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Southernfatman posted...

Plus, how has a cop not "feared for his/her life", which would be totally justified, and just shot and killed one of the villains at some point?

Well you see the joker isn't black so....

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I thought America was the land of the free or something

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lilORANG posted...

Comic writers are also low-tier.

Bad writing is bad writing and I could find you examples across the board. Hell I bet if I was motivated enough I could find an example from Neil Gaiman or someone.

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Slayerblade11 posted...

Good guys not murdering people in cold blood isn't a problem IMO.

I think it's bullshit to deliberately work your way through the villain's territoriy mowing down hundreds of low tier thugs only to suddenly decide right at the last second that you can't go through with putting the actual baddie in the dirt.

If all it takes to change your mind is that it's gonna be an act of defense, why put yourself in that position?

And to be honest because of that nonsense it's exactly how a lot of these encounters end. Good guy only kills him when bad guy is about to do something violent again. Like...duh?

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lilORANG posted...

Video game writers are low-tier brah. Couldn't cut it in the real biz.

This isn't unique to videogames though. Like, think batman.


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Even when it's a clear act of euthanasia, or when the villain is so beyond evil that it is absolutely clear that sparing him will result in some kind of genocide or mass killing spree.

Bioshock 2 spoilers. Why the hell is choosing not to kill Gil Alexander the "good" act?. Even putting aside his awful legacy of oh, I dunno, torturing and murdering actual children, he's not even human anymore. He's a toxic growth in a laboratory. His last wish before descending into insanity and turning into a giant pulsating blob of hatred is to put him out of his misery. And yet if you do that, you've done an evil thing, according to the games mechanics.

The worst part about this trope is that usually this moral dilemma is presented after the hero has already killed like 200 canon fodder henchmen. As above, how many goddamn splicers did you mow down on the way?


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I absolutely loved it. Amazing game.

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

So are we not thinking about the same guy? Works at a bar and doesn't act pervy? He does it as a bit, but still not something Id bring up immediately to describe him.

Also, broke?

I wasn't being literal man, I just think he gives me that same vibe of a lot of dudes I've met who work at bars, only funnier

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I quite like this guy. He's liek Louis CK if Louis CK was broke, worked in a bar and also didn't do weird pervy shit

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In 2020 every single issue is political now. Liberals think coronavirus is bad, therefore republicans think cornonavirus is no big deal, therefore anyone who is a total lad about it and will stick it to the snowflake liberals by shirking any advice saying coronavirus is bad is a win for republican voters.

If that sounds totally fucking stupid it's because it is. We're now at the point where even dying to a deadly disease has to be considered in terms of political party.

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R1masher posted...

They id you when you buy beans on toast?

Mate beans are dangerous, you got a loicense for that?

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But don't raise your eyebrows when you see the date on my license card and say "Sorry sir". It was "mate" before, what happened to mate?

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Squall28 posted...

99+ likes

It's just more of the same

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TC if you want to stir up shit why don't you be honest about the context? Like call it what it is, if their reaction was wrong that stands on its own, you don't need to spin the article any further.

This was a man talking explicitly about trans people.

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This must be the limitless chad dick I keep hearing about

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Playing these for the first time. Sure, it's not as original as the first one, but I don't really get why everyone says it's the worst one?

The big sister appearances are maybe the most terrifying experience I've ever had in a video game (that music, urgh). The combat and everything is much tighter.

To be honest it's just a more polished game compared to the first one, I don't feel they've taken anything out that's made it worse.

Also if you have end game spoilers please, please put them in spoiler tags. I'm only about 3/4s through the story.

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I admire your dedication to the write ups

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We're quite happy being miserable thank you very much

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Funkydog posted...

It is definitely very weird and I'm never sure how to address it.

Islam 100% deserves the same criticisms, but I think that part of the reason why we are expected to be sensitive to it is because it's other and not "the normal". Christianity has been in the west forever and what people have grown up with, and criticising those in power is seem as a fundamental right and expectation.

Not sure this means we should allow Islam to spread an ideology we would otherwise be against, and this doesn't mean all of Islam or Muslims are doing this. Just that when they are spreading female disempowerment or anti LGBTQ+ rhetoric or whatever it might be, we should be free to tell them to fuck off as much we would tell Christianity to.

It isn't helped by the very obvious, typical islamophobe who wields ideological criticism like a weapon against brown immigrants.

The word alone is a problem to me. It really equates a people, a culture and a religion into a single entity, where you can have the effects of religion but without the free criticism of it.


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TommyG663513 posted...

Millennials only criticize Christianity, because it is seen as mostly white and has some influence over our politics. Criticizing any majority non white religion can easily be seen as racist.

I grew up Catholic and will crap on that faith all day, but I need to somewhat tip toe around criticizing Islam for the same thing.

Just the way it is.

It's somewhat insane to me that the very same criticisms I'll happily level at christianity to my leftie friends I then have to tiptoe around in regards to Islam.

Something very wrong about people treating an ideology like an implacable personality trait.

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alimajor posted...

The people who bash religion are just as bad as people who throw religion in your face. They just dont realize it.

I mean that is objectively not true, unless your only basis for comparison is obnoxious internet comments

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Define tolerance.

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Wuhan posted...

Jeez you play JRPGs for story?

I mostly play annual sports titles, so story

The story is usually never the problem in JRPGs, it's the storytelling and the dialogue that really lets it down.


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Pseudomenon posted...

Have you tried tagging them?

Not sure why though, unless someone thought this was a gotcha game

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Oh ffs

Also it's interesting that the independent of all places is reporting this

The newspaper that is funded by the saudi royal family

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These days it's a plus if I can finish a game in a couple of evenings without too much hassle. There was a time where I'd be disappointed in a game that had less than 50 hours of genuine content.


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(Climate change skepticism wouldn't fit in the title)

About the famous "hockey stick" graph:

Later in 2003, a paper by Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick disputing the data used in MBH98 paper was publicised by the George C. Marshall Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. In 2004, Hans von Storch published criticism of the statistical techniques as tending to underplay variations in earlier parts of the graph, though this was disputed and he later accepted that the effect was very small.[11] In 2005, McIntyre and McKitrick published criticisms of the principal component analysis methodology as used in MBH98 and MBH99. The analysis therein was subsequently disputed by published papers, including Huybers 2005 and Wahl & Ammann 2007, which pointed to errors in the McIntyre and McKitrick methodology. In June 2005, Rep. Joe Barton launched what Sherwood Boehlert, chairman of the House Science Committee, called a "misguided and illegitimate investigation" into the data, methods and personal information of Mann, Bradley and Hughes. At Boehlert's request, a panel of scientists convened by the National Research Council was set up, which reported in 2006, supporting Mann's findings with some qualifications, including agreeing that there were some statistical failings but these had little effect on the result.[12] Barton and U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield requested Edward Wegman to set up a team of statisticians to investigate, and they supported McIntyre and McKitrick's view that there were statistical failings, although they did not quantify whether there was any significant effect. They also produced an extensive network analysis which has been discredited by expert opinion and found to have issues of plagiarism.[13][14][15][16] Arguments against the MBH studies were reintroduced as part of the Climatic Research Unit email controversy, but dismissed by eight independent investigations.
More than two dozen reconstructions, using various statistical methods and combinations of proxy records, have supported the broad consensus shown in the original 1998 hockey-stick graph, with variations in how flat the pre-20th century "shaft" appears.[12][17] The 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report cited 14 reconstructions, 10 of which covered 1,000 years or longer, to support its strengthened conclusion that it was likely that Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the 20th century were the highest in at least the past 1,300 years.[18] Over a dozen subsequent reconstructions, including Mann et al. 2008 and PAGES 2k Consortium 2013, have supported these general conclusions.

It's 2020 and internet skeptics are still citing the arguments that have been largely dismissed as far back as 2004. Arguments that amount to "the chair in the dining room has a wobbly leg, therefore the structural integrity of the house should be called into question".


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When I lived in Perth Australia it seemed like much fewer people had an education. Moved to Edinburgh and suddenly everyone has a phD or is a doctor of something.

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cjsdowg posted...

One or Two, it is non stop with this fool. It is funny, when I switch out black people and put in other oppressed groups people say oh that his horrible. But America has gotten so good at down playing racism aimed at black people. A warning about black Supremacy seems logical.

I don't know what groups you're referring to here to be honest, I can't imagine his comment being considered alright with any group...

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I'm not saying he's right guys (he's not). I'm just commenting on the Candace Owens comparison. Yeah the "but both sides" nonsense is tiresome, and it's obvious that the guy is preoccupied with sitting on the fence, but Candace Owens? Nah.

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He's a far cry from Candace Owens, even with recent comments accounted for.

This entire thing highlights to me how polarising the internet is, how much it doesn't allow for nuanced conversation. Terry makes one or two "maybe let's not burn everything down" tweets and suddenly the internet turns on their favourite guy and likens him to the worst of the worst.

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I've yet to play one, although i've promised myself to sit down and get my way through Dark Souls once and for all.

There's so many though. In my head it's like this

Demon Souls: ??
Dark Souls: high fantasy misery
Dark Souls: different somehow
BloodBourne: Same but steampunk
Sekiro: mall ninja with a hookshot

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Douglas Adams did it better.

Terry Pratchett also knew how to confuse a story in a satisfyingly befuddling way, and not in a way that makes you want to close the book and return it to the shelf.

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His brain must look like overcooked macaroni cheese.

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I give Doctor Who a pass for two reasons. Well, 3.

1) It's a silly show that people shouldn't take seriously
2) if you're a timelord and you can rewrite all of time and space then you can pretty much do anything
3) When Steve Moffat writes a plot he doesn't seem bothered by trivial things like canonical sense, or even logical sense, or narrative sense, or common sense

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Sounds like some trash exploitative fiction but true or not, there's got to be something that explains the hideous creature that is Donald Trump.

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Bullet_Wing posted...

Who is this? Use spoiler tags if necessary, makes me curious and I'd like to look up more info about it.

This is going to trigger the fuck out of One Piece fans but alright.

The character is called Sabo. I'm assuming you know next to nothing about One Piece, so here's the cliffnotes.

Luffy - the main character - is set up as an only child to begin with. Later it's revealed he has a badass older "blood brother" called Ace. Ace is the perfect older brother type - strong, cool, badass, smart, etc. You get a whole lot of flashback scenes where they were growing up together throughout the story. They're brothers because they exchanged sake cups as kids and drank to it.

At this point, Luffy having an older brother character has narrative sense to it. There's an aspirational character for him to aim for, as is common in pretty much any coming of age hero story. And you also know what's gonna happen to Ace for that reason.

There's an entire story arc where Luffy goes to save Ace from being executed, which ends tragically with Ace dying anyway. In his dying moments, he conversationally mentions Sabo and that's that.

Later on, you find out that Sabo was in fact the third blood brother, so they were in fact a trio of kids together. Cue a bunch of retconned familiar scenes - now it's Ace, Sabo and Luffy playing as kids. Now it's Ace, Sabo and Luffy being trained by grandpa. Now it's Ace, Sabo and Luffy drinking Sake together.

However sadly, Sabo was murdered in an explosion when they were kids. Very sad, sniff sniff.

It feels weird because never once has Sabo been mentioned until now. Like all those times Luffy and Ace were reminiscing about childhood they never once thought about the other brother they hung out with every day? It's odd to say the least. Remember, it's not like they were two brothers with an occasional mate they called a brother. It's very clear that they were painted as a trio.

Anyway, cutting to the end. Turns out Sabo is still alive to this day. Moreover, he's cool, strong, smart, and even inherits Ace's special fire attack ability. In fact he's so much like Ace that he slots in perfectly to the same role with some minor differences in faction - Ace was a pirate, Sabo is a revolutionary, which just means he's a pirate with politics.

One Piece fans will give some (imo) very woolly justifications to say all this was foreshadowed, but I don't buy it. That motherfucker came out of the ether and replaced Ace almost immediately after he died, which to me feels a bit cheap.

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There's a character in One Piece who just comes out of fucking nowhere. He's so vitally important to the main character's back story and yet he somehow was never once mentioned in the story until like 600 chapters in. And then a bunch of flashbacks suddenly have him in it like he was there all the time. Goddamn I felt gaslit.

And fanboys will argue up and down till they're blue that it was just Oda being a masterful storyteller but those of us who have read like at least one book that's not an anime shonen know what's up.

The worst thing is that his appearance just cheapens the events that happen in the story. I don't really want to go into it unless people want to read a big black block of spoiler text.

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That's pretty sad. My only exposure was to the N64 game which was basically just Mario, the RPG. Which is all it should be, right?

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Weird, I was just thinking the same thing. I really want to play this game for real.

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I mean it looks fun and fresh. Were the last paper mario games sucky?

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Guys like this really overestimate their physicality don't they


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GiggetySplicer posted...

19 year old who hasnt been to university? She stayed back or something?

She took a year off for some reason, possibly money related.

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When I was 28 (IIRC) I went on a date with a just-turned 19 year old.

I remember a few things. Yes, she was very beautiful, which is why I agreed to the date. But mostly, I did not feel like I was talking to an equal in the important regards.

I remember feeling slightly peckish and just deciding to order some fries for the table. What struck me about this was how impressed she was about it. It was a thing to her. Me ordering some grazing food was to her some unusual and impressive display of wealth that was worth pointing out. Boys her age wouldn't just go and do that, she said.

We talked more and I realised that she had basically just got straight out of high school, and everything about this situation was foreign to her. She hadn't been to university yet. Her stories were stories from high school.

The entire thing made me feel very uncomfortable. She was far too impressed by very normal things, and it displayed a great deal of inexperience. At some point I became aware that all my go-to flirting on a date moves were basically sure to work, because she had no other point of reference. Like I could just decide if I wanted to bang her and she would fall for anything I said.

I felt like I was just grooming her. And this is just how I felt speaking to her in a bar! I can't imagine actually dating someone in an ongoing way in this scenario.

So ultimately, the number is arbitrary. What is important is power and experience. I felt I had too much power and experience in that situation, to the point that I could consciously or unconsciously manipulate her into the outcome I wanted because her expectations were unrealistic.

(i ended the date and nothing happened, before you ask).

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