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"Why does Iran keep inciting violence all across the Middle East? We've tried nothing to stop them, and we've run out of ideas!"

Much like Joe Rogan and Roseanne....

I hated the Rock before it was cool!

Fucking sociopath went off script to give like half a dozen unprotected chairshots to the head of an unconscious Mick Foley. No decent person would ever do that shit.
But for some fucking reason people loved this fucker for decades. Welcome to the party, bandwagon-hoppers.

DrizztLink posted...

I'd say that one, just to get something economic in there. Other options along the same line would work.

Ignoring option 1, I went with 4, minority group safety.

It's literally my job.

#5 was my catch-all (or most...) economic one, but I focused it on the rising disparity of income between the top and bottom, and how 50 years of Republican tax cuts have emptied our Treasury and left an ever-increasing % of our spending just towards paying interest on the debt, which will eventually become unsustainable.

Didn't really cover Greedflation enabled by mergers and acquisitions and lax federal oversight. But you can't cover all economic issues in one option and I didn't just want a vague meaningless "The Economy" option.

I agree that one makes the most sense, though I think weed's gotten the most requests thus far, lol

Humble_Novice posted...

Couldn't find the main thread for the invasion going on in Ukraine anymore, so I'm starting my own to help keep up with it.

Russia succeeded in getting the left to stop caring about Putin being a nazi by orchestrating w/ Iran and Hamas to massacre hundreds of Jews. :(

I'm glad Ukraine is making such smart drone advancements, especially when it comes to beating Russia's navy w/o a navy. Taiwan is probably taking a lot of notes...

mybbqrules posted...

Keeping a lying criminal rapist traitor insurrectionist from destroying American democracy more than he did the first time around.

Yeah, I figured the first option would win. I'll definitely have to do a follow up w/o it. Not sure what to replace it with.

Weed legalization?
Greedflation (I refuse to call it inflation) / trust-busting?
Internet as a public utility / Net neutrality / repealing FOSTA/SESTA / etc... ?

A benevolent dictatorship is probably the best form of government when it actually occurs. A competent leader that wants to help his people w/o the gridlock of a legislative body and political bs and arguing can do amazing things. Lee Kuan Yew is an incredible figure, probably one of the greatest men to ever live.
The problem is the VAST majority won't be "benevolent" and even the ones that are can easily change, especially when the original leader passes away and someone else takes his place.

IMO, the ideal government is a "constitutional monarchy", where one leader has control for the most part, but there's an elected legislature and courts to overrule or impeach him if he becomes evil.
Of course that term itself has a very broad meaning and a lot of modern Western "democracies" are actually constitutional monarchies except the monarch has little to no power.

YellowSUV posted...

The status quo in the current world is that you can fund proxies without much consequence. Iran directly attacking Israel would be a huge escalation and risk for them.

It probably still wouldn't be Iran directly. Those cowards will just have Hezbollah invade or something, like usual.
Which would still be a major threat since they've spent 2 decades arming the shit out of Hezbollah for this.
Hezbollah's arsenal is the most succinct, direct, obvious answer to "why does Israel secure the borders of Gaza?" Why? Look at what Hezbollah has. That shit would be in Gaza too, if they didn't.

I just hope it doesn't take much more deaths for Biden to finally strike back at Iran directly, instead of symbolically hitting their bases in Yemen and Syria after giving them a one week heads up to leave. He's been ridiculously weak on Iran, hopefully just so when they finally cross whatever "red line" he has in his head (apparently it's not sinking commercial vessels, killing merchant crews, or killing a bunch of American soldiers, so I'm not sure where the line is, but yeah....), he can point to how fucking soft he was on them to prove he's not just a warmonger and they brought it on themselves...

toadfan64 posted...

Where weed legalization?

"Other (please specify)"

Only got 10 poll option slots.
I suppose I could let this run, remove the winner, add the most-requested "Other" issue, and repeat the poll, and keep doing that for several rounds...

Cemith posted...

Do I have to pick just one?

I'd love it if GameFAQs instituted multiple choice check box style buttons for polls, and have asked for it. Sadly, it's still pick one so I went with choosing your most important issue for the poll. I'd pick most of them as important, myself.

Payday is just a nerfed Baby Ruth

Dalthine posted...

My favorite common candy bar is 100 Grand.

Yup. One of the best candy bars.

My favorite part was probably the one where Jim Cramer was giggling and smiling about their illegal business practices, because I have an intense rational hatred of Cramer and continue to be pissed off that he has his job and all that money when he's so fucking moronic and evil.

bigblu89 posted...

Let me guess, they over-charge their customers and pay the equivalent of slave labor to their drivers?

I mean, obviously.
They also fraudulently list restaurants that don't actually have agreements w/ them and have people just go in and buy stuff as if they're the customer, just to deliver it to the actual customers. Which leads to situations like a bakery in the pandemic era selling milkshakes w/o lids that some guy then took in his car to deliver to someone else.
They also will punish restaurants that refuse to join them by claiming on their app that the restaurant is closed or not taking orders when they are (just not w/ your stupid app).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFsfJYWpqII

Boeing probably killed him.
Even aside from that, all the shit in this article are damning for the ruthless disregard for safety... actually that doesn't do it justice, they actively punished people for trying to find safety issues because they were "hurting our stock value".
Boeing needs to be broken apart by the government and the CEO needs to be sent to jail. Not white collar jail. Real, blue collar jail. He's a mass murderer, only thing "uncertain" is if you need to tack a +1 to the number of lives from the two crashes or not.

TimeForAction posted...

Idk, its shit in places and neighborhoods where people prefer to live. I think a lot of people arent willing to lower their standards for a starter home.

Sure wasn't my experience when I was looking whether to buy or build a house.

Could get a "starter" house that was 80-100 years old, ~1200 sq. ft, in need of some repairs and generally a bit worn down due to age (but w/ some renovations for flooring/counters), no garage, townhouse or condo (shared walls), etc....

OR could spend 40-50% more and get a house built within the last few decades, twice the size, full garage and driveway, detached w/ a yard, no fixing up needed, plainly higher quality overall.

The amount "more" you got from buying past the bottom of the price listings was absolutely crazy. Unless you straight up can't afford a mortgage for the next tier up of housing, I have no idea why anyone would choose the "starter" house.

My real estate agent explained that the trend I noticed was true. Starter homes offer the absolute crappiest "return on investment" and outrageous "cost per square foot" because:
a) there aren't many starter homes on the market so competition for them is fiercer
b) starter homes are seen as a "good investment" b/c they can be quickly and easily re-sold so a lot get bought up by house flippers (who can also get the most bang for their buck renovating a run down starter home to sell for more vs. more costly houses)
c) While not having a yard and being smaller reduce building costs somewhat, you still can't escape a lot of basic costs like utilities, foundation, government fees, etc... that any building will incur. Larger homes can "spread out" those base costs over their larger square footage, small starter homes cannot

TL;DR: No, quite the opposite. Starter homes are very hot sellers b/c some people need to take the cheapest thing they can get and investors like to flip them, so people being "unwilling to lower their standards" is not the issue.

Cal-Maine specifically was the center of the egg price gouging a year or so ago.
I'm sure the bird flu thing is true, but I'm also sure they're greedily rubbing their hands together at the prospect of turning a 3.6% loss of stock into a 200% price surge.

Guide posted...

surprisingly hype for a sport i never watch

Beach volleyball is one of the best Olympic sports.
The booty is definitely a plus, but the fact it's just two people covering an (admittedly slightly smaller) area is why it's great. You get absolutely fucking insane relays like that. Indoor volleyball w/ whole freaking teams isn't anywhere near as fun to watch.

cjsdowg posted...

Nope you only got that shit with black people. Black people keep voting for Dems while they do shit all for us beyond not being as racist as Republicans. Other groups are saying no to being treated that way.

Pretty much the entirety of police and justice reforms have been advocated for and enacted by Democrats

CrimsonGear80 posted...

everyone knew way before then that the counties that still needed to be counted were blue as the sky.

Everyone "didn't know" for sure, and you claimed it was "called for Biden" before election day was over, which was blatantly false and wrong.

littlebro07 posted...

this

this guy supports Israel so Im not gonna vote for him and cause this *checks notes* other guy who supports Israel as well as a million other awful things to become president instead

Yup. I hope Americans are smart enough to realize this. But betting on the intellect of American voters doesn't have the best historical results...

CrimsonGear80 posted...

the election was called for Biden before election day was over. he trounced Trump.

No, it wasn't. It wasn't called until Saturday, several days later, because some swing states were close and took forever to count ballots.
I distinctly remember those days of angst and when it was finally called, we made Orange Chicken for dinner to celebrate.

adjl posted...

In less than 6 months, Israel has racked up about 30-40% of the civilian death toll that the US managed in 20 years post-9/11, and in that time the US managed to kill more enemy combatants than civilians, while I'm not sure Israel's even broken triple digits yet. To equivocate what were largely accidents (albeit careless accidents for which the US deserves ample criticism) to what Israel is doing now is either staggeringly ignorant or a deliberate pro-genocide statement. Take your pick.

Israel has lost ~ 600 IDF soldiers thus far in <6 months of fighting.
America lost 2459 military deaths in two decades in Afghanistan.
Israel has racked up 25% of the combat death toll that the US managed in 20 years in Afghanistan, in less than 6 months.

Weird how you only like to compare figures when you think it'll help your case and ignore the rest.
It's almost like urban combat in one of the most densely populated regions on Earth w/ enemies that hide amongst the civilian population is really fucking difficult.
At least in Afghanistan the enemy was mostly relegated to isolated caves/mountains and not 100% embedded in the urban populace.

And implying Israel "hasn't even broken triple digits yet" for enemy combatants is either staggeringly ignorant or a deliberate pro-Hamas statement. Take your pick.

Sure happened to be a lot of Iranian Revolutionary Guard in a civilian building....

Gentle reminder that the IRG aren't even the actual Iranian military, they're specifically a paramilitary force for the religious extremist factions to send abroad to fund, train, and support terror operations against Jews and Americans

mario2000 posted...

Free Palestine

Free Sanaa

The Houthis have imposed a repressive rule in Sanaa and other areas they control in Yemen. They have cracked down on any possible sign of rebellion among residents, jailing thousands and confiscating large swathes of land from those deemed dissents.

Strange. Never once seen Houthis called colonizers. How odd.

Kraze Miles from Suikoden I is my first thought. Dude is such an evil little shit karma Houdini, then you get to execute him. And he's literally the only NPC in the entire game where you're given that choice and actually doing it has no effect on the good ending. Because yeah, fuck him!

Shanath in Baten Kaitos Origins is another major one, even if they tried to make him slightly sympathetic at the very end. Dude frames you for assassinating the emperor, causes you trouble and wrecks you throughout the game, rips your mom's wings out of her back, and is the most condescending smug prick about it all the entire time. It felt SO GOOD to finally kick his ass!

Any Samurai Warriors game where you can actually kill Ieyasu Tokugawa is greatly appreciated, too. They almost never let you kill him, and other games based on the Sengoku period pretty much never do or make his side the protagonists.

Luca Blight from Suikoden II and Algus from FFT are also great examples.

ClayGuida posted...

I disagree. It's good to spend money in Florida, especially with Abortion and Weed being on the ballot. Abortion gets women to the polls and weed gets the younger crowd. Take advantage of that.

If anything this stops Republicans from financing other races across the country.

Doe posted...

Does any of that money include firing the morons running the Florida Democratic Party

Both of these.
Tremendous opportunity this year in FL, but the FL Democratic party is a fucking clown show and DNC needs to clean house ASAP for any money being spent to actually matter.

The next Nintendo console should be a normal freaking console that has power close enough to PS5 that it can get 3rd party games.
Switch can be the lower powered handheld console since they ended the 3DS.
Their own first party games can be released to both consoles for the most part since they aren't that demanding graphically or maybe have better graphics on the new console but playable on either.

But it's Nintendo, they'll probably just reinvent the wheel for no good reason, or make a literal Switch 2 that's the same as Switch 1 but marginally more powerful. -_-

It's been trying to force the new layout since late 2023.

I call it the "2023 new" layout to distinguish it from "new" reddit that preceded it.
For a while I was stuck w/ it and I could change www.reddit to new.reddit to force it back. Then somehow I went back to the original "new" on the subreddits and 2023 new on user pages and that trick didn't work.
Today it again forced me to the 2023 new layout but now new.reddit works again to avoid it.

I don't know WTF is going on, but presumably eventually they plan to force us all to that "mobile-friendly" abomination w/ no way out of it.

reddit today was really fucking weird

Forced me to the "2023 new" layout, on all pages. But then using new.reddit worked to change it back, when before it wouldn't even load reddit if I tried that.
I don't know WTF they're doing, but I don't like it. Seems like in the long run they're gonna force you to the 2023 layout that's fucking atrocious.

Hezbollah has been increasing attacks against Israel for the past week, and Iran orchestrated Oct. 7th. It's always so interesting how Israeli retaliation for their aggressiveness gets painted as "escalation" in the media...

Get fucked, Iranian Revolutionary Guard

MrMolinaro posted...

Hitting a diplomatic compound is pretty extreme, even by Israeli standards. They consistently refuse to follow international laws that are the only reason their country exists.

Yeah. Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis.... All of Israel's primary enemies. Well known for following international law. If they ever started intentionally firing at non-military targets, Israel sure would be in trouble!

ClayGuida posted...

Rick Scott is inevitable. Dude's somehow failed upwards for 20 years now.

Don't say that. I want to believe in a future w/o him in office.
If EVER there was a chance to knock him the fuck out, this is the year.

I read before that Biden wasn't bothering with Florida?
They need to change their plans.
Abortion and weed will drive out voters for Dems.

*googles*

Holy shit! Medicare fraud Rick Scott is up for re-election in the Senate! Not only is flipping a Senate seat blue a huge win anywhere they can in the US, but specifically ending that evil fuck's career would be so amazing!
I hope FL Dems can nominate a good candidate w/o baggage. Seems to be a real struggle for them...

ConfusedTorchic posted...

you go into settings and opt out of the redesign

You can only choose between "old" reddit and "new" reddit.
There is no option to stay in "new" without "2023 new".

I wish there were better ways to describe the layout names.

Reddit has seemed especially shit lately.

If i am in a subreddit and click on a post, then go back to the prior page.... Before it was a quick and clean process, like most webpages where going back it's still in your cache or whatever.
But now loading basically any reddit page is like you're visiting it for the first time and the entire site re-loads on you. Which means not only does it take noticeably longer (3-4 seconds instead of 1 second at most), but when you go back to the subreddit page, you're back at the top of the list instead of where you left off.
It's honestly really fucking annoying and I haven't seen anyone else complaining about it, so I didn't know if it was a reddit problem or a "you haven't updated Firefox in a long time and it's finally coming back to haunt you" problem.

(Also, this has gone on for months now, but the fucking "2023 New" design -- not to be confused w/ the "New Reddit" design that predated it -- is there any time you click on a user profile now. I have the good "new" design for subreddits and posts, but if I want to scroll thru a user's posts or something, it's the awful new-er design, which hogs way more space and loads fucking horribly....like the god damn site pretty much freezes if you dare scroll too far down. I'd love to know how to make it go away. I tried replacing "www." with "new." in the address like I saw some suggest, but that doesn't work)

Gangsta Shop Quartet (I kinda want to make "Got My Third Strike" my ringtone, lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPmJWBurnlU

Happy Folger (there's a few, I think this was the 1st)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjRM3FrUQCo

Smith Comma John (literally predicted Mitt Romney and Ted Cruz's presidential campaigns)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLSlGmVrmuM

Mongol Horde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEcKvuKsNE4

Suddenly Millennium (sorry it's in two parts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrKv4gxRG6M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODb5TILLSbw

Honey Dipper Dan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8cVYg7RNx4

Other series of videos that are great:
Snapshot Stories
Mannequin Killer series
Spishak products
Paul Timberman series

Tropicalwood posted...

There's some getting around that, multiple casters of the same spell iirc either both shortens the time required to cast and strengthens it. Or just strengthens it. There are some augments to shorten the time as well and the Ring you get for the Duke also decrease casting time just by having one in the inventory of that pawn.

Pro tip: Pay to make a counterfeit version of that ring and turn the fake in for the quest. Keep the real one for yourself.

ellis123 posted...

That's the norm for Souls. That's basically the only reason that Souls games are more a Monster Hunter clone than character action games.

Well, I prefer character action games and thought this game was most-inspired by Nier Automata.
So I'm hoping despite the label of "Souls-like" it doesn't have that awful mechanic.

Can you dodge cancel or block cancel (or hell, jump cancel) your attacks?

I don't play Souls games generally but I remember in Code Vein you were forced to follow through with every attack you pressed and I hated that, but was told that's the norm for Souls games.

Blizzard customers deserve everything they get.
It's only been over a decade and half a dozen glaring examples of evil and greed at this point. If you still want to buy their shit games anyway, enjoy the misery.
Bye.

s0nicfan posted...

I still haven't seen a compelling reason for why Biden couldn't have just ignored Trump's plan. If he cut a deal with the Taliban, Biden just had to declare the Taliban wasn't a legitimate government. Half of what he did on the first day was executive orders to undo a bunch of stuff Trump did.

So no, I don't really buy the excuse that Biden had no choice to do everything exactly as it happened because Trump said we were going to do it when he was still president.

Remember when Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, and how it permanently ruined any credibility of the US to enter into a new agreement, since the next guy could just renege on it anyway?
How do you propose we would have made deals w/ the Taliban in the future to get peace, after Biden threw the deal that had made and adhered to into the trash bin?

lamdakastel posted...

If the Afghans dont want Taliban in power, they should try to overthrow Taliban instead of begging other countries to help.
Its not like Taliban has powerful military like Russia or China.

This. Taliban had basically nothing when US left. Afghans had plenty of hardware and vastly outnumbered them, could've easily sent them crawling back to their caves if they actually gave a damn about living in a Western style democracy.
They did literally nothing, so let them have the government they want.

Zikten posted...

We never should have left. I didn't agree with thr decision then and I still don't. We should have just stayed forever. Or at least until religion no longer had a hold over the area

So now you think colonizing is a good thing?

Get fucked Microsoft. I'm so glad your gaming division is utterly tanking. Normally more competition is a good thing, but you've been a cancer on console gaming for two decades now, always the tip of the spear on nearly every horrible change to console gaming.

Also gotta love how no one ever complains about all the dudes who could only look so insanely jacked as they do in games if they were downing tons of steroids daily, but a regular healthy woman w/ nice T&A is "unrealistic" and gets a legion of critics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PnDjsE-0G4

So, this wouldn't even be an issue if we had proper property record systems like other western countries. But extremists on the far right and far left block it from happening.

Wow, dude is fucking psychotic

And the drive-by was with a fucking machine gun?!

At least he made sure his accomplices are super-motivated to testify against him, now.

KnightofShikari posted...

i thought it was coming to PC later?

Got a source?
I really hope so, I want to play it, but I'm not buying a PS5

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

I saw the leaked demo gameplay and it looks pretty damn awesome.

Good.
It's bull shit they were exempted from serving yet had the same electoral power. And in fact are the dominant political faction that has bellicose policy, when they're not the ones that have to serve.
I figured at some point the portion of Israelis paying taxes and dying in service of their country would protest/revolt against these hyper-religious ingrates just leeching off of their labor and blood.

Basically:

• "Own" a home (usually via mortgate, unless you're old and paid it off)
• Salary ~ 3x or more the poverty level (what that is varies depending on if you're single, married, or a family), but still below the top 5% of income
• Have health care coverage
• Have some sort of retirement plan besides social security (pension, 401K, IRA, something...)
• Have at least 2 months of emergency savings in the bank

I don't know, I'd define it like that. You could add a bunch of implied societal stuff like being a nuclear family or going on vacation annually, but I tried to limit it to just economic situation stuff.