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wwinterj25 posted...

None. I just use Wi-Fi.

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In terms of gaming, I'd actually say that's less true now than at almost any other point in gaming's history. We're hitting major diminishing returns on how much technological improvements are able to improve gaming experiences, to the point where laypeople are recognizing that and the most popular games are not the technological marvels. There's still room to grow, obviously, and there will always be enthusiasts that enjoy pushing hardware to its limits, but the days of mainstream popularity being tied to graphical fidelity are past.

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Only if I'm procrastinating something.

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Because people like segregating competitions by sex and traditions are hard to break.

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You should. As long as the computer isn't actually on (and hasn't been for a minute or so), there won't be any power running to the drive or data being read, so unplugging/plugging in the drive won't hurt anything.

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Why would Dailymail of all places be the only one to receive a legitimate leak? That alone makes me doubtit even before looking at the pictures and laughing hysterically at how unlikely it is that Sony would make that the primary controller for the system.

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It happens more often than you might think, and I don't believe there are usually any legal repercussions for the "runaway." That said, if disappearing means you shirk things like paying your bills or your taxes, you'll run into some problems.

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dancer62 posted...

Way too expensive. I might spend $4 for a half-dozen glazed.

Yeah, this is going for donuts as more of a complete, pesudo-plated dessert than a simple snack. Like when I say donut cone, I'm thinking something along these lines:
https://i2.wp.com/www.originalchimneys.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Bloormenuweb3.png

It's a bit of a tough sell when donuts are so commonly thought of as a $1 snack to go with coffee and not something gourmet, but there is a market for it. Plus the hypothetical business selling these things doesn't and won't actually exist, so I don't really need anything more than a neat, semi-plausible idea.

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A classic, but unfortunately not being sold on this particular day.

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I need to come up with sales projections and I figure they'll be more plausible if I get some actual data. There's also the option to add ice cream to anything for an extra dollar, but that doesn't really work as a poll option. Prices are in Canadian dollars and include applicable sales tax, if it matters. Gogogo.

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Depends what you do with those feelings and what the implications are of not working as hard. If all you're going to do with those feelings is stew over them and feel sad without actually doing anything, it's not particularly rational. If you're going to use that to motivate yourself to work harder and accomplish more, it's more rational. Similarly, if working harder isn't actually earning him any particular benefit that you'd value, there's not much sense in feeling like you ought to be working harder.

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Zeus posted...

What if he tripped, fell into the bushes, and broke his leg? How are you sure he was high?

If that were the case, he'd probably have been a little less angry about being approached. It doesn't sound like he was exactly in his right mind. Now, whether he was out of his mind because of drugs or psychosis is harder to tell.

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Mead posted...

a flat tax. Like I said in my damn post.

tax income at around 40%, eliminate all loopholes, and get rid of the taxes aside from income tax

The problem with that is that 40% of 20k/year has a much, much greater impact on quality of life than 40% of $2m a year does. If you're going with a flat tax approach, you need some sort of minimum income below which you can't be taxed, otherwise you end up taxing people into homelessness. That minimum income is also going to vary based on a number of factors, including where one lives, how many children one has, one's marital status... basically, defining that minimum means you'll end up with just as convoluted a tax system as you've got now with different brackets.

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FrozenBananas posted...

I dont think Ive ever wanted to drink lightly

I think thats a bad thing :/

I've never wanted to drink lightly in the sense of setting out with the goal of getting slightly tipsy, but I've definitely just wanted one glass of wine or whatever. That's usually just for the taste, though.

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bulbinking posted...

the people getting switches to play indie titles on the go are either hipster casuals or casual casuals who dont have any other way to play them

I didn't get a Switch to play indie titles on the go, but I have made a deliberate choice to buy a number of indie titles on the Switch instead of the PC purely because of the portability. Your view on this matter seems to be very narrow and egocentric.

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Especially where the bonus for randoming is now a couple of consumable items instead of the extra gold it used to be. The items aren't bad, but they're not really worth the loss of control that comes with randoming.

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Then clearly you should have worn more.

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Terraria was entertaining enough, but I got bored of it and drifted away before I started the Lunar Events. It was a good time up until then, but that was just enough for me.

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Because if she had thermal underwear, she wouldn't be cold. Doy.

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Destiny posted...

endgame was the end of like a 15 year long story, they said it didn't need after credits scenes.

Pretty much. All other post-credit scenes were to connect movies together and lead them all toward the grand finale that was Infinity War and Endgame. Endgame didn't need a post-credit scene because we'd arrived at the finale. Subsequent MCU movies will likely have them because they're fun, and there's no reason an integrated MCU storyline can't continue Post-endgame (the most recent Spider-man took place after it), but Endgame itself was a finale and therefore didn't need something afterwards to segue into future stories.

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Zacek posted...

Mario Galaxy 2 is on number one, and that's the right place.

I'd personally say Odyssey beats it by a bit, but SMG2 really was an absolutely fantastic game that far too many people overlooked because they didn't like the idea of a direct sequel.

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The_tall_midget posted...

I don't care if abortions are available, which basically shows what the geniuses making assumptions about my position are all about.

It's not much of an assumption to think that your response to a question is in response to that question and not to some tangent. You have a habit of coming into any topic discussing whether or not abortions should be legal and going off on your tirades about "paying for mistakes." In the absence of any sort of context for discussing subsidies or the like, that looks very much like you have difficulty differentiating "abortions should be legal" from "abortions should be completely paid for by the government." You'll have fewer people making what you think are unreasonable assumptions (they aren't) if you pay attention to context before launching into your little rants.

The_tall_midget posted...

They should not, however, be subsidized in any shape or form (which they are). It's not society's job to pay for your mistakes.

It is, however, society's (or at least the government's) job to do what's best for society. Put aside your principles for a moment and ask yourself which scenario ultimately costs society more money and is more likely to result in a negative outcome for society:

-A person who cannot afford an abortion has that abortion paid for by the government (about $400)
-A person who cannot afford an abortion has no choice but to deliver that child (about $6500 if nothing goes wrong, which she also cannot afford because $6500>400)

I think the math there is obvious. But wait! The costs of having a child don't stop there!

-Feeding a baby for even just one year costs around $1000 (which she also cannot afford because $1000>$400), to say nothing of the remaining years before the kid becomes independent (though I won't tally up all of that because she has the potential to make changes to her income in that time frame)
-Schooling a child from 5-18 costs the government an average of $138,000 ($10,615 per year), which they will be paying unless she can afford a private school (which she probably can't if $400 was prohibitively expensive)
-Children of low-SES single parents (I don't think I have to explain the correlation between this and not being able to afford the abortion one desires) are substantially more likely to end up in the justice system, which is terribly expensive all around

Among others. That money's gotta come from somewhere, and if the mother can't afford it, it's gonna be the government bailing her out (potentially ruining her credit rating and thereby hurting her ability to improve her financial situation moving forward). Eventually, the kid will presumably end up paying taxes that offset what they cost the government (if they don't end up in prison), but that's a long wait for a return on that investment. Can you really say that paying for an abortion means society is "paying for her mistakes" more than they would be if she carried the baby to term?

You can rage about "entitlement" all you want, but the numbers speak for themselves. Principles with no basis in practicality are worthless. Principles at the expense of practicality are idiotic.

The_tall_midget posted...

A man says he wants to be single. The typical reaction of dumb feminists and lefties? Call that man a loser, an incel, an eternal child, etc

I'm gonna need to see a citation on that. Mocking men for choosing to be single is much more within the realm of people with more traditional ideas about masculinity, which tend to be more on the conservative side of things. Even then, it's not particularly common if you hang around people that aren't complete assholes because most people (regardless of political leanings) respect that relationships aren't for everyone.

The_tall_midget posted...

Countries, however, that are promoting childbirth and families actually having children have far better future prospects than those who don't. Strangely enough, those happen to be countries who aren't pro-feminist. Funny how that works.

I'm also going to need to see a citation on that, and perhaps some clarification on what you mean by "better future prospects" because that sounds like a bunch of vague buzzwords.

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Zeus posted...

Resigning doesn't take balls, it demonstrates the absence of balls.

Resigning means you're accepting that you're unfit for the job and should let somebody else take over. That takes balls. Continuing to do a job you know you shouldn't be doing isn't ballsy, it's moronic.

Because he was elected by the American people.

That doesn't mean he should continue to be president if he's abusing that power to do clearly illegal things. That's exactly why the impeachment process exists.

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GreenKnight127 posted...

I don't understand how Bioshock Infinite or MGS: The Phantom Pain got in the top 50. Those were both the most disappointing games of the 2010's.

Review scores (which is all this list is) and public opinion often don't line up, especially when you start dealing with expectations from a fanbase to which the reviewer may not belong.

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Judgmenl posted...

And somehow s***ty zombie movie managed to be there twice in the top 10.

It was released twice in the decade and the remake received the same aggregate score as the original. That's not particularly hard to understand.

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I have been working while sick this past week, but it's just been a cold. Whole lot of extra hand washing and time wasted blowing my nose, but nothing debilitating. If I were too sick to work, I'd call in, and my bosses would be fine with that, though I'd prefer not to because I know it leaves them scrambling to get the work done that I would have done (small bakery, so there's not a lot of wiggle room in the schedule) because they're all but guaranteed to lose a couple of hours of labour even if they find somebody to cover me.

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Nice guys, no. "Nice guys," more commonly.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

In fact, the thought was "I need to clear this brush to get to the water."

The mere act of clearing the brush constitutes creating a path/road, even if there's no deliberate intent to create something that will be used in the future.

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What time is it?

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SunWuKung420 posted...

the repeated traveling of those paths created "the roads" quite spontaneously without thought to "creating a road",

In any remotely dense wilderness (i.e. any wilderness where a road is actually necessary because shambling aimlessly from point A to B is blocked by difficult terrain), there was definitely thought of "this is in my way I'll move it so I can travel this path more easily." That's deliberately making a road, not having it arise spontaneously. There's also the option of saying that the wear associated with repeated travel is also not spontaneous, since it does rely on human activity, but that's getting needlessly pedantic.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Even now, when roads are built, they are simply to facilitate travel from your den to a resource.

Yes. Duh. They're still built, though.

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Noop_Noop posted...

actually, thats EXACTLY how most roads got started

In the sense of "the road is the least impassable route we can find so we'll walk on that," sure. In the sense of "this road was built to facilitate transportation along this route," not so much. You're not wrong, but I don't think that interpretation is necessarily applicable here.

Unbridled9 posted...

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Personally, I don't care for efforts to dehumanize fetuses or delegitimize their lives. Any attempts to draw a line between a non-living fetus and a living one almost invariably end up being either arbitrary or based on convenience, and I don't think either basis is really enough for defining something as significant as life itself. Instead, I'm happy to accept that abortion means taking a human life, meaning it's a decision that should be taken seriously and avoided wherever feasible. I also recognize, however, that taking a life is sometimes the lesser of two evils. Treat it accordingly and try to avoid it, but if you're at a point in your life where you can't feasibly support a kid and you end up with an accidental pregnancy, it's better to kill it than starve all three of you. To that end, it should be legal and readily available.

That said, I'm all for reducing abortion rates. Making them illegal, however, is not a good way to do that. That tends to just push them underground and make them more dangerous, to say nothing of the question of bodily autonomy that always comes up in this discussion. What does work is reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies that happen in the first place, which can be done via comprehensive sex ed and subsidized birth control (and related health care) programs that improve access to those resources. The Netherlands has one of the lowest abortion rates in the world, despite abortion being freely legal and readily accessible up until week 21 (they draw the line at fetal viability), which they've managed by creating a culture where taking responsibility for the risks of sex is easy (information and birth control are readily available to anyone seeking them) and encouraged.

Quite simply, people aren't going to stop having sex just because there's a risk of pregnancy. The "just don't have sex" approach to reducing unwanted pregnancy rates has been tried countless times and failed every time. That means it's just not a sensible approach from a public health perspective, meaning it should not inform laws on the matter. Comprehensive sex ed and subsidized birth control programs, however, have been tried (even in the US) and shown to be excellent for reducing rates. Pro-lifers don't push for more of those, though, because then they don't get to punish people (mostly women) for being dirty sex-havers, which is all most of them actually care about.

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Zeus posted...

It's still evil either way.

Sure, but at least there's a decent reason for it. Being evil for no reason is no bueno. Being evil for a good reason is Batman, and everybody loves Batman.

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Have half a slice or so. I'm not about to turn down pizza, even if I don't need a full meal of it.

That said, we meal plan pretty tightly and almost always eat dinner together, so this scenario seems pretty unlikely.

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Zeus posted...

Pretty sure that legally your relationship would have to end, since otherwise you'd risk arrest.

Not necessarily. I know a couple that only discovered they were first cousins when they started inviting relatives to the wedding and realized they were sending invitations to the same people. They were still allowed to get married, though it helped that she was infertile. That was also cousins, not full siblings, and cousins generally aren't as frowned upon as closer relatives (being completely legal in several states, actually).

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lihlih posted...

When you're backing up, you're trying to put distance between you and the opponent. It's natural to want to block your opponent's attacks while trying to put distance.

It's also natural to have a button press associated with each action you want to take. I really don't think you have an actual argument here beyond "It's how Street Fighter did it and anyone that didn't copy them is doing it wrong."

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How old is she? I know there's a board game out there (Robot Turtles) that's meant to teach children about programming, but it's very rudimentary and aimed at younger kids. If she's older than about 8, it's probably too simplistic.
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wolfy42 posted...

I am not sure why they are not re-using the plastic from them, but I don't see any reason they could not do so.

Part of the issue is that the plastic in those bottles is really cheap and breaks down over the course of a couple years, limiting their reusability, but the biggest issue is that reusing them would mean the companies would have to collect them. Back when glass bottles were the norm, Coca Cola used to pick up returned bottles and wash and refill them. Now, though, it's significantly cheaper for them to just produce new plastic bottles than to pay for a driver and gas to go pick up used ones to reuse. If there were to be a reuse program, the cost of shipping the used bottles back to the companies would likely fall to the consumer, which means most people would never bother.
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Full Throttle posted...

She is 23 weeks pregnant with another child and hopes the new baby will encourage them to walk.

I don't think a role model is what they need in order to be able to walk. There are clear physical issues that are likely to prevent them ever being able to walk; motivation and encouragement aren't the problem here.
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I don't think you ever would lose people, in that case. The entire screen would be covered in bullets all the time, so unless enemy HP values were tuned extremely high (like, you need all 100 players overlapping each other and shooting them at the same time to stand a reasonable chance of killing them), everything would just die instantly.
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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Modern controllers have many buttons, decoupling certain inputs, or at the very least the choice, is always good.

Really, this is the biggest reason inputs get decoupled. Traditionally, block didn't have a separate button because building a dedicated block button into an arcade cabinet cost money. To that end, assigning as many different functions to a given input as possible was a way to cut costs and maximize profit. These days, arcade versions of fighting games are very much the minority when it comes to sales, so control schemes can be based on controllers with more buttons.
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The_tall_midget posted...

The road has no say in its services.

The people that build and maintain it do. Roads don't exactly arise spontaneously, after all.

I like that you still haven't explained why you don't understand the difference between "abortion shouldn't be illegal" and "abortion should be completely free to anyone that wants it." Is that too hard a question?

Zeus posted...

adjl posted...

Zeus posted...

And roads aren't a personalized benefit like healthcare, etc.

You need to get somewhere? There's a road that will take you there. You get sick? There's a doctor that will treat you.

Seems personalized enough to me.

Because you don't understand what that word means or entails. And when you don't understand something, a lot of things are going to sound alike.

If you truly know better than me and believe my interpretation to be wrong, you should be able to educate me. Begin.
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lihlih posted...

adjl posted...

Fighting game fans are weird. "This doesn't have exactly the same controls as my favourite fighting game this is unacceptable!"

You do know that pretty much everything I listed is the norm is most fighting games, right? A more apt comparison would be like me complaining that a FPS doesn't have dual analog controls.

That's the entire control scheme, though, and is as popular as it is because it objectively works the best (at least compared to other controller options, since obviously M+KB is leagues better). This is a handful of specific button mapping choices, all of which are pretty much completely arbitrary once you make sure that it's feasible to hit button pairs simultaneously when necessary.
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OhhhJa posted...

There's a difference between getting a picture or your passport and having a face scanner so your face can be in a government database.

Depends how in-depth the face scanner is. If it's just a photograph, then your passport photo is already in a government database and this wouldn't be any different. If it's like a complete 3D model of your face that can be used to improve the government's ability to recognize faces in surveillance footage, that is indeed very different and substantially more invasive.
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LinkPizza posted...

adjl posted...

Obviously single-use plastic water bottles are bad. This isn't even an opinion thing. That said, sometimes they're the lesser of two evils, such as in places where the tap water isn't drinkable (though that's not a situation that should ever be allowed to persist for more than a few weeks outside of extreme emergencies).

Yeah. Some places just have bad tap water. And should at least have filters. But not all places do...

Filters are a bandaid solution. If tap water is bad enough that filters are necessary to make it drinkable, the local government needs to get off their asses and fix it.
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Fighting game fans are weird. "This doesn't have exactly the same controls as my favourite fighting game this is unacceptable!"
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Obviously single-use plastic water bottles are bad. This isn't even an opinion thing. That said, sometimes they're the lesser of two evils, such as in places where the tap water isn't drinkable (though that's not a situation that should ever be allowed to persist for more than a few weeks outside of extreme emergencies).
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It started a couple weeks ago. I took the opportunity to try out necro myself, having played everyone else already. I've drifted away from it already, though, having completed Haedrig's Gift and put together most of a Rathma build. I'm just not feeling the drive to keep trying new builds anymore.
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So the people who died in the Civil War didn't do so to free the slaves. Good to know you were so attached to your initial point.
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TheWorstPoster posted...

adjl posted...

Are you really suggesting that the Civil War was only about slavery?

No. It was one of the biggest factors for the cause of the war however.

TheWorstPoster posted...

just to free them from slavery.

Pick one.
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Zeus posted...

And roads aren't a personalized benefit like healthcare, etc.

You need to get somewhere? There's a road that will take you there. You get sick? There's a doctor that will treat you.

Seems personalized enough to me.
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