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argonautweakend posted...

Zeus posted...

argonautweakend posted...

In a change of pace from cash!!!

Cash is the worst, unless you're involved in criminal enterprise (or just avoiding paying taxes)

literally might be the dumbest thing ive heard in ages

Literally means you're sheltered.

DPsx7 posted...

Zangulus posted...

DPsx7 posted...

Gas costs more if you use credit (I assume this isn't a local thing) so that negates your one bonus.

Not everywhere does that.

Lucky, they do here. I always carry some cash so it's not an issue for me.

Eh, even in places where some gas stations do it, other ones don't. Plus depending on the points category, you can save more by paying with a card since you can earn 3-5% on the dollar spent vs paying an extra nickel per gallon.
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Saw the first episode of the Boruto dub (had previously seen parts of the subbed ep), was pretty good.
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JOExHIGASHI posted...

I haven't seen Boruto in a while and recenty watched a bunch of episodes. And the current arc is still ongoing. This is one long arc. it's been like 15 episodes already

Just learned that there's a Boruto dub. Really need to check it out.
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argonautweakend posted...

In a change of pace from cash!!!

Cash is the worst, unless you're involved in criminal enterprise (or just avoiding paying taxes)
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tbh, I had stopped drinking soda for 6 months to a year. I kinda want to drink it less often, although I'm currently at far less than I used to drink compared to back when I was more into it.
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Well, you sell literal poison so you shouldn't be all that surprised.
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Probably Stargate.
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Got a shiny Zapdos from research today --- 13/13/15 -- but it's just not the same without Thundershock.

keyblader1985 posted...

I've been avoiding 7K too, which was annoying because a while back it took me four entire days to get a new egg from a Pokestop.

That's just weird. Oo How many spins did you try?
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keyblader1985 posted...

The PS4 collections. I actually should have waited a couple days before finishing the last game in the collection; I beat KH1 at almost exactly midnight on New Year's a year ago.

If that was meant in regards to my post, I was actually questioning their remarks about Ghost Stories. If you look at the time-stamp, I posted within the same minute you did =p
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Oo

How so?
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tbh, I had been avoiding 7k eggs but now that the egg pool is so fucked up I don't mind getting 7ks.
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Lokarin posted...

I don't know what he did, I only sorta recognize the name

He does so much weird shit on a weekly basis that I'm never sure what he's getting in trouble for.

Mead posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

Most of the posters in this topic care way too much about a child.

Sunny is playing devils advocate, everyone please acknowledge this.

And here I thought he was just virtue-signaling.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I never actually disputed the idea of wearing uniforms. I objected to the idea of sports-style uniforms as opposed to utilitarian-style military uniforms. And pointed out that it was a poor analogy in the first place.

I wasn't saying sports style uniforms, I was using sports teams as an example given that there are inherent benefits to being able to quickly differentiate friend from foe.

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The Wave Master posted...

How has w everyone's holiday been? Did you get any games or surprises?

The biggest surprise for me was Ace Attorney 6: Spirit of Justice. Only $11.99 U.S. on the Nintendo eShop. Very good bargain, if you ask me.

Kicking myself for not making use of those Nintendo eShop sales
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Mead posted...

not to mention that you supported a candidate who, if he had his way, would likely abolish the stock market and put everything under government control.

Classic Zeus posting inane shit with no basis in reality

Classic Mead who supported a politician who had no touch with reality.
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MrMelodramatic posted...

So I have to battle a real person, or just one of the professors?

Possible reward from any of the PvP battles, but again you're only eligible for rewards once per day for a team leader and three times per day for players (and iirc they need to be different players)
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Full Throttle posted...

That's when Carter picked up the pistol and removed the magazine but left a single round chambered.

Don't they teach kids anything in schools nowadays?

Full Throttle posted...

It's illegal to have an unsecured firearm within reach of a minor in the state of Florida but NO CHARGES are made against the PARENTS so far.

...which doesn't mean charges won't be filed. Shit takes time.
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She must really hate her daughter.
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Eh, that Ghost Stories dub is pretty bad -- mostly because they shoe-horned in a lot of crappy humor that ruins the mood -- but I'll likely watch it instead of the sub simply due to not feeling like watching subbed anything lately.
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Didn't Ducky post this one before?
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

It really isn't. Because they're not a sports team. That's basically like saying that, because cheerleading teams exist in the real world, the US military should wear mini-skirts and pom-poms into combat, and no one should think that's a weird idea at all if you made a movie where that happened.

The US military is older than cheerleading. If anything, you should be suggesting that cheerleaders dress in Army fatigues. But all that aside, cheerleading isn't a mixed-competitive team activity where you need to identify your teammates from the opposition.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The X-Men are essentially a paramilitary black-ops team. If anything, they should be wearing full-on SWAT gear or other ballistic outfits, preferably with color schemes chosen for each mission to blend in (black or very dark blue for night, green camo for forest or jungle, white for snow, tan for desert, etc). For social dynamic purposes (ie, trying to talk your way into a crime scene past a suspicious security guard) they should probably look as "official" or "military" as possible, not like a PR crayon explosion (ie, the motivation behind Captain America's costume).

....so uniforms?

The Wave Master posted...

How has w everyone's holiday been? Did you get any games or surprises?

Nope.
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Probably Rush Hour.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Zikten posted...

Arthur legends predate Christianity.

That would be somewhat difficult, since Arthur was almost certainly born hundreds of years after Jesus, assuming both men were real at all.

The first documented reference to Arthur anywhere in existing knowledge wasn't until 900 AD or so. And nearly every scholar who assumes he was real at all tend to place him somewhere around 400-450 AD in Roman England. Where he would literally have been raised as a Christian himself.

The alternative view would be that he actually descends from unrelated Welsh mythology, but that would likely place him even later in the timeline.

There's pretty much no sane or rational scholar who would ever make the claim that any story specifically about Arthur predates 1 AD. At best, you could argue that Arthur represents specific folkloric archetypes that existed before then, but that's not really the same thing.

Not to mention that Arthurian legends have rather explicitly referenced Christianity at times, which would be a hard thing to do if it preceded it.
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Mead posted...

The stock market on the other hand is largely dependent on confidence and a lot of uncertainty has been caused by the clustering bumblefuck of lies and ineptitude that is Trump

lolwut? You're talking about consumer confidence being hurt while ignoring that the epitome of an anti-business president left office.... not to mention that you supported a candidate who, if he had his way, would likely abolish the stock market and put everything under government control.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Trump was never going to make the economy better he is an imbecile.

All he had to do to improve the economy was rollback Obama's nonsense.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Republicans don't want the economy to get better. They give their pals hand outs and then run against the things democrats have to do to fix things when they try exercising responsible economic policy.

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lolwut? Last time they got backpay even for the time not worked. Not that I'd weep over most federal workers growing fat on my tax dollars taking a hit and having to get private sector jobs like everybody else.
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More fortune cookie bullshit.
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hypnox posted...

anyone play Warhammer 40k?

Nope, it's a bit pricey and I don't know people who play it.
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Ultima_Dragoon posted...

Mead posted...

While we are on the subject has anyone ever had their car buying decisions be influenced by freaking car commercials?

I was just talking about this with my friend while we were watching TV. Who are these commercials catered to? I can't imagine anyone is going to see a commercial and rush down to the dealer to buy one right away.

It's just intended to be something that sticks in peoples' minds and gets them more likely to think about the dealership when they decide to look for a car. If you're the first dealership they visit, the odds of you selling will be better. Most areas have a lot of dealerships and people looking for a car don't even visit most of them.
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LinkPizza posted...

MrMelodramatic posted...

So how can I get a sinnoh stone?

Definitely try training. My first training session and I won one. Though, I already had like 2. So, now I have 3...

Most days I just get dust from training and PvP. It's random. However, it's apparently possible to get 2 Sinnoh stones at the same time from a PvP.
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I know it's a kids movie probably based on a kids book that's somehow even cringier, but.... I kinda want to see this.

ASlaveObeys posted...

Why do they keep using this story? They need to self it for a decade until everyone forgets how many times it was fucked up.

Because it's well-known and in the public domain, same reason we keep getting shit involving Dracula.
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We should just get a quote from


They're good at building walls and they have cheap labor.
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Sonicplys posted...

Netflix is trash garbage

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wwinterj25 posted...

Zeus posted...

Or is this about me deriding creeps who call 6 y/os hot?

They voted her beautiful not hot at the age of 6. That's my point. Being voted "beautiful" isn't sexualising anything and only your dirty mind would make it that way.

Except they're literally grading her attractiveness. You're normalizing the sexualization of minors, buddy.

Revelation34 posted...

Zeus posted...

James Gunn

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There are 3 leagues, you can challenge/battle with any of them (and no, you're not locked into one forever). If you go to your teams page, you can set up multiple teams for each league the same way you would for raid battles.

For the team leaders, their great teams are a joke. It just seems to be weak/unevolved Pokemon.
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LinkPizza posted...

How does the training work, btw?

It's like a normal PvP battle, except against a NPC. Can access it through the nearby players feature -- click on Pokemon nearby then at the top of the screen there's a thing marked "Battle" and you click on the team leader you want to fight.

It counts for the previously-defunct Ace Trainer medal.

MrMelodramatic posted...

Woah you guys should battle me.

Your rhymes are too weak for a battle.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

The X-Men films were originally set in a much more grounded universe, where heroes weren't a dime a dozen (you were pretty much an X-Man or a villain), and where there wasn't really a justification for flashier gear (and a number of reasons why you wouldn't want flashier gear). Especially since, unlike the MCU heroes, they were a deliberately covert team and not public heroes. So a more subdued black leather (with the assumption of ballistic fibers or unstable molecules or whatever reinforcing it beyond ordinary clothes) worked much better than yellow and black/blue spandex, or the weird Dave Cockrum designed costumes for people like Colossus or Nightcrawler, or Cyclops' weird blue onesie with yellow bondage straps like all the 90s kids remember from the cartoon.

It's not about being flashy, it's about being consistent. They come from a universe where sports teams have uniforms. It's the same concept. More importantly, they live in a universe where they're wanted vigilantes worried about being exposed... and yet fucking nobody wears a mask or other headgear to obscure the face. If I was going hero or villain, the first thing I'd do is get a mask.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Nah. Other than not being white, he was a really good pick for the character. Much better than the other main characters, at least.

Even if you took race off the table, he wouldn't be a good pick. He'd be less goofy than Garner, but it's setting a really low bar.
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https://imgur.com/KrUbDx4
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keyblader1985 posted...

Anybody else barely playing at all lately? Between the holidays and the cold/weather, I'm pretty much just getting my dailies in. I just got my first catch of the day at 5pm.

The cold weather is the killer. Plus the continued lack of maps.

MrMelodramatic posted...

So how can I get a sinnoh stone?

Possible 7-day research reward and possible loot from PvP/training. Can PvP for rewards 3x per day, can train for rewards 1x per day. Odds of getting the stone might ironically be better if you lose.
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I love the fuck out of Thriller (and Smooth Criminal), but how am I going to vote against Bille Jean when we're talking quality?
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MrMelodramatic posted...

I thought it was pretty mediocre

Kinda of my assumption, which is why I haven't been in more of a hurry to watch it.
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NFI is apparently taking off Detective Conan in the new year. Kept meaning to go through it since I assume I haven't seen a lot of them but, tbh, I've never liked the sub anywhere near as much as the dub and many of the episodes feel choppily edited when compared to the manga (specifically since the anime resolutions feel a little soft)
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Mead posted...

Now? I always grouped CNN, WaPo, CNBC, Fox News, etc, together when it came to bias.

Nah dude I know you love your both sides-isms but you typically just rail against any left leaning posts

Bullshit. I drew comparisons in the same breath.
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Mead posted...

Zeus posted...

Mead posted...

Zeus posted...

Dow just had a record-breaking day. I want to see Dirt make a topic about that now.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/26/investing/stock-market-today/index.html
https://www.nj.com/news/2018/12/dow-jones-sees-biggest-day-ever-as-stock-market-rebounds.html

How many times have you tried to discredit other users for posting a link from cnn

When even CNN with its substantial bias and tendency to negatively spin anything Trump-related is reporting something beneficial to Trump, that adds to the legitimacy. It's no different than Fox News reporting something good about Obama.

In general, though, I heard about it on NPR this evening and just grabbed one of the first links that popped up in search

Hey at least youre conceding that Fox News is bias af

Now? I always grouped CNN, WaPo, CNBC, Fox News, etc, together when it came to bias.

Blaqthourne posted...

If you're going to equate the current stock market to the President's effectiveness on the economy, then Trump has made the economy better, since the Dow is up 2000+, NASDAQ is up 1000+, and S&P 500 is up ~200, with the Russell 2k down about 40, since when he was sworn in.

Yeah, iirc even when it fell it was still above where it was.
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wwinterj25 posted...

Zeus posted...

She's kinda cute now, but who the fuck voted her the most beautiful in the world at age 6?

Why are you sexualising a kids fashion show?

17 is hardly a kid. Or is this about me deriding creeps who call 6 y/os hot? Because the Woody Allens and James Guns of the world need to be called out.
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Mead posted...

Zeus posted...

Dow just had a record-breaking day. I want to see Dirt make a topic about that now.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/26/investing/stock-market-today/index.html
https://www.nj.com/news/2018/12/dow-jones-sees-biggest-day-ever-as-stock-market-rebounds.html

How many times have you tried to discredit other users for posting a link from cnn

When even CNN with its substantial bias and tendency to negatively spin anything Trump-related is reporting something beneficial to Trump, that adds to the legitimacy. It's no different than Fox News reporting something good about Obama.

In general, though, I heard about it on NPR this evening and just grabbed one of the first links that popped up in search
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Dow just had a record-breaking day. I want to see Dirt make a topic about that now.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/26/investing/stock-market-today/index.html
https://www.nj.com/news/2018/12/dow-jones-sees-biggest-day-ever-as-stock-market-rebounds.html
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Smiffwilm posted...

Anything huh?

So, Daredevil Season 4? Luke Cage Season 3?

Kek.

Smarkil posted...

Mead posted...

Most people would just not watch it

NMB is not most people though he is gonna let it take over his entire day

Correction: It's taken over three of his days now.

It'll be a week by the end.
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She's kinda cute now, but who the fuck voted her the most beautiful in the world at age 6? Who was judging on that panel -- Woody Allan, Roman Polanski, and James Gunn?
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Metalsonic66 posted...

Zeus posted...

I also liked Daredevil, although a not-terribly-large black Kingpin made for ridiculous casting in an already weirdly-cast film.

MCD as Kingpin was actually one of the best things about that movie, other than the multiple Evanescence music breakdowns.

Evanescense was awesome, but MCD was a terrible fit for Kingpin. He would have made a killer Barracuda, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracuda_(comics)

ParanoidObsessive posted...

(The same reason I never really had a problem with the original X-Men movie giving them black leather outfits instead of the yellow spandex costumes from the comics - what looks good in one medium doesn't necessarily work well in another. Which is, ironically, why I DID hate when they started using the black leather outfits in the comics, because they kind of looked like shit there.)

I was originally ok with the black leather costumes, but then First Class showed that the concept could have been handled much better.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Sure, you could cast someone with a body-type/face like Erland Van Lidth De Jeude or Pruitt Taylor Vince, but those don't really convey the implied "none of this is fat, it's all muscle" aspect of the character. Or you might be able to find a wrestler or strongman with a "fat" body that is mostly strength, but then you've got a non-actor in the role and you lose performance for the sake of appearance (which happened way too much in earlier comic book movies).

Not that I think Michael Clarke Duncan was the best choice for the role (for multiple reasons), or that how he played the character was even necessarily the best that he specifically could have done in and of himself, but I do understand why we're probably never getting a perfect comic book version of the Kingpin on-screen.

Michael Chiklis would have been a much better pick.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

D'Onofrio did a good job with the look and persona, but still really lacks that "this is a man who could potentially beat the shit out of Daredevil bare-handed" sort of vibe.

idk, they certainly portrayed him as being strong and vicious enough. I had no issues believing that he was a credible physical threat.
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