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What a lame gimmick this is.
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OneTimeBen posted...

Automobiles have been around long enough.

Not everywhere. Having actual driving infrastructure comes fairly late in a country's development, given how expensive cars are (especially in countries without ready access to manufacturing facilities) and the level of industrialization needed to supply them with gas.
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OneTimeBen posted...

So you are saying people just dont care about traffic laws there? Blame the police.

Some of it's police, but most of it is that driving has proliferated faster than traffic laws (and their enforcement) can hope to keep up with. Countries where driving's relatively new haven't had the century-long gradual implementation of cars into society that Europe and the colonies have had. They've had a large, rapid of cars and a frantic scramble to get the necessary infrastructure in place for them.
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Cotton_Eye_Joe posted...

North Korea has the right to nuke any country they don't like but I don't see any panicking about that.

They don't really have that right, though. If they tried, they would face severe consequences from most of the world. Comcast, on the other hand, only has to fear people switching to a different ISP, which isn't that scary when there are like two other options at best and they're probably also throttling those sites.
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I've seen different styles of driving, but for the most part the basic archetypes of road laws have been in place wherever I've gone. I've got a friend who's lived in Abu Dhabi for quite a while, though, who said that right of way there is dictated by license plate number, with the Sheik having #1. Apparently traffic kind of an unintelligible jumble unless somebody with a 3-digit (or less) shows up, at which point everyone gets the **** out of their way because any sort of collision absolutely would not end in the peon's favour.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

MrMelodramatic posted...

the pipes thing was maybe (strong maybe) funny for one comment. this is just excessive and odd.

Laying/playing pipe will always be an appropriate sex joke.

Unless you just made one. No joke is appropriate if you've just made the same one. Then it stops being clever and starts being tedious. Unless you're using that tedium to set up a longer metajoke, you should be trying to avoid it.

Besides, trombones are like the easiest thing ever to clean. If you want a brass player that's really good at cleaning pipes, get yourself a horn player.
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Zeus posted...

especially because her singing was pretty weak.

Most of the singing was pretty weak. They gave Gaston to a ****ing tenor.

Really, though, I wouldn't say that her singing was bad, she just sounded so much like herself that it was a bit off-putting. Part of that is a matter of getting better at singing, since a trained singing voice shouldn't sound like the person's speaking voice, but a good chunk of it was also just how thoroughly typecast she is from a decade of being Hermione.
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helIy posted...

i have to charge my ps4 controller every day/other day it seems.

Which just means you leave it charging when you're done playing. That's pretty inconsequential, really.
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iammaxhailme posted...

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helIy posted...

my Xbox controller lasts far longer than my ps4 controller because I can actually customize the size of the fucking battery I put in it

In a rechargeable controller, battery life past the length of a single session doesn't actually matter, since you can just recharge it as soon as you're done. Charging speed does, and if the battery life is shorter than a single session (see: the WiiU gamepad), then it can become an issue, but otherwise it won't make a difference. It does matter for non-rechargeable ones, though, since that dictates how often you're going to be buying new batteries.

Wii U gamepad's life isn't great but are you playing for like 6 hours in a row? Mine has never dropped in one session...

On occasion. Of course, when it did run out, it was a pretty simple matter of unplugging the charge cable from the cradle and plugging it into the controller, so it was hardly catastrophic, but it was still an issue that did come up from time to time.
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helIy posted...

my Xbox controller lasts far longer than my ps4 controller because I can actually customize the size of the fucking battery I put in it

In a rechargeable controller, battery life past the length of a single session doesn't actually matter, since you can just recharge it as soon as you're done. Charging speed does, and if the battery life is shorter than a single session (see: the WiiU gamepad), then it can become an issue, but otherwise it won't make a difference. It does matter for non-rechargeable ones, though, since that dictates how often you're going to be buying new batteries.
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I see more MADD commercials than I do anti-smoking ones. By a huge margin. Most anti-smoking ads I see are just the ones on cigarette packs, which are mandated by law. Maybe it's a regional thing.

That law point also plays a big role, though. Cigarette companies are required by law to make anti-smoking commercials (which is why a lot of them just end up making people want to smoke more, since these companies aren't stupid and they know how to prey on anti-authority sentiments among teenagers). Alcohol companies are not (though they do have their own restrictions about how they can advertise their products), meaning anti-alcohol commercials are left to third parties like MADD that must fund their own advertising.
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Zeus posted...

Countless people are pro-abortion

To be "pro-abortion" is to be a proponent of people having abortions. That's just how words work. Most abortion advocates are advocating for people to be able to get abortions as needed/desired, not for people to get abortions. Advocating for people getting abortions is typically eugenics at best, and genocidal misanthropy at worst.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

In the 20th century.

TIL that Wii is a console of 20th century.

It used composite.

So the GC, PS2, and Xbox also came out in the 20th century?
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Like every other sentence.
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Jen0125 posted...

why doesn't the united states government care about their CITIZENS more than their LOBBYISTS?

Because the lobbyists give them more money. That's an easy one.
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T0ffee posted...

Rockies posted...

Yeah you're right, cause I remember looking at the kits and they're basically rectangular sheets with the cutouts displayed on them (as opposed to the more complicated pieces already being cut out)

Don't you still need the sensor square thingies so the joycons actually work with the kit?

Those things might be proprietary.

Presuming the Joy-Con's IR camera works like the Wiimote's, I'd guess they're IR LED arrays of some sort. If they aren't too complicated, they could potentially be made at home, though that would involve a lot more specialized materials and know-how than cutting out some cardboard, especially if the arrays do anything to detect how the strings are moving.
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Rockies posted...

For the price of the $70/$80 bundle I could get a pro controller or new joycons. That seems like a much better purchase to me.

Unless we're looking at those purchases in a vacuum. Remember that those bundles include games. A pair of Joy-Cons can't do much on their own.
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green dragon posted...

then don't buy this game? you don't have to buy every game that comes out for a system. just buy what interest you.

Yes, but it's Judg, and he tends to try to hard to come up with flimsy justifications for being cranky.
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quigonzel posted...

RCtheWSBC posted...

quigonzel posted...

RCtheWSBC posted...

It's quite creative, and looks like it will encourage some interesting game development (and some VR interfaces?)

Yet could also run the risk of once again alienating third-party developers.

How so? It seems to encourage more innovation than not.

It's like it was with the Wii U gamepad when most third-party developers decided it wasn't worth the trouble.

Except for the part where this is completely optional. You're not going to alienate developers with options. The Gamepad was intrinsic to the WiiU, so developers were reluctant to neglect it. This, though? Not developing for Labo is about like not developing for Kinect or Move.
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JixHedgehog posted...

Cardboard peripherals

Too expensive to produce plastic ones so there you go

I mean, that's not wrong. Unless they were sold at a massive loss, there's no way they could offer that kind of variety of plastic peripherals at a low enough price to get the kind of buy-in needed to justify development. This way, they get to offer more variety and have a chance that people will actually buy them, especially with the added attraction of getting to build them yourself (which can be pretty fun).
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JosefuJustice11 posted...

Yes. If you're not willing to give them up, you're not worth her time to begin with.

Other way around. Somebody who expects you to give up a hobby just because they don't like it isn't worth your time. Making time for each other is one thing, and a very important thing, but you don't have to give up hobbies to do that.
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I wouldn't call it an outright dealbreaker, but I can see it causing enough issues to make a relationship a bad idea. She certainly doesn't have to enjoy them herself, but I don't think it's ever a good idea to have one partner in a relationship hating the other's hobbies. That's just going to result in leisure time being an unpleasant strain, and nobody wants that.
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Time traveling may be cheating, but I don't think making your town be in a different time zone is.
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Alternatively, set your game time 3-4 hours behind real time.
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ArvTheGreat posted...

Glitching to go to the ending is mint really beating the game

Sure it is. Whether or not it's entertaining to watch depends on a number of factors (most notably the amount of skill involved in executing said glitches), but it's still perfectly valid as a goal toward which speedrunners can race. Those goals are in fact completely arbitrary. There are nipple% speedruns of Mario Odyssey, where players race to get to see Mario's nipples as quickly as possible.
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Veedrock- posted...

Lokarin posted...

That's why there are different categories for speedruns.

That's not why. Participation prizes are why.

Nah, that is why. Different people find different styles of speedruns fun, both on the playing end and on the watching end. It's only natural that different categories would arise to fill demands that arise from those preferences.
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MannerSaurus posted...

Yes, it's true that 99.9% of all accidents are caused by human error (either not paying attention, underestimating distance needed to brake in relation to momentum and weight, underestimating weather effects on traction even in an AWD car, etc etc etc.) but there are certain situations where computer failure would lead to extremely deadly accidents

My attitude toward that is similar to my attitude toward seatbelts. There have been accidents where being buckled up caused a fatality, or where not being buckled up let somebody slide over to the other side of a bench seat and avoid taking the full impact and dying. You'll often see people citing these as a reason to protest seatbelts being mandatory. That fact of the matter, though, is that wearing a seatbelt is far, far safer than not wearing one in the vast majority of collision or other emergency scenarios, so wearing one at all times is unambiguously the better choice. Similarly, while no self-driving system is ever going to be perfect, and there will inevitably be deadly accidents, in the grand scheme of things it has the potential to be much safer than manual driving. Perspective's important: One self-driving car driving off a bridge each year is far, far better than the 37,000 fatalities that happened in 2016. You'll still be more likely to be killed by somebody else hitting you than by the computer in your car screwing up.
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Mayonnaise: I don't think mayonnaise has ever stabbed anyone.
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That's just what Google wants you to think.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

They have literally accomplished a thing, why wouldn't they be?

Pretty much.
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Chrome says lots of things aren't words. Don't worry too much about it.
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helIy posted...

what the fuck is spaghettini

that's not even a word, it's got the red squiggly line under it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti#Preparation
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Fresh pasta cooks much, much faster than dried, though it doesn't keep as long. Pasta with a higher surface area:mass ratio will also cook faster. Spaghetti takes longer than spaghettini, which in turn takes longer than angel hair. And then there's vermicelli, which basically finishes cooking before you have time to finish stirring it in.
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wwinterj25 posted...

adjl posted...

If it weren't announced that she were trans, nobody would have known the difference.

The last pic though?

Looks badly photoshopped, actually. Something's just awkward about it. Regardless of whether or not it is, though, somebody doesn't have to be born a man to end up with a man-face photo at some point.
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pipebomb_phil posted...

As far as I know Activision and Blizzard operate differently.

Riiiight... We'll just ignore the time they completely gutted the core gameplay of Diablo 3 to promote the RMAH for fun and profit. Or the fact that they've put a mobile game's monetization scheme into a $60 game. Blizzard's totally not out to nickel-and-dime their consumers at the expense of their games.
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If it weren't announced that she were trans, nobody would have known the difference.
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pipebomb_phil posted...

There are companies that deserve the backlash like Bungie with Destiny 2

Spoilers: Actiblizz also published Destiny 2.
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I honestly can't keep up with which of these posts are genuine and which are facetious.
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HagenEx posted...

BotW is just... Ocarina of Time with a new coat of paint.

Did you actually play either of the games involved in that comparison?
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Nay.
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Far-Queue posted...

Oceanhorn? Or is there a different one I'm not thinking of. That game got ported to mobile and PS4, too, I think.

And Switch.
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Depends who's got the better odds. In this video, for example:


Definitely the iguana, because that was a hell of an escape. If the roles were reversed and the predator won because they were awesome, then I'd be rooting for then predator.
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ArvTheGreat posted...

Arv owns both but it's like why should that demographic be punished to buy the same game cause people didn't wanna buy the Wii U

You don't have to buy it again. Nobody's being punished.

ArvTheGreat posted...

the switch should be getting the next installments

It probably will. MK8 Deluxe wasn't the next Mario Kart game. It was very obviously a port done to prop up the Switch's library early on without requiring too much effort, giving people an incentive to buy the Switch who had skipped the WiiU.
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PlayStationV posted...

CaptBuzzKiII posted...

PlayStationV posted...

She is legal.

I dont mean to be a buzzkill or anything, but she is 16.

Many U.S have the age of consent at 16.

And many countries have no age of consent laws. The fact that you can find a place where it's legal to **** her doesn't make this any less creepy.
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EvilMegas posted...

Unbridled9 posted...

LinkPizza posted...

A lot of people say because of Smash.

I doubt it considering Melee came out around the time of FE7 and Brawl didn't help 10 or the re-releases too much.

TallTamryu posted...

Because of "waifus" whichever one started to add that. :/

Oh please. 'waifu's' have been in the series ever since the start (just look at Lyn in the west) and there is no way that the marriage mechanic (which came before Awakening mind you) managed to save it THIS much. Not to mention plenty of other games offer 'waifu's' yet are nowhere near as roaring.

Waifus were there but you could hard marry and conceive a child with one in game.

FE4 did allow such a thing, and pretty much every game with a support mechanic had at least a few support endings that indicate the pair got married (including Eirika and Ephraim, in the Japanese version of FE8 >.>). FE4 didn't have any sort of grinding mechanic, though, so it was notably less intuitive to get the kids you wanted. FE4 also never officially made it out of Japan, so most series fans haven't played it.
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Smash was responsible for piquing the West's interest in the series at all, and subsequently for FE7 being localized, but it was FE13 that revived the series when it was losing popularity (to the point where, if Awakening hadn't done well, the series would probably have been canned). That was for a number of reasons, including the addition of Casual/Phoenix modes to make the series more accessible, bringing back the marriage mechanic as more than just an S-rank support with a little blurb at the end, and allowing more flexible customization with the reclassing system and ability to grind. It was also the first one released in the west in the four years since FE11, which was itself not tremendously well received (apparently remaking a NES game with minimal changes in 2008 doesn't go over that well. Who knew?), and was a very solid game all around.
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I haven't actually gotten to Mario x Rabbids yet (still busy with Xenoblade), so I can't make a proper comparison, but I can tell you that Odyssey made me happier than any game has in many, many years. Whether or not it's the better game can certainly be debated, but it definitely put a whole lot of smiles on my face.
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Zeus posted...

Not sure whether or not that's meant to be facetious.

Why would it be facetious? It's very well established that global warming contributes to more extreme, unpredictable weather patterns, including cold snaps.
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Mead posted...

Couldnt they just do a receipt check when people leave the self checkout area then

They do. At the door. There really isn't any reason not to lump that check in with a quick double-check of the stuff from manned registers.
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