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| Topic | Gacha Game General Topic 9: ''Out of gems, out of energy, out of sanity.'' |
| darkmaian23 07/25/20 9:43:59 AM #422 | The Catgirl Fondler posted... Eh, I can deal with non-con stuff depending on the participants.A man of culture, I see. |
| Topic | Dresden Files: Peace Talks is less than a month away |
| darkmaian23 07/23/20 10:39:52 AM #168 | DarthAragorn posted... No idea. How are they, compared to Dresden?There is actually only one so far. It's set in a sort of post-apocalyptic fantasy world where everyone lives in these giant towers called Spires because the surface of the Earth has been rendered uninhabitable. There are flying ships, magic (very different from the Dresden files), talking cats, and lots of monsters. The writing isn't as advanced as later Dresden books are, but I loved it. |
| Topic | Dresden Files: Peace Talks is less than a month away |
| darkmaian23 07/21/20 8:28:08 PM #165 | Does anyone know if Butcher has begun writing the second Cinder Spires book yet? I like both Dresden and the Codex books, but I'm really hungry for more of the Cinder Spires' world. |
| Topic | Gacha Game General Topic 9: ''Out of gems, out of energy, out of sanity.'' |
| darkmaian23 07/19/20 11:13:31 PM #368 | Calwings posted... Summer event characters have been datamined and are apparently coming to Crestoria soon. I recognize Yuri and Patty but not the other three.Is there going to be a summer version of Rita? |
| Topic | Military secret police kidnapping innocent people off the streets in Portland |
| darkmaian23 07/18/20 1:08:46 PM #90 | What is the rationale behind supporting things like this? With tactics like this, nobody knows if the unmarked van that comes for them is police or kidnappers. You don't think human traffickers operate this way? There is no excuse for the lack of transparency either. If you have enough evidence to arrest someone, wear a uniform with identification read the suspect their rights, and arrest them. Stuffing people into vans is 3rd world dictatorship shit. Just don't break any laws, and the strange men in the unmarked vans (some of which might not even be any kind of law enforcement) won't come for you? Stop and think about this for a minute. Really think about it. |
| Topic | Gacha Game General Topic 9: ''Out of gems, out of energy, out of sanity.'' |
| darkmaian23 07/17/20 1:18:30 AM #342 | Is Crestoria super slow for anybody else? Everything in the game lags. |
| Topic | Was it ok to call the police on George Floyd? |
| darkmaian23 07/13/20 5:03:38 AM #67 | I don't think it was OK. I'm not aware of any federal or state law that requires ordinary citizens to actively search for and report potentially counterfeit money. Any time people interact with police--whether you are suspected of wrongdoing or not--they are inviting possible trouble. It is standard legal advice in the US to never speak to the police. What is the best thing that can happen to you if you talk to an officer? They don't arrest you, that's what. Unless you are the victim of a serious crime (say, you've been burglarized and need to file a report) what great benefit is there to calling the police? Call if you have to, speak if you have to, but otherwise don't. In some states, you can be arrested for wasting an officer's time. |
| Topic | Should porn be banned from the Internet? Y/N |
| darkmaian23 07/13/20 4:44:00 AM #9 | What evidence is there to support the assertion that "Porn is poisoning the minds of youths around America"? It's already illegal for minors to view pornographic content anyway. What are you going to do, make it twice as illegal? A ban on porn would be a violation of the 1st Amendment. Moreover, it would also be completely pointless. Either the law would never be enforced, or it would be enforced often enough that our already overcrowded jails and prisons began to overflow with non-violent offenders. Prohibition of things people commonly use is doomed to fail and does nothing but create misery. |
| Topic | Dresden Files: Peace Talks is less than a month away |
| darkmaian23 07/13/20 1:21:55 AM #137 | cheese_dragon posted... For those who had a tough time with the first couple of books, yeah, maybe just read the wiki recaps. It gets better starting at book 3 and Butcher really hits his stride at books 4 and 5. I think his writing improves a lot then and the characters become much more tolerable and the fantasy world becomes much more expanded upon which was gravely missing from the first two books.I agree with this. If I hadn't bought several at the same time and been told over and over it gets better, I would have given up on the series. |
| Topic | My FFV Four Job Fiesta Run Went Great! |
| darkmaian23 07/12/20 4:46:19 PM #4 | FF5 is the best Final Fantasy. |
| Topic | I watched the shit out of a John Wick where he battles demons. |
| darkmaian23 07/12/20 4:44:35 PM #2 | Constantine had the right cast to be amazing, but it was made before Hollywood understood how to treat comic book characters. |
| Topic | Streets of Rage 4 Physical |
| darkmaian23 07/12/20 5:06:48 AM #2 | I didn't like it at all. |
| Topic | Low Tier God is against hentai |
| darkmaian23 07/03/20 11:26:25 PM #5 | Not clicking Twitter. What exactly is the argument against porn that doesn't involve real people engaging in sex? Nothing you can do to a cartoon character hurts a real person. In terms of voice acting, some dubs for dark material had the script changed for actor comfort, and I believe people generally just had fun with it because it is ridiculous. |
| Topic | Most porn stars / prostitutes are annoying as fuck. |
| darkmaian23 07/03/20 12:08:35 AM #6 | MuayThai85 posted... I worked with a lot of different escorts. To all of them it was literally just a business transaction. All of the ones who didn't get into the industry with a pimp got into it because of how much money they could make.Wow, what kind of job was that? |
| Topic | Gacha Game General Topic 9: ''Out of gems, out of energy, out of sanity.'' |
| darkmaian23 07/02/20 12:19:41 PM #228 | Eab1990 posted... Princess Connect: Everyone just got 5000 more gems. PriFes closes in ~24 hours.Why can't it have an international release? ;.; |
| Topic | My wife has an anime girl fetish and keeps getting outfits for me |
| darkmaian23 07/02/20 12:16:18 PM #27 | That's actually pretty cool! |
| Topic | i am tempted to throw out all my stuff and move into an apartment with a single |
| darkmaian23 07/02/20 12:11:43 PM #5 | That sounds truly awful. Moving would be a great idea! I plan on doing it myself in the future. |
| Topic | If you care about internet freedom and privacy, please call your senators and... |
| darkmaian23 07/02/20 4:16:22 AM #2 | EARN IT would give broad powers to the AG and a new commission headed overwhelmingly by those with a law enforcement background to shape rules for how the internet works. The initial draft of the bill specifies that the rules will at least have to include things like mandatory data retention and age gating for websites, and also for "rating" the severity of abuse material, which suggests the possibility of out and out censorship (possibly a swipe at regular porn?), and more. The bill tries to duck being an unconstitutional piece of garbage by claiming that the guidelines the committee makes (whatever the hell those will end up being) will be optional. But websites that don't comply with the "optional" guidelines lose Section 230 protections and are liable for everything users say and do. The recommendations spawned by the EARN IT Act won't become law until they Congress approves them, but that approval is all but guaranteed because the resulting bill is to be fast-tracked per EARN IT, and would be all but impossible to vote no for. EARN IT gives the committee a huge level of freedom to make up any kind of rule it likes as long as they can say it would help protect children from exploitation. And we already know that the DOJ opposes encryption and the need for warrants at all for user data. It is also worth noting that Section 230 has never protected providers from having to report child abuse material they find. In other words, his law has absolutely nothing to do with protecting children and helping stop child abuse, because every website is already obligated to, under penalty of law. EARN IT is just a giant power grab that doesn't stand up to any kind of scrutiny. |
| Topic | If you care about internet freedom and privacy, please call your senators and... |
| darkmaian23 07/02/20 2:49:57 AM #1 | ...tell them to say no to EARN IT. The sooner we kill it, the better. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/tell-your-senator-vote-no-earn-it-act |
| Topic | Gacha Game General Topic 9: ''Out of gems, out of energy, out of sanity.'' |
| darkmaian23 07/02/20 1:22:29 AM #221 | SoA might be the most boring mobile phone game I've ever tried playing. It was actually embarrassing. |
| Topic | The new season of Unsolved Mysteries is up on Netflix now! |
| darkmaian23 07/01/20 5:46:58 PM #8 | So is it any good? |
| Topic | The government will take cares us so RELAX. |
| darkmaian23 06/29/20 10:31:27 PM #16 | CHEAP posted... When was the last time the government didn't help us out?Is that some kind of sick joke? A huge chunk of the country can't afford healthcare, our infrastructure is falling apart, and people are still waiting on unemployment claims from March in some states. |
| Topic | Dresden Files: Peace Talks is less than a month away |
| darkmaian23 06/29/20 4:07:39 AM #36 | What do you think the chances are of a Harry and Molly pairing? |
| Topic | Gacha Game General Topic 9: ''Out of gems, out of energy, out of sanity.'' |
| darkmaian23 06/29/20 2:26:41 AM #188 | YugiNoob posted... More like go broke in SINoALICE in 2 days :DI keep seeing this game hyped. What's the deal? |
| Topic | Someone misdialed their one phone call and called me instead. They want me to... |
| darkmaian23 06/29/20 12:55:47 AM #18 | This sounds like a scam to me. |
| Topic | This virus serves as a great example of how God couldn't... |
| darkmaian23 06/27/20 2:52:04 PM #26 | EnterTheTekken posted... I think everyone believes in God. It may not be outwardly expressed by some, but they do.That is, frankly, an incredibly stupid thing to think; doubly so if you meant the Christian God specifically. Plenty of people have absolutely not one shred of belief in the supernatural. |
| Topic | This virus serves as a great example of how God couldn't... |
| darkmaian23 06/26/20 9:31:19 PM #17 | VideoboysaysCube posted... But how much of that suffering do we bring upon ourselves? As they say, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink.But how many people with terminal cancer can God fix? How many severed spinal cords and broken necks can God fix? How many cases of ALS can God cure? The answer: all of them! How many actually get fixed? None! Not even the most fervent believers of any given religion receive what would be genuine miracles, and neither do heroes and moral paragons. If God knows all that can be known, then he can teach us to be better than we are. If God is all powerful, than he can in a single instant perform a gigantic miracle and erase whole classifications of human suffering that humans can't erase for themselves. Yet he does nothing. Either he doesn't exist, or he is a gigantic ass. Did God make us? Then he has some responsibility for how we turn out. If he didn't make us, I still can't imagine what divine morality would have to look like for him to do nothing for us. It's no good passing the buck to humans in either case, though. For most of our history, humans lived a hand to mouth existence as hunters and gatherers, with no advanced science or technology. How could we have done better for ourselves? Electricity wasn't invented until 1879. Until around 1840, only the rich had indoor plumbing. Modern living--and all of the luxuries it offers, like time to think and widespread education--is incredible recent. Life sucked for most people for most of history, and even still, there have always been altruistic people working to make things right. Most people are in no position to do big things like stop wars or cure diseases or fix social problems. How is humanity sucking the fault of the common people, or even the species itself? If God is all-knowing and all-powerful (or even anything close to such grandeur), what can it cost him to help us? Haven't you ever given money to a needy family or a homeless person in your community? An all-powerful, supposedly good God can't give even display something as simple as basic charity, to at least a chosen few? |
| Topic | Man I love asian chicks >_> |
| darkmaian23 06/26/20 9:07:45 PM #35 | SpiritSephiroth posted... I met her at her workplace in a supermarket. We used to talk every week and it got to the point were we exchanged LINE.What's that? |
| Topic | trump is ending federal funding of coronavirus testing sites at the end of june |
| darkmaian23 06/24/20 8:26:35 PM #13 | Yeah, isn't COVID going to disproportionately affect GOP voters? Not sure what the strategy here is. |
| Topic | Facial recognition tech leads police to arrest man for crime he didn't commit |
| darkmaian23 06/24/20 8:25:52 PM #11 | Is this really the first time a someone has been falsely arrested due to facial recognition in America? Given how poorly it works (look up the appalling UK failure rate), I'm surprised this happened. Given how flimsy the evidence was, I'd say racial bias was definitely in play. And what was up with the police phoning the guy to tell him to come in and be arrested? Is that something police actually do? It sounds like a setup to justify sending officers to follow him home for further intimidation. |
| Topic | Anything anti-encryption bill has been spawned by Lindsey Graham |
| darkmaian23 06/24/20 8:17:21 PM #7 | AlephZero posted... If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.Everyone has things they want to hide: banking details, private conversations, medical information, etc. The cases in which not being able to access encrypted information has seriously hindered an investigation are a lot fewer in number than the FBI claims (they were called out for this lie after an investigation). Take the FBI's beef with Apple as an example. Apple specifically doesn't encrypt iCloud backup information by default in deference to law enforcement concerns. They can and do provide any unencrypted data they have when served a warrant. They can get text and call data straight from the phone company. And to top it all off, they lied to the public about what they wanted. darkzero297 posted... It is even worse when you realize that Bernie Sanders could have stopped it and decided not to.That was the vote on whether or not to protect browsing history from the FBI in the PATRIOT Act renewal. It was a very close vote, and Sanders just wasn't present. The issue hasn't been decided in Congress yet though so there is still hope. |
| Topic | Do you believe Attorney General Bill Barr is corrupt? |
| darkmaian23 06/24/20 7:55:27 PM #17 | I think he is, I know he is. |
| Topic | Anything anti-encryption bill has been spawned by Lindsey Graham |
| darkmaian23 06/24/20 7:55:01 PM #2 | Bump. And if anybody cares, EARN IT is appearing at a committee meeting tomorrow. |
| Topic | Which of these ecchi comedy mangas should I read? >__> |
| darkmaian23 06/24/20 7:08:39 PM #11 | NeonOctopus posted... Just pervy comedy in general like Prison School. That shit is funny to me >_>Yeah, I can't help with that. The only manga I can think of are probably too extreme on the ecchi. Sorry man. |
| Topic | Gacha Game General Topic 9: ''Out of gems, out of energy, out of sanity.'' |
| darkmaian23 06/24/20 7:06:34 PM #128 | VIIVincent posted... Grand Summoners@VIIVincent Did you manage to get Filo? I spent real money too because I needed to have all four characters, but no dice. I actually wonder if the odds of getting Filo were lower than the other three. I've seen lots of Raphtalias and Meltys in Arena, but I've seen Filo like twice. Maybe my salt is what is making me biased. |
| Topic | Which of these ecchi comedy mangas should I read? >__> |
| darkmaian23 06/24/20 6:59:38 PM #9 | Are you looking for real ecchi recommendations, or just stuff that has a lot of cleavage and happens to be funny? |
| Topic | It is INSANE that we cannot vote from a smartphone in the year 2020 |
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| Topic | Anything anti-encryption bill has been spawned by Lindsey Graham |
| darkmaian23 06/24/20 5:48:29 PM #1 | And this time he is being joined by Tom Cotton! Wheeee! https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/graham-cotton-introduce-yet-another-attempt-to-torpedo-encryption/ This bill is so stupid I don't think even they expect it to pass. Or at least, I hope that's the reception it gets. EARN IT is still alive somewhere in a dark corner too. What a great time for a bill like this, what with the protests against police and all. There has been some suspicions raised in comment sections on this article and others that Cotton and Graham have no faith in this bill, and are only bringing it to life to show their support for police and pro-police voters. |
| Topic | Is blind loyalty a good or bad trait? |
| darkmaian23 06/22/20 10:42:40 AM #4 | VVALLBOUNCE posted... Blind loyalty requires one to ignore something that otherwise would steer them away from said company/person etc, so its definitely bad |
| Topic | Man crashes #BlueLivesMatter police rally in a pig costume |
| darkmaian23 06/21/20 8:39:01 PM #34 | Conflict posted... "If you called 911 and needed help, how would you like it if no one was there for you?"I hate arguments like that. Nobody is arguing that law enforcement isn't needed. The problem is that bad officers are protected by the union, fellow officers, prosecutors, judges, and sometimes even the laws themselves. Apparently the official police report for George Floyd's death stated that there was a "medical issue", with no mention made of one cop murdering him while several others enabled the behavior. To say nothing of the people who get framed for crimes or arrested for things that aren't actually crimes. The public never hears about most cases of misconduct, and even with they do, officers are hardly ever punished. When the are, the punishments are light and the police in general are indignant that there was any punishment of a fellow officer at all. That just isn't how things should be. Nothing about the job of being a cop necessitates any of this BS protection they get. American soldiers in war zones constantly risk debilitating injury and loss of life, and they are held to far higher standards of conduct than police are. And when soldiers do mess up, military justice is harsher than regular criminal justice. There is no reason for this to not be the case for police too. I legitimately don't understand the pro-police perspective with regards to reform. Who the hell wants to live in a world where police can do whatever they like to you with impunity? If your mentor or friend or spouse is a cop and you support them because they are good people, great! By getting rid of ridiculous police powers and protection, the good cops will no longer be forced to choose between having a job and saving someone from being murdered or having evidence planted and losing years of life for nothing. Any good cop that doesn't agree with huge police reforms either isn't really a good person, or has been fortunate enough to never see police corruption ruin lives. There is no downside for good cops if strong police reforms get passed, because it can only make being a good person easier. Once we get done reforming police, we can start on the corrupt judges and prosecutors. Sensible laws to eliminate minor crimes and unclog the prisons and courts would be sweet too. It's time to make America great again...for real this time OK? There is no reason our country has to look like this. |
| Topic | Has anyone here actually turned their life around at 30? Or is it too late? |
| darkmaian23 06/21/20 8:08:52 PM #27 | blablablax17 posted... It's true, I don't have a plan and I'm growing more and more concerned.Anyone who is making a plan in 2020 that they think is realistic is probably kidding themselves. But you should have some general idea of what you'd like to work towards, and you can spin that into a narrative for folks you meet. |
| Topic | turned 39 today. feel like i'm 79 |
| darkmaian23 06/21/20 8:07:33 PM #31 | Have you considered seeing a doctor? You absolutely shouldn't be experiencing severe mental and physical decline at such a young age unless you have some kind of underlying health condition. |
| Topic | Anyone else just feel fatigued by the internet now? |
| darkmaian23 06/21/20 8:06:07 PM #14 | Jabodie posted... But in the quarantine period?We aren't even done with the first wave of COVID-19, and there are serious concerns that it is possible to be infected more than once. The United States still isn't doing any of the things it needs to be able to do to reopen safely without killing a lot of people because politics. It really isn't over. But on the subject of this topic specifically, I think the problem is that 2020 has been a shitty year for everyone, at least in the US. |
| Topic | Anybody here correct their posture? |
| darkmaian23 06/21/20 8:03:09 PM #4 | Get a referral to a physical therapist if you are concerned that bad posture might hurting you. Just trying to sit up straight won't help, as there are all kinds muscle groups involved that need to be retrained. You might hurt yourself too if you try to do funky things with your neck, back, or shoulders. |
| Topic | Minority jail officers barred from guarding ex-cop who murdered Floyd |
| darkmaian23 06/21/20 8:01:05 PM #12 | Yeah, that's garbage. |
| Topic | The US is not prepared for the occult war |
| darkmaian23 06/19/20 8:22:43 AM #5 | mrgoatthief posted... Is Global Warming just the Summer and Winter court fey going to war?Dresden fan? |
| Topic | That cousin you havent seen in years has a nice body now |
| darkmaian23 06/19/20 5:13:07 AM #12 | Wii_Shaker posted... I can be happy for my cousin for having a nice body without being attracted to them. I don't know what it's like in your family.According to CE logic, I think that means your cousin isn't attractive enough. |
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