The fact that they're CLASS LOCKED is hilarious to me lmfao."

As some other players point out, switching up your portal color is merely cosmetic and doesn't affect the gameplay in any way, so you can enjoy Diablo 4 just the same without having to cough up the additional dough. Though with so many voicing their dissatisfaction at the lofty price tag attached to items in what's already a full-price game, perhaps Blizzard will rethink how much it charges for these kinds of cosmetics in the future.

Baha05 posted...

Or Im pointing out a sort of mentality the internet sets itself up to double down on. Because you can look at quotes all you want but there is a difference in terms of a quote versus an interpretation of what the feelings behind it are.

You are literally the Skinner meme. No it's not everyone else who is wrong.

Baha05 posted...

Because believe it or not the internet is kind of fucked that way. It would be like if I was called racists because someone say a post that had no bearing on race being an issue and just stuck with it.

You're really digging yourself into that hole

Baha05 posted...

Except again you can look at the quotes but when it comes to interpretations its a whole different story.

The fact that no one agrees with you that these quotes are being taken out of context nor putting words in your mouth should really tell you whose wrong.

Baha05 posted...

You quoted me directly sure but again if you are inserting feelings and things not being said in those quotes or taking them out of context then you arent doing yourself any favors here. All you really doing now is claiming Im butthurt about this game selling and thats not the case.

The lovely thing about quotes on gamefaqs is that if you click the quote, you can see the original post.

Nothing is being taken out of context. We can all see the context.

Baha05 posted...

Hence why the meme of Pokmon with Guns is a big part of how it took off initially, then followed by more word of mouth how the game plays. Again that doesnt change the fact that people are having to result to putting words in my mouth while also bringing up other examples of inspiration based IPs and games when you know damn well a lot of them probably arent boiled down to being g X with Y in them.

Line you arent seeing Metal Gear Solid being referred to as Escape from New York with a Mech involved now are you? Metroid isnt called Alien on a Planet with Dinosaurs and Brains in Jars are you?

You are really upset that people said it was "pokemon with guns", because that is all you are hyperfixated on.

Baha05 posted...

And you are clearly putting words in my mouth there, I dont care that Palworld is successful asked on its own merits I am more upset that people are wanting to side step the more blatant aspects of why its successful in the first place.

If Palworld was nothing more than a barebones pokemon clone, it wouldn't have seen the popularity that it gotten. People can already play Pokemon Scarlet and Violet if they wanted a barebones pokemon clone.

Baha05 posted...

Seems more like people are more bias by trying to convey the other games taking inspiration from other sources are on par with Palworld just to defend the one game that does it the most blatant out of all.

You're literally making Palworld's inspiration a bigger deal while downplaying games with heavily inspired sources.

Not to mention you are focused way too much on Pokemon when Palworld takes inspiration from other games besides pokemon.

You are clearly upset that someone dared to copied pokemon.

Baha05 posted...

Because I am looking at it from an objective standpoint. When you even look at screen shots of the game alone you can kinda tell that just from art assets alone it doesnt match up well enough not to look like a hobbled game. You have Pal which some obviously takes more inspiration from Pokmon then others, you got this weird world design that looks like it clashes with the Pals, then you have guns which is an even weirder choice. Like it doesnt take too much to see this is there. Again in no means does that mean I am claiming the game is bad, isnt fun, cant be liked, etc.

You are not some objective arbiter. it's very clear you have a bias against Palworld compared to other game series that were build up heavily inspired by another source.

Baha05 posted...

And yet that doesnt negate my point. Taking inspirations of things is always going to be present in media for sure. However the issue at hand is that when it comes to inspiration of ideas and concepts is on one hand a lot of people end up making their own things here over time, crafting their own worlds.

Palworld has an identity issue to say the least because of how blatant that inspiration is in that case. Coupled with the whole guns thing and survival crafting and while you can have a fun game for sure you have a weird clash of different things into one pile.

You keep saying it has an identity issue, but literally you are the only person making this claim.

Baha05 posted...

So you literally saw Ripley in the first Alien movie fight off dinosaurs on a planet?

I can't wait to load up Pokemon Violet, take up a butcher's knife, and harvest pokemon.

Baha05 posted...

Yeah but again its one thing to be inspired by something else, entirely another to basically copy designs but to do it just enough that you wont get legally bodied by a company you are copying from.

Metroid literally copied from Alien.

Some people are way too focused on design elements being similar as if video games have never copied each other before.

Nothing is really 100% unique. You're bound to take inspirations from things you've enjoyed and people are also bound to come up with the same ideas despite never interacting with each other. There's nothing wrong with it.

Plus there's far more to Palworld than having Pokemon looking Pals

Dalthine posted...

I mean yeah, from what I understood it's only the bones of the game that's there with very little meat. In pokemon equivalent, you have only the first "gym" available.

There are 4 other "leaders" you can fight, but the game doesn't make it very clear they exist and you just kind of stumble on to them if you manage to take time to explore instead of managing 3 bases.

I would also say there's a lot of lacking automatization which is the whole appeal of having pals. You can have Pals cook food, but there's no system for the pal to keep cooking that food as long as ingredients are available so you need to stop at the base and keep manually starting productions.

AzNDarkSamurai posted...

tbh I still have the right to complain because im a paying customer and Im not getting what I need because of the failure of the stores to staff due to people not wanting to work

You refuse to take up the job you complain that people aren't doing. If you aren't willing to do the job, you can't expect anyone else to

AzNDarkSamurai posted...

Question was already answered. I dont have to since I already have a career locked down.

If you don't want to quit your current job to go work at Target, you shouldn't be complaining that other people don't also want to work at Target.

AzNDarkSamurai posted...

Of course. People need to man up and work. They likely pay minimum wage which is better than nothing.

Why don't you work there then?