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DPsx7 posted...

infect

Lol.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Nah, guitar hero is basically the 21st century version and that's dead, I think.

Only in the sense that it's the most mainstream rhythm game, and it's only dead because it got milked to death with multiple releases every year. There's still a niche for quality rhythm games, just not much drive to make them because they are niche titles (especially ones that require extra peripherals) and therefore aren't likely to make all that much money.
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This one time, I was sitting at the entrance to a roundabout, waiting for my turn to go, and a pickup truck drives around it, towing an open trailer filled with a couple dozen toilets. Not in boxes, not obviously broken, just a bunch of loose, seemingly-intact toilets. It was kind of surreal.
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Zeus posted...

Which, as I mentioned, seem more related to his upbringing and environment than any actual mental illness,

Do you think upbringing and environment can't contribute to genuine mental illness?
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TheWorstPoster posted...

adjl posted...

The fetus isn't, but the uterus is. Women's reproductive organs - which are heavily and inextricably involved in the gestation process - are a part of their bodies.

So terminating the fetus, therefore, would be considered homicide, since it involves the death of another person.

Surely you're not going to suggest that effecting the death of another person is always considered homicide.
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Zeus posted...

However, if you do think he has an actual problem, then you should be encouraging him to seek professional care to determine if such a problem exists and the best steps to remedy it so he can live a happier life.

I would, if such efforts wouldn't be completely futile. There are some walls even I won't bother banging my head against.

HelIWithoutSin posted...

Except he's never cited any kind of disabilities for reasons why he doesn't work.

You say this, but then you go on to list a variety of examples of his paranoia and distorted sense of reality. He hasn't cited any disabilities himself, no, but it's really not much of a jump to infer that he's not the most mentally healthy person around.
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Aculo posted...

_AdjI_ posted...

Pro-choice, but I don't like abortions.

does anyone really like abortions? what an odd thing to say, ok?

Well, no. It was indeed an odd way to say it. Just pay attention to the part where I talk about how it should be a last resort and there should be programs to help prevent those unwanted pregnancies from happening in the first place to minimize the number that end up needing to happen.

TheWorstPoster posted...

It's not their bodies.

The fetus isn't, but the uterus is. Women's reproductive organs - which are heavily and inextricably involved in the gestation process - are a part of their bodies.

I know you don't have the most experience in these matters, but I would have thought you'd at least know that much.

The_tall_midget posted...

The fact that some people need abortions (other than life or death cases AKA : ridiculous minority) shows that you more than likely aren't capable of making intelligent choices anyway.

So you want them raising children?
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rogerskg1979 posted...

I think its more an argument that Darwinism doesn't really work anymore since we coddle the weak nowadays instead of letting "survival of the fittest" work things out naturally. Someone like NMB wouldn't make it if Darwinism still worked like its supposed to work.

Evolution does not have a "supposed to." It simply happens, with no goal or direction of any sort. Organisms which succeed are fit, regardless of how you'd like to define "fitness."

Furthermore, "survival of the fittest" is not an accurate summary of Darwinian principles. Darwinian principles are more along the lines of "the fitter organism will have greater reproductive success," and that is not in any way being violated by anything demonstrated here. Those principles can only be applied retrospectively: if NMB dies with fewer children than you have by the time you die, then he is less fit than you. If he has more children by the time you both die, he is fitter than you. Trying to act like Darwinism is anything more than that is just fundamentally misunderstanding biology and trying to rely on that misunderstanding to help you feel superior.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Ethanol is in all kinds of drinks, but beer and their ilk are specifically "gross fermented s***".

All drinks that have ethanol in them have been fermented to some extent or another. That's how the ethanol gets in there; nobody makes a drink by buying a bottle of 100% ethanol from Fisher and mixing it in (well, virtually nobody).
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rogerskg1979 posted...

He doesn't seem to have any real disability that would prevent him from actually working

Mental disabilities are disabilities too, and NMB's definitely got a touch of agoraphobia mixed in there with his other issues.
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HIV transmission rates are roughly 40 times higher for somebody receiving anal sex than somebody receiving vaginal sex, primarily due to the lack of natural lubrication in the anus (resulting in more irritation and a higher risk of coming into contact with blood). That's a simple fact.

That fact, however, doesn't mean anal sex is a bad idea. It means you should be careful about your choice of partners, and use condoms whenever you're with somebody who you don't know for certain is clean, but really, that's good practice no matter where you're sticking your dick. Citing that statistic for the purpose of criticizing gay men is indeed homophobic.
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$558.96

A bit more than the last time I made an effort to estimate it, but within expectations. The actual value is much higher because of other bundles and gifts and the like.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Since we don't know czech time

Man, if only you had access to a repository of all human knowledge including maps and lists of which countries fall into which time zones so you could contextualize that information yourself. That'd be so handy.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

Kyuubi4269 posted...

It's pretty well accepted you shouldn't drink alcohol yet most people do anyway.

https://www.everydayhealth.com/pictures/ways-beer-good-you/

I said alcohol, not gross fermented shit.

If you were talking specifically about ethanol outside of fermented beverages, then your statement that most people drink it is false. The vast majority of people who drink any form of alcohol do so in the form of a fermented beverage. Other solutions of ethanol tend to be laced with something like methanol to make them more toxic and discourage people from drinking them.
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zebatov posted...

To me, and clearly many others, it's dead.

"Dead" is not a subjective assessment, though. "I've lost interest," sure, and I'd accept "dead to me" as an established idiom meaning the same thing, but the series objectively is not dead. A series cannot be both rampantly successful and dead, unless the publishers made a voluntary decision to kill it off despite that success (though in that case, "retired" would probably be a more apt term, but there's much less precedent for using it like that).

I get that you were just trying to make a pun, but that's not an excuse for saying objectively false things.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

adjl posted...

I've been spoiled by mostly listening to Symphony Hall, since classical pieces are so long and the talking breaks between them are almost always just interesting historical tidbits that contextualize the pieces. Listening to other channels where you get through 3-4 songs in ten minutes and the DJ starts talking again is just obnoxious.

Still better than commercials, though.

Symphony Hall is my default, but a close second is On Broadway, which is show-tunes and pretty much the opposite of 10-minute orchestras; a lot of these songs are like 1-2 minutes and they only do 2-3 at a time, so they get interrupted ALL THE TIME.

I defaulted to On Broadway for a while, but drifted away for pretty much exactly that reason. It was a nice variety of music, and usually pretty entertaining, but there was just too much talking about the goings-on in the world of Broadway and not enough just playing the music. I did at least like that those interruptions tended to be at least somewhat relevant to what was being played, though, and not just a pointless "That was like my favourite song." The decade-specific channels (5-10) are pretty bad for that.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Doctor Foxx posted...

The healthiest vegan diet is high carb

You can live on nuts and avocados, but vegans in general (the topic at hand) don't.

High carb=/=exclusively carbs. It's pretty well accepted that a healthy vegetarian or vegan diet needs some beans and nuts and the like in there to get the required protein/fats. Carbs can still make up the bulk of one's calories without completely neglecting other macronutrients. Especially when those carbs are reasonably varied instead of being primarily fructose (sucrose is 50% fructose, HFCS even more so), which messes with the body by bypassing a major insulin-dependent step in carbohydrate metabolism.
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Ogurisama posted...

I love how some people complain about something that they got for free

To be fair, it's a free trial, and he's expressing his opinion on the idea of continuing to pay for the service beyond that trial period. That's pretty reasonable.
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Zangulus posted...

adjl posted...

Inflation and increases in ticket prices don't change the fact that that's a 775% profit margin. Sure, other movies have been more successful than that, but to call a series extinct because it's only managing to make 8 times what it cost to produce is absurd. They are unambiguously successful movies.

Now, this does not mean you have to like them. You're perfectly free to like or not like movies regardless of how successful they are. Just don't confuse "I don't like this" with "this was a flop," because your opinion has virtually no bearing on how successful a movie is.

I really want to know what the original context of that gif was.
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zebatov posted...

Zangulus posted...

Extinct.
Two movies that gross 2.8Billion on 320Million budgets.

You seriously like being wrong dont you.

Ticket price is up over 200% from twenty years ago + inflation. Those numbers don't impress most people with half a brain.

Just because people like to waste their money on trash doesn't mean it's not trash.

"Beating a dead horse" = extinct.

Inflation and increases in ticket prices don't change the fact that that's a 775% profit margin. Sure, other movies have been more successful than that, but to call a series extinct because it's only managing to make 8 times what it cost to produce is absurd. They are unambiguously successful movies.

Now, this does not mean you have to like them. You're perfectly free to like or not like movies regardless of how successful they are. Just don't confuse "I don't like this" with "this was a flop and the series is dead now," because your opinion has virtually no bearing on how successful a movie is.
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I've been spoiled by mostly listening to Symphony Hall, since classical pieces are so long and the talking breaks between them are almost always just interesting historical tidbits that contextualize the pieces. Listening to other channels where you get through 3-4 songs in ten minutes and the DJ starts talking again is just obnoxious.

Still better than commercials, though.
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BlackScythe0 posted...

I don't see how it makes any difference. Games are going to be developed for which ever console is weakest.

Pretty much, especially with half-generation upgrades like the Pro, X, and N3DS. The only time you're going to see a title make use of the more powerful system is if it's an exclusive, and even then it's only going to be a handful of "please buy our upgrade please" titles that end up really taking advantage of the more powerful iteration of that system. No developer is going to prioritize making their game the prettiest over being able to sell their game to ten times more people unless they're being compensated for sacrificing those sales.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

but you can't argue he wasn't trying to protect his daughter,

He started a firefight while she was right behind him.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Imagine comparing Sirius to cable

Sirius has far more useful channels than cable does

Not to mention being commercial free (aside from the occasional ad for other channels). Are there useless channels? Of course, but personally I feel I get enough out of it to justify the cost.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

He did try to protect his daughter. By barricading the door, pointing a gun at the intruder and keeping his body between the intruder and her.

I have neither enough faces nor enough palms to adequately respond to this.
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Hookworms typically live in the intestine. The larva will burrow through the skin on their way there (hatch in soil-->burrow through skin of feet to get into the bloodstream-->travel to lungs-->mature in lungs-->get coughed up with phlegm and swallowed back down to end up in GI tract-->latch on to intestinal wall to drink blood and lay eggs that get pooped out), but having enough of them living in the skin to constitute a proper infection is pretty unusual. There are plenty of other parasites that live in the skin, but I wouldn't have expected hookworms.
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GanglyKhan posted...

All I can tell you guys is that cucumbers are better than carrots for certain things.

Really depends what girth you're used to. The tapering of carrots is good if you're just easing into things.
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LinkPizza posted...

I think most people have something about their body that they don't like. But nobody is perfect. I'm fine with how I look for the most part. So, it's all good...

Sounds about right. Could I look better? Sure. But I'm happy enough that I'm not self-conscious about it.
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Vitamin A is good for your vision. If you are deficient in vitamin A, getting more will improve the visual impairments associated with that deficiency. It will not improve visual impairments caused by other problems, because it won't fix those problems. Due to their beta-carotene content, carrots are a good source of vitamin A, but they are not the only source. Ingesting more beta-carotene than you actually need won't help you at all, because it'll just get peed out instead of being converted into the vitamin form (or in extreme cases, accumulate harmlessly in the blood and turn you orange).
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J_Dawg983 posted...

These results are skewed, everyone knows ico doesnt drink and thats why there are so many nos.

I don't think that's necessarily a biasing factor so much as it is a good reason to say no. On numerous occasions, he's shown himself to be highly judgemental toward the idea of drinking and those who drink. There's really no reason to believe that he wouldn't act that way toward anyone he was having a drink with, and nobody wants to deal with that when they're trying to enjoy a refreshing beverage.

Granted, Zeus is the same way (albeit in a more socially competent and marginally-less-abrasive fashion) and he almost managed to break even, so who knows what people are taking into account here?
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InhumaneRaider posted...

Mead posted...

InhumaneRaider posted...

Maybe stop getting fake ass breasts?

Thatll stop the hockey pucks! Theyd never strike a real boob

Who said it would've stop the puck? As of now, due to her fake breasts, she's dealing with a ruptured implant. What are you on about?

And without implants, all of that energy would have gone into her breast tissue and potentially caused even more damage. Not having implants would prevent her from ever needing surgery to address a ruptured implant, obviously, but there's no reason to presume they're the only reason she needs medical attention after being hit by a hockey puck.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

does she think she will ever be seen as more than a pornstar? she's not going to be taken seriously/thought of as a reporter

Which is really kind of dumb. Seeing somebody have sex is no reason to take them less seriously, as often as that does happen.
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Aculo posted...

adjl posted...

I would guess that, if it's a front for anything, it's for trafficking her. I really don't want to dig into the account to enough of an extent to do anything to confirm that suspicion, for obvious reasons, but that seems like the most plausible conclusion from the information given.

not saying you're wrong, but what is making all these people convinced that's the reason?

*Shrug*

Like I said, I don't really feel like digging through the account to confirm anything. There's a reasonable chance that there's no actual reason to believe it, and the only reason you're seeing the response you are is that somebody saw the possibility raised somewhere and decided to jump straight to bringing as many people in on their outrage as possible. Or maybe they saw something more credible, like a link to the account in a more trafficking-tastic context or the opinion of a psychologist who specializes in children in such situations. I really don't know enough to say one way or the other. You can either ignore it and go about your life, or you can dig a bit deeper to see if it's something you want to get involved with.
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Romn91 posted...

A religion is about sacrificing 100 virgins each year. And yeah its messed up but what can we do about it?.

Let them in under the condition that they not sacrifice anyone, then jail and deport them if they do. It's really pretty simple.
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The WiiU Pro controller would get like 80 hours off of a single charge, and I could count on my fingers the number of times I've changed a Wavebird's batteries. Wiimotes are another story, and I find they horribly drain batteries even when they aren't in use, but those aside, Nintendo's controllers have generally been pretty good for battery life.

SinisterSlay posted...

My steam controller lasts a year and a half of gaming on 2 AA batteries.

What's wrong with the Nintendo Switch controllers?

If you aren't subjecting them to particularly high discharge rates, non-rechargeable batteries tend to last longer than rechargeable ones, especially in the case of lithium ion (which are used because they're small and lightweight; they're actually pretty bad as far as raw capacity goes).
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I would guess that, if it's a front for anything, it's for trafficking her. I really don't want to dig into the account to enough of an extent to do anything to confirm that suspicion, for obvious reasons, but that seems like the most plausible conclusion from the information given.
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Solo, usually in pyjamas (short-sleeved in summer, long-sleeved in winter), unless it's really hot in which case I'll eschew the shirt. With my girlfriend, depending on whether or not there are other people around, I'll either wear just the pants or nothing at all.
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Zareth posted...

Is it multiplayer yet.

That was one of the big additions in the most recent patch.
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DPsx7 posted...

My first post was 'what's a drake'. It wasn't until people replied that I had to explain.

You didn't have to explain. Your first post was very obviously "Hi guys I ignore pop culture look at me!"
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Lokarin posted...

The problem comes down to a lack of prenatal care.

Pro-life, except when preserving that life would take actual work instead of just shaming women for being dirty .sex-havers
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Because they like it. People have different tastes. Who knew?

DPsx7 posted...

CacciatoPart3 posted...

DPsx7 posted...

What's a drake? Other than Uncharted and a bat creature from Dragon Quest.

I swear to god this an alt account for ICOYAR at this point.

Nope just me. Movies aren't the only form of pop culture I've ignored. Books, movies, sports...

There's not paying attention to pop culture, and then there's deliberately isolating yourself from it and not-so-subtly boasting about that at every possible opportunity.
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Zeus posted...

Huh, guess there is a Cyclops rank. Oo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_titles_and_vocabulary

It really is a shame that the KKK consists of such unmitigated pieces of shit, because their rank titles are actually pretty cool.
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Smarkil posted...

Because you're not arguing to prove a mans innocence. You're arguing to prove that the state/system has not done their job in proving his guilt.

Someone needs to make sure the system isn't fucking up. Defense attorneys are a check against that system.

Pretty much. Lawyers are there to make the prosecution do their homework. If it's easy to prove the defendant's guilt, then they aren't likely to make much of a difference, but are still necessary to make sure the appropriate channels are followed in convicting them. In terms of sentencing, they also act to prevent everyone from getting carried away by their emotions and demanding a harsher sentence than is actually warranted.
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