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Off-hand, I believe I would have to shuffle some plugs around in the power bar to plug a few of the lesser-used ones in (we'll pretend I've used anything other than my Switch and PC since I moved in here six months ago >.>), since there just wasn't room for all of the plugs (no thanks to the giant bricks that some systems want me to plug in), but that's also pretty minor. Like you, I don't want the hassle of hooking up a system to be deterrent from playing one of its games, since the decision is often pretty capricious and I'm just not going to bother if it takes actual work. I think I've managed that.

It is perhaps worth noting, though, that I did opt to leave some bulkier game-specific peripherals in my storage unit instead of keeping them in the apartment. GH guitar, DDR dance mat, DK bongos... stuff that can be used in 1-2 games, tops, which I didn't expect to want any time soon. That is more of a barrier, which is suboptimal, but that's such an obscure, infrequent need that I don't see it being a problem (plus the unit isn't exactly hard to get to).

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darkknight109 posted...

See, I'm the opposite. If I want to play something, I'd like to have it available right then and there, no digging around in closest for controllers or cables or something. Plus, it's not like I'd be using that space for anything else. This is my office/electronics room, not a room where I entertain company that isn't there for the express purpose of gaming.

I've got a setup that I feel is a reasonable compromise. All of my systems are in a cabinet under the TV, with most of them plugged into a power bar, but I only have one of the HDMI ones connected at a time, and the others are hooked up through a 3-way composite switch that they share with the DVD player. I don't have controllers hooked up, though, so those have to be dug out if I want to use a system. Other than that, though, it's a simple matter of swapping the HDMI cable around or selecting the input on the composite switch, which is pretty readily accessible.

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GrabASnickers posted...

It feels like we'll hit a point where general game design sensibilities stop changing a whole lot and it's all just specs.

Indeed. As much as the 360 is as old now as the NES was when the PS2 came out (and the NES was unambiguously a retro system in 2000), gaming changed a whole lot more between 1985 and 2000 than it did between 2005 and 2020, such that I wouldn't call the 360 "retro." There's definitely an element of bias in there because '05-'20 has been a much smaller percentage of my life (~50%) than '85-'00 was at the time (~136%), but I can boot up a game from 2005 and not really notice that much of a difference from any modern game, aside from graphics. That's even more pronounced with how prevalent indie games have become, where there often isn't even a graphical difference because they lack the budget to take advantage of modern graphical capabilities. Controller upgrades have been relatively minor, rather than introducing any major new buttons to add to schemes, and the way those controllers were used hasn't particularly changed, either.

Chronologically, the PSWii60 generation could probably be considered retro, but so many of its games are largely indistinguishable from modern ones if you ignore the graphics that I don't think it's particularly reasonable to call them that. The transition to 3D was the last major paradigm shift in how games were designed, and after a generation of figuring out how that worked (many N64/PS1 games are super dated), not much has changed to really set modern games apart from those of that era.

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I'm inclined to wait because I know the trial process was accelerated, but I also know that it was rigorous enough to meet all the usual standards, plus I really can't think of any reason to expect longer-term side effects than would have been seen in the trial period, so I can't say I'm that worried. Conveniently, where I'm low-enough priority that I won't even be eligible to get it for another several months at the very least, enough doses will have been administered by then to satisfy any skepticism I'm harbouring. I'll be getting it shortly after I become able to.

Zeus posted...

Anybody who expected Biden to take the helm on COVID were sold a bill of goods. For all of his tough talk, in terms of actual performance he's probably done less than Trump.

... He's been in office for less than three weeks. I know Trump set the bar pretty low, and it seemed like Trump wasn't president for most of January because he basically spent the entire month holed up in his room while he masturbated furiously to the dictionary.com page for "fraud," but are you really giving him a hard time for achieving less in half a month than Trump did in ten?

Of course, that's ignoring that he has already started off light years ahead of Trump because the country now has a president that isn't deliberately downplaying the virus by insisting that it doesn't exist, trying to falsify numbers, or staging public appearances while infected to diminish the seriousness of his condition. Whatever Biden has or hasn't done to help the response along, he hasn't actively harmed it, which is more than can be said for Trump. I'd gladly take a president whose entire response was "no comment" over one that actively sabotaged public health agencies' ability to accomplish anything by creating a culture of distrust and defiance, and Biden's already surpassed even that bare minimum of a standard.

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We got somewhere in the range of 20-30 cm last night.

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

The worst part is that there is a lot of good stuff coming out of China and Taiwan, but it's like funding a diamond in the rough in a sea of poor quality crap and straight up counterfeits and clones.

Is this post from 1990? It's not remotely hard to find quality stuff coming out of China or Taiwan these days, including most of the components in the device you're using to post. The "China makes cheap garbage" attitude stems from a time when China was just starting to become a manufacturing powerhouse, and their strengths lay purely in their population (which offered a near-infinite supply of labour with no need for competitive wages) instead of in having significant manufacturing infrastructure. These days, they've established enough infrastructure and developed enough expertise that they're no less capable of producing quality goods than America is, except with the added bonuses of a large population (which makes it easy to find specialists and operate on a larger scale) and a blatant disregard for human rights (allowing lower wages and less money spent on silly things like making sure workers don't freeze to death on the job) keeping costs down.

There's still plenty of cheap crap coming out of China, certainly, but there's plenty of cheap crap coming out of every country that does any manufacturing, including America. This is because there's a demand for cheap crap, and there will continue to be such a demand until it's made illegal to sell anything with a warranty of less than 5 years (which won't happen, as much as that's really the only solution to humanity's plastic problem). It's nothing to do with China.

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I'd written off the DE because I never actually finished all of the DLC maps in the original, and it seemed like a waste to rebuy content I hadn't played yet even if there's some extra stuff on top of that, but I hadn't realized just how extensive a content update the DE was. I may actually have to pick this up at some point, though I should probably play AoC first and that'll probably satisfy my need for Warriors for a while.

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I started playing Grim Dawn a couple days ago, having played it a couple years prior and drifted away. I've since been gifted one of the DLC's, and I bought the remaining two over Christmas, so I'm diving back in with all the content. I wouldn't say I'm at the mindless grinding part yet, since I'm still working my way through the story on Normal and haven't gotten to any real farming, but I'll get there.

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KJ StErOiDs posted...

And the cash is a bad bribe because the resettling alone would probably cost me over $10k.

This is my thought. It probably wouldn't actually cost me 10k to move, but the mere moving expenses alone would put a very significant dent in the incentive, especially considering that I'd be moving to a different country. Toss in lost wages from the time such a move would take, and I'd probably still be in the hole. This is really only going to be a reasonable offer for somebody that was already considering a move to such a place, for whom this makes that move more feasible and may help them off the fence.

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There's a Booza place here (run by a refugee from Homs) that I tried out on a whim, and it was really neat. Kind of a chewy texture, but not tough, and still definitely ice cream. I also think I impressed the guy by going for the rose flavoured stuff, since that's very much not a typical white people flavour >.>

Muscles posted...

How are people voting ice cream over frozen custard? It's like ice cream but creamier

Good ice cream is frozen custard (specifically creme anglaise, not pastry cream), just churned during the freezing process to soften it.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

Considering it's a previously unused type of vaccine, there's no known "normal" response.

Except, you know, for the norms that have been established by the trial process and the millions of doses already delivered. The fact that the trials were accelerated means we don't know about any really long-term (6+ months) effects it might have, but there's also no particular reason to suspect that there might be any, and that sort of time scale is completely irrelevant to TC's experiences within a week of being vaccinated.

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Full Throttle posted...

I would love to live in that time when that word would not get me in trouble"

I like how this is presented like modern political correctness is the central problem, but Gone With the Wind itself relied on an amendment to the production code that was passed only a month before the film released to even be allowed to use the word "damn" without facing a fine. Not exactly historian of the year.

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Zeus posted...

*cue laugh track*

Context is irrespective of race.

Race is a critical part of the relevant context, here. It's far from the only determining factor, and it's not as absolute as "white people saying it is different from black people saying it," but it's a significant enough factor that that's a reasonable simplification of the matter (especially where, even if we ignore race, this guy is not a part of any of the cultures or communities where it would be acceptable).

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The full-on Christmas decor is kind of weird, but keeping lights up well into the new year is becoming pretty common. There are lots of people that feel that the time leading up to Christmas (specifically, as days get shorter) is vastly more pleasant than the other side of the solstice purely because people put up lights to make the world less dark and dismal. There's a whole lot of winter left between "Christmas is done" and "the entire non-work part of my day is dark," and having a bunch of extra lights around helps to make that a bit more cheerful. This seems to be especially prevalent this year, where it's been a pretty miserable year and Christmas for a lot of people, so people are just embracing and spreading small joys wherever they can find them.

Really, even if I don't particularly like how a given display looks or think it's odd, complaining about it doesn't seem remotely reasonable to me. I am never going to give somebody a hard time for trying to make my life a little bit brighter. Nobody should ever do that. The only time Christmas lights should be considered objectionable is if they cause a significant amount of light pollution for neighbours, in which case the solution is not "take your lights down," it's "can you please reorganize your lights so they don't shine directly into my bedroom all night?".

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IronBornCorps posted...

Trans is an adjective. The other corresponding adjective would be cis (your gender matches what you were assigned at birth)

That's not the confusing part. The confusion lies in the question of what the birth gender was, which "trans" does nothing to specify.

IronBornCorps posted...

male and female (among others I'm not getting into) are used to describe gender identity.

They could just as easily be used to describe birth gender. I would agree that it makes more sense for them to describe current gender than past, especially where those who pay attention to trans issues know that focusing on birth gender isn't something trans people generally like to do, but for those who don't pay such attention, that's a fairly arbitrary distinction.

Basically, "trans man" could mean "somebody who became trans and is now a man," or it could mean "somebody who was a man and has become trans." The former is more consistent with the established norm of respecting trans people's current gender identity over their assigned one, but plenty of people don't pay enough attention to connect those dots. It's an easy enough mistake to make and a simple enough correction that I think it's reasonable to give people some slack when they make it, unless they're being deliberately disingenuous about it (which they do because some people are turds).

shadowsword87 posted...

No I get it, it's just that it still trips me up and makes me have to think of a diagram.
It's not intuitive to me yet, maybe it will over time, maybe it won't and I'll always have the mental hiccup.

For clarity, this is also my position. I understand it, I think it makes sense, it just also makes sense the other way and I occasionally have to stop and think about it, or will confuse which one it is.

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LuciferSage posted...

I've always felt like escape and flight from prosecution or imprisonment are natural instincts.

Banging anything with a vagina is also a natural instinct. Instincts don't excuse making well-reasoned decisions to do obviously bad things.

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Adam_Savage posted...

we have literal proof that those two absolutely would have just ignored the question

what actually are you talking about

you keep complaining about this administration for shit it's not even doing, and yet you ignored it when the previous one was actually doing those things.

Not only did he ignore it, he actively downplayed it. But no, he's not a Trump fan...

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Kanatteru posted...

thats not what a trans man is winter but i think you probably know that

To be fair, the term "trans man" could conceivably mean "born a man, but then became trans" without being inconsistent with regular English. That it means the opposite of that is relatively arbitrary and therefore easy to get confused by for those that aren't regularly exposed to the concepts and language. Heck, I do know better, but I still interpreted this topic the wrong way around on the first pass (presumably because talking about phantom pain made me immediately think of amputations and subconsciously assume that was the issue at hand).

That's not to say that there aren't people that deliberately misinterpret it for trolling purposes, but I'm generally pretty sympathetic to people being confused by the terminology.

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Zeus posted...

Worth noting that most of this s*** is the result of Robinhood's decision to block people from buying stock, which killed the momentum.

Yes and no. Regardless of what Robinhood did, this wasn't going to last forever, and you were going to see quite a few people losing quite a lot of money as they clung to the stock in hopes that it would go back to rising. People buying into the meme stock of the month often aren't exactly savvy investors, after all. Gamestop is dying, and any surge in its stock price was only ever going to be temporary (which creates some excellent opportunities for short sellers to make tons of money on its way back down, as much as they lost their minds over their initial losses).

Did Robinhood et al's obviously corrupt intervention kill the stock's momentum prematurely? Almost certainly, and that's something they should really face very severe consequences for. But ultimately, that's really just going to result in a faster return to the status quo and less massive wins for the people that were going to win regardless. A similar number of people would likely lose even more money if the stocks had kept climbing until a more natural crash.

That said, regardless of what happens to Robinhood and the like over this, the consequences of this instability are going to be pretty far-reaching. Short-selling was always a pretty significant gamble, but this has highlighted just how easy it is for it to be screwed over by a bunch of memelords buying stocks for the lulz, and this will very much not be the last time something like this happens. The instability this has introduced to the hedge fund market will be lasting for quite a while, which should make things very interesting.

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LuciferSage posted...

Granted, but put yourself in his shoes.

What do you think he puts the odds of a fair trial at?

Considerably higher than they are now that he's tried running.

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HornedLion posted...

I mean... if my girl sought another man to tell him how bad of a day shes had, and looked to him for affirmation Id be upset.

BUT... it wouldnt be a dealbreaker. It would be more of a wake up call.

And that's your personal boundary. You're entitled to draw whatever lines you like for what you consider acceptable behaviour, and there's really no objective "right/wrong" way to do so. She's entitled to do the same. Then, in turn, you are both entitled to (and, in fact, should) reject the relationship if you consider those boundaries unacceptable.

Quite simply, if she has a problem with you relying on other people for the emotional support she's trying to offer you, you're cheating if you do so. That doesn't mean you can't have legitimate reasons for that reliance, which you can (and should) discuss with her so you can arrive at a compromise you both feel comfortable with, but you are cheating if you go behind her back to do something she's not comfortable with you doing.

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Generally speaking, if you're sick right after eating from a restaurant, it probably wasn't the restaurant that made you sick. Most foodborne infections incubate for 3-4 days before symptoms start up. Even the absolute fastest foodborne illnesses (toxin-based ones, where a pathogen has left toxins in the food) take several hours to kick in, so blaming your most recent meal is often an incorrect assumption.

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Dracula is more powerful, but Alucard is more lufrewop.

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EvilMegas posted...

Its not because you're a dude, it's because you're bad at relationships.

Eeyup. There's no reason dudes can't understand the emotional fulfillment relationships provide.

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streamofthesky posted...

Oh, and the damage requirements for A rank are INSANE in the Wii U version, it's like... 4 hearts?

Yeah, there were many stages (especially on the MQ map) where getting hit at all was an automatic C rank for damage taken. It was pretty brutal.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

A proper American biscuit is nothing like those dry, brick-like scones sold at Starbucks.

Who said anything about Starbucks? Starbucks is not the only place you can get scones.

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wwinterj25 posted...

Edit: Maybe the biscuits are just scones.

American biscuits are similar to scones, but in NA terminology, scones tend to be sweeter and denser. Similar methods and ingredients, though (flour cut/rubbed into butter as the basis of the dough). In particular, I believe biscuits in the American south tend to be made with softer flours (low gluten content/strength, often sold as cake/pastry flour), whereas scones (as well as biscuits anywhere else) are more typically made with AP flour for a firmer texture.

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Zangulus posted...

Damn it. I guess I have to confess of my affair with a bag of Oreos last night. Damn it.

I mean, if eating Oreos is something she doesn't want you to do, that argument can be made. If not, not so much.

There's a very important difference between hiding something and just not telling your partner about it. Hiding something is a deliberate action because you don't want them to know the truth. Not telling them is just a matter of not giving them information they don't particularly need/want.

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Jen0125 posted...

it depends on the mutually agreed upon boundaries of each individual relationship

This. In some relationships, a guy looking at another woman is cheating. In others, a guy participating in an orgy where 600 different women service him in immediate succession is not. The only blanket statement you can make is that there are no blanket statements: It's up to you and your partner to decide what you're comfortable with the other doing and to communicate those boundaries.

The bottom line: If you aren't sure, ask. If you don't think you can ask without making your partner upset, it's cheating and you shouldn't do it. If you feel that your partner is being unreasonably restrictive (like the aforementioned example of looking=cheating), express that, and accept that the relationship isn't a good one for you if you can't arrive at an acceptable compromise with them.

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Zeus posted...

If that's your "reality," you're so divorced from the real world that it'd take a lot more than a factual argument to bring you back.

And yet, you can do nothing to support your claim. Surely not even you are so blind as to not see the unquestioning devotion with which people have followed every word Trump has said (perhaps the most salient defining characteristic of cult members), including going so far as to attempt to violently overthrow the government based on his baseless lies. Are you really going to deny that?

Zeus posted...

It's also hilarious because you criticized people who claimed literally the same thing about Obama's followers and provided the same level of nothing to back up their nonsensical claim.

I'm going to need actual citations for both people likening Obama's followers to cultists (not that Obama really had "followers" so much as proponents/supporters since, you know, a Presidential term isn't normally a cult) and for me criticizing that claim, because I don't particularly recall ever experiencing either of those things.

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Nothing concrete yet, but I'm thinking something nice for dinner and a fun, semi-fancy dessert. The last couple years, it's been this cake, which is delicious:

https://www.finecooking.com/recipe/flourless-chocolate-vanilla-marble-cake

I may do the same thing again, or I may try something else. I might make something more snack-ish as well, possibly macarons (I'm thinking lavender-earl grey ganache).

We're definitely not going out, though. Covid numbers are low enough around here that dine-in is probably safe enough, but neither of us has any interest in braving the insanity that is going to a restaurant on Valentine's.

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Mead posted...

Really though deciding which people are better/worse than others isnt really the best mindset to have in life

Pretty much. There's a lot wrong with Catholicism, but one of the bits of its doctrine I do like is the idea that we should leave judging people on that sort of scale up to God and limit ourselves to smaller, more practically-focused judgements. That falls apart a bit without a belief in a God, but really, the existence of a heaven/hell is a prerequisite for such broader judgements to have any value in the first place.

Judging people meaningfully simply entails considering how they can be expected to behave now, and treating them accordingly. Somebody with a history of bad behaviour (such as racism) may be harder to trust now, but that's the only weight that history should carry. Tallying it up into any sort of "good person score" is really just silly, and more often than not will just result in treating somebody poorly who has repented sufficiently that distrusting them isn't reasonable.

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LeetCheet posted...

It's almost like it wasn't a big deal and accidents like that happens so easily?

Pretty much. Especially in any job where you're physically working on things with people and have to reach in awkward ways. Generally speaking, it's going to be pretty obvious if you're doing it deliberately (even if you think you're being sneaky), and similarly obvious if you aren't. For the most part, even saying "whoops, sorry" is more than you need to do. You should still try to avoid it, since being too careless may result in it being annoying, but don't worry too much about the occasional accident. It's really not a big deal.

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zebatov posted...

Lol.

Yes, it is indeed funny that so many people don't understand the reality of the Khadr case and think it's somehow damning of Trudeau's government.

Zeus posted...

ITP: "Wow it's crazy how a country would believe in innocent until proven guilty in a court of law! Why does this country even need courts?!"

I don't think her guilt is at all in question here. There's substantial amounts of video footage of the insurrection, she's explicitly admitted to participating, and her defense is not "I didn't do it," it's "it wasn't wrong for me to do it." She's all but plead guilty already. All that really remains for courts to do is sentence her.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Is this one of those issues of a local judge doing one thing and another judge in DC going "wtf is wrong with you?" and overturning the ruling?

Looks like the article's been updated to say that the local magistrate has not, in fact, granted her permission to leave.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

Uh... I guess there always has to be an investigation with any kind of shooting like this. But it's beyond my ability to comprehend how this could be seen as anything other than a justified shooting. I'm actually more shocked she was the only person who got shot that day.

Pretty much exactly this.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

That's a little clearer but I still don't get how this influenced the decision to not charge the cop.

Duckbear sometimes doesn't quite understand how the English language indicates causal relationships. That, or he doesn't understand causal relationships themselves. It can be hard to tell which. I doubt her thruple actually influenced the decision regarding the cop.

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Muscles posted...

They don't annoy me unless people start adding a bunch of unnecessary ones at the end

Half your message shouldn't be emojis, just sprinkle them in

Pretty much. Treating them as a substitute for actual language is just unnecessarily confusing.

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Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

What is up with Florida? Is it something in the water? We have nuts here on the other coast, but they never seem on the same level as Florida.

It's mostly a quirk of Florida's journalism laws, which allow journalists pretty much free access to police reports. It's not that Florida actually has far more wacky criminals than anywhere else in the country, it's just that it's much easier to report on them and that makes them far more visible.

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Zeus posted...

The claim is so ridiculous at face value that it needs nothing to dispute it.

Quite the contrary: The parallels between Trump's followers and cult members are so obvious that the claim needs no explicit support. Disputing such an obvious piece of apparent reality, however, requires a great deal.

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Mead posted...

He never had to grow as a person beyond a rich little kid that always got his way

So its as simple as him not understanding that he is wrong and that he actually lost. There is no endgame, only confusion and anger from an underdeveloped brat.

Pretty much. As much as a lot of Trump's presidency has consisted of him saying things just to make his base like him, rather than because they align with his personal beliefs, he does seem to genuinely believe that the election was stolen. He's completely lost his mind over losing.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Yea Trump wanted to defend himself by going "Yea I did exactly what I'm accused of" I can't wrap my mind around it.

To be fair, it worked for his first impeachment...

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I don't think that's a conspiracy so much as it's a Scotsman fallacy. He's saying that "real" police are committed to protecting their community and don't abuse their power like this, and identifying the (very real) problem that people who don't fit that ideal are being hired as cops and messing up the country.

It's not an invalid point, it's just phrased rather awkwardly and fallaciously.

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Mead posted...

Honestly they should sell most drugs in stores and include information with them about how people can get treatment and support. Most people that are dependent on drugs get to points where they desperately want to get clean but they dont know what to do and they dont know who they can turn to for help because they dont want to end up in prison.

I don't know about that. Legalization is a reasonable goal, ultimately, but leaving people to assess and handle those risks entirely on their own hasn't worked so far, and it likely wouldn't work even once we take unscrupulous dealers (that lace less-harmful drugs with more addictive ones or mess with people's doses to drive further addiction for fun and profit) out of the mix. People are just inherently very bad at risk analysis and have a strong bias toward assuming they'll beat the odds (see: much of the world's response to Covid).

Instead, I think having all drugs (more or less, I'm sure reasonable exceptions exist) available in bar-like environments would be ideal, where people can purchase the drugs they want and use them in a controlled, supervised environment where their dosage has been personally calibrated to minimize the risk of addiction or overdose (and staff are trained to respond to overdoses). That's not a perfect solution, if for no other reason than the fact that the staffing and overhead requirements for such establishments would drive costs way up and make the drugs largely unattainable for poorer users (meaning there would still be demand for a cheaper black market), but it's a safer idea than a complete free-for-all.

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Looks really nice. Nothing fancy, but it really doesn't need to be, and it fits the overall aesthetic quite well.

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Zeus posted...

roflmao, it's impossible to take you seriously any more.

He says, while doing nothing to actually argue the contrary position.

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Lokarin posted...

Ok, you can punish both - as long as the rule changes...

That is the goal, yes.

Lokarin posted...

And you're REALLY invoking Godwin's Law... genocide was against International laws and the Superior Orders defence doesn't apply when violating international laws.

Torturing children is also against international laws.

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Lokarin posted...

I don't get why people are saying that the rules aren't the problem when the cops were following the rules...

Because following the rules is a decision that each of those cops chose to make. They must therefore be held responsible for making that choice.

Lokarin posted...

change the rules so things like this don't happen again, don't just punish and keep the status quo...

The two are hardly mutually exclusive. You can punish cops for macing children while also punishing their supervisors for expecting cops to mace children.

Lokarin posted...

But it WAS a lawful order, that's the problem

So was exterminating Jews. Lawful is not necessarily moral.

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Shadowbird_RH posted...

and now we've opened the gate for literal opium, among anything and everything else that can f*** you up forever and/or kill you.

That's not what decriminalizing means. It's still illegal to sell, transport, or otherwise distribute the drugs that were previously illegal. Decriminalizing just means people aren't going to jail for using it, which is unambiguously a good idea because that paradigm has never worked. Punishing addicts for their addiction just makes it worse and makes overdosing more likely.

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

burning is peaceful

Do you really think that's the takeaway message here?

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kukukupo posted...

I think the 'peace' part of the Nobel Peace prize has long been ignored.

"If we go 50 years back, those arguments also came up when Dr. Martin Luther King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 exactly the same arguments. And when twice the (African National Congress) leaders of South Africa received the Nobel Peace Prize, there were also incidents of violence. But you cant use that as a counter-argument to say Mandela was not working for justice or peace," he said.

Yeah, pretty much. Being completely peaceful (which, actually, the vast majority of BLM has been) has never been a prerequisite.

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LeetCheet posted...

It seems like the motion control experience in SS differs between people though.

I mean, they worked fine for me and I've heard other people saying the same, but then there are people who claim they were absolutely miserable to use.

Why is that? Faulty Wii Remotes?

I have heard the theory that some of the Wii Motion Plus accessories that got bundled with the game (which was the only reason many people had a WMP) were defective, which seems like the most plausible explanation I can think of for how incredibly polarizing the controls were. Like, I'd get some people just not liking them, but there were many people who swore up and down that they made the game barely playable, which just doesn't line up with how many others found that they worked completely fine. People not recalibrating often enough is another potential issue (personally, I tapped the button to center the aiming cursor basically every time I aimed with something, to the point where it became second nature and I didn't even notice), but I still doubt that so many people would have such a bad time if it were that easily fixed. Given how few other games used WMP's (I think the only other one I own is Nintendoland, and that wasn't even on the Wii), it's also quite believable that nobody would ever have tested their WMP on another game to confirm whether or not it worked.

funkyfritter posted...

Skyward sword is a roller coaster in terms of quality. A lot of the dungeon and boss designs were great, but Fi and the imprisoned fight make me never want to touch the game again.

It really is. I genuinely felt that it had some of the best dungeon designs in the series, but the bland overworld and a host of other problems made it much less enjoyable overall than it could have been. I should really replay it and see how my impressions hold up a decade later.

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Windows 10 in a nutshell:
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