Lurker > streamofthesky

I guess the smart ass answer is Wii, since it has backwards compatibility w/ all GC games.

But aside from that...GC, easily.
Wii has Xenoblade and...all GC games. And that's about all of its value to me.

OhhhJa posted...

Voxwik posted...

People need to wake up before we have a literal dictator

This leftist melodrama shit cracks me up. Trump has done basically all he can to deregulate as much as possible. That's the complete opposite of what a dictator does

Yeah, a dictator would absolutely hate it if regulations impacting his ability to exercise his power, or that force his wealthy allies to adhere to safety standards at the expense of some of their money were to be rolled back.
Why, that'd just be awful for the dictator!

Did you see where in an interview Trump was asked to name our biggest enemy, and his answer was the EU?

Voxwik posted...

The rollercoaster that is my feelings that my first vote ever was for Paul Ryan's first term is bizarre beyond belief.

I went from being blissfully ignorant to shameful to now "well at least he sometimes chooses country over party."

I wish he wouldn't retire. The idea of a Trumpian yes-man as Speaker is nauseating. Considering the vile Republican attempts to outright sabotage health care it really emphasizes how horrible Trump really is that I am praising Paul Ryan.

Look okay the shameful attacks on John McCain by Trump's thralls. People need to wake up before we have a literal dictator. It is long past time to stop underestimating what Trump is capable of.

Decades of alliances and international cooperation are at risk, even beyond the war to delegitimize opposition votes.

Confused by this post. Paul Ryan already is a Yes Man speaker for Trump. Sabotaging healthcare has been a goal of his all along. And he's always been open about how much he idolizes Ayn Rand and her philosophy of "fuck every else."
You seem to think something about him is different than was ever presented, or that he's somehow not everything you already fear about the next speaker.

At one point, Boehner became the leader because the last guy was a "RINO"
Then Boehner became a "RINO" and was replaced by Ryan, who is now also a "RINO" and will soon be replaced.
And none of them significantly changed their positions from the start of their tenures. If anything, they tended to shift to the right slightly.

I've played Mario RPG and Seiken Densetsu 3, but none of the other SoM titles.

Both were really good, but I just love Mario RPG.

ALttP > ALBW > LA > Zelda 1 > AoL

Haven't played the other 2D games. But none other than the oracle games even seemed interesting to me. In any case, ALttP is my favorite 2D Zelda, my favorite Zelda overall, and my favorite game of all time. So that one.

Bulbasaur posted...

i do

pizza is a vegetable, after all

And with the right toppings, it can cover all the major food groups!

Ogurisama posted...

Round 2 will be 4 days, top 4 from each will go to the finals

once we have 16, we will have a elimination tournament with those 16

Should just do 1 on 1 matches from now on so the troll votes get squelched.

But apparently North Korea's making the top 16 instead.

I've always been a firm believer than saying nothing just enables the trolls. Not being rebuked for what they say by others creates the illusion that what they say is fine, and accepted.
They need to be confronted by as many people as possible, called out as the horrible people they are, and subjected to wide scale ridicule.
That's the only thing that gets them to scurry back under their rocks. The trolls will still exist, but there will be less of them and they'll periodically go quiet under the barrage of contempt, which offers some moments of reprieve.

Baten Kaitos

Mead posted...

They should bring in outside experts to help them evaluate how to make pizza that tastes good.

But that'd require effort and long term investment. This just requires some one-time sensitivity training as a PR stunt.

Revelation34 posted...

streamofthesky posted...

Some pizza is more unhealthy than others.
Dominos and other cheap pizza chains are loaded with fat and grease.

A home made pizza less so...

Pizza will be unhealthy no matter where it is made.

Yes, 10 grams of saturated fat are no different than 2. What a fool I've been for thinking otherwise!

Questionmarktarius posted...

Revelation34 posted...

streamofthesky posted...

Since the recipe change a decade ago, they got a lot better. Still extremely unhealthy, but it tastes good now. And they have the best options of toppings, too.

Pizza is unhealthy!?

The hell you say!

Some pizza is more unhealthy than others.
Dominos and other cheap pizza chains are loaded with fat and grease.

A home made pizza less so...

Shantae series, especially Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
Guacamelee
Various Mega Man and Mega Man X games
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
Wild 9

Papa John's has always been awful.

Dominos > Pizza Hut > PJ > Little Ceasar's
(based on the old LC; their new pizza might be better than PJ's, but marketing it as "fast" and "cheap" doesn't make me want to give them another shot...)

Also, John's been a scumbag for a long time. He complained about 5 years ago that the Affordable Care Act would force him to give employees healthcare and raise the price of a large pizza by a whopping 14 cents.
All while he lives in a mansion and was giving way tons of pizzas for free as a promotion w/ the NFL. But no, can't afford healthcare!
Also ignoring that all his other chain pizza rivals would face the same added cost burden, so the price increase wouldn't even make him less competitive in the first place.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Never thought I'd see people defending Domino's of all places.

Since the recipe change a decade ago, they got a lot better. Still extremely unhealthy, but it tastes good now. And they have the best options of toppings, too.

Blighboy posted...

Are you...mocking the idea that Hitler is bad?

Like, the obvious rebuttal was, "We can't say hitler was bad unless we know him too, then?" but no one even needed to utter it, dude Godwin'd himself and outright let us know of his nazi sympathies in the process.

Zelda: A Link to the Past
Suikoden II
Chrono Trigger

Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Zikten posted...

streamofthesky posted...

. But I still like the possibility that the ancient Egyptians traversed the Atlantic in reed boats.

oh yea. I have heard of that. there is this legend about Egyptians having a war with natives and hiding treasure and maybe a mummy, in the grand canyon

I meant more about how both Egyptians and central Americans have pyramids, and supposedly traces of a South American crop were found in a Pharoah's (King Tut?) tomb. Though I think the latter was disproven or a hoax.

Zikten posted...

who was before Erikson? And I mean a non native american. The only person I know of is this chinese guy, but that isn't even proven, it's just a theory I thought. THere was a book written about him, but I also heard some historians don't believe it.

He would've been well after Lief, about 70 years before Columbus, even if true.

Presumably he meant the natives. But I still like the possibility that the ancient Egyptians traversed the Atlantic in reed boats.
Thor Heyerdahl proved they could make the journey with the boat technology they had at the time by sailing it himself.

Vietnam's the only good one on the list.

But they're pretty impressive. Fought off more powerful French forces, then far more powerful US forces, then ended Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge.
And it's managed to become a fairly successful nation and economy all on its own.

Fucking greedy, $600K is still a ton of money, especially at her age, it would last her the rest of her life easily.
Hell, not only is she going to burn a lot of the money on lawyers only to lose the case, the stress over this is probably not going to be too great for her health, either.

darkknight109 posted...

No ice. Waters down the drink.

Not to mention the restaurant may not have the cleanest ice dispenser...

if there must be ice, better that it be cubed, so there's less chance of any of it accidentally going in my mouth when I take a sip.

Someone can be really evil without being hitler-evil, you know. Well, you probably don't know, which is the problem.

Zeus posted...

gguirao posted...

If you celebrate Columbus, you might as well celebrate Hitler and Stalin, too. The only difference with Columbus is that he used the name of God as an excuse for his atrocities.

It's a comparison that makes no sense on any number of levels other than, perhaps, flat-out trolling.

Seriously. That's excessive.
Pizarro was worse than Columbus anyway.

Cacciato posted...

Does anybody here actually, unironically, call it Indigenous Peoples' Day?

No, I just wonder why the fuck it's celebrated at all. Make Thanksgiving a 2 day holiday and get rid of it, or add a federal holiday in the summer. Seriously, why is it that during the best months of the year, there's only 1 holiday?

Let's get a holiday in August!

It's not just smart phones. I get at least one scam call a day on my flip phone. Often with the same area code and other numbers similar to my phone number.
Plus I get other probable scam calls from 600- numbers a lot. Usually some guy asking me to donate to some police fund.

FrndNhbrHdCEman posted...

The increases are partly due to the fact consumers are answering their phones less frequently, so callers are adopting more aggressive tactics, said Alex Quilici, the chief executive of YouMail

Yeah, no shit. I used to answer my phone a lot more, in case it was something important or from someone I knew but didn't have his/her phone number in my contacts.
Now unless it's one of my contacts, I never answer it.

Kinda reminds me of the cycle of suck of internet advertisements. They got more intrusive and loaded with malware, so people started blocking them, so in turn b/c less people were seeing the ads, the companies kept trying to make them ever more intrusive.

Was this topic supposed to be on some specific game's board? Guessing Smash Bros?

For our cat:
Hard food (kibble) as needed, usually right before bed or in the morning.
Canned food around 6 pm every night. The switch between DST and off of it confuses him. :)

Zelda: The Wind Waker
My favorite 3D Zelda game. The enemies should probably do more damage (other than the first dungeon, that was about right for difficulty) and the end portion was disappointing, but the rest is just perfect. Even the much-hated ocean traveling isn't that bad since you get warps that put you within two map tiles of anywhere.

Baten Kaitos Origins
Huge improvement in the combat system from the first BK game and a better story overall (but the biggest plot twist fell short of the incredible...quite possibly best plot twist I've ever experienced of the first game). Love the interaction between the three characters, music is excellent, graphics and art style are beautiful....just a great RPG.

Smash Melee
Played a ton of it w/ my friends, still the best gameplay of all the Smash Bros. games to this day. It was only fun w/ items off and the game encourages "cheap" knockouts a bit too much, but overall gave tons of hours of enjoyment.

Cacciato posted...

So you dont agree that the most dangerous drivers on the road are the ones driving significantly different than the speed limit? @stream

When most of the cars are driving "significantly different" than the speed limit (what amount of difference is "significant" by your standard?), then no. I don't think the majority of the cars on the road are the most dangerous drivers. Perhaps you're just more of a pessimist than me.

PuddingBoy posted...

You literally say you live in fear of getting pulled over by the police. Normal people who don't commit traffic violations don't live like that and that's just the truth.

Ah, the Puritan argument! "If you're not doing anything wrong, you should have nothing to hide."

Any interaction w/ a police officer that's pulled you over is going to be stressful. It's unlikely for the interaction to go sour and I definitely would be polite to the officer, but there's always a chance one could be the next Philando Castile, or at least getting roughed up. Kind of a crap shoot if you're unlucky enough to be pulled over by a bad cop vs. a good cop.

PuddingBoy posted...

When I'm speaking about this, I assume the majority of the people around you are all being safe drivers by following the speed limit or not disrupting the flow of traffic. I've never seen a single car in a pack of vehicles going 80 in a 65 zone get pulled over for speeding since that speed is what those in traffic have dictated to be okay. But if you're the one person blowing past everyone when they're all doing close to the normal limit, then you can get fucked for being a poor driver.

I said in my very first post I drive the speed of the rest of the traffic and it's usually like 15 mph or so over the speed limit on a highway.

Someone going way faster than the speed limit should get ticketed. I've argued the whole time the limits are too low, not for going fucking 100 mph in a 65 mph zone...

adjl posted...

streamofthesky posted...

Not the impression I was getting.

Is anyone saying that it's morally wrong to travel no faster than the posted speed limit? Morality can only be called legalistic if you don't consider the act's morality beyond the laws that govern it. To return to the Nazi Germany example, you can say that following the law would be immoral because following the law results in the death of many (morally) innocent people. Ergo, deferring to "it's the law therefore it's right" is actually morally wrong.

Is heeding the speed limit immoral? Well, let's look at the pros and cons:

Pros:
-Reduced risk of serious accidents (provided everyone heeds it)
-Reduced severity of accidents

Cons:
-Reach destination 5-10% later (presuming the alternative is a non-egregious amount of speeding)
-Increased risk of serious accidents if you're the only one heeding it

One of those cons ceases to exist if everyone heeds the speed limit (any law should consider the hypothetical ideal of perfect compliance in determining how important enforcement is), and the other is pretty negligible for the vast majority of trips (3-6 minutes per hour of travel at the speed in question). Ergo, you can't really say that following the speed limit is immoral. That's not saying "it's the law it's therefore moral," it's assessing the behaviour that the law promotes and finding it to be generally beneficial, and therefore accepting the law.

Again, your entire premise is built on the notion that the present speed limits are reasonable.
Yes, if everyone drove slower it would be safer. Not just the speed limit, even lower. Any reduction in speed will make collisions have less momentum being stopped.
But it's going too far to slow everyone down to 10 mph or whatever. It's going to naturally hit some sort of balance point between what's safest and what's fastest, where the speed is still overall safe and the speed is still reasonable.
That's the speed people naturally drive, and it's consistently above the listed speed limits.
Governments know this, but won't raise the limits, because keeping them artificially low means they have a dependable source of extra income whenever they need it.
That is what I'm saying is immoral.

No, it's not as bad as literal nazi germany. I'm not the one who Godwin'd this, that was you. Just because it's less bad than the abduction, property theft, enslavement, torture, and murder of millions of people doesn't mean there's no value in addressing it.

Jen0125 posted...

streamofthesky posted...

I don't keep a list of this stuff. I found this from a search: https://www.sellcell.com/blog/top-10-reasons-police-will-pull-you-over-while-driving/

none of those are because of suspicion though. those are all things they would visually see.

"Questionable activities" could potentially have police discretion for suspicion but that doesn't really validate your argument because you said there were countless infractions they could pull you over for with just suspicion. why would you make that argument if you don't know any?

what the fuck is that video you want me to watch? i have no clue what point you're trying to make.

Questionable activities is inherently down to police discretion and what innocent actions you might be taking could look like to the police officer viewing from his car.

In the video he mentions the size of criminal statutes and how potentially you could be breaking some obscure law without even realizing it nor intending to be. The point was, it's naive to think you're "doing nothing wrong, so you'll be ok" if only you'd drive that speed limit.

PuddingBoy posted...

lmao besides the fact that we have someone advocating for drunk driving in here, now we have someone who literally tries to not drive and has minimal experience on the road saying you should be able to drive as fast as you want because the law is wrong.

He then goes on to say that the idea of a speeding ticket isn't' enough to cause change in their driving habits but then cites that looking out for cops while speeding is stressful. Yeah, no shit? You're literally changing your habits right there because you're afraid of getting caught. Imagine what it must be like to drive reasonable speeds and not be afraid of getting pulled over lol. Don't drive like a dipshit and you'll fare a lot better with that, yeah?

I can make arguments without ad hominem attacks.
It's really easy when I have valid arguments to make.
Don't post like that and you'll fare a lot better with that, yeah?

I drive the same speed the vast majority of drivers do. And I said I try to drive as little as possible. I still have to drive for work, travel, etc... and have driven over 100,000 miles at least.
But you're just going to make assumptions, misread anything I post, and slander me every chance you can anyway.

Jen0125 posted...

streamofthesky posted...

There's countless stupid infractions they can pull you over for, and they just need a "suspicion" you might be in violation of them.

can you name some they only need suspicion of that aren't DUI

I don't keep a list of this stuff. I found this from a search: https://www.sellcell.com/blog/top-10-reasons-police-will-pull-you-over-while-driving/

Questionable Activities

If you are driving around, there could be many things going on in your car which to an outsider may look much different. Smoking a cigarette may look like a joint of marijuana, drinking a bottled soda may look like a beer. Asking your kid to get something out of the backseat may look like your allowing your child to romp all over the vehicle without wearing a seatbelt. Point being, there are a number of things to be self-aware of, and though you will certainly feel its not fair you were pulled over, from the police officers perspective, it was a vastly different story.

This two part video series is pretty good, the primary subject is about talking to police and the importance of the 5th Amendment, but among the issues the lawyer mentions is the insane amount of crimes on the books that people unknowingly might be violating any given day.

Watch 5:18 - 7:15 (or the whole video, it's good overall):


Also relevant, in the 2nd part of the video series, an experienced police officer gives his view:


As he says himself at 1:52 in the video,

And if you drive 55 on the interstate where it's 55, the only thing you're gonna do is meet the person behind you, because they're gonna rear end you and you're gonna get run over, ok?

Which is a bit of hyperbole, but still...the point stands, and that's coming from a cop.

darkknight109 posted...

streamofthesky posted...

I've never gotten a speeding ticket my whole life, but that's due to a combination of luck and avoiding driving as much as possible...because it's inevitably going to happen the more miles you drive.

I've never got a speeding ticket in my life and I've put over a quarter million collective kilometres on my vehicles.

Saying "it's inevitable" is not just wrong, but laughably so. It's posted right on the side of the road what you need to do to not get a ticket: don't let the little number on your dial go above the big number on the sign and you're golden.

This is not nearly as difficult as you're making it out to be.

streamofthesky posted...

But the anxiety definitely has an effect. I'm always checking for cops in likely hiding spots, it's stressful, and the distraction of a cop camped out is way more likely to get me into an accident than my driving speed.

Have you tried not speeding? Because that works pretty well for me. I don't need to worry about watching out for cops when I'm not doing anything for them to pull me over.

There's countless stupid infractions they can pull you over for, and they just need a "suspicion" you might be in violation of them.
Even when I'm going the speed limit I'm watching out for cops, and if one's behind me I try to find somewhere to turn off the road for a bit to get the cop off my ass as soon as I can. The nice cops will just illegally pass me really early on (I don't even get upset about them blatantly breaking the law, it's saving me a lot of stress), but some are content to just tail gate for miles.

adjl posted...

streamofthesky posted...

how disturbing the deferential attitude of "being legal = being morally right" is,

Basing morality on the laws is indeed extremely flawed logic (classic example: Those hiding jews in WWII Germany were breaking the law, those massacring them were following it), but that's not really what's being done here. I don't think anyone would claim that traveling at the posted speed limit is inherently immoral (presuming that everyone does it so you don't end up with somebody at a deviant speed).

Not the impression I was getting. Trying to argue the speed limits are intentionally kept low as an easy way to score fines when desired, and the responses seemed to be an awful lot of, "it's the law," as if that makes it right.
No shit it's the law, I know that. The law is wrong.

For example:
adjl posted...

Teeth posted...

they're so high in an attempt to dissuade anyone from fucking doing illegal shit again

Also that. If these violations still occur on a regular basis, then the fines are failing to discourage them and could probably actually stand to be higher (though again, scaled to be proportional to income so you don't get the disproportionate impact). Don't like how high fines are getting? Then stop being part of the problem, and encourage everyone you know to do the same.

That said, more consistent enforcement would help a lot more with that than higher fines would. The biggest reason people get so uppity about tickets is that they're typically being ticketed for something they do all the time without getting caught (especially in the case of speeding), and that they know thousands of other people are doing without getting caught. Hitting most violators with a moderate fine would yield better compliance than hitting a tiny minority of violators with an extreme one.

The problem with that is that better enforcement means spending more money on cops (and the ensuing "wah police state waaah" from entitled speeders), likely without a commensurate increase in ticket revenue. That means jacking up fines, though less effective, is the more cost-effective option.

You and Teeth are arguing from the perspective that the fines are just, and when presented with the obvious fact that they aren't because 99.9% of people do the same "crime" and are not punished for it, instead of saying, "maybe this shouldn't be a crime" your solution is to designate way more people as law-breakers.

In any case, my original complaint was only partly about how grossly unjust speed traps are, and at least as much about the massive amount of the fine being excessive. Yeah, "it's the law." Because the people who made the law like being able to skim money off innocent people as the budget requires.

And no, it's not about pride. I've never gotten a speeding ticket my whole life, but that's due to a combination of luck and avoiding driving as much as possible...because it's inevitably going to happen the more miles you drive.
Getting a speeding ticket isn't remotely common enough to make it logical to permanently change one's driving habits (and piss off everyone else on the road who's still driving at a normal speed), and it never will be.
But the anxiety definitely has an effect. I'm always checking for cops in likely hiding spots, it's stressful, and the distraction of a cop camped out is way more likely to get me into an accident than my driving speed.

I really wanted to keep arguing against the idea that speed limits are actually set at the speeds the roads are driven on, and how disturbing the deferential attitude of "being legal = being morally right" is, but cripes....
It was already queasy enough arguing on the same side as OhhhJa, and now the topic's devolved into some guy arguing that drinking and driving isn't so bad.
I'm out.

I like their gallon bottles of green tea w/ ginseng and honey

Just because she claims they intentionally dropped her off at the wrong airport doesn't mean I believe her. Could have been a mistake. Was anyone from the show bragging about doing it as a prank or the like?

And of course the interview is going to be humiliating for her. It features her talking.

I hate formal clothing and especially ties, but I also refuse to wear jeans and usually am dressed in slacks when others are more casually dressed.
I refer to it as, "the perfect wardrobe for never fitting in anywhere"

:)

Ideally I'm wearing golf/cargo shorts, t-shirt, and sports sandals when I'm just relaxing / off work, though

His various actions sound like sexual assault and/or sexual harassment (and the jokes and making out with drunk chicks probably nothing criminal), not tape. Still several things he could and should go to court for if they can be proven, just not quite the level of tape.

Don't see the point in him resigning now, the company's going to die from this negative publicity anyway.

And the hypocrisy is pretty fitting for the movement. Reminds me of all the right-wing christian politicians who'd cry about morals and inevitably get caught having extramarital affairs, soliciting gay sex, molesting kids, and so on.
Except now the cause is workplace harassment and it's the left wing crusaders repeatedly turning out to be guilty of the stuff they rail loudly against.

Uh...yeah.

Unlike driving the same speed as the rest of the traffic, drinking and driving actually is dangerous, and entirely unnecessary.

helIy posted...

streamofthesky posted...

Revelation34 posted...

Cacciato posted...

OhhhJa posted...

A buddy of mine had a speeding ticket for like 21 over and it was 600 plus.

good

21 over is practically nothing.

Seriously. Especially on a high way. Everyone is going at least 10-15 mi over, usually I'm going 15-20 over the speed limit and getting passed by tons of people going much faster.

if everyone jumped off a bridge that means you would too, right?

it doesn't matter what you think of the laws, breaking them is still illegal.

People drive over the speed limit every single day.
Let me know how the daily bridge dive works out for you.

OhhhJa posted...

I've already established my clean driving record. But hey... keep sticking up for police state revenue gathering if that's your thing. Cops are capable of being wrong/lying. They're people too. As a matter of fact, they're often fucking dumb as rocks

You mean like when they shoot unarmed (usually black) people and claim they felt in fear for their life?

The way normal political positions in regards to cops are turned on their head for most posters in this topic is just fascinating to me

Revelation34 posted...

Cacciato posted...

OhhhJa posted...

A buddy of mine had a speeding ticket for like 21 over and it was 600 plus.

good

21 over is practically nothing.

Seriously. Especially on a high way. Everyone is going at least 10-15 mi over, usually I'm going 15-20 over the speed limit and getting passed by tons of people going much faster.

Eww...I agree with OhhhJa on something. Feels icky...

Those fine amounts are obscene and the people cheering for them here apparently don't mind when those same fine amounts are levied on the poor who can't afford them and it places them in a spiral of debt.

JixHedgehog posted...

Yikes, that's dumb, shouldnt it be the cops responsibilty to get pulled over drivers somewhere safe and not use it as an excuse to issue more citations?

Cops literally use the laws as a money making scam, having one car pulled over and another laying in wait just to go after people who don't "sufficiently" slow down.

adjl posted...

In which case you can just miss your exit. You could also pull over to the side of the road yourself to wait for the cop to finish so you can safely take the exit. Both solutions are inconvenient, sure, but their safety is more important than your convenience.

Yeah, that's fucking ridiculous. "Just come to a stop behind the parked cars and wait till the cop's done."
Maybe the cop can look before stepping out of the car, and as long as the cars are going slower, should be able to gauge when it's safe to exit.

adjl posted...

Remember that she's going to have dashcam footage that was credible enough to issue the ticket in the first place. You, on the other hand, have admitted that it was dark, and coupled with the flashing lights of the car I would be far more inclined to believe that you misjudged the distance than that she lied on the ticket.

Having dash cam footage, even from the cop can only help him or at worst make no difference. You think the cop wrote those violations on his/her ticket then is going to show up to court and press for harsher violations based on the footage? Most likely, if the footage doesn't match what was written down, it will have been "lost" or the dash cam "wasn't working that night."

WTF happened in the 3 minutes between her saying "Your right, have a great day" (it's you're, btw) and then her next post, w/ none from you in between, where she just flips her shit?

I hate facebook, twitter, etc... so much. It's shocking and frightening that people use them as news sources.

OneTimeBen posted...

Zeus posted...

OneTimeBen posted...

^ And Hardwick has shown texts from her months later wondering if they could somehow work it out. So she must not have been too upset back then.

Stockholm Syndrome. Abused women have also repeatedly gone back to their abuser who, in many cases, later kills them. But hey, by your same logic, putting somebody in a hospital couldn't really be *that* bad if they want to go back, right?

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Basically, even if you assume Chris Hardwick is somewhat of a nobody to mainstream audiences, she's still way more of a nobody than he is, so I'd say "She is a nobody that's mad he is successful and left her cheating ass behind" is a perfect valid argument, because he's easily more successful than her, and he DID leave her after she cheated on him (which also ties into the other earlier comment that she's "the bitter ex that literally begged to come back to him after he dumped her", since we've seen actual proof of that via phone messages).

Either way you're arguing, "Who's the bigger e-list celebrity aspiring to someday be a d-list celebrity?"

As for wanting to get back together, keep in mind Rihanna went back to Chris Brown. The idea that an abused partner wants to be with their abuser doesn't magically dismiss alleged abuse. And keep in mind that Rihanna was also the lesser name when that abuse was exposed.

Im not an expert but Stockholm Syndrome doesnt apply six months after.

You sound like more of an expert than Zeus at least.

Tails 64 posted...

I use plastic bags in trash cans, for bagging up smelly stuff like cat litter, etc. I'm glad they're not banned.

Right, we use them for trash bin liners, too. Forgot about that.

No, thankfully. I have a bunch of reusable bags, but I always get a few plastic bags when grocery shopping, too.

We use them for cat litter. If plastic shopping bags were banned, we'd still be using plastic bags. Only difference is now we'd be paying for them.

I really liked how Lycanthropes were portrayed in Special Unit 2.
Lycanthropy allows those who contract it to gain numerous superhuman strength, speed, and senses; never needing to sleep; and giving a more cut-throat, primal outlook towards the competition.
Many of the top lawyers and businessmen in the city gladly became lycanthropes and use it to climb the ladder of success.
Only drawback is every month during the full moon you turn into a full on wolf-human hybrid and must hunt for food (people), which doesn't seem to bother any of them (shocking, I know).
EDIT: Clip from the episode w/ one of the cops having gotten bitten in order to try and infiltrate the pack:


My favorite lycanthrope character was my own D&D character, though. Michel "Mike" Zev Lupin. A lawful evil lycanthropic CEO, who was basically a mix of the above with the personality of Hank Scorpio from the Simpsons. He was genuinely really nice and supportive to his own underlings but actually a super villain out to take over the world. He'd recruit anyone with exceptional talent that he felt could be trusted no matter who or what they were, even in the middle of fighting against them sometimes, but anyone else who'd cross him, he'd swiftly eradicate.
My favorite part was trying to create as many Broken Aesops as possible, by taking normally positive characteristics like teamwork, rewarding of merit rather than status, and diversity / acceptance of others and twisting them to evil ends.

TL;DR: Werewolf Hank Scorpio