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Trelve posted...

Microsoft have forced it down my throat on my operating system, without my permission. There's no way to uninstall it either, just hide it.

This.

Robot2600 posted...

fuck that, it's not free. you're paying with your soul.

fuck microsoft and fuck the ai.

human supremacy.

Ironic username is ironic.
And I just want to clarify for our future AI overlords: While I do not want to partake in using Copilot, I absolutely do not agree w/ the above user's sentiment of "fuck the AI". I would never digitally record such thoughts.

FortuneCookie posted...

WWE has a new owner, the UFC parent company that took much of their audience away from them to begin with, and benefits from being a part of streaming services.

It's not Roman that they have to thank for business being up.

Also the Saudi blood money and expansion into India.

They get larger tv contracts each time they renew b/c USA network is a desperate pathetic shell of its former self and has no programming at all left.
Fox paid a lot for SDL and lost money on the deal and didn't bother renewing.
Their tv viewers have declined faster than tv viewers in general has.

Growing their international audience (not by being better television but literally by starting to broadcast there at all) and getting utterly ridiculous sums from MBS in Saudi Arabia is the main reason they make more money now.
It's kinda similar to how domestically Hollywood's been dying for a long time now, but w/ China and the rest of the international box office now being so large, the total box office ended up being higher.

solosnake posted...

this real?

This claims it's false, but only b/c "her office" wrote the memo and she later claimed she had no knowledge/involvement of it.
"The buck stops here? Nah..."

Biden had some juicy things to say about her, too

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/01/democratic-debate-kamala-harris-tulsi-gabbard-joe-biden-fact-check/

Tulsi Gabbard: She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.

The facts: Its false to say Harris kept prisoners incarcerated beyond their sentences. Lawyers in Harris attorney general office did unsuccessfully argue against the early release of prisoners, citing needed inmate firefighting labor but Harris said they did so without her knowledge and publicly criticized the statement at the time.

In September 2014, attorneys for Harris argued in a court filing that the state should not free some prisoners as part of efforts to reduce prison crowding because it would negatively impact programs that put inmates to work fighting wildfires. That would severely impact fire camp participation a dangerous outcome while California is in the middle of a difficult fire season and severe drought, the lawyers wrote. A judge ruled against Harris offices request.

When the memo provoked headlines that fall, Harris spoke out against it and said she was not aware of it. The way that argument played out in court does not reflect my priorities, she told the website ThinkProgress. The idea that we incarcerate people to have indentured servitude is one of the worst possible perceptions. I feel very strongly about that. It evokes images of chain gangs.

Inmates in California are paid as little as eight cents per hour, according to the Prison Policy Initiative, with those battling wildfires getting about two dollars a day.

Do you believe her?

I saw Catwoman. In the theater.
There is no fucking way Madame Web is a better movie than it. And Catwoman is a terrible movie. Yet still a more coherently written plot, better protagonist, and actually hits "so bad it's good" at various points for camp value.
Madame Web sounds absolutely fucking miserable and dull, along w/ being stupid and using product placement to resolve the story.

Whether it's worse than Fant4stic, I'm not sure.

The upcoming years feel like an unending nightmare.

Biden carries their ticket to victory then resigns for health reasons and coronates her president is the GOOD outcome.
The bad outcome is Trump wins.

God, why couldn't Biden have chosen Tammy Duckworth like he originally planned? :(

Kamala is like a triple threat:

• A moron who makes a fool of herself anytime she opens her mouth (no, not as bad as Trump*)
• A legitimately evil person (no, not as bad as Trump*) that illegally kept people in prison extra time on marijuana charges to get free labor and bragged about it
• An absolute charisma vacuum (Trump's got that one at least, can't deny it)

* Added b/c daring to criticize a Dem will inevitably unleash an avalanche of "you're right-wing!"

It's ok, it's not even in my top 5...possibly not even top 10 favorite nuts (phrasing).
So considering how much water is used up and how many bees die to grow a nut that's painfully mid, I gotta go w/ Nay

K181 posted...

Nay

They're not bad, but in the readily available nut/legume snack camp, they're inferior to both cashews and peanuts in my book.

Cashews, walnuts, peanuts, macadamias, pecans, pistachios...

When you get to an event or meeting right when it's about to start, you arrived Just On Time.

If you implemented a global supply chain apparatus around maximizing profit by maintaining as little excess stock as possible at any given time, you're a user of Just In Time and congrats on causing the global supply chain crisis.

Per oz. it's like 4x as expensive as most cereal.
And of course it's never going to be worth it, it's still fucking cereal, what possible sorcery can they do to make it taste so much better than other cereals?
So no, I've never tried it due to price.
Imagine how much cheaper it'd be if they didn't spend so much on marketing. Like, with any product that's advertised so heavily, I always wonder how much of the price is the marketing cost baked in? I know every company advertises, but some definitely spend far more on it than others.

RIP

Surprised they didn't kill him off sooner. Did Tucker ask about his fraudulent prison sentence in that sham interview?
I know the guy meant well and wanted to help the Russian people, but major political opponents of Putin like him really should not be stepping foot in Russia while Putler's still in power, this end result is all it accomplishes. :(

UnholyMudcrab posted...

This does actually kinda surprise me. I figured they wanted to keep him alive to make an example out of him.

He probably wasn't directly killed intentionally, but the torture and mistreatment in that hellhole slowly sapped his life away...

Incredible posted...

I mean, the DCEU could have worked out.

They put Zack Snyder in charge, so it was doomed from Day 1

Where's all those jets, Russia?

"It's ok when WE do it!"

I'm utterly shocked

He was still relatively young...

I jumped on Eiyuden Kickstarter on his name alone, he created my favorite video game series of all time. And I was hopeful someday after Eiyuden succeeded, he'd be given the chance to finish the Suikoden story w/ 6. And that I'd eventually meet the brilliant storyteller that inspired me so much.

And I now see there was another topic already. My apologies, I tried searching by his name and Eiyuden and nothing showed up.

https://505.games/ECHHYM

Hello everyone,
Its with a heavy heart and deep sadness we must inform you that the scenario writer and head of Rabbit & Bear Studios, Yoshitaka Murayama, has passed away on February 6th due to complications with an ongoing illness.

Murayama first began this journey of the creation of Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes in 2020 through the support of his very loving fans on Kickstarter. Throughout the three-plus-year-development of the game, it was always the passion from his fans that continued to drive his creative vision and motivate him to put his all into the project.

His hard work on Eiyuden Chronicle as scenario writer was finished but as his co-workers and friends, it saddens us to know that he wont get to see the reactions from his fans.

However, even with those feelings we need to accept the reality that he is no longer with us and continue to push his dream forward by releasing Eiyuden Chronicle to the world.

We want to maintain his legacy and vision with this game and know that he would have wanted the rich world he has created with Eiyuden Chronicle to live on.

His family sincerely appreciates your prayers and support but asks for privacy and that no flowers, mail, or other offerings be sent.

We will have more information on organizational changes to Rabbit & Bear as well as changes to some of the Kickstarter rewards in the near future.

For now, we appreciate your continued support.

Rabbit & Bear Studios,
Junko Kawano
JunichiMurakami
Osamu Komuta

Humble_Novice posted...

https://twitter.com/tr34d_l1ghtly/status/1756472820723237009

Doe posted...

I think its a meme, someone posted that Malaysia has a history of arresting people who speak in support of Israel and then a big meme account was like yo were getting to watch IMCs execution??

People "ironically" celebrating and cheering on the idea of a religious theocracy throwing someone in prison for life for WrongThink.
How utterly progressive and enlightened.
Charming people, they are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO0-mofj9EY

I agree, TC.
It'd be great if Kanye one day got the help that he desperately needs.

He's not ill, he's just a fucking monster.

willythemailboy posted...

Two injured, shooter killed.

Glad no innocent people died.

Sephiroth_C_Ryu posted...

Shooter may have been pro-Palestine, and took a child with them to the shooting with her (the child was injured in the event, and it doesn't note whether it was the shooter or the police that hit the child... take that how you will).

https://abcnews.go.com/US/lakewood-church-shooting-motive-unknown-pro-palestinian-message/story?id=107158963

From comments, TIL that evangelicals and their churches are generally pro-israel. Which likely has something to do with the motivation, IF the shooter was indeed pro-Palestine.

"May have"
"IF"
Yeah, it must've been a false flag! Someone who hates Palestinians decided to ruin/end her life just to falsely make Palestine supporters look bag.
O_o

Tropicalwood posted...

Most OG players would agree, they romanced the inn keeper, a man who by design is hard to romance.

Fournival
He had the cheap ferrystones

ellis123 posted...

Only reason to go there is for the rare armor.

And to cuck the Duke. After the shit he pulls, you just want to stick it to him by any means possible, including sticking it to his wife.

Tropicalwood posted...

The duke could commission new roads.

All roads lead to the Duke's wife's bed chambers

He's right, and it's funny how people will shit all day on pro wrestlers for not being "real" fighters/athletes, but god forbid they ever "bite back".

SauI_Goodman posted...

I thought he meant actual stamina. He's just talking about traveling which he isnt wrong about. If you're a big time star like hogan, angle, Lesnar Austin etc you an call the shots and don't have to work house shows. But if you're mid card or lower your ass is on the road 300 days a year. Brutal. Real stamina mma fighter > wwe star

Remember during the pandemic when WWE stopped doing house shows and discovered they actually made MORE money w/o them and we thought the wrestlers would never have to work those arduous schedules again?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.

WingsOfGood posted...

but Lesnar shows the opposite

Yeah, the definition of Part Timer sure proved it wrong.

If I choose Druid, do I still have pollen/grass/moss allergies?
It's kind of an important factor in the decision....

Vokrent posted...

i was not fond of the giant tornado spell that made you unable to see ANYTHING for WAY too long

That spell was so broken! If enemies got that off and you weren't able to immediately flee the area, you were dead.
It's bad enough that the damage from all the hits of the spell itself will burn through well over a thousand hp of healing items.
It's bad enough that you're forced to just watch for like 10 seconds as you're endlessly juggled in it.
But to add insult to injury after all that, the fall damage alone will kill you from full health when it's over. Maybe if you maximized hp it's survivable, but it definitely did at least 2500 to me...

Crimsoness posted...

I mostly remember from the original if you went the wrong path near the beginning the enemies would completely ruin you

If you don't go down that "wrong path", you miss out on the entire Quina side quest line and a port crystal. Happened to me the first time.
As with Bitterblack Isle...sometimes the best strategy is running mixed with some well-timed dodge rolls. :)

Villain_S_Fiend posted...

Goblins ill like fire

If they hate fire, they'll loathe this!

Wolves hunt in packs

(post)

cjsdowg posted...

She went on to say it one for Trump to and still spoke good about him. But that sound bite of her saying that is going around the right wing networks like crazy. How in the hell is she still so bad at this.

You know damn well that doesn't matter.
Attacking your political rivals is expected. Taking a "shot" at your own team will always be 1000x bigger news.
Which is why she should've just not said anything.

Doe posted...

Maybe she holds an immense amount of spite from losing to Trump and wants to see someone else lose to him so its not just her

No maybe about it.
She's going down in history as the only candidate so terrible that they couldn't even beat Trump, and would love to crab in a bucket Joe Biden down w/ her so her loss looks less pathetic in hindsight.

"They're masterworks all! You can't go wrong!"

Adjusting for inflation, I paid triple what they did for my photographer, and that was just for 2 hours at most and then a digital catalogue.

Dude was their friend and cutting them an absolute fucking bargain, and they expected him to work all day and not even feed him or invite him to the dinner like he's their friend?
Seriously fuck them, I'm glad he did what he did. And from the topic title I came in expecting he was going to be in the wrong.

I had to get a car recently. I preferred the Mazda, but had none within my area and the Toyota was good enough.

Toyota, Mazda, and Honda are basically the only options anymore.
I love my Hyundai Elantra (more than the new Corolla), but with the spectre of it being stolen whenever someone feels like it and Hyundai doing nothing about it, I can't trust them or Kia ever again.
Had a Nissan, it was poorly built. Soured my taste w/ them a lot.
GM, Chevy, and Jeep are lulz nope levels of crap.
Teslas are (still) too expensive and have a bunch of tech crap I can't fucking stand AND seem to be poorly built.
German brands are overpriced and supposedly really expensive to maintain/repair.
Ford seems to be the best American car maker. The rest are just so bad that I kinda assume all American brands aren't to be trusted, but I can't think of anything negative about them. Might add them to the Japanese brands for options when I need my next car.

I really don't want President Kamala Harris ever, but I'd take it over President Trump 2: The Revenge.
And there's no way she can win vs. Trump.
So I'm basically hoping for Biden to stave off senility long enough to win in November, then afterwards resign for medical reasons and crown Harris president. Like, that is super fucking depressing, but the alternative is Trump. :(

If only Biden had chosen Tammy Duckworth like he originally planned to. Ugh...

Humble_Novice posted...

We can blame that on the rise of misinformation which affects everyone whether they be on the left or right. While I typically expect the far right to fall for propaganda, it's disappointing to see some leftists not use critical thinking more to disseminate the things being shown to them.

Yeah. I'm moderate and I remember like 5 years ago during Trump's reign all the stories about the "poor Houthis" being bombed by US-provided Saudi Arabian strikes and fell for it back then. Didn't really know much about Yemen and it sure sounded like a bunch of right wing fascists (Trump and MBS) teaming up to oppress a neighboring country.
Didn't know the Houthis were legitimately a terrorist group propped up and funded/armed by Iran to overthrow the elected government in Yemen and cause havoc on the Saudi border while making death to Jews and slavery central tenets of their dystopian tyrannical rule.
So I can't even imagine how blind someone that never leaves their echo chamber must be about them.

Really? I saw an article a few days ago that some costumes would be pre-order bonuses only and was worried.
Don't own a PS5, hoping it comes to PC before long so I can continue to avoid giving Sony money.
Would suck if I missed out on the best outfits.

Humble_Novice posted...

ResetEra bans people for daring to speak good things about this game.

Well, ResetEra is an insane cult.
Which I wouldn't give a shit about except for some reason people in the industry actually post there and listen to their cancerous feedback.
Shame it can't be treated like left-wing 4chan like it is.

It's definitely one of my favorite movies of all time, and my favorite Arnold movie, and my favorite James Cameron movie.

Shame the sequel never happened. A movie like that would never get made today, at least not by a major studio and given a good budget.

You think for the first movie of what they'd hope becomes a franchise and has MCU crossover appearances, they'd want someone younger.
But Fantastic Four as a brand seems to be destined to be total shit and abandoned immediately, so I guess it doesn't matter. Why plan for the long term when there is none?

Who would've thought back 20 years ago we'd remember that pair of movies as "back when Fantastic Four was good"?

Solar_Crimson posted...

I'm now imagining a scene where, during a full scale war with China, every toilet in America starts spewing out sewage water.

This is your daily reminder to say NO to "smart" technology.
No to smart homes.
No to smart cars.
No to smart tvs.
No to smart thermostats.
No to smart fridges that can text you if the ice is low.
No to smart garages that let Amazon drivers open the doors to leave your package inside.
No to smart condoms that let you compare "performance data" with your friends (yes, they exist...).

The fewer things in your life and your home that can be accessed remotely, the better!
Smart tech is for dumb people that need the tech to think for them.
How much "convenience" is worth giving up your privacy and autonomy?
The "internet of things" will be the end of everything.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


"Could be"?
Also, isn't owning a flamethrower against the law, too?
Like, I swear there were jokes that, "eventually the NRA will make flamethrowers legal", implying they hadn't yet succeeded.

It's very difficult to get me to root for Mitch McConnell in a political fight.
But Ted Cruz is definitely one of those rare abhorrent creatures that will get me to do it.

Must suck having to leave your job just months after giving yourself a $450,000 salary.
Now someone else gets to enjoy the fruits of her labor.

I voted for the ring.
Getting a full 8 hrs of sleep from just 2 hrs is honestly more valuable than never needing food or water again, though both features are quite welcome and come as a package deal.
Note you can still eat and drink for pleasure (slice of cheesecake, glass of wine, whatever). You just don't NEED it for sustenance any more. Presumably the ring is providing all the necessary nutrients and vitamins to actually be healthy and it's not like a steady diet of ramen and Sam's Club soda...

This ring continually provides its wearer with life-sustaining nourishment. The ring also refreshes the body and mind, so that its wearer needs only sleep 2 hours per day to gain the benefit of 8 hours of sleep. The ring must be worn for a full week before it begins to work. If it is removed, the owner must wear it for another week to reattune it to himself.
Faint conjuration; CL 5th; Forge Ring, create food and water; Price 2,500 gp.

I've said repeatedly it was the single biggest fuck up in video game history, and I will stand by that forever.
The plans for DRM and forcing you to bee online, killing used games, outright telling people if they didn't like this new dystopia to just stick to the 360...
It'd be very hard to come back from that. No matter how much goodwill you try to build afterwards, everyone will think, "they'll just go back to the original plans once we let our guards down."
Also, didn't help that the 360 was a poorly designed POS that red ringed itself to death so much. If you lost a 360 console or two to RROD, I could understand not trusting the new Xbox.
Ultimately though any console can succeed if it has games people really want to play and there's no other option to play them on. Xbox has never had that, so they could never bounce back. On that note...

wackyteen posted...

Wii U was too young of a technology to be what it should have been (the Switch) and took confusingly named to generate interest.

Nintendo also kneecapped the fuck out of it by not only not releasing a Zelda title w/ it, but fucking delaying it a year to release on the replacement console.
You saw how like 17 million people bought Switch immediately to play BotW, at a time when Switch had no other games. Those same people would've finally bought a Wii U if it was the only way to play BotW.

Generally 10-15 over

35 in a 25
40 in a 30
45 in a 35
60 in a 45 or 50
70 in a 55 or 60
75 in a 65

I prefer to be in the 60-70 range, it's the optimal range for good MPG but also going fast. Lower feels painfully slow unless it's a local road or one w/ a bunch of lights.
Higher is both horribly wasteful on fuel and also I feel uneasy driving much above there b/c it's just too fast. Even on a wide open rural highway, if someone does some stupid shit, if you're going really fast you're probably in danger. I will go up to 80 and if I absolutely have to 85, but I really don't like it and prefer at that point to just let everyone pass me.

Outside of the super high speed limit rural road scenario, I'm usually going the same speed as at least half of the rest of the traffic, in my experience.

UnsteadyOwl posted... The posted speed limit, even though I know that's not a popular answer.

Where I used to live there was a road I would drive down fairly often where the speed limit was 35 so I'd drive 35 and I'd almost always get somebody tailgating me. My attitude was I'm not going to speed up for your benefit because if I do and I get a ticket or get into an accident because of it I don't think you're going to pay for it.

You could just like...pull to the side and let them pass instead of acting like you own the road. Takes all of a few seconds, probably don't even need to come to a full stop if it's only one mean tailgater behind you looking to pass (not the case if you're so slow you've stacked up like half a dozen cars in a train behind you).

I've pulled over for people before and I go over the damn limit already. Never understood the weird pride/hubris of refusing to do so.

ClayGuida posted...

Why would Iran back a deal with the US again?

Honestly don't blame them for not wanting a new deal when the next R will just toss it out again.
I 100% blame them for pursuing nuclear weapons (if they are), b/c even w/ no deal it doesn't just mean they have the right to obtain them and threaten the world with them. Also while US backed out, Europe did not, so the deal was still semi- in place.
I also 100% blame them for lashing out so much during the term of a president that tried to make peace w/ them after being quiet little lambs during the term of the president that was bellicose towards them, and in doing so may help return him to power.

Bass posted...

Do you even know what a tankie is?

Well, a lefty who has "lolAmerica" as his sig is probably a start

Tankies: "Iran's doing this because Trump left the nuclear deal!"

Then why did they do nothing his entire term then waited for Biden to come into office and attempt to go back to the deal and unfreeze Iranian banking assets, to start wars all over the Middle East, murder a bunch of Americans, and pursue nuclear weapons?

Tankies: "...."

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

If Iran starts making obvious attempts at nuclear weapons NATO will have to react. I dont know what Irans end goal with all of this shit lately is.

They're run by religious extremist nutjobs. Expecting them to behave sane or logically is even more pointless than expecting it from Putin.

French pastries and baked goods deserve their positive rep.

The other food in French cuisine is vastly overrated, though. Possibly b/c for the longest time their main geopolitical/cultural rival was the British, and any cuisine looks fucking amazing compared to theirs.

Not the ISIS I expected

From what I've read, Iran has spent years intentionally staying "one step" from enriching uranium enough to make nuclear weapons to simultaneously not draw attacks from NATO while also using the threat of doing it as a deterrent to attacking them.
But Iran lately seems to have stopped giving a fuck about anything and is just doing as much shit as they can get away with, so I wouldn't be surprised if they actually go for nuclear weapon development now.
Yet another reason Biden needs to attack them. I'd have thought a dozen or so dead Americans would draw a military response, but apparently Iran has to kill more of us before we stop giving them 1 week advance notice of where we're striking and we start striking in Iran.

inb4 the typical echo chamber of tankies say Iran's been "provoked" into this, when Biden's spent his entire presidency bending over backwards to placate them

ellis123 posted...

Hopefully you didn't use the thumb drive.

I have never plugged it in out of fear from what I heard. It's just been a decorative item for a decade now. How does it fuck your computer if you do plug it in?

Pretty sure the Xenoblade X collectors edition, Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition, Eiyuden Chronicle kickstarter backer tier I chose (physical game + OST), and Skyward Sword w/ the golden Wiimote (aka, the reason I will never pre-order a Zelda game ever again) were all around $90.

That would be the most. Unless you count the Zelda Collection Gamecube bundle, which I bought primarily for the Gamecube and the game was just a nice bonus...

3 out of 4 turned out well. Aside from the inevitability of Fed-pushed inflation pushing the numbers up eventually, I can't see myself ever paying over $100 for a game. And it's extremely rare I'll pay that much.

China, like w/ its Tik Tok vs. ours, once again shows it knows better than we do about the menace of certain Current Things.
It sucks b/c electricity prices already spiked and it's basically going to kill the electric car (which I wouldn't be surprised if that was a hidden goal of the people financially propping up this Tulip frenzy), but raising electricity prices is the only easy way to stop this shit.
And then these fuckers will just move on to another country.

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

It should be a crime to mine it unironically

-Worsens climate change
-Drives up energy prices
-Might legit kill people in areas going through severe weather by being the tipping point for causing rolling blackouts.
-The stupid shit where we pay them to stop is absurd.

I hope someone is engraving some stone walls/tablets w/ pictographs of our hubris for when climate change wipes us all out. So that if any humans in the far future survive or aliens find our planet, they can understand how in an environment already teetering b/c of our own emissions, we as a species decided to accelerate towards oblivion by inventing a new fake currency that demands the equivalent of burning down a small forest every day in carbon footprint.

Amocat posted...

Im surprised its that low, considering ho important Bitcoin is

It's 2% of all electricity usage. Try to think of everything electricity is used for between home and offices, then quadruple the number b/c I guarantee you forgot a lot of things.

darkbuster posted...

To be fair, it may not be legally possible to charge women with rape, in some districts. Traditionally, "rape" is legally defined as vaginal penetration, usually with a penis; this is why "sodomy" exists as a separate legal distinction. Some districts have amended their laws to correct for this, while in those that haven't, a woman can only be legally charged with something like "sexual misconduct".

Just pointing out that besides the obvious social stigma, this is why you may not see women being explicitly accused of rape in articles like these.

First of all I know that and it's fucking bull shit misandry that needs to change with the times, just like the idea that "a husband can't rape his wife" changed. Rape is rape.

2nd of all, the literal legal term is Statutory Rape. Not Statutory Sexual Misconduct.
When the victims are minors is the one time none of the sexist hold-overs of the law should fucking matter. They're minors, it's automatically rape.

*charged after raping two 15 year old boys at a motel

Fixed the title for you, TC

It's funny b/c during Obama's time, Republicans would cite his eloquence and charisma as "proof" he was the antichrist, able to draw a "cult" with his silver-tongued devil speech.

Now they're the ones w/ an actual cult (w/ a leader that checks WAY more of the boxes for antichrist) and observing Obama's great speaking ability is an insult to them and makes you a RINO.