Lurker > adjl

What smartphone?
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

There may be. I'd look into Schthack if you're interested, though. Last December isn't that long ago; you may have some luck. And if Schthack is gone, you may be able to find some other one somewhere.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Last I heard, Schthack had kind of folded due to various administrative drama, but I'd thought that was quite a while before last December, so maybe it's restabilized. Either way, Schthack was a private server for the game that worked for several different versions. If you look it up, it should have instructions for hooking up your GC and playing on it. It was really easy to get into the last time I played it, but I was playing Blue Burst (the version with Episode 4 that came out on PC and existed for like a year before Sega shut the server down), so hooking up a GC probably has a couple more hoops to jump through.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Only ever demonstratively. If I'm having a discussion about racial slurs, I'm not going to self-censor just to arbitrarily avoid it, though I will be cognizant of my surroundings and make sure it's not likely to be overheard and upset anyone.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

30 years.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

You didn't post a conspiracy because you didn't want 3000 lives to be forgotten. You posted a conspiracy because you wanted to post a conspiracy. Memorializing the victims and conspiracy theories are two wholly separate entities.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

45 minutes is pretty long. Probably mostly holiday release stuff (Mario, Xenoblade), but probably also some new things.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

https://byo.com/stories/issue/item/3202-making-homebrew-jelly

First google result. It's pretty simple, as I figured it would be. I made a champagne jelly once that was just champagne+sugar+pectin, and it was quite good (used it to fill macarons alongside a rose water butter cream. Good stuff).
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

OmegaTomHank posted...

Top 10 right now

*Snip*

Your interest was piqued by 20% of the titles that are in the top 10 right now. That top 10 list changes pretty frequently; liking 20% of the games on it will add up to a pretty sizable library very quickly.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Eggs on their own are still a meal. Bacon on its own, much less so. Bacon's the side.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Zeus posted...

OmegaTomHank posted...

Steam at this point might as well stand for Steaming pile of shit with their utter lack of quality control and the fact that half the games listed are 3 dollar expansion packs or dlc for some game.

Always been the case.

Eh, it's definitely gotten worse since Greenlight. 60% of Steam's library was added in 2016, largely because Greenlight had stopped enacting any sort of effective quality control whatsoever. With the demise of Greenlight, hopefully the new Steam Direct will alleviate that a bit, but I definitely wouldn't say Steam's quality control problems have always been as bad as they've been in recent years.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

He cray-cray.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

If you can't accept it in your family, you don't actually accept it in anyone else. You're just able to pretend it doesn't exist elsewhere, and tolerate it that way.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

I don't even care about the improvements in image quality, I'm just glad CRT's are mostly dead so I don't have to move them anymore. Those things were so horribly awkward to manipulate, what with how bulky and front-heavy they were.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Alexandra_Trent posted...

When people die, others offer their condolences. Is this helpful at all too? By your logic, you shouldn't accept these condolences as they aren't REALLY PHYSICALLY helpful. But that's not the point is it? The point is that these people reached out and offered their emotional support.

As I've mentioned already, that's a personal thing, and it's being so personal that gives it value. Similarly, offering prayers for somebody specific is a personal way to demonstrate sympathy and provide emotional support. If I post "my thoughts and prayers are with everyone who has lost a loved one today" on Facebook, though, that's not personal. I can guarantee that somebody somewhere has lost a loved one today (literally any day), and could use some sympathy and emotional support, but if I'm not actually going to specify anything about the people I'm sympathizing with, nobody in particular is going to feel supported by that.

That's why it's largely a form of self-gratification. "Maybe somebody affected by the disaster will end up reading my post and maybe they won't notice that it's not at all personally directed to them and they'll feel better" is not genuinely trying to help. It's not putting any thought into how somebody can make a difference for these victims. It's doing the barest minimum possible to feel good about oneself and/or look benevolent in front of their peers, then moving on without actually considering how much good it'll do. That's not caring.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Loosely, it's manipulating somebody into believing that their legitimate grievances with you are actually their own fault, or imagined. It's a form of manipulation, but it's a specific one, which is why there's a specific term.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Yellow posted...

I call myself a Christian, I'm a literal Christian.

Eh, that one's debatable. Ostensibly identifying with a religion doesn't necessarily mean adhering to its teachings, which I'd say is the better criterion for deciding whether or not somebody follows it than what they claim their religion is. That's certainly not unique to religion, in that it applies to any ideology, but religions in particular have a whole lot of people that claim membership but don't actually do any of the things that belief in that god would entail.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Jen0125 posted...

Okay I bought Rune Factory 4. Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

Adjl likes this.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

dioxxys posted...

isnt this what the feminists call toxic masculinity?

In general, no, because it's basically just a matter of enjoying sex more without a condom, but this bit:
Boobsicle posted...

You havent lived unless youve had at least 2 pregnancy scares before you were 25 or if you havent bought plan B 5 or more times. The cortisal spikes will change you for the best.

Would definitely qualify. Unsafe sex is stupid and irresponsible, not something to be proud of, and there's nothing manly about being careless when it comes to fatherhood.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Golden Road posted...

So, does she know that formula is a thing? I'd think most mothers who prefer breastfeeding their baby would use formula before a stranger's breast milk.

Breast milk banks are already a thing in many regions. The mother's own milk is still the best, but if that isn't an option, another person's milk is still much, much better than formula for the baby, so if it's available, that'd be the recommendation from anyone that knows what they're talking about. It's not like the idea of using somebody else's milk is particularly new, either. Wet nurses have been around for thousands of years.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Zeus posted...

Overlooking that Neo-Nazis and Nazis aren't the same thing

Neo-Nazis are modern Nazis. That's what "neo-" means. It's largely unnecessary to specify the time period in question when nobody's got a time machine.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Zeus posted...

Otherwise, given that "Nazi" doesn't mean actual Nazis

Operating under the pretty reasonable assumption that nobody has a time machine, I think it's pretty obvious that everyone involved is talking about modern Nazis, also known as "neo-Nazis" by people who understand what "neo-" means.

That's a pretty cringey cake. Inciting violence is bad, but I'm too busy with second-hand embarrassment to really care about that in this case.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

That's a tough call. I've been making a lot of really awesome fancy desserts lately, and picking a favourite is hard. I guess I could go with these, since they've become a staple for when I want a fancy dessert:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/molten-lava-cakes-recipe-1917273

Served with ice cream and some sort of fruit. Last time I made them, I made up a compote of blueberries, raspberries, and cherries, and used that along with some homemade marshmallow sauce (http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/marshmallow-sauce-366149), which was a fun time.

They generally photograph pretty well, too (though this one came out a touch blurry on my high-tech flip phone camera):

---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

omnichaos posted...

There are very many good arguments against the formation of echo chambers.

Not when you're talking about video games.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

I just plain liked that game. It's pretty awesome.

SirPikachu posted...

Yep, it's good, but I hate how important events are random. I tried forever to marry Clorica and the trigger event just never happened.

I ended up dating all of the girls, with the intent of choosing based on how their proposal scene went, but then Clorica's popped up first and I couldn't bring myself not to marry her immediately. It felt delightfully organic, even if it meant I missed out on all of the others.

The random trigger for Act 3, however, was indeed a pain. Probably the worst part of the game.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

If the person ordering the pizza likes it and wants it there. Same as literally any other possible food combination.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

omnichaos posted...

there really is no good argument,

Sure there is. GameFAQs' audience comes here to enjoy a certain environment of discussion. Moderating message board content helps to preserve that environment. If you go beyond the pretty clear boundaries the ToU set, you get modded for being a detriment to the intended environment. Creating a specific conversational environment certainly isn't immoral, why should the necessary steps involved in that be?

In no way is GameFAQs intended to be free speech. When you create an account, you agree to a suite of limitations on what sort of discussions you can have. If you want to have discussions that go beyond those limitations, you're free to find a different forum.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

What a joke of a human being.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

It seems kinda of out of place to have a white person in that setting, but I'm more concerned about the idea of adding this character at all than with his race. Nothing about the story demands that Jasmine has a competing love interest, nor do I see any way for that to improve it. Why would they even consider this change?
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

I want to snuggle its face.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Right front pocket, perpendicular to leg, closed, back against wallet, front (with external screen) facing forward.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

faramir77 posted...

For instance, every US talkshow that brought up the Canadian election in 2015 was blatantly against Harper.

Everyone was blatantly against Harper. Harper was a douche.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Far-Queue posted...

That game looks fun. This is the first I've heard of it.

Bonus points because it's completely free. I did buy a drawing tablet to use with it because it was just so much more enjoyable than using a mouse (having been a huge fan of EBA back in the day, touch input just felt much better), but plenty of people have done extremely well with a mouse. It's a good time.

Mario_VS_DK posted...

Yeah, there's about 4 different enjoyment phases to the game.

1: You start playing, and you hate it because it's so annoying to try and time thing properly.
2: You can now properly time things and begin to enjoy the game.
3: You are now playing for points and hate the game despite constantly playing it.
4: You no longer play for points and just play for enjoyment. You like the game again.

There might be other phases, but I've forgotten them.

I never really found that. The change in how rankings are done has sort of killed my ability to progress, given how much I slide back whenever I drift away from the game and the kind of difficulties I need to be FC'ing to get anywhere respectable, and that's made it hard to get back into it, but my enjoyment followed a pretty standard pattern of growing and waning interest.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Calling everything you disagree with offensive is pretty immoral

Nobody's calling everything they disagree with offensive. You will never be modded for saying you like or dislike pineapple on a pizza, despite how divisive that issue is and the fact that there are mods that will disagree with you on the matter. You've mixed up the order of causality there: It's that things people find offensive will be things they disagree with. In your insistence on stating opinions that are widely considered offensive here, you've developed a persecution complex and are blowing things out of proportion, but really, that problem you're seeing doesn't exist. Get over yourself.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

I've also put over 300 hours into the game, despite not touching it recently, so I've probably got a bit more practice.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

I may or may not have just FC'd it on my first try, despite being a little rusty with the tablet from not playing the game in ages >.>

Either way, the song's only 4:30. That's not too bad. You'll get it in due course; near-perfects are usually a product of skill and practice paying off, not fluke.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Which map?
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Smarkil posted...

Let's say, for the sake of argument, we give about 1500 dollars to each person as a UBI who's making less than 20k per year.

That's where your math really falls apart. It's not simply a matter of giving $1500/month to everyone under the poverty line, it's a matter of giving everyone enough to bring them up to the poverty line on top of what they already have. That dramatically reduces the payout. It should also probably be varied regionally, given that cost of living is nowhere close to constant everywhere, but that gets really freaking complicated and is beyond the scope of this discussion, so we'll assume for now that the numbers more or less balance out overall.

Smarkil posted...

So 77,500,000 x 1500 = 116,280,000,000. 120 billion dollars spent every month to support people under the poverty line. That's roughly 1.5 trillion dollars

It's generally considered very poor practice (at best, at worst it's outright deceitful) not to carry all significant figures until your final value. 77.6m * 1500 * 12 = 1.4 trillion. Hey, I just made a hundred billion dollars (and even that's rounded up, but only from 1.3968, which is very close to 1.4)!

Smarkil posted...

Even if you could get rid of the welfare budget (good f***ing luck),

This is the welfare budget. A UBI would replace the welfare system entirely.

Smarkil posted...

where are you going to get 500 billion from?

400, made lower by your initial overestimation of the payout, but even then there are a number of options. Most notably, incorporating UBI as a sort of reverse income tax would allow for fairly dramatic simplification of the tax code and removal of a lot of the breaks in there (since tax wouldn't be able to reduce somebody's income below a certain level). That closes a lot of the loopholes that are used by corporations and the upper class to avoid paying a very sizable amount of taxes. I'm not sure off-hand if the administrative costs of the welfare system are included in that trillion, but that also gets reduced because you don't need nearly as much oversight.

You're also going to get more back in the long run as people end up with better jobs (not having to worry so much about starving makes it a lot more feasible to go to school for something they're actually passionate about), people are healthier (lower stress, reduced incidence of obesity, reduced drug usage), crime rates drop (a lot of crime is born out of desperation)... That's much more of a gamble, but every minimum income experiment that's been conducted has worked out to be a net financial gain, ending with fewer people depending on it than were depending on welfare.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Smarkil posted...

UBI requires the money to come from somewhere

Most models for it actually save money over the current welfare system, given that being simpler (usually modeled as a sort of reverse income tax) dramatically reduces administrative costs.

Smarkil posted...

It's not supposed to be easy.

And why not? Why not make it easy? The resources are there, why shouldn't it be as easy as possible for everyone? Is that not the ultimate goal of human progress? We've spent millions of years figuring out how to make things easier. Why stop now?
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Zeus posted...

The issue is the expectation that you're entitled to a work week not exceeding 40 hours, which is a relatively new concept dating back less than a 100 years.

A century during which we've seen astronomical leaps in quality of life. But sure, let's disregard one of the major concepts that's contributed to that.

Zeus posted...

And if your labor has virtually no value and the expertise is so low that a monkey can be trained to do your job, you can't command good wages.

Then why does the position exist? Why hire somebody for something that you could train a monkey to do?

Zeus posted...

As for your argument about firing somebody, you acknowledge that employment is a contract about usefulness but somehow ignore the fact that it should extend to wages. If you're not useful enough to command a higher wage, you shouldn't receive that wage.

It should absolutely extend to wages. It just means that positions should not exist that aren't expected to generate enough value to allow the person filling them to live. If you can't afford to pay a living wage for a necessary position, you can't afford to be in business. It's as simple as that.

Zeus posted...

First, because the minimum wage is already livable provided you reasonably cut costs (roommates, etc).

You can just about live on pennies if you cut costs far enough, but most discussions about livable wages start by defining some sort of reasonable standard of living. Sharing a one-bedroom apartment with four people will cut down on your cost of living, certainly, but that's really not a reasonable standard to operate under.

Zeus posted...

Second, and more importantly, because the thing is predicated on the 40 hour workweek. If somebody doesn't make what they need in 40 hours, what do they usually wind up doing? They work more. Even a lot of people who don't necessarily need the money often choose to work more.

The key difference there being choosing to work more. There's a world of difference between deciding to work more because you feel like making some extra money, and having to work more because you need more money. A 40-hour week is the standard we're using here, because that's the standard for the civilized world. That's not an unreasonable standard, especially when you consider the effects of working longer hours (which is largely why there's been the push for shorter hours over the last century).
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Smarkil posted...

So you're agreeing that it's better to let the market handle it than the government coming in and forcing businesses to pay more.

Ideally, yeah. When letting the market handle it means people work 40 hours a week and still starve, though, that's a problem. In that case, the system breaks down because employers have too much power (namely, they can manipulate people's desperation to pay them less than they ought to). It's not a free market when wages are an absolute necessity, because prospective employees don't have the freedom of choice that's needed for a market to be free.

That's why I'm a big fan of the idea of a basic guaranteed income. Mandating a higher minimum wage isn't going to be a problem for big corporations like the Walmarts and the McD's that always get cited in these cases, but it is for smaller startups that actually can't afford more than minimum wage for their employees, and that just breeds oligopolies. In contrast, if people are guaranteed to have enough money to survive, there's no need for any sort of minimum wage, and employers can set wages with the intent of being competitive in a proper supply-and-demand environment.

Smarkil posted...

Then I guess they're gonna have to figure their s*** out.

And why should they have to hate their life in the interim? America is not a poor country. There's no reason to expect people to content themselves with third-world conditions, even temporarily.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Zangulus posted...

A) Turkey's aren't going to be there to rape your daughter and steal your 27" CRT TV.

Anyone who can run away with a 27" CRT has earned it, in my books. Those things are awkward as ****.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

The usefulness of it is undeniable, but I can't help but laugh at how ridiculous it is to have that sitting in your driveway during non-emergency times. There's being prepared for an emergency, and then there's owning that and hoping you'll see one before it rusts out.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Smarkil posted...

Why is this the government's responsibility?

Technically, it could be any third party. The government is the third party that's currently responsible for it, though, and it generally makes practical sense to have the government handle it because the infrastructure is already in place for adjusting the funding as needed.

Smarkil posted...

Mcdonalds where I live is desperate for people and have raised their starting wage to 12 bucks an hour. I don't even live anywhere where the cost of living is high. But they can't get anyone to take the position, so pay necessarily goes up until the position is filled. It's supply and demand economics.

That sort of thing is good, because it means people that are working at McD's do so because they feel the pay is worth the work, rather than because they're desperate and it's better than making nothing. That better balances power between employers and employees.

Smarkil posted...

Also, if you're making minimum wage past being a teenager, then you f***ed up.

That doesn't make food or rent any cheaper.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Zeus posted...

This just in: Wages cost businesses money.

Yes, that is what I said. Good job following me this far.

Zeus posted...

If you can't establish a personal value good enough to command a higher wage, you shouldn't be entitled to that wage and should be grateful to take whatever they offer.

This isn't about personal abilities, though. It's about the position itself, which employers designate as having a sub-living wage. If an individual working at a living wage doesn't generate enough revenue for the business to cover that wage, by all means, fire them, because that's not sustainable. But if the position itself cannot generate enough revenue to allow the employer to stay in business, the position should not exist. If that's not an option, then the employer can't afford to stay in business.

Again, if a position is necessary, then it is necessary for a person in that position to be able to live. This is not a cost that can be avoided. Then current paradigm is to pass off that deficit to the government, relying on welfare programs to shore up sub-par business ownership. That's not a great paradigm, because it exists as an inefficient half-measure between a livable wage and a basic guaranteed income. Either establish a livable minimum wage and refocus welfare efforts on supporting businesses that are struggling to maintain those wages (dramatically reducing administrative costs because there are much fewer employers than there are employees), or establish a basic guaranteed income such that minimum wage laws are no longer required to ensure that workers can live (also dramatically reducing administrative costs because it simplifies the welfare process).

Zeus posted...

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/94/False-Dilemma

It's not really a false dilemma (even without getting into it technically being a trilemma). Those are the three options that exist, with the current paradigm of welfare being an inefficient, half-baked effort at #3. If people don't have enough money to live, they will die ("execute" being hyperbolic, but the underlying point is valid). The two options for paying people enough to live are to mandate that employers pay a livable wage, or to have a third party provide that living wage independent of employers. It really is that simple.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Troll_Police_ posted...

i acknowledge that your job is necessary, and i intend to pay you for the value of that job, and the value of your labor,

If a job is necessary, then the value of that job is the cost of having somebody live while performing that job. That's not an avoidable cost, unless you plan to rely on government intervention to keep the person alive, you dirty commie.

Troll_Police_ posted...

anything more and it is actually costing me more to employ you than you are worth.

This just in: Running a business costs money. If employing people doesn't make you enough money to keep those people alive, your business sucks and you can't afford to stay open.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

"I acknowledge that your job is necessary, but don't think you deserve to eat or pay rent."
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Most people have things they want to do when they wake up.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

Judgmenl posted...

a huge surge in Chinese corporations buying out large swaths of housing to flip

That's what speculation is, dude.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.

SkynyrdRocker posted...

It's weird how many people think they understand this better than Jen, who literally does this for a living.

It's common sense, really. As a business owner, you are responsible for safely providing a service to your customers. That's not always possible, because there's no limit to human stupidity, but failing to take reasonable precautions to protect them should be considered neglectful, and they should be held liable. This would absolutely fall under that, because it's quite reasonable to expect the salon to refuse to serve the guy once it became apparent that they couldn't do so safely (probably after chair #2, just in case the first was a fluke).

I wouldn't be surprised if insurance law disagrees, because insurance law and common sense are two different things, but I can definitely understand where people are coming from to say that the salon is (or at least should be) held liable.
---

This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.