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| Topic | Compact Discs |
| adjl 03/02/22 2:09:41 PM #10 | Dikitain posted... Cassettes were just easier to listen to on the go until the invention of the Discman, and those weren't really a product that your average user could buy until 10 years after they came out. Even then, cassettes still had a lot of advantages over early CD players. It wasn't until the prices went down that it became a viable consumer product. I suppose DVD's took a similar amount of time to really catch on, and followed a similar progression. Less so in computers, but it was several years before DVD players became cheap enough to compete directly with VCR's instead of just being a luxury upgrade, and several more before DVD's themselves became ubiquitous because people were content with their VHS collections. I attribute part of the PS2's success to that: By including a DVD player before DVD players were something most people were willing to buy for themselves, buying a PS2 to use it primarily as a DVD player wasn't actually a bad idea, which was huge for establishing an early install base and giving it a competitive edge over the GC/Xbox (by extension, this meant it was pretty silly that so many people complained about the Wii not playing DVD's, since DVD players were everywhere and dirt cheap by then). I guess my impression is mostly an age thing. I have watched CD's take over within my lifetime, so I assumed they'd also shown up within my lifetime, if not slightly sooner. Having been born in '89, though, I wasn't exactly sentient enough to keep up with the market trends of the early 90's in detail, so I'm not surprised my impression's a little off. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Brandon Sanderson's Kickstarter made $15M in its first fucking day lmao |
| adjl 03/02/22 1:51:25 PM #4 | Muscles posted... I felt like he got too technical with his magic system at times, That sounds like a video game adaptation waiting to happen. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Pennsylvania Mom is letting her 13 YEAR OLD Fly to UKRAINE to Fight in the WAR! |
| adjl 03/02/22 1:34:58 PM #11 | Any American - regardless of age - that doesn't already have military training and their own equipment to bring is going to be able to do more for Ukraine from America than they are trying to join the fight in person. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Compact Discs |
| adjl 03/02/22 1:29:50 PM #5 | Yes, but it also took a while for them to dominate the audio world as well. Cassettes were still pretty common well into the early 90's. Granted, a big chunk of that was because of the challenges of incorporating CD players into cars, but still. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Montreal man accused of spreading hate against Jews on far-right blog says... |
| adjl 03/02/22 1:22:31 PM #10 | KodyKeir posted... It was mostly archaic but we brought it back. In a sense, we fomented it. I always want to add an R to it, for some reason. Presumably the similarities to "ferment." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Compact Discs |
| adjl 03/02/22 11:19:27 AM #2 | 83? They certainly took a while to take off. It wasn't until like 10 years after that that I had a computer that even had a CD drive. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Today is my 1 year anniversary with Spiderman |
| adjl 03/02/22 11:18:00 AM #5 | "Hang"? That's gotta be some kinda racist joke. I thought you were above this, Jen. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | So if Russia sends nukes do our phones notify us? |
| adjl 03/02/22 11:13:50 AM #19 | jiffdiff posted... The US is the country most able to completely devestate Russia in a full scale nuclear exchange. If they're doing a first strike they're obviously going to target the US. Yeah, if Russia tries nuking Ukraine, it's a given that everyone else will start nuking Russia. That means Russia will also start nuking everyone else, and the US is absolutely at the top of that list. That's not a matter of American egomania, that's a matter of the US being the world's most significant nuclear power. This also means Russia won't try nuking Ukraine. Mutually assured global destruction is a pretty strong deterrent and there is no possible outcome of that decision that would result in an actual benefit for Russia. teddy241 posted... What would you guys do knowing 30 minutes was all we had left? Honestly? Probably pretty much whatever I was already doing/planning to do after work (I would, of course, stop working). I'm not going to be able to escape in that time frame (it'd be a stretch normally, let alone with everyone trying to get out at once), and it's not like I'll be around to regret not spending the time optimally, so why waste time trying to optimize it? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Library card |
| adjl 03/02/22 11:00:54 AM #3 | slacker03150 posted... Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card. I'm glad this was the first response. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Montreal man accused of spreading hate against Jews on far-right blog says... |
| adjl 03/02/22 10:49:51 AM #8 | Ozmose posted... I don't think it was a joke, but I also don't think it's something that should be illegal. Free speech is the line between a civilized society and a dystopian hellscape. Most countries (including the US) are able to have certain limits on the freedom of speech without turning into dystopian hellscapes. Threats, for example, are almost universally not protected. That's not to say exceptions shouldn't be carefully monitored to make sure they aren't overstepping their bounds, but exceptions can nonetheless exist safely. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I kneow where all the best games are hidden... |
| adjl 03/02/22 10:41:23 AM #7 | agesboy posted... lok go get vampire survivors, its great trust me I can second that. There's honestly very little to it, but as a way to mindlessly kill half an hour or so, it's genuinely delightful. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Oklahoma puts forward bill to ban reality, and fine teachers for teaching reals |
| adjl 03/02/22 10:36:53 AM #21 | wpot posted... Only if that's a "closely held" belief. They covered that angle. :) For $10,000 a test, I'll hold that belief as closely as they want me to. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Oklahoma puts forward bill to ban reality, and fine teachers for teaching reals |
| adjl 02/27/22 10:56:54 PM #13 | So if my religious belief is that I am incapable of getting a wrong answer on a test, I get $10,000 from any teacher that gives me less than 100%? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | True soldiers fight to save others. |
| adjl 02/27/22 10:54:54 PM #13 | It's more a matter of expanding control than maintaining it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Great white shark vs. human with knife underwater |
| adjl 02/27/22 10:52:53 PM #12 | Sahuagin posted... I guess it depends who gets the first hit, which would probably more likely be the shark Even then, I don't think a typical survival knife is long enough to instantly kill a shark, so even if you get the first hit and manage to wound it severely enough that it eventually dies, you're still going to be stuck fighting a very pissed-off shark. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | True soldiers fight to save others. |
| adjl 02/27/22 10:47:10 PM #10 | It's nothing to do with conformity. It's the fact that fighting against an invading force that's trying to kill them is not fighting against "the system." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | My wife legitimately just asked me why sheep fur is sheared |
| adjl 02/27/22 10:45:53 PM #18 | DarthSkeleton posted... Cashmere comes from goats I learned that from a few different video games. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | True soldiers fight to save others. |
| adjl 02/27/22 10:44:06 PM #8 | It's... really not. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | 19 y/o Football Kid is called a WUSSY cause he took up SEWING during COVID!!! |
| adjl 02/27/22 10:43:07 PM #18 | KodyKeir posted... Everyone should learn how to sew. That and cook. I was half-decent at sewing back when we covered it in our Home Ec equivalent in junior high, but pretty much all of that is gone now because I didn't use or practice those skills at all through high school or beyond. I should really make an effort to relearn it, since I've got some jeans that need patching (I tend to wear holes in the crotches). LinkPizza posted... We should get rid of ideals like this. We shouldnt really be considering things like sewing masculine or feminine, tbh Indeed. There's absolutely zero benefit to gendering basic life skills, whether it's sewing or carpentry. Everyone should be taught everything. Those that are in relationships can defer to their partner to handle the skills that their partner is better at, but doing that pre-emptively on the basis of gender instead of based on who's more capable is just stupid. That means single people are out of luck, as are those in same-sex relationships (not that the sort of people that give guys a hard time for sewing typically consider same-sex relationships legitimate), plus you end up with a bunch of people who just aren't great at a given skill doing it because their partner has never learned how. Of course, with the Internet around, learning is easier than ever even without broader educational efforts, which is gradually solving the gendering issue. Now, we just have to wait for it to become normalized. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Great white shark vs. human with knife underwater |
| adjl 02/27/22 10:23:55 PM #9 | No, Sunny, you could not win a fight against a great white shark unarmed. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | True soldiers fight to save others. |
| adjl 02/27/22 10:22:00 PM #6 | So if Ukraine wins their fight for freedom, everyone will become free as a result? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why the hell are people still complaining about masks? |
| adjl 02/27/22 10:18:07 PM #25 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... What I'm talking about and what you're talking about are opposing concepts.That is literally the opposite of what that means. What you're talking about is quibbling over the specific semantics of "personal responsibility," also known as pedantry. What I'm talking about is the underlying point that far too many people would rather quibble over the specific semantics of "personal responsibility" than accept that the whole situation would be a lot better if they collectively got over themselves and stopped looking for excuses to make the world around them a worse place. You are, in fact, demonstrating the underlying point quite perfectly by proclaiming yourself to be one of said too many people. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Florida Cop LAUGHS after Jury ACQUITS him for KILLING a DAD who threw POPCORN!!! |
| adjl 02/26/22 9:53:07 PM #12 | Full Throttle posted... said he's never had anybody get in his face like that and it scared the s*** out of him Ladies and gentlemen: The Tampa Police Force. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | It's not like you to say sorry. |
| adjl 02/26/22 6:44:47 PM #4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIlNIVXpIns --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why the hell are people still complaining about masks? |
| adjl 02/26/22 6:42:02 PM #22 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... No, no it doesn't.adjl posted... you're [...] not making any actual argument against it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why the hell are people still complaining about masks? |
| adjl 02/26/22 5:04:22 PM #19 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... Personal Responsibility is the responsibility you alone have for yourself. Not putting responsibility on others, or others placing responsibility on you. And you are personally responsible for the effects your actions have on other people. I'm sure you can finagle your way around this specific wording with some manner of pedantic mental gymnastics, but the underlying point remains valid, which is presumably why you're focusing on pedantry and not making any actual argument against it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Imagine if people wouldn't willingly fight the wars of the bourgeoisie. |
| adjl 02/26/22 3:56:41 PM #7 | Then while you're (row row) fighting the power, the people that planned on fighting you come up from behind and massacre you. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Imagine if people wouldn't willingly fight the wars of the bourgeoisie. |
| adjl 02/26/22 3:48:21 PM #5 | The problem is getting everyone on all sides to not fight. If one side refuses to fight for their leader and the other side does not, the first side gets massacred. It's a prisoner's dilemma sort of situation, which those in power happily exploit for fun and profit. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why the hell are people still complaining about masks? |
| adjl 02/26/22 3:44:01 PM #15 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... That is literally the opposite of what that means. It's responsibility for personal actions. How else would you describe it? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What if you start a monthly payment on February 29th |
| adjl 02/26/22 11:43:14 AM #2 | Generally, they'll adjust your anniversary date to either the 28th or the 1st, in that case. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | For real though: |
| adjl 02/26/22 11:07:41 AM #11 | Bananas are also berries. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | For real though: |
| adjl 02/26/22 10:23:41 AM #9 | Pumpkin is actually pretty acidic. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why the hell are people still complaining about masks? |
| adjl 02/26/22 10:08:35 AM #13 | The_Viscount posted... Literally not what personal responsibility is, It's a matter of accepting the personal responsibility everyone has to not actively make the world around them worse. For reasons unknown (though not really. Everyone knows people are trash), people have a problem with this. KodyKeir posted... we could not only eradicate COVID but the common cold as well. Probably not the common cold. The common cold is caused by a very wide variety of viruses (including many strains of coronavirus), and the symptoms are mostly the immune system saying "ew there's a virus get it away from me!", rather than anything inherent to those viruses. We could probably put a dent in the current collection of viruses that are responsible for it, but the niche of "viruses that trigger an immune response but otherwise infect people asymptomatically" is a very broad one that's pretty easy to occupy, so new strains would evolve to fill it almost as soon as infection control measures went away. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | How worthwhile is Borderlands 3's DLC? |
| adjl 02/25/22 7:31:38 PM #5 | So... SP1, maybe, SP2, no? Especially where the Director's Cut is already included in this bundle and that's like half of SP2 (though I think the extra skill tree is what interests me the most of what's in it, so it's not the half I might actually want). I can always pick up the Designer's Cut individually later if I feel like it, though my impressions of BL3 are that it won't hold my attention (and wallet) like BL2 did. In that case, I think grabbing the base game for $8 instead of waiting for a better overall deal on the Ultimate Edition is going to be my best bet. Humble's also offering both DLC's bundled for $20 (USD, so I guess like $26 CAD) for Choice subscribers, which is an excellent price, but that offer ends March 1 and I probably won't even have played the game by then, let alone played it enough to know whether or not I want more. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Another shitty rightwing take on current events. |
| adjl 02/25/22 5:52:32 PM #7 | KodyKeir posted... Wonder what they are going to do now that the can't have their sweet sweet oligarch money. Actively disparage any efforts to fight back against Russia, obviously. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Steam Deck is now Out... |
| adjl 02/25/22 5:46:04 PM #10 | I've already got a Switch and a gaming-quality PC (albeit one that's showing its age a bit), so I'm good. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Republican's Daughter was MURDERED after Robber Broke into their HUGE MANSION!!! |
| adjl 02/25/22 5:44:01 PM #5 | Revelation34 posted... Sounds more like she was a target if he decided to shoot her as she was sleeping. Yeah, robberies don't usually end up with anyone getting murdered in their sleep. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why the hell are people still complaining about masks? |
| adjl 02/25/22 5:08:48 PM #2 | The people complaining about masks have never been the ones with a solid grasp on reality. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | After seeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I can say that I am pro gun. |
| adjl 02/25/22 4:52:48 PM #33 | Given that a lot of the territory Russia is annexing has a significant separatist population, I feel like that would just result in a bunch of people shooting their neighbours and saving the Russians the trouble. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | How worthwhile is Borderlands 3's DLC? |
| adjl 02/25/22 4:51:27 PM #1 | The base game and one DLC (Director's Cut) are in the current Humble Choice, and I've got the option of re-subbing for $8 (CAD). If I'm likely to want all the DLC, though, it's almost as expensive to buy both season passes individually as it would be to buy the Ultimate Edition outright (the lowest sale prices to date are $51 for the bundle, $22 for SP1 and $26 for SP2), so I might not end up coming out on top there. The general consensus seems to be that BL3's DLC is largely missable and hideously overpriced, though, so if skipping it is the better option, it's a great deal. In practice, Everhood is also in there and $8 is a great price for that alone, so I'll probably go for it regardless, but I like opinions. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Not now, 2022.... |
| adjl 02/25/22 7:20:44 AM #3 | Incoming earth-shattering kaboom. Though I suspect 500 LY is a safe distance to avoid any actual shattered Earth. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I cannot fucking fathom why the US hasn't invaded Russia yet |
| adjl 02/24/22 11:16:01 PM #32 | There's a time and a place for jokes like that. This is it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I cannot fucking fathom why the US hasn't invaded Russia yet |
| adjl 02/24/22 10:49:28 PM #30 | The modern US military lacks the necessary training to shoot at white people, so we can expect them to stay out of it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Minnesota MAN wins $1800 from his MOM for not using SOCIAL MEDIA for SIX YEARS |
| adjl 02/24/22 10:41:08 PM #39 | darkknight109 posted... I think it depends. Facebook groups do exactly that, though: Provide a community for like-minded individuals to discuss a common interest. Similarly, people frequently focus on a limited range of topics on their Twitter and Instragram feeds. I get where you're coming from, and the distinction can be made between subject-focused and individual-focused social media, but I don't think the distinction is so clear as to be able to say that only the individual-focused side of things counts as social media. Focused discussions are a part of socializing in the real world, after all (whether in the form of defined clubs/activities or just whatever people happen to be talking about), and what we do on GameFAQs and Reddit is simply the online analog of that. Plus, of course, that distinction kind of goes out the window entirely when we look at social boards like PotD. GameFAQs may be subject-focused in a general sense, but this board is entirely devoted (or at least has been co-opted) to talking about whatever random crap comes to mind. Whether GameFAQs counts as social media or not, PotD definitely does. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | MartianManchild is SUSPENDED |
| adjl 02/24/22 10:28:11 PM #25 | MabinogiFan posted... In your opinion, when does a viewpoint cross the line into becoming stupid and/or dangerous? There are far too many variables to give any sort of blanket answer to that question beyond "whenever it's stupid and/or dangerous," which is a pretty useless answer. Usually, though, I'll explain why I'm calling a viewpoint stupid and dangerous whenever I do so. Constructive criticism is important, after all, and if the individuals holding that viewpoint believe I'm wrong, that gives them the opportunity to argue their position. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Quartz <3 |
| adjl 02/24/22 4:20:09 PM #2 | I'm a Canadian. We use litrez here. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Minnesota MAN wins $1800 from his MOM for not using SOCIAL MEDIA for SIX YEARS |
| adjl 02/24/22 3:38:14 PM #33 | SinisterSlay posted... Then everyone that's ever used a phone is disqualified. Also shouting out the window counts. Also those gossip card things they used to spread. Maybe the Romans were the first with social media. Although sharing cave drawings probably counts as memes Using a phone or shouting is direct communication. You're not creating media for the purpose of socializing, which is what the term "social media" implies. By contrast, on a message board, you are creating written media (posts) for the sake of communicating socially. That's no different from sharing pictures on Facebook. Youtube is a weird middle ground. By and large, youtube videos are created for the purpose of expression, not communication. There are, however, active communities built around those videos, communities which often include the video creator and are sometimes referenced by the videos, which amounts to two-way communication through created media (social media). I'd say there are ways to consume Youtube that do not qualify as social media, but also ways that do. Twitch, by comparison, is definitely social media: The content creator is actively interacting with the community at all times and as an integral part of the media being created. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | MartianManchild is SUSPENDED |
| adjl 02/24/22 2:31:01 PM #19 | wwinterj25 posted... I'm shocked by this news.... Honestly, I kind of am. He's gone largely unmodded for so long that I really didn't expect a suspension. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
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