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| Topic | It's so weird how the world is becoming less male centric |
| realnifty1 02/17/21 3:13:17 PM #20 | What does your lack of viable skills have to do with the world being less male-centered? |
| Topic | Thoughts and Prayers for Texas right now |
| realnifty1 02/17/21 1:36:36 PM #9 | Having been a Southerner, while some of it is the lack of winter driving skills (can't learn what you don't practice), more of it is on the infrastructure. The roads in the south are at least ten times as bad in one tenth of the inclement weather, even an experienced winter weather driver would have a tough time. People do overestimate their ability though and should just stay put. |
| Topic | Dave Ramsey just REKT poor people begging for a stimulus handout |
| realnifty1 02/11/21 2:25:38 PM #37 | He is right for the wrong reasons. Stimulus checks are basically junk food for kids, they exist to placate the masses but do nothing to stimulate the economy or improve anyone's living situation. This is where someone chimes in with pandemic and lost jobs. That's what the expansion of unemployment benefits have been for, which likely should have been done to an even greater degree. If they really wanted to make a difference and stimulate the economy they would increase the Food Stamp payments and expand eligibility to the program. |
| Topic | Found out one of the girls I'm simping for is married |
| realnifty1 01/22/21 3:29:34 PM #59 | Funkydog posted... Wat. This has been a thing since the first prostitute. "Tale of the man who fell for a prostitute" Exaggeration for effect, obviously there have always been some people that fall for a stripper/prostitute, but the level of delusion among some of the (at least more vocal) simps is astounding. And as to the other I'm using prostitute in a more colloquial sense of someone selling a false presentation of themselves rather than specifically selling sexual acts. And certainly not all streamers fall in to this category with some of them just being genuinely themselves and not trying to milk their audience, but there is no shortage of streamers that are presenting a facade and using any number of con-man type maneuvers to engage and get the money from simps. |
| Topic | Found out one of the girls I'm simping for is married |
| realnifty1 01/22/21 11:18:54 AM #42 | I don't get this generation coming up sometimes, I never heard of anyone getting their fee-fee's hurt because a prostitute doesn't really love them. I blame all that bullshit 'my child is the best and perfect' parenting. |
| Topic | Live: House Votes On Resolution To Remove Trump Via 25th Amendment |
| realnifty1 01/13/21 8:42:31 AM #36 | Actually, it is somewhat unclear if Congress(both houses would need to) can invoke the 25th. "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President." It broadly appears that the House and Senate could in joint invoke the 25th, but it would certainly get sent to the SC to unravel how they want to interpret this line. Much like the various placement of commas in the 2nd there will be contention over if it means the (Vice Pres and Cabinet) or (Congress); or if it means the (Vice Pres and Cabinet) or the (Vice Pres and Congress). (parentheses added to help clarify my groupings because English is vague and make interpretations difficult, which is the problem in the first place.) |
| Topic | MachineGames next project is an Indiana Jones game |
| realnifty1 01/12/21 1:22:14 PM #10 | Hayame Zero posted... Considering it's an Indiana Jones game, there's pretty much a 99% chance the villains will be Nazis. Fixed that for you. |
| Topic | I post a good song every day ITT |
| realnifty1 01/12/21 12:50:04 PM #82 | |
| Topic | What New Orleans food should I try?? |
| realnifty1 01/12/21 12:17:36 PM #11 | Esrac posted... Appetizer: gumbo This is that stuff |
| Topic | I like my women like I like my scotch |
| realnifty1 01/12/21 12:13:19 PM #11 | 20 years old and mixed up with coke? But really, 18 years old, neat, and tastes of smoke and licorice. |
| Topic | I need a fucking drink |
| realnifty1 01/12/21 11:03:00 AM #4 | nothanks1 posted... All junkies deserve to be fired |
| Topic | Wisconsin GOP looking to appoint electoral votes by district |
| realnifty1 01/11/21 3:12:30 PM #17 | CruelBuffalo posted... And this should only be done if all the states do it. Would be dumb if California and New York do this, but then Texas refuses. Therein lies the rub and the reason there is so little movement to create a more direct representative vote for President. Fixing your own State actually effectively neutralizes you nationally. That's why the National Popular Vote Interstate Pact has been making its way through various State Legislatures ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact ). It sidesteps gaining better electoral representation by binding the signed States to the will of the Popular Vote once enough States have signed on (enough means enough States to total 270 Electoral Votes). I have often wondered if the renewed interest in the last 10-15 years about Voter Fraud was due to the traction this has been gaining. Since Presidential elections are not run Federally, but by the States themselves a widespread believe of Voter Fraud in opposition States leads to mistrust of the general election numbers and in turn a harder sell to your constituents why you are now pledging the State electors to a candidate that did not carry the State. |
| Topic | New York to finally (presumably) legalize recreational marijuana |
| realnifty1 01/11/21 2:51:39 PM #21 | RchHomieQuanChi posted... I'm getting jealous of all these states legalizing marijuana. Yeah I don't see Federal legalization happening for at least 20 years. I could see decriminalization happen at the Federal level soon, but all State laws will hold. |
| Topic | Wisconsin GOP looking to appoint electoral votes by district |
| realnifty1 01/11/21 2:01:07 PM #13 | Tyranthraxus posted... That's called the Jefferson / D'Hondt system. Used by places like iceland. If we used it in georgia then Warnock & Purdue would be going to the Senate right now It's doubtful that Senate races would change as they are decided individually and on different term cycles. This year was just a special case with Loeffler having been appointed at the end of 2019 to replace Isakson until the next general election. Warnock is now just finishing out Isakson's original term and will actually be back up for re-election in 2022 whereas Ossof's term runs until 2026. |
| Topic | Wisconsin GOP looking to appoint electoral votes by district |
| realnifty1 01/11/21 1:35:59 PM #9 | I almost swallowed my tongue chortling when he had the nerve to call it progressive when it is demonstrably regressive. Progressive would be to divide the electors proportionally along the popular vote. That would cause the electoral vote to accurately represent that of the people. |
| Topic | None of this would have happened if it wasn't for Twitter |
| realnifty1 01/07/21 12:32:36 PM #33 | berlyman101 posted... It's not a dumb take. American citizens are voting in QAnon parroters. The politicians don't get in without votes. Of course blame the politicians as well but it's not wrong to say that Twitter and Facebook are more than complicit. Except that Twitter and Facebook have no special place in this and are not unique to this in anyway. It is 100% a failure of the institutions of leadership. The KKK didn't have Facebook and Nazi Germany did not have Twitter, what they did have were leadership structures that welcomed the crazy into the fold because they thought the could use them to further their own power. The reason QAnon parroters are being voted into office is because the Republicans are allowing them to stand under their umbrella and gain legitimacy. |
| Topic | OMG I f***ing hate ruuning i get annoying leg and feet pain after i lay down. |
| realnifty1 01/07/21 10:41:08 AM #15 | When you start to get into running as an adult, there is basically no way around have to push through some shin splints for a while. However, it shouldn't last more than a couple of weeks and you should moderate your running if they are staying sore for too long. You should start to see the muscle that wraps down over your shin start to develop, this is the one that absorbs the impact. Until you beef that one up enough there will be soreness, but after that it should not be a persistent or detrimental issue. More of the good post fatigue than actual pain. |
| Topic | None of this would have happened if it wasn't for Twitter |
| realnifty1 01/07/21 9:41:47 AM #23 | This is a dumb take. None of this would have happened if the Republicans had put country before party, been the adults in the room and sent Donal Trump to stand in a corner. Blaming a platform is stupid, if not Twitter, then Facebook, if not Facebook, then they would have found another platform. The fault lies squarely on the leaders of the Republican party and their willingness to turn a blind eye to the YEARS of Trump fomenting discord and division as long as it allowed them to amass more power. This is textbook you reap what you sow. |
| Topic | Wouldn't the repeal of Section 230 just move Silicon Valley overseas? |
| realnifty1 01/05/21 1:19:03 PM #3 | Being based outside of the US does not prevent you from being sued in the US. There are more hurdles and such, but a large tech company is not protecting themselves from lawsuits by moving overseas. |
| Topic | didn't europe already get rid of their 230 equivalent? the internet didn't shut |
| realnifty1 12/30/20 9:50:48 AM #8 | To the surprise of no one, you are incorrect. The E-Commerce directive still stands and is fairly similar to Section 230, you must remove illegal content when reported to maintain immunity, but little oversight beyond that. There haven't been any significant attempt to remove the freedom from liability, so much as some rumblings to add more scenarios under which they do have liability. (Generally adding hate speech to the the unlawful things which they can be sued for if they do not remove it upon notice) |
| Topic | HBO really put fucking browser DRM in their service |
| realnifty1 12/27/20 11:33:36 AM #6 | If you are getting some message about the browser not being supported try to find a user-agent switcher to have your browser report as something else. If it is just not working that is the browser, (probably HBO making use of one of those things that destroy ram and leak memory) |
| Topic | I finally drank the kool aid about all the Epic Games giveaways |
| realnifty1 12/19/20 4:32:15 PM #18 | TroutPaste posted... What are their practices? Sure they pay for timed exclusives... But how is that any different than playstation or xbox? I mean it is different in that they aren't even remotely the same thing. You can't just take a PS game and play it on an Xbox if not for their policies. They are separate platforms, EGS, Steam, GOG are retailers. What EGS does would be like GameStop buying exclusive right to sell the next GTA and saying they only way to get it is to show up in store and sign up for a power-up account. |
| Topic | THIS is the radical future socialists want. |
| realnifty1 12/18/20 12:22:56 PM #28 | Veggeta X posted... The super rich will still be fucking super rich and still live a fucking crazy rich ass lives with maids and servants and private jets and yachts even after half of their money goes into taxes. Stop simping for the super rich my gawd. It's just standard Republican fearmongering to rile up their base, they constantly take any Democrat idea and drive it down the slippery slope and off the bridge. Democrat: We seem to have a problem with gun violence in America, maybe there are some controls we can put in place to help out. Republican: Demoncrats want to come into your house and take your guns just like they took your jobs! |
| Topic | THIS is the radical future socialists want. |
| realnifty1 12/18/20 12:00:43 PM #26 | Questionmarktarius posted... Anyone have that chart of what percent the various tax brackets actually pay? I need it for a not take. I'm not sure we have anything more recent than this, 2018 https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-data-2018-update/ You can contrast that with this, to get a good idea of what percent of money they have, https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/10/08/top-1-of-us-households-hold-15-times-more-wealth-than-bottom-50-combined Raw numbers it looks about fine, but then you remember that the top 1% is 1.6 million people with an average net worth of 21 billion dollars and the bottom 50% is 160 million people with an average net worth of 13 thousand dollars. Average 1% tax bill, $336,410 (percent of wealth: 1.6 x 10^-3%), average bottom 50 tax bill $274 (percent of wealth: 2.1%) *Note these numbers are obvious approximate for comparison as the top/bottom percent of earners(taxes) and wealth(holdings) aren't exactly the same, but I think they are close enough for a comparison when you see the extreme outcome of the math. |
| Topic | Would Peter Molyneux fair well in the modern gaming era? |
| realnifty1 12/18/20 10:54:38 AM #7 | Uhm, he set the standard for this with Black & White as well as Fable. Neither of those games were anywhere near his descriptions. |
| Topic | RIDDLE: A brain surgeon makes a deal with you for $1,000,000 |
| realnifty1 12/18/20 9:15:17 AM #180 | That's not at all how riddles work. Everyone Block this user. |
| Topic | Do you D&Ders really play like this? Just fuck anything with a pulse? |
| realnifty1 12/17/20 12:14:05 PM #25 | So, I wouldn't say that it is common, but I think it depends on the group make-up. Groups of early 20-somethings with a fairly even gender split are probably going to fall into more adult in jokes and situations. I see it as similar to the convention effect of everything seeming to lead into hooking up. You take a bunch of generally socially awkwards and put them in close proximity to each other where they feel more socially comfortable than they typically do and all the repression comes roaring out. |
| Topic | got my noir bluray set in today. you guys like noirs right? |
| realnifty1 12/15/20 3:52:15 PM #23 | Zithers posted... feel like vertigo definitely isnt a noir btw I disagree, to me noir was always more of a feeling to the way it was shot, an overall sense of dread and entrapment for the characters inhabiting the world, but it does very much tend to live in the crime/detective category. In the end I think I'd have to describe with the classic pornography line, I can't tell you exactly what it is, but I know when I see it. But feel free to dismiss me as I have a very liberal sense of noir, everything from The Big Sleep to Blade Runner to Brick all fit neatly in my box as I have no problem holding them thematically together. I would put Vertigo in there too, but if you insist on sub categories I would agree that it is more suspense-noir which is a under represented group. |
| Topic | researching bankruptcy on reddit is so strange. r/bankruptcy has people talking |
| realnifty1 12/15/20 3:37:40 PM #27 | Water is wet. The people who post most in any space are going to be the biggest proponents of whatever the ideology of that space is. personalfinance is going to be full of people with enough money to waste time thinking about what to do with it and trying to amaas as much as possible bankruptcy is going to have people that feel it is a good answer to any problem CE is going to be full of shit posts and trolls It's the internet version of read the room. |
| Topic | Hillary Clinton calls for EC to be abolished as she casts NY EC vote for Biden |
| realnifty1 12/15/20 12:27:12 PM #79 | Heineken14 posted... Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but.... What? States wouldn't be able to just add votes to their tally because that would very easily get caught. Also states would have 0 reason to do so anyway because there would be nothing in it for them to do so. It's just them reporting a got x votes and b got y votes and then everything is added together from the other 49 states. Have you been paying attention the last month? Nothing in it for them? It is clearly obvious from the last week that Texas believes they have a vested interest in Trump over Biden. Perception is reality, and most of that was in reference to the initial framers where adding some number of votes without it being noticeable would have been very easy. Even today it would not be very hard if the legislature wanted to, and that is what we are really talking about, not if any does, just if they could. Because when we are talking about the kind of power the presidency now wields, those who lose are going to demand more and more validation. |
| Topic | Hillary Clinton calls for EC to be abolished as she casts NY EC vote for Biden |
| realnifty1 12/15/20 11:59:54 AM #75 | I don't like the idea of the Electoral College, as it is an outdated principle in our modern society, but getting rid of it is more nuanced than most people realize. Why do we have an EC? There are two major reason, one practical to the times it was created and another a matter of inter-state compromises based on the difficulty of joined these independent states. The practical reason is, performing a centralized national popular vote count until very recently would have been an impossible task, the technology and infrastructure just did not exist in a way you could manage this. The second, and still somewhat relevant idea, revolves around State's rights and the general uneasiness of how much they trusted each other. By declaring a number of electors, every one knew and agreed to how much each other state could affect the vote. If each state is reporting there popular vote there becomes more opportunity for a state to desire to maybe add 10,000 votes or so to the candidate of their favor to try and tip the scales. Even if it didn't happen, the lack of an ability to validate the reported votes would have lead us to where we are today, but much sooner and at a time when States were much more powerful individual entities likely crumbling the Union. This remains the central problem to getting rid of the EC, the States can't run the Presidential election if it is a popular vote. The US Government would have to take over how registration works and the process for voting. And at the same time the states still have to run their own elections for local and national representatives. Which likely means there are two sets of registration guidelines and potential different voting locations. At the end of the day it will be a mess to undo the EC. It is possible and a thing that can be done, but it will take and overwhelming desire from the country to ever get it done. |
| Topic | My sister-in-law tested positive yesterday, drove to Walmart today. |
| realnifty1 12/14/20 12:54:50 PM #8 | ALIEN_WORK2HOP posted... are there laws against this? Typically not, because of freedom and all that. It's generally quite difficult for the government to enforce control in America, even where laws give them a little more latitude the only penalty is a fine of some sort. What America does instead is that it allows them to be sued, so if someone was injured by their actions they could try to seek damages. But most everyone is poor these days in comparison to the expense of injury, so good luck getting any payout and like that could even make up for if someone died. |
| Topic | Why is copyright the way it is... |
| realnifty1 12/14/20 11:58:29 AM #9 | VipaGTS posted... I mean in terms of YouTube or whatever. If I film myself doing something in a store and a song can be heard on the store speakers for 10 seconds in the background, completely muffled and covered by my voice, the copyright owner of that song can claim all monetization. But like, why? How is that hurting them? I understand when people upload a song but mess with it to get around auto flags, but I doubt people are looking for a 10 second random clip thats in the background incidentally and deciding thats enough, I wont look for the full song. In the scenario you described they actually shouldn't be able to. However, Youtube isn't going to stand up for you because they just don't want to make waves and it's not like you have an army of lawyers to fight it. |
| Topic | I bet nobody here can tell me why libertarianism is bad |
| realnifty1 12/14/20 8:18:08 AM #3 | The pretense that society will take care of itself without a forcing function. |
| Topic | Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie, but I can see why people mistake it for one: |
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| Topic | ITT: Ruin a movie by replacing one word in the title with 'foreskin' |
| realnifty1 12/11/20 8:24:36 AM #56 | How Stella Get Her Foreskin Back Jacob's Foreskin Foreskin Now |
| Topic | There's some drama llama going on with the D+ Ms Marvel show |
| realnifty1 12/07/20 9:22:09 PM #10 | So basically there isn't any actual drama. |
| Topic | If you dated a transgender woman, would you be embarrassed and want to hide it? |
| realnifty1 12/06/20 11:12:49 PM #7 | Like do you mean would I tell people 'Hey, this is Sara and we're dating', then yes I'd do that. But if you mean would I say 'Hey, this person is MtF and we are dating', then no I wouldn't do that because I don't see how that is really anyone's business. |
| Topic | Was the 70s more open .. |
| realnifty1 12/04/20 3:15:11 PM #8 | A lot of this comes back to the infantilization teenagers that has happened to the children of Baby Boomers and forward. Not as sure why, but beginning in the 80's you see rise in helicopter parenting, decline in child discipline, and tertiary things like participation trophies and general increased concern in protecting the child ego at all cost. |
| Topic | Trump threatens to veto major defense bill unless Section 230 is repealed. |
| realnifty1 12/02/20 11:20:49 AM #39 | Tyranthraxus posted... That would essentially mean the government is obligated to arrest people who delete your shit posts off GameFAQs. That has nothing to do with 230 and is not at all what would happen. 230 is just about the classification of electronic services as distributors instead of publishers. Being a distributor means that you are not liable for the content posted, subject to accordance with other laws most notably the DMCA where an electronic service would be liable for hosting copyrighted material if the do not remove it within a time frame of being alerted to it. Without 230 we would revert to the previous rulings in the matter, websites that moderate content would be considered publishers and those that don't would remain distributors. What that means for sites that continue to moderate is not that they can be arrested or sued for how the moderate, but that they are liable for the content the allow to be posted. (Theoretically you could attempt to sue that all content related to some subject is being moderated assuming that content is tied to a protected class, but that wouldn't help conservatives as they are not a protected class) This mostly just means that any platform that moderates opens itself up to a bunch of lawsuits. If I post that Mitch McConnell looks like a constipated turtle and GameFaqs leaves that post up while choosing to delete some other posts then Mitch could sue GameFaqs for defamation. The goal they think is going to happen is that it will cause all these services to stop moderating anything so they would not be subject to lawsuits. But what will actually happen is they will all shut down, because advertisers aren't going to pay money to be listed alongside hardcore pornography and hate speech. |
| Topic | Trump threatens to veto major defense bill unless Section 230 is repealed. |
| realnifty1 12/02/20 9:50:43 AM #35 | TomNook20 posted... No it's actually a pretty good idea. A better idea would be to extend the first amendment to apply to such platforms. You really need to learn what the 1st Amendment does and doesn't do, because your statement makes zero sense. |
| Topic | Having a legal copy of a game doesnt make getting a rom for it legal.. |
| realnifty1 12/01/20 8:18:17 PM #26 | I mean they can't go in your house without a warrant and even that is useless, just because you don't have the equipment now doesn't mean you did not or you could have had someone do it for you. But, it is moot, as pointed out the burden is on them to prove you broke the law, not for you to prove you didn't. |
| Topic | Supreme Court hears arguments in plan to cut undocumented immigrants from Census |
| realnifty1 11/30/20 10:51:55 AM #11 | This should get straight laughed out of the room, so it will be a good bellwether for if the Republicans have successfully bought out the court. |
| Topic | Its insane how republicans genuinely believe Trump was a great president |
| realnifty1 11/30/20 8:24:58 AM #6 | TBF, they have done the same thing with Reagan for 30 years now. |
| Topic | The moderate / normal right-wing GOP needs to stop pretending |
| realnifty1 11/28/20 4:45:17 PM #21 | Welcome to the politics of first past the post elections, you only end up with two viable parties. Currently they are so even in support neither can actually do anything for fear of moving too much in either direction and losing enough support to completely hand power over to the other side. |
| Topic | Taxation is theft? |
| realnifty1 11/27/20 6:36:39 PM #46 | YellowMustard69 posted... Taxation sucks, I'll tell you that much. If everyone could just chip in and donate to what society wants we could spend the money so much better. Yeah, let's form an organization to take in all the money and make sure it gets spent on the things we need. But how can we make sure people are paying in for what they use? Maybe we need some sort of required tithing built in. |
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