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I never could relate to HIPAA. like i'll tell you whatever the fuck you want to know about my medical history?

There's a really dirty, trashy looking place here that's super cheap. It's a cheesesteak place, but its burgers are sooo good

which direction is this ranking? I'm so confused - cause Kirby is cute and all, but #2 franchise?
Also why are Earthbound and Fire Emblem so low?

I mean - Moby is still one of the cooler celebrities ever.
He's vegan straightedge, played in Flipper with tons of cool bands, he's handsome, and he became an award winning whatever-the-hell you'd call his music artist and probably never has to work again.

He's allowed to have obnoxious vegan tattoos

Dependent upon class, and carries over upon class change. Like to me that's a standard JRPG type thing. I just think it's so strange that, for example, XP by default has stat gains dependent upon character and MV has stats entirely change upon class change.

Like that seems completely unconventional and strange to me.

DevsBro posted...

DuranOfForcena posted...

DevsBro posted...

I love how every time the media complains about Millennials killing something, it's something that needed to go anyway.

and why exactly do you assert milk "needs to go"

lol this should be good

Because it's nasty af?

It's good for cooking and stuff though.

Agreed 100%.
It's good for little kids who need calcium and calories to help grow. As an adult it's good for making stuff like pudding where you need the bacteria, and it's good in cooking/baking (particularly stuff like mashed potatoes).

But for drinking? fuck no

Gafemage posted...

Eminem hasnt been good in a long time and even in his prime he been overrated... but Kid Rock basically lives a lie. Easy choice here.

Eminem is objectively more talented. Like his lyrics, rhyme schemes and bars are much more complex than any rap or song Kid Rock wrote.
But Eminem's, "I grew up in a trailer park, and I hate my baby momma and beat her" aesthetic is insanely lame and off-putting. His aesthetic alone makes him as bad as Kid Rock, who at least could've been cool to a ten year old with his red pimp suits and Las Vegas prostitutes.

bump. you just can't fuck with twisted, brown TRUUUUUUUUUUCKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Criticizing is based in rational thought, complaining is based in emotions

Malfunction posted...

Yeah I think I agree, tc. I don't think an available Pokemon reshuffle is a bad thing at all, especially given the ever growing number of them. Lots of the complaints about it seem to revolve around how inherently bad it is to have less Pokemon without much actual thought or justification put into it.

But yeah obviously it seems plenty of other things about the games are bad too

I'll totally admit to the other faults.
The other faults I pointed out literally changed my mind on whether or not I'll purchase the game. I'm definitely not spending like half a day's work after taxes to get something that I'll beat in a weekend, doesn't have a ton of replay value, and has tons of flaws.
I just am annoyed with the Dexit complaints, and I'm glad you agree. I'm glad someone agrees who isn't Duncan.

eston posted...

Its considerably less funny irl

I don't think it's funny period, and I never would've done it.
I just think it's funny that it was literally the perfect opportunity to say it, even though I wouldn't - because it's cringy.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Don't forget that you can't change the sound options until you find an item in-game

Like the volume of sounds, or the ability to turn off sounds?
Either way that's kind of dumb

SwayM posted...

TC legit has issues

I don't have issues - I just hate shitty, unreasonable fanbases.
Like I said in another thread - I've been playing gatcha games ever since I got a smart phone, and I'm so sick of their respective reddits having posters complaining about comparatively GOOD drop-rates (like 5% or 8%? Those are GREAT compared to games like Valkyrie Connect), suggest things like SSR Selection Tickets (which only make sense in games with huge card pools, otherwise why would the company intentionally break their game and destroy all potential profit?), or the terrible suggestion of trading (meaning people with multiple devices would literally re-roll on multiple different devices, trade the best rolls all to one device and literally not spend a dime).
Recently I also watched a video of a dude comparing Diablo 2 to Diablo 3 with some of the lamest arguments as to why 2 was better. It was infuriating. All he did was bash Blizzard the whole time, too - and it was obnoxious.

I hate unreasonable, obnoxious fanbases that are incapable of actually thinking.

Gheb posted...

So you are saying they were purposely cutting competitively significant Pokemon to change up the competitive landscape, but at the same time they are also cutting competitively insignificant Pokemon?

I seriously doubt they were putting too much thought into the competitive landscape at all.

And frankly the cuts aren't going to get rid of meta-centering Pokemon, it'll just change who they are. Watch Excadrill become a very serious problem, very quickly.

I'm going by what I read someone else say, and it makes sense. Literally everybody talked about Garchomp and Skarmory back around Gen 5.
I'll agree that Excadrill is a big blindsight, though. You're definitely right about that and that definitely serves as a counterargument.

I'll use Gen 1 for an example, since I didn't really watch the tv show after gen 1 and played every generation retroactively starting with Gen 5. From growing up when Gen 1 came out and hearing everybody around me talk about it constantly, I'll say.

They kept iconic first gen Pokemon like Butterfree, Pikachu, Charmander, Clefairy, Vulpix, Meowth, Onix, Gengar, Koffing, Gyrados, Lapras, the Eeveelutions, Snorlax, and Mew.
They kept Machop, one of the most popular Pokemon in Japan. They kept Farfetch'd because they gave him an evolution. They kept some unique Pokemon that had strong, fringe fanbases like Hitmonchan/Hitmonlee/Ditto/Mr.Mime.

And they took out stuff like Jynx, Beedrill, Fearow, Dewgong, Drowzee, and Voltorb that most people don't care about.

Gheb posted...

The reason Dexit is a problem is that their reasoning behind it, that they wanted to improve the animations and focus on other features, is either just an outright lie (the games animation have no notable improvement and there are more features cut than added) or that Game Freak is legitimately incompetent and that they needed to cut those Pokemon to get the product we currently subpar product we currently have.

If the game came out looking like Super Mario Odyssey, with the Pokemon they didn't cut having fleshed out animations, robust new features, and popular old features, then people would have been much more forgiving of the Dexit. As it stands now, they were cut and there seems little to show for their culling.

And don't you be badmouthing Starmie.

Granted I never played competitive, and I haven't looked up anything since Gen 5 --
but lots of the Pokemon they cut were either meta-defining Pokemon that were overused in competitive play (Skarmory, Garchomp, Salamence, etc.), were starters (many of which had mega-evolutions, or aren't very necessary outside of competitive play or nostalgia because even though their movesets are vastly different their typings and cumulative stats are similar), or were legendaries (and we don't need THAT many legendaries, especially if you were expecting them to shove them in the game. what - are they going to have like 20 different optional dungeons with the legendaries at the end?).

The cuts made perfect sense if they wanted to reboot the franchise and re-establish a different competitive atmosphere without power-creeping existing Pokemon. Plus many of the ones they kept were literally the iconic or popular Pokemon you'd "expect" them to keep outside of starters and legendaries.

Yeah - I saw your band, jumping around on stage like a bunch a' wounded DUCKS

There's this nicer older dude who lives in the apartment right next to me who literally listens to jazz music on full blast like 24 hours a day -- and wears like a full suit and hat outfit all the time. I was just leaving to go to Tim Hortons and he was trying to small talk with me, and I told him he could go up the stairs first - and he said, "naah, you go first. Only takes but a moment to be nice! I'm from a 'different' generation!"

bump

Many times when I was younger.

Before I had a cellphone I had a friend tell me to pick him up in front of a house on x street off of x major street. My friends and I had problems find ing the road, and it was late at night -- and being dumb and 19 I was yelling his name out the window at like 11:30 pm. I turned around in a parking lot that ended up having a state trooper vehicle parked in it. About 10 minutes later I get pulled over because someone reported "a suspicious car going in 'tons' of driveways."
I've always been drug and alcohol free, and when the cop asked me if I've been drinking, I told him, "no, I don't fucking drink." The cop ended up being a total asshole after that, and stalked me for months - pulling me over about my 'rear license plate light' not being bright enough, and doing like 31 in a 25. The same cop gave me like 3 or 4 different tickets to the point I almost lost my license. After I got a new car I literally went years with only getting pulled over one more time ---

In my next car I got pulled over in a school zone in a somewhat slightly more boujie area. The cop was a total meathead asshat looking guy with a super fake deep voice and bulging muscles. He asked me for my license and registration - and because it was a new car, I forgot where I'd put my registration and looked in the little pocket behind the seat. He immediately got really angry and yelled like, "KEEP YOURSELF IN THE FRONT OF THE VEHICLE" -- and I just told him, "it's not like I have a fucking gun or something." He got super pissed and gave me a huge ticket and attitude.

Compsognathus posted...

bobbaaay posted...

Wow - so they kept iconic first gen Pokemon like Butterfree, Pikachu, Charmander, Clefairy, Vulpix, Meowth, Onix, Gengar, Koffing, Gyrados, Lapras, the Eeveelutions, Snorlax, and Mew?
And kept Machop, one of the most popular Pokemon in Japan? And kept in Farfetch'd because they gave him an evolution? And kept in some unique Pokemon with strong fan bases like Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee?

And they took out stuff like Jynx, Beedrill, Fearow, Dewgong, Drowzee, and Voltorb?!

WOW they did such a TERRIBLE job not including the "important" Pokemon that aren't starters and legendaries, huh!?
The video literally makes itself look dumb.

Why does other people not liking Game Freak's design decisions bother you so much?

It just bothers me because so many fanbases are so fucking unreasonable. After playing tons of different gatcha games and watching people complain like, "oh, only 5% SSR rate?! wtf" or "why isn't there trading?" and other dumb comments -- I get sick of shitty fanbases being unreasonable and attacking companies for legitimate, smart decisions. This is just another example of that.

Even though I think people are being babies about Dexit and the majority of cuts make sense (literally every single decision in Gen 1 made sense other than no Scyther and Abra) -- I will admit that the even easier difficulty, the short length of the main storyline, the move cut, and the not being able to catch higher level Pokemon are all big deals.
I probably won't buy the game now because of those things and its high price (honestly - if I'm going to buy a full price, AAA game right now I'll probably just re-buy DQ11 on the Switch) -- but I still think Dexit complainers are babies.

I still think the dexit argument is dumb and people complaining are babies - but 18 hours, the removed move list, the even easier difficulty, the lack of scaling, and not catching higher level pokemon are all big deals

_Matchabuu_ posted...

bobbaaay posted...

I guess to sum everything up -- food is tricky, food is highly personal, nutrition counseling and/or weight loss should be individualized. If a restrictive diet is too difficult then it's not worth it. There's a fine balance between calories in/calories out and eating "healthy," and I think other factors such as emotional, mental, and cultural health are just as important as actual weight and/or labs.

EDIT: I'm much more akin to soft sciences than I am hard sciences, that's why it may seem like I'm emphasizing those last three factors.

I think youre spot on in your analysis.

Any plans to go full dietician?

My girlfriend wants me to. There are 4 accredited online didactic programs in the US. Right now I'm just picking up prerequisites at a local community college that my DTR program didn't include.
What stinks is 2024 dietitians are going to require a masters; I guess my plan is to just get the bachelors online, then find a masters program locally (there are TONS here in southeastern Michigan) and get a masters internship instead of a bachelors one.

Solar_Crimson posted...

bobbaaay posted...

Any Nintendogs game (I may consider a cat version)

https://gamefaqs1.cbsistatic.com/box/9/4/6/177946_front.jpg
https://gamefaqs1.cbsistatic.com/box/9/5/3/177953_front.jpg
https://gamefaqs1.cbsistatic.com/box/8/7/6/156876_front.jpg

Close enough for now.

Omg all those cats are cute. no 3ds, though

R1masher posted...

Spin the bottle

true, too.

Conflict posted...

You really are just the biggest edgelord and most peak CEman ever

I'm not a peak CEman because CE loves the fuck out of MGS -- like more than any person I've ever met offline

Hexenherz posted...

Wii_Shaker posted...

So you are a Fortnite boy?

that's on the list, so he must be a DayZ/PUBG chicken dinner winner

Never played those, either.

EDIT: But I love Indian memes that mention PubG

Wii_Shaker posted...

So you are a Fortnite boy?

Fortnite's in my list

*teehee*

Any Metal Gear Solid game
Any Resident Evil game
Any Gears of War game
Any God of War game
Any Zelda game after LttP
Any Destiny game
Any Grand Theft Auto game
Any Driver game
Any Mario Kart game
Final Fantasy 8
Final Fantasy 10
Any Call of Duty game
Any Halo game
Any Tomb Raider game
Minecraft
Fortnight
Any Metroid game
Any Assassin's Creed game
Any Gran Turismo game
Any Crash Bandicoot mainline series game
Any Tekken game
Any Red Dead Redemption game
Any Mass Effect game
Any Fifa game
Any Lego game
Oregon Trail
Any Counter Strike game
Any Far Cry game
Any Portal game
Any Uncharted game
Any Harry Potter game
Any Nintendogs game (I may consider a cat version)
Any Spyro game
Any Jak and Daxter game
Any Hitman game
Any Rollercoaster Tycoon game

*shrug*

awesome999 posted...

bobbaaay posted...

Okay? Who cares?

Trickfinger posted...

pokenerds dont understand that most gamers dont give two fucks about anything past gen 1, let alone gens 2 or 3.

Clearly enough people care seeing how the whole of the internet is against what's happening to the franchise

They care about the fact that a seagull's wings don't flap.
kewl

Wow - so they kept iconic first gen Pokemon like Butterfree, Pikachu, Charmander, Clefairy, Vulpix, Meowth, Onix, Gengar, Koffing, Gyrados, Lapras, the Eeveelutions, Snorlax, and Mew?
And kept Machop, one of the most popular Pokemon in Japan? And kept in Farfetch'd because they gave him an evolution? And kept in some unique Pokemon with strong fan bases like Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee?

And they took out stuff like Jynx, Beedrill, Fearow, Dewgong, Drowzee, and Voltorb?!

WOW they did such a TERRIBLE job not including the "important" Pokemon that aren't starters and legendaries, huh!?
The video literally makes itself look dumb.

awesome999 posted...

bobbaaay posted...

I don't understand that link

https://v.redd.it/z4msd6sdx6531/DASH_480

@bobbaaay

Okay? Who cares?

HEY GUESS WHAT?
Golem isn't in the game, either.

WOW - so 5 out of 6 of my favorite non-starter, non-legendary Pokemon.
I'm really defending the decision because they left in the ones I love, huh?!

GeneralKenobi85 posted...

bobbaaay posted...

GeneralKenobi85 posted...

bobbaaay posted...

which "fan favorites" are there that aren't legendaries, starters, or a handful of oversaturated competitive Pokemon?
Probably 95% of what was cut was trash nobody cared about anyways like Luvdisc and Nosepass

Stop spreading the lie that it's all 'fan favorites' being eliminated

Not true.

In addition to the dex thing, the game also just generally looks like shit. Pokemon is one of the biggest media franchises ever, if not the biggest. So there's really no excuse for it not to be the highest quality game possible.

How is it not true? look at the list of the Pokemon taken out.
The ONLY good arguments anyone has that aren't in the three categories I listed are like, Abra, Scyther, and maybe two or three others.

I think you're getting mixed up here by assuming only the Pokemon you like are the ones everyone else likes too. What reason is there to assume that most Pokemon are crap and unlikable? That simply isn't true.

No I'm not. at all.
My favorites after the Machop line are like Heracross and Archeops -- neither in the game. Luxray is also a favorite of mine -- not in the game.
Lots that are included that are popular I'm not a fan of.
Quit making wild assumptions. I'm trying to be objective. I just said that 4 of my 5 favorites aren't in the game - but I'm really NOT surprised because i don't see them as being popular

Xenozoa425 posted...

bobbaaay posted...

which "fan favorites" are there that aren't legendaries, starters, or a handful of oversaturated competitive Pokemon?
Probably 95% of what was cut was trash nobody cared about anyways like Luvdisc and Nosepass

Stop spreading the lie that it's all 'fan favorites' being eliminated

Stuff like any of the meta starters (Blaziken, Greninja) and then others like the fossil Pokemon (Omanyte, Kabuto, etc), pseudo legendaries (Metagross, Salamence, Garchomp) and various others that see plenty of enjoyment for use like Alakazam, Talonflame, Lycanroc, Luxray, and Zoroark.

You literally just listed a ton of Pokemon in the categories I JUST listed for you.
I'll give you Alakazam, Zoroark, and the fossil pokemon (which, were they any popular other than Kabuto? I love Archeops but I don't think he's anywhere near flagship). And is Luxray actually popular? I don't know the other two because they're after gen 5

GeneralKenobi85 posted...

bobbaaay posted...

which "fan favorites" are there that aren't legendaries, starters, or a handful of oversaturated competitive Pokemon?
Probably 95% of what was cut was trash nobody cared about anyways like Luvdisc and Nosepass

Stop spreading the lie that it's all 'fan favorites' being eliminated

Not true.

In addition to the dex thing, the game also just generally looks like shit. Pokemon is one of the biggest media franchises ever, if not the biggest. So there's really no excuse for it not to be the highest quality game possible.

How is it not true? look at the list of the Pokemon taken out.
The ONLY good arguments anyone has that aren't in the three categories I listed are like, Abra, Scyther, Skarmory, and maybe two or three others.

I don't understand that link

daisy comes with me
lucina dies
agrias pilots the ship

which "fan favorites" are there that aren't legendaries, starters, or a handful of oversaturated competitive Pokemon?
Probably 95% of what was cut was trash nobody cared about anyways like Luvdisc and Nosepass

Stop spreading the lie that it's all 'fan favorites' being eliminated

This isn't accurate at all.
CE is probably the biggest group of fat-shamers next to the Joe Rogan experience.

WilliamPorygon posted...

If you were a furry what kind of anthropomorphic animal would you be?

I'm definitely a lion.
I've grown beards since I was 17, I'm a Leo, and I'm obsessed with cats.

Vicious_Dios posted...

What's your opinion on Bobby Hill?

I love Bobby Hill.
King of the Hill is probably the second funniest show of all time to me, after Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Bobby is probably the second or third funniest character after Bill and Peggy.

I guess to sum everything up -- food is tricky, food is highly personal, nutrition counseling and/or weight loss should be individualized. If a restrictive diet is too difficult then it's not worth it. There's a fine balance between calories in/calories out and eating "healthy," and I think other factors such as emotional, mental, and cultural health are just as important as actual weight and/or labs.

EDIT: I'm much more akin to soft sciences than I am hard sciences, that's why it may seem like I'm emphasizing those last three factors.

_Matchabuu_ posted...

So, youre a dietician right? Is it truly JUST CiCo for weight loss? Not saying you should just eat very small amounts of crap, but could you do that and successfully lose the same weight as if you are strictly healthy (at least by say AHA standards which is one of the top diets thats actually evidence based)

I'm not a dietitian. I'm a dietetic technician. I have an associates - and I never even registered.
I toooook --
A&P I and II
Biochem
Basic Nutrition
Intro to Dietetics
Nutrition Applications
Some food service management classes (Sanitation and Safety, Food Production, Cost Control Procedures, Purchasing Procedures, Intro to Supervision)
Lifespan Nutrition classes (pregnancy and lactation, early childhood nutrition, nutrition through adulthood)
Medical terminology
Public Speaking
Nutrition Application in Long-term Care
Professional Development
Very, very basic MNT I, II, and III (nowhere near as in-depth as actual Dietitian programs)
and four internships (3 were 1xx hours, the other was 2xx hours)

To give you some background so you don't think I'm super, super qualified. I think I'm more qualified than a good majority of people on CE who seem to have crazy opinions and THINK they're qualified -- but I'm not quite an RD XD

That said --
I'd say, in the broadest sense, being a healthy weight doesn't necessarily mean you're healthy. Your labs, mental health, cognitive health, etc. are just as important -- and some diets may help with weight, but negatively impact you in those areas. Dieting should never just be about weight loss - it should be about finding small lifestyle changes you can make that are sustainable.

Food is the most personal thing to most humans next to sex; cultures and traditions can be totally defined by food. Depriving yourself of the enjoyment of food isn't healthy in a cultural sense, in my opinion. Plus we identify eating disorders as much more than just anorexia or bulimia; severe limitation of what you eat can be considered an eating disorder (ie. only eating foods of a certain color, only eating chicken tendies, etc.), binge eating without purging is identified as an eating disorder, excessive/obsessive exercising to achieve a caloric deficit to the point that you're actually hurting your body is also an eating disorder.

If by the AHA diet you're referring to the DASH diet - then it IS preferable to eating smaller amounts of calorically dense, non-nutrient rich foods and empty calories. The DASH diet ensures that you're not eating too much sodium, that you're getting a proper macro-nutrient distribution, you're getting enough of each fat, you're getting enough dietary fiber, etc.

As far as following a "restrictive" (mostly just in its sodium limit) diet like DASH vs. just eating normally and keeping a deficit -- if the former is too difficult to maintain and would cause mental or emotional stress, then the latter could be preferable, at least in my opinion. I'm sure you're aware of how much stress can impact your health -- and making sure your life is culturally rich and you're still able to enjoy life with those around you is important, too.

I don't know if that answers at all? I probably didn't say anything you don't already know.
But if you want an interesting journal article to read about the timing of eating, lol:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413118302535

BlingBling22947 posted...

Diet or no?

Diets or diet flavored things?

As for diets - strict restriction usually leads to yo-yo dieting. Nutrition counseling should be individualized. Not everyone is capable of the same changes at the same capacity. Finding out what's attainable and sustainable is what's important -- figuring out small lifestyle changes a person can make and keep up with, so it doesn't feel as daunting and doesn't feel like major change. I know people say the same thing about exercise, "do what's fun for you physically, and it won't feel like exercise."

Diet flavored things I'm a fan of, but I know they can lead to metabolic disorder and just overall mess with your metabolism. The artificial sweeteners "causing cancer" isn't the issue -- Splenda isn't carcinogenic and the other non-nutritive sweeteners you'd need a ton for it to actually significantly increase your chances of developing brain cancer. Ideally they're fine in small amounts, and can be great for diabetics or anybody who needs to watch their sugar intake -- but in large amounts they can be just as harmful by affecting your metabolism. I'm a hypocrite, though, and I drink tons of them and it probably doesn't do me any favors.

PaulWilko11 posted...

Rank the main Friends characters in order of who you like most?

I've never watched Friends

BlingBling22947 posted...

two for two on consumables I'm unaware of

What's the last movieyou saw?

I had my gf watch Dark Crystal, lol