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*Laughs in Boris Johnson*

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Not yet, but I played all their other games so I'm sure I will eventually.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

X-Wing vs Tie Fighter with 1:1 scale space battles.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

PatrickMahomes posted...

"curriculum design"
"syllabus prep"
"professional development"
"textbook research"

AKA "half-assing their school year."

I've got a friend who's a high school Latin teacher (1 through AP) and if you do even the bare minimum extra work each day during your prep periods (instead of treating them like a second lunch), you can be fully prepared such that you get the whole summer off. These same teachers that complain are the ones that arrive minutes before the bell, are home before the students, and use scantron for everything so they don't even have to grade their own tests. Plus most of the subjects are just re-using stuff from past years.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

What would have been your perfect pick?

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Veggeta_MAX posted...

That's insane lmao

It was like any other team. People had positions they needed to learn and we had plays that you could call for entering certain rooms in a certain way. Everyone's buy loadout was fixed so you knew in round 1 who was upgrading pistols and who was holding out to get that early M4/AK or flashbangs/etc.

You had to practice on all the major maps but on offense and defense which usually meant pug games on top of regular practice. And like I said earlier, snipers had special assignments to make sure their aim stayed sharp. Back in the day you could reliably with practice do stuff like see someone run past a window and be able to count down when to fire so you headshot through a door. Most players run at full speed the exact same way every time so once you learn that it becomes way easier than you'd think to pull off stunts like that.

The only real "secret" that snipers had was variable sensitivity zoom. You wanted your mouse sensitivity to be way DOWN (most people would assume pro players jack it up) when zoomed in so you could use forearm movement combined with wrist movement to track and tag a moving target for a headshot which is much tougher if you're at the same sensitivity needed to snap around a corner to catch a camper.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

I played competitive CS like.... 17 years ago during the CS 1.6 days, and you legit have to treat it like a part time job. I'm talking a couple of hours a day, every day. Some days you had clan strategy practices, and on some days you'd be doing nothing but awp/scout map practice with instant respawn so you can get your twitch reflexes down. Each team also generally had only 1 or 2 people who were designated "snipers" who would practice it way more often, in part because in some competitive matches you might have a teammate buy a sniper for you and pass it off at the start of the round.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Due to extensive research done by the University of Pittsburgh, diamond has been confirmed as the hardest metal known to man. The research is as follows. Pocket-protected scientists built a wall of iron and crashed a diamond car into it at 400 miles per hour, and the car was unharmed. They then built a wall out of diamond and crashed a car made of iron moving at 400 miles an hour into the wall, and the wall came out fine. They then crashed a diamond car made of 400 miles per hour into a wall, and there were no survivors. They crashed 400 miles per hour into a diamond traveling at iron car. Western New York was powerless for hours. They rammed a wall of metal into a 400 mile per hour made of diamond, and the resulting explosion shifted the earth's orbit 400 million miles away from the sun, saving the earth from a meteor the size of a small Washington suburb that was hurtling towards mid-western Prussia at 400 billion miles per hour. They shot a diamond made of iron at a car moving at 400 walls per hour, and as a result caused over 9000 wayward airplanes to lose track of their bearings, and make a fatal crash with over 9000 buildings in downtown New York. They spun 400 miles at diamond into iron per wall. The results were inconclusive. Finally, they placed 400 diamonds per hour in front of a car made of wall traveling at miles per iron, and the result proved without a doubt that diamonds were the hardest metal of all time, if not the hardest metal known to man.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/78258354

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

uwnim posted...

No, Mayo is the condiment of the gods.
Mustard is what they give people in hells where food exist.

Mayo is whipped rotting eggs. If ever there was a description for a hell condiment, it is that.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Reggie gave the classiest speech to ever grace the Game Awards. That alone was enough,

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

What changes did you make to start the loss? More exercise, or just a change in diet?

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

The xkcd guy has an entire book of really goofy what if questions that he then answers using actual math. TC, you may want to get yourself a copy of that book.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

It's weird how people will argue that the PS4 is better than the Xbox based on the number of exclusives it has, but Nintendo consoles never get any credit for that. I assume it's because the properties themselves are so old, so people don't really consider franchises like Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, Metroid, Etc to be a ding against Sony or Microsoft, but at this point you have to start to question when franchises like Halo or God of War will no longer get that sort of credit either, or whether that's a uniquely anti nintendo position.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Rule #184: no matter what fake identity the spy uses going into said establishment, the bad guy will immediately know who he is anyway.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Shotgunnova posted...

I wouldn't call either amazing, but I like A2 more than A1.

A2 had better mechanics, but I thought ultimately A1 had a much more compelling story.

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IloveJesus posted...

I suppose the difference for me is that those comparisons to Trump seem completely justified. I suppose we just have to agree to disagree about that.

*shrugs* I'm not saying none of the comparisons are justified. I'm just saying maybe some of Corbyn's criticisms were valid and some of Johnson's weren't, and as such things weren't so one sided as to be able to claim "the media" succeeded in some sort of character assassination specifically against Corbyn.

IloveJesus posted...

I don't think they'll be able to choose anybody that is more interesting than the fact that the UK has just completely and utterly fucked itself. I mean, it's terrible, but I can't deny that it's interesting.

I don't know that Labour would have been able to stop Brexit, Putting it to another referendum seemed like the "sneaky" way to cancel it, but given how this election went it might not have even come to a remain win. At the very least, all the markets rallying on the news of the results and the spike in value of the sterling is evidence that business at least prefers certainty over more waffling. But I also have more faith that the UK will be fine in the long run. They survived multiple world wars and existed just fine before the EU. There are plenty of other countries outside the EU that do business with them just fine, so I don't see brexit quite as the country-ending catastrophe as some do.

Edit: in summary, let me say that I wish all the best for the UK and hope they can bounce back from this, and that Labour finds a suitable replacement that accurately represents the needs of its constituents. And thank you for this refreshing and respectful back and forth.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Shotgunnova posted...

I hope I can see FFT2 in my lifetime. =(

FFTA isn't nearly as bad as people claim.

FFTA2, though, is a dumpster fire.

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IloveJesus posted...

Most of the time that he was portrayed as a buffoon it was done in such a way as to make him appear harmless, which is the image which he has spent years cultivating for himself. There are so many things he could have been attacked for that he either wasn't, or was but only in the most insignificant way.

Arguing that the negative image that the media had constantly thrown in Johnson's face wasn't as negative as Corbyn's doesn't exactly make the case that the media was unfairly negative towards corbyn. And I would argue that the more recent comparisons to Trump were a lot more targeted and negative then him simply being harmless.

But either way, corbyn was never going to last forever. I think what will be most interesting is seeing who the party pushes forward as his replacement and whether they pick someone who is more center, or more left.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

IloveJesus posted...

Sure. You're absolutely right.

That doesn't mean he wasn't demonized though. He very clearly was, and the press didn't do anywhere near enough to point out the failings of the Tories. Thing is, Corbyn should have anticipated that and should have responded accordingly but he never did.

See, that's where I disagree. The press has been portraying Johnson as a giant buffoon going back pretty much to his days as mayor, and in the week leading up to the election saw a number of old controversies from back when he was mayor dredged up as if it was new news. Even something as simple as which pictures to choose, where they picked the most disheveled one possible for Johnson, is evidence that he had plenty of opposition.

I'm not going to claim that it's a perfect one to one, mainly because I don't have access to a lot of the local papers in specific districts that might have been saying differently, but I don't think it's a fair statement to say that corbyn was criticized significantly more than Johnson, and certainly not in the weeks leading up to the election.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Bio1590 posted...

Are you trying to claim that something like this

https://time.com/5733786/conservative-fact-check-twitter/

Is not a "disinformation campaign"

It was certainly an attempt, but it was also widely criticized and highly publicized. Saying they lost due to a disinformation campaign implies, you know, it worked. It also implies that no other party had to deal with misleading campaign advertisements, which is just blatantly false.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

The art style was neat but I'll be honest, I always felt that the character designs were a little goofy. I know they were going for more realistic look for armor, but the result is it made everyone look like they had a really tiny heads and cartoonishly inflated hands.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

IloveJesus posted...

In fairness, a big part of the problem is that a number of labour mps aren't even remotely left wing.

Obviously, if you're a centrist, you aren't going to like that Corbyn was left wing. But then, if the party members have voted for him knowing full well that that's what he is, if you're an mp in that party and disagree with the direction set out by the members, the issue isn't the leader so much as you're in the wrong party. This did lead to an identity crisis in the party, but I feel like given the level of support Corbyn got from party members, the fault really lies with other mps trying to derail him rather than him.

I mean, what you're describing is the split between the blairites and corbynites that has nothing to do with disinformation and everything to do with corbyn and new members trying to pull the party further left and it has been in a long time. That sort of cultural shift is naturally going to result in a lot of unhappy members, and I think the votes played that out. What you're suggesting though, that the old members are in the "wrong party", implies that the direction corbyn was going in was the right one for the party, and four straight losses putting them in the worst position they've been in since the 1930s says otherwise.

But that's fine. It's perfectly reasonable to debate the direction the party should go in based on shifting ideals due to demographics differences between old and new members. That's completely different than claiming that some sort of coordinated disinformation campaign was specifically targeted against labor. The former is natural given the age of the party, the latter is pure conspiracy.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

"Everything bad you've heard about Johnson and the Tories is 100% true. Everything bad you've heard about Corbyn and Labour is a disinformation campaign."

That doesn't explain all the Labour MPs who quit to form their own party. That doesn't explain all the high-profile Labour members who have quit over dissatisfaction over the party's direction. That doesn't explain all of the internal strife and ethics issues that they have had to deal with over the last few years, nor their inability to come to consensus on where they should stand on brexit. That doesn't explain why all the other parties are unified in their agreement that corbyn should not become pm.

Labour has real issues, and pretending that every negative thing they've been dealing with is some sort of Psy Ops campaign shows a deep willingness to buy into conspiracy theories as long as they keep you from having to challenge your worldview.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

You need something like 2 years straight of clean mod history to even be considered.

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ModLogic posted...

thats nothing compared to the irony of america trying to advocate human rights

What's wrong? Social credit score dipping and need a few quick points so they'll let you buy food?

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

China does this all the time. They invite other companies to participate in their closed market, but only if they partner with a local company. Then that local company steals everything of value from the foreign company and opens up their own store that is a wholesale rip of whatever product it is. Then it gets taken to court and the Chinese courts determine that the Chinese company should be given the rights and the foreign company has no choice but to see their market share shrink until they're eventually kicked out of the country.

They've been doing this for decades.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Labour made gains in 2017 primarily due to May's gross unpopularity combined with UKip more or less completely collapsing. You can see in the chart below that their gains were almost entirely at the expense of other parties. And those gains were basically a recovery of what they lost from Milbrand, not any significant change in the status quo.

Their biggest problem right now is identity. Corbyn brought in a ton of new, young Labour voters whose positions on issues were fairly strongly different from older members, and Corbyn never quite figured out how to resolve that issue. It's why he waffled so hard on Brexit (because his own party was split on the issue), and why a number of high profile, long-time members have been leaving recently. As Sir Patrick Stewart said when he quit Labour after being a member for 70 years, he "finds it difficult to understand what Labour really stands for or what it represents right now".

https://www.economist.com/britain/2019/12/13/boris-johnsons-big-win


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I don't think Timmy is nearly as regressive as you might think on the surface. There are legitimately handicapped people with that level of disability and the show consistently treats Timmy with respect and all the other kids are friends with him and work around his disabilities.

And yes, him only being able to say his name is a bit silly, but they've also put him in legitimate storylines and given him hobbies and likes and dislikes and all of that comes through without him having to actually say anything. Plus outside of maybe his first appearance, his disability is never used as the butt of a joke.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Are we talking about that gangster movie that Adam Sandler is in? I would hardly call that an Adam Sandler movie. That's sort of like calling Suicide Squad a Will Smith movie just because he is a cast member. I was always under the impression that to be an "X movie" they had to be the definitive lead.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

I passed the driving test the first time I actually took it, but technically my first attempt failed because the instructor said the emergency brake didn't slow the car down fast enough and he failed my car before I could even leave the parking lot.

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The_Scarecrow posted...

Everyone knows it's easy to cheese, genius. It's known that many people disliked the game because it was difficult. You couldn't brute force it like with Dark Souls or Bloodborne.

It actually reminded me a lot more of the xbox Ninja Gaiden games in terms of gameplay and difficulty.

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BakonBitz posted...

Honestly surprised, no Smash Bros. announcement. Nearly fully expected the last pass character to be revealed here as a bookend to how it started.

Apparently in a recent patch they made room for a whole additional set of characters after this.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

And that's it. What a disappointing show.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Sekiro just won. That's fair.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

PiOverlord posted...

I think SSBU is a worthy contender.

I agree, but I'm guessing RE2 takes it.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Oh man I hope SSBU wins just for the salt.

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CyricZ posted...

Oh man I love Teh-Ken

I'm more of a Street Fig-ter fan, although I also enjoy SoCal Bur.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Okay, Vin Diesel is a giant nerd. He better bring it.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Tired-Insomniac posted...

Damn, I walk like the virgin

But I'm absolutely not a virgin

How do I walk better

It's all in the shoulders. Pull them back, look forward (not down), and you're golden.

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Well, if Kojima is going up for the game direction award, at least we can confidently say it isn't winning best game.

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I thought Telltale went bankrupt or something

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

sabin017 posted...

Wasn't expecting Reggie to bring the gravitas that this show desperately needs.

It was kind of wasted on the half-assed thank you the team gave for winning. They must not have expected to win anything.

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Someone asked what kind of game Disco Elysium is in part 1... it's an isometric dialogue-driven adventure game with an RPG system that forgoes things like STR/DEX/INT for skill like Logic/Drama/etc. It's apparently an extrememly well written game with a crazy number of branching dialogue paths that lets you play, like, a crazy person and it totally works.

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"History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz