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| Topic | In 2020 Russia will have nukes in their military arsenal, can't be intercepted. |
| darkknight109 12/27/18 6:16:57 PM #21 | FatalAccident posted... I know your whole schtick is being as dense as possible but do you know what a missile defence system is and what it means when nuclear missiles can evade them? The US's missile defence system can't handle Russia's *current* arsenal - it could maybe down a couple of missiles, but if Russia ever unloaded its entire arsenal at the US or any of her allies, it is literally impossible for the US's current defences to stop all or even most of the missiles. Hell, the entire point of MAD centres on the fact that *no one* can effectively defend against a nuclear assault, which is supposed to serve as a deterrent on anyone ever using them. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | What tips would you impart to a player about to play Disgaea for the first time? |
| darkknight109 12/27/18 6:13:40 PM #13 | EclairReturns posted... I was told that I can beat the entire story mode without grinding, so I figured that I suck and need better strategy since I needed to grind on the previous three games I've played. You can beat the story mode without *much* grinding, but that's really not where the meat of the game lies. If you're having trouble, spend a bit of time in the Item World for your best character's weapon. It will simultaneously make said weapon stronger AND level up your party. Beyond that, Disgaea doesn't really have much strategy for an SRPG, at least not in actual combat. It's all about how you kit out and prepare your characters. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | "loli hentai" is always joked about, but isn't just drawn child porn? |
| darkknight109 12/27/18 6:12:17 PM #126 | Kungfu Kenobi posted... Advocates like Joe "Tax on violent media" Biden, a potential presidential candidate. Joe Lieberman, a proponent of the PMRC. Hillary Clinton, a sponsor of the Family Entertainment Protection Act. Your first example is more than five years old, your third example is more than a decade old, and your second is older than most of the people on this board. Why not bring up the Comics Code Authority while you're at it? Kungfu Kenobi posted... And let's not ignore that the ban on bump stocks, a gun control measure by any stretch, was pushed forward by Donald Trump himself No, let's, for the exact reason you posted in your next sentence. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | What tips would you impart to a player about to play Disgaea for the first time? |
| darkknight109 12/27/18 6:02:23 PM #10 | EclairReturns posted... I'm trying to beat the game without grinding, though. Oh man, you are playing the wrong series if you are trying to avoid grinding... --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | In 2020 Russia will have nukes in their military arsenal, can't be intercepted. |
| darkknight109 12/27/18 4:11:34 AM #17 | Putin still misses the days of the USSR as a superpower and Russia's GDP is less than Germany, France, Italy, and Canada, so he needs to do something to try and get people to take the country as a serious power again. And just like last time, if he bothers to build more than a handful of these, he's going to run into an economic reckoning that won't end well for him. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | I thought Trump was gonna make the economy better? |
| darkknight109 12/27/18 2:08:30 AM #37 | The effect that politicians have on the economy is generally vastly overstated by both pundits and politicians. While it's true that staggering idiocy can have dire effects on an economy, it typically only happens in third-world dictatorships because of truly brainless monetary policy. While politicians can help boost a good economy or ease a bad one, the market will boom and bust largely of its own accord. Trump was an idiot when he was claiming credit for the roaring economy (that was roaring before he was ever elected) and while he certainly had a hand in the recent tailspin by spooking the markets (Protip: Don't say that there's an imminent deal with China, then call yourself "Tariff Man"), he's not the main culprit in the markets turning bearish. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | "loli hentai" is always joked about, but isn't just drawn child porn? |
| darkknight109 12/26/18 9:21:34 PM #118 | Kungfu Kenobi posted... Revelation34 posted...Kungfu Kenobi posted...When these are the people making your laws, you don't have the luxury of not taking them seriously. "Gun control advocates" like the NRA and Donald Trump? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nra-blames-violent-media-for-mass-shootings-8429788.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2018/02/22/trump-blames-violent-video-games-for-school-shootings-heres-why-hes-wrong/#237345d467f3 https://www.usgamer.net/articles/the-nras-long-incoherent-history-with-violent-video-games http://time.com/5191182/trump-video-games-violence/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/oliver-north-incoming-nra-chief-blames-school-shootings-on-culture-of-violence/2018/05/20/cb85592e-5c27-11e8-9ee3-49d6d4814c4c_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0d447ca3a9df https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-blames-video-games-shootings-because-real-issues-are-harder-ncna852871 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/21/nra-full-statement-lapierre-newtown --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Pick a game console. |
| darkknight109 12/26/18 3:49:44 PM #29 | xjayguyx posted... BUMPED2002 posted...CHROM6 posted...n64 to play smash bros and ocarina of time. There was one about pocket monsters or something. I heard it was pretty popular. But are we talking developed by Nintendo or just released on their consoles? Because if it's the latter, Nintendo systems had some absolute masterpieces (nearly all third party, but masterpieces nonetheless). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Pick a game console. |
| darkknight109 12/26/18 3:47:54 PM #28 | Of those? SNES, easily. If I had to go all-time, though, I'd pick the Wii. The built-in GC backwards compatibility gives you access to some stellar games (SSB:M, PSO, both Baten Kaitos games, F-Zero GX, etc.), many of which have thousands of hours worth of replay time in them, and you have the Wii's own library on top of it (which, while not quite up to GC standards, has some gems of its own). If you also get the VC library, you basically have access to 80+% of Nintendo's best games of all time, losing out only on a handful of Wii U/Switch titles and their portable offerings. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | "loli hentai" is always joked about, but isn't just drawn child porn? |
| darkknight109 12/26/18 1:51:22 AM #109 | I feel like this is an area that warrants some actual clinical studies (which will probably never be done for a variety of reasons). It would be interesting to see if someone into loli hentai is more likely to "graduate" to actual kids, or if it really does act as a "release valve" and prevents that progression (because I'm all in favour of someone getting their rocks off to a cartoon - regardless of what that cartoon depicts - if it prevents harm to an actual, real-life child). Honestly, we have a shit-lousy system of dealing with pedophiles. There is no off-ramp for anyone who recognizes they are at risk of abusing a child but wants to prevent it. Duty-to-report laws mean that even approaching a psychologist for help risks triggering a police investigation (which, given the subject material, could impact everything from employment to family to standing in the community, even if that investigation ultimately turns up nothing) and this seems like the only area where we have yet to realize what a terrible idea that is. Hear voices in your head? You can go talk to a psychiatrist and get treatment to help you live a normal life. Have trouble with explosive anger and worry you'll hurt someone some day? Anger management therapy is available and widely supported. Feel an attraction to little kids? Sorry buddy, you're on your own - manage it as best you can and know that if you screw up, well, you just wrecked a kid's life and are probably spending the rest of your life ostracized and/or jailed. Good luck! The Wheelman1 posted... Come to think of it, most anime sexualizes high school girls. Most high schoolers are under 18. Sickning. Because it's not like high schoolers are sexually active or anything. And certainly none of them watch anime. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Justice Department alleges Trump knowingly directed Cohen to commit felonies |
| darkknight109 12/25/18 7:49:08 PM #81 | Blighboy posted... Lib heart throb Justin Trudump said "peoplekind" which suggests he's way more compromised than Trump ever could be. He was also saying it as a sarcastic joke, not actually being serious, which is a point that most conservatives seem to gloss over when they recount the tale... --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Mario kart is bullshit |
| darkknight109 12/25/18 7:47:18 PM #12 | OhhhJa posted... The new mario kart is garbage. The game autocorrects you to stay on the track and lakitu picks you up immediately if you fall Turn off auto-steering. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | "loli hentai" is always joked about, but isn't just drawn child porn? |
| darkknight109 12/25/18 7:13:29 PM #94 | zebatov posted... Kungfu Kenobi posted...PtlessAgmnts posted...Imagine being so much of a moron you think some geek drawing Misty or Stewie having sex is at all equatable to actual real children being violated. That law is decades old now, but don't let me get in the way of your grandstanding... --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Is Japan Racist? |
| darkknight109 12/20/18 2:08:11 PM #111 | Krazy_Kirby posted... bowing is a form of subservience, screw that. Thanks for proving my point! I was hoping someone would come and do that. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | NY's nunchuks ban ruled unconstitutional |
| darkknight109 12/20/18 2:06:15 PM #21 | PakoPako posted... In combat, due to wind up, nunchaku might be more effective than a baseball bat. No, trust me, they're not. And that's from someone who's been training with them for 15 years. I've never understood the nunchaku ban, especially in the US where personal firearms ownership is legal to a ridiculous extent. Nunchaku aren't even the most dangerous weapon in their "family" of traditional Okinawan weapons; if I wanted to cause damage, sai would be my weapon of choice if I wanted portability, with a bo or eku being the better option if that wasn't a necessity. Even a simple cane can cause more damage, Nunchaku are great for grappling (one of their original uses was as a sort of primitive form of handcuffs), but they're only so-so at best as a bludgeoning tool. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Is Japan Racist? |
| darkknight109 12/19/18 11:44:31 PM #103 | Person106 posted... Most Americans don't behave like punk-ass teens who go about committing petty crime. Somehow I doubt they make the transformation when visiting Japan. They are, however, notorious for doing shit that is quite rude in Japan. Things that are Japan-specific like talking loudly on the subway or putting their bags on seats (both big no-nos over there) or stuff that's rude pretty much everywhere like littering (public trash cans, for whatever reason, are a rarity in Japan, but you're expected to take your trash with you until you find one) or just randomly walking up to a shopkeeper and yabbering at them in English without bothering to check if they even speak it first. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | The Alt Right is triggered because Emily Blunt is a Trump hater |
| darkknight109 12/19/18 11:32:49 PM #9 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... I don't think that the Alt Right is so delicate that they get triggered. You clearly don't know too many alt-righters then. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Is Japan Racist? |
| darkknight109 12/19/18 6:48:32 PM #98 | Hourglass22 posted... I was describing the behaviour of Americans in Japan. Foreigners in general in Japan have a bad reputation of being loud and rude and, in my own personal experience - much like your own - that reputation is not entirely undeserved. While plenty of people go over there and do their best to at least learn enough Japanese to get by and learn what constitutes good manners and customs, there are lots who behave exactly like they do in their home countries (and yes, Americans are particularly bad for this; tourists from China as well seem to stick out to me) and assume it will be acceptable, seemingly without knowing or caring that they're actually being rude (and for whatever reason, the train seems to be the place to go spot the worst tourist behaviours). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Is Japan Racist? |
| darkknight109 12/18/18 8:45:05 PM #82 | zebatov posted... Or you know I posted a couple articles out of the thousands available online that talk about racism in Japan. And the fact that it's a very well-known thing. The people arguing are doing it just for the sake of it and are entirely wrong. I just read an article about the KKK and came to the conclusion that all of America is furiously racist. No, I don't care if you live there, you're in denial and wrong. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Is Japan Racist? |
| darkknight109 12/18/18 6:58:44 PM #78 | zebatov posted... And I know many people on this site live there. That didn't mean jack shit. Because it's not like people living there might actually know something about the culture or anything... --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Is Japan Racist? |
| darkknight109 12/18/18 5:50:15 PM #71 | Monopoman posted... There is one way where almost all of Japan is pretty damn racist against foreigners. The fact is no matter how much you try to assimilate into their country, and spend time learning the in's and out of being a Japanese person they will never accept you as one of their own. This is accurate. I have a friend who has lived over there for over 20 years, speaks perfect Japanese, is married into a Japanese family, and he's still considered "The Foreign Guy". Yet at the same time, I still hesitate to call that racist for a few reasons. The biggest reason is it doesn't generally result in getting treated any worse than a native Japanese person, although some people do say it makes them feel isolated since they're "not part of the group". The second is that the Japanese do the same thing to their own native-born - birthplace is a much bigger deal in Japan than it is in the West (to the point where it's not unusual to be asked "Where is your birthplace?" before being asked "Where do you live now?"). The guy from Nagoya will always be "the guy from Nagoya", even if he spends 20 years living in Aomori. The third reason is much more complicated to explain, but it has to do with Japanese cultural worldview. Japanese automatically sort the people in their lives into groups - your relationship and whether you are inside (uchi) or outside (soto) a certain group is supposed to determine your importance. The most inner group is your family and no one trumps them in importance. After that, in approximate order, is your class at school or team at work, any clubs or groups you belong to, your school/company, your neighbourhood, your city, your prefecture, and your country. This idea even bleeds over into linguistics - whenever talking to someone outside a certain "group", it is good manners to speak with them and their group respectfully, while speaking of your own humbly. So, for instance, while you would never address your boss without honorifics (doing so would be very rude), if you're talking *about* your boss to a customer or person from another company, it's fairly common to omit honorifics (but if you're talking about someone from *their* company, you *would* use honorifics in order to be polite). It's complicated, since we really have nothing like a collectivist mindset in the West (and if you're from the US it gets even harder, since the US is far more individualistic than pretty much every other Western nation, so Americans wind up even more behind the curve). As a foreigner, you're automatically outside the largest grouping (nationality), so you will generally always be treated like a guest come to visit, even if you live in the country. Again, that's why I don't feel that the "racist" label is the right one, because that carries connotations of disdain and abuse, which generally does not happen in Japan. You are absolutely viewed as different, but generally not inferior or lesser. zebatov posted... Lol. The left don't even expect that out of people. They don't even require the individual to have papers and they'd tell them they're already American or Canadian, even ahead of actual citizens. Man, I'm glad you posted this - it gives me a way better indication of how seriously I should take your posts. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Is Japan Racist? |
| darkknight109 12/18/18 3:09:48 AM #48 | WarGreymon77 posted... I would say xenophobic more than racist. And perhaps not in a malicious or violent way. More like "Haha! Look at the funny foreigner!" Pretty much this. Given how ethnically homogeneous Japan is, if you are non-Asian you are immediately very unusual (especially if you venture out of the big cities and into the countryside - people will literally come up to you and ask to practice English with you). People definitely make assumptions about you based on the fact you're a foreigner (like assuming that you can speak English in the first place), but most of those assumptions are benign. zebatov posted... FYI "Nay!" is wrong. It's not, but whatever helps you win an internet argument. Put it this way: if you asked me whether I would rather be a minority in Japan or a minority in the USA, the correct choice is Japan and it's not even close. aDirtyShisno posted... They have an entire alphabet dedicated to foreign words... Katakana is not solely used for "foreign words" - it's also used for onomatopoeias, "atmosphere" words, to draw attention (it's used a lot in advertising for that reason) or to improve legibility in applications where kanji or even hiragana can't be easily made out (katakana is very simple in terms of characters). And if you think that's odd (for some reason), keep in mind that English does the same thing - we have no native words that use accents, so whenever we borrow one from another language (like "rsum"), we keep the accents instead of anglicizing the word, instantly giving it away as a foreign loanword. By the way, it's also super helpful when reading Japanese, because it automatically clues you into the fact that you're probably reading a loanword, which can give you a big hint as to what it is if you're not familiar with the word. Given that a huge chunk of Japan's loanwords are just English "Japanified", reading katakana as accented-English usually reveals what is being talked about. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Is Japan Racist? |
| darkknight109 12/18/18 1:07:01 AM #36 | zebatov posted... I've only ever heard that they're blatantly racist. Seems like the poll, at least from PotD's perspective, believes they're racist. I'm also willing to bet most of PotD hasn't actually spent any significant time over in Japan to judge for themselves. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | America is not so bad! they even named a street after me in san fransisco |
| darkknight109 12/18/18 12:49:52 AM #4 | Zeus posted... Greenfox111 posted...i'm confused, you say whispering yet you are clearly typing in loud letters What other person? There was no one else in the topic. TC is full of lies. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Is Japan Racist? |
| darkknight109 12/18/18 12:48:26 AM #32 | Mnnnyeh... honestly, it's kind of difficult to say. The word "racist" has a lot of connotations that the Japanese don't fulfill. They are prejudicial, but not without good reason - over 97% of Japan's population is ethnic Japanese. Accordingly, if you don't look like you're from there, you probably aren't and they will assume things about you accordingly (like the fact that you presumably don't know the language or have the greatest grasp on their culture). Based on my own experiences over there, the idea that the Japanese are a group of bigoted racists is way overblown. You do deal with prejudice, but the overwhelming majority of it is non-malicious in nature. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | i swear to god i overheard a cop say |
| darkknight109 12/16/18 3:26:16 PM #17 | I_Always_Die posted... what if he was talking about video game consoles? What's up with that anyways? Glancing over at my shelf out of ~30 consoles, the only ones that I have that aren't predominantly black are the Gamecube, NES, SNES, PS1, Dreamcast, and Wii (and even then, the GC and Wii had black variants available). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Subnautica is free to acquire for PC |
| darkknight109 12/15/18 7:56:35 PM #8 | Yellow posted... darkknight109 posted...Dammit, I badly want this game, but without a shitty DRM platform attached to it. Is it too much to ask for it to come to GOG.com? Don't you have to download the launcher program? --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | lol the American court system is fun |
| darkknight109 12/15/18 2:32:01 PM #41 | Dynalo posted... zebatov posted...Man. The burden of proof is on them. You don't even need a lawyer for this one. Easy-peasy. You're thinking of this like a criminal trial - it's not. "Beyond a reasonable doubt" is not used in civil law, as it is considered the highest possible threshold of responsibility and is reserved for criminal trials. In civil law, the standard of proof is "preponderance of evidence" (sometimes also referred to as "balance of probabilities"). It's a much lower threshold than "beyond reasonable doubt" - you just have to convince the judge or jury that it is more likely than not your version of the story is true. The way it's usually illustrated is if A sues B and the evidence suggests that A is 51% likely to be correct and B is 49% likely to be correct, A would win the suit. By contrast, in a criminal trial if A was the prosecutor and B was the defendant, A could be 90% likely of being correct and B 10% and B would still win the case. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Subnautica is free to acquire for PC |
| darkknight109 12/15/18 12:30:54 AM #2 | Dammit, I badly want this game, but without a shitty DRM platform attached to it. Is it too much to ask for it to come to GOG.com? --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | lol the American court system is fun |
| darkknight109 12/14/18 11:55:13 PM #38 | zebatov posted... Man. The burden of proof is on them. This being a civil case, no one has "burden of proof", because you don't have to prove anything. Civil cases work on preponderance of evidence, meaning the judge/jury just has to decide who is *more likely* to be responsible. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | lol the American court system is fun |
| darkknight109 12/14/18 11:20:02 PM #33 | TaKun782 posted... The one who sells the house usually is responsible for everything. I'm no real estate lawyer, but I don't think this is true. To the best of my knowledge, real estate law in the US - except for the sale of a brand new home by the builder - falls under caveat emptor. Basically, the onus is on the buyer to research the house and conduct whatever inspections are necessary (at their own cost) to determine the house's condition and satisfy themselves that the house will suit whatever purposes they are buying it for. The seller is generally not liable for any damages discovered after the purchase of the house. The only exception to this is if the seller deliberately tries to conceal some flaw or damage in the house; if the seller is ignorant of the defect, that is a legitimate defence in this case. That's exactly why the suit is claiming that TC *did* know about the problem (and even then, it still seems like a weak case to me - you'd have to prove that TC not only knew about it but deliberately tried to hide it from the buyer). The case might be better against the realtor, since they're supposed to be up on that kind of stuff, but honestly I'd be surprised if the suit was successful based on what TC has posted. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | To this day I still have no idea how Two Face's coin lands at the end of TDK |
| darkknight109 12/14/18 3:31:43 AM #1 | Like, could you not fucking show an angle that actually shows the face of the coin for more than a tenth of a second? --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | who was the last person YOU saw completely naked? |
| darkknight109 12/14/18 1:47:41 AM #19 | Just helped give my two-year-old niece a bath, so her. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Trump gonna shut down the Government! |
| darkknight109 12/12/18 11:29:12 AM #34 | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... Why are people blaming this on Trump? Because he literally said, "I am proud to shut down the government for border security. I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down, I'm not going to blame you for it. Also because there is a bipartisan budget bill with enough votes to get through Congress, but Trump indicated he will not sign it. SKARDAVNELNATE posted... And last administration it was over funding Obamacare. This is the same thing that the democrats have been doing to get their way. Is it okay for one side to do this but not the other? No, last time it was the Tea Party wing of the Republican party refusing to vote for a budget bill for a program that had already been signed into law and ruled as constitutional by the Supreme Court. Republicans in Congress held the whole thing hostage because they were throwing a temper tantrum. This time, the budget bill has enough votes to pass Congress, but Trump has said he won't sign it unless it has money for his wall in. This despite the fact that two bills with full funding for the wall failed in the House earlier this year, where no Democrat votes were necessary (meaning Trump doesn't even have enough *Republican* support to build the wall). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | PSA: There is a difference between 'no taste' and 'bad taste' |
| darkknight109 12/11/18 1:08:20 PM #1 | "No taste" means that the person is incapable of discerning good quality from bad, and thus their views are effectively random. "Bad taste" means that a person considers bad quality good and good quality bad. It is a subtle, but important difference that everyone should learn. As an example, someone with no taste in movies might say "The Star Wars films are fantastic! I love all of them, they're masterpieces!" where someone with bad taste in movies would say "The Star Wars prequels are amazing and far better than the originals." Understand this and be at peace. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Make Internet Great Again |
| darkknight109 12/11/18 12:31:08 PM #7 | DrCidd posted... I wonder if twitter would ever have the balls to ban Trump. They did once already. Granted, it was a disgruntled employee on his way out the door, but IIRC his account was removed for the better part of a day before Twitter restored it. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Would You Rather No 114 |
| darkknight109 12/10/18 6:30:54 PM #4 | People lie to me a lot more than I get struck by lightning, so... --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Is anybody else sort of worried about US foreign relations post-Trump? |
| darkknight109 12/10/18 12:24:03 PM #11 | The US hegemony has been slowly dying for ~20 years now. Bill Clinton was really the last president to use America's strengths - both hard and soft - effectively on the international stage. Bush Jr. dealt the first blow to US interests with his disastrous misadventures in the Middle East (and his domestic financial policies being a huge contributor to a global recession the scale of which hadn't been seen for a century certainly didn't help); Obama repaired a lot of the PR damage that move caused, but he failed to assert himself forcefully against aggressive moves by China, Russia, and Syria. Trump basically kicked the last legs out on the deal by treating allies like enemies and constantly picking fights with them, all while rolling out the red carpet for regimes who can straight-up murder US journalists without a whisper of serious repercussions from the White House. It's not out of the question that a future president could rebuild America's influence abroad, but major emphasis on the word "rebuild" - the position of preeminence that America used to enjoy as the world's only real superpower is basically dead now and well beyond simple repair. China is rising and its economy will soon overtake America's as the largest in the world, American military might is no longer a thing that autocrats have reason to fear so long as they ally themselves with the interests of Russia or China, and the damage dealt to America's relations with its allies is not something that can be easily undone. America is and will continue to be a strong country and a global leader, but it is no longer the unquestioned most important voice in the room. Other countries (or blocs, like the EU) are now approaching that same level of influence, so the US is - and will continue to - increasingly finding itself one voice amongst many on the global stage. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | What's the deal with American school lunches? |
| darkknight109 12/10/18 11:18:41 AM #45 | Man, how messed up do your priorities have to be that you're coming out in favour of letting kids go hungry? That's, like, the most stereotypical petty moustache-twirling-villain thing I've heard other than shutting down the orphanage and tying Nell to the train tracks. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Haters gonna hate; The Hobbit movies are fantastic |
| darkknight109 12/09/18 7:38:41 PM #34 | FrozenBananas posted... Oh stop! Its 10x better than the Staw Wars prequels Howard the Duck is 10x better than the Star Wars prequels, so that's not exactly a high bar to climb. Personally, I felt the first one was bad, the second one was excellent - not quite LotR calibre, but at least in the right area code - and the third one was extremely meh. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | I don't understand why people didn't like The Last Jedi. |
| darkknight109 12/08/18 8:05:55 PM #106 | Blighboy posted... darkknight109 posted...Regardless, nothing about that scene makes any sense at all from a physics perspective. Exactly my point. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | What are some good racing games for the modern consoles? |
| darkknight109 12/08/18 2:54:35 PM #3 | He has GT Sport - not a fan of the "always online" bullshit, but other than that he generally enjoys it. He has Dirt 3 as well; he didn't like that one, so I'm not sure Dirt 4 would be much better. Driver: San Francisco is a new one, as is Onrush, so I may just have to look into those. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | What are some good racing games for the modern consoles? |
| darkknight109 12/08/18 2:28:03 PM #1 | Buying a gift for my Dad - he likes realistic racers (Forza, Gran Turismo, etc.), so those are what I'm looking for. He's got a PS3, PS4, and gaming-quality PC. Recommendations, PotD - go! --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Justice Department alleges Trump knowingly directed Cohen to commit felonies |
| darkknight109 12/08/18 1:47:51 PM #14 | minervo posted... Innocent until proven guilty. is a criminal standard used in courts of law. Thank you for mentioning it. It's also completely immaterial to the discussion at hand, because it has nothing to do with whether or not someone actually did something that they're being accused of, but rather whether they can be punished for it. Witness how someone can gun down a dozen people on camera and be immediately captured by the police and they also would be considered innocent until proven guilty, despite the fact that they clearly committed the acts alleged against them. Keebs05 posted... Entering Year 3 of allegations Incidentally, two-year-and-change is exactly how long it took Watergate to get from first allegations to Nixon's resignation. These things don't move quickly, and Watergate had the advantage of an inside man to steer the investigation. Mueller looks like he'll be filing his report some time in the next few months, so he's going to come in about half a year behind the Watergate timeline. Not bad, all things considered. MisterXiado posted... Make a Clinton mad, and you'll fall down an elevator shaft onto six bullets from two different guns with a suicide note written in Chinese stuffed in your mouth. Exactly. And that's why Monica Lewinsky is... alive and well and still talking about the Clinton affair? joemodda posted... We've got him now! Not unlike the previous million times we got him though, this time will be different Technically this is still the first time, given that it's all from the same inquiry. But sure, if we ignore the fact that charges have been laid against Trump's national security advisor, foreign policy advisor, lawyer, campaign manager, and deputy campaign manager, as well as a score of Russian operatives, I'm sure the whole thing looks like a big ol' pile of nothing. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | I don't understand why people didn't like The Last Jedi. |
| darkknight109 12/08/18 1:34:26 PM #100 | man101 posted... darkknight109 posted...man101 posted...Also the bombing run in the beginning is a bigger physics clusterfuck than the hyperspeed bomb. Why do the bombs fall out without gravity? No, no it could not. I know what you're saying seems like it makes sense, but orbital physics do not work anywhere close to that way. There's so much wrong with that scene physically, I don't even know where to start taking it apart. I'll do my best to try to explain it without diagrams. Basically, as you probably already know, "orbit" is not so much weightlessness as it is "going forward so fast that your fall toward the planet is offset by the curve of the planet itself". Now, the ships above Coruscant are not going nearly fast enough to be in orbit, so they're clearly using some other method to stop from dropping into the planet's atmosphere. Now the Invisible Hand sustains damage and that method fails, so the ship starts falling towards the planet. Problem is, that fall wouldn't be a slow, leisurely fall like the movie depicts; it would be a sudden plunge akin to being dropped out of an airplane. And in that instance, even if the planet's gravity was overriding the ship's internal gravity, the dominant force there would not be gravity, but inertia. Depending on atmospheric specifics, Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Palpatine would have either been flung to the back of the ship (if it was outside the atmosphere and not affected by atmospheric resistance) or they would have suddenly been weightless, like someone riding the "Vomit Comet" (if the ship was inside the upper atmosphere) since the ship and them would be falling at the same rate. Regardless, nothing about that scene makes any sense at all from a physics perspective. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | $15,000/a week for one Year or $10,000/month for Life... |
| darkknight109 12/08/18 8:36:25 AM #24 | Would have been a more difficult question if the numbers were higher. As it stands, you're basically asking if someone would prefer a one-time payment of ~$800k or a lifetime guaranteed income of $120k a year. That's not hard to answer at all. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Explain GamerGate to me... without mentioning any ideologies or people. |
| darkknight109 12/08/18 8:27:54 AM #28 | Here's a summary of Gamergate with all of the ideologies and people removed: . --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | You have to come out your pocket for $2000 right now, could you? |
| darkknight109 12/08/18 6:43:45 AM #48 | Yes. I always keep at least $20k in liquid cash available in case of emergencies. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | I don't understand why people didn't like The Last Jedi. |
| darkknight109 12/06/18 4:22:12 PM #93 | LeetCheet posted... Yeah that's why I said at least they looked cool : P About the only one that looked genuinely cool was Maul. Dooku looked like... well, Christopher Lee. And wishing no disrespect to Christopher Lee, he's not my go-to definition of cool. Grievous just looked dumb - a badly-CGId asthmatic, storky cyborg whose big thing was twirling blades like propellers (aka a move that five-year-olds think is amazing and pretty much no one else). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | What's your stance on abortion? |
| darkknight109 12/06/18 1:18:50 PM #81 | GeoMaggs posted... Right, and most (all?) major religious groups frown on these too. I wouldn't say most or all do. The ones that do tend to be large, though, so that gives them outsize influence. GeoMaggs posted... I say pro-lifers be legally required to adopt at least one child That would be challenging, given that in most first-world countries there are actually more families wanting to adopt than their are kids to be adopted, and most of the children that are up for adoption have special needs - physical, cognitive, or behavioural - that require highly focused and specialized care that many families simply aren't equipped to give. In fact, changing attitudes around parenting and abortion are one of the exact reasons for that. The biggest source of children being placed for adoption used to be unwed mothers (back when that was a major social stigma) being pressured to give up their babies and couples that had unwanted children because they had no access to contraceptives and/or abortion. With contraceptives now common and single parenting now accepted (as well as increased numbers of potential parents due to same-sex relations, infertility, or single prospective parents), the number of unwanted children has plummeted, so there are already multi-year waiting lists for adopting a (healthy) child in most first-world nations. Speaking as someone who's already going through the (lengthy) process of adoption-prep, I'd rather not flood the system with any more "competition". DrCidd posted... That's a fair point that I hadn't previously considered. But does it justify abortion? Obviously that's a matter of personal opinion. I would say yes, because I do not believe a fetus constitutes an independent lifeform that early in its development. It is, essentially, an organ of the mother at that point - part of her body, not much different than her liver (and it would be just as dead if it was removed from her). Once the fetus develops a central nervous system and develops to the point where it can exist independent of the mother, then it's a different story, at least in my eyes. Everyone will draw that line in a different spot, though. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
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