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| Topic | I wish the flu vaccines didn't make your arm feel like it's been punched. |
| adjl 10/08/18 5:02:29 PM #16 | helIy posted... i haven't had the flu in years. To be fair, last year's flu shot sucked. Very low efficacy for that one. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Kavanaugh okd by Senate. |
| adjl 10/05/18 8:51:23 PM #50 | Far-Queue posted... Lack of corroborating information =/= a false accusation. Means they couldn't prove it any more than disprove it with the information they've currently accumulated. Amazing how some people fail to grasp that. Next you're going to suggest that "innocent until proven guilty" should apply to charging people with false accusations, too. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Why do Gorons need a special mine for rocks to eat? |
| adjl 10/05/18 7:43:06 PM #5 | green dragon posted... IronicFool posted...It's different if you're literally starving though. Are you saying if you had no food you WOULDN'T eat grass? Or the drywall and wood that makes your home? Or some holy relic in the center of the city made out of food? Maybe if you're starving you can't be a picky eater. Aside from fibre, at least. You'd be pooping pretty well, but you'd still starve to death. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you eat pork? |
| adjl 10/04/18 2:31:46 PM #18 | DoubleOSnake posted... why aren't you big on it? howard stern brought this up before and said that around the time the bible was written that people were getting sick from eating pig and that was the reason That's a common theory for where Kosher and Halal rules came from. if you look at the full suite of Kosher guidelines, it's really just a primitive set of food safety rules, like using separate dishes for meat and veggies. In a modern kitchen, that's mostly limited to cutting boards because the pans get properly washed, but keeping raw meat away from anything else you're working with (especially anything that won't be cooked itself) is generally a really good idea. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I really like the game "Crypt of the NecroDancer" |
| adjl 10/02/18 7:17:27 AM #8 | I rather liked it, but I'm not very good at it. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Man, cooking is just so much time and effort. |
| adjl 10/02/18 7:11:08 AM #42 | wwinterj25 posted... Now Yorkshire puddings in the microwave is f***ing sacrilege Making yorkshire puddings in a muffin tin instead of a loaf pan, however, is an excellent way to save time without having to compromise on the quality of the product. You even get out of washing a knife because you don't need one to serve it. Zeus posted... How does the time save work? Are you making larger portions of certain meals then just saving it for several days (like I used to do with lasagna) or making lots of meals with similar instructions that can be cooked together? Generally a bit of both, but even if you aren't just scaling up a recipe or working on ones with some overlap, the fact that you don't leave the kitchen between dishes (and therefore don't completely wash and put everything away) saves some time and opens the door to opportunities to be more efficient. It also potentially means that you only have to find one time block in which to do it all, rather than having to allocate a certain amount of time before every dinner. While that doesn't necessarily save any time overall, it's going to give you a greater number of small pockets of free time, which can be nice. That's going to depend on just how your schedule looks, though. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | remember chelle? |
| adjl 09/30/18 12:09:22 AM #42 | party_animal07 posted... Anybody still have a link to that book club for......research? The Outdoor Co-Ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society? That should be enough to assist your google-fu. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Ohio Teacher asks STUDENTS if it's okay for SIBLINGS to have SEX!!! |
| adjl 09/30/18 12:06:33 AM #27 | Yellow posted... The graphs are set of poorly, because "not okay" is not the same as "morally wrong", and the difference is important. The question is "are you okay with this?". Implicit in that is "does this conflict with your personal morals?", but it's more superficial than getting into more complex questions of moral right/wrong. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | White Woman forced to REMOVE a BLACK MAN Halloween Decoration being LYNCHED!!! |
| adjl 09/29/18 11:11:16 PM #14 | Zeus posted... I'm kinda inclined to believe their story because anybody racist enough to publicly hang an effigy of a black man wouldn't lie about it. Alternatively, anyone stupid enough to want to do something like that in the first place probably thought that lie was sufficient to keep people from being upset with her. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | welp, fuck reddit. |
| adjl 09/29/18 10:48:47 PM #31 | I'm really curious which specific subreddits rustled TC's jimmies enough by being shut down to prompt this topic. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Ohio Teacher asks STUDENTS if it's okay for SIBLINGS to have SEX!!! |
| adjl 09/29/18 10:11:29 PM #9 | This just in: In a quiz asking students how they feel about controversial moral questions, one of the questions presented a controversial scenario! --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | lol waitress warned me that habenero sauce has 'actual habenero' chunks in it |
| adjl 09/29/18 7:45:22 PM #6 | In her defense, even with the warning, I guarantee she gets a couple customers a week who order it and then yell at her for bringing them something too spicy. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Do you support kathleen kennedy getting a 3 yr extension? |
| adjl 09/29/18 7:44:04 PM #9 | papercup posted... Hop103 posted...No, she needs to go, she ran a multi billion dollar franchise to the ground in less than a decade. I'm pretty sure Disney knows a thing or two about IP's that sell toys. If they were really worried that Kennedy's direction was cutting into toy sales, they wouldn't have renewed her contract. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Fanboy reaction to Kathleen Kennedy's contract extension. |
| adjl 09/28/18 7:33:27 PM #6 | Mead posted... Looking at her Wikipedia page shes produced a lot of beloved films over many decades Because she put a girl in Star Wars, obviously. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I hate how Feminists ignore the elephant in the room. |
| adjl 09/28/18 7:23:17 PM #239 | Kyuubi4269 posted... ReturnOfFa posted...Kyuubi4269 posted...Oh yes, some men being assholes means the world is under the puppet strings of all men. Uh, no. Not at all. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/patriarchy?s=t Here's some light reading on the subject of what words mean. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I was stuck in line at Canadian Tire for hours 'cuz a jerk tried to return a gun |
| adjl 09/28/18 10:04:01 AM #11 | They're all around the country, but they tend to be very large stores, so you might not have seen any if you spent most of your time downtown in cities (where that kind of real estate is pricey). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Is nobody watching the Kavanugh stream? |
| adjl 09/28/18 9:53:22 AM #72 | DPsx7 posted... F 'em all. Turned on the TV this morning to watch Make a Deal and Price is Right while doing my usual internet stuff. Some fool thought this was more important and preempted it. I quickly turned the TV off and its been that way since. How dare they think that significant political events were more important than game shows! --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | People who are at fault in accidents that back up the freeway |
| adjl 09/28/18 9:43:47 AM #68 | OhhhJa posted... Man, the goalposts sure have shifted since the beginning of this topic. Not really. The issue is people driving poorly. Discussing ways to improve that isn't shifting anything. Kyuubi4269 posted... Because accidents are totally unavoidable and people never have loooooong ass no-claims. You said yourself that stopping speeding wouldn't stop accidents. Accidents are always going to happen. Not everyone is going to have one that they're responsible for, but citing the idealistic goal of 0 accidents as a reason not to pursue any sort of harm reduction strategies is just silly. Kyuubi4269 posted... Not everyone drives a new car, particularly not those careless enough to crash one. Any mechanical control is indeed going to require a lengthy phase-in process. Mandate a limiter's inclusion on all new vehicles, and require one to be installed on the vehicle of anyone who racks up a certain number of speeding tickets (similar to interlock systems for repeat DUI offenders), and you'll have a decent chunk of the vehicles on the road limited within 10-15 years. Kyuubi4269 posted... Ban those with low IQ from driving. I don't think mathematical and linguistic reasoning skills have much to do with driving ability. Or are you one of those people who's clueless enough to think that IQ is a comprehensive measure of intellectual and physical ability? Kyuubi4269 posted... Speed is not an error. It is when it isn't safe to speed. Kyuubi4269 posted... lol k bro He's not wrong. Why do you think you need to speed? OhhhJa posted... So you've resorted to talking out of your ass now? Increased fines and regulations have absolutely made an impact before. Crackdowns on seatbelt use and drunk driving for instance made a huge impact. I've also seen a lot more phone docks in cars since states started implementing the hands free law. Just increasing fines doesn't do much. Increasing enforcement, on the other hand, does. If people don't think they're going to get caught, it really doesn't matter what the penalty is (see: non-zero 1st degree murder rates in places with the death penalty). It is also worth noting that the examples you're citing can be attributed as much to cultural changes as to crackdowns. Entire generations have grown up with the ideas that wearing seatbelts is good and driving drunk is bad, and that's shaping the overall societal attitudes on the matter, including a growing number of options for getting home after drinking and a certain degree of respect for DD's. Similarly, as it becomes less acceptable to use a phone while driving, the market has responded by offering convenient hands-free options. People generally accept that all of those things are bad ideas, so if avoiding them is convenient and socially encouraged, they'll jump on that bandwagon. By contrast, people generally accept that speeding is bad, but tend to feel that they're competent enough that they can handle it even if others can't. There also hasn't been that cultural shift against speeding yet. Enforce it more reliably, and maybe you'll get somewhere. Until then, people will just complain about how unfair their occasional ticket is and go right back to speeding. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Sony is finally allowing cross plaaaaaaay |
| adjl 09/28/18 9:11:12 AM #43 | likehelly posted... following that article to it's kotaku source reveals this reason as to whythe barrier is a corporate and/or technical incompatibility between the Xbox 360's Xbox Live and Sony's PS3/PSP PlayStation Network. I'm pretty sure "Corporate incompatibility" means something along the lines of "the company doesn't want to do it," in which case it's not weird at all. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What's your vertical jump height, tested mine, ok? |
| adjl 09/26/18 5:08:03 PM #15 | Yeah, I haven't tested that, and I don't really have the means to do so right now. I guess it shall remain a mystery. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | What's your vertical jump height, tested mine, ok? |
| adjl 09/26/18 5:03:15 PM #13 | Dunno about straight legs, but I can pretty comfortably get 3-4 feet into the air if we're talking about landing with bent legs (i.e. jumping up onto something like a school auditorium stage). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | People who are at fault in accidents that back up the freeway |
| adjl 09/26/18 5:00:13 PM #50 | Kyuubi4269 posted... stopping speeding doesn't stop accidents. It does, however, make them less likely and less severe when they do happen. Kyuubi4269 posted... Cars are geared so you can run a low rpm on the motorway so inherently they can significantly exceed the speed limit. So limit their speed some other way. Every new car on the road has a computer in it, and that computer can very easily do that. Heck, with GPS, you could even have the speed limit change on the fly, so people aren't able to do highway speeds in cities (though that would probably be more trouble than it's worth, given how dodgy GPS speed limit detection can be). Troll_Police_ posted... human error is the cause of just about every accident youve ever seen. we've already established this. While true, that's a pretty useless statement. If you want to decrease accidents, you need more specifically-targeted measures than "you should all stop making mistakes," and that means identifying specific risk factors. Speeding is one of the varieties of human error that contributes to accident rates. Designing cars to be unable to exceed local speed limits is one way to address that, thereby reducing accident rates. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | People who are at fault in accidents that back up the freeway |
| adjl 09/26/18 1:33:37 PM #35 | OhhhJa posted... adjl posted...I really don't know about that Not knowing, or not caring? Or, for that matter, not noticing yield signs that would otherwise tell them who has right of way. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Who else will riot if RDR2 does not flop. |
| adjl 09/26/18 1:21:43 PM #52 | WastelandCowboy posted... Meh. They cracked down hard over modders in Online so its reasonable that theyll do the same for RDR2 Online. Probably, but it's still just easier to stick to consoles where they don't have to worry so much about people circumventing their monetization schemes. ForteEXE3850 posted... They are also fighting laws that have popped up in some countries that have now labeled loot boxes as gambling. That's EA, actually. Take Two is the one that asked Belgian NBA 2K19 owners to petition their local governments to change the law so the game could be more fun (rather than, you know, rebalancing the game so it could be fun without loot boxes), which is even more pathetic. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | People who are at fault in accidents that back up the freeway |
| adjl 09/26/18 12:55:41 PM #31 | Kyuubi4269 posted... adjl posted...That said, there is a lot of merit in the idea of requiring mandatory retesting after, say, age 60. That's a specific subset of bad drivers, though. That's sensible and would cut down on a lot of the old age-related collisions. Good luck getting such legislation passed with all of the baby boomers in their 60's now, though. Even more so where boomers grew up with the "you must have a car to be independent!" propaganda, so having their licenses threatened would be considered a personal insult (to say nothing of how vital car ownership has become in many North American areas). Troll_Police_ posted... it makes it a lot easier to impose stricter penalties when we can show that less than 5 years ago you understood the rules. Eh, I don't know about that. Ignorance of the law isn't an excuse for violating it, especially when you're driving around with a signed contract stating you understand and will follow the rules of the road. It should be perfectly possible to impose stricter penalties without needing such proof, since they are themselves claiming to understand the rules every time they get behind the wheel. OhhhJa posted... There is definitely quite a bit of genuine stupidity on the roads. It's probably mostly apathy but there are a ton of drivers who really dont know a lot of basic rules I really don't know about that. Even the ones who say they didn't know the rules when they're caught violating them could very well be lying to save face. Some of the more nuanced rules like proper merging and implied minimum speed limits for fast lanes (which should really be explicitly posted), maybe, but accidents aren't typically caused by people not knowing nuanced rules, they're caused by people speeding or running stop signs or not checking blind spots. Everyone knows those rules, they just ignore them. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Sony is finally allowing cross plaaaaaaay |
| adjl 09/26/18 12:38:37 PM #17 | It's nothing to do with family-friendliness. It's purely a matter of the PS4 being successful enough that they don't feel the need to bolster their online populations, and they feel confident saying "just buy a PS4 if you want to play with your friends." Sony has a history of getting arrogant when they're ahead (see: charging $600 for the PS3 at launch); the whole cross-play thing is just another example of that. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Your thoughts on DLC |
| adjl 09/26/18 12:36:27 PM #59 | LinkPizza posted... Metalsonic66 posted...adjl posted...you get many games with essential or major content locked behind a paywall (or, as it sounds like the case is with Spiderman, conspicuous holes where missing content could have been that artificially make the content more attractive than it would otherwise have been Yep. I haven't actually played Spiderman, so I don't know how vital the DLC feels. It could be there's an awkward hole where it obviously belongs, or it could be that winter's just getting overly upset by not being able to enter a certain area without buying the DLC. For the sake of discussing it with him, though, I used his example as an example of the former, though I could be quite wrong to describe it as such. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | People who are at fault in accidents that back up the freeway |
| adjl 09/26/18 12:29:17 PM #25 | Troll_Police_ posted... from the level of stupidity ive seen on the road, im in favor of 5 year drivers licenses that require you to retest in order to renew The thing is, that "stupidity" is usually more carelessness/apathy than actual stupidity. Everyone knows you're supposed to drive on the right side of the road. Knowing that doesn't stop people from driving on the wrong side of the road if they feel entitled to take that risk. Retesting would only catch genuine incompetence, not people who competently choose to ignore the rules when nobody important is watching. That said, there is a lot of merit in the idea of requiring mandatory retesting after, say, age 60. That's a specific subset of bad drivers, though. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Sony is finally allowing cross plaaaaaaay |
| adjl 09/26/18 12:23:28 PM #13 | SeahorseCpt89 posted... I think Counter Strike Global Offensive had it too back on the PS3. That's because the PS3 wasn't on the top of its generation. The PS4's doing notably better than the Xbone, so Sony doesn't feel the need to appeal to anyone that doesn't have a PS4. That said, the whole thing with Fortnite where using your account on a PS4 would permanently lock you out of ever using it on another console was bullshit. Disallow crossplay if you want, Sony, but don't mess with people's third-party accounts. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Trump's bragging laughed at by world leaders. |
| adjl 09/25/18 3:10:46 PM #13 | DPsx7 posted... adjl posted...DPsx7 posted...No she didn't. And so we see that Trump gets laughed at because he was voted in by people who also get laughed at. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Your thoughts on DLC |
| adjl 09/25/18 3:06:49 PM #50 | Black_Crusher posted... Some of the recent Etrian Odyssey games are tough though when they offer day 1 DLC quest rewards that significantly cut down on the exp and gold (en) grind. And in these games that's kind of everything. EOU2 did this way worse than V did, but it's still there. That's the sort of bullshenanigans that would turn me off of buying a game at all. Leave that nonsense in F2P MMO's. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Does anyone else not give a damn about Doctor Who? |
| adjl 09/25/18 3:05:02 PM #35 | I would guess the aggressive promotion is because they're trying to recapture the success it had during Tennant's days (after which its popularity has pretty sharply declined), coupled with having some extra budget money left for advertising from that success. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Which of these are you more excited for? |
| adjl 09/25/18 2:58:42 PM #14 | I think Luigi's Mansion, but that's mostly because I've more recently played an AC game. I still haven't played Dark Moon, though, and it has been quite some time since New Leaf, so that could very easily change if I stop slacking and play my backlog. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I'm concerned one day I'm going to hang a clock... |
| adjl 09/25/18 2:56:52 PM #2 | I don't think you have to worry too much. A calendar would be a much more suitable tool for that job, so I can't imagine you ever hanging a clock. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | The Cos is sent to the pokey for 3-10 Years... |
| adjl 09/25/18 2:55:56 PM #4 | I'd love to see an edit of the Cosby Show that removes Cosby in his entirety from it. No other changes, just a blank white space and awkward silence wherever he was. I feel like that'd be entertaining for an episode or two. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Trump's bragging laughed at by world leaders. |
| adjl 09/25/18 2:52:46 PM #9 | DPsx7 posted... No she didn't. She quite definitely did. Having the majority vote didn't matter because of how the electoral college works, but Hillary had more total votes than Trump did. Retroxgamer0 posted... If hes such the laughing stock why did the majority of America vote him in? Mostly because America has a sizable number of people who actually think like this: DPsx7 posted... On the contrary. By doing this and looking for the crybabies we can see who needs to leave. The country can't improve with these idiots holding us back. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Your thoughts on DLC |
| adjl 09/25/18 2:50:21 PM #48 | Kyuubi4269 posted... Games have got shorter Have they? Or is it just that the shift away from RPG's as the dominant mainstream genre has naturally resulted in the average popular game being shorter? In all honesty, I haven't seen any clear stats on the matter, but between changes in popular genres, the increasing popularity of multiplayer games (where the finite single-player campaign tends to be an afterthought, if it exists at all), and the fact that we're all just better at video games (and can therefore complete them faster), I actually wouldn't be surprised if there hasn't been that much of a change. Kyuubi4269 posted... the development time has gone up, they should have a lot more to say for their effort. That's a tricky thing to say, since there are so many more metrics than game length to use in making that comparison. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I support the 2nd amendment, but... |
| adjl 09/25/18 1:52:37 PM #62 | Kyuubi4269 posted... adjl posted...Kyuubi4269 posted...Let's just ignore my lack of any driving or tool misuse charges and go with your vague ideas of how people are by their PotD posts lol Not my fault that the entire persona you present to me is that of a very bitter, angry person who's upset the world doesn't go his way. From the information I have available, I would indeed stand by the conclusion that you're the sort of person who shouldn't have ready access to deadly weapons. Fortunately for you, such a system does not exist, and were it to be implemented, I would likely have no say in it and more than just your PotD posts would be considered. I'm just saying that, before suggesting that the unruly rabble be rounded up and disarmed, you should be taking a step back to examine your own attitudes and behaviours to ensure you are in fact better than them. Self-awareness is generally a good thing. AwesomeTurtwig posted... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate What, in that the only countries that are higher than the US are ones that are notorious for political unrest, drug cartels, or both? I'm not so sure it does... --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Your thoughts on DLC |
| adjl 09/25/18 1:43:22 PM #45 | wwinterj25 posted... Sure a game normally goes gold a month before it's due out. This doesn't excuse the fact that they could have put said content in the game. Maybe they could. So? There is no game in existence where you cannot say "they could have put more content in." There will always be a point in development where the dev team has to accept the limitations of their budget, deadlines, and creativity, and call the game a finished product. DLC means you can add more to it later, if you've got ideas that just didn't fit or weren't feasible to get out on the base game's budget/schedule. That's not a bad thing, and you're not entitled to get that content at no additional cost just because it *could* have been part of the base game. Again, does this get abused? Absolutely. The game industry is full of greedy executives who start salivating the moment a new idea for exploiting customers emerges, and you get many games with essential or major content locked behind a paywall (or, as it sounds like the case is with Spiderman, conspicuous holes where missing content could have been that artificially make the content more attractive than it would otherwise have been). That's a problem with implementation, though, not the concept. The only thing wrong with the concept is how easily it can be corrupted and exploited. This is in comparison to something like loot boxes, which are fundamentally designed to exploit the same psychological principles that gambling does, thereby inflating their perceived value and dramatically increasing the likelihood that somebody with addictive tendencies turns into a whale. That fundamental concept is bad, even before getting into particularly egregious implementations like Battlefront 2. wwinterj25 posted... They saved that job for later for folk like you who love opening their wallets and buying whatever s*** publishers throw at you. I only open my wallet to buy quality content. For all my defenses here, I really haven't bought much DLC. There's a whole lot of garbage out there, and I have no interest in buying it. I just know better than to generalize that garbage and discount the quality stuff. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | New Pokemon - Meltan |
| adjl 09/25/18 1:17:22 PM #8 | Zangulus posted... Steel by definition cant be pure. Ah, but your feeble pedantry has overlooked the most vital pedantic point of all: "Steel" in this context does not refer to the real-world alloy, but rather to a type of Pokemon. In that regard, steel can indeed be pure. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I support the 2nd amendment, but... |
| adjl 09/25/18 1:14:25 PM #58 | Kyuubi4269 posted... Let's just ignore my lack of any driving or tool misuse charges and go with your vague ideas of how people are by their PotD posts lol adjl posted... Given what your online postings reveal about your mental state, Why yes, the conclusion that I stated after citing your online postings as the basis for concluding it was indeed based on your online postings. How very astute of you. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Your thoughts on DLC |
| adjl 09/25/18 12:23:22 PM #39 | wwinterj25 posted... It bugs the s*** out of me when DLC is announced before a game is even out too such as with Spider-Man. To be fair, there's often a pretty significant amount of time between when a game is considered feature-complete and when it actually launches, during which starting work on DLC is perfectly reasonable. Like everything to do with post-purchase monetization practices, there are many, many examples of this being taken too far, but the fact that DLC is in an announcement-ready state before launch isn't inherently a bad thing. Personally, I also don't mind even if they've got that DLC ready right at launch, provided the base game feels like a complete experience. If the Tiny Tina DLC had launched alongside Borderlands 2, I might suspect they delayed the game's launch to facilitate that, but I'd still consider it an excellent example of DLC. Without it, the game still feels like a full game, and that's what's important in my books. The DLC is just something extra on top of that, which I was happy to pay for because it was great. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Your thoughts on DLC |
| adjl 09/25/18 12:08:32 PM #37 | LinkPizza posted... adjl posted...If it's stuff that was obviously cut out to sell back at a premium rather than having the balls to increase the price of the game? As far as my logic there goes, sort of. It does mean they're offering the option to buy the whole game up-front, but they're still painting it as being some sort of premium bonus instead of just being the intact game. Season passes also run into the issue that they're often effectively a pre-order for content that hasn't been previewed at all, which turns me off of them. That said, I have bought season passes when I had reason to trust that they'd be worthwhile. -For Borderlands 2, I was sufficiently impressed with the DLC for the first game that I trusted the new stuff would be good and went for the season pass (at that point, I believe only the first two campaigns were out) -For MK8, adding another 50% of the game's tracks for only $12 was guaranteed to be a good deal if the tracks were any decent, and given the track record (heh) they established with the ones already in the game, I was willing to make that gamble. -For Hyrule Warriors, I bought the season pass when the first two packs were out, knowing that even just the Adventure Mode maps they were adding were a massive amount of additional content, and it'd be worthwhile. Those are the only examples I can think of. I considered the one for Xenoblade 2, especially once more of the content had come out and it was seeming worthwhile, but now that it's all been released (and looks very worthwhile) it's not really a gamble anymore. I'll probably buy that at some point. Mostly, it just boils down to whether or not I feel I can trust that the season pass will be worth the money. Usually, it's too much of a gamble. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | "Only a Sith talks in absolutes!" |
| adjl 09/25/18 11:57:41 AM #8 | Troll_Police_ posted... Try not. Do or do not. There is no try. The total collapse of the Jedi order and a couple decades of solitude presumably convinced him to stop seeing things so dichotomously. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Who else will riot if RDR2 does not flop. |
| adjl 09/25/18 11:52:33 AM #40 | WastelandCowboy posted... If this was the case, they wouldnt have released GTAV on PC. They released GTAV before GTA Online became literally the most lucrative piece of entertainment ever made on the back of its microtransactions. They've tasted what they can have if people can't just mod things into the game, and I'd be very surprised if they were willing to relinquish that. WastelandCowboy posted... I would be very surprised if they dont release it for PC. If they do, the announcement won't come until the revenue stream from the console versions dries up, and that could be quite a while. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Who else will riot if RDR2 does not flop. |
| adjl 09/25/18 11:38:01 AM #37 | Lokarin posted... I read that as R2D2 twice... and was like "there's no way they're gunna make that a movie that's hella stupid" I only stopped reading it as R2D2 after reading your post and going back to read it 3-4 more times. Lokarin posted... Also RDR2 is going to flop anyways 'cuz they're self-cucking to meet the weak power of the modern consoles when they could do anything they want on PC Given that it's 2K, I can pretty much guarantee that the only reason they're steering clear of PC's is because they know PC users can just mod the game instead of paying for microtransactions. It's nothing to do with system power and everything to do with what will allow them to best milk their audience. VixYW posted... aHappySacka posted...Well the thing about microtransactions is that you don't have to buy them, and as long as you they don't inhib gameplay like what EA pulled then I don't see the issue. Pretty much. As much as publishers like to trot out the "player choice" and "it's optional" defenses whenever they're criticized for implementing such systems, they want players to choose to buy microtransactions. Nobody is going to try to sell you something they don't want you to buy. When the person selling you stuff also has complete control over the game that might motivate you to buy that stuff, you can pretty much guarantee the game's going to be designed to minimize how optional those microtransactions really are, stopping just short of turning people away entirely. They'll present microtransactions as an option for people who want to skip the grind, but they're the ones that chose to make the game grindy in the first place. You can still refuse to buy them, but there's a very good chance that you'll have a lesser game experience for that refusal, which is why I just don't want to give them the money in the first place. There are enough other games out there that haven't been deliberately hobbled for the sake of making more money. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | I support the 2nd amendment, but... |
| adjl 09/25/18 11:36:25 AM #53 | Kyuubi4269 posted... lol "I don't like your attitude, you must be a god damn lesser!" It's not so much "lesser" as it is "somebody who shouldn't be trusted with deadly weaponry." I'm just interested in public safety; you're the one who tried to inject some sort of personal judgement into the matter. Also, you're very much kidding yourself if you think such assignments wouldn't be based on "I don't like your attitude" if such a system were ever implemented. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Democrat is OUTRAGED that her DAUGHTER apparently OFFENDED people wearing THIS! |
| adjl 09/25/18 11:34:38 AM #14 | LinkPizza posted... I understand that she may have broken the school dress code. If that's the reason, just say that. Don't talk about how boys may be looking at he knee. The thing is, citing the dress code usually leads to people challenging the dress code and wanting an explanation for why a given rule is there. I guess they just skipped that intermediate step. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | "Only a Sith talks in absolutes!" |
| adjl 09/25/18 11:33:00 AM #2 | It's pretty obviously hypocritical, but that could be seen as the point, given that one of the biggest problems the Jedi Order had was that they were so far up their own self-righteous ass that they couldn't see that they were resembling the Sith in many ways. But then that would be suggesting that the PT had any sort of narrative subtlety, which is questionable. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
| Topic | Your thoughts on DLC |
| adjl 09/25/18 11:31:27 AM #33 | It's a good concept, but it's frequently abused. So long as it's actual extra content and not just stuff that you need to buy to feel like you're getting some semblance of a complete game, I'm cool with it, and I'll buy it if I think it'll be worthwhile. If it's stuff that was obviously cut out to sell back at a premium rather than having the balls to increase the price of the game? Less so. If it's largely pointless frills like extra costumes? I might buy it if I've really enjoyed the game and want to support the developer, but again, that's only true if that's not the only way to attain such things (i.e. Borderlands 2 having several costume DLC's, but also plenty of costume options in the base game (though I didn't buy any of the costume DLC there)). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. |
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