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DxD changed art style with the 4th season (Hero) that came out last year. I don't like it as much as the original style, but it's still fine. For some people I guess it's a much bigger deal. The season itself was really good, though.

3rd season was the only low point so far, and it still was pretty good, it just...completely shredded the plot from the novels.
Sadly, looks like we're never getting the Gremory vs. Sitri rating game animated, was hoping maybe they'd do it as a flashback 2 part OVA for season 4 or something...

Lokarin posted...

best girl is Mistral from nights of azure

Damn I enjoyed that game! Didn't go in expecting much, but it was Dynasty Warriors combat + pokemon allies + boobs, so I figured it would at least be fun.

Great game, the story and characters were better than I thought they'd be and the music was behind only NieR Automata for me, this gen.

Mistral gave me a hell of a time, though, till I cheesed the fight w/ the 5th transformation you can unlock at that point....

DeltaBladeX posted...

Is this wrestling?
https://imgur.com/a/rfKuZHi

I don't know, but I was sports-entertained

LinkPizza posted...

streamofthesky posted...

but apparently premeditated to a small extent (grabbed the gun prior to wrestling, or chose to wrestle right next to it)

Is that what happened. Because the way its written, it sounds like its possible it was different... to me, at least...

I mean, I'm basing that assessment on duckbear's reporting, so...

Full Throttle posted...

The suspect is not being pictured since he is a juvenile found the gun in his parents bedroom before the accident happened. His parents were out for the evening and left the boys home alone as investigators said the boys were wrestling at 7pm to see if the family dog would react to the 11 y/o being attacked.

That's when Carter picked up the pistol and removed the magazine but left a single round chambered. The gun discharged when he pointed it at Vaughn.

Sounds at least a bit premeditated, don't you think?

Wow, what a monster of a child!
11 years old and already not only killing someone, but apparently premeditated to a small extent (grabbed the gun prior to wrestling, or chose to wrestle right next to it) AND his first thought isn't to call 911, but to falsely cover up his crime.
11 years old is too young to try as an adult, but damn... Kid's well on his way to becoming a future serial killer...

old_school227 posted...

It sounds like the gun was left unlocked and loaded, with kids in the house.

If so then yes they should be charged.

Yeah, and Florida actually has a law specifically forbidding it. Pretty clear cut case.

OhhhJa posted...

streamofthesky posted...

It's not like Subway had infinite money to start off with opening thousands of shops. They were able to expand because...wait for it....people actually liked their product and chose to keep going there, giving them the income to spend on expansion!
Crazy concept, I know.

Yeah but saying subway has the best subs is like saying McDonalds has the best burgers. I'm not one to generally say that someone can be objectively wrong about food but fresh meat is objectively better than meat thats been frozen for a month. Also, chains tend to start out higher quality and then lose quality as they open more and more restaurants and have to streamline everything

That's fair, I agree.

subway's not my favorite sandwich shop either (Potbelly), I just think it gets a ridiculous amount of unwarranted hate...

It's not like Subway had infinite money to start off with opening thousands of shops. They were able to expand because...wait for it....people actually liked their product and chose to keep going there, giving them the income to spend on expansion!
Crazy concept, I know.

I like Italian Herb & Cheese too, but usually get Honey Oat b/c I figured the former was less healthy and I like both anyway. My wife always gets the wheat bread.
None of the three taste alike, not sure how someone can think that.
On the topic of bread, the bread used by JJ's is terrible, one of my biggest gripes w/ their sandwiches, in fact.

SinisterSlay posted...

Heh, funny.
Of course, most of those aren't true complaints about the product itself. I do think he should've cited something in regard to that super-ominous sounding "mutagen that turns off a vital part of the DNA, causes asthma, reduces IQ, and provokes ADHD symptoms" at 2:23
That on one hand sounds utterly terrifying, but on the other is so calamitous and wide-ranging in negative health effects that my first instinct is that the claim is some bunk pseudo-science crap.

I really wish the number pad was on the left side of the keyboard instead of the right.
It provides the ideal arrow key configuration, including diagonals. And most laptops have the touch pad shifted left...in order to align with the space bar and center of the main keys...because the number pad shifts it all to the left.
I hate that shit. I'd rather the touch pad be right-shifted, if anything.

Signed,

A right-handed person.

apparently being 90% of the population isn't enough to get a comfortable keyboard layout

If I found it funny, sure.

But I like lewd/raunchy humor and I'm very non-religious, so if an organized religion is a featured part of a comedy show I'd expect it to be there primarily to make jokes at the religion's expense.

So...it's certainly possible I could enjoy such a show, but the direction they'd have to go w/ it for me to enjoy it would probably also lead to the producers getting a lot of death threats...

Glad I'm not the only one who prefers Subway. I've had Quiznos, Firehouse, and Jimmy John's. Didn't like any of them as much as Subway.

Not sure why Subway gets trashed so much, they're great.
Only sandwich chain I've tried that I liked better was Potbelly.

The_tall_midget posted...

RCtheWSBC posted...

Yeah, federal employee here...y'all are some cruel sons of bitches.

Please fill and submit a "Please give a shit about our privileged, public servants asses" form.

Please be warned that it may take 3 weeks for our incompetent, do not give a fuck employees to care and process it.

The inefficiencies and bureaucracy you experience in dealings with government agencies are the result of mandates in the law, typically put into effect by Congress. Some for good reasons, some less so.
But you actually think every time it takes a long time for a government agency to perform an action, it's because the low level employees themselves are intentionally just choosing to wait a few weeks to get to it, lol!
Do you also blame call center employees for the corporate decisions of a company you don't like?

I don't mind Congress and the President still getting paid. the most corrupt and rich won't care either way, but it could impact the few elected officials who aren't wealthy, and lead them into making bad decisions in their haste to escape oncoming debt.

What SHOULD happen though, is that if there is an impasse, then the existing spending levels are maintained while it's sorted out and the employees still go to work and get paid.
If the president and/or some in congress are unhappy with the current spending levels and want to make a stand about it, put the onus on THEM to resolve it in a timely manner. Because otherwise each day that ticks by, the spending is done the same way.

But of course, then they couldn't have nearly as much theatrics about the stand off, nor get jollies out of economically crushing middle class federal workers.

I freaking loved the Prydain Chronicles book series.

Shame that Disney had to go and fuck it up on screen.

reason posted...

So, she ran from the cops to start with, then she RAMMED their car? Yeah, man,...she's totally innocent.

Well, she was, by the police's own admission...
mrduckbear posted...

After further investigation, we do not believe it was the same vehicle involved in the shooting and no weapon was located.

But don't let the facts get in the way of your self-constructed narrative.

It's literally Aquaman

Who cares? MCU would've struggled to turn that shit into gold, and this is the DCEU.

Lokarin posted...

fun fact: The largest drain on welfare and support resources are religious churches and similar institutions. They can actually charge stuff like pancake breakfasts to the government.

So you're saying.... whenever Republicans claim that it's ok to cut government funding to safety net programs because religious charity groups* will take care of people anyway, they're full of shit b/c in the end it's still the government paying for it? Fascinating.

*Ignoring the gaping issue that not everyone wants to rely on churches for sustenance

This is stupid, and a terrible idea

7% is a really odd cutoff to choose, too

And sure at this very moment the unemployment rate is low, but what happens when that changes with another recession?

This can't actually take effect any time soon, right? It's GOT to be subject to some serious legal challenges before then... In any case.... "Merry Christmas, America" - Trump

Took almost 4 years to get a job in the field I got my degree in.

Ideal job? Not yet, probably never. Once I gave up on doing something I "loved," and settled for something I didn't mind, I found that I cared more about simple comforts like having my own office, low stress environment, and flexible lunch breaks than I do about the actual work that I do.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

This is a pretty ridiculous case considering how people record their phone calls all the time.

Yeah, I said in the last topic that these charges sound like complete bs, and as if the state is just really intent on going after this dude for some reason. Two party consent laws for recording of conversations are stupid and the law in far less than half of the states. (cue Zeus to come in and make a fool of himself on that point yet again)

Kyuubi4269 posted...

streamofthesky posted...

EvilMegas posted...

Now it'll take slightly longer to kill a hundred people with your Assault Rifle!

The sad thing is that you are posting this as an actual sarcastic attack on the concept of giving victims some precious extra time to flee to safety or have help arrive like it's a silly idea devoid of merit.

Militaries use semi-auto as it's more efficient, the US got wrecked in 'nam by blowing through a magazine in a 2 second burst.

Semi-auto is better.

It's almost as if the ideal firing rate of an army fighting protracted battles for hours at a time and having to worry about ammunition logistics over years of conflict aren't the same as the ideal firing rate of a madman trying to unload as much as possible in a 1-5 minute burst who has no expectations of living to see the turn of the next hour of the day.

The hell you say?

EvilMegas posted...

Now it'll take slightly longer to kill a hundred people with your Assault Rifle!

The sad thing is that you are posting this as an actual sarcastic attack on the concept of giving victims some precious extra time to flee to safety or have help arrive like it's a silly idea devoid of merit.

Zeus posted...

MICHALECOLE posted...

Wow I didnt know trump was a liberal

He's from NY, so duh.

So does that mean Bill Clinton is conservative?

Zeus posted...

He's from Arkansas, so duh.

It doesn't have to be, but it often ends up being based on anti-Semitism.

The example of the UN passing tons of resolutions against Israel for their military activities compared to the few or none passed against other countries who've done worse being the most prominent one.

In general, if someone seems to be criticizing Israel excessively compared to other countries for similar actions, holding Israel to a higher standard than its neighbors, or so on, it's likely based on anti-Semitism by the person, whether consciously or unconsciously.

I mean, look how much we in the U.S. freak the fuck out about some Mexicans coming here for jobs. Don't kid yourself for a second, if Mexico started lobbing rockets at us because they're upset we are "occupying" the southwest US, there would be a military response, and it'd be brutal.

OhhhJa posted...

streamofthesky posted...

OhhhJa posted...

streamofthesky posted...

lol, only 5 out of the 10 pictures even have both hands on the wheel (one hand honking the horn doesn't count), and one of them is no hands...

WTF is this? Do people really drive with these stupid hand positions? That's fucking dangerous

Closest for me is #4, though my hands are a bit lower on the wheel than that. Not quite "9 and 3" as opposed to "10 and 2" but, yeah...

I've been driving as 2 for 14 years and have never had a single accident and have actively avoided idiots trying to crash into me

If you drive better when you don't even have hands on the steering wheel, that says more about your driving skills (or lack thereof) than the "merits" of no-hands driving

Wait...shit... I meant to say number 1 lol

lol

#1 is definitely the least-bad of the pics that don't use 2 hands, and better than some of the stupid 2-hand positions included, I'll agree.

OhhhJa posted...

streamofthesky posted...

lol, only 5 out of the 10 pictures even have both hands on the wheel (one hand honking the horn doesn't count), and one of them is no hands...

WTF is this? Do people really drive with these stupid hand positions? That's fucking dangerous

Closest for me is #4, though my hands are a bit lower on the wheel than that. Not quite "9 and 3" as opposed to "10 and 2" but, yeah...

I've been driving as 2 for 14 years and have never had a single accident and have actively avoided idiots trying to crash into me

If you drive better when you don't even have hands on the steering wheel, that says more about your driving skills (or lack thereof) than the "merits" of no-hands driving

Cripes, this poor family

lol, only 5 out of the 10 pictures even have both hands on the wheel (one hand honking the horn doesn't count), and one of them is no hands...

WTF is this? Do people really drive with these stupid hand positions? That's fucking dangerous

Closest for me is #4, though my hands are a bit lower on the wheel than that. Not quite "9 and 3" as opposed to "10 and 2" but, yeah...

Cacciato posted...

That was awesome. Fuckin serves em right.

My favorite recording of package stealing was the one where the fat chick seals the package then breaks her leg on the wet grass

Ugh...I bet the way the stupid laws are, she probably could've sued the homeowner for personal injury.

Aculo posted...

why wouldn't you do that?

Because...
Fam_Fam posted...

they dl child porn and its gg for you

Zeus posted...

streamofthesky posted...

She was exchanging letters w/ Dylann Roof talking about this stuff. Do prisons seriously not search through anything coming into or going out of the prison to/from the prisoners?
If not, that's pretty dumb...

The ACLU would disagree.

So, if it was the kingpin of a violent drug cartel, you'd also think that he should be able to send and receive private correspondence from his jail cell without anyone checking it?

Full Throttle posted...

The FBI were tipped off after a 6 month investigation that they were about to commit an attack after they bought pipe bombs where they said they were about to bring destruction to society.

I'm not sure why the FBI needed to be "tipped off"?

She was exchanging letters w/ Dylann Roof talking about this stuff. Do prisons seriously not search through anything coming into or going out of the prison to/from the prisoners?
If not, that's pretty dumb...

Zeus posted...

dioxxys posted...

Bad news for sex island:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6487351/Tourists-attending-Sex-Island-holiday-warned-DEPORTED-Caribbean-authorities.html

But god sounds like heaven, getting to bang as many sexy latina girls in skimpy bikinis as much you want.

Man, governments are always trying to kill a good time... No wonder why anarchy is so popular.

I agree, there's no real threat to worry about with this, it's just a big stupid indulgent party.

But...

Last year, the first Sex Island vacation, which was planned to take place on a private island off Cartagena, Colombia, also sparked anger and was blocked by the South American country's government.

Tour company Good Girls Company moved the event to a 'mystery island' in an undisclosed Caribbean country they claimed was drugs and prostitution-friendly after Colombian officials threatened to deport the sex tourists and arrest the organisers.

But after news emerged this year's Sex Island holiday was to take place on an island off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago - where both prostitution and drug-use is illegal.

Tony Stark voice: Not a great plan.
The people who organize these events apparently aren't too bright...

I'd love to some day, when I have a house.

But currently I don't have any sort of electrical outlet I could use to charge an electric car at night.

I also really don't drive that much, maybe 8000 miles per year or so. So it'd take many years for the savings compared to gas to even remotely make up the cost difference between a Tesla and like a Camry or Civic.

RCtheWSBC posted...

From the US Department of Justice:

Between 2012 and 2016, COHEN concealed more than $4 million in personal income from the Internal Revenue Service, avoiding more than $1.3 million in income tax. COHEN also made false statements to a federally insured financial institution to obtain a $500,000 home equity loan.

Finally, in 2016, COHEN made or caused two separate payments to women to ensure that they did not publicly disclose their alleged affairs with a presidential candidate in advance of the election. In one instance, COHEN caused American Media, Inc. (AMI), which was identified in previous court filings as Corporation-1, to make a $150,000 payment to one woman; in the other, COHEN made a $130,000 payment to another woman through an LLC he incorporated for the purpose of making the payment. COHEN was reimbursed for the latter payment in monthly installments disguised as payments for legal services performed pursuant to a retainer, when in fact no such retainer existed.

COHEN made or caused both of these payments in order to influence the 2016 election and did so in coordination with one or more members of the campaign.

AMI is the owner of the National Inquirer.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/michael-cohen-sentenced-3-years-prison

Fascinating. You'd think the National Inquirer of all companies would be all over such alleged affairs and attempts to pay the women off, publishing all sorts of tawdry articles about it.

And yet, they participated in hiding the scoop. How perplexing.... (sarcasm)

My favorite what? lol

I'd never even heard of James Gunn before the bs controversy stirred up to get him fired. Probably b/c I never watched the GotG movies, only saw them in the last Avengers.

Zeus posted...

streamofthesky posted...

ClarkDuke posted...

DeathMagnetic80 posted...

Zeus posted...

It looks alright. While I can see some nods to Superman, it doesn't look like anything that would result in a lawsuit.

At any rate, I guess even in the era of #MeToo getting outed as a pedophile doesn't hurt directors' careers.

There's a pretty huge difference between making some gross jokes and being an actual pedophile.

Don't break down Brett's stawman arguement, without it - he'll realize he's on unemployment and has become a SJW, ok?

Ironically, Zeus will call James Gunn a pedo for jokes that James Gunn made, but gets absolutely livid if people think Donald Trump's commited sexual assault and/or touched underage girls based upon his boasts on that Hollywood Access tape or alleged actions in the changing rooms of the beauty pageants he ran.

Why are you quoting ClarkDuke? It was literally an account made to troll the fact I had a loved one dying from cancer and hasn't let the fact he's on ignore stop his attempts at harassment (including the current weird one where he created this fake persona for me) which you are now facilitating.

I don't know anything about that.

I quoted the last person in the chain criticizing you, nothing more.

Stop dodging the content of my post, pointing out your massive hypocrisy.

ClarkDuke posted...

DeathMagnetic80 posted...

Zeus posted...

It looks alright. While I can see some nods to Superman, it doesn't look like anything that would result in a lawsuit.

At any rate, I guess even in the era of #MeToo getting outed as a pedophile doesn't hurt directors' careers.

There's a pretty huge difference between making some gross jokes and being an actual pedophile.

Don't break down Brett's stawman arguement, without it - he'll realize he's on unemployment and has become a SJW, ok?

Ironically, Zeus will call James Gunn a pedo for jokes that James Gunn made, but gets absolutely livid if people think Donald Trump's commited sexual assault and/or touched underage girls based upon his boasts on that Hollywood Access tape or alleged actions in the changing rooms of the beauty pageants he ran.

jmac1686 posted...

Sorry, I don't agree with this. If the guy does the deed, he is 100 percent responsible whether he wants the child or not.

SunWuKung420 posted...

No. Actions have consequences. He should have made sure all pregnancy precautions were in place.

These are the exact same terrible arguments levied by the anti-abortion side against women.

But when they're applied to men it's ok, because reasons.

I support the death penalty.

But it should only be used for homicide cases that are especially heinous or multiple deaths, and only in cases where there's no real doubt that the person convicted committed the crime. Like Dylan Roof, or that Cruz guy who shot up the Florida high school last year.

Unfortunately, a lot of other pro-capital punishment people are a little too gung-ho about using it in a wide swath of cases, and actively resist the Innocence Project and other attempts to re-examine death penalty cases that may have been decided unfairly or with missing/corrupted evidence.

It feels lonely, being pro-capital punishment yet also strongly supporting the Innocence Project. If capital punishment is so deeply flawed, it's better to shine a light on it and take measures to fix the issues (scrapping immunity laws that legally protect prosecutors from outright hiding evidence from the defense or lying would be a great start!) than try to hide it.
Not only does supporting the latter mean you're a disgusting human being who wants innocent people to be killed just to protect your precious punishment method. It also does way more damage to "the cause" when the truth gets out anyway if it's been actively fought and buried by the pro-capital punishment crowd.

It's great on pizza. Goes perfect with tomatoes, the two tastes mix together perfectly. I also add feta cheese.

Mmm... pineapple/tomato/feta pizza...

A senseless tragedy that wouldn't have occurred if we had fair and just laws when it comes to parental responsibility and family planning.

The murder was not justified.
But if there was a legal protection for unwilling fathers to disown their responsibility, a "legal abortion" as it's sometimes called, he wouldn't have had any reason to care about the hidden pregnancy in the first place.

I strongly support a woman's right to choose whether she wants the responsibility and burdens of becoming a parent. I also strongly support a man's right to choose whether he wants the responsibility and burdens of becoming a parent. Sadly, most people only support the former, or support neither and think babies as "punishment" for promiscuity is a good thing.

Mead posted...

https://observer.com/2018/12/president-trump-really-may-go-to-jail-for-the-rest-of-his-life/

Hes gonna have to hope 46 takes pity on him and issues a pardon for his NO COLLUSION

That all sounds lovely, but I hope that they're tying Mike Pence to this shit as well, lest we get an even worse person as president.

Ironically, the 2016 election crimes could lead to the first female president after all -- New House Speaker Pelosi is next in line after the VP.

Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer

Predates Groundhog Day by like 9 years

Got a pizza in the oven w/ tomato and goat cheese for toppings.

Still using Firefox pre-Quantum

It's not safe, and I really need to find a new browser, but I don't know what...

I love IE's user interface, but I don't think I can get Adblock / Ublock / etc... on it?
Quantum still seems bad, and iirc once you upgrade you can't go back if you regret it?
I hate Chrome, both the interface and the resource hogging. NEVER.
I guess I need to check out Pale Moon...

Are you getting Xenoblade Chronicles X?

It's one of the best games on Wii U, and one of the only ones that hasn't been ported to Switch.
I'm not even sure they could port it to Switch...at least not in any form where you play in docked mode, it makes such heavy use of the gamepad screen to manage probes, fast travel, etc...

_AdjI_ posted...

Muscles posted...

i'm more concerned with the fact he was fired over it,

Student: This is my name
Teacher: No it's not I'm calling you the name I want

I'm fine with firing that teacher. That's really not an appropriate way to treat a student (or anyone, really, and it's pretty disturbing how many people think they're taking some sort of moral high ground by acting that way), and that means he shouldn't be working as a teacher.

Full Throttle posted...

He offered to use the boy's name and to avoid feminine pronouns

Well done, you mis-characterized the actual situation about as much as is logically possible!

VeeVees posted...

annoying as fuck

There are several reasons I'm glad I don't ever have to work in retail again. And Christmas music is so awful, it's actually right up there w/ the low pay, no benefits, etc...
And I "only" had to hear it for a month. There's some poor souls forced to hear it on their store's speakers for a solid 2 months now. Legit don't know how they don't mentally snap.

Full Throttle posted...

District Spokeseman Michael Lawrence said it happened Thursday morning at Lake Brantley High School as panic ensued when a Lake Brantley student shared the screenshot of the alert that teachers also received during the drill that warned of an active shooter on school grounds
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Principal Trent Daniel sent out an email that stating that a student was responsible for the "campus disruption caused by a social media post" and added that it is being investigated as a "disciplinary matter and all responsible parties will be disciplined"

What "disruption"?
Anyone at the school was already being told by the alert system that there was an active shooter, and not being told it was just a drill.
Anyone not at the school finding out about it via the social media post wouldn't arrive until the drill was over anyway.

Sounds more like the school is pissed that the student publicized the incident to world and brought the well-deserved embarrassment and condemnation on the school that it's now receiving.
And thus, they're going to try and punish the student. Who probably wasn't even trying to humiliate the school and legit thought s/he may be about to die and was sending the alert message out so loved ones could find out about it promptly.