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The Popo posted...

Neat. Might sound weird to say, but I never knew how small Greenland was until just now by playing around on that site. On maps, it always appears absolutely gigantic, but its cause by it being stretched out due to the nature of maps as you approach the poles. That site takes the curvature into consideration when dragging stuff around, and Greenland is far smaller than Id previously thought it to be.

It might be a lot smaller than it appears on most maps due to curvature, but it's still pretty big. Take the southern point of Greenland and place it on the southern point of Texas and Greenland still reaches Canada and covers nearly every Great Plains state. That's a big island.

CableZL posted...

I don't understand

They're calling covid a virus weaponized by the CCP

But then the vaccine is also a bioweapon?

What

Yes. COVID is a bioweapon designed by China. It was unleashed by the government of China in conjunction with companies like Pfizer and Microsoft so that they could unleash their own bioweapon on the world in the form of COVID vaccines to control peoples thoughts and turn them into socialists and atheists.

It all makes sense when you think about it. You know, if real life was a fucking Bond movie.

Jalapeno, Ghost Pepper and Buffalo Wing would probably be fine. I mean lots of people mix hot sauce in their Kraft Dinner already anyway. But the other three sound awful, especially Cotton Candy.

Simp3 posted...

the US. in the UK people make 10k pounds a year.

The average salary in the UK is around 31,000 per year. The average salary in the US is also around $31,000 per year. Except 31,000 is roughly equivalent to $42,000.

So the average American is poorer than the average Brit. Oops.

Ketchup is only worth using on shitty frozen fries, and there's at least a half dozen condiments that could easily replace it.

KFC in Canada has always had normal french fries, and I still maintain that they are the absolute worse french fries on the planet.

I admittedly did not read the whole thing, but based on what I saw as I skimmed over it, this sounds like a hardcore evangelical desperate to convince himself that the Church didn't commit some horrible act and was somehow right and justified.

The Lion King. If there was a movie I saw in theaters before that I don't remember it at all.

I know their deaths and hospitalizations have remained fairly low despite the recent surge, but still going from 2,000 cases a day to 20,000 cases a day in 5 weeks despite one of the world's highest vaccination rates is probably a good reason to not go full Texas and start pretending the pandemic is over, especially given how frequently this virus seems to mutate into new variants and each one seems more resistant to vaccines than the last. They're just begging for some UK Variant v2 to rise up and be even more deadly and vaccine resistant than Delta.

145/151

Missed Psyduck/Golduck, Krabby/Kingler and Goldeen/Seaking. When I got down to three sets of two missing I knew they were shitty useless water types, but I couldn't remember which ones I'd forgotten.

They have probably put more effort into this Bidoof meme day than they have in the last three generations of games. It's honestly sad.

s0nicfan posted...

She gets called out for Antisemitism for "accidentally" using antisemitic language often enough that I'm surprised some people still pretend she doesn't know any better. She's a bigot. It's that simple.

It's like when a celebrity accidentally says the N-word or the F-word on a Twitch stream or something and people defend them with "They're not really racist/homophobic, it just slipped out". Why did it slip out? Most likely because it's something they at least think, if not say, regularly.

Same here with Omar. Once is bad enough but it happens so often with her that it's pretty likely she does in fact have a level of disdain for Jewish people in general, not simply an opposition to Israeli foreign policy.

I just want to point out how ludicrous it is that a 60 year old woman got 24 years for dealing drugs, but unrepented murder that leads to months of race riots throughout the country is only worth 22.5 years.

Resident Evil 4. 4 versions. GC, Wii, PS4 and PC.

Although if you count the DS remake of Final Fantasy 4 and the fact that it's in the SNES Mini, then it too I have 4 versions. SNES, GBA, DS and SNES Mini.

omega cookie posted...

All of humanity lived without AC for thousands of years. If schools don't all have mandatory AC, prisoners can go eat glass.

All of humanity lived without toilets and running water for thousands of years too. So should we just let prisoners shit on the floor and wallow in their own filth?

Of course not, toilets and showers are essential parts of modern society. Heating and air conditioning should be too. We've long since passed the point where temperature regulation should no longer be considered a luxury and it's really sad that there's still a sizeable amount of the population that thinks it should still be some sort of privilege that only the elite have access too.

Most Boomer's probably don't even know how to use the speaker phone on their phones. This is way more common with Gen Xers and Millenials. And they're all dicks regardless of generation.

The first two are still great movies I'd easily give 4 stars (or 4 1/2 if that was an option) to if it was just those two. Adding in the significantly worse 3rd move drops it to 3 stars at most.

TheLiarParadox posted...

What are Cena, Orton, and Rey Mysterio doing now?

Cena's in Hollywood but Orton is still around and Rey is literally one of the Tag Team Champions right now...with his son just to drive home how old he is now.

There was nothing to really hate about Jacob, but there was nothing to really like either. He was just there. The completely generic soldier character. At least Ashley had the racism angle going to at least give her character something other than "I wear armor and shoot things".

B18Champ posted...

Of course, but does that mean it is fun to watch a soccer or hockey game for several hours only to possibly have one goal scored during the entire game?

Yes. A game with less goals scored is more exciting because they feel bigger and more important. One goal can be the difference between and win and a loss so every attempt is exciting. Basketball on the other hand points are scored so frequently that they feel pointless. There's no urgency or excitement until the last 10 minutes or so unless it's a complete blowout, which also isn't fun to watch.

Air Force One

I haven't extensively traveled the US, but I can say there are parts of Buffalo and Cleveland that look like warzones you'd see in a documentary about the Yugoslav Wars or something.

She looks fine for a woman in her mid-50s. Like others have said it doesn't help that she's co-starring alongside a guy who has not changed at all in 20 years aside from no longer visiting his barber.

According to the Mass Effect wiki...

195,500 palladium (237,500 for all upgrades from DLC)
275,000 platinum (305,000 for all upgrades from DLC)
200,000 iridium (242,500 for all upgrades from DLC)
31,000 element zero (35,000 for all upgrades from DLC; +5,000 for each Advanced Training and +2,500 for each Retrain Powers)

So yes unless you plan on doing Advanced Training or Retraining Powers, in which you'll need more Element Zero.

Sabio posted...

Words do not have the instant transmission technique of the Yardrat people.

In English they do. It's a stupid language that ignores it's own rules and makes up new ones all the time.

Darmik posted...

Maybe some sort of save import like Dragon Age Inquisition had that changes the odd thing. But even then things like the Krogan and Quarians will be tough to work around without making it seem like Shepard's decisions didn't matter long term.

I mean these people couldn't make things like saving or killing the Rachni Queen in ME1 make a difference aside from an email and numbers on a pause screen. There's no way they could design an entire game that would be drastically different based on things like whether the Genophage was cured or not, how the Quarian-Geth War ended, and of course whether Sheperd chose Destroy, Control or Synthesis. They're going to have to make a hard decision on what choices and decisions in the trilogy were canon to base this game around.

I don't know what it looks like now because I haven't seen a run in years, but back about 5 years ago or so Yoshi's Island speedruns were like the pinnacle of skill and execution, especially 100%. The timing and precision needed to run that game competitively was unreal.

Typically I just play on the default, which is what I'm doing now with Mass Effect.

I did do the whole trilogy on Insanity back on the original versions just after ME3 came out, and I'm likely not doing it again.

Everyone listed under "cast" on Wikipedia for The Conqueror (1956) is dead except for John Wayne's son Patrick whose role is uncredited and doesn't even have a name listed.

There's a reason why most people generally don't dye their eyebrows too. This is it.

It was okay and I thought Harrelson, Clarke and Glover were fine, but what's-his-name that played Solo was absolutely awful, so I guess they balance each other out and I'd say "indifferent"..

The new version is still going? I legit haven't seen or heard anything about it in years.

Theoretically they were building more than one at once. The first Death Star was seen under construction at the end of Episode 3. It was only made fully operational during the events of Episode 4 (or I guess Rogue One now but either way) that means it took 18 years to complete. Thus the second Death Star must have been under construction long before Episode 4 since Episode 6 was only 3 years later and there's no way they completed over 50% of the structure, as well as fully operational weapons systems, in only 3 years when the first took 18 total, especially since the second was bigger.

Also given that it takes 18 years to fully complete a Death Star, it's unlikely that building more than two or three at a time is feasible.

Doom_Art posted...

I forget, was there stuff in the OT to indicate that Luke and Leia are twins?

It's been a while since I've watched them lol

In Return of the Jedi when Luke asks Obi-Wan what Yoda meant when he said "There is another", Obi-Wan replies that Yoda was referring to "your twin sister".

sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

Some people have better memory. That's how I interpreted it in the OT. Luke simply couldn't remember.

In the same scene Obi-Wan also tells Luke that he and Leia were split up when they were born, so I think it was supposed to be interpreted that Leia was left with her mother while Luke was given to Owen and Beru, but then their mother died young and Leia was adopted by the Organas.

But of course, like many things, the prequels just ignored that and had Padme die immediately, so there was no way Leia could remember her mother at all.

Probably one of the original Star Wars trilogy since I watched all three of them over and over for years when I was younger.

Story-wise, yes. Everything-else-wise, no.

FortuneCookie posted...

And Brenden Fraser in The Mummy Returns.

That was more of a 2-on-1 fight with Rock against Fraser and The Mummy, because neither Fraser or The Mummy were trying to kill each other, they were both after the Scorpion King.

UnfairRepresent posted...

He's a complete asshole but I'm kinda sus about this being considered fraud legally

So I did a quick google search and it seems that Japan does in fact have "breach of trust" laws that cover coercing people to offer gifts under false pretenses. It seems like they primarily exist to stop businessmen from pretending they're interested in signing a deal with another businessman, getting gifts and free meals from them during negotiations, then pulling out because they never had any intention to sign a deal and were just using them for said gifts and free meals.

Unfortunately for this guy it's not worded specifically to regard business dealings, so since he coerced these women to give him gifts under the pretense of being in a serious relationship he had no intention to commit to, it could be construed as violating this law.

It looks like what you'd get if you bought a frozen $2 microwavable dinner called "Pho" from the grocery store.

Zikten posted...

Dwayne Johnson I think. At least until Black Adam comes out. Though the movie is trying to make him not a villain but an anti hero

He was a villain and died in the first movie he ever made, The Mummy Returns.

TWINE for single player. Nightfire for multiplayer.

Isn't the story with the Jazz that the guy who bought the team and moved it to Salt Lake City didn't want to produce a new line of merchandise, so he just kept the name?

Sure...in like October when I'm finally eligible for a vaccine.

Phynaster posted...

Probably because she wasn't his sister yet when the first movie was written. Man, this topic is bad.

It was the second movie where Leia kisses Luke. And it was also the second movie where Yoda alludes to Leia also being a potential Jedi, so it was likely already planned for Leia and Luke to be siblings then.

We watched the shitty modernized Leo DiCaprio and Claire Danes version of Romeo and Juilet in school for some reason and I don't remember if it had nudity or not.

We also watched Schindler's List and some other movie based on a civil war in Africa that had a scene in a refugee camp or something where several women were topless/nude (Hotel Rwanda maybe? Did that have a scene like that?).

I already refuse to pay $80 CAD for video games and haven't bought a new game at launch in years because of it. Increasing it to $90 or $100 will probably make me give up on modern gaming entirely as even waiting for a sale wouldn't be worth it at that point because the sale price would still be $60+ for the first couple years.