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CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

Also its a somewhat frequent thing with short term rentals like Airbnb where people book for weeks and never leave, cause now the time they spent in the house qualifies them for squatter rights.

This too. The people you read in squatters stories aren't homeless people just finding a place to stay warm. They're scammers and con artists abusing the system. It's like when there was the eviction moratorium over covid and some renters (an extremely small percentage, I'm sure) decided that since they couldn't be evicted they would just stop paying and save up like a year's worth of rent to go somewhere else.

R_Jackal posted...

Always wondered about the squatter problem, assumed it was just renting issues, but laws actually protected people who, without permission, just took up shop in someone's property? That's kinda nuts.

As someone who was homeless, I can understand desperately wanting a place to stay.. but that sure as hell isn't the way to go about it. Damn.

Generally the problem with squatters isn't that they can't be evicted. Generally the problem is that people will discover squatters and have to spend tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees spending months fighting them in courts all the meanwhile they continue to trash the home and pay no money. Then the people who get their homes back at the end are left with a ruined house and months of bills stacked up that are now their responsibility.

It can also be used as the basis for a scam. One of the recent stories somebody posted on ce had the guy who was squatting tell the owner that he had put a few thousand dollars of work into the home and that he would move out if she just gave him the money. So there's definitely a financial incentive to effectively hold people's property hostage knowing that they're two options are either pay you to leave or spend half a year forcing you out while you trash the place.

Even if he was crucified, the method was likely different. Crucifixion is about asphyxiation and Romans didn't make a habit of nailing people to the crosses. Having your arms tied up like that collapses your lungs and makes it hard to breathe, forcing you to push up against the little stand you're on to catch your breath and sometimes it can take days for people to die. They most likely would not have taken this one individual, put a crown of thorns on his head, and then nail him to his cross. That makes sense from a Christian perspective, but from a Roman perspective he was just another guy sentenced to die. There would be no reason for them to give him any sort of special treatment.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

tl; dr
Sum it up for me, pls. Also explain it to me like I'm 7

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legendary_zell posted...

Whether this stands will depend on why Obama's rule was struck down and whether there's been enough technical changes to this rule to let it stand. This is genuinely good, but I don't see why there should be an income cap on it. People who work over 40 hours should be paid overtime, regardless of if they're hourly or salaried, low income or medium income.

The article says why:

The Labor Department in 2016 doubled the salary threshold to about $47,000. A federal judge in Texas the following year said that ceiling was so high that it could sweep in some management workers who are exempt from overtime pay protections, and struck it down.

The new rule is likely to face legal challenges arguing that like the Obama administration rule, it violates federal wage law by including many lower-paid supervisors and professionals who typically would not be eligible for overtime.

Given that this new salary cap is even higher than the Obama one, I expect the same arguments to come into play. Basically, if they set the cap high enough that managers who aren't eligible for overtime fall under it, it creates a legal contradiction.

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night bump

IIRC they cut a deal with the government of Rwanda to take refugees in exchange for payments or something like that. I think they're technically designated as a safe third country so it would otherwise be a valid place for them to request refugee status.

baD faith poster

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/85fe16bb.jpg

CE is constantly talking about how the right falls in line and the left is constantly infighting, so this standup joke at least lines up with my observations on what CE in general thinks.

It's like when Google maps offers you an alternate route that's like 2 hours longer.

There was a good long period of maybe a decade where GameStop was going so hard on pre-orders that they would intentionally under stock new games so that if you tried to buy it on release day they would tell everyone they were sold out and they should have pre-ordered.

Beyond artificial scarcity though, you do get the occasional nonsense like that one Arkham games where an entire side story was a pre-order bonus.

I'm going to put the critical reception at around a 7 out of 10 and the fan reception at around an 8.7.

Nemu posted...

Curious how itll work for people with heavy accents. I could imagine that being a very terrible time.

Possibly, but on the flip side multilingual chat bots are pretty close to being a solved problem, meeting in the future you could pull up to a Wendy's and order in whatever language you want and it would be able to understand and respond. So the people with thick accents could just speak in their native tongue.

TMOG posted...

Pathfinder 1e was actually a direct response to Wizards not using the OGL for 4e and instead using the far more restrictive GSL.

Sure, but 4E being 4E was also a significant driver for them putting in the effort.

Pathfinder was originally built by people who didn't like the more streamlined direction that d&d was going in. So if you played baldur's gate and thought that the game could use more options and added complexity, Pathfinder's the direction you'll go in. If you found the systems already too complex or annoying to internalize and manage, modern d&d has that taken care of for you.

PowerMan5000000 posted...

I love overtime pay, hard to believe its not a thing for every hourly job.

This rule only affects salaried work. It would have no impact on hourly jobs.

The article also said that this is basically identical to an executive order Obama passed that was shot down in courts, only this one has an even higher salary cap, so odds are this is more of a performative election year thing and less something that will actually stick around once it's been challenged in courts.

discodancer77 posted...

Cool Ill look into those. Are there any movies that are considered essential reading that are really formative for the genre? That get a lot of callbacks and stuff?

I can't name which movies, but at least with Godzilla you'll want to be familiar with mothra, Ghidorah, and Mecha Godzilla as those are the most "lore relevant" Godzilla monsters.

Cloverfield

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projectpat72988 posted...

This is probably a dumb question but.

When the boxes are "grey" does that mean those are turned OFF?

I just found it odd they were all selected grey by default. Usually, they would have them all on by default and hope you don't bother with it.

Grey (white circle on the left side) is OFF.

When the EU first rolled out these requirements a lot of sites did a pop-up and once you selected it remembers those preferences but a lot of people just clicked "accept all" and never learned how to turn them off manually.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Honestly, my guess is it's Wolverine from the Logan timeline (or one very similar to it), but from an earlier point in time.

That's my thought as well. I feel like Jackman wouldn't come back for a movie that disrespected "Logan" as the ending to his character and I think Reynolds would want to respect that.

specialkid8 posted...

Honestly that sounds pretty cool. Can't think if Neeson has ever done a comedy before but I can picture him in the role.

That's part of what makes this so perfect. Leslie Nielsen was a serious dramatic actor before naked gun and that movie basically launched his comedy career. It was meant to be intentionally ironic casting him in that role and is why he worked so perfectly as the straight man.

While I don't think this needs to be made, I do think Liam Neeson is an absolutely perfect pick for the lead.

King_Rial posted...

What did they make? I only know of Bethesda(Maryland), Bethesda Montreal, and the two in Texas. I don't ever even recall a Bethesda France. Not that I'm sure up on these things.

It was most likely just a satellite office, either to help with translations and EU regulation compliance for distribution, or because France offers tax incentives to game companies to open up offices there like the UK does.

It's amazing just how strongly some players rejected the "you can't just live in a fantasy world" message.

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Compsognathus posted...

It breaks no rules.

And don't worry mods. I'm going to make sure that I only post things which are strictly legal guidelines and strictly within the tos. I'm sure some of you are already sticking your necks out a little bit to let these topics stay, so I'm trying to make it as easy as possible for you all.

I didn't find the rule system as obnoxious as some thought, especially since you can use it to your advantage in fights as well, so I'd like to see it return in some form or another, even if it's a difficulty option you can toggle.

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Null_Gain posted...

He has problems with human proportions in general. That infamous Captain America cover was Liefield too

I give him a pass on that cover after I read an interview where he admits the cover was terrible but the request was dropped on his desk at like 3PM on a Friday and he had to get it in so he could go home so he rushed through it and wasn't entirely expecting them to use it.

Wanted to consolidate topics so its easier to keep this bumped. Feel free to add anything relevant in the replies.

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So after all that he told you about one experiment? What a joke.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

Dtoast is giving me vibes of the last girl that broke up with me

Gamefaqs is old enough that most of the regulars are in their 30s if not 40s. We've got our share of shut-ins but also like... doctors and engineers. Maybe DToast thought he was being handed some children's forum when he took the job, but instead what he got was a bunch of grown ass adults who won't hesitate to say "that was fucking stupid" when a dumb decision is made and see right through meaningless corporate doublespeak and shallow excuses. All he needs to do is be an honest broker of information and folks would be perfectly pleasant, but he seems insistent on treating users like babies and users, in turn, continue to call out all his bullshit. I'm sure it's rough to deal with CE, but really only in the sense that you have to engage with the board like a room full of adults and not like you're wrangling a bunch of hungry toddlers.

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GuerillaGorilla posted...

I'm definitely missing the context here.

This topic:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80749382

More specifically, this post:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/291fca99.png

So I guess this confirms we shouldn't expect the mobile browser version of Gamefaqs to get any attention when the guy in charge of it all says he's unable to visit the site because his desktop GPU was acting up.

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Now we just need NCloud to confirm and also share the details (or share that he was told NOT to share those details or risk being modded).

masterpug53 posted...

Yeah, I can see him. He's standing right next to Sue Storm.

I mean... that's pretty clearly ant-man's giant corpse tied down in the background. You even see a few frames of skull underneath when the visor starts to lift before the cut. Given some of the "mad max" like clips in the trailer my guess is that's the world Wolverine failed to save and all the heroes are dead.

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

Both scream Hamauzu's style who was the composer for 13

Gongaga reminds me more of Yoko Kanno. Specifically the latter half of Space Lion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu_YGgZQ9DE

The rebirth soundtrack in general is absolutely top tier and it better win all the soundtrack awards this year.

EDIT: Gongaga hate has to be because navigation is nonsensical. In every other zone outside of maybe Cosmo Canyon it's easy to navigate from point A to point B by looking at the map and charting a course. Gongaga mushrooms seem variable in terms of how far they launch you and where you land, making it difficult to reliably use the map to tell how to get to any particular point.

Kesha's entire music career is just tolerating her awful lyrics until the hook hit.

He's a nice old man with good thoughts that never really figured out how to make them happen, but he would have been a terrible leader. The moment he was running and his own tax proposal paid for less than half of his policy proposal it became painfully clear he never bothered to figure out HOW to make all his grand ideas work.

This and the Guardians trilogy is proof that what the MCU and the DCEU really need is to find creative people passionate about a property and just.... leave them the fuck alone to do whatever it is they do.