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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I once thought I saw a trailer for a movie called Mogwai. It turned out to be the live action Jungle Book. I was incredibly confused.

Actually, there was a Netflix series/movie (I forget which) called Mowgli that was a separate live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

So hate crime adds, what, 12 years?

An open, unrepentant threat to a large number of people? Yeah, sounds about right.

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Judgmenl posted...

But I wanted the cards tho.

Oh boy! Cards! I, too, love spending a minute listing something that may or may not sell for less than 5 cents. Going out of my way to do something I don't enjoy to earn such cards is such a worthwhile effort!

Yeah...

Judgmenl posted...

Who has played any of these games, they're all trash.

-You haven't played any of them and therefore can't assess much of anything
-You don't like anything, making your dislike of something even more meaningless

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Tha_Man_DS posted...

This (aka 16,7%) is the only correct answer.

That is the chance of rolling a 6 on the Nth roll. That's not what he's asking. He's asking the chance of rolling one 6 in N rolls, which very much is not 1/6 unless N=1. The Gambler's Fallacy is a matter of thinking that the next roll is more likely to be 6 because the last five rolls haven't been, not a matter of thinking that you're more likely to see at least one 6 in 100 rolls than in 1 roll.

Judgmenl posted...
At least someone was paying attention in stats to understand what a binomial distribution was.

Most of my practice with this didn't come from stats so much as from video games. I often calculated these probabilities to figure out how unlucky I'd been to not have seen a certain item drop yet in WoW, as well as using the corresponding logarithmic equation to figure out roughly how many runs a given item could be expected to take. WoW was a long time ago (I quit in July 2009), but these principles still come up often enough in other games that I'll break out the calculator now and then.

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wwinterj25 posted...

Breaking dress codes is not acceptable.

Legalistic morality is a terribly lazy way to approach such matters. More often than not (especially when it comes to schools), dress codes are completely arbitrary, with no practical consequences for violating them beyond whatever punishment has been arbitrarily attached to that violation. To prioritize that over a religious belief (which are often similarly arbitrary, but a central component of how one lives one's life and therefore more meaningful at a personal level) is just silly. Requiring him to shave to be a firefighter or work in some other job that requires respirator use? Sure. That's a practical reason. But here, there's nothing beyond "do it because I said so" from a handful of school administrators who are throwing their weight around.

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Can also be a big mistake if you don't wait for the heavy meal to digest before exercising.

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So you mostly just voted for a bunch of games you haven't played. You know you can just not vote, right?

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Sounds pretty reasonable, though he would probably benefit more from having his psychotic delusions treated than from being in jail.

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dedbus posted...

Thought reboot was rebooted already.

A new show was created using the same name. Calling it a reboot, however, does a hideous disservice to the original.

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

L2CableManagement.

This. My headphone's attached via an extension cord that runs across the top of my desk to the back of the computer. None of the cord is ever on the floor to be run over. It'll occasionally get caught in the armrest, which is annoying, but nothing so bad as what you're describing.

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streamofthesky posted...

The odds of getting at least one 6 would be 1 - (5/6)^n
(and of course, multiple by 100 at the end to turn the decimal into a percentage)

So for six rolls, that would be 66.5%

This. (1/6)^n would give you the chance of rolling N sixes in N rolls.

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"We're asking for your thoughts and prayers to help ressurrect her through the power of faith.

Also please send us some money just in case we need it kthx."

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Judgmenl posted...

I'm straight-edge to the point where anything that could modify my judgment is dangerous.

Do you realize that list would include sleeping more/less than you're used to, eating a different amount/at a different time/different food than you're used to, and interacting with anyone at all?

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Probably Monster Hunter, though I don't know what the future for the series is after World made so many changes (some for the better, some less so).

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

The ultimate snake already existed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanoboa

They weren't very ultimate if they all died, now were they?

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helIy posted...

It could be argued that taking someone out to dinner or a movie could be considering buying sex, especially if it ends with sex.

It can, but that's not quite so direct as "I'll buy you a sandwich if you sleep with me." The line between prostitution and dating can get a bit blurry, but I would agree that this guy crossed it.

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helIy posted...

Y'know, after actually playing it, it's a much better experience to watch someone else play it.

Nah, I quite enjoyed being a dick myself. Sure, a lot of the entertainment does come from visual gags that are just as entertaining if somebody else is playing, but it's no substitute for personally coming up with ridiculous ways to piss the people off.

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dedbus posted...

"Seducing" a male sex addict. The word seducing implies some level of effort but this is fishing in a barrel where the fish pull the gun out of your hands and shoot themselves lol.

I mean, it is a porn plot. Having actual challenge or conflict involved in the story would only get in the way of what everyone's there to see.

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Untitled Goose Game, if you don't mind doctors giving you a funny look as you laugh hysterically in a hospital.

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JOExHIGASHI posted...

It makes it not hard to have fun

This.

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I guess probably my first one, which was a 1998-era Samsung flip phone with an antenna I could pull out. No camera and texts were limited to 120 characters, which was pretty limiting. That one died in 2011 (rubber bit around the microphone degraded and clogged it up so I couldn't be heard in phone calls, which made it pretty useless), and I replaced it with another Samsung flip phone that had a camera and could send longer texts, which was nice. That one had a hinge crack and wear out after 8 years and I just replaced it this summer with an LG G7 One. No complaints yet.

Of course, that first one was really only the worst because the technology has improved since then, so I'm not sure that's the fairest comparison.

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Sahuagin posted...

I'm begrudgingly planning to upgrade

This. As much as I'd love to stick with 7, not having updates leaves me more vulnerable than I'd like. I've got 10 on my laptop already, and it's rather bothersome in some ways, but I've at least gotten used to it already.

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Mead posted...

Havent gotten one yet, Ive actually yet to be pulled over

Im actually that white

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By most objective measures, I'm extremely intelligent, but that really doesn't matter in day-to-day life. There are plenty of people who know far more than me in certain subjects and/or are innately more predisposed toward certain tasks (to say nothing of the importance of practicing such tasks), despite being "less intelligent" on paper, so it's not like I have any basis for claiming that I'm better than them. Everyone's got talents, mine just happen to include a high IQ and borderline eidetic memory.

DPsx7 posted...

I had a few advanced classes in school.

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Sahuagin posted...

I don't like the concept of smart/not-smart honestly. I think it usually actually comes down to patience not something like IQ. I think some people have been told so many times that they're not smart that they've lost all willingness to even try as soon as something seems even the tiniest bit complicated, and it triggers a sort of anxiety in them. if you can get them to actually try, anyone can understand anything if both people have the patience for working through it.

Pretty much. There are some things people just have mental blocks on (often seen with math), where even patiently working through it isn't enough to succeed, but for the most part, "you're not smart" boils down to "you can't do this as fast as most people so you shouldn't try," which doesn't help anyone except the teachers that are too lazy to do their jobs properly.

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That "more topics" section really needs to have an expiry date shorter than the auto-purge time.

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NightMareBunny posted...

not gonna happen with nintendo seeing mario kart as the only viable exclusive racing game

It's less that they want to focus on Mario Kart and more that Miyamoto doesn't believe there's any room to improve on GX and therefore wants to close the book on the series rather than create something he knows will be inferior. Given that basically nobody at Nintendo is in a position to say no to Miyamoto, new F-Zero doesn't happen.

Now, why a GX remake doesn't happen, I'm not sure. Surely re-releasing perfection wouldn't be as much of a problem as trying to create a sequel to it would be.

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Which is honestly pretty useless information and just spoils their fun of trying to surprise you.

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A world without legislated holiday pay.

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Judgmenl posted...

You are forced to use the platform of choice, which only strengthens certain tech monopolies, and confuses or misleads consumers into false beliefs, or that there is no "other choice".

So you can't play certain games without buying the platform they're locked to? Yeah, I'm really not seeing where you're getting that that's analogous to forced, unpaid labour. Especially where PC games still exist and can be played on a wide variety of systems, so even that "forced to use the platform of choice" thing is nonsense.

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As much as I'd love to see EBA return, there's really no way it could ever measure up to Osu!, so it's probably for the best that it remains asleep.

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darcandkharg31 posted...

Lies, how can they be sharp if they're flat? checkmate Atheists.

Triangular blades have only one corner. Square blades have two, for double the cutting power. Let us pray we never see an octagonal blade.

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Zeus posted...

How much of their sentence had been served at the time of the pardon?

Far-Queue posted...

Mr Baker had served just two years of his 17-year sentence when Mr Bevin pardoned him on 9 December.

Far-Queue posted...

He also pardoned a man who was sentenced to 23 years in prison last year for raping a 9-year-old child.

That's not all of them, but there are two answers if you keep reading.

Zeus posted...

And, broadly speaking, life in prison should be reserved for people who represent a permanent threat to society, which is a pretty f***ing small list. Somebody who just does a horrible thing should get a reasonable set number of years.

There is indeed an argument to be made for lighter, rehabilitation-focused prison sentences, rather than the "tough on crime" attitude many Americans are so fond of, but using pardons to effect such a paradigm shift definitely is not the way to go about it, nor is there any reason at all to suspect that's what's going on here (and not just because most of the people listed were not serving life sentences). I know you love to play devil's advocate and all, but the guy literally pardoned somebody who raped a 9-year-old. You don't want to try defending that.

Playsaver posted...
Oddly enough I didn't think there was a republican worse then Mr. Trump.

Oh, there definitely are. As much as Trump is a bumbling douchebag of a president, his motivations are pretty much entirely limited to incompetent narcissism. There are and have always been politicians far more corrupt and outright evil than him, and that's unlikely to ever change.

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HornedLion posted...

But usually theyre bitching about abortions, war on Christmas, gay rights, etc.

Eeyup. I see nothing wrong with letting those particular voices be drowned out like the minority they are instead of being given more political legitimacy than they democratically deserve. But then I'd be singing the praises of the electoral college if it worked the other way and was enabling progress toward things like gay marriage's legalization (presuming that would not have already happened in such an inverted world), so I can't exactly claim impartiality there.

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HornedLion posted...

Are the needs/wants of those in rural areas really THAT much different?

In some ways. Infrastructure requirements differ pretty considerably. The biggest difference is the sorts of industries that dominate the areas, so if you start getting into federal subsidies, there'll be some differences of opinions. In the grand scheme of things, though, the basic needs aren't really that different and most of the political divide between urban and rural stems from being culturally conservative/liberal.

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Lokarin posted...

Dangass 7.23, ruinin' everything

The Nethertoxin change is quite a bit older than 7.23, actually. It was 7.07 (two years ago) that changed it from the old passive to a targeted AoE (which applied break and reduced magic resist). 7.07 also changed Poison Attack from a flat DoT to one based on missing health, which kind of took over Nethertoxin's old functionality (though it no longer helped with last hitting). 7.23 tweaked both abilities to have Poison Attack stack flat damage and reduce magic resist, while removing the magic resist debuff from Nethertoxin and giving it accelerating damage. I haven't tried the new Viper, but it seems like they're trying to design him around the idea of getting stronger the longer a fight goes on (which old Nethertoxin did) without encouraging him to just pick off survivors after a fight instead of actively participating.

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Mead posted...

Its their stuff, give it back to them or youre just a jerk imo

Pretty much. Really, any break up process should include asking each other what they want back (and then listening to the answer), presuming you're both being mature and sensible about it.

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Lokarin posted...

The reason you'd back up to Viper is for his ability to extremely punish weakened targets and punishing chasers. Thanks to toxins you don't have to worry about last hit timing as much, but rather positioning.

They changed Viper, none of his abilities provide bonuses based on missing health anymore. His Poison Attack is now a stacking DoT/Slow/magic resistance debuff and the new Nethertoxin is an AoE DoT with a built-in break and damage that ramps up as targets stand in it.

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Mead posted...

Rural areas should not have anywhere close to the same representation, because there are fewer people there.

in democracy people are what matter, not areas of land

Which has the potential to create a country where non-urban living sucks because those living outside of urban areas effectively have no political voice. Yeah, it means individuals' interests aren't necessarily represented democratically, but it allows groups' interests to be, which is arguably a more effective way to run a country. In theory, at least. Again, the actual execution leaves a lot to be desired, particularly where the whole distinction between federal, state, and municipal jurisdictions should already allow for different regions to be governed differently if that's what will work better for them.

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TheWitchMorgana posted...

can someone help me find a chicken stock that doesn't have salt or chicken in it

Stock shouldn't have salt in it. Salt should be added during the process of seasoning the soup. If your stock has salt to begin with, that becomes the minimum amount of salt your soup will have, regardless of your seasoning needs.

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HornedLion posted...

Me and my coworker already went there. I told him that the electoral college is a dumb relic that needs to be no more. And he said there was a very important reason for it, and then neglected to inform me of that reason. Instead he went somewhere else.

Thats another pattern Ive noticed about these folks. They can never stay on one topic. They immediately jump to others. They just recite GOP talking points without knowing what they actually mean.

The best justification that I've heard is that it mitigates the ability for urban areas (which have higher population densities) to overpower rural areas, since people's priorities tend to differ based on what sort of work they do (which, in turn, tends to differ by area). Rather than risking having a bunch of unhappy farmers whose voice is never heard over that of the IT folks that crowd into cities, the farmers get more weight to their votes to attempt to balance it out.

Now, is that accomplished by the current state of the electoral college? Couldn't tell you. Probably not, given the tendency toward gerrymandering and football politics over addressing real issues. But that's the theory, and I don't think that theory is entirely without merit.

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I should really stop slacking and buy the first one. I really don't need any new games, but it's one that's been piquing my interest since it came out. I just never actually take the plunge whenever a sale rolls around.

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When a game is addictive, it's usually because it has high replayability and a consistent sense of progression or being rewarded, both of which are often considered to be good things. It also means you're likely to get a lot of play time out of it, giving a greater sense of value.

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I could count on one hand the number of EA games I've played in the last decade. I guess Mass Effect is the only one that's part of a larger IP that I might want to continue some day, although I intend to buy Dragon Age one of these days.

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Zareth posted...

Did... did they really censor a crude outline of a penis made from Christmas lights?

It looked like they mosaic'd it, but the MS Paint white blotches all over the pictures are Duckbear's attempt to avoid getting modded.

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I recently spent about a week and a half battling a nasty cold, and I should really get back on my asthma meds because I notice their absence whenever I exercise, but otherwise I'm in good health. No major complaints.

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zebatov posted...

You cant break rules because you cant control yourself and expect someone else to get in trouble.

Precisely. That's why you get modded for trolling.

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Raddest_Chad posted...

Industrialization is the issue. So it's really just the rich countries to blame. The USSR polluted a lot, and wasn't capitalist. The undeveloped ones that were basically stone-age tech when Europeans showed up hadn't changed for thousands of years and weren't going to anytime soon, if ever.

Pretty much. The issue is industrial growth, which happens regardless of which economic system is employed.

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zebatov posted...

This picture is a great example of what Ive said in the past about how trolling actually cant be a thing. Trolling couldnt be successful if other people took responsibility for their own actions.

Taking responsibility for their own emotions doesn't mean people have to like listening to somebody deliberately trying to piss them off. Trolling can absolutely be a thing, a thing which causes nobody to like you and to want you to go away.

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GreenKnight127 posted...

They assumed the kid was a racist, sexist, Nazi, bigot. So the beating was apparently justified in their warped minds.

TDS hard at work.

Most people have agreed that beating the kid up was wrong. The position is more along the lines of "this is to be expected if he was as racist as his mother sounds," not "I'm glad he got beaten up." That said, it's a lot harder to be sympathetic toward somebody who got hurt after antagonizing people to the point of inciting violence than it is to be sympathetic to a more innocent victim.

Although, given the age, I am actually pretty sympathetic to the kid, regardless of the circumstances. If he was being a racist prick to such an extent as to elicit a beating, that's coming pretty much entirely from his upbringing. He hasn't been around long enough to learn to be racist on his own, meaning he's a victim of both this beating and some garbage parenting. That's just sad.

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