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It's a natural transition of things. In years prior people were nihilistic, depressed and blackpilled. The next logical step is for people to embrace absurdism. Which is the practice of embracing how comically silly reality is.

Smarkil posted...

hes black so he cant be racist

I know this is a joke post, but Jesse Lee Peterson is a perfect example of the fact that a black man can be racist. Yes he's racist against black people

He's racist against black people because he thinks civil rights movement was a mistake, and his solution for the problems black people face is for black people to "get better" and appease white people's sensibilities.

I'm sorry I didn't mean to imply that you don't know what you're doing...

That's just a generalized warning regarding speculation.

There's no such thing as an assured investment...

Don't speculate unless you really know what you're doing.

Aaantlion posted...

CCGs have resale value, afaik lootboxes generally do not.

This makes CCGs worse.

To answer your question, they aren't.

In fact I think the TCG packs are exploitative too. The LCG format that Netrunner used proved that card games don't need to indulge in lootbox bullshit.

Well it did at one point anyway, and unfortunately a few items are inaccessible as a result of servers shutting down.

Demon's Souls is just different.

If you're asking if it is worth playing, I would say absolutely yes. It has its unique experience playing it.

The "True Communism" that communists keep alluding to is actually anarchism. No government or private sector.

Modern Day China embodies everything that Communists hate.

Yellow posted...

@VioletZer0 posted...

Bull-fucking-shit, learn english. The "well regulated militia" bit is a supplementary phrase and has almost nothing to do with the original intent. The federalist papers explicitly stated the intent behind the second amendment was not to have the people's militia regulated by the government.

Yeah? So where does that whole well maintained factor come in genius?

And how exactly do you jump from man hater to gun nut?

And honestly, why do I even care what that amendment even said? I'm not a fundamentalist for what some 200+ year old law says if I think it's stupid.

"Well maintained" means that they're will trained and well disciplined.

I wasn't the one who brought up the second amendment.

Also the best chance that women have against men is to be armed.

darkknight109 posted...

.....you're not trying to say that China, the last major functional communist state, is a right-wing government, are you?

China is not Communist.

Communism does not have a private sector and their economy not only has a private sector, it depends on it.

They are absolutely a right wing government as they advocate a one party system with absolute government powers.

darkknight109 posted...

VioletZer0 posted...

Now ask yourselves, what does the civilian population walking away from the table look like?

Going to the ballot box to and finding someone else to do the job.

Democratic vote is a mitigating factor not a solution to totalitarianism. Democracy can and absolutely has been subverted before.

In a recent example, the people clearly voted for Bernie Sanders but the DNC decided to put up Hillary anyway in a clear example of trying to rig the election.

I think you people fundamentally misunderstand how war works.

War isn't about conquest until your enemies burn to the ground and the leader's heads are on a pike. That is a last resort, war is a negotiation tool. You go to war to negotiate peace on favorable terms.

The relationship between government and populace is ultimately a negotiation. The most important element of any negotiation is being able to walk away from the table. Now ask yourselves, what does the civilian population walking away from the table look like?

BeerOnTap posted...

VioletZer0 posted...

It is generally accepted that in the left wing vs right wing spectrum that left wing generally represents equality while right wing represents hierarchy.

Yeah, no its not. This is only a perspective of a leftist attempting to make a bad faith argument and paint with an enormously broad brush.
I stopped reading right there, as that was a clear indication that the rest of this was gonna be trash.

Do you believe the upper class should be allowed to exist? Or do you believe in equality?

darkknight109 posted...

Gun control is not an equality vs. hierarchy issue. Whether guns are restricted or not, everyone is impacted equally; gun laws don't apply to only part of the populace, they apply to everyone. In fact, if guns were completely unrestricted, that would actually make things *less* equal, because the rich could afford to arm themselves better than the poor, whereas under a complete gun ban all are rendered equal in the absence of their ability to own firearms, but even then it's a flimsy argume

This is distinctly untrue.

In gun control, the government benefits exclusively. Also guns are cheaper than you think they are.

darkknight109 posted...

The American left wing, perhaps, but that has more to do with the militarization of American law enforcement which, in turn, is a response to a heavily armed populace.

Police in many other countries are respected on a bipartisan basis, as they largely dispense with the "cowboy cop" attitude that seems so alarmingly pervasive in American law enforcement. As an example, in the UK it's rare for officer shootings to reach double digits in any given year. Most of the cops there don't even carry firearms. They don't need to - their odds of running into a heavily armed assailant are slim

People in Europe adopted the policy of "appeasing their masters" which will provide a brief facade that the government will protect and care for them, until the people actually need to fight back and that facade fades away (See the yellow vest movement of France).

When people refer to the evils of police, it is not just the militarization of police. It is the prison industrial complex and how police are encouraged to adopt arrest-quota policies.

What do we mean by freak accident? To put it another way, there are literally more lottery jackpot winners than there are spree killing victims.

Should the people own rocket launchers and C4? Yes absolutely because the government has armored vehicles.

I am not worried about spree killers because what people forget is that not only is it a freak event with an insanely low chance of happening to you, but the people who do commit such crimes NEVER get away with it. They all either die or go to jail for the rest of their life.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

The left is about safety delivered by the state so they can act freely, the right is about freedom delivered by the state so they can defend themselves.

This doesn't follow either because the right wing is pro-border control and the left wing is typically more in favor of immigration.

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@VioletZer0 posted...

What part of "Shall not be infringed" do you not understand?

We shouldn't have gun control for the exact same reasons we should not have voting control.

What part of "well maintained militia" do you not understand?

Well maintained, aka regulated, aka Jerry doesn't get a rocket launcher.

And if you're fundamentally against gun control, would you support the idea of legalizing C4 and rocket launchers?

Bull-fucking-shit, learn english. The "well regulated militia" bit is a supplementary phrase and has almost nothing to do with the original intent. The federalist papers explicitly stated the intent behind the second amendment was not to have the people's militia regulated by the government.

You say people shouldn't be allowed to own rocket launchers, but we were allowed to own cannons and entire battleships.

Mead posted...

Gun control =/= anti 2nd amendment.

quoted for truth

What part of "Shall not be infringed" do you not understand?

We shouldn't have gun control for the exact same reasons we should not have voting control.

You might say that equality and hierarchy are a matter of perspective, and most of the time that's true. For example, some people see economic freedom as equality, where as others do not.

I challenge anyone to come up with a compelling argument for how gun control promotes equality.

TC is correct.

It is generally accepted that in the left wing vs right wing spectrum that left wing generally represents equality while right wing represents hierarchy.

The issue is that "gun control" is a distinctly hierarchical position to take, as it is granting the state control over who should be allowed to possess force.

This follows in issues that the left wing traditionally cares about, and prominent left wing figures in history all supported gun ownership.

This follows even today as the left wing very much advocates for recognizing the evils of the police, military and other government organizations authorized in the use of force. Gun control has historically been used specifically to target non-whites who recognized that they can't depend on the good will of white supremacy to grant them what they want.

Meanwhile the right wing is about militarism, and advocacy for police state on its face. Which means they should be the ones advocating for gun control as gun rights are specifically meant to threaten the military, police and all other government bodies.

As force is the bedrock for all power, force in the hands of common people is the bedrock for democratic representation. Therefore, it should be a left wing position.

YeetingBees posted...

keyblader1985 posted...

I wonder how they would handle playing a roguelike.

Ah yes, roguelikes. My favorite competitive multiplayer games.

There's competitive Bloodbowl, I think smash can handle a bit of randomness.

SkynyrdRocker posted...

Dreaming_King posted...

VioletZer0 posted...

There is no chance that an inferior player will be able to beat a superior player because they got a lucky draw. None whatsoever.

https://imgur.com/JNpycgo

Violet please explain to us how the Hero player was better here

If you get your shield destroyed you deserve what happens to you.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Grendel posted...

VioletZer0 posted...

they demand that Nintendo release a gamecube controller every generation.

Because it's literally the best controller ever made.

lolno

The only thing the Gamecube controller does better than other controller is that it is the easiest to control depression of the triggers. Which is exclusively useful for driving games.

Otherwise the switch pro is the best.

They are such wimps.

It started with how every single generation they demand to be able to use the Gamecube controller. Instead of just adapting to modern controls, they demand that Nintendo release a gamecube controller every generation.

But that was just the start.

So Hero gets released and it sent the entire smash competitive community into a tailspin because it incorporated *shock, gasp* randomness mechanics.

I tested it for myself and honestly, the randomness mechanic isn't even a big deal. There is no chance that an inferior player will be able to beat a superior player because they got a lucky draw. None whatsoever.

But smash players hate randomness of any kind, they still complain about tripping to this day even though it was hardly an issue.

Instead of learning how to mitigate risk like any sane person, they complain. Loudly. Now the community is split down the middle because of whiny babies.

I need it for work so that's a nah from me.

Let's be real here, this specifically surrounds the issue of trans women in sports because they have a distinct advantage over other women.

I say let them. This will blow up in their face and it will be funny.

Melee got usurped by Ultimate.

Melee turned into a joke when competitive players needed a controller to be malfunctioning in order to play.